The Case Against Socialism
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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