Has Real Socialism Ever Been Tried?
Socialists always claim that real socialism has never existed. Capitalists always claim the real capitalism has never existed. Are they right?
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Venezuela: Communist Government Orders Bakeries to Sell Bread Only to Its Supporters. Other Citizens Starve
Venezuelans are starving due to collectivist economic policies, and they correctly blame the government. The government does exactly what collectivist government always do in such cases. It punishes its critics and rewards its supporters. [...]
A Century Later, Mises Is Still Being Validated
Mises’s efforts to refute market socialist proposals nearly a century ago were explicitly validated with the decline and fall of Soviet socialism. Presently, they’re being openly validated with the utter chaos being heaped upon the people of Venezuela. Indeed, the results of government intervention are always the same, stagnation, inflation, declining living standards, and widespread social disorder.
What Is “Neoliberalism” Anyway?
The term “neoliberalism” is being flung around everywhere these days, usually with a haughty sense of “everyone knows what this is.” But do we really? You may think you know, but there’s very little agreement among everyone else. But look closely at the origin of the term: it has a precise meaning. It is not liberty as we want to know it.
Under Socialism, Morality Is Scarcer than Bread
Socialism is a utopian ideal intended to solve all of humanity’s problems including, above all, poverty and inequality. The theory and practice, alas, have tended to be at odds with one another.
You Can't Deny that Venezuela is a Socialist Calamity
Venezuela used to be one of South America's richest countries but years of explicitly socialist policies from the Chavez and Maduro regimes have taken their toll. Today, who can honestly defend the socialist structure that has caused Venezuela to descend into a nightmare of starvation and violence?
Frihet - en radikal position
Makt rör sig till synes alltid uppåt.Makt flyttas ständigt från individen till politiken; från lokal till nationell till överstatlig nivå; från de demokratiska institutionerna till en härskande klass av företrädesvis icke-valda funktionärer.Intentionerna är som vanligt de bästa och det hela sker enligt traditionen i god demokratisk ordning.
This Is Why Government Shouldn’t Be Involved in Health Care
Even if you don’t like every result of market control, it’s hard to imagine that anyone can defend what necessarily replaces it once you surrender any market to control by government.