The whole political vision of the left, including socialism and communism, has failed by virtually every empirical test, in countries all around the world. But this has only led leftists intellectuals to evade and denigrate empirical evidence.
Category: socialism
Socialist ‘economics’
If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists.
Comparative greeds
It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it “greed” to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.
Politicians and pickpockets
The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn’t get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.
Government vs. the people
You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
Socialism and Marxism
Basically, National Socialism and Marxism are the same.
Losses under totalitarianism
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
Government altruism
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
Why does socialism endure?
The only thing that surprises me is the mystery of socialism’s enduring appeal.
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Academics’ undermining of America
What goes unappreciated is just why America’s leftists’ movement attacks the founders. If they can delegitimize the founders themselves, it goes a long way toward their agenda of delegitimizing the founding principles of our nation. If the leftists can convince the nation that men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison were good-for-nothing slave-owning racists, then their ideas can be more easily trashed. We find the greatest assaults on our founding documents on the nation’s college campuses.