Comments on: [1115] The Truth About Markets – 20 March 2010

By: Catullus

Catullus — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:43:12 +0000

So I heard that you requested why there is confusion over the difference between fascism and socialism. The answer is that they are the same thing. Price control systems under fascism necessarily lead to de facto government ownership of the means of production, which is socialism. This is one of the major contributions of Ludwig von Mises in his analysis of socialism.

Dr. George Reisman gives a good speech on the issue in 2005.
http://mises.org/daily/1937

By: mjosef

mjosef — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:43:48 +0000

Great show, great ideas, but a rejoinder
“Ralph Nader is the only politician in America…”
1. He is not a “politician,” since 2. He has never held elective office.3. His were
all vanity tilting-windmills affairs. 4. He has not been a legal force since the hallowed 70′s days when the US political world actually feared and made room for democratic concerns. 5. He is an ascetic who lives in the pre-war age of Princeton and endless speech-making.
He is a park-bench shouter, having a good grasp of corporate malfeasance, but no more of a “reformer” than that guy who sleeps under newspapers. You, Max and Stacy, are far more in tune with reality.

By: jack frost

jack frost — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:55:33 +0000

Max
how do you say bye ‘yall in french

kenny everett used to say au revoir my little oven ready chickens

great show
thanks again

By: pohdinpa

pohdinpa — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:19:02 +0000

Again Max and Stacy report a story and leave out an important fact, WalMart had nothing to go with the announcement for all blacks to leave the store, it was a prank perpetrated by a customer.

By: Gussy

Gussy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:28:11 +0000

Great show, Max if ye really want to assimilate yerself in Europe ye’ll need to learn Latin the basis of European language, failing that you might find donning a beret, hanging a string of garlic ’round yer neck, and talking about how the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being might just suffice.

Exsisto felicis, pax.

By: gurn22

gurn22 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:39:03 +0000

You guys are awesome…..don’t ever stop!
Donated $25 CAD.

By: stacyherbert

stacyherbert — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:27:44 +0000

@Tritone – one day, one day!

By: Rian Orr

Rian Orr — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:51:24 +0000

The state can internvene in the economy to the advanatage of the poor or the rich. Conservatives have no problem with spending for their tax breaks or imperial wars etc. They viciously oppose state action that helps everyone (ie all ‘lower’ classes), public health, public education. Its not rocket science.

If the mass of the citizenry place their faith in the likes of Kucinich or other social democrats (Allende, Manley, Aristide) they will be sacrificed on the alter of ‘politricks’.

By: ronron

ronron — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:52:55 +0000

waited till today to listen because of a loose wire. hahaha good show.

By: Tritone

Tritone — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:45:45 +0000

Stacey&Max

One day you will return, this is your birth place you are America! and when you do you will be heroes and loved and respected and taken care of…. We are the champions my friend!

By: insider

insider — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:13:37 +0000

You two are the best……. yes in telling the truth!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:51:02 +0000

Max, Its:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)

By: Crumpet Muncher

Crumpet Muncher — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:39:37 +0000

@Stacy – A new side to you. Cold and calculating. I like it.

By: Adam C

Adam C — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:08:56 +0000

@Gordo

>>There are a lot of libertarian (don’t know if correct LABEL) on this site that will always blame government for violence but the bottom line is that government is controlled by people.

Exactly! There is no government, only people representing something called government, people who use violence to achieve their goals.

>> So all this nonsense about the left somehow using government to do their violence for then is just BS.

The left, the right. There is no left or right, only people representing those ‘positions’, people who attempt to bribe government to do violence on their behalf to achieve their goals.

Perhaps you mean that’s it’s more difficult to say taxation is violence (the thing ‘the left’ could be said to be FOR) where bombing brown-people (the thing ‘the right’ could be said to be FOR) is more obviously violent.

Harm or loss. Common law ‘crimes’. Both the above abuses of violence qualify.

>> As aloof and superior as they like to pretend they are, they are simply wrong.

You’re welcome to correct the argument with a counter-argument. Saying someone is wrong isn’t an argument but it certainly invites one for who wants to their argument to be “wrong”?? Not me.