Public vs Private | The Historic Definitions of Socialism & Capitalism 

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In the past I would say this video is public service but it actually is private service! Well done!

I'm honestly amazed at the level of research that goes into this.

That explanation of the family was 100x better than what I had been taught in school and uni.

TIK had taught me more about economics and the origins of society than all of my schooling has. Always backups his claims, level-headed, logical, and concise. Thank you so much, sir.

It's so refreshing to just hear straight forward honest definitions of things like public and private.

It’s interesting how even though nationalism and patriotism in the west is declining and people are becoming more selfish, there is more of a push towards a centralized state now

Fascist gov't didn't need to own the means of production in a traditional sense, because they owned the people of the nation themselves.

Public companies defined as state sector is certainly quite eye-opening and I think it can explain some of the ills in today's world. The lack of a single owner who is individually responsible for the company's actions and intends to stay for the long-term essentially means that company's management only cares about short-term gains because each owner is very small and can immediately sell their shares if needed. Not to mention "too big to fail" businesses that are essentially states in themselves which can extract resources from society for their own survival. Unsurprisingly, too big to fail companies are mostly publicly-listed banks, large industrial conglomerates and state-owned businesses which have a vast amount of owners and hence it is "moral" for the state to rescue them.

Silver and gold are weighed in Troy ounces and Troy pounds. 12 Troy ounces = 1 Troy pound.

These videos should be downloaded and distributed everywhere before they are taken down and deemed to shocking for us sheep to see. Amazing insight.

The references to "1984" are just perfect. Keep the good work

Someone once asked Saddam Hussain, who had a picture of Stalin hanging in his office, why he had Uncle Joe displayed since he (Saddam) was not a communist. His reply: "well, neither was Stalin".

I've never watched a more well researched and thought out video on this topic than this one. You made everything so much easier to understand. I love how each word and each definition, you made it a point to break it down, so we're all on the same page, and build it up again back to the main topic. Every other channel would just assume you have the pre requisite to understand some of these academic political and economic terms, however you explained them properly so that a beginner (such as myself) could understand. I also very much appreciate the color coding of the words which also just made things so much easier. All in all, just bravo sir, this presentation was amazing and I'll be sure to watch more of your content.

A perfect place to paraphrase Thomas Sowell, and ask why it's greedy to want to keep money you earned by providing something valuable to another person, but not greedy to take money that another person earned- and is being forced to hand over- and give it to another person to the tune of praise? Just backwards and upside down?

Whenever I listen/watch videos of yours like this one, I feel like I've been lied to for my whole life.

I always wondered why socialists are so anti Christian, christianity at it's root promotes the individual over the collective

TIK, THANK YOU for firstly educating me on battles and events (and in greater depth) during the second part of the great war. We in school would get to WWII in my "advanced US History" class and just watch film after film watching Japan attack Pearl Harbor and pictures of Auschwitz. It means so much for me to have a strong grasp on history. Secondly, THANK YOU for breaking down the very fiber of each ideology as it is today by the history of how they were conceived. Please keep up all the great work! I love getting notifications for a new TIK video fresh out of editing! Thanks TIK

Tik your work is solid and pure gold. I wish you a long and healthy life, you're a man with so much to enrich people's minds and hearts.

This is an excellent video. It should be played to all students in every school.

" *BBC* , Goebbels's Ministry of Enlightenment..." - TIK, 2019.

Wow, TIK. What a head spinner. It's going to take me a while to absorb the content in this video.

Whenever I looked more into WW2 with Communism and Fascism, I’ve always wondered what really made them different as they seemed pretty much the same to me in terms of how they functioned. Learning that they are the same thing but just on different scale is amazing. I’m glad you were able to put this together and confirm what I thought for last few years.

I don't know that I have ever seen something so informative and entertaining elsewhere at any time. You've absolutely killed it and I am immediately going to watch all your other videos, with a sub for future ones. Thank you.

Stalin would have liked this FinSoc guy during the invasion of Finland haha

This is the Fight Club of RU-vid videos.

