The Law Audiobook (Free)

First published being a pamphlet in June 1850, REGULATIONS is already more than 150 years old, and it’ll 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 ideas adopted nowadays there are sweeping America-the collapse of Communism in Eastern European countries notwithstanding. Bastiat’s explanation of and arguments against socialism are as valid today as they were when created, and his concepts deserve serious concern..Read More approximately The Law

“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the variation between federal government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to something being performed by government, the socialists conclude that people object to its being done at all. We disapprove of condition education. Then your socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that people need no religion whatsoever. We object to a state-enforced equality. They say that we are against equality. And so on, etc. It really is as though the socialists had been to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not wish the state to raise grain.”-Frédéric Bastiat