{"id":2708,"date":"2021-02-20T06:43:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/garry-kasparov-on-socialism\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T06:43:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:43:02","slug":"garry-kasparov-on-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/garry-kasparov-on-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Kasparov on Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GKKasparov\/posts\/10154026469573307\">following<\/a> &#39;went viral&#39; as they say about five years ago:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I&#39;m enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself, and the ambition and achievement that made modern capitalism possible and brought billions of people out of poverty. Talking about Socialism is a huge luxury, a luxury that was paid for by the successes of capitalism. Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely. But the idea that the solution is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The penultimate sentence needs some qualification, but otherwise Grandmaster Kasparov is enunciating very important truths with the authority of someone who speaks from experience.&#0160; Kasparov, ethnically Jewish on his father&#39;s side, was world chess champion from 1985-1993.&#0160; He was born Garik Kimovich Weinstein.&#0160; Jews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jinfo.org\/Chess.html\">dominate<\/a> chess out of all proportion to their numbers. &#0160; A foolish &#39;liberal&#39; would say they are &#39;over-represented.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\">Why foolish?&#0160; Because the term conflates the normative and the factual.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&#0160;following &#39;went viral&#39; as they say about five years ago: I&#39;m enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/garry-kasparov-on-socialism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Garry Kasparov on Socialism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}