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So THAT'S why my economy always does best in Victoria 2 under Laissez Faire! It's because I'm a useless bureaucrat!
Laissez Faire is gay especially in vicky2. Never let the libtards run the economy.
@@CataciousAmogusevic
I know right? I always have a thriving economy under interventionist Governments with protectionist tarrifs, but whenever the liberals come into power, the whole fucking economy collapses and 90% of craftsmen go unemployed.
@@britishaviator5942 yep, they fucking run the country in to the ground.
Maybe if the capitalists had a remotely decent AI instead of building randumb sh*t everywhere without paying attention to the greater picture...
Fact when your new at Victoria laissez faire recommended
Sickest opening and ending ever. Libertarian-countryball anime series when?
I just ruined a 69 heheh
Monster
Dude, legit, your channel is amazing. Criminally underrated and unappreciated. At least I’ll know I’ll have been a fan of your channel since 5 figures (though that’s not much) when you hit a million. Thanks for the entertainment and for informing me in philosophy, war, and much more now, and hopefully long into the future. I appreciate the work man
The channel is high quality, but this theory seems kinda baloney and it's not how society works. ._.
@@frocco7125Why is that so?
I can't even tell you how much i love your channel. You have been giving me so much to think about in such a fun way. Thanks
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Excellent video, but there's one small problem regarding the grain dole and countryside farms. Mostly that there were none. or rather, they were in a sharp decline. Since the rebublic used a citizen levy system, its long wars meant that the farmers were unable to plant and harvest because they were out at war. When they would return, money having been spent on the equipment needed for the war, the only thing they could do was sell their land to the rich patricians and move to the city. These Patricians merged these farms into massive estates worked by slaves. These estates quickly became inefficient, and urban poor grew in number. The grain dole wasn't just a handout. Caesar also instituted a system where estate land would be bought by the state, and then distributed to the urban poor via a lottery. The idea of the dole was to tide the poor over until they could move onto an estate and become productive.
Yeah the theory totally breaks down when examining the collapse of the Roman economy, which happened as you say because of the massive consolidation of all land, labor, and agricultural capital into the hands of a tiny elite of wealthy plebeian and patrician landholders. By Caesars time, it seems the old-fashioned dream of the virtuous Roman working a small family farm had been shattered by the massive slave labor Latifundia. I guess the most apt modern analogue would be massive companies and retailers out-producing and elbowing small businesses out of the market.
@@thenoblepoptart eh, the theory would still work under the assumption that the government generally protected the rich patricians and helped them buy out even more land, similar to how the government today will assist in keeping certain industries closed to new competitors, or how the marines were used in the late 1800s-early 1900s to enforce the will of the fruit companies in central america. At that point, can you still call it a free market?
@@magmat0585 the government was almost entirely composed of patricians, only those born into patrician families descended from the founders of Rome were allowed to occupy most offices. They made the rules, but also owned most of the productive farmland and industries within their private family estates.
@@magmat0585 It is a free market. Crony capitalism is just capitalisms natural conclusion. Why does the government keep helping the rich? It's because rich people can afford it. Funnily enough if you look at the history of libertarianism you'd find out that the word originated in socialist and anarchist circles and was later appropriated by capitalists. The video specifically focuses on the state as being a threat to human creativity, freedom and productivity through consolidated force but all of those criticism apply just as well if not more to the capitalist organization of the economy. There's a ruling class of billionaires who produce nothing without workers but who believe themselves entitled to the fruit of their labor in exchange for the basic ability to produce and survive. There is a parasitic class in our society and even worse it's not democratic it's a hereditary class, and even worse still, this hereditary class of parasites infiltrate our democracy and corrupt our government, taking from us both our economic productivity and our political voice.
The libertarian theory of history is incomplete when it ignores the socialist perspective.
@@puddleglum9179 Why does the government keep helping the rich? Because members of the government look after their own self-interest. You ought to watch Ezekiel's more recent video on the Iron Law of Oligarchy.
