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  • Why isn't Socialism Dead (Forbes version)

    05/23/2006 9:42:55 AM PDT · by CharlieOK1 · 32 replies · 932+ views
    Forbes ^ | 5/6/6 | Rich Karlgaard
    First of all, this is not the same article that has been posted from Tech Central Station. It just has the same title.... I owe this title to writer Lee Harris. Last month Harris posed this headliner question in a piece he wrote for Tech Central Station's Web site, TCSDaily. Harris is right to ask; socialism's track record is abysmal.The milder forms of it have yielded economic stagnation where and whenever tried: England in the 1970s; France today. The more impatient strains--"socialism in a hurry," as Lenin reputedly called communism--did nothing but plunder economies and destroy lives. Their fine leaders...