I prefer Ayn Rand's less nuanced definitions where she says that the difference between socialism and communism is that the former is "suicide" while the later is "murder", presumably because socialism entails some level of choice or employs "democracy" to initiate the transition .
Rand was hardly "describ[ing] how most of us actually use words, not declar[ing] how all of us ought to use words", since her overarching message was that socialists typically believed "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" and were okay with "mooching". Whereas it's not hard at all to discover that Lenin and most Bolsheviks also very much thought in terms of moochers being the problem and that if you didn't work, you shouldn't eat. Their error was in equating productivity with physical (or easily observable) labor, such that the behavior of bankers, investors and such looked to them like mooching.
"angry at the ass (donkey) - he's beating the sack" - Caplan's acute anger is not about an old soviet dictionary that defined words exactly as you would expect, is it? So, what exactly is it about? Something to horrible to mention?
I prefer Ayn Rand's less nuanced definitions where she says that the difference between socialism and communism is that the former is "suicide" while the later is "murder", presumably because socialism entails some level of choice or employs "democracy" to initiate the transition .
Rand was hardly "describ[ing] how most of us actually use words, not declar[ing] how all of us ought to use words", since her overarching message was that socialists typically believed "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" and were okay with "mooching". Whereas it's not hard at all to discover that Lenin and most Bolsheviks also very much thought in terms of moochers being the problem and that if you didn't work, you shouldn't eat. Their error was in equating productivity with physical (or easily observable) labor, such that the behavior of bankers, investors and such looked to them like mooching.
I wonder how the Soviet dictionary describes “recession”?
When I ask young US people today to define capitalism, I get a similar definition.
Words are defined with biased definitions all the time. If you favor legal abortions, you are "pro-choice." Who wouldn't want more choice?
"angry at the ass (donkey) - he's beating the sack" - Caplan's acute anger is not about an old soviet dictionary that defined words exactly as you would expect, is it? So, what exactly is it about? Something to horrible to mention?