*A few remarks and clarifications:* 1) The video contains ads due to the fact that I'm a student and am compelled to use every source that can help me secure a modest means of subsistence. The ad revenue is in no way an object of luxury for me, nor does it even remotely mirror the insane amount of work and effort I put into each and every video. So if you're willing to support my endeavours, you can do so with a small monthly contribution on Patreon.com/BalkanOdyssey. 2) I am in no way, shape or form an expert on Marxism-Leninism nor do I claim to offer a definitive analysis, explaination or solution of Marxist concepts which I apply to my video-essays. There are plenty of more educated, more-well read and smarter comrades in the comment section and I'm sure they can spot mistakes and inadequacies in my thought. If you're one of them, I urge you to correct me and offer constructive criticism in the comments. It's in all our best interest to collectively come to correct conclusions. The goal is to think pragmatically, not to obey dogmatically. Read theory and think for yourself. 3) I cannot guarantee that every statistic and information I've used in this video is accurate, nor do I claim that my own calculations and estimates are in any way definitive and unalterable. The estimates are shallow and purely for orientation, yet in the grand scheme of things, they probably don't even reflect the true magnitude of suffering throughout the past three centuries. In case myestimates are completely wrong, I'll offer an alternative conclusion in written form in the comments - I stand to be corrected. Thank you for taking your time to watch the video. Awareness and education are always the first step.
Exactly. It's incredibly hard to conceptualize a different world while living in one that so fervently insists on it's immortality and eternality. This was the same exact case with the feudal order itself. But we will surpass this one day.
@@goransvraka3171 I watched a couple of their videos. It seems like a vaguer project than The Venus Project or The Zeitgeist Movement. If those movements already exist, why creating another one as opposed to joining movements that are already more established? If all of those projects joined together they would accomplish something rather than different groups going their own way.
People still love feudalism. They obsess over royalty and try to start feudalist agriculture societies like the Amish. When we advance to socialism we’ll still have to monitor and control those cults attempting to preserve Capital.
@Spooky Based LibSoc 34% of millennials in the US now consider themselves capital C communists; not useless soc dems who like the color red. Class consciousness is growing, but these things don’t happen overnight.
I grew up in poverty in Kentucky. When I first heard the phrase, 'keeping up with the Jones's", I legit asked "who are the Joneses" 😂 I was in my early 20s before I ever heard it, too.
Capitalism is the exploitation of resources and labour/people and the externalising of costs by means of environmental industrial pollution and damage its predatory .
Great video. It's worth pointing out that Cuba, a country that the US has been trying to starve into submission for decades, not only developed a COVID vaccine, they also shared it with countries who couldn't afford American price gouging.
Cuba developed four different Covid vaccines before the U.S. had one. They also have a vaccine for lung cancer that the U.S. prohibits it’s own citizens from getting.
@@SpartanChief2277 I don't know who that is or how deeply-steeped in capitalist propaganda they are, so I don't know why or if I would care about their opinion. Marx has a lot of great info on communism, though, so I will stick with him and the people he inspired.
History is written by the victors, in this case capitalists. They try to pain every other alternative as evil incarnate, yet they have cause far more atrocities even today.
One of the best examples was a gentleman named Smedley Butler, who wrote 'War is a Racket'. He served thirty years in the US Marine Corps, up to the rank of Major General. In three decades as a Marine, Butler wrote, “I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a [gangster] racketeer for capitalism". Check out this Two-time Medal of Honor Recipient and former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. Also, I would argue that all through modern history, America has shown time and time again, that they prefer Fascism over Socialism, and have a tendency to confuse them both as being one in the same.
You know what's ironic? I once saw a video of a spaniard tourist filming video of cuban people waiting in line to receive some form of food subsidy. She criticized "the evil cuban situation where people wait in line to receive food". According to the world bank, cubans are less malnourished than spaniards.
Quick fact about the 1933 famine, 6-8 million people died over a timespan of 3 years, horribly high, it is a famine. 9 million people die a year from not getting food they could get, and we call that life as usual, the ignorance of capitalism is truly incredible.
"the ignorance of capitalism is truly incredible." You mean the ignorance and evil minds of Soviet planners, who did a series of idiotic mistakes (either on purpose, out of absolute stupidity or flaws of the economic ideology), which led to millions of people loosing their lives in one of the worst human-caused famines? Where do you marxists learn to blame every problem of the world on others? A lot of aspects of capitalism must be improved, I agree to my heart's extent, but socialism or it's end form, communism, is not a way out.
@@theriverthatflows98 Nice projection, fascy. I don't seem to recall you people caring about all the sanctions, embargos and other trade blockades that didn't allow countries starting from square 1 (since a revolution can only occur when a society is one the brink of collapse) to recover from the drought that caused those famines and instead said capitalism countries invaded and laid down even more death and destruction upon them.
One thought on that: World population has quadrupled since 1930. 1930, there were ~2billion people, today there's 8 billion. Population in eastern europe has roughly doubled since then. So 9 million starved people per year ist on par with the 1933 famine, by world population, or about double, by eastern european population. I'm not trying to say anything, just to suggest a full range of statistical perspectives, so noone can accuse us of skewing the facts. (not that that will stop them...) Also: Death to capitalism!
@@nos9784 liberals when Soviet Union shortly after revolution and and right after a war in a country where wooden plows are common and poor weather: you see socialism means no food Liberals when famine caused by Great Depression: you see um when uh the and cus because well the and you know is like yea
I saw Wall-E in theaters when I was 15 and it shook me to my core. It took me until I became a communist in my adult life to truly understand my reaction to it.
@@BalkanOdyssey_ No it isn't, capitalists love profit, destroying the entire world wouldn't be good for profit. In Wall-E, they're more similar to communists than they are to capitalists. They destroyed the world to take control of the people, that's beyond the realm of capitalism by that point. It's like how companies that use wood from trees also replant the trees. They plant more trees than most others in the world. Destroying the thing you make money from isn't good for profit. Wall-E is a terrible depiction of it.
You, Yugopnik, Second Thought, Hakim, Richard Wolff, Chris Hedges , The Venus Project and Peter Joseph are sparing me to have to do a lot of the awareness and education of the issues with capitalism - and allowing my channel to be a channel dedicated to the technical side of HOW we undermine and replace capitalism, especially through technical education, technology, decentralization and distributed networks. Thank you
Yet you’re typing your comment from an iPhone your purchased with your capitalist dollars lmaoo. Stop containing about a system you clearly thrive under and go move to a communist country
Do you have any way to be contacted? I read your 'ABOUT' section and couldnt find your email. I wanted to write you to discuss some ideas how to bring down the system. Im looking for techies to help out. Are you interested?
