Yes, praexeology has been the same for all the history of mankind. To deny that human action exists in the form it exists in, is folly. People wonder why totalitarianism and communism, but I repeat myself, don’t work, have never worked and will never work. This is the reason why. The only way the marxists manage to pull the wool over people’s eyes is to weave great dreams and lies of the possible and compare them to the reality of free enterprise. By now, people should be able to look at real results in the real world and see the truth.
By now, people should be able to look at real results in the real world and see the truth.
That they don't is why we need to be able to separate ourselves from them. As Hoppe says, those who seek to settle disputes through violence are technical problems for civilized people to deal with.
I hadn’t seen that, but it makes absolute sense. The thing I find odd, is that marxists will never compare the real results with real results. They always make mental construct sets to compare to real results. That is how they fool people into believing in their BS. If their ideas were so potent, N. Korea, China and The Soviet Union should have all been paradise rather than slaughterhouses.
That has never happened yet and I don’t think it will ever happen. The closest the Marxist’s have ever come to it is Dengism (communism with a Chinese flavor) and you can see the results of that happening at this very moment. The Chinese bubble is bursting and I don’t think they can save it because they will try the usual, current remedies. IMHO, Xi is on his way out (lost the Mandate of Heaven) and their economy will collapse. The other alternative is the tried, tested and true method of WAR.
The other thing about China is that they're sort of Communist in name only. They embraced markets to a very significant extent and the Chinese people are very entrepreneurial.
Obviously, they'd be much more prosperous if they leaned even further into markets, but they're more of a standard "mixed" economy than real communist experiments like Maoist China or the USSR.
Of course, Deng was a real counter-revolutionary, when it came to the economy. He embraced market to a certain extent. Xi, on the other hand, has tried to wind in the line that Deng let out to the markets. Xi and his cronies really like this crony capitalism that is taking over the world. It allows them, personally, to join the oligarch class around the world.
"As we progress into the 21st century, many societies have adopted “mixed” economic policies, sacrificing the effectiveness of market forces for the elusive goal of economic “equality,” irresponsibly neglecting the objective nature of economic laws and the lessons of history."
I feel society has gotten so soft that we need to treat all people fairly, which in the wild, they would have been dropped from the pack.
Free riders don't like fairness, because they don't want to have to contribute in order to take. That's what equality is fundamentally about, not being required to contribute to the system you take from.
Fairness, on the other hand, is getting what you've earned.
Also, fairness is getting what you earn and earning what you get and not having to surrender it under the threat of force. That is the wool being pulled over people’s eyes and the gullibility being demonstrated.