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ABC News, 20

Acton, Lord, 19

Afghan War, 304

Akhmatova, Anna, 203–4, 205

Al Jazeera, 14, 15

Alter, Charlotte, 36

Amber Waves (USDA), 66

American Political Science Association Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy, 46

Amnesty International, 268–69

Anderson, William L., 119

Animal Farm (Orwell), 130

Anthem (Rand), 181

applauding enthusiastically anecdotes, 161–65

Aslan, Reza, 280

assassination attempt on Nicolas Maduro, 1–2

Atlantic magazine, 295

Attlee, Clement, 130

Atwood, Margaret, 231

authoritarianism, 129–38

overview, 129

and black market, 133–34

democracy vs., 132

enforcing price and wage controls, 133–38

Mubarak, 20

Avila, Luis, 16

Azerrad, David, 55–56

Babel, Isaak, 266

Baier, Bret, 47–48

Balenciaga boots worn by Michelle Obama, 58

Bastiat, Frederic, 254

BBC, 21

Beattie, Sarah, 280

Behar, Joy, 86

Bellafiore, Robert, 253

Berdichevsky, Arcadi, 212–13

Bergman, Ingmar, 107

Bergqvist, Kajsa, 106

Betancourt, Romulo, 11–12

Beveridge, William, 157

Bian Zhongyun, 188–89

birth rate and global warming, 252

Black Israelites at Indigenous People’s March incident, 279, 280–81, 282, 283

black market, 25–26, 27–28, 133–34

Blasi, Joseph, 5–6

Blumenberg, Hans, 242

Booker, Cory, 277, 299

Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kundera), 206

Borges, Julio, 18–19

Boushey, Heather, 42

Bowman, Sam, 30–31

Brandon, Adam, 250

Britain, 130–31, 132–33, 227

Brookings Institution, 288

Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky), 228–29

Bruenig, Elizabeth, 80–81

Bruenig, Matt, 80–81

Buffett, Warren, 250

Bukharin, Nikolai, 204–5

Butterfield, Herbert, 223

Bylund, Per, 108–9, 114

Cambodia, 194–202

Choeung Ek killing field and memorial, 198

Khmer Rouge, 195–96

Pol Pot, 194–97

preventive killings of children, 198

U.S. bombing of, 195

cannibalism during famine in China, 175

Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty), 29–31

capitalism, 51–59

overview, 101–2, 305

in Chile, 11

correlation between wealth and, 52–53

cronyism, 247–48

income inequality as growth factor, 29–33

and the increasing number of one percenters, 47–50

middle class benefits, 34–40

and Nazi Germany, 142, 147–49

poll results on Americans' support for, 4–5, 5–6

in Scandinavia, 80, 82–83, 84–92

as source of climate change, 258–59

splitting the difference with socialism as unacceptable, 304–5

as welfare state, 99–102

Carlson, Tucker, 284

Carroll, Robert, 49

Carson, Stephen, 291

Castro, Fidel, 18, 63, 65

Cato Institute, 253, 302

central planning, 135–36, 143, 151, 170, 172–77, 222

Charles, Matthew, 299–300

Chavez, Hugo, 9–10, 12–16, 17, 28, 119

Chen Dake, 181–83

Chen Qigang, 183–84

Chernyshevsky, Nikolay, 226, 229, 230, 231–32, 234

Chiang Kai-shek, 172

Child Tax Credit, 253

Chile, 11

China

“cost” of education, 123

FaceCrime, 286–87

greenhouse gas emissions, 257

Mao's rise to power, 171–73

one-child policy, 252

Ping-Pong players commit suicide, 189

social credit system based on facial recognition surveillance, 286–89, 295–97

Temple of Heaven toilet paper ration, Beijing, 288

"the Great Leap Forward" and the Great Famine, 173–77

See also Cultural Revolution in China; Mao and socialism

China Electronics Technology Group, 296

Chinese Crystal Night, 185

Choeung Ek, Cambodia, 198

Churchill, Winston, 53, 130

Ciccariello-Maher, George, 13

Clementis, Vladimir, 206

Climate Action Network Europe (CANE), 257

climate change

democratic representatives silencing discussion, 271–72

greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, 251–57

Green New Deal, 111, 251, 252, 253, 254–55, 259

Milankovic cycles, 262–65

Paris Accord, 257

scientific assessments, 258–62

Climate Policy Initiative, 255

Clinton, Bill, 76

Clinton, Hillary, 51, 76, 86–87, 93, 242–44, 301

CNN, 14, 76–77, 279–80, 282–83

