The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails — Nicholas Wade

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:00.0	You basically did something that I've been trying to explain for a very long time.
0:06.0	The biological reasons for white communism were.
0:09.0	And you give a fascinating example of voluntary communism, which was the Kibbutz system in Israel.
0:15.0	That was a wonderful natural experiment.
0:18.0	So the founders who decided in Israel they would not just start an
0:23.6	new, but they would build a whole new world based on a new kind of person who would be a good,
0:29.6	unselfish person. It's a very dangerous system when you don't reward people on the basis of their
0:36.6	merit. This is one of the big problems of not taking human nature seriously,
0:41.3	not accepting the fact that we have certain
0:43.3	behaviors written into our genome by evolution
0:47.3	because of our survival values.
0:50.3	Our instinct is entirely warlike.
0:53.3	I mean, we have genocide written into our genes.
0:57.0	Nicholas Wade, welcome to Trigonometry.
1:01.0	Thanks for having me.
1:02.0	It's so good to have you on.
1:04.0	Francis and I picked up your book a few days ago.
1:07.0	You know, to be honest, we have to read a lot of books because we interview a lot of people.
1:11.9	So it can sometimes feel like a chore.
1:13.9	But the moment we opened your book, we were like, oh, give me more of this.
1:17.7	Because he was so fascinating.
1:19.1	You talk, it's called The Origin of Politics.
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