![]() This immediately presents an important, definitional issue: What is socialism? The first chapter in this collection deals with that matter, and later chapters expand upon it. It’s far more instructive to judge a system by the premises on which it’s based and the outcomes it actually produces. That’s pretty shallow thinking, not much deeper than slogans and bumper stickers. After all, no system of political, economic, or social organization should be judged by simply what its advocates say it’ll do. The essays herein take you beyond the surface appeal of socialism’s message so you can understand both its underlying motivations and its practical results. That part always gets a little embarrassing. Happy talk, vague promises, political programs, perhaps an angry, envy-soaked tirade or two against the rich-but not much at all about where all that leads. When a socialist says he wants to give you “the ABC’s of socialism,” you can be sure that’s as far into the alphabet as he’ll want to go.
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