First published like a pamphlet in June 1850, The Law is already well over 150 years of age, and it’ll still be read when another century has passed.

America now faces the same scenario France did in 1848 as well as the same socialist-communist plans and concepts adopted there are now sweeping America-the collapse of Communism in Eastern European countries notwithstanding. Bastiat’s explanation of and arguments against socialism are as valid today because they were when written, and his ideas deserve serious account..Read More approximately The Law

“Socialism, like the historic ideas that it springs, confuses the variation between federal government and society. As a result of this, each and every time we object to something being completed by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its getting done in any way. We disapprove of condition education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to circumstances religion. Then the socialists say that we wish no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. They say that we are against equality. Etc, etc. It really is as if the socialists had been to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we usually do not wish the state to improve grain.”-Frédéric Bastiat