Free bonus in there:
"'Rationalism' couldn't give any reasons for why communism was a bad idea"
Also:
"'Rationalism' is the decision making ideal"

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In the end, it all comes down to Plato versus Aristotle. Alexander is on the Plato side.
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Bastiat, before Marx, wrote of the communist movement expecting the Great Leap forward, the Holodomor, and the Cambodian Autogenocide. He saw. He knew. He extrapolated from the Puritan famine and many similar incidents.
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Bastiat reasoned from economic principles, that the complexity of centrally running the economy was impractical, and from the personal character of do gooder, that saints in power would commit mass murder.
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Communism was predicted to fail, because holiness, because arrogance, and because managing the economy is too complicated: see my post Altar, Crown, and Freehold.
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Clever people in 1910 might have remembered the 1871 debacle in Paris as well.
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Why socialism needs killing fields https://jim.com/killingfields.html … Which is approximately what Bastiat said before Marx
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Notice that Scott, embedded in leftism, believes early critics of communism were low status people, therefore stupid, just as he believes that today's critics of global warming are low status, therefore stupid.
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