Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West | Lex Fridman Podcast #296" video.

  1. Truthfully? 😂 In the US, what Democrat policies would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism)? In the UK? In what other Western countries? Doesn't matter what Venezuela's government called itself, Venezuela's economy was something like 75% privately owned and operated, when the economy collapsed. It collapsed because they were too dependent on one product, oil, and the price of oil dropped in 2015. Even Saudi (a 100% privately owned and operated nation) had some trouble, but they had more savings to weather through. Nationalizing one resource isn't all out socialism. Tiny Cuba has managed to survive decades of US meddling and sanctions. Having much more centrist, more evenly mixed, economies has made Nordic countries the happiest places on the planet. Capitalism has failed repeatedly, especially all out capitalism, and authoritarian capitalism (fascism, the capitalist equivalent to authoritarian attempts at socialism). Just because idiots kept going back to it, after a fail, doesn't mean it was successful. 6 million people per year are dying of starvation, alone, in capitalist countries. Multiply that by the 75 year run of the USSR and that's some 480m people. That's not even counting capitalist colonialism's genocides, mass starvations (15m in British India), wars, etc.
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