Category: socialism

PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: George Gilder on ‘Emergency Socialism,’ Accommodating Surprise, and Separating Power From Knowledge

Nearly four decades after investor George Gilder’s book “Wealth and Poverty” helped shape the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, Gilder sits down to discuss his forthcoming book “Life After Capitalism.” “As Peter Thiel declares, in the past, when you went public as a company, you gained new influence and power and marketing ability, and new…


PREMIERING 1/2 at 7:30PM ET: George Gilder on ‘Emergency Socialism,’ Accommodating Surprise, and Separating Power From Knowledge

Nearly four decades after investor George Gilder’s book “Wealth and Poverty” helped shape the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, Gilder sits down to discuss his forthcoming book “Life After Capitalism.” “As Peter Thiel declares, in the past, when you went public as a company, you gained new influence and power and marketing ability, and new…


The Great Leap Backward

Commentary This piece is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda,” to be released Jan. 10, 2023. This chapter derisively refers to the notorious Great Leap Forward (1958–1961) as the Great Leap Backward. But China’s Great Leap Forward is not the ultimate object of my…


EU Socialist Scandal: Here’s the Lesson for the US

Commentary The European Union is currently in the midst of one of its largest corruption scandals to date. There are credible allegations that Qatar—the Gulf state that recently hosted the FIFA World Cup—bribed a number of high-level EU figures in order to exert influence on European politics. Some may well ask: Why should we care…


Peru’s Socialist President Removed From Office After Attempting to Dissolve Congress

President Pedro Castillo was detained and removed from office on grounds of “permanent moral disability” on Dec. 7 after attempting to dissolve congress and implement a nationwide curfew. Legislators unanimously denounced the former head of state’s decree as a coup against democratically elected officials. A few hours before his interception by local authorities, Castillo announced…


The Trouble With Socialism

Commentary “The trouble with socialism,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “is that it takes up too many evenings.” He was right then and right now, and the insight pertains to woke ideology in our time. It consumes one’s life and fills what should be happy days with personal ambition and dreary prattle about endless grievances concerning every…


Bolivians Refusing to Work for 36 Days Cost Socialist Government Upward of $1 Billion

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia—The faint aroma of burnt tires still hangs in the air. Piles of debris choke the streets of Bolivia’s largest city as lines of cars stretch in every direction at intersections, crawling through minefields of metal shards, nails, and broken glass. It’s a jarring reminder that when the locals in Santa Cruz protest…


Medical Genocide: The Communist Party of China’s Organ Harvesting Industry

Commentary The EpochTV documentary “Medical Genocide: Hidden Mass Murder in China’s Organ Transplant Industry” exposes China’s booming organ transplant industry. Chinese regime officials state that their organs come from death row prisoners or donations, however, reports have emerged in recent years that the organs are harvested from innocent prisoners of conscience who are murdered on…


What Brazil’s Left Turn Means for the United States: Marcos Schotgues

Marcos Schotgues is the editor-in-chief of Epoch Times Brazil. He’s currently producing an investigative documentary series called “Brazil: A Last Stand in the Americas.” The first report, “Red Tide: Latin America’s New Left Turn,” highlights incoming Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s deep ties to far-left organizations. Along with Fidel Castro, Lula da Silva founded the…


Myth Versus Ideology: Why Free Market Thinking Is Nonideological

Commentary I’ll begin with a provocative thesis: socialism is ideological and free market thinking, while involving myth, is nonideological. I will show why socialism is ideological and why free market thinking involves myth but is nonideological by defining the terms myth and ideology and distinguishing them from each other. The term “myth” has several connotations….