[ExI] Atlas Shrugged

[William Flynn Wallace]

Only stupid people fall for it.

Unfortunately, there is a large supply of stupid people.

Rafal

What gets me, Rafal, is that the would-be dictators and rabble rousers
should be pointing to us as an example of how to make an economy work, and
yet all the examples of Marxism that they can give their followers are
economic failures.  Maybe "Everything belongs to everybody" is a telling
point.  I don't listen to such people and don't know what they are saying.
Anyone have an idea?  bill w

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 11:03 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:15 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> No.  True Marxism is impossible.
>>
>
> ### Yes, true Marxism is possible and it has been done a bunch of times.
> Marxism is what Marxists do, not what they say. Once you have Marxists in
> power, and it did happen a number of times, the outcome *is* Marxism, that
> is, the consequence of applying Marxists principles (dictatorship of the
> proletariat by the vanguard of the proletariat, abolition of private
> ownership of means of production, etc.) in real life. To say "What happens
> after Marxist principles are used is not true Marxism" is a form of the "no
> true Scotsman" fallacy.
>
> Marxists and other mountebanks often tell a tall tale of Utopia ("true
> communism") and great goodness ("million dollars") that you are sure to
> reach if you follow their bullshit advice ("give us totalitarian power over
> the society", "send me $1000 to unlock the bank of account of Miss Ulala
> Akinyere, widow of Mr Akinyere of the Big Bank of Nigeria"). Only stupid
> people fall for it.
>
> Unfortunately, there is a large supply of stupid people.
>
> Rafal
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