WEBVTT NOTE Why America Must Be Saved 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 Well, I'm not the only one with such a bizarre biography. 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:08.440 Today I read in the San Francisco Examiner that Svetlana Alleluya, the daughter of Stalin, 3 00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:12.800 became a Catholic nun in Switzerland. 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:19.240 So I think that's an ultimate personal disaster for that family. 5 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:25.440 Well, also I appreciate that the topic of my talk today is why we must save America. 6 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:40.640 When I was listening today to Peter Klein, and he was talking about enemy lines, that 7 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:46.760 he was behind the enemy lines in Berkeley, I was thinking of myself, actually, that I 8 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:51.640 was behind the enemy lines there, back in the Soviet Union, and over there, I believed, 9 00:00:51.640 --> 00:01:09.640 Like most Russians did, and most other foreigners, I would say, did, that the United States is this shining house on the top of the mountain, as Ronald Reagan presented it, until I defected to here to find myself behind other enemy lines in American academia. 10 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:21.640 And I would think that the Ludwig von Mises Institute is doing a really great and unique job in solidifying their positions of freedom there. 11 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:30.640 That 15 of my brightest students from Carthage College attended Ludwig von Mises universities during the last four years. 12 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:35.640 And right now they, as well as their friends, are really visible and vocal on campus. 13 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:44.640 Sometimes I'm trying to kind of hold them a little bit for them not to become physical at some of these classes. 14 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:51.640 One of them actually became an editor of our campus paper and they have a regular column from the right. 15 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:59.640 And one of our Mises and Rothbard students every week is writing this column all the time, different people, 16 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:15.640 which could not even think about that in the college, say, five, seven years ago, before these kids would go and have this breath of the fresh air of freedom. 17 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:27.640 Well, I wouldn't imagine myself, my own intellectual development without Ludwig von Mises Institute, to be on the side of Murray, to be on the side of Lew, Jeff, 18 00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:35.640 To be on the side of all of you, that was the greatest intellectual joy and I think it contributed to my own personal development. 19 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:45.640 I'm kind of abhorred even by the thinking of the opportunity cost of myself coming to the United States and reading Washington Post and New York Times. 20 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:50.640 I think that would be a good reason to redefect somewhere else. 21 00:02:50.640 --> 00:03:01.640 Well, I think that Murray Rothbard, he presented a very strong case, why America must be saved. 22 00:03:01.640 --> 00:03:11.640 And I think that in many of his writings and many pieces, he would say that America today is the only hope for the whole world. 23 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:15.640 It's not the Hong Kong, it's not the Singapore, it's not Switzerland or Cayman Islands. 24 00:03:15.640 --> 00:03:23.360 The United States, which is the only today with all concessions to bondage, to all concessions 25 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:29.000 to slavery were made during the last 50 years in this country, still America is probably 26 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:35.440 the freest country in the world and still is the hope for people all around the world 27 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:40.340 who have the vested interests in preserving and keeping freedom in this country and we 28 00:03:40.340 --> 00:03:46.460 We see that how many people are coming to the United States, not because of welfare 29 00:03:46.460 --> 00:03:47.460 handouts. 30 00:03:47.460 --> 00:03:52.900 Some of them come for that, but some of them are coming for liberty, for opportunity, really 31 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:58.140 to make a difference in this struggle between slavery and freedom, which is going on all 32 00:03:58.140 --> 00:03:59.380 around the world. 33 00:03:59.380 --> 00:04:03.660 Well, as you know that in why I mentioned not Switzerland, not Hong Kong, I think these 34 00:04:03.660 --> 00:04:08.180 people should be praised for their contribution to freedom, but the West usually sells them 35 00:04:08.180 --> 00:04:09.180 out. 36 00:04:09.180 --> 00:04:39.180 I use you know in a year will be returned back to China and this I would say amazing experiment and freedom on this barren rock island will probably cease to exist well being Russian myself I'm sometimes reading Russian authors and recently I was reading Dostoevsky a great Russian writer of the 19th century and Dostoevsky 37 00:04:39.180 --> 00:04:44.180 Dostoyevsky made a very strong case for freedom in the 19th century. 38 00:04:44.180 --> 00:04:51.180 His sad legacies and his sad prophecies, unfortunately, didn't taught us anything. 39 00:04:51.180 --> 00:04:57.180 There's a very cynical Russian proverb that the only lesson of history that it does not teach us anything. 40 00:04:57.180 --> 00:05:04.180 And Dostoyevsky back in 1867, he predicted the Bolshevik revolution, 41 00:05:04.180 --> 00:05:07.180 he predicted the First World War as the end of civilization. 42 00:05:07.180 --> 00:05:27.180 He predicted that, as he would put it, the satanic pride of people, socialists, would be self-destructive of humankind, and putting themselves above the Lord, these people are actually destroying the foundations of human civilization. 43 00:05:27.180 --> 00:05:36.180 In his novel Devils, known in English as The Possessed, Dostoevsky insights in the human soul was completely confirmed by history. 44 00:05:36.180 --> 00:05:44.180 His, I would say, prophecies were kind of apocalyptic, but unfortunately they all became truth. 45 00:05:44.180 --> 00:05:55.180 He would say, for example, that Europe, he said, stood on the brink of moral and political catastrophe, 46 00:05:55.180 --> 00:05:59.180 A collapse that will be without exception general and terrible. 47 00:05:59.180 --> 00:06:04.180 This unhip without a church and Christianity is already practically undermined. 48 00:06:04.180 --> 00:06:07.980 The fourth estate, the lower classes, is rising. It will smash the door. 49 00:06:07.980 --> 00:06:12.380 Catholicism, having ceased to be Christian, is turning into pagan idolatry. 50 00:06:12.380 --> 00:06:18.180 Protestantism is fast approaching atheism. 51 00:06:18.180 --> 00:06:21.580 In his master, in another masterpiece, the brothers Karamazov, he wrote, 52 00:06:21.580 --> 00:06:28.980 The Salvation comes from the people. An unbelieving reformer will never do anything, even if he is sincere in heart and a genius. 53 00:06:28.980 --> 00:06:34.380 Remember that. The people will meet the atheist. He wrote that 60 years before the communist revolution. 