All Posts Tagged With: "Marx"

Commonwealth

Some two decades after the collapse of communism, socialist intellectuals still scramble to rehabilitate Marx and collectivist social theory in general, with Duke University professor Michael Hardt and Italian sociologist Antonio Negri leading the bunch. Academics are attracted to their radical critique of existing capitalist institutions. Non-academics and educated laypersons on the left are attracted [...]

23Mar2011 | David L. Prychitko | 1 comment | Continued

Where There’s a Will There’s a Way?

Many aphorisms and common expressions take on a different meaning when seen through the lens of economics.

18Mar2010 | Steven Horwitz | 6 comments | Continued

Two Decades Since the Fall

Perspective Two Decades Since the Fall On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall effectively ceased to exist. Remember the sequence: Communist Hungary started letting people pass into Austria and to freedom. Captives of the Soviet bloc left in droves. East Germans, too—thousands of them. The Hungarian government tried to stanch the flow, but the dam [...]

23Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

The Case for Capitalism

This article is from Henry Hazlitt’s September 19, 1949 Newsweek column. There has just been published by the Yale University Press a book that is destined to become a landmark in the progress of economies. Its title is Human Action, and its author is Ludwig von Mises. It is the consummation of half a century [...]

19Aug2009 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | Continued

We're All Marxists Now

According to the latest polls, the public is souring on the healthcare “reform” being rushed through Congress. Are the people turning Marxist? Let’s hope so!

20Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 4 comments | Continued

The Origin of Religious Tolerance

In 1733 the philosopher credited with ushering in the French Enlightenment, François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, published Letters Concerning the English Nation. It was a pivotal work. Although written in French, the 24 letters were first issued from London in an English translation; the material was considered too politically dangerous for the author or any [...]

1Jun1998 | Wendy McElroy | 6 comments | Continued

Star Trek and Collectivism: The Case of the Borg

Dr. Yates is adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). Star Trek is easily the most popular science fiction epic of all time. Over the past three decades, the saga has [...]

1Apr1997 | Steven Yates | 3 comments | Continued

Ending Tax Socialism

In 1848 Marx and Engels proposed that progressive taxation be used to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeois, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Although communism has failed, the idea of progressive taxation as a means of achieving social justice endures. A progressive income tax violates the [...]

1Nov1996 | James A. Dorn | 2 comments | Continued

Score One for Tribalism

Throughout its brief history, the idea of individualism has animated much good that has come about in society. It has also generated volumes of nasty criticism. Among the critics Marx was perhaps the most fervent. He claimed there is nothing more to the belief in the value of the individual human being than a ploy [...]

1Jan1995 | Tibor R. Machan | 0 comments | Continued

Some Mistakes of Marx

Mr. Chamberlin, author of the definitive two-volume history of the Russian Revolution and numerous other books and articles on world affairs, is uniquely qualified to discuss Marxian errors by having lived and traveled where such mistakes are most obvious. The evil that men do lives after them.” This maxim applies with singular force to the [...]

1May1956 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | Continued

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