Socialism Is Better Than Capitalism...Right?
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
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Be sure to check out the previous video, here: • Capitalism Really Suck...
A video discussing what, why and how Socialism is better than Capitalism. Sources and recommended books in the pinned comment as always.
00:00 Introduction
00:42 What Is Socialism?
02:18 Socialism Objectively Provides a Higher Living Standard
04:19 Serving The Class Interests of The Majority
05:17 Rational Allocation and Economic Planning
08:23 Humanity Over Profit
12:12 Economic Democracy
13:56 The Elimination of Boom and Bust Cycles
14:27 Maximizing Life Quality For As Many As Possible
15:58 Conclusion
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Hi there. Building up from the previous video (on why Capitalism is a crap system, generally), here we discuss how & why Socialism is a superior system. Aside from the evidence and experience of former Socialisms heavily improving the lives of those who lived during them, Socialism also stands atop theoretical principles (that have been put into practice at differing times, to differing extents) that thoroughly solidify the system's coherence and superiority over Capitalism.
*Sources*
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/AD12-7RYT-XVAR-3R2U
www.forbes.com/sites/richardmcgahey/2020/12/17/amazon-gets-billions-while-state-and-local-government-budgets-collapse/?sh=6f8e45a342db
online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/doi/10.1525/elementa.310/112838/Current-global-food-production-is-sufficient-to
www.huffpost.com/entry/percent-of-world-with-col_n_581807
*Books Recommended:*
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels
People's Republic of Walmart by Phillips and Rozworski
Towards a New Socialism by Cockshott and Cottrell
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Medina
You’ve returned 🥺
reject capitalism...
take the *r e d* pill
Hey Hakim what are your thoughts on letting workers and consumers elect representatives to the boards of nationalized enterprises?
Are you anti Assad
@@Hayanomie Yes
"Capitalism is based on human greed, while socialism is based" - PragerU
The problem is a human has to create it...
@@AuroraTheFirstLight the problem is that’s not an argument.
@@Kakashi75 Not in a logic and axioms sense anyway, for sure. There is the problem that a socialist structure assumes the majority of its citizens will voluntarily work for the benefit of all. I think that's been a real problem for giant super-states with unwieldy bureaucracy, because that presumption turns into a bit of a coin toss.
That being said, I think the structure would work super well in smaller communities where collective benefit would immediately be desirable for the furtherance of everyone involved. Say, around 2,000 citizens. What do you think?
Socialism based on human stupidity
@@DimGiant there’s literally a model of socialism meant to accommodate that. It’s called syndicalism.
“Venezuela” -Vladimir Marx
VUVUZELA
_Juan Guaido looks up from his line of coke_
"Soviet Union"
~Vradimil Renin and Joe Ziff Starrin
socialism is when nicolas does the maduro
The funny thing about Venezuela, is that it is not actually a socialist state XD
Just saw an anti-socialism ad before watching by self admitted CIA operative John Hanson explaining how we can stop socialism and save freedom LMAO. They're getting desperate.
watching your latest vid last night led to a bunch of timcast recs in my feed for some reason
by all means socialism is a slavery.
@@glimoreganajai2206
Socialism is freedom
@@glimoreganajai2206 wage-labor with a carrot on a stick is just slavery with extra steps.
@@krieghart5515 don't work for wage labor? Be freelancer
_A turtle approves of socialism_ ✓
Heyyy first time I've seen the turtle on Hakim's channel. Sup.
The next Justin Y.
@@hite.4322 or christopher moon
A based turtle
Based Turtle
I've lost count of how many times I've seen that woman get married.
Sassmate, how you doin' you fvcken druggo
And we'll keep seeing her performing rites until Hakim gets different stock footage lmao.
@@VictorLopez-qm5kz I personally like Hakim's stock footage tbh.
"...given equal levels of economic development." The caveat which nearly every pro-capitalist ignores or forgets in their silly anti-socialist arguments. Thanks again, Hakim!
Define equal
@@delzabrown Read the damn study
@@hoagielamp6543 Why all the enlightened socialists think economy exists in a vacuum?
Group interests are inevitable at odds with one another and they become more pronaunced as life gets easier because the need for cooperation diminishes due to the lack of common problem.
That's leads to change in the moral code of the people and how they see the world...in other words, the culture becomes more diversified and consequently more conflicting aspects of it emerge! That leads to conflict and to one side dominating over the other sides.
Then we have basically the same situation as before...a group interests dominating over the entire society! Nothing is really different, just different name!
Another thing to point out is the terrible conditions the lowest class is subject to in every capitalist country, regardless of the wealth of the country. I live in a city famous for homelessness, thanks to the failings of capitalism and austerity.
@@fcktherich6913 ah fantastic, just like the socialist country of China.
