Quote of the Day: A message for Bernie Sanders supporters

Pic from news article: ‘'Venezuela Takes Dramatic Step Towards Food Rationing'

 

“The alleged goals of socialism were: the abolition of poverty,
the achievement of general prosperity, progress, peace and
human brotherhood. The results have been a terrifying failure
—terrifying, that is, if one’s motive is men’s welfare.
    “Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic
paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The
degree of socialisation has been the degree of disaster. The
consequences have varied accordingly.
    “In more fully socialised countries, famine was the start, the
insignia announcing socialist rule—as in Soviet Russia, as
in Red China, as in Cuba. In those countries, socialism
reduced the people to the unspeakable poverty of the pre-
industrial ages, to literal starvation, and has kept them on
a stagnant level of misery….”
    “No man of authentic benevolence could evade or ignore so great a horror on so vast a scale.”
     ~ Ayn Rand, from her 1962 article ‘The Monument Builders’

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