Acording to many Americans online, all of Europe is socialist and we're essentially all constantly waiting in line for healthcare and fearing our tyrannical governments. Universal healthcare, public transportation, well funded public education, a livable wage and 5 weeks of paid vacation is something horrifying to them that has to be prevented at all cost!
Don't worry, they think the same of us in Canada, including calling our Prime Minister (who has a whole lot of issues of his own, being leader of the Liberals, a neo-liberal leaning/centrist party) a communist. He's much like the US democrats, who say the right things about social issues, have no backbone but generally support businesses over people and bungle anything that would actually help the working and lower classes. The worst part is that it's Canadian tradition to adopt whatever is trending in the US (usually a few years after it's considered "cool" there), so our right wing is starting to sound a lot like thiers.
The same Europe that hosts some of the world's largest corporations and a plethora of privately owned small and medium size businesses. Terrible stuff. Terrible!
There's also a lot of people online that think if you dismantle capitalism, you'd still be able to pay for those social policies that aren't actually socialism, as you've already argued.
A CIA officer and KGB officer end up sitting beside each other at a bar during the Cold War. The CIA officer toasts the KGB officer saying, "I got to hand it to you guys, you do a great job with your propaganda." KGB officer says, "Thanks, that's very kind of you but, no, America is truly the best at propagandizing its citizens." The CIA officer's face quickly darkerns, deeply offended. "What do you mean?! There is no propaganda in the United States!"
I remember when there were protests calling the Dixie Chicks communists after they said they didn't support George Bush Jr. That's when I understood that many folks don't know what communism means and that it's often used as a catch-all for what people think is anti-US sentiment.
What happened to the Dixie Chick's was deplorable and the Communism part was just name calling. Communism is not anti American but it is still terrible.
@J Rus technically, no, communism isn't American, and is against America's values, aka capitalism. The simplest reason why people think communism is terrible is because the capitalists class paints the alternative as terrible. If it is, why does the USA spend hundreds of millions of dollars directly and indirectly doing coups in any country that transitions to it? Funny how "let the free market decide " never applies here. Even more funny is that Reagan didn't give two shts selling our country out to China, a "communist dictatorship". Nor ever bothers freeing people in the deplorable conditions in Saudi Arabia.
If there’s anything to learn from the us’s actions during the Cold War, it’s that they don’t actually care about authoritarianism unless it’s not capitalistic American authoritarianism
Yes, unfortunately this is a true and accurate statement. Let's list some of the nations the US propped up dictators in: Vietnam, Iran, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cuba, Panama, and maybe a few in the continent of Africa. America has a lot to answer for. The fear of communism, maybe? The foolish notions of the Domino Theory spooked Americans during the 50s.
@@Kindlywaterbear capitalism doesn't even matter. Just anyone who is sympathising with any other empire had to go. The US got in bed with anyone, even radical islamists, if it meant keeping an extra inch of influence for a few more years
A huge part of this that’s not mentioned is that the civil rights movement was largely linked to the communist/socialist movement. The government squashing communism also served to squash the civil rights movements too, by labeling it dangerous to American values. MLK jr and Malcom X leaned heavily towards socialism at the time of their assassinations.
Not just the civil rights movements but the workers movements as well. The sedition act of 1918 was used to imprison socialists fighting for better working conditions and lower hours.
Important to note about the incident with Guatemala: the war also included a genocide against the native Mayans there. The people who committed the violent acts were trained by the US. In short, the US's fear of communism led to a genocide
Guatemala is such a beautiful country, but you can still see the scars of that war in the people. Not to mention the other shit that's been done to them (including by my own country, Canada). I loved my time there and would love to go back, the people are so resiliant and just amazing.
No no no. The US fear on communism ENABLED a genocide. What really led to the massacre was the economic interests of a single American company. That is neo liberalism. When you have so much economic power you can use it to influence the military, the government and the media for profit.
Companies and businesses don't really care for capitalism and communism as long as they make a profit. I mean plenty of Americans do business with China, no?
The US fear of Communism led to the US government supporting some very bad and brutal regimes so long as they were anticommunist. Guatemala is but one example.
The United States supported the dictatorship in Brazil as well. My grandfather used to work at a bank at the time. It was a very high paying salary job at "Banco do Brasil" or Bank of Brazil. He got flagged as a "communist" because he didn't support the dictatorship. Because of that, not only he was fired from his job, but no one was willing to hire a "communist". My father had to start working as a teenager just to buy enough to eat for the family.
Supported as in past tense, Cuba still has a dictatorship, Brazil doesn't! So the left supports dictatorships that last a lot longer and are more oppressive than the dictators America supports! The US supported Batista, but he's gone, the Castro regime is still there, Batista was there only for a brief while, a tiny fraction of the history of Cuba as an independent nation, but there are people who were born during the Castro regime and never knew another leader until that man died of old age, then his brother Raul took over!
@@danillopetrova One of the dictators the US supported was Joseph Stalin. Why, because he was considered the lesser of two evils, the greater one being Adolf Hitler. With Adolf Hitler gone, Stalin and Communism was assigned the greater of evils, so other dictators were supported because they opposed Stalin and Communism, is that so hard to grasp. So whats the problem here? Supporting small right wing dictators is just a continuation of supporting Joseph Stalin in his fight against the Nazis, that is all it is. Take the Nazis out of the picture and then Communism becomes the greater of two evils in many cases, that is why we supported South Korea in the Korean War! Do you think South Korea shouldn't exist? tell that to a South Korean!
"The United States supported the dictatorship in Brazil as well. My grandfather used to work at a bank at the time. It was a very high paying salary job at "Banco do Brasil" or Bank of Brazil. He got flagged as a "communist" because he didn't support the dictatorship. Because of that, not only he was fired from his job, but no one was willing to hire a "communist". My father had to start working as a teenager just to buy enough to eat for the family." Communists support another kind of dictatorship, a dictatorship of the proletariat or so they claim, and generally the proletariat usually ends up being whoever the dictator is, if the dictator is Fidel Castro then Fidel Castro is the Proletariat. You know your father should have gone to Hollywood to write screenplays. Hollywood hires lots of communists, and if your dad was gay as well or nonbinary, then that's a plus too.
I live in Argentina, there was a point in history were the entire soth american continent was under US backed military dictatorship, hundreds of thousands of people died. Can't say much about other countries but here the very neoliberal dictators disappeared people on the regular, those people were tortured, killed and had their bodies literally dumped into the ocean. Oh and if they had children they'd be kidnapped and given to government supportive families. There's also all kind of other damage like selling all our national stuff to corporations, demolishing countless houses to build highways (fuck car infrastructure) and was so generally out of control they invaded the falklands, who belong to one of their allies. Fortunately i didn't get to live through it but most people who did are still alive and the trauma from it is still very much alive. So i ask, who are the real terrorists here?
Sí, efectivamente pasó lo mismo en Chile y Brasil, pero cuando terminó, estos dos países se hicieron económicamente responsables y uno no… ¿le van a echar toda la culpa a Estados Unidos? eres de izquierda!!!!
I'm Polish. I remember when US capitalism came to my country in 1989. it was similar to what you wrote, except that the communists had earlier murdered (after cruel torture) those who could oppose the ruination of the national economy. "So i ask, who are the real terrorists here?" fascists were responsible for the death of 60,000,000 people, communists for over 100,000,000, capitalists try not to waste valuable human resources (capital, cattle) so they only murder competitors, "liberal dictators". As for the future global power of neo-Marxists (liberals or whatever they want to label themselves), I think they will lead to the greatest genocide in the history of mankind
@@LeejaMiller Hey I would definitely recommend to You a Book by Historian Heather Cox Richardson called "History Of The Republican Party". She even has a video playlist on UA-cam covering this topic along with connecting Blacks attaining equal rights with "Socialism" in the 1870s right after the Paris Commune. Its very insightful as she goes all the way to the Present Day but warning she can be a bit dry in presentation & might be for people with a bit of patience & want for learning detailed history.
@@Skydv2005 100% agree. There has often been heavy work put into rewriting the narrative when it comes to social issues, whether that be the suffragettes, civil rights, gay rights, trans rights or any other. Every one of these groups had a strong belief in equality for *all*, but also a large portion of each group realized that capitalism was one of the main drivers of inequality. More progressive, socialism based systems would provide more equality for all. However, there are many ways that people with the power work to direct the narrative to pit groups against each other, in an attempt to hold onto the power that capitalism provides them.
I have a true grasp. I knew people were crazy since elementary school. Things just never added up to me and I always questioned everything I did. Especially religion and that damn pledge.
So sweeping generalizations like that must make you feel so good, huh? Why do you need that sense of superiority? Usually it's because someone is compensating. Might want to look into that.
20:32 - It's also important to mention that the USSR installing missiles in Cuba was also a direct response to the US having installed missiles in Turkey, as a way of evening out the playing field. The USSR only agreed to cancel installing the missiles in Cuba after the US agreed to remove their missiles from Turkey.
@@bucketslash11 Well, it was actually the USSR that first to developed ICBMs, which sent the US into panic mode and resort to flying nuclear bombers around the entire perimeter of the country 24/7 until they caught up, which almost led to nuclear accidents several times. So at least they had the last laugh here.
What was the US installing missiles in Turkey in response to? Was the Soviet Union a peaceful player? Why wasn't the Soviet Union just trying to recover from World War II, why was it starting wars all over the place? The answer is the United States perceived the Soviet Union as a threat, therefore it installed missiles in Turkey, so why did it perceive the Soviet Union as such? Lets imagine an alternate Soviet Union, one that was only interested in recovering from World War II and developing its own economy to improve its citizens standard of living. After Germany surrendered, the Soviets pulled out of Eastern Europe and withdrew all its troops back within its borders and concentrated on rebuilding after all the damage created by the German invasion during World War II. There is no Korean War, the Soviets aren't interested in starting revolutions, all they want to do is develop their economy. The various countries in eastern Europe elect their own governments as those governments in exile return to their countries as the Soviets withdraw their troops. In such a world, there is no reason for the United States to place missiles in Turkey because the Soviet Union is mainly focused on rebuilding itself after World War II and not on foreign adventures. China never becomes communist, as the Soviets don't support Mao, as they are focused exclusively on rebuilding after World War II. So why exactly did the Cold War start in 1949? wasn't it Soviet foreign adventurism?
@@thomaskalbfus2005 Nice story, but the US and other European powers tried to sabotage and kill the Bolshevik Revolution in it's cradle by not only supporting the Whites with arms, but actively sending in troops to Russia. They really wanted the Whites to win to uphold the Tsardom, because they were scared of the alternative. So no, the US and the European powers were hostile towards the USSR from the very start - that's why the USSR wanted buffer territory, in case Europe colluded to invade the USSR again. And in fact, Churchill did secretly draw up provisional plans for invading the USSR directly after WW2 - Operation Unthinkable. The US and Europe were much more hostile towards the USSR than the USSR ever was in response.
My grandfather, a WW2 vet once told me. Boy the only difference between communism and capitalism is that in communism, the government owns the factory. In capitalism the factory owns the government.
That is a very insightful comparison. Today, the factory the owns the government are the 4000 or so billionaires that hold the reins of money and power. And, they are very effective at using their marketing power, also known as,, brainwashing to accept their control over us, without objection. Your grandfather was pretty wise.
Under Communism over 120 million people were killed! A lot more than under Nazism. The factory owns the government?" That is Nazism!!! Wow! Zero education today! Under Capitalism, YOU can own a small business! The last job I had was in 1976! Had small businesses until I retired on my savings and investments at least ten years before I was old enough for Socialism Insecurity. Capitalism works for those who work!
And my grandpa told me that there two types of people, those who support communism, and those who read Marx. The difference is that he actually lived in communist country.
@@YohanRoth 120 million people killed by their own governments in the last 100 years. Most of that was Communism. And FDR called Stalin Uncle Joe and Blood Brother. But FDR did not like Churchill. Churchill said something that later came out in history books. FDR's New Deal caused his Great Depression. He also knew that FDR had set Pearl Harbor up for a fat target, and then all he could to provoke Japan to attack. The Japanese radio code had been broken. Both FDR and Churchill knew those warships were heading for Pearl Harbor and warned no one. All in history books I can list.
@@LeejaMillerefinitely. my family in the US has sort of politically softened (relatively) as they've got older (bucked that trend), but the whole US narrative things re: like socialised services etc is hard wired into their psyche.
Well, if individual people aren't allowed to privately own land & businesses & property, how can you get rich & powerful selling some stuff to people while also cheating them out of other stuff while also making them beg to work for you?
I would love to see one of these people just asked "Tell me just how Communism is bad, in your eyes", of course they'll point right to the USSR and Mao, but they will never go into specifics.
As an ex cold warrior, I have some information that might be valuable. First, this video was absolutely excellent and describes America's obsession with...not so much communism as "an enemy" extremely well. You covered just about every reason America is so obsessed with being the "good guy" or "the world's policeman" - but where did all this start? General Smedley Butler pretty much has the answer, war is a racket, and a lucrative one. Why have honorable business practices that benefit both US business and the foreign people's whose resources we are exploiting for profit when you can get the US taxpayer to cover a bunch of costs for you and simply send in the military to take those resources? Why not indeed, because it's more profitable to enslave and to steal than to do honorable business. I believe it goes deeper though, and ANY foil or counterpoint to capitalism is intolerable to the US oligarchy that largely runs the show and in the case of the Bush dynasty, became the government itself. All this goes back to the nascent labor movement once slavery was abolished and the frontier was closed. The very wealthy had garnered most of their wealth in the 19th century because our government...which is supposed to represent us all...gsve them land, oil and mineral rights worth...possibly trillions of dollars in the end and they don't plan on sharing one cent of it. So in the end, the answer to all of this is that no one becomes obscenely rich without being heavily involved in shady, unethical and illegal practices that behooves said rich people to become involved in government both to to protect profits by writing Byzantine tax laws and through influence in foreign policy and labor policy. One of the first things Reagan, that champion of the common people did, was to essentially end labor unions and set the stage for the largest transfer of wealth upward in world history....all while demonizing ANY philosophy that might make a more cooperative, rather than competitive society, and as such, he's an avatar for all the anti-communist/terrorist/the next enemy policy that came before him in the name of keeping the rich rich and the rest of us dependent. The irony is thick there. I'm not without sin, I helped these obscene policies in the late 70's thru the mid 80's, but eventually I got tired of the suffering we inflicted in the name of "whatever" and I opened my eyes.
Hallelujah! Thank you for saying all that! All Americans should wake up to these truths and admit that all people should own all things (but obviously not your dam underwear or toothbrush!sheesh!), and cooperate, not compete! Capitalism is what the rich people have been brainwashing you to keep giving all the money to a few rich people, while leaving billions to starve to death, including millions of Americans! And guess what?! Equality means equal wealth worldwide! Americans are struggling to survive because of capitalism! The Bible says “the way of TRUTH shall be evil spoken of” in the end times, and that means all people should want communal ownership worldwide, and ending world poverty and human suffering, and destroying the insane wage system because it is slavery! And the wage is destroying the earth! We should have built only Tower cities connected to maglev Trains! NO CARS OR HOUSES! And no weapons! Thank you for opening your eyes, like these videos are also doing! THANK YOU!
From the very start of the existence of the US , the intentions were clear! This new empire had for main goal to establish itself throughl lying , stealing and killing ! That is what we submitted all our minorities to and we , armed to the teeth , plundered , manipulated , coerced and bribed all foreign governments to satisfiy our greed ! Christian and democratic , we are not ! And our doctrine in GOD we trust is pure hypocrisy for we are materialistic country which means that we really trust in GOLD !
Look up "police cam power trip", that police man is America, the innocent bystanders are non-Americans. The police man thinks he himself is doing good, and anybody that attacks his ego is evil, and lacks the ability to see things from other people's point of view.
Putin is the Cold Warrior here, the Soviets after all started the Cold War! Doubt me? well then why did the Cold War begin in 1949 and not 1945? You know Patton wanted to push the Soviets out of Europe, but FDR and Truman would not let him. If they were cold warriors looking for an enemy, they would have given George S. Patton free rein to continue World War II against Russia, he and Douglas MacArthur would have nuked the USSR and conquered it in four years, the Soviets would never have gotten a chance to test their own atomic bomb, they would have been under American occupation long before that!
Every American’s peril: The Illuminati (also known as “Moriah Conquering Wind” are ancient generational Satanic interbreeding bloodlines, the aristocratic elite globalists whom control the monetary system of nations and their economies through their central banks, and funnel their Secret Society members into governmental positions of power throughout the world) with their enforced government education, media ownership, rigged science (they own the science), owned Hollywood, owned music industry, owned porn industry, long ago hijacked what passes for public education, medicine, media and “truth.” Since the Illuminati is made up of Khazar-Ashkenazi-Jewish Kabbalists bloodlines, headed by the publicly admitted wealthiest family in the world, the occult Satanic House of Rothschild, they have attacked Christianity since its inception in 1776 (i.e. the founding of the Bavarian branch of the Illuminati of Europe). The religion of the Illuminati is Jewish-Kabbalistic-Sabbatean-Frankism and it is centered on the Kabbalah (the Occult), which has a push to crown a one world government messiah (this messiah is not Jesus, whom their ancestors the Pharisees long ago rejected and put to death) in a one world government-total globalization. Hence the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence as well as Conservatives and Christian Americans need to be publicly demonized and eventually eliminated. Public education has brainwashed American youth into being socialists heading towards communism, hence the reason Generation-Z are state-indoctrinated atheists and believe a series of lies like that a man can be pregnant, that there are hundreds of genders, that there is no God, Generation-Z is so dumbed down they don’t know what a woman is; they don’t know whether they should be boys or girls-i.e. transgenders; they believe abortion is not murder. Generation-Z females are brainwashed into want to take upon themselves male roles; they are selfish-entitled-whorish worthless females on constant slut-walks, while the men have been emasculated by a feminist and liberal ideology that seeks to castrate young boys before they get the chance to be men of God! Generation-Z men are coward atheists, shamed for being men as they cower under the shaming of “toxic masculinity” and turn their head at the raping of Constitutional freedoms they will soon lose. Generation-Z is the result of the Illuminati’s government indoctrination, which the dumbed down masses call “education.”
@@agnesdebethune8767 Why would that person support China? Communist himself or no. Millions starved to death under Communism. FDR called Stalin Uncle Joe and Blood Brother. Stalin had his own deathcamps and starved millions. FDR also liked Mussolini. FDR also starved Americans and had his own concentration camps. And Nazi-style master-race medical experiments performed on black men. Read history books.
Americans are often obsessed with things they dont understand. Im American, i am obsessed with learning about the things i dont understand, this is not the same thing. Most Americans have absolutely no idea what communism is but are sure that they know everything about it without ever studying it. Dunning-Krueger is at pandemic levels in thi country
I totally agree. Conservatives have been attacking education through funding cuts since Reagan. They also killed Civics. The education of how government works !
@kevin gundestrup not only with funding cuts, but with encouraging an entire generation of underprivileged kids to go to a trade school instead as if that is an acceptable substitute for a college education. Trade schools don't teach the difference between empirical and anecdotal knowledge
@@tuckerbugeater just remember a sentence consists of words; a sentence can be true or false, but what is true will prevail over statements based in falsity.
We also abandoned the nationalists in China at the end of ww2 to the communists. Seems we love communists. It makes for interesting drama and plenty of distraction for our populace. After that, it was terrorism /who we also funded) and now it's the Chinese themselves along with Russia-both of whom we funded. We also funded Hitler's Germany. We love sport and the rest of the world (except the British) are just so dumb.
Remember the time the US stepped in to help continue a genocide in Bangladesh? Could have called off the Pak military but then you gotta fight the commies, so the murders continued. Also helped kickstart the nuclear arms race in this part of the world.
I love being called a Marxist for trying to say people should be paid fairly for their labor. I've never even read Marx, I've just worked garbage jobs that paid peanuts and don't like seeing other having to do the same.
No it isn't. Marx is actually critical of the "when fair wages" argument. From Critique Of The Gotha Programme: ""Proceeds of labor" is a loose notion which Lassalle has put in the place of definite economic conceptions. What is "a fair distribution"? Do not the bourgeois assert that the present-day distribution is "fair"? And is it not, in fact, the only "fair" distribution on the basis of the present-day mode of production? Are economic relations regulated by legal conceptions, or do not, on the contrary, legal relations arise out of economic ones? Have not also the socialist sectarians the most varied notions about "fair" distribution?" Marx wants wage labor to be abolished.
You have to phrase it in different terms, the words labor and fair pay have been coded. Just talk about how the boss gets paid for sitting around, and maybe shareholders getting all the maybe shareholders getting all the money or something.
Having spent time living in the USA, what strikes me as most odd is how the US citizens speak so proudly of their freedom. What they don't realise is how caged and robotic their people really live. It's actually scary.
Really ? can you tell me more details ? I am living a self-proclaimed Communist country (Sorry I cannot tell name bc I am scared of being caught ) and I immediately see how hopeless my life will be =)).
i’m so insanely happy that you’ve brought to light the meddling of the cia in guatemala. it’s not talked about enough. guate is in actively in the shit as a direct result of it. we deserve better
I guess the irony is that none of these so-called "communist" nations were actually communist since the people didn't actually control the means of production. Communism and capitalism aren't economic doctrines but instead political ideologies. Econ textbooks don't say "this is capitalism" or "this is communism." That's why the US is in practice more Marxist than, say, Venezuela or the former USSR. The modern US economy and all developed nation economies are based on Keynesian economics, and economists agree that Keynes was inspired by Marx. So, it's always been a question of interpretation, which sadly has served political interests at the expense of everyone else.
your country is ¨in shit¨ because of the gang culture it has, inherit from maya culture, you had had more than enough time to build a decent country, stop victimizing yourselves, is pathetic and disgusting, guatemalans actually have better opportunities than you deserve, is amazing how a country so little exports so much violence, just look at California with the mexican, salvadorian,hondurian and guatemalan gangs, USA received thousands of immigrants and refugees from your country and other countries and lots of those people ended up creating gangs
@@strayedarticle2838 oh dude we totally backed like the worst ukrainians we could've, back in like 2014? We went in there and like put proto-fascists into power, just to fuck with the russians. But then they started making laws banning russian language and being russian, yknow, fascist type beat, and putin didn't like that cuz hes just one mf tryna do good by his country.
The current US border crisis is DIRECTLY linked to meddling of the USA (and Chiquita Foods) in Central America during the 20th century. They destabilized popularly elected governments and installed politicians who supported the US ambitions in the region. As a result there has been cycles of oppression and upheaval that have culturally and economically destabilized these nations. As a result criminality and corruption and terror have caused people to flee north, seeking a better life.
