Lenin reportedly said, "The best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency." If by "capitalist system" we mean only what Adam Smith called "the obvious and simple system of natural liberty," we could improve on the quote: the best way to destroy it is to debauch the currency of thought and communication, language. Orwell understood this and made it the centerpiece of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Friday, May 12, 2017
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Very insightful.
On the need to be sincere. I believe that most people who defend "the free market", and want "lower taxes", and glorify the individual and the entrepreneur, always defend the monstrosity that is Intellectual Property. Our people do not want to make the connection that as long as we have IP, we will have excesive taxes, excessive regulation, and a relentless war on the individual's responsibility.
Today's fascism is rooted in a false form of property and kept alive with the Income Tax, the root of all evil. Today, even Communists fascism: after all, it makes feasible the crimes they call "social justice".
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