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by Jeff Thomas via International Man Benito Mussolini stated that “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” Quite so. Interestingly, many, and perhaps most people today, lack an understanding as to the system under which they are ruled. In the US in particular, most people who […]
by Jeff Thomas via International Man “Progress may have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.” I’ve always been fond of that quote. Back when Ogden Nash wrote it, it was quite clever. Today, the quote is a bit less entertaining, as we are living in a period when, more and […]
by Bas Spliet via Mises.org A little over one hundred years ago, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises started arguing that a socialist economy is impossible. In the turbulent years following the 1917 Bolshevik coup in Russia, Vladimir Lenin tragically proved him right in real time. Mises’s Argument In spite of all the pretenses of […]
by David Stockman via International Man It’s long past time for conservative folks to wake up. Today’s great threat to capitalist prosperity, personal liberty and constitutional government as we have known it is not Marxism, socialism or any other variant of traditional left-wing ideology. The real threat to liberty is more generic. Rather than a […]
Lee esto en Español by Michael Rectenwald via Mises.org In 2018, Ross Douthat of the New York Times introduced the phrase “woke capital.” Essentially, Douthat suggested that woke capitalism works by substituting symbolic value for economic value. Under woke capitalism, corporations offer workers rhetorical placebos in lieu of costlier economic concessions, such as higher wages […]
by Murray N. Rothbard via Mises Institute [This excerpt from Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market is an explanation and elaboration of points first made in Ludwig von Mises’s Bureaucracy—and provides an excellent example of how Murray Rothbard’s treatise built on Mises’s to employ and extend the core analytical framework. The footnotes have […]
by Anton Balint via Mises.org In September 2010, Stanford University published an article called “Stalin killed millions”, with the punchline: “When it comes to use of the word “genocide,” public opinion has been kinder to Stalin than Hitler”. The sentiment has been echoed more than a decade later, and across the Atlantic ocean, in an […]
by Jacob G. Hornberger via Mises.org I was recently on a road trip to Missouri where I saw a sign that indicated that I was on the famed Route 66, a U.S. highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles from the 1920s through the 1960s. Although I grew up in South Texas, as a […]
by Doug Casey International Man: Communist and socialist ideas are growing in popularity among the millennial and Gen Z generations. In fact, the majority of young people dislike capitalism and favor a more socialist or even a communist economic system. This is evidenced by the rise of politicians like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) and The […]
Fascism is capitalism in decline. by Jeff Thomas via International Man The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one. That’s not a pleasant thought to have to consider, but it’s a fact, nonetheless. In every case, a democracy will deteriorate as the result of the electorate accepting the loss of […]
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. via Mises Institute These remarks were delivered in March 2007 at a Cato Institute conference called What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization? Although supporters of the market economy often have good reason for pessimism, it is important, especially in this age of globalization, not […]
by Jeff Thomas via International Man At this point, virtually all of us over the age of forty have encountered enough “snowflakes” (those Millennials who have a meltdown if anything they say or believe is challenged) to understand that, increasingly, young people are being systemically coddled to the point that they cannot cope with their […]
by Robert Bridge via Strategic Culture Foundation “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt At a time when the world is being overwhelmed with an array of perplexing problems, the political leadership necessary for solving them is coming up short everywhere. […]
Wow! This is an incredible interview — and a bit scary! Yuri Maltsev, former member of a senior Soviet Union economics team working under President Mikhail Gorbachev, discusses how the United States is descending into socialism. Maltsev also notes that many of President Biden’s policies are eerily reminiscent of those pursued in the Soviet Union. […]
This tide is turning for The Big Guy, and it’s not looking good. President Biden’s poll numbers are plummeting, and now pop culture is voicing its undeniable discontent with him and his policies. Loza Alexander raps poetically what many of us are thinking, “Don’t nobody want this commie, cuz we ain’t in China…Go Brandon, but […]
Do have the feeling that socialism is bad, but don’t know why or what to do about it? Are you looking for tools to reverse its surging popularity with the younger generations? Then, watch this excellent video by the Mises Institute. It explains the problems with socialism in less than four minutes. More importantly, the […]