You missed something HUGE in your intro. There is a difference between PERSONAL and PRIVATE property. Even in the USSR you owned your own home or apartment. Also "the shirt on your back" I've NEVER heard of any kind of Socialism or Communism that promotes the Public Ownership of PERSONAL Property. If you do another video on this feel free to reach out. I did my final paper at university on the difference between Anarchists & Communists in 20th Century Chile...
In fact, we communists often tease capitalists by saying "We're coming for you Toothbrush!", because it is so entertaining to see their reactions. It's just a joke tho, NO COMMUNIST I've ever heard of is against personal property. Just private property.
Some introductory texts; anything Zeitgeist Movement (not technically commie but 90%), anything Michael Parenti (he disguises it but clearly is), Grover Furr, more history of communism.
Those are all fairly heavy, though, for easier intros hit UA-cam Channels - Caleb Maupin (controversial but a freaking encyclopedia on the technical details), Richard Wolff (leans anarchist but good foundation), Second Thought (popular and simple and thorough).
I remember when they made drinking and driving illegal,also not wearing a seatbelt illegal,I heard many people saying that was communism.I’m sure you can find news footage.
In the late 1980’s in Texas, the state instituted a mandatory seat belt law and prohibited consuming alcohol while driving. This outraged many Texans who saw this as an erosion of their “freedoms. In the election of 88, Democratic governor, Mark White, was defeated by Republican Bill Clemons, a former governor. Clemons ran on the promise of repealing the laws. When they weren’t, the blame fell to the insurance industry, who supposedly would either hike rates or pull out of Texas, and to the “liberals” in Washington.
I remember reading up on what happened to the Congo, our involvement and the assassination of Lumumba . It was deeply troubling for me. The US was not a good guy. We were OK with getting our hands dirty, all in the name of anti-communism. It's actually sad.
"President Johnson called Vietnam a 'raggedy-ass, fourth-rate country'." To be fair, that was actually among the least offensive things Lyndon Johnson ever said about anyone.
I can’t believe he’s the same person who headed the War on Poverty Let’s have more of War on Poverty LBJ and no Vietnam War/“Look at the size of my penis” LBJ
It's almost as if right wing politics are predicated on some fear or boogeyman in the public consciousness in order to function. But that'd be ridiculous, right?
Even before drumpf, republicans picked a minority to demonize every election cycle. Gays, Muslims, Single women, latinos, this time Trans people. They use their propaganda machine to tell their base that they are the only ones to protect their voters from. If the gops more violent friends physically attack that years minority, too bad.
Yes. They always have to create a common enemy, so they can trick the general public into perpetuating things that the right wing and wealthy business owners want - namely, profits for corporations - by framing it as patriotic. It's not that different from the "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" situation in Orwell's _1984_ , where they just keep shifting who the enemy is from month to month, to fit what will keep people angry +/- frightened, and willing to vote for people and things they wouldn't otherwise.
Fake fear is just as good as reasonable fear to motivate the senile to vote. Maybe fake fear is even cheaper than well-reasonsed fear with lots of evidence and receipts.
@@letsomethingshine -- Part of the reason the SNL insurance company parody ad with Sam Waterston was so funny, was that it wasn't too far off what Fox and other right wing outlets do by creating a scary scenario to fool elderly people. Manipulating that audience into thinking that a caravan of migrants is about to overwhelm the southern border, or that even the gentlest forms of anti-racism coursework for schoolkids is going to make white children hate themselves, is just as absurd as making them think robots are going to steal old folks' medication.
@@TakenTook *or that even the gentlest forms of anti-racism coursework for schoolkids is going to make white children hate themselves* It is simply idiotic that leftists like you actually believe "the gentlest forms of anti-racism coursework" will result in less racism or won't result in white children having a negative view of being white. Destiny who is a leftist progressive with a UA-cam channel has pointed out that "LARPing liberals" are more likely to adopt the idiotic idea that there is something wrong with being white. To the point that they(those LARPing white liberals) immediately assumed Jussie Smollet and Citi Bike Karen are actual examples of white racism and anti-LGBTQIA++. I mean Leeja Miller's own commentary in this video couldn't help but try to link heterosexuality and white supremacy as if no brown person has ever been opposed to homosexuality or was ever racist. On top of that recently black Chicago residents have begun pushing back against their city leaders for their preferential treatment of illegal immigrants in Chicago, but I suppose in your delusional version of reality that is somehow huwhite supremacy.
You summed America up pretty well. I have often asked "patriots" what gives our American government and people the right to think we are the world's arbiters of what's right and wrong. Or that our form of government is right for everyone else.
@@damizan8331 why do you worry about rights? Our opponents don't! Russia never worried about whether they had the right to invade Ukraine, they just did! So why should the United States operate with this handicap when other nations don't? If we don't like something some other nation is doing, we stop them using the capability we have! What you want is for the United States to be Introspective and worry about what's right primarily about what the United States does, while other countries plunder, steal, and invade, and we don't help those other countries that are victims, like Ukraine, because you want the United States to worry about what the United States might be doing wrong, so ultimately it does nothing and countries like Ukraine receive no help, because the USA is too busy being introspective. An introspective USA would have stayed neutral because what right do we have to defeat Nazi Germany if we did similar things against the Indians and we still have racial discrimination at home, and that would be just what the Nazis want to hear, because that gives them a free hand to conquer Europe without US interference. The idea to let those who are without sin cast the first stone, is an excuse to let evil triumph. Hitler just loved those introspective nations that would not stop him, because they were too busy wringing their own hands from their own self-imposed guilt, Hitler could then conquer those self-doubting nations later when he had defeated other nations and could then turn on the neutrals when he is ready to conquer them. Sorry but I don't buy into this bullshit!
The following is an excerpt from a Q uora answer to the same question ....Answer credited to "Ron Rule". 'Blue and Red originally had nothing to do with the parties. In October of 1976, NBC debuted the first full color electronic electoral map on TV, and chose blue to represent the incumbent party and red to represent the challenger. In that year, the Republican Party was in power so the “blue states” were the states projected to go to incumbent Gerald Ford and the “red states” were projected to go to Democrat challenger Jimmy Carter. By the 1980 elections, the other TV networks had made their own electronic electoral maps, but with their own color schemes - and they weren’t always the same as NBC’s. In Reagan’s landslide victory against then-incumbent Jimmy Carter, NBC showed a nation of red while ABC showed a nation of blue. The colors representing incumbent vs challenger being different across the networks continued up until the 2000 election, when the results between Bush and Gore were disputed. As different TV networks (and the printed publications citing them) were referring to different “red states” and “blue states” on their maps, it created a lot of confusion, resulting in the media outlets eventually deciding to be consistent in their map coloring. They agreed to use NBC’s original color scheme; blue for incumbent, and red for challenger. At that time, the Democrats happened to be the incumbent party and the Republicans were the challenger. But by the 2004 elections, “blue state” and “red state” had become so synonymous with “Democrat state” and “Republican state”, the original incumbent/challenger coloring scheme was tossed out in favor of leaving them as Democrat/Republican, and the colors have remained as representing the parties ever since.
Love this!! Red scare propaganda is so ubiquitous in American education, media, society, etc. It’s starts so early and is so normalized that you never have a chance to realize you’re being propagandized to. That’s why it’s so insidious.
I used to talk to people who had to live under that dreamy Socialist state called Communism. Look at Cuba, where people were trying to swim to Florida to escape the country. They weren't doing it as a try out for the Olympics.
@@AQuietNightso you don't think a severe embargo and restrictions so severe that even companies that were willing to work with Cuba were cut off from US markets had any impact on an island nation? You do understand that historically, civilizations not under the rule of a monarchy were very communistic, yes? And it was greedy monarchs that encouraged colonialism - after having sucked up resources at home. In a low stress environment we're way more likely to be naturally communistic than naturally selfish. Capitalism isn't that much removed from feudalism and it shows
Yep, just look at all the 80’s movies 😂 Rocky, red dawn, war games, spies like us etc “Commies” have been the villains for decades until a new bogeyman emerged, the Middle East! 😂
@@RedScareClair Tribalism is about shared survival. The good feelings you get from mass euphoria are evolutionarily evolved just like how mass hysteria could lead to genocide.
My father's from RDC (Republic Democratic of Congo) and I was born in Canada. I often hear him talk about politics but I never payed too much attention. He and I are going to have a lenghty conversation about the country's history. I discovered your channel a few days ago and I am amazed by the video essays you make. You have a new sub in me, keep spreading the truth. In order to forge a better future we must learn from the past.
She discusses communism and doesn’t mention Stalin or Mao and their atrocities. So much for learning from the past. It’s pure ‘America picking on innocent commies’ This woman is a communist
Hey that’s great, man! I used to be a tweaker. I never cared about the world above me, but between this channel, Renegade Cut, and Some More News, I accidentally learned while being entertained.
@@forrestpatterson6053 @renegade cut is awesome. @yogopnik and @First thought are great too but it's international so Americans tend to be less interested.
@@Notfunnysam All the outlandish conspiracies that grew more crazy as time went by, the evidence against him regarding J6 and all his other legal woes brought me to my senses.
@@grunklesmuffCommunism is when individuals don't own land factories or machinery. Either the government of community owns these things and people are expected to share wealth amongst themselves. I hope this helps 👍
There was a period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s in US culture when anti-communism seemed like a laughable throwback to the 1950s. I remember how ridiculous and antiquated Reagan's constant carping against communism was in his 1980 presidential campaign and then was surprised when he got elected and revived really violent anti-communism during the 1980s. But there really was a period in the US, in the popular mind at least, when anti-communism seemed to have been overcome and seemed kind of laughable. That's another thing Reagan reversed.
If only Reagan had taken US academia by the throat and expelled all of the actual communists, hard-line leftists and other misfits from their "teaching posts", and replaced the deviants with people of traditional Christian virtue, the type who built this once great country..
Perhaps you were living in a bubble and anti communist sentiment wasn't as laughable as you remember. As far as I'm aware the period between the 60s and late 70s was a time of mass internal pushback with the hippie movement and the civil rights movement but the opposition to both was really strong and had by no means vanished over night.
I remember 1986-1991, when I was ages 5 to 10, my teachers told me crazy irrational stories about communism. I noticed that the way of life they described behavior that didn't match how humans behave. Then I went to the company picnic of my mom's employer, Northrop Grumman, to witness the reveal of the B2 Stealth Bomber. There I met her coworkers whose blind patriotism, xenophobia, and batshit craziness were blatantly obvious to my 9 year old eyes. Subsequently when my teachers started telling the class stories of the evil bread-lines that fed hungry people (unlike the man who lived under a bridge in my neighborhood, who I saw beg for food every morning on my way to school), or when my 5th grade teacher saw she had a Chinese-American girl in the class then spent 2 hours ranting about how mothers are forced at gunpoint to throw their baby girls off a cliff, because communists hate girls, & that children go to schools that only teach "communist slogans", but nothing else. I was told in 4th grade that everyone in the USSR only eats bread rations and melted snow. I raised my hand to ask "why are so many Soviet people fat"? The teacher said "they're all wearing fur coats!" I said "but its June!" She said "June is their Winter!" I said "You're thinking of Australia!" She said "Go to the principal's office!"
Thank you for raising awareness about the U.S.’s involvement and destabilization in Guatemala! What’s worse is during the worst part of the U.S.-backed Guatemalan Army’s genocide against indigenous Mayans in the 80s, the US government knew about it and kept sending money and weapons…
Every American’s peril: The Illuminati (also known as “Moriah Conquering Wind” are ancient generational Satanic interbreeding bloodlines, the aristocratic elite globalists whom control the monetary system of nations and their economies through their central banks, and funnel their Secret Society members into governmental positions of power throughout the world) with their enforced government education, media ownership, rigged science (they own the science), owned Hollywood, owned music industry, owned porn industry, long ago hijacked what passes for public education, medicine, media and “truth.” Since the Illuminati is made up of Khazar-Ashkenazi-Jewish Kabbalists bloodlines, headed by the publicly admitted wealthiest family in the world, the occult Satanic House of Rothschild, they have attacked Christianity since its inception in 1776 (i.e. the founding of the Bavarian branch of the Illuminati of Europe). The religion of the Illuminati is Jewish-Kabbalistic-Sabbatean-Frankism and it is centered on the Kabbalah (the Occult), which has a push to crown a one world government messiah (this messiah is not Jesus, whom their ancestors the Pharisees long ago rejected and put to death) in a one world government-total globalization. Hence the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence as well as Conservatives and Christian Americans need to be publicly demonized and eventually eliminated. Public education has brainwashed American youth into being socialists heading towards communism, hence the reason Generation-Z are state-indoctrinated atheists and believe a series of lies like that a man can be pregnant, that there are hundreds of genders, that there is no God, Generation-Z is so dumbed down they don’t know what a woman is; they don’t know whether they should be boys or girls-i.e. transgenders; they believe abortion is not murder. Generation-Z females are brainwashed into want to take upon themselves male roles; they are selfish-entitled-whorish worthless females on constant slut-walks, while the men have been emasculated by a feminist and liberal ideology that seeks to castrate young boys before they get the chance to be men of God! Generation-Z men are coward atheists, shamed for being men as they cower under the shaming of “toxic masculinity” and turn their head at the raping of Constitutional freedoms they will soon lose. Generation-Z is the result of the Illuminati’s government indoctrination, which the dumbed down masses call “education.”
It was Korean War at Korea between Koreans, I find it kinda logic that casualties mostly were Koreans. The question is why Americans and the rest of the west were there? Who decided that US is the global police? Where is global police now in Gaza, really?
I have read the Communist Manifesto, found it in the trashcan. Just 60 pages, easy to read. When you regard it was written in a time where the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, where the abundance of workers allowed to pay them barely enough for them to survive, the paper makes total sense. It is not more than the concept that those who CREATE the value, the workers, should also participate from the profit their value created, and to participate in the decisions about the value they create. When you tell an arch-conservative christian that idea, they would agree - when you do not tell them that is the communist base principle.
@@super0spore0fan My claim that value is subjective is well supported when we look at the difference in prices between water and PS5. Value is determined by individual preferences and context, which is why prices reflect personal valuations rather than inherent properties of the goods. Even though it's essential to human life, water generally has a low marginal utility for most consumers because their basic needs are already met and it is abundantly available. This high supply relative to demand keeps its price low. On the other hand, the PS5, which is a luxury item, offers a lot of entertainment and status value, which gives it a high marginal utility for gamers, tech enthusiasts, etc. Limited supply and high desirability drive the price up. Despite water's essential nature, its abundance makes additional units less valuable to individuals, while the PS5's limited availability and high perceived value justify its higher price. This shows how subjective valuations, based on individual preferences and market dynamics, determine prices, which supports my claim that value is subjective.
@@super0spore0fan The difference in prices between water and a PS5 shows the subjective nature of value, determined by individual preferences and market dynamics. While water's abundance and low marginal utility keep its price low, the PS5's limited supply and high desirability justify its higher price. This shows how subjective valuations drive pricing.
Fun fact: Prostitution during the Vietnam War was greatly expanded to discourage American soldiers from r*ping civilian women. Spoiler alert: It didn't work.
@@michaellovely6601 The culture of soldiers expecting sex was introduced by Japan's empire and creating a culture of expecting sex in their military. They would have regular volunteer sex-workers but there wasn't enough to fill the quota, so they forced local women in those countries.
The key to Americas prestige is to highlight the atrocities/failures of other governments and burry the massive atrocities/failures of our own. Some Americans like to be lied to so they can construct a perfect little world in their minds, and some of us seek the truth no matter how painful it is to swallow. I Subscribed days ago and I’m loving everything you do.
@@Donkor640 Not only superpowers. Many here in Sweden also have a hard time grappling with the more difficult parts of our history, it's barely taught in schools and when it is, it's mostly glossed over. From the colonization of the north with the subjugation of the Sami people, slavery with our colony in the Carribean that became a major slave-trading hub, the official legitimization of "race biology" that legitimized Hitlers actions. Our chummy relationship with Hitler, our king at the time was a Nazi, his son, the current king's father and his German wife were married in a Nazi stronghold in Germany in 1932, and our prompt iron deliveries to help with his ambitions to take over the world certainly didn't help. Hell we even allowed Nazi troops to transfer in Sweden to invade Norway. Then there's the force sterilizations of "undesirables" that didn't officially end until the 70s. And that's not even touching on the Swedish imperialist era that didn't leave a corner of the Baltic and surroundings unscorned, or Carl von Linné and his racist categorization of the world's people.
I for one will gladly take America's "atrocities / failures" over the supposed "success" of many other nations. You really have NO CLUE unless you've actually lived in a foreign nation which employs something other than good old fashioned capitalism.
I’m an ex anti communist. From my experience Americans have an extremely distorted view of both capitalism and communism. I used to simply regurgitate the same garbage about communism that I was being fed on the daily. However I had an open mind and once I saw the communist point of view I realized it actually falls inline with many of my beliefs. I believe it’s important to keep an open mind and hear out all sides of an argument as well as see their good and bad actions and the reasons behind them.
whose "Americans" you mean working class people? 🤣 Remember when the left used to be for the white working class in America? Woody Guthrie? John Steinbeck? The intellectual class have really shown their a$$es on this one. There is nothing the intellectual left hate more than the white working class in America 🤣
I can admit conservatives can be quick to pull the commie card. I'm saying that as an anti communist. Honestly most people here don't understand communism. But I am here to say communism is still very vile and very anti human.
@@rips1231 how exactly is it anti human? Communism is specifically designed to benefit the people. The only reason no communist country has been able to do that is for 1 of 3 reasons. 1, corruption (China, North Korea) 2, incompetence (ussr) 3, sanctions (Cuba, Vietnam). I’m a firm believer that if a country becomes a communist democracy then it could break this stereotype of communism being authoritarian.
@solarflare623 Communism being authoritarian is not a stereotype. It's a characteristic ingrained into the philosophy. And just so we're clear on definitions when I mention communism/socialism I am referring to the original Marxian ideas. In other words Marxism. There's alot of off shoots of this ideology and I'm always referring to the foundation of the ideas rather then some esoteric off shoot. Now, it's absolutely authoritarian because unlike like how you described it as being "designed to benefit the people" it's real mentioned goal is to reach their "end of history" their "eschaton" they mention bringing heaven on earth. In otherwords to bring about their communist utopia. Once the utopia is in place history ends for them. What history needs to be recorded when the utopian heaven on earth is achieved. That's their goal. They mention it explicitly and abundantly. What they also mention is their praxis. How to achieve their utopian society and that's also stated very clearly. Its a duty of conscious for Marxists to further their dialectic towards revolution. Communism is inherently anti all forms of government besides their own. Because only communism brings forth the utopia. It's in their literature "the long March through the institutions" Marxists and socialists get ahold of the levers of power in ANY society they happen to be in and Once they obtain majority power that's when they initiate their socialist revolution to overthrow the current system and turn it into their failed communist experiment. They call it "winning the battle of democracy" because they subverse the system to inevitably overthrow it. Every. Single. Time. Communists only support communists. They actively try to destroy every society that they happen to be in and they manipulate, coerce and force people to join their revolutionary ambitions. Marxists will never meet in the middle and negotiate with any other ideology. They need their utopia and end always justify the means for them. They're anti human because they're only pro revolution. And look at history to find out what happens if you aren't.
@@rips1231 ok look. The main reason why communists weed out other ideologies during the revolution is mainly because there is so much anti communism going around. If you ask a capitalist, a fascist and a monarchist what they think of communism the answer will almost always be “communism bad” in some form or another. I’m a firm believer that a peaceful revolution is possible. And I’m sure there are many others like me. I don’t want to throw you or anyone else who disagrees with me into a gulag. I see criticism of the government as a way of the government being able to more easily see their mistakes and fix them. I also blame Stalin for the way communist states have been throughout history. The Soviet Union was the first ever communist country in the world. After the death of Lenin Stalin ceased power. He was extremely paranoid and that is what’s responsible for the USSR becoming the authoritarian regime we all know. Subsequent communist countries would go on to follow Stalin’s example and become authoritarian themselves. The truth is that Lenin would have likely made a change to democracy after a level of stability returned to the USSR. Despite being a socialist I still hate Stalin. He ruined the public perception of communism. Also why exactly did you bring up communism as being “the end of history” do you realize it’s just a metaphor for no more societal progress being required? I highly doubt that history will stop being recorded when we reach a communist utopia. Advances in technology would be made. We would likely have diplomatic relationships with alien civilizations. The end of history likely wouldn’t be for billions if not trillions of years.
A correction: USSR wasn't created after the WWII, it was created in 1922. What was created after WWII was the Warsaw Pact, as a tool for the Soviet leadership to control the Eastern and Central European states.
We all know leftism is inherently and morally wrong from any stance. Socialism, communism, call it what you like. The only thing the left is capable of is spouting cultural mαrxist rhetoric reddit buzzwords, as usual
Traveling and living in SE Asia was such an eye-opening experience. Even though I learned a relatively balanced perspective on the Vietnam war in school, talking to Vietnamese citizens about how proud they are of their history, of defeating the US invaders, and of Ho Chi Minh who is seen as a great liberator of the people, it opened my mind to the preconceptions I still had that turned out to be untrue. Showing pictures from the country to my mom who lived through the news coverage of the war, she was surprised at how beautiful of a country Vietnam is-all the images she'd grown up with made it look like the horrible backwards country the government wanted people to believe it was. Then there's the US's covert involvement in the region-supporting Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia which led to the deaths of 1/3 of the country's citizens and has economically crippled the country for the decades since, or the US's involvement in Indonesia's Communist manhunt that led to thousands of deaths and the descendents of Communist sympathizers having discriminatory marks on their IDs to this day. It's all such a horrible bloody mess and all for basically nothing.
I'm sure they didn't tell you about how they slaughtered 2 million South Vietnamese after the U.S. pulled out. Or about the death squads they employed during the way whose job it was to completely wipe out any villages suspected of helping Americans.
My granpa told me a story about his friend who begged for shelter for his family which US backed Soeharto Govt. labeled as Communist. Granpa closed the door shut and told his friend "I'm sorry, go away, i'm sorry, i'm scared, we don't wanna die too". That family didn't survive. What worse is that they weren't communist, they just received donations like food & clothes from the communist party.
@@eriosvanda479 what did Robin Hood and his Merry Men do in the Legend of Robin Hood? They stole from the rich and gave to the poor. It's easy to be generous with other people's money. The problem is the act of stealing leaves a trail of destruction that creates more poverty than the generous bandits can alleviate. You see the people you give stolen money to, become dependent on you for their income, meanwhile the businesses you stole from go out of business because they made no profits, as you just stole the merchandise they had to sell and gave it away to the poor, therefore they have no jobs. The Walmart in Chicago was closed because of all the rampant looting that went on inside.
Yup, it was basically a duplicate of the Korean war where 1/3 of the population vanished. In case people who do not have a clue on the severity; assuming the concept of basic nuclear family, every family would have at least one member died during the war. Can you blame the North Koreans hating the U$ so much?
