The March of History – Mises vs. Marx
AIER just released an incredible video about the ongoing war of ideas of socialism versus capitalism, exemplified in the persons …
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To Save the World
By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the April 1984 edition of The Freeman. Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning, …
Anarchy and Christianity
Anarchy and Christianity is a short work presenting the essentials of Ellul’s political philosophy with respect to Scripture. It reads in a scholarly manner, especially with his references to historical and textual criticism and the assumption that the reader knows something about Marxian class theory, historical theological traditions, and even a bit of Greek
Communism Kills
Communism is the vision of an egalitarian society with common ownership of property. Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated that the prevailing capitalist environment is responsible for class struggle and inequality among people. He believed that people’s lives are determined by their economic environment and in order to achieve the communist utopia, that environment has to be changed. For this change to occur, the working class (proletariat) must overthrow the existing regime, dismantle all capitalist institutions, and eliminate the possibility of a counterrevolution by the merchant class (bourgeoisie).