Didn't expect a sequel to come out so quickly.
Marxists like to yap about dumb shit for some reason.
Of course Socialism is better than Capitalism.
+ Socialism doesn't require exploitation
+ Socialism can achieve more with less
+ Socialism creates Scientific Societies
+ Socialism is geared toward the development of mankind
+ Socialism is environmentally friendly
+ Socialism is Anti-Racist
+ Socialism is Non-Xenophobic
+ Socialism is a mode of production controlled by the working class!
The list goes on and on!
@Hussein The Barbara Pit Enthusiast I like how conservatives quote George Orwell although he was a democratic socialist and even supported the Catalan revolution.
@@Dan_1348 that’s actually true, though.
- socialism is anti-freedom
@@DanNorton1 freedom to what? exploit workers? destroy the environment? got us there champ.
@@Dan_1348 ah really? How cool is that?
What amazes me is that, dumb misconceptions about socialism are the same here in Brazil, like damn stupidity has no bounds huh
Brazil, my friend, is actually one of the most likely countries in the world to have a socialist revolution in the next 50 years (as well as India). It closely resembles tsarist Russia of our time economically, being developed enough to have an organized proletariat and fend off intervention but poor enough to motivate people to start a revolution. That's why your leaders are scared shitless.
@@mikhailmaksimov9777 actually, I'm pretty doubtful, right now people don't see the left in a good light, seeing as how of the last 2 leftist presidents, one was impeached and the other was realeased from prison a while ago because of "corruption" (with the main evidence being TV footage) and we got this failure of a leader that a lot of people support
It’s surprising how much of a grasp the president in Brazil has on its citizens, I mean I’m friends with an immigrant who moved fairly recently from Brazil to the US and is still somehow a very staunch supporter of Maduro even though they don’t live there.
@@elcawyo9629 Well I meant hypothetically, in the next 50 years. Obviously not now.
Do socialists promote misconceptions about capitalism?
Pumping out content like there is no tomorrow.
Based Hakim.
Correction: Pumping out content to make a better tomorrow.
@@CEOofCulturalMarxism Or a worse tomorrow?
@Ibrahim Awad Socialism brings hope?
@Ibrahim Awad hopeful future?
,@Ibrahim Awad there is no hope in the future you advocate for
Hakim, destroying reactionary shit and infantile disorders one amazing video at a time
I don’t remember saying this
@@FloydHose é
Nah. Not disorders. /
" enough wealth to make the Pharoahs gaze in envy"
- great line
“Capitalism really sucks, but why?” because the USSR’s anthem is better
commie music is supreme
Passion is unreal.
Remember Nikolai Volkoff singing the national anthem despite a booing WWF crowd?
ruclips.net/video/U06jlgpMtQs/видео.html
True, not to be a hater, but the US anthem is less than mid imo
This must’ve been driven by profit, as there is no other reason that a passionate individual, such as comrade Hakim, would desire to research and develop this masterpiece... simple human nature😂
"Profit is theft, f**** the state"- Carl Marks, probably
He is getting paid by people and is most likely making a profit extracted from the people willingly giving him money.
Anarchism has incentive of securing bread and leisure. Marxism has incentive of creating a post-scarcity communist society. Saying that socialism has no incentive to improve is simply lie. Dumb liberal philosophers and their "greedy human nature" 🤣🤣🤣
@@brettmcclain9289 TBH he is reaping his own labour. It is actually RUclips who steals 60% of all revenue of content creators as "profit".
@@brettmcclain9289 he is not "extracting" anything
The capitalist mindset is "how can I better get people to work for me?"
The socialist mindset is "how can I better work with other people?"
Better, socialist mindset, how can i violate others peaplo liberty of choice and property better? For can i suplly my envy desires and my comarades envy desires too.
@@calopsitalibertaria1860 you get liberty and freedom of property under socialism, private property is not personal property
@@calopsitalibertaria1860 That's literally the opposite of the Socialist mindset.
"how can I better work with other people?" you ask? fucking pay them. You learn soon enough that if you want people to work for you , you have to pay them money, so we go back to capitalism. NOBODY does jack shit for you for no reason, unless its a family member
@@sten260 "Paying people to work for them" is exactly what Capitalists DON'T want to do. Hiring people to work for them and pay them as little money as possible is the workaround when it comes to the fact that Capitalism requires a constant workforce to function despite its many contradictions. Labor laws exist as a measure to prevent the Capitalist from engaging in practices such as wage slavery. But because of the Capitalist system, those measures only amount to temporary solutions at best.
How blessed are we to get so many Hakim videos so frequently 🎉
Socialism is so great that in its infancy it was better than Capitalism it is Maturity!
Exactly. Now compare it to capitalism's infancy back in 1642 England...
