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What are the best books out there on why socialism blows?
me | 11-1-08 | Houmatt

Posted on 11/01/2008 6:13:42 AM PDT by Houmatt

I have a friend who is talking about how socialism "works." She needs to be taken down a peg or two but I don't know where to start. Any suggestions?


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To: wintertime
I'm halfway through "Atlas Shrugged" and, I swear, it could have been written yesterday. Uncanny! :O
41 posted on 11/01/2008 7:14:06 AM PDT by nodumbblonde
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To: Houmatt

“Heaven on Earth, The Rise and Fall of Socialism”
Joshua Muravchik

“Liberal Fascism, The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”
Jonah Goldberg, he writes about all leftist ideologies.


42 posted on 11/01/2008 7:15:14 AM PDT by Cathy
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To: wintertime

Ludwig Von Mises........Socialism.......It is a long, hard to read (translated from German) book that destroys the economic basis for socialism. Von Mises would probably argue today that our economy is already lurching towards socialism because of the gov’t ever increasing involvement in the economy.....He was a big gold standard guy and was suspicious of paper money.

“Gov’t is the only entity that can take a valuable commodity like paper and render it worthless merely by apply ink” Ludwig Von Mises


43 posted on 11/01/2008 7:16:30 AM PDT by milwguy (........)
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To: Earthdweller

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1
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Very scary! We are not in the stage of destabilization ( 2 to 5 years).

The speaker emphasizes the importance of schools. Wow! Our schools ( even the private ones) are nearly entirely in the control of the Marxists and their Useful Idiots.

I can think of a least 50 people who need to see this video,...but...sadly, they are the very people who this speaker states will **refuse** to believe black and white evidence.


44 posted on 11/01/2008 7:17:56 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: Houmatt

Not much time to read a book - have her watch Animal Farm.
http://www.watch-movies.net/movies/animal_farm/


45 posted on 11/01/2008 7:21:02 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Land of the Fee, Home of the Shamed)
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To: 1rudeboy

great link. Thanks.


46 posted on 11/01/2008 7:21:37 AM PDT by xmission (www.iwilldefendtheconstitution.com)
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To: SteelTrap
One of the stages of this strategy was a manufactured crisis which seems very close to the subprime mortgage mess.
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This is the destabilization and crisis stage. We have already passed that demoralization stage.

Did you notice that the process begins with demoralization. He specifically specified that it takes 15 to 20 years to educate a new generation.

Why are conservatives like frogs in a pot of hot water? We should be organizing private voucher foundations and giving grants to conservative teachers who are willing to open conservative private schools.

The speaker was very plain about the solution: Education of our children true American values.

47 posted on 11/01/2008 7:22:34 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: nodumbblonde
I'm halfway through “Atlas Shrugged” and, I swear, it could have been written yesterday. Uncanny! :O
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Did you read the section on the soy bean famine and the train wreak? Wow! Does that ever parallel this current mortgage crisis!

48 posted on 11/01/2008 7:25:09 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: mewzilla

A hearty endorsement of all that listed Hayek’s ‘The Road to Serfdom’ !


49 posted on 11/01/2008 7:25:31 AM PDT by tomkat (handcrafted handmirrors)
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To: Houmatt
If she's educated and willing to invest the time, I strongly recommend Chamber's Witness. It doesn't directly deal with socialism, but it will show her who these folks are.

If she reads it, I recommend The Venona Papers and Charen's Useful Idiots as a followup.

I also support many here in recommending Hayek, but he is a bit hard to read IMHO.

50 posted on 11/01/2008 7:30:32 AM PDT by Scarchin (nObama - Keep the change!)
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To: Houmatt

“Free to Choose.” More about why free markets are the best hope for mankind.


51 posted on 11/01/2008 7:33:36 AM PDT by yazoo
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To: Houmatt

I’m paraphrasing Walter Williams, but you could ask her:

1. Does she believe that she is entitled to keep what she earns?

2. Does she believe that she is entitled to what others have earned?

Her answers to these questions will tell you whether pursuing a conversation is worth your time and effort.


52 posted on 11/01/2008 7:47:02 AM PDT by Scarchin (nObama - Keep the change!)
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To: Houmatt; aculeus; dighton; Charles Henrickson; mikrofon; Petronski

(it's a bank!)

53 posted on 11/01/2008 7:48:51 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Houmatt

Das Kapital. Really, it becomes quite clear when you read it why the system can’t ever work in the real world. It requires both humans and government do go against their most basic nature.


54 posted on 11/01/2008 7:51:19 AM PDT by dilvish
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To: IbJensen

ping


55 posted on 11/01/2008 8:15:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (The troll "spot" is often Reply #2 or #3. Trolls deflate & cast doubt on good threads. Watch for it,)
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To: Houmatt

Rand, Hayek and Thomas Sowell would be my suggestion.

H


56 posted on 11/01/2008 8:26:01 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Keep Austin Quarantined ...)
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To: martin_fierro; Houmatt; dighton; Charles Henrickson; mikrofon; Petronski
(it's a bank!)

Containing change we can believe in?

57 posted on 11/01/2008 9:03:35 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Houmatt
Hayek, Road to Serfdom
Courtois et al., Black Book of Communism
Orwell, Animal Farm
Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago
Goldberg, Liberal Fascism

58 posted on 11/01/2008 9:33:42 AM PDT by Petronski (Please pray for the success of McCain and Palin. Every day, whenever you pray.)
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To: Houmatt
Marx and Engles Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

I always have trouble finding it however, it seems they keep moving it from the fiction section.

59 posted on 11/01/2008 10:04:53 AM PDT by Brellium ("Thou shalt not shilly shally!" Aron Nimzowitsch)
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To: martin_fierro; Houmatt; Charles Henrickson

It's a Cookbook!

(for disaster)

60 posted on 11/01/2008 11:18:50 AM PDT by mikrofon (Socialism: To Serve Man... [NOT])
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