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karl marx and his communist manifesto, bob, turned into a bad thing. bush swas swayze. proletariat.new twhearp talking about they wouldn't be yelling that number two, that guy spraying the cops, i hope he got his butt kicked in that foam finger shoved right up his you know what, also. he deserved a tough booking. >> bob: you should borrow my communist manifesto and read it better because you you are not right. >> dana: karl marx boss. >> greg: one last question to you, dana. why does the media romance violence? why is is is it so interesting to them. >> dana: not a lot to write about if there is a protest and no violence. you were an i had tore. here is my story. everything went perfectly peacefully today then you would say you are not going to get your finger. >> bob: where is your foam finger? >> greg: we got to go. coming up, oscar winning actress reese witherspoon first tv interview being arrested with her husband after a night of drinking and driving. what does reese have to say for herself? we report, she imbibs. ♪ ♪ >> dana: so a 15-year-old in america can't buy beer or cigar

take over jobs from the nineteenth century this is been going on for a while if you look at early karl marx from eight hundred forty this is what he was writing about this is where that all started and science fiction started that way too so this has a huge history and the reason why robots have not thrown people out of work is really simple it's because we've made a decision to still pete pay people even though their jobs got easier to do you know i mean it's really kind of a values decision somebody could have said hey you know it's so much easier to drive a car than it was. to deal with horses why are we even paying cab drivers people love driving but we made a decision that you know it's ok it's ok we'll pay people even if they're not as miserable as they used to be to do their work and that's really what created the middle class in the twentieth century the only thing that's changed recently is not people are still needed for the new machines i'll give you some examples in a second of that the only thing that's changed is by deciding that information should be free we've decided that t

take over jobs from the nineteenth century this is been going on for a while if you look at early karl marxfrom eight hundred forty this is what he was writing about this is where that all started and science fiction started that way too so this has a huge history and the reason why robots have not thrown people out of work is really simple it's because we've made a decision to still peak pay people even though their jobs got easier to do you know i mean it's really kind of a values decision somebody could have said hey you know it's so much easier to drive a car than it was to deal with horses why are we even paying cab drivers people love driving but we made a decision that you know it's ok it's ok we'll pay people even if they're not as miserable as they used to be to do their work and that's really what created the middle class in the twentieth century the only thing that's changed recently is not people are still needed for the new machines and i'll give you some examples in a second of that the only thing that's changed is by deciding that information should be free we've decided that

leftism is opposed to a strong religious yossi because karl marx said the obstacle to revolution is religion. because religion says try to be happy in a world that exists and leftism says make utopia here, religion says utopia is in the next life. those are part of the characteristics and they're all developed in the book. >> host: dennis prager is our guest for the next hour. the numbers are up on the screen, 202-583-5885. in the east and central time zone, 3886. in the mountain or out here in the pacific time zone where we are located today you can't get through on the phone lines and would like to attend a tweet@booktv is our twitter handle, go to facebook.com/booktv. you can post a comment under dennis prager's name, listed right on the top of the page. dennis prager, in "still the best hope" in the chapter why the left succeeds, part of the book what the left succeeds, favor groups are rarely to blame about certain issues. what do you mean? >> for example the most obvious being racial minorities, if they rape and kill it is because of racism and poverty. during the l.a. riots that took

and the defense industry they will extinguish life i mean the unfettered capitalism as karl marx understood it was a revolutionary force consumes everything commodifies everything human beings become commodities the natural world becomes a commodity that it exploits until exhaustion and collapse you know the way that our civilization is going down is not particularly unique or new when one looks at the study of collapsible as ations in ten years book the collapse of complex societies or the earlier anthropologists redmond. the difference is we have no place else to go we go down this time no planet goes with us and if those who have our at the moment continue to have power and then it's you know it's game up its game over we're finished benito mussolini back in the thirty's. invented or at least maybe giovanni gentile his ghost writer invented the word fascism to describe corporate rule when he broke up parliament replaced the elected officials with representatives of the major corporations call the the camero defy. process hero corporate see on as or something i'm. pretty my terrible itali

and it is sort of -- what if it was a karl marx history repeats itself verses commonly. i don't know what it is when you get to tie number three and four and five. but i think it is a real problem. here's the way the process works. if you -- i can guarantee you that this is true. if you are a senior partner in a big law firm at the time of one of these large firms failed, one of the things he did immediately was you would say to yourself, all right. just like it when it failed. you don't do that and we don't do that, we don't do that. we don't do that. lawyers are masterful at something called distinguishing adverse president. we all labor from confirmation by s. we are burdened with it. and then they move on. and, boy, was that ever stupid, what they did. and their eyes are on the wrong balls because the underlying -- the underlying -- the prevailing underlying trends are there for all of them or at least an awful lot of them, an awful lot of them. and you will see. abbey, sometime in the next 18 months i was not pretty to they are, but sometime in the next 18 months th