Islands of Socialism: The State’s Economic War Against Blacks

By Thomas DiLorenzo

Donald Trump makes an essential point when he visits black churches and predominantly black inner-city neighborhoods and tells the people there that they “have nothing to lose” by supporting the abandonment of almost a century of statism run amok in their communities.  While Republicans share some of the blame for this, it has primarily been the Democratic Party’s urban political machines that have sabotaged millions of black lives (and many others) with socialistic central planning scheme after central planning scheme for generations.  America’s inner cities are islands of socialism that have proven time and again that Americans are no better at socialism than the Russians were.  Let’s briefly review some of their evil and destructive work over the past half century.....To Read More....