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The Case Against Socialism

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by Rand Paul

From Utopia to Nightmare (Walsh), 221

  Fukuyama, Francis, 236–42

  "Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video of Native American Man and Catholic Students" (New York Times), 282

  Fu Qifang, 189

  gas shortages in 1970s, 24

  Gates, Bill, 57, 250

  Geraghty, Jim, 38

  German socialism vs. Russian socialism, 150, 155

  Geyer, Georgie Anne, 198–200, 213

  Gillibrand, Kristen, 298–99

  Ginzburg, Yevgenia, 210–11

  Glaser, Elizabeth, 237

  global warming/climate crisis, 251–57

  Goebbels, Joseph, 143–44

  Gökçe, Nusret (Salt Bae), 18

  Goldberg, Jonah, 141–42

  Golovina, Antonina, 209–11

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 206–7, 303

  Gottwald, Klement, 206

  government

  big enough to give or take everything, 71–72, 119, 170, 250, 293–94

  centralized government, 135–36, 143, 151, 170, 172–77, 222

  control and welfarism spectrum, 83, 99, 100–101

  corruption spawned by central ownership of resources, 20–21

  mixture of big government and private ownership, 93, 95, 99, 304, 305

  state government shrinkage during Obama presidency, 117–18

  See also data capture

  GQ magazine, 277

  Graham, Lindsey, 303–4

  Gramm, Phil, 36–37

  Great Enrichment, The, 33

  "Great Leap Forward" and the Great Famine, China, 173–77

  Green New Deal, 111, 251, 252, 253, 254–55, 259

  Grigoryev, Valentin Filatovich, 207–8

  groupthink, 259

  Guardian, 21

  Guilfoyle, Kimberly, 273–74

  Guillen, Michael, 259–60

  Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), 161–63, 200

  Gupta, Girish, 27

  Haldane, J. B. S., 158

  Harris, Kamala, 277, 299

  Harsanyi, David, 29, 37–38

  Harte, Robert, and family, 295

  Harvard University survey of American youth, 5

  "Hate-Crime Hoaxes Reflect America's Sickness" (Ngo), 277

  hate crimes and hate crime hoaxes, 274–78

  Hausmann, Ricardo, 15

  Hayek, Friedrich, 57–58, 133, 141, 147–49, 176, 253

  health care. See socialized medicine

  Hederman, Rea, 55–56

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 236–37, 240, 242

  Hegelelian historical determinism, 171, 238

  Heritage Foundation, 85, 87

  Hersh, Adam, 42

  Hirschl, Thomas A., 39–40

  historical determinism, 236–43

  Hitler as a socialist, 139–46, 142–44, 145–46, 147, 160

  Hollywood celebrities, 53

  Holocaust, the, 150, 159, 207

  Holthaus, Eric, 258

  Holtz-Eakin, Douglas, 251

  Huber, Matthew, 258–59

  HumanProgress.org, 31

  "Hungarian Struggle, The" (Engels), 156

  "I Am Afraid" (Zamyatin), 230–31

  Iceland, 79

  immigration issues, 94, 120–21

  incentives, private property vs. socialism, 170

  income inequality, 41–46

  based on merit, 49

  capitalism as basis of, 29–33