@The_Gambler10 If you seriously believe that today's Republican party is genuinely equivalent to the Nazi party, you aren't a deep thinker. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are nearly as extreme as so many people seem to believe.
I’m a year late, but: American fear of “communism” has also translated in the brutal repression of the Puerto Rican independence movement from the beginning of the 20th century right up to 2005 when PR nationalist Filiberto Ojeda was assassinated by the FBI. During American military occupation after the 1898 invasion (Spanish American War), thousands of pro-independence activists have been targeted, surveyed, and even murdered with the help of our local government. To this day, our state government still fearmongers the idea of Puerto Rican independence with communism; alleging voter fraud in Venezuela as a gross violation of democracy, while also committing countless acts of said voter fraud and public censorship over here in the name of “statehood and equality as American citizens”. I would really like for you to research this topic, as Puerto Rico and its many crises are often overlooked by both our politicians and the imperialist US agenda.
Thank you for mentioning the Dominican Republic. I would love to see someone like you dive a little bit into it and check it out. You can get so much content from it and it would help a lot of people get educated about history they’ve likely never heard before. The whole story of the Hispaniola (the island that’s shared by Haiti and Dominican Republic) is very interesting and sad.
They did the same things in Chile, Indonesia, and so many other countries, overthrowing and killing elected government officials and even presidents. The US has blood on their hands, and Karma will hit the US eventually when the time comes for all the wrong doings to be repaid.
Haiti was a French Slave colony that rebelled against the French and had a revolution, they murdered and chased out white people from their island, enslaved others, but unfortunately Haiti didn't have much experience with democracy, nor at governing themselves. Put a former slave in charge of something and all he knows is how his former master ran things, so he will try to act like him! He will crack the whip and act as the new master because that is all he knows, that is why Haiti has such a terrible time!
@@MarshalMarrs Neither of these two were british, i think the issue is with colonialism in general. *You may have commented in response to someone else, it said there were 3 comments here and i only see yours.
Thank you for the great video! I feel like one of the main reasons to fight communism/socialism was to protect the interests of US corporations, Guatemala is a perfect example, if all land is nationalized you can not exploit it.
Are you going to repair a home that belongs to the government? Lets say your toilet clogs in your government owned home, who's going to fix it? You try to contact the government to get them to fix your toilet, but they are too busy, so what do you do?
20:36 also keep in mind The USA had already stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey ealier on, which prompted the USSR to put nuclear weapons on Cuba. Part of the negations was removal of the nuclear missiles in Turkey.
@@LeejaMiller JFK was burned by Allen Dulles and the CIA with the Bay of Pigs. President Kennedy fought to normalize relations with the USSR and Cuba. He wrote Khrushchev 26 personal letters in support of peace. Then Kennedy was assassinated….
My comment will probably just get lost in the sea of 7000 others, but i feel like it's a really big omission to not mention that Karl Marx has actually disavowed the use of a strongly centralised government in several of his later writings, including in the preface of the 1872 reprint of the Communist Manifesto. And actually became strongly critical of those who wished to realise socailism through state and party politics instead of direct worker action.
I am 75 years old and I am a witness to much of the history you have described in this video. You are spot on. I’m in total agreement with your assessment. I’m now a subscriber to your site. Keep up the good fight 👍🏾
You do realize communism has killed hundreds of millions of people over this last hundred years??? The Nazis lasted 12 years killed 12 million… Communist/Socialist killed that many in 3-5 years over multiple countries!!! If you can’t see evil for what it is your doomed!!!
@@ralphh7853 you should know that communism is a proposition of mass violence and oppression. For it to be implemented in the US, millions of American will resist and will be murdered by the state.
Thank you so much for putting so much work into your videos. The way you're able to explain these huge complex ideas with familiar stories. The way you interact with your community and commentors adds to each video. I love it. Thanks So glad Trixie helped me find your page
I live in new Zealand with a public health system. American s who move here (in increasing numbers) are amazed and impressed after being given the dubious messages against this system by the USA government.
But as we are learning from the current global sovereign debt crisis, social safety nets can break and people shouldn’t trust their governments 100% to be able to hold their hands, especially if these programs are bureaucratic in nature and do as much harm as good as a result.
It's amazing what you can have when you're overwhelmingly white and productive. Here in the US we have 13% of the population committing 80% of the violent crimes and 40% or us contribute absolutely nothing economically. Ever notice American leftist never move to Zimbabwe or Mexico? It's always to white majority countries. There's a reason for that.
I lived in "Commie" Saigon from 2009 to2016 when getting a Visa became more difficult. While in Saigon I never felt unsafe or that I was living in a police state. When we moved to Los Angeles all we saw were police chasing "criminals". Our $1300/mon apt had bars on all the windows. We didn't feel safe....in America. I won't even start on the way my full time working wife was treated trying to get basic medical care.
I want to add to that is when my family moved from Ukraine in 1998 we simply could not understand the concept of an "unsafe neighborhood" . In countries used to be communist all streets were safe at all times of day
"The American Dream." "The Land of Opportunity." What jokes. One needs a great deal of luck to see even a crumb of it. It was all a great falsehood to keep its citizens from thinking too hard. And now, our southern border is spilling over with people who were promised an opportunity that never existed. We've really screwed ourselves. Or rather, the wealthy class running the country has.
Kind of hypocritical of the US to blame these other countries economic systems as the reason for their woes, when we tend to have direct involvement in them...
Not to mention all the third world (a corrupt banking label) countries that have been “totally open to free trade” only to be resoundingly swindled and remained failures for hundreds of years.
Are you sure? They also had sanctions on the U.S. Besides, if another country docked ICBM-launching submarines 90 miles off of your country’s coast, why wouldn’t you support sanctions against them?
@@aycc-nbh7289 The explicit purpose of the US enforcing the embargo on Fidel's Cuba was *_not_* in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was to ruin the nation's economy with hopes that the subsequently resentful populace would revolt and overthrow Castro. The CIA's Operation Moongoose, which ultimately didn't go into action, was going to involve the US government launching a false-flag terrorist attack in Florida that would kill numbers of civilians, afterwhich the US would then blame it in Cuba and so have a #TotallyLegit reason to invade the country.
@@Boss_Isaac And? The Soviets and the communist satellite states also embargoed and/or sanctioned the U.S. if I recall correctly for similar reasons if that is true.
@@aycc-nbh7289 No, the USSR and it's satellite states never successfully sanctioned the United States, you know, since the American dollar has acted as the world's reserve currency since 1947, how tf would that possibly work? 😑
“The argument of should we own everything even the shirt on your back” is wrong we don’t ague about that lol We all socialists believe private property should be owned by the the people (basically public) and personal property should just remain personal property
There is no difference between "private" and "personal" property. Such distinction is imaginary, made up, and doesn't exist in reality where there is just property.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.Personal property ranges from your toothbrush to your preferred flavor of "protection". Personal property is something that would earn you a profit just for owning it. Like Factories, Buildings and offices.
@@morningstararun6278 : You can earn profit with just about anything nowadays, being it simple power tools for fixing and building things. Being it a house for renting. Being it a car for Uber etc. How exactly do you think, this "wrongful" use of personal property is monitored? By a totalitarian entity/collective/government perhaps?
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Using tools for fixing things doesn't mean earning profit through private property. How would you have earned the money to buy those tools in the first place? You would have worked somewhere as a labor or already owned a business by being a boss, inherited from parents or be gifted on your birthday by someone right? In today's Capitalist society, the Capitalists we see today are mostly had the initial investment as inheritance from parents or something similar like that. These meagre tool fixing private jobs have all existed in USSR. Those Reagan jokes were really bad and are just lies. You need a new furniture with specific design be put in your room, there were Artel shops for that. Even in USSR, you can buy a land as a lease from govt and build an apartment. But the starting point would be the same for everyone. You can put aside the money you would spend in the years end holidays to savings and build an apartment eventually. But Soviet people never did that because that business won't be profitable. Who would really want to pay the monthly rent when the govt provides free housing for every working age person. In China, even Jack Ma cannot own a single piece of land permanently. So initially in trying to build a Socialist society, there would be a radical nationalization of many private properties. If you call it totalitarian, then so be it. But why do you worry? But many industries weren't controlled by govt like it has been constantly propagated. Many businesses were controlled by worker councils and Artels which was running on market basis. Markets were always present within USSR. But the work places were either co- ops, state owned and many small businesse were community owned, not just a single person and his cronies. But all of this can only happen after a Socialist revolution. Won't the poverty ridden people who make that revolution, already be ready for that move?
Just came across it today and already on my 5th video - I needed some intelligent videos to reassure me after watching right-wing videos. Leeja restores my sanity.🙂
I do have to say, here in europe it has kind of became a meme, that americans don't truely know what socialism is. (But unfortenatly we aslo don't exactly have a shortage of those characters)
Well, apparently Europeans are not know what Socialism is either, because you refer to yourselves as Socialists sometimes, but none of the countries are Socialist.
Basically... If you're worried about communism, you've got too much time on your hands and probably need to take responsibility for your own actions by acknowledging the reality around you.
Now, let me tell you what the reality of living in a socialist system looks like from somebody who's got a bit more life experience than you (I was born and raised in the former USSR). You get all your basic needs covered (water, food, shelter, school, medicines etc), sure- but you have no peace. You live in a state of constant fear: fear that your neighbours will grass on you to the police because you listen to BeeGees or Abba. Fear that your own family members will report you to the state for treason- because you have independent thoughts. Fear that all your food produce you worked hard for all year round on your own plot will be "appropriated" (stolen) by the state. Fear that there will be a knock on the door if you do not sing Internacionala at the appointed times. Above all, there is an ever-present fear that you will end up like all the zombies around you, mindlessly following what the Communist party tells you to think. You switch a channel on the TV only to see a soldier sternly reminding you that the only channel you can see is the one broadcasted by the Communist Party. You wake up into another day, only to realise half of your extended family has disappeared without trace- they were silently removed by the good old KGB, arrested and tortured or sent off to a work camp for a life sentence. No reasons for the arrest given. The trouble with young Americans (and many Europeans) is that they have NO idea how good they have it right now. That's why they dream wild dreams about communism- thinking that Communism is "cool", as long as their basic needs are met. But my friend, humans are free creatures and no golden cage (secure housing/food etc) will ever make up for living in permanent fear. No perks are worth living in a society of broken spirits. 'Cause that's what communism does: it breaks your spirit and makes you hate like you have never hated before. That's the real reason why communism should be once and for always eradicated from this world. It changes people- not just one or two generations but for many, many generations. Envy and hatred become national sports...and there is so much sadness, so much bitterness in the souls of those who have tasted it. for the past 14 years, I have lived abroad. I do not go back to my hometown, I have no intentions of living in the country of my origin....because it breaks my heart to see the broken spirits, the bitter, oh-so-bitter people who are still living with the wounds caused by communism.
@@jvnd2785 That's a cool story bro. Guess what? In the USA, I live in fear of not meeting my needs, fear of a medial emergency bankrupting me, fear of being homeless if I lose my work for whatever reason, and so on. Oh and the gov thanks to the R side fuels stocastic terroism. And being arrested for whatever reason, and in the past, they did arrest those for trumped up reasons. I'm also willing to bet you didn't grow up in the USSR, but Russia after it fell.
the fight against communism seems to have been more devastating than communism itself. The old capitalism thing hasn't been producing the best results either.
Because we didn't let the Communists win. Communism was quite devastating to the places that communism controlled, such as Russia and China, and especially North Korea! Remember the show MASH, that made light of the Korean War. Do you think its funny that many North Koreans can't get enough to eat because of communism, that was a barrel; of laughs wasn't it the way the North Korean government tortured, kidnapped and executed people, ho ho ho, that was so funny wasn't it?
You can't really say that because welllll, let's put it this way, the only two people in history to have amassed a kill streak greater than that of Hitler and his Fascist Nazi regime are Stalin and Mao Zedong who are both communist dictators. Just to drive the point home how bad communism has been here are some of their notably horrible crimes against humanity: The Great Leap Forward - China: Mao Zedong a communist dictator and the founder of the Chinese Communist Party a communist regime that still persists today committed mass genocide and millions of crimes against humanity while suppressing almost all media and free speech resulting in a death toll that has been both sickeningly high and difficult to estimate, with a death toll likely in excess of 45 million but with other estimates as "low" as 15 million Stalin - USSR: Stalins and the USSRs communist reign of terror and crimes against humanity including genocide, as well as the brutal suppression, imprisonment, torture, and forced labor of enemies of the state meaning anyone who had anything bad to say about the USSR in general or anyone that Stalin didn't particularly like as well as the starvation of millions, culminated in a death toll estimated to be anywhere between 15 to 20 million. Cambodian Genocide: Over the course of 4 years, Pol Pot the dictator of a communist regime in Cambodia was responsible for the deaths of approximately 2 million people. This comment barely scratches the surface of atrocities committed by communist dictators and regimes. That being said Mr. or Ms. so-called PlumbDrumb you tell me which you think was more devastating the tens of millions of people killed by communist dictators and regimes or the fight against them.
@@The_Radical_Car_Guy The fight against communism was about containing communism, and the left here is objecting to that? So are they saying communism should not have been contained? Why not? You see, I don't want their communism, there are people in my country that want communism, so I wish they would just go to a communist country, the nearest one is Cuba! Why can't American communists just vote with their feet and leave? They say this is a terrible country and they hate it, so why don't they just go?
Correction: What you call the U.S. embassy roof was a residential building a few blocks from the embassy. It was a building where many CIA and other intelligence agents lived. What made it significant was that many Vietnamese informants and employees of U.S. intelligence agencies gathered at the building to try to get help to escape Saigon. I was in Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in February, the building with its iconic roof is still there. There is a great coffee shop near by and you can sit by the window and see the roof of the old apartment building. Just by the by, I found Saigon a lot more free and easy than Thailand. For instance the internet in Saigon is completely open. I'm Thailand I had to type in my passport number to get access to the internet outside of my apartment.
"Just by the by, I found Saigon a lot more free and easy than Thailand. For instance the internet in Saigon is completely open. I'm Thailand I had to type in my passport number to get access to the internet outside of my apartment." The way China and Russia were until they decided it was not!
You don’t need to save your country on your own. You just need to save yourself, your family, your friends, and your neighbors. The more people who can save even a portion of those people, the stronger a parachute we can use to save the country.
I am loving your page❤So perfectly informative about things I always heard and wondered about. I also feel you confirm my thoughts on certain political subjects with your history lesson. Keep up the great work!
So far as I know, no socialists believe that personal property (such as the shirt on your back) should be collectively owned. Socialists believe that the means of the production and distribution of wealth should be collectively owned.
The Israeli Kibbutz movement literally believed that. Quote from wikipedia: "The principle of equality was taken extremely seriously up until the 1970s. Kibbutzniks did not individually own tools, or even clothing. Gifts and income received from outside were turned over to the common treasury."
@@adrianblake8876Cheers for the correction. It's a good thing that the general consensus has steered away from that extremity. It would be so unpopular as to be unimplementable in the near future.
I love how you give a bit more time to the subject you’re discussing than most. There are some of us with attention spans longer than Tik Tok and we appreciate your delving in!!!
And yet, not a single mention of the industrial groups that started the red scare or their central role in this history backing megachurches, rewriting textbooks, fighting worker rights, creating the rhetoric of the movement that everyone now associates with neoliberalism. It's pretty damning to leave that out, but I suppose she doesn't want to lose her platform...
I remember in the 1960's that people in the US were more afraid of communism than western Europeans who lived in countries which actually bordered on actual eastern European communist countries were. I thought that quite bizarre.
Well, the US had already sacrificed over 50.000 people to defend its ally South Korea from the communist and expansionist North Korea who had invaded South Korea. Later in the 60s, the same thing was happening to South Vietnam. Being the world police keeping the world together means you garner a lot of enemies who have no morals whatsoever, which is very scary.
I’m not old enough to remember but it depends. I’m from Finland though (definitely bordering a communist country during Cold War) and we had widespread media censorship during that era, basically no books or films critical of the USSR were allowed to be published and the press was cautious to the point of self-censorship. Moscow de facto dictated who we could have as president or in other leading positions, we weren’t allowed to join international Western organisations without joining the Eastern bloc ones etc. I’d say we were plenty “scared”, but how many Americans do you reckon even knows this? Or is it again one of those things where they only know about US history so everything else might as well not have happened?
@@saaraa7876Americans barely know their own history. We’ve been indoctrinated with the governments view vs the truth. They are still brainwashing our children with lies. It’s not that they are unaware of your history, they are ignorant of their own
Isn't it because the united states is an oligarchy and one of it's ruler's main fears has always been that "the masses" would take property away from them if they weren't thoroughly indoctrinated into an ideology under which dispossession of the rich (but crucially, not the poor) is unthinkable? Guess I gotta watch the video to find out.
fucking hell girl. You are the first gringa i've ever heard who not only mentioned both US interventions of D.R and its strong connection with trujillo, but did it perfectly, without missing any relevant detail or rewriting history. For real, im fucking amazed. good shit. One minor detail tho, that dude who was put in powerby the US after the coup d'etat byt the military, that due is Joaqin Balague which was the right hand of trujillo during his reign. Balaguer basically govern from the 60s 'till the 90s, and his reign was basically trujillo-land 2.0. Fun fact, he holds the record as the oldest head of state in modern history when he left power in 1996 at the ripe age of 91 years old.
I grew up in the 80' in socialist Czechoslovakia, and it wasn't always garden of Eden, but no working person had even problem with food, healthcare, housing, etc. I admit, sometimes there was stuff you couldn't buy, that's because the system was prioritizing self sufficiency, and not having 20 brands of cornflakes all from the same factory, to create illusion of choice. If there was no chicken, you bought pork, I have no problem with that. It was actually similar to Lean Manufacturing, pioneered by Toyota, which is great for maximizing efficiency, but if there's a problem it cascades all the way through logistic chain, as seen with microchips. Besides, everyone in villages had their own land and enough time to grow their vegetables and cattle. Huge number of city people had their weekend houses and gardens outside of city. This is totally unthinkable today for working people. Statistics from Ussr and Czechoslovakia confirm that people were eating more calories and more of the expensive foods, such as eggs and meat. It was also the only regime that provided solution to housing crisis, while in USA people live in tents. More than 100 000 flats per year were built in height of socialism in 70s and 80s. Not bad for a country of 15 million people. Pretty much every young family in the villages could build their own house cause the material was cheap. In a city, you could get a flat from your company or from state for free, only paying low rent of around 1/10 of an usual wage. Also, people formed cooperatives to build their own blocks of flats, getting discounted land and material from state.
@The_Gambler10 State runs everything everywhere. If it doesnt, its a failed state or anarchy. Just because you dont know their names doesnt mean they dont control your life. All you idiots have is the illusion of 'freedom'
@The_Gambler10 The state does owe you something; that's literally its entire purpose. What exactly do you think the state is supposed to do if not serve the people? This is the fundamental problem with statism; nobody is willing or able to hold the state accountable, which invariably leads to corruption and oppression. Maybe it's time we started looking for solutions beyond the state.
@@Divine_Retributionmaybe, and just maybe, you've been indoctrinated to have a wrong perception of what "state" is. Because today, in basically all west, the "state" means "representatives of the owning rich class", and not representatives of "people", and for being representatives of the rich people's interests, the state then is bad for normal people and act in corrupt and "mean" ways... Therefore, changing the nature of "the state" would automatically change what "state" means. Also: yeah, it's a lot better not having a "strong state" and live in your car eating poor food, instead of having free health care, cheap nutricious food and not spending 30 to 50% of your income in rent + utilities cost only to have 10 options of cereal to eat.
One thing I’ve noticed is that some people just like having an enemy to fight, because fighting for something gives them a sense of purpose, and in America, the enemy to be demonized is usually “Those filthy commies!”, that’s why some people have a habit of saying that everything they don’t like is communism, or they often side with anything that is against communism, sometimes even sympathizing with fascists, and I think this is where the persecution complex with some right wingers come from, because feeling like an oppressed underdog fighting against “The evil commies” feels good to them Makes even more sense when you consider that America has been at war for basically its entire lifetime
I think the collective psyche got drunk on being the shining heroes who saved the world in WW2 (and aren't adding any of the required asterisks). One thing that points to this is that in my nearly forty years on Earth, they've always treated nazi and commie as synonymous. And, of course, Islamic terrorists, rich Jews and deviant gays are all supposedly part of the same Satanic globalist cabal as well. US Americans have successfully been taught to be proud of a lack of education.
Americans who think universal healthcare is a bad idea, let me tell you, most people use the NHS in the UK, of course you can also choose to go private and by no means am I saying private healthcare is no good, the UK has very good private care but in America, it seems doctors only want to write scripts because it works out cheaper for the patient and this is profitable for the healthcare provider and pushed by the pharmaceutical industry, this is what has pushed the Opioid epidemic. The NHS doesn't push pills at the mercy of pharmaceutical companies, the right medicine is given at the right doses for genuine problems, it works for the patient not the pharmaceutical industry. New medicines are not withheld by the NHS, when under patent, the NHS will pay what pharmaceutical companies ask for and then once the patent expires, generic versions are given, there's no difference between them. What I find crazy is that there are commercials on TV for prescription medicines which then pushes the patient to go and ask the doctor for that medicine, this is not the way it should work, doctors should be the ones recommending medicines. The UK is far from a socialist state and we have a right wing government, so you're not a communist if you believe in universal healthcare, it's just common sense! Never do I have to worry about premiums,deductibles and crappy US health insurance that is grossly expensive and doesn't fully cover you. The last thing you want to deal with when you're very sick is deal with bloody insurance and medical bills.
Also, can you imagine the terror of so many rich people and companies at ever even trying an economy prioritizing Society rather than Capital? Also, from what I understand, the Red Scare provided dandy cover for clearing out government officials in favor of the New Deal (the original inspiration for the fiction the US is or ever was a “Christian nation.”
@@johncirilli2499 impossible, the tragedy of the commons would take effect. you must personally own something for there to be a stake in it or diffusion of responsibility will set in see your ideology was invented before psychology.....very telling
@@wumi2419 no that's because you are passive and we have no accountability. the aristocracy gets away with anything because you don't own guns, and don't hate immigrants thus creating replacements for workers
funny story, my friend's mom & grandpa worked in the agricultural department under Allende. they barely escaped with their lives after 9/11 with the Help of the MIR & Cuba apparently
it's because American elite owners correctly identified communism (not marxist leninism) as an existential threat to the existence, not only of their existence, not only to their particular subset of ideology, not only to the national ideology, but a threat to the very notion that a state is a benevolent existence that is symbiotic to you, instead of parasitic to you. American elite owner's aren't actually phobic as the popular milieu likes to portray, (we can extend this beyond American centricity) because while they distort communism in public, (which is why it's so easy and so at hand to portray them as delusional) they privately understand that their way of life, their privileges, their suffering, their mental model of the world, their identity, their possessions, their connections, and their dreams........... are put under threat of dissolution by communists simply existing. i speak from personal experience, as a Mormon (which as many breadtubers have pointed out is american exceptionalism as a religion) who has unlearned many of the things i was raised with growing up in Utah, and who now identifies as an anarcho-communist.
