World History

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Lipton Matthews

Like many colonial ventures, Belgium's involvement in the Congo had some successes—and many failures.

Benjamin Seevers

Socialists and communists claim to support the rights of "indigenous" peoples. However, that support rings hollow given how the USSR abused the native peoples of Siberia, all while American socialists and communists uncritically supported the Soviet Union.

T. Hunt Tooley

Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.

David Gordon

Professor Quinn Slobodian believes that free markets must lead to tyrannical worker exploitation, and socialism is the only solution. In truth, market competition is the answer. 

Lipton Matthews

In order for nations to have capital development and market-based economies, they must have a cultural framework that accepts these developments. Too many nations do not, and they languish in poverty as a result.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

If my repeated insistence that I do not consent is insufficient to indicate my lack of consent, then what kind of crazy moral system is this?

Ryan McMaken

"The first condition for the maximization of economic efficiency is the liberation of civil society with respect to the state. . . . The expansion of capitalism owes its origins and raison d’être to political anarchy."

Lipton Matthews

Leftists claim that developing nations are poor because Western nations once practiced colonialism. The truth is that empires do not foster economic growth.