@@mikhailmaksimov9777 in its infancy capitalism brought millions out of poverty
@Karl Marx what tf does that have to do with what l said?
This sounds like something a Muslim extremist would say about Islam
@@tompatherookiecrusher885 In it's infancy capitalist England lasted for about a decade before it collapsed and the bloody Oliver Cromwell came to power. Capitalist France only lasted a few decades longer.
Extremely based 🚩
Like you Paul.
@@Naheed_Ahmed14
cannot convince me that yall are not both working on a curriculum for baby lefties. the informative series' happening simultaneously?? nahhhh, yall up to somethin
@@brewskimckilgore6796 🍼
@@brewskimckilgore6796 they are both working on stuff for baby lefties, because they're both Socialist Channels that commonly work together with other Socialist Channels, are you whining about the Gay, Socialist, Communist, Liberal Agenda again?
Rapid fire Hakim videos!
Post more comrade
@@josuem7398 I'd love to, but the laptop was broken until 2 days ago. Something coming soon! :)
Mashallah daddy Hakim has uploaded.
Based Hakim as usual.
Staying undefeated
@@maximusstirnimus5210 Hakim is. I'm barely getting by with life comrade.
@@Naheed_Ahmed14
Lol until now I actually thought this was a bot. Sorry to hear that
@@maximusstirnimus5210 lmao. It's fine pray I don't kill myself this year.
Community posts are broken. You really should utilize them.
yes this, community posts are good for the althorithm rn, but it might be fixed.
Yes! Hakim please take advantage of this! The Spiffing Brit did a video on it if you haven't heard
If I remember the reason they were broken was solely because nobody used them so the few that did had a massive advantage. Now that everyone is using them. The advantage has gone down massively.
@@g_l_a_d3665 Comrades should still do all we can and take any advantages we can find that may help spread education of our ideas to the masses; I think that even a small boost would be beneficial
@@yeeyee5117 Take advantage of all the right wingnuts whining about the ammunition shortage:
Wow, ammo is getting more expensive? Well that's capitalism for ya. Why would they bother building more bullet factories when they can enjoy selling less for more?
how do you manage to read so many damn books while also being a physician?
I read throughout all the little breaks I get in a day. During my commute, in-between consultations, before I sleep etc.
You'd be surprised how quickly the 10-20 pages a session build up to full books.
@@YaBoiHakim I like to eat bamboo
@@north3602 Are you a panda?
@@YaBoiHakim legend
The one good thing Amazon has done, is that it showed us not only are centralized planned economies efficient, but that they can work.
Walmart too.
Planning in a company not the same as planning in a country , this argument is dumb .
@@brutuslugo3969 explain the difference that would make the central planning for a company not work on a state level
@@laconic2358 The difference is that Amazon operates globally which makes it even less convincing that it couldn't be done on a national level, lol.
@@laconic2358 banana republics.
I was talking to my friend last night who has the general American opinion on communism and after talking to him for a while he said that biggest reason he wasn’t in support of communism is because he didn’t understand how it would function in reality. I hate how everyone in my country has been spoon fed so much propaganda about communism, but the full concept is never explained to them.
@Bird Bread nazism has fully developed and played out in the past, same cannot be said for leftist developments thanks to the global market economy and agents of capital attempting to undermine
@Bird Bread the Nazi Party?
How would it “work” in your country
@@tastyduckling4646 by the extermination of private property an therefore the extermination of the bourgeoisie.
@@hunterhoyt9571
My apologies, but the "bourgeoisie" aren't the only owners of private property, friend. Anyone who owns so much as the clothes they wear has private property (something that they own by right). Socialism doesn't recognize any boundaries on what may be taken from one to be given to another.
Modern socialism believes individual ownership of property is wrong. As it's new slogan says: "you will own nothing, and you will be happy." This is morally unacceptable, that someone works for everyone but him/herself.
Militarism isn't a problem but Imperialism is. Though the two are well synergized, Militarism can swing the opposite way, so Socialism can enforce the political will of the people rather than the 1%.
Are you anti-rich people ("1%")?
@@DanNorton1 yes. Some Rich People don't understand our hardships. The day the lobbyists are gone, the day the Rich Capitalists start running from the Socialist Army after them and not just the poor, is the day the world will fix itself.
@@v.k.rt.m.6030 What if you become rich, say, through hard work and/or a genius invention?
@@DanNorton1 It's literally impossible to become truly 'rich' through your own labor and ingenuity alone. Even if you assume that the rich person had a great idea, they gain the wealth by skimming the profit off the labor of the people who actually manufacture the genius invention. Creating things is ALWAYS a group effort, and every new invention builds on ideas and technologies that were created by hundreds of other people who came before. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
@@millenial90 exactly.