  Chavez's personal stash vs., 17

  in Cuba, 68

  and economic growth, 31, 41–44

  examining what can be bought with available income vs. worrying about, 31–32

  and free market economy, 39, 52–53

  and health of democracy, 44, 45–46

  as misdirection campaign, 48–49

  as necessary component of a healthy economy, 56–57

  negative results of, 58–59

  in Scandinavia, 96

  tax paid by one percenters, 249–50

  in Venezuela, 13–14

  World Inequality Report, 79–80, 81, 82

  income mobility, 39–40, 43–44, 47–50, 56

  Independent (British newspaper), 15

  India's greenhouse gas emissions, 257

  Indigenous Peoples March incident, 279–85

  individual rights vs. collective will, 144–45, 151–52, 160, 222, 230–31

  industrialists as robber barons, 5

  Industrial Revolution, 90, 257

  inequality vs. equality, 45, 51–52, 57–58

  Instagram, Jussie Smollett hoax on, 274

  iPhone surveillance, 266

  Iran, 65

  James, Marlon, 285

  Janetsky, Megan, 2

  Janis, Irving, 259

  Jeffries, Hakeem, 300–301

  Jenner, Bruce, 267

  Jewish as synonym for capitalist in Nazi Germany, 152

  Jiang Yongning, 189

  Jimenez, Perez, 10

  Jones, Van, 301

  Jordan, Tina, 285

  Jussie Smollett hoax, 274, 276–77

  Kaminska, Nina, 208–9

  Kamprad, Ingvar, 106

  Kan, Karoline, 186–88

  Karlsson, Stefan, 90–91, 92, 105, 107, 108

  Kennedy, Ted, 289

  Keynes, John Maynard, 158

  Khanna, Ro, 304

  Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, 195–96, 197–98, 199–201

  Khomeini, Ayatollah, 65

  Kilminster, Richard, 221

  Kimball, Roger, 238–39, 242

  Kim Jong Un, 164

  Kislyak, Sergey, 302–3

  Klaus, Vaclav, 72

  Koch, Charles, 221

  Kommunarka memorial, 207–8

  Kristol, Bill, 243, 284

  Krugman, Paul, 117

  Kruse, Douglas L., 5–6

  Kundera, Milan, 206

  Kushner, Jared, 301

  Lahoud, Daniel, 10–11

  Larabell, John, 91, 115–16, 124

  Laski, Harold, 158

  Leahy, Patrick, 299

  Lee, Alexander, 238, 242

  Lee, Mike, 153–54, 304

  leftists

  overview, 98–99

  desire to emulate Sweden, 51–52

  on economy and individual prosperity, 5

  on Nazism, 141–42

  and socialism in Venezuela, 12–13, 14, 16

  support for First Step Act, 301

  See also socialism

  Lenin, Vladimir, 146, 171

  Lewis, Nicholas, 261–62

  libertarian acceptance of necessary evils, 138

  liberty, 243

  LibertyCon, 271–72

  Lieu, Ted, 304

  Lincicome, Scott, 38

  Lishui (Red Guard member), 186–88

  Little Red Book, The (Mao), 179

  Liu Hu, 288–89

  Lo Bei, 288

  Lowry, Rich, 106, 121, 283–84

  "lump fallacy," 55

  Macgillivray, Alex, 268

  Madison, James, 144

  Madsen, Kristian, 94

  Maduro, Nicolas, 1–2, 9–10, 13, 14–16, 18, 28

  MAGA hats, 279–80, 301–2

  Mandelstam, Osip, 203–5

  Mao and socialism

  overview, 169–70

  Cultural Revolution as means to distract from failure of the Great Leap Forward, 178–79