You left out, that the U.S. Capitalist were terrified that a similar revolution could take place in the USA as in Russia and it all began then to thwart the possibility of people gaining any strength and take away some of their money. Also the OSS tried to Convince Truman that Ho 5:39 Chi Min was an ally and had lived in New York and was trying to create a country similar to the USA. And just wanted the French to leave but we completely underwrote and paid for the French Indo China war. They lost and we then took over. Look at the old footage the French soldiers look the same as a few years later with same equipment and uniforms. Truman refused to even speak or answer a letter from Ho Chi Min which led us to a devastating war.
I hate how this bled into Korea as well, and now my country has been split apart over ideals that weren't even ours in the first place. There was extreme propaganda on both sides and we just became new pieces of whatever weird game of chess American and Russia was playing.
Take some ownership of the mistakes of your country. Kim Il Sung did what he did. He was power hungry and decided to try to take over Korea. Kim is fully Korean.
@@hj8750 amd who was it that isolated the north koreans? It wasn't us, they isolate themselves to such an extreme standard that 5 generations of your family can spend their lives in prison simply because you made contact with a southerner. Use your head, sure there was propaganda on both sides, but the only people to blame for the woes inflicted on the north koreans,, are the north Koreans. They don't want their people to enjoy our luxuries because it would be the end of an empire, their people suffer so people like Kim Jung Un can sit in an ivory tower and look upon a kingdom(one of the last) as it trembles before his gaze
The US did win Korea, the goal was to protect South Korea. If you start a war to conquer a country and end it without conquering that country, you lose
Chomsky lays out the US goals and concludes they won a good chunk of them. Bottom line, they fed the war machine for another generation - with another generation.
Thanks for doing all of your 'due diligence' to study and analyze US and World history to arrive at brilliant insights into the "Cold War Script" that I was brought up to believe in now matter what! I was drawn into the dilemma of trying to reconcile the contradictions of the 'righteous propaganda' I was brought up on --- and the complexity of international affairs. It started with my opposition to the insanity of the 'Vietnam War' (never officially declared) and the reality that US Foreign Policy was undermining our democracy both domestically and internationally. Then, I went down to the Central Highlands of Guatemala to begin a book --- only to find myself in the midst of a "Civil War" taking place there. I hadn't got the memo --- and eventually learned that certain elements in the USA (United Fruit, etc) were undermining democratic reforms in Guatemala (beginning with the CIA overthrow of Arbenz and the support of ruthless oppressors). I still believe in the efficacy of the ideas informing our US Constitution and am appalled at the malicious corporate Elite who commit endless attrocities in the name of our country. Carry On, Leeja!
I had a Modern World history class in college that focused on the US involvement in central and South America. It was very enlightening. And at a very conservative school in the late 80’s (I always joked that the young democrats club had about 8 members), it wasn’t very popular. Hearing that the old US of A was less than perfect was not what most of those white, middle-class students wanted to hear. But it was the first time I had heard any of those things from that perspective (of the other countries, not the popular media outlets), but it wouldn’t be the last.
How come those who opposed the Vietnam War were never opposed to the Communists that started it? I know some people who are opposed to the Ukraine War, but had it not been for the Russians invading Ukraine there would not have been a Ukraine War, so why is their Ire focused on Washington and not on Moscow? (There are some antiwar protesters in Russia, and many of those are being arrested and or drafted into the army and forced to fight in Ukraine, but those aren't the antiwar protesters in America!) The antiwar protesters in America are protesting the US sending weapons to the Ukraine Government, because those weapons are killing those poor Russian soldiers who are coming across the border into Ukraine without the permission of that government, and they feel sorry for those poor Russian soldiers that are invading Ukraine and being killed!
Isn't it funny that those who were opposed to the Vietnam War weren't opposed to the North starting the Vietnam War. I say that war shouldn't have happened, South Vietnam should have been left in peace, the same as Ukraine. I oppose the war in Ukraine and the Russian invaders who started it! So the Russians should withdraw back to Russia, and Maybe the North Vietnamese should stop occupying South Vietnam and return to their country as well!
Thank you for your hard work. Knowledge like this, about the own country and the powers that be, should be part of the standard education in any country in the world. Still, it seems that not many US Americans know this part of the history (and present) of their country.
I certainly didn't know any of this history. Basically just s little of the propaganda surrounding all of these topics if anything it all I'm sorry to say.
Yeo u say all the crap tht swirls in my head when it comes to the issues in American government & it's history but in a super organized way. It's so accurate & well said, even my mom likes ur videos. Can't believe I JUST found ur channel, love it here already
Great video! Just a little correction. Neither Max nor Engles said that a government should control all aspects of the economy. In fact, they were against it. Would be more fair to say they wanted democracy at work with equal distribution of profits. As the main point of your video, Marx ideas are suffocated by so many antisocialist loud propaganda. Few people really read their work that is much more than the Comunnist Manifest. Hugs from Brazil.
Still, communism is akin to fascism. I greatly prefer social-democracy. And fun fact, social democracy gave us everything Marx predicted a socialist economy would give to worker: 40h/week, 2 weeks off a year, 5 days of work a week. Cheap childcare, unemployment insurance, free healthcare, maternity/paternity leaves, and so on, and so on.
@@olafsigursonsFair point, social democracy would definitely be pretty great compared to what we currently got going in the USA. Though I don't think its completely accurate to say communism is like fascism, they are quite different. I'm still in the process of trying to study it more in depth and its hard to find unbiased sources so I may be wrong about some things, but at least to my best understanding: Fascism is all about uniting all the people under a "mobilizing myth" (usually a conspiracy theory of some sort) forcing and/or manipulating all people into agreeing on and working toward the same thing. It's inherently totalitarian because it thinks the country is strongest when everyone is in complete agreement and always has a dictator because they think dividing up the leadership will "weaken the nation." Basically it tries to create a Utopia via forced hivemind behavior under a single leader. Fascists have no problem with lying to the public to get what they want (that's kinda their thing) and squashing all individuality for the sake of the nation. They're ultra nationalistic, often to the point of almost deifying the nation as a concept. As far as I'm aware, fascist countries still have private ownership but the dictators micromanage their economies to make sure they always do exactly what they want. So basically authoritarian capitalism, I think. (I haven't gotten around to reading Mussolini's books yet so I can't confirm for 100% certain that that's what he advocated for, but based on the snippets I've seen I'm pretty sure its something like that. Again, lots of information to get through. I'm mostly focusing on Communism atm.) Communism is all about workers controlling the means of production and having resources be collectively owned. It's broader a term than fascism, but I'm pretty sure the one thing all versions of communism have in common is the goal of eliminating social classes. Basically, everyone should have equal access to resources and no one should get advantages for things they didn't work for. I'm currently in the process of trying to read Marx's works and if I remember correctly it was the communist manifesto where he said we should abolish inheritance and some other stuff like that, which I think is kinda extreme but I guess demonstrates that concept. From what I understand, Marx was super pissed at capitalists for being able to make money they didn't put in any labor for just because they owned the factories so he really emphasized having to work for things in order to get them. Though he does have that famous quote "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," which is usually interpreted to mean accommodating disability and differing skills rather than just forcing everyone to do hard labor regardless of capability (The image I was always presented growing up). Politically, communism isn't inherently totalitarian or dictatorial like fascism is. I mean, Marx does talk about a "dictatorship of the proletariat," but that just means the workers control everything and combined with the fact that he wanted everyone to be a worker that just means that everyone collectively controls everything and I don't see any way you can fulfill those standards other than a democracy sooooo...... I dunno it just seem like a meh ideology? I wouldn't really complain, its probably better than current America tbh. This shit's miserable rn. Idk. I generally consider Fascism to be the worst political ideology in existence, but communism? At least based on what I've read from Marx doesn't really seem too bad. Maybe not the best, idk, but not really comparable to Fascism. Anyway, I've just been super interested in these topics for a while and wanted to ramble about it. I like talking about things but just ignore me if its too long lol sorry
@olafsigurson5333 It wasn't social democracy or liberalism that achieved these things. It's thanks to old Labor Unions that we are not working 12 hours, we can enjoy paid vacations (we have in Brazil), etc. I agree that several Unions have problems, but their destruction incentived by Corporations are putting at risk many workers' achievements.
@@amabeeps4646communism is also based on a central myth about which it has no trouble lying to its citizens to. You're way too charitable towards communism. It's not a system fit for our species as we are simultaneously both cooperative and competitive, so it can only ever result in an authoritarian regime regardless of pretty theory because at prima facie it's not requiring either authoritarianism or a dictatorship.
@@minagica I mean, people always say that but I'm skeptical tbh. I went into reading up on it fully expecting that kind of conclusion but it just ain't holding up tbh, unlike with fascism which definitely still deserves all the criticism it gets. Like, I get where you're coming from, totally understandable, but so much of what people say to me about communism has just been straight up lies (communists are just lazy and just wanna be handed free stuff with no work, communism means you're not allowed to own anything, communism means the rich control everything and poor people starve, etc.) that I've lost my trust in those kinds of statements. Y'know what I mean? I'm more charitable to it because I see no solid reason not to, but that is also why I'm trying to read more so that may change. Anyway yeah, I personally doubt that because I've been lied to about communism so much that I no longer have trust in anyone's claims about "communism this" and "communism that" without something to back it up, which I hope is understandable. Though 100% will accept any recommendations of further reading material because I am very interested in the topic.
Uruguayan here! my country was also victim of the US war against communism. I loved the video. I would love you to explain how the FF Gitmo exists. What international law void allows for the US to have a prison in Cuba? I just don't get it.
Cuba’s independence from the U.S. was on the condition that the U.S. was allowed to retain Gitmo, similarly to how Cyprus’s from the UK was on the condition that the UK kept its sovereign base areas.
"When the War ended, 36,000 American servicemen were dead." Which is terrible, but...aren't you forgetting something? Like, maybe, the 2 million North Korean civilians killed in US carpet bombings? "Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - 20 percent of the population...We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea,” wrote Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War. Over half a million tons of bombs were dropped and napalm and chemical weapons were deployed. "After running low on urban targets," the Washington Post reported decades later, "U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. Although the ferocity of the bombing was criticized as racist and unjustified elsewhere in the world, it was never a big story back home." So yeah, you forgot the part about millions of civilians being killed. But so did everyone else.
Note: in 1964 US promote a coup in Brazil to not allow a "supposedly communist" president to take the power which result in the military dictatorship until 1986.
it’d be nice if you could make more videos about the usa’s meddling in other countries’ politics and governments and other affairs (brazil, haiti, italy and so on). anyway, love you videos! 🍀
@@Sagealeena Australia what? Is it meddling in other nation's affairs, like China for example? What's wrong with meddling with other nation's affairs? We trade with other nations, we're not hermetically sealed, thus we meddle. It is the job of the State Department to meddle in other nation's affairs, just having an embassy is meddling!
If enough people thought like you, millions more Jews would have been starved to death. More and more, the facts have proven, few under 30 have even half a brain.
“Human right abuse in the Soviet Union” America: yea just don’t look and Vietnam west Germany nam korea Yemen Afghanistan Iran China chille Cuba Guatemala ok you get the point
@@sasho_b. There is a shitty book called "Black book of Communism" in which Nazi soldiers are portrayed as humans and the Communists are shown as Evils for killing Nazis.
Hey Leeja! Just wanted to say thank you for your research. I also want to applaud your use of a second camera, knowing how and when to throw to it, and the editing process you do is all fantastic. I really appreciate the thorough breakdowns I get from your channel. It helps me either understand something I didn’t or couldn’t before, offers a new perspective or bolster knowledge I already held with filling in the gaps. Lots of love from a queerdo in Canada 🖖🏻🖤
Heather Cox Richardson, Historian, claims that the US obsession with "Socialism" and "Communism" predates the Russian Revolution by at least half a century. In the immediate aftermath of the US Civil War, ther were proposals to put in place a number of programs to help the newly freed Slaves gain some measure of wealth and property. As these programs inevitably needed to be paid for, and as the former Slaves were penniless, this would have meant taxing the wealthy White property owners and "giving their wealth to poor (overwhelmingly Black) people". In order to combat this, the wealthy White Southerners labelled it "Socialism" in order to win some "fellow feeling" from Wealthy Northerners (it worked). Shortly thereafter, the US army was used to quell the first KKK. The Political defenders of the KKK, looking across and the then extant Paris Commune, labelled this action (the military protecting Black people from (Wealthy) White vigilantes "Communism" - this was in 1870. SO, according to Dr Cox Richardson, US anti-communism (and by extension anti-Socialism) is (at heart) a Racist endeavor to ensure that wealthy White people can avoid helping poorer Black people. Thus, before the Russian Revolution, the Wilson administration began their Red Scare, to quell opposition to the US entry into World War 1 (it helped that Wilson was an overt Racist...) In the Second World War, both Roosevelt and Truman made it abundantly clear that US troops were not fighting the Germans and Japanese to restore the European Imperial Powers empires. The Cold War was begun by Winston Churchill, to "encourage" US aid to help the British (India, Africa and Asia); the French (Africa and especially Indochina (Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia) and the Dutch (Indonesia) keep their empires....
Are you sure that the movement against communism is inherently racist due to its origins? By this logic, we should stop driving Mercedes-Benzes and stop wearing Adidas because of their connections with the Nazis. Heck, by this same logic, absolutely every single nation and political system, capitalism and communism included, ought to be abolished because every single one of them fostered evil of some kind.
My issue is that anything other than full capitalist behavior is called socialist or communist... even when the things have nothing to do with governments at all. Religious and NGO activity in the 8S is lower than most other 1st world nations because 'that sounds like communism'.
We actually have the same problem elsewhere. Oh, the government is in control of the economy? That means communism. No, monarchy controls the economy. Feudalism controls the economy. Even fascism controls some of the economy. People like easy answers.
@@HallyVee I am actually one of the few folks here in the states that would like to see something a little more stable than a government which totally changes its policies every 2-4 years.
@@leechowning2712 hm, not sure I follow, America has been extremely consistent in protecting the opulence of the minority from the majority roughly since its inception. I suppose, though, the political arena is actually quite free in many other respects, IE, the ones that don't matter to the underlying profit motive. That has certainly led to quite a bit of fluctuation.
@@leechowning2712Then who determines what the stable policies are and what about the people who would then be branded as radicals who would strongly disagree with these policies?
@@aycc-nbh7289 as a very pragmatic independent, I would like to imagine a city-state government because history shows once you get very far above that point, your officials (elected or otherwise) become less connected to the people under them. The states which have the highest approval rates for their representatives are some of the smallest, both here in the US and internationally. The national government I would imagine with elected officials being balanced with people having some form of term limits, other officials having a lifetime position, but with more direct oversight over the laws being passed and the government offices being asked to enforce those laws, and people hired due to qualifications rather than political connections.
Acording to many Americans online, all of Europe is socialist and we're essentially all constantly waiting in line for healthcare and fearing our tyrannical governments. Universal healthcare, public transportation, well funded public education, a livable wage and 5 weeks of paid vacation is something horrifying to them that has to be prevented at all cost!
Don't worry, they think the same of us in Canada, including calling our Prime Minister (who has a whole lot of issues of his own, being leader of the Liberals, a neo-liberal leaning/centrist party) a communist. He's much like the US democrats, who say the right things about social issues, have no backbone but generally support businesses over people and bungle anything that would actually help the working and lower classes. The worst part is that it's Canadian tradition to adopt whatever is trending in the US (usually a few years after it's considered "cool" there), so our right wing is starting to sound a lot like thiers.
The same Europe that hosts some of the world's largest corporations and a plethora of privately owned small and medium size businesses. Terrible stuff. Terrible!
That’s some scary shit!
There's also a lot of people online that think if you dismantle capitalism, you'd still be able to pay for those social policies that aren't actually socialism, as you've already argued.
There's delusions of grandeur and saviour complexes, and then there's Johnny Yankland.
A CIA officer and KGB officer end up sitting beside each other at a bar during the Cold War. The CIA officer toasts the KGB officer saying, "I got to hand it to you guys, you do a great job with your propaganda." KGB officer says, "Thanks, that's very kind of you but, no, America is truly the best at propagandizing its citizens." The CIA officer's face quickly darkerns, deeply offended. "What do you mean?! There is no propaganda in the United States!"
And loads of Americans are reading this, and wondering what the joke is.
@@dmwallacenz stap. You might hurt some feelings!
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The CIA officer isn't "deeply offended," he simply knows that there's really no difference between the two countries "intelligencia!"
I remember when there were protests calling the Dixie Chicks communists after they said they didn't support George Bush Jr. That's when I understood that many folks don't know what communism means and that it's often used as a catch-all for what people think is anti-US sentiment.
Now we call them woke, even though they are white. It's so beyond funny and yet sad.
What happened to the Dixie Chick's was deplorable and the Communism part was just name calling. Communism is not anti American but it is still terrible.
Which isn't incorrect
@@jrus690communism is very much anti American corky
@J Rus technically, no, communism isn't American, and is against America's values, aka capitalism. The simplest reason why people think communism is terrible is because the capitalists class paints the alternative as terrible.
If it is, why does the USA spend hundreds of millions of dollars directly and indirectly doing coups in any country that transitions to it? Funny how "let the free market decide " never applies here. Even more funny is that Reagan didn't give two shts selling our country out to China, a "communist dictatorship". Nor ever bothers freeing people in the deplorable conditions in Saudi Arabia.
If there’s anything to learn from the us’s actions during the Cold War, it’s that they don’t actually care about authoritarianism unless it’s not capitalistic American authoritarianism
Nothing to do with capitalism.
Yes, unfortunately this is a true and accurate statement. Let's list some of the nations the US propped up dictators in: Vietnam, Iran, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cuba, Panama, and maybe a few in the continent of Africa. America has a lot to answer for. The fear of communism, maybe? The foolish notions of the Domino Theory spooked Americans during the 50s.
Classic Murican' saying dumb shit
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. black rock would beg to differ
@@Kindlywaterbear capitalism doesn't even matter. Just anyone who is sympathising with any other empire had to go. The US got in bed with anyone, even radical islamists, if it meant keeping an extra inch of influence for a few more years
A huge part of this that’s not mentioned is that the civil rights movement was largely linked to the communist/socialist movement. The government squashing communism also served to squash the civil rights movements too, by labeling it dangerous to American values. MLK jr and Malcom X leaned heavily towards socialism at the time of their assassinations.
Well said
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But well said. Indeed
My dad thinks mlk and civil rights movements were different things 😮😢
Not just the civil rights movements but the workers movements as well. The sedition act of 1918 was used to imprison socialists fighting for better working conditions and lower hours.
NONSENSE!!!
Important to note about the incident with Guatemala: the war also included a genocide against the native Mayans there. The people who committed the violent acts were trained by the US. In short, the US's fear of communism led to a genocide
Guatemala is such a beautiful country, but you can still see the scars of that war in the people. Not to mention the other shit that's been done to them (including by my own country, Canada). I loved my time there and would love to go back, the people are so resiliant and just amazing.
But it didn’t mean that they necessarily _had_ to kill them.
No no no. The US fear on communism ENABLED a genocide. What really led to the massacre was the economic interests of a single American company. That is neo liberalism. When you have so much economic power you can use it to influence the military, the government and the media for profit.
Companies and businesses don't really care for capitalism and communism as long as they make a profit. I mean plenty of Americans do business with China, no?
The US fear of Communism led to the US government supporting some very bad and brutal regimes so long as they were anticommunist. Guatemala is but one example.
The United States supported the dictatorship in Brazil as well. My grandfather used to work at a bank at the time. It was a very high paying salary job at "Banco do Brasil" or Bank of Brazil. He got flagged as a "communist" because he didn't support the dictatorship. Because of that, not only he was fired from his job, but no one was willing to hire a "communist". My father had to start working as a teenager just to buy enough to eat for the family.
Supported as in past tense, Cuba still has a dictatorship, Brazil doesn't! So the left supports dictatorships that last a lot longer and are more oppressive than the dictators America supports! The US supported Batista, but he's gone, the Castro regime is still there, Batista was there only for a brief while, a tiny fraction of the history of Cuba as an independent nation, but there are people who were born during the Castro regime and never knew another leader until that man died of old age, then his brother Raul took over!
Sad that she didn't mentioned the brazil case, but its ok, this video is good start for thoose who want to discover the darkest secrets of the USA
@@danillopetrova One of the dictators the US supported was Joseph Stalin. Why, because he was considered the lesser of two evils, the greater one being Adolf Hitler.
With Adolf Hitler gone, Stalin and Communism was assigned the greater of evils, so other dictators were supported because they opposed Stalin and Communism, is that so hard to grasp. So whats the problem here? Supporting small right wing dictators is just a continuation of supporting Joseph Stalin in his fight against the Nazis, that is all it is. Take the Nazis out of the picture and then Communism becomes the greater of two evils in many cases, that is why we supported South Korea in the Korean War! Do you think South Korea shouldn't exist? tell that to a South Korean!
"The United States supported the dictatorship in Brazil as well. My grandfather used to work at a bank at the time. It was a very high paying salary job at "Banco do Brasil" or Bank of Brazil. He got flagged as a "communist" because he didn't support the dictatorship. Because of that, not only he was fired from his job, but no one was willing to hire a "communist". My father had to start working as a teenager just to buy enough to eat for the family."
Communists support another kind of dictatorship, a dictatorship of the proletariat or so they claim, and generally the proletariat usually ends up being whoever the dictator is, if the dictator is Fidel Castro then Fidel Castro is the Proletariat.
You know your father should have gone to Hollywood to write screenplays. Hollywood hires lots of communists, and if your dad was gay as well or nonbinary, then that's a plus too.
@@thomaskalbfus2005 It must be really sad being you buddy.
I live in Argentina, there was a point in history were the entire soth american continent was under US backed military dictatorship, hundreds of thousands of people died.
Can't say much about other countries but here the very neoliberal dictators disappeared people on the regular, those people were tortured, killed and had their bodies literally dumped into the ocean. Oh and if they had children they'd be kidnapped and given to government supportive families.
There's also all kind of other damage like selling all our national stuff to corporations, demolishing countless houses to build highways (fuck car infrastructure) and was so generally out of control they invaded the falklands, who belong to one of their allies. Fortunately i didn't get to live through it but most people who did are still alive and the trauma from it is still very much alive.
So i ask, who are the real terrorists here?
Commies, because they still killed more people in South America. Although I will say the US should stay out of South America.
