Author: Kristian Niemietz
Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
ISBN: 0255367716
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as “not real socialism”.
Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies
Author: Kristian Niemietz
Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
ISBN: 0255367716
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as “not real socialism”.
Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
ISBN: 0255367716
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as “not real socialism”.
It Didn't Happen Here
Author: Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393322545
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Why socialism has failed to play a significant role in the United States - the most developed capitalist industrial society and hence, ostensibly, fertile ground for socialism - has been a critical question of American history and political development. This study surveys the various explanations for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393322545
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Why socialism has failed to play a significant role in the United States - the most developed capitalist industrial society and hence, ostensibly, fertile ground for socialism - has been a critical question of American history and political development. This study surveys the various explanations for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism.
Where Socialism Failed
Author: Graeme Williams
Publisher: London : Murray
ISBN:
Category : Collective settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: London : Murray
ISBN:
Category : Collective settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
WHERE SOCIALISM FAILED
Author: STEWART. GRAHAME
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033586167
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033586167
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Where Socialism Failed
Author: Graeme] [Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Socialism Sucks
Author: Robert Lawson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621579468
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621579468
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.
Where Socialism Failed
Author: Stewart Grahame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Where Socialism Failed
Author: Stewart Grahame
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992871222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In a world edging ever-closer to the centralised authority of the Good-Intentioned we need to remember the repeated failures of Socialism. New Australia was a Colony founded in Paraguay on 28th September 1893 by the firebrand, polemicist, and Socialist Preacher and Journalist William Lane. This book is the story of that colony, its founding, its struggles, its secessions and its ultimate failure. It is the story of one of the very first attempts to found a society based on Socialist principles. A story of good-intentions and wishful thinking; a story of the clash between ideology and reality, and, perhaps most of all, a story about human nature. The failure of Socialism is often characterised by tragedy but as this story unfolds we find that Socialism's main feature may well be farce. This book draws on the work of early twentieth century Socialists such as H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw and tests their ideas against the realities of communal life in the Paraguayan jungle. It would be sad if it weren't so funny. Originally written in 1912 and now, 100 years later, after the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Where Socialism Failed is no less relevant and no less entertaining than it ever was.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992871222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In a world edging ever-closer to the centralised authority of the Good-Intentioned we need to remember the repeated failures of Socialism. New Australia was a Colony founded in Paraguay on 28th September 1893 by the firebrand, polemicist, and Socialist Preacher and Journalist William Lane. This book is the story of that colony, its founding, its struggles, its secessions and its ultimate failure. It is the story of one of the very first attempts to found a society based on Socialist principles. A story of good-intentions and wishful thinking; a story of the clash between ideology and reality, and, perhaps most of all, a story about human nature. The failure of Socialism is often characterised by tragedy but as this story unfolds we find that Socialism's main feature may well be farce. This book draws on the work of early twentieth century Socialists such as H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw and tests their ideas against the realities of communal life in the Paraguayan jungle. It would be sad if it weren't so funny. Originally written in 1912 and now, 100 years later, after the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Where Socialism Failed is no less relevant and no less entertaining than it ever was.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism
Author: Kevin Williamson
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 1596986492
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Argues that the same impulse for control that governed the Soviet Union is present in the American health care and educational systems and that socialism can never work because of human nature.
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 1596986492
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Argues that the same impulse for control that governed the Soviet Union is present in the American health care and educational systems and that socialism can never work because of human nature.
WHERE SOCIALISM FAILED AN ACTU
Author: Graeme Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781371726843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781371726843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description