Jordan Peterson delves into the reasons why Marxist ideology fails both in theory and in practice. For those like me who prefer to read a text, I have made a transcript of Peterson’s talk, with some light editing to transpose a verbal presentation into a written one. My bolds are added. H/T Chiefio.
Jordan Peterson’s critique of the Communist Manifesto
Since we are talking about Marxism, I tried to reread the Communist Manifesto. The first time I read it I was 18 years old, more than 40 years ago. When you read something, you you don’t just follow the words and follow the meaning, but you take apart the sentences. And you ask yourself:
At this level of phrase and at the level of sentence and at the level of paragraph, is this true?
Are there counter arguments that can be put forward that are credible?
Is this solid thinking?
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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