Michael Malice

Well, you have to blame the leaders a lot because they had different leaders and different countries were different from each other.

Dubček, who took over Czechoslovakia and he tried to introduce socialism with a human face in the Prague Spring of 1968, he was like, all right, we got to do away with this authoritarianism.

We got to have more free speech.

He was thinking of introducing elements of democracy.

Now, then the Russians sent in the tanks.

But the point is, he certainly was someone who was like, all right, this has got to stop.

This is just absolutely crazy.

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 introduce an element of authoritarianism simply because you can't have economic planning.

If I don't have a price mechanism, I don't know how, price is what is me knowing as a consumer or a producer

what should be produced or what there's a shortage of.

As prices increase, that's a signal that we have a shortage here.

As prices decrease, that means that there's a surplus here.

But if I'm setting the price, I don't really know how much weed I need to produce if I'm compared to corn, as compared to shoes, as compared to Santa costumes.

So that is a big problem.

The other issue is if you have one agency, the government, having a monopoly on, let's suppose, the news,

like you were talking about earlier with Twitter, it's gonna be really hard to have any kind of objective discourse because everyone is gonna be working for the same organization.

That is gonna cause a problem in terms of having a feedback mechanism, even in the best scenario, in terms of this is a problem, this isn't a problem.

And when you have a monopoly, which is what a government is, I think people are very familiar with what the problems happen with monopoly, this lack of accountability,