When it comes to the economy, government may seize, transfer, redistribute, “invest” or otherwise “spread” human productive energy (in the form of money or goods) around in whatever way it chooses; but it’s all about forcing the redistribution of already existing goods and property, not about creating it.
Post Tagged with: "socialist state"
June 10, 2013 16:32
We’ll Keep the Red Flag Flying
There is a flag flying over Washington and it’s no longer the stars and stripes, but the same red flag that flies over Chicago. It’s the red flag under whose shade misery and tyranny spreads while the band strikes up the same anthem over and over again. “Happy days are here again.”
January 4, 2011 09:44
The ACLU’s untold Stalinist heritage
A May 23, 1931 letter in the archives signed by ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, written on ACLU stationery, to then American Communist Party Chairman William Z. Foster asking him to help ACLU Chairman Harry Ward with his then-upcoming trip to Stalin’s Russia.
April 27, 2010 03:30
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
The reason that Social Democrats do not establish socialism when they come to power, is that they are unwilling to do what would be required. The establishment of socialism as an economic system requires a massive act of theft — the means of production must be seized from their owners and turned over to the state. Such seizure is virtually certain to provoke substantial resistance on the part of the owners, resistance which can be overcome only by use of massive force.
