Kevin D. Williamson

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

Buch

What’s the central characteristic of socialism? That’s easy—it’s failure.From North Korea to the American public education system, from Venezuelan oil companies to ObamaCare, the reports of socialism’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Although the Soviet Union collapsed in ignominy, the central planning impulse that guided it endures in countless industries and government policies throughout the world. As Kevin Williamson explains in this myth–busting book, socialism never works because it can’t work. It assumes the authorities have all–knowing planning abilities that human beings don’t possess—and can’t possess. This central flaw has re… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-59698-649-7
EAN: 9781596986497
Produktnummer: 8234483
Verlag: Regnery Pub Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Masse: H23.1 cm x B18.7 cm x D2.2 cm 517 g
Gewicht: 517

Über den Autor

Kevin Daniel Williamson (born September 18, 1972) is an American conservative commentator. He is the theater critic for The New Criterion and the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism (2011, Regnery), The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome (2013, HarperCollins/Broadside Books), The Dependency Agenda (2013, Encounter Books), and The Case against Trump (2015, Encounter Books), and has contributed chapters to The New Leviathan: The State Vs. the Individual in the 21st Century (2013, Encounter Books) and Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval (2013, Encounter Books). Williamson previously worked at the Mumbai-based Indian Express Group, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Journal Register Newspapers, and the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, where he directed the journalism and communication programs, and as an adjunct professor at The King's College. Williamson was the editor of The Bulletin , a former daily newspaper in Philadelphia.