That was exactly the point being made in the piece. He was critiquing Arthur Brooks' book Road to Freedom (as he has been doing all week at David Frum's Daily Beast blog). The criticism in this particular piece is that in his attempt to make the moral case for capitalism Brooks relies on old arguments about Stalinist/Maoist central planning as if this was even being proposed in any serious way or that it is even a viable option today. "Arguments like this feel strangely anachronistic, especially since Brooks writes as if genuine communism was an option some were agitating for this in country." He then goes on to talk about how Brooks simply avoids the question of inequality (a problem that Frum and his colleagues are very attuned to).

Does anybody even bother reading articles before commenting on or downvoting them?