Yea that's kinda what socialism is. Socialism is when the government seizes the means of production and a dictatorship of the proletariat is established.
@sneed feed Socialism is when the workers own the means of production. The USSR for example does not meet this requirement. However, this becomes clear once one sees that its state ideology was marxism-leninism. Marxism-Leninism is an ideology that combines state-capitalism with the dictatorship of the communist party. The party is supposed to transition the state towards actually being socialist.
@@carltanner7461 That happened in bolshevik russia lol. Did you forget New Economic Policies? Workers owning the production just ended with the fall of production. Pick a history book, commie.
Also, I love how gen-z screams "amplify black/asian voices", "listen to black people when they tell you about racism" etc. but won't listen to people who actually experienced communism (eg. people from easter Europe) and talk openly about how horrible it was. I could spend 5 hours retelling stories of my parents waiting 3 days in line to buy meat or toilet paper. Or how they shared one orange between their family od 7 people, because someone from US sent them a package.
Tell "wokes" that ask a cuban what truly communism is. Or, that they ask a venezuelan, like me... or, maybe every single easter european that suffered from communism, chinese that grew up in China, north Koreans... "Woke" people don't give a fuck about us, they just want to have always the reason and that they are never wrong... this isn't a true feeling of helping, it's them wanting to "feel" heard, they have attention issues, and they feel that they're useless, so "wokes" use this movements as an excuse to receive attention. I mean, the majority of "wokes" are dumb and never listen to things they don't like, so they're man childs that don't have their own opinions, they copypaste famous movements and that's just it.
Just see how they react when you tell them you regularly watch Eric July, Officer Tatum or Lauren Chen. No, you weren't supposed to listen to *those* colored people! Only the people of color that agree with us!
That's weird, there is a video of an old man from Soviet union, who went up to these communist kids and have discussion about communism. He was being reasonable with them. These commie kids were getting all pissed off about it.
My wife had two neighbours that where very into communism, and they went to Albania, in the 70s with thir long hair and hippie looks. Comrade Enver Hoxha was going to show them true socialist paradise. The couple came back after one year, the man with hair shaven, both very very "elegant" and they spoke of communism no more. The kids in the video would not last 10 days.
Let's get one thing straight. Communism IS better than capitalism, that cannot be denied. The only reason it fails is because unlike capitalism, it is almost impossible to hide corruption in a communist society. If humans ever become a mature enough species, Communism will be the de facto way to run things and that is fact. Capitalism works because it is very good at hiding its corruption and no country does this better than the US, the most hypercapitalist society that has ever existed. The US has an atrocious healthcare system, sky rocketing homelessness, no job support programs, an abysmal violation of worker's rights as well as no freedom for new parents to take leave from work to raise their offspring. DON'T blame communism, it is the government that f*cks things up, NOT communism. It is also funny how you attack socialism when literally every country that has socialist policies is doing better than the US is right now. I so sick of people not even knowing what it is they are talking about. EDUCATE YOURSELVES.
@@karasuarts900 well becaus basiclly the people in power will get corrrupted and start taking all the resources for themselves take china or russia for an example
My grandparents escaped communist SSR when they were young. They were a group of people called Mennonites, which the SSR did not like. I heard the horror stories about what they had to go through. So many people they knew were killed for not doing what the SSR told them to. They were some of the lucky ones though because a lot of the people who tried to leave Russia did not make it. So as a gen Z that has heard all of what they went through, I'm really against socialism and communism.
I am sorry to hear about your past, but SSR was totalitarianism just using terms like socialism and communism to justify their totalitarian regime. Socialism is equality in society, solidarity for each other and social justice. There was no equality, solidarity and justice in SSR.
@@fabisto5693 The "progressives", and the "woke", are heading for totalitarianism. Socialism, and Communism, can never work. Without totalitarianism, these systems would be turned around by sensible people. Otherwise, when life becomes unbearable, they must be overthrown.
@@fabisto5693 it's what every socialist and communist government gives way to, always have, and in my opinion always will. They value party loyalty and don't want the best people for the job. How's the Aristotle quote for, "masculine republican give way to feminine democracy, feminine democracy gives way to tyranny."
@@phoneticalballsack are u trying to insinuate that I am blaming the countries u mentioned for the child exploitation, trust me I am not, it's not the countries fault its the global north
it's better than farm work that why most people leave the countryside in droves just to be in a "sweatshop " everything takes time, lads in 19th century England in the mines and chemneys worked their asses off so that the next generation wuld get a leg up. but commies think work is the devil
You forgot the part where most of those third world sweat shops are operated In communist/socialist countries like China and Vietnam. The point you are trying to make doesn’t work.
"Utopia" is a word which was created with great irony in mind by the englishman Sir Thomas More, and from greek, it literally translates to "a place which does not exist".
@@aras75akaI don't think people realize that all the largest economies are mixed economies. There aren't any actual true successful socialist or capitalist economies in the world currently.
Well, in their defense. In a capitalist society we have major issues like someone having more money than you, but in a communist country they have figured out how to remove that issue entirely by making it where people can’t afford food Edit: I don’t think I was very clear, when I said “Someone having more money than you” was a major issue, I was being sarcastic. I was hoping that by comparing it to people starving that would help to clarify. But judging by some of these replies, I don’t think I was very clear. My bad
Actually it’s not a correct piece of information that you couldn’t choose the job back in USSR. My grandmother wanted to be a doctor so she became a doctor. My grandpa loved physics and wanted to be a scientist so he became one. At the same time it’s valid to say that you cannot choose the profession you want in the UK or in the US since tuition fees can be unaffordable for those less fortunate
Моя мама и его брат тоже жили в СССР и никакую профессию они не выбирали. За них выбрали. Мама говорит что ей вообще всё равно было, ибо за неё решали куда она пойдёт учиться, и где будет работать. А гуманитарные вузы в СССР - вообще срант
Young adults seem particularly attracted to the lure of communism, everyone equal everyone happy. The only time I didn't see this happen was in the 80s, most young adults wanted the traditional path, job/career, family, home, almost a return to the 50s, and there was a lot of criticism from their boomer parents about their lack of political protesting, fighting "the system", etc. Anyway thank you for being a strong voice of reason in your generation and I hope your message is heard by a lot of your peers.
I remember being about 8 years old (this was in the 80s) and asking my dad why the government doesn't just pay everyone the same so they don't have to work. He explained why communism doesn't work to me in a way that I completely understood as an 8 year old kid. I never gave it a second thought after that. Why was I able to grasp this at 8, but these kids can't at 18?
That's because there was someone like Reagan who was working to make the system less powerful. No need to fight the system when it seems like its power is on a downward trajectory. Sadly, the Reagan years proved only to be a temporary respite. The Boomer conception was to make government bigger and more powerful.
interesting comment about gulag by her. usa, as of now, has the most prisoners ever to exist under any regime ever (both in absolute numbers and as percentage of population), ussr included. that is a verifiable fact. and what do you know, some of them are now "forced free labor" ( there is another word for it, though people in usa don't want to talk much about that) for for profit companies. is that result of capitalism?
So most parents of generation X, i.e. children and teens growing up in the 80's, were actually the silent generation, not boomers. Just saying. Which would make sense as to why Gen X just wanted a standard lifestyle.
Oh man that kid was just so pure. He is just replicating somebody’s behavior, word for word. I don’t think he’s been brainwashed he is just copying behavior.
@@danielyoungblood8525 xD I’m glad. Because the ones that get on the news to the rest of the world are the 10% and the American image is not great as it was before. I don’t live there so I just get tons of woke news so I assumed that at least 50% were like that. I also know that social media is super biased .
The people she's showing has destroyed my faith for humanity.. Stupidity and evil has inherited the earth we are all doomed and we are all going to die!!!
gods work, it's refreshing to see someone show the horrors of history, as nobody ever does nowadays. You're helping history not repeat itself and that's amazing
Gen Z should read up on the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain. And how when Germany was divided east and west and E. Germans would try to defect to W. Germany.
These kids have no idea. I work at one of the top 3 universities in the USA. We hired a brilliant woman that grew up in the former USSR. She told me about how she didn't get to pick what she studied in school, what career she would have, or where she would eventually live. I think a lot of young people think Communist/Socialist decisions are driven by like math equations and "good science". But, what really drove it was political connections, nepotism, and bribes. My family is from Hungary, mostly. And, I've heard horror stories from them. Hungary wasn't even USSR, it was just a vassal state. I can't imagine how bad it was in the USSR.
@@anonymousanonymous3020 I recommend the Gulag Archipelago. Very scary book describing what the USSR was like as a prisoner. Written by a person who actually was, and it doesn't hold back on how evil it was.
@@roofkorean2067 I have read Solzhenitsyn, of course. An interesting fact about this book that has nothing to do with it - Peter Thiel, the billionaire that funded Facebook and Elon Musk, said it was his favorite and most influential book. It is a great book and I recommend it to everyone. It changed my perspective on the world.
My mom had a thing for Che Guevara for a while til I laughed at a flag at Pride with him on it. My mom then said "Why are you laughing." I then replied. "You do know Guevara had work camps to work the gay out of men as he saw it as bourgeois." Suddenly her whole love of him changed to her barely ever mentioning him again. Any time I see a Hammer and a Sicle with a rainbow it tells me exactly how much this person knows about communist dictators.
@@TheHabsification Why should anyone feel bad for war criminals of Batista’s government being executed? It’s like saying Nuremburg shouldn’t be forgotten because the Nazis were given death sentences
@@Mendaz How many of the executed actually were criminals of Batista government? (I'm not aware of Batista starting any war.) Che Guevara himself answers this question, "We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation." In other words, very few. Overwhelming majority were guilty of nothing. Idiot.
Also funny that Che became a poster child for counter-culture capitalism. I'm all for figures who defied abusive authoritarian regimes (whether Che did that or not is debated) but to see him on T-Shirts everywhere in the 90s was weird.
I feel like theres a danger to any political party/ viewpoint or affiliation. theres always a benefit and a catch to anything. I also feel like we cant compare the conduct of morality in other places that aren't in any way, shape or form connected to eachother socially or culturally, nor can we in terms of how we view morality today compared to centuries past
Imo some of what you're saying makes sense except you're missing one crucial point with your opening statement. No one is just a communist. Many of us call ourselves communists or socialists for the sake of simplicity but in reality it's a lot more complex than that. All Marxists are communists and socialist, socialism being the direct step after capitalism that was created to not only be able to survive and thrive in the face of constant capitalist imperialism and pressure being pushed down on them, but also put pressure on the capitalist system by merely existing. This is when the workers own the means of production (lmk if you want me to elaborate on the meaning of that), workers receive completely the fruits of their labour, minus a tax (put towards things that will actually help them like universal healthcare, education, in some cases food and homes aswell). None of what they generate will go to any higher ups, (unless that person chooses to do so via a democratic process in the work place (the democratic process is chosen by the workers)) which is what happens under capitalism, just simply look at how shareholders and many people at the top of the hierarchy recieved more than they produce. Most businesses would be voted on by communities based on their need or desire (depending on the material conditions of the world and country ofc, e.g. if the country were at war and were suffering severe shortages then many luxuries won't be voted on) and then would receive subsidies from the government (the money coming from their taxes). In this society everyone's basic needs of food, homes, education and healthcare would all be met except for in extreme circumstances. Communism is a step then afterwards that focuses less on giving people money based on what they provide. It's difficult for me to explain really because I'm still learning ofc, but essentially the goal of communism is to make everyone's lives easier and better. In capitalism, automation is terrifying because it could put you out of a job, then you won't be able to afford your rent or your food or possibly your healthcare and education. In communism it just means everyone gets to work less, but the automated stuff produced still goes into their pockets if you understand. Under capitalism innovation in automation doesn't reach its peak because it is cheaper to outsource their labour to countries drowning in poverty with workers that are willing to work for dirt then it is to develop and maintain automation. However you then move into many different ideologies like Marxist leninists, or Maoists, or Marxists leninists Maoist. Or guevarists or whatever you like. The left (the real left, not fecking soc Dems or liberals) is extremely varied with some people understanding the necessity of authoritarianism (Engels' "on authority" is supposed to be excellent, haven't read it myself tho) and others (imo naively) standing directly opposed to it no matter what. So if you think there is a catch to communism from a Marx's perspective, then go and plan out your own economy. Go investigate and see what you think is the smartest way forward. I think your best bet early on is to maybe read some Marx so you can understand why he believes what he believes and why he is the most influential philosopher ever. If you want some reading advice I'll point you in the right direction. Sorry about the huge long paragraph, it's just a difficult conversation. As the saying goes, "it takes ten minutes to disprove a ten second lie".
These people are a disgrace to humanity and even communism itself because they're trying to associate an economic idea to all sorts of degenerate things
An unhealthy number of people use political teams as a replacement for critical thinking. Trying to have a rational discussion with one of these extremists (I've identified 4 types: neo con, neo lib, commie and n4z1) is futile. Because it is futile, I think war is inevitable. "Prepare for an angrier future." -Klaus Schwabb
No, OP, not with Liberalism and related ideologies. The core of which being limiting government interference in personal/private affairs, personal freedom. The reason this is so great is that the whole point is to limit government power, and if you limit government power, then there’s not much to even be exploited.
We have zero morality as a whole in the US. There is no more God. No one has respect. No one cares about others. Everyone only cares about there own feelings. So it would completely fail. Luckily it would never happen because once they realize no more Starbucks and TikTok they’ll give up
LOL, they have absolutely no idea. The soldiers would shoot on site, and stone-deaths and lynches would occur to make an example of the rebels and deviates to the rest of the population.
Personally, I would love to have all of the pro-communist American youth rounded up, stripped of their citizenship and sent to North Korea where they could experience the joys of Communism first-hand. Thumbs-up to you, Samantha.
@@technoloverish Depends, not necessarily so, that is seems to be just like that. Scandinavia is socialist on the edges and capitalist at the core. You cannot legislate equality. This is the way Germany evolved until they found out what it really meant and too late! They were baited by the utopia dream that did not happen. Capitalism drives Scandinavia. Without it, would not be so good! When there is tension and discord is is not at all a good sign. Check out the book, theTrue Believer by Hoffer. Plenty of people like that in the 1940's.
“You get to go to school for free, but after getting an education you have to pay of your debt to the state for the next years” But… you get your education for free, how can you be in debt?
It's not a money debt, it's a time debt. For example I'll send you to college for free, then I will choose where you get to work for the upcoming 5 years. After that you are free to transfer if you want. While the american system: I'll send you to college for free, then you have to pay it back for the next 20 years! Idk seems like both have positives and negatives.
They are correct in saying that "true Socialism/Communism" never occurred. Marx's work wasn't in agreeance with the Soviet Union or China, or "the state". A person shouldn't just passively accept the society we live in. Resources have limits in the end, and we have a very imbalanced way of approaching resource values/economy generally. That being said, this need for a predefined "-ism" is counterproductive to whatever needs to actually happen to "balance and make competent of it all" in the most sensible way while maintaining a hierarchy of values. These people betray themselves by requiring some external "-ism" as a generic identity that can't be breached by greater reality. Even if this "Socialism/Communism" they speak of were to go into motion, they themselves would lack the actual force/power/arguments to lead it towards succeeding en masse. They'd very quickly, and very easily be usurped by powers that sought to exploit the nature of the "movement" by throwing the dog a bone, but never offering the real meat of substance required to fulfill the supposed "unified goal" that was there to begin with. So, yes... history would likely repeat itself in some (simple way of saying it) sense. They wouldn't be in power in the end, but would be the serfs, the sacrificed, those incapable of sustaining. Essentially this "-ism" they push for would be their own Trojan Horse, their own undoing.
and it will never exist because Marxism is a form of Utopia, and a bad one at that. Utopias only work when everyone and every aspect of society works perfectly and with singular mind and common goal. That will never happen. But they will keep trying.
Spot on! It can work (which is not to say it is in any way superior to anything else) and has whenever there was sufficient social cohesion to do it. Buddist monestaries, Catholic Nunneries, early Mormon United Order communities etc... had "flourishing" communal systems because they had a goal larger than self that all rallied around. In a multi-cultural world that cannot succeed, like ever. One of the things that the ism ruin for me is otherwise good concepts like equity and the balance of justice and mercy (neither robbing the other). Jay Hammond was a Republican libertarian governor for the state of Alaska. He was one of the key figures in establishing the Permanent fund. He did so with absolutely Libertarian (not Liberal) principles of the likes of John Locke who was arguably the most influential individual in establishing the economic principles of the founding fathers. He proposed going farther (and we should). The Alaska State Constitution recognizes that the natural resources belong to the people (and equally at that) and should be managed for their maximum benefit. By doing so in the manner the PFD does with oil, all needs to care for the poor, needy, sick, afflicted, touched etc... would be taken care of without robbing or taxing anybody (simply actually charging a rock bottom fair value for the resources they own in common). Alaska actually is rather attractive to oil companies despite this (so arguing that wont get you anywhere). There is no need for any ism, just true natural law principles like nobody stealing from anybody else can sort things nicely.
I know it wouldn’t work because they haven’t convince me and anyone I know, and if a bunch of pacifist hippies like us isn’t convinced, this just can’t work naturally and successfully on humans, you gotta use force. And having lived through the Soviet Union we would be more prepared this time to either not accept this without fighting hard, or (when noticing we’re doomed anyway), try to be part of whichever system is responsible for this forceful change, to try to be in a position of power this time.
