Here is just one more example of PRIVATE PROPERTY tyranny defying the COMMON GOOD. No matter how you read the American Constitution it makes PRIVATE PROPERTY sacrosanct and it did so from the beginning of the American Republic. Democratic socialists recognize the greatness of many things and of many persons in their time and place. But if it is just common sense that A=A as law of logic , in cosmic time and in the long view of history we see that it is even more true that A does not equal A . Because A ( whatever it is here ) is always changing , often evolving into something quite different . Cosmic evolution from the Big Bang gave us after 10 billion years this GOOD EARTH. Apes evolved into humans . Feudalism evolved into capitalism . Plantation slavery evolved into wage slavery . That is true of all human societies , economic systems , and venerable constitutions. ALL that IS is RIGHT . And ALL that IS is worthy of perishing . But our public education system does its best to lobotomize students on this philosophical ," dialectical " insight valid even without the dogmatic " materialism ". Most college graduates in the United States cannot even imagine Plato's Republic never mind the Democratic Socialist vision. Not even the Stock Market and the State Lottery are forever ! And certainly not a decayed Mausoleum in Roger Williams Park, Providence , nor private ownership of Johnson's Pond in Coventry . Nor Ayn Rand's " Virtue of Selfishness ".