It’s once again May Day, and therefore once again time for grateful bloggers to dance on the grave of Marxism. As usual, Jonathan Wilde of Distributed Republic has volunteered to be lead choreographer of this annual May Day Remembrance. My little jig is already up.
Wilde will be updating the links throughout the day, so stay tuned.
May 2 2010
I expect Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids to be controversial. In fact, I think it will have enemies. I'm going to stick to my policy of unilateral friendliness, but I'd still like to improve my forecast of who's going to attack me, and why. Here are my top candidates and their expected central compl...
May 1 2010
In response to Bryan Caplan's excellent post, "What If Lenin's Stroke Came [sic] Five Years Sooner," historian Susan, in the comments section writes: I'm setting aside the major problem of engaging in historical counterfactuals, which as a historian I find problematic and uninteresting. Yet, if she really means that,...
May 1 2010
It's once again May Day, and therefore once again time for grateful bloggers to dance on the grave of Marxism. As usual, Jonathan Wilde of Distributed Republic has volunteered to be lead choreographer of this annual May Day Remembrance. My little jig is already up.Wilde will be updating the links throughout...
READER COMMENTS
Hume
May 1 2010 at 3:12pm
Bryan,
When is the next EconLog Book Club? Also, is there a link to your discussions of For a New Liberty? Thanks.
[The links to the discussions of For a New Liberty begin with http://www.econlib.org/archives/2009/01/econlog_book_cl_1.html for Chapter 1. An easy way to find them all is to do a search on EconLog and then sort by date. — Econlib Ed.]
Kurbla
May 1 2010 at 5:09pm
Hm … this action has the taste of fascism to me.
There is nothing wrong about remembering the evils committed by socialists. Quite contrary! But if you do that this day, it is pretty much like Muslim group that organizes “Remembrance of American Imperialism” – on September 11.
Andy Hallman
May 2 2010 at 2:02pm
What is the point of such a day? Are you trying to say that the Moscow Trials were a logical consequence of accepting Marxism, and we should oppose Marxism on those grounds?
Also, is the day meant to honor the victims of governments that were nominally communist? Or is it meant to honor those killed in an effort to advance communism?
Lastly, given that you live in a country where essentially no one supports communism, wouldn’t it make more sense to focus on the crimes of anti-communists, since those are the ones Americans are more likely to downplay?
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