{"id":6598,"date":"2016-03-11T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/11\/garry-kasparov-on-socialism-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:15:43","slug":"garry-kasparov-on-socialism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/11\/garry-kasparov-on-socialism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Kasparov on Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following<\/a> has 'gone viral' as they say:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I'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

The penultimate sentence needs some qualification, but otherwise Grandmaster Kasparov  is enunciating very important truths with the authority of someone who speaks from experience.  Kasparov, ethnically Jewish on his father's side, was world chess champion from 1985-1993.  He was born Garik Kimovich Weinstein.  Jews dominate<\/a> chess out of all proportion to their numbers.   A liberal dumbass would say they are 'over-represented.'  <\/span><\/p>\n

I feel a rant coming on . . . enough blogging for one day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The following has 'gone viral' as they say: I'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 … Continue reading “Garry Kasparov on Socialism”<\/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":[169,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598","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=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}