I like your dreamworld, OP. It's a nice place to walk around in.

But that isn't the way this world is.

Marx' Das Kapital looks great on paper, except it completely cuts out the human equation in its economics. There is real, tanglible evil in this world. And to give a government all power over your commerce, distribution, and property is to sell out the only leverage a people have against pure, despotic tyranny.

Jeffersonian republicanism requires 100% personal responsibility to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. It's not a guarantee, it's a chance.

And if a people no longer believes in personal responsibility, then it no longer believes in liberty, because that's what liberty is.