Month: February 2021

Frédéric Bastiat argues that socialism hides its true plunderous nature under a facade of nice sounding words like “fraternity” and “equality” (1850)

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/617?fbclid=IwAR3eMtPNZbi17XGh0QYRiA8hs3wBOQQ8PY4oSzPdSgItYQHo8OnrSGUndS8 The French economist Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) argues that under socialism’s facade of nice-sounding terms like fraternity, solidarity, and equality lies the “monster” of legal plunder and state coercion: For…