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Jordan Peterson on why Marxism is attractive despite history’s record [Video]

Jordan Peterson is an extremely astute political scientist. Here he discusses what the attraction of Marxism in the present day is: it is not what you might expect.
In the past, Marxism had primarily economic appeal to those choosing it. A mixture of various tyrannical states, some capitalist, some allegedly power hungry in the same way, could be taken as legitimate points of grievance, where a person could point at the wealth of others and agree with the proposal that Marxism might offer a truly utopian path to some sense of “equality.”

Vladimir Putin is still on top in Russia, new poll shows

Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
According to a study released on Thursday by the state-run pollster VTSIOM, 83.5 percent of Russians approve of Vladimir Putin’s work as president as of the end of July.
This is slightly down on 84.1 percent reported in the middle of the month, but still far ahead of other major Russian politicians.
Here is the distribution of the respondents’ reported votes among the parties:

Putin to run for president in 2018

Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com

“Vladimir Vladimirovich, we have a request – we all ask you to register as a candidate in the next presidential elections, we would all be very glad when it happens,”

said the villagers in the Siberian republic of Buryatia via a TV link, organized during the president’s visit to the eastern regions of Russia.

“All right, I will think about it, thank you,”