Sarah Paine

And then you have the Great Depression afterwards.

And then add to it, India's been colonized by a bunch of really opinionated white people, right?

And transferring a lot of wealth out of India to England.

And so you look at Marxism and boy, it sounds plausible, right?

It sounds like these evil capitalists, they're just wasting lives.

And surely this is the explanation.

Now, the technicalities of Marx's labor theory of value don't actually turn out to be accurate.

It's not just labor that produces value.

Like Silicon Valley, you understand it's

what comes up here produces a tremendous amount of value.

And Marxist theory doesn't recognize that.

And so there are massive flaws in theory.

And then when you put communism into practice, if you wanna have equality, which is what they wanted, if you can have equality, you're not gonna have any liberty, right?

Because in order to make it equal, you just expropriate and then you divvy it out to everybody and there's no liberty in that, right?

And another piece about democracies and even flawed ones, even if they have a semi-free press, a lot of the icky news bubbles up.

But in dictatorships, it doesn't, right?

So you compare the seamy sides of democracy.

some democracies that aren't doing that well, and then to the public, the PR thing that the dictatorships are presenting.

So you can picture Nehru of his generation, he's sick of British, right?

And so Fabian's socialism, he's not for killing lots of people to impose socialism.