Socialism

Presented at Mises University 2020.

Family policy has become an important area of ​​state growth in recent years. In the past, various state interventions served to protect the family (tax privileges, child benefits, etc.), but today’s politics are almost exclusively harmful to the family.

While collectivism was implied in Sismondi’s idea of a “general interest,” Owen and Fourier offered the first formal expression of full socialist collectivization.

We're now seeing an economic system where both supply and demand depend on government subsidies, handouts, and monetary schemes. This isn't a market economy.

The deadliest virus consists of the deification of human reason and the systematic use of coercion, which the state embodies.

Thomas Sowell has a gift for explaining how markets are simply the result of human beings making free choices. There is no single market answer to a problem. There are countless answers.

David Gordon reviews Prosperity and Liberty, a compilation of essays on Venezuela's wrecked economy and plans for reconstruction, edited by Rafael Acevedo.

Chile is the most prosperous country in South America precisely because it has (so far) avoided adopting the socialist policies being pushed on it by left-wing reformers.

Marx believed truth could only be fully understood by a certain socioeconomic class. Ludwig von Mises disagreed.

The deadliest virus consists of the deification of human reason and the systematic use of coercion, which the state embodies.