TIK you’re making a real and substantive contribution to the historical understanding of the topics you cover. Thanks for all your hard work 😓

I swear you justify my positions so well. I had been making horrible arguments on these topics for years and my lack of education hurts me so but seeing these videos just keeps my fire for knowledge burning and I keep deep diving into this stuff and sharing your videos. Thank you so much for the insight! Keep up the great work!

A much clearer video about the subject than your Q&A rants, the part about families and individuals was really interesting as well.

I enjoyed Friedman's answer when asked what sort of economic system is Capitalism. He said it WASN'T an economic system. It's merely allowing people to trade and contract freely. Capitalism is freedom. All the other "systems" are force.

After 40 years and a degree in political philosophy, you just turned my conceptual understanding of capitalism on its head. If big business is part of the state, albeit a different type or aspect of what we traditionall call 'the state', advocating capitalism is really about freedom for the broad base of society: individuals and small business, the private sector. Perhaps building a co-operative is now more capitalist than a proprietary company because it's less hierarchical in its power structure, and its objective is not to go public (not to mention Zombie companies) but to distribute profits among those that created the value. Which, following capitalism, would be actual value, not a financial hoax as more and more often associated with big business (again: zombie companies).

Awesome video! I've always naturally and internally understood this but am not as educated in history (which I believe is my own fault) or as good at wording things (probably also my fault) so thank you for now I see the proper way to explain my views and make a coherent case without confusion or contradiction. Instant subscribe and like.

This is, in my opinion, the greatest and most important video on the internet.

Wait!!.. The moon is not made of cheese??.. Then why the hell do we even wanna go there!!!

3 years too late coming to this video but what a informative view of basic societal structures. Thanks TIK and well done. Keep up the good work.

This channel should be a qualification. I degree in TIKhistory... i have learned more on this channel of history/politics/economics than my entire school education. Thank you for what you're doing.

Great video, thank you very much. I know all of this must be very time consuming but it’s amazing seeing someone with so much passion for truth and logic. Much appreciated, keep it up!

This has been highly influential on my thinking, together with Economics in one lesson. Thank you very much TIK!

@35:00 This seems to be a contradiction to your previous statement. You said that big businesses don't count as "private" or "capitalist" and cannot exist on their own because it would be too hard to internally manage them. But then praise Vanderbilt for competing with a state monopoly, thus becoming a big business monopolist himself, which I thought wasn't possible without state help? You also seem to inherently associate all corporations with publically traded ones, even though there are many privately traded large corporations like Koch Industries, IKEA, and Rolex. This seems to fly in the face of your assertion capitalism can only stand for small-scale, local, independently run businesses, and free competition will just naturally prevent large corporations from forming. Unless you are really going to try to say that Koch Industries is a small mom & pop operation. Furthermore, you say that big businesses find it extremely difficult to calculate internal prices efficiently, but is this inefficiency really large enough to hamper net growth of the company, and how does state funding even remedy this? As I've said, there are plenty of large, privately traded corporations that exist and turn a profit. Also, it doesn't really make sense to say that publically traded corporations don't count as capitalist simply because anyone can buy stocks. Sure, ostensibly anyone _can_ buy a share in the company, but ultimately, the *ownership* is still in private hands, and the majority shareholders that hold the actual *power* in the company, the ones who can make all the decisions, are ultimately private individuals. It really seems like you are stretching or restricting what counts as "capitalist" according to what you think is good or not, and relegate every bad outcome of capitalism to "not real capitalism." Is this not the exact same thing as the "not real socialism" argument that you decry from socialists? If, as you say at 59:32, that "left to free-market forces, the central state would collapse," what is stopping the "small private individuals" from banding together and forming unions, thus, by your definition, states? Is a stateless society even possible? As a historian, surely you realize the innate human proclivity to form groups and cooperate? If the state collapsed due to the power of the free market, then who would enforce claims to property or laws? Can there even _be_ laws without a state to enforce them? Would private security and firefighting agencies replace the tax-funded state ones? I'm not sure the Crassus model is something most people would like. This vehement opposition you have to seemingly anything government-related seems a bit counterproductive and not well thought out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you really seem to define socialism as anytime a government or "state" has control and does something. If this is the case, then by that logic, are not absolute monarchies socialist? Wouold you really argue that monarchies are on the left side of the spectrum? Couldn't you say that socialism has always existed since the dawn of every human civilization? If so, then this seems to be a bit of a muddied definition of socialism and makes it an incredibly non-specific term, which I'm not sure was your intention.

