Karl Marx disse que havia descoberto as leis científicas da economia. O valor vem do trabalho. Lucro era roubo. Somente o planejamento central poderia construir uma sociedade justa. Mas quatro economistas austríacos (Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Mises e Hayek) desmentiram a sua teoria. 🧵

In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament. Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves. You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death. This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes. He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

Now do Islam.

‼️🇫🇷 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — Jacqueline, la femme âgée de 86 ans retrouvée morte égorgée au Grau-du-Roi, a été victime d’une « grande sauvagerie ». PLUSIEURS ARMES, dont possiblement une PERCEUSE, auraient été utilisées pour tuer la vieille dame. L’autopsie a révélé plusieurs plaies importantes sur le corps de la victime. Selon les médecins légistes, la nature des blessures laisse penser que plusieurs armes ont pu être utilisées lors de l’agression. Plusieurs témoins ont indiqué avoir aperçu un homme au comportement suspect à proximité de la scène de crime. L’individu aurait été vu avec ce qui ressemblait à une perceuse ou une visseuse électrique, avant d’être aperçu en train de se laver les mains dans les eaux de l’étang. Les blessures constatées sur le corps de Jacqueline ne seraient « pas incompatibles » avec l’utilisation d’un tel outil. Les enquêteurs ont également récupéré plusieurs images de vidéosurveillance aux abords des lieux. L’une des silhouettes filmées retiendrait particulièrement leur attention. L’homme est toujours activement recherché. (Source : Le Parisien)