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    The Case Against Socialism
    The Case Against Socialism
    The Case Against Socialism
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    The Case Against Socialism

    Written by Rand Paul

    Narrated by Kelley Paul

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    A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know?

    Socialism has killed millions, but it’s now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ideology manifests itself in starry-eyed calls for free-spending policies like Medicare-for-all and student loan forgiveness.

    In The Case Against Socialism, Rand Paul outlines the history of socialism, from Stalin’s gulags to the current famine in Venezuela. He tackles common misconceptions about the “utopia” of socialist Europe. As it turns out, Scandinavian countries love capitalism as much as Americans, and have, for decades, been cutting back on the things Bernie loves the most.

    Socialism’s return is only possible because many Americans have forgotten the true dangers of the twentieth-century’s deadliest ideology. Paul reveals the devastating truth: for every college student sporting a Che Guevara T-shirt, there’s a Venezuelan child dying of starvation. Desperate refugees flee communist Cuba to escape oppressive censorship, rationed food and squalid hospitals, not “free” healthcare. Socialist dictatorships like the People’s Republic of China crush freedom of speech and run massive surveillance states while masquerading as enlightened modern nations. Far from providing economic freedom, socialist governments enslave their citizens. They offer illusory promises of safety and equality while restricting personal liberty, tightening state power, sapping human enterprise and making citizens dependent on the dole.

    If socialism takes hold in America, it will imperil the fate of the world’s freest nation, unleashing a plague of oppressive government control. The Case Against Socialism is a timely response to that threat and a call to action against the forces menacing American liberty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 15, 2019
    ISBN9780062954886
    Author

    Rand Paul

    U.S. Senator Rand Paul, M.D., is one of the nation’s leading advocates for liberty. Elected to the United States Senate in 2010, he has proven to be an outspoken champion for constitutional liberties and fiscal responsibility. Kelley Ashby Paul serves as Kentucky co-chair of Helping A Hero, a wounded veterans charity that has built over 100 fully adapted homes for soldiers who have suffered severe injuries.  Kelley also serves on the board for the Coalition for Public Safety, a bipartisan organization dedicated to criminal justice reform.  Rand and Kelley have been married since 1990 and are the parents of three sons.

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    • 5/5
      We need to understand as Millennials that the only that free is death and taxes. We need to stop thinking we need everything handed to us. We need to start questioning what we are taught in school and college.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great research - very objective!
      It provides facts to help understand what socialism is, has been and will be.
    • 1/5
      Enslaved? Under oppressive government control? Yup, that's life in amerikkka. The working class here are prisoners with what can barely be called a "wage." No economic power, no political power, no freedom, no liberty, no self-determination. These things will belong to the people once we take them back from the ruling class! Workers of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains!
    • 5/5
      This Book Is Awesome. Everyone who wants to fight against socialism so I could read it
    • 5/5
      Awesome and educational. Learn. Don’t make decisions based on air. Learn.
    • 1/5
      Remember when Rand got in a dispute with his neighbor over brush and got his ass kicked? Funny stuff

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Should be required reading and all high schools and colleges

      1 person found this helpful