Also, more importantly they would most likely become the tyrant's they think they wouldn't. It's not that necessarily forces would take control beyond them, it's that they would become so engrossed in their ideology to forget the common man's perspective and as soon as they realized humans are very difficult to fit into their views would resort to measures to maintain their vision. The people who often claim to be the virtuous and not "bigoted" can so very easily become the paranoid, controlling experiment driven intellectuals.
@@freefromthedark6784 Unfortunately that is true in any system. The government is always the regulator of all things (except in a natural ungodly state of anarchy where the strong crush all). You cannot do anything in the United States right now without govt. oversight. Russia has many freedoms we don't right now (exotic pets are far more common) crazy outdoor antics are far more possible, they are giving away free land in several regions by Finland etc... The idea that Capitalism doesn't have government in and through all things is a deceit. We are licensed, taxed, insured, approved, permitted etc... in everything. Heck even going to our own National Parks requires an entry fee as if we weren't the owners! Capitalism prefers corporate overlords to monolithic dictators. I prefer none.
Never in the history of the world, has there been a successful communist country - not one. Communism/socialism appears a worthy solution only in theory or on paper - never in practice. Misha, you should continue to present, translate & explain the context of the Soviet Union propaganda plaques. Thank you for your message! *_TRUST !!_*
@@ribos2762 well no. Even then, they couldn't compare to the US. They did stop the Nazis but without the US intervention in the war, Germany would've been dominant. And at what cost? Stalin killed numerous people under his regime. Orthodoxy was being heavily persecuted with thousands of churches being demolished.
@@ribos2762 Text below copied from source listed at bottom. The point is that Stalin's Great Purge executions of fellow countrymen occurred before the war began in 1939. "Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 to 1.2 million, which includes executions, deaths in detention and those who died shortly after being released from the Gulag, as a result of their treatment therein." Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge *_TRUST !!_*
@@ribos2762 Your train went off the tracks into retorts about the American Civil War, imperialists, & colonists. Today's lesson for others who browse this debate trail: Arguments based on a framework built from ideology, quickly burn up & turn to ash in the furnace of debate when put against facts, statistics, & source documentation. *_TRUST !!_*
As an Eastern European, these things are a reality to me because my parents and my whole extended family have endured the horrors of communism back in the day, and I am very perplexed and saddened to see some young people in the West defending this, and normal people who are not adhering to the extremism of the ideology are being shunned, judged and discriminated against, and treated like literal heroes when they advocate their firmly opposing stances. For me, the entirety of this is incredibly messed up.
My parents and grandparents noticed the signs much earlier and I only noticed things were repeating all over again when I could criticize the issues with capitalism in school, but not with communism..
The date it died can be dated with the building of the Berlin Wall and everyone asked afterward if it was so great why do you need to prevent people from leaving? If its so attractive, it could survive open competition with the capitalist West. It couldn’t and that revealed the bankruptcy of Communism.
@@kora4185 It is easier to criticize what you and/or people close to you have directly experienced, because you know its flaws better than most people. From that point of view, I think I understand where you're coming from. I am sorry you and your family had a tough time with it.
Meanwhile, people who are working 3 or 4 jobs just to get by have to pay taxpayer money to private corporations who you trust surely aren't using it for useless endeavors like endless wars and destroying countries that America has imperialised by stealing there resources and enslaving the people there to modern day slavery to make our chocolate bar brands and cell phones ah yes the pinnacle of American capitalist innovation and don't forget private fossil fuel companies salivating warming up our planet for short term profits
Sounds like they are pro wall, pro shutting the border, pro deport criminal citizens of foreign countries, pro nuclear family, pro deregulation, and pro Small goverment. Sweet!
There’s a lot of the herd mentality in this generation and it pisses me off. I like some of your videos and they are really good. I think people should use more reasoning and logic than emotions and imaginary thinking… Our generations is kinda draining, we all should think the same, we all should feel the same, we all should react the same like what is this mess? Is there any individuality left? No person is all black and white. Anyways, loved this video. Taught me something I didn’t know; although I was never really into this topic but I did learn something.
+Marina _88 So you're taking your historical knowledge from a teeny-bop college drop out propagandist desperate for right wing subs. That is some high caliber individualism and critical thinking for sure.
I blame the educational model for making things easier and with less critical thinking, there's internet now. There's no excuse for supporting socialism anymore.
It’s caused by lack of personal accountability and morals being applied to my generation not by school being easier which it isn’t and everyone can reach up to millions of people on the internet and spread thier ideas
Wore the SAC patch in the early 1980s, babysat nuke laden B52s and we also were responsible for 150 Minuteman missiles planted out in Sven Svenson's tater patch on the North Dakota prairie. I felt a great deal of satisfaction in seeing Mr Gorbachev tear down that wall, yet now I see this malignant ideology we fought against taking root right here at home. SMH.
No, we didn’t. We fought the right enemy and didn’t go far enough. We never should’ve stopped fighting until we incinerated every last one of them in their own camps.
@@ninjacrumbs I threw a woke guy into the river and made his friend blind in 1 eye with a bottle, he was mad I said soccer instead of football, according to the cops he got deported so I can't even press charges on the sucker punch.
Very well put! I wish there were more young people like you who actually understood something about the true nature of socialism. You said in an earlier video that your grandparents escaped the USSR. Did your parents continue with speaking both Russian and English in your house when you were a child, or did you have to take classes to learn Russian? Your transations of communist propaganda posters is a valuable service that is not being done by other commentators, so I encourage you to continue doing it. Keep up the good work!
I wish there were OLDER people, like you, who actually understood something about the true nature of socialism. Anyone who thinks she spoke well shares her impairment due to propaganda.
4:00 actually, in the USSR, you could choose your career. It was possible to choose university and field of study, as long as you can pass an entrance exam. But yes, after university you cannot choose the place of work and must work a fixed amount of years where you are told to.
Reminds me that just because something is free doesn’t mean its free of a cost. Everything has a price, including one’s dream. The question is what you pay to obtain it. And in the USSR, you paid the state back through your labour. Same as under capitalism, different employer. People who promise us everything free under Communism will never tell you it isn’t really free in the first place. Too bad their ideology isn’t covered under truth in labeling laws.
@@klepikovmd anyway speaking of ussr is it true that they(governemnt liars and paid propagandists) used to say the CIA was destroying ur food/crops with beetles and "insert random name of bioweapons"?lololol
You could choose where to work too, you just had to have an invitation from that particular place, pretty much like today, you can't work without receiving a job offer. Nowadays the only difference is that no job is guaranteed to you after graduation and students have to work in McDonald's instead of getting professional experience and good social life.
@@klepikovmd In no way this is similar to student's loan. To pay the loan you have to work anywhere that will get you pay it back, whilst in the USSR people worked in their professional field and earned money, paying back to the state via taxes, huge difference. (Btw I am not a blind USSR or any other communist state fan, but I am a researcher and I want people to know not only bad, but also good sides of this regime).
@@brettschmidt5929 Wow, are you saying that people are not mindless drones locked into total groupthink mentality just because of their political ideology and that individuals are more nuanced than how political opponents perceive them? So.... not all Right-Wingers are fascists, correct? Not all Left-Wingers want to kill babies, yeah? Not all white people are racist, correct? Not all MAGA supporters are idiots, agreed? Not all socialists want communism, is that what you are saying? Please, help me out here... lol... because it seems like everything absolutes and generalizations for whatever some group does not agree with, yet if the group agrees then there is more nuance and those that are on the "outside" are ignorant and do not understand. Hey, I agree, not all socialists believe in communism. And just because Lenin said one thing doesn't make it completely so. What it does show, however, is there is an agenda that people do believe and will follow. And if you further look into the communists philosopher's they speak of using socialism, democracy, and other tactics to achieve their goals. It is simply something to be aware of. Communists hate capitalism (which they invented the name, it use to be called Free Market Economics), and most modern countries that are claimed to be socialism havens (such as the Norse economies) do not reject capitalism but have a mixed "Free Market" economy. In fact they are rather adamant about NOT being called socialist economies. So honestly, if you are a socialist or support such things, you shouldn't be against capitalism because the two can work hand-in-hand with one another, but communism will be destructive to both.
It isn't always. Not all socialism is the same as the marxian kind that we see so often. Marxists believe it is the transition to communism but others think that it is the goal its self.
@@brettschmidt5929 Oh sorry to rip off your comment, I didn't see it. Anyway you are right, even lenin changed his mind after he realized the goal of the stateless, classless, moneyless society was impossible.
6:30 You don't have to work hard to get money under capitalism. You have to do what makes money to get money under capitalism. If that were true why do celebrities, influencers or entertainers get paid so much? Are celebrities, influencers or entertainers working harder than the average person? If the idea of just working harder gets you more money then why do white collar jobs pay more than blue collar jobs on average? Is someone who sits behind a desk all day working harder than a construction worker? They are certainly getting paid more though on average. You don't have to work hard, be creative, skillful, talented or any of that to get money under capitalism. You have to do what ever makes money to get money under capitalism. That is what matters at the end of the day under capitalism, money.
1:07 other than the fact that she blatantly said that “socialism is when the government does stuff”, does she even realize that the pol is actually referring to those who distrust their CURRENT government, and not government in general?
The irony of these people saying they hate capitalism and want a socialist or communist society while recording on their *_iPhone_* or *_Android_* device, using an app owned by either *_Google, Facebook, or the Chinese government_* as they drink their *_Starbucks_* is astounding. Also, the Asian guy is complaining about capitalism lives in a beautiful apartment or house.
As a german with relatives, 2 uncles, in the German Democratic Republic (Socialist) at its existence till 1989, I can say: The GDR was a shithole. And the GDR was the most free and advanced country in die UdSSR. The environment was polluted in a way that was unbelievalble. The people heated with brown coal, the Power Plants also burnt brown coal. Every single house was yellow because of the smoke all over there. The sulfur in that coal you could smell all over the country. The rivers were polluted also with chemical sewages. And the people were poor. All houses exept those of the political leaders were old and run down, because nearly all were owned by the state and no one had an advantage to spend money to renovate them. Not the renters, and not the politicians, because they could not be voted out. One of my uncles, Hans, lived in a small village near Dresden in his own farmhouse. In this small village there was no sewerage, he had - in 1988!! - an outhouse for toilette, no running water but a well behind the House, no telephone. And the house itself was run down because of the lack of materials for renovation. In the GDR you could not go to the hardware store to buy roof tiles. There was no hardware store. You had to go to the factory und you HAD TO HAVE connections or wanted exchange objects (as coffee, cigarettes, chocklate, bananas, oranges, cacao) because there were never enough roof tiles. If we - my parents and me - as western german capitalists visited my uncle Hans the GDR border troops searched our car. Not for weapons or drugs or stolen money or something like this, something criminal. NO! They searched for newspapers and weekly magazines. The people of the GDR should not see the wealth in western germany. And the border was two high fences and in between a death strip with mines and self firing systems, every 3 miles there were watch towers with armed soldiers and dogs. In Berlin there was a wall instead of the fence. No one should leave the socialist paradise. And the GDR officials named this the "antifashist protection wall" (german: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall). i do not understand how anybody today could want socialism or communism. They all know nothing about it. Ist ist horrible. And even in germany there are many young people dreaming of socialism. This ist, in my opinion, because of the leftist takeover of schools and universitys. They do not teach about how communism / socialism really was and is. in germany they teach a lot about national socialism, Hitler. But little of international socialism like Stalin, Chrustchow, Honnecker. Our kids know much about the Nazi concentration Camps and holocaust but little about gulag and holodomor. I dont know why leftist teachers do not tell them. Do they themselfes not know? Or are they evil?
Ironic isn’t, the German heirs to Marx finally had the chance to make a go of it and they failed. The Germans of all people can make everything better but even that had limits. There wasn’t equality and what finally put an end to it wasn’t the Wall coming down, it was people discovering Party leaders were corrupt and never practiced what they preached. If your own ideals weren’t good enough even for you, why should people follow them? At the time, at least people had the excuse they were living a dream that might come true someday. Today everyone knows it was a lie and there is no excuse. Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
He may have lived poorly, but he likely lived within the means of the nation's economy. The U.S. cannot escape this fate once de-dollarization occurs and most of the countries that it used for cheap labor and energy turn away from them. The people in the U.S. are already beginning to experience a normalized economy like in the GDR because it's getting more and more difficult for the U.S. government to steal other nations' resources and keep that Reagan high going, partying like it's 1989, and just generally getting a free ride like it used to. The GDR was poor because Germany was forced by the USSR to stop stealing other countries' human, agricultural, and land resources, and defaulted to a more neutral economy after the war. As much as I like consumerism, it isn't natural for one country (U.S.) to have the majority of the world's wealth just for having Wall Street on their geographic territory. It can't even get a rocket engine built, let alone sold to the Saudis or the Indians. What will its main exports to the Chinese and Indians be in 2030 (when these economies totally eclipse the U.S and Japanese economy), Influencers on TikTok, bad Hollywood movies, and Diversity? And once the Europeans run out of money for U.S. military bases as well as for U.S. "exports" (can you say sanction relief for Russian and Belorussian fertilizer that the U.S. can't seem to produce by itself?), the U.S. will lose its last remaining export market and then Americans's all over the U.S. will have to live like your uncle Hans, not because of communism but because that's what happens when you place all of your faith and children's future into a currency which is a paper tiger held up by military bases, economic blackmail, good faith and financial Wall St. speculation, and not actual labor or resources. Freedom of thought and speech also exist in the West for as long as the rich allow it, which is to say, until the country has enough money and stolen resources for the illusion of relative stability. Once people start queuing up for gasoline and for something to eat at the local foodbank with their entire family, that's when the freedom of speech gets taken away lest anyone start organizing workers' co-ops, labor unions, and a redistribution of stolen wealth.
I’m from Poland and so little number of people is actually missing this system. But I find it funny that you took this Asian guy so so seriously. He constantly appears on my feed and he is so not serious.
"Watch me engage with a topic I know nothing about in the most honest way possible: watching tiktoks to signal my critical thinking skills (agreeing with popular opinion)"
As a former underground musician and party organizer I have lived in small squats and other commune like environments I can say that living and sharing with people is only working out in very small quantities of people. The larger the group becomes the more rules are made. You have people who are 100% against rules and fully ideological and driven to make the utopia manifest to show that people can live in harmony with each other ending up making schedules for cooking and showering, cleaning and all that. Inevitably it will result in mostly the first residents forming a form of committee and setting up rules, deciding on new members, setting up financial rules. People need rules, some people are going to slack off and freeload on the work more active members do. It's just human nature. I am sort of happy I've had these experiences because I made me realize that there is no utopia or one size fits all solution to society and to think that we can just all get along is an illusion. People need their own space and their own things. And they need boundaries and rewards too. If we expect people to be responsible and helpful doing their best to keep the boat from sinking we're going to be disappointed. If it's a struggle for 10 people to decide who washes the dishes than how can we ever expect thousands of people to share equally and respect each other. I think the 'life is a struggle' mentality that our grandparents, great grandparents and those before had is a better mindset for us. They didn't expect any luxury, they had to work hard for every little thing they could get. You simply have no rights or privilege, entitlement or securities in life. If you're lucky and keep trying your best maybe you can get something going for yourself and those around you. Communism is not compatible with human nature, it is selling individual freedom for faux safety to gullible people. Don't fall for it, you think those on top share anything or redistribute their wealth??? If you want to get political and help the people than get into local governance. Help the people help themselves. Communism doesn't work, how many times do we need to suffer before we throw out 'Das Kapital' and Marx with it for good ?
Communism only works if human nature dies, only robots can thrive in communism. Yet, these people fail to realize that. I mean why would everyone put in effort when whether they put in effort or not others will get the work done. Do they also think corrupt politicians will disappear, lol. Do they really think those in power will be participating in the grueling work? Also, they should forget about their sense of self or pursuing their dream job because in such a society there is no "I". You'll be required to obey what the establishment wants or face punishment and ostracization.
@Anti Capitalist forever yeah they did, they are a inhumane machine and the goals are more important than the means used to achieve them. I'm sure most of these people are convinced of their cause too. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. And people manipulating the goodwill of people to enforce their tyranny. It even tends to look good on the outside but it hides a lot of things nobody should have deal with. And it is making a comeback, cheered on by many. Same thing but different times.
I know this because my family lived in Eastern Germany and they were proud communists. As a visitor you get followed and bugged by the stasi. People who weren't proud communist could just dissappear, it's a corrupt mess where everyone can stab you in the back to get a bit more bread then their neighbors. Believe me, it's not a good thing. And I can not even imagine what the Chinese people, the Russians, Cambodians, Vietnamese, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and God knows what other countries who are the victims of this despicable ideology go through and lived through because of Marxist revolutionaries and power-hungry psychopaths. We're all marching right into their trap. And none of the people who are pushing this are poor and oppressed. The people they use are poor and oppressed. And they're going to stay like that under a communist state. Don't fall for this bullshit. We are very blessed in the west, we have to fix our issues and respect each other's opinions even if you don't agree. But it's too late for that already now it seems.
“They are going to take care of healthcare, how is that going to work?” Take a lot of legit every single European country that has universal healthcare that is way better than in the US
This could be an accurate description of some Leninists, but that's not what "socialism", in itself, is. Most of these people think socialism is when people say "Happy Holidays".
The irony is that Marx didn’t even want a major political structure. It was his ideological successors, specifically Stalin, who wanted to have a major, central government structure.
Socialism is government/public control/ownership of the means of production. So her idea of socialism isn't really wrong, though she could have framed it better. Stop twisting the definitions to make your authoritarian ideology look better.