I always found it weird why deaths of Soviet civilians in WW2 were blamed on USSR, yet deaths of German civilians by the end of the war were not blamed on Hitler but again on USSR. Hitler literally did same things when Germany began to lose war, as Stalin did when Germany attacked USSR.
@@zexfafa2794 I would be German. Literally. Hitler wanted to Germanize Slovaks because loooong time ago alot of German miners and craftsmen settled in Slovakia because of our Mines. Nazis planned to do horrible and sometimes just weird shit.
HAVE HAD WORKED IN AGED CARE IN AUSTRALIA,WAS BORN IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA I WAS BLASED HAVING GERMAN PEOPLE IN MY CARE.THEY WERE ALL SAD FOR LIVING THEIR BIRTH COUNTRY, JUST LIKE ME.AND THEY ALL SUFFERED BECAUSE HITLERS IDEOLOGY. ALTHOUGH PEOPLE STILL THINK BAD FOR GERMANS I HAVE HAD JUST BEST POSSIBLE IMPRESSION FOR THEM.WE ALL HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT IS NOT IMPORTANT WHAT NACIONALITY IS ONE, WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHAT ARE YOU LIKE HUMAN
I KNOW, BUT WHAT WE ALL WERE THINKING IN FORMA YUGOSLAVIA IT WAS LIKE GERMANS ATTACKAD US DURING SECOND WORLD WAR, JUST PROVED NOT TO BE SAME AS I HAVE TALKED TO GERMAN PEOPLE HEAR IN AUSTRALIA WHO HAVE HADE SUFFERED AS MUCH AS WE DO
@@paulschlegel6637 lmao. Capitalism doesnt hate workers :D The states are the problem. Every famous point against capitalism is not a problem of a free market capitalism but states and regulations. Because when there are states you can buy power. Without this power structure you have no edge against everybody else.
@@jerrythelobster7 Move to stateless Argentina so you then have to drive everyday to buy food in Brazil. Capitalism depends on the state more than anything and the 8 hours work week was fought for by working people against BOTH THE STATE AUTHORITIES AND THE CAPITALIST PRIVATE PINKERTON THUGS. Without US corporate welfare and military inverventionism around the world, and/or the US military and other US government institutions backing American business interests overseas, American capitalism would be but a shadow of its state funded glory. Pro Tip: there will always be a state, and if you abolish the nation state, monopolies and company towns will become the new state. Politics comes from the word "Polis" which is the words for bronze age Hellenic city states, so, if you don't want neither state nor politics, I suggest you move to Europa (Europa with an "a" at the end, which is the Jovian moon, not the continent with an "e" at the end; since that would defeat the purpose).
@@jerrythelobster7 So if you don't want any state at all, then move to a boat in the middle of the ocean, preferably international waters... BTW There's no state so your house is mine now. I was born with more money than everyone else combines because my great-great father killed a bunch of Indians and took the land for himself, and there's not a third party that keeps property deeds of everyone in case I claim your property as mine with my fake deed on your house..., I mean, how can you know if its even fake if there's not a third party keeping tabs? My private courts (no state no local, national or supreme courts, no justice system, only the law of the richest and/or strongest) say that this document is legal and that yours is fake, and your neighbors aren't gonna risk facing me to save your ass because they know better not to. Monopolies happen, or not happen thanks to specific governments, not the state itself (your entire premise rests on a deliberate conflation between state and government) and in your hypothetical world, you're now living in my state and government. TL;DR: Just like King Louie XIV declared in his day that "The state, is me", it is now my historical duty to claim that "My estate IS the state".
The notion that Hitler was a “leftist” or a “socialist” has always made me chuckle. The Nazis only included the word “socialist” in their party name because socialism was popular in Europe at the time, and Hitler wanted to garner as much widespread support as possible. Insofar as their economic policies are concerned, the Nazis were pioneers in privatization and free market, unregulated capitalism. In fact, a large reason as to how they were able to grow their military strength so rapidly is because of labor exploitation and being financed by white nationalists on Wall Street. Hell, the tycoons in New York were such big fans of the Nazis that they invited them over to spread their political agenda at a convention at Madison Square Garden before WWII.
Free markets? With government fixed prices? But yes, Hitler tricked capitalists into funding his war economy (American funding as you wrote, mefo bills, etc) and used the state apparatus to make sure everyone worked enough. Hitler wasn't a "socialist" - because he didn't believed in a worker class - but he was a "national socialist" - or racial socialist - as he believed in an "aryan race" having to defend itself against a "jewish conspiracy". Hence the state, which represents the people or the Volk, massively intervened in the economy to turn it into a war economy, to end the "Jewish conspiracy". The state don't need to "own" the means of production, only to control them. Still socialist.
"because socialism was popular in Europe at the time" That is blatantly false. The only theoretically socialist country in Europe, at the time, was USSR. Although there were some movements of socialists in Europe, all of them were irrelevant enough and dismisses this claim. "Hitler wanted to garner as much widespread support as possible" And he did, without the "socialist" branding, democracy did it's job. Socialist branding did nothing to improve his popularity, due to the before mentioned fact that socialism had not much popularity in Europe. "the Nazis were pioneers in privatization and free market" Once again, blatantly false. Hitler's February 28, 1933 decree nulified the Article 153 of the Weimar constitution, which guaranteed private property, with expropriation only to occur within the due process of the law, thus efectivelly ending private property which was safeguarded by law, as we have today. The fact that they did not collectivize the lands is not enough of an argument to say that they were free market enterpreneur lovers or privatization geniuses, lol. They did indeed reorganize all industry into corporations run by members of the Nazi Party (IG Farben and the Junkers airplane factory are good examples), yet the same happened in the USSR, where there were companies (let's say Irkutsk's steel mill number 5 or Stalingrad's meat processing factory number 2), which had de facto CEOs/directors, which were controlled by the party and usually were members of the communist party (more precisely - the branch of the occupied country's communist party branch). "a large reason as to how they were able to grow their military strength so rapidly is because of labor exploitation and being financed by white nationalists on Wall Street" Blatantly false, again. Do you really think that massive industrial strenght, needed to produce war materials, tanks, planes, weapons and etc. could be funded by a few Wall Street rich guys? Come on, that is beyond naive. German industrial strenght had all needed elements to produce the equipment and weaponry, the financial "aid" by the few americans was very miniscule as compared to the massive scale of the industrial output Germany managed to create, even before 1933, so the Wall Street "bad guys" are completely out of the equation. "Hell, the tycoons in New York were such big fans of the Nazis that they invited them over to spread their political agenda at a convention at Madison Square Garden before WWII" You're probably talking about the German-American Bund, aren't you? I wouldn't call that movement "New York tycoons" exactly. A lot of that movement had people with german roots and it's pretty obvious that people, who see their fatherland prosper, want to unite and invite the people who are behind Germany's success, don't you think? (I'm talking strictly about the economic aspects, not cultural or other darker aspects). All in all, your typical socialist mentality of blaming everything on everyone else and the "did not do anything wrong" doctrine is really flawed. National socialists indeed had a lot of socialist policies - massive spending on infrastructure, social benefits, healthcare, heavy industries, social programmes for both children and adults, paid vacations to parts of Germany or occupied territories for good workers and so on. All of my mentioned things were present in the USSR, alongside the genocidal programmes, although the germans targeted ethnicity (jews) and the soviets targeted both class and nationalities (though ethnicity based deportations did happen under Stalin).
