Bhaskar Sunkara

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism · 22 Dec 2022 podcast

And I think 1949.

And his article is called Why Socialism?

I don't think it's paywalled.

So people should check it out.

But yeah, Einstein was one.

Honestly, it's been so many years since I read it.

I think it was more about... I think it was actually more economically focused, but I would need to go back and read it.

So I think that traditionally in the socialist movement, war was associated with capitalist competition and international competition.

And you can look at World War I as very much a case where

Different nations were competing with each other and developing quite violent rivalries.

There was in part based on competition and the periphery over access to markets and colonies and whatever else.

So it was very easy to draw a direct correlation.

I am opposed to...

to war.

I'm opposed to imperialism, the domination of strong nations, you know, dominating smaller nations.

I wouldn't call myself a pacifist.

I think most socialists wouldn't call themselves pacifists because there are some struggles that are worth fighting for.

You know, there's national liberation struggles and so on, where if there's no democratic avenue for change, you know, positive change has been made through

through armed revolts around colonialism and whatnot.

But we're living in an age where hopefully, you know, I know neither of us have children, but our children or children, children, you know, the future won't have to live through war.

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