Cockburn, Harry, 287

Coffee Shop, Union Square, New York City, 70

collective will vs. individual rights, 144–45, 151–52, 160, 222, 230–31

college debt, United States and Scandinavia, 124–25

Collins, Doug, 300–301

common ground, 298–305

communism and socialism, 142–43

Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 196

Congress of the United States

coalitions in Congress for ending Afghan and Yemen wars, 304

delegation of authority to write regulations, 153–54

First Step Act, 299, 300–301

media perpetuating lie of members' hatred for each other, 301, 302

Netanyahu's speech to, 163–64

and Paul, Ron, 27

role of, 271–73, 304

and Russia, 302

shooting at charity congressional baseball game practice, 274–76

Trump's State of the Union address, 3–4

Conley, Father John J., 157–58

Conquest, Robert, 266

conservatives, unfair treatment of, 268–78

Cook, Vincent, 196, 202

Cor, Anders, 287–88

Corday, Charlotte, 211

corporate greed as rallying cry of leftists, 69

corporate taxes

in Denmark, 87

in Norway, 81–82

in Scandinavia, 71, 77, 78, 85, 87, 109, 113

in Seattle, WA, 71

socialist argument for high corporate taxes, 113

in Sweden, 106

in United States, 78

corruption and socialism, 17–22

Covington Catholic High School students at Indigenous People's March, 279–85

cows, carbon-producing, 252

crime-predicting computer algorithm, 294

crises, socialists' creation of, 251–57

Crockford, Susan, 260, 261

cronyism, 44, 49, 247–50

Crystal Palace, England, 227

Crystal Palace utopia, 227, 228, 229, 231, 234–35

Cuba, 18, 63, 65

Cuban Americans, 67

Cultural Revolution in China

overview, 178–81

Destroy the Four Olds Campaign, 179, 185–88

farmers who worked for themselves and their families at end of, 190–93

Red Guard's enforcement role, 179, 180, 185–89

and Tibet, 186

victim's stories, 180–86, 188–89

Cuomo, Chris, 280

Curtis, Jamie Lee, 283–84

Czechoslovakia, communist occupation of, 206

Czech Republic, 72

data capture, 286–97

FaceCrime, 285, 286–87

PreCrime, 289–90, 294–96

See also surveillance

De Blasio, Bill, 131–32

Debs, Eugene, 72

Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism (Sanandaji), 82–83

Dembicki, Geoff, 71–72

democracy, 44, 45–46, 64, 132, 239–40. See also capitalism

democratic socialism

overview, 93

character of Social Democrats, 132

Democratic Socialists of America, 69, 71–73

in England, 130–31

in Scandinavia, 89, 91–94, 105–7, 109, 132

See also socialism

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), 69, 71–73

Deng Xiaoping, 180, 192–93

Denmark

controls on who gets an education, 123–24

experiment with socialism, 106

immigration issue, 94

life expectancy, 120

PM insists Denmark is not socialist, 87, 88

public stock exchange, 79

and Sanders, 76–78, 87

taxes in, 97, 115–16

wealthy Danes opting out of public health system, 102–3

Dennis, Brady, 261–62

Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), Washington, D.C., 291–93

de-platforming, 269, 273

Destroy the Four Olds Campaign in China, 179, 185–88

Dick, Philip K., 289

dictators

Castro in Cuba, 18, 63, 65

Chavez in Venezuela, 9–10, 12–16, 17, 28, 119

Maduro in Venezuela, 1–2, 9–10, 13, 14–16, 18, 28

Mubarak in Egypt, 19–20

Somoza in Nicaragua, 65, 129

See also Stalin, Joseph

dictatorships

overview, 19, 20, 65, 146, 208–9, 232l–233, 238

as counter to democratic utopia, 241

from effort to create utopia, 221

and enthusiastic applause, 161–63, 164

justifying edicts, 243

See also authoritarianism

Dikötter, Frank, 173–77, 181

discount stores as income equalizers, 32–33

Di Trolio, Gerard, 19

DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), Washington, D.C., 291–93

Domenech, Ben, 39, 40, 50

Dorfman, Jeffrey, 84, 85–86, 95, 96

Dorsey, Jack, 269

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 226, 227–29, 230, 231–32, 234–35, 242

