Difference between revisions of "Libertarian Dismissals of Arguments"
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; Socialism has been a failure. | ; Socialism has been a failure. | ||
: Often, including Milton Friedman. If we are taking about failure as losing competition with capitalism, then the results are obviously mixed. Socialism clearly wins in creating infrastructure, defense, and other "hard problems". No nation is stupid enough to overlook socialistic success, and all first world nations (the most successful by some measures) are mixed economies with both capitalistic and socialistic production. | : Often, including Milton Friedman. If we are taking about failure as losing competition with capitalism, then the results are obviously mixed. Socialism clearly wins in creating infrastructure, defense, and other "hard problems". No nation is stupid enough to overlook socialistic success, and all first world nations (the most successful by some measures) are mixed economies with both capitalistic and socialistic production. | ||
| + | ; If you do not agree with me, then obviously you do not understand or you are evil. | ||
| + | : A common objectivist ploy, also used in many other ideologies and religions. A good response is use the same technique back at them: if they don't agree with Keynesianism, then they either doesn't understand it or are evil. Or try liberalism or communitarianism, or socialism, etc. | ||
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