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Quotes from Socialism is So Hot Right Now — Jonah Goldberg

born 1969 United States

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[W]hat makes a libertarian in America a “right-winger” makes him a “liberal” in most of Europe.

Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)

[S]ocialism’s durability as a concept owes almost nothing to economics and almost everything to the desire for power...

Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)

[C]apitalism is as much to blame for the consolidation and homogenization of nations as champions of progressive central planning are, if not more so.

Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)

As America’s Founders well understood, a society enjoying a multiplicity of institutions, interests, and intact communities (i.e., factions) is much more difficult to subjugate by a single central power, be it a king, a dictator, or a bureaucracy.

Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)

Socialism as a thoroughgoing system had failed. But the central emotion behind it had not. And that emotion has only deepened...

Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonah Goldberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.