Dougherty, Michael Brendan, 164–65

doxing individuals, 267–68, 276

Dream We Lost, The (Utley), 214

Drischler, Jordan, 107

Drucker, Peter, 142

Duke, Selwyn, 51, 52, 58–59

Earned Income Tax Credit, 253

Ebeling, Richard, 170

Economic Freedom Index (Fraser Institute), 85

Economic Freedom Index (Heritage Foundation), 85, 87

economic growth, 31, 41–44, 56–57

economics

foreign exchange rate manipulation, 152

minimum wage issues, 70, 72, 78

universal basic income proposal, 253

wage controls, 133–38, 151–52, 154–55

wages, inflation, and economic well-being measures, 36–37

See also free market; price controls

Economist, 85, 96

Edelstein, David, 290

Edenhofer, Ottmar, 255–56

education access, 68, 85–86, 123–25

egalitarian brutality, 13, 202

egoism, 233–34

Egypt, 19–20

Einstein, Albert, 260

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 35–36

Emanuel, Rahm, 245

end of history ideology, 236–43

Engels, Friedrich, 156, 196

England, 130–31, 133

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 257

equality vs. inequality, 45, 51–52, 57–58. See also income inequality

Equatorial Guinea, 21

estate taxes, 29, 113–14

eugenics and socialism, 156–60

Eugenics Society, 158

Europe, 113, 257. See also Scandinavia; individual European countries

Evangelic Christian conservatives, 301

Facebook, 57, 270–71

FaceCrime, 285, 286–87

fairness, 4–5, 6

fake attack reports, 274, 276–78

fake news and propaganda, 279–85

famine in China, 173–77

Fang Zhongmou, 188

fascism and socialism, 142–43

"Fascist New Frontier, The" (Rand), 150–51

Fast Company, 269

Feder, Gottfried, 141

Ferguson, Missouri, 294

Figes, Orlando, 208–9

Figueres, Christiana, 256–57

Finland, 79

First Step Act, 299, 300–301

"Five Principles of a Socialist Climate Politics" (Huber), 258–59

Flamer, Keith, 18

Flanagan, Caitlin, 282–83

Forbes, Kristin, 31

Fortune magazine, 295–96

four olds, 179

Francis, Diane, 252

Frankfort, Harry, 53–54

Fraser Institute, 85

Freedland, Jonathan, 157, 158–59

freedom, 77, 236–43

FreedomWorks, 250

free market, 23–28

central planning vs., 135–36, 143, 151, 172–77, 222

in Denmark, 88

price controls vs., 23–24, 25–26, 118

public investments and, 96

public stock exchanges, 79, 99

result of free market without corruption, 44

and standard of living, 52

in Sweden, 91–92, 108–9

free trade, 77–78, 85

Friedman, Milton, 121, 217, 253

From Darkness to Sight (Wang), 180

From Utopia to Nightmare (Walsh), 221

Fukuyama, Francis, 236–42

"Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video of Native American Man and Catholic Students" (New York Times), 282

