Lessons in socialism
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Marx would be impressed: Socialists believe that the way to paradise is for governments to own "the means of production." Thus, decades ago even democratic countries such as France and Britain nationalized considerable swaths of their economies to achieve "social justice." That didn't work so well. Therefore, since the days Margaret Thatcher there have been wave after wave of privatizations in Europe and around the world.
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