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Sí, efectivamente pasó lo mismo en Chile y Brasil, pero cuando terminó, estos dos países se hicieron económicamente responsables y uno no… ¿le van a echar toda la culpa a Estados Unidos? eres de izquierda!!!!
"So i ask, who are the real terrorists here?" americans, british and jews of course
I'm Polish. I remember when US capitalism came to my country in 1989. it was similar to what you wrote, except that the communists had earlier murdered (after cruel torture) those who could oppose the ruination of the national economy.
"So i ask, who are the real terrorists here?" fascists were responsible for the death of 60,000,000 people, communists for over 100,000,000, capitalists try not to waste valuable human resources (capital, cattle) so they only murder competitors, "liberal dictators".
As for the future global power of neo-Marxists (liberals or whatever they want to label themselves), I think they will lead to the greatest genocide in the history of mankind
Yep and the US government has always thought that black people were going to just flip and turn to communism at the drop of a dime.
oh SHIT that's an angle I hadn't even thought about why is it always about racism????
Yes. One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement was that it was totally anti capitalist.
@@LeejaMiller Hey I would definitely recommend to You a Book by Historian Heather Cox Richardson called "History Of The Republican Party". She even has a video playlist on UA-cam covering this topic along with connecting Blacks attaining equal rights with "Socialism" in the 1870s right after the Paris Commune. Its very insightful as she goes all the way to the Present Day but warning she can be a bit dry in presentation & might be for people with a bit of patience & want for learning detailed history.
I can attest to the fact that many carried and read "The Little Red Book" in the '60s. 🤔
@@Skydv2005 100% agree. There has often been heavy work put into rewriting the narrative when it comes to social issues, whether that be the suffragettes, civil rights, gay rights, trans rights or any other. Every one of these groups had a strong belief in equality for *all*, but also a large portion of each group realized that capitalism was one of the main drivers of inequality. More progressive, socialism based systems would provide more equality for all. However, there are many ways that people with the power work to direct the narrative to pit groups against each other, in an attempt to hold onto the power that capitalism provides them.
They have been fed propaganda that tells them it's evil. Americans believe in all kinds of wacky stuff and have no true grasp on what anything is.
lolllll tru
communism is evil goofball stalin and mao zedong killed more people than hitler
I have a true grasp. I knew people were crazy since elementary school. Things just never added up to me and I always questioned everything I did. Especially religion and that damn pledge.
@@ebogar42 what wrong with the pledge you hate the us a or something?
So sweeping generalizations like that must make you feel so good, huh? Why do you need that sense of superiority? Usually it's because someone is compensating. Might want to look into that.
20:32 - It's also important to mention that the USSR installing missiles in Cuba was also a direct response to the US having installed missiles in Turkey, as a way of evening out the playing field. The USSR only agreed to cancel installing the missiles in Cuba after the US agreed to remove their missiles from Turkey.
That part is often conveniently left out of American accounts. American provocation is often seen as the natural order of things.
we can expand it further, they removed the nukes in Turkey and replaced them with newer, better missiles
the US NEVER upheld their part of the bargin
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Well, it was actually the USSR that first to developed ICBMs, which sent the US into panic mode and resort to flying nuclear bombers around the entire perimeter of the country 24/7 until they caught up, which almost led to nuclear accidents several times.
So at least they had the last laugh here.
What was the US installing missiles in Turkey in response to? Was the Soviet Union a peaceful player? Why wasn't the Soviet Union just trying to recover from World War II, why was it starting wars all over the place? The answer is the United States perceived the Soviet Union as a threat, therefore it installed missiles in Turkey, so why did it perceive the Soviet Union as such?
Lets imagine an alternate Soviet Union, one that was only interested in recovering from World War II and developing its own economy to improve its citizens standard of living. After Germany surrendered, the Soviets pulled out of Eastern Europe and withdrew all its troops back within its borders and concentrated on rebuilding after all the damage created by the German invasion during World War II.
There is no Korean War, the Soviets aren't interested in starting revolutions, all they want to do is develop their economy. The various countries in eastern Europe elect their own governments as those governments in exile return to their countries as the Soviets withdraw their troops. In such a world, there is no reason for the United States to place missiles in Turkey because the Soviet Union is mainly focused on rebuilding itself after World War II and not on foreign adventures. China never becomes communist, as the Soviets don't support Mao, as they are focused exclusively on rebuilding after World War II. So why exactly did the Cold War start in 1949? wasn't it Soviet foreign adventurism?
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Nice story, but the US and other European powers tried to sabotage and kill the Bolshevik Revolution in it's cradle by not only supporting the Whites with arms, but actively sending in troops to Russia. They really wanted the Whites to win to uphold the Tsardom, because they were scared of the alternative.
So no, the US and the European powers were hostile towards the USSR from the very start - that's why the USSR wanted buffer territory, in case Europe colluded to invade the USSR again. And in fact, Churchill did secretly draw up provisional plans for invading the USSR directly after WW2 - Operation Unthinkable.
The US and Europe were much more hostile towards the USSR than the USSR ever was in response.
My grandfather, a WW2 vet once told me. Boy the only difference between communism and capitalism is that in communism, the government owns the factory. In capitalism the factory owns the government.
That is a very insightful comparison. Today, the factory the owns the government are the 4000 or so billionaires that hold the reins of money and power. And, they are very effective at using their marketing power, also known as,, brainwashing to accept their control over us, without objection. Your grandfather was pretty wise.
Under Communism over 120 million people were killed! A lot more than under Nazism. The factory owns the government?" That is Nazism!!! Wow! Zero education today! Under Capitalism, YOU can own a small business! The last job I had was in 1976! Had small businesses until I retired on my savings and investments at least ten years before I was old enough for Socialism Insecurity. Capitalism works for those who work!
And my grandpa told me that there two types of people, those who support communism, and those who read Marx. The difference is that he actually lived in communist country.
@@YohanRoth 120 million people killed by their own governments in the last 100 years. Most of that was Communism. And FDR called Stalin Uncle Joe and Blood Brother. But FDR did not like Churchill. Churchill said something that later came out in history books. FDR's New Deal caused his Great Depression. He also knew that FDR had set Pearl Harbor up for a fat target, and then all he could to provoke Japan to attack. The Japanese radio code had been broken. Both FDR and Churchill knew those warships were heading for Pearl Harbor and warned no one. All in history books I can list.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who know binary, and those who don't.
The whole insane brain worms US narrative about socialism is just bonkers to any of us outside of the US who can separate propaganda from reality.
I think I need to do a deep dive on WHY Americans seem to have such a hard time at that... 🧐
@@LeejaMillerefinitely. my family in the US has sort of politically softened (relatively) as they've got older (bucked that trend), but the whole US narrative things re: like socialised services etc is hard wired into their psyche.
@@CactusGirl-x7fdid you even watch the video?
@@CactusGirl-x7f you can say the same about capitalist nations as well.
There are also a disturbing number of Canadians with a similar brain rot
"Communism bad!"
American corporate oligarchy throwing a tantrum about the possibility of lost profits and spheres of influence in the world
we murder 100s of thousands of people for a banana company
@@smokyondagrass2353 we maje homelessness eligql but do nothing substqbtial to keep people alive
@@Gilded_Cage_Princess Yes and they call themselves pro-live!, f*k I hate republicans so much
Well, if individual people aren't allowed to privately own land & businesses & property, how can you get rich & powerful selling some stuff to people while also cheating them out of other stuff while also making them beg to work for you?
I would love to see one of these people just asked "Tell me just how Communism is bad, in your eyes", of course they'll point right to the USSR and Mao, but they will never go into specifics.
As an ex cold warrior, I have some information that might be valuable. First, this video was absolutely excellent and describes America's obsession with...not so much communism as "an enemy" extremely well. You covered just about every reason America is so obsessed with being the "good guy" or "the world's policeman" - but where did all this start? General Smedley Butler pretty much has the answer, war is a racket, and a lucrative one. Why have honorable business practices that benefit both US business and the foreign people's whose resources we are exploiting for profit when you can get the US taxpayer to cover a bunch of costs for you and simply send in the military to take those resources? Why not indeed, because it's more profitable to enslave and to steal than to do honorable business. I believe it goes deeper though, and ANY foil or counterpoint to capitalism is intolerable to the US oligarchy that largely runs the show and in the case of the Bush dynasty, became the government itself. All this goes back to the nascent labor movement once slavery was abolished and the frontier was closed. The very wealthy had garnered most of their wealth in the 19th century because our government...which is supposed to represent us all...gsve them land, oil and mineral rights worth...possibly trillions of dollars in the end and they don't plan on sharing one cent of it. So in the end, the answer to all of this is that no one becomes obscenely rich without being heavily involved in shady, unethical and illegal practices that behooves said rich people to become involved in government both to to protect profits by writing Byzantine tax laws and through influence in foreign policy and labor policy. One of the first things Reagan, that champion of the common people did, was to essentially end labor unions and set the stage for the largest transfer of wealth upward in world history....all while demonizing ANY philosophy that might make a more cooperative, rather than competitive society, and as such, he's an avatar for all the anti-communist/terrorist/the next enemy policy that came before him in the name of keeping the rich rich and the rest of us dependent. The irony is thick there.
I'm not without sin, I helped these obscene policies in the late 70's thru the mid 80's, but eventually I got tired of the suffering we inflicted in the name of "whatever" and I opened my eyes.
Hallelujah! Thank you for saying all that! All Americans should wake up to these truths and admit that all people should own all things (but obviously not your dam underwear or toothbrush!sheesh!), and cooperate, not compete! Capitalism is what the rich people have been brainwashing you to keep giving all the money to a few rich people, while leaving billions to starve to death, including millions of Americans! And guess what?! Equality means equal wealth worldwide! Americans are struggling to survive because of capitalism! The Bible says “the way of TRUTH shall be evil spoken of” in the end times, and that means all people should want communal ownership worldwide, and ending world poverty and human suffering, and destroying the insane wage system because it is slavery! And the wage is destroying the earth! We should have built only Tower cities connected to maglev Trains! NO CARS OR HOUSES! And no weapons! Thank you for opening your eyes, like these videos are also doing! THANK YOU!
From the very start of the existence of the US , the intentions were clear! This new empire had for main goal to establish itself throughl lying , stealing and killing ! That is what we submitted all our minorities to and we , armed to the teeth , plundered , manipulated , coerced and bribed all foreign governments to satisfiy our greed ! Christian and democratic , we are not ! And our doctrine in GOD we trust is pure hypocrisy for we are materialistic country which means that we really trust in GOLD !
Look up "police cam power trip", that police man is America, the innocent bystanders are non-Americans. The police man thinks he himself is doing good, and anybody that attacks his ego is evil, and lacks the ability to see things from other people's point of view.
Putin is the Cold Warrior here, the Soviets after all started the Cold War! Doubt me? well then why did the Cold War begin in 1949 and not 1945? You know Patton wanted to push the Soviets out of Europe, but FDR and Truman would not let him. If they were cold warriors looking for an enemy, they would have given George S. Patton free rein to continue World War II against Russia, he and Douglas MacArthur would have nuked the USSR and conquered it in four years, the Soviets would never have gotten a chance to test their own atomic bomb, they would have been under American occupation long before that!
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As a non american, I was being called a commie by an american for simply callling out US propaganda against china and i was insulted at as a result.
Propaganda against china. You’re delusional. China is rule by a despot and free speech will get you thrown in prison. You fools will never learn
Many, many millions have died under Communism. If death under Communism was a mile long, death under Capitalism would be one inch long.
Every American’s peril: The Illuminati (also known as “Moriah Conquering Wind” are ancient generational Satanic interbreeding bloodlines, the aristocratic elite globalists whom control the monetary system of nations and their economies through their central banks, and funnel their Secret Society members into governmental positions of power throughout the world) with their enforced government education, media ownership, rigged science (they own the science), owned Hollywood, owned music industry, owned porn industry, long ago hijacked what passes for public education, medicine, media and “truth.”
Since the Illuminati is made up of Khazar-Ashkenazi-Jewish Kabbalists bloodlines, headed by the publicly admitted wealthiest family in the world, the occult Satanic House of Rothschild, they have attacked Christianity since its inception in 1776 (i.e. the founding of the Bavarian branch of the Illuminati of Europe). The religion of the Illuminati is Jewish-Kabbalistic-Sabbatean-Frankism and it is centered on the Kabbalah (the Occult), which has a push to crown a one world government messiah (this messiah is not Jesus, whom their ancestors the Pharisees long ago rejected and put to death) in a one world government-total globalization.
Hence the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence as well as Conservatives and Christian Americans need to be publicly demonized and eventually eliminated. Public education has brainwashed American youth into being socialists heading towards communism, hence the reason Generation-Z are state-indoctrinated atheists and believe a series of lies like that a man can be pregnant, that there are hundreds of genders, that there is no God, Generation-Z is so dumbed down they don’t know what a woman is; they don’t know whether they should be boys or girls-i.e. transgenders; they believe abortion is not murder. Generation-Z females are brainwashed into want to take upon themselves male roles; they are selfish-entitled-whorish worthless females on constant slut-walks, while the men have been emasculated by a feminist and liberal ideology that seeks to castrate young boys before they get the chance to be men of God! Generation-Z men are coward atheists, shamed for being men as they cower under the shaming of “toxic masculinity” and turn their head at the raping of Constitutional freedoms they will soon lose. Generation-Z is the result of the Illuminati’s government indoctrination, which the dumbed down masses call “education.”
Well, I AM an American, born & raised and I get called a Commie too, so you're in good company.
@@agnesdebethune8767 Why would that person support China? Communist himself or no. Millions starved to death under Communism. FDR called Stalin Uncle Joe and Blood Brother. Stalin had his own deathcamps and starved millions. FDR also liked Mussolini. FDR also starved Americans and had his own concentration camps. And Nazi-style master-race medical experiments performed on black men. Read history books.
Americans are often obsessed with things they dont understand. Im American, i am obsessed with learning about the things i dont understand, this is not the same thing. Most Americans have absolutely no idea what communism is but are sure that they know everything about it without ever studying it. Dunning-Krueger is at pandemic levels in thi country
....there is an active campaign against education in this country....I believe there's a correlation
I totally agree. Conservatives have been attacking education through funding cuts since Reagan. They also killed Civics. The education of how government works !
@@christophermeier8329conservatives especially don't want a population that will critically think
@kevin gundestrup not only with funding cuts, but with encouraging an entire generation of underprivileged kids to go to a trade school instead as if that is an acceptable substitute for a college education. Trade schools don't teach the difference between empirical and anecdotal knowledge
@@tuckerbugeater just remember a sentence consists of words; a sentence can be true or false, but what is true will prevail over statements based in falsity.
Let’s also not forget, the Americans placed missiles in Italy and Turkey before the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba.
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No, no, you can't state facts that paint the US is a less that favourable light! No facts please, only US propaganda.
We also abandoned the nationalists in China at the end of ww2 to the communists. Seems we love communists. It makes for interesting drama and plenty of distraction for our populace. After that, it was terrorism /who we also funded) and now it's the Chinese themselves along with Russia-both of whom we funded. We also funded Hitler's Germany. We love sport and the rest of the world (except the British) are just so dumb.
@@carletonrutherford1799 ur cool
Remember the time the US stepped in to help continue a genocide in Bangladesh?
Could have called off the Pak military but then you gotta fight the commies, so the murders continued.
Also helped kickstart the nuclear arms race in this part of the world.
I love being called a Marxist for trying to say people should be paid fairly for their labor. I've never even read Marx, I've just worked garbage jobs that paid peanuts and don't like seeing other having to do the same.
No it isn't. Marx is actually critical of the "when fair wages" argument. From Critique Of The Gotha Programme:
""Proceeds of labor" is a loose notion which Lassalle has put in the place of definite economic conceptions.
What is "a fair distribution"?
Do not the bourgeois assert that the present-day distribution is "fair"? And is it not, in fact, the only "fair" distribution on the basis of the present-day mode of production? Are economic relations regulated by legal conceptions, or do not, on the contrary, legal relations arise out of economic ones? Have not also the socialist sectarians the most varied notions about "fair" distribution?"
Marx wants wage labor to be abolished.
Yes... so that all get paid what they earned. Kinda the point. (One day paid what they need/want)
You have to phrase it in different terms, the words labor and fair pay have been coded. Just talk about how the boss gets paid for sitting around, and maybe shareholders getting all the maybe shareholders getting all the money or something.
Most Americans cannot exist without someone else to kick down at. We are a nation that celebrates bullies and actively punishes the empathetic.
@@benjaminhenderson5025 Exactly.
Having spent time living in the USA, what strikes me as most odd is how the US citizens speak so proudly of their freedom. What they don't realise is how caged and robotic their people really live. It's actually scary.
Where are you from?
Really ? can you tell me more details ? I am living a self-proclaimed Communist country (Sorry I cannot tell name bc I am scared of being caught ) and I immediately see how hopeless my life will be =)).
america does have freedom what are you on about
@@samster9370 where are you from, son?
@@sctmcg Uk
i’m so insanely happy that you’ve brought to light the meddling of the cia in guatemala. it’s not talked about enough. guate is in actively in the shit as a direct result of it. we deserve better
I guess the irony is that none of these so-called "communist" nations were actually communist since the people didn't actually control the means of production. Communism and capitalism aren't economic doctrines but instead political ideologies. Econ textbooks don't say "this is capitalism" or "this is communism." That's why the US is in practice more Marxist than, say, Venezuela or the former USSR. The modern US economy and all developed nation economies are based on Keynesian economics, and economists agree that Keynes was inspired by Marx. So, it's always been a question of interpretation, which sadly has served political interests at the expense of everyone else.
your country is ¨in shit¨ because of the gang culture it has, inherit from maya culture, you had had more than enough time to build a decent country, stop victimizing yourselves, is pathetic and disgusting, guatemalans actually have better opportunities than you deserve, is amazing how a country so little exports so much violence, just look at California with the mexican, salvadorian,hondurian and guatemalan gangs, USA received thousands of immigrants and refugees from your country and other countries and lots of those people ended up creating gangs
The history of the CIA makes me wonder about what's happening in Ukraine.
@@strayedarticle2838 oh dude we totally backed like the worst ukrainians we could've, back in like 2014? We went in there and like put proto-fascists into power, just to fuck with the russians. But then they started making laws banning russian language and being russian, yknow, fascist type beat, and putin didn't like that cuz hes just one mf tryna do good by his country.
The current US border crisis is DIRECTLY linked to meddling of the USA (and Chiquita Foods) in Central America during the 20th century. They destabilized popularly elected governments and installed politicians who supported the US ambitions in the region. As a result there has been cycles of oppression and upheaval that have culturally and economically destabilized these nations.
As a result criminality and corruption and terror have caused people to flee north, seeking a better life.
You missed something HUGE in your intro. There is a difference between PERSONAL and PRIVATE property.
Even in the USSR you owned your own home or apartment. Also "the shirt on your back"
I've NEVER heard of any kind of Socialism or Communism that promotes the Public Ownership of PERSONAL Property.
If you do another video on this feel free to reach out. I did my final paper at university on the difference between Anarchists & Communists in 20th Century Chile...
In fact, we communists often tease capitalists by saying "We're coming for you Toothbrush!", because it is so entertaining to see their reactions.
It's just a joke tho, NO COMMUNIST I've ever heard of is against personal property. Just private property.
@@goyoelburro Fascinating, really. As someone who knows their stuff, could you suggest some reading? ✌🏼
@@goyoelburro Name a communist country that didn't benefit from capitalism?
Some introductory texts; anything Zeitgeist Movement (not technically commie but 90%), anything Michael Parenti (he disguises it but clearly is), Grover Furr, more history of communism.
Those are all fairly heavy, though, for easier intros hit UA-cam Channels - Caleb Maupin (controversial but a freaking encyclopedia on the technical details), Richard Wolff (leans anarchist but good foundation), Second Thought (popular and simple and thorough).
I remember when they made drinking and driving illegal,also not wearing a seatbelt illegal,I heard many people saying that was communism.I’m sure you can find news footage.
I saw a video about it. I wish I could say I was shocked, but....
You know Drinking and Driving was also illegal during Prohibition in the 1920s, did you remember that?
@@thomaskalbfus2005lol uh.. ya, doing anything while doing something illegal is probably illegal.
In the late 1980’s in Texas, the state instituted a mandatory seat belt law and prohibited consuming alcohol while driving. This outraged many Texans who saw this as an erosion of their “freedoms. In the election of 88, Democratic governor, Mark White, was defeated by Republican Bill Clemons, a former governor. Clemons ran on the promise of repealing the laws. When they weren’t, the blame fell to the insurance industry, who supposedly would either hike rates or pull out of Texas, and to the “liberals” in Washington.
@@bolexmadnessbygilbertsolor6953how convenient
I remember reading up on what happened to the Congo, our involvement and the assassination of Lumumba . It was deeply troubling for me. The US was not a good guy. We were OK with getting our hands dirty, all in the name of anti-communism. It's actually sad.
"President Johnson called Vietnam a 'raggedy-ass, fourth-rate country'."
To be fair, that was actually among the least offensive things Lyndon Johnson ever said about anyone.
Didn't he pull his d*ck out in front of a reporter when asked why were still in Vietnam
Well then, just consider the source. Simple.
To be fair, I recall another President (45) saying the same thing about Africans and their countries just recently.
Nothing has changed
@@skippymaster57 Yep. Most of the world is still a shithole. It's sad.
I can’t believe he’s the same person who headed the War on Poverty
Let’s have more of War on Poverty LBJ and no Vietnam War/“Look at the size of my penis” LBJ
It's almost as if right wing politics are predicated on some fear or boogeyman in the public consciousness in order to function. But that'd be ridiculous, right?
Even before drumpf, republicans picked a minority to demonize every election cycle. Gays, Muslims, Single women, latinos, this time Trans people. They use their propaganda machine to tell their base that they are the only ones to protect their voters from. If the gops more violent friends physically attack that years minority, too bad.
Yes. They always have to create a common enemy, so they can trick the general public into perpetuating things that the right wing and wealthy business owners want - namely, profits for corporations - by framing it as patriotic.
It's not that different from the "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" situation in Orwell's _1984_ , where they just keep shifting who the enemy is from month to month, to fit what will keep people angry +/- frightened, and willing to vote for people and things they wouldn't otherwise.
Fake fear is just as good as reasonable fear to motivate the senile to vote. Maybe fake fear is even cheaper than well-reasonsed fear with lots of evidence and receipts.
@@letsomethingshine -- Part of the reason the SNL insurance company parody ad with Sam Waterston was so funny, was that it wasn't too far off what Fox and other right wing outlets do by creating a scary scenario to fool elderly people. Manipulating that audience into thinking that a caravan of migrants is about to overwhelm the southern border, or that even the gentlest forms of anti-racism coursework for schoolkids is going to make white children hate themselves, is just as absurd as making them think robots are going to steal old folks' medication.