"This is where the fun begins"
Communists go reeeeeee
@@echidnanatsuki882*Laughs in pining modern liberals to the radical left*
@@wofless4429 I don’t care what they are I just want them gone
>Laizzes-nous Faire
>Strong leader in crisis
>government somewhere in the distance that leaves you alone
>individuals let do as they please as long as they don't brake any laws or rights
Did J.R.R. Tolkien had it right with his Anarcho-Monarchism?
... So, anarcho-monarch is best gov by this theory
@@deelightfullp Indeed. Libertarians are just neo-feudalists. He who has the biggest stick, makes the rules.
It's only a little worse than the current - He who has the largest stack of cash, makes the rules.
@@Pernicionit's better if he who has the larger brain leads
@@deelightfullp "Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men" -Victor Hugo
@@deelightfullp intelligent people can be deceiving and cruel.
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*Bonus reading:* Something that our more religious viewers will particularly appreciate is that the two women who developed the Libertarian Theory of History both argued (much to the disapproval of their atheist colleague Ayn Rand and her Objectivist philosophy) that the moral justification of freedom was Judeo-Christian in origin.
The argument goes like this... God is a free and creative being who made man in his own image. So if man is made in the image of his creator, then it follows that man should also be free and use that freedom to create.
Interestingly, Rose Wilder Lane takes this concept even further, and argues that Islam too - due to its own Judeo-Christian origin - inherited this moral axiom. In fact, she dedicated an entire chapter to this point, and goes as far as to describe Muhammad both as a self-made business man and the inventor of trench warfare. (Although that latter claim is a little dubious…)
Christ is King
hahahah, weird enough, that latter claim is not really dubious at all. One of the wars muhammed fought against the non believers is called the war of the trench, where he protected a city by digging basically a moat around a city to incapacitate the cavalry.
@@cykanator2314 actually the war of the trench was actually a battle, it was merely a part of a war started by the Quraysh tribe when Muhammad fled to Medina, in order to recapture him, further, the trench was actually an idea from a companion of the prophet from Iran whom brought the trench idea from that region, in addition, trenches in the battle of the trench was more like a ditch for the enemy to fall into
I'd also add that Libertarianism according to some is a largely a consequence of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Church in europe was an institution largely independent of the state as such it developed a culture which recognises the people as being seperate from the state.
You kinda touched upon it in your earlier video.
please don't say judeo-christian
I learn more from your videos than from 2 years of history of philosophy at highschool. Cheers E-zekiel!
Btw nice use of countryballs as always. I didn’t know I needed to see hero smuggler polandball until now ;)
Well, I wouldn't take Ezekiel as a good source. He provides good videos, there is a reason I have been subscribed to him despite fundamentally disagreeing with nearly all of his videos he has produced, both content wise and fact wise, but he is not a good, objective source of information. Rather, he often presents his own worldview as the objective truth and tries to sell his ideas to his audience. I dont know if this is on purpose or not, but it still happens.
@@HUNDmiau I know, but this guy is clearly a roadsweeper or burger flipper in the making anyway if he thinks that, because I'm qualified in philosophy and politics and see right through this made-up shit. He fucks up right away by not knowing that Ayn Rand only stole John Locke's ideas anyway and repackaged them.
Only a complete n00b to this would make that mistake straight away.
@@Oscuros It is doing John Locke and those of his time a disservice, as they never advocated for lolbertarianism and still saw the faults in their own systems, which from what I see the American libertarians don't do.
That’s a good video and really sums up the theory well. I like the synergy with the video about any rant, you can see her ideas reflected here very easily. But I think this video is missing a bit of criticism, after all the libertarian attempt to explain the end of Rome is famously full of counter intuitive statements, oversights and a weird disregard for the massive time spans that happened between the alleged causes and the eventual fall of Rome. After all Rome survived and flourished, not as a republic, but as an empire that had much more influence on its citizens in nearly every way. Due to my own field of study I happened to be informed about this and thought it would be worth to mention how this theory was criticised over the decades since its inception.
This is not meant as overwhelming criticism, at the end of the day it’s still a Good overview of an little known historical theory, but more as constructive feedback. I hope it’s clear that I overwhelmingly enjoy your work and am always happy to watch your videos.
How exactly did Rome influence it’s citizens? I’m very interested, was it through mass propaganda to support a certain culture, or what?
