"Be very careful, indeed, with your call for the redistribution of wealth, and fairness," he said. "It always ends up with a mountain of skulls."
Noting that communism cost an estimated 100 million lives in the last century, he reminded his listeners of the dark saga in Southeast Asia in the 1970s that began with a "nice, mild-mannered professor" going to Paris to study Marxism.
"He went back to his country, and he instituted social reform," Savage said. "He did not like the mild capitalism that he saw in his homeland, because he felt it was unfair. And he wanted the rich to pay a little bit more. He wanted the bourgeoisie to pay their fair share. That's how it started. It ended up a mountain of skulls. His name: Pol Pot. The country: Cambodia."
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