Imagine thinking national socialism is capitalism 😂 Hitler creating the largest and unified nationalized worker union and improved living conditions for the average low wage worker. Commies only complain that he banned all other non nationalized labor unions but communists countries nationalized unions too. Communists try to hold double standards about this because they accept their conclusions before evaluating evidence. Industrialists complained about how they weren’t even in charge of their own companies because the state had so much control. It’s called state corporatism. China runs this economic model too and is highly successful. And, some private industry isn’t bad. People aren’t bugmen. They need a little individual incentive too.
@@theriverthatflows98 The Nazis did use the term "socialist" in their party name, but their actual policies and ideology were not in line with traditional socialist principles. While they did implement some social welfare programs and government control over certain industries, the Nazi regime was fundamentally authoritarian, nationalistic, and anti-communist. They favored private ownership, suppressed labor unions, and promoted racial hierarchy.
Hitler was a socialist you idiot. Hitler’s regime seized control of all means of production, all means of distribution, all print media, and all broadcast media. Hitler was a socialist, just like all of the most hateful evil murderous but I’ll hate mongers in the last hundred years
One small critique, in the 18th and 19th century many of the diseases we currently label as preventable/treatable were not, vaccines were getting popular at the end of the 19th century. I think its fair to compare it from 1917 to this day.
Yes, partially. But, many of the diseases, if not the most of them, are not preventable by medicine, but by proper sanitation and proper nutrion. If you look at the data available for England and US at least since the end of 19th century the rapid drop of death rate, including from infectious diseases, happened in the first half of the 20th century. With social movements in the end of 19th century, sanitation and living standards significantly improved. While vax for most diseases, except one or two, is not the end of 19th century, but the 60s of the 20th. It is very misleading when people say that back then people lived 30-40 years, because of lack of medicine. Some, yes. But many rich people lived into their 70s and 80s no problems, and definitely did not look old at their 40s, even women. Proper nutrion, wich includes things like meat and butter are very important, or your body does not have building blocks to rebuild your cells, and you are old at 40, and even 30. Funny, how now our "rich saviours" are very concerned with how much meat we, the plebs, eat. 🤔 Just saying.
Yeah. Vaccines for most diseases weren’t developed until the mid 1900s and even then mass producing them was still a challenge. Even further than that, we’ve only genuinely been able to feed the whole world since Haber-bosch and the green revolution.
As a member of a post-soviet country, Georgia. It's difficult for me to understand how the violent annexation of a Democratic-Socialist Georgia in 1921, and our neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan beforehand, by the Red Army isn't an act of Imperialism and an example of totalitarianism and yet another contradiction of the Soviet Union's mission? Yes, Capitalism is good and Communism-bad is redundant, but I would like to see you argue the particular point of all the invasions and annexations by the Soviets, which seem to be brushed under the rug. Not to mention the post-annexation *Russification* and yes *Repression* of thousands of Georgian writers, poets, and scholars.
As a Left Communist, that it’s absolutely imperialism and this guy and many others are Marxist-Leninist. They’re revisionist and don’t even want to build a communist society, as seen in the Soviet Union, they believe the State can solve all our problems and enforce equality. They re not communist they are State Capitalist that rely on the market. The most Marxist thing about the Soviet Union is the name of their party.
I think channels like this downplay these sorts of issues because they complicate their arguments, which are limited in depth because of the format as a RU-vid video. I'm a marxist/communist, but I think this sort of wilful ignorance of history does nothing to advance these ideals. I'd say the reason the entire eastern bloc immediately abandoned socialism once they had the chance was because it was forced on their populations undemocratically by a foreign power, the USSR, just as capitalism was forced on much of the world through colonialism. No ideology, no matter how well intentioned or economically superior, will be accepted or embraced by people when it's forced upon them externally, and when they're deprived democratic rights. This is an essential lesson all those on the left should take from the 20th century.
Also do you have anywhere I can read in English on Georgia prior to the Red Army's annexation? I'd be interested to know about Georgian democratic socialism
That’s called business ethics. You have to do it with ethical guidelines. They do have the futuristic technology to do it, they just don’t feel like they have a need to care. They rather starve the rest of the population. They’re too self-indulgent in their own selfish ways and selfishness.
I love pointing out capitalism puts profit over human life, something which we say is priceless, has a price and value put on it for mere survival. Capitalism ensures that only those with money can survive, and those that have no currency cannot live long or happily, nor do they get the chance to obtain money needed to survive. You must look and smell good and have a place of residence to be employed or maintain employment, meaning those with nothing at all literally cannot pull themselves up “by the bootstraps” the only way to earn more money to survive is to start off with it, most often by having a bank account set up by our parents before we get our first job.
Every statement in this sentence is categorically false, capitalism is just an economic system that actually works, and socialism is just a collection of semantic excuses as to why people shouldn’t have to be responsible for them selves
While I certainly don’t agree with everything said in this video, especially in the first part, I’m quite disappointed in those that just deny all of its points and just dislike or leave an angry remark without elaborating on why they did so.
To be fair this video is an absolute train reck when it comes to logical fallacies. I think a lot of people (including myself) just aren’t bothered to argue with the Marxists over issues like this and are simply more content to make fun of it. I think this is mainly because there are a lot of points to address in a 50 minute long essay and there is no way you change anybodies mind threw a RU-vid comment section.
You could have spoken about the death toll of smoking, which is a direct consequence of tobacco industry while being the main cause of death in developped countries. Cigarettes cause 8 millions premature deaths each year. It means that possibly the total count is about 1 billion, or at least several hundreds millions ; for an utterly unnecessary thing, whose victims are totally avoidable.
Is your argument that people don't smoke under other isms or the death rate is low under other isms because not everyone got enough ciggerate? OR you could just blame the individual free will that possible under capitalism. You do want democracy dont you or would you like to exchange it with no individual free will for a communal will.
@@Thispondyboyi think his argument is that the capitalist companies hid smokings dangers for the longest time despite fully knowing it and the currupt politicians who got lobbied to do the same once the info was public which led to todays popularity .
As a brazilian communist, I’d like to congratulate you for the INCREDIBLE work you did here and all the other videos. You won my subscribe and my respect, comrade. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Capitalism is not failing, it is working perfectly as intended... There is no fix fo a system that requires exploitation, slavery and infinite growth in a finite world.
