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Michael Malice

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Whereas if the government, which represents all of us, is running things, then everyone will have a right to have their voice heard and won't be manipulated.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

That's the argument.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

But the thing is the Marxist vision of the state withering away and becoming anarchism, it's really kind of like the underpants gnomes, because it's like- Tell me more.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Well, step one,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

You have Marxism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Tell me slowly.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

You have full communism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

The state's running everything, including education.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Step two, question mark.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Step three, anarchism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

So their idea was that after enough time,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

The nature of man himself was going to change.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And then the government would be superfluous because we would all be equal and we would all naturally or socially, whatever term they would use, want to act the part that we would need to do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And in fact, Reagan had a great joke about this where there were two commissars, I think, in Moscow.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And one of them, they're walking around, they're going, is this it?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Have we done it?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Have we reached full communism?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

The other goes, oh no, it's going to get a hell of a lot worse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

So, you know, that's kind of the counter argument to that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

No.