People sometimes ask me why my blog has the tone it does. This poster is why. This is a Greek communist election poster from the latest election. There’s good news and bad news… The good news is that the communist party only got around 5% of the vote. The bad news is that the socialist party got around 35% of the vote.
Was no one paying attention to what happened in the Soviet Union? Hell, hasn’t anyone paid attention to what has happened in Greece? This current government is the first non socialist government they’ve had since going to elections. That’s 40 something years of awful economic policy. Guess what? greece is the poorest country in the EU and has some of the worst economic fundamentals as well.
People all over the world want to turn to socialism (and communism) when things are not good. They have to understand that socialism will never eliminate “unfairness,” poverty, or lead to improvements in the standard of living. Socialist governments will make all of those things worse. Every economic theory makes that point and history has born them out. I will continue to trumpet the virtues of capitalism and rule of law in this blog until I no longer worry about seeing signs like this one anywhere in the world.