Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism

"?Now, if the proper lessons of the collapse [of the Communist East bloc] had been conveyed, we would have seen the error of all forms of government planning?And there is another point: the militarism of the Cold War had only ended up prolonging the period of socialism by providing these evil governments the chance to stimulate unfortunate nationalist impulses that distracted their domestic populations from the real problem. It was not the Cold War that killed socialism; rather, once the Cold War had exhausted itself, these governments collapsed of their own weight from internal rather than external pressure.? Lew Rockwell's recent speech to the Mises Circle in Seattle."