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Competence Hierarchies

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Problem With Marxism

Marxism attempts to lay the blame for hierarchical dispossession at the feet of the West and capitalism. The idea that a radical restructuring of society among lines that aren't capitalist is somehow going to magically rectify hierarchical inequality is a fool's errand, he says. Marx noted when he said that capital tended to accumulate in the hands of fewer and fewer people but he didn't really understand as we should understand it according to his critics. He was talking about hierarchies and boundaries and political differences and the reason for free speech on this issue.

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