Michael Malice

You don't have food.

Everyone's illiterate and uneducated.

And then here's saying, look, if we all chip in together, everyone will have clothes, everyone will have food, everyone will be educated, everyone will do their part.

It's going to be rough in the short period.

That's a very compelling statement.

case to be made for communism.

It's really easy in many ways when something hasn't been tried to make it sound compelling because you just talk about how great it's going to be.

And then no one, you know, people are always arguing about how like Venezuela and Sweden, like, oh, you know, you want democratic socialism to be like Sweden.

You don't want it to be like Venezuela.

The Venezuelans didn't vote for Venezuela.

They voted for Sweden.

They ended up with Venezuela.

So it's, I think,

And the thing with communism, especially at that era, it was very much correlated with people who are too smart for their own good.

Because they had the idea that if we are just put in charge, instead of these...

business for people or these heirs to great estates, if the people who are smart and get it, like us, I don't mean you and me, like the people at the time who were advocating for it, once we're in charge, since we're good people and we want what's best for everyone, we're going to make sure everyone's taken care of.

And, you know, they always talked about how much they cared about the little guy and

So I'm sure some of them meant it a lot.

And they're like, look, if the guy in charge is very much concerned with the little guy, he's not going to slip between the cracks.

And it's just going to be absolutely great.