54 00:06:34.380 --> 00:06:43.780 He said the people would meet the atheist, atheist was capital A, and overcome him, and Russia will be one and orthodox. 55 00:06:43.780 --> 00:06:55.180 Well, the Dostoevsky predictions, I would say, shed a light on another set of values. 56 00:06:55.180 --> 00:07:00.180 Not only I'm an economist myself, and maybe I'm kind of tired of speaking, talking about economics, 57 00:07:00.180 --> 00:07:03.480 and you're probably listening to economists. 58 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:10.080 So I would say he is providing very good insights between the moral values of society, 59 00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:16.080 between the religious beliefs from one hand and the freedom of the people. 60 00:07:16.080 --> 00:07:26.080 Dostoevsky, as you can probably imagine, because of that, because he would say that only those people who believe in God, he is not referring to church. 61 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:34.080 He said, I am against all statehood and churchdom in one of his notes. 62 00:07:34.080 --> 00:07:44.080 But, as you can imagine, he is deeply hated by not only communists, and he was hated back in Russia, but also by our liberals. 63 00:07:44.080 --> 00:07:53.080 One of them, Ronald Hingley, again from Berkeley, is even comparing the diary of writer by Dostoyevsky with Hitler's Mein Kampf. 64 00:07:53.080 --> 00:08:01.080 He accuses Dostoyevsky of, guess what, anti-Semitism, idealization of war, combined with peace-loving professions. 65 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:10.080 and this is the most insane accusations I ever heard because Dostoevsky he said the true Russian should be a brother of all people. 66 00:08:10.080 --> 00:08:16.080 I don't think that Dostoevsky can be blamed for what the liberals and socialists did. 67 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:21.080 He never was a part of organizing Gestapo's or Cheka's or KGB's. 68 00:08:21.080 --> 00:08:27.080 He was a person I think with ultimate love to all people. 69 00:08:27.080 --> 00:08:43.080 I think that his vision of the 20th century, he was predicting the 20th century, was very close to the assessment of the 20th century, which was done by Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises. 70 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:47.080 Robert wrote in his Seminal History of Economic Thought, 71 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:54.080 Most people, historians not accepted, attempted to think of economic and social progress as being continuous. 72 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.080 In every century people are better off than in the one preceding. 73 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:06.080 This comforting assumption had to be given up quite early when the Dark Ages ensued the collapse of the Roman Empire. 74 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:11.080 His great teacher Ludwig von Mises wrote, 75 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:18.080 The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics. 76 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:21.080 This revolt, as you know, is continuing today. 77 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:27.080 Today we see government deliberately destroying the whole classes, the whole stratus of American people, 78 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:39.080 of People, creating the classes of clients, creating the classes of people who are on welfare or payroll checks received from the same Department of Treasury of the United States. 79 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:49.080 Today you can see that 23% of our labor force is employed by the government of the United States. Another 15% of the American population are on welfare. 80 00:09:49.080 --> 00:10:04.080 Moreover, I believe that the liberals, as Murray would say, I don't believe in conspiracy theories, he would say, but conspiracies happen left and right. 81 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:18.080 And then he would add mostly on the left also. And you can see that some groups of American people are being targeted, I think, by our left liberal intellectual establishment to be corrupted first. 82 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:24.880 You can see that, for example, I said 23% of our labor force are employed by the government, 83 00:10:24.880 --> 00:10:31.800 but 44% of all black college graduates are going to serve the government, 64% of black 84 00:10:31.800 --> 00:10:36.640 PhDs are employed by the federal government. 85 00:10:36.640 --> 00:10:40.840 So this, I think, corruption is still going on. 86 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:48.340 We discussed today with John that how much will it take for them to corrupt practically 87 00:10:48.340 --> 00:10:49.340 everybody. 88 00:10:49.340 --> 00:10:53.460 If you would see that 23% are working for the government, another 15%, so it's about 89 00:10:53.460 --> 00:10:59.540 40% of American people already became direct clients of the government, having invested 90 00:10:59.540 --> 00:11:02.800 socioeconomic interest in expanding government functions. 91 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:07.660 How much will it take when these people would outvote all of us and would establish some 92 00:11:07.660 --> 00:11:13.660 and some kind of even more rude and more open socialist dictatorship in this country. 93 00:11:13.660 --> 00:11:19.660 Well, I would think, well, so the answer is clear and quite, I think, quite dreadful. 94 00:11:19.660 --> 00:11:24.660 From another hand, I would, when I was thinking about that, I thought that, 95 00:11:24.660 --> 00:11:30.660 no, it's not necessarily should be true, because look at the Soviet Union, 96 00:11:30.660 --> 00:11:35.660 look at the other countries of Soviet Bloc, where communism collapsed so suddenly and overnight, 97 00:11:35.660 --> 00:11:50.660 Everybody was a client of the government there, but the people, I think this human spirit still is above this idea that you should all the time be dependent on those hands who are giving you these handouts. 98 00:11:50.660 --> 00:12:04.660 Moreover, if you will, talk to people on welfare, which I did, because once I kind of, I would say, without any understanding what I'm doing, I bought a property in the middle of that disaster. 99 00:12:04.660 --> 00:12:13.660 And so I talked, and I was amazed by the fact that my neighbors, who were all on welfare, they hated the government with passion as well. 100 00:12:13.660 --> 00:12:29.660 Well. Why? Because welfare is a form of slavery. Every time you are getting a welfare check, you should prove to the government that you are a failure in life. You should prove that you are good for nothing except by receiving these welfare checks. 101 00:12:29.660 --> 00:12:59.660 and so in kind of in response they hate the problem there is that I think that left intellectual establishment also and the governments both both parties they created a system in which these people don't have much choices and that's I think that's again the slavery because how you can define slavery slavery is when people do not have choices because from one hand they face this huge welfare monstrosity which is providing them with checks from another hand to prevent 102 00:12:59.660 --> 00:13:19.660 Well, the spread of anti-capitalist mentality in the United States, in all western world, I was really depressed. I had like a week-long depression. I was in January in Europe and I visited the institutions. I was interested in that process of so-called capitalization. 