More by L. K. Samuels
Paradoxes often arise because theory routinely refuses to be subordinate to reality.
In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)
When it comes right down to physical war and bloodshed, governments don’t protect people; people protect governments.
In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)
Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.
In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)
Decentralized systems are the quintessential patrons of simplicity. They allow complexity to rise to a level at which it is sustainable, and no higher.
In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)
Simplicity in a system tends to increase that system’s efficiency. Because less can go wrong with fewer parts, less will.
In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)
Although most religions promise paradise after death, most collectivists, especially Marxists, preach paradise on earth, but through means rarely considered heavenly.
Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left (2019)
In the absence of truth, there is no penalty for failure. We seem destined to live in a failure-prone society.
Mussolini’s regime eventually morphed into Fascist socialism as its means of production was placed under public ownership.
Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left (2019)
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