What Soviet Agriculture Teaches Us | Yuri N. Maltsev
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Presented by Yuri Maltsev at the Mises Circle in Indianapolis: "Agricultural Subsidies: Down on the D.C. Farm," on 14 May 2011. Sponsored by Weaver Popcorn Company.
He is exactly right. Communism is a religion. It doesnt exist, but people still believe in it. Socialism is also a religion. It is the worship of the State.
he is funny, excellent economist and good perspective of the USSR, first hand experience perspective, thanks Yuri
I start my 8th grade U.S. History class with studying authoritarian governments like Stalin and Hitler to contrast our constitution and cultivate a sense of appreciation for our civil liberties. I instruct the atrocities Stalin committed against his own people. He was a monster.
The numbers he is using are from the works of Rudy Rummel, a professor at the University of Hawaii who has spent decades researching the human cost of these ideologies, USSR, Nazism, China, Korea, or any country that has/had oppressive governments.. The numbers haven't been pulled out of anyone's ass if you read the man's books. And the Republican's paying for this "show". I don't think I have ever heard anyone at the Mises Institute cheering the Republicans. Ever. Usually just the opposite...
Is it just Yuri, or is a Russian cultural thing, that he often repeats the last phrase of his sentences? It's like there is an echo in here - echo in here.
I'm not complaining. I love all his lectures - his lectures.
@modelmark I've been told that toward the end of the USSR, people joked about absolutely everything because there was absolutely everything was tragically funny. Humor is a fantastic way of disarming the lie and making its sting less severe. In every joke there's an ironic truth. If there was no truth, nothing would be funny, which is why everything was funny in the end, because the lie of Communism was finally as naked as the peasants.
The Soviet Union had a Vegetable Minister. Today's Germany has only vegetables as ministers!
I admit I like the reasoning of socialist ideas, because they try to uphold dignity and rights for the common man. But after listening to this gentleman, I realise that regardless of system, what really matters is the goodwill of the people running the show. Good rulers, whether they be kings, presidents, oligarchs, or whatever, will always make a country prosper because they want good for all.
I would say good RULES. Stable rules.
thinking about the failure of the collective agriculture in USSR versus the success it got in Israel, I conclude the main difference is the fact that soviets were forced to be there (after have their land stolen by the government) while israelis wish to make it happen, in a voluntary way. it seems the "collective" sense itself is not the problem, but if it´s imposed or not...
Yuri Maltsev is the best
❗️Can someone give me that link to the video he was talking about “Soviet stories” ?❗️
Yes! I've seen it 3 times before, it encapsulates everything that communism is in a nutshell. The WHOLE WORLD needs to see this. The most informative video on Socialism/Marxism out there. ruclips.net/video/G2QPJNPPCSo/видео.html&bpctr=1597659030
@@chrism125 The video is no longer available. Can this be found anywhere else?
For some reason when he says "It was all garbage" I laugh pretty damn hard!!!!
Listening to Yuri is great fun and insightful ... fun and insightful.
@deadman12078 Just because we have had traitors as Presidents in the past doesn't mean we should ignore the Constitution. If you are trying to defend Constitutional principles, you must defend the entire document, not just the parts you like. This is the problem and WHY we've had traitors as Presidents. If we want to change that provision 2/3 of the House and 3/4 of the States must ratify it, not ignore it. That's why our founders gave us the ability to have Constitutional conventions.
If the story of the Soviet Union doesn't make you want to cry, you have no heart.
Good job Yuri exposing this lunacy. We have heard of the insanity of socialism, but Yuri drives it home... We need him to remind us to never never embrace socialism..
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Yes that to. I am no expert on the topic, but last time I checked, the US and its "allies" subsidize and they make other economically and politically poorer countries stop their subsidies and remove trade barriers. African counties is the best example I can remember, many of which now are dirt poor.
Farmers get subsidies such as cheap diesel, lucrative tax-deductables, direct financial aid, beneficial loans and much much more.
@m I have good friends from wisconsin, where Yuri teaches, who think that "Fighting Bob" LaFollette was a great hero of the progressive movement. He went to Russia in the 20's, came back to Wisconsin and told everybody " I have seen the future...and it works !!" They still love "Fightin' Bob" in Wisconsin; my nephew's gonna go to a HS named after him. U tell me, man, do u think it's gonna "work?" Communism only failed because they ran out of bullets at a bad time;when ppl were starving to death
Yuri 2012 :)
@residentzombie You are 100% absolutely right. I get in arguments all of the time with Obama "supporters". Many of these people are intelligent and insightful enough to know that what he's doing is completely subservient to the corporate structure that got him elected, but they have so much of an emotional investment in him personally they close their eyes and lash out at anyone who points this out. It's so obvious, anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
@modelmark nice observation, I lived in China for 6 years.Stories about Mao's China would fill many sorrowful volumes.
