Part 10/13:
Central to the critique of socialism is the fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. The ideology presumes that human behavior and societal issues can be engineered through political force. However, the speaker asserts that human beings, when given power or collective identity, are susceptible to corruption and atrocities. The horrors of the 20th century—mass murder, genocides, political purges—are driven by regimes that believed they could reshape human nature for the collective good.