Yep. Planned obsolescence produces a horrible amount of waste.
Socialism is when you comment “Minecraft” “asmr” “pewdiepie” “music” “fortnite” “markiplier” “RUclips is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits” “runescape” “world of warcraft” “wow” “shadowlands” “dream” “mr beast” “warzone” “FaZe clan” “100 thieves” “call of duty” “Pokémon” “Pokémon cards” “card unboxing” “charizard” “they don’t want you to know” “round earth” “flat earth” “triangle earth” “spiff sent me” “pog” “destiny” “twitch” “you won’t believe” “top 10” “news” “politics” “daily dose” “t-series” let’s play” “teaser” “trailer” “the moment I found out” “reacts” “reaction” (❤️ comrade)
What does this mean? , i've saw a lot of similar comments under a lot of non related videos from different youtubers
@@1homelander179 algorythm manipulation
@Mr. Darius good to know
@Mr. Darius a meme regardless
What the fuck are with these comments
Imma here to appease the algorithm Gods. Papa Marx Bless.
Good points. Sadly, RUclips doesn't recommend this video to general public.
The video is trash anyway
@@tompatherookiecrusher885 Don't cut yourself on that edge
@@Ashley-gn6ji yeah saying a bad video is trash is so edgy ooooh
@@tompatherookiecrusher885 y? Commie bad?
@@tompatherookiecrusher885 That's one way of saying ''I didn't understand the contents of the video, so let me express my ignorance in the comments''.
Also regarding the economic calculation problem, you do not need to plan every single detail at the very top level to be obediently and mindlessly followed down to when Jane Doe on 123rd ABC St. gets a new bulb in each light in her home, what type of bulb that will be, and what contingencies must be made for new technologies developed or new standards in efficiency or lightning type. With modern computing hardware and database systems you probably could, but it's certainly not necessary. All you really need to do is estimate how many of each type of lightbulb you need to produce per time period, and use statistical information on consumption of those lightbulbs to estimate where you need to make them available in stores.
You could also decide to make light bulbs which dont have planned obsalecence and compare the impact on the environment to the cost of reusable light bulbs.
It never works that way, however. You're describing a form of utopia, and utopia is not an option. Market economies work, without worrying about achieving perfection. Central economies have never worked, despite seeking perfection.
@@roberteugene7295 So the busts and starvation are just the cost of the free market? Not only that central planning has been proven to work.
@@barrackobama2216
*Not that central planning has been proven to work.*
Which is the entire point. Nothing is ever perfect, especially not human endeavours. Central planning, in reality, makes every economy a chronic bust and increases starvation. My apologies, but that's the fact of reality.
Reality has a way of biting people who ignore it right where it really hurts.
@@roberteugene7295What fact of reality ? Ther is none.
If you're referring to the past, there were mistakes. Calculations were done by hand and, as you said. With automation, and our improved knowledge and forms of logistics, more accurate plans can be made.
Not to mention that not everything has to be planned to down. Non - perishable products can have the supply chain being considered in sections, with everything lower just needing to be able to provide the necessary materials/products (minimums). The encourages efficiency, because the more you get from little, the less extensive you production is, which means less parameters and variables.
We can also use the same methods of delivering (on demand / replenishment/ on previsions) as today and with the same reasoning.
Achieving perfection, as you said, shouldn't be the goal. However, we can try to approach it.
Also, you describe the concept of the original comment as utopian when that's how LITTERALLY industrial businesses operate. Light bulb makers, car makers, laptop makers and so forth. All use statistical data to decide what should be made, when, what variations to give and how much should be produced to meet the expected demand. Why ? Overproduction is a huge no - no (while it seems efficient, it doesn't include planned obsolescence nor when it can mean waste like in the agro industry where tons of stuff gets destroyed instead of feeding the world) and sale flops are potentially very damaging.
Prageru Unironically said that being called a communism should be an insult or just as bad as being called a Nazi. They quite literally compared an ideology centered around genocide to an ideology based on making everyone equal.
Small corection. Not make everyone equal, but giving everyone the same chanses in life.
ruclips.net/video/pzQZ_NDEzVo/видео.html
National socialism isn't centred around genocide, don't be stupid
Two videos in four days? Now you're just spoiling us 🙂
Hakim, Have you read Husayn Muruwwa’s “Materialistic Trends in Arab-Islamic Philosophy”? I can't find a copy anywhere in English but if you have a chance to pick it up, I recommend it.
Possibly it's on Z-lib. Not a physical copy, but digital is fine too :)
My history teacher keeps saying bullshit about marx and socialism...
PragerU: What? No, that's clearly praise!
Well you should read about history and understand what happened better than your teacher. That will include what and why mistakes where made in past socialist countries and everything else and in between, etc etc. Your teacher is probably just a lib that has one sided propaganda.
