Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) call for nationalisation, expropriation and centralisation in the name of “economic freedom”.
Tom Palmer: “If the EFF manifesto were to be realised, even in part, it would lead inevitably to a collapse into wretchedness”
Speaker
Tom Palmer, Executive Vice President for International Programs at Atlas Economic Research Foundation & Senior Fellow at Cato Institute (USA)
When Tuesday, 20 August 2013 | 1200-1330 (including sandwich lunch)
Where FMF | Prime Meridian House | Bryanston Gate Office Park | 170 Curzon Road | Bryanston
RSVP essential Gail Day <gailday.fmf@mweb.co.za>
Content
The Economic Freedom Fighters’ manifesto calls for “Open, accountable, corrupt-free government and society without fear of victimisation by state agencies” and then, demands the opposite:
- Expropriation of land, without compensation
- Nationalisation of mines, banks, and other strategic sectors of the economy, without compensation
- Building state and government capacity, which will lead to the abolishment of tenders
- Free quality education, healthcare, houses, and sanitation
- Massive protected industrial development to create millions of sustainable jobs
- Massive development of the African economy and advocating for a move from reconciliation to justice in the entire continent
Tom Palmer will critique the EFF Manifesto and define what “economic freedom” really is.
Biography
Libertarian scholar and activist Tom G. Palmer has carried the ideas of liberty to some of the most oppressed and dangerous parts of the planet. He smuggled books, photocopiers, and faxes into the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations and has taught and lectured in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other countries.
Tom is the executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and director of Cato University. At Atlas, Dr. Palmer is responsible for establishing operating programs in 14 languages and managing programs for a worldwide network of think tanks.
Before joining Cato he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford University, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He frequently lectures in North America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, India, China and throughout Asia, and the Middle East on political science, public choice, civil society, and the moral, legal, and historical foundations of individual rights.
He has published reviews and articles on politics and morality in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in publications such as Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Die Welt, Caixing,Al Hayat, the Washington Post, and The Spectator of London.
He is the author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, published in 2009, and the editor of The Morality of Capitalism, published in 2011 and After the Welfare State in 2012.
Palmer received his B.A. in liberal arts from St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland, his M.A. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and his doctorate in politics from Oxford University.
Directions
Bryanston Gate is on the corner of Homestead Avenue and Main Road opposite Sandton Clinic (cnr Peter Place and Main); you must enter Curzon from Main; then first gate on the left
Security
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