“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.”
Abraham Lincoln, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln was right, the same philosophy that animates the socialist philosophy is the same the animated the Democrat devotion to slavery. Today the left in the US attempts to hide that by couching it in language to hide the true nature of their thinking.
Using words like "fairness" and "redistribution" doesn't hide the root of the philosophy. The struggle is between liberty and slavery. The siren song of 'free' stuff appeals to people and gets them to trade their freedom for 'free' stuff.
It was evil, vile and immoral when Lincoln fought it, and it is still today no matter the rhetoric used to try and justify it.