Socialism Sucks
Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
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Socialism Sucks
Narrated by:
John Pruden
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Narrated by:
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John Pruden
About this listen
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism - while drinking a lot of beer.
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A highly amusing and engaging book where the two authors take a light-hearted look at socialist regimes around the world, but still engaged you with some evidence facts about socialism.
funny but bang on the facts
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They (rightly) point out Sweden isn't a socialist society - but suggest Nazi Germany was. This is the quality level here.
Ultimately, its obvious they've written a book on socialism without reading any Marx. They seem genuinely baffled when someone explains to them the idea of socialism from below. They've made up their own system to rate countries out of 100 on how capitalist (good) they are - no need for them to actually engage with actual political theory.
Other highlights - the duo struggling to find a bar to drink in in central Havana... because there were no billboards.
The duo worrying about human trafficking in sex work... but thinking that that could only be found in communist countries.
Writing a travelogue where they don't visit all the countries they write about.
The duo becoming distraught at research suggesting communist women having more orgasms than women in capitalist societies.
The duo believing that Cuba's world class health service - which has included pioneering research into HIV, cancer and ebola - does not actually exist. Instead high Cuban life expectancy can be attributes solely, and exclusively, to the fact there are fewer cars on the road at night in Cuba than in America. (Seriously)
If you want to see what free market fetishisation does to your brain, listen to this.
Really, really, really, embarrassingly bad
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