Category: Socialism
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The Upside of Zohran Mamdani
What I like about the winner of the New York City mayoral Democrat primary is that he is not a 'stealth ideologue' a phrase I have been using for years to characterize the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. Mamdani, unlike the mendacious foursome just mentioned, comes clean about what…
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The Militant Defends Religious Liberty
Mirabile dictu!
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No Takers Without Makers
Substack latest. With a poke at the woke joke, Tim Walz, Comrade Kamala's running mate. Related: Makers and Takers: "You Didn't Build That!" Revisited
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Is There a Right to Health Care?
Arguments contra. Top o' the Stack.
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On Behalf of the Socialist
How might a socialist respond to the meme below? One way is by committing the No True Scotsman Fallacy. Another is by adapting the G.K. Chesterton riff: "Christianity hasn't failed; it's never been tried." Is that the best socialists can do? If you want to weigh in on this, you'd best begin by defining 'socialism.'
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The Militant Defends Religious Liberty!
Will wonders never cease? This article receives the coveted MavPhil nihil obstat. I found nothing in it to disagree with. Excerpt: Today anti-Catholic prejudice is being whipped up by Democrats and the middle-class left, who argue the “main threat to democracy” comes from “semi-fascists” and the far right, including Catholics who they smear as reactionary.…
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No Takers Without Makers
You can't take wealth and 'redistribute' it unless someone makes it. But human nature is such that people need incentives to make things. People will work hard for themselves, their families, their friends, and their communities but not for something as nebulous as the 'common good' when, as inevitably is the case under socialism, the…
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A Socialist Argument for Border Control
Three years ago on this date on my Facebook page. Redacted and improved. ……………….. Suppose you want a massive expansion of the welfare state. You want, among other things, a college education to be free to anyone who wants one. In addition, you want free health care for all, and perhaps a guaranteed…
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Garry Kasparov on Socialism
The following 'went viral' as they say about five years ago: I'm enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the…
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A Fundamental Contradiction of Socialism
Substack latest.
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Was Jesus a Socialist?
No way! He actually fed people. ………………….. I came to this witticism via Karl White who got it from someone unnamed. It is too good not to repeat and propagate. So do your bit and spread it around. You can't battle the Left effectively with just one weapon: the whole arsenal has to be brought…
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The Opium of the Redistributionists
A re-post from April 2016 that targets the hypocrisy of Sanders the Socialist. ………………………………. If religion is the opium of the masses, then OPM is the opium of the redistributionist. Bernie Sanders, the superannuated socialist, "and his wife, Jane, paid an effective tax rate of 13.5 percent, or $27,653 in federal taxes on an adjusted gross income…
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Very Good Books on the Folly of Socialism
Educate yourself.
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Democratic Socialism
The problem with democratic socialism is that the adjective contradicts the noun.
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Was Jesus a Socialist?
Yet another excellent, and mercifully brief, Prager U video. Can you pay attention for five minutes?