The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
Category: socialism
The standard crisis response
Why is the federal government response, to every crisis large and small, always and only to take my money and give it to people who are not even remotely me?
Spreading poverty
The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.
Socialism is a system that invites abuse
There’s no point blaming the tragedies of socialism on the flaws or corruption of particular leaders. Any system which allows some people to exercise unbridled power over others is an open invitation to abuse, whether that system is called slavery or socialism or something else.
Democracy as a stratagem
The Marxian’s love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.
Our tax system
Our tax system penalizes those who are producing wealth in order to subsidize those who are only consuming it.
The nature of socialism
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment … is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.
Progressive ideas
So much of the left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire, by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
Cooperation vs. force
The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
Tearing down instead of building up
Since wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty, you might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong.