I SEE WHY THE BAGGERS LIKE BASTIAT

Frederic Bastiat was an early promoter of the Free Market Fairy and his book The Law was translated by Dean Russell, an American, in 1950 who wrote in the Preface that:

As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared. And he explained how socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism. But most of his countrymen chose to ignore his logic. The Law is here presented again because the same situation exists in America today as in the France of 1848. The same socialist-communist ideas and plans that were then adopted in France are now sweeping America. The explanations and arguments then advanced against socialism by Mr. Bastiat are — word for word — equally valid today. His ideas deserve a serious hearing.

Some of Russell's subheadings for the book's sections clearly describe his  view of socialism:

Socialism Is Legal Plunder
The Socialists Wish to Play God
The Socialists Despise Mankind
Socialists Ignore Reason and Facts
Socialists Want to Regiment People
Socialists Want Forced Conformity
Socialists Want Equality of Wealth
The Socialists Want Dictatorship
Socialists Fear All Liberties
The Socialists Reject Free Choice