939 – Topics

00:03 So what’s wrong with socialism? election of Zohran Mamdani as New York’s mayor, popularity of socialism, capitalism as moral, socialism as immoral, socialism is egalitarianism, equity not equality

11:30 Definition game: defining socialism, defining capitalism, Ayn Rand’s Capitalism, socialism seen as viable for lack of definition, collective ownership, separating the ism from social and capital, fiction of public ownership, Ayn Rand’s Anthem

32:40 Mindless Marxism: rejection of the individual mind by Marx, socialism’s altruistic contradiction, democratic socialism is an anti-concept, mixed economy, failure to define capitalism, clash between capitalism and altruism, capitalism the only moral system in history

51:00 Property matters: private property and self-interest, blaming Marx for history’s rivers of blood, blaming parents for spreading socialism among the young, the need for capitalism’s advocates

59:42 END