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The garbage pseudoscience that passes for capitalist apologetics

The garbage pseudoscience that passes for capitalist apologetics

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Carl Beijer
Sep 22, 2016
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Leftists are having a good laugh today about an article published in The American Conservative – Why Socialism Is Still Popular – which suggests that “evolutionary psychology may explain it.” Evidently that bastion of capitalist scholarship, The Cato Institute, held an entire conference on the topic, which is what the article covers.

I’m actually not as …

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