Li: A tale of two political systemsīy contrast, the narrative that was apparently fed to Li when he was a “Berkeley hippie” is based on the actual experience of human affairs. Marx based his “prediction” on deduction his successors did so by imposing their wish, enforced by power and violence.Įric X. ![]() The Marxian version of communism has never come to fruition and, most likely, never will. The communist system Marx had in mind had no private property or of ownership of any kind. When Marx came up with his ideas about evolution of human societies, there was not a single country in the world that even remotely resembled the communist system he advocated. The Marxian meta-narrative drilled into Li’s head - and mine in my childhood and youth in the 1960s and 1970s - is a normative statement. Who would make such a rudimentary mistake confusing these two types of statements? Many people, including Eric X. The second statement is a preference, a desire, or a wish for a world to one’s particular liking. ![]() The first statement is a prediction - it is saying that something may happen given certain conditions (in this case death conditional upon having cancer). Imagine confusing the following two statements from a cancer doctor: 1) “You may die from cancer” and 2) “I want you to die from cancer.” It is not hard to see a rudimentary difference between these two statements. Li in the pages of Foreign Affairs on a similar topic to today’s TED Talk. The TED Blog asked Huang to expand on his argument in his ongoing conversation with Li. ![]() Earlier this year, economist Yasheng Huang ( watch his 2011 TED Talk) sparred with Eric X.
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