103 00:13:19.660 --> 00:13:31.660 I was depressed. I had like a week-long depression. I was in January in Europe and I visited the institutions. I was interested in that process of so-called European economic integration. 104 00:13:31.660 --> 00:13:48.660 And I visited the institutions of European Union. You know that all European nations right now, 19 of them already are members of the European Union, which is supranational, supranational, I'm sorry, but also supranational institution in Europe. 105 00:13:48.660 --> 00:13:55.660 I was in Europe, governed by the faceless bureaucrats, and I had a chance to chat with some ministers of Europe. 106 00:13:55.660 --> 00:13:59.660 There are some people like that already, the commissioners, they call it, commissioners. 107 00:13:59.660 --> 00:14:04.660 And I chatted with a German guy who is the commissioner for environment and consumer protection. 108 00:14:04.660 --> 00:14:08.660 And what I heard is really, I mean, it's just really sad. 109 00:14:08.660 --> 00:14:11.660 I mean, I went there with my students, some of the students would say, 110 00:14:11.660 --> 00:14:15.660 well, the logic of integration, probably you'll need a common army. 111 00:14:15.660 --> 00:14:32.660 He said, sure, we cannot admit it openly, but that's our goal, to have another bright black girl student, and she said, well, what about common language? You cannot have 12 interpreters for every soldier in the army. 112 00:14:32.660 --> 00:14:40.660 And he said, well, you are kind of coming a little bit faster than we do, but maybe the logic will drive us even there. 113 00:14:40.660 --> 00:14:52.660 They are the same and moreover it looked like these people in the European Union visited several of their institutions in Brussels and Luxembourg were like made in one huge factory. 114 00:14:52.660 --> 00:15:01.660 They are all faceless, they came from Washington DC and they are attacking the same kind of things. 115 00:15:01.660 --> 00:15:08.660 They attack church, they attack family, they attack language, they attack cultural heritage of each European nation. 116 00:15:08.660 --> 00:15:17.460 The most ridiculous thing, I got a press release there, that they started a new program for socialization of prostitutes in the European Union. 117 00:15:17.460 --> 00:15:24.560 The idea is that it's not a bad kind of thing to be a prostitute, but unfortunately a lot of people do not like them. 118 00:15:24.560 --> 00:15:33.460 And they do not invite them for their birthdays, but it's just, I'm not making it up, it's a birthday party, maybe Bert will invite some. 119 00:15:33.460 --> 00:15:38.860 He would probably get a grant from the European Union for doing that. 120 00:15:38.860 --> 00:15:47.560 And so they allocated 4.1 million EQs, which is about $7 million, just to socialize these people. 121 00:15:47.560 --> 00:15:52.960 For them, they're giving grants and they can turn in receipts for attending operas, 122 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.860 attending all kinds of social things and stuff like that. 123 00:15:55.860 --> 00:15:58.860 So social engineering is rampant there. 124 00:15:58.860 --> 00:16:04.860 Europe was very depressing to me because in Germany, for example, with the public education they have, 125 00:16:04.860 --> 00:16:09.860 they have public universities, they're turning out great numbers of intellectuals. 126 00:16:09.860 --> 00:16:14.860 27% of college graduates would never find job for the first two years. 127 00:16:14.860 --> 00:16:18.860 They're stuck in this labor market. And guess whom they would become? 128 00:16:18.860 --> 00:16:27.860 They would become left, communist, disgruntled people whom I think intellectual elite deliberately is making them of. 129 00:16:27.860 --> 00:16:45.860 So that was very sad to see and it's, moreover, why they do that? I think again Peter mentioned that, that if you introduce government regulation and this government regulation would lead to certain dislocations, then you need more government regulations to deal with the first crisis you created. 130 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:56.860 So right now the idea of the European Union is that we are planning the number of college graduates, that's good, but we are not planning the number of jobs for these graduates, which is bad. 131 00:16:56.860 --> 00:17:04.860 So the idea is that if you create a cause, then you need another cause to deal with the cause you created before. 132 00:17:04.860 --> 00:17:11.860 So I would absolutely agree with Murray when he said that for the expansion of big government you need a real crisis. 133 00:17:11.860 --> 00:17:18.860 You need a crisis not exactly real. He said crisis can be imaginary, can be fabricated. 134 00:17:18.860 --> 00:17:26.860 The crisis can be real and that's what I think socialists of all tribes are trying to do today. 135 00:17:26.860 --> 00:17:40.860 Well actually we have the same problem in the state of Wisconsin which is all the same kind of approach that we should plan practically everything. 136 00:17:40.860 --> 00:17:50.860 Well, Murray, I think, made a lot of prophecies and a lot of predictions which also are coming true. 137 00:17:50.860 --> 00:18:01.860 Also, I think that Murray was the greatest intellectual of this century who devoted all his life in fight against socialism. 138 00:18:01.860 --> 00:18:08.860 William Buckley, in his obituary, if you remember, he attacked Murray that he was soft on communism. 139 00:18:08.860 --> 00:18:21.860 He even said that Murray was praising Khrushchev, which was the most, I would say, unforgivable thing for an intellectual, especially claiming himself to be a conservative to say. 140 00:18:21.860 --> 00:18:35.860 Murray gave us, I think, the deepest insights in the Marxian dogma. He attacked Marx in his seminal history of economic thought, I think, ferociously. 141 00:18:35.860 --> 00:18:41.860 The Marx exists only in the minds of that people who never read this book. 142 00:18:41.860 --> 00:18:47.860 Rothbard wrote that Marx created a veritable tissue of fallacies. 143 00:18:47.860 --> 00:18:51.860 Every single nodal point of the theory is wrong and fallacious, 144 00:18:51.860 --> 00:18:56.860 and its integument, to use a good Marxian term, is a web of fallacy as well. 145 00:18:56.860 --> 00:19:00.860 The Marxian system lies in absolute tatters and ruin. 146 00:19:00.860 --> 00:19:07.860 The integument of Marxian theory has burst asunder long before its predicted bursting of the capitalist system. 147 00:19:07.860 --> 00:19:20.860 Far from being a structure of scientific laws, furthermore, the Jerry-built structure was constructed and shored up in desperate service to the fanatical and crazed messianic goal of destruction of the division of labor, 148 00:19:20.860 --> 00:19:34.860 and indeed of man's very individuality and the apocalyptic creation of an allegedly inevitable collectivist world order, an atheist version of a venerable Christian heresy. 149 00:19:34.860 --> 00:19:41.860 So, Rothbard can say that Marxism is a form of religion, is a form of kind of atheist religion. 150 00:19:41.860 --> 00:19:48.860 He wrote that communists created the religion and declared it to be a science. 151 00:19:48.860 --> 00:20:12.860 Rothbard also, unlike most of my academic colleagues, he wrote that the key to intricate and massive system of thought created by Karl Marx, is at the bottom a simple one. Karl Marx was a communist, and that's again the truth which a lot of my colleagues would not even understand. 