Slavery doesn't exist anywhere in the Western world, employment is not exploitation by any definition you care to utilize, and demand doesn't magically disappear simply because you embrace socialism. But nice try.
@@anthonymorris5084 1 - "Slavery doen't exist in the WESTERN world" even thogh that's an pretty strong assumption to make, I'll consider it, but that's exactly one of the points against capitalism and neocolonialism, we leave the prodution of most of the big companies in the hands of Asians and Africans, while they recive an inhumane sallary, everything in order to have cheap labor and enourmous income, and if you don't find that slavery-anallog work I don't know how to convince you otherwise 2- Capitalism literaly produces more than the demand, WAY MORE, it's not uncommon to companies simply destroy their products because the made much more than they could sell, and they obviously can't donate them because that would sunk the price market, so it's clearly way better to just destroy a perfectly funcional and high quallity product, that just as the guy you were comenting to said, made with finite resourses.
@@sneland Your characterization of foreign investment in Asia and Africa is tiresome and fallacious Left wing dogma. Any time a Western corporation opens, say, a factory in Asia or Africa, this is nothing but a good thing. Governments openly welcome this investment. It creates jobs, that didn't otherwise exist. Factory jobs anywhere in the world pay more than most kinds of employment. Numerous governments demand partnerships with their own citizens as a prerequisite. Last time I checked nobody in Africa or Asia was being rounded up in pickup trucks at the point of a gun and being forced to work in these factories like you seem to imply. Impoverished people, mostly those who live in rural areas migrate to the cities willfully seeking these opportunities to better their lives by acquiring these jobs. They make more money than they thought possible. You're (no doubt willfully) ignoring the "economies of scale" The average price of a house in Toronto is a million dollars. Not so in Africa. This is why a factory worker in North America is paid vastly more. Africans who lived in squaller can now afford a small apartment, maybe own a TV for the first time in their lives. Your claim that companies throw out products is so absurd I'm at a loss for words. Free market economics ensures supply meets demand. Market pricing ensures everything gets sold. If too many products are produced, this is reflected in the price. It's a natural mechanism within capitalism that doesn't exist within socialism, and a major reason why socialism always fails. When there are few products and high demand, prices rise. When there are too many products and low demand prices fall. This is high school economics.
@@snelandWho are the two people in american history that was/can be relegated to second class citzenship and be forced to do labor for pennies on the dollar while incarcerated. And then think about the cia’s numerous operations to boost crime rate in poor areas like literally dropping off guns in those areas that are known to have social issues bc they are manufactured by them or even just homelessness which is perpetrated by the government that can boost crime rate and then you have the big picture of how slavery exists in america today.
I'm a Syndicalist, but learning more and more about the history of socialism I begin to become more lucid. I don't think that we should do it exactly as back then in the marxist leninist way, but the soviet union was a great experiment. we should be proud of all socialists who fought for keeping it alive as long as it was and take inspiration from them. I started warming up to soviet history, whilst researching the GDR (I am german, but grew up in the south over a decade after the fall of the berlin wall). Initially I thought the gdr was kind of almost as bad as the third reich, but after learning about it in school we only learned about the Stasi (which was pretty shit tbh) but that was basically it. That was the only real negative thing we learned about the GDR, and also more or less the only thing we learned about them. Not so much negative stuff you can teach kids in school, so they didn't teach us a lot about the gdr. So I thought wow, there is not so much bad stuff that happened over there besides the stasi stuff and people who got killed while trying to flee. When I learned about the facts that they hardly had any homelessness and joblessness over there, plus gay rights from the very beginning (while in the west homosexuals were still put into mental asylums or prisons till 1969), strong worker democracy (but not that much political democracy, but hey, other opinions than socialism would be reactionary so I kinda understand) etc. Seems like a pretty good country. Actually it was the most advanced eastern bloc country. And they literally rose from ruins - they mention it in their absolutely amazing national anthem. Also they did actual denazification, while the west had fucking ex nazis in their fucking government. I think even one chancellor (ludwig erhard) was ex-nsdap which is absolutely wild. And on top of that, most gdr citizens didn't even want to abolish the gdr - they wanted to reform it. But when they had free elections reactionary conservatives rose to power and immediately abolished the gdr. After that they completely trashed the east and tried to abolish every good thing about the gdr to make it seem like a desolate poor region (which it has become now). Fucking disgusting.
The same is true about Polish Solidarność movement. People didn't want to abolish PRL, but to reform it and became more independent of Soviet Union. Nothing in the 21 postulates says anything about bringing capitalism and the shithole reforms Poland got in the end. A lot of older people are pretty fond of the previous system.
There was nothing leftist about the soviet union. Lenin was a class traitor in the end. The USSR was an imperialist state capitalist power that used exploitation generated famines and slavery to become a world hegemon. The ones who fought to keep the USSR alive where not socialists. The closest you get to real world socialism was the Catalonian communes. They where destroyed by stalinists and fascists. Core principle of socialism is democracy. Without democratic values you have no socialism. It is like you guys completely lose all standard for what is good when it comes to the eastern block. We fight for better than liberal democracy. We are not fighting for "but it wasn't completely shit". The only thing I can give the GDR was that they had a banger of a national anthem. Should be the national anthem of Germany instead of that fascist/imperialist garbage that is currently used.
@@MegaBanne idealism is not optimal and rarely grounded in material reality. You look at the soviet union and other socialist project from the perspective of liberal democracy, regurgitating so called leftist anticommunism. I recommend you to listen to people who actually lived in these countries. That is the only way to develop an honest understanding of socialism how it existed without damning it or looking at it through rose colored glasses.
@@_karla._ Really? You don't see me asking liberals living under liberalism if liberalism is good. If you ask people living under the tyranny of the CCP if doing so is good then you would have found very positive views up until recently. Should we abandon democracy, the rule of law, introduce torture as punishment, introduce gang rape as punishment, genocide minority groups, deal with neocolonialism, be racist, have capitalists run everything with small elite having most of the power (also what we usually call fascism)? The same could have been done with people living under nazi Germany. Have some dignity for gods sake. Apologists are very quick to blame the west for everything shit that happened after the fall of the USSR. But the east is just as much to blame as the west. The USSR was never even the slightest bit socialist. Not even close. Stop simping for marxism-leninism or accept the fact that you are not a socialist. I think you are an actual socialist so please stop simping.
This video was so depressing and infuriating. So well done. My only question is, the 7 million deaths caused by Imperialism post-WWII seems wildly low. There were like 5 million just in Korea. Not to mention Vietnam, Iraq, operation condor, and a hundred other things. Am I missing something?
nope! not really. I was making my own 'capitalism death toll' and while doing research, i found that america, arguably the deadliest imperialist nation in quite a while, had caused about 5.587.580 million. Its still very high, but probably not what youve expected. i included Vietnam war, iraq war, Afghanistan war and korean war. so my estimations were pretty close to his.