@@notyetdeleted6319 The empire was far less of hands than the republic was. Tax collection for example was previously a privatized business, but now became a matter of the state. This was probably the first thing an average inhabitant noticed during the establishment of the empire; the state now personally asked for your money. Religious influence also played a role; the imperial cult was obviously an invention of the empire. At times emperors tried to create a unifying element for all romans by introducing special cults for gods, like Aurelian did for the god Sol Invictus. Last but not least the empire also policed it's streets, expanded bureaucracy and something we would call social welfare was extremely important to them, since they were seen as directly responsible for the well being of the urban masses. For some time those policies had to do with the Empire having its political roots in the Populares faction of politics, but they quickly became just roman ideas, not ones of just one faction.
There was such a thing as propaganda, but due to the times it was mostly invoked through buildings. Nevertheless a few works of literature were produced especially under Augustus who supported artists for exactly this reason. Monuments portrayed a kind of divine message for Rome to rule the world and the famous Pax Romana was constantly invoked in public.
But did the Empire micromanage more or less? I don't actually know, bit there are tomes when single leaders are preferavle to a busybody legislature.
HANDS OFF MUH MONY FED BOY
As a turkish man seeing the state of his country spiral down more and more everyday, it is sad to see how close some of this hits home
I'm sorry, but as a westerner I am happy to know that Erdogan does not speak for all of you...
Same for greece
@CHAOSCANDIDATE hell yes
@CHAOSCANDIDATE how so? :)
@CHAOSCANDIDATE not under Erdogan rule and his "reforms"
You are god damn amazing for what you do! To be able to convey ideas, teach history, and discuss literature, while being incredibly enjoyable with crazy good art, is something to be championed by all!
God I love pre-20th century French history.
You had me at “libertarian”
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See you in the fun half!!!
No thanks, I will stay with my Social-democracy (liberal democracy of course, not illiberal "democracy").
I really hope this channel grows, it has such good content
What the Romans? There's still the East, the East survived for thousand more years even with grain dole and chariot race.
Also Roman being an example of "how come it hasn't died yet" (Third Century Crisis would have ended it early, Caliphate would have overrun Anatolia, and Turkey being the last one but they outlived many empires along the way).
The whole Roman example cherry-picks timeline of ~200-300 years. The whole initial fall of the republic has little to do grain dole and more to do with constant wars of the republic and the economic collapse of small farmers (ie the people who served in the army), as well as a bunch of other convoluted factors that include Roman aristocratic system unwilling to reform itself and social contract. Then to serfdom, which while kind of bad idea long term, stabilized empire that was, pretty much, in free fall as its currency, economy, society and military had done everything short of collapse. 3rd century crisis and all.
How can you make a 10 minute video feel like 2? Tho you aren’t libertarian (I’m a Minarchist), we all still can be friends.
What's Minarchisem ?
@@jelkrette1955 someone who want as little government involvement as possible into the society, even less than a libertarian
@@jelkrette1955 Minarchist believes that government is a necessary evil and must be limited only to run 3 things. The Military, Police and Courts. They do not interfere in the economy or intervene abroad (only defensive Armies). Their only job is to protect the people from outside and inside threats and being a neutral ground for settling disputes.
While Libertarians wants everything privatised. Including the Military, Police and Courts. So according to some hardcore Libs, i am a statist.
@@bomschhofmann1644 Libertarians calls me a Statist. It’s a running joke and also a jab at each other around the Lib-Right spectrum of the political compass that “You are not Libertarian enough, Statist.”
Libertarians believe that everything should be privatised. Even the Military, Police and Courts.
But looking at history, these 3 were privatised and it will always favour whoever pays them rather than protecting the citizens. So Minarchist look at it as a necessary evil for the government to have some power.
@@MrChopsticks1-x6g ohh, sorry, I think I mixed classical liberal and libertarian, thanks for the explanation
Black Ops 3 Zombies.
I see, you too, are a man of culture.
Great video! Always a good day when CallMeEzekiel posts!
