MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: What’s So Wrong About Pushing for the End of Private Property?

Chris Hayes Asks Why Rolling Stone Columnist Pushing for End of Private Property ‘Drove Everybody Nuts’ (Mediaite)

Rolling Stone columnist Jesse Myerson became embroiled in controversy after he published a piece in which he advised millennials on the type of economic reforms for which he though they should be fighting. Among those reforms were universal income, the forcible seizure of private property, the elimination of the concept of ownership, and state banks.

Conservatives bristled at the Marxism that Myerson was advocating and, on Tuesday, MSNBC host Chris Hayes invited the columnist on his program to investigate why this post met with such a backlash.

“Hoarders blow,” Myerson wrote in an effort to convince the youngest generation to eliminate private ownership. “Ever noticed how much landlords blow? They don’t really do anything to earn their money,” he added in a push to persuade the young to accept the ceding of all land to the state.