Why Don't People Get It?

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Why Don't People Get It?

 

Mises Daily:Friday, June 29, 2012 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

 

Even now, people think nothing of professing their attachment to socialist ideology at cocktail parties, at restaurants serving abundant foods, and lounging in the fanciest apartments and homes that mankind has ever enjoyed. Yes, it is still fashionable to be a socialist, and — in some circles within the arts and academia — socially required. No one will recoil. Someone will openly congratulate you for your idealism. In the same way, you can always count on eliciting agreement by decrying the evils of Walmart and Microsoft.

Isn't it remarkable? Socialism (the real-life version) collapsed nearly 20 years ago — vicious regimes founded on the principles of Marxism, overthrown by the will of the people. Following that event we've seen these once-decrepit societies come back to life and become a major source for the world's prosperity. Trade has expanded. The technological revolution is achieving miracles by the day right under our noses. Millions have been made far better off, in ever-widening circles. The credit is wholly due to the free market, which possesses a creative power that has been underestimated by even its most passionate proponents.

What's more, it should not have required the collapse of socialism to demonstrate this. Socialism has been failing since the ancient world. And since Mises's book Socialism (1922) we have understood that the precise reason is due to the economic impossibility of the emergence of social order in the absence of private property in the means of production. No one has ever refuted him.

And yet, even now, after all this, professors stand in front of their students and decry the evil of capitalism. Bestselling books make anticapitalism the theme. Politicians parade around telling us about the glorious things that the government will accomplish when they are in charge. And Read More http://mises.org/daily/2831/Why-Dont-People-Get-It

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@Draggingtree

 

The thing is so much the left don't see the connection between their ideology and Socialism let alone Communism. Even Socialists will insist that they are not Marxist/Communists. If you really want to get them going point out the similarities between Fascist/Nazis and Socialists/Marxists.

 

One of the great things about Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism is all you have to do is carry it around and you'll get in a lot of...discussions. Just about as fun as you can have with your pants on.

 

 

When confronted by the "glorious things that the government will accomplish" my response is 4 words, The...War...On...Poverty. 45+ years and literally Trillions of dollars spent and the rate of poverty has not dropped one bit. Don't expect this to make any impact, Leftism has all the hall makes of a religion. Saints Sinners Orthodoxy, Heresy & Heretics, no Heaven but your name will live on in the hearts of "The People" much like ancient paganism.

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