Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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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The Atlas Society Asks Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society interviews senior scholar Stephen Hicks on Black Lives, Matter, Covid, postmodernism, Cultural Marxism, and varieties of racism. This interview and Q&A was first published at YouTube in 2020. Below is a transcription. SUMMARY KEYWORDS: Racism, postmodernism, individualism, Marxism, reparations, capitalism, justice, institutional racism, Black Lives Matter SPEAKERS: Jennifer

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Is Socialism “Scientific” or “Religious”? [Open College podcast]

Episode 54 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Marx and Engels claimed their communism was “scientific socialism.” What do they mean by “scientific”? Were they sincere, or does their apparent logic cover for an essentially religious vision? Title: Socialism: Scientific or Religious?Date: September 2021Transcript: Forthcoming All audio versions of the podcast

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Mises, *Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis* [Atlas Intellectuals]

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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