A Classical Liberal Meets a Communist...

Mike Riccard is a small business owner in Melbourne who believes Communism is both the preferred and inevitable evolution of capitalism.

In this discussion I tried to find out why and how…and what a Communist society would look like.

With so much discussion on Discernable over Marxism and other world views lately, it seems wise to seek out those who actually hold those world views to hear what they have to say and how they say it.

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Show notes

1:33 What do you mean by ‘Communism’?

3:42 Lenin and Trotsky were misguided

5:53 Capitalism is a pre-requisite for Communism

11:05 What will a Communist society look like?

21:02 Orthodox Communism calls for violent overthrow

24:27 Isn’t this just liberalism?

28:19 People naturally want to work and contribute

35:04 How did Mike come to Communism?

41:09 Communism and free markets

43:48 The Dan Murphys example

52:55 Ushering in Communism

56:28 The USA is closes to Communism

57:10 Describing a Communist society

1:09:35 USA and natural rights