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.) #AynRand #capitalism #Marxism #coercion #freedom