It goes well into the billions if you take into account the fact that nearly every nation on earth is capitalist and thus include all deaths due to capitalist government repression, genocide, wars, deliberate famines (which ACTUALLY occurred unlike in Socialist nations), hunger, poverty, slavery, corporate greed, IMPERIALISM etc...FOR THE PAST 400 YEARS - don't forget capitalism existed with the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century.
@@tavla123 capitalism didn’t kill those people, war against oppressive communist totalitarian regimes killed those people. Paul pop killed a third of his own country. China killed 100 million, Russia, 20 million, Germany 6 million ethnic Jews. These are their own citizens if you think capitalism is responsible for those deaths, you’re stupid. Nobody killed those people in the name of capitalism. Those people died at the hands of hatemongering Communist.
@VladTheLad no its just you blame capitalism for everything yes I don't live industry but I'm for a free market you socialists are dependent on government and always complain about the problems the government makes your ideology is fallacy
5:12 The destruction faced by the Soviet Union during that time was anything but unavoidable if you realized that Stalin clinged to the belief Hitler wouldn’t attack him since he was tied up with Britain, even shortly after he was made aware of the attack.
I view socialism as an experiment, a political ideology, and an economic system. I also see it as the duty of Marxist to look at current and past implementations of socialism to see where it had failed and where it has succeeded so that adjustments can be made to the ideology if need be so that the basic goals of socialism can be achieved what do you think?
The revolution of 1917 failed in 1922 when it got confined to the territory of the former Russian Empire instead of igniting a world revolution. Everything past that was living on borrowed time, trying to the best with their current situation. The French revolution failed with the last coalition war, but here we are 200 years later with most of the world(barring the few remaining monarchies) following the examples of it. It remains to be seen what is the true effect of the Russian revolution.
@Bell in Da Nightyes and communists didn't try to destabilize capitalist societies during the cold war...... I do understand that Communist countries may not be given fair treatment, in fact I agree. However, do not try to tell me there is no common thread of communist subterfuge that exists in historical events.
random degenerate - To tell you that no one tells up to present day. ❤️Socialism❤️ is a bridge to ❤️Communism♥️. Communism is coming regardless what anybody thinks or wants. Good ideas can never die.🕊️🌹❤️
@Bell in Da NightI'm saying I want to find a way that doesn't have to involve broken bones or worse. For now, the question is "in what way can people exist the best" with the argument being for Communism or capitalism or any other-ism. Meanwhile, the higher law of coexisting and thriving together can sometimes be forgotten
I'm probably writing this too late to be seen, but it's worth a shot I guess: First, as a German I have to applaud your pronunciation of German words. Secondly, in the first part of your video, your numbers seem slightly off. Maybe this is due to a little approximation error or a number you didn't specifically mention in the video. My calculations are still very close to yours, so the overall sentiment stays the same and I agree with the final conclusions.
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad our conclusions are the same in the grand scheme of things, numbers are essentially irrelevant yet they at least carry a certain shock value that could catch the attention from otherwise absent minds.
@@BalkanOdyssey_But this sounds like it’s a propaganda or news headline tactic. How many deaths were caused by capitalism, for example, only between the end of the Bolshevik Revolution and today? What about those from communism? How many deaths would have resulted if the entire world had turned communist prior to the Great Depression and every country had its own Holdomor?
@@BalkanOdyssey_ I understand your meaning in saying this, but the accuracy of numbers is still quite important and it's imperative we don't forget that.
Feel free to drop any amount of constructive criticism here. I'm open for a discussion. I also don't see how your bachelor in economics makes you more qualified at criticizing the system which you've been indoctrinated into by the institutions which are there to sustain it.
First and foremost, economics is a field of study. Which has been observed economic systems for the past 200 years. I've spend 3 years of my life going to university in a post communist nation where we've analyzed the economic system of both the western nations, Yugoslavia and it's republics, alongside with the USSR. Most of the books written about economics weren't written on pure speculation like the Communist Manifesto, and have numerous studies backing up what they say. The professors that have thought me, and others have also conducted numerous studies in the field and written several academic papers. With all that in mind, I am well more versed in the subject and the system than most people who do not have a background in the subject, and most likely you as well. Especially considering that my thesis was on the banking system of China, a "communist" nation. You dismissing that is comparable to an anti-vax mom dismissing a doctor saying vaccination is safe and good for their child, simply cause they read some articles written by god knows who on the internet contradicting that, and her choosing to believe there is some deep state conspiracy. Secondly, I get where you're coming from. You're pissed how the west fucked over Serbia and Yugoslavia in general, so you went down the rabbit hole of communist simply cause it goes against the values of those who have harmed our country. But this is not the way. You have noble intentions but you are being sucked down the rabbit hole of extremism and reading misleading stuff on the internet without any studies or statistic to back them up, and you're eating them up because it goes against the system that has wronged you. Thirdly, if you already want to go down this path, at least read other works of literature except the ones written by Karl Marx (which you even yourself admitted you didn't read), before you start spewing this completely one sided rhetoric. Consider checking out: Adam Smith, John Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. And I know this is a meme and all, but seriously pick up an introductory book to economics and at least read that so you are familiar with the concepts of economics. >inb4 propaganda by the status quo, indoctrination. If you want to talk about this more, my DMs are open and I'll gladly answer any questions you have. Toliko od mene. I što bi naši rekli, "Mani se ćorava posla".
I recommend Basic Economics from Thomas Sowell there is a free audio book of it on RU-vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dQiBD-crrvA.html
@@BalkanOdyssey_ You should also make a video called 'Balkan obsession with Yugoslavia and Titoism' if you want to prove yourself as an impartial, unbased and objective person, instead of just forcing the perspective that pleases you more and only making videos full of pro-left wing bias with your obsessions against capitalism, nationalism, monarchy etc Sometimes try to talk about the other side of the medal. Otherwise, you better close the channel because you are embarassing yourself. C'mon, be serious!
As someone who was born in country under colonial rule and military occupation by USSR in eastern Europe, when we were exploited, killed and tortured, when politics was dictated to us by people living thousands of kilometers away and we had no say in anything, and we were exploited to the point where our economy is still recovering... I find the total delusion and the lack of historical accuracy of this video deeply disturbing. ... The most delusion claim if how you ignore the fact that on height of Cold War 2/3 of the world were were communist countries (not one of them, much like my own country, was democratictry ruled) and yet you are so delusional that you pretend that capilaist were somehow stopping communism from working. There was no "sea of cappitalism", world was ocean of socialism. ... I suppose its like when Czesław Miłosz, polish critic of communism pointed out, that communist appologist claim that "the justice system in western countries only works for rich", yet those countries give citizens right to legal counsel, right to not incriminate themselves and so on, while in celebrated communist countries like USSR people that goverment dont like simply disappear with no rights at all, often with their families, and if anyone asks, they are also vaporized. ... To use old soviet euphemism, you deserve 10 years with no right of correspondence for this propaganda.
