By the Left Coast Rebel
My favourite character of the picture is at the 4:15 mark. Nick Gillespie asks National Review's Kevin Williamson, "what's the continuing romance of socialism?" Williamson simply responds, "I think it is a variety of perpetual adolescence...
This truism - the perpetual adolescence of advocates of socialism, especially in academia and the youth - is absolutely spot on and something that I have witnessed over and over first hand. Socialist proponents (who conceal under the hide of "progressive" today) exist in a pre-pubescent fairy-tale-land of candy-pooping unicorns and government-commanded utopia. "Just open up this freedom, here, and everything will be taken charge of," they whisper in our ears. Too many of us strike for the ploy.
It's too bad that account is cluttered with the dead bodies, misery and poverty (both economically and spiritually) that socialism ushers in.
It's doubly frightful that we appear to experience not knowing from said history, or - eve worse - are willfully ignoring it in favour of a pie-in-the-sky adolescent vision - a sight that both you and I live will make the exact same historical outcome here in the United States.
From Reason.tv's Youtube page:
What's the very definition of socialism? How is it distinct fromregulation and a social welfare state? Why are intellectuals stillenamored of a scheme that brought us Stalin, Hitler, and more recentlyHugo Chavez and Kim Jong-Il? And what can the United States learn fromSweden about free initiative and capitalism?
Reason.tv's NickGillespie sat down with Kevin Williamson, who is deputy managing editorof National Review and source of a new book, The Politically IncorrectGuide to Socialism, to discuss the meaning of socialism in history andthe current moment.
Cross posted to LCR contributor sites.
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