Podcast - Estonia and Socialist Reality with Matthew D. Mitchell

About this Talk
In this episode of the Governance podcast, our Director Mark Pennington interviews Dr. Matthew Mitchell on the socialist reality in Estonia’s history. This episode is part of Matthew’s co-authored publication as part of the Realities of Socialism series run by the Fraser Institute. See here: realitiesofsocialism.org/estonia
The Guest
Matthew D. Mitchell is a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Economic Freedom. Prior to joining the Fraser Institute, Mitchell was a long-serving senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he remains an affiliated senior scholar. He is also a senior research fellow at the Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University.
Mitchell received his PhD and MA in economics from George Mason University and his BA in political science and BS in economics from Arizona State University. His writing and research focuses on economic freedom, public choice economics, and the economics of government favoritism.
Mitchell has testified before the U.S. Congress and several state legislatures. He has advised federal, state, and local government policymakers in the United States on both fiscal and regulatory policy. His research has been featured in numerous national media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and C-SPAN.
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Socialism is not state ownership. This is another dose of ignorance. Read Marx, he talked about the withering away of the state and abolition of the wages system. Where in the world has that happened. Lenin, in 1920 actually admitted that what had been created in Russia was not Communism or Socialism but something that should be called STATE CAPITALISM. That is from the horses mouth not its backside.

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Privatisation of public services is a failure