Thanks for the essay! I just finished it, it’s some of the most pointed and relevant stuff I’ve read in a long while. I especially liked this bit towards the end:

When we proudly assert that we are for the individual over the collective, we’re essentially saying that some people count as people, and some don’t. At the heart of liberalism lies dehumanization; we should not forget that slave ownership was one of the original “individual rights” that was so fiercely fought for by American revolutionaries.

Therein the arguments against socialist states. Every death under socialism is a failure of the government, because it dared to try to solve problems collectively. Under capitalism, deaths are due to the individual’s failures, and therefore no one’s responsibility.

Also it’s hilarious how the author thought to compare Marx with Tupac