Site Contributions: Socialism
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05/09/13 - Karl Marx, the Once 'Anti-Communist,' Who Brought Socialist Ruin to the World
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in the German Rhineland town of Trier, and died on March 14, 1883 in London. It is worth recalling, also, that there was a time when Marx was ... |
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05/03/13 - Sweden Is Not So Equal
The Real Reason for Swedish 'Equality' ... Super-Economy: The Upper Class and Wealth Inequality in Sweden ... Sweden is viewed as an egalitarian utopia by outsiders, but ... |
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05/02/13 - Obamacare: Opportunity Amidst the Wreckage, but Not Forever
Train Wreck Ahead ... Most Americans — even those who are legislators — know very little about the details of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, so-called ... |
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04/30/13 - Fisker's Spendthrift Tale: Failure of Green Government Action
Fisker Spent $660,000 on Each $103,000 Plug-in Car ... Fisker Automotive Inc. spent more than six times as much U.S. taxpayer and investor money to produce each luxury plug-in ... |
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04/17/13 - The Corruption of Individual Rights
Whenever a good idea surfaces, there will surely be many who will try to hitch their wagon to it filled with corrupt versions that aim to serve numerous purposes having little ... |
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04/02/13 - Terrible Costs of a 'Modern Economy'
900,000 choose to come off sickness benefit ahead of tests ... Nearly 900,000 people who were on incapacity benefit dropped their claim to the payments rather than undergo a ... |
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03/13/13 - Can New UK Health Czar Cure NHS's 'Enormous Sickness'
Cameron's new health tsar Don Berwick The NHS is suffering from "enormous sickness" in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal, David Cameron's new patient safety ... |
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03/05/13 - South America After Chavez – Not What You Think
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's breathing problems worsen, has severe new infection ... "The president has been receiving high-impact chemotherapy, along with other ... |
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01/03/13 - A Note on Socialism as Elitism
Since ancient times some people have considered the market place an unruly forum in which to determine whose work and what commodities are worth how much. With Marxism this ... |
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08/27/12 - Socialism American Style
Mr. Milos Foreman is a renowned film director but not a good political economist. This is evident in his New York Times op-ed defense of Barack Obama from those who ... |
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07/19/12 - Jobs From Forced Charity – The Socialist Way
It appears, based on the economic philosophy he has been outlining in recent weeks, that President Obama believes that jobs based on economic transactions, exchanges, trade and ... |
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06/25/12 - The Distortions Never Went Away
I have been reading into Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life (1909). Croly was the founder of The New Republic , which has remained a foremost middle way publication ... |
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06/18/12 - Georgism was a Fabian Policy?
Shaw was heavily influenced by Henry George, an American writer active in the 1880s and popular in England ... Among [his] main focuses ... was to promote the "social credit ... |
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06/09/12 - Hollande About to Wreck France?
Hollande About to Wreck France With Economically Insane Proposal: "Make Layoffs So Expensive For Companies That It's Not Worth It" Unemployment in France touched 10.2% in ... |
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05/02/12 - Now Bolivia Seizes Oil – Open Season on Western Assets or Something Even More?
Bolivian President Evo Morales seizes assets from Spanish energy company Red Electrica ... Bolivian President Evo Morales ordered his military to seize the local assets of ... |
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01/04/12 - Cuba Awakes?
Cuba's fate over the last half a century has been disastrous, although before that the island wasn't a Caribbean paradise, either. US government policies haven't made it easier ... |
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12/29/11 - Is the Free Market Hopeless?
Why free-market economics is a fraud ... If there's one thing everyone in America knows, it's that free-market economics is true and free markets are best. After all, we're not ... |
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12/15/11 - Capitalism & Socialism Rightly Understood
In a recent op-ed for The New York Times , Professor Gar Alperovitz of the University of Maryland, who teaches political economy there, has written that "something different ... |
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12/09/11 - Needing Doesn't Justify Stealing
What one needs depends on one's goals. And much of the time what one needs to pursue various goals is produced by other people, including some rather important stuff or ... |
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11/04/11 - Naomi Wolf: So Right and So Wrong
The People Versus the Police ... The corporatocracy is terrified that citizens will reclaim the rule of law. America's politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy. ... |
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10/10/11 - Greece in America
Most of us who are aware of world financial trends know that earlier this year thousands of Greeks took to the street and mercilessly engaged in destruction of property around ... |
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09/29/11 - A Modest Proposal on Expensive Child-Rearing
The rising cost of raising a child ... Forget designer strollers and organic baby formula, just providing a child with the basics has become more than most parents can afford. ... |
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09/26/11 - Infrastructure Stimuli
One of my colleagues, who is in substantial agreement that the free market is best, argues that if one is going to have a stimulus – and given how politicians always need ... |
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09/10/11 - The Campaign Speech
The president's speech on the evening of September 8 was without question not a speech about the economy or how to fix it; it was another campaign speech for Obama's ... |
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08/08/11 - The Moral Defense of Capitalism
One reason that our founding principles are in such deep trouble today is that many years ago our parents and grandparents... and great grandparents, conceded to the enemies of ... |
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06/01/11 - The Tragedy of Immigration Enforcement
Here's the problem. If you give government a job to do, even one that seems justified in the abstract, it will use its power to make a terrible mess in practice. This is true ... |
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