Eight Socialists Define Socialism
Marx, Saint-Simon, Lenin, Harrington, Heilbroner, Attlee, Mao, Nehru. The eight socialists’ definitions that I discuss in the podcast are posted here in text form.
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Socialism
Polarization — insight from Auberon Herbert
From 1884: “Time is a great logician, and succeeding generations will either press steadily on to the system that is the perfection of force, Socialism, or to the perfection of liberty, complete Individualism. If men believe that they may rightly use force to gain any of their objects, they will claim in their supposed interest
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Christian Socialism — source for quotation
The quotation posted yesterday: “Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the
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YAL Silicon Valley talk today on how younger socialists think
Young Americans for Liberty is a dynamic student group with chapters all over the country, so I’m happy to be participating in this regional conference. The title and description of my talk: “Why Young Socialists Don’t Love Us — But They Should” Description: “The historical record of socialist poverty and brutality is clear, and we
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Orwell on Nazism as socialism
George Orwell, in contrast to those who want to distance National Socialism from their own preferred version of socialism: “National Socialism is a form of socialism, is emphatically revolutionary, does crush the property owner as surely as it crushes the worker.” [1] Also, and in fuller detail: “Internally, Germany [under the Nazis] has a good
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Ignoring Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s economic transformation: 1960: Average per capita income in Hong Kong was 28 percent of Great Britain’s. 1996: Average per capita income in Hong Kong was 137 percent of Great Britain’s. Most of us want to know the magic formula that takes people from poverty to wealth. So a one-question quiz: Guess what happened
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Socialism in 1803—Saint-Simon’s religious-authoritarian version
“Anybody who does not obey the orders will be treated by the others as a quadruped …. All men will work; they will regard themselves as laborers attached to one workshop whose efforts will be directed to guide human intelligence according to my divine foresight. The Supreme Council of Newton will direct their works.” (Source:
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Socialism in 1928—George Bernard Shaw’s “kindly” version
Socialism in 1928 — George Bernard Shaw’s “kindly” version: “Socialism means equality of income or nothing. Under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
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