Refuting Socialism
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Fresh off the heels of his new manifesto (not of the communist variety, though), Iain Murray, CEI senior fellow, joins Jonah on The Remnant to discuss The Socialist Temptation: what it is, who it hits hardest, why socialism isn’t really even an economic theory, and what to do about it.
Show Notes:
-Iain’s new book, The Socialist Temptation
-BBC’s generously donated show sets, to spruce up your Zoom background
-Josh Muravchik’s “Theories of the New Class”
-“Socialism is the name of our desire”
-Corporatism and Comparative Politics: The Other Great “Ism”
-Ten Thousand Commandments 2020
-North’s Violence and Social Orders
-Reagan’s speech at Hillsdale in the 70s
-“Socialism is so hot right now”
-DonorsTrust.org/Dingo for access to “6 Reasons to Use a Donor-Advised Fund”
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Re: the notion of the majority of Americans' being in the global 1%:
The world population is about 7 billion, 1% of which is 70 million. The population of the US is about 330 million. Even if every single one of the 70 million richest people in the world lived in the US, only about 21% of the US population would be in the richest 1%.
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I really appreciated the softness of the definitions of socialism. It’s both too rare to see people making the effort to provide a good and soundly based definition (although it might have been helpful to explain the terms a little more), and rarer still to have people do so while disclaiming it’s irrelevance. I would love to hear a podcast focused for longer on definitions of socialism and their irrelevance. It’s important to have a shared meaning of words.
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