Misha, you are a breath of fresh air from Gen Z. You remind me of my son and my daughter, they also are Gen-Z but use their logic and critical thinking when it comes to politics and economics. You and the Gen-Z like you give me hope after the silliness of my generation (millenials).
yay more capitalist ideals to continue poisoning and ruining our planet and lives. YIPPI! More taxes going toward atrocities committed by our government without congressional approval! More fabricated political division so corperations can continue their shady practices as they have been doing since the 'enlightenment' without being interupted by a unified force of people who realize enough is enough! More moral posturing worn as a mask to hide actual sin committed daily at our expense!
@@slevinchannel7589 how come wages in Poland went from 80 dollars per month to 1000 (adjusted for inflation) in just 40 years if socialism is so good...
"To look at society and conclude that human nature is egoism is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is 'human nature' (as opposed to a result of material conditions) to cough." - Andrew Collier
I’m so glad I found your channel omg. I was forced to write a paper this past semester for a poi sci class in Uni about how evil capitalism is. The assignment was to find a topic we’re passionate about and make a 7pg paper about it. Only thing was, the topic needed to be approved by my prof first. I had started research and found a topic I was super interested in but my prof disapproved. She couldn’t offer me a reasonable explanation either. She offered the alternative of writing a paper on the “evil of capitalism”. Eventually I let her win and wrote the paper on what SHE wanted me to write. I ended up getting an A on a paper I fully disagreed with. Looking back, I wish I would have dropped the class or just wrote the paper I wanted to regardless.
You should of wrote about the federal reserve, woke corporations if possible where your university gets it's donations from. There are ways to screw with these people.
As someone living in a post-communistic country, where generation Z was part of the reason we could rejoice last year about getting rid of the communistic party after 20 years of them still sitting around in the parliament even after the velvet revolution, it's insane to see these sort of videos, the same generation doing the exact opposite. I am glad I don't have a tiktok, but your videos are great to watch, keep it up :D
The communism gave dignity and prestige to east European countries but surprisingly they rejected that and engaged oddly in disgrace and dominance of capitalism !
I don't think reacting to these people (although I'm literally doing it, haha, damn me) serves any point. Just them being able to speak their minds about how they dislike the system under which they live without persecution is proof enough that they do not realise what communism in Europe really caused. And of course you can pull the card of 'that wasn't real communism' but in my humble skeptical opinion there is no way there ever will be. People are greedy, no matter under what system they live in. Also, how does disregarding either my grammar or actual historical facts and people's experiences help your agenda? I don't like this Orwell-style world these people are trying to create, call me a donkey if it pleases you.
@@nisapori3890 When you work a full 42 hours on the tank factory to just get paid a loaf of bread and then get hit in the head with a brick and sent to the gulag cause you just laughed at a government announcement
@@flawer1316 Firstly you assume imaginations from your head and release it and comments we don’t concede this fallacy from you Sir (FlaWer ) . one loaf and gulag ?! Secondly if that was true we should blame USA, Uk, France and allies cause they impose economic blockade on communist countries , and communist countries don’t need thing except freedom to people and cancel division of social class and discrimination..
@@-SteampunkTraveler- Come on, aren't you just a little encouraged by all of the evidence mounting against Jabba the Trumpsurrectionist and finally some positive action on climate change?
False, actually. People working 40 hrs or more a week annually in the US have a 95% chance of earning more than 60k. At the least, if you work hard you will be middle to upper middle class.
No. His response video is terrible. He couldn't go for more a minute before immediately jumping straight to strawman statements like "alt-right" and "the whites are in danger" and spending the rest of the video acting like she actually believes in those things when she doesn't.
One of the strangest aspects of Marxist dialectics is the simultaneous strengthening of the state and the withering away of the state. The latter is supposed to usher in the Communist utopia. Never happens and in practice society always remains at the stage of socialism. None of the Marxist advocates ever tell us how we’re going to leave it behind. In the end the Marxist dialectic always results in the state becoming stronger and the tension between that and the ultimate abolition of the state in fact never materialises. We’re always told we’ll have a world free of alienation that’s a literal heaven on earth. What they forget to tell you is a heaven on earth had never been built on earth because human nature can’t be remade. That’s evident to everyone who has lived under a Communist regime. It would be terrifying if in America we had to relearn that lesson all over again.
Communism isn't supposed to be utopian. Humans are imperfect creatures, we cannot be perfect. Saying that a communist society would be amazing is not the same as saying that it would be heaven on earth. Also, the reason socialist states haven't transitioned into a stateless communist society is because of constant meddling and interference from capitalist-imperialist countries such as the United States.
Heres an interesting fact: sex trafficking had a massively increased in post soviet states AFTER the disillusion of the USSR… i wonder why that happened
I'm watching the Netflix show, Turning Point -The Bomb and the Cold War. Episode 8 talks about how after the Soviet Union fell, prices went up dramatically-during Capitalism. Bread went up 400%. One senior stated one kilo cost him twice his monthly pension. 😮
@@nickolashogg259 you do realize this wasnt for 3 months right? sex trafficking is still a massive issue in post soviet countries, and it all started after the illegal dissolution of the ussr
If any of those children knew somebody or grew up in a communist society they would not be acting that way. My grandfather grew up in Yugoslavia and he had to escape to France and Australia because he was printing anti-communist propaganda for a Croatian anti-communist group and when they were found out they were sent to prison (and most likely executed) and that is one of the many reasons why I hate communism. I'm disgusted at what is happening in my generation and I hope this will and can be prevented before the west becomes another USSR or Yugoslavia.
That's interesting. In Ethiopia my mother was with her friends, and many of them were caught spreading the opposition's pamphlets and were whisked away. Some were reunited, and a few remain unknown their whereabouts.
so you hate communism because your uncle was a crimimal and a traiter to his country? thats what they call people who critisize the government or capitalism in the US.
My grandparents were poor orphans who flourished during the early years of SFR Yugoslavia because of the benefits and opportunities offered to them, leading them to becoming middle class citizens. You can't use personal stories to argue for or against systems and policies, because there will always be another personal story that is in conflict with your own.
Your grandfather had to escape to Australia because "he was printing anti-communist propaganda for a Croatian anti-communist group"? ... Are you sure he wasn't an Ustaša? It's well known that during Yugoslav times, Croats who escaped to Australian cities such as Sydney and Melbourne were mostly Ustaša sympathisers and one of the greatest threats to Yugoslav security. Australia was their safe haven, their gnijezdo. They carried out acts of terrorism against other members of the Yugoslav community in Australia, as well attacks back in Yugoslavia such as lighting bushes on fire. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=researchoutput.csu.edu.au/files/29095069/28757579_Published_article.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjHstay8575AhURxzgGHX_7CXgQFnoECAsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3PjZBpJ6xEQWlZPrZ-r-_M
Your grandfather had to escape to Australia because "he was printing anti-communist propaganda for a Croatian anti-communist group"? ... Are you sure he wasn't an Ustaša? It's well known that during Yugoslav times, Croats who escaped to Australian cities such as Sydney and Melbourne were mostly Ustaša sympathisers and one of the greatest threats to Yugoslav security. Australia was their safe haven, their gnijezdo. They carried out acts of terrorism against other members of the Yugoslav community in Australia, as well as attacks back in Yugoslavia such as lighting bushes on fire.
As a Czech person, I'm absolutely horrified by how many young people in Western Europe and America want communism. I'm not religious, but I will maybe even start praying that it will never come back, because I feel powerless.
@@loggy1391 yeah, cope with the fact that I have quite a lot of guns. So come and try to hurt me and see how that goes for you. The fact that I feel powerless that losers like you are gaining power, doesn't mean that you won't be eating lead if you try something.
Marx was against seizing weapons, “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
@@loggy1391 yeah, the government which calls itself "the people" has all the guns. Guns were confiscated from us when communists came to power. Every communist regime ever always confiscated all the guns. Communism will never come back, this time we will defend ourselves against monsters like you.
@@commie_remover Look up Marx on guns. also you don't seem to be complaining that capitalist countries confiscate guns, the UK confiscated guns, ronald reagan is quoted as saying "there's no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon" literally every source also points to guns being legal in the eastern bloc IF they were registered the surrender of weapons was done in 1918, Members of the Communist Party were allowed to have a single weapon (a pistol or a rifle) and possession of the weapon was recorded in the party membership book. Czechoslovakia in 1950 the gun ban was only to take away unregistered firearms; it only takes a little bit of research to see you've just tried to demonise a common capitalist policy that has been done across the board as capitalistic, not to mention the vast majority of dictatorships nowadays are capitalist: Russia, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Chad, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Swaziland.
@@realmishapetrov these ain't real communists. The ussr cared more about labor and economic dignity than lbtq. You're are purposely swaying people away from the truth by cherry picking stupid tick tock videos and providing common misconceptions of communism that have already been debunked.
I love how one of the first points this woman makes is that lots of people starved and there was mass murder, but conveniently forgets to mention what happened during the days of the British Empire, a capitalist country, especially in countries like India where there was massive famines and many millions died. Real convenient that she leaves that part out. 🤔
Because she is ignorant and has been brainwashed since birth to say what she is saying without thinking or looking at history. All her points are sentences anticommunists have been repeating for decades. No current communist or socialist says “I want the USSR fully back” as she apparently believes.
Bro go read a book. She's from the east, possibly Russian. I'm from Poland. My parents had to live most their lives through communism and no amount of your bullshit will change my mind on it. Please PLEASE read a history book
WoW! I think you are the first person I've seen on the internet who actually knows that. Gulag is an abbreviation, like DOC (Department of Corrections), but Gulag (ГУЛАГ in russian) stands for something like The main administration of correction and work camps.
gulag is just a prison system where prisoners works instead of sitting and spend state's money. The quality of life is not good but prison is prison and most of those ppl stayed alive and keep working after it. Don't demonize em
Dude that kid was so cute 😂😂😂 the sad part is how he's being raised, if he's already thinking these things. He seems incredibly smart...what a shame. Love your videos Misha ❤❤ Edit: by smart I don't mean is ideology of course, I mean he seems advanced for his age. Under the right guidance, he'd be one impressive little guy.
@@reinokarvinen8845 Probably not, being taught the truth from a young age is a valuable tool for you to criticize reality, people like yourself wouldn't understand.
lol what? If you quoted that guy accurately, he's an idiot, that is just a jumble of words meant to sound like it means something when it doesn't. Also, please define "Third-Worldism", I've never seen that be used anywhere.@@HappyFamily-j1q
"Do you want to just sit at home all day?" That's exactly what they want. They cry about toxic work places and putting themselves above the rigors and stress of working. However, if you asked them what a "toxic workplace" is, they'll just say "any job that requires me to work 9-5 while they pay me less than my boss or my boss' boss is toxic to my mental health"
True, I think their support for communism is influenced by laziness. As much as they claim that communism will bring equality, what they actually mean is "a waiter earning the same pay as the business owner", "a janitor earning the same as a site engineer", etc. It seems nice but it's a recipe for disaster. I mean why would I want to go to university or trade school and put so much effort when I can pick a very casual job and get paid big. Its like getting a scholarship to university, even if you didn't pass the scholarship exam, you are given the same perks as those who read and put effort into passing the exam. If such occurs, most people won't bother reading because what's the difference. If no one farms or works well then the society will collapse with time.
Sadly this is true, I saw something a whle back where these kids were asked what an average day look like in their communist uptopia, they said they'd work for a couple of hours (if they could be bothered) then go off and paint, play video games or make music. They'll be in for a huge surprise if they ever got the communist govt. they crave
WOW, Josie, your so self-praising! Everyone who disagrees with you is '''''not brainwashed'''' and YOU THINK THE GOOD THOUGHTS. HAHA. I meanwhile got convinced of Socialism because of Facts and Arguments i had necountered. But hey, dont let this slelf-pooping commentsection here here this, haha. You can fight Strawmans at BEST, but no real Arguemnt. So i feel quite assured. You cant intellectually defeat me or myArguments so you; this whole video and commentsection; attack a Strawman-Version of me and my generation. I win.
9:09 «Novosibirsk livestock farmers will catch up with the United States in the production of meat, milk and butter per capita!». As a resident of Novosibirsk, I will say that we didn’t have much of these products.
It is really cool that you have such intimate knowledge about what it is REALLY like, due to what your relatives have taught you about it. How you wrap up at the end saying these spoiled kids have no idea what they are talking about is totally right. Also, your channel has near doubled since I started watching. I been sharing your videos on social media and have been telling like minded people about your channel. Good luck, you're killin it!
Okay hear me out. I had an epiphone watching this. Okay, so I think I've worked out what the problem is. We have advanced (thanks to capitalist free markets) society so far that about 20-30% of people actually do the work that goes into the life support system of the whole society. These people literally have no idea what goes into putting food on their table or heating their roof, or even maintaining that roof over their heads. In a socialist society, they think that everyone would be like them, because life isn't very hard. Not realising that not only can life not advance as it is presently under socialism, but it will deteriorate to the lowest common denominator as it collapses. Meaning they will go from sipping lattes to toiling fields which are not particularly fertile. But in their heads they'll be sipping lattes and playing candy crush like everyone else.
That's because the bad actors catch them right during college years where their minds are still malleable. The professors (who have never set a foot in any socialist country) market communism in a fashionable manner and ommit the atrocities.
I have heard you out. All that I can glean is that you have used loaded words to try to prove something of which you have no idea about. You didn`t work out shit.
Thank you, Misha! I cannot say that enough, about how communism, socialism, Marxism, and all similar ideologies seem to just ignore human nature. It's rooted in people being naive.
It's unnatural to work for others. You have forced labor in Capitalism as well as in Totalitarianism (Sovjets, North Korea, China are all totalitarian regimes). In true (democratic) Socialism you should be able to fulfil your own projects. But we never had this economic system yet. All so called "communist/socialist" in human history just used the term to establish totalitarian regimes.
My parents grew up in the soviet union. My whole life, I've been told how lucky i am to not live there. Not learning from others' mistakes is just stupidity
I think in general there's a lot of people who think they are so much smarter than their ancestors. Maybe it's because of the technological advancements our capitalist society has granted them. I don't think we are smarter than our ancestors however. I have great respect for those who came before us. I think we can learn a TON from them.
Generally in agreement, though I'm from the UK where we have "socialist" things like national healthcare, which I think is great. But that's beside the point. The point I wanted to raise is when you questioned about where you would find your self-worth *without* a job? I find that a little sad, and I think this is where a lot of this anti-capitalism sentiment comes from in that the whole point of your very being is tied to what job you have. Nothing wrong with taking pride in your work etc. but it shouldn't be the sole point to your sense of worth.
Yeah, I think extreme capitalism like what the US has is pretty bad in itself. I don't think any country should rely on one sole way of running things as there are many "socialist" things like good healthcare and affordable housing (even though it is a mess in Ireland atm). But there is a reason why young people (pretty much all of them in this video are from the US too it seems) want to oppose extreme capitalism since basing your self worth off solely your job is indeed sad, and her just calling it 'mental problems' 5:20 instead is a bit harsh.
Honestly it is so heartbreaking to watch, I’m from Ukraine and I can see with my eyes all the consequences of communism which destroying my country in real time, so glad that at least in my country there gonna be an anti commie generation of young people
Another sad aspect is that if you ever told these kids about the horrors of communism they swear and curse at you all day long whilst proudly showing a Ukrainian flag in their Twitter handle
Hey Misha ❣️ my proffessor teaches on Socialism and I dont agree with it due to the nature of some components that are against my faith, and I wanted to dig deeper to understand communism more before I even speak against it & your video is helpful. Idk you but I love you so much already because you have the same heart as mine, as I am outspoken when I am passionate about topics. However zeal without knowledge does not help me and you helped me so much to understand this topic deeper from a historical perspective and not by what "experts" say. You are beautiful and intelligent and I wish I knew you in person because you would be that friend id keep around! Thank you for your videos. 🥰 God bless you !
Ah, the old 'Send them to Communism to heal their COmmunism-Love'-Argument. And i mean Argument the same as i mean in kingderarden when a child babbles something that no educated Adult would ever think is trueee, hahahaha.
Just because an idea looks good on paper doesn't always mean it will work out in reality. When you put that idea to the test. You'll discover it could have many flaws.
Socialism looks amazing on paper. Ever body is equal, everybody looking out for every neighbor. The Government is your friend so they have your best interests at heart...la di da. History and the very nature of human beings tells us otherwise. Since the beginning of man there have been the haves and the have-nots. There are always people willing to work harder or simply smarter and human nature prevents us from carrying dead weight. I think these kids think it is a free ride..as in "I don't care if the Government follows me, I'm not doing anything wrong." They don't understand what is truly I store for them. If millions of innocents weren't to be affected, I would probably wish it upon them as a lesson to be learned.
So I just found your channel, and I must say you are a highly articulate and well rounded young woman. It's very refreshing considering most in your generation are just, well unfortunately, not very intelligent. I look forward to watching more of your content. Much love from a millennial elder. Lol
This is so crazy 🤣 I’m from Cuba my grandparents are political exiles. They don’t have to look to far to see all the lies about everybody being the same. Everyone is poor and the people on top steel everything!!!! 🤦♀️
Haiti is not to far away capitalist and worst off then cuba.. My family’s from cuba as well, cuba has done the best with what they can do. Learn you’re own history. Castro wanted to give the land back to the people and america threatened them with sanctions, fake counter revolutions, and invasions tried to kill the man many times, he had to survive with the USSR to ensure there revolution wasn’t for nothing. Cubas whole economy was geared to america to be cut off from america is a powerful blow, to switch there whole system towards the USSR then get a nuke to threaten America to leave them alone. For america to sanction them all to hell, then the USSR fell and cuba agian took a blow on top of all that managed to create the best healthcare system in the western hemisphere, give food, water and housing to everyone and raise the highest literacy rate in Latin America is huge. And they did this as public enemy of the strongest nation in the world.. cuba is not perfect, far from it but did amazing considering the odds they were faced with and there respected all over parts of Africa and Latin America for there healthcare mission trips all over the 3rd world. I’m sure you’re grandaparents are sweet people but most likely never had a education in cuba like mine if they fled before Castro and the rebels arrived to fight Battista‘s army.
As someone who lives in a socialist country. (I may not speak about) it is utterly disgusting how people in the US are saying how socialism is good. If you would just pay attention to the murders, the innocent people losing their houses and everything.
which socialist country you're living and wanna know the lsoing house crisis. you realise she American capitalist and her country hosts the largest prisoners in the world lol.
@@stalin1489 Yes, in Communist countries one mostly loses lives. The U.S. has the largest number of prisoners because we don't execute vast numbers of people the way Communist countries do.
You are correct,,the only bad thing of socialism compared to capitalism,the real socialism that all the land and property and factory and all business and all resources and many other's was owned only by communist government no individual has allowed to owned,how that everyone was improve their lives in this kind of government,,but in reality the people are poor,but their communist leader and their families and their communist party cronies oligarchs is become more Richer and richer..
I'm in High School, and we're not even learning about the Soviet Union. The only thing we learned about the Soviet Union was the Russian war for independence, nothing about how horrible it was to live there.
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, vol. 2 The more power a state is granted, the more ruthless become those who wield such power, something Solzhenitsyn observed first hand under Soviet rule.
About the only two things the Communists did right in the Soviet Union was compulsory education and the army. They messed everything else up, God knows why. The Soviet Union disappearing liberated everyone it enslaved, imprisoned and shot. And to think naive fools today want more of that makes my blood run cold.
As for jobs in the Soviet Union - you did have some choice in your career, although some careers were very competitive and difficult to get into, and others were easier. However a big difference in a democratic country is that you could get any number of University degrees you wanted, in any number of careers; but in USSR once you started on a certain path of education towards a particular career, it was very difficult or even impossible to change career tracks.
In Poland, whenever you formally introduce yourself, or being asked by authority to identify yourself, sometimes you have to give your profession. It's still old habits from Soviet times.
if Capitalism is all that great, why is there a minimum wage, why are there rent controls, why are there Anti monopoly laws, why is there favoritism, why is there inequality, why is there discrimination? why are there government subsidies? why are there government bailouts? government bailout of banks is the most Anti capitalist thing a country can do, why are there stimulus checks why are there government programs like social security, why is there the concept of FDIC? Why is there overtime pay law why is there government housing and schooling and policing why are there public roads and transportation why are there interest rate controls why is the amount of money printed regulated controlling the amount of money a govt prints is the most xommunist thing a country can do
In USSR, universities were providing planned numbers of degrees to corresponding industries to fill required vacancies, while in capitalism we have universities selling degrees right and left - it's just a business. Besides, our industries in capitalisme also profit from having hundreds of graduates competing for one vacancy - salary expenses will be lower.
@Black Knight yes, there was some logic in that. In capitalism, you're the one supposed to evaluate whether it will be easier to find a job with an IT degree or Marine Biology degree - and choose your field of studies accordingly. But not every 18-year-old is mature enough to make an intelligent choice. In USSR the system didn't give you the opportunity to make a completely stupid choice. Personally, it worked out fine for me as I chose Computer Science in the U.S. and the industry has done very well for the most part.
I feel one of the main things you've missed here is these kids complaining will never be a doctor or a work any high value job. Which is why they want everyone to be paid the same. They want to work at Starbucks and make the same as a doctor.
I feel like that’s the theme too. They want all the rewards of working hard but not actually work hard themselves. It’s ironic because the essence of communism is if you don’t work hard you don’t reap the benefits of the collective. They want to sit in their privileged life ignorant to what those in communist societies actually experience and cry about the limitations of their lives. They’re not bothered enough in finding the value of the balance of communism, socialism and capitalism so they take communism as it sounds the best theoretically, but have they heard of history?
@@Weazla- Its easy to call people idiots when you don't know what else to say lol. But they are right. Karl Marx was a spoiled lazy man whose middle class daddy gave his own earned money to support his son whom he loved (like today's helicopter parents whose spoiled kids are keyboard socialists). But Karl was an ungrateful son who, after sucking his parents' money dry, had nothing else to do with them. Then Karl's friends and in-laws sent him money in the mail while Karl sat around on the couch reading newspapers all day. Karl truly enjoyed "free" money from others' hard work (like today's keyboard socialists would love to enjoy). He also didn't bathe as often as was customary at the time and so was gross and smelly (like today's pale commie soy boys). His wife lived in a state of depression.
Where does any leftist thinker say that everyone should be paid the same? Oh yeah, literally nowhere because it's incredibly stupid, much like yourself.
My babushka lived in the Soviet union for 40 years and her life was very normal. Oh and at 6:47 communism doesn't work like that. Life under Stalin was pretty bad but after that, like I said, life was normal.
One has to be reminded that before the Great Depression, the "you don't work, you don't eat" saying would be true. Same with vagrancy: if one wanted to be lazy, then that individual would be doing time in a chain gang (as permitted by the 13th Amendment). And the US was never Communist/Socialist.
In the 1990s, I saw a documentary about daily life in Cuba. One man they interviewed was a TV repairman. He wanted to learn how to fix color TVs, rather than just black-and-white sets, but the government wouldn't let him get the needed training because color TVs were a luxury item and there weren't enough of color sets in his area to justify training him to fix them. They could have sold more color sets, but the government restricted the sales of color sets because there weren't enough TV repairmen in Cuba who knew how to fix them. BTW, I wonder how many of these people just can't wait to get the latest iPhone so they can post another video.
...And? Have you watched 'Socialism for Beginners' and 'A Future Beyond Captalism? Socialism Explainesd.' by Second Thought, which is kinda the only way to not ‚run your mouth about a topic you dont know anything about’? I mean, hey, ngl, it’s really Honorable and whatnot to not even be able to ‚handle’ a single video with the word Beginner in it, buuuut... How in the world did you convince yourself you have any Clue about what your talking about and its not just an intellectualy-dishonest Position you hold and that is just not criticized cause your in an echochamber? How can you justify not even having watched a video with the Word Beginner in its name, let alone anything more complicated? Your literally excusing yourself from the concept of engaging and debating.
The iPhone comment is perfect, not one component would exist without the government, it's then given to massive tech companies to slap a logo on and charge 100X the value. You people are so uneducated, obviously American.
Even the rich will be affected by communism. The only ones who will be rich in a communist society are the elites who brought communism to the country. All other citizens will be poor.
Capitalism isn't about working hard, its about working smart. Knowing where to invest to escape the system to make money. You dont get rich in capitalism by working "hard" in a normal job or by playing by the rules. Most people work really hard in their day to day jobs and they never achieve enough money in life to even own a house
most people arent working hard, theyre just working, you are gaining experience it all about the type, my friend started out in a driver day job 10 yrs ago working for the city, used the job $$ to educate himself and transferred all over until he got where he wanted to be in life, its playing by the rules that get you places in life, else got to jail and ya no one wants to hire criminals but ppl choose shortcuts, there are no shortcuts in life and wealth is gained with experience less its dumb luck, how valualble to the society do you want to be
@@invalidaccount2315 the thing with capitalism is that for some ppl to be successful, others need to be 'poor'. It's a pyramid where you have the 1% on top and everyone else on the bottom. The 1% did not get there by being an honest worker, that's what I meant by not playing by the rules. Yes, ppl can succeed like your friend and of course patient and dedication is key. But it is not a fair system overall since if we were all rich no one would work and the system would collapse, so there always need to be ppl poor and struggling for the system to run.
meanwhile we waste our best years of life , working and working hard, trying to survive, trying to achieve something so that maybe when we're older we'll have gained some wealth but by that time you realize how you have been a slave to the system for years. It's a lifetime of work with little fun or freedom.
@@marianagouveia1336 in a capitalist society, there will always be "poor" people because there will always be lazy people. Success and financial stability are supposed to be the incentive that drives people to work hard. Laziness and unwillingness to work should never be rewarded. "But they'll starve!" Yeah, so?
@@marianagouveia1336 i was homeless for 4 years, taught myself how to program with a panhandeled laptop at mcdonalds wifi, and now am in the top 15%, rich never stay rich, rarely more than 10% of the time is anyone in the top %, neither do the poor, it is a sliding scale and capitalism is the balance.
"Socialism is when the government does stuff" classic
This RUclipsr is clueless, thats fact.
Yea that's kinda what socialism is. Socialism is when the government seizes the means of production and a dictatorship of the proletariat is established.
@sneed feed Socialism is when the workers own the means of production.
The USSR for example does not meet this requirement. However, this becomes clear once one sees that its state ideology was marxism-leninism.
Marxism-Leninism is an ideology that combines state-capitalism with the dictatorship of the communist party. The party is supposed to transition the state towards actually being socialist.
@@carltanner7461 That happened in bolshevik russia lol. Did you forget New Economic Policies? Workers owning the production just ended with the fall of production. Pick a history book, commie.
@sneed feed Ayo nigga where you go??
Also, I love how gen-z screams "amplify black/asian voices", "listen to black people when they tell you about racism" etc. but won't listen to people who actually experienced communism (eg. people from easter Europe) and talk openly about how horrible it was.
I could spend 5 hours retelling stories of my parents waiting 3 days in line to buy meat or toilet paper. Or how they shared one orange between their family od 7 people, because someone from US sent them a package.
Tell "wokes" that ask a cuban what truly communism is. Or, that they ask a venezuelan, like me... or, maybe every single easter european that suffered from communism, chinese that grew up in China, north Koreans...
"Woke" people don't give a fuck about us, they just want to have always the reason and that they are never wrong... this isn't a true feeling of helping, it's them wanting to "feel" heard, they have attention issues, and they feel that they're useless, so "wokes" use this movements as an excuse to receive attention.
I mean, the majority of "wokes" are dumb and never listen to things they don't like, so they're man childs that don't have their own opinions, they copypaste famous movements and that's just it.
the great thing about living in a free country (well it used to be anyway) is I don't have to listen to anyone about anything
Just see how they react when you tell them you regularly watch Eric July, Officer Tatum or Lauren Chen. No, you weren't supposed to listen to *those* colored people! Only the people of color that agree with us!
they don't even listen to colored folks about racsim unless it echoes what they want to hear.
That's weird, there is a video of an old man from Soviet union, who went up to these communist kids and have discussion about communism. He was being reasonable with them. These commie kids were getting all pissed off about it.
My wife had two neighbours that where very into communism, and they
went to Albania, in the 70s with thir long hair and hippie looks.
Comrade Enver Hoxha was going to show them true socialist paradise.
The couple came back after one year, the man with hair shaven, both very very "elegant"
and they spoke of communism no more. The kids in the video would not last 10 days.
Great story!
Unless they were really into communist. Lol.
I've been called a hippie. I'm just a hillbilly
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good for them
Let's get one thing straight. Communism IS better than capitalism, that cannot be denied. The only reason it fails is because unlike capitalism, it is almost impossible to hide corruption in a communist society. If humans ever become a mature enough species, Communism will be the de facto way to run things and that is fact. Capitalism works because it is very good at hiding its corruption and no country does this better than the US, the most hypercapitalist society that has ever existed. The US has an atrocious healthcare system, sky rocketing homelessness, no job support programs, an abysmal violation of worker's rights as well as no freedom for new parents to take leave from work to raise their offspring. DON'T blame communism, it is the government that f*cks things up, NOT communism. It is also funny how you attack socialism when literally every country that has socialist policies is doing better than the US is right now. I so sick of people not even knowing what it is they are talking about. EDUCATE YOURSELVES.
"Do support either Communism or Capitalism?"
"I prefer Feudalism"
Based.
“John, you didn’t farm your required 200 pounds of wheat this week. Back to the fields!” Based
Chad
I prefer na- 💀
😂
I’m glad I found another young woman pointing this stuff out 😅. It’s refreshing to see. My generation (Gen Z) has a lot of issues
We are the issue
@@thegr8frederick And I hope we can end these issues, we need to bring back religion and tradition.
Just Slap everybody with issues, so they wake up. jk
@@thegr8frederick 2:27 that is a growth stunted adult....not a kids.....there are many on social media posing as kids.
Love that pfp
I'm impressed with the first kid. He apologized for getting heated and I believe he has a curious heart.
Kids not even communist
that kid is like me when i was a kid i liked communism now i think its a piece of crap
@@MBHpower1 why’s it crap?
hes speaking facts IMO
@@karasuarts900 well becaus basiclly the people in power will get corrrupted and start taking all the resources for themselves take china or russia for an example
My grandparents escaped communist SSR when they were young. They were a group of people called Mennonites, which the SSR did not like. I heard the horror stories about what they had to go through. So many people they knew were killed for not doing what the SSR told them to. They were some of the lucky ones though because a lot of the people who tried to leave Russia did not make it. So as a gen Z that has heard all of what they went through, I'm really against socialism and communism.
I am sorry to hear about your past, but SSR was totalitarianism just using terms like socialism and communism to justify their totalitarian regime. Socialism is equality in society, solidarity for each other and social justice. There was no equality, solidarity and justice in SSR.
Sorry what your grandparents had to go tbrough. And I agree.
@@fabisto5693 The "progressives", and the "woke", are heading for totalitarianism. Socialism, and Communism, can never work. Without totalitarianism, these systems would be turned around by sensible people. Otherwise, when life becomes unbearable, they must be overthrown.
@@fabisto5693 it's what every socialist and communist government gives way to, always have, and in my opinion always will. They value party loyalty and don't want the best people for the job. How's the Aristotle quote for, "masculine republican give way to feminine democracy, feminine democracy gives way to tyranny."
@@fabisto5693 keep living your fantasies that will never come true in real life
i like how most socialists don't even know what socialism is, and how most anti-socialists also don't know what socialism is.
Spot on, it's one thing for anti socialists to not know what it is, but man is it annoying to have fellow other "socialists" who dont know what it is.
fr, like people hate on socialism.. without knowing what it is, how do you hate an ideology while you dont know anything about it
@@kenoby2330 Socialism is a failed experiment
@@InsertNameHere911 it has many mode benefits, yes
@@InsertNameHere911much more, but people will just ignore it and spread antisocialist propaganda
"In capitalism u can chose what career u want! XD"
Kids in third world sweatshops: "... what"
True ☭
@@phoneticalballsack are u trying to insinuate that I am blaming the countries u mentioned for the child exploitation, trust me I am not, it's not the countries fault its the global north
it's better than farm work that why most people leave the countryside in droves just to be in a "sweatshop " everything takes time, lads in 19th century England in the mines and chemneys worked their asses off so that the next generation wuld get a leg up. but commies think work is the devil
@@micann5738 oh yes we do 😎.
Work only enriches the pigs at the top not u 😎
You forgot the part where most of those third world sweat shops are operated In communist/socialist countries like China and Vietnam. The point you are trying to make doesn’t work.
"Utopia" is a word which was created with great irony in mind by the englishman Sir Thomas More, and from greek, it literally translates to "a place which does not exist".
it means no land or no place
@@ThePhobos100aka a place that does not exist
@@meowxdhahalol A utopia is impossible, no one is perfect.
@@ThePhobos100that was his point
Wow 🤩 you just debunked 180 years of socialist philosophy
Read socialism utopian and scientific loll
Nordic model surely isn’t socialist. It’s capitalism with high taxes and distribution.
It's not even capitalism. It's a mixed economy.
yeah ik the tax is like 50 %😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
it's social democracy, the mix of capitalism and socialism bringing all the worst things about both systems
@@Y0hny I wouldn’t say the worst of two systems. Not a fan, but I think that’s exaggeration. Worst of two systems is something like China.
@@aras75akaI don't think people realize that all the largest economies are mixed economies. There aren't any actual true successful socialist or capitalist economies in the world currently.
It's hilarious that the little kid at the start had more sense than these young adults.
He was deeply indoctrinated into Socialism, I don't know what you're talking about.
@@Destro7000 Perhaps. But he's less of a twerp than the supposedly wiser young adults.
@kartikchandrasekhar7393 calls people morons 🤷🏻 I mean it's tame but still an insult
Still should get the belt
These "young aduts" know more about socialism than what this woman is smoking about.
Well, in their defense. In a capitalist society we have major issues like someone having more money than you, but in a communist country they have figured out how to remove that issue entirely by making it where people can’t afford food
Edit: I don’t think I was very clear, when I said “Someone having more money than you” was a major issue, I was being sarcastic. I was hoping that by comparing it to people starving that would help to clarify. But judging by some of these replies, I don’t think I was very clear. My bad
there is no political system that is unflawed. I'd rather stick with what we've got as we know it works better than anything
@@lordkeravnos, the type of government with the least faults, the better.
These people defend Mao, Stalin, and Lenin. Enough said.
Democratic socialism is the way!
With capitalism one can always try to earn more then the person who has more than them.
Actually it’s not a correct piece of information that you couldn’t choose the job back in USSR. My grandmother wanted to be a doctor so she became a doctor. My grandpa loved physics and wanted to be a scientist so he became one.
At the same time it’s valid to say that you cannot choose the profession you want in the UK or in the US since tuition fees can be unaffordable for those less fortunate
Моя мама и его брат тоже жили в СССР и никакую профессию они не выбирали. За них выбрали. Мама говорит что ей вообще всё равно было, ибо за неё решали куда она пойдёт учиться, и где будет работать.
