Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Socialism on May 8th, 2018
Here is Uncle Karl in an 1850 address to the Central Committee of the Communist League (via Josh Muravchik’s work): the workers must counteract … the bourgeois endeavors to allay the storm, and must compel the democrats to carry out their present terrorist phrases. Their actions must be so aimed as to prevent the direct […]
Posted in Socialism on May 8th, 2018
It is thought that if only artificial intelligence proceeds apace, and computing power increases apace, that the knowledge and information demands imposed by the economic problem could conceivably be dealt with, and then socialist central planning could succeed. It is thought that if only men were angels, then we could run an economy without having […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery, Socialism on May 1st, 2017
On this much celebrated day around the world, I repost my mourning for the hundreds of millions that have been brutally tortured, maimed, and murdered in the name of “the social good” and “brotherhood.” Shame on them. And shame on us for not keeping these lesson at the fore. Of course, the trash I get […]
Posted in Socialism on Mar 30th, 2017
HT to AT
Posted in Socialism, Why Hillaryism and Trumpism Exists, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Nov 13th, 2016
Here is Peter Boettke, on the “outsider” status of Bernie Sanders: Unpopular opinion — after watching Bernie Sanders on Meet the Press earlier today I am pretty sure he is as insincere and cynical as the worst of the DC political establishment. He is in fact a master agnotologist (sower of confusion on purpose to […]
Posted in Socialism on May 26th, 2016
Not a shocker that Jeff Sachs has come out to endorse Bernie Sanders. However, I am trying to make sense of the following: On health care, Sanders’s proposal for a single-payer system has been roundly attacked as too expensive. His campaign (for which I briefly served as a foreign policy adviser) is told that his […]
Posted in Methodology, Socialism on Apr 23rd, 2016
I just managed to pick up the short pamphlet/book from philosopher Jason Brennan called Why Not Capitalism? I think to get the most out of this book you would have wanted to have already been familiar with some basic economics, some elementary philosophy as well as some of the debates that have happened since Rawls wrote […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Socialism on Apr 14th, 2016
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam (sort of) coins a new phrase that is apt: “Rotary Phone Economics.” That is the kind of economics practiced and espoused by the Bern and the group of kids trying to have me unionized. You may be entertained by McAdam’s post. Now, I am not sure what I think of the […]
Posted in Disingenuous, Education, Socialism on Mar 21st, 2016
This is what they are teaching my son in the third grade. I want some new running shoes and hiking gear. So, I have a little extra money set aside to pay for that, that is a tax? I challenged my son this morning to change ONE word to the definition so that it may more accurately […]
Posted in Central Planning, Disingenuous, Education, Socialism on Feb 5th, 2016
This is the blog equivalent of drunk dialing, I had promised myself not to do this. Let’s talk this out. There is perhaps no sector in the U.S. economy that is more comprehensively controlled by the government than schooling. I suppose you might say National Defense, but given the large amount of expenditures that are […]