Posted on 03/17/2005 4:58:11 PM PST by transhumanist
I find myself in need of a good scholarly and comprehensive critique of contemporary socialism. I find plenty of stuff on the web from the 1910's about Marx, but I am looking for something post-Soviet, hopefully addressing the "Social Democrat" position specifically. Amazingly, the most obvious Googlings are coming up dry ("why socialists are wrong" brings up zero entries, for example).
Not looking to start a thread on why socialism is stupid; I'm hoping for scholarly links (preferred) or books on the subject.
Thanks in advance!
Thomas Sowell's book, Marxism, came out during the Reagan Administration, and so predates the fall of the Berlin Wall. But in general you would never do wrong to read Professor Sowell.
There's nothing new about socialism so why should the critiques be updated? The Road To Serfdom and The Captive Mind are two good ones, but both pre-date the USSR's fall.
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Rodham Clinton June 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/06/28/politics2238EDT0845.DTL
It explains how Hitler was not a right-winger at all, but a doctrinaire Socialist.
This is something nearly all Left wingnuts will deny. But it is true.
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