Fu Qifang, 189

gas shortages in 1970s, 24

Gates, Bill, 57, 250

Geraghty, Jim, 38

German socialism vs. Russian socialism, 150, 155

Geyer, Georgie Anne, 198–200, 213

Gillibrand, Kristen, 298–99

Ginzburg, Yevgenia, 210–11

Glaser, Elizabeth, 237

global warming/climate crisis, 251–57

Goebbels, Joseph, 143–44

Gökçe, Nusret (Salt Bae), 18

Goldberg, Jonah, 141–42

Golovina, Antonina, 209–11

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 206–7, 303

Gottwald, Klement, 206

government

big enough to give or take everything, 71–72, 119, 170, 250, 293–94

centralized government, 135–36, 143, 151, 170, 172–77, 222

control and welfarism spectrum, 83, 99, 100–101

corruption spawned by central ownership of resources, 20–21

mixture of big government and private ownership, 93, 95, 99, 304, 305

state government shrinkage during Obama presidency, 117–18

See also data capture

GQ magazine, 277

Graham, Lindsey, 303–4

Gramm, Phil, 36–37

Great Enrichment, The, 33

"Great Leap Forward" and the Great Famine, China, 173–77

Green New Deal, 111, 251, 252, 253, 254–55, 259

Grigoryev, Valentin Filatovich, 207–8

groupthink, 259

Guardian, 21

Guilfoyle, Kimberly, 273–74

Guillen, Michael, 259–60

Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), 161–63, 200

Gupta, Girish, 27

Haldane, J. B. S., 158

Harris, Kamala, 277, 299

Harsanyi, David, 29, 37–38

Harte, Robert, and family, 295

Harvard University survey of American youth, 5

"Hate-Crime Hoaxes Reflect America's Sickness" (Ngo), 277

hate crimes and hate crime hoaxes, 274–78

Hausmann, Ricardo, 15

Hayek, Friedrich, 57–58, 133, 141, 147–49, 176, 253

health care. See socialized medicine

Hederman, Rea, 55–56

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 236–37, 240, 242

Hegelelian historical determinism, 171, 238

Heritage Foundation, 85, 87

Hersh, Adam, 42

Hirschl, Thomas A., 39–40

historical determinism, 236–43

Hitler as a socialist, 139–46, 142–44, 145–46, 147, 160

Hollywood celebrities, 53

Holocaust, the, 150, 159, 207

Holthaus, Eric, 258

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas, 251

Huber, Matthew, 258–59

HumanProgress.org, 31

"Hungarian Struggle, The" (Engels), 156

"I Am Afraid" (Zamyatin), 230–31

Iceland, 79

immigration issues, 94, 120–21

incentives, private property vs. socialism, 170

income inequality, 41–46

based on merit, 49

capitalism as basis of, 29–33

Chavez's personal stash vs., 17

in Cuba, 68

and economic growth, 31, 41–44

examining what can be bought with available income vs. worrying about, 31–32

and free market economy, 39, 52–53

and health of democracy, 44, 45–46

as misdirection campaign, 48–49

as necessary component of a healthy economy, 56–57

negative results of, 58–59

in Scandinavia, 96

tax paid by one percenters, 249–50

in Venezuela, 13–14

World Inequality Report, 79–80, 81, 82

income mobility, 39–40, 43–44, 47–50, 56

Independent (British newspaper), 15

India's greenhouse gas emissions, 257

Indigenous Peoples March incident, 279–85

individual rights vs. collective will, 144–45, 151–52, 160, 222, 230–31

industrialists as robber barons, 5

Industrial Revolution, 90, 257

inequality vs. equality, 45, 51–52, 57–58

Instagram, Jussie Smollett hoax on, 274

iPhone surveillance, 266

Iran, 65

James, Marlon, 285

Janetsky, Megan, 2

Janis, Irving, 259

Jeffries, Hakeem, 300–301

Jenner, Bruce, 267

Jewish as synonym for capitalist in Nazi Germany, 152

Jiang Yongning, 189

Jimenez, Perez, 10

Jones, Van, 301

Jordan, Tina, 285

Jussie Smollett hoax, 274, 276–77

Kaminska, Nina, 208–9

Kamprad, Ingvar, 106

Kan, Karoline, 186–88

Karlsson, Stefan, 90–91, 92, 105, 107, 108

Kennedy, Ted, 289

Keynes, John Maynard, 158

Khanna, Ro, 304

Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, 195–96, 197–98, 199–201

Khomeini, Ayatollah, 65

Kilminster, Richard, 221

Kimball, Roger, 238–39, 242

Kim Jong Un, 164

Kislyak, Sergey, 302–3

Klaus, Vaclav, 72

Koch, Charles, 221

Kommunarka memorial, 207–8

Kristol, Bill, 243, 284

Krugman, Paul, 117

Kruse, Douglas L., 5–6

Kundera, Milan, 206

Kushner, Jared, 301

Lahoud, Daniel, 10–11

Larabell, John, 91, 115–16, 124

Laski, Harold, 158

Leahy, Patrick, 299

Lee, Alexander, 238, 242

Lee, Mike, 153–54, 304

leftists

overview, 98–99

desire to emulate Sweden, 51–52

on economy and individual prosperity, 5

on Nazism, 141–42

and socialism in Venezuela, 12–13, 14, 16

support for First Step Act, 301

See also socialism

Lenin, Vladimir, 146, 171

Lewis, Nicholas, 261–62

libertarian acceptance of necessary evils, 138

liberty, 243

LibertyCon, 271–72

Lieu, Ted, 304

Lincicome, Scott, 38

Lishui (Red Guard member), 186–88

Little Red Book, The (Mao), 179

Liu Hu, 288–89

Lo Bei, 288

Lowry, Rich, 106, 121, 283–84

"lump fallacy," 55

Macgillivray, Alex, 268

Madison, James, 144

Madsen, Kristian, 94

Maduro, Nicolas, 1–2, 9–10, 13, 14–16, 18, 28

MAGA hats, 279–80, 301–2

Mandelstam, Osip, 203–5

Mao and socialism

overview, 169–70

Cultural Revolution as means to distract from failure of the Great Leap Forward, 178–79

