James ROBINSON: I find the word “socialism” in the U.S. context kind of odd. Kjell SALVANES: You know, “How is it to live in a socialist society?” And then I say, “What are you talking about?” * * * If you want to talk to someone about politics and economics; about Ven...
Capitalism is defined as a mode of production in which business owners—the capitalists—own all of the means of production, including the factory, the tools and machinery, the raw materials, the final product, and the profits earned from their sale. Workers—labor—are hired for wages and ha...
not, in general, been misled into supporting socialistic redistribution on the basis of moral sentiments; in the case of immigration, where the negative consequences for the citizens already here are not obvious as they would be in the case of a tax, the manipulation of moral sentiments (by ...
In 1966, the consensus bubble surrounding the Kennedy assassination burst with the publication ofRush to Judgmentby Mark Lane. Lane had had a short stint in the New York State Assembly as a liberal Democrat whose candidacy was endorsed by Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt and had publicly expressed s...
these little PIIGS are about to bring the Eurozone down and most of the world with them. After year upon year of socialist programs rewarding those who don’t want to work and punishing those who do, Greece is on the verge of financial collapse. Greece has created more debt than its econ...
This was not the case in 1988, “because no takes the Komsomol serious anymore” (portrait of a soviet pg 85) Under Gorbachev, emphasis on Socialistic policy was insignificant, and with it came to the unrest of students around the union. During this period as bans were lifted and students...
When organized labor and the NAACP persuaded the city council to authorize construction of three thousand units of federally subsidized housing, property owners and the Oakland Real Estate Board blasted it as “socialistic,” beat it back, and pushed every councilman who supported it out of office...
Also it's funny because the US could do a lot more things with socialist leanings and it would still be the capitalistic nightmare hellscape it is today as we backslide into feudalism. Another amusing point is a lot of nationalists that will worship the folks in the military ...
In 1941, the act came into play to prosecute leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and was used in 1949 against members of the American Communist Party. After going to the Supreme Court in Dennis v. the United States in 1951, the convictions of the American Communist Party leaders were ...
But of course the 1776 commission would be unlikely to acknowledge that King once described himself as “much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.” They had to erase that aspect of his life in order to appropriate him for their skewed, elitist version of individual liberty...