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P.J. O'Rourke-This is why millennials adore socialism
Posted on 9/14/20 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 9/14/20 at 6:01 pm
New York Post
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School, while not without its benefits, carries the risk of over-exposure to intellectuals. And intellectuals, when it comes to understanding economic realities, are Ding Dongs.
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Intellectuals like Marxism because Marx makes economics simple — the rich get their money from the poor. (How the rich manage this, since the poor by definition don’t have any money, is beyond me. But never mind.)
Real economics are more complicated than anything that intellectuals can make sense of.
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The Soviet Union and Maoist China are two more reasons that millennials love socialism. This is not because young people learned left-wing lessons from the Soviets and the Red Guards. It’s because they didn’t.
Kids don’t get it that communists are bad people. It was too long ago. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Deng Xiaoping began market reforms in China in 1978.
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Posted on 9/14/20 at 6:04 pm to 88Wildcat
I have no idea why I thought he was dead but I did. Lol. Glad to see he’s still around.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 7:53 pm to CajunTiger92
I think he had a cancer scare a few years ago but as far as I know is clean now.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 7:54 pm to 88Wildcat
Socialism requires people to do the right thing. They won't.
Capitalism requires people to think about who is doing the right thing. They will.
Capitalism requires people to think about who is doing the right thing. They will.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 7:56 pm to 88Wildcat
PJ is THE OG.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 8:08 pm to CajunTiger92
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I have no idea why I thought he was dead but I did. Lol. Glad to see he’s still around.
Used to read his stuff in the National Lampoon back in the day
Posted on 9/14/20 at 8:23 pm to 88Wildcat
2020 will be remembered as the year all the lazy fricks tried a revolution.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 9:01 pm to 88Wildcat
Love PJ and have all his books but it was disappoinging that he is not a Trump fan.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 9:09 pm to 88Wildcat
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And intellectuals, when it comes to understanding economic realities, are Ding Dongs.
Because most intellectuals haven’t read Marx or, if they have, didn’t understand it—something Marx and Engels knew about his work.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 9:12 pm to Jyrdis
I read “Eat the Rich” a long time ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.
It’s not often that one can laugh out loud reading a book about economics.
It’s not often that one can laugh out loud reading a book about economics.
Posted on 9/14/20 at 9:16 pm to timdonaghyswhistle
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Socialism requires people to do the right thing. They won't.
Completely false.
Socialism at its basic tenets is completely evil.
Forced theft using the governments gun.
Capitalism is altruistic.
If you wish to trade with me you have to offer me something value for me to trade something of value to you.
This post was edited on 9/14/20 at 9:16 pm
Posted on 9/14/20 at 9:18 pm to CajunTiger92
He wrote an article in Rolling Stone in the mid 90’s calling the Hungry Duck in Moscow the wildest bar in the world. I was in Moscow in 1998 and found the Hungry Duck, not to be disappointed with his assessment. Place was insane!
Posted on 9/14/20 at 10:57 pm to 88Wildcat
Our public school history classes barely ever made it to wwii let alone to the cold war.
This post was edited on 9/14/20 at 10:57 pm
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