152 00:20:12.860 --> 00:20:18.860 The 20th century, as Rothbard said, was one of the most sad centuries in the history of humankind. 153 00:20:18.860 --> 00:20:23.860 170 million people were physically murdered by their own governments. 154 00:20:23.860 --> 00:20:31.860 I'm not even talking about people who perished in wars, numerous wars, which were also started by the governments. 155 00:20:31.860 --> 00:20:35.860 That you can add another 110 million on the top of this 170 million. 156 00:20:35.860 --> 00:20:47.860 I am talking about people who perished in devilish experiments over people in the dreadful Stalinist gulag system of concentration camps in Russia, who perished in China for 44 million people. 157 00:20:47.860 --> 00:20:53.860 In the small country of Kampuche, 3 million out of 9 million people population were physically murdered. 158 00:20:53.860 --> 00:20:57.860 Can you imagine how many executioners were there? 159 00:20:57.860 --> 00:21:06.860 How were they here? What kind of legacy, what kind of thinking you may have after these tragic experiences? 160 00:21:06.860 --> 00:21:13.860 And today we see the revival, unfortunately, of the same kind of dreadful and deadly ideology in Russia. 161 00:21:13.860 --> 00:21:20.860 In last December, maybe if you're following the news, the communists got 24% of the votes. 162 00:21:20.860 --> 00:21:28.860 The other people, nationalists, which are kind of nationalists, socialists, I would say the Nazis, got another 40% of the vote. 163 00:21:28.860 --> 00:21:38.860 So today the majority of Russian Parliament is constituted of national socialists, nationalists, socialists, whoever. 164 00:21:38.860 --> 00:21:42.860 But they are all for big states, they are all big statists. 165 00:21:42.860 --> 00:21:53.860 For me, it's amazing to see our national security policy oriented in support of Russia from time to time. 166 00:21:53.860 --> 00:22:01.860 We discussed earlier today also whether the Austrian should be a part of at least any kind of dealings with the government. 167 00:22:01.860 --> 00:22:10.860 Well, I kind of am in the sense that every week I am flying to Washington to take part in the seminars of the Department of Defense. 168 00:22:10.860 --> 00:22:17.860 The Federal Reserve, fiat money, fractional reserve banking, Human Action, Man Economy and State, The Theory of Money and Credit 169 00:22:40.860 --> 00:23:10.860 I find that the best investment you can make in our future, you know, all socialists are talking about investments in the future, and yes, it's not in a head start program, as our president was saying, but it's to make investment, it's to help Russian government, that you should send all your money, that's the best investment for our children, as he said, for our children, to have a peaceful 21st century, and what I would say, I mean, I was outraged completely, 170 00:23:10.860 --> 00:23:40.860 I kind of went berserk and whatever, I thought they will call military police after me, but that's, and again I was recollecting Murray, because Murray, he would say that the major thing of the major fallacy of communism, the major threat coming out of communism and socialism of all stripes, is the idea of corrupting the human soul, corrupting the character of the people, 171 00:23:40.860 --> 00:23:46.640 We know that Marx came up with the idea of the new man of tomorrow, who should be kind 172 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:54.780 of a selfless tax payer, probably a democratic voter and things like that, and this in America, 173 00:23:54.780 --> 00:23:59.180 in the Soviet Union probably a supporter of Stalin or whom not. 174 00:23:59.180 --> 00:24:04.740 And the idea was that these people in this future society completely governed by the state 175 00:24:04.740 --> 00:24:09.060 would have the ability to develop all their faculties 176 00:24:09.060 --> 00:24:15.300 in all directions. Murray wrote about that. He said that the idea of everyone developing 177 00:24:15.300 --> 00:24:20.500 all their faculties in all directions is mind-boggling and conjures up the absurd 178 00:24:20.500 --> 00:24:26.260 picture of a world of autistic dilettantes, each heedless of social demand for their services and 179 00:24:26.260 --> 00:24:30.660 products, and each dabbling whimsically and sporadically in every activity. 180 00:24:30.660 --> 00:24:44.660 This was exactly the case of Soviet Nomenklatura, where these autistic dilettantes, devoid of any skills, were selected on the basis of party loyalty and were ruining any sector of the economy the party would put them in charge. 181 00:24:44.660 --> 00:24:50.660 But I was thinking about that, that it's also applicable, completely applicable to what we see in Washington D.C. today. 182 00:24:50.660 --> 00:25:03.660 I'm debating the chief CIA guy who's never been to Russia. He's a chief specialist in Russia. He still believes that the Russian standard of living is about 50% of the American standard of living. 183 00:25:03.660 --> 00:25:12.660 I mean, just buy a ticket and go. And these kinds of people, these autistic dilettantes, are in charge of practically everything. 184 00:25:12.660 --> 00:25:18.660 I worked in the federal government and the government think tank called the US Peace Institute. 185 00:25:18.660 --> 00:25:23.660 The think tank didn't sink at all and was tanking a lot of your money there. 186 00:25:23.660 --> 00:25:32.660 Again, I probably mentioned that before, that the guy sitting next door to me, another peace fellow of the United States Congress, 187 00:25:32.660 --> 00:25:41.660 was Eugen Rostow, the National Security Advisor to Johnson, who I think was quite an eminent warmonger of all times and peoples. 188 00:25:41.660 --> 00:25:51.660 So that's again the same kind of thing, the same kind of thing. You can see the government bureaucrats are trying to direct not only this country, but other countries as well. 189 00:25:51.660 --> 00:26:07.660 You can see that right now, for example, there is something called Systemic Facility Change funds allocated by International Monetary Fund and World Bank to ruin these post-socialist economies. 190 00:26:07.660 --> 00:26:13.660 I was testifying a couple of times before different committees of the Congress, and that's what exactly they think. 191 00:26:13.660 --> 00:26:19.660 They think that if you dump a lot of free food on Russian farmers, they would actually prosper. 192 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:29.660 I mean, this is the repudiation of economics. Can you imagine this weak private farming in Russia, which was devastated by 75 years of communism, 193 00:26:29.660 --> 00:26:35.660 right now is competing with the United States Department of Agriculture. It's just unbelievable. 194 00:26:35.660 --> 00:26:40.820 So what we are buying with this foreign aid is just hatred towards us. And the more we 195 00:26:40.820 --> 00:26:45.300 pay, the more we are being hated. 196 00:26:45.300 --> 00:26:51.820 Well, speaking about why must we save America, I think we must save it for ourselves, for 197 00:26:51.820 --> 00:26:58.240 our children as well. This country, I think it's a unique, unique experiment in human 198 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:05.240 freedom. And this experiment lasted over 200 years already. And it lasted only because 199 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:35.240 I think we had a limited government, the government which would not trespass on the real diversity of this nation, and today when we see the tragedies in Waco, when we see the tragedies in Ruby Ridge, and I would say a very related tragedy in Oklahoma City, that's again we see the government which is stepping on people's shoes. I mean that's the most divisive government probably we had during this century. 