А гуманитарные вузы в СССР - вообще срант
You ever hear of scholarships? Of course a poor person can get a degree.
There are companies that offer tuition reimbursement.
Join the military. They'll pay for your schooling.
@@pidgo4867 buddy, some people dont want to die
@@cohengamertv6548 Not every job in the military involves combat, infact most of them do not.
Young adults seem particularly attracted to the lure of communism, everyone equal everyone happy. The only time I didn't see this happen was in the 80s, most young adults wanted the traditional path, job/career, family, home, almost a return to the 50s, and there was a lot of criticism from their boomer parents about their lack of political protesting, fighting "the system", etc. Anyway thank you for being a strong voice of reason in your generation and I hope your message is heard by a lot of your peers.
We need more fathers at home helping children.
I remember being about 8 years old (this was in the 80s) and asking my dad why the government doesn't just pay everyone the same so they don't have to work. He explained why communism doesn't work to me in a way that I completely understood as an 8 year old kid. I never gave it a second thought after that. Why was I able to grasp this at 8, but these kids can't at 18?
That's because there was someone like Reagan who was working to make the system less powerful. No need to fight the system when it seems like its power is on a downward trajectory. Sadly, the Reagan years proved only to be a temporary respite. The Boomer conception was to make government bigger and more powerful.
interesting comment about gulag by her. usa, as of now, has the most prisoners ever to exist under any regime ever (both in absolute numbers and as percentage of population), ussr included. that is a verifiable fact. and what do you know, some of them are now "forced free labor" ( there is another word for it, though people in usa don't want to talk much about that) for for profit companies. is that result of capitalism?
So most parents of generation X, i.e. children and teens growing up in the 80's, were actually the silent generation, not boomers. Just saying. Which would make sense as to why Gen X just wanted a standard lifestyle.
Oh man that kid was just so pure. He is just replicating somebody’s behavior, word for word. I don’t think he’s been brainwashed he is just copying behavior.
yees
very surprised that someone as young as you is not into the woke stuff. I still have faith in humanity thanks to you.
Don't worry, there are plenty of us.
It's an organization.
90% of America, is like her. We just don't cry on Twitter. 😂
@@danielyoungblood8525 xD I’m glad. Because the ones that get on the news to the rest of the world are the 10% and the American image is not great as it was before. I don’t live there so I just get tons of woke news so I assumed that at least 50% were like that.
I also know that social media is super biased .
The people she's showing has destroyed my faith for humanity.. Stupidity and evil has inherited the earth we are all doomed and we are all going to die!!!
gods work, it's refreshing to see someone show the horrors of history, as nobody ever does nowadays. You're helping history not repeat itself and that's amazing
Thank you!
Gen Z should read up on the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain. And how when Germany
was divided east and west and E. Germans would try to defect to W. Germany.
These kids have no idea. I work at one of the top 3 universities in the USA. We hired a brilliant woman that grew up in the former USSR. She told me about how she didn't get to pick what she studied in school, what career she would have, or where she would eventually live. I think a lot of young people think Communist/Socialist decisions are driven by like math equations and "good science". But, what really drove it was political connections, nepotism, and bribes. My family is from Hungary, mostly. And, I've heard horror stories from them. Hungary wasn't even USSR, it was just a vassal state. I can't imagine how bad it was in the USSR.
@@anonymousanonymous3020 I recommend the Gulag Archipelago. Very scary book describing what the USSR was like as a prisoner. Written by a person who actually was, and it doesn't hold back on how evil it was.
@@roofkorean2067 I have read Solzhenitsyn, of course. An interesting fact about this book that has nothing to do with it - Peter Thiel, the billionaire that funded Facebook and Elon Musk, said it was his favorite and most influential book. It is a great book and I recommend it to everyone. It changed my perspective on the world.
My mom had a thing for Che Guevara for a while til I laughed at a flag at Pride with him on it. My mom then said "Why are you laughing." I then replied.
"You do know Guevara had work camps to work the gay out of men as he saw it as bourgeois."
Suddenly her whole love of him changed to her barely ever mentioning him again. Any time I see a Hammer and a Sicle with a rainbow it tells me exactly how much this person knows about communist dictators.
Don't forget la cabana
el Che also killed hundreds if not thousands of people for Castro in cuba back in the day. He was a huge communist and a murderer.
@@TheHabsification Why should anyone feel bad for war criminals of Batista’s government being executed? It’s like saying Nuremburg shouldn’t be forgotten because the Nazis were given death sentences
@@Mendaz How many of the executed actually were criminals of Batista government? (I'm not aware of Batista starting any war.)
Che Guevara himself answers this question,
"We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation."
In other words, very few. Overwhelming majority were guilty of nothing.
Idiot.
Also funny that Che became a poster child for counter-culture capitalism. I'm all for figures who defied abusive authoritarian regimes (whether Che did that or not is debated) but to see him on T-Shirts everywhere in the 90s was weird.
You Said Look At Cuba Under Socialism But Go Look At Cuba Under Capitalism And Batista
That’s the thing. They want to make it seem like Cuba was like western Europe before socialism “ruined” it
It was great, have a nice day
@@diablo55it was
just take a look to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Jamaica, etc, capitalist states and how good they are doing🤣
@@yaofab7284 you’re ignoring layer and layers of history just to try to prove your point and you don’t even make it
I feel like theres a danger to any political party/ viewpoint or affiliation. theres always a benefit and a catch to anything. I also feel like we cant compare the conduct of morality in other places that aren't in any way, shape or form connected to eachother socially or culturally, nor can we in terms of how we view morality today compared to centuries past
Imo some of what you're saying makes sense except you're missing one crucial point with your opening statement. No one is just a communist. Many of us call ourselves communists or socialists for the sake of simplicity but in reality it's a lot more complex than that. All Marxists are communists and socialist, socialism being the direct step after capitalism that was created to not only be able to survive and thrive in the face of constant capitalist imperialism and pressure being pushed down on them, but also put pressure on the capitalist system by merely existing. This is when the workers own the means of production (lmk if you want me to elaborate on the meaning of that), workers receive completely the fruits of their labour, minus a tax (put towards things that will actually help them like universal healthcare, education, in some cases food and homes aswell). None of what they generate will go to any higher ups, (unless that person chooses to do so via a democratic process in the work place (the democratic process is chosen by the workers)) which is what happens under capitalism, just simply look at how shareholders and many people at the top of the hierarchy recieved more than they produce. Most businesses would be voted on by communities based on their need or desire (depending on the material conditions of the world and country ofc, e.g. if the country were at war and were suffering severe shortages then many luxuries won't be voted on) and then would receive subsidies from the government (the money coming from their taxes). In this society everyone's basic needs of food, homes, education and healthcare would all be met except for in extreme circumstances.
Communism is a step then afterwards that focuses less on giving people money based on what they provide. It's difficult for me to explain really because I'm still learning ofc, but essentially the goal of communism is to make everyone's lives easier and better. In capitalism, automation is terrifying because it could put you out of a job, then you won't be able to afford your rent or your food or possibly your healthcare and education. In communism it just means everyone gets to work less, but the automated stuff produced still goes into their pockets if you understand. Under capitalism innovation in automation doesn't reach its peak because it is cheaper to outsource their labour to countries drowning in poverty with workers that are willing to work for dirt then it is to develop and maintain automation.
However you then move into many different ideologies like Marxist leninists, or Maoists, or Marxists leninists Maoist. Or guevarists or whatever you like. The left (the real left, not fecking soc Dems or liberals) is extremely varied with some people understanding the necessity of authoritarianism (Engels' "on authority" is supposed to be excellent, haven't read it myself tho) and others (imo naively) standing directly opposed to it no matter what. So if you think there is a catch to communism from a Marx's perspective, then go and plan out your own economy. Go investigate and see what you think is the smartest way forward. I think your best bet early on is to maybe read some Marx so you can understand why he believes what he believes and why he is the most influential philosopher ever.
If you want some reading advice I'll point you in the right direction. Sorry about the huge long paragraph, it's just a difficult conversation. As the saying goes, "it takes ten minutes to disprove a ten second lie".
These people are a disgrace to humanity and even communism itself because they're trying to associate an economic idea to all sorts of degenerate things
An unhealthy number of people use political teams as a replacement for critical thinking. Trying to have a rational discussion with one of these extremists (I've identified 4 types: neo con, neo lib, commie and n4z1) is futile. Because it is futile, I think war is inevitable. "Prepare for an angrier future." -Klaus Schwabb
No, OP, not with Liberalism and related ideologies. The core of which being limiting government interference in personal/private affairs, personal freedom. The reason this is so great is that the whole point is to limit government power, and if you limit government power, then there’s not much to even be exploited.
We have zero morality as a whole in the US. There is no more God. No one has respect. No one cares about others. Everyone only cares about there own feelings. So it would completely fail. Luckily it would never happen because once they realize no more Starbucks and TikTok they’ll give up
i think the irony is that they’re marching in favor of socialism, but in a socialist society, their marches would get them imprisoned lol
LOL, they have absolutely no idea. The soldiers would shoot on site, and stone-deaths and lynches would occur to make an example of the rebels and deviates to the rest of the population.
Yes, there is no tolerance for minority in socialism. They would be put away or way worse!
Personally, I would love to have all of the pro-communist American youth rounded up, stripped of their citizenship and sent to North Korea where they could experience the joys of Communism first-hand. Thumbs-up to you, Samantha.
@@Cassidy248 Ты описываешь то, как это происходит в Америке? +-4000 смертей от полиции в год...
@@technoloverish Depends, not necessarily so, that is seems to be just like that. Scandinavia is socialist on the edges and capitalist at the core. You cannot legislate equality. This is the way Germany evolved until they found out what it really meant and too late! They were baited by the utopia dream that did not happen. Capitalism drives Scandinavia. Without it, would not be so good! When there is tension and discord is is not at all a good sign. Check out the book, theTrue Believer by Hoffer. Plenty of people like that in the 1940's.
“You get to go to school for free, but after getting an education you have to pay of your debt to the state for the next years”
But… you get your education for free, how can you be in debt?
not fault of capitalist but fault of US
I guess she must hate the capitalistic system in America even more lmao
Just like us! Expect we don’t get anything on top of it.
It's not a money debt, it's a time debt. For example I'll send you to college for free, then I will choose where you get to work for the upcoming 5 years. After that you are free to transfer if you want.
While the american system: I'll send you to college for free, then you have to pay it back for the next 20 years!
Idk seems like both have positives and negatives.
@@nawra77 The thing is that, this time debt doesn’t exist. Except in countries like Cuba you may have to do humanitarian aid to poorer parts.
Holy sh!t, Misha comin' in hot with the perfect Russian pronunciation lmfao That just blew my mind!
They are correct in saying that "true Socialism/Communism" never occurred. Marx's work wasn't in agreeance with the Soviet Union or China, or "the state". A person shouldn't just passively accept the society we live in. Resources have limits in the end, and we have a very imbalanced way of approaching resource values/economy generally.
That being said, this need for a predefined "-ism" is counterproductive to whatever needs to actually happen to "balance and make competent of it all" in the most sensible way while maintaining a hierarchy of values. These people betray themselves by requiring some external "-ism" as a generic identity that can't be breached by greater reality. Even if this "Socialism/Communism" they speak of were to go into motion, they themselves would lack the actual force/power/arguments to lead it towards succeeding en masse. They'd very quickly, and very easily be usurped by powers that sought to exploit the nature of the "movement" by throwing the dog a bone, but never offering the real meat of substance required to fulfill the supposed "unified goal" that was there to begin with.
So, yes... history would likely repeat itself in some (simple way of saying it) sense. They wouldn't be in power in the end, but would be the serfs, the sacrificed, those incapable of sustaining. Essentially this "-ism" they push for would be their own Trojan Horse, their own undoing.
and it will never exist because Marxism is a form of Utopia, and a bad one at that. Utopias only work when everyone and every aspect of society works perfectly and with singular mind and common goal. That will never happen. But they will keep trying.
Spot on! It can work (which is not to say it is in any way superior to anything else) and has whenever there was sufficient social cohesion to do it. Buddist monestaries, Catholic Nunneries, early Mormon United Order communities etc... had "flourishing" communal systems because they had a goal larger than self that all rallied around. In a multi-cultural world that cannot succeed, like ever.
One of the things that the ism ruin for me is otherwise good concepts like equity and the balance of justice and mercy (neither robbing the other). Jay Hammond was a Republican libertarian governor for the state of Alaska. He was one of the key figures in establishing the Permanent fund. He did so with absolutely Libertarian (not Liberal) principles of the likes of John Locke who was arguably the most influential individual in establishing the economic principles of the founding fathers. He proposed going farther (and we should). The Alaska State Constitution recognizes that the natural resources belong to the people (and equally at that) and should be managed for their maximum benefit. By doing so in the manner the PFD does with oil, all needs to care for the poor, needy, sick, afflicted, touched etc... would be taken care of without robbing or taxing anybody (simply actually charging a rock bottom fair value for the resources they own in common). Alaska actually is rather attractive to oil companies despite this (so arguing that wont get you anywhere). There is no need for any ism, just true natural law principles like nobody stealing from anybody else can sort things nicely.
I know it wouldn’t work because they haven’t convince me and anyone I know, and if a bunch of pacifist hippies like us isn’t convinced, this just can’t work naturally and successfully on humans, you gotta use force. And having lived through the Soviet Union we would be more prepared this time to either not accept this without fighting hard, or (when noticing we’re doomed anyway), try to be part of whichever system is responsible for this forceful change, to try to be in a position of power this time.
Also, more importantly they would most likely become the tyrant's they think they wouldn't. It's not that necessarily forces would take control beyond them, it's that they would become so engrossed in their ideology to forget the common man's perspective and as soon as they realized humans are very difficult to fit into their views would resort to measures to maintain their vision. The people who often claim to be the virtuous and not "bigoted" can so very easily become the paranoid, controlling experiment driven intellectuals.
@@freefromthedark6784 Unfortunately that is true in any system. The government is always the regulator of all things (except in a natural ungodly state of anarchy where the strong crush all). You cannot do anything in the United States right now without govt. oversight. Russia has many freedoms we don't right now (exotic pets are far more common) crazy outdoor antics are far more possible, they are giving away free land in several regions by Finland etc... The idea that Capitalism doesn't have government in and through all things is a deceit. We are licensed, taxed, insured, approved, permitted etc... in everything. Heck even going to our own National Parks requires an entry fee as if we weren't the owners! Capitalism prefers corporate overlords to monolithic dictators. I prefer none.
Never in the history of the world, has there been a successful communist country - not one. Communism/socialism appears a worthy solution only in theory or on paper - never in practice. Misha, you should continue to present, translate & explain the context of the Soviet Union propaganda plaques. Thank you for your message!
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There's a reason it took the place of the church in the political trichotomy. It's wound salve for the weak majority.
@@ribos2762 well no. Even then, they couldn't compare to the US. They did stop the Nazis but without the US intervention in the war, Germany would've been dominant.
And at what cost? Stalin killed numerous people under his regime. Orthodoxy was being heavily persecuted with thousands of churches being demolished.
@@ribos2762 Text below copied from source listed at bottom. The point is that Stalin's Great Purge executions of fellow countrymen occurred before the war began in 1939.
"Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 to 1.2 million, which includes executions, deaths in detention and those who died shortly after being released from the Gulag, as a result of their treatment therein."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
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+Tim Sexton China seems to be doing fine, as does North Korea, but hey, keep raging your brainless fundie McCarthyism because it feels so good.
@@ribos2762 Your train went off the tracks into retorts about the American Civil War, imperialists, & colonists. Today's lesson for others who browse this debate trail: Arguments based on a framework built from ideology, quickly burn up & turn to ash in the furnace of debate when put against facts, statistics, & source documentation.
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As an Eastern European, these things are a reality to me because my parents and my whole extended family have endured the horrors of communism back in the day, and I am very perplexed and saddened to see some young people in the West defending this, and normal people who are not adhering to the extremism of the ideology are being shunned, judged and discriminated against, and treated like literal heroes when they advocate their firmly opposing stances.
For me, the entirety of this is incredibly messed up.
My parents and grandparents noticed the signs much earlier and I only noticed things were repeating all over again when I could criticize the issues with capitalism in school, but not with communism..
The date it died can be dated with the building of the Berlin Wall and everyone asked afterward if it was so great why do you need to prevent people from leaving? If its so attractive, it could survive open competition with the capitalist West. It couldn’t and that revealed the bankruptcy of Communism.
@@NormanF62 communists themselves admit it can’t truly work unless the whole world is communist. It’s an extreme religion..
@@kora4185 It is easier to criticize what you and/or people close to you have directly experienced, because you know its flaws better than most people. From that point of view, I think I understand where you're coming from. I am sorry you and your family had a tough time with it.
@@kora4185 The Marxists have infiltrated the schools and Universities.
People aren't mad because they have to work hard, people are mad because they are made to work hard as much as possible with the least amount of pay
Meanwhile, people who are working 3 or 4 jobs just to get by have to pay taxpayer money to private corporations who you trust surely aren't using it for useless endeavors like endless wars and destroying countries that America has imperialised by stealing there resources and enslaving the people there to modern day slavery to make our chocolate bar brands and cell phones ah yes the pinnacle of American capitalist innovation and don't forget private fossil fuel companies salivating warming up our planet for short term profits
Sounds like they are pro wall, pro shutting the border, pro deport criminal citizens of foreign countries, pro nuclear family, pro deregulation, and pro Small goverment.
