HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ATLAS SHRUGGED
Over at Dr. Sanity on the The Historical Significance of Atlas Shrugged - crossposted from an article at Real Clear Politics. Dr. Sanity: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ATLAS SHRUGGED ...a German intellectual named Karl Marx gave one of the most influential accounts of the new capitalist system--and he got everything wrong . An Industrial Revolution driven by scientific and technological advances springing from the minds of a few extraordinary individuals, he would describe as the anonymous, collective product of brute physical labor; an economic system of liberty, he would describe as a system of oppression; a system built on the right to property he would describe as a system based of expropriation--and then he would propose actual oppression and expropriation as the solution. COLE's NOTE: Sort of like some current politicans - such as "Taliban Jack". Dr. Sanity continues: Today's left promises wealth and happiness and justice and brotherhood. What they have always delivered is po...