
Reflections on a Ravaged Century
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Ron Butler
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Robert Conquest
Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian". As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century’s cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism. The final, sobering chapters of Reflections on a Ravaged Century concern themselves with some coming storms, notably that of the European Union, which Conquest believes is an economic, cultural, and geographical misconception divisive of the West and doomed to failure. Winner of the Ingersoll Prize; winner of the Richard M. Weaver Prize; a New York Times Notable Book.
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A great historian and an economic study
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Former Marxists make the best counterrevolutionaries.
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Great overview of the climate of socialism
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Collectivism is cancer
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I'll leave you, review reader, with a quote from the late Ludwig Von Mises from his book Planned Chaos.
"But what shall we think of the statesman who interferes by compulsion in order to raise the price of cotton above the level it would reach on the free market? What the interventionist aims at is the substitution of police pressure for the choice of the consumers. All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously. In such proposals as: let us raise farm prices, let us raise wage rates, let us lower profits, let us curtail the salaries of executives, the us ultimately refers to the police. Yet the authors of these projects protest that they are planning for freedom and industrial democracy."
Sure Mr. Conquest is dead on about political freedoms, but when broken down to it's most basic components, economic freedom and political freedom become synonymous. It is truly a shame that the author seems to not be aware of this.
I'm a little shocked.
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