200 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:45.240 The first lady who arrogantly again I'm quoting today's San Francisco Examiner, she was asked, she was in San Francisco today, I think yesterday, 201 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:57.240 yesterday she was speaking in this New Glide Church here and promoting her book, which actually is the book directed in a complete ultimate assault on family, 202 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:27.240 because her point she's making there that it's the government responsibility, not the family responsibility, and she was asked by a journalist, I mean, so who is the final judge about children, whether it be the family or the government, and she's saying, well, I think everybody has a responsibility, and then she, I'm quoting her, she's saying, the government, schools, employers, and then only families, 203 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:33.040 All of us are responsible for bringing our children. 204 00:28:33.040 --> 00:28:39.720 So that's the kind of thing I believe we should all the time expose, the any assault on liberty. 205 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:45.480 And these are, in the Soviet Union, the first things the communists dealt with was families. 206 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:52.080 Families were destroyed first, then came the church, 700,000 clerics were physically murdered 207 00:28:52.080 --> 00:28:59.080 In 1929 to 1934, they had the so-called program of godlessness. 208 00:28:59.080 --> 00:29:03.080 They even arrogantly were proud of the name of this program, 209 00:29:03.080 --> 00:29:07.080 by physically exterminating Russian Orthodox clerics. 210 00:29:07.080 --> 00:29:11.080 So we have the president who was speaking in Los Angeles recently, 211 00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:15.080 and he said, tax cut, tax cut for whom? For these people? 212 00:29:15.080 --> 00:29:18.080 He said, well, they will blow this money away. 213 00:29:18.080 --> 00:29:29.080 That's what I'm quoting him. It's better for us, he said, to invest this money into the future of these people, in the future of their children. That's what we hear. 214 00:29:29.080 --> 00:29:45.080 And I believe even if someone does not believe in free market, even if someone does not believe in liberty, but then just for the sake of their personal safety, I think they should get rid of this divisive government of these kind of things. 215 00:29:45.080 --> 00:30:04.080 Why? Because in the country with 600 million units of weapons owned by the people, the talks like that, I think, can create a real, not imaginary crisis. 216 00:30:04.080 --> 00:30:23.080 Well, the major point, I think the major case, the welfare state ideologues are making against free market is that the free market does not lead to equality between people and it really does not because people are different. 217 00:30:23.080 --> 00:30:31.580 I think we are proud to be different. We are proud to know that if you will work more than your neighbor, then you will earn more. 218 00:30:31.580 --> 00:30:39.080 And the system, also right now being distorted by all kinds of regulations, prevents you from doing that. 219 00:30:39.080 --> 00:30:49.080 But the continuing growth of this welfare state, I think, is mind-boggling and scary. 220 00:30:49.080 --> 00:31:18.080 Murray Rothbard devoted a lot of his attention to that. He wrote that we conclude with one of the great paradoxes of our time, that the powerful and generally unchallenged cry for equality is driven by the decidedly inegalitarian aim of climbing on its back to increasingly absolute power, a triumph which will, of course, make the egalitarians themselves the ruling elite in income and wealth as well. 221 00:31:19.080 --> 00:31:30.080 Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves at the top of a new hierarchy of power. 222 00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:44.080 Again, we see that the ruling minority is trying to use all kinds of excuses, whether it's spot-at-all or whether it's disadvantaged children, to get more power. 223 00:31:44.080 --> 00:31:50.080 Murray actually solved this question, gave a very good, I think, answer to this question. 224 00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:59.080 He said that the major reasons for inequality in a free society are time preferences of individuals rearranging their consumption patterns inter-temporarily. 225 00:31:59.080 --> 00:32:06.080 You know that you can inter-temporarily change your consumption pattern by borrowing or lending or saving or whatnot. 226 00:32:06.080 --> 00:32:12.080 And still here in America, I believe that this is still the case. 227 00:32:12.080 --> 00:32:20.080 If you will look at 100 richest people in the United States, 86 of them came from families with limited means. 228 00:32:20.080 --> 00:32:28.080 So 86 out of the 100 richest people in the United States, they got their money themselves. 229 00:32:28.080 --> 00:32:30.080 They did not inherit them from there. 230 00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:36.080 So I think we have still some skeleton, I think, of the free society. 231 00:32:36.080 --> 00:32:40.080 We have some basics which we can build upon. 232 00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:54.080 Then, talking about why we must save America. Well, I'm also thinking in what sense to save? I mean, what America to save? 233 00:32:54.080 --> 00:33:05.080 Should we think of saving America as a unified country? Well, here we can have, I think, again, different hints given by Murray. 234 00:33:05.080 --> 00:33:16.080 Following the great Jeffersonian ideal of a free country, I think he made a very strong case for secession for any nation or even a group of people oppressed by a coercive government. 235 00:33:16.080 --> 00:33:21.080 He made a very strong case against imperialism, war and intervention. 236 00:33:21.080 --> 00:33:29.080 And this case, I think, today can be substantiated a lot by the evidence we are getting from all around the world. 237 00:33:29.080 --> 00:33:34.080 In the beginning of the century there were 37 independent countries on this planet. 238 00:33:34.080 --> 00:33:48.080 Today we have 204. So you can see that the multinational states, the multinational giants like Soviet Empire, like British Empire, like other empires, they collapsed during the course of the century. 239 00:33:48.080 --> 00:33:57.080 And today we have this, I would say, real diversity in our present world. And the people are in charge. I think that's the first step. 240 00:33:57.080 --> 00:34:23.080 In the United States, we can see the cultural assault is trying to balkanize, I think, the United States. It's trying to create new minorities. Why do you need to create new minorities to promote a big government? Why do you need to protect certain groups of people, to create new voters for the further assault, for the further diminishing of freedoms, or whatever is left of our freedoms? 241 00:34:23.080 --> 00:34:33.080 Murray regarded himself to be a part of the old right, which rejected the globalony, I would say, of the welfare, warfare state. 242 00:34:33.080 --> 00:34:44.080 He was, I mean, all his insights into that are very, very important, again, in keeping the real perspective on freedom. 243 00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:57.080 And every country which is intervening into the life of other countries, which is coercively trying to subjugate other nations, can be free by itself. 244 00:34:57.080 --> 00:35:10.080 And if you would see in Washington this military-industrial build-up there, this gigantic blob of divested interests on this side, 245 00:35:10.080 --> 00:35:27.080 Then you can imagine how many people, besides those who directly work for the government, are working for government contracts, are subsidized by the government in this or that form, who also have the vested interests in this huge state. 246 00:35:27.080 --> 00:35:37.080 Well, I would say I don't know how to save America. I mean, Hans knows and he will tell us a little bit later. 247 00:35:37.080 --> 00:35:59.080 But I really believe that we still have a lot of things to save, that it's still a great country and that again explains why me and Hans and a lot of millions of other people are still considering this country as the most attractive country. 248 00:35:59.080 --> 00:36:17.080 And with all infringement of liberties we have, it's still, I would say, we're in a much better position to make this U-turn on the road of serfdom, of which Friedrich Hayek was talking in his road to serfdom. 249 00:36:17.080 --> 00:36:37.080 And it's again great to be a part of Ludwig von Mises Institute, which I believe is one of the major, or if not the major, intellectual driving force which knows the road, which knows how to get back to normalcy, how to get back to freedom. 250 00:36:37.080 --> 00:36:52.080 And I think we all are missing Murray Rothbard, but his legacy is, I would say, is all the time guiding us why and how we should save, I don't think even America, the human civilization at large. 251 00:36:52.080 --> 00:37:20.080 Robert is gone, but his power remains all about us. He is the beacon and the model, and for us as long as the printed word is available, there will be endless generations of Rothbardians. 252 00:37:20.080 --> 00:37:43.080 Is the World Bank and the IMF so growing? 253 00:37:50.080 --> 00:38:00.080 The governments of rich industrialized nations consider them to be very convenient in surpassing 254 00:38:00.080 --> 00:38:07.360 their parliaments. For example, last week the IMF declared that they are giving 9 billion 255 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:14.560 dollars to Russia. Do you think it would pass Congress, even the Congress we have? No, it 256 00:38:14.560 --> 00:38:44.560 And it wouldn't, definitely. They wouldn't even talk about that. But you can do it, surpassing, bypassing the American electorate, the American people. Moreover, it was just even announcements of that, because I'm subscribing to all the garbage from the World Bank and IMF, that's why I know, because it was not even advertised on CNN or anywhere else. So what we are doing, we are committing ourselves, the World Bank, to IMF, not we, they, in Washington. 257 00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:49.560 I.M.F. and the World Bank, and then they dispose the money the way they like. 258 00:38:49.560 --> 00:38:57.560 And without, well, not the way they like, I think that the way the Clinton administration wants them to do, but that's very, very sad. 259 00:38:57.560 --> 00:39:06.560 So, I.M.F., World Bank, United Nations, international labor organizations, all of this, I would say, rudiments of the world, emerging world government, 260 00:39:06.560 --> 00:39:34.560 of the World Government, they already are employing 275,000 people, 275,000 people, in New York, in Geneva, in London, these people are already in Moscow, in Paris, they still have UNESCO and all these kinds of things, that this is international bureaucracy emerging with its own vested interests in creating the huge world government, and that's real sad. 261 00:39:34.560 --> 00:39:51.560 Peter mentioned today Godfried Habler. Godfried Habler, before he died, he wrote an article about international bureaucracy and that's what he said is the major threat, I think, for both for peace because it's not people that say we need the world government for the world peace. 262 00:39:51.560 --> 00:39:58.560 No, it's not so. You can see what the world government is already doing for the world peace. It's trying to direct the so-called peacekeepers everywhere. 263 00:39:58.560 --> 00:40:09.560 The Great Advocate of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Jimmy Carter, who is on the board of United Nations Institute for Social Research in Geneva. 264 00:40:09.560 --> 00:40:18.560 He came up with a completely absurd idea. He said, our troops sent to Bosnia is an example of racism because we are helping white people. 265 00:40:18.560 --> 00:40:27.560 We should send our troops and kill a lot of other people, probably. Then it would not be racism because we are killing white people there in Bosnia. 266 00:40:27.560 --> 00:40:30.560 I mean, we should send them to Africa and kill black people as well. 267 00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:37.560 I mean, well, that's what didn't he say, but he said Africa is in a much better world situation, so we should send troops over there. 268 00:40:37.560 --> 00:40:42.560 And this is hypocrisy, because look what, for example, Russians are doing in Chechnya. 269 00:40:42.560 --> 00:40:54.560 The real atrocities are there. 200,000 people were literally murdered by indiscriminate bombing and indiscriminate artillery assault on these Chechens. 270 00:40:54.560 --> 00:40:59.560 And none of the great powers, governments, ever even condemned Russia for doing that. 271 00:40:59.560 --> 00:41:04.560 Because, again, I was debating this guy, he said Russia is our best national security asset. 272 00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:08.560 Best national security asset. That's the... 273 00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:11.560 And I don't think he is kind of a bleak and mediocre person. 274 00:41:11.560 --> 00:41:16.560 I don't think he tells what he thinks, because I don't think he thinks anything. 275 00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:21.560 But I think he tells people what he heard from his superiors. 276 00:41:21.560 --> 00:41:42.560 Do you believe that if the Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian countries are going to be swallowed up again by Russia, would the United States or NATO step in? 277 00:41:51.560 --> 00:42:02.560 The defense secretary, the one he was recently kissing, the murderer of Chechnya, Pavel Grachov, the Russian defense minister, 278 00:42:02.560 --> 00:42:10.560 who is saying he is his best friend. His best friend is the murderer of Afghanistan. He was commander in Afghanistan, then commander in Chechnya. 279 00:42:10.560 --> 00:42:21.560 Mr. Perry recently said that the United States opposed the inclusion of Baltic states into NATO because they are indefensible. 280 00:42:21.560 --> 00:42:29.560 I think that's kind of an invitation for a party, for Russians. They are indefensible, so that's why we shouldn't include them. 281 00:42:29.560 --> 00:42:38.560 I am not a great advocate of NATO at all, but this kind of argument, this kind of thinking is just really, really sad. 282 00:42:38.560 --> 00:42:46.560 Is the Lausanne Hill Four going to end? 283 00:43:08.560 --> 00:43:14.820 The war, I would say, of which that people considered as a religious war, and that, unless 284 00:43:14.820 --> 00:43:21.040 these people would be independent, saying Chechnya, they would never cease to struggle 285 00:43:21.040 --> 00:43:22.040 for that. 286 00:43:22.040 --> 00:43:23.560 And I don't blame them. 287 00:43:23.560 --> 00:43:28.320 I mean, in 1944, Stalin sent all of them to Kazakhstan. 288 00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:32.040 Forty percent of all Chechens died on the way. 289 00:43:32.040 --> 00:43:37.760 They put them in cattle cars, and they would not open them until they would reach Kazakhstan. 290 00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:42.880 So there were corpses all over. I wrote a book with Ruslan Hasbalatov, who was a speaker 291 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:48.320 at Russian Parliament. He's Chechen himself. He made this tree, being a boy, and he said 292 00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:54.440 there was, they were like out of 200 people in a car, they would put in a cattle 200 people. 293 00:43:54.440 --> 00:44:01.760 They had water and food for the first three days, and that was it. And no facilities. 294 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:07.480 And so can you imagine the miasmas, the corpses traveling with children in a jammed kind of 295 00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:23.480 In Bosnia I would say that definitely not because of this plan, I mean the plan which was signed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is just a blueprint for disaster. 296 00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:31.480 I mean blueprint for disaster, they created a new Lebanon there, they will have rotating governments, can you imagine, rotating governments? 297 00:44:31.480 --> 00:45:00.480 What are the odds of this, the odds of the situation developing in World War III? 298 00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:10.480 Well, I would, the major thing I would think, with whom? I mean, who would be part of that? 299 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:15.480 I think right now our politicians and military in Washington are enjoying some kind of monopoly on power, 300 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.480 in the sense that they will probably go after Bosnia somewhere else, and they would kind of hold it. 301 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:30.480 It's like every morning, they would read the paper and think where else to send our troops, and that probably would go on. 302 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:41.400 Russia can be a source of World War III, not because of their willingness to do that, but because they had 30 right now, and the CIE thought 6. 303 00:45:41.400 --> 00:45:58.400 Then it turned out to be 30. Right now they dismantled the major bulk of them, so it's 11,000 nuclear warheads. With the army falling apart, they still have, they're spending 27% of their GDP on the military. 304 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:20.400 So it can become a danger just because we never know, because as Winston Churchill, I like to repeat and repeat his famous statement that Russia is the only country in the world with unpredictable past, so we cannot predict the future for them at all. 305 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.400 China is growing rapidly. 306 00:46:50.400 --> 00:47:00.400 comes, but you can see that even limited property rights, when the people can keep what they earn, made China, I mean, at least that parts of China, prosperous. 307 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:10.400 And the same socialist system which they have in northern China, right now people are running around China themselves. I mean, there are a lot of northern people are migrating to the south. 308 00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:16.400 Then I think the Chinese, what they did, they kind of relaxed socialism in the countryside. 309 00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:20.400 In Russia, it's still socialism is in place in the countryside. 310 00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:24.400 Still the land, all land in Russia belongs to the government, publicly owned. 311 00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:29.400 Even the so-called reformists cannot even think of denationalizing land. 312 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:31.400 Land, they would say, it's our common thing. 313 00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:34.400 And so it's all in tragedy of the commons. 314 00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:38.400 I mean, yeah, if you have something in common, then we'll have a disaster. 315 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:45.400 So that's one thing. Another thing is that in Russia, the reformed circles, they never occurred. The property rights are not in place. 316 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:51.400 They privatized about 40% right now of their economy, but then they declared property rights null and void. 317 00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:57.400 To have a title for property, in a sense that you can be a private entrepreneur in Russia, 318 00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:05.400 but your title on property in Russia is the same as your title for property on wetlands in the United States. 319 00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:26.400 It's the same simple thought they have, their craving for power, nothing else. That's behind these motives of Russian officials to keep Chechnya. 320 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:32.400 They all the time attacking Chechen people as being murderers, as being criminals, what not. 321 00:48:32.400 --> 00:49:02.400 It wouldn't be nice if all murderers here would move, I don't know, to Delaware and succeed from the United States. I mean, who would care? That would be great. But they are trying to keep them in. Why are they trying to keep them in? Because Russia actually is an empire. And that's what our Department of State is keeping us in complete ignorance about. Russia is a multinational state of 20 so-called autonomous republics. You know, the Soviet Union had 15 so-called 322 00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:14.400 15 Union Republics which all got their independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, and 20 Autonomous Republics, so they had 35 different national, I would say, kind of semi-statehoods. 323 00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:22.400 And then 15 were let loose, got their independence, because Stalin in 1936, drafting Soviet constitutions, he made this distinction. 324 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:27.920 2015, our union republics and then they can go. He wrote that not for the real thing, 325 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:32.480 he wrote it for the people like Roosevelt in the United States to learn and rejoice 326 00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:39.400 how free the Soviet Union is. If someone would even think about being independent in any 327 00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:45.700 republic, autonomous or union republic, they would be shot inside immediately. But today 328 00:49:45.700 --> 00:49:50.840 we see this strange approach that it looks like nobody in Russia believes in Stalin's 329 00:49:50.840 --> 00:50:02.840 The United States government believes that these 20 republics inside Russia are Russian internal affairs, that we should respect Russian borders, things like that. 330 00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:08.840 And so they have 20 of these republics, they have about right now 110 nationalities living in Russia. 