Ask A Genius 187 – Academic Political Views (Part 5)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/06/03
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Rosner: It is a legitimate point of view. It is characterized by people being tender snowflakes. Then when you talk about Marxism, I guess Marx was or is 140 years after he wrote his stuff still—he is certainly the most recognized writer on the idea of a sharing economy.
It is Marxism. So he is the guy. Maybe, there are some obscure ones. There is Socialism, but he is the only one with his name attached to a sharing philosophy. So he is the guy. Marxism and Socialism have been associated with a bunch of governments that brutally fucked over their own people and the world.
And to some extent, they continue to do so. The Soviet Union was a failed Socialist experiment that led to the current failed Russian state, which is some weird Plutocracy/Kleptocracy…
Jacobsen: …[Laughing] Oligarchy.
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