@@TakenTook *or that even the gentlest forms of anti-racism coursework for schoolkids is going to make white children hate themselves*
It is simply idiotic that leftists like you actually believe "the gentlest forms of anti-racism coursework" will result in less racism or won't result in white children having a negative view of being white. Destiny who is a leftist progressive with a UA-cam channel has pointed out that "LARPing liberals" are more likely to adopt the idiotic idea that there is something wrong with being white. To the point that they(those LARPing white liberals) immediately assumed Jussie Smollet and Citi Bike Karen are actual examples of white racism and anti-LGBTQIA++.
I mean Leeja Miller's own commentary in this video couldn't help but try to link heterosexuality and white supremacy as if no brown person has ever been opposed to homosexuality or was ever racist.
On top of that recently black Chicago residents have begun pushing back against their city leaders for their preferential treatment of illegal immigrants in Chicago, but I suppose in your delusional version of reality that is somehow huwhite supremacy.
You summed America up pretty well. I have often asked "patriots" what gives our American government and people the right to think we are the world's arbiters of what's right and wrong. Or that our form of government is right for everyone else.
So what stance do you think Americans should take?
Well if you don't believe in American democracy then don't vote!
What give Americans the rights?
Nuclear, guns, army. (and oil, yeah, don't forget it)
@@damizan8331 why do you worry about rights? Our opponents don't! Russia never worried about whether they had the right to invade Ukraine, they just did! So why should the United States operate with this handicap when other nations don't? If we don't like something some other nation is doing, we stop them using the capability we have! What you want is for the United States to be Introspective and worry about what's right primarily about what the United States does, while other countries plunder, steal, and invade, and we don't help those other countries that are victims, like Ukraine, because you want the United States to worry about what the United States might be doing wrong, so ultimately it does nothing and countries like Ukraine receive no help, because the USA is too busy being introspective.
An introspective USA would have stayed neutral because what right do we have to defeat Nazi Germany if we did similar things against the Indians and we still have racial discrimination at home, and that would be just what the Nazis want to hear, because that gives them a free hand to conquer Europe without US interference. The idea to let those who are without sin cast the first stone, is an excuse to let evil triumph. Hitler just loved those introspective nations that would not stop him, because they were too busy wringing their own hands from their own self-imposed guilt, Hitler could then conquer those self-doubting nations later when he had defeated other nations and could then turn on the neutrals when he is ready to conquer them. Sorry but I don't buy into this bullshit!
@@damizan8331 the world doesn't work that way, this self doubt is an excuse to do nothing. And I don't believe in dictator's rights.
Why did America choose red for the political right, when the whole of the world branded it with the left, such as "The Red Menace"?
The following is an excerpt from a Q uora answer to the same question ....Answer credited to "Ron Rule".
'Blue and Red originally had nothing to do with the parties. In October of 1976, NBC debuted the first full color electronic electoral map on TV, and chose blue to represent the incumbent party and red to represent the challenger. In that year, the Republican Party was in power so the “blue states” were the states projected to go to incumbent Gerald Ford and the “red states” were projected to go to Democrat challenger Jimmy Carter.
By the 1980 elections, the other TV networks had made their own electronic electoral maps, but with their own color schemes - and they weren’t always the same as NBC’s. In Reagan’s landslide victory against then-incumbent Jimmy Carter, NBC showed a nation of red while ABC showed a nation of blue.
The colors representing incumbent vs challenger being different across the networks continued up until the 2000 election, when the results between Bush and Gore were disputed. As different TV networks (and the printed publications citing them) were referring to different “red states” and “blue states” on their maps, it created a lot of confusion, resulting in the media outlets eventually deciding to be consistent in their map coloring. They agreed to use NBC’s original color scheme; blue for incumbent, and red for challenger.
At that time, the Democrats happened to be the incumbent party and the Republicans were the challenger.
But by the 2004 elections, “blue state” and “red state” had become so synonymous with “Democrat state” and “Republican state”, the original incumbent/challenger coloring scheme was tossed out in favor of leaving them as Democrat/Republican, and the colors have remained as representing the parties ever since.
Thank you for that.
… Is it too late to go back?
@@jenner4214
Because _red_ is *_rad_* 😎
It's a brainwashing tactic.
As a blue blooded, red will always be the color of the enemy, commies, nazis, china, u name it it's red and it's an enemy
Love this!! Red scare propaganda is so ubiquitous in American education, media, society, etc. It’s starts so early and is so normalized that you never have a chance to realize you’re being propagandized to. That’s why it’s so insidious.
I used to talk to people who had to live under that dreamy Socialist
state called Communism.
Look at Cuba, where people were trying to swim to Florida to escape the
country. They weren't doing it as a try out for the Olympics.
@@AQuietNightso you don't think a severe embargo and restrictions so severe that even companies that were willing to work with Cuba were cut off from US markets had any impact on an island nation?
You do understand that historically, civilizations not under the rule of a monarchy were very communistic, yes? And it was greedy monarchs that encouraged colonialism - after having sucked up resources at home. In a low stress environment we're way more likely to be naturally communistic than naturally selfish.
Capitalism isn't that much removed from feudalism and it shows
Yep, just look at all the 80’s movies 😂
Rocky, red dawn, war games, spies like us etc
“Commies” have been the villains for decades until a new bogeyman emerged, the Middle East! 😂
@@RedScareClair Tribalism is about shared survival. The good feelings you get from mass euphoria are evolutionarily evolved just like how mass hysteria could lead to genocide.
"Fascism is as American as Apple Pie" Jimmy Carter
My father's from RDC (Republic Democratic of Congo) and I was born in Canada. I often hear him talk about politics but I never payed too much attention. He and I are going to have a lenghty conversation about the country's history. I discovered your channel a few days ago and I am amazed by the video essays you make. You have a new sub in me, keep spreading the truth. In order to forge a better future we must learn from the past.
She discusses communism and doesn’t mention Stalin or Mao and their atrocities. So much for learning from the past.
It’s pure ‘America picking on innocent commies’
This woman is a communist
As a recovering MAGA supporter, your well researched and factual videos are hard pills to swallow, but enlightening and refreshing.
Hey that’s great, man! I used to be a tweaker.
I never cared about the world above me, but between this channel, Renegade Cut, and Some More News, I accidentally learned while being entertained.
How did that happen? I find these days that conservatives are less likely to change. Regardless, it’s great that you’re getting informed!
@Chriscooper4607 hey I don't know how to go about this but congratulations on your journey.
What brought on your change?
@@forrestpatterson6053 @renegade cut is awesome.
@yogopnik and @First thought are great too but it's international so Americans tend to be less interested.
@@Notfunnysam All the outlandish conspiracies that grew more crazy as time went by, the evidence against him regarding J6 and all his other legal woes brought me to my senses.
Most Americans couldn’t even explain what Communism is.
It’s true
I’m 34 and I still don’t have a clear definition(and I never really got one in school)
What is it?
Communism is when government does stuff
@@grunklesmuffCommunism is when individuals don't own land factories or machinery. Either the government of community owns these things and people are expected to share wealth amongst themselves. I hope this helps 👍
@@StrawberryCocoaPowder Thanks, you put it well.
It sounds very flawed and inefficient.
There was a period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s in US culture when anti-communism seemed like a laughable throwback to the 1950s. I remember how ridiculous and antiquated Reagan's constant carping against communism was in his 1980 presidential campaign and then was surprised when he got elected and revived really violent anti-communism during the 1980s. But there really was a period in the US, in the popular mind at least, when anti-communism seemed to have been overcome and seemed kind of laughable. That's another thing Reagan reversed.
Her previous video is "how Regan ruined everything"!
If only Reagan had taken US academia by the throat and expelled all of the actual communists, hard-line leftists and other misfits from their "teaching posts", and replaced the deviants with people of traditional Christian virtue, the type who built this once great country..
Damn and we're heading back for another round 🤦
Perhaps you were living in a bubble and anti communist sentiment wasn't as laughable as you remember. As far as I'm aware the period between the 60s and late 70s was a time of mass internal pushback with the hippie movement and the civil rights movement but the opposition to both was really strong and had by no means vanished over night.
Laughable is Trump and his minions (in US and abroad, like Bolsonaro in Brazil) talking about communism in 2020s' 😅
I remember 1986-1991, when I was ages 5 to 10, my teachers told me crazy irrational stories about communism. I noticed that the way of life they described behavior that didn't match how humans behave.
Then I went to the company picnic of my mom's employer, Northrop Grumman, to witness the reveal of the B2 Stealth Bomber.
There I met her coworkers whose blind patriotism, xenophobia, and batshit craziness were blatantly obvious to my 9 year old eyes. Subsequently when my teachers started telling the class stories of the evil bread-lines that fed hungry people (unlike the man who lived under a bridge in my neighborhood, who I saw beg for food every morning on my way to school), or when my 5th grade teacher saw she had a Chinese-American girl in the class then spent 2 hours ranting about how mothers are forced at gunpoint to throw their baby girls off a cliff, because communists hate girls, & that children go to schools that only teach "communist slogans", but nothing else. I was told in 4th grade that everyone in the USSR only eats bread rations and melted snow. I raised my hand to ask "why are so many Soviet people fat"? The teacher said "they're all wearing fur coats!" I said "but its June!" She said "June is their Winter!" I said "You're thinking of Australia!" She said "Go to the principal's office!"
I love you! Good job on developing your bullshit detector.
These people get to vote 😢
:) !!
You're delusional MATE!!!!
What crazy irrational stories exactly?
Thank you for raising awareness about the U.S.’s involvement and destabilization in Guatemala! What’s worse is during the worst part of the U.S.-backed Guatemalan Army’s genocide against indigenous Mayans in the 80s, the US government knew about it and kept sending money and weapons…
Every American’s peril: The Illuminati (also known as “Moriah Conquering Wind” are ancient generational Satanic interbreeding bloodlines, the aristocratic elite globalists whom control the monetary system of nations and their economies through their central banks, and funnel their Secret Society members into governmental positions of power throughout the world) with their enforced government education, media ownership, rigged science (they own the science), owned Hollywood, owned music industry, owned porn industry, long ago hijacked what passes for public education, medicine, media and “truth.”
Since the Illuminati is made up of Khazar-Ashkenazi-Jewish Kabbalists bloodlines, headed by the publicly admitted wealthiest family in the world, the occult Satanic House of Rothschild, they have attacked Christianity since its inception in 1776 (i.e. the founding of the Bavarian branch of the Illuminati of Europe). The religion of the Illuminati is Jewish-Kabbalistic-Sabbatean-Frankism and it is centered on the Kabbalah (the Occult), which has a push to crown a one world government messiah (this messiah is not Jesus, whom their ancestors the Pharisees long ago rejected and put to death) in a one world government-total globalization.
Hence the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence as well as Conservatives and Christian Americans need to be publicly demonized and eventually eliminated. Public education has brainwashed American youth into being socialists heading towards communism, hence the reason Generation-Z are state-indoctrinated atheists and believe a series of lies like that a man can be pregnant, that there are hundreds of genders, that there is no God, Generation-Z is so dumbed down they don’t know what a woman is; they don’t know whether they should be boys or girls-i.e. transgenders; they believe abortion is not murder. Generation-Z females are brainwashed into want to take upon themselves male roles; they are selfish-entitled-whorish worthless females on constant slut-walks, while the men have been emasculated by a feminist and liberal ideology that seeks to castrate young boys before they get the chance to be men of God! Generation-Z men are coward atheists, shamed for being men as they cower under the shaming of “toxic masculinity” and turn their head at the raping of Constitutional freedoms they will soon lose. Generation-Z is the result of the Illuminati’s government indoctrination, which the dumbed down masses call “education.”
Also noted the 33 thousand American casualties in the Korean War, but neglected to mention the 4 million Koreans killed.
Was the 33 thousand American causalities in the Korean War the result of Communism? And the 4 million Koreans?
It was Korean War at Korea between Koreans, I find it kinda logic that casualties mostly were Koreans. The question is why Americans and the rest of the west were there? Who decided that US is the global police? Where is global police now in Gaza, really?
@@afanasjg You just cant quite bring yourself to say ZOG can you 🤣
I have read the Communist Manifesto, found it in the trashcan.
Just 60 pages, easy to read.
When you regard it was written in a time where the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, where the abundance of workers allowed to pay them barely enough for them to survive, the paper makes total sense.
It is not more than the concept that those who CREATE the value, the workers, should also participate from the profit their value created, and to participate in the decisions about the value they create.
When you tell an arch-conservative christian that idea, they would agree - when you do not tell them that is the communist base principle.
A worker doesn't create anything of objective value, value is subjective.
You found it in a trashcan?? I’m very curious where and when. Who threw it out? Did you know them?
@@grunklesmuffCare to explain why the equilibrium price of water is much lower than a ps5's?
@@super0spore0fan My claim that value is subjective is well supported when we look at the difference in prices between water and PS5. Value is determined by individual preferences and context, which is why prices reflect personal valuations rather than inherent properties of the goods. Even though it's essential to human life, water generally has a low marginal utility for most consumers because their basic needs are already met and it is abundantly available. This high supply relative to demand keeps its price low. On the other hand, the PS5, which is a luxury item, offers a lot of entertainment and status value, which gives it a high marginal utility for gamers, tech enthusiasts, etc. Limited supply and high desirability drive the price up. Despite water's essential nature, its abundance makes additional units less valuable to individuals, while the PS5's limited availability and high perceived value justify its higher price. This shows how subjective valuations, based on individual preferences and market dynamics, determine prices, which supports my claim that value is subjective.
@@super0spore0fan The difference in prices between water and a PS5 shows the subjective nature of value, determined by individual preferences and market dynamics. While water's abundance and low marginal utility keep its price low, the PS5's limited supply and high desirability justify its higher price. This shows how subjective valuations drive pricing.
Fun fact: Prostitution during the Vietnam War was greatly expanded to discourage American soldiers from r*ping civilian women. Spoiler alert: It didn't work.
sure
And even if it did... that would still be r*pe. Just add "mass" to it.
@@tuckerbugeater You should read what happened to all the babies born of American solders.The children of the dust.
As was the case with Japan following World War II and again in Korea.
@@michaellovely6601 The culture of soldiers expecting sex was introduced by Japan's empire and creating a culture of expecting sex in their military. They would have regular volunteer sex-workers but there wasn't enough to fill the quota, so they forced local women in those countries.
The key to Americas prestige is to highlight the atrocities/failures of other governments and burry the massive atrocities/failures of our own. Some Americans like to be lied to so they can construct a perfect little world in their minds, and some of us seek the truth no matter how painful it is to swallow. I Subscribed days ago and I’m loving everything you do.
Many deliberately avoid the truth bcos they don't want to have their illusions shattered
It's not unique to US. I'm from Russia and they do same here. Many countries are like that actually
@@pimpom5355 Very true! It’s an age old tradition for super power countries.
@@Donkor640 Not only superpowers. Many here in Sweden also have a hard time grappling with the more difficult parts of our history, it's barely taught in schools and when it is, it's mostly glossed over. From the colonization of the north with the subjugation of the Sami people, slavery with our colony in the Carribean that became a major slave-trading hub, the official legitimization of "race biology" that legitimized Hitlers actions. Our chummy relationship with Hitler, our king at the time was a Nazi, his son, the current king's father and his German wife were married in a Nazi stronghold in Germany in 1932, and our prompt iron deliveries to help with his ambitions to take over the world certainly didn't help. Hell we even allowed Nazi troops to transfer in Sweden to invade Norway. Then there's the force sterilizations of "undesirables" that didn't officially end until the 70s. And that's not even touching on the Swedish imperialist era that didn't leave a corner of the Baltic and surroundings unscorned, or Carl von Linné and his racist categorization of the world's people.
I for one will gladly take America's "atrocities / failures" over the supposed "success" of many other nations. You really have NO CLUE unless you've actually lived in a foreign nation which employs something other than good old fashioned capitalism.
Great video! I wonder what America would look like had we embraced cooperation instead of fear. Please keep up the good work.
Why do you need the government to embrace cooperation?
Do you watch the news ? We are divided as a country.
Not coincidentally, who IS winning because of this division? The ultra wealthy.
@@lightningphoenix69 We aren't divided. You choose to be divided with your fellow Americans.
@@bartdoo5757 They need force at the end of a gun or a mob.
Fear is a great way to justify a war.
I’m an ex anti communist. From my experience Americans have an extremely distorted view of both capitalism and communism. I used to simply regurgitate the same garbage about communism that I was being fed on the daily. However I had an open mind and once I saw the communist point of view I realized it actually falls inline with many of my beliefs. I believe it’s important to keep an open mind and hear out all sides of an argument as well as see their good and bad actions and the reasons behind them.
whose "Americans"
you mean working class people? 🤣
Remember when the left used to be for the white working class in America? Woody Guthrie? John Steinbeck?
The intellectual class have really shown their a$$es on this one. There is nothing the intellectual left hate more than the white working class in America 🤣
I can admit conservatives can be quick to pull the commie card. I'm saying that as an anti communist. Honestly most people here don't understand communism. But I am here to say communism is still very vile and very anti human.
@@rips1231 how exactly is it anti human? Communism is specifically designed to benefit the people. The only reason no communist country has been able to do that is for 1 of 3 reasons. 1, corruption (China, North Korea) 2, incompetence (ussr) 3, sanctions (Cuba, Vietnam). I’m a firm believer that if a country becomes a communist democracy then it could break this stereotype of communism being authoritarian.
@solarflare623 Communism being authoritarian is not a stereotype. It's a characteristic ingrained into the philosophy. And just so we're clear on definitions when I mention communism/socialism I am referring to the original Marxian ideas. In other words Marxism. There's alot of off shoots of this ideology and I'm always referring to the foundation of the ideas rather then some esoteric off shoot. Now, it's absolutely authoritarian because unlike like how you described it as being "designed to benefit the people" it's real mentioned goal is to reach their "end of history" their "eschaton" they mention bringing heaven on earth. In otherwords to bring about their communist utopia. Once the utopia is in place history ends for them. What history needs to be recorded when the utopian heaven on earth is achieved. That's their goal. They mention it explicitly and abundantly. What they also mention is their praxis. How to achieve their utopian society and that's also stated very clearly. Its a duty of conscious for Marxists to further their dialectic towards revolution. Communism is inherently anti all forms of government besides their own. Because only communism brings forth the utopia. It's in their literature "the long March through the institutions" Marxists and socialists get ahold of the levers of power in ANY society they happen to be in and Once they obtain majority power that's when they initiate their socialist revolution to overthrow the current system and turn it into their failed communist experiment. They call it "winning the battle of democracy" because they subverse the system to inevitably overthrow it. Every. Single. Time. Communists only support communists. They actively try to destroy every society that they happen to be in and they manipulate, coerce and force people to join their revolutionary ambitions. Marxists will never meet in the middle and negotiate with any other ideology. They need their utopia and end always justify the means for them. They're anti human because they're only pro revolution. And look at history to find out what happens if you aren't.
@@rips1231 ok look. The main reason why communists weed out other ideologies during the revolution is mainly because there is so much anti communism going around. If you ask a capitalist, a fascist and a monarchist what they think of communism the answer will almost always be “communism bad” in some form or another. I’m a firm believer that a peaceful revolution is possible. And I’m sure there are many others like me. I don’t want to throw you or anyone else who disagrees with me into a gulag. I see criticism of the government as a way of the government being able to more easily see their mistakes and fix them. I also blame Stalin for the way communist states have been throughout history. The Soviet Union was the first ever communist country in the world. After the death of Lenin Stalin ceased power. He was extremely paranoid and that is what’s responsible for the USSR becoming the authoritarian regime we all know. Subsequent communist countries would go on to follow Stalin’s example and become authoritarian themselves. The truth is that Lenin would have likely made a change to democracy after a level of stability returned to the USSR. Despite being a socialist I still hate Stalin. He ruined the public perception of communism.
Also why exactly did you bring up communism as being “the end of history” do you realize it’s just a metaphor for no more societal progress being required? I highly doubt that history will stop being recorded when we reach a communist utopia. Advances in technology would be made. We would likely have diplomatic relationships with alien civilizations. The end of history likely wouldn’t be for billions if not trillions of years.
A correction: USSR wasn't created after the WWII, it was created in 1922. What was created after WWII was the Warsaw Pact, as a tool for the Soviet leadership to control the Eastern and Central European states.
Pretty major error to make in a video about communism.
We all know leftism is inherently and morally wrong from any stance. Socialism, communism, call it what you like. The only thing the left is capable of is spouting cultural mαrxist rhetoric reddit buzzwords, as usual
@@Essah15 also taking into consideration that Varsaw Pact was born AFTER Otan, not before
This is what history on the left looks like.
@@Person0fColorwild thing to say considering that the right wing is unable to comprehend history lol
Traveling and living in SE Asia was such an eye-opening experience. Even though I learned a relatively balanced perspective on the Vietnam war in school, talking to Vietnamese citizens about how proud they are of their history, of defeating the US invaders, and of Ho Chi Minh who is seen as a great liberator of the people, it opened my mind to the preconceptions I still had that turned out to be untrue. Showing pictures from the country to my mom who lived through the news coverage of the war, she was surprised at how beautiful of a country Vietnam is-all the images she'd grown up with made it look like the horrible backwards country the government wanted people to believe it was.
Then there's the US's covert involvement in the region-supporting Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia which led to the deaths of 1/3 of the country's citizens and has economically crippled the country for the decades since, or the US's involvement in Indonesia's Communist manhunt that led to thousands of deaths and the descendents of Communist sympathizers having discriminatory marks on their IDs to this day.
It's all such a horrible bloody mess and all for basically nothing.
Is Ho Chi Minh like Putin then? They both started wars!
I'm sure they didn't tell you about how they slaughtered 2 million South Vietnamese after the U.S. pulled out.
Or about the death squads they employed during the way whose job it was to completely wipe out any villages suspected of helping Americans.
My granpa told me a story about his friend who begged for shelter for his family which US backed Soeharto Govt. labeled as Communist. Granpa closed the door shut and told his friend "I'm sorry, go away, i'm sorry, i'm scared, we don't wanna die too". That family didn't survive. What worse is that they weren't communist, they just received donations like food & clothes from the communist party.
@@eriosvanda479 what did Robin Hood and his Merry Men do in the Legend of Robin Hood? They stole from the rich and gave to the poor. It's easy to be generous with other people's money. The problem is the act of stealing leaves a trail of destruction that creates more poverty than the generous bandits can alleviate. You see the people you give stolen money to, become dependent on you for their income, meanwhile the businesses you stole from go out of business because they made no profits, as you just stole the merchandise they had to sell and gave it away to the poor, therefore they have no jobs. The Walmart in Chicago was closed because of all the rampant looting that went on inside.
