Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” was published more than a century and a half ago—in 1868—and all these decades later, it remains a popular novel. What the author’s many fans may not know is that as a young girl, Alcott learned firsthand just how ridiculous a utopian socialist commune is. Alcott was just 11 when…
What ‘Little Women’ Author Louisa May Alcott Learned About Socialism in a 19th-Century Utopian Commune
Nordic Countries Do Not Equal Big Government or High Corporate Taxes
Commentary A lie is still a lie even if it’s often repeated. And claiming the Nordic countries are socialist economies with high taxes on wealth and businesses is a big lie. Nordic countries are not socialist. They rank at the top in the Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Index 2020 (Denmark 10, Finland 17, Sweden 21,…
The Battle Between Freedom and Socialism Has Been Fought Since America’s Founding
August 26, 2021
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Commentary The end of this battle will determine our fate and that of our children and the future of the entire world. The United States is known as a land of the free. The American character is rooted in independence and thought belief in daily life. However, the foundations of the American character are now…
American Supporters of Socialism Don’t Realize Its Absence of Equality, Environmental Care, Justice: Educator
August 25, 2021
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America’s younger generations—many of whom support socialist policies that claim to be a path to achieving equality, the environment, and justice—are unaware that these claims quickly become empty promises once socialism is in action, said Zilvinas Silenas, president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Among those who express positive opinions of socialism, they can…
Antonella Marty: How Socialist, Communist Ideology Took Over Cuba, Latin America
August 12, 2021
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“Communism destroys the incentives. It destroys the most important essence of the human being … liberty,” says Antonella Marty, director of the Atlas Network’s Center for Latin America. At FreedomFest in South Dakota, we sat down with Marty to discuss the spread of communist and socialist ideology in Latin America—from Cuba to Venezuela to her…
America in the Grip of an Idea
Commentary In 1979, historian Clarence B. Carson (1926–2003) published a book titled “The World in the Grip of an Idea.” The idea that Carson explored was collectivism in its various forms—e.g., fascism, socialism, communism, to which we can add today, environmentalism. Collectivistic ideas certainly have a strong grip on America today, and particularly on the…
Virginia Teacher Resigns at School Board Meeting, Denounces ‘Highly Politicized Agendas’
August 11, 2021
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A Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) teacher in Virginia resigned in front of the school board Tuesday, saying that she refused to “be a cog in a machine” that forces her to transmit their “highly politicized agendas” to children. “Within the last year, I was told, in one of my so-called equity trainings, that white, Christian, able-bodied females currently…
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on the ‘Siren Call’ of Socialism and Why Businesses Should Stay Apolitical
August 3, 2021
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“Socialism has been tried 41 times in the last 100 years … and there are exactly 41 failures,” says Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, author of “Conscious Capitalism.” In this interview, filmed at the FreedomFest in South Dakota, I sat down with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey to discuss the deceiving allure of socialism, his…
What the Nazis Had in Common With Every Other Collectivist Regime in the 20th Century
July 29 marks an infamous centennial. One hundred years ago—on July 29, 1921—Adolf Hitler assumed the leadership of the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazis. It became his vehicle to power. Note the formal, official name of the party. It was not the National Capitalist German Workers Party. It was not…
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What is Happening In Cuba and How to Talk to Your Friends About Socialism
Epoch TV’s “Crossroads” host, Joshua Philipp, interviewed Zilvinas Silenas, President of the Foundation for Economic Education, on the recent anti-communist protests happening in Cuba and the larger issue of what socialism is and how to talk to well meaning Americans who identify with socialist ideologies today. Philipp asks Silenas for a summary of what is…