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Aside from the graduating from Harvard at 15 or whatever, his philosophical/political thinking seems to follow the trajectory of a pretty ordinary teenage boy. One day, he's a socialist; the next perfecting libertarianism. In his early teens he swears off marriage and family; a few years later he's infatuated with a woman. Sounds like he wanted nothing so much as to be left alone with his books and his friends.

Needless to say there have been a lot of Communist intellectuals and successful types. I see no reason to single them out - fascism lasted a few years and capitalism does more permanent cultural damage than even Communism.

Chess isn't an IQ test, though being competitively good at it may signal intelligence. It is a skill that can be, and in fact must be, learned. What I'm saying is you can absolutely raise your children to be good chess players.

This guy is described as bright but was also intentionally well-educated. Nowhere is it proven that he was exceptionally intelligent. I don't think his father proved that you can teach intelligence; you could never do that with a sample of one.