Theft is not just another way of getting what you want, it is also much easier than work
The entire graphic with the energy producers and parasites hypothetical was a great way to explain multiple layers of a complicated process in a quick easy conceptual manner. Dude. I actually had a bit of an epiphany watching this, knowing the basics behind libertarian ideas. Then onto a generalization of 2 basic human types, and how they have interacted for centuries, and the trial and error of finding the best way to deal with such a dynamic. Good stuff, mate. Knowledge applicable to my day to day life. Nice.
9:42 gave me vic 2 ptsd
You are my new favorite youtube channel.
2:35 is it a reference to defenestration? Anywhere I see a Czech near a window I take a sidestep
I think it is.
Become Husite or get yeted out of window
It's the location of the natural office of the bureaucrat - somewhere between the top and bottom floor.
the begining is just a fucking fever dream and you cant change my mind
2:31 The borders between Canada, US and Mexico
R.I.P. the Gaul Chiefton. His legacy shalln’t be forgotten.
I have seen the thumbnail change. Does anybody know why? The change was from "Respect the NAP" to NAP: Respect it!
UA-cam puts a little graphic showing the length of a video on the bottom right of each thumbnail. The graphic was covering the last word "NAP" on most devices. So since "NAP" was the most important word in the thumbnail, I changed the wording in a way that it would no longer be covered.
I hope this clears things up!
@@CallMeEzekiel It makes sense now.
2:20 is a questionable axiom. Considering how humans managed to spread throughout the entire globe and eventually became the most populous animal on Earth, it is certainly not correct to say there are no natural environments where humans can survive.
I think that statement is stupid as this is like saying a shark could survive in no enviormente when you take away his gills.
Indeed it is stupid, human apes where already high in the food chain because of their biology (walking with two feets, being able to sweat, having thumbs) and because they could use rocks or sticks as weapons
You can quibble with what he said, but without our "reason", we would not rule the earth like we do now. We would be just another animal, and not the transformative force that we are.
In Ireland we have a problem with the housing market problem isn't like the landlord's or vulture funds is the government
Make a video about marxism, please
I would really like to see him cover it objectify as most media outlets these days just put all far left ideologies in the same box with shit like Stalinism or Leninism.
@@jelkrette1955
Marxism had a few interesting ideas, and highlighted some of the deep flaws with capitalism.
Marxism-LENINISM is an authoritarian abomination of an ideology.
@@frocco7125 From what i read it also has very little to do with Lenin. It was Stalin who coined the term in an attempt to associated his dystopic government with the name of a hero of the people. Lenin himself was a flawed man with some bad ideas but with an interesting perspective on imperialism and internationalism.
@@puddleglum9179
Yeah, Marx an Lenin were big idolized figures in the USSR. Stalin just named his insane governments doctrine after them to pretend he was "continuing their legacy" or whatever. It was just branding.
He went from grand strategy tutorials to teaching interesting history awesome!!!
No hints at next episode? Perhaps that means ezekiel season 2 is gonna be announced later.
CallMeEzekiel 2: THE REVENGE
That reading of the roman economic decline is highly questionable and leaves out that the driving force behind the unemployed was the vast quantity of slaves the Romans had taken
You've got it a bit backwards. His take is, somewhat, right. The only thing I would add is it was originally the second Punic war which forced the farmers into the cities, creating the unemployment. The slave based economy didn't come about until hundreds of years later, as an effect of this urbanization and unemployment.
Yeah, it was the wealthy aristocracy that could buy out and out compete the small farmers that caused them to flee to the cities, not the state. In fact the state tried several times to give people more land by carving it out of the wealthy landowners but the aristocracy didn't like that one bit and so killed them. See: the gracchi Brothers.
@@brutusthebear9050 how was slave economy an effect of urbanization and unemployment? And the only time the farmers where "forced into the city's " Was, when Hannibal arrived, but this just gave more free farmland to the farmers (as between 5 and 10% of the male population was dead) and made it bad for a few years, but the farmers didn't magically lost their land.
@@bomschhofmann1644 Razing the countryside doesn't cause land to be destroyed? And we are talking about hundreds of years. It's not like the slave labor popped right out of urbanization. Instead, the urbanization and unemployment led to corruption within the republic, which led to a more authoritarian form of government, so on and so forth until you get to an overreliance on slave labor. Mind you, we are talking about a time frame longer than the United States of America has been around. You are talking about the inevitable Roman economic decline of the Imperial Era. The video and myself are talking about the mid-late Republican Era.
