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Bob sits down with the managing editor of the Libertarian Institute, Keith Knight, to sample arguments from his recent four-hour video cataloguing sixty-four problems with democratic socialism.

Related:
Find More from Keith Here: Mises.org/HAP559a
64 Arguments Against Democratic Socialism: Mises.org/HAP559b
Keith's Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism: Mises.org/HAP559c

0:00 Intro
1:01 Why Keith Made the 64-Problem Video
5:47 Defining Terms: Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism
7:01 Workers Can't Diversify Under Socialism
18:26 The Social Contract Myth
32:11 Mass Production Is the Secret to Mass Consumption
44:33 The Monopoly Contradiction
47:39 The Donald Trump Test
53:49 The Welfare State Turns Humans Into Liabilities
55:05 Socialists Are the Real Individualists

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