Honest opinion about government from Peter Ludwig Berger:
It is not possible to impose a socialist system without force, since those who are dispossessed in this imposition will not graciously assent to their fate. Hence, as Marx and all the other mainline Marxists argued, there must be a dictatorship. What neither Marx nor most of his epigones understood is that this need for dictatorship increases rather than decreases with the successful establishment of socialism: Central planning of the economy and despotic policies are intrinsically linked phenomena. The degree of power required by "the plan" requires dictatorial powers;…there is a natural tendency for a despotic elite to seek control over the economy on which its power rests. Of course, one can imagine different developments–all those included in the vision of a democratic socialism–and no social scientist can confidently assert that such developments are impossible. Yet enough is now known about the empirical workings of "real existing socialism" to make one highly skeptical of the chances for such a future possibility.
The Capitalist Revolution, 1986
A professor at Boston University, where he has directed the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Peter Berger has written many books, such as the classic Invitation to Sociology (1963) as well as American Apostasy (1989), Confession, Conflict, and Community (1986), Facing Up to Modernity (1977), and The War Over the Family (with Brigitte Berger, 1983).
Quotation and short bio from The Quotable Conservative: The Giants of Conservatism on Liberty, Freedom, Individual Responsibility, and Traditional Values. Rod L. Evans and Irwin M. Berent, editors. Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Publishing, 1996.