It also sounded Ironic that this left-wing professor had come to talk about how bad capitalism, all while advertising his book.
Socialism is when you don't write books
You're allowed to write the books, you're just not allowed to promote them. But also if you don't do a promotion tour you're a coward who can't defend their ideas.
I'm one of this sub's few liberal socialists. A lot of socialists don't consider me socialist
Many famous socialists historic and modern have argued that status quo capitalism is more socialist than the USSR
Didn't Chomsky say something like this or is my brain making shit up again
"I won a debate with a strawman in my head and asked an off-topic question, therefore communism has been defeated in the marketplace of ideas"
Most of the comments are dunking on OP. Imagine getting dunked on by someone with a Paul Krugman flair.
Because his points were so bad even people who agree with him were calling him out.
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