@sea pop Such as what?
My history teacher talked about how his grandfather was a Marxist until the day he died and so he would always trash Marxism and was such a lib and I just thought damn I hope my kids aren't like this
@@alicesenz6374 I'd be interested to hear an example of what your history teacher said to trash Marxism.
Here before libertarians start spamming about the ecp
ECP?
@@yam2278 economic calculation problem
Well? Why won't he debunk the ECP
This guy is literally an idiot that thinks computers debunk the ecp lol
@@tompatherookiecrusher885 how the crayons taste buddy
I was shown first JT-second thought by my son. Then he told me about The Deprogram. After I had listened a few episodes I became a patron. Than I found yours and Yogopnic youtube channels. And I love it ❤
Nice. Good to have you here.
this mirrors my journey, except I'm not as fortunate to have a son, or as gifted in the ways of wisdom to have listen to his words like how you did. You're in good company friend
Would love to talk more about communism with you all
That title had me worried tbh.
Same here lol
not really because this is Comrade Hakim after all.
When I said something positive about socialism, someone literally pulled the "but Venezuela!" Card. I pulled the "Nigeria" card. He blocked me.
For context, I gave an example of a capitalist country that was a failed state. I also pointed out that the top ten poorest countries are all capitalist, but he blocked me before I could send the message.
Really Venezuela?
Ever heard about human nature itself?
And Nigeria is poor due to lack of economic palns, lack of trade , lack of proper usage of natural resources , corruption and past imperialism. And you say capitalism did? MOST of the failed states at African continent are failed states not because of capitalism but due to lack of capitalism.
And i highly doubt that your story you are saying are any truth
Im so glad i stumbled across your channel. I really appreciate the content, and your calm, respectful (when deserved) demeanor. It's really given me introspection into my own biases, and makes me think twice about my own views. Keep up the good work 😁
New to Marxism? Don't miss Hakim's book lists part 1-6. Helped me on my new journey out of political homelessness in Ununited States.
Just found these videos, starting to get into leftism/politics and these videos seem really accessible/easy to learn from and are put together very well please keep it up!
I really wish we could make a world thats more human friendly, and ending exploitation is the only way we can do that.
My apologies, but utopia is not an option.
@@roberteugene7295 therefore, we should uphold the inherently exploitaitve and unfair system instead of working for progress
@@carlomdlf
And therefore go forth with a system that is a proven failure towards "progress," son.
Here's an example of why Socialism is more efficient than Capitalism:
In Socialism, you can easily eliminate unemployment by using workload caps to redistribute the existing workload.
Every year, you check the % of unemployment, and then you reduce the current workload cap by that %.
So, if the current workload cap is 40 hours a week, and the country has a 20% unemployment rate, you reduce the workload cap by 20%, to 32 hours a week. That will ensure there is enough work avaiable for those seeking employment.
Under Capitalism, you have one portion of society being made to work for long, tiresome work weeks, while another portion is left unemployed.
Socialism does a much more balanced alocation of workload, to ensure everyone has access to a decent quality of life as well as the benefits of working, while also having more free time, improving the mental health of BOTH groups and increasing economic productivity.
The employment rate is generally somewhere around 3-5% and those who are unemployed is likely to be less skillful, so that could make your idea somewhat less effective.
So instead of 40h work weeks you go to some random people and make them fill in the last 10 hours and the original worker gets to work 30 hours?
Who wants to only work for three quarters of their wages so some unemployed stranger can jump in and take the other quarter? Oh no, I want ny other quarter.
@FakenameStevens this would have no effect on your wage. You would simply work less hours for same pay.
@@coardlowery322 If a worker normally works hours for £300 a day for 40 hours a week but now he works for the same wage for 30 hours a week, he'd be paid more than what his labour is worth. That causes inflation due to monetary supply not being backed up by equally valuable labour.
With regards to economic planning, I’d be curious to see comparisons between bottom-up economic planning and top-down economic planning
Thanks for putting out such accessible and well researched content, there aren't many making the type of content that can bring new people into our movement. This stuff's great for sending to curious friends and family, thanks again
curious about what fuels their delusional relative? Yeah, it is.
im ok with the socialism shit, but itd be kinda cool if i could get a government mandated pet rat
REAL
mashallah daddy hakim has posted more than 2 videos in a month. we are blessed :)
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But hey i'm probably a capitalist
@@ElectrusBoom if it exposes more people to these ideas it's a win
@@austinpowersasmaozedong ahhh is that what these copypastas are about? it makes sense lmao
I live that there is people like you that teach people about socialism. Keep the good work and you earned anothed comrade.
Oh lord I’m tryna study for my finals but I guess finals MB gonna have to wait for this Comrade Hakim video to end baby
Good video man, these things need stating again and again in accessible ways like this. Thank you for always being considerate and providing sources.