"Great Leap Forward" and the Great Famine, 173–77

The Little Red Book, 179

socialism first requires war, 171–72

See also Cultural Revolution in China

Marx, Karl, 146, 196, 224, 236

Marxism

collective will vs. individual rights, 144–45, 151–52, 160, 222, 230–31

and eugenics, 156

and Hitler, 142–44, 145–46, 147

and Mao, 171

and Pol Pot, 194, 196, 197–201

promotion by true believers, 73

protected vs. unprotected divisions vs., 50

as pseudoscience, 221

and Sanders, 64

science of Marxism and utopian notion, 225

Massie, Thomas, 280

Matthews, Chris, 86, 109

Maya, Margarita Lopez, 14

Mbasogo, Teodoro Obiang Nguema "Obiang," 21–22

Mbasogo, Teodoro "Teodorin," 21

McArdle, Elaine, 198

McCain, Meghan, 86

McCloskey, Deidre, 32–33, 34

McCormack, Simon, 294–95

media. See individual media outlets

media bias, 282–84, 302–3

media's incitement of vitriol, 276–78, 279–81, 301

Medicare for All single-payer system, 102, 115, 251

Megvii facial recognition company, 289, 296

Microsoft, 250

middle class

benefits from capitalism, 34–40

taxation of, in welfare states, 94, 97–98, 110–16

Milankovic, Milutin, 263

Milankovic cycles, 262–65

Milano, Alyssa, 302

millennials, 37–39, 74, 111–12

minimum wage, 70, 72, 78

minorities' misidentification with facial recognition technology, 295

"Minority Report, The" (Dick), 289

Minority Report (movie), 289–90, 294

Mises, Ludwig von, 56, 79, 133, 150, 152, 159, 221

Mitchell, Daniel J., 107–8

Mooney, Chris, 261–62

Moore, Patrick, 260, 261

Moore, Stephen, 255, 257

More, Thomas, 219–20

Moynihan, Michael, 64, 66–67

Mubarak, Hosni, 19–20

Mueller investigation of "Russian collusion," 290

Munez, Michael, 270–71

Murphy, Chris, 304

Murphy, Meghan, 266–67

Murray, William J., 224–25

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project, 260

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 19–20

nationalization of Venezuela's oil industry, 11–12

National Public Radio (NPR), 51, 208–9

Navarro, Ana, 280, 284

Nazism

capitalism vs., 147–49

central planning, 135–36, 143

death camps, 139

defeat of, 130

economic controls, 133, 134–35, 152–55

Hitler's national socialism, 140–41

Holocaust, 150, 159, 207

private property vs., 150–55

red tape burden, 153, 154

Reich Food Estate regulating farmers, 152

utopia as a monoracial paradise, 224

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 163–64

New York Times, 261, 280, 282

Ngo, Andy, 277

Nicaragua, 63–67, 129

1984 (Orwell), 165, 206, 232–33, 286, 290–91

Niño, José

on Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, 254

on price controls, 23, 25

on Scandinavian cultural values, 122

on Scandinavian reversal of high tax trends, 113

on Scandinavian socialism, 113, 122

on transfer policy, UBI, 254

on Venezuela, 10, 11–12, 23, 25

Nixon, Cynthia, 95–96

Nixon, Richard M., and price controls, 26–27

Nobel, Alfred, 90

Norberg, Johan, 95

Nordic model, social democracy as, 93. See also democratic socialism; Scandinavia

normative egoism, 233–34

North Korea, 164

Norway, 81–82, 115–16, 121, 124

Notes from Underground (Dostoyevsky), 226, 227–29, 231–32, 234–35

Obama, Barack, 96, 117–18, 153, 242, 303, 305

Obama, Michelle, 58, 66

Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria (AOC)