@@brutusthebear9050 well, the land also regrows and with free land, urbanisation regresses (which happend during that time), factors for urbanisation were, that slave planatation outcompeted farmers(a problem already present during the punic wars, but made greater by roman conquest and thus cheaper slaves) and that many farms were estabilsht by former soilders, which had no real knowledge of farming and that mainland italy was a bad spot for farming compared to scilly or egypt, making farming unprofitable and enlisting or having a special profession more viable
Also, you totaly forget to look at the military reforms after the punic wars, corruption was by far not the only factor for a more auth. goverment, the "inevitable roman economic decline" was also caused by many, many factors, from plagues, civil wars, missmangament from local goverments, the low value of the currency to the geographical nature of the empire
those matter are just hugly complex developments, mixing long-term problmes with the actions of some talented, powerhungry man
Will you focus on other ideologies theories of history or just this one.
Always looking forward to these videos, keep up the good work :)
Me: Man CME should do another libertarian-esque video like the monopoly one. Maybe it was just a one-off thing, political-adjacent stuff can be hard on youtube.
CME: *Posts*
Me: *Tears of freedom*
Since you’re doing a video series on libertarianism. Will you do more of these on topics such as the origins of left-libertarianism I.e. Proudhon, kropotkin and the like. Would love to see that.
yeah, the original libertarians
I'm wondering where's liberty in leftist version of libertarianism. It's a form of tyranny imposed by an angry mob.
@@voi_16 eh depends how one sees liberty. Is it liberty to have to work for someone in order to earn a living? Is it tyranny when the boss makes all the decisions? One could say no, that’s a valid position. I wouldn’t say it’s particularly libertarian but hey. If it’s liberty for those who can afford it sure. I’d then say that true liberty would be when everyone could do the work they want to and everyone would need to share the work that needs to be done but doesn’t want to be done. When the business is led democratically and decisions are made via votes and/ or representatives. When manages and bosses are elected etc. and the company is owned by everyone who works there to some degree, not necessarily equal parts. The best thing is, that this kind of business isn’t some utopian thinking, but they already exist. They’re called coops and have been shown to be more efficient, and have happier workers etc. If you’re familiar with mountain gear in the US there is a company called REI. They’re a coop! And they’re doing pretty well for themselves, not small company either.
@@voi_16 where's the liberty in the rightist version ?
@@XenGame In being able to do whatever you want as long as you aren't harming others.
I really want the hero smuggler poland for my profile pic
He got his wish
@@taylor5065 I am now Poland, smuggler of balls.
wait no
Ball pics??
Best intro yet!
Please keep in mind, the libertarian theory of history although very interesting and having some convincing arguments, leads to highly harmful conclusions.
Great video Ezekiel. I’d like to see more theories of history.
I wish there was some criticism in the video because in detail, there are many things that just don't fit into theory and it's difficult to fit a concrete example into this theory
Absolutely amazing video!!! You should become viral!!! And wake up all the zombies in the world. Born free and die free ! Yeah !!!!!!
You know that if we implemented such a system we would end up with a class of extremely wealthy people and extremely poor workers who actually do all the work.
@@jelkrette1955 no this partial incorrect. Yes we will end with extremely rich people and with not extremely poor people. Probably all with all the basic needs satisfied. Because all of them will have works.
@@renatoaltamirano5524 Back in the Gilbert Age when there were no workerprotection laws. People had to work 20 hours a day and had to share one room with 3 other people.
@@jelkrette1955 NO, this happens when the offer of workers are too high and the companies can reduce salaries... But when there are many many many companies... Workers are few and salaries increase.... Basic logic.
"man has no natural environments he is adapted to, and survives through reason"
*sweats in savannah, sweating, opposable thumbs, and the ability to throw objects*
man has the reason to through objects?
Yes, but sweat did not invent agriculture- reason did.