Another upload already?! And it’s THIS good?! Boy, we’ve been treated
Send my regards to Patrick Bamford he saved my fantasy premier League.
@@Naheed_Ahmed14 an absolute king 🤍💛💙 Loved watching the foxes get done in
@@SocialistSwann big up Leeds.
@@Naheed_Ahmed14 marching on together!!
As an anarchist, I have my criticisms of the state, but any opportunity for the workers to wield the state against the capitalist class should be taken 100%. A worker’s state is better than a capitalist state any day of the week. I would just stress that the working class must not place all its trust in the state and must organize such that the state becomes obsolete. The state doesn’t just wither away on its own; it is up to the workers to take away its power.
What are your criticisms of the state?
Dan Norton For one, states tend to produce nationalism as a cultural self preservation mechanism, and that’s not good for culture in the long term. In the event that the workers want one thing and the state wants another, the state must lose.
@@Holobrine Do you think people should be free to do what they want with the money they earn?
Dan Norton Yes, within reason. I think people should be able to buy almost anything. But I do not think people should be able to buy, hire, or otherwise exploit other people. Once someone else’s work is involved, they should have the right to be part of the decision making process, including the decision of who earns how much.
@@Holobrine What's wrong with hiring someone (on terms both parties have agreed to)?
Just joined your channel a few days ago and am glad you're still making content. Love your work, bro!
Damnit now I have to rework my script for a video I was filming this week about socialism. Too much good stuff here to not cover, though I’m going to have to distill it more for the audience I have.
Thanks for sharing.
A sequel coming out so soon? I feel like I am being spoiled. Not like I am going to complain.
12:50 A common problem I see on all socialist utopias with worker coops is that not all workers are created the same. Everything is framed as CEO vs labor, which tbf right now it is, but there are different classes within workers too that you'll need to resolve without vague handwaving.
For instance, if a software engineering company needs a few warehouse hands to install hardware, do the warehouse hands have equal say in the company as the engineers? Their salary is different because the work is more valuable and less replaceable (granted, that is probably a capitalist mindset but I don't know how else to illustrate the difference). Surely if one's work is more necessary to the company, you have a greater say, a larger vote share, and larger profit sharing right?
Especially in the case of profit sharing, it can get really expensive to fire people who simply aren't being productive because most partnerships require something like a two-year payout of partner shares in order to remove them as partners. If everyone is a partner, a single unproductive person can weigh everyone else down and be financially infeasible to remove.
You're right, that's capitalist bourgeois mindset.
@@strega1380 The part about valuing less replaceable labor was the mindset part. The fact that some labor is more important than others is a fact of life; there are different classes _within the labor class,_ and there's zero commentary on it in both this and Vaush's content.
So happy you had the time to have a sequel so fast. Love from California
Very happy I came across your videos. I love the old stock footage, it reminds me of an Adam Curtis documentary.
Great video! I really like your informative and point based style. Doing my part by leaving a comment.
I was just wondering where you got that number for the surplus taken by capitalists at 13:30. I took a peek at your sources and didn't seem to find it there.
I was looking for something like that before and couldn't find anything. It's like google deliberately hides it...
I don’t know if it was from anywhere, it was more just a template I’m pretty sure.
Also, the tax part is the same as society in the second example
most of these points were made before, but ig we have to repeat them again and again in new forms to make the best impact
the quality of your videos is definitely helping a lot, I can send this to other people :D
i have link to Hakim videos in comments on youtube specialty does that is ant-socialist and most that have happens to me is
1. they admit to not watching the videos i link to because they are "propaganda"
2. they do Ad Hominem
3. they talk about how they "lived" in the socialist countries and that they dont want other people to live thru the "horror" that does socialist countries where
4. they put Nazism and socialist together calling them both "left ideology"
5. they ignore what i write because am too much "brainwashed" to understand the "truth"
and that is pretty much what happens does times but if it goes better for you then go for it because we need more people watching the "other" side of things than what is being told in capitalist countries
Didn't Lenin lead a murderous regime?
Great work as always Hakim! Really well laid out. 👏
"Socialism gave people a higher standard of living than capitalism, *given equal levels of economic development*." In my mind, that was a flaw in the argument that was never clarified. Capitalists usually argue that under capitalism economic growth is bigger, so they'll experience higher economic development than if they had adopted socialism, therefore comparing equal levels of economic development is a flawed comparison.
A more fair comparison would be to find out how much more developed a capitalist economy must be to achieve the same level of living standards as a socialist economy. With that you could show that even if you were to assume that under capitalism economic growth is bigger than in socialism, the disparity in standards of living is much greater. As Marx said, "There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery".