331 00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:16.840 I would think that they had like three empires, Cuba, GDR, Poland, Hungary, and what not. 332 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:27.840 And that empire collapsed in November 1987. Then the Soviet Empire itself, the evil empire, collapsed in December 1991. And right now we see the dismantling of the Russian Empire. 333 00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:37.840 And because this is the first shot in this kind of revolutions, that's why Yeltsin wants to come on them as hard as he can. 334 00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:57.840 And that's why a lot of nationalists, I mean, when you have a war like that, I mean, you can, they have emergency powers right now, the President Yeltsin has all power he can have, and that's a good excuse for beefing up the big government again, to have a national draft, national service and things like that. 335 00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:13.840 The only thing is that you will see that it's not only socialism which failed, but this kind of ideology, this kind of statist approach is failing because Russians, I mean Russia, with about, what, hundred times more people than Chechnya, cannot do anything there. 336 00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:20.840 I mean, you can see that the war is going on and on and on, and the Chechens, the freedom fighters there, are not giving up at all. 337 00:51:20.840 --> 00:51:38.840 War and Change in the Military, too, after Yeltsin's murder? 338 00:51:50.840 --> 00:52:20.840 October 1998. That's the guys when we're discussing things. That's what they think. They think they know everything. And then after that, they would say it didn't happen because of this and that. Yes, right now, Russia is is in a period of a very painful transition. Russia is a good example why we should save America not to be Russia. See, because that's the and the saddest thing about socialism and all kinds of government intervention, 339 00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:50.840 That is creating a way of no return. I mean, some people would say, why the transition is taking so long? Why it's? Well, because of vested interest there. But from another hand, the country was consistently ruined for 75 years. Consistently ruined for 75 years. Ruined not only economy, not only ecology, but the human beings were ruined or corrupted by the government. Families were destroyed. So the people, it's for me, it's amazing when I'm meeting Russian officials, 340 00:52:50.840 --> 00:53:01.840 I had a dinner last Sunday back in Wisconsin with some of them, and it's amazing, you can talk them out of their life-long system of beliefs in 20 minutes. 341 00:53:01.840 --> 00:53:10.840 In 20 minutes you can just... I made a speech about free market, things like that, they all agreed, completely, they were pretty cheerful about that. 342 00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:19.840 But I wouldn't... yeah, the only problem is that I wouldn't trust them for long, because the next guy they would meet maybe would be a socialist or a fascist, 343 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:25.840 And then again they will turn them upside down. Why this is so? No vested interest, no interest in anything. 344 00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:33.840 And this is very sad. That makes it very unpredictable. Communists right now are making come back because the so-called reforms failed. 345 00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:44.840 There were no real reforms, so nothing failed. But unfortunately for a lot of Russian population, they saw that they already had rampant, unmitigated capitalism. 346 00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:51.840 The Capitalism. They already have the free market, Detroit, and it failed. And this is very sad. This kind of mentality. 347 00:53:51.840 --> 00:54:01.840 So they hope right now with Communists and Nationalists. And we see right now that this Nationalists were very anti-Communists until recently. 348 00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:07.840 Right now they are merging together in some kind of National Socialism, which we call Fascism or Nazism. 349 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:22.840 And the communists, who by definition of Marx should be internationalists, right now are accusing Jews and accusing Georgians, accusing whom not, foreigners, whom not, in everything, which is, I mean, even Father Marx would not approve of that. 350 00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:30.840 And so again, you see this rise of nationalism, and these people want to keep Chechnya, they want to keep everything, moreover, they want to expand. 351 00:54:30.840 --> 00:55:00.840 Mr. Zhirinovsky, one of the leaders of nationalists, he recently wrote a book called The Final Thrust to the South, saying that right now Russia should forget about Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Baltic states, they should go and conquer Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey, Constantinopolis, liberate Constantinopolis from Turks. That's insane. And also the next Alaska is on the hit list. Yes, he said Alaska should be returned back also. 352 00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:07.840 so that's them 353 00:55:23.520 --> 00:55:28.440 they have some social democrats who kind of I would say 354 00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:34.440 I'm not as murderous and bloodthirsty as others, but they are social democrats of the worst kind as well. 355 00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:39.440 I worked with Grigoriy Yavlinsky, who is kind of the hope of so-called democratic Russia, 356 00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:44.440 and he is a social democrat with all welfare, state delusions and whatnot. 357 00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:49.440 He is against Gulag, against extreme nationalists, whatever. 358 00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:52.440 He got 5% of the vote during last election. 359 00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:57.440 So that's the only, I mean, he is at least kind of decent or whatever. 360 00:55:57.440 --> 00:56:03.040 at least not he would not murder you immediately at least so that's the the choices but there are a 361 00:56:03.040 --> 00:56:11.200 lot of right now intellectual changes was we had two russians at the austrian scholars conference 362 00:56:11.200 --> 00:56:17.200 in in auburn one of them was just really amazing he has his own think tank on his own money he 363 00:56:17.200 --> 00:56:23.520 works for lazar ferrer he is a single person he doesn't have any any any other he said more 364 00:56:23.520 --> 00:56:30.520 Bernard de Juvenel, the Ethics of Redistribution, The Theory of Money and Credit 365 00:57:23.520 --> 00:57:25.520 The Theory of Money and Credit 366 00:57:53.520 --> 00:57:58.520 They got the ill-gotten money because they were kind of communist bureaucrats or whatever. 367 00:57:58.520 --> 00:58:02.520 And they looted the treasury, they looted their own people, they became rich. 368 00:58:02.520 --> 00:58:09.520 Right now they're thinking about property rights, about sending their children to good schools and to feel themselves safe. 369 00:58:09.520 --> 00:58:16.520 I think that it's very interesting that this elite of practically mobsters slash communist officials, 370 00:58:16.520 --> 00:58:30.520 What after they got this money, they want property rights, they want the rule of law and they all invested in Western Europe and in United States all the money they got because they don't trust Russian government.