Sweet!
That would all help fix their problems.
Umm 90% of Americans don’t make minimum wage so stop claiming they do.
@@stuckinthemud4352 who said that I never claimed they did
There’s a lot of the herd mentality in this generation and it pisses me off. I like some of your videos and they are really good.
I think people should use more reasoning and logic than emotions and imaginary thinking…
Our generations is kinda draining, we all should think the same, we all should feel the same, we all should react the same like what is this mess? Is there any individuality left? No person is all black and white. Anyways, loved this video. Taught me something I didn’t know; although I was never really into this topic but I did learn something.
+Marina _88 So you're taking your historical knowledge from a teeny-bop college drop out propagandist desperate for right wing subs. That is some high caliber individualism and critical thinking for sure.
I blame the educational model for making things easier and with less critical thinking, there's internet now. There's no excuse for supporting socialism anymore.
Reminds me of one of the Fairly Odd Parents episodes. Timmy wished for everyone to be the same as everyone else.
@@DiseasedDreams That's deep. If only more original thinkers turned to cartoons for their wisdom.
It’s caused by lack of personal accountability and morals being applied to my generation not by school being easier which it isn’t and everyone can reach up to millions of people on the internet and spread thier ideas
Man..what happened to actually trying to fight communism? I’m embarrassed for my generation.
Wore the SAC patch in the early 1980s, babysat nuke laden B52s and we also were responsible for 150 Minuteman missiles planted out in Sven Svenson's tater patch on the North Dakota prairie. I felt a great deal of satisfaction in seeing Mr Gorbachev tear down that wall, yet now I see this malignant ideology we fought against taking root right here at home. SMH.
How have you fought Communism lately 🤣
Fight against communism stopped with ww2. Communism won. Now cope with it.
Like certain known General said: We fought the wrong enemy.
No, we didn’t. We fought the right enemy and didn’t go far enough. We never should’ve stopped fighting until we incinerated every last one of them in their own camps.
@@ninjacrumbs I threw a woke guy into the river and made his friend blind in 1 eye with a bottle, he was mad I said soccer instead of football, according to the cops he got deported so I can't even press charges on the sucker punch.
Very well put! I wish there were more young people like you who actually understood something about the true nature of socialism. You said in an earlier video that your grandparents escaped the USSR. Did your parents continue with speaking both Russian and English in your house when you were a child, or did you have to take classes to learn Russian? Your transations of communist propaganda posters is a valuable service that is not being done by other commentators, so I encourage you to continue doing it. Keep up the good work!
I wish there were OLDER people, like you, who actually understood something about the true nature of socialism. Anyone who thinks she spoke well shares her impairment due to propaganda.
@@davidaldrich2810 ok commie
@@davidaldrich2810 Statistics tell us everything we need to know about the true nature of Socialism.
@@davidaldrich2810 Share your knowledge with us then.
@@davidaldrich2810 this and your other poorly chosen replies to the same video tell us all we need to know about you.
Shut! I am Cuban, and I am with you 100%. We need more people like you saying it as it is. Thank you very much for your amazing work.
bro you must be those landlords who fled
or a descendant of them
by the way, is your profile picture andrew tate? then you are both patriarchist and capitalist. worst thing ever.
@@ziyangfeng-lu2muwhy you going off assumptions hmm?
castro took bros families plantation lmao
4:00 actually, in the USSR, you could choose your career. It was possible to choose university and field of study, as long as you can pass an entrance exam. But yes, after university you cannot choose the place of work and must work a fixed amount of years where you are told to.
Reminds me that just because something is free doesn’t mean its free of a cost. Everything has a price, including one’s dream. The question is what you pay to obtain it. And in the USSR, you paid the state back through your labour. Same as under capitalism, different employer. People who promise us everything free under Communism will never tell you it isn’t really free in the first place. Too bad their ideology isn’t covered under truth in labeling laws.
@@NormanF62 yes, exactly. Education was free of charge, but you must pay it through work. Slightly similar to student's loan.
@@klepikovmd anyway speaking of ussr is it true that they(governemnt liars and paid propagandists) used to say the CIA was destroying ur food/crops with beetles and "insert random name of bioweapons"?lololol
You could choose where to work too, you just had to have an invitation from that particular place, pretty much like today, you can't work without receiving a job offer. Nowadays the only difference is that no job is guaranteed to you after graduation and students have to work in McDonald's instead of getting professional experience and good social life.
@@klepikovmd In no way this is similar to student's loan. To pay the loan you have to work anywhere that will get you pay it back, whilst in the USSR people worked in their professional field and earned money, paying back to the state via taxes, huge difference. (Btw I am not a blind USSR or any other communist state fan, but I am a researcher and I want people to know not only bad, but also good sides of this regime).
Gen z: "Socialism is not communism!"
Vladimir Lenin: "The goal of socialism IS communism!"
The fact that Lenin said that the goal of socialism is communism does not mean that all socialists regard communism as the goal of socialism.
@@brettschmidt5929 Wow, are you saying that people are not mindless drones locked into total groupthink mentality just because of their political ideology and that individuals are more nuanced than how political opponents perceive them?
So.... not all Right-Wingers are fascists, correct? Not all Left-Wingers want to kill babies, yeah? Not all white people are racist, correct? Not all MAGA supporters are idiots, agreed? Not all socialists want communism, is that what you are saying?
Please, help me out here... lol... because it seems like everything absolutes and generalizations for whatever some group does not agree with, yet if the group agrees then there is more nuance and those that are on the "outside" are ignorant and do not understand.
Hey, I agree, not all socialists believe in communism. And just because Lenin said one thing doesn't make it completely so. What it does show, however, is there is an agenda that people do believe and will follow. And if you further look into the communists philosopher's they speak of using socialism, democracy, and other tactics to achieve their goals. It is simply something to be aware of. Communists hate capitalism (which they invented the name, it use to be called Free Market Economics), and most modern countries that are claimed to be socialism havens (such as the Norse economies) do not reject capitalism but have a mixed "Free Market" economy. In fact they are rather adamant about NOT being called socialist economies.
So honestly, if you are a socialist or support such things, you shouldn't be against capitalism because the two can work hand-in-hand with one another, but communism will be destructive to both.
It isn't always. Not all socialism is the same as the marxian kind that we see so often. Marxists believe it is the transition to communism but others think that it is the goal its self.
@@Zeno308 Basically what I said also. Marx and Lenin do not speak for all socialists.
@@brettschmidt5929 Oh sorry to rip off your comment, I didn't see it. Anyway you are right, even lenin changed his mind after he realized the goal of the stateless, classless, moneyless society was impossible.
6:30
You don't have to work hard to get money under capitalism. You have to do what makes money to get money under capitalism.
If that were true why do celebrities, influencers or entertainers get paid so much? Are celebrities, influencers or entertainers working harder than the average person?
If the idea of just working harder gets you more money then why do white collar jobs pay more than blue collar jobs on average? Is someone who sits behind a desk all day working harder than a construction worker? They are certainly getting paid more though on average.
You don't have to work hard, be creative, skillful, talented or any of that to get money under capitalism. You have to do what ever makes money to get money under capitalism. That is what matters at the end of the day under capitalism, money.
А вот и мысли дебила подъехали.
Supply and demand.
"If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists" - Friedrich Hayek
Yes they would
1:07 other than the fact that she blatantly said that “socialism is when the government does stuff”, does she even realize that the pol is actually referring to those who distrust their CURRENT government, and not government in general?
The irony of these people saying they hate capitalism and want a socialist or communist society while recording on their *_iPhone_* or *_Android_* device, using an app owned by either *_Google, Facebook, or the Chinese government_* as they drink their *_Starbucks_* is astounding. Also, the Asian guy is complaining about capitalism lives in a beautiful apartment or house.
china is not a communist country.
@@MultiWarbird the state can own any enterprise as soon as you don’t do what they tell you. What is it?
@@MultiWarbird Umm... what? It's ran by the CPC, the *_Communist_* Party of China. _They_ call themselves communists, it's not a label we gave them.
@@cosettapessa6417 it's not total communist yet but their getting there
@@MultiWarbird it is.
As a german with relatives, 2 uncles, in the German Democratic Republic (Socialist) at its existence till 1989, I can say: The GDR was a shithole. And the GDR was the most free and advanced country in die UdSSR. The environment was polluted in a way that was unbelievalble. The people heated with brown coal, the Power Plants also burnt brown coal. Every single house was yellow because of the smoke all over there. The sulfur in that coal you could smell all over the country. The rivers were polluted also with chemical sewages. And the people were poor. All houses exept those of the political leaders were old and run down, because nearly all were owned by the state and no one had an advantage to spend money to renovate them. Not the renters, and not the politicians, because they could not be voted out.
One of my uncles, Hans, lived in a small village near Dresden in his own farmhouse. In this small village there was no sewerage, he had - in 1988!! - an outhouse for toilette, no running water but a well behind the House, no telephone. And the house itself was run down because of the lack of materials for renovation. In the GDR you could not go to the hardware store to buy roof tiles. There was no hardware store. You had to go to the factory und you HAD TO HAVE connections or wanted exchange objects (as coffee, cigarettes, chocklate, bananas, oranges, cacao) because there were never enough roof tiles.
If we - my parents and me - as western german capitalists visited my uncle Hans the GDR border troops searched our car. Not for weapons or drugs or stolen money or something like this, something criminal. NO! They searched for newspapers and weekly magazines. The people of the GDR should not see the wealth in western germany. And the border was two high fences and in between a death strip with mines and self firing systems, every 3 miles there were watch towers with armed soldiers and dogs. In Berlin there was a wall instead of the fence. No one should leave the socialist paradise. And the GDR officials named this the "antifashist protection wall" (german: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall).
i do not understand how anybody today could want socialism or communism. They all know nothing about it. Ist ist horrible. And even in germany there are many young people dreaming of socialism. This ist, in my opinion, because of the leftist takeover of schools and universitys. They do not teach about how communism / socialism really was and is. in germany they teach a lot about national socialism, Hitler. But little of international socialism like Stalin, Chrustchow, Honnecker. Our kids know much about the Nazi concentration Camps and holocaust but little about gulag and holodomor. I dont know why leftist teachers do not tell them. Do they themselfes not know? Or are they evil?
Ironic isn’t, the German heirs to Marx finally had the chance to make a go of it and they failed. The Germans of all people can make everything better but even that had limits. There wasn’t equality and what finally put an end to it wasn’t the Wall coming down, it was people discovering Party leaders were corrupt and never practiced what they preached. If your own ideals weren’t good enough even for you, why should people follow them? At the time, at least people had the excuse they were living a dream that might come true someday. Today everyone knows it was a lie and there is no excuse. Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
Im am german aswell and i can confirm everything he Said is True
He may have lived poorly, but he likely lived within the means of the nation's economy. The U.S. cannot escape this fate once de-dollarization occurs and most of the countries that it used for cheap labor and energy turn away from them. The people in the U.S. are already beginning to experience a normalized economy like in the GDR because it's getting more and more difficult for the U.S. government to steal other nations' resources and keep that Reagan high going, partying like it's 1989, and just generally getting a free ride like it used to. The GDR was poor because Germany was forced by the USSR to stop stealing other countries' human, agricultural, and land resources, and defaulted to a more neutral economy after the war. As much as I like consumerism, it isn't natural for one country (U.S.) to have the majority of the world's wealth just for having Wall Street on their geographic territory. It can't even get a rocket engine built, let alone sold to the Saudis or the Indians. What will its main exports to the Chinese and Indians be in 2030 (when these economies totally eclipse the U.S and Japanese economy), Influencers on TikTok, bad Hollywood movies, and Diversity? And once the Europeans run out of money for U.S. military bases as well as for U.S. "exports" (can you say sanction relief for Russian and Belorussian fertilizer that the U.S. can't seem to produce by itself?), the U.S. will lose its last remaining export market and then Americans's all over the U.S. will have to live like your uncle Hans, not because of communism but because that's what happens when you place all of your faith and children's future into a currency which is a paper tiger held up by military bases, economic blackmail, good faith and financial Wall St. speculation, and not actual labor or resources. Freedom of thought and speech also exist in the West for as long as the rich allow it, which is to say, until the country has enough money and stolen resources for the illusion of relative stability. Once people start queuing up for gasoline and for something to eat at the local foodbank with their entire family, that's when the freedom of speech gets taken away lest anyone start organizing workers' co-ops, labor unions, and a redistribution of stolen wealth.
Du scheinst die alten Zeiten zu kennen glaubst du wir entwickeln uns Gesellschaftlich langsam dorthin zurück in der BRD?
Es gab mehr Kommunisten in Westdeutschland als in Ostdeutschland. 😆
I’m from Poland and so little number of people is actually missing this system.
But I find it funny that you took this Asian guy so so seriously. He constantly appears on my feed and he is so not serious.
I'm from Poland too. It's funny to see people talk about stuff they don't understand.
@@montee3766have you considered… shock! …you may be the one who doesn’t understand?
Yeah he appears in my fyp too, his content is satirical.
Not in Bulgaria
He tried to push lies
"Watch me engage with a topic I know nothing about in the most honest way possible: watching tiktoks to signal my critical thinking skills (agreeing with popular opinion)"
"watch me not answer a single criticism of my ideology and instead just say u know nothing about this" like a complete bellend
@@nathan9523 well then explain
@@Szcza04 explain what? Sorry I can't read ur mind my guy
still her point is valid , communism is garbage
@Super Nostalgia there’s always one of you on here isn’t there? 🥱🫢🤭
As a former underground musician and party organizer I have lived in small squats and other commune like environments I can say that living and sharing with people is only working out in very small quantities of people.
The larger the group becomes the more rules are made.
You have people who are 100% against rules and fully ideological and driven to make the utopia manifest to show that people can live in harmony with each other ending up making schedules for cooking and showering, cleaning and all that.
Inevitably it will result in mostly the first residents forming a form of committee and setting up rules, deciding on new members, setting up financial rules.
People need rules, some people are going to slack off and freeload on the work more active members do.
It's just human nature.
I am sort of happy I've had these experiences because I made me realize that there is no utopia or one size fits all solution to society and to think that we can just all get along is an illusion.
People need their own space and their own things. And they need boundaries and rewards too.
If we expect people to be responsible and helpful doing their best to keep the boat from sinking we're going to be disappointed.
If it's a struggle for 10 people to decide who washes the dishes than how can we ever expect thousands of people to share equally and respect each other.
I think the 'life is a struggle' mentality that our grandparents, great grandparents and those before had is a better mindset for us. They didn't expect any luxury, they had to work hard for every little thing they could get.
You simply have no rights or privilege, entitlement or securities in life.
If you're lucky and keep trying your best maybe you can get something going for yourself and those around you.
Communism is not compatible with human nature, it is selling individual freedom for faux safety to gullible people.
Don't fall for it, you think those on top share anything or redistribute their wealth???
If you want to get political and help the people than get into local governance. Help the people help themselves.
Communism doesn't work, how many times do we need to suffer before we throw out 'Das Kapital' and Marx with it for good ?
Communism only works if human nature dies, only robots can thrive in communism. Yet, these people fail to realize that. I mean why would everyone put in effort when whether they put in effort or not others will get the work done. Do they also think corrupt politicians will disappear, lol. Do they really think those in power will be participating in the grueling work? Also, they should forget about their sense of self or pursuing their dream job because in such a society there is no "I". You'll be required to obey what the establishment wants or face punishment and ostracization.
@@TT-ee1vv yes it is a disaster, it's sounds good on paper when you are 12 years old but in reality it doesn't work.
@Anti Capitalist forever yeah they did, they are a inhumane machine and the goals are more important than the means used to achieve them.
I'm sure most of these people are convinced of their cause too.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
And people manipulating the goodwill of people to enforce their tyranny.
It even tends to look good on the outside but it hides a lot of things nobody should have deal with.
And it is making a comeback, cheered on by many.
Same thing but different times.
@@TheCultofshiva"communism doesn't work" - you know this from communism never existing? Read a book and talk to a human.
I know this because my family lived in Eastern Germany and they were proud communists.
As a visitor you get followed and bugged by the stasi. People who weren't proud communist could just dissappear, it's a corrupt mess where everyone can stab you in the back to get a bit more bread then their neighbors.
Believe me, it's not a good thing. And I can not even imagine what the Chinese people, the Russians, Cambodians, Vietnamese, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and God knows what other countries who are the victims of this despicable ideology go through and lived through because of Marxist revolutionaries and power-hungry psychopaths.
We're all marching right into their trap. And none of the people who are pushing this are poor and oppressed.
The people they use are poor and oppressed. And they're going to stay like that under a communist state.
Don't fall for this bullshit. We are very blessed in the west, we have to fix our issues and respect each other's opinions even if you don't agree.
But it's too late for that already now it seems.
“The hole idea of socialism is that the government is going to regulate everything”
Well, someone doesn’t understand the basics of socialism
“They are going to take care of healthcare, how is that going to work?”
Take a lot of legit every single European country that has universal healthcare that is way better than in the US
This could be an accurate description of some Leninists, but that's not what "socialism", in itself, is.
Most of these people think socialism is when people say "Happy Holidays".
The irony is that Marx didn’t even want a major political structure. It was his ideological successors, specifically Stalin, who wanted to have a major, central government structure.
Furby
Socialism is government/public control/ownership of the means of production. So her idea of socialism isn't really wrong, though she could have framed it better.
Stop twisting the definitions to make your authoritarian ideology look better.
