A person wrote to me to argue that the National Socialist
German Workers' Party was not socialist. http://rexcurry.net/socialistNSGWP.html
The following is my response:
Your effort to defend and rehabilitate the National
Socialist German Workers' Party by asserting that they are not socialist is
bizarre. Granted, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics murdered more
people (~60 million deaths, 1917-'87) and the People's Republic of China murdered
more people (~50 million, 1949-'87) than did the the National Socialist
German Workers' Party (~20 million, 1933-'45), however that does not make
the latter "not socialist" simply because of the lesser numbers killed, nor
does it exclude the latter from the trio of socialist atrocities involved
in the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part) at http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
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SOCIALISM & SOCIALISTS
Editor, The Wall Street Journal 24 January 2009
200 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
The headline of your report on Mayor Lawrence Morrissey of Rockford, IL,
spending time in Washington begging pooh-bahs there for money speaks volumes:
"Wish List in Hand, Mayor Travels to Washington and Finds He’s Not Alone"
(January 24).
Mayor Morrissey's use of his time seeking government handouts is an ideal,
if unintentional, tribute to a great son of Rockford, the economist Gordon
Tullock. Forty-two years ago, in one of the most important papers published
in economics during the 20th century, Tullock identified the phenomenon of
"rent-seeking."* Rent-seekers generate huge amounts of waste by using
resources to plead for handouts. It's not so much the actual transfers
from taxpayers to successful supplicants that are wasteful, Tullock showed,
but the fact that the prospects of receiving these transfers prompt producers
to form themselves into special-interest groups. These interest groups
divert the time and resources that they, as producers, would have spent doing
socially productive things - such as administering cities efficiently - into
lobbying for government favors. Successful rent-seekers benefit, but
the diversion of resources from productive uses into pleading and pandering
at the feet of politicians makes society poorer.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux, Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
http://www.cafehayek.com/
http://marketcorrection.powerblogs.com/
* Gordon Tullock, "The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies and Theft,"
Western Economics Journal, Vol. 5, 1967, pp. 224-232.
(It's a travesty that Gordon Tullock has never won the Nobel Prize).
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