Based
This might sound good, but remember, even if men are free, the economy isn't a man. It is an artificial number made up by governments to "make work have value" but ended up creating one of the largest divides in society. In Laissez-Faire economics, economists care the most about that artificial number rising in size, not the lives of people. All the while leftist theory wants all monetary wealth to be evenly owned by all the people, but because of there not being much growth, everyone is poor. Centrist economics (Welfarism, Market Socialism, Georgism, etc.) keep a good balance of growth and equality.
TL:DR both far-left and far-right economics suck. Centrist economics are the only truly viable option.
Read Mises theory of history, it's another libertarian theory of history a bit older
So this is where bioshock’s great chain comes from.
Loved the video even though i disagree at some points
Me too.
Hey ezekiel
Little question: are you a libertarian yourself?
I just read other comment saying that he's stated that he doesn't completely agree with Libertarianism. That doesn't make it very clear but still, it means he's not exactly a Libertarian.
Friendly reminder that the only nation to succesfully invade and conquer Russia from the west (even if just for 6 years) was Res Publica Poloniae, Commonwealth of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in a war that started and went half the way as completly free enterpraise. And after it run out of funds it was saved by the great man of a king that didn;t raise taxes to help them, but send army made of mercenaries and volunteers. And then was opposed to sunjucation of Russia, cause he already believed there's too much chaos with dealing with republic made of two monarchies that he ruled over and he didn't want to deal with 3rd.
Imperialist and Socialists tried, but it was the nearly anarchical Noble Republic that did it.
I'm not saying it was a right call, but it's just another brick to the argument of superiority of laizze faire. That same Noble Republic also only managed to fail after centuries of no political reform enforced by Liberum Veto, a rule that gave any single citizen the right to block any law, which in turn caused massive corruption and lack of funding for border defense.
Rev up those helicopters
Send in the Tanks
liberty is when a foreign goverment intervenes in your country, deposes your president and kills students and trade unionists to then be a shitty meme by a meme ideology
Physically remove
Bohemia ball talking about flying next to a window... hmmm.
It's nice to hear this perspective on history, and your art is really nice, but this whole theory still seems kind of... abstract and inconcrete to me. Like, it makes some strange abstract models about how productivity works and how its used, and the effects public spending has on society. It's based a whole lot off "great man theory" which is used to defend some very strange pseudo-individualistic beliefs.
And I can't help but feel like this falls in the whole randian logic of "Altruism bad bc the people who preach it are either lying or incompetent", without debunking the beliefs themselves.
Thanks, but no. I still prefer the theory of historical materialism.
Altruism is fine when we "choose" to be altruistic. Force has nothing to do with Altruism. The whole point is to cut off the parasites, which Government cannot do. They can either make it hard for everyone, or make it easy for everyone, or make it inconsistent. All of which suck.
Altruism should be saved for small groups where people can know each other, and keep track of who's contributing. Large societies can't keep track of that, so that's why it's best to let people be free, and figure things out amongst themselves.
Oh yes, historical materialism, the theory which reduces all societies to strict classification of formations yet struggles to give the criteria by which these formations can really be distinguished. Did feudalism exist in China? Or it was Asian way of production? Was USSR socialist, monopolistic state capitalist or it had Asian way of production?
Historical "materialism" suffers from the same problems of having abstract models and and so on.
@@endlesssolitaire731 Yes. Exactly. Obviously so.
@@endlesssolitaire731 I don't understand your criticism of dialectic materialism? What does it matter what we call what china did in the middle ages? The fact that the political structures of different societies vary in so many little ways but remain the same on a larger level is actually an affirmation of Marxist theory since they all shared a similar mode of production (agricultural production) and the superstructures built around them (feudalism) is the natural consequence of that production.
@@puddleglum9179 1) Historical materialism. Dialectical materialism is dedicated to different questions.
2) China didn't have feudalism while it had agricultural production. Therefore there are other crucial factors beyond mode of production.
I love your stuff. But one question, are those English explorers that conquer India really productive, seems like it's more parasitic?
They were productive in the sense they expanded trade & although took energy helped make more energy flow better
Hey. There is polandball with political ideologies and philosophies. Its called polcompball. They have their own wiki and stuff and I think you could use them in you videos. I hope I have been helpful. Now onto the video.
*polcompball
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@@37robinb np m8
Yooo polcompball gang!
Great intