Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism
The fundamental dogma of all brands of socialism and communism is that the market economy or capitalism is a system that hurts the vital interests of the immense majority of people for the sole benefit of a small minority of rugged ... [... more]
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Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism
Intellectuals, particularly academic intellectuals, tend to favor socialism and interventionism. How was the American university transformed from a center of higher learning to an outpost for socialist-inspired culture and politics? As recently ... [... more]
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Socialism, Ten Years Later
Socialist government in France sells off more state-owned companies than did its Conservative predecessor. The British Labor Party, steeped in socialism, wins a general election without ever mentioning the "S" word. And the Chinese Communist ... [... more]
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Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, ... [... more]
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The Psychology of Marxian Socialism (Social Science ...
 What do workers want?: De Man raises some basic questions about what might motivate a worker to seek a change in the economic system. Marxists cite a sense of injustice over exploitation as the key factor in workers turning to socialism. De Man thinks [... more]
$29.95
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Socialism and Capital Stock
The decision by Amtrak, the nation's socialist passenger rail system, to pull all 18 of its Acela high-speed locomotives out of service highlights once again the truism that socialism and capital do not mix very well. What is being touted in the ... [... more]
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The Confused Socialism of Oscar Wilde
Like many intellectuals at the turn of the 19th century, Oscar Wilde was both interested in the problems of society and a proponent of socialism. Though Wilde was more concerned with criticizing Victorian society via his satirical works than ... [... more]
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The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited
At the root of the dazzling revolutionary implosion and collapse of socialism and central planning in the "socialist bloc" is what everyone concedes to be a disastrous economic failure. The peoples and the intellectuals of Eastern Europe and [... more]
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Humanism and Socialism
Optimism made realistic: As the Southeast Asian tsunami wave recedes, and both the inadequacy of governmental response and the overwhelming surge of helpfulness from ordinary human beings emerge as logical and contradictory facts, this book is a [... more]
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Socialism and War: Essays, Documents, Reviews (The ...
Marginally Important: The essays in Socialism and War (SAW) are first rate. However, you can find most of the essyas from part one in Individualism and Economic Order (IEO). Parts two and three contain essays from Hayek that are hard to find elsewhere. [... more]
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Socialism
A heartfelt presentation on the need for socialism: I found Michael Harrington's Socialism by accident in a dusty used bookstore. The large red letters in the title attracted me to the book and as a young student trying to understand how to make this [... more]
$12.50
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Socialism from Below
Democratic socialism vs. gulag (Stalinist) "socialism": This is a wonderful book for anyone who wants to understand the difference between democratic -- real -- socialism and the many varieties of anti-capitalist "socialisms" which [... more]
$19.99
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