"When National Socialists speak of 'the people,' they never mean, as social democrats do, all the people, but rather the 'real' people, the ethno-racial-sexual-religious group that they identify with the nation, to the exclusion of all other citizens and denizens of the state." - Liz Anderson, "It's Not Socialism - It's National Socialism"
I also like, from the same blog entry: "One thing, at least, that Trump is proving is how ridiculous is the neoliberal claim, championed by the likes of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, that somehow a set of laws that protect private property, especially if it is concentrated in a few hands, would be able to protect individual liberty against tyranny."
I still remember reading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom twenty something years ago and immediately thinking how is this book still popular when its central premise has already been proven laughably false by history?
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