Misha, you are a breath of fresh air from Gen Z. You remind me of my son and my daughter, they also are Gen-Z but use their logic and critical thinking when it comes to politics and economics.
You and the Gen-Z like you give me hope after the silliness of my generation (millenials).
yay more capitalist ideals to continue poisoning and ruining our planet and lives. YIPPI! More taxes going toward atrocities committed by our government without congressional approval! More fabricated political division so corperations can continue their shady practices as they have been doing since the 'enlightenment' without being interupted by a unified force of people who realize enough is enough! More moral posturing worn as a mask to hide actual sin committed daily at our expense!
I always love being talked to by a kid, who isn't tall enough to ride rollercoasters, about a governmental system he has absolutely no clue about.
Oh, no clue about a System... you mean like this youtuber here? Cause she
teaches you like an Evolution-Denier teaches Evolution to Baby-Christians.
you're talking to the young lady making this video right?
@@juliencharnay7479 no, I said "he" so the kid she's talking about
@@slevinchannel7589 how come wages in Poland went from 80 dollars per month to 1000 (adjusted for inflation) in just 40 years if socialism is so good...
@@nathan9523 where does it say wages in poland were 80 dollars per month bro
"To look at society and conclude that human nature is egoism is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is 'human nature' (as opposed to a result of material conditions) to cough." - Andrew Collier
Are u albanian?
@@SmarzyClip No
@@hoxhacat8195 ok
@@SmarzyClip Seen 'Covid vs Capitalism' by "Some More News"?
@@slevinchannel7589 no, why?
I’m so glad I found your channel omg. I was forced to write a paper this past semester for a poi sci class in Uni about how evil capitalism is. The assignment was to find a topic we’re passionate about and make a 7pg paper about it. Only thing was, the topic needed to be approved by my prof first. I had started research and found a topic I was super interested in but my prof disapproved. She couldn’t offer me a reasonable explanation either. She offered the alternative of writing a paper on the “evil of capitalism”. Eventually I let her win and wrote the paper on what SHE wanted me to write. I ended up getting an A on a paper I fully disagreed with. Looking back, I wish I would have dropped the class or just wrote the paper I wanted to regardless.
I would have written it sarcastically... listing how evil all the good stuff is...
@@AyaWetts like the RUclipsr awaken with JP. Highly recommended. Lol
That sounds so familiar. My grandparents told similar stories from their time in the USSR.
The same happened to me in university.
You should of wrote about the federal reserve, woke corporations if possible where your university gets it's donations from. There are ways to screw with these people.
Communism means " Give what you can give take what you need." In a communist society everyone is equal. There hasn't been any true communist country.
As someone living in a post-communistic country, where generation Z was part of the reason we could rejoice last year about getting rid of the communistic party after 20 years of them still sitting around in the parliament even after the velvet revolution, it's insane to see these sort of videos, the same generation doing the exact opposite. I am glad I don't have a tiktok, but your videos are great to watch, keep it up :D
@@ehs1452 communistic is a word
Please educate yourself before you tell someone else to educate themselfs
The communism gave dignity and prestige to east European countries but surprisingly they rejected that and engaged oddly in disgrace and dominance of capitalism !
I don't think reacting to these people (although I'm literally doing it, haha, damn me) serves any point. Just them being able to speak their minds about how they dislike the system under which they live without persecution is proof enough that they do not realise what communism in Europe really caused. And of course you can pull the card of 'that wasn't real communism' but in my humble skeptical opinion there is no way there ever will be. People are greedy, no matter under what system they live in.
Also, how does disregarding either my grammar or actual historical facts and people's experiences help your agenda? I don't like this Orwell-style world these people are trying to create, call me a donkey if it pleases you.
@@nisapori3890 When you work a full 42 hours on the tank factory to just get paid a loaf of bread and then get hit in the head with a brick and sent to the gulag cause you just laughed at a government announcement
@@flawer1316
Firstly you assume imaginations from your head and release it and comments we don’t concede this fallacy from you Sir (FlaWer ) . one loaf and gulag ?!
Secondly if that was true we should blame USA, Uk, France and allies cause they impose economic blockade on communist countries , and communist countries don’t need thing except freedom to people and cancel division of social class and discrimination..
Thank God you are addressing this!! Keep up the good work!!
people like you are my only source of optimism nowadays
Then your life sucks.
+TheTheBest Ignorant teeny-bop propagandists are your source of optimism? Weird.
Agreed.
@@-SteampunkTraveler- Come on, aren't you just a little encouraged by all of the evidence mounting against Jabba the Trumpsurrectionist and finally some positive action on climate change?
and laughter
If you are a sportsman you can leave the country but you must leave a hostage behind like your child or wife, or mother.
You're more likely to work hard and become poor than you are to work hard and become rich.
That is not the only two option tho.
False, actually. People working 40 hrs or more a week annually in the US have a 95% chance of earning more than 60k. At the least, if you work hard you will be middle to upper middle class.
@@ankafre In capitalism you either exploit or get exploited
@@almamater489 ah, y en el socialismo no?
@@avionbarato1151 I wouln't say I am, no
Hakim's response to this is amazing
yes haha
Indeed comrades
@@sergiofernandez2166 you really saying to the socialists students of hakim. You're doing nothing but making yourself look stupid.
No. His response video is terrible. He couldn't go for more a minute before immediately jumping straight to strawman statements like "alt-right" and "the whites are in danger" and spending the rest of the video acting like she actually believes in those things when she doesn't.
@@Dolphanatic defense hmm? Not gonna work.
One of the strangest aspects of Marxist dialectics is the simultaneous strengthening of the state and the withering away of the state. The latter is supposed to usher in the Communist utopia. Never happens and in practice society always remains at the stage of socialism. None of the Marxist advocates ever tell us how we’re going to leave it behind. In the end the Marxist dialectic always results in the state becoming stronger and the tension between that and the ultimate abolition of the state in fact never materialises. We’re always told we’ll have a world free of alienation that’s a literal heaven on earth. What they forget to tell you is a heaven on earth had never been built on earth because human nature can’t be remade. That’s evident to everyone who has lived under a Communist regime. It would be terrifying if in America we had to relearn that lesson all over again.
Marx never want "strengthening of the state" he want public ownership
Communism isn't supposed to be utopian. Humans are imperfect creatures, we cannot be perfect. Saying that a communist society would be amazing is not the same as saying that it would be heaven on earth. Also, the reason socialist states haven't transitioned into a stateless communist society is because of constant meddling and interference from capitalist-imperialist countries such as the United States.
hUmAn nAtUrE
That's why we need Libertarian Marxism, so that the power stays with the people and they can abolish the state when needed
Heres an interesting fact: sex trafficking had a massively increased in post soviet states AFTER the disillusion of the USSR… i wonder why that happened
Liberty! and Capitalism
Eat it up, most of those we're basically still in russian or soviet control, they became very poor after the ussr collapse, leading to no security
I'm watching the Netflix show, Turning Point -The Bomb and the Cold War. Episode 8 talks about how after the Soviet Union fell, prices went up dramatically-during Capitalism. Bread went up 400%. One senior stated one kilo cost him twice his monthly pension. 😮
Hmm you guys don’t see a correlation between a government collapsing and anarchic behaviour?
@@nickolashogg259 you do realize this wasnt for 3 months right? sex trafficking is still a massive issue in post soviet countries, and it all started after the illegal dissolution of the ussr
If any of those children knew somebody or grew up in a communist society they would not be acting that way. My grandfather grew up in Yugoslavia and he had to escape to France and Australia because he was printing anti-communist propaganda for a Croatian anti-communist group and when they were found out they were sent to prison (and most likely executed) and that is one of the many reasons why I hate communism.
I'm disgusted at what is happening in my generation and I hope this will and can be prevented before the west becomes another USSR or Yugoslavia.
That's interesting. In Ethiopia my mother was with her friends, and many of them were caught spreading the opposition's pamphlets and were whisked away. Some were reunited, and a few remain unknown their whereabouts.
so you hate communism because your uncle was a crimimal and a traiter to his country? thats what they call people who critisize the government or capitalism in the US.
My grandparents were poor orphans who flourished during the early years of SFR Yugoslavia because of the benefits and opportunities offered to them, leading them to becoming middle class citizens. You can't use personal stories to argue for or against systems and policies, because there will always be another personal story that is in conflict with your own.
Your grandfather had to escape to Australia because "he was printing anti-communist propaganda for a Croatian anti-communist group"? ... Are you sure he wasn't an Ustaša? It's well known that during Yugoslav times, Croats who escaped to Australian cities such as Sydney and Melbourne were mostly Ustaša sympathisers and one of the greatest threats to Yugoslav security. Australia was their safe haven, their gnijezdo. They carried out acts of terrorism against other members of the Yugoslav community in Australia, as well attacks back in Yugoslavia such as lighting bushes on fire.
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=researchoutput.csu.edu.au/files/29095069/28757579_Published_article.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjHstay8575AhURxzgGHX_7CXgQFnoECAsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3PjZBpJ6xEQWlZPrZ-r-_M
Your grandfather had to escape to Australia because "he was printing anti-communist propaganda for a Croatian anti-communist group"? ... Are you sure he wasn't an Ustaša? It's well known that during Yugoslav times, Croats who escaped to Australian cities such as Sydney and Melbourne were mostly Ustaša sympathisers and one of the greatest threats to Yugoslav security. Australia was their safe haven, their gnijezdo. They carried out acts of terrorism against other members of the Yugoslav community in Australia, as well as attacks back in Yugoslavia such as lighting bushes on fire.
As a Czech person, I'm absolutely horrified by how many young people in Western Europe and America want communism. I'm not religious, but I will maybe even start praying that it will never come back, because I feel powerless.
Cope
@@loggy1391 yeah, cope with the fact that I have quite a lot of guns. So come and try to hurt me and see how that goes for you.
The fact that I feel powerless that losers like you are gaining power, doesn't mean that you won't be eating lead if you try something.
Marx was against seizing weapons,
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
@@loggy1391 yeah, the government which calls itself "the people" has all the guns.
Guns were confiscated from us when communists came to power. Every communist regime ever always confiscated all the guns.
Communism will never come back, this time we will defend ourselves against monsters like you.
@@commie_remover Look up Marx on guns. also you don't seem to be complaining that capitalist countries confiscate guns, the UK confiscated guns, ronald reagan is quoted as saying "there's no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon" literally every source also points to guns being legal in the eastern bloc IF they were registered the surrender of weapons was done in 1918, Members of the Communist Party were allowed to have a single weapon (a pistol or a rifle) and possession of the weapon was recorded in the party membership book. Czechoslovakia in 1950 the gun ban was only to take away unregistered firearms; it only takes a little bit of research to see you've just tried to demonise a common capitalist policy that has been done across the board as capitalistic, not to mention the vast majority of dictatorships nowadays are capitalist: Russia, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Chad, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Swaziland.
Misha's popping off with these frequent uploads. Love you and I admire you as someone in this generation isn't afraid to speak what you believe 💕
Thank you!!
And she will be hitting 50k subs soon!
@@realmishapetrov these ain't real communists. The ussr cared more about labor and economic dignity than lbtq. You're are purposely swaying people away from the truth by cherry picking stupid tick tock videos and providing common misconceptions of communism that have already been debunked.
@@realmishapetrov how much are the Oligarchs paying you to keep the general public ignorant of the realities of capitalism?
@@ehs1452 One shiney penny.
I love how one of the first points this woman makes is that lots of people starved and there was mass murder, but conveniently forgets to mention what happened during the days of the British Empire, a capitalist country, especially in countries like India where there was massive famines and many millions died. Real convenient that she leaves that part out. 🤔
bro shes white wtf does she care
You know what type of system didn’t have those mass murders? Fascism.
Because she is ignorant and has been brainwashed since birth to say what she is saying without thinking or looking at history. All her points are sentences anticommunists have been repeating for decades.
No current communist or socialist says “I want the USSR fully back” as she apparently believes.
The British raj was a monarchy
Bro go read a book. She's from the east, possibly Russian. I'm from Poland. My parents had to live most their lives through communism and no amount of your bullshit will change my mind on it. Please PLEASE read a history book
“Communism” is so hip amongst the young every decade or so 😂
Thankfully not all of us
Yeah but now we have social media so more people are seeing it than before.
Communism is a disease.
I can assure you begging for bread is not hip!
@@RM-qo6yu Exactly why capitalism is falling out of favour.
Correction : Gulag is a contraction of "administration of camps" in Russian, and doesn't define the camps themselves. Learned that in history class.
WoW! I think you are the first person I've seen on the internet who actually knows that. Gulag is an abbreviation, like DOC (Department of Corrections), but Gulag (ГУЛАГ in russian) stands for something like The main administration of correction and work camps.
@@Тестканал-н7ю i guess I have a good history teacher 😀
@@Тестканал-н7ю I wasn’t even taught that lol
Я сам только недавно узнал, что Гулаг это аббревиатура (в современной России не очень любят коммунистическое наследие, даже если кажется наоборот)
gulag is just a prison system where prisoners works instead of sitting and spend state's money. The quality of life is not good but prison is prison and most of those ppl stayed alive and keep working after it. Don't demonize em
Dude that kid was so cute 😂😂😂 the sad part is how he's being raised, if he's already thinking these things. He seems incredibly smart...what a shame. Love your videos Misha ❤❤
Edit: by smart I don't mean is ideology of course, I mean he seems advanced for his age. Under the right guidance, he'd be one impressive little guy.
Who do we say what the right guidance is?
@@republicofkoreaball4349 I'd say good parenting-parents that teach good morals like strong worth ethic, etc. That kind of right guidance
Kid is going to grow up and hopefully change
@@reinokarvinen8845 Probably not, being taught the truth from a young age is a valuable tool for you to criticize reality, people like yourself wouldn't understand.
Ah yes, the classic
"Communism is bad..." "Just look at the Soviet Union"
Look at North Korea.. and everywhere Soviet influence went....
lol what? If you quoted that guy accurately, he's an idiot, that is just a jumble of words meant to sound like it means something when it doesn't. Also, please define "Third-Worldism", I've never seen that be used anywhere.@@HappyFamily-j1q
@@HappyFamily-j1q pfp checks out
@@HappyFamily-j1q
Nooo the mooslims are out for my freedom business 🇺🇲✨
@@HappyFamily-j1q ???
I don't think you have a very well rounded understanding of socialism.
I think she has.
@@ulikemyname6744 no... i don't think she does
@@cormflaek928 Considering she is right I guess you have to be wrong
@@ulikemyname6744 considering she is wrong, i guess i have to be right.
@@cormflaek928 How are you right tho?
"Do you want to just sit at home all day?" That's exactly what they want. They cry about toxic work places and putting themselves above the rigors and stress of working. However, if you asked them what a "toxic workplace" is, they'll just say "any job that requires me to work 9-5 while they pay me less than my boss or my boss' boss is toxic to my mental health"
True, I think their support for communism is influenced by laziness. As much as they claim that communism will bring equality, what they actually mean is "a waiter earning the same pay as the business owner", "a janitor earning the same as a site engineer", etc. It seems nice but it's a recipe for disaster. I mean why would I want to go to university or trade school and put so much effort when I can pick a very casual job and get paid big. Its like getting a scholarship to university, even if you didn't pass the scholarship exam, you are given the same perks as those who read and put effort into passing the exam. If such occurs, most people won't bother reading because what's the difference. If no one farms or works well then the society will collapse with time.
Sadly this is true, I saw something a whle back where these kids were asked what an average day look like in their communist uptopia, they said they'd work for a couple of hours (if they could be bothered) then go off and paint, play video games or make music. They'll be in for a huge surprise if they ever got the communist govt. they crave
Any sane person would just get another job if it's that bad.
sad but true, Sergio.
No they cant,majority of jobs above minimum wage require a profession
girl it is so encouraging to see another young woman who isn’t utterly brainwashed. Love your content
WOW, Josie, your so self-praising!
Everyone who disagrees with you is '''''not brainwashed'''' and YOU THINK THE GOOD THOUGHTS.
HAHA.
I meanwhile got convinced of Socialism because of Facts and Arguments i had necountered. But hey, dont let this slelf-pooping commentsection here here this, haha. You can fight Strawmans at BEST, but no real Arguemnt.
So i feel quite assured. You cant intellectually defeat me or myArguments so you; this whole video and commentsection; attack a Strawman-Version of me and my generation. I win.
Even though she's brainwashed by capatlism.
@@dandybean Grow a brain please. Delete tiktok and touch grass.
@@dandybean yes, capitalism does have its flaws but it is the best that we got, do you want it to be replaced with socialism?
@@SecularMan200 Have you ever read a word of Marxist Theory?
9:09 «Novosibirsk livestock farmers will catch up with the United States in the production of meat, milk and butter per capita!».
As a resident of Novosibirsk, I will say that we didn’t have much of these products.
It is really cool that you have such intimate knowledge about what it is REALLY like, due to what your relatives have taught you about it. How you wrap up at the end saying these spoiled kids have no idea what they are talking about is totally right.
Also, your channel has near doubled since I started watching. I been sharing your videos on social media and have been telling like minded people about your channel. Good luck, you're killin it!
The only thing she's killing are kids brain cells
Check the comments and you'll realise she lied about nearly everything. Her parents are obviously fascists if they were the ones to indoctrinate her.
Okay hear me out. I had an epiphone watching this.
Okay, so I think I've worked out what the problem is.
We have advanced (thanks to capitalist free markets) society so far that about 20-30% of people actually do the work that goes into the life support system of the whole society.
These people literally have no idea what goes into putting food on their table or heating their roof, or even maintaining that roof over their heads.