@finishstrongdoc I wonder how much chance Yuri gives the little bit of freedom to survive in the west. He knows how strong the counter forces were in the soviet union and he knows how strong they are now in the US.
The book he read about czarist russia and the '630 people that were executed' apparently clearly downplays the czarist endorsed pogroms that took place against the Jewish people there.
@CylonAndrew I too am receiving my education in a similar fashion, but dynomyght is talking about economic distortions more so than otherwise. The government does not possess money. Rather, it takes in taxes from the productive and redistributes it, primarily to functions of security (military and police). This in turn produces a legal monopoly of force, driving up the cost of it. Other redistributions creates similar monopolies. When it has a private business face, it's called mercantilism.
@CylonAndrew Min wage is pointless from the basic law of supply and demand. But I have to ask you where do you think the money comes from when the government pays for your education, tax, loan from other people's saving via bank or printing money, under a fiat system there is always inflation. Why do you think education in your country is expensive? Because inflation creates a boom which must be followed by a bust that comes eventually
...most think tanks weren't thinking...and they were tanking quite a bit....bwaaahaahahahaha...ha !!!
@dynomyght I think it would be futile arguing with an other my way or the high way guy. If you allow all of the rich people power, then they will jack up the prices of health care and other services and not allow minimum wages. Soscialists are the people responsible for the working class to have things like minimum wage and retirement benifits. Do you realy want to go back to those days? Canada is living with state health care and I can say we are doing fine. No gulags here.
@modelmark Cynical humor was the norm under the soviet union to mask the weight of the repression of the soviet system.
Agreement and positive comments are nice, but posting and sharing this on social media actually helps spread the truth about the socialist model of agriculture in practice. Spread the word, help reinvigorate the West against the encroaching cancer of the progressive establishment and its totalitarian agenda.
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Maltsev is touching on one of, in not the only, key to solving world poverty. If countries like the US and others let the countries of the world to develop some of their own agriculture, you could solve world hunger, and world poverty right there.
As an example the US is subsidizing its agriculture in many ways, and then US diplomats go out into the world and try to promote free trade without tariffs and without subsidies in other countries. This is unfair, and bankrupts other agriculture.
@residentzombie I "like" Ron Paul and some of the ideas he has; very little government.
I don't care about abortion or education or any of those "issues" politicians get wrapped up with because the people want to impose their beliefs on the rest of the population. That is not what our government is for. Our government is meant to ensure our rights of choice. To prevent a any person or group from restricting our actions, so long as we do not harm others. Ensure commerce and protect borders.
Dumping free food on a country doesn't harm any country any more than giving free food to a household harms the household. Can anyone refute this statement?
Charities to countries in the Gulf of Mexico after natural disasters undermine local businesses that supply the food and prolong recovery because the price incentive is artificially depressed by the flood of free food, usually rice. This disrupts the equilibrium of supply and demand and makes it difficult for locals to fulfill the need and make a living for themselves. This can and does happen to other commodities such as shoes and glasses and is also prevalent in Africa.
@@accreditedbythenicemaninth6495 I'm not questioning that it harms the businesses that produce food within that country, there's no arguing that. However, my contention is that the harm to local businesses is less than the benefit of the subsidy (at least as far as the recipient is concerned).
@@seansingh8862 I believe it is a good thing to provide emergency relief in the wake disasters, the problem as I see it, is that the organizations that rush to the rescue don't think about long term ramifications. They stick around too long basically and don't focus on getting people to become self sufficient. Also, as a side note, people that see opportunity and bring supplies for sale with large profit margins get derided as price gougers and I think that is unfair to label them so.
IF no one is growing food how are the people surviving to keep growing the coffee or tea? If you were starving wouldn't you grow food for yourself before anything else so you don't starve to death?
russian socialists preferred ukrainians to starve than to grow food
Under collectivization it was illegal for rural farmers to glean grain left over from the harvesting machines. That grain had to be collected and also sent to the cities on threat of the gulag or the execution room.
Ligeti43 Because the state not the people starving to death decided what crops to grow. Thats what collectivization is.
