The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism - Kevin Williamson

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What’s the Central Characteristic of Socialism?

That's easy: Failure!



Stalin’s gulag, impoverished North Korea, collapsing Cuba...it’s hard to name a dogma that has failed as spectacularly as socialism. And yet leaders around the world continue to subject millions of people to this dysfunctional, violence-prone ideology.

In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Socialism, Kevin Williamson reveals the fatal flaw of socialism—that efficient, complex economies simply can’t be centrally planned. But even in America, that hasn’t stopped politicians and bureaucrats from planning, to various extents, the most vital sectors of our economy: public education, energy, and the most arrogant central—planning effort of them all, Obama’s healthcare plan.



In this provocative book, Williamson unfolds the grim history of socialism, showing how the ideology has spawned crushing poverty, devastating famines, and horrific wars. Lumbering from one crisis to the next, leaving a trail of economic devastation and environmental catastrophe, socialism has wreaked more havoc, caused more deaths, and impoverished more people than any other ideology in history—especially when you include the victims of fascism, which Williamson notes is simply a variant of socialism.



Williamson further demonstrates:

* Why, contrary to popular belief, socialism in theory is no better than socialism in practice

* Why socialism can’t exist without capitalism

* How the energy powerhouse of Venezuela, under socialism, has become an economic basket case subject to rationing and blackouts

* How socialism, not British colonialism, plunged the bountiful economy of India into stagnation and dysfunction—and how capitalism is rescuing it

* Why socialism is inextricably linked to communism

If you thought socialism went into the dustbin of history with the collapse of the Soviet Union, think again. Socialism is alive and kicking, and it’s already spread further than you know.





About the Author:

Kevin Williamson is deputy managing editor of National Review, a columnist for New Criterion, and an adjunct professor at the King’s College in New York City. A frequent commentator on politics and economics, he has appeared on the Glenn Beck Show, the Kudlow Report, the CBS Evening News, the BBC, Power & Politics, CNN’s Parker Spitzer, and dozens of talk radio programs. A native of West Texas, he currently lives in the Bronx.

01 Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

02 Yes, Real Socialism Has Been Tried

03 The Price of Being Wrong

04 India - A Case Study in Socialist Failure

05 The Prussian Roots of American Socialism

06 Other People's Money - Socialist Education and the Problem of Incentives

07 Why Sweden Stinks

08 North Korea - Fighting for a Failed System

09 Socialism Is Dirty

10 Venezuela - Anatomy of a Crackdown

11 Socialism and Nationalism - Allies, Not Rivalries

12 U.S. Energy Independence and Central Planning

13 Eugene V. Debs and Woodrow Wilson -

Socialist Words, Socialist Actions

14 Socialist Internationalism and the United States

15 Yes. Obamacare Is Socialism.

16 Epilogue



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