. >> host: you have a chapter in here karl marx was right. what does it mean? >> guest: that was delving back into the high school socialo and politics. the believe of communist behavior was people would get tired of this and there would be no ruling or under class. in some ways we are still very far from that but i don't think we are -- where i think some of what 20th century communist behavior got wrong and is world leaders tried to impose it. we are subconsciously learning we can work and cooperate together at the same time. the further understanding is we do benefit if without somebody else loosing. you know what i mean? so i think we are getting towards that -- we are getting closer to them undering and some countries are further ahead than others. but again i think of denmark and places like that. denmark is considered by many to be a socialist country. but one thing they do have is a very large trust among their people. and even the business owners understand that taxes and that sort of thing is necessary because they can result in say transportation sys

[laughter] >> guest: it's karl marx not groucho. that was i kind of delved back into high school sociology and politics in that one i think. marx, i think is associated with the dialectics, historical dialectics of, you know, briefly it's masters slaves, and then they have conflict between them that results in the two merging and the ultimate roots of communism was eventually people would get sick and tired of that, and there would be no ruling class and under class. in some ways i think we're still very far from that, but i don't think -- where i think some of what 20th century communism got wrong is some of the world leaders tried to impose it. but i think going back to the original definition of humans 3.0 where we're subconsciously learning that we can cooperate and compete at the same time, further to that is the understanding that we actually do benefit if -- without somebody else losing, you know what i mean? so i think we're getting towards that, we're getting closer to that understanding. and some countries i think, are furt

we know that karl marx described religion. and perhaps raul castro took a few tokes of the opium himself. perhaps this was the most important meeting of his entire life. it is not clear when he returns to cuba he will put words into practice. these remarks returning to praying and going back to the catholic church have not been published in the cuban media, but this are making the rounds in the italian community. >> ben, there have been changes in recent years to cuban communism that people are allowed to practice catholicism in cuba. >> reporter: yes, indeed. this goes back to the late 1990s and 1998 john paul ii visited cuba. the first time a pope went to the island after the cuban revolution. since then christmas has become an official holiday. catholic churches are allowed to operate again. pope francis is going itto cuba. it is expected this is the third visit by a pope to cuba. as time goes on, the visits will be more routine and common and religion and particularly the catholic religion will become more free to operate

before on the show, at a community college they went to in southern california, i was learning about karl marxass. >> wow you. >> could not escape marx. it didn't have to be a politically or philosophically related class. >> it exemplifies that this is the natural way you speak in academia from little boys being told not to fight and go -- and getting punished for being rambunctious up until college. kennedy: that's true, there's a war on boys, war on men, a war on white men and i suspect and you our idaho compatriots to continue -- >> just because we're winning doesn't mean there's a war on christmas. they come down harshly. >> are boston -- >> always with the boston. kennedy: tom brady, they broke the rules. now the blanket party. coming up, another looked at lack of commonsense approach to the california drought. but next, super agent ari gold here with his new book joining us in studio. you're not going to want to miss a moment. that's next. and choose world choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number... don't miss the memorial day special edition mat

all of this is combining to create a very frightening -- and unfettered unregulated capitalism as karl marxnderstood as a revolutionary force imposing limits stripped of external limits and exploits until exhaustion or collapse. even when you get a figure like ernie sanders and many of the issues i agree with bernie although not on the position of israel i think ralph nader has told us for some time the democratic party is a captive corporate power the republican party. there is no way for the american political system to vote against the interests of exxon mobil or raytheon or goldman sachs, it's impossible and that decision bystanders to work within that party and not call it out for what it is essentially allows them to act as a kind of sheepdog for hillary clinton and clinton's assault against the working class was perhaps even more draconian than that carried out by ronald reagan, nafta but on that this exploded the prison population the destruction of welfare, 70% of the children of -- were stripped of their ability to receive government benefits. glass-steagall, all of this essential

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some of the other people that are in that "lincoln in his era," karl marx and frederick douglas. i really tried to samptz a lot of different views of him just to give you a good sense of his culture. and i wanted to take the opportunity to read you the first paragraph from the book. i don't think you can probably read that but i'll just -- of all great national heroes and statesmen of history lincoln is the only real giant. this stateman by lee told is hard to dispute. abraham lincoln is generally recognized as america's greatest president and its central historical figure. and now i think the reason he said this and the reason we say this today and he's beloved both by liberal historians and conservative historians. i think the reason that's true is that he faced a nation that was so divided far more divided than our nation today. we're very polarized today to be sure. but it was far worse then because 11 states left the union. imagine they left and they created, quote, a new nation. it wasn't really a new nation. lincoln never believed it was a new nation but they thought it wa

my mother's father and my grandfather were introduced by karl marx's translator introduced to each other. she studied at the london school of economics and knew many of the leading socialists and became leaders. her husband, my father, was arrested in moscow in 1936. she got out to england and got a letter organized thereby eluding the english leftists and socialists including bertrand russell and george bernard shaw signed the letter to stalin asking for the release of her husband, my father. when i visited russia about ten years ago, we did a video on reason.com. we did a video and there's a picture of me and i have the files in the archives of the kgb victims and there was a copy of the letter in the file. it never did much good. he didn't answer. my mother's father was a member of the founders of english socialism. she spoke of meetings to motivate workers. her bodyguard was michael ross. later he also lived in russia. he became when he became to america the international director of george at the afl-cio. he always knew communism and understood it because of michael ross. there was

in an ironic sense, karl marx was right.we are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. but the crisis is happening not in the free, non-marxist west, but in the home of marxist-leninism, the soviet union. it is the soviet union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens. it also is in deep economic difficulty. the rate of growth in the national product has been steadily declining since the 1950's and is less than half of what it was then. the dimensions of this failure are astounding -- a country which employs 1/5 of its population in agriculture is unable to feed its own people. were it not for the private sector, the tiny private sector tolerated in soviet agriculture, the country might be on the brink of famine. these private plots occupy a bare 3% of the arable land but account for nearly 1/4 of soviet farm output and nearly 1/3 of meat products and vege