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Totalitarian Ideals and Not Living by Lies

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Blog09/04/2023

More than forty years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn urged his fellow Russians “not to live by lies.” In our politicized age, his words ring truer than ever.

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Marxist States Never "Wither Away" as Marx Predicted

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Blog08/25/2023

David Gordon continues his analysis of Graham Priest’s book, Capitalism: Its Nature and Its Replacement. While Priest might not understand either Marxism or capitalism, his book has useful insights.

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Producers Should Reject Calls to "Give Back"

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Blog01/24/2023

All too often we are told that government employment equals selflessness and working for profit constitutes greed. It's time to reassess the meaning of certain words.

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Marxist States Never "Wither Away" as Marx Predicted

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09/18/2023Mises Media
David Gordon continues his analysis of Graham Priest’s book, Capitalism: Its Nature and Its Replacement . While Priest might not understand either Marxism or capitalism, his book has useful insights.
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From the Publisher January–February 2023

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01/31/2023The Austrian
We want stuff now, we want happiness now, we want that vacation or car or trinket now. This is simple human nature. But we also have the capacity to plan and prepare for the future. This innate human desire to improve our material circumstances in the future is the driver of all economic growth.
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Evolution or Corruption?: The Imposition of Political Language in the West Today

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11/30/2022The Austrian
Who owns and controls language? There should be greater awareness and understanding of the distinction between evolution and corruption, between spontaneous linguistic changes and the imposition of language to serve an agenda.
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From the Publisher November–December 2022

Language

11/18/2022The Austrian
Language, like our institutions today are under attack. Our main article examines the idea of linguistic corruption—i.e., consciously imposed changes in language engineered by elites for political reasons—and contrast this with natural and organic evolution of language.
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