Jason Brennan's new book takes a stab at socialism's constant moral high ground stance particularly against Jerry Cohen and similar authors. His argument surrounds several logical fallacies that socialism commits. The biggest and most atrocious fallacy is the comparison of perfect socialism to imperfect capitalism that occurs in Cohen's book Why Not Socialism. Brennan mocks this claim endlessly and almost too much but gets the point across that you must compare imperfect socialism to imperfect capitalism and perfect socialism with perfect capitalism otherwise you do not get a true comparison that matters.
Under his new comparison of perfect capitalism to perfect socialism, the reader finds out that justice and tolerance excel in perfect capitalism more than in perfect socialism. Mostly because capitalism allows for people to create socialist utopias if they want or form anything else they want as long as they do not hinder another person's choices. I agree with him that capitalism in the perfect sense fairs better and more people would like if they were given the true comparison rather than the options most socialists give us today. The choice today is between all the problems of capitalism and no problems in socialism. Of course people are going to choose socialism without any problems over things with problems. Once though you put up two perfect systems most people will choose capitalism and capitalism maintains the moral high ground.
The other big argument Brennan makes is that capitalists should call out socialist who use this bad metaphor and to now stand up for the moral high ground that is Capitalism. In this way we can do our part to spread the good message that Capitalism has for every person in the world.
I would recommend this book to any person and i think I might order it for people and ship it as gifts. You, the reader should go out and get this book now and spread the news that Capitalism actually maintains the moral high ground in any argument with socialism
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