Belgian Colonialism of the Congo: Facts and Fiction
Like many colonial ventures, Belgium's involvement in the Congo had some successes—and many failures.
Like many colonial ventures, Belgium's involvement in the Congo had some successes—and many failures.
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.
It's fitting that the G7 recently met in Hiroshima because the policies they are following are blowing up the world economy.
Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.
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.
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.
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?
Einstein might have been one of history's most brilliant men, but even his great mind could not have made socialism work.
"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."
Leftists claim that developing nations are poor because Western nations once practiced colonialism. The truth is that empires do not foster economic growth.