by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Other than noting that it is a form of collectivism, coercion, and interventionism, I have not paid much attention to fascism. Today, we’ll take a closer look at this statist ideology, and we’ll start with this video from Matt Kibbe. And since I’ll be...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say that their goal of “democratic socialism” is very different from the socialism of Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, as well as the socialism of the former Soviet Union. And they doubtlessly would get...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Society
Is Obama a socialist? If you’re asking whether he’s a big-spending interventionist, the answer is yes. But if you’re asking whether the President believes in government ownership of the means of production (which is the defining issue in the socialist economic...