Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies

Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience.

Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure.

But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”.

This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response.

It shows how the claim of fake socia...