Communist Regimes | Prof. John Gray

John Gray speaks on Thatcher’s confrontation with communism and explains the real world negative outcomes of communism in practice. He also explains why China hasn’t liberalised and how the West often fails to believe the straightforward claims of communist world leaders.
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John Gray is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer.
Gray has written several influential books, including False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism (1998), Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2003), and Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (2007). False Dawn has been translated into sixteen languages.
A singularly original thinker, his books are widely acclaimed as seminal, significant and even prophetic.
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[@Uriel-Septim.]

How did we ever believe that communism was a good idea with so many red flags.

[@JoeBauers8]

Yeah, we’ll just pretend that communism is destroying the planet. No wait, that is literally what capitalism is doing

[@IsmailofeRegime]

What were the "red flags"?

[@vatsmith8759]

@@IsmailofeRegime Explaining a joke is usually a waste of time but ...

[@stuartbedwell8576]

He's so correct. Thatcher understood it in her bones. Cheers Stuart

[@Autobotmatt428]

She was one tough lady

[@angusmcangus7914]

@@Autobotmatt428 we could have done with her over the last couple of years. And now.

[@dongaetano3687]

Fantastic clip John! Brief and powerful. Old guy has a job going but can't wait to listen to all of it.
Have a younger guy here, 40's asking me questions, I'll have him listen to this.

[@TheLookingGlassAU]

Dr. Fred Schwarz a great Australian anti-communist

[@kaylenehousego8929]

" A mix of terror and deceitful diplomacy " a description of Putin which sounds true enough however could also describe the actions of our own politicians over the past two years....or am I being unfair, cynical n bitter ?

[@Toropetskii]

Cynical and bitter? Sure. But unfair? No, you've described them well.

[@stevenboyd593]

They really are quite clear in their intentions, the blind eye of the west was exacerbated by it's greed, they thought they could be the parasite unscathed but it has become quite the opposite

[@jimbocho660]

That's the very definition of international politics. The once brilliant Gray has either sold out or is going soft in the head.

[@Tonywozere99]

Is he any recorded debates? Pro or against the motions

[@jerryrichardson2799]

This was an excellent interview, I urge people to watch the whole thing.

[@dongaetano3687]

PS: Love the Aussies - enjoy Sky AU, cheery group over there.

[@MrResiman]

add one more Stuart

[@Imakulak]

LETS GO TURDO 🇨🇦

[@alongsleep]

Please have on John Mearsheimer

[@jamesmorrow1646]

Why?

[@pdd60absorbed12]

USSR suckered the Left, Russia suckers the right. Mearsheimer is a lollipop for suckers to lick.

[@alongsleep]

@@jamesmorrow1646 He is an authority on geopolitical realism and has been speaking about the Ukraine/US/NATO/Russia situation for the last decade or more.

[@robertharper3754]

@@alongsleep, he's a hack who spouts kremlin propaganda, he isn't an authority on squat.

[@alongsleep]

@@robertharper3754 That simply isn't true.

[@LeftLib]

It seems surreal to me that we carry on our everyday lives under the real possibility that Putin might use nuclear weapons.

[@vatsmith8759]

People have been worrying about various kinds of armageddon for thousands of years, all we can do is 'Keep calm and carry on'.