1265. Why Socialism is The Anti-Agency By Gary C. Lawrence , in Meridian Magazine
This was published on July 30, 2020, and I missed seeing it! I'll publish this today in my blog, and tomorrow I'll post the followup article. Last week we had the Democratic convention, and this week the Republican convention, in the United States of America. It is really on our minds today! Why Socialism is The Anti-Agency By Gary C. Lawrence · July 30, 2020 In my previous column, I related the story of Mikhail Gorbachev asking Margaret Thatcher who in the UK economy tells producers how much to charge. It never occurred to him, or to socialists in general, that pricing can be left to the seller and the buyer – to supply and demand – to hammer out a mutually agreeable price. Nope. Government has to be involved, socialist thinking goes. If a third party such as government gets involved in what should be a two-party dance, you can be sure that one party will get a better deal than the other party. Or that neither will get the deal the