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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 408 The Main Reason Socialism Can't Work

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

News, Government, Politics

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tom speaks with Mateusz Machaj about the underlying reason Socialism will always fail.

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0:00.0

In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

0:05.2

Now is not that time.

0:06.4

And Republicans.

0:07.9

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:12.2

You need a voice of liberty.

0:15.1

Look no further.

0:16.7

You've found it.

0:18.4

Tom Woods.

0:25.7

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. The Tom Woods Show.

0:34.1

Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 408.

0:43.2

We're talking about socialism again today, but today we're going to talk about the Misesian critique, the critique of Ludwig von Mises in his famous article, Economic Calculation in the Socialist

0:48.8

Commonwealth, all the way back in 1920.

0:51.8

And joining us to talk about this article, because he himself has written

0:55.5

an article on this subject that expands on the Misesian critique, is our old friend from Poland,

1:01.4

Professor Matt Mahai. Matt is the founder and chief economist of the Mises Institute of Poland.

1:09.8

He's also an assistant professor at the Institute of Economics

1:13.1

of the University of Brotswap. I also want to point out, by the way, to everybody, that next

1:19.0

week I'm going to be airing as an episode of this show, a talk I gave at my kids' school.

1:26.1

It's a K-12 school, and I spoke to the 11th graders, as I've done for several years in a row now.

1:31.8

They have a great ideas course, and one of the great ideas is classical liberalism.

1:37.3

So I went in and talked about that for 90 minutes, and I recorded it, and I'm going to use that as an episode of this here show next week.

1:45.7

So make sure you subscribe to the show on iTunes or Stitcher over at Tom Woods.com to make

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