Bill Gates’ favorite writer keeps spewing out lazy clichés about Marxism being a “disaster” whenever it’s “implemented.” But he’s way off-base, and Marx deserves better critics.

Steven Pinker Doesn’t Know Anything About Marxism

Some things are eternal (Marxists would say “transhistorical”) truths. A will always equal A. (That remains true even if it doesn’t require cutting the top income tax rate, as Ayn Rand oddly seemed to think.) The Toronto Maple Leafs will never win the Stanley Cup. And center right commentators will criticize Karl Marx in weird ways without engaging with the substance of his work.

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