How the Modern State Commits the Very Evils It Was Created to Prevent - Foundation for Economic Education

How the Modern State Commits the Very Evils It Was Created to Prevent - Foundation for Economic Education
"One of the striking things about America’s recent political environment has been the increasingly warm embrace of socialism, particularly by younger generations.
At the same time, as the title of a recent New York Post editorial put it, “Socialism’s millennial fans don’t even know what it is.”
And the text makes the point more stron
gly: “Millenials—ignorant of socialism’s appalling economic and human-rights history—increasingly embrace socialism and its naively unrealistic prescriptions.”
Defenders claim they don’t want complete, or “real” socialism, but selective socialism in areas where they anticipate benefiting at the expense of others.
...But they do want selective socialism in areas where they anticipate benefiting at the expense of others as recipients or as arbiters of what “society wants” and will impose on citizens.
Further, they generally want the government to determine how nominal resource owners are to use them rather than direct government ownership.
Of course, that means their preferred system is better described not as socialism but as fascism...
Bastiat's Defense of Liberty...
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