{"product_id":"the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-socialism-9781596986497","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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliamson further demonstrates: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy, contrary to popular belief, socialism in theory is no better than socialism in practice\u003cbr\u003eWhy socialism can't exist without capitalism\u003cbr\u003eHow the energy powerhouse of Venezuela, under socialism, has become an economic basket case subject to rationing and blackouts\u003cbr\u003eHow socialism, not British colonialism, plunged the bountiful economy of India into stagnation and dysfunction--and how capitalism is rescuing it\u003cbr\u003eWhy socialism is inextricably linked to communism \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKevin Daniel Williamson (born September 18, 1972) is an American conservative commentator. He is the theater critic for \u003ci\u003e The New Criterion \u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003e The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism \u003c\/i\u003e (2011, Regnery), \u003ci\u003e The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome \u003c\/i\u003e (2013, HarperCollins\/Broadside Books), \u003ci\u003e The Dependency Agenda\u003c\/i\u003e (2013, Encounter Books), and \u003ci\u003e The Case against Trump\u003c\/i\u003e (2015, Encounter Books), and has contributed chapters to \u003ci\u003e The New Leviathan: The State Vs. the Individual in the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003e (2013, Encounter Books) and\u003ci\u003e Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval \u003c\/i\u003e (2013, Encounter Books). Williamson previously worked at the Mumbai-based Indian Express Group, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Journal Register Newspapers, and the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, where he directed the journalism and communication programs, and as an adjunct professor at The King's College. Williamson was the editor of \u003ci\u003e The Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e, a former daily newspaper in Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Regnery Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50359028908306,"sku":"9781596986497","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e721a0d-75f8-4bdf-bcc8-2b206a630d9d.jpg?v=1728349248","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-socialism-9781596986497","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}