Monday, March 14, 2016

Former Soviet Chess Champion Explains Realities of Socialism to Bernie Supporters

Via David

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leighwolf/2016/03/11/antitrump-crowd-flies-a-communist-flag-during-protest-n2132552

Apparently, Bernie Sanders’ supporters can’t stop themselves from expressing their thoughts about how great socialism is.

The former former Soviet chess champion has taken to Facebook to express his thoughts about being lectured by the uninformed about something he knows all too well.
Garry Kasparov writes:
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.

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