February 25, 2010 – 1:05 am
Leszek Kolakowski was to the study of Marxism what Gibbon was to the study of the Roman Empire, what Darwin was to the study of evolutionary biology, and what Einstein was to the study of general relativity. Main Currents of Marxism is a brilliant, dazzling, monumental work, which shows how Marxism came about, from what philosophical schools it was spawned, the nature and impact of concomitant theories of socialism and socialist philosophy, and how Marxism and socialism fared when put into action as government policy in the former Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact states, and China.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Book Review, Books, Charles Fourier, Communism, Ernst Bloch, Friedrich Engels, Herbert Marcuse, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents Of Marxism, Mao Zedong, Marxism, Nikita Khrushchev, Philosophy, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Politics, Vladimir Lenin
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December 21, 2009 – 9:04 am
Let’s go down the Christmas list and handicap the damage to the economy of the anticipated passage of the blended, mashed up health care legislation. First, health care will rise from one-sixth of the economy to nearly one-quarter, and possibly more. The government today controls about half of this activity, and soon they’ll control all of it. The fundamental things you lose are flexibility and capital efficiency.
December 2, 2009 – 9:27 am
Really, these people are amazing:
November 3, 2009 – 9:42 am
I mean, who but an intellectual mastermind could have brought about this?
Thus far, the regime of Hugo Chavez has brought nothing but poverty, shortages, corruption, autocracy, dictatorship, and deprivation to the people it claims to serve, thanks to the combination of short-sightedness, zealotry, and self-dealing inherent in the regime’s policies.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Dictatorship, Economic Ignorance, economy, Foreign Affairs, Hugo Chavez, Poverty, Shortages, Tyranny, Venezuela
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Stephen Moore brings tears to the eyes with this superb remembrance of Milton Friedman, who is an intellectual and political hero to me, just as he is to Moore. Though attacked by people who didn’t have the guts to debate him while he was alive and in his prime, Friedman remains as relevant as ever, if not more so.
Democrat Congressman Barney Frank wants to give the US government control over the salaries of every employee in any company that takes any amount of federal bailout money.
February 4, 2009 – 7:32 am
It’s true: Free-market capitalism does indeed produce unequal outcomes, because it rewards people according to talent, industry, and luck. No one has a problem with getting rich as a result of hard work. In hard times, people do have a very big problem with those who get rich as a result of talent and luck.
