by Samuel Hux (November 2015)
Irving Kristol wrote in his Reflections of a Neoconservative the most elegant tribute a conservative ever paid socialism, even as he announced its demise, “Socialism: An Obituary for an Idea.” “The most important political event of the twentieth century is not the crisis of capitalism but the death of socialism. . . . more>>>
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Q: Why No American Socialism?
A: A hundred years ago when socialisms were forming, the very idea that the US Post Office would supply food, clothing, shelter, banking services, all industry and medical for American would have been laughed out of town. Except, perhaps, for Adam Smith’s “Men of System.”
Bill Drissel
Frisco, TX
Say it again, Sam. reading a New York pragmatist is a little like stumbling on a convent in Hell’s Kitchen. Hookers might own the streets, but good works still thrive on the byways. Indeed, the industrial revolution was entrepreneurial sedition at its best – as is the digital revolution of which we are a part. Capitalism is revolution without guns; creativity, invention, and enterprise that transforms society and culture, Need and greed are the fairy godmothers of economic prosperity.