Socialism and “The “Experts”
12th March 2019
Steven Hayward at Powerline blog does a little analysis.
New York magazine has produced a list of the “best books to understand socialism” that is so stupefyingly inane that you wonder if this is intended as satire or a really big put on. But no—they are quite earnest about this list, because it was curated by “experts.”
I once attempted to read DAS KAPITAL but when I read the first page I realized that Marx didn’t know the difference between value and price and that rather spoiled it for me. Rather like reading a book on geography by somebody who believes that the world is flat, it may have some usefulness but it’s hard to get really interested.
I can only assume they dug up their “experts” at some kind of retirement village for red diaper babies suffering dementia somewhere in the Balkans, since most of these titles are really old and out of date. What would we do without “experts”?