In the market economy, everyone serves his fellow citizens by serving himself. This is what the liberal authors of the eighteenth century had in mind when they spoke of the harmony of the rightly understood interests of all groups and of all individuals of the population.
–Ludwig von Mises, "Socialism vs. Economic Freedom"
in Economic Policy for Today and Tomorrow [1958]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
December 31, 2020 Don't Let Cuba's Tyranny Destroy Our Freedom
The noted author Alvaro Vargas Llosa has an excellent article at the Washington Examiner detailing how Cuba’s communist regime has used the COVID-19 crisis to expand its tyranny over the Cuban people. Much of what he details might sound familiar to Americans. He writes: “A common theme is that the people arrested for violating COVID-19 health and safety rules, ...
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