> 2/3 of the world were were communist countries (not one of them, much like my own country, was democratictry ruled) and yet you are so delusional that you pretend that capilaist were somehow stopping communism from working. Something tells me, you don't know much about Latin America history, do you?
@chromaticstorm787 Im not denying that communists could have been elected. That happend in my country as well, when people saw in 1946 Red Army as liberators and communists won election. But 2 years later they organized coup, took dictatorial power and we did not have election for next 40+ years, instead USSR militarilly occupied us later when we wanted more freedom. But you dont get to call that democracy just because there there were 1 election at some point. Democracy requires that people actually have voice, and so it requires new elections in some regular interval. When communists pretend that they care about democracy just to seize dictatorial power right after election, its not real democracy, even if they actually won that election. And if you believe it is "real democracy", then the same applies to fascism and nacism. And so AFAIK there has never been any democraticly ruled communist state in history.
@@robertvalenta422 Salvador Allende tried but it is disappointingly very hard to be Democratic Elected and then not getting Killed by Capitalist USA's Help and by the fascist Military and every one who is openly Socialist or Communist getting Killed. Yes it's Possible to achieve Democratic Success but the Capitalist don't like being told to give their Power over and will do everything in their Hands to stop that.
Your videos are excellent and your analyses are very clearly presented. But I disagree strongly on your analysis of the Holodomor. Ethnic Russian people did carryout a man-made famine against ethnic Ukrainians. That is an undeniable fact. Records of grain transfers and confiscations, then the subsequent relocation of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Russians to depopulated areas cannot be denied. The Soviet Union accomplished many great things. But we cannot point an accusing finger at capitalist imperialism and whitewash over the socialist imperialism perpetrated by the Russian Soviets.
@@SunsetSecondaryAre you sure? If a planned economy like the USSR wanted to keep their plans intact throughout the Great Depression, the Holodomor was necessary.
Ghandhi said that poverty is the worst sort of violence. Capitalism's origins can be found in the mercantile system, in which new sailing technology allowed western europeans to explore the southern hemisphere, and with the blessing of the catholic church, to pillage, loot, rape, steal, kidnap the peoples and resources. the blessing was that if they didn't convert, they must be savage animals, not entitled to human status. this mindset has continued to the present day, but at more extreme rates and with government and corporate collusion (fascism) to prevent the southern peoples to exercise sovereignty over their lives and property. this is papered over with "free trade ideology" giving the veneer or appearance of the rule of law, but which is skewed towards the corporate goals of maximum expropriation of goods and resources and minimum wages, leading to almost free profits. this means that we are all complicit in this monstrous system. how do we get out?
Great point about American food waste, so very true. This generation throws all food away. I remember my YIA YIA and Papou eating EVERY part of the lamb🇬🇷My kids have learned to not waste food!
I myself, is from the current generation and i’m shocked! Why are people my age so willing to waste food? As you said “My γιαγιά and Παππου eat EVERY part of the lamb.” My γιαγιά and Παππου eat everything too. So do my parents. I’m truely shocked on what children of my generation do.
That's just a small part of food waste though. Many farmers told me that around half of their produce won't be bought by supermarkets because it's slightly blemished or has imperfect shapes, and is left to rot in the fields because the cost of picking it would eat away at their already slim margins (because big chains also pay a pittance to farmers while cranking up prices for the consumers). I'm sure this is a widespread phenomenon.
the UK starved more people in india during ww2 than the total amount who died from battle in europe and russia during the war. but i guess that doesnt matter because they arent eurocentric enough to be considered human by us hw!te folks
Imagine, 1 day we all just stop working, i mean *everyone*. Imagine how 1 day of non-compliance towards this abhorrent system can damage those in power. It seems so simple. But capitalism has worked too hard to make sure this is never a reality.
Its ok to say ur lazy. You dont have to hide behind some mask of "justice for the weak". Go collect unemployment and enjoy your vices that capitalism has created.
Saw your channel for the first time about two years ago and thought it was interesting but I didn’t trust it cause of your nationalism and then suddenly you pop up in my feed two years later with one of the best and most comprehensive videos on capitalism I’ve ever seen
Mid 30s and still no idea if there's a name for my truth, I just call it simple humanitarianism/ pro compassion. With all the shouting about Socialism vs Capitalism and points on both sides (and sometimes decent ones - country should have good fiscal plans, but not at the expense of its citizens; on the other hand, some private owning of property is good, but hoarding is not,) all I can say is: if your system has the resources to keep people alive and happy, and you deny those items and services in the name of profit, you aren't functional, you're evil, by the objective definition delineated by Dr. Peck: "Evil is the CONSCIOUS CHOICE to not show compassion to the other." But, that There's a simple and good foundation to strive for, though!
a) The number one cause of death, besides death by old age, is Religion b) The primary cause I got good grades at college is the Breasts of my girlfriend c) The core motivation behind criminals to commit crimes, is the Courage to be Free ... I think anyone sees the problems with these statements To prove a correlation between two variables is NOT to simply associate concepts by proximity, even if connected at 1st or 2nd degree. It doesn't work like that. You are saying what _some_ people want to listen, and building post hoc rationalizations for that. ... and you did that for 52 minutes straight, that's incredible.
@@julianhudson2113 We are, but not only "responsible and modern social management" requires more than our peak natural performance on that, but ALSO our brain is extremely biased when interpreting/giving meaning to collected data. ... this is why Science exists - it systematically cuts out our failures, and allows Nature to be the final arbitre of the true worth of our collected data. so to sum up: we are good at pattern recognition, but not enough to tell 'facts from fiction' at a deeper level.
My guy, I myself am Bosnian , pa pozdrav, This is the only channel I have notifications on, if I had the money id support you on patron 100, but ya know, I am from Bosnia. and btw kind of mad you spoiled Kapital by marks for me, I just bought it.
@Balkan Odyssey You completely forgot about the famines in Iran in the First and Second World Wars During World War I, Iran's population went from 18 million Before the war to 8 million after World War II also killed 3 million people from famine, attacked a neutral country just for oil, and killed millions
The incredible fact that you didn't even start in the year 1600, where capitalism began and the whole world besides europe suffered under worse living conditions because of the colonialists makes these numbers even worse. Hakims video "this poverty graph is lying to you" explains this situation very well
It would make more sense to start when the Bolshevik Revolution ended. It is unfair to compare two unequal time periods if communism hasn’t had much time to work its magic, relatively speaking.
I don’t see how that’s possible unless we have very short, non-renewable terms for government offices, but that may do more harm than good if new people keep getting elected and all they end up doing is getting rid of the old guys’ changes.
