socialism

Over the past week or two, the main topic that has been worrying the Bulgarian public is the expected increase in bread prices during the winter season, due to the poor harvest this year and the increase in gas prices. Although this increase is due to completely objective economic realities that cannot be changed at the moment, and …

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 …

In the first part of this series, we explained why the left is in crisis and needs to return to its roots if it is to restore its connection to the working class. In the last part, we outlined the first two key steps towards achieving this goal - in this one, we continue with four more. …

A return to the original left-worker ideas would make him a much more serious opponent of the right. The left around the world is in a state of amok. Its hypocritical double standards towards minorities, on the one hand, and the indigenous population, on the other, have led to its total discredit in the eyes of the ordinary voter, who still considers himself to be a radical …

The educated can also sell their votes Recently, the idea of limiting the right to vote in the democratic process based on a minimum level of education has been developing in the Bulgarian public space. The idea is to interrupt the vicious practice of buying and selling votes before elections, especially with regard to one of the minorities …

Five-year plan is the abbreviated name of the five-year plans, through which economic development is centrally controlled and planned under socialist conditions. That is why the socialist countries of Eastern Europe are often called countries with central planning, although five-year plans also exist outside the Eastern Bloc. The implementation of the economic goals set by the political leadership …

Author: Brian Kaplan (Backstory: Greek luminaries Socrates, Pericles, and Leonidas traveled via time machine from Antiquity to the 21st century. A few months after being immersed in the modern world, Pericles is a staunch follower of what in modernity we call the “left,” while Leonidas is an equally staunch follower of the “right.” Socrates, unlike …

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 – …