Students For Liberty (@sfliberty)
In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work. He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in. Two years later, it was over. 🧵 ...
For decades, American politicians cited Sweden as proof that democratic socialism works. The Wall Street Journal sent a reporter there in 2026 to see for themselves. The Sweden they found is not the country Bernie Sanders describes on the debate stage. 🧵 ...
Four months after George Orwell published 1984, his former teacher sent him a letter. Aldous Huxley had one message: you described the wrong dystopia. 🧵 ...
Noam Chomsky defended the Khmer Rouge while they were killing 25% of Cambodia's population. He kept his position at MIT. His reputation kept growing. His books kept selling. Thomas Sowell predicted this would happen. He explained exactly why it always does.🧵 ...
Frédéric Bastiat had 6 years to change economics forever. Most economists spend decades writing papers five people read. Bastiat was an unknown farmer with tuberculosis. By the time he died, he'd built a movement that's still winning arguments 175 years later. You have four years of college. 🧵...
Ludwig von Mises didn't just refute Marx's economics. He exposed contradictions in Marx's philosophy so devastating that the entire system collapsed. Even most libertarians don't know how brutal this takedown actually was. 🧵 ...
They want businesses controlled by the state. They praise politicians who fight "greedy capitalists." They see your property as something the collective gets to control. Who are we describing? If you said fascists, you're right. If you said socialists, you're also right. 🧵 ...
Your future leaders are being trained to think in only one direction. A massive study of 27 million college syllabi reveals that American universities have systematically eliminated intellectual diversity. The students graduating today will be tomorrow's judges, politicians, and CEOs, and they've...
Ludwig von Mises was 57 years old when the Nazis seized his life's work. They confiscated his library, his manuscripts, his home, everything. He fled to America with nothing but the clothes on his back and couldn't speak English. Most people would have given up. Mises started over. 🧵...