Robert Owens

The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom Robert Owens

The definitive, exhaustive, and Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom exposes the timeless truth that Socialism which proudly proclaims "From each according their ability to each according to their need!" actually means "Rob Peter to pay Paul." The redistribution of wealth by government has never and can never work. It ultimately results in the sharing of misery by those who work and the unearned enrichment of those bureaucrats who decide who gets what. You will marvel at the depth of insight that is the foundation of central planning, spreading the wealth around, and generally forcing those who produce to support those who don't. Or as William Graham Sumner, a Yale University professor, stated in an essay in 1876 "As soon as A observes something which seems to him wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or, in better case, what A, B, and C shall do for X... What I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who never is thought of.... I call him the forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays..."