Labour and the Gulag: the Labour Party’s record of support for totalitarian socialism
byIn 1910, Labour’s first leader, Keir Hardie, declared that “[Marx’s] memory is a consecrated treasure in the heart of millions of the…
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The Communist Holocaust and its lessons for the 21st century
byFor at least half a century, nearly every secondary school pupil and university student in Britain has learnt about the evils of Nazism and…
Witness to the End of Soviet Power: Twenty-Five Years Ago
bySource: https://fee.org/articles/witness-to-the-end-of-soviet-power-twenty-five-years-ago/ Twenty-five years ago, on August 22, 1991, I stood amid a vast cheering crowd of tens of thousands of people outside the Russian…
The Human Cost Of Socialism In Power
bySource: http://www.epictimes.com/richardebeling/2015/09/the-human-cost-of-socialism-in-power/ The attempt to establish a comprehensive socialist system in many parts of the world over the last one hundred years has been…
Puppets pushing on a string
by“I don’t think there is a problem that this will fix. I think it will just continue to compress yields into negative territory. If…
The Corruption of Capitalism in America
byFollowing on from John Butler’s review, here’s Detlev’s take on “The Great Deformation” … David Stockman’s new book is a brilliant, penetrating analysis of the present state…
The motive powers of destructionism
byIts a great pleasure to wake up in the morning on holiday and read something very true, as always, from Mises. Its also a…
Our central bankers are intellectually bankrupt
byThe best article we’ve seen in the FT for a long time, courtesy of Ron Paul … The financial crisis has fully exposed the…
The demise of central planning
byAs a young man, Prof Ebeling witnessed first hand the demise of the Soviet system. The article below is a truly remarkable eye witness…
Joseph T. Salerno: Calculation and Socialism
byOne of the greatest contributions of Ludwig von Mises to the modern world was his sweeping demolition of the intellectual case for Karl Marx’s…