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Author Williamson, Kevin.

Title Politically incorrect guide to socialism / Kevin Williamson.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub., ©2011.

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Description 304 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The politically incorrect guide series
Politically incorrect guide.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables -- Yes, "real socialism" has been tried--and it has failed -- The price of being wrong : socialism and the great calculation debate -- India : a case study in socialist failure -- The Prussian roots of American socialism -- Other people's money : socialist education and the problem of incentives -- Why Sweden stinks -- North Korea : fighting for a failed system -- Socialism is dirty -- Venezuela : anatomy of a crackdown -- Socialism and nationalism : allies, not rivals -- U.S. "energy independence" and central planning -- Eugene V. Debs and Woodrow Wilson : socialist words, socialist actions -- Socialist internationalism and the United States -- Yes, ObamaCare is socialism -- Epilogue: The price is metaphysically right.
Summary Argues that the same impulse for control that governed the Soviet Union is present in the American health care and educational systems and that socialism can never work because of human nature.
Subject Socialism.
Economic policy.
Political correctness.
Economic policy. (OCoLC)fst00902025
Political correctness. (OCoLC)fst01069237
Socialism. (OCoLC)fst01123637
Sozialismus.
Wirtschaftspolitik.
Political Correctness.
Socialism.
Economic policy.
Political correctness.
ISBN 9781596986497
1596986492
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