Yup, it was basically a duplicate of the Korean war where 1/3 of the population vanished.
In case people who do not have a clue on the severity; assuming the concept of basic nuclear family, every family would have at least one member died during the war. Can you blame the North Koreans hating the U$ so much?
I find it *HILARIOUS* that people call the Democratic party "Communists"
As hilarious as when people call the Republican party "Nazis?"
@@mjsteele42the Conservative party is far closer to fascism than the dems are to communism. Do you need receipts?
@The_Gambler10
I guess it makes life easier when you don't think too deeply.
@The_Gambler10
If you seriously believe that today's Republican party is genuinely equivalent to the Nazi party, you aren't a deep thinker.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are nearly as extreme as so many people seem to believe.
Why lol, they are communist.... As mentioned by a load of them!
I’m a year late, but:
American fear of “communism” has also translated in the brutal repression of the Puerto Rican independence movement from the beginning of the 20th century right up to 2005 when PR nationalist Filiberto Ojeda was assassinated by the FBI. During American military occupation after the 1898 invasion (Spanish American War), thousands of pro-independence activists have been targeted, surveyed, and even murdered with the help of our local government. To this day, our state government still fearmongers the idea of Puerto Rican independence with communism; alleging voter fraud in Venezuela as a gross violation of democracy, while also committing countless acts of said voter fraud and public censorship over here in the name of “statehood and equality as American citizens”.
I would really like for you to research this topic, as Puerto Rico and its many crises are often overlooked by both our politicians and the imperialist US agenda.
Thank you for mentioning the Dominican Republic. I would love to see someone like you dive a little bit into it and check it out. You can get so much content from it and it would help a lot of people get educated about history they’ve likely never heard before. The whole story of the Hispaniola (the island that’s shared by Haiti and Dominican Republic) is very interesting and sad.
Yes thank you! In leftist circles, they never mention the DR
They did the same things in Chile, Indonesia, and so many other countries, overthrowing and killing elected government officials and even presidents. The US has blood on their hands, and Karma will hit the US eventually when the time comes for all the wrong doings to be repaid.
The world would be in a much better position if the British empire had not been a thing
Haiti was a French Slave colony that rebelled against the French and had a revolution, they murdered and chased out white people from their island, enslaved others, but unfortunately Haiti didn't have much experience with democracy, nor at governing themselves. Put a former slave in charge of something and all he knows is how his former master ran things, so he will try to act like him! He will crack the whip and act as the new master because that is all he knows, that is why Haiti has such a terrible time!
@@MarshalMarrs Neither of these two were british, i think the issue is with colonialism in general.
*You may have commented in response to someone else, it said there were 3 comments here and i only see yours.
Thank you for the great video! I feel like one of the main reasons to fight communism/socialism was to protect the interests of US corporations, Guatemala is a perfect example, if all land is nationalized you can not exploit it.
被国有化的土地 不能进行生产吗？全中国的土地所有权都属于国家，农民被公平赋予使用权，我们仅用全球7%的土地养活了21%的人口。
@@Steven-oq7dxI think he meant US coudn't exploit It. 'cause It would belong to The people from the country of Guatemala.
@@andreygabriel6105 资本主义奉行新自由主义的内核是可以让他们的资本全球布局，全球买卖，全球掠夺。作为经济不够强韧的落后国家，很容易被资本绑架成为农产品和原材料的产地，永世不能翻身，因为它的产业链无法升级，最糟糕的是受国际原材料价格波动的影响很大，很容易造成物价飞涨，全国饥荒。
Definitely am not with the redneckdickhead interest on foreign policy
Are you going to repair a home that belongs to the government? Lets say your toilet clogs in your government owned home, who's going to fix it? You try to contact the government to get them to fix your toilet, but they are too busy, so what do you do?
20:36 also keep in mind The USA had already stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey ealier on, which prompted the USSR to put nuclear weapons on Cuba. Part of the negations was removal of the nuclear missiles in Turkey.
ooo thanks for that additional info! There's just so much tomfoolery it's hard to nail it all down
@@CactusGirl-x7f Based!
@@CactusGirl-x7f Slaaaaaaay yaaaaaas, would have been amazing ngl.
@@LeejaMiller JFK was burned by Allen Dulles and the CIA with the Bay of Pigs. President Kennedy fought to normalize relations with the USSR and Cuba. He wrote Khrushchev 26 personal letters in support of peace. Then Kennedy was assassinated….
The US has overthrown more democratically elected governments than any other country
My comment will probably just get lost in the sea of 7000 others, but i feel like it's a really big omission to not mention that Karl Marx has actually disavowed the use of a strongly centralised government in several of his later writings, including in the preface of the 1872 reprint of the Communist Manifesto. And actually became strongly critical of those who wished to realise socailism through state and party politics instead of direct worker action.
Thanks for the extra context. Sounds like Marx thought through his ideas quite a bit more than anyone who implemented them.
I am 75 years old and I am a witness to much of the history you have described in this video. You are spot on. I’m in total agreement with your assessment. I’m now a subscriber to your site. Keep up the good fight 👍🏾
You do realize communism has killed hundreds of millions of people over this last hundred years??? The Nazis lasted 12 years killed 12 million… Communist/Socialist killed that many in 3-5 years over multiple countries!!!
If you can’t see evil for what it is your doomed!!!
Did you witness Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Gulags, the Holodomor, the Great Leap, the Killing Fields, the DPRK, the East German Stasi?
@@cl5619what they did certainly pales in comparison to the horrendous crimes of your criminal nation
@@cl5619 Stalin was a little before my time. I don’t know what the Holodomor is but I have lived long enough to have learned lessons from the rest.
@@ralphh7853 you should know that communism is a proposition of mass violence and oppression. For it to be implemented in the US, millions of American will resist and will be murdered by the state.
Thank you so much for putting so much work into your videos. The way you're able to explain these huge complex ideas with familiar stories. The way you interact with your community and commentors adds to each video. I love it. Thanks
So glad Trixie helped me find your page
I live in new Zealand with a public health system. American s who move here (in increasing numbers) are amazed and impressed after being given the dubious messages against this system by the USA government.
But as we are learning from the current global sovereign debt crisis, social safety nets can break and people shouldn’t trust their governments 100% to be able to hold their hands, especially if these programs are bureaucratic in nature and do as much harm as good as a result.
It's amazing what you can have when you're overwhelmingly white and productive. Here in the US we have 13% of the population committing 80% of the violent crimes and 40% or us contribute absolutely nothing economically. Ever notice American leftist never move to Zimbabwe or Mexico? It's always to white majority countries. There's a reason for that.
@@aycc-nbh7289 Someone's been watching too much American propaganda.
@@swagmundfreud666 No, I’ve been informed that the UK also has an issue with this.
@@aycc-nbh7289 By the "Guardian " no doubt .
I lived in "Commie" Saigon from 2009 to2016 when getting a Visa became more difficult. While in Saigon I never felt unsafe or that I was living in a police state. When we moved to Los Angeles all we saw were police chasing "criminals". Our $1300/mon apt had bars on all the windows. We didn't feel safe....in America. I won't even start on the way my full time working wife was treated trying to get basic medical care.
I want to add to that is when my family moved from Ukraine in 1998 we simply could not understand the concept of an "unsafe neighborhood" . In countries used to be communist all streets were safe at all times of day
"The American Dream." "The Land of Opportunity." What jokes. One needs a great deal of luck to see even a crumb of it. It was all a great falsehood to keep its citizens from thinking too hard. And now, our southern border is spilling over with people who were promised an opportunity that never existed. We've really screwed ourselves. Or rather, the wealthy class running the country has.
Kind of hypocritical of the US to blame these other countries economic systems as the reason for their woes, when we tend to have direct involvement in them...
Not to mention all the third world (a corrupt banking label) countries that have been “totally open to free trade” only to be resoundingly swindled and remained failures for hundreds of years.
Are you sure? They also had sanctions on the U.S. Besides, if another country docked ICBM-launching submarines 90 miles off of your country’s coast, why wouldn’t you support sanctions against them?
@@aycc-nbh7289
The explicit purpose of the US enforcing the embargo on Fidel's Cuba was *_not_* in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was to ruin the nation's economy with hopes that the subsequently resentful populace would revolt and overthrow Castro.
The CIA's Operation Moongoose, which ultimately didn't go into action, was going to involve the US government launching a false-flag terrorist attack in Florida that would kill numbers of civilians, afterwhich the US would then blame it in Cuba and so have a #TotallyLegit reason to invade the country.
@@Boss_Isaac And? The Soviets and the communist satellite states also embargoed and/or sanctioned the U.S. if I recall correctly for similar reasons if that is true.
@@aycc-nbh7289
No, the USSR and it's satellite states never successfully sanctioned the United States, you know, since the American dollar has acted as the world's reserve currency since 1947, how tf would that possibly work? 😑
I love that you keep me informed whilst also putting a smile on my face. ❤️
🫡 I'm here to serve!!
These styles of videos are so interesting to watch. Please keep doing more of them Leeja your so good at them!
“The argument of should we own everything even the shirt on your back” is wrong we don’t ague about that lol
We all socialists believe private property should be owned by the the people (basically public) and personal property should just remain personal property
There is no difference between "private" and "personal" property. Such distinction is imaginary, made up, and doesn't exist in reality where there is just property.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.Personal property ranges from your toothbrush to your preferred flavor of "protection". Personal property is something that would earn you a profit just for owning it. Like Factories, Buildings and offices.
@@morningstararun6278 : You can earn profit with just about anything nowadays, being it simple power tools for fixing and building things. Being it a house for renting. Being it a car for Uber etc. How exactly do you think, this "wrongful" use of personal property is monitored? By a totalitarian entity/collective/government perhaps?
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Using tools for fixing things doesn't mean earning profit through private property. How would you have earned the money to buy those tools in the first place? You would have worked somewhere as a labor or already owned a business by being a boss, inherited from parents or be gifted on your birthday by someone right? In today's Capitalist society, the Capitalists we see today are mostly had the initial investment as inheritance from parents or something similar like that. These meagre tool fixing private jobs have all existed in USSR. Those Reagan jokes were really bad and are just lies. You need a new furniture with specific design be put in your room, there were Artel shops for that. Even in USSR, you can buy a land as a lease from govt and build an apartment. But the starting point would be the same for everyone. You can put aside the money you would spend in the years end holidays to savings and build an apartment eventually. But Soviet people never did that because that business won't be profitable. Who would really want to pay the monthly rent when the govt provides free housing for every working age person. In China, even Jack Ma cannot own a single piece of land permanently. So initially in trying to build a Socialist society, there would be a radical nationalization of many private properties. If you call it totalitarian, then so be it. But why do you worry? But many industries weren't controlled by govt like it has been constantly propagated. Many businesses were controlled by worker councils and Artels which was running on market basis. Markets were always present within USSR.
But the work places were either co- ops, state owned and many small businesse were community owned, not just a single person and his cronies.
But all of this can only happen after a Socialist revolution. Won't the poverty ridden people who make that revolution, already be ready for that move?
that's the comment I was looking for. kinda sad that this misconception is further fueled by the video.
This channel is truly a gem in todays UA-cam influencer sea. Keep doing what you do. This was well written and executed 🤞🏼💜
Actually this is one of the worst channels on youtube. So if you liked this, you need to have a period of self reflection.
Just came across it today and already on my 5th video - I needed some intelligent videos to reassure me after watching right-wing videos.
Leeja restores my sanity.🙂
I do have to say, here in europe it has kind of became a meme, that americans don't truely know what socialism is. (But unfortenatly we aslo don't exactly have a shortage of those characters)
All too true.
Well, apparently Europeans are not know what Socialism is either, because you refer to yourselves as Socialists sometimes, but none of the countries are Socialist.
Basically...
If you're worried about communism, you've got too much time on your hands and probably need to take responsibility for your own actions by acknowledging the reality around you.
Now, let me tell you what the reality of living in a socialist system looks like from somebody who's got a bit more life experience than you (I was born and raised in the former USSR). You get all your basic needs covered (water, food, shelter, school, medicines etc), sure- but you have no peace. You live in a state of constant fear: fear that your neighbours will grass on you to the police because you listen to BeeGees or Abba. Fear that your own family members will report you to the state for treason- because you have independent thoughts. Fear that all your food produce you worked hard for all year round on your own plot will be "appropriated" (stolen) by the state. Fear that there will be a knock on the door if you do not sing Internacionala at the appointed times. Above all, there is an ever-present fear that you will end up like all the zombies around you, mindlessly following what the Communist party tells you to think. You switch a channel on the TV only to see a soldier sternly reminding you that the only channel you can see is the one broadcasted by the Communist Party. You wake up into another day, only to realise half of your extended family has disappeared without trace- they were silently removed by the good old KGB, arrested and tortured or sent off to a work camp for a life sentence. No reasons for the arrest given.
The trouble with young Americans (and many Europeans) is that they have NO idea how good they have it right now. That's why they dream wild dreams about communism- thinking that Communism is "cool", as long as their basic needs are met. But my friend, humans are free creatures and no golden cage (secure housing/food etc) will ever make up for living in permanent fear. No perks are worth living in a society of broken spirits. 'Cause that's what communism does: it breaks your spirit and makes you hate like you have never hated before. That's the real reason why communism should be once and for always eradicated from this world. It changes people- not just one or two generations but for many, many generations. Envy and hatred become national sports...and there is so much sadness, so much bitterness in the souls of those who have tasted it. for the past 14 years, I have lived abroad. I do not go back to my hometown, I have no intentions of living in the country of my origin....because it breaks my heart to see the broken spirits, the bitter, oh-so-bitter people who are still living with the wounds caused by communism.
@@jvnd2785 Jesus, I'm sorry.
@@jvnd2785 That's a cool story bro. Guess what? In the USA, I live in fear of not meeting my needs, fear of a medial emergency bankrupting me, fear of being homeless if I lose my work for whatever reason, and so on.
Oh and the gov thanks to the R side fuels stocastic terroism. And being arrested for whatever reason, and in the past, they did arrest those for trumped up reasons.
I'm also willing to bet you didn't grow up in the USSR, but Russia after it fell.
@@jvnd2785 Damn. Well said
@J VND it doesn't seem anyone want to reply 🙄 where did all the communist go? No guts.
I recently discovered your channel and love your videos! So well researched and detailed. Thank you 😊
the fight against communism seems to have been more devastating than communism itself. The old capitalism thing hasn't been producing the best results either.
Because we didn't let the Communists win. Communism was quite devastating to the places that communism controlled, such as Russia and China, and especially North Korea! Remember the show MASH, that made light of the Korean War. Do you think its funny that many North Koreans can't get enough to eat because of communism, that was a barrel; of laughs wasn't it the way the North Korean government tortured, kidnapped and executed people, ho ho ho, that was so funny wasn't it?
Capitalism has pulled more people out of poverty than any other system in the world. I don't think you know what capitalism is.
You can't really say that because welllll, let's put it this way, the only two people in history to have amassed a kill streak greater than that of Hitler and his Fascist Nazi regime are Stalin and Mao Zedong who are both communist dictators. Just to drive the point home how bad communism has been here are some of their notably horrible crimes against humanity:
The Great Leap Forward - China: Mao Zedong a communist dictator and the founder of the Chinese Communist Party a communist regime that still persists today committed mass genocide and millions of crimes against humanity while suppressing almost all media and free speech resulting in a death toll that has been both sickeningly high and difficult to estimate, with a death toll likely in excess of 45 million but with other estimates as "low" as 15 million
Stalin - USSR: Stalins and the USSRs communist reign of terror and crimes against humanity including genocide, as well as the brutal suppression, imprisonment, torture, and forced labor of enemies of the state meaning anyone who had anything bad to say about the USSR in general or anyone that Stalin didn't particularly like as well as the starvation of millions, culminated in a death toll estimated to be anywhere between 15 to 20 million.
Cambodian Genocide: Over the course of 4 years, Pol Pot the dictator of a communist regime in Cambodia was responsible for the deaths of approximately 2 million people.
This comment barely scratches the surface of atrocities committed by communist dictators and regimes. That being said Mr. or Ms. so-called PlumbDrumb you tell me which you think was more devastating the tens of millions of people killed by communist dictators and regimes or the fight against them.
@@The_Radical_Car_Guy The fight against communism was about containing communism, and the left here is objecting to that? So are they saying communism should not have been contained? Why not? You see, I don't want their communism, there are people in my country that want communism, so I wish they would just go to a communist country, the nearest one is Cuba! Why can't American communists just vote with their feet and leave? They say this is a terrible country and they hate it, so why don't they just go?
@@The_Radical_Car_Guy communism is when gazillion dead no food no iPhone and no house
Correction: What you call the U.S. embassy roof was a residential building a few blocks from the embassy. It was a building where many CIA and other intelligence agents lived. What made it significant was that many Vietnamese informants and employees of U.S. intelligence agencies gathered at the building to try to get help to escape Saigon. I was in Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in February, the building with its iconic roof is still there. There is a great coffee shop near by and you can sit by the window and see the roof of the old apartment building.
Just by the by, I found Saigon a lot more free and easy than Thailand. For instance the internet in Saigon is completely open. I'm Thailand I had to type in my passport number to get access to the internet outside of my apartment.
"Just by the by, I found Saigon a lot more free and easy than Thailand. For instance the internet in Saigon is completely open. I'm Thailand I had to type in my passport number to get access to the internet outside of my apartment."
The way China and Russia were until they decided it was not!
@monacojerry I was just going to point that out then I saw your reply.
@@AudieHolland thanks
I will be saving this information when I go there next week.
I have been there too
Pittman Building!!
The more I learn about my country, the more convinced I become that it’s beyond saving.
You don’t need to save your country on your own. You just need to save yourself, your family, your friends, and your neighbors. The more people who can save even a portion of those people, the stronger a parachute we can use to save the country.
despair is a capitalist tactic. are you sure you want to give them the satisfaction?
@@tuckerbugeater sorry to say, no I am not.
@@tuckerbugeater lol yeah America is perfect. Anybody criticizing it, no matter how tepid, is a bot. We don't need to change a thing. It is a utopia.
Keep hope. Many are fighting the good fight to make this country better. Just look at all the labor movements recently picking up steam.
I am loving your page❤So perfectly informative about things I always heard and wondered about. I also feel you confirm my thoughts on certain political subjects with your history lesson. Keep up the great work!
So far as I know, no socialists believe that personal property (such as the shirt on your back) should be collectively owned. Socialists believe that the means of the production and distribution of wealth should be collectively owned.
as one commenter from the old ussr said, there was a marked difference between private property and personal property.
Not so much that the shirt is collectively owned,rather instead that everyone should have one,...........not just the shareholders
The Israeli Kibbutz movement literally believed that.
Quote from wikipedia: "The principle of equality was taken extremely seriously up until the 1970s. Kibbutzniks did not individually own tools, or even clothing. Gifts and income received from outside were turned over to the common treasury."
@@adrianblake8876Cheers for the correction. It's a good thing that the general consensus has steered away from that extremity. It would be so unpopular as to be unimplementable in the near future.
I love how you give a bit more time to the subject you’re discussing than most. There are some of us with attention spans longer than Tik Tok and we appreciate your delving in!!!
And yet, not a single mention of the industrial groups that started the red scare or their central role in this history backing megachurches, rewriting textbooks, fighting worker rights, creating the rhetoric of the movement that everyone now associates with neoliberalism. It's pretty damning to leave that out, but I suppose she doesn't want to lose her platform...
@@Skiddoo42Or, she doesn't have the time to talk about everything.
She's actually addressed most of these topics in recent videos, except for the role of private utilities, NELA and NAM.
"Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Communism??": Ummmmmmmmmm... because we are a largely uneducated, highly indoctrinated country full of blockheads?
Just found your channel today and I love it. Thanks for the great history lessons.😊
I remember in the 1960's that people in the US were more afraid of communism than western Europeans who lived in countries which actually bordered on actual eastern European communist countries were. I thought that quite bizarre.
Well, the US had already sacrificed over 50.000 people to defend its ally South Korea from the communist and expansionist North Korea who had invaded South Korea. Later in the 60s, the same thing was happening to South Vietnam. Being the world police keeping the world together means you garner a lot of enemies who have no morals whatsoever, which is very scary.
"Western Europeans" were already ideologically captured.
I’m not old enough to remember but it depends. I’m from Finland though (definitely bordering a communist country during Cold War) and we had widespread media censorship during that era, basically no books or films critical of the USSR were allowed to be published and the press was cautious to the point of self-censorship. Moscow de facto dictated who we could have as president or in other leading positions, we weren’t allowed to join international Western organisations without joining the Eastern bloc ones etc. I’d say we were plenty “scared”, but how many Americans do you reckon even knows this? Or is it again one of those things where they only know about US history so everything else might as well not have happened?
Yes because making US into communist socialist state would require mass murder on a scale never seen in history.
@@saaraa7876Americans barely know their own history. We’ve been indoctrinated with the governments view vs the truth. They are still brainwashing our children with lies. It’s not that they are unaware of your history, they are ignorant of their own
Isn't it because the united states is an oligarchy and one of it's ruler's main fears has always been that "the masses" would take property away from them if they weren't thoroughly indoctrinated into an ideology under which dispossession of the rich (but crucially, not the poor) is unthinkable? Guess I gotta watch the video to find out.
Heh, no, you got it in one.
The channel Second Thought is for you if you want to learn all about how terrible capitalism is and how socialism actually works.
I was looking forward to this one!
yay welcome!!!
fucking hell girl. You are the first gringa i've ever heard who not only mentioned both US interventions of D.R and its strong connection with trujillo, but did it perfectly, without missing any relevant detail or rewriting history. For real, im fucking amazed. good shit. One minor detail tho, that dude who was put in powerby the US after the coup d'etat byt the military, that due is Joaqin Balague which was the right hand of trujillo during his reign. Balaguer basically govern from the 60s 'till the 90s, and his reign was basically trujillo-land 2.0. Fun fact, he holds the record as the oldest head of state in modern history when he left power in 1996 at the ripe age of 91 years old.
I grew up in the 80' in socialist Czechoslovakia, and it wasn't always garden of Eden, but no working person had even problem with food, healthcare, housing, etc.
I admit, sometimes there was stuff you couldn't buy, that's because the system was prioritizing self sufficiency, and not having 20 brands of cornflakes all from the same factory, to create illusion of choice.
If there was no chicken, you bought pork, I have no problem with that.
It was actually similar to Lean Manufacturing, pioneered by Toyota, which is great for maximizing efficiency, but if there's a problem it cascades all the way through logistic chain, as seen with microchips.
Besides, everyone in villages had their own land and enough time to grow their vegetables and cattle. Huge number of city people had their weekend houses and gardens outside of city. This is totally unthinkable today for working people.
Statistics from Ussr and Czechoslovakia confirm that people were eating more calories and more of the expensive foods, such as eggs and meat.
