The Case Against Socialism
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Chapter 39: Welcome to the Panopticon: FaceCrime, PreCrime, and the Surveillance State
1. Harry Cockburn, “China Blacklists Millions of People from Booking Flights as ‘Social Credit’ System Introduced,” Independent, November 22, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-social-credit-system-flight-booking-blacklisted-beijing-points-a8646316.html.
2. James O’Malley, “China’s Social Credit System: The Big Experiment to Turn Real Life into a Video Game,” National, November 20, 2018, https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/comment/china-s-social-credit-system-the-big-experiment-to-turn-real-life-into-a-video-game-1.793732.
3. Anders Corr, “China’s Surveillance State: Using Technology to Shape Behavior,” La Croix International, February 1, 2019, https://international.la-croix.com/news/chinas-surveillance-state-using-technology-to-shape-behavior/9374#.
4. Alex Linder, “Facial Recognition Toiler Paper Dispenser Rolled Out at Shanghai Public Bathroom!,” Shanghaiist, June 8, 2018, http://shanghaiist.com/2018/06/08/facial-recognition-toilet-paper-dispenser-rolled-out-at-shanghai-public-bathroom/.
5. Nicole Kobie, “The Complicated Truth about China’s Social Credit System,” Wired, January 21, 2019, https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained.
6. Eamon Barrett, “In China, Facial Recognition Tech Is Watching You,” Fortune, October 28, 2018, http://fortune.com/2018/10/28/in-china-facial-recognition-tech-is-watching-you/.
7. David Edelstein, “Blame Runner,” Slate, May 22, 2019, http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2002/06/blame_runner.html.
8. Alex Peak, “Minority Report: The Security State and Civil Liberties,” AlexPeak.com, http://alexpeak.com/art/films/mr/statism/; John Powers, “Majority Report,” LA Weekly, June 19, 2002, http://www.laweekly.com/news/majority-report-2134959.
9. Stephen Carson, “Films on Liberty and the State,” Mises Institute, November 13, 2006, https://mises.org/library/films-liberty-and-state-1.
10. James Wilkinson, “Civil Liberties Union Horrified by Chicago PD’s ‘Minority Report’ Computer Algorithm That Can Predict Who Might Be a Victim of Crime—or Commit One,” Daily Mail, May 27, 2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3613708/Civil-liberties-union-horrified-Chicago-PD-s-Minority-Report-computer-algorithm-predict-victim-crime-commit-one.html#ixzz4wiSTcreR.
11. Simon McCormack, “When Minority Report Becomes New Yorkers’ Reality,” ACLU, October 11, 2016, https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/when-minority-report-becomes-new-yorkers-reality.
12. Ibid.
13. Barrett, “In China, Facial Recognition Tech is Watching You.”
14. G. Clay Whittaker, “China Wants to Make ‘Minority Report’ a Reality,” Daily Beast, March 18, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-wants-to-make-minority-report-a-reality.
Afterword: Finding Common Ground
1. Mark Joseph Stern, “The New Criminal Justice Reform Law Has Already Righted One Outrageous Injustice,” Slate, January 3, 2019, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/matthew-charles-released-under-first-step-act.html; Julieta Martinelli, “As He Heads Back to Prison, a Nashville Man Says ‘Goodbye’ to the New Life He Hoped to Build,” Nashville Public Radio, May 25, 2018, https://www.nashvillepublicradio.org/post/he-heads-back-prison-nashville-man-says-goodbye-new-life-he-hoped-build#stream/0.
2. Mary Ann Georgantopoulos, “A Man Was Charged with Pulling a Gun on a Kentucky Couple for Wearing MAGA Hats,” BuzzFeed News, February 19, 2019, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/gun-allegedly-pulled-couple-maga-hat-trump-supporters.
3. Heather Mac Donald, “The Frenzied Search for Racism,” City Journal, February 18, 2019, https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollett-bigotry.
