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s05e44 | Live with James Lindsay: Woke Gnosticism and the Oxford Debate

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Idiocracy Is a Thing, Right?

The goal is to, socialism takes us backwards into a feudal aristocracy from a market. It always takes us back into an aristocracy first, but the communists who are grifters are the ones who put themselves in the position of the aristocrats. And so they always create incentive structures to funnel the elites of society into the party. This is how it works in China. Like if you want a model of how it works, look at what happened in the history of the Soviet Union. Look at how it worked in China,. These being two long-standing communist regimes much less dysfunctional than most of the other ones that were attempted.

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