RICHARD J GRANT: Perils of rising state power and dwindling personal rights
10 September 2020 - 10:37
Much of SA history over the past century can be explained by a simple observation: not all corruption is due to socialism, but all socialism brings corruption.
Apartheid was not a market phenomenon but a statist intervention to thwart the market relationships that would have brought people together in co-operative endeavours. The same is true of the current form of apartheid that is called, euphemistically, BEE and denoted by an evolving chain of Bs and Es. Corruption of language and thought is both a side effect of socialism and a deliberate technique employed by its vanguard or promoters...
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