YOU DID ABSOLUTE OWNAGE IN THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please pardon my message Balkan Odyssey ( I know it might seem exaggerated, but I did guineally have those feeling described down ) "Honestly... This gave me SOO MANY GOOSEBUMPS. If I thought that your Germany video was the best... then... nope... You have by far exceed that! 2 GOOSEBUMPS in row when you concluded Systemic violence (I literally had to pause, snap my fingers, and was in utter shock for like 5 minutes saying, "that was straight up ownage" and explain fascism. owned Capitalism with this video. (Lately, I have seen your political views slowly change, so I don't know if still same germany in the same light since a lot of people for let say the " The internet left" might put germany as part of the western liberal I guess imperialist I guess (I have watch a couple socialist stuff on youtube lately; however, I am still very apolitically and I don't want get into something that I am very uneducated xd but I found this really interesting and might even make want to read what you guys say "Theory" just so I an understand what is really going on in out World today in I guess a Marxist lense.) I don't know. I personally don't want to get political anytime... Not unless I at least purse and education in poltiical science, but SUPER INTRESTING VIDEO. HONESTLY FOR ME, This might be the best video you made. Hell, I have bought sonic blast just watch video while I am eating.... It defenitilty worth it while watching. I really love the presenation of this video. Hopefullly, I do stand correct in the future (Since I mostly get poltical knowldege from soundbites, and like I said, I am not really politically), but if all the things that you said about Capitalism is true and that Capitalism really is just what it is and not corruption or cronism then you HANDS DOWN DESTROY CAPAITALLISM IN THIS VIDEO!!!!! sorry I could contain the feeling that you gave me, As someone who has been watching you channel since 2015, man Serbian Mapping (Balkan Odyssey) I might not comment on your videos much, I still seen you (I am litttle scared to get in dusscion I lack knowledge in). YOU HAVE CAME SUCH A LONG DAMN WAY.... It so weird to say I am truly proud of the direction you taken lately. I am see you want to inform people to make the world a better place. I really hope that I am not be mis-informed (but I can trust with a grain-salt... To be fair, I will still take everything you say with this video with a grain salt until I do my own research which I am to lazy to do, but I know you make these video because you know a better future beyond what we have and you really want to really want to change it) but I can't help to see you as AN HEROIC MESSENAGER. Dude, you are a fucking hero and you journey is only beginning! *edit 1: I might even show this video to my family *pardon my grammar and spelling errors mistakes, (I could honestly go more on impressed I not fron political stand point but from a presentation standpoint) I was not able to finish to this comment I was in rush xd
Thank you very much for the passionate and honest feedback and support. I truly appreciate every single bit of it. All I can say is - stay tuned, as there will only be more, even more thoroughly researched, even more high-quality video-essays regarding other topics, but also communism/marxism - including the upcoming video-series where I will debunk populsr reactionary anti-communist rhetoric and slander. Marxist theory is truly accessible, as its all available for free as pdf in many online libraries and most of the introductory works (6-7 books) are not longer than 50-100 pages. You can truly go through everything necessary to have an educated conversation in under 2-3 weeks. Don't let lazyness get in your way of political enlightenment. It's more important and more manageable by your own hands than it may seem. Thank you once again and have a nice day.
@@seanshankredemption1603 Excellent. I think those were my favourites but I read pretty much everything one after another years ago so it's kind of blurred together in my brain now. But honestly, whilst his books often go into better detail and have sources, the man was born to speak to an audience. He's so good at it. Highly recommend his Rambo one. I'd type the full name but last time I did that YT deleted my comment. Fun.
36:20 "Ignoring the fact that the peculiar islands of socialism would not be able to withstand these imperialist pressures without a strong central state." In other words, not socialism. That's statism. A strong central state above the people, no matter how benign or benevolent, is not socialism or socialistic. It is statist. Socialism requires "democracy from below," which does not mean "vote for who will rule from above" or even "anyone can participate in government, but government still remains autonomous and above the people it governs." It means that the working people themselves are the government through common democracy. A strong central state rejects that principle of democracy by putting the actual decision-making power in the hands of the state, which is not nor should it ever be conflated with the public. Conflating "better" or "more democratic" or other things with socialism/communism is a mistake that socialists make all too often just to declare SOME progress or success for the movement. Don't make that mistake. Stalin did that. Mao did that. We should be critical of those claims, not follow in their footsteps like lemmings. Making the claims of "that's a socialist country" or "that's a socialist economy" only lends credibility to anti-socialist arguments about what socialism really is, and why it has nothing to do any of the arguments made by Marx, Lenin etc. Socialism is supposed to be the phase of communism (the lowest phase) where society transitions from top-down control to bottom-up control, but it can't do that by consolidating control within a strong central state, whatever the justification (like external imperialist pressures). It is fine to talk about "better" or "more democratic" or "socialist movements" and other things of that nature (so long as they're accurate, and not mislabeled for expedience), but leave claims of "socialism" and "socialist economy" out of it so that the job of socialists advocating for socialism is not hindered by expedience feeding the need to feel vindicated. Calling it "real existing socialism" hurts the socialist movement even more than right wingers slinging mud because it comes from people who claim to want socialism, who point to people like Marx and Lenin as the basis for their arguments, and who subsequently REJECT the arguments of Marx and Lenin etc by supporting their examples of "real existing socialism" as socialism. Otherwise this is a really good video that highlights some important things that capitalists WILL NOT allow themselves to think about.
@@caroline7648 sometimes when a broken system sucks, it's better that a stronger outside power takes over. For the good of everyone. What kills us and has always killed great empires is corruption
Imperialism is one of capitalism's features, The root of the issue with this system is that profit needs to be accumulated and, in order to make that happen, anything can go on the table. And since imperialism already was a thing, why not keep oppressing other nations in the name of profit? We mention it so much because USA made it a big deal. It's undeniably the greatest empire in mankind's history; it exerts control over most of the world economically, culturally and militarily.
@@Alex_Gagnon I don't answer to you, and I'm free to express any comment I wish. Blaming 3.4 billion deaths on capitalism is hyperbolic nonsense. It's intellectually juvenile. It's a vapid, childish tantrum. On the contrary, data proves that capitalism has saved lives and lifted billions out of poverty. The fact there are millions of people who still desperately cling to a failed ideology and get upset over my criticism is no concern of mine whatsoever. The entire Western world embraces capitalism. The West represents the most successful societies this planet has ever seen.
How many died in the Caribbean, and the Americas, across Southeast Asia, and Africa from European (including French) colonialism? A few? Yes, a few tens of million.
