Bryan Caplan on Hayek, Richter, and Socialism
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What Goes Wrong With Socialism?
In his new book, Richard Richter offers an alternative view of what went wrong with socialism. He argues that even these wonderful, noble, charitable, altruistic people when given power turn bad. The totalitarian state attracts sociopaths and sadists because it's free of all moral compulsion," he says.
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