{"id":34025,"date":"2019-10-21T09:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=34025"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:53:24","slug":"back-again-on-the-road-to-serfdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/back-again-on-the-road-to-serfdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Again on the Road to Serfdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IN0jv9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/rand-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Socialism has been tried on six continents and in numerous countries, but always with the same failed result. Despite geographic, economic, and other national differences, the experience of socialism follows a consistent trajectory, with its trademark features &#8211; poverty, shortages of resources, and repression &#8211; always on display.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Rand Paul&#8217;s new book, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IN0jv9\">The Case Against Socialism<\/a><\/i>, is a timely response to the misguided enthusiasm for socialism that&#8217;s taken hold in the United States. From well-known members of Congress to college students, there is a growing fervor to go down the road that inevitably leads to serfdom. Senator Paul directly refutes the popular argument that socialism&#8217;s failures are simply the result of poor execution or improper implementation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 20th century was the bloodiest in human history, in large part because of the totalitarian governments committed to socialism.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s book is concise and informative, carefully researched and easy to read. I recommend it to all who are interested in understanding the popular deceptions that mask the true evils of socialism.<\/p>\n<p><i>George D. O\u2019Neill Jr. is chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/responsibleforeignpolicy.org\/\">Committee for a Responsible Foreign Policy<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialism has been tried on six continents and in numerous countries, but always with the same failed result. Despite geographic, economic, and other national differences, the experience of socialism follows a consistent trajectory, with its trademark features &#8211; poverty, shortages of resources, and repression &#8211; always on display. Senator Rand Paul&#8217;s new book, The Case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-34025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34028,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34025\/revisions\/34028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34025"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}