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Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel

…way that Brazil got to that point by an epithet: socialism. It makes no sense to label it socialism – the policies that today allow Brazilians to purchase vehicles with…

What’s in a name?

…Yugoslavia under Tito built a system of worker self-management and “market socialism” that looked nothing like the Soviet command economy, and both claimed Marx as their theoretical foundation. Cuba’s centrally…

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…an exemplar ofScandinavian-style “democratic socialism.” He wants to jail Wall Street executives and double the minimum wage. And he wants to spend taxpayer money, lots of it. According to an…

Same labels, same old stuff

One Salient Oversight sends some thoughts from down under on recycling labels: Think of the common labels thrown out against political opponents these days. What sort of political thinking would…

The People vs Wealth

…Action was required.  Wealth’s response was to pejoratively label these threats as socialism, communism, or un-American.  And, to get organized.  The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (1938) and the House Un-American…