Might not support his ideas but gotta admit his timeline and statements on the theory of the of each idea is 100% on the money

Another great video from TIK. Communism always delivers. Maybe not food, maybe not consumption goods. But it delivers one thing that counts.. Misery

Thank you so much for this video. I tire so much of trying to explain these basic terms to my left and right leaning friends. Its as if the world is living with selective amnesia, or the movie Ideocracy was a documentary. From now on anytime someone brings up anything on this topic I'm just going to direct them to this video and when they finish watching it then I'll entertain conversations about it with them. Great job!!! Well done and articulated.

I feel as though I have been circling this channel algorithmically for at least two years. I am fully immersed in the history/battles side of YT, but have somehow only landed on your channel in the last week. Obviously I haven’t crunched or even seen the numbers, I’m just a lemming looking for an educated point of view, but it seems obvious that your videos are disfavored by the algorithms. Award winning work imo, whatever donations you have received could be doubled and it still wouldn’t be enough. The tremendous effort and research put into your videos are unparalleled. Thank you immensely.

TIK, You put such care and energy and passion into your explanation of our world. Please don't let the haters get to you. They are passionate but wrong-headed. You're doing a great job, much more understandable than less able folk. Thank you from Australia.

Content aside, I think what you're doing with the sourcing is excellent. Any parts where you make claims you have the reference at the bottom, but when you make your own conclusions it's your own content.

Really great content. This concept between public and private is one of the most important topics for our society to grasp. This video lays it out perfectly and in historical contextual form. Thank you

Thanks for creating and uploading this video. I wish university lecturers in Arts faculties would consider your arguments.

Why would a free market lead to monopolies not forming? If one company can grow why can't it grow to dominate the market?

Public vs Private | The Historic Definitions of Socialism & Capitalism 0:00 Intro 6:53 Gentle 10:20 Public Sector 30:00 Private Sector 38:15 Collectivism / Socialism 48:40 State Capitalism 1:07:10 The Real Political Spectrum

Longtime fan, exceptional work TIK. Thank you for your deep, well sourced discussions. They're extremely valuable to me.

Your entire playlist of these videos are a treasure trove of knowledge. I like to ask you about patents and whether or not you believe that securing ownership of a certain invention would allow one company to gain an advantage over another, or monopolising the product

"the holocaust is when no free markets" sounds so stupid on the surface, but it's actually incredibly based and true. Great vid, TIK. You are doing God's work.

I really enjoyed this! I watched it a few weeks ago, but its been on my mind and stuck with me. Thought I should come back and have a few words. I had a rudimentary understanding before, but now I feel I have a more solid grasp. This video has changed the way I view the world and it kind of scares me, I guess being naive is easy.

TIK thank you very much for educating me these are some of the things i've been trying to understand for a while and you've explained them so clearly

I'd like to see you do a video one day or even a series of videos on Technocracy and the various hidden forms of Technocratic models disguised in modern society. You've done such a damn good and thorough job of articulating this distinction of Public Vs Private I have a feeling you'd have an even BIGGER field day going over Technocracy.

This was an amazing video, but I will admit, it was pretty hard to digest. Near the end the dots began to connect, but I think these videos would really benefit if throughout these longer videos you had occasional moments to summarize/recap on the previous points made and how they connect to your argument. Other than that, great video!

Even the simple idea of Abolition of all rights of inheritance could lead to collapse of society and social structure and relation in terrifying ways.

I don't know who this guy is, but these videos should be lessons taught in schools to little kids. The guy is absolutely amazing at explaining things

Question. If a company goes “public” but all shares are purchased by private individuals, what would you class that business as? Part of “the state” (government)? Or simply it’s own state?

