communism

Mass industrialization under central planning In his memoirs published after the fall of the Bulgarian Communist Party regime, Todor Zhivkov wrote that his government returned the gold reserve back to Bulgaria. This is perhaps one of the most notorious lies of the communist dictator. Contrary to Zhivkov's claims, in the 1960s …

Despite its obvious failures in the twentieth century, Marxism remains one of the most widespread political and economic ideologies of our time. Western democracies have adopted many of the principles and policies advocated by Marx and his followers, and many post-colonial developing countries have built their societies on the basis of socialist …

The spread of communism cannot be protected by the right to free expression. Recently, questions have been increasingly raised on domestic social networks as to whether the “innocent” victims of the totalitarian right-wing regimes in Bulgaria and around the world, who used repressive methods to save their countries from the USSR-funded …

Industrialization is one of the visible dimensions of the economic and social modernization experienced by developed capitalist societies in the 19th century. The process of the emergence of industrial structures is a complex result of relative spiritual, economic and scientific freedom, security of private property and appropriate institutional structure. Communists put industrialization among their main economic …

The economic bankruptcy of socialism has long been convincingly proven by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. In the absence of private ownership of the means of production, there is no market, and without a market, money prices cannot be formed. Without prices, rational production, construction, etc. cannot be organized. Separately …

Bulgarian socialism is like any other socialism – a well-intentioned, but clumsy and often bloody socio-economic experiment. At the national level, the common characteristics manifest themselves in a specific way. This is how the sweet native picture of the Bulgarian socialist past is born. In several consecutive publications we will focus on the Bulgarian manifestations of typical …

“We occupied you Czechs because we love you.” Explanation of what happened by a Russian officer, given on August 24, 1968 to Milan Kundera During this week in 1968, another desire for freedom and humanity in the socialist camp was trampled. It did not start with the economy, but with culture, music, everyday life …

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Doug Bandow, Cato Institute, USA One of America's most significant actors and singers is Paul Robison, born a century ago. An impressive talent who fought against widespread racism, Robison seems to deserve the celebration of his centennial this month. Unfortunately, however, he also has a different, …

Jonathan Newman, Mises Institute A great wave of anti-market and pro-socialist opinions has flooded the media in recent years. In most cases, these anti-markets make no distinction between state-sponsored organizations like the IMF and real markets. But that doesn’t matter, because the articles are often populist and vaguely worded – …