{"product_id":"the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-socialism-1","title":"The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism","description":"Stalin’s gulag, impoverished North Korea, collapsing Cuba...it’s hard to name a dogma that has failed as spectacularly as socialism. And yet leaders around the world continue to subject millions of people to this dysfunctional, violence-prone ideology.\n\nIn The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Socialism, Kevin Williamson reveals the fatal flaw of socialism—that efficient, complex economies simply can’t be centrally planned. But even in America, that hasn’t stopped politicians and bureaucrats from planning, to various extents, the most vital sectors of our economy: public education, energy, and the most arrogant central–planning effort of them all, Obama’s healthcare plan.\n\nIn this provocative book, Williamson unfolds the grim history of socialism, showing how the ideology has spawned crushing poverty, devastating famines, and horrific wars. Lumbering from one crisis to the next, leaving a trail of economic devastation and environmental catastrophe, socialism has wreaked more havoc, caused more deaths, and impoverished more people than any other ideology in history—especially when you include the victims of fascism, which Williamson notes is simply a variant of socialism.\n\nWilliamson further demonstrates:\n\nWhy, contrary to popular belief, socialism in theory is no better than socialism in practice\nWhy socialism can’t exist without capitalism\nHow the energy powerhouse of Venezuela, under socialism, has become an economic basket case subject to rationing and blackouts\nHow socialism, not British colonialism, plunged the bountiful economy of India into stagnation and dysfunction—and how capitalism is rescuing it\nWhy socialism is inextricably linked to communism\n\nIf you thought socialism went into the dustbin of history with the collapse of the Soviet Union, think again. Socialism is alive and kicking, and it’s already spread further than you know.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1596986492\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1596986492.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Williamson, Kevin D.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: It's been through some chapters of life! Expect visible wear—creases, notes, highlights, maybe even a splash of water here and there. Perfect for readers who love a book with history.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51696810524959,"sku":"PKV.1596986492.A","price":2.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1596986492-0_838a0dd6-658b-4a73-9a0b-58cc8d25981e.jpg?v=1771780708","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-socialism-1","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}