Topic: Socialism

Books, Economic History, Government, Socialism

Government Project: The Eternal Folly of Central Planning

– April 1, 2024

“Edward Banfield’s careful case study of the Casa Grande project, based on his review of the detailed government records, is a sobering critique of government planning and social engineering.” ~Mark Pulliam

Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Socialism

Proletarian Capitalism

– March 8, 2024

“Simply by repurposing existing personal property, Uber, Airbnb, and other sharing-economy innovations enlarge humanity’s stock of productive capital. And in doing so, these innovations also create more capitalists.” ~Donald J. Boudreaux

Art and Culture, Classical Liberalism, Education, Socialism

Teaching the Butterfly of Liberty

– February 29, 2024

“Casa Escuela is but one of many global examples of grassroots, local, civil society efforts to bypass the state educational establishment, with its bloated bureaucracy, mediocrity, and hardcore socialist thought.” ~Nikolai Wenzel

Economic Trends, International, Socialism

China is Scaring Away Investors

– February 19, 2024

“Xi expects business as well as people to serve the CCP. As authoritarian controls metastasize throughout the economy, everyone suffers.” ~Doug Bandow

Financial Markets, Leadership, Socialism

Seize the Means of Production in a Few Easy Steps

– February 12, 2024

“Slow-motion corporate raiding just doesn’t stir the blood like waving a flag and raising a fist at the barricade or building a guillotine outside Jeff Bezos’s house.” ~Art Carden

Classical Liberalism, International, Monetary Policy, Socialism

Milei’s Bid for Freedom

– February 6, 2024

“Rather than simply bemoan the poor policies of Peronist statism, Milei laid out precisely why the alternative to statism — liberated markets — can offer so much more.” ~Paul Schwennesen

Art and Culture, Education, History, Socialism

The Gramscian March Trips Up

– January 18, 2024

“The strategy aimed at shaping collective consciousness seems to have backfired, as the population, witnessing the institutional embrace of socialist ideologies, lost faith in the very institutions ostensibly meant to guide them.” ~Paul Schwennesen

Art and Culture, Economic History, Property Rights, Socialism

The Failure of the Pilgrims’ First Christmas

– December 25, 2023

“Believing that human nature is flawed and selfish, the colony leadership should have known that any system based on voluntary goodness was bound to fail.” ~Will Sellers

Inflation, Monetary Policy, Socialism

Argentina’s Rampant Inflation, Explained (in One Chart)

– December 5, 2023

“Whichever definition one prefers to use — an expansion of the money supply which leads to price increases, or a broad and sustained increase in consumer prices — inflation is caused by the governments and central banks who control the money supply.” ~Jon Miltimore

Books, Capitalism, Socialism

Johan Norberg’s The Capitalist Manifesto: A Review

– November 24, 2023

“What matters for the capitalist story to flourish is that its effect on the world continues to be positive, not whether market actors believe it while embodying its principles.” ~Joakim Book

Art and Culture, History, Socialism

Thankful for the Lessons of Failures

– November 23, 2023

“Plymouth was a centrally planned community. Everything was controlled, regulated, and rationed by one central government authority. And like all central planning efforts, the results were scarcity, hunger, and desperation.” ~Thomas Krannawitter

Fiscal Policy, International, Monetary Policy, Socialism

Dollarization without Fiscal Prudence Is Not Possible. With Fiscal Prudence, It’s not Necessary.

– November 22, 2023

“Argentinean problems are first political, then fiscal, and then monetary, and they need to be solved in the same order.” ~Leonidas Zelmanovitz