Threat From South America | Axel Kaiser on Jordan Peterson

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with author and president of the Foundation for Progress in Chile, Axel Kaiser. They discuss the state of Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, the opposition leader María Corina Machado, 21st-century socialism, the rise of the cartels, and how the ethos of care undergirds economic instability.

Axel Kaiser Barents von Hohenhagen is a Chilean-German lawyer, Master in Investments, Commerce, and Arbitration, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He is the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Progress in Chile, one of the most influential free-market think tanks in Latin America. He is an international lecturer and a best-selling author of several works that include his Tolkienian fantasy novel “The Book of Asgalard” (available only in Spanish). His book "The Street Economist" became the most sold economics book in the Spanish-speaking world in the last 20 years, playing an important role in Argentina’s current free-market movement.

- Chapters -

(0:00) Coming up
(0:30) Intro
(4:03) Venezuela: you can’t vote out socialism
(7:14) A message from the opposition leader, María Corina Machado
(8:40) Socialism versus communism
(18:13) The links between Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolás Maduro
(26:52) How Venezuela stole a trillion dollars from it’s people
(36:15) The cartels are taking over, 21st-century socialism
(43:16) Why Canada and the U.S. should care about South America
(48:53) Supply chains are destabilizing, China is buying out South America
(50:07) America’s great mistake after the fall of the Soviet Union
(56:14) Venezuela right now: no food, no medicine, no vote
(1:01:12) Structure of the opposition, Machado is in hiding
(1:07:07) Why Machado has been so successful despite political prosecution
(1:12:56) Your country can rapidly change for the worse — protect it
(1:14:07) We have replaced the founding idea of the U.S. with the “noble savage” myth
(1:16:38) This conflict is much deeper than the purely political, the ethos of care
(1:24:34) When the maternal instinct manifests politically
(1:27:53) Javier Milei’s Argentina

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