No that's why suicides sky rocketed the working class was destroyed and life changed forever and the "Russian billionaire" sprang up out of nowhere 🤬 sheer madness
I am thankful for this clip which 2 years ago i saved, interested that it challenged 23 years of capitalist and libertarian thinking. Now , i am in the process of full transition. It is hard to wake up from the lies of capitalism innovation and efficiency , but as it is cracking at the seams, more are noticing, and resenting the cruelty of capitalism. I wouldn't say the soviet model or American model is better than the other at this point, both have their strengths and weaknesses, but even this mindful thinking is met with resistance almost universally in America by those over the age of 30. I am nostalgic. Khrushchev ussr had such a beautiful sense of community .
I came out of Libertarian thinking a few years ago. All you can do is read and educate yourself. Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti was a great start for me.
The saddest thing about this is this was made when, the 70s? After Stalin died in 1953, state planners under Khrushchev reintroduced (edit: introduced) the notion of profits in state industries, and allowed managers to fire unproductive employees and make cuts; basically the economy was no longer planned according to the needs of society, but instead according to what was profitable for individual enterprises. Obviously that is a contradiction of the idea of socialist economy; you can’t have your cake and eat it too. This is what led to the Brezhnev stagnation and, ultimately, the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It’s sad because at the time this economist on here was talking about how everyone in the country owns everything collectively, the party had in reality already abandoned socialism over two decades earlier. Really brings a tear to my eye.
This isn't entirely true. Yes, some profit motives and market mechanisms were introduced, but the Soviet Union was still a socialist country with collective ownership, I don't think anything said in this video is wrong, they still had full employment, zero homelessness, free healthcare and education etc.
CCCP hasnt dissolved. It was betrayed by a traiotorous jew gorbachev aka. Mr. Envelope and his Belavezha gang. Gorbachev was a masonic destroyer of great CCCP.
Watching old Soviet news is bittersweet, a reminder both of what is possible insofar as building a society without all of the glaring contradictions of capitalism, as well as what has been lost. The dismantling of the USSR by the capitalist traitors is one of the greatest crimes against humanity ever perpetrated, and which has had negative consequences for the workers in almost every other country. Here in the US, all of the concessions that working people won - benefits that the USSR pioneered, and the western ruling class only acquiesced to because they were scared to death of a repeat of 1917 - are being stripped away, and people have to worker harder and longer each year just to stay in the same place economically.
@@Mrjmaxted0291 It's a flat circle under the capitalist idiotic excuse for leadership alright. But the problem is, the States have learned from their mistakes and are indoctrinating new generations under the notion that it's good to be bad in order to achieve "success" and that if they're not successful yet then they'll be successful later. The "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" pile of bs. That's why the Clusterfuck Conglomerate can just freely give away guns and have no fear of a revolution. _Hopefully_ that'll change within the next two years. But then there's another problem - it's all too likely that, if and when the latest bubble popping will explode the Western society, the right are gonna severely outnumber the left in the armed struggle if one should occur. If our comrades in the heart of evil will not get tacticool by any means before it's time to act, they will be torn apart because fascists are militarist by nature and will be prepared to take rule by force, besides being funded by the richest bags of garbage that walked this Earth. Couple that with the fact that 'Murica is the biggest threat to the world right now, from having millions of indentured meatshields to having metallic poison in nearly everything to having a massive nuclear arsenal... Should the predicted collapse of the economy be true, and should the American communists fail, it could either be the end of the world, or the time for the Dragon to tear the wounded Eagle apart. The best we can do now is prepare and hope for all the best outcomes.
Innovation in Soviet Union was actually enormous compared to most Western economies, furthermore whilst being sanctioned and artificially shut out from supplies by the West. I am struggling to think what innovation Australia came up with in the 20th C other than some of the university research which has nothing to do with markets, but nothing close to the innovation under the Soviet system. Most of the innovation in USA was likewise from the State sector (silicon chip design, Algol and C langages, just about every internet protocol, GPS, almost everything you find in your mobile phone had the difficult early innovative work conducted not in the private sector but the State sector). Soviet Union were in space ten years before the US could even imagine it being possible, etc. It is true that there were waits for products - so demand response latency was weakness, and could be solved - but there also was not the same ludicrous overproduction and energy placed towards marketing that we are presently trapped with.
Mostly because history is written by the victors ... which in this case would be the capitalist, free market West. It was pretty good - you always had a job, free education, free healthcare + dental. Virtually no crime, my parents used to leave their bicycles outside their house and nobody would steal it (the militia would find out who did it right away :) ). Great opportunities for upward mobility - all of my grandparents were born to poor peasant families and managed to become something in the cities - and their children got professional university education, for free and with guaranteed jobs (while studying, they also had a stipend of a minimal wage and their dorms were free). Then, you could buy a flat/house with a no-interest mortgage (20 years max). 6 weeks of paid vacation per year and each enterprise (where you work) had bungalows and villas on the sea side / in the mountains. So you took dates (most ancient workers would get first choice, newbies last choice) and got it for free or you rented for a minimal price. 1 year and a half off for mothers. Work itself: much less than in capitalist societies today. People would go for lunch at noon and chill out for 2-3 hours before going back for an hour then leaving. Quotas were really not that high. Downsides: you had to wait for around 10 years for a car (but if your parents signed you up when you were born - by the time you hit 18 your car was waiting for you) and you couldn't visit abroad without official permission. Also, some positions were accessible only if you had connections (with the Communist party, which it was very difficult to become member of) and sometimes that resulted in stupid situations. In the end, if you're a person looking for a calm and reliable way of living, socialism would be good for you. If you're of the entrepreneur type, then you wouldn't like it too much (you could work for yourself but only outside of working hours and under the table - but that was an accepted norm and people were doing it, ex: ceramics, welding, etc.)
Most of the cheer leaders for capitalism don't actually think in economic terms. They wouldn't think to look up and study gosplan, even to confirm their own views. This is because their views aren't driven by any kind of economic thinking, it's just something they've been taught to believe without question.
This is so calm, bittersweet. The Soviet Union was the symbol of hope for humanity. A different kind of society and world was, and still is, possible. Marxism Leninism will win again.
some people say they want to live in socialism so they dont have bills and other stuff, i want to live in socialism because every citizen has a purpose, access to education isnt paywalled, labor is honored as the basis of all that society can enjoy, one can truly take pride in their work and not from a position of vanity.
I would rather live under socialism than capitalism, in capitalism you have rent, bills and so on, the capitalist class owns most about everything here in America.
