KASPAROV ON BERNIE SANDERS: SOCIALISM CORRODES THE HUMAN SPIRIT

Front Page Mag.com ^ | 3/2/2016 | Daniel Greenfield

[Beave Meister]

Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov lived in the USSR and he is not feeling the bern.

I'm enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself, and the ambition and achievement that made modern capitalism possible and brought billions of people out of poverty. Talking about Socialism is a huge luxury, a luxury that was paid for by the successes of capitalism. Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely. But the idea that the solution is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd.

[Beave Meister]

Burn baby Bern....It's over for you Bernie.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

[StormEye]

"A world become one>
With salad and sun.
Only a fool would say that.
-- Steely Dan

[KC_Lion]

[Objective Scrutator]

Kasparov is Rubio-loving garbage. A shame, since as a chess player, I admired how he demolished the Soviet chess machine and their stooge Karpov throughout the 80s and 90s.

[WENDLE]

Sanders is a knee slapping , belly laugh CLOWN. the few that would vote for this communist are simply parasites and want the property of others that own it!Free college, my A$$!

[tflabo]

Well Bernie’s campaign is kinda corroded away too. Shouldn’t that old man be enjoying his retirement already? The senate is like a country club and a hospice as well. The perks must be outstanding because they all want to leave in the stiff, horizontal position.

[Beave Meister]

“The problem with socialism, Marxism, fascism and communism is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm.... Capitalism is that kind of a system.”....Milton Friedman

[BeadCounter]

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Kasparov’s twitter, I look now and then, I don’t know if he is a big Rubio fan or what. He’s usually not too happy.

[GOP Poet]

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[FlingWingFlyer]

In other words, Do Not Feed The Bears.

[GOP Poet]

Excellent! Love this!!

[Objective Scrutator]

Post 5 I have a link from his own website where he more or less endorses Rubio, at least as the “least offensive” candidate.

[nwrep]

I think Kasparov is a relic of a bygone era. He is still mired in the 1980s. The rest of the world has moved on. People today, especially young people, have no recollection of Socialism or its offshoots. It just sounds good to them. Kasparov is a nobody to them...

[PGR88]

Sanders is a neanderthal. His unflinching support of a failed, 175 year-old economic philosophy that has literally failed everywhere is like believing the earth is flat.

[alexander_busek]

I think Kasparov is a relic of a bygone era. He is still mired in the 1980s. The rest of the world has moved on. People today, especially young people, have no recollection of Socialism or its offshoots. It just sounds good to them. Kasparov is a nobody to them...

But why is it that someone who calls America "racist" and points to slavery in the 19th century or Jim Crow laws in the early 20th century is not likewise dismissed as a "relic?"

Regards,

[nwrep]

But why is it that someone who calls America "racist" and points to slavery in the 19th century or Jim Crow laws in the early 20th century is not likewise dismissed as a "relic?"

Because those are trendy and popular positions. That is what schools and colleges today teach. Saying such things is perfectly fine...

[mom.mom]

-Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely.- ???

[Crucial]

Yes when I look at Bernie, I see an empty shell.

[aquila48]

Wise man.