communism

6 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2023 by Ben Horowitz · across every show →

Everything said about communism, oldest first

Aug 2, 2023 negative
Opinion
Ben Horowitz: Communism Concentrates Total Power in Government
“What communism really is in effect is it's not a distribution of power to everybody. It's a massive concentration of power to the small number of people who run the government because you remove a hundred percent of the power from the private sector and place …”
Ben Horowitz Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 1:02:54 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
Aug 2, 2023 negative
Opinion
Andreessen: Einstein and Oppenheimer willfully ignored Soviet communist atrocities
“And unfortunately, you know, the history of this is, is that, you know, Einstein and Oppenheimer and others basically chose to ignore the information and they chose to buy into a system sort of past the point that, you know, for at least for people as smart as…”
Marc Andreessen Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 18:50 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
Aug 2, 2023
Insight
Andreessen: High-IQ and abstract thinkers are uniquely susceptible to communism
“And so there was this, it was this very kind of powerful magnetic pole especially for, you know, as it turns out, especially for kind of super high IQ people I would say super high IQ people, super verbal people. Which is sort of a recurring pattern which we c…”
Marc Andreessen Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 15:38 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
Feb 28, 2024 neutral
Insight
Horowitz: AI is actual communism while blockchain is advertised communism
“AI is what communism actually is a massive concentration of power and blockchain is what communism is advertised to be, which is power to the people.”
Ben Horowitz Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 12:27 Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Opinion
Andreessen: Capitalist flaws are ten times worse under communism
“Any criticism that can be leveled against the capitalist society or economy you can just 10 X it. And you know, whatever it is, whether it's environmental damage or quality of life or whatever, it's just worse under communism.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 17:48 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
Nov 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: 1980s US Economics Textbooks Claimed Communism Was Superior to Capitalism
“American, common American undergraduate textbooks, economics textbooks, into the 19 eighties would stated as fact that communism was the superior economic system to capitalism, and they would have these charts of projected growth rates, and they would show tha…”
Marc Andreessen Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 58:39 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
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