Why We Don't Want the Wall Rebuilt

This weekend I was fortunate to attend the Students for Liberty Conference at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The weekend's conference was a wonderful day filled with discussion, philosophy, and activism to inspire and motivate those who already accept and promote liberty. It also drew some who were on the fence toward liberty.

The conference concluded with an impassioned speech against socialism by the key note speaker, Dr. Alan Charles Kors. His speech raised many questions for those who promote socialism as the tonic for capitalism's "plague." Kors did what many Marxist fail to do:  follow Marx's own call for critically looking at the history of systems once in practice. As many know, the history of collectivist states is littered with gulags, slave labor, and "re-education." The dead bodies of those who "held back" the "progress" of Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot are not arbitrary and able to be dismissed. They are the direct result of a system that attempted to control their lives from beginning to end. It is a point continuously lost on those who think that "social democracy" is the tonic to the "plague" of capitalism.