Prax Ben: Slaying TikTok Communists
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Prax Ben on why many communists are evil
2:06 – Gene Epstein's mother and the communists who knew
4:27 – Walter Duranty and "you can't make an omelet"
5:41 – From "not real communism" to "it was good"
6:52 – Bhaskar Sunkara and the Romanov children
8:06 – Upton Sinclair, Einstein, and Marxist morality
9:17 – How Ben researches history without a degree
12:59 – What a communist's search history reveals
16:59 – The Holodomor explained
22:24 – Why Stalin targeted Ukraine
24:26 – How the famine ended, and Western help for the USSR
27:22 – What starvation does to a person
29:50 – Joseph Salerno on hyperinflation and personality
31:46 – "Billionaires shouldn't exist" and the kulaks
35:13 – Envy and the war on landlords
36:13 – Mises' The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
37:23 – Mao's landlords and Allende's Chile
40:59 – Housing as a human right in the Soviet Union
44:00 – Lou's experience as a landlord
46:39 – "No ethical consumption under capitalism"
47:47 – Why free housing for all can't work
51:31 – Censorship on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter
54:06 – Mao, modern China, and Ben's trip to Beijing
1:00:23 – Mission work at an orphanage in Myanmar
1:01:27 – Baptists, Orthodoxy, and anarcho-capitalism
1:04:41 – Where to find Prax Ben and wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
"Prax" Ben Williams, the (figurative) slayer of TikTok commies, socialists, and statists, joins Lou to talk about his beef with communists, the Holodomor (and how to pronounce it), and why if housing is a human right you don't get to control where you live.
We also get into Gene Epstein's mother, Walter Duranty and "you can't make an omelet," Bhaskar Sunkara and the Romanov children, what a communist's search history reveals, why Stalin targeted Ukraine, what starvation does to a person, "billionaires shouldn't exist" and the kulaks, Mises's The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, the fact that even Soviets paid rent, Lou's life as a landlord, censorship on TikTok, Ben's trip to Beijing, and mission work in Myanmar.