'..he reminds us that the romantic vision held by western elites is best defeated by those who have lived through the ravages of collectivism firsthand.'<blockquote>'..Yuri Maltsev, a victim of Soviet totalitarianism in his youth, joins us to explain how and why westerners still don't understand what
socialism really means. He recounts his many trips to Cuba, and demolishes the myths surrounding that country's vaunted "healthcare" and "education" systems. He explains how socialism actually produces a superclass of elites and a form of socio-economic apartheid, rather than egalitarian nirvana. And he reminds us that the romantic vision held by western elites is best defeated by those who have lived through the ravages of collectivism firsthand.'
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Yuri Maltsev: Why Socialism Endures, December 9, 2016</blockquote>
<blockquote>'[Central] planning is militarization.'
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Don Lavoie and the Critique of Socialist Economic Planning, November 30, 2016</blockquote>
Context (Haptopraxeology) - '..the senses were the windows of the soul and that reason had a divine right to feed upon fact..'<blockquote>
'..the theorem of the economic impossibility of socialism .. is fully applicable to central banks..' - Jesús Huerta de Soto'..economic growth cannot be conjured into being by top-down interventionism in the form of monetary pumping and deficit spending..''..knowledge of individual actors in the economy .. often tacit (i.e., non-verbal) .. impossible for a central planning body to even acquire this knowledge..''..subjective knowledge treats knowledge as being tacit, private, subjective, and decentralized..'