In a socialist society, they think that everyone would be like them, because life isn't very hard.
Not realising that not only can life not advance as it is presently under socialism, but it will deteriorate to the lowest common denominator as it collapses.
Meaning they will go from sipping lattes to toiling fields which are not particularly fertile.
But in their heads they'll be sipping lattes and playing candy crush like everyone else.
It's Epiphany (sorry). Great comment though!
@@JasonSmith-jr7jh Oh yeah, damn auto correct. I definitely didn't have a musical instrument.😆
That's because the bad actors catch them right during college years where their minds are still malleable. The professors (who have never set a foot in any socialist country) market communism in a fashionable manner and ommit the atrocities.
I have heard you out. All that I can glean is that you have used loaded words to try to prove something of which you have no idea about. You didn`t work out shit.
It is not a coincidence that a typical socialist is usually jobless upper class young people.
Thank you, Misha! I cannot say that enough, about how communism, socialism, Marxism, and all similar ideologies seem to just ignore human nature. It's rooted in people being naive.
It's unnatural to work for others. You have forced labor in Capitalism as well as in Totalitarianism (Sovjets, North Korea, China are all totalitarian regimes). In true (democratic) Socialism you should be able to fulfil your own projects. But we never had this economic system yet. All so called "communist/socialist" in human history just used the term to establish totalitarian regimes.
@@fabisto5693 "true democratic socialism" is a fantasy.
Keep daydreaming.
lol deleted comments? It says there are some but I can't see any. I wonder what they said.
@@ivanvladimir5321 some guy essentially being in favor of "true democratic soc!@lism". To which I told him was a fantasy and to keep daydreaming.
+ShockWaveZero You seem to be referring to those who follow wingnut fundamentalism.
My parents grew up in the soviet union. My whole life, I've been told how lucky i am to not live there. Not learning from others' mistakes is just stupidity
I think in general there's a lot of people who think they are so much smarter than their ancestors. Maybe it's because of the technological advancements our capitalist society has granted them. I don't think we are smarter than our ancestors however. I have great respect for those who came before us. I think we can learn a TON from them.
Counter-Point: How does this Video here relate to "The Past and Future of Work" by 'Some More News'?
Generally in agreement, though I'm from the UK where we have "socialist" things like national healthcare, which I think is great. But that's beside the point. The point I wanted to raise is when you questioned about where you would find your self-worth *without* a job? I find that a little sad, and I think this is where a lot of this anti-capitalism sentiment comes from in that the whole point of your very being is tied to what job you have. Nothing wrong with taking pride in your work etc. but it shouldn't be the sole point to your sense of worth.
Yeah, I think extreme capitalism like what the US has is pretty bad in itself. I don't think any country should rely on one sole way of running things as there are many "socialist" things like good healthcare and affordable housing (even though it is a mess in Ireland atm). But there is a reason why young people (pretty much all of them in this video are from the US too it seems) want to oppose extreme capitalism since basing your self worth off solely your job is indeed sad, and her just calling it 'mental problems' 5:20 instead is a bit harsh.
@@maheshpun4804 where did I say it means not working? What are you even arguing with me about
@@TheSacredFaith sorry I just made an mistake
Agreed 💯
@@maheshpun4804 no worries :)
Honestly it is so heartbreaking to watch, I’m from Ukraine and I can see with my eyes all the consequences of communism which destroying my country in real time, so glad that at least in my country there gonna be an anti commie generation of young people
Another sad aspect is that if you ever told these kids about the horrors of communism they swear and curse at you all day long whilst proudly showing a Ukrainian flag in their Twitter handle
but everything you have and you use in ukraine was built and made in USSR? Why so ungrateful
@@eat_pray_love. The same USSR that is slaughtering his people. That is why she/he is ungrateful.
@@eat_pray_love. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@joaquinescotoaleman4320 why're u laughing??
Hey Misha ❣️ my proffessor teaches on Socialism and I dont agree with it due to the nature of some components that are against my faith, and I wanted to dig deeper to understand communism more before I even speak against it & your video is helpful. Idk you but I love you so much already because you have the same heart as mine, as I am outspoken when I am passionate about topics. However zeal without knowledge does not help me and you helped me so much to understand this topic deeper from a historical perspective and not by what "experts" say. You are beautiful and intelligent and I wish I knew you in person because you would be that friend id keep around! Thank you for your videos. 🥰 God bless you !
@RealQuarlie you sure she doesnt? I bet you would be begging to die if you lived in communist china under mao
@RealQuarlie socialism is when the government taxes the rich and/or successful much more to spread around the money more equally
@RealQuarlie I don't think the ideology works
@RealQuarlie I honestly prefer capitalism it has its flaws but I love the grind and money a freedom
Just send them to North Korea, done.
Ah, the old 'Send them to Communism to heal their COmmunism-Love'-Argument.
And i mean Argument the same as i mean in kingderarden when a child babbles something
that no educated Adult would ever think is trueee, hahahaha.
@@slevinchannel7589 lol?
@@slevinchannel7589 face the facts very few people I the beautiful USA want communism
Their are Juche, not communist or socialist
"All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others" wrote George Orwell.
whom was a communist himself, just didn't follow the marxist leninist model.
Who's here from Hakim's response?
Me lol
What's it called? I can't find it.
It’s funny that you can’t even go a minute into this video without her being completely wrong
Also it's funny how she takes an information on communism from a kid (2:07)
ok commie
Just because an idea looks good on paper doesn't always mean it will work out in reality.
When you put that idea to the test. You'll discover it could have many flaws.
Socialism looks amazing on paper. Ever body is equal, everybody looking out for every neighbor. The Government is your friend so they have your best interests at heart...la di da.
History and the very nature of human beings tells us otherwise. Since the beginning of man there have been the haves and the have-nots. There are always people willing to work harder or simply smarter and human nature prevents us from carrying dead weight. I think these kids think it is a free ride..as in "I don't care if the Government follows me, I'm not doing anything wrong." They don't understand what is truly I store for them. If millions of innocents weren't to be affected, I would probably wish it upon them as a lesson to be learned.
So I just found your channel, and I must say you are a highly articulate and well rounded young woman. It's very refreshing considering most in your generation are just, well unfortunately, not very intelligent. I look forward to watching more of your content. Much love from a millennial elder. Lol
Thank you so much!
@@realmishapetrov Earned a subscriber here, fellow Gen-Z'er
This is so crazy 🤣
I’m from Cuba my grandparents are political exiles. They don’t have to look to far to see all the lies about everybody being the same. Everyone is poor and the people on top steel everything!!!! 🤦♀️
Haiti is not to far away capitalist and worst off then cuba..
My family’s from cuba as well, cuba has done the best with what they can do. Learn you’re own history. Castro wanted to give the land back to the people and america threatened them with sanctions, fake counter revolutions, and invasions tried to kill the man many times, he had to survive with the USSR to ensure there revolution wasn’t for nothing. Cubas whole economy was geared to america to be cut off from america is a powerful blow, to switch there whole system towards the USSR then get a nuke to threaten America to leave them alone. For america to sanction them all to hell, then the USSR fell and cuba agian took a blow on top of all that managed to create the best healthcare system in the western hemisphere, give food, water and housing to everyone and raise the highest literacy rate in Latin America is huge. And they did this as public enemy of the strongest nation in the world.. cuba is not perfect, far from it but did amazing considering the odds they were faced with and there respected all over parts of Africa and Latin America for there healthcare mission trips all over the 3rd world.
I’m sure you’re grandaparents are sweet people but most likely never had a education in cuba like mine if they fled before Castro and the rebels arrived to fight Battista‘s army.
As someone who lives in a socialist country. (I may not speak about) it is utterly disgusting how people in the US are saying how socialism is good. If you would just pay attention to the murders, the innocent people losing their houses and everything.
Murders, innocent people losing their houses and everything sound like the USA to me.
As a citizen of the U.S., I apologize for the spoiled and idiotic ignorance of too many of my countrymen.
which socialist country you're living and wanna know the lsoing house crisis. you realise she American capitalist and her country hosts the largest prisoners in the world lol.
@@stalin1489 I live in Nicaragua
@@stalin1489 Yes, in Communist countries one mostly loses lives. The U.S. has the largest number of prisoners because we don't execute vast numbers of people the way Communist countries do.
Thank god for that first kid. I can’t believe I don’t take advise from people who haven’t reached puberty
Luckily capitalism never starved people or comited genocide
Both cannot be compared.
Are you sure?
You are correct,,the only bad thing of socialism compared to capitalism,the real socialism that all the land and property and factory and all business and all resources and many other's was owned only by communist government no individual has allowed to owned,how that everyone was improve their lives in this kind of government,,but in reality the people are poor,but their communist leader and their families and their communist party cronies oligarchs is become more Richer and richer..
You support North Korea
@@cranberrysaucekrazybloke1.891 Yes.
I'm in High School, and we're not even learning about the Soviet Union. The only thing we learned about the Soviet Union was the Russian war for independence, nothing about how horrible it was to live there.
Same in mine
It wasn't a horrible place to live
I don't know why people think communism is good like does everyone want to be street sweepers?
what the hell is the relationship between communism and street sweepers
@@rhodeislandballproductions8781 If you think your going to get an intellectual answer, your in the wrong comment section.
@@rhodeislandballproductions8781 These people are not smart. There's no point in asking them questions, because they think with their heart. 😂
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, vol. 2
The more power a state is granted, the more ruthless become those who wield such power, something Solzhenitsyn observed first hand under Soviet rule.
About the only two things the Communists did right in the Soviet Union was compulsory education and the army. They messed everything else up, God knows why. The Soviet Union disappearing liberated everyone it enslaved, imprisoned and shot. And to think naive fools today want more of that makes my blood run cold.
Uh? There was more freedom in the USSR than modern day America, fyi.
So you and Solzhenitsyn both oppose capitalism? As neither communism or socialism give control to the government, it's exactly the opposite.
@@rip_conf6186 Please prove that statement.
As for jobs in the Soviet Union - you did have some choice in your career, although some careers were very competitive and difficult to get into, and others were easier. However a big difference in a democratic country is that you could get any number of University degrees you wanted, in any number of careers; but in USSR once you started on a certain path of education towards a particular career, it was very difficult or even impossible to change career tracks.
In Poland, whenever you formally introduce yourself, or being asked by authority to identify yourself, sometimes you have to give your profession. It's still old habits from Soviet times.
if Capitalism is all that great, why is there a minimum wage, why are there rent controls, why are there Anti monopoly laws, why is there favoritism, why is there inequality, why is there discrimination? why are there government subsidies? why are there government bailouts? government bailout of banks is the most Anti capitalist thing a country can do, why are there stimulus checks why are there government programs like social security, why is there the concept of FDIC? Why is there overtime pay law why is there government housing and schooling and policing why are there public roads and transportation why are there interest rate controls why is the amount of money printed regulated controlling the amount of money a govt prints is the most xommunist thing a country can do
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In USSR, universities were providing planned numbers of degrees to corresponding industries to fill required vacancies, while in capitalism we have universities selling degrees right and left - it's just a business. Besides, our industries in capitalisme also profit from having hundreds of graduates competing for one vacancy - salary expenses will be lower.
@Black Knight yes, there was some logic in that.
In capitalism, you're the one supposed to evaluate whether it will be easier to find a job with an IT degree or Marine Biology degree - and choose your field of studies accordingly. But not every 18-year-old is mature enough to make an intelligent choice.
In USSR the system didn't give you the opportunity to make a completely stupid choice.
Personally, it worked out fine for me as I chose Computer Science in the U.S. and the industry has done very well for the most part.
I feel one of the main things you've missed here is these kids complaining will never be a doctor or a work any high value job. Which is why they want everyone to be paid the same. They want to work at Starbucks and make the same as a doctor.
I feel like that’s the theme too. They want all the rewards of working hard but not actually work hard themselves. It’s ironic because the essence of communism is if you don’t work hard you don’t reap the benefits of the collective. They want to sit in their privileged life ignorant to what those in communist societies actually experience and cry about the limitations of their lives. They’re not bothered enough in finding the value of the balance of communism, socialism and capitalism so they take communism as it sounds the best theoretically, but have they heard of history?
The idiocy and lack of education or social interaction is very present in this comment. Read a book and talk to a human.
@@Weazla- Its easy to call people idiots when you don't know what else to say lol. But they are right. Karl Marx was a spoiled lazy man whose middle class daddy gave his own earned money to support his son whom he loved (like today's helicopter parents whose spoiled kids are keyboard socialists). But Karl was an ungrateful son who, after sucking his parents' money dry, had nothing else to do with them. Then Karl's friends and in-laws sent him money in the mail while Karl sat around on the couch reading newspapers all day. Karl truly enjoyed "free" money from others' hard work (like today's keyboard socialists would love to enjoy). He also didn't bathe as often as was customary at the time and so was gross and smelly (like today's pale commie soy boys). His wife lived in a state of depression.
Where does any leftist thinker say that everyone should be paid the same? Oh yeah, literally nowhere because it's incredibly stupid, much like yourself.
My babushka lived in the Soviet union for 40 years and her life was very normal. Oh and at 6:47 communism doesn't work like that. Life under Stalin was pretty bad but after that, like I said, life was normal.
One has to be reminded that before the Great Depression, the "you don't work, you don't eat" saying would be true. Same with vagrancy: if one wanted to be lazy, then that individual would be doing time in a chain gang (as permitted by the 13th Amendment). And the US was never Communist/Socialist.
the 1920s had a alot of socialists in local offices
look up the 3 milwaukee socialist mayors they were pretty poggers
The Great Depression was caused by the fed messing with the money supply. Boom and bust is not a normal part of a free market.
In the 1990s, I saw a documentary about daily life in Cuba. One man they interviewed was a TV repairman. He wanted to learn how to fix color TVs, rather than just black-and-white sets, but the government wouldn't let him get the needed training because color TVs were a luxury item and there weren't enough of color sets in his area to justify training him to fix them. They could have sold more color sets, but the government restricted the sales of color sets because there weren't enough TV repairmen in Cuba who knew how to fix them.
BTW, I wonder how many of these people just can't wait to get the latest iPhone so they can post another video.
...And? Have you watched 'Socialism for Beginners' and 'A Future Beyond Captalism? Socialism Explainesd.' by Second Thought,
which is kinda the only way to not ‚run your mouth about a topic you dont know anything about’? I mean, hey, ngl, it’s really Honorable and whatnot to
not even be able to ‚handle’ a single video with the word Beginner in it, buuuut...
How in the world did you convince yourself you have any Clue about what your talking about and its not just an intellectualy-dishonest Position you hold and that is just not criticized cause your in an echochamber? How can you justify not even having watched a video with the Word Beginner in its name, let alone anything more complicated? Your literally excusing yourself from the concept of engaging and debating.
well, IPHOne invented by government every part soo it is easy
The iPhone comment is perfect, not one component would exist without the government, it's then given to massive tech companies to slap a logo on and charge 100X the value. You people are so uneducated, obviously American.
Notice how all these people pretty wealthy.
Even the rich will be affected by communism. The only ones who will be rich in a communist society are the elites who brought communism to the country. All other citizens will be poor.
The girl at 0:30 has an APPLE phone 😭💀💀
gotta save her plantation and privilege
@@NotFckingBenshe's a socialist yet she exists 💀
You're very smart 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
This woman seems so helpful. And I love how every comparison is just a scarecrow arguement.
Tell me you know absolutely nothing about socialism without telling me you know nothing about socialism.
Please pick up a book for the love of god
Capitalism isn't about working hard, its about working smart. Knowing where to invest to escape the system to make money. You dont get rich in capitalism by working "hard" in a normal job or by playing by the rules. Most people work really hard in their day to day jobs and they never achieve enough money in life to even own a house
most people arent working hard, theyre just working, you are gaining experience it all about the type, my friend started out in a driver day job 10 yrs ago working for the city, used the job $$ to educate himself and transferred all over until he got where he wanted to be in life, its playing by the rules that get you places in life, else got to jail and ya no one wants to hire criminals but ppl choose shortcuts, there are no shortcuts in life and wealth is gained with experience less its dumb luck, how valualble to the society do you want to be
@@invalidaccount2315 the thing with capitalism is that for some ppl to be successful, others need to be 'poor'. It's a pyramid where you have the 1% on top and everyone else on the bottom. The 1% did not get there by being an honest worker, that's what I meant by not playing by the rules. Yes, ppl can succeed like your friend and of course patient and dedication is key. But it is not a fair system overall since if we were all rich no one would work and the system would collapse, so there always need to be ppl poor and struggling for the system to run.
meanwhile we waste our best years of life , working and working hard, trying to survive, trying to achieve something so that maybe when we're older we'll have gained some wealth but by that time you realize how you have been a slave to the system for years. It's a lifetime of work with little fun or freedom.
@@marianagouveia1336 in a capitalist society, there will always be "poor" people because there will always be lazy people. Success and financial stability are supposed to be the incentive that drives people to work hard. Laziness and unwillingness to work should never be rewarded. "But they'll starve!" Yeah, so?
@@marianagouveia1336 i was homeless for 4 years, taught myself how to program with a panhandeled laptop at mcdonalds wifi, and now am in the top 15%, rich never stay rich, rarely more than 10% of the time is anyone in the top %, neither do the poor, it is a sliding scale and capitalism is the balance.
A new Misha video is a good way to start a Saturday. :)
Reading the Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek is a great way to understand the political implications of socialism/communism.
Great way to read bs
@@Workingatm Have you read it?
@@Workingatm everything you say is also BS
@@Workingatm Why is it BS?