Published Tuesday, May 27, 2008 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The remnants of socialist central planning killed the kids. Yes, the government is to blame. The survivors and their families are right about that. But they have another enemy as well. It is the deadly ideology that set out to put government in charge of economic life, which includes building structures to house children for educational purposes. They can add the tragedy of the Xianjian Primary School to the list of deaths caused by socialism.
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Socialism and the Chinese Earthquake (1.34 MB)