Interview & debate with a Marxist, Swoletariat

Recorded on May 12, 2022.

Swoletariat's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCko8bu6w_OpE8DlKDubg9sQ.

[Add 35 seconds to get more accurate timestamps below. This is due to the intro I added for the podcast version about the audio problem at the beginning.]

Interview:

0:00 Objectivism vs. Libertarianism

1:33 My background, Objectivists in academia, and how I got interested in Objectivism

5:07 What’s The Ayn Rand Institute?

6:06 What drew you to Objectivism?

7:09 What observations of yours were confirmed by Rand? Mother Teresa and altruism. Are you religious?

12:09 What is altruism and where does it come from?

Debate:

18:36 Swoletariat’s view of self-interest, altruism, and capitalism

25:30 The meaning of selfishness and capitalism

32:12 Are police and military coercive? Drug laws and capitalism.

40:35 Swoletariat’s view of capitalism and its history

47:57 My view of capitalism and its history (Locke and the Founding Fathers)

52:44 Were the Indians coerced? Property rights.

1:01:14 Is capitalism’s origin necessarily coercive?

1:04:44 Capitalism and the meaning of freedom/coercion

1:08:46 Is homelessness a choice?

(More timestamps may be added later.)

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