Hello TIK, i enjoy watching your videos, as many others i too am grateful for these videos, truly taught me more history than any history book in school, with an actual explanation for the statements said. You make excellent videos, and i wish to see more like these, unbiased, truthful, academic viewpoints presented in a comprehensible video. All the best from Slovakia. Also if i may, i have a question regarding what you stated about the 'private' schooling system, i also happen to be working at school which is classified as private. We as a school receive some money in taxes as do other state schools meaning from your definition that this is a state school, but we also get tuition fees paid directly by the parents of the children attending, private individuals, therefore it is also privately funded. The school which is regarded in our state as a company which provides education, and yes the education is to some degree dictated by the curriculum given by the state. So i need to ask if the school is funded both by private sector, the parents and also the state through taxation and some state grants, if such an institution is a private institution or a state one, and also to add the school is owned by two private individuals, the founder and her husband. Thank you very much for your videos and also your reply if possible.

I think I've asked before, but I would love to hear what you think of Henry George and his book "Progress and Poverty." He's very interested in rents and the monopoly on land.

I'm certainly learning stuff here, on your Channel TIK, and I am grateful. I'd probably never have learned any of this, without you. Thank you.

Think this video is much better than the one you did were you explained capitalism using a small factory as an example. I understand why you simplified it so much but by doing so I think it was rather easy to critisize it, like "yes, any model works until you put it into real world". I really enjoy your channel, keep up the good work!

I cant believe I lasted through the whole video, but I'm glad I did, well done again. You do an amazing job at presenting the history, both ancient and recent, and current economic situation that most countries are in and the problems with it - especially regarding socialism or inefficient large public companies which exist in capital economies. My question is - what can be done about it? It's not a rethorical question, I actually would like you to present videos on solutions because I think you are an incredibly smart and well researched person. Some people may think "easy, vote for the more private-friendly/encouraging party", but as far as I can understand it, in the US at least, Democrats are "for the state" and Republicans are more "pro-business" which generally highly favors large businesses which are public anyway. Another important question, what do you see should be the role of the state, if any at all? Again, you mention the problem (inefficiency) but not the solution, and I would be very interested to know your views on it. Especially when it comes to healthcare, education, public works, etc. Regarding healthcare, it seems to me that given two options (a) state-governed healthcare provider vs (b) large publicly-funded inefficient insurance companies the choices are both bad. Also, what to do with families with kids with high special needs that require high levels of care? I dont pose these questions to troll, really just hope to have a discussion and to know your views.

This is perhaps one of the best videos I've ever watched on socialism. I can't even think of any better than this

well done. your views on health care differ from mine but aside from that i agree with the lions share of what you say. an hour and forty minutes well spent. The part about ancient civilization was fascinating

I can agree with the fundamental position of private ownership being efficient through functioning prices, and I'm really glad you brought up the increasing similarity between increasingly larger companies and states. However, from a philosophical standpoint, and outside the additional reliance on price, a small and large company are fundamentally the same in that they are internally authoritarian. The market as a whole may avoid totalitarian control through choice and competition and so I can come to terms with this as a whole, but every business is otherwise it's own unit dictatorship. I find that this presents a danger much the same as the socialist state. If companies are able to naturally grow to their current sizes absent of the influence of the state, then any element of the private sector may become public as the company effectively assumes the role of THE state. You say that companies naturally collapse to smaller forms due to the inefficiencies of central planning, but there are other competing factors, such as mass markets, or the simplicity of interacting with fewer suppliers and buyers, or even chance, that will favour larger corporate structures that may propel them to the scale of overriding the government. While I certainly agree that the government certainly has abused it's power to create or maintain monopolies in the past, it may at least in theory serve as a protector from such companies with ambitions of attaining power. Do you think the presence of a state placed under obligations and limitations is necessary to prevent an economically-elected unaccountable dictatorship? For example many tech companies have free reign right now due to them occupying an entirely new market. As such they've become extremely powerful and abuse their power with harsh penalties, selective application of their rules, and ideological and partisan activism. Even though some of these companies received public funding in the past, they're certainly serving the private sector right now aren't they? As such I can't help but see a need for and welcome regulation restricting them. Alternatively consumers may simply choose not to use these services, or use alternatives from competition, but many simply do not or can not, and as such it becomes similar to a tyranny of the majority, wherein the majority is whatever proportion of people supporting the company that it takes to keep it afloat, except that it needn't even be a majority. And then these companies can remove their competition (eg. Parler) not through the government state, but through pressuring other companies. As you put it, they become the state; the state of the internet.

