Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Walter Block: Socialism and Fascism: A Political-Economic Spectrum Analysis

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1987277015187088847

Packed with good concepts though I do not necessarily endorse all of them. Voluntary vs. involuntary distinction is the key in my mind to understanding the differences between what's wrong with *coercive* socialism/communism. I don't consider bad in and of themselves ideas like wanting to own your own means of production or sharing profit under some schema other than most-to-most-productive. But the means to reach them is what's terribly wrong in the coercive collectivism (classical socialism, fascism, "conservatism", nationalism, racism, you name it as long as it puts individual and his or hers freedom below the group "freedom", it's all the same to me.)

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