[cinives]

Best suggestion - educate yourself by reading "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, "Socialism" by Ludwig von Mises, and "The Road To Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek. You'll never be without a rejoinder and logical argument again.

[KarlInOhio]

Best suggestion - educate yourself by reading "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, "Socialism" by Ludwig von Mises, and "The Road To Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek. You'll never be without a rejoinder and logical argument again.

And if you don't have a proper argument, you could just hit your opponent with Atlas Shrugged (The Road to Serfdom is too thin to bruise even a pencil neck liberal).

[wolfpat]

Your reading list is perfect, and I second your suggestions.

Communism distributes ownership of the product of your labors to everybody except you. But since they can't own anything either, where does the ownership go? And since the source of all your labors is your own mind, you no longer own that either.

[RBroadfoot]

Von Mises' "Socialism" is a devastating and exhaustive critique of central planning by socialists of either fascist or communist stripe.

I'd say the "The Road to Serfdom" probably the best for assigned reading to students. It's short and written for lay readers.

"Atlas Shrugged" is great, but it has a lot of Rand's objectivist philosophy that's unnecessary to refute the socialist idea.

[myvoice]

I'll take that suggestion, thanks.

[the invisib1e hand]

gotta get than one by von Mises.

[the invisib1e hand]

gotta get than one by von Mises.

[Cultural Jihad]

Needless to say, the libertarian ideology has never succeeded either, because it, too, is based upon some flawed and shallow humanist mindset.