Dukakis in the general election. [cheering and appaluse] thank you very much. Much. You so thank you, thank you. [cheering and appaluse] thank you so very much. Thank you very, very much. [cheering and appaluse] you, all. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very, very much. Thank you. [cheering and appaluse] thank you all very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Much. You very, very [cheering and appaluse] thank you. Thank you all very, very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very, very much. Friends to thank tonight. I thank the voters who supported me. I think the gallant men who entered the contest for the presidency this year and who have honored me with their support, and for their kind and stirring words, i think governor tom kane of new jersey. [cheering and appaluse] gramm of texas. [cheering and appaluse] president gerald ford and my president Ronald Reagan. [cheering and appaluse] i accept your nomina
Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
That it was gone forever but they were wrong. Today the British Labour party which had moved to an embrace of market capitalism promises to nationalize great swaths of the british economy could in latin america a socialist dictator grabbed power in venezuela winging that country to the brink of ruin and igniting a regional crisis. China has grown prosperous by introducing private enterprise even while the communist Party Tightens its grip over the people creating a surveillance state that former authoritarians could only dream of. All in the name of socialism. Here in the United States politicians who probably proclaim themselves socialists have scaled to the very heights of the Democratic Party reigniting the debate that many thought was over. We traced the trajectory of an idea that came to war and whose appeal is once more on the rise. This is the unauthorized history of socialism. Bret i knew my latest project for fox nation, three hour six part series about socialism would be time
That it was gone forever but they were wrong. Today the British Labour party which had moved to an embrace of market capitalism promises to nationalize great swaths of the british economy could in latin america a socialist dictator grabbed power in venezuela winging that country to the brink of ruin and igniting a regional crisis. China has grown prosperous by introducing private enterprise even while the communist Party Tightens its grip over the people creating a surveillance state that former authoritarians could only dream of. All in the name of socialism. Here in the United States politicians who probably proclaim themselves socialists have scaled to the very heights of the Democratic Party reigniting the debate that many thought was over. We traced the trajectory of an idea that came to war and whose appeal is once more on the rise. This is the unauthorized history of socialism. Bret i knew my latest project for fox nation, three hour six part series about socialism would be time
They were wrong. Today the British Labour party which had moved to an embrace of market capitalism promises to nationalize great swaths of the british economy could in latin america a socialist dictator grabbed power in venezuela winging that country to the brink of ruin and igniting a regional crisis. China has grown prosperous by introducing private enterprise even while the communist Party Tightens its grip over the people creating a surveillance state that former authoritarians could only dream of. All in the name of socialism. Here in the United States politicians who probably proclaim themselves socialists have scaled to the very heights of the Democratic Party reigniting the debate that many thought was over. We traced the trajectory of an idea that came to war and whose appeal is once more on the rise. This is the unauthorized history of socialism. Bret i knew my latest project for fox nation, three hour six part series about socialism would be timely its a subject everyone is