Progressivism and Economic Destructionism | Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Socialism does not build, it destroys.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2022.

[@tonysparapani3077]

I think I would like to sit and have a beer and a talk with Tom. He is my favorite speaker here.

[@Chinhoyi62]

Would you like him to talk dirty to you?

[@shenlonggohan]

DiLorenzo is always a good listen.

[@deathevokation1017]

Highest praises to the Minister of Economic Truth!

[@SirCharlesFinley]

DiLorenzo is probably my favorite speaker on economics and history. Fantastic as usual

[@mikewilliams4947]

Great talk thank you!

[@dks13827]

Superb.........but what can we do ??? what can we do ????????

[@donaldclifford5763]

George Orwell's 1984 speaks to these socialist destruction themes, written in 1948.

[@alfredkwaak]

he was writing the book about authoritarian state, not really about socialism.

[@donaldclifford5763]

@@alfredkwaak Socialism begets authoritarianism.

[@alfredkwaak]

not more than other systems, some of socialisms are very decentralized like syndicalism and some like social democracy are working within the system. @@donaldclifford5763

[@lukadominicobendorfer5776]

​@@alfredkwaakNo it was specifically aimed towards socialism and communism. The main philosophy of the antagonists is even called INGSOC for English Socialism. Stop coping.

[@alfredkwaak]

@@lukadominicobendorfer5776not socialism. the book was antisocialist.

[@dsleeperhold]

Yeahhh. Cuz a man being a woman by choice at a whim is like a farmer with time to read who is also a literary critic. And thats marx! Youve really boiled him down to a snarly soundbite for dullards.

[@dwwolf4636]

It's the ultimate liberation from the ultimatr limiting principle : reality.

[@m0nt1c3ll0]

Mostly a good presentation but I could do without the constant backhanded jabbing. Just stick to the topic

[@porcudracului]

That's part of it

[@ENDWOKEDEGENERACY]

You offended?

[@dks13827]

Women like Birks should not be there. Margaret Thatcher, yes.

[@lieshtmeiser5542]

200 likes...and we wonder why our civilization is being ruined... People really need to wake the F up.

[@ihateyankees3655]

Sitting on the roof and watching for Luftwaffe planes might be the only thing of actual value Keynes ever did.

[@Vorpal_Wit]

Ba-Dum, Tsssh!

[@marylouleeman591]

I recall Ted Kennedy leading the way to Venezuelan oil!

[@ENDWOKEDEGENERACY]

I’m from Australia and it’s now horrifically woke. Job interviews have changed now for government and corporate roles. I’m not joking 90% of the questions were basically centred around determining if you were woke or not. Industrial racism, diversity and inclusivity etc.

[@Chinhoyi62]

So I guess you're unemployed. Have you tried sex work?

[@jbwentworthe6082]

...and so, the 1st target had to be " the home". Woman were told, on every T.V. show, to be a " Keeper of the Children", a.k.a. the next generation, was not " " "Noble Work". Rather, turn the child over to a state licenced day care, and find work that can be taxed to grow the Government. ! 😮

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

Every time I listen it ages like FINE WINE!!!

[@Chinhoyi62]

Does it make you feel all warm inside?

[@johnx983]

11k views. Only 49 comments, thanks to censorship

[@Chinhoyi62]

Maybe all the critical comments got removed by Tom. He's a fascist and that's what they do.

[@tonysparapani3077]

I would like to see Tom Woods speaking here.

[@Cardstacker]

Last year he was sick but I don't know why he missed this year too. Disappointing but still so many incredible speakers and at least his name comes up in every other lecture, really shows his impact!

[@tonioinverness]

"A farmer in the morning, a literary critic in the evening, a scientist in the afternoon..." You mean, Ben Franklin? And pretty much every other founding father throughout the entire 18th and early 19th centuries? Why is that such a crazy idea?

[@lieshtmeiser5542]

Maybe the fact that the country ended up as 'participatory fascism' can be traced back to these 'jack of all trades, master of none' types that supposedly were the founding fathers, but delivered this tyranny onto us. Sacreligous? Maybe, but people need to own their ideologies, and BLM, and regressivism, etc are just as much Franklin and Jefferson's fault as anyone else in america.

[@mikethetraveler]

The crazy idea is that all men will be Ben Franklin. The socialist man turned out to be half rate at all of the above endeavors

[@porcudracului]

You must be smoking. How.many of different endeavors can you perform in to a decent level? You can count on your fingers men that are proficient in 3 separate fields. And they're related mostly. Leave the basement, go out and watch

[@thunkjunk]

To be fair the 18th and 19th C was the modern era...the Enlightenment. What we're living in now is unfortunately Postmodern which us anti-Enlightenment.

[@dwwolf4636]

It was of marginal utility when Franklin did it. It was utterly doubtfull when Marx wrote it. It's utterly impossible now. The amount of knowledge needed to succesfully operate as each one of those is staggering. Except the critic. That's easy. Just be disagreeable enough.

[@kimobrien.]

Look at your own Federal Reserve Stats. Wages have stopped growing with productivity at about 1973.

[@tinyleopard6741]

@kimobrien. Compensation = wages + benefits, legislations in the US made several benefits mandatory to the effect that employees couldn't choose higher wages in lieu of benefits.

[@Chinhoyi62]

@@tinyleopard6741 And that means that tax payers are subsidising big business. Socialism for the rich and a few a paltry benefits for the rest. That's capitalism.

[@dwwolf4636]

That's socialism.

[@throckmortensnivel2850]

DiLorenzo, quoting von Mises from a book written in 1922: "...socialism is a spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization has created..." von Mises wrote this in the wake of a capitalist war that killed some 20 million people, wounded another 20 million or so, and destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars worth of property, and incidentally, led to another capitalist war less than twenty years later where the death and destruction were far, far, worse. Which tells you everything you need to know about von Mises. We can't blame him for not foreseeing WW2, but his inability to acknowledge the destruction of WW1 is incredible. Now DiLorenzo is touting von Mises as being "prescient"! Is that supposed to be a joke?

[@dwwolf4636]

Did anyone sell world war stocks ?

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