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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1049 Harvard Student: Campus Left Distorts True Nature of Communism

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Laura Nicolae, a sophomore at Harvard (and whose father fled communist eastern Europe), made some waves recently with an article for the Harvard Crimson about the cavalier way the campus left treats the subject of communism.

Show notes for Ep. 1049

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0:34.7

Laura Nikolai is my guest. She is a sophomore at Harvard,

0:38.7

and the author of an article for the Harvard Crimson, the daily student publication, called

0:44.1

100 Years, 100 Million Lives Think Twice. And it's about what it's like on campus, in particular,

0:52.0

the way the campus left deals with communism. It's not to say they're all

0:55.2

outright communists, but there's not the sense of moral outrage about it that one might expect.

1:01.2

There's more jokes. There's more interest in actually reading and studying Lenin and Marx.

1:07.5

And so she talked about it. So this is actually a very serious thing. A lot of people died.

1:11.5

And she talks about personal story that we'll get into in a minute.

1:16.0

But anyway, just kind of just pointing out there's a bit of a double standard when it comes to communism.

1:21.9

So, of course, I'll link to the article on the show notes page.

1:24.5

And I'm glad to welcome Laura to the show.

1:26.8

Thanks for being here, Laura.

1:27.9

Thank you. I've got a link to your article up on our show notes page, as I was just telling folks,

1:33.4

so they can read for themselves. This should not be particularly controversial, what you said,

1:39.5

and yet every day the world gets incrementally crazier, such that more and more normal things are

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