It was also the only regime that provided solution to housing crisis, while in USA people live in tents.
More than 100 000 flats per year were built in height of socialism in 70s and 80s. Not bad for a country of 15 million people.
Pretty much every young family in the villages could build their own house cause the material was cheap. In a city, you could get a flat from your company or from state for free, only paying low rent of around 1/10 of an usual wage.
Also, people formed cooperatives to build their own blocks of flats, getting discounted land and material from state.
@The_Gambler10 State runs everything everywhere. If it doesnt, its a failed state or anarchy. Just because you dont know their names doesnt mean they dont control your life.
All you idiots have is the illusion of 'freedom'
Interesting personal experience, thank you for the comment
@The_Gambler10 The state does owe you something; that's literally its entire purpose. What exactly do you think the state is supposed to do if not serve the people?
This is the fundamental problem with statism; nobody is willing or able to hold the state accountable, which invariably leads to corruption and oppression. Maybe it's time we started looking for solutions beyond the state.
@@Divine_Retributionmaybe, and just maybe, you've been indoctrinated to have a wrong perception of what "state" is. Because today, in basically all west, the "state" means "representatives of the owning rich class", and not representatives of "people", and for being representatives of the rich people's interests, the state then is bad for normal people and act in corrupt and "mean" ways... Therefore, changing the nature of "the state" would automatically change what "state" means. Also: yeah, it's a lot better not having a "strong state" and live in your car eating poor food, instead of having free health care, cheap nutricious food and not spending 30 to 50% of your income in rent + utilities cost only to have 10 options of cereal to eat.
@The_Gambler10They never claimed that wasn't the case, they just outlined the positives of living in a socialist regime.
The endless foriegn wars 😢
it's truly mind boggling when you start putting it all together
@@LeejaMiller You haven't even gotten close.
Foreign wars are always part of being a superpower. An example is Afghanistan. Invaded by the Soviets, the Brits, and the Americans.
@@LeejaMiller makes me wonder about all the guatemalan illegals coming into america. it was america that caused this...
One thing I’ve noticed is that some people just like having an enemy to fight, because fighting for something gives them a sense of purpose, and in America, the enemy to be demonized is usually “Those filthy commies!”, that’s why some people have a habit of saying that everything they don’t like is communism, or they often side with anything that is against communism, sometimes even sympathizing with fascists, and I think this is where the persecution complex with some right wingers come from, because feeling like an oppressed underdog fighting against “The evil commies” feels good to them
Makes even more sense when you consider that America has been at war for basically its entire lifetime
And similar tactics of conflation are being used today to conflate teaching about race and racism with Critical Race Theory.
@@aycc-nbh7289 And trans people. And abortion. Literally anything slightly progressive.
I think the collective psyche got drunk on being the shining heroes who saved the world in WW2 (and aren't adding any of the required asterisks).
One thing that points to this is that in my nearly forty years on Earth, they've always treated nazi and commie as synonymous. And, of course, Islamic terrorists, rich Jews and deviant gays are all supposedly part of the same Satanic globalist cabal as well. US Americans have successfully been taught to be proud of a lack of education.
Yup Only Because it's been the United states Enemy Ideology for Decades now
Americans who think universal healthcare is a bad idea, let me tell you, most people use the NHS in the UK, of course you can also choose to go private and by no means am I saying private healthcare is no good, the UK has very good private care but in America, it seems doctors only want to write scripts because it works out cheaper for the patient and this is profitable for the healthcare provider and pushed by the pharmaceutical industry, this is what has pushed the Opioid epidemic. The NHS doesn't push pills at the mercy of pharmaceutical companies, the right medicine is given at the right doses for genuine problems, it works for the patient not the pharmaceutical industry. New medicines are not withheld by the NHS, when under patent, the NHS will pay what pharmaceutical companies ask for and then once the patent expires, generic versions are given, there's no difference between them. What I find crazy is that there are commercials on TV for prescription medicines which then pushes the patient to go and ask the doctor for that medicine, this is not the way it should work, doctors should be the ones recommending medicines. The UK is far from a socialist state and we have a right wing government, so you're not a communist if you believe in universal healthcare, it's just common sense! Never do I have to worry about premiums,deductibles and crappy US health insurance that is grossly expensive and doesn't fully cover you. The last thing you want to deal with when you're very sick is deal with bloody insurance and medical bills.
Also, can you imagine the terror of so many rich people and companies at ever even trying an economy prioritizing Society rather than Capital? Also, from what I understand, the Red Scare provided dandy cover for clearing out government officials in favor of the New Deal (the original inspiration for the fiction the US is or ever was a “Christian nation.”
society is built on people owning resources and deciding what to do with them. there is no alternative.
Sometimes people own and manage property individually and sometimes together, collectively.
@@johncirilli2499 impossible, the tragedy of the commons would take effect. you must personally own something for there to be a stake in it or diffusion of responsibility will set in
see your ideology was invented before psychology.....very telling
@@007kingifrit Is that why so many officials want to treat money they are distributing as their own and sometimes succeed?
@@wumi2419 no that's because you are passive and we have no accountability. the aristocracy gets away with anything because you don't own guns, and don't hate immigrants thus creating replacements for workers
Chilean Communist Party present, ahora, y siempre!
🫡🫡🫡 so sorry I didn't cover Pinochet, this video would have been 3 hours long if I had covered all of the meddling the US has done
@@LeejaMillerno worries, loved the video
@@LeejaMiller lots of meddling but nothing to show for it
@@LeejaMiller You can cover that in Part 2 and 3
funny story, my friend's mom & grandpa worked in the agricultural department under Allende. they barely escaped with their lives after 9/11 with the Help of the MIR & Cuba apparently
it's because American elite owners correctly identified communism (not marxist leninism) as an existential threat to the existence, not only of their existence, not only to their particular subset of ideology, not only to the national ideology, but a threat to the very notion that a state is a benevolent existence that is symbiotic to you, instead of parasitic to you. American elite owner's aren't actually phobic as the popular milieu likes to portray, (we can extend this beyond American centricity) because while they distort communism in public, (which is why it's so easy and so at hand to portray them as delusional) they privately understand that their way of life, their privileges, their suffering, their mental model of the world, their identity, their possessions, their connections, and their dreams........... are put under threat of dissolution by communists simply existing.
i speak from personal experience, as a Mormon (which as many breadtubers have pointed out is american exceptionalism as a religion) who has unlearned many of the things i was raised with growing up in Utah, and who now identifies as an anarcho-communist.
You left out, that the U.S. Capitalist were terrified that a similar revolution could take place in the USA as in Russia and it all began then to thwart the possibility of people gaining any strength and take away some of their money.
Also the OSS tried to Convince Truman that Ho 5:39 Chi Min was an ally and had lived in New York and was trying to create a country similar to the USA. And just wanted the French to leave but we completely underwrote and paid for the French Indo China war. They lost and we then took over. Look at the old footage the French soldiers look the same as a few years later with same equipment and uniforms. Truman refused to even speak or answer a letter from Ho Chi Min which led us to a devastating war.
okay can we just stop and admire your comedy coming through lately, I love that for you!! def got a good chuckles out of me haha
I hate how this bled into Korea as well, and now my country has been split apart over ideals that weren't even ours in the first place. There was extreme propaganda on both sides and we just became new pieces of whatever weird game of chess American and Russia was playing.
Hey better than being under the fatass up North's rule
Well your standard of living in the south us better than the north lmao be thankful
Take some ownership of the mistakes of your country.
Kim Il Sung did what he did. He was power hungry and decided to try to take over Korea.
Kim is fully Korean.
@@achaean7615 because South Korea is not economically isolated
@@hj8750 amd who was it that isolated the north koreans? It wasn't us, they isolate themselves to such an extreme standard that 5 generations of your family can spend their lives in prison simply because you made contact with a southerner. Use your head, sure there was propaganda on both sides, but the only people to blame for the woes inflicted on the north koreans,, are the north Koreans. They don't want their people to enjoy our luxuries because it would be the end of an empire, their people suffer so people like Kim Jung Un can sit in an ivory tower and look upon a kingdom(one of the last) as it trembles before his gaze
You are kicking ass lately. I am loving the work you have putting in - thank you
I just love your channel ❤️. So much to learn from your videos. Thank you so much
My dad still believes we won Vietnam and Korea. I'm like, how can you possibly believe that?
The US did win Korea, the goal was to protect South Korea. If you start a war to conquer a country and end it without conquering that country, you lose
The widespread belief that the US didn’t lose the Vietnam war is one of the founding myths of the US far right. It is the new “stab in the back” myth.
@nonamegiven Occam's razor
@@davidwright7193 So they would learn to accept the defeat instead of going after the US government.
Chomsky lays out the US goals and concludes they won a good chunk of them. Bottom line, they fed the war machine for another generation - with another generation.
Thanks for doing all of your 'due diligence' to study and analyze US and World history to arrive at brilliant insights into the "Cold War Script" that I was brought up to believe in now matter what! I was drawn into the dilemma of trying to reconcile the contradictions of the 'righteous propaganda' I was brought up on --- and the complexity of international affairs. It started with my opposition to the insanity of the 'Vietnam War' (never officially declared) and the reality that US Foreign Policy was undermining our democracy both domestically and internationally. Then, I went down to the Central Highlands of Guatemala to begin a book --- only to find myself in the midst of a "Civil War" taking place there. I hadn't got the memo --- and eventually learned that certain elements in the USA (United Fruit, etc) were undermining democratic reforms in Guatemala (beginning with the CIA overthrow of Arbenz and the support of ruthless oppressors). I still believe in the efficacy of the ideas informing our US Constitution and am appalled at the malicious corporate Elite who commit endless attrocities in the name of our country. Carry On, Leeja!
I had a Modern World history class in college that focused on the US involvement in central and South America. It was very enlightening. And at a very conservative school in the late 80’s (I always joked that the young democrats club had about 8 members), it wasn’t very popular. Hearing that the old US of A was less than perfect was not what most of those white, middle-class students wanted to hear. But it was the first time I had heard any of those things from that perspective (of the other countries, not the popular media outlets), but it wouldn’t be the last.
How come those who opposed the Vietnam War were never opposed to the Communists that started it? I know some people who are opposed to the Ukraine War, but had it not been for the Russians invading Ukraine there would not have been a Ukraine War, so why is their Ire focused on Washington and not on Moscow? (There are some antiwar protesters in Russia, and many of those are being arrested and or drafted into the army and forced to fight in Ukraine, but those aren't the antiwar protesters in America!)
The antiwar protesters in America are protesting the US sending weapons to the Ukraine Government, because those weapons are killing those poor Russian soldiers who are coming across the border into Ukraine without the permission of that government, and they feel sorry for those poor Russian soldiers that are invading Ukraine and being killed!
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Isn't it funny that those who were opposed to the Vietnam War weren't opposed to the North starting the Vietnam War. I say that war shouldn't have happened, South Vietnam should have been left in peace, the same as Ukraine. I oppose the war in Ukraine and the Russian invaders who started it! So the Russians should withdraw back to Russia, and Maybe the North Vietnamese should stop occupying South Vietnam and return to their country as well!
Thank you for your hard work. Knowledge like this, about the own country and the powers that be, should be part of the standard education in any country in the world. Still, it seems that not many US Americans know this part of the history (and present) of their country.
I certainly didn't know any of this history. Basically just s little of the propaganda surrounding all of these topics if anything it all I'm sorry to say.
Yeo u say all the crap tht swirls in my head when it comes to the issues in American government & it's history but in a super organized way. It's so accurate & well said, even my mom likes ur videos. Can't believe I JUST found ur channel, love it here already
Great video! Just a little correction. Neither Max nor Engles said that a government should control all aspects of the economy. In fact, they were against it. Would be more fair to say they wanted democracy at work with equal distribution of profits. As the main point of your video, Marx ideas are suffocated by so many antisocialist loud propaganda. Few people really read their work that is much more than the Comunnist Manifest. Hugs from Brazil.
Still, communism is akin to fascism. I greatly prefer social-democracy. And fun fact, social democracy gave us everything Marx predicted a socialist economy would give to worker: 40h/week, 2 weeks off a year, 5 days of work a week. Cheap childcare, unemployment insurance, free healthcare, maternity/paternity leaves, and so on, and so on.
@@olafsigursonsFair point, social democracy would definitely be pretty great compared to what we currently got going in the USA. Though I don't think its completely accurate to say communism is like fascism, they are quite different.
I'm still in the process of trying to study it more in depth and its hard to find unbiased sources so I may be wrong about some things, but at least to my best understanding:
Fascism is all about uniting all the people under a "mobilizing myth" (usually a conspiracy theory of some sort) forcing and/or manipulating all people into agreeing on and working toward the same thing. It's inherently totalitarian because it thinks the country is strongest when everyone is in complete agreement and always has a dictator because they think dividing up the leadership will "weaken the nation." Basically it tries to create a Utopia via forced hivemind behavior under a single leader. Fascists have no problem with lying to the public to get what they want (that's kinda their thing) and squashing all individuality for the sake of the nation. They're ultra nationalistic, often to the point of almost deifying the nation as a concept. As far as I'm aware, fascist countries still have private ownership but the dictators micromanage their economies to make sure they always do exactly what they want. So basically authoritarian capitalism, I think. (I haven't gotten around to reading Mussolini's books yet so I can't confirm for 100% certain that that's what he advocated for, but based on the snippets I've seen I'm pretty sure its something like that. Again, lots of information to get through. I'm mostly focusing on Communism atm.)
Communism is all about workers controlling the means of production and having resources be collectively owned. It's broader a term than fascism, but I'm pretty sure the one thing all versions of communism have in common is the goal of eliminating social classes. Basically, everyone should have equal access to resources and no one should get advantages for things they didn't work for. I'm currently in the process of trying to read Marx's works and if I remember correctly it was the communist manifesto where he said we should abolish inheritance and some other stuff like that, which I think is kinda extreme but I guess demonstrates that concept. From what I understand, Marx was super pissed at capitalists for being able to make money they didn't put in any labor for just because they owned the factories so he really emphasized having to work for things in order to get them. Though he does have that famous quote "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," which is usually interpreted to mean accommodating disability and differing skills rather than just forcing everyone to do hard labor regardless of capability (The image I was always presented growing up).
Politically, communism isn't inherently totalitarian or dictatorial like fascism is. I mean, Marx does talk about a "dictatorship of the proletariat," but that just means the workers control everything and combined with the fact that he wanted everyone to be a worker that just means that everyone collectively controls everything and I don't see any way you can fulfill those standards other than a democracy sooooo...... I dunno it just seem like a meh ideology? I wouldn't really complain, its probably better than current America tbh. This shit's miserable rn.
Idk. I generally consider Fascism to be the worst political ideology in existence, but communism? At least based on what I've read from Marx doesn't really seem too bad. Maybe not the best, idk, but not really comparable to Fascism.
Anyway, I've just been super interested in these topics for a while and wanted to ramble about it. I like talking about things but just ignore me if its too long lol sorry
@olafsigurson5333 It wasn't social democracy or liberalism that achieved these things. It's thanks to old Labor Unions that we are not working 12 hours, we can enjoy paid vacations (we have in Brazil), etc. I agree that several Unions have problems, but their destruction incentived by Corporations are putting at risk many workers' achievements.
@@amabeeps4646communism is also based on a central myth about which it has no trouble lying to its citizens to. You're way too charitable towards communism. It's not a system fit for our species as we are simultaneously both cooperative and competitive, so it can only ever result in an authoritarian regime regardless of pretty theory because at prima facie it's not requiring either authoritarianism or a dictatorship.
@@minagica I mean, people always say that but I'm skeptical tbh. I went into reading up on it fully expecting that kind of conclusion but it just ain't holding up tbh, unlike with fascism which definitely still deserves all the criticism it gets. Like, I get where you're coming from, totally understandable, but so much of what people say to me about communism has just been straight up lies (communists are just lazy and just wanna be handed free stuff with no work, communism means you're not allowed to own anything, communism means the rich control everything and poor people starve, etc.) that I've lost my trust in those kinds of statements. Y'know what I mean?
I'm more charitable to it because I see no solid reason not to, but that is also why I'm trying to read more so that may change. Anyway yeah, I personally doubt that because I've been lied to about communism so much that I no longer have trust in anyone's claims about "communism this" and "communism that" without something to back it up, which I hope is understandable. Though 100% will accept any recommendations of further reading material because I am very interested in the topic.
Uruguayan here! my country was also victim of the US war against communism. I loved the video. I would love you to explain how the FF Gitmo exists. What international law void allows for the US to have a prison in Cuba? I just don't get it.
Cuba’s independence from the U.S. was on the condition that the U.S. was allowed to retain Gitmo, similarly to how Cyprus’s from the UK was on the condition that the UK kept its sovereign base areas.
We Pay Cuba Rent Cozy Camp Xray AKA the Spa! Who knows Capitalism Better than a Commie??? LOL!
"When the War ended, 36,000 American servicemen were dead." Which is terrible, but...aren't you forgetting something? Like, maybe, the 2 million North Korean civilians killed in US carpet bombings? "Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - 20 percent of the population...We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea,” wrote Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War.
Over half a million tons of bombs were dropped and napalm and chemical weapons were deployed. "After running low on urban targets," the Washington Post reported decades later, "U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. Although the ferocity of the bombing was criticized as racist and unjustified elsewhere in the world, it was never a big story back home."
So yeah, you forgot the part about millions of civilians being killed. But so did everyone else.
Note: in 1964 US promote a coup in Brazil to not allow a "supposedly communist" president to take the power which result in the military dictatorship until 1986.
Pretty sure what america did was communism on a global standard just by doing that LMFAO
it’d be nice if you could make more videos about the usa’s meddling in other countries’ politics and governments and other affairs (brazil, haiti, italy and so on). anyway, love you videos! 🍀
So you think Haiti should have remained a French Slave Colony then?
Australia too!! Causing a bunch of issues
@@Sagealeena Australia what? Is it meddling in other nation's affairs, like China for example? What's wrong with meddling with other nation's affairs? We trade with other nations, we're not hermetically sealed, thus we meddle. It is the job of the State Department to meddle in other nation's affairs, just having an embassy is meddling!
Italia, Coreia do Sul, Vietnã, Europa, etc etc.......
If enough people thought like you, millions more Jews would have been starved to death. More and more, the facts have proven, few under 30 have even half a brain.
Because ‘obsession’ doesn’t necessarily equal ‘knowledge’, neither ‘understanding’.
Love your videos! Great sarcasm and dry wit while clearly delivering! TY! Just subbed and now going over to your Reagan vid.
“Human right abuse in the Soviet Union”
America: yea just don’t look and Vietnam west Germany nam korea Yemen Afghanistan Iran China chille Cuba Guatemala
ok you get the point
Also, nazi soldiers dont qualify as humans. Lets get this straight, ok?
@@sasho_b. There is a shitty book called "Black book of Communism" in which Nazi soldiers are portrayed as humans and the Communists are shown as Evils for killing Nazis.
Hey Leeja! Just wanted to say thank you for your research. I also want to applaud your use of a second camera, knowing how and when to throw to it, and the editing process you do is all fantastic. I really appreciate the thorough breakdowns I get from your channel. It helps me either understand something I didn’t or couldn’t before, offers a new perspective or bolster knowledge I already held with filling in the gaps.
Lots of love from a queerdo in Canada 🖖🏻🖤
Heather Cox Richardson, Historian, claims that the US obsession with "Socialism" and "Communism" predates the Russian Revolution by at least half a century.
In the immediate aftermath of the US Civil War, ther were proposals to put in place a number of programs to help the newly freed Slaves gain some measure of wealth and property.
As these programs inevitably needed to be paid for, and as the former Slaves were penniless, this would have meant taxing the wealthy White property owners and "giving their wealth to poor (overwhelmingly Black) people". In order to combat this, the wealthy White Southerners labelled it "Socialism" in order to win some "fellow feeling" from Wealthy Northerners (it worked). Shortly thereafter, the US army was used to quell the first KKK. The Political defenders of the KKK, looking across and the then extant Paris Commune, labelled this action (the military protecting Black people from (Wealthy) White vigilantes "Communism" - this was in 1870.
SO, according to Dr Cox Richardson, US anti-communism (and by extension anti-Socialism) is (at heart) a Racist endeavor to ensure that wealthy White people can avoid helping poorer Black people.
Thus, before the Russian Revolution, the Wilson administration began their Red Scare, to quell opposition to the US entry into World War 1 (it helped that Wilson was an overt Racist...)
In the Second World War, both Roosevelt and Truman made it abundantly clear that US troops were not fighting the Germans and Japanese to restore the European Imperial Powers empires.
The Cold War was begun by Winston Churchill, to "encourage" US aid to help the British (India, Africa and Asia); the French (Africa and especially Indochina (Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia) and the Dutch (Indonesia) keep their empires....
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing
Quick note, it could easily have latched onto a new "heart" in the meantime, no matter its beginnings.
There were congresspeople in the 1840s saying abolishment would pave a way to the godless socialism of Europe
Are you sure that the movement against communism is inherently racist due to its origins? By this logic, we should stop driving Mercedes-Benzes and stop wearing Adidas because of their connections with the Nazis. Heck, by this same logic, absolutely every single nation and political system, capitalism and communism included, ought to be abolished because every single one of them fostered evil of some kind.
@aycc-nbh72 lol is it a special talent to miss the point so drastically?
My issue is that anything other than full capitalist behavior is called socialist or communist... even when the things have nothing to do with governments at all. Religious and NGO activity in the 8S is lower than most other 1st world nations because 'that sounds like communism'.
We actually have the same problem elsewhere. Oh, the government is in control of the economy? That means communism. No, monarchy controls the economy. Feudalism controls the economy. Even fascism controls some of the economy. People like easy answers.
@@HallyVee I am actually one of the few folks here in the states that would like to see something a little more stable than a government which totally changes its policies every 2-4 years.
@@leechowning2712 hm, not sure I follow, America has been extremely consistent in protecting the opulence of the minority from the majority roughly since its inception. I suppose, though, the political arena is actually quite free in many other respects, IE, the ones that don't matter to the underlying profit motive. That has certainly led to quite a bit of fluctuation.
@@leechowning2712Then who determines what the stable policies are and what about the people who would then be branded as radicals who would strongly disagree with these policies?
@@aycc-nbh7289 as a very pragmatic independent, I would like to imagine a city-state government because history shows once you get very far above that point, your officials (elected or otherwise) become less connected to the people under them. The states which have the highest approval rates for their representatives are some of the smallest, both here in the US and internationally. The national government I would imagine with elected officials being balanced with people having some form of term limits, other officials having a lifetime position, but with more direct oversight over the laws being passed and the government offices being asked to enforce those laws, and people hired due to qualifications rather than political connections.
I always find it hilarious when Americans refer to California as Commifornia. Most simply don't understand what Communism or Socialism is.