  "Great Leap Forward" and the Great Famine, 173–77

  The Little Red Book, 179

  socialism first requires war, 171–72

  See also Cultural Revolution in China

  Marx, Karl, 146, 196, 224, 236

  Marxism

  collective will vs. individual rights, 144–45, 151–52, 160, 222, 230–31

  and eugenics, 156

  and Hitler, 142–44, 145–46, 147

  and Mao, 171

  and Pol Pot, 194, 196, 197–201

  promotion by true believers, 73

  protected vs. unprotected divisions vs., 50

  as pseudoscience, 221

 
and Sanders, 64

  science of Marxism and utopian notion, 225

  Massie, Thomas, 280

  Matthews, Chris, 86, 109

  Maya, Margarita Lopez, 14

  Mbasogo, Teodoro Obiang Nguema "Obiang," 21–22

  Mbasogo, Teodoro "Teodorin," 21

  McArdle, Elaine, 198

  McCain, Meghan, 86

  McCloskey, Deidre, 32–33, 34

  McCormack, Simon, 294–95

  media. See individual media outlets

  media bias, 282–84, 302–3

  media's incitement of vitriol, 276–78, 279–81, 301

  Medicare for All single-payer system, 102, 115, 251

  Megvii facial recognition company, 289, 296

  Microsoft, 250

  middle class

  benefits from capitalism, 34–40

  taxation of, in welfare states, 94, 97–98, 110–16

  Milankovic, Milutin, 263

  Milankovic cycles, 262–65

  Milano, Alyssa, 302

  millennials, 37–39, 74, 111–12

  minimum wage, 70, 72, 78

  minorities' misidentification with facial recognition technology, 295

  "Minority Report, The" (Dick), 289

  Minority Report (movie), 289–90, 294

  Mises, Ludwig von, 56, 79, 133, 150, 152, 159, 221

  Mitchell, Daniel J., 107–8

  Mooney, Chris, 261–62

  Moore, Patrick, 260, 261

  Moore, Stephen, 255, 257

  More, Thomas, 219–20

  Moynihan, Michael, 64, 66–67

  Mubarak, Hosni, 19–20

  Mueller investigation of "Russian collusion," 290

  Munez, Michael, 270–71

  Murphy, Chris, 304

  Murphy, Meghan, 266–67

  Murray, William J., 224–25

  NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project, 260

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 19–20

  nationalization of Venezuela's oil industry, 11–12

  National Public Radio (NPR), 51, 208–9

  Navarro, Ana, 280, 284

  Nazism

  capitalism vs., 147–49

  central planning, 135–36, 143

  death camps, 139

  defeat of, 130

  economic controls, 133, 134–35, 152–55

  Hitler's national socialism, 140–41

  Holocaust, 150, 159, 207

  private property vs., 150–55

  red tape burden, 153, 154

  Reich Food Estate regulating farmers, 152

  utopia as a monoracial paradise, 224

  Netanyahu, Benjamin, 163–64

  New York Times, 261, 280, 282

  Ngo, Andy, 277

  Nicaragua, 63–67, 129

  1984 (Orwell), 165, 206, 232–33, 286, 290–91

  Niño, José

  on Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, 254

  on price controls, 23, 25

  on Scandinavian cultural values, 122

  on Scandinavian reversal of high tax trends, 113

  on Scandinavian socialism, 113, 122

  on transfer policy, UBI, 254

  on Venezuela, 10, 11–12, 23, 25

  Nixon, Cynthia, 95–96

  Nixon, Richard M., and price controls, 26–27

  Nobel, Alfred, 90

  Norberg, Johan, 95

  Nordic model, social democracy as, 93. See also democratic socialism; Scandinavia

  normative egoism, 233–34

  North Korea, 164

  Norway, 81–82, 115–16, 121, 124

  Notes from Underground (Dostoyevsky), 226, 227–29, 231–32, 234–35

  Obama, Barack, 96, 117–18, 153, 242, 303, 305

  Obama, Michelle, 58, 66

  Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria (AOC)

