Excellent presentation. Professor Raico does so much to fill in the gaps of crucial historical knowledge left by our atrocious system of schooling (indoctrination and enforced ignorance).
"Socialism is the logical completion of Individualism in that it realizes the individualist ends through means more appropriate to the modern age." (I'm sorry, I cannot spell the French name from hearing it). There is no statement I have heard of late that is more contradictory than this, but at least now I know that this idea I have run into in discussions with all manner of people is not a new idea. Socialism by its definition and by necessity of its mechanism is axiomatically opposed to individualism. Whatever you do through forced collectivism and/or centralization you inherently do at the expense of individualism. You cannot have both.
Is there a video where they discuss the terrible conditions for American workers during the Indus Rev? I mean, for example, businessmen calling in police and soldiers to gun strikers down.
I just watched his lecture from 1988. Interesting to see how this lecture will pan out. I can hear his respiratory disease, let's listen to how his mind has withstood the ravages of time.
Why in the world would you get a good grade in History, the one being taught in high school? Not sure about you, but the way I remember history lessons, they were nothing but dates and zero facts, and zero discussions of events. I really hate learning useless dates.
A lot of effort to rescue a word that's long gone. Before Raico's day, the word "libertarian" had to be coined because "liberal" wasn't working anymore and accepting the adjective in "classical liberal" was deemed a retreat. But by now, the socialist democrats themselves have dropped the tag "liberal" altogether, in favor of the Wilsonian "progressive." Maybe it's time to get off the one dimensional left/right axis in favor of a two axes model, where a progressive/conservative x axis intersects a libertarian/authoritarian y axis and produces four quadrants. The tags "progressive libertarian," "progressive authoritarian," "conservative libertarian," and "conservative authoritarian" are still too simplistic to tag something as complex as someone's overall beliefs about society, politics and economics, but in practical terms, they beat the old liberal/conservative tags by a mile.
@Objectivist1994 If you dont like were you work or how your boss threats you can do something very simple that is age old and still works today, FUCKING QUIT YOUR JOB, get another job or start your own bussines. I dont know why people want to still work in the sema place but force there boss and theire workplace envoriment to improve to theire benefit. You are forcing other people to do your bidding at theire expense, thats call extortion and it is a crime.
That's right, history is -boring- pay no attention to the brown shirt behind the curtain, none of this has any bearing on anything. Go back to sleep now, good sheeple... (and -I- got an F in high school history, yeesh)
