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by Bas Spliet via Mises.org A little over one hundred years ago, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises started arguing that a socialist economy is impossible. In the turbulent years following the 1917 Bolshevik coup in Russia, Vladimir Lenin tragically proved him right in real time. Mises’s Argument In spite of all the pretenses of […]
by Anton Balint via Mises.org In September 2010, Stanford University published an article called “Stalin killed millions”, with the punchline: “When it comes to use of the word “genocide,” public opinion has been kinder to Stalin than Hitler”. The sentiment has been echoed more than a decade later, and across the Atlantic ocean, in an […]
by Doug Casey via International Man International Man: Lee Kuan Yew, the former leader of Singapore, once said: “The size of China’s displacement of the world balance is such that the world must find a new balance. It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player […]
Wow! Jordan Peterson recently resigned from his full tenured position at the University of Toronto, and he explains why. Peterson pulls no punches. You must make time to watch this 18-minute video. He delivers a blistering denunciation of what the diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE) movement of the Radical Left is doing to our institutions […]
by Doug Casey International Man: Communist and socialist ideas are growing in popularity among the millennial and Gen Z generations. In fact, the majority of young people dislike capitalism and favor a more socialist or even a communist economic system. This is evidenced by the rise of politicians like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) and The […]
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. via Mises Institute These remarks were delivered in March 2007 at a Cato Institute conference called What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization? Although supporters of the market economy often have good reason for pessimism, it is important, especially in this age of globalization, not […]
by Jeff Thomas via International Man At this point, virtually all of us over the age of forty have encountered enough “snowflakes” (those Millennials who have a meltdown if anything they say or believe is challenged) to understand that, increasingly, young people are being systemically coddled to the point that they cannot cope with their […]
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org The Thanksgiving holiday in the United States has a checkered past. Its more recent origins lie largely in government attempts at pushing propagandistic narratives. For example, Abraham Lincoln demanded Americans be thankful for “the advancing armies and navies of the Union” during the Civil War. George Washington instructed Americans to give […]