The Tom Woods Show, episode 1355.

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supporting listeners group. I'd asked, what are some topics I could cover just on my own?

And as I told you yesterday, I got some good episodes coming up with some guests.

I think one of them will be Friday, one of them will be Monday.

I may have a guest before then, but the ones I promised are coming Friday and Monday.

But anyway, somebody recommended the essay that you may have heard of by Albert Einstein himself in monthly review, which was a socialist publication, in its very first issue in May 1949, and it was called Why Socialism.

So as you, again, may know, those were Einstein's sympathies. And I thought, well, why not look at it?

Somebody recommended that I talk about it. Of course, I'm going to link to the article at tomwoods.com

slash 1355 if you'd like to read it. What I'm going to do is comment on it a bit,

and then I'm going to play for you an excerpt of my Ron Paul curriculum talk on the socialist

calculation problem, because Einstein really does walk into that trap. He actually is advocating

a kind of socialism that immediately runs into the brick wall of the socialist

calculation problem. He seems completely unaware of it. He does not address it in any way or

seem to understand that it requires attention. He just glosses over it. And I'm not going to let

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