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Archive for July, 2009

The Europe/Socialist Syndrome

Posted in Collectivism, tagged , , , on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I originally wrote this a few months ago but I think that it is very applicable here.  The Murray article that I quoted provides an interesting perspective that helps explain one of the reasons that statist/socialist societies can never achieve their utopia because the very system that allegedly takes so many of the problems out of [...]

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Don’t allow Socialists to define the terms

Posted in Collectivism, tagged , , , , on July 25, 2009 | 13 Comments »

Socialism is a dirty word in America.  It is an epithet and it deserves to be.  The core of the philosophy – that you are owned by the State – is inherently immoral and completely contradictory to the principles on which the American system is based.  Additionally, the idea that our entire system should be [...]

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Hayek and de Toqueville on Socialism

Posted in Collectivism, tagged , , , , , on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have been reading Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny and though he and I don’t agree on everything we certainly agree on an outright rejection of socialism.  In the chapter titled On The Free Market, Levin included a great quote from Hayek’s The Road To Serfdom.  Hayek’s oft-quoted book is on the shelf behind me as well but I [...]

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My War On Socialism

Posted in Collectivism, tagged , , , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 
This has gone too far.

It was one thing when we had a small percentage of people getting a free ride, living off of the rest of us.  But that percentage is now over 40 percent!  Yes, the bottom 40 percent of income earners in America pay nothing in income taxes and our new Comrade-In-Chief is [...]

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