Bastiat criticizes the socialists of wanting to be the “Great Mechanic” who would run the “social machine” in which ordinary people were merely so many lifeless cogs and wheels (1848)
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Frédéric Bastiat
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2018-11-19 |
Frédéric Bastiat argues that socialism hides its true plunderous nature under a facade of nice sounding words like “fraternity” and “equality” (1850)
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Frédéric Bastiat
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2018-11-12 |
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk argues that Marx ignored the fact that the same amount of labor time should be rewarded differently depending upon where along the structure of production it took place (1898)
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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
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2018-11-05 |
Karl Marx on the necessary task the “bourgeoisie” was doing in putting an end to “feudal and patriarchal relations” (1848)
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Karl Marx
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2018-10-29 |
Mises states that it is the division of labor which makes man truly “social” or “communal” (1922)
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Ludwig von Mises
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2018-08-06 |
Mises on “interventionism” as a third way between the free market and socialism (1930)
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Ludwig von Mises
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2015-02-02 |
John Strachey on why Socialism harms the poor instead of helping them (1894)
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John St Loe Strachey
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2015-01-05 |
Molinari appeals to socialists to join him in marching down “the broad, well-trodden highway of liberty” (1848)
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Gustave de Molinari
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2012-01-28 |
Mises on how price controls lead to socialism (1944)
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Ludwig von Mises
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2011-09-12 |
Mises and the Emergence of Etatism in Germany (1944)
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Ludwig von Mises
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2011-09-05 |
Mill on the dangers of the state turning men into “docile instruments” of its will (1859)
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John Stuart Mill
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2011-05-30 |
Sumner criticizes the competing vested interests and the role of legislators in the “new democratic State” (1887)
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William Graham Sumner
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2010-07-20 |
Yves Guyot on the violence and lawlessness inherent in socialism (1910)
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Yves Guyot
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2010-04-23 |
Ludwig von Mises on the impossibility of rational economic planning under Socialism (1922)
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Ludwig von Mises
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2009-11-09 |
Alexis de Tocqueville stood up in the Constituent Assembly to criticize socialism as a violation of human nature, property rights, and individual liberty (1848)
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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2008-08-20 |
Nassau Senior objected to any government regulation of factories which meant that a horde of inspectors would interfere with the organization of production (1837)
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Nassau William Senior
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2008-05-19 |
Ludwig von Mises argues that monopolies are the direct result of government intervention and not the product of any inherent tendency within the capitalist system (1949)
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Ludwig von Mises
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2007-09-24 |