Former Russian World Chess Champion Criticizes Bernie Sanders’s Revolution as ‘Dangerously Absurd’

The former citizen of the Soviet Union criticized Bernie Sanders’s “political revolution” as a “dangerously absurd” way to address the problem of income inequality.
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Former Russian World Chess Champion Criticizes Bernie Sanders’s Revolution as ‘Dangerously Absurd’
Chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion and one of the leaders of Russian political opposition Garry Kasparov plays simultaneous chess games in Tbilisi on February 16, 2011, during his visit to Georgia. Kasparov has become one of the Kremlin's most outspoken critics -- a stance that is admired in pro-Western Georgia, which fought a war with Russia in 2008. AFP PHOTO/ NINA SHLAMOVA (Photo credit should read NINA SHLAMOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
3/11/2016
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4/3/2016

For solutions, Kasparov looks not to modern day Scandinavia, Denmark, Venezuela, or France, but to early 20th century America leaders like President Teddy Roosevelt and President William Taft who fought against big banks and corporate monopoly.    

Born and raised in the Baku, Azerbaijan (then USSR), Kasparov was an outspoken dissenter of the Soviet Union as he reigned Chess World Champion from 1985 to 2005. In 2005 he retired to become a full time political activist and in 2012 was arrested and beaten while attending the trial for the feminist punk band and free speech advocates Pussy Riot.

Garry Kasparov is also a published author with his latest book called “Winter Is Coming: Why Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped" released in October 2015.