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The Case Against Socialism

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by Rand Paul


  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

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  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

 

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