The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

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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.;Stalin's gulag, impoverished North Korea, collapsing Cuba ... it's hard to name a dogma that has failed as spectacularly as socialism. And yet leaders around the world continue to subject millions of people to this dysfunctional, violence-prone ideology. In The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to Socialism, Kevin Williamson reveals the fatal flaw of socialism-that efficient, complex economies simply can't be centrally planned. But even in America, that hasn't stopped politicians and bureaucrats from planning, to various extents, the most vital sectors of our economy: public educat.