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Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
Lex Fridman Podcast
Drop the Nuclear Bomb, but Minimize Civilian Casualties
In the Marx's scheme, somehow you were going to eliminate capitalism and get to freedom. It turned out you didn't get to freedom; then people said, well, you can't blame Marx because he said we needed freedom. So it's kind of like dropping a nuclear bomb: You say you're going to drop a nuclear bomb, but you want to minimize civilian casualties. Those socialists who came to understand that if you eliminated capitalism, markets, private property, and parliaments, if you eliminated that, you wouldn't get freedom. And so this in the Marxistscheme was apostasy,. Because they were accepting markets and private property. They were accepting alienation and wage slavery. But
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