  on capitalism, 34–35, 36

  on coffee shop closing, 69–70

  Green New Deal, 251–53, 254–55

  and Paul, 298

  on policies resembling those of Scandinavia, 88

  protesting companies' sponsorship of LibertyCon, 271–72, 273

  on Smollett fake attack, 277

  on tax breaks for wealthy corporations, 249

  U.S. economy during adult years of, 38–39

  wealth tax proposal, 110, 111

  Occupy Wall Street movement, 247

  Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) NASA project, 260

  Oculus Rift (virtual reality headset), 57

  Olsson, Christian, 106

  O'Malley, James, 287

  Omar, Ilhan Abdullahi, 284

  OMG (Oceans Melting Greenland) NASA project, 260

  Ominous Parallels (Peikoff), 151

  Omnipotent Government (Mises), 221

  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), 161

  On Equality (Frankfort), 53–54

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 49

  Ortega, Daniel, 63–65

  Orwell, George, 130, 143, 165, 206, 232–33, 285, 290–91

  Paerson, Anja, 106

  Paine, Thomas, 100

  Palumbo, Matt, 94, 95, 97

  Paris Accord, 257

  Pasternak, Boris, 203–4, 205

  Paul, Kelley, 291–94, 299

  Paul, Rand

  accused of not applauding enthusiastically, 163–65

  attack from behind while mowing his lawn, 276, 277

  buying shirts at Target, 32

  at charity congressional baseball game practice when shooting occurred, 274–76

  concerns about close-minded climate-change crowd, 264–65

  finding common ground, 298–305

  and Klaus, former Czech Republic President, 72

  letter to Phyllis Schlafly, 271

  respect for Eisenhower, 35–36

  in Russia, 302–3

  teaching at George Washington University, 273

  Paul, Ron, 26–27

  Peikoff, Leonard, 151

  People's Republic of China, 172. See also China; Mao and socialism

  Perez, Carlos Andres, 12

  Persson, Stefan, 107

  pets, 2, 15, 176, 287

  Pew Research Center, 48, 283

  Phelan, John, 48

  Phillips, Nathan, 279, 282–84

  Phillips, Tom, 181

  Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 195

  Pierson, James, 197

  Piketty, Thomas, 29–31, 44, 48, 55

  and World Inequality Report, 79–80, 81, 82

  Pingree, Chellie, 271–72

  Pinker, Stephen, 54–55

  Pino, Christian, 3

  "Planned Chaos" (Mises), 150

  Plato's Republic, 196, 219–20, 222

  Plunkett, Jesse M., 80, 82–83, 87, 88–89, 115–16, 120

  poetry and socialism, 203–5

  polar bears and climate change, 260

  Polish joke about shortages, 27

  political science's inability to prove or disprove economic assumptions, 45

  Polivanov, Yevgeny, 207–8

  Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), 194–98, 201

  Popper, Karl, 221–23, 224, 229, 236–37, 239–40

  positivism, 229

  poverty

  decrease in, 31, 42–43, 49

  and expensive tickets from traffic surveillance cameras, 291–94

  incidence of, 5–6

  income inequality as boon to the poor, 54, 55–56

  poorest people as biggest beneficiaries of current economy, 33, 53–54

  pre-industrial revolution, 32

  in Venezuela, 2, 3, 9, 14, 15, 16

  Poverty of Historicism, The (Popper), 224

  Prague, Czech Republic, 72

  PreCrime, 289–90, 294–96

  price controls

  and black market, 25–26, 133–34

  enforcement of, 133–38

  vs. free market, 23–24, 25–26, 118

  and gas shortages in 1970s, 24

  in Nazi Germany, 152, 154–55

  penalties for non-compliant
store owners, 28

  Romans' attempt to thwart inflation with, 26

  in Venezuela, 24–25, 27–28

  price floors, 24

  private property

  effect of abolishing, 170, 173–74

  effect of reinstating, 190–93

  Mao vs., 169

  Nazism vs., 150–55

  Pol Pot vs., 195–96, 197

  in Scandinavia, 80, 87–88, 90

  taking with state force and brutality, 131–32

  production. See public ownership of the major means of production

  productivity gains and income inequality, 34

  progressives. See leftists

  protected vs. unprotected, 50

  psychological egoism, 233–34

  public ownership of the major means of production

  overview, 74–75

  Democratic Socialists of America on, 72

  in dictatorships, 20

  and millennials, 6

  and price controls, 25–26

  private ownership in Scandinavia vs., 80–81, 83

  Sanders on, 64, 74

  in Venezuela, 10, 12–13

  public stock exchanges, 79, 99

  Purple, Matt, 165

  Puzder, Andy, 56–57

  Pye, Jason, 272–73

  quality of life. See standard of living

  Rand, Ayn, 150–51, 181, 229

  "Rand Paul Sounds Like the Worst Person to Have as a Neighbor" (GQ), 277

  Rank, Mark R., 39–40

  Rasmussen, Annegrethe, 87, 94, 97, 103

  Rauschning, Hermann, 142–43

  Reagan, Ronald, 27, 303

  Reason-Rupe public opinion research project, 5

  Red Guard in China, 179, 180, 185–89

  Reflections on a Ravished Century (Conquest), 266

  Reiland, Ralph, 153

  Reisman, George, 25–26, 131, 133, 134–38, 142, 154–55

  Reisman, John B., 263–64

  Republic, The (Plato), 196, 219–20, 222

  Republicans, 27, 41, 112–13

  Reynolds, Alan, 42, 201–2

  Reynolds, Glenn, 19

  Reynolds, Morgan O., 196, 202

  Riedl, Brian, 110–11

  Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 147–49, 176

  Rockoff, Hugh, 23–24

  Rohac, Dalibor, 32, 53

  Romans' attempt to thwart inflation with price controls, 26

  Rong Guotuan, 189

  Rothbard, Murray, 79, 225

  Rubin, Jennifer, 164–65

  Russell, Nicole, 268–69

  Russia

  Bolsheviks exiled to Siberia sent opponents to Siberian prisons, 165

  German socialism vs. Russian socialism, 150, 155

  and Lenin, 146

  Paul's visit to, 302–3

  Siberia, 165, 209–11, 213–14, 226, 230

  and U.S. relations, 302

  See also Soviet Union

  Sanandaji, Nima, 82–83, 89–90, 91–92, 105–6, 109, 119–22

  Sanchez, Roberto, 15

  Sanders, Bernie, 63–69

 

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