Dennis Prager Show - Socialism vs Capitalism
Aired: 2025-08-20
Duration: 03:04

[00:00:01]  Tom in Alvin, Texas, what is your most effective and concise argument against Marxism, socialism, communism?
[00:00:13]  My answer is this under those forms of rule individuals have no right to say no.
[00:00:24]  Well, that is absolutely accurate, but you didn't ask what is the most accurate, what is the most effective.
[00:00:33]  Effective, you asked.
[00:00:35]  I don't know how effective that would be.
[00:00:38]  How's this?
[00:00:39]  It's the greatest mass murdering machine in the history of mass murder.
[00:00:46]  If I had to give a concise and possibly effective answer, that's what it would be.
[00:00:55]  The number of people slaughtered civilians, not even combatants, slaughtered by communism, Marxism, socialism is about a hundred million, probably more.
[00:01:10]  Now, that doesn't include all those injured.
[00:01:13]  It doesn't include all of those whose lives were devastated because their loved one was slaughtered by communist socialist Marxists.
[00:01:27]  So the repercussions are enormous.
[00:01:30]  It doesn't include the number of people who were impoverished.
[00:01:34]  It doesn't include the number of people who had a whole lifetime with no rights.
[00:01:42]  Then we're talking about a billion.
[00:01:48]  That kids today, that there are kids, I shouldn't say kids today, that there are young people who celebrate Marxism or communism, let alone socialism, is an ode to how little they have learned about history.
[00:02:12]  The most important subject you could study is history.
[00:02:17]  You need to know what human beings have done in order to learn from the human experience, which is called wisdom.
[00:02:26]  If you don't learn from the human experience, you're inevitably a fool.
[00:02:32]  So that's why people can be anti capitalist.
[00:02:41]  Hello?
[00:02:43]  Isn't capitalism associated with the most free countries in the history of the world and isn't capitalism and only capitalism the one economic doctrine to lift billions out of poverty?
[00:03:01]  You think socialism has lifted billions out of poverty?