This video is so amazing. I love how you show the definitions and differences between private and public 100 different ways and keep repeating yourself throughout the whole thing. Not only that, but you demonstrate practically how their definitions and differences affect the real world, no matter what lies someone might say about the words. My favorite part is about minute 42 where you say, "Oh look... There it goes! No more state. Marx and engels were Anarcho capitalists!" Man I died laughing that was so great

Great. Very clear and very precise. How anyone can fail to grasp this is beyond help.

TiK, thank you for what you do bro. We may not always agree, but you are always thoughtful about your research and explanation from that research of your ideas. Very rare nowadays.

Question, if I may. In the structure, it would seem to me that there is 'grey area' and not a hard boundary between private and public. E.g., private with public tendencies or attributes, and public with private tendencies or attributes. If you agree with that idea of a 'continuum', does anyone have examples of these kinds of situations that you could share that follow the definitions laid out in the video? Thanks in advance.

Great work, taking it from the beginning was a brave move; as I first thought you’d gone nuts. Thanks.

Most people: *confused noises on what to call Tik (has to be the opposite of what they like) after watching the video*

The dawn of civilisation, you mean last Wednesday?

What a brilliant production, you've hit the nail squarely on the head. Thank you for the education, GO TIK!

Hi TIK, as usual very interesting video. I've recently discovered your series and I'm quiet a fan, maybe not of all the answers you provide but of the questions you raise and the logic you use in your explanations. This said one doubt: what is the reality of capitalism and free market you use? According to your definition, capitalism is private own business. But who is the 'owner' of General Electric or Ford ? Looks like large companies are more oligarchy than private owned. Sure, there are private owned success stories like Microsoft Apple and Google but after a while this private companies go to stock exchange, and become... public owned, in quiet a similar way (even if less brutal) you describe other socialisms. Then it ends up that capitalism is a form socialism, in fact plouto-socialism. This raises the validity of the definition of socialism you use: if all economic models can be qualified as socialism what the point? If you've already answered this question, thanks for providing me with the link. And again thanks for your videos.

This is an amazing video and I'm really grateful for how much knowledge and insight is shared. Question though: I understand why corporations should be considered public if they are sustained by regulation and state intervention, but I don't understand why being publicly traded would necessarily make a company "public." Isn't the stock market and the corporation - assuming an actually free market - merely many individuals making individual free decisions? And a company that loses money for a long time, can still be an investment. Perhaps an entrepreneur building a giant, massively complex interconnected theme park, who loses money for many many years while it is in development before becoming massively successful (or not). Perhaps the point is just that in reality it is almost always the case that large corporations are in fact surviving off of regulation and handouts? Would love to hear more on this! Thanks

Wow, sir you have made such a service and contribution to the well being! Im not even half way through both videos of yours this and why hitler is a socialist, but you have made a new patreon supporter!

I've been reading history my whole life, and the contributions you made in this video are amazing, honestly I'm astonished by the level of detail in this video Thanks for the great content

11/10 video 👍👍👍. btw do you think the state should be abolished or kept to a minimum (as in a night-watchman state)? what do you think the method of the state gaining money should be other than taxation? and do you think utilities like roads and electricity or something else like a canal (the suez canal for example) should be public or privatized? and can you please elaborate on the part where private businesses have it harder to be internally efficient? many thanks :)

Interesting and informative and a little scary. I had always been taught that families could also include patrons beholden to the family head.

Fantastic video, TIK. The quality of your content is recognizable. Always entertaining! :)

Very clear and useful. This is a perfect video to share. These simple 2 hours of video will provide what all the 12+ years of absolute useless and dry history classes and social studies never were able to.

