The Tom Woods Show, episode 14004.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Got a great book to tell you about it. And it's a book you can get for free.

If you like the electronic version, you can get that for free. You can also buy the paper, copy on Amazon.

The book is Socialism, the Failed Idea That Never Dies, by Christian Neemitz, who is the head of

political economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs and the author of several other books,

including a new understanding of poverty and redefining the poverty debate. This is really a

tremendous book, though, socialism, the failed idea that never dies. It really This is really a tremendous book, though. Socialism, the

failed idea that never dies. It really, really is a tremendous book, and I endorse it wholeheartedly.

Very interesting. I mean, he's kind of focusing in on the claim that all these terrible examples

of socialism in history weren't real socialism, but there's so much more to the book than

just that, and I'm just delighted to be able to talk to him. Christian, welcome to the show.

Hello, thanks for having me. I am a big, big fan of this book. The beginning of it is written

from a UK perspective in terms of the polling data about people's opinions. But I would say if you

adjusted the pro-socialist views downward by 10 to 15 percentage points, you could substitute

an American audience there, especially given the direction things are moving in. When did you

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