[hanfei]

Strongly recommended is "The Unknown Lenin", a collection of Lenin's private writings edited by Richard Pipes.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Pipes makes a good case that the "leviathan" version of Socialism is dead whereby the state owns everything, there is no competition, productivity is low, and there is not enough wealth to support a social safety net.

But what about the "lilliputian" version of "socialism"? The one that the entire Western World is encumbered by.

The government doesn't technically own the means of production, but the ever increasing number and complexity of regulations and tax incentives/penalties means that a larger and larger percentage of businesses are run pretty much the same way.

Competition is stifled, productivity suffers, and we don't have enough wealth left over to fund our ever-increasing social safety net.

We may have killed the dragon, but the ants will consume us bit by bit.

[wastedyears]

My Heaven on Earth:

[LiteKeeper]

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[Freedom'sWorthIt]

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[SunkenCiv]

Excerpts?!? We don’t neeeeed no steeeenkeeeng excerpts!