Socialism
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Rubble to Riches: Reckoning with West Germany’s Postwar Economic Miracle
Tobias Straumann’s new book explains how economic freedoms and currency reform helped West Germany outstrip not just the Soviet Socialist East, but many other nations, on its way to economic recovery.
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Mao’s ‘Great Leap’: Mass Starvation on The Road to Serfdom
Mao’s revolution encouraged peasants to murder landlords. Then he abolished private property completely. The resulting economic failure became history’s deadliest man-made famine.
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The Battle for the Future of Space
Rainer Zitelmann’s ‘Space Capitalism’ argues that property rights and free markets — not government control — will determine whether humanity’s next great frontier becomes a thriving commercial enterprise.
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Beefsteak Socialists? Left and Right Are Competing to Control the Economy
By making political control more valuable, distorting markets can encourage rival factions to seek still more power.
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Don’t Let Washington Pick the Next Apple
BlackBerry’s collapse shows why consumers, not Washington, should decide which AI company wins the next technological revolution.
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What’s Worse — Authoritarian Capitalism or Democratic Socialism?
Dictatorship is always a tragedy. But history suggests that a tyrant who allows markets does far less damage than one who abolishes them.
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The Coup In Search of a Philosophy
Karl Marx’s greatest legacy was not his economics, but the institutions that gave his revolutionary ideas a second life.
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Too Connected to Fail: Washington’s New Tech Oligarchy
From Intel to Dell, federal policy has helped create a tightly interdependent system where government power and private firms reinforce one another through subsidies, contracts, and political access.
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The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures — from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez — who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
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Can Socialists Support Commerce But Not Capitalism?
Many socialists condemn trade barriers while supporting bans on wage labor and private ownership. Can that logic be reconciled?
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Rubble to Riches: Reckoning with West Germany’s Postwar Economic Miracle
Tobias Straumann’s new book explains how economic freedoms and currency reform helped West Germany outstrip not just the Soviet Socialist East, but many other nations, on its way to economic recovery.
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Mao’s ‘Great Leap’: Mass Starvation on The Road to Serfdom
Mao’s revolution encouraged peasants to murder landlords. Then he abolished private property completely. The resulting economic failure became history’s deadliest man-made famine.
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The Battle for the Future of Space
Rainer Zitelmann’s ‘Space Capitalism’ argues that property rights and free markets — not government control — will determine whether humanity’s next great frontier becomes a thriving commercial enterprise.
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Beefsteak Socialists? Left and Right Are Competing to Control the Economy
By making political control more valuable, distorting markets can encourage rival factions to seek still more power.
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Don’t Let Washington Pick the Next Apple
BlackBerry’s collapse shows why consumers, not Washington, should decide which AI company wins the next technological revolution.
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What’s Worse — Authoritarian Capitalism or Democratic Socialism?
Dictatorship is always a tragedy. But history suggests that a tyrant who allows markets does far less damage than one who abolishes them.
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The Coup In Search of a Philosophy
Karl Marx’s greatest legacy was not his economics, but the institutions that gave his revolutionary ideas a second life.
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Too Connected to Fail: Washington’s New Tech Oligarchy
From Intel to Dell, federal policy has helped create a tightly interdependent system where government power and private firms reinforce one another through subsidies, contracts, and political access.
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•
The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures — from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez — who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
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Can Socialists Support Commerce But Not Capitalism?
Many socialists condemn trade barriers while supporting bans on wage labor and private ownership. Can that logic be reconciled?