Communism vs Fascism: Which was more evil? | Michael Malice and Yaron Brook and Lex Fridman
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Published 2021-04-25
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Michael Malice is an anarchist. Yaron Brook is an objectivist. Both are podcasters and authors.
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All Comments (21)
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"The essence of evil is evasion of reality, is putting your feelings ahead of the facts" He says literally right after dismissing Michael's story before even hearing it.
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This Brooks guy doesn't make a single argument. "This is evil" "This is wrong". He provides zero arguments or evidence.
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It's ironic that he brings up the Borg in Star Trek and doesn't realize that the entire Star Trek Federation is Communist.
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There aren't enough people out there having these conversations. Well done!
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I have no trouble with someone who actually lives on a commune and calls themselves a communist. But I have a huge problem with someone who calls themselves a communist, has zero intention of living in a commune and wants to force people to live in a communist society.
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Gestapo knock on your door: "We're here to hurt you, to help our Race". KGB knock on your door: "We're here to hurt you, to help you."
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Mussolini was a brilliant writer. He translated Nietzsche from German to Italian himself.
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"I don't know what Stalinism is and I don't care" is not something a critical thinker should say.
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"But you Yada Yada Yada'd the best part." "I mentioned the bisque."
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Man lex really hit it out of the park with this podcast.
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1. Dictatorship 2. Question mark 3. Utopia. The perfect cultural reference, Mr. Malice :-)
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“There’s no big difference between fascism and communism.” = I have no idea what I’m talking about.
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"Ideology always leads to atrocity." -Terrence McKenna
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Malice seems far more interesting and mentally flexible than Brook, Brook also gets a few things wrong, the Idea that people have certain rights predates the founding fathers. The part of the US Declaration Of Independence that mentions "inalienable rights..." was very heavily influenced by the writings of John Locke, who had been dead for more than 70 years at that point.
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It’s interesting how they define mass murder, as if denying people healthcare in the name of capitalism doesn’t count because it’s not overtly violent
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More is articulately covered in this 30 min clip than most children will learn throughout all of K-12. Shame on these schools, and bravo to you three gentlemen! 👏🏽
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It is interesting at the end he mentions Richard Wolff and democratic work places, immediately disregards it, then goes on to talk about how remarkable the development of political democracy was. Is his point that we are so lucky to have political democracy that pushing for economic democracy would be pushing our luck?
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Your pods are getting dangerously addictive. You're starting to steal my time on other chores, keep up ,loving it
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Can someone tell me the names of all the books please
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Probably the single most interesting discussion I've ever listened to! I wish i could've been a fly on the wall, but was able to chime in once in awhile
