Elon Musk Takes Aim at Communism, Says It’s the ‘Bad One’

Elon Musk Takes Aim at Communism, Says It’s the ‘Bad One’
CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing "Cyber Rodeo" grand opening party in Austin, Texas, on April 7, 2022. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images
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The world’s richest person has made a comparison between communism and capitalism by referring to a cold-war era symbol of communism.

In addition to comments on Shakespeare plays and a California law that officially declares bees to be fish, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in a June 5 Twitter post appeared to contrast communism and capitalism by referring to the Berlin Wall—the cold-war era “iron curtain” that physically and ideologically divided Germany into the two worlds of communism and liberal democracy.

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