on capitalism, 34–35, 36

on coffee shop closing, 69–70

Green New Deal, 251–53, 254–55

and Paul, 298

on policies resembling those of Scandinavia, 88

protesting companies' sponsorship of LibertyCon, 271–72, 273

on Smollett fake attack, 277

on tax breaks for wealthy corporations, 249

U.S. economy during adult years of, 38–39

wealth tax proposal, 110, 111

Occupy Wall Street movement, 247

Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) NASA project, 260

Oculus Rift (virtual reality headset), 57

Olsson, Christian, 106

O'Malley, James, 287

Omar, Ilhan Abdullahi, 284

OMG (Oceans Melting Greenland) NASA project, 260

Ominous Parallels (Peikoff), 151

Omnipotent Government (Mises), 221

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), 161

On Equality (Frankfort), 53–54

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 49

Ortega, Daniel, 63–65

Orwell, George, 130, 143, 165, 206, 232–33, 285, 290–91

Paerson, Anja, 106

Paine, Thomas, 100

Palumbo, Matt, 94, 95, 97

Paris Accord, 257

Pasternak, Boris, 203–4, 205

Paul, Kelley, 291–94, 299

Paul, Rand

accused of not applauding enthusiastically, 163–65

attack from behind while mowing his lawn, 276, 277

buying shirts at Target, 32

at charity congressional baseball game practice when shooting occurred, 274–76

concerns about close-minded climate-change crowd, 264–65

finding common ground, 298–305

and Klaus, former Czech Republic President, 72

letter to Phyllis Schlafly, 271

respect for Eisenhower, 35–36

in Russia, 302–3

teaching at George Washington University, 273

Paul, Ron, 26–27

Peikoff, Leonard, 151

People's Republic of China, 172. See also China; Mao and socialism

Perez, Carlos Andres, 12

Persson, Stefan, 107

pets, 2, 15, 176, 287

Pew Research Center, 48, 283

Phelan, John, 48

Phillips, Nathan, 279, 282–84

Phillips, Tom, 181

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 195

Pierson, James, 197

Piketty, Thomas, 29–31, 44, 48, 55

and World Inequality Report, 79–80, 81, 82

Pingree, Chellie, 271–72

Pinker, Stephen, 54–55

Pino, Christian, 3

"Planned Chaos" (Mises), 150

Plato's Republic, 196, 219–20, 222

Plunkett, Jesse M., 80, 82–83, 87, 88–89, 115–16, 120

poetry and socialism, 203–5

polar bears and climate change, 260

Polish joke about shortages, 27

political science's inability to prove or disprove economic assumptions, 45

Polivanov, Yevgeny, 207–8

Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), 194–98, 201

Popper, Karl, 221–23, 224, 229, 236–37, 239–40

positivism, 229

poverty

decrease in, 31, 42–43, 49

and expensive tickets from traffic surveillance cameras, 291–94

incidence of, 5–6

income inequality as boon to the poor, 54, 55–56

poorest people as biggest beneficiaries of current economy, 33, 53–54

pre-industrial revolution, 32

in Venezuela, 2, 3, 9, 14, 15, 16

Poverty of Historicism, The (Popper), 224

Prague, Czech Republic, 72

PreCrime, 289–90, 294–96

price controls

and black market, 25–26, 133–34

enforcement of, 133–38

vs. free market, 23–24, 25–26, 118

and gas shortages in 1970s, 24

in Nazi Germany, 152, 154–55

penalties for non-compliant store owners, 28

Romans' attempt to thwart inflation with, 26

in Venezuela, 24–25, 27–28

price floors, 24

private property

effect of abolishing, 170, 173–74

effect of reinstating, 190–93

Mao vs., 169

Nazism vs., 150–55

Pol Pot vs., 195–96, 197

in Scandinavia, 80, 87–88, 90

taking with state force and brutality, 131–32

production. See public ownership of the major means of production

productivity gains and income inequality, 34

progressives. See leftists

protected vs. unprotected, 50

psychological egoism, 233–34

public ownership of the major means of production

overview, 74–75

Democratic Socialists of America on, 72

in dictatorships, 20

and millennials, 6

and price controls, 25–26

private ownership in Scandinavia vs., 80–81, 83

Sanders on, 64, 74

in Venezuela, 10, 12–13

public stock exchanges, 79, 99

Purple, Matt, 165

Puzder, Andy, 56–57

Pye, Jason, 272–73

quality of life. See standard of living

Rand, Ayn, 150–51, 181, 229

"Rand Paul Sounds Like the Worst Person to Have as a Neighbor" (GQ), 277

Rank, Mark R., 39–40

Rasmussen, Annegrethe, 87, 94, 97, 103

Rauschning, Hermann, 142–43

