{"id":24991,"date":"2017-08-29T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24991"},"modified":"2017-08-29T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:39:11","slug":"liberal-socialism-another-false-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24991","title":{"rendered":"“Liberal Socialism” \u2014 Another False Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Liberal Socialism” \u2014 Another False Utopia<\/a>\"che2.PNG\"<\/h3>\n
Very often bad and failed ideas do not die, they simply reappear during periods of supposed social and political crisis in slightly different intellectual garb, and offer \u201csolutions\u201d that would merely help to bring about some of the very types of crises for which they once again claim to have the answers. Socialism in its various \u201cprogressive\u201d mutations represents one of the leading ones in our time.<\/div>\n
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The latest manifestation of this appeared on August 24, 2017 in the\u00a0New Republic<\/em>\u00a0online in an article by John B. Judis on,\u00a0\u201cThe Socialism America Needs Now.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0He is heartened by the wide appeal, especially among younger voters, that Bernie Sanders received during the 2016 presidential contest. He thinks that this may herald a rebirth and a renewed possibility for a socialist alternative to the current American political and economic system.<\/p>\n

Having traveled over the decades from the 1970s to the present from being a radical, revolutionary socialist to a more \u201cmoderate\u201d one today, Mr. Judis admits that the Marxian-style socialism of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries is now long pass\u00e9. The embarrassing experience of \u201csocialism-in-practice\u201d in the form Lenin and Stalin created in the Soviet Union or by Chairman Mao in China will not fly anymore.<\/p>\n

From Soviet Central Planning to \u201cLiberal Socialism\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Central planning seemed not to work too well, and the \u201ccommunist\u201d variation on the socialist theme also had a tendency to be \u201cauthoritarian\u201d with some drawbacks for human life and liberty. (He tactfully avoids mentioning that Marxist-inspired regimes in the twentieth century murdered well over a 100 million people \u2014\u00a0with some estimates suggesting the number might have been closer to 150 million or more in the name of building the \u201cbright, beautiful socialist future.\u201d See my article,\u00a0\u201cThe Human Cost of Socialism in Power\u201d<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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