carl marx won this thing, 71-29.usical duos lennon and mccartney against jay-z and beyonce, 9-1 margin lennonand mccartney and sets up carl marx versus john lennonand mccartney. they pull that out. along with steve jobs they advance to the final four. >> all legendses, i wonder how many of those read the fountainhead. let's get to one more. this includes mlk. >> martin luther king and rachel carson, it's a landslide. j.k. rowling, and phillip roth rowling makes that. i want to see where you match up. i'm sure you would be at the top somewhere. >> i should say quickly, there is one more marie curie, the final one in the final four. those are the final four we're asking people to vote on right now to go to msnbc.com genius showdown and cast votes for that. >> that's fantastic. go online to vote and you can watch "up with steve kornacki" weekends at 8:00 a.m. on msnbc. stay with us over next week for the 7 days of genius. we'll be right back, everyone. you can call me shallow... but, i have a wandering eye. i mean, come

because bolsheviks as they are living out the words of carl marx -- karl marx, we have to go after the labor unions. mitchell palmer starts this new division where they are going to root out signs of bolshevism and labor radicalism and organized labor. these are called the palmer raids. they physically go to union halls in 1919, the early 1920's and round up people on suspicion of labor radicalism and agitation and the end of the porting a number of them. the palmer raids. the palmer raids were led by this general intelligence division palmer created, led by this zealous young investigator j edgar hoover. his endless career is just getting started. so when we look at the labor unrest of 1919, we have to remember -- where were the workers coming from? we know because we talked about this. the workers were african-americans at this time seeking to make real the promises woodrow wilson headset for word in bringing the united states into war. from the workers' perspective this meant more democracy in the workplace. in the context of 1919, the overriding fears have just become too much. too

he is a fan of carl marx wresh is not a fan of margaret thatcher. he is famous for saying things like greece's bail-out program is fiscal waterboarding. he calls jean claude the former head of the ecb, the idiot. the worst central banker in history. he has told hedge funds that greece has lots of leverage over its other lenders. it's called italy. meaning he thinks that if they let greece go out of the euro that italy will also be at risk. >> they'll get a better deal. >> exactly. >> and -- >> exactly. >> he has never shied away from the press even long before he was the finance minister when he was a professor. he was a frequent guest on cnbc particularly in europe and even those who disagree with him, think he is extremely smart. he is very critical of the structure of the european union. this is just an example of what he told us last week. >> i believe that a disservice for the european sxwrun the ecb to paint it as a monster that's about to pounce upon a member state and a freshly democratically elected government. i don't think the ecb is in t

and you write several decades have come and gone during which we've learned 23409 to mention carl marxte company or vocabulary and exiling suspect or nasty phrases like class warfare or the preserve army of labor or even something as apparentlyin oculus as working class. >> it has to do with the loss of a kind of alternative vision of how so site might be -- society might be working. and our ancestors were up in arms and had a vision of how things might be worked differently and various visions and they have known something other than industrial capitalism as a way to live. they were independent farmers, handy craftsmen or peasants from eastern and southern europe. they were small store keepers, petty manufacturers that lived in a different world and they knew they were both angry and knew capitalism was not their fate and they could imagine a cooperative commonwealth or the social gospel imagined a christian commonwealth or socialism or alternatives. in the course of the mid 20th century, when we became accustomed to capitalist ways as the only way, and to the market as the organizing

another part of the bracket, carl marx, left versus right. he wins that.y-z and beyonce. and they advance. they're still in contention. look on the other side martin luther king, rachel carson. martin luther king easily wins. jk roulg, harry potter and philip roth and martin luther king still going in the tournament in the final spot in the final four. tell you about that in a second. marie curry, dominant in the bracket. knocks off stephen hawking. and steven spielberg beats oprah winfrey, no match for marie curry. this gives you the final four in ultimate genius. this is the part where everybody can play a role. steve jobs versus lennon and mccartney martin luther king and marie curry on the other side. we are asking you to vote msnbc.com/geniusshowdown. who is a bigger genius. voting for the final four wraps up sunday. next week, we crown a champion. >> have you noticed that steve jobs creator of apple, is up against lennon mccartney? think about that apple records. >> interesting. jose. >> and lennon mccartney beats marx. >> any genius out there that c

and another region philosophies, carl max and rand on the right. and marx.beetles and then jay-z and then going with lennon and mccarty and so the two beetles have a ticket to the final four. and another region mlk and rachel carson mlk destroying the kpet ipgs. -- competition. and j.k. rawling and then losing to mlk and then marie winning over speelielberg and he beats oprah and so who the ultimate genius? voting is live now at msnbc.com/genius. you can vote lennon and mccartney versus jobs and next week the voting for the ultimate genius will take place. >> a lot of men voting there. i'm noticing a lot of men. that is very interesting and we look forward to the results of that. thank you, steve, and watch up with steve kornacki every weekend at 8:00 a.m. >>> and who are the greatest minds in modern history and you can tell us or creating a bracket and joining the debate and there are the four rounds and cast your vote at msnbc.com/genius showdown. and next week we'll show more on the genius. >>> and house of cards, genius and everybody can find out whether