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The Simple Question Socialism Couldn’t Answer
Build faster, get started with Zapier for free: is 71% water, 29% land, and only a fraction of it is useful. Scarcity—and who own
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Build faster, get started with Zapier for free: is 71% water, 29% land, and only a fraction of it is useful. Scarcity—and who own
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Communism once seemed a foreign threat to the United States — an ideology from distant revolutions, fought abroad in the Cold War. Today, this…
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St. Patrick's Cathedral, the great neo-Gothic cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York, is one of the city's best-known landmarks. Built in the nineteenth…
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Milton Friedman asks a question that sounds simple and turns out to be radical: if socialism promises to put the economy in the service…
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This Soho Forum debate takes the capitalism versus socialism argument and gives it a precise form. The resolution before the audience is that socialism…
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This explainer sets out to answer a question that is often asked but rarely answered clearly: what would a future beyond capitalism actually look…
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Most people think socialism came from one mind: Karl Marx. The truth is more interesting, and this chapter is about the other mind. Friedrich…
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In this short clip, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek explains a distinction that puzzles many people: why he calls himself a communist but not…
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Ask most people which economic system is better for the environment, and many will answer that capitalism, with its factories, cars, and hunger for…
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This short clip from The Joe Rogan Experience takes on one of the most argued questions in modern politics: capitalism versus socialism. Joe Rogan,…
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This heated debate puts a communist professor in the spotlight as he defends the legacies of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong against sharp criticism.…
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This video comes from one of the most watched intellectual debates of recent years: Jordan Peterson's 2019 encounter in Toronto with Slavoj Zizek, the…
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Tim Pool first became known as an independent journalist livestreaming protests and street movements, including Occupy Wall Street, and that background gives his criticism…
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Many young Americans today say they prefer socialism to capitalism, and this video asks why that idea has become so appealing to a generation…
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Karl Marx died in 1883, yet his ideas remain a powerful presence on university campuses around the world, and this video asks why. It…
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In this video, the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson offers a critique of The Communist Manifesto, the short 1848 pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich…
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Some questions are best settled by a lecture, and some by a debate. The question in this chapter — is socialism better than capitalism?…
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This video offers a direct comparison between socialism and capitalism, the two systems that have shaped modern political debate. It asks which one delivers…
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In this clip, former South Carolina governor and former United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley makes the case for capitalism. Her…
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On January 1, 1990, Poland did something no large country had ever tried before. In a single day, a nation of about 38 million…
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In this short clip, the Rev. Raphael Warnock is pressed directly about socialism. Warnock, then a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in…
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This video looks at champagne socialist leaders and the life of luxury they enjoy — the politicians, celebrities and activists who preach equality and…
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This video presents the unauthorized history of socialism — the story that, its makers argue, is rarely told in schools, universities or the mainstream…
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This video explains capitalism, socialism and communism simply — the three great economic systems that have shaped the modern world, and the ideas behind…