Reagan, Ronald, 27, 303

Reason-Rupe public opinion research project, 5

Red Guard in China, 179, 180, 185–89

Reflections on a Ravished Century (Conquest), 266

Reiland, Ralph, 153

Reisman, George, 25–26, 131, 133, 134–38, 142, 154–55

Reisman, John B., 263–64

Republic, The (Plato), 196, 219–20, 222

Republicans, 27, 41, 112–13

Reynolds, Alan, 42, 201–2

Reynolds, Glenn, 19

Reynolds, Morgan O., 196, 202

Riedl, Brian, 110–11

Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 147–49, 176

Rockoff, Hugh, 23–24

Rohac, Dalibor, 32, 53

Romans' attempt to thwart inflation with price controls, 26

Rong Guotuan, 189

Rothbard, Murray, 79, 225

Rubin, Jennifer, 164–65

Russell, Nicole, 268–69

Russia

Bolsheviks exiled to Siberia sent opponents to Siberian prisons, 165

German socialism vs. Russian socialism, 150, 155

and Lenin, 146

Paul's visit to, 302–3

Siberia, 165, 209–11, 213–14, 226, 230

and U.S. relations, 302

See also Soviet Union

Sanandaji, Nima, 82–83, 89–90, 91–92, 105–6, 109, 119–22

Sanchez, Roberto, 15

Sanders, Bernie, 63–69

on corporate taxes, 78

and Cuba, 67–69

and Denmark, 76–78, 88–89

on fairness vs. state ownership of production, 74

on freedom, 4

and Nicaragua, 63–67

opposition to TARP bank bailout, 248

and Paul, 298, 304

on Scandinavia as socialist, 76–78, 86–87

taxes paid by, 47

Sandmann, Nick, 282, 284–85

Sanger, Margaret, 157–58

San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, California, 252

Sasse, Ben, 269

Saudi war on Yemen, 304

Savickas, Daniel, 272–73

Sawant, Kshama, 70, 71

Scalise, Steve, 274, 276

Scandinavia, 93–103

overview, 74–75

capitalist economic system in, 80, 82–83

corporate and income taxes, 71

experiment with socialism, 106

immigration issue, 94, 120–21

leftists' attraction to, 76–78

no minimum wage or consumer price controls, 70

public stock exchanges in, 79

retreat from socialism, 114–15

sales tax/VAT, 97–98, 115, 116

social democratic policies in, 89, 91–94, 105–7, 109, 132

work ethic and culture, 119–22

See also individual Scandinavian countries

Scandinavians living in the United States, 117–23

Scandinavian Unexceptionalism (Sanandaji), 89–90

Schlomach, Byron, 248–49

Schreck, Carl, 207–8

Schultz, Howard, 250

sciencemag.org, 6

scientific assessments of climate change concerns, 258–62

scientific positivism, 229

Seattle, Washington, 70, 71

Sellers, Bakari, 279–80, 284

SenseTime facial recognition software, 295–96

Shaffer, Jack, 269

Shalayev, Andrei, 207

Shaw, George Bernard, 130, 156–57

Sheley, Karen, 294

shooting at charity congressional baseball game practice, 274–76

Shuchman, Daniel, 29–30

Siberia, 165, 209–11, 213–14, 226, 230

Sihanouk, Norodom, 198–99, 202

Sims, Brian, 267–68, 269

smart phones, 37

smirking kid at Indigenous People's March, 284–85

Smollett, Jussie, 274, 276–77

Soave, Robby, 280

socialism

overview, 3

in Cuba, 67–69

in drug distribution, 102

German socialism vs. Russian socialism, 150, 155

Marxist socialism, 142–44, 145–46, 147

in Nicaragua, 63–69

polls showing Americans' support for, 4–5

splitting the difference with capitalism as unacceptable, 304–5

Venezuela's path to, 10–16

See also democratic socialism

socialism's characteristics

overview, 69–75

blaming failure on others, 15, 178, 186

choices disappear, 111–12

collective will vs. individual rights, 144–45, 151–52, 160, 222, 230–31

corruption, 17–22

creation of crises, 251–57

cronyism, 44, 49, 247–50

cure for failed socialism is more socialism, 194–202

eugenics, 156–60

expectation of selfless rulers and citizens, 219–26

government control of resources, 249

Hitler's national socialism, 140–41

kleptocrats, 19, 20

never admit failure, 136–37

no private ownership of corporations, 72

one percenters through party nepotism, 44–45

overspending on social programs, 110–11

price controls, 25–26

spending sovereign wealth instead of investing it, 81–82

surrendering freedom to the state, 144

See also authoritarianism; public ownership of the major means of production

socialized medicine

overview, 101

choosing more capitalism for prescription drugs, 101–2

Medicare for All single-payer system, 102, 115, 251

privatization of national pharmacy in Sweden, 109

in Scandinavia, 85–86

in Sweden, 51–52

