Socialism

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A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know Socialism has killed millions, but its now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria OcasioCortez, the ideology manifests itself in starryey...

The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant...not only an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary craftsmanship." And in recent years it has received equally high praise in the form...

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The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership...

On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.'A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Histor...

Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism.It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in that position only by accident, begins to rethink the economic basis of the system. He first begins to w...

After leaving the Mainland for Hong Kong in 1952, Eileen Chang was commissioned by the United States Information Service to write two books, one of which was her magnificent novel Naked Earth. Far from being a simplistic exercise in antiCommunist propaganda (two previous novels Chang wrote were proCommunist), Naked Earth is a powerfully moving, B...

2016 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This work, first published in German in 1911 introduced the concept of iron law of oligarchy. It is considered one of the classics of social sciences, in particular Sociology, and political science. This work analyzes the power str...

This present book contains the author's principal conclusions, or the principal things he learned politically in his journey from socialism to freedom. Upton Sinclair wrote that often we merely ?go from one extreme to the other.? The author says, on the contrary, the step is shorter from hardheaded classstruggle socialism to a firm defense of the...

Using formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the Soviet administrative command system, this study concludes that the system failed not because of Stalin and later leaders, but because of the economic system. It pinpoints the reasons for failure such as poor planning, unreliable supplies, preferential treatment of indi...

Comprising essays and philosophical fictions, classics and new work, the book ranges from Socrates to W. V. Quine, from the implications of an Israeli kibbutz to the flawed arguments of Ayn Rand. Nozick considers the figure of Socrates himself as well as the Socratic method (why is it a method of getting at the truth). Many of these essays bring c...

David Ramsay Steele, PhD, is a libertarian writer with a powerful underground reputation for producing caustic, entertaining, knowledgeable, and surprising arguments, often violently at odds with conventional thinking. For the first time, some of Dr. Steele?s ?greatest hits? have been brought together in an anthology of provocative essays on a wide...

The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights.In the backdrop of this blistering and deeply insightful and scholarly history is the whitewashing of "great leaders" li...

This is the essay that overthrew the socialist paradigm in economics, and provided the foundation for modern Austrian price theory. When it first appeared in 1920, Mises was alone in challenging the socialists to explain how their pricing system would actually work in practice.Mises proved that socialism could not work because it could not distingu...

Publisher: London, S. Sonnenschein Publication date: 1893 Subjects: Socialism Utopias Women and socialism Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to MillionBooks.com where you can select from more than a m...

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com After the fall of communism, and certainly after this wideranging demolition of Marxism by Austrian scholars, who can possibly defend Marxism Plenty of people, many of them smart otherwise but uneducated in economics. This book is the antidote, covering the whole history of this nutty and dangero...

This book must rank as the most devastating analysis of socialism yet penned. . . . An economic classic in our time.?Henry HazlittMore than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: "It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wi...

Written nearly fifty years ago, at a time when the world was still wrestling with the concepts of Marx and Lenin, The Illusion of the Epoch is the perfect resource for understanding the roots of MarxismLeninism and its implications for philosophy, modern political thought, economics, and history. As Professor Tim Fuller has written, this ?is not a...

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises dropped a bombshell on the European economic world with his article called "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth." It argued that socialism was impossible as an economic system. It set off two decades of debate, so by the time the essays appeared in English, in this very book here, in 1935, the debate was sti...

Rivalry and Central Planning, first published in 1985, is a vital contribution to the scholarly literature in contemporary comparative systems, the economics of socialism, and the Austrian school of economics. It disputes the commonly accepted view of both the nature of the ?socialist calculation debate? of the 1930s and the lessons to be derived f...

Do We Have to Say It Again Socialism Sucks! Apparently we do. Because today millions of Americans?young and old?are flocking to the socialist banner and chanting, ?What do we want Socialism?the economic system that has impoverished people everywhere and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions! And when do we want it Now!? Really Most people ...

Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by realworld experience....

Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to...

by Yuri N. Maltsev formerly of the Institute of Economics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR The following study on the history of Soviet economic thought during the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is much more than the regular academic scribble on this turbulent period of modem history. It is a systematic treatise on economic theo...

Dr. Hoff's 1938 book and Professor Vaughn's important introduction establish the theoretical impossibility of socialism: a system empirically in ruins but still advocated by many....

These thirtythree essays, many of them previously unpublished, illustrate the broad range of Warren Nutter?s thought. There are essays on the Soviet economy and international relations as well as essays exploring the economic institutions that support a society of free people.One finds in these essays a man of intellect and judgment ever ready to ...

The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In part, this reassessment is driven by the efforts of a group of philosophers and economists to reconstruct Marx from the ground up on a more rigorous bas...

The concluding volumefollowing Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberationin Frank Dikötter's awardwinning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958?1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reput...

Is socialism morally superior to other systems of political economy, even if it faces practical difficulties In The End of Socialism, James R. Otteson explores socialism as a system of political economy that is, from the perspectives of both moral philosophy and economic theory. He examines the exact nature of the practical difficulties socialis...

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Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling the truth about social and political realityin all its mund...