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Cliches of Socialism Number 30
“The Government can do it cheaper because it doesn’t have to make a profit.”
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“Stalin as Classical Economist” by Henry Hazlitt by Henry Hazlitt
“Stalin as Classical Economist” by Henry Hazlitt. October 20, 1952 Newsweek Business Tides column about Stalin’s need to adapt more market policies in the Soviet Union.
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[...] The closest the Soviet Union came to actual pure socialism was the period known as War Communism, 1918 to 1921. This period is unanimously seen as a disaster, even among socialists. Production fell in most if not all industries, and millions starved to death. From then on the Communist Party struggled to keep hold of both their Marxist ideology and their power. Naturally the latter took precedence, and as a result the price system, which they originally wanted to abolish, took on a larger and larger role. Henry Hazlitt discusses Josef Stalin’s struggle with exactly this problem in today’s document, the October 20, 1952, Newsweek Business Tides column, “Stalin as Classical Economist.” [...]
12 December 2011 at 8:00 am