Dr. Yuri Maltsev on Socialism’s Resurgence
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The Left makes excuses for Venezuela, college students wear Che Guevara shirts, and polls show growing support for socialism among millennials. Our friend Yuri Maltsev, a Soviet expat with no illusions about the real nature of state planning, joins the show to explain why (deluded and rich) western progressives, academics, elites, and media won’t let go of their socialist project.