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7. “The Green New Dealers proposed to replace America’s free market economy with a centrally planned, top-down economic and social order, in which the federal government would be able to expropriate and direct what Karl Marx called “the means of production,” and do so by executive diktat.
This was the system that had already been tried in such catastrophically failed states as Cuba, Cambodia, North Korea, China, Venezuela, the Soviet Union, and all its satellites in Eastern Europe. Socialism is a system of shared misery based on the fatally flawed notion that an economy can be run by a centrally directed “plan” imposed on the population, without profit incentives to motivate individual productivity and innovation.
The fact that socialist command economies invariably fail, causing incalculable human misery, seemed lost on radical ideologues like Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and the now dominant progressives in the Democratic Party. Also lost were lessons to be learned from the totalitarian results of centralizing power in the hands of the state and stripping ordinary citizens of their freedoms.”
"Blitz," Horowitz
"It is a great irony of communism that those who did not believe in God believed that godlike knowledge could be concentrated at a central point. It was believed that government could be omnipotent and omniscient. And in order to justify the idea that all lives should be determined by a single plan, the concomitant tendency of communist regimes was to deify the leader- whether Lenin, Stalin, Mao, or Kim Il-sung."
Tom Bethell, "The Noblest Triumph," p. 144
This was the system that had already been tried in such catastrophically failed states as Cuba, Cambodia, North Korea, China, Venezuela, the Soviet Union, and all its satellites in Eastern Europe. Socialism is a system of shared misery based on the fatally flawed notion that an economy can be run by a centrally directed “plan” imposed on the population, without profit incentives to motivate individual productivity and innovation.
The fact that socialist command economies invariably fail, causing incalculable human misery, seemed lost on radical ideologues like Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and the now dominant progressives in the Democratic Party. Also lost were lessons to be learned from the totalitarian results of centralizing power in the hands of the state and stripping ordinary citizens of their freedoms.”
"Blitz," Horowitz
"It is a great irony of communism that those who did not believe in God believed that godlike knowledge could be concentrated at a central point. It was believed that government could be omnipotent and omniscient. And in order to justify the idea that all lives should be determined by a single plan, the concomitant tendency of communist regimes was to deify the leader- whether Lenin, Stalin, Mao, or Kim Il-sung."
Tom Bethell, "The Noblest Triumph," p. 144