A New Kind Of Freedom

Karl Marx was asked once how he could justify advocating a political system of
slavery for the individual, which is what socialism is. He replied that socialism is not
slavery; it is a "new kind of freedom." As all perceptive students of history know, the
intellectuals of Europe bought into such Alice in Wonderland sophistry and plunged
into the twentieth century nightmare of collectivist tyranny. But unfortunately, so did
American intellectuals about 30 years later when the Progressives of Woodrow
Wilson's era established the Creature from Jekyll Island to usher in centralized
government banking and the progressive income tax to "spread the wealth
around."

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