Love these video essays. A little criticism that is easily remedied is your use of terms such as 'insanely effective' and overuse of the term 'literally' when you mean 'actually', 'ironically', 'specifically', etc. These terms are colloquial and a bit sloppy in otherwise solidly written narrative. Ditch them going forward and the essays will be more precise and authoritative. You also use the old fashioned 'he' and 'men' when describing citizens or humans. The old academics lived in a more sexist time. We don't these days. I urge you to reflect this. ('they' or alternating with 'he' and 'she' is surely more inclusive, representative and egalitarian). But again, great work. Keep it up.
I hope the content creator is swimming in cash, because during the video I had to watch no less than six ads, all from advertisers linked to the far-right media in my country. Congratulations creator, you did an excellent job.
Thank you mate another based video. I really appreciate the contribution content creators such as yourself play in spreading class consciousness and actively fighting against imperialist capitalist propaganda
Fascism and Marxism have more in common than you think. While I haven't watched this video yet, I can completely agree on all of the recent commie videos he's been putting out. Fascism is at the end of the day another branch of socialism aka National Syndicalism.
Most libertarians and pro-capitalists in general are expressly against patents, which is what has prevented countries in the third world from producing their own vaccines
doubtful they have the production capabilities to actually grow the virus used for vaccines, also without patents capitalism kinda collapses because companies cannot make enough profit to actually be worthy investments.
This is entirely false. _Maybe_ some full-on right-libertarians/anarcho-capitalists believe this in a theoretical sense, but they're irrelevant anyway because their ideal system contradicts itself at every turn, being anti-statist but requiring a state to preserve private property, and thus can never exist. But besides that, the people that have the real power and control 90% of the wealth are not as ideologically free-market as they would have you believe, and that's the point made in the video. The fact is, at every turn, through systemically explainable turns of events, private property gives rise to inequality, and those benefiting from this inequality utilise it to maintain their positions in the system. States literally rose out of this need in the first place. This cycle will always repeat itself as long as there is private property. The propertied will always buy power and policy from the government, and if no government exists, they will make one.
I have yet to hear a genuine communist make that argument. I don’t know who you’ve been talking to, but I usually hear this in the form of, “it’s corporatism, not capitalism” from capitalists. Unless you mean us calling it socialism, which it is. It still is real socialism though
@@CknWngMn USSR state capitalism was trully socialism, but that doesn't mean it is "true" socialism because it's subjective. For instance, for me, "true" socialism is what we already have, only coops are the standard model of businesses. We don't need some super central state that gets all the means of production and gives surplus equitably to all the population, since the vast majority of society is already composed of working class people and their non laboring friends, family and acquaintances, and so just redistributing surplus to workers within the framework of each business separately is more than enough. Others would want to nationalize everything like in the USSR, others would want to divide everything into self sufficient comunes, others want a lesser version of what I want and they're known as Social Democrats, with me being more moderate than the former and radical than the latter.
If you'll read about the Bengal famine from a legit source you will realize that it was a artificially created famine not a natural famine, Winston Churchill the person whom the brits call great was the one who created this. When Japan had just taken over Myanmar they were on borders of India during WW2, the state of Bengal which is literally 500 kilometers away from Myanmar, Churchill Ordered all kind of grains to be taken away from there reason? Nothing They clearly knew that the Japanese can never ever stand against the British army but still he did so but when his army generals that millions of people are starving over there conditions were so worse that those people couldn't even defend themselves from scavengers but the only three words Churchill said in reply were "Let That Happen" And there were 50 million deaths within an year imagine how horrible would it be to see skeletons all over the streets and you know what western sources say that it was not an artificial famine and only 4 million deaths
Great video. I don't think anyone disagreeing has actually watched it. You can disagree with one or two assertions but the general point is amply made and isn't so easily refuted. As an example, I think it's a bit crude to compare death tolls, and I think it's crude either to compare all of capitalism's deaths to the alleged death count of only 70 years of socialism, or to pick 70 years of capitalism to compare. But it's none the less very clear capitalism is the deadlier system. One system seeks to prioritise human life whilst the other wants to play 8D chess and tell you if we're greedy enough and let 1% of the world control 90% of its resources, then somehow it will all work out better for everyone than if we just went with a system that is designed to benefit people.
it makes me so angry to read comments "yeah but capitalism is still better then socialsm/communism" bro you didnt watch the video. Or you just willingly choose to not engage with the points made. So infuriating.
Millions of Americans have to work two full time jobs to afford a studio apartment AND go to college full time simultaneously. This leaves them with about 2 hours of sleep every single night, for 4 to 6 years until they can finish their degree and (hopefully) find a single job working for some corporation that will afford them a (very basic) living. It's no wonder why depression, anxiety, pill dependency, and suicidality is so prevalent in America. Completely insane.......
@@Greenlantern957 Sure thing buddy, I definitely believe your lies, now how about you go ask a native american exactly what capitalism is about (rich benefactors stealing and crushing anyone who stands in their way) go and ask them - if you could find one, because you see... CERTAIN PEOPLE, made finding them a task that is just a tiny little bit difficult... oh, and also 150M Indians, hundreds of millions of African slaves and 20 million third world victims MURDERED every single year by extracting their precious resources and distributing none of them back because dollar signs matter to your exploitation built system more than human lives. I'm sure all those Vietnamese students were like "thank you for bombing our civilians sir, you sure did free us real good!" man, I wonder why MLK (definitely not a pro-reperations socialist) opposed that war if it was so justified, truly a mystery...
@@knowledgeanddefense1054 I don’t lie..I don’t need too..I am no more responsible for the actions of those people than you are of Stalin,Mao etc…it’s a cop out. You stink of hypocrisy since you enjoy all of the modern amenities that those “precious resources” make possible but instead of developing..investing and risking yourself to find more efficient,abundant and cheaper ways to solve those problems..you choose to take to the internet from your parents spare bedroom and bitch non stop about how unfair the world is…you are a child…grow the fck up already and do something productive
This is why I had this argumentative debate of discussion to my mother about how socialist revolutions have failed because they had to fail so they can uplift the brutal regime and free market and mixed marketing of Capitalism. It is through indoctrination, propaganda to propagate that ideology of Socialist Revolutions throughout the globe have failed but they did not fail because they were counterproductive. They failed because of the Capitalist Elites not wanting these revolutions to succeed. They either wanted them to fail and decline itself. It was just forced imperial core and corruption of corporate control of these countries and the population who advocate for equity not equality. You all get the “fair” share of the game of the wealth.
I wish the left was less sectarian, I'm an autonomist(basically just libertarian socialism but uses Marxist material analysis) and the division in the dozens of sects on the left is a large reason why capitalism still reigns supreme today. Although we may disagree ideologically, we all share one common objective; the abolition of class society and private ownership. Leftist unity is an unrealistic goal at this point, but we're probably going to need it. Thank you for the very informative piece youve made, I was sorta beginning to lose faith in this whole thing but after this my resolve has only bolstered.
