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#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Difference Between Socialism and Communism?
You have to blame the leaders a lot because they had different leaders in different countries were different from each other. Khrushchev and Stalin were not the same animal at all. So I think the problem with communism in the Marxist sense is that you're going to have an element of authoritarianism simply because you can't have economic planning. The other issue is if you have one agency, the government having a monopoly on let's suppose the news, it's really hard to have any kind of objective discourse.
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