in Venezuela, 16

wealthy Danes opting out of, 102–3

social media

doxing individuals on, 267–68

Facebook, 57, 270–71

Jussie Smollett hoax on Instagram, 274

legal immunity discussion, 270

mob vigilantism and media bias, Indigenous Peoples March incident, 279–85

removing competitor access barriers, 269–70

Twitter, 266–70, 279–80

visceral hatred on, 274

Social Security pension program, 99–101

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 161–63, 214

Somoza, 65, 129

Sopo, Giancarlo, 79–80

Soros, George, 221

Soviet Union

agriculture plan failure, 136–37

concentration camps, 213–15

Gorbachev's glasnost, 206–7

joke about sharing misery, 54

propaganda regime, 266

purges of entire families, 205–8, 213–15

recognition that Marxism requires a "New Soviet Man," 225

rehabilitation of victims or surviving relatives, 208

utopia as a workers' paradise, 224

willingness to apply force to maintain Communism, 132

See also Russia; Stalin, Joseph

Sowell, Thomas, 48, 52

Sparta, 222

Stafford, Doug, 300

Stalin, Joseph

overview, 129

crowd applauding enthusiastically anecdote, 161–63

deaths attributable to, 208, 214–15

Haldane's support for, 158

as norm in process of socialist natural selection, 137–38

party purges, 205

punishment for lampooning, 203–5

standard of living, 37, 52, 119–21

Stanley, Timothy, 238, 242

Stiglitz, Joseph, 41, 118–19

Stone, Oliver, 9

Stopes, Marie, 157

Stossel, John, 28

surveillance

in China, 286–89, 295–97

by neighbors/whisperers in Russia, 209, 266

and PreCrime, 294–95

and traffic cameras in the U.S., 291–95

Svart, Maria, 72

Svetov, Mikhail, 302

Sweden, 84–92, 104–9

avoidance of war, 91

capitalist economic system in, 82–83

corporate taxes in, 109

costs related to higher education, 124–25

economic growth, 1800s-1950s, 89–92

elimination of estate tax, 113–14

experiment with socialism, 88, 104–8, 114

Mexico compared to, 30

public stock exchange, 79

socialized medicine in, 51–52

Swedes' quality of life comparable to Swedish-Americans', 30–31

wealth tax, 107–8, 113–14

welfare state develops, 92

Swisher, Kara, 283–84

TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), 247

taxation

Child Tax Credit, 253

Earned Income Tax Credit, 253

estate taxes, 29, 113–14

income taxes in welfare states, 94–95, 97–98

Nordic model, 93, 96–97

of one percenters, 249–50

sales tax/VAT, 97–98, 115, 116

in Scandinavian countries, 71

tax cuts, 41, 112–13

wealth tax, 47, 107–8, 110–11, 113–14

See also corporate taxes

Tax Freedom Day, 113

Tea Party movement, 247

Temple of Heaven toilet paper ration, Beijing, 288

theory of equality, 17

Thompson, Derek, 38–39

Tibet, 186

Time magazine, 104

Tlaib, Rashida, 69, 277

Todd, Chuck, 259

Tolstoy, Leo, 223

Torrealba, Lis, 2

totalitarianism

overview, 100, 221–22, 237–38

belief in superiority of rulers, 221

for enforcing socialism, 99, 138, 177, 233

foretold by Plato's Republic, 220

and ideology of historical inevitability, 242

justifying edicts, 243

Mises on, 221

in Nazi Germany, 153

and price controls, 26, 133–35

trade agreements, 77–78

trade manipulation in Nazi Germany, 152, 153

traffic violations and surveillance, 291–94

Trotsky, Leon, 225

Trump, Donald, Jr. "Don," 273–74

Trump, Donald J.

on ending war in Afghanistan, 303

and Paul, 304

regulations established by and rolled back by, 153

on socialism in Venezuela, 3–4

State of the Union address, 3–4

Tupy, Marian, 28

Tutu, Bishop Desmond, 303

Twitter, 266–70, 279–80

tyranny and socialism, 169–77

United Nations General Assembly and Khmer Rouge, 201

United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 255–56, 261

United States

blowback from interfering in foreign civil wars, 195

fake news and propaganda, 279–85

the protected vs. the unprotected, 50

and responsibility for climate change, 256–57

'safe cities' project, 288

Scandinavians living in, 117–23

Social Security pension program, 99–101

surveillance and traffic cameras in urban centers, 291

tax rates, 112

Vietnam War and bombing Cambodia, 195

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 66

United States government

and benefits for senior citizens, 48

Bureau of Labor statistics on workers' wages, 36–37

cronyism and paternalism, 44, 49