@DREwestcoast um, thats my honest oppinion. His argument is basicly Soscialism is bad because of Stalin. It is like saying Capitalism is bad because America placed pro-capitalist dictaots in South America who killed hundreds of thousands of people against Capitalism. I am not saying that either a soscialist or a capitalist approch is better in every situation posible but both systems are practical in individual situations.Capitalism promotes growth while Soscialist polocies secure peoples rights
@dynomyght I find your comment extremely insulting! I make minimum wage and so do many of my friends. If it was not 10.25 in Ontario, Canada (a huge improvement 8 years ago) I do not know how I would survive financially without it considering the cost of School (my Tuition is only 4000 $ because the government pays for most of it plus I have Scholarships) if it was lower. However, my point was orrigionally that both Capitalism and Soscialism are practical in certain situations like education.
@finishstrongdoc I hope it is not going to drop down in socialism in one big slide, but that there will be a freedom bear market rally.
Collective/communal agriculture actually worked pretty well in the Free Territory, where peasants organized the system themselves, rather than having it forced upon them.
This Free Territory?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina
@@bolengerin Yes, but I wouldn't make this same argument today. Don't take my word for it, but redistribution in the Free Territory didn't last long and didn't generate bountiful communal harvests (hard to during a war). It also, infamously, hobbled the Red Army as peasants loyal to Makhno's army refused to send grain to the cities where the urban proletariat was starving.
What is the free territory?
@CylonAndrew I don't think you understand socialism. Socialism involves few people planning for the many, according to socialism few bureaucrats who don't understand economics, human nature, the resource in the nation, capital structure, function of interest rates and savings can decide for people ranging from old to young, athletic to intelligent, workers of factory to farmers to retail sellers the individuals complex personalities, needs desires, dreams etc can centrally plan the economy
@dynomyght several decades of living with cheep education and free health care, plus recovering from the worst recession since the 30's faster than most other countries? We have a nice ballance. The US has little room for soscialism yet they are struggling a lot more than we are (not saying thats the cause, more complicated) yet the EU that overuses Soscialist polocies are going bankrupt. The point is, not one system is perfect but there is room for both.
@residentzombie At this point in our history it does not matter... I'm sure you have heard the argument before of "this is the best we have?" Of all of the intelligent, insightful, men and women of our nation and you look at those who hold office and you can honestly say Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama; this is the cream of the crop?
My dog refuses to run for president... so I ask for Yuri.
@dpromano Subservience? The party owning the whole country as well as your body is fine to you, but being able to choose who employs you or working for yourself is subservience huh? Is up down also?
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@pretorious700 i can understand this guy. And I took history and studied a lot of the stuff he is talking about. Yeah, Stalin was horrible. But he is saying that all left winged polocy eventually leads to a Totalitarian state. He keeps comparing Obama's plan with Stalin's 5 year plans. Also, I am Canadian and I can say that Obama is more conservative than our conservative party. So yeah this guy does not know what he is talking about. Its exactly like saying conservatives are evil because Hitler
@HK379 Looks like you are getting your centrally planned, coercion based, forced labor camps after all. You win, why the frustration?
Don't think this is coming here? take a good look at Dick City USA! It is only a matter of time!
This guy should knock Bernie Sanders home and have a talk.
@HK379 Not really someone who respect other people's opinions I see. How do you take being forced compared to dissing it out to others? Are you full of understanding towards those stuffing a gun down your throat, when they claim you do not have the opinion of the collective? And can you actually think, or is it just 'fashist, bullcrap, capitalist' without knowing what these words mean and without having a standard for truth? How would you define thinking?
How
@CylonAndrew You actually require a few IQ points to understand him, I can feel your pain.
@CylonAndrew powerful post, troll...
Maltsev '12
@HK379 By force of your guns no doubt. You must have had a terrible childhood.
from 1890 to 1919 the Russian economy grew by 35%
beautiful cynical humor, it betrays a history of great suffering
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ok. Afghanistan is a free market society. You won :D
you must be a college sophomore
..i doan't belif iyn conspyraci therris , bot conspyraci therris happ'n all the tym...right aynd lyift......mostly lyift
@HK379 before sending others to your forced re education camps, you might want to consider improving on your spelling first.
Your car and house could be used as a means of production, it depends on who defines the terms. I wouldn't want to leave that up to government. Besides... I thought you were a commie, I didn't realize you were just another socialist. Also, I don't think that kind of hate talk would make for a very productive working environment; so you should be a bit nicer to your would-be serfs.
@CylonAndrew Why would the rich jack up prices? Why would not someone compete with those companies that jack up prices? Minimum wage laws are nothing but a politicians tune for the public to do their bidding. Minimum wage people do not understand the function of money and as long as people don't understand money you will make mistakes with regard to money. What age are you talking about that i want to go back to? In the past we had mercantilism disguised as free market
@HK379 Freak.
what nonsense
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