Very informative and thought stimulating , though I did laugh out loud at one point , given your background in retail that the suggestion that if employees gave up 10 % of their pay that would result in an increase of emploees , no it would'nt , I suspect it would just save the likes of Tesco , Asda etc wages and probably result in a race to the bottom , I doubt the number of employees would increase by very many which ever sector they were in. . I am finding your videos and the range of topics very interesting and some challenging of my previous understanding of events mostly because of the forensic way you deal with specific events / topics . you've given me lots to think about , I particularly like the "don't take my word alone as truth here are the sources check it out yourself" approach ,though some of the books referenced have eye watering prices . .

TIK, what month of 1942 in your opinion would constitute the best chance for the Heer and Wehrmacht generally to grab the oil wells of the Caucasus?

I'm really enjoying this, but I need to take a break. I would have broken this down into 30 minute sections.

I've been waiting for this video for the greater portion of my life! Thank you, thank you, thank you very much for making this! Magnificent and stupendous!

You definitely should have more subscribers than you have. I love to see your contents. Great job. I learn more with you than I learn watching documentaries in TV.

Amazing job you did here. I wish I found it earlier. You need to put this on books in order to escape RU-vid censorship and make your point widespread. Can't wait for more of this

That was awesome. Thank you for making this video. I can stop having this conversation and just send people to watch this!

Dear TIK: I am sorry to post a question after such a long time but I've just discovered this video. I'm really interested about what you said from min. 32 onwards about public companies, corporations and monopolies (a subject which I've found classic liberal, libertarian or Austrian economists do not pay attention to). It would be great if you can provide the source for this very interesting issue. Thanks a lot for all your videos (an efforts behind)!

Thank you for expanding my understanding of public corporations. I never even thought to examine this dynamic.

Never heard of this channel before. Like it. Subscribed.

Thank you for clarifying these terms. The etymology and lucidity it brings is refreshing. Please keep speaking and sharing the truth

Hi TIK. Really enjoy your videos, smashed through crusader and am now eagerly anticipating each Stalingrad release. Since I’m all caught up on your battlestorm content I’ve ended up going through some of your other material and that’s how I found this video. I get what you’re saying in the video, I’m just interested to know your own opinions on the balance of power between the individual and the state. I ask because I take an interest in the third industrial revolution and think this can only be rapidly achieved with the guiding hand of the state using the levers off the state like collectivised investment and subsidies of new technologies until they are mature enough to survive in the free market. Given that, to my understanding, the third industrial revolution will bring higher levels of efficiency and a move away from non renewable to renewable energy sources (a pretty good idea given that capitalism is based on open world theory where energy resources are not finite and no account is given to the cost of the degradation of the environment) it is something I greatly desire but do not think our capitalism could achieve on its own (for the reasons I previously bracketed). Only a collective state can put controls in place in the short term to redirect an economy. Sure, you can argue that once none renewables become more scarce, prices would naturally increase and other renewable energy sources would become more economically viable. There are, however, loads more fossil fuels available to burn, well more than would take us past any point of no return for catastrophic climate change. Only the state can artificially adjust the market to charge the direction of the economic model to avert climate catastrophe (if you believe in the climate change argument). This is an extreme example but I believe it to be the case so I’ll use it because, if true, the planet will suffer and without this pale blue dot there isn’t going to be a society that is with being a part of (war, famine, mass migration and mad max anarchy). I’m just interested if you, having thought yourself a socialist back when you were a student have now thrown yourself behind libertarian Laissez-faire ideals or if you can still see some benefit in collective ‘state’ interventions. This isn’t an attack or challenge or attempt to trip you up. I’m just interested if you think the collective state can have its place in guiding society to a better place.

so how would you describe the 4 corners of the political compass to be, under this framework?

👍👍👍 I love all your work but this time you have outdone yourself, I'll have to watch this more than once, thank you so much. 👍👍👍

Extraordinary!!!! Bravo and thank you for everything you give away for free.

Programmers learn that the key to writing a good code is to make it as short as possible, because it makes it also easier for other programmers to read and understand. Indeed, I could spend hours writing multitudes of lines, or I could learn methods to perform the same amount of work, in a marginally shorter time, which in turn makes it more bearable and comprehensible for other programmers to read. There is absolutely no question what is worth more here. "Work smarter, not harder."

Do you upload to any other platforms? I’d rather watch these incredibly well defined essays somewhere else.