Atlas Evicted

To this day I refuse to use the name "Zimbabwe" to refer to the nation formerly known as Rhodesia. This is because Zimbabwe is the name given by its current dictator, Robert Mugabe.

In Ayn Rand's seminal novel 'Atlas Shrugged' the men (and women) of ability voluntarily withdrew themselves from the unjust collectivized society in which they lived. The result was the collapse of that society. But this is just fiction.

Now in Zimbabwe, err... Rhodesia, we have a real-life example of what happens when the producers are removed from society. The difference is that the moron Mugabe removed them himself!

Courtesy of Cox&Forkum, here is the story of Mugabe's admission of failure.

Economics and Markets Posted by JohnGalt at May 23, 2005 2:59 PM