Apparently, Not as Much as Stacy McCain

How Much Do You Hate Commies?

Salon.com’s Jesse Myerson (@JAMyerson) says “misconceptions” about Communism are the real problem, although survivors who escaped Communist regimes might beg to disagree.

Personally, I think the main problem with Communism is that we haven’t shot enough evil lying Commie scum:

Five years after the Bolshevik Revolution, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises predicted that the Soviet project was doomed to fail. In his classic work Socialism, Mises explained that the attempt to replace the market system with central economic planning could not succeed, because the planners could not possibly have the information necessary to make all the decisions which, in a market economy, are made by individuals whose needs and desires are reflected in prices: “The problem of economic calculation is the fundamental problem of Socialism.” . . .

Probably not as much as you should.

I read the same screed at Salon, and thought about how awful it was excusing communism's millions of murders, and in effect, blaming capitalism for making communism do all those bad things, like a college paper by a talented freshman, but it didn't inspire me to write a 2,500 word article. It should.

Chinese soldiers execute Tibetan dissidents.