The Triumph of Socialism by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. »
Posted By Striker101 1 month, 3 weeks ago in NewsDo you think ideas don't matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest.
It gets even worse. While most Europeans and Americans think it was a good thing for the Soviet Union to disintegrate, people in India, Indonesia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Russia, and Egypt mostly think it was a bad thing. Yes, you read that right: millions freed from socialist slavery: bad thing.
What can we learn? Far from not having learned anything, people have largely forgotten the experience and have developed a love for the ancient fairytale that all things can be fixed through collectivism and central planning.
As to those who would despair at this poll, consider that it might have been much worse were it not for the efforts of a relative handful of intellectuals who have fought against socialist theory for more than a century. It might have been 99% in support of socialist tyranny. So there is no sense in saying that these intellectual efforts are wasted.
Further, as Rothbard has forcefully argued, free-market capitalism serves no more than a symbolic purpose for the Republican Party and for conservatives. Economic liberty is the utopia that they keep promising to bring us, pending the higher priority of blowing up foreign peoples, jailing political dissidents, crushing the left wing on campus, and routing the Democrats.
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Tasine1 month, 3 weeks ago
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I don't know the answer, but I am more than ready to follow the first leader who does know the answer, or someone I believe has the answer. Are there enough rules we can resist that would have much effect? Refuse to pay income taxes? Hold massive tea parties around the country from now on, stressing an oppressive leadership of the country? I agree with Striker - I'd love to hear everyone's ideas!
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Striker1011 month, 3 weeks ago
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This article is really terrible news, but also an eyeopener. We have a huge task ahead in presenting the overwhelming positives of liberty and the free market. We must resist the forces which is already in place, enforced by taxation and regulation which negates the free will of the people. In so many areas we have blindly accepted the force to such extent that most people don't even think about it. It is a problem at all levels of government, from small towns to the federal and even to the UN. We must show the people how Liberty better serves them and how Force always detracts from their lives, and we must show them how to refuse force. Now.
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fjgalt1 month, 3 weeks ago
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The only way to beat a bad philosophy is with a better philosophy. As you know, I advocate the philosophy put forth by Ayn Rand: Objectivism. It is in accord with the founding fathers' philosophy that created the noblest country to ever have existed, based on the Rights of Man.
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Education is the only way to win. Speak out when the occasion arises and inform your audience where his/her thinking is in error, the false premises they have been taught, using historical and logic analogies and examples.
This Christmas, I plan to give as gifts Ayn Rand's first novel and DVD We the Living to those whom I have already given Atlas Shrugged.
Sales of Rand's novels have soared this past year, indicating that people want to understand the events around them.
P.S. The bookstore at www.aynrand.org has her book We the Living on sale and Amazon has the DVD for less.-
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Striker1011 month, 3 weeks ago
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Yes, pretty much ditto for me. "Atlas Shrugged" became my bible about 1963. My kids picked it up simply by example at our home, but I finally send them all a copy of "Atlas Shrugged" about 3 years ago as it became so obvious what was happening. I'm only sorry that I didn't voice it regularly
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during all those years.
Leonard Peikoff's "Objectivism, the Philosophy of Ayn Rand", which I have yet to finish, seems far more concise, but challenges the mind with every paragraph He covers the entire spectrum of objectivism very well in about 500 pages while Rand used up several thousand.
While I agree with Rand about mysticism, her tirade against religion was unnecessary and harms the cause. None-the-less, the philosophy is foundational, and once grasped it makes the evaluation of everything quick and clean. No grey.
Meanwhile, according to this article, we have a huge task ahead, and we all better roll up our sleeves and spread the message, every day, starting yesterday. We also need to see some leaders float to the surface. Peter Schiff understands this. Ron Paul needs badly emphasize the philosophy, the Fed yes, but it's a piecemeal thing which in itself will neither find favor nor in itself solve this dilemma.
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greenmac1 month, 3 weeks ago
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WHO IS LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL JR.?
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http://www.egoplace.com/trc/rockwell.htm
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