<p>First published as a pamphlet in June 1850 <em>The Law</em> is already well over 150 years old and it will still be read when another century has passed.</p> <p>America now faces the same situation France did in 1848 and the same socialist-communist plans and ideas adopted there are now sweeping America—the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe <span>notwithstanding</span>. Bastiat’s explanation of and arguments against socialism are as valid today as they were when written and his ideas deserve serious consideration.</p> <P>A Blackstone Audio production.</p>