Observe that the same type of persons who espouse this doctrine [collectivism] also declare that the under-developed nations of the world are not suited for economic freedom, that their primitive level of development makes socialism imperative. Thus, they simultaneously argue that a country should not be permitted freedom because it is too undeveloped economically—and that a country should not be permitted freedom because it is too highly developed economically.

Both positions are crude rationalizations on the part of statist mentalities who have never grasped what makes industrial civilization possible.

- Nathaniel Branden. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966).