Index
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ABC News, 20
Acton, Lord, 19
Afghan War, 304
Akhmatova, Anna, 203–4, 205
Al Jazeera, 14, 15
Alter, Charlotte, 36
Amber Waves (USDA), 66
American Political Science Association Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy, 46
Amnesty International, 268–69
Anderson, William L., 119
Animal Farm (Orwell), 130
Anthem (Rand), 181
applauding enthusiastically anecdotes, 161–65
Aslan, Reza, 280
assassination attempt on Nicolas Maduro, 1–2
Atlantic magazine, 295
Attlee, Clement, 130
Atwood, Margaret, 231
authoritarianism, 129–38
overview, 129
and black market, 133–34
democracy vs., 132
enforcing price and wage controls, 133–38
Mubarak, 20
Avila, Luis, 16
Azerrad, David, 55–56
Babel, Isaak, 266
Baier, Bret, 47–48
Balenciaga boots worn by Michelle Obama, 58
Bastiat, Frederic, 254
BBC, 21
Beattie, Sarah, 280
Behar, Joy, 86
Bellafiore, Robert, 253
Berdichevsky, Arcadi, 212–13
Bergman, Ingmar, 107
Bergqvist, Kajsa, 106
Betancourt, Romulo, 11–12
Beveridge, William, 157
Bian Zhongyun, 188–89
birth rate and global warming, 252
Black Israelites at Indigenous People’s March incident, 279, 280–81, 282, 283
black market, 25–26, 27–28, 133–34
Blasi, Joseph, 5–6
Blumenberg, Hans, 242
Booker, Cory, 277, 299
Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kundera), 206
Borges, Julio, 18–19
Boushey, Heather, 42
Bowman, Sam, 30–31
Brandon, Adam, 250
Britain, 130–31, 132–33, 227
Brookings Institution, 288
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky), 228–29
Bruenig, Elizabeth, 80–81
Bruenig, Matt, 80–81
Buffett, Warren, 250
Bukharin, Nikolai, 204–5
Butterfield, Herbert, 223
Bylund, Per, 108–9, 114
Cambodia, 194–202
Choeung Ek killing field and memorial, 198
Khmer Rouge, 195–96
Pol Pot, 194–97
preventive killings of children, 198
U.S. bombing of, 195
cannibalism during famine in China, 175
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty), 29–31
capitalism, 51–59
overview, 101–2, 305
in Chile, 11
correlation between wealth and, 52–53
cronyism, 247–48
income inequality as growth factor, 29–33
and the increasing number of one percenters, 47–50
middle class benefits, 34–40
and Nazi Germany, 142, 147–49
poll results on Americans' support for, 4–5, 5–6
in Scandinavia, 80, 82–83, 84–92
as source of climate change, 258–59
splitting the difference with socialism as unacceptable, 304–5
as welfare state, 99–102
Carlson, Tucker, 284
Carroll, Robert, 49
Carson, Stephen, 291
Castro, Fidel, 18, 63, 65
Cato Institute, 253, 302
central planning, 135–36, 143, 151, 170, 172–77, 222
Charles, Matthew, 299–300
Chavez, Hugo, 9–10, 12–16, 17, 28, 119
Chen Dake, 181–83
Chen Qigang, 183–84
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay, 226, 229, 230, 231–32, 234
Chiang Kai-shek, 172
&nbs
p; Child Tax Credit, 253
Chile, 11
China
“cost” of education, 123
FaceCrime, 286–87
greenhouse gas emissions, 257
Mao's rise to power, 171–73
one-child policy, 252
Ping-Pong players commit suicide, 189
social credit system based on facial recognition surveillance, 286–89, 295–97
Temple of Heaven toilet paper ration, Beijing, 288
"the Great Leap Forward" and the Great Famine, 173–77
See also Cultural Revolution in China; Mao and socialism
China Electronics Technology Group, 296
Chinese Crystal Night, 185
Choeung Ek, Cambodia, 198
Churchill, Winston, 53, 130
