Nietzsche y los Nazis Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. “El infierno ha sucedido, y puede volver a suceder” Stephen Hicks escribió el presente libro haciéndose eco de estas palabras cuando sostiene que “no hay garantía que no sucederá de nuevo”. El autor nos invita a conocer y a entender las causas que motivaron el […]
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If you are not familiar with Professor Kors’s work, give yourself a treat and check out his lecture at Clemson University, which we feature as part of our Waterfall course on Socialism. Dr. Kors is a professor of history (emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in European intellectual history and co-founder of
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¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. La pregunta importante es: ¿Por qué el mundo del arte del siglo XX adoptó lo feo y lo ofensivo? ¿Por qué ha derramado sus energías creativas y su astucia en lo trivial y autoproclamado como sin sentido? Para más artículos en español:
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This week on the Atlas University course on Socialism we feature the Executive Summary of George Orwell’s “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by F. Borkenau.” Orwell was clear-eyed about the dangers of authoritarian socialisms in Germany and Russia. In this 1940 review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Orwell weighs the socialist credentials of Adolf Hitler’s
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This unit on Socialism features Stephen Hicks’s “Your Sex Life Under Socialism.” Here’s the logic: “If human beings are the most important means of production and socialism means collective ownership of the means of production, then socialism means collective ownership of human beings. And if human beings are produced by sexual reproduction and socialism is
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In this unit of Atlas University’s course on Socialism: Rand analyzes a major shift in leftist strategy—the narrative shift from Old Left to New Left defenses of socialism as the ultimate moral system. Their fundamental principles of “mysticism-altruism-collectivism” have not changed—rather the New Left is “cruder and more honest” in its explicit goals and practical
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In this week on the Waterfall course on Socialism: Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism”. Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005) was the most distinguished American academic socialist of the 20th century. In this article, written after the fall of the Soviet Union, Heilbroner argues as a social scientist that socialists must diagnose accurately the failings of socialist experiments in order to correct
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In this unit of our self-paced course on Socialism, we start with a 7-point summary of Ludwig von Mises’s classic Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, focusing on socialism’s economic inconsistencies. Mises compares the principles of Socialism and Liberal-Capitalism and finds they differ not in their aims, but in their understanding of justice and the
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