Art Carden is correct: Kristian Niemietz’s 2019 book, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Diesis superb. Yet it’s also deeply depressing.
Of course Niemietz’s recounting of the immiseration and often murderous tyranny unleashed by socialism is dismaying. But to anyone who is reasonably informed, the fact that socialism has an unbroken record of calamity and authoritarianism isn’t news. The most depressing feature of Niemeitz’s volume, at least for me, is its cataloging of human gullibility.
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