I'm going to read the study and watch your other video on this topic, where this issue might already be addressed. I'll post something here if i find anything.
EDIT: I read the article and saw the video, sadly this issue is never addressed.
Watch the PraxBen video debunking this. Also /r/badeconomics did a whole thread on it too. This video and “study” are bogus.
@@ExPwner PraxBen's video fails to debunk any of this. He never addresses most of statistics presented on the paper, instead he points out that the authors of the paper aren't economists without specifying how that affects the paper in any way. He loosely implies that they failed categorize countries economies as "capitalist" or "socialist" and the few examples he does give, as far as I can tell, are wrong. He also goes in a tangent about how the soviet union bought their first trucks from the US, as if it was remotely relevant to the study.
Finally, he references a bunch of papers and says they support his argument without ever actually presenting what they say. I might give the papers a read but I'm not impressed so far.
I'll check the reddit thread though.
@@3snoW_ false. He did debunk it because they failed to accurately categorize capitalist and socialist countries, they put high performing capitalist counties into a category beyond comparison, and they put low performing socialist countries also out of the comparison all of which he points out in the video.
@@ExPwner Quoting the paper: "The designation of each country's political-economic system as capitalist or socialist corresponded to the United
Nations' classification of countries as market economies or as
centrally planned economies." They used the UN classification, and they are explicit on it, how are they mislabeling countries?
They also justify why there's a separate category for the low performing socialist countries. It's not because they are low performing, it's because they transitioned to socialism recently so "the impact of change in political-economic system could not be fully realized within such a
brief period of time." This to me is a fair point, and when you consider that a lot of these countries had a violent civil war prior to the transition, it mainly reflects how war has a negative impact on the quality of life of the people.
Sweet video! What is the source quoted at the 11 minute mark? I wanna read the full text!
Just commentin' for the algorithm.
Great video as always, Hakim!
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These the best tags to include on ones videos?
Anarchist inflatration.
Thank you for this information. It's a lot to think about, but those will be rather pleasant thoughts, I must say.
I just discovered your channel, great content I must say. Greetings from Argentina comrade
Love these type of videos,could you make a more in depth vid of the falling rate of profit by any chance
The claim that a computer could calculate a whole economy is completely unfounded. I'm an engineer and part of my education covered industrial engineering courses aka managing the economy/line balancing and quality systems of the factory. The way companies do this today is that you hire a team of industrial/business engineers and leave them full time to work this stuff out. The technology to actually automate this stuff isn't there.
It'd be way cheaper to just set up a computer to automate this stuff, management would absolutely love being able to fire the team balancing the production but we're just not there yet, this stuff is fantasy. The closest we have today is probably systems like CASAT, which while well under way to getting there is still decades away from fully automating even one factory. An entire economy is just unthinkable compared to where we are today.
edit: I've written more thoughts as I watch through this video as response to my comment.
Comment 1: Another comment, you claim that capitalist systems simply cannot handle climate change something direclty proven wrong by the Montreal Protocol that succesfully tackled the freon issue. It requires strong regulation but capitalism can, and has already done so in the past deal with environmental challenges.
Comment 2: You're making a claim that under capitalism workers in a corporation has no say in how it's run and no input on the organisation. This is also false. There's a modern trend towards a production system called "Six Sigma". The core of six sigma is just that, you improve the organisation by involving your workers, giving them an input on how everything is going and how it can be improved. In the west we're not that good at this yet but we're learning from Japan and trying to incorporate this stuff, change towards a more floor heavy input driven organisation is already in place in Japan, and developing in the west.
Comment 3: You're claiming that only a planned economy can be rationally managed but ignoring the rationalisation movements in Industry. You should look up Taylorism/scientific management and the rationalisation effords in the second industrial revolution if you want to understand how industry and economies today are managed scientifically.
@@Peanutcat ok sure, but if people had the say over the issue and not companies don’t you think the problem would’ve been solved faster?
@@Peanutcat by definition it is true that workers have no say in capitalism as the capitalist owns that means of production, they don’t have to follow any workers inputs if they don’t want to bc they own the means of production and until they do they won’t have any real say over the situations you put them in. Until workers completely own the means of production there is no democracy, there is just a megaphone in front of you and a knife behind your back.
@@hybridxg2204 Just because people have a voice in something doesn't mean that you'll land on a good solution. Take Brexit, it was the great democratic will of the people and now they're facing local food shortages as their will is being carried out. You don't want majority consenseus on complicated things that take 5 years to learn, you want the technical experts to make those choices. It's entirely possible that things can/could've panned out faster but it's also possible that things could've gone very wrong instead, one thing being bad doesn't make the other good.
