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While it's my want from time to time, I think we're going to take a little turn here and get into something that I also think will be somewhat intriguing, not compelling if you stick with me.

For the first hour, I would like to get into a little philosophy. Like to get a little deep with you.

There'll be plenty of time for the other stuff, cinema and so forth, and I think I'm complicated. I don't know how people talk about it for an hour or two hours, but I don't.

So let us begin with an idea.

Ludwig von Mises, who's Ludwig von Mises? He's from what they call the Austrian school of economics. What's that? It's essentially libertarianism.

He was a genius. Fred Rakhai, he and he were close friends, Milton Friedman and the other two were very good friends, so forth.

And they had enormous influence on water-Williams and Tom Saul and Bill Buckley among others.

And one of the things he wrote in his book, Marxism Unmask from Delusion to Destruction in 2006.

He said, the philosophy of today is that of Karl Marx. He is the most powerful personality of our age.

Karl Marx and the idea of Karl Marx. Ideas which he did not invent, develop or improve, but which he combined into a system.

Are widely accepted today, even by many who infatically declare that they are anti-communist and anti-Marxist.

Even by many who infatically declare that they are anti-communist and anti-Marxist.

To considerable extent without knowing it, many people are philosophical Marxists, although they use different names for their philosophical ideas.

What's he talking about there? He's talking about people who embrace various degrees of classism, of centralism, of redistribution.

And ultimately in the end are not pure Marxists, but people who embrace the fundamental ideas of Marxism.

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