Ciccariello-Maher, George, 13
Clementis, Vladimir, 206
Climate Action Network Europe (CANE), 257
climate change
democratic representatives silencing discussion, 271–72
greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, 251–57
Green New Deal, 111, 251, 252, 253, 254–55, 259
Milankovic cycles, 262–65
Paris Accord, 257
scientific assessments, 258–62
Climate Policy Initiative, 255
Clinton, Bill, 76
Clinton, Hillary, 51, 76, 86–87, 93, 242–44, 301
CNN, 14, 76–77, 279–80, 282–83
Cockburn, Harry, 287
Coffee Shop, Union Square, New York City, 70
collective will vs. individual rights, 144–45, 151–52, 160, 222, 230–31
college debt, United States and Scandinavia, 124–25
Collins, Doug, 300–301
common ground, 298–305
communism and socialism, 142–43
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 196
Congress of the United States
coalitions in Congress for ending Afghan and Yemen wars, 304
delegation of authority to write regulations, 153–54
First Step Act, 299, 300–301
media perpetuating lie of members' hatred for each other, 301, 302
Netanyahu's speech to, 163–64
and Paul, Ron, 27
role of, 271–73, 304
and Russia, 302
shooting at charity congressional baseball game practice, 274–76
Trump's State of the Union address, 3–4
Conley, Father John J., 157–58
Conquest, Robert, 266
conservatives, unfair treatment of, 268–78
Cook, Vincent, 196, 202
Cor, Anders, 287–88
Corday, Charlotte, 211
corporate greed as rallying cry of leftists, 69
corporate taxes
in Denmark, 87
in Norway, 81–82
in Scandinavia, 71, 77, 78, 85, 87, 109, 113
in Seattle, WA, 71
socialist argument for high corporate taxes, 113
in Sweden, 106
in United States, 78
corruption and socialism, 17–22
Covington Catholic High School students at Indigenous People's March, 279–85
cows, carbon-producing, 252
crime-predicting computer algorithm, 294
crises, socialists' creation of, 251–57
Crockford, Susan, 260, 261
cronyism, 44, 49, 247–50
Crystal Palace, England, 227
Crystal Palace utopia, 227, 228, 229, 231, 234–35
Cuba, 18, 63, 65
Cuban Americans, 67
Cultural Revolution in China
overview, 178–81
Destroy the Four Olds Campaign, 179, 185–88
farmers who worked for themselves and their families at end of, 190–93
Red Guard's enforcement role, 179, 180, 185–89
and Tibet, 186
victim's stories, 180–86, 188–89
Cuomo, Chris, 280
Curtis, Jamie Lee, 283–84
Czechoslovakia, communist occupation of, 206
Czech Republic, 72
data capture, 286–97
FaceCrime, 285, 286–87
PreCrime, 289–90, 294–96
See also surveillance
De Blasio, Bill, 131–32
Debs, Eugene, 72
Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism (Sanandaji), 82–83
Dembicki, Geoff, 71–72
democracy, 44, 45–46, 64, 132, 239–40. See also capitalism
democratic socialism
overview, 93
character of Social Democrats, 132
Democratic Socialists of America, 69, 71–73
in England, 130–31
in Scandinavia, 89, 91–94, 105–7, 109, 132
See also socialism
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), 69, 71–73
Deng Xiaoping, 180, 192–93
Denmark
controls on who gets an education, 123–24
experiment with socialism, 106
immigration issue, 94
life expectancy, 120
PM insists Denmark is not socialist, 87, 88
public stock exchange, 79
and Sanders, 76–78, 87
taxes in, 97, 115–16
wealthy Danes opting out of public health system, 102–3
Dennis, Brady, 261–62
Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), Washington, D.C., 291–93
de-platforming, 269, 273
Destroy the Four Olds Campaign in China, 179, 185–88
Dick, Philip K., 289
dictators
Castro in Cuba, 18, 63, 65
Chavez in Venezuela, 9–10, 12–16, 17, 28, 119
Maduro in Venezuela, 1–2, 9–10, 13, 14–16, 18, 28
Mubarak in Egypt, 19–20
Somoza in Nicaragua, 65, 129
See also Stalin, Joseph
dictatorships
overview, 19, 20, 65, 146, 208–9, 232l–233, 238
as counter to democratic utopia, 241
from effort to create utopia, 221
and enthusiastic applause, 161–63, 164
justifying edicts, 243
See also authoritarianism
Dikötter, Frank, 173–77, 181
discount stores as income equalizers, 32–33
Di Trolio, Gerard, 19
DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), Washington, D.C., 291–93
Domenech, Ben, 39, 40, 50
Dorfman, Jeffrey, 84, 85–86, 95, 96
Dorsey, Jack, 269
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 226, 227–29, 230, 231–32, 234–35, 242
Dougherty, Michael Brendan, 164–65
doxing individuals, 267–68, 276
Dream We Lost, The (Utley), 214
Drischler, Jordan, 107
Drucker, Peter, 142
Duke, Selwyn, 51, 52, 58–59
Earned Income Tax Credit, 253
Ebeling, Richard, 170
Economic Freedom Index (Fraser Institute), 85
Economic Freedom Index (Heritage Foundation), 85, 87
economic growth, 31, 41–44, 56–57
economics
foreign exchange rate manipulation, 152
minimum wage issues, 70, 72, 78
universal basic income proposal, 253
wage controls, 133–38, 151–52, 154–55
wages, inflation, and economic well-being measures, 36–37
See also free market; price controls
Economist, 85, 96
Edelstein, David, 290
Edenhofer, Ottmar, 255–56
education access, 68, 85–86, 123–25
egalitarian brutality, 13, 202
egoism, 233–34
Egypt, 19–20
Einstein, Albert, 260
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 35–36
Emanuel, Rahm, 245
end of history ideology, 236–4
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Engels, Friedrich, 156, 196
England, 130–31, 133
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 257
equality vs. inequality, 45, 51–52, 57–58. See also income inequality
Equatorial Guinea, 21
estate taxes, 29, 113–14
eugenics and socialism, 156–60
Eugenics Society, 158
Europe, 113, 257. See also Scandinavia; individual European countries
Evangelic Christian conservatives, 301
Facebook, 57, 270–71
FaceCrime, 285, 286–87
fairness, 4–5, 6
fake attack reports, 274, 276–78
fake news and propaganda, 279–85
famine in China, 173–77
Fang Zhongmou, 188
fascism and socialism, 142–43
"Fascist New Frontier, The" (Rand), 150–51
Fast Company, 269
Feder, Gottfried, 141
Ferguson, Missouri, 294
Figes, Orlando, 208–9
Figueres, Christiana, 256–57
Finland, 79
First Step Act, 299, 300–301
"Five Principles of a Socialist Climate Politics" (Huber), 258–59
Flamer, Keith, 18
Flanagan, Caitlin, 282–83
Forbes, Kristin, 31
Fortune magazine, 295–96
four olds, 179
Francis, Diane, 252
Frankfort, Harry, 53–54
Fraser Institute, 85
Freedland, Jonathan, 157, 158–59
freedom, 77, 236–43
FreedomWorks, 250
free market, 23–28
central planning vs., 135–36, 143, 151, 172–77, 222
in Denmark, 88
price controls vs., 23–24, 25–26, 118
public investments and, 96
public stock exchanges, 79, 99
result of free market without corruption, 44
and standard of living, 52
in Sweden, 91–92, 108–9
free trade, 77–78, 85
Friedman, Milton, 121, 217, 253
From Darkness to Sight (Wang), 180