you know i'm not an admirer of sartre mostly because of his continued his insistent dalliance with the communists and far longer than anyone with any sense should of. i see the economic miracle that occurred in china and india and while throat southeast asia and increasingly in the rest of the world as a consequence of the spread of the same sort of ideas that made the west rich it's just fifty years afterwards or seventy five years afterwards which isn't very long from historical perspective but the spread of ideas of that are associated with private property and capitalist interactions clearly what's listed lifted china out of poverty although not quite as out of totalitarianism because i think members of the chinese going as body of a interviewed them would say that's too too reductive do you think i mean i know there's some controversy that you've tweeted to promote the institute for humane studies which is funded by the koch brothers is there a sense of the very right wing and some would say extreme right wing use of your work the koch brothers of course lobbied for wars that kill

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