Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies

Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. According to socialism's adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were "real socialism". This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism.