One thing Hitchens said that really stood out to me was, "the crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could—or should—be the property of the state."

I recently listened to Rogan's interview with Yeonmi Park and you get a real sense of this in action - how you go from being secured by the state to being the property of the state. Rather sobering.