The socialist regimes of the 20th century that succeeded in comprehensively imposing their designs and central plans on the societies over which they ruled attempted to abolish any and all of the preceding institutions of civil society. Edward Shils noted this in his 1991 essay “The Virtue of Civil Society,” explaining how such regimes went to
A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary mass-murdering dictatorship, and the inspirer of disastrous socialist central planning was born in Trier, Germany. Looking over the political and
The Russian Revolution of November 1917, now being marked by its centenary, ushered in a hundred years of political tyranny and terror, economic suffering, exploitation and corruption, along with unimaginable mass murder, among the tens of millions of people who came under the control and command of Marxist inspired socialist regimes around the
Examples of government control over social and economic life are as old as recorded history, and they always have features that are universal in their perverse effects regardless of time or place. One of the most famous of these collectivist episodes was that of the Incas and their empire in South America. The Inca Empire emerged out of a small
November 7, 2017, marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia that happened on that date in November 1917, which lead to the communist “dictatorship of the proletariat” and ushered in an epoch of totalitarian tyranny and mass murder both in Russia and in every other country where socialism was put into
Los regímenes socialistas del siglo XX que lograron imponer integralmente sus designios y planes centrales en las sociedades sobre las que gobernaron intentaron abolir todas y cada una de las instituciones precedentes de la sociedad civil. Edward Shils señaló esto en su ensayo de 1991 «La Virtud de la Sociedad Civil», explicando cómo tales
Un espectro sigue acechando al mundo, el espectro de Karl Marx. Hace doscientos años, el 5 de mayo de 1818, nació en Trier, Alemania, el padre del comunismo totalitario del siglo XX, el autor de la guía de la dictadura revolucionaria asesina en masa y el inspirador de la desastrosa planificación central socialista. Observando el panorama político
El 7 de noviembre de 2017 fue el centenario de la revolución rusa (o bolchevique), que se produjo en esa fecha de 1917 y que llevó a la “dictadura del proletariado” soviética y dio paso a una época D tiranía totalitaria y asesinatos masivos tanto o en Rusia como en cualquier otro país en el que se puso en práctica el socialismo. Los historiadores
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