You're simplifying the problem a bit too much, you can't just say that by definition X therefore X because the definition can be wrong. The reason for the trend towards Six Sigma is that those corporations are simply outcompeting the others, if you're a capitalist and decide that you're going to make do without and not implement floor feedback you'll go bankrupt as the other system is simply better. It takes ages, there will be the odd outliers that survive for a while but the end result will still be there.
nice thumbnail art style! do you make it yourself or hire an editor?
Hey Hakim!
As always great video once again.
I have request, I want to know what's your take on india's farmer protest. Please if you do get time. I would love to hear what you think about it.
Cheers :)
Hakim, increase the volume of the background music! Wanna hear the internationale a bit louder😂 Great video though!
Hey, could you do a video on China in the future? I feel like you've touched on it before, but never in any depth. There are lots of contradictions in Chinese policies that pushes me to believe that it's no longer socialist and hasn't been since about 1978 when Deng Xiaoping rolled back the Iron Rice Bowl and other great policies of the cultural revolution. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
@L thanks! Looking it up
in fact,no longer when hua guofeng backed by deng xiaopin steal the power by overthrow the four gang after Mao died immediately. the time is 1976.10, mao died in 1976.9.9
Oh yeah China has long been an authoritarian capitalist country as opposed to a socialist or communist country despite their leading part being the called the Chinese Communist Party
this was really fast, right after your poll :)
Hakim, my dude! So glad you are a proponent of Cockshott's work. I loved peoples republic of walmart and im starting TaNS
Your entries are fantastic, thank you Hakim
You mean fantasy, cause mix economies exist and all he mentioned can apply easily in capitalism... Not to mention capitalism isn't the issue its rise in taxes
Some of your topics talked about in this video, was already discussed in Fight Club and American Beauty
Loving your new video upload rate Comrade
Thanks for your work
“Socialism is better than Capitalism... Right?”
*Yes comrade, yes it is*
That would explain the soviet nostalgia in Russia
@@jimboonie9885 Leninism/stalinism?
But have thou considered ✨Venezuela?✨
This video’s so slick Hakim, it’s my new favourite!
Thanks for introducing me to this study I always use it when talking to family about socialism.
Tengo la esperanza de que los Estados socialistas triunfen en esta década e inspiren a otros a seguir su ejemplo, así como a una mayor unión de los pueblos.
Grande Hakim.
Gracias por tu excelente contenido.
Oh damn, Hakim is just churning out videos this week. Nice
Half of the video the author makes a case for a technocratic society theoretically more efficient than capitalism. At some point he denounces how capitalism destroys the environment by creating products to be trashed. But if you examine the economy of the Soviet Union, no country spent more energy per capita than the soviets. Until this day Russia is the less energy efficient country in the world. Both bourgeois capitalism and state capitalism (or "socialism") are plagued by industrialism and the alienation of the working force. If computers solve the "allocation problem", the situation is even worse than market allocation, since the "right" planning will always be that of the ruling political elite and not really of the organic collective.
A socialism not centered in the real decisions of the working class is not socialism at all. It is not enough to legislate for the interests of the majority, as this interest will never express the organic needs of humanity, and will inevitably lead to some sort of "scientific" tyranny.
I've been watching Paul Cockshott's videos recently, they are so good
If someone says socialism is what france does, leave the conversation.
"Socialism is based"
- Anakin Skywalker
Another video? Great. Keep up the good work 👍
The Computer I am watching this on can do 24 Billion calculations per second. Thats *a little* bit more than some people with paper and a pencil.
Wasn't the USSR a murderous regime?
@L Only Nazis'?
@@DanNorton1 ... and what is the connection to my economic comment?
@@DanNorton1 Hope you have the same energy for each and every US rEgIMe ever
Excellent video!
Thank you for including recommended reading, I am always looking for more sources of information.
Trash video*
@@tompatherookiecrusher885 do you have any particular reason why you think this video is "trash"?
@@GUILLOTINE_GANG you and I both know the answer to that lol
@@samescourt3801 😊
But it's always fun to hear how silly their arguments are.
I feel like they feel stupider for having to put their McCarthyism into words.
@@GUILLOTINE_GANG Is there a good argument for initiating force against people?
Currently a social democrat, however this video may start to make me explore democratic socialist ideas and history ect
Great video, and loved the Che quote at the end.
Noob question: In my understanding socialist or socialistish nations tend to have a parallel communist party apparatus to the democratic one vote per voting age citizen/worker. How can we analyze the power within democratic system vs the party system? When the party has a certain degree of power over the democratic structure, how can party elitism be prevented (or how do we know it doesn't serve similar self serving and power grabbing interests as capitalists in a capitalist system)?
Such an inspiring video, as always of course. We really have a world to win ✊
This is a wonderful synthesis of 20th and 21st century socialism.
I really love your video aesthetics :3