About socialism…

Economic socialism, such as what was conceived by Marx, is founded on two fundamental pillars:

1. Public property of the measures of production, work and capital.
2. Creation of a central planning organ (council of knowledge) that determines who, what, how much and when to produce.

Criticisms of socialism, theoretical impossibility and practice.

As they already explained in the 20’s and 30’s of the last century, the theories of the Austrian School of Economy, lead by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and more recently by Jesús Huerta de Soto and Hans-Hermann Hoppe amongst others, the communist type of socialism is not technically possible for the following reasons:

1. Socialism assumes that all the available information can be managed by a central authority (regardless of the number of managers) overlooking that today’s society is based on the use of widely dispersed knowledge that far exceed the capacity of any individual mind. It’s said, the total volume of information is so immense and continuously changing, it is technically impossible to conceive that you can get to know it and process it centrally with no governing body. Today, there is no human or machine capable of compiling, accumulating, processing and managing all the ever-changing information (likes, needs, market circumstances…) to successfully organise and coordinate the running of society [Read more…]

Democracy in practice, problems

All of the different types of existing democracy (participative, representative, direct and their variants) are based on the creation of a State that regulates, coordinates and controls life in society within a determined territory. To summarise, the State is created in order to protect us from aggression, nature and other human beings, those within our borders in addition to those outside of them. It therefore is providing a coactive power, or imposing adherence to it’s principles and norms through the use of force or threat. [Read more…]

About our origins…

Humans have gone through innumerable stages throughout existence. Information about our origins is distorted and inaccurate even today. It’s of course difficult to determine in an objective and empirical way the advance or regression of civilisation in a relatively short time frame, but it’s a certain and irrefutable fact that we’ve notably amplified our knowledge throughout history. This must be seen as something positive given that it allows us to cope better with our hostile environment and also with ourselves.

We don’t know if we took our first steps alone, in any case, if we did and had continued to do so, norms and values would be meaningless. Man, to make life easier and to increase chances of survival, decided to set out in group, in society. Values, norms and organisational needs become essential in order to live in society in peace and harmony. [Read more…]