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Socialism is tempting, seductive, alluring. It comes in many forms and speaks in many different ways. It appeals to people who value fairness, who value freedom, and who value security. It comes in many varieties, sometimes clothing itself in the dress of nationalism, sometimes in the garb of environmentalism. Yet there is one single, unifying feature - subjugation of the individual to the collective. While Americans have always been skeptical of socialism, even in the progressive and New Deal eras, that is beginning to change. Large numbers of Americans now express admiration for socialism, and similar numbers are critical of the free enterprise system. The problem is particularly acute among America's young people. This is not the first time we have been here.
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Iain Murray is the Competitive Enterprise Institute's vice president of strategy. For the past decade with the Institute, he has written and researched on financial regulation, labor, employment and immigration regulation, and free market environmentalism. Iain is married with two children and lives in Northern Virginia. He was born in the United Kingdom and worked for the Thatcher and Major governments before privatizing himself out of a job and coming to America to marry the love of his life. Iain is a member of the Church of England but his wife and children are Roman Catholic.He also lectures regularly in Europe and the Mediterranean, in places as diverse as Belgium, France, Bulgaria, Germany, Cyprus, Israel, and Turkey. Iain considers himself a Europhile Euroskeptic, and was runner up (with Rory Broomfield) in the Institute of Economic Affairs 100,000 Euros "Brexit Prize" in 2014.He writes short articles regularly for FEE.org, National Review, The American Spectator, and other commentary sites. Iain has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and on broadcast news such as the BBC, NBC Nightly News, Fox New Channel, CCTV, and Al-Jazeera.
