Letters to Castro: Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa Rejects Socialism

Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE: Nobel Laureate and Atlas Templeton Leadership Fellow, Mario Vargas Llosa, tells the story of his conversion from Marxism to free market capitalism after visiting Cuba and the Soviet Union.

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[mlgorti]

Bravo, freedom, capitalism and the rights of the individual in a state on justice most prevail always......

[cokovlado]

How noble of him, to reject socialism once he started living like a rich man. like a wise general only after the battle. what an integrity of character, what an intellect; chapeau,messieurs!

[Thepredman10]

Socialism is not only the idea of a big government but it also means a system where people are interested in something other than just making money. If we didn't have some socialism there would be children working and cheap labour, massive pollution and crime. Why don't you go and visit countries that have no social welfare. The problem with some capitalist free market people is they don't realise some of the freedoms they have are based on those fought by socialist people.

[Thepredman10]

What is the utopian baloney of progressives? Americans should hand over their government to a minority of big business interests and people who say they promote the individual but are really more interested in looking after themselves?

[riverice7]

@allgoo19 none in Europe they are "toast"

[honeyjbc1]

I hope that Americans pay attention to what this man is saying. In November of 2012 we must reject the utopian baloney that is being proposed by the progressives. We must change direction and vote for those who will reduce the size and scope and reach of the central government.

[Extratexture4]

@HauntingGrammar "Our pol­icy is to cre­ate a national health ser­vice in order to ensure that every­body in the coun­try, irre­spec­tive of means, age, sex, or occu­pa­tion, shall have equal oppor­tu­ni­ties to ben­e­fit from the best and most up-to-date med­ical and allied ser­vices available.”

-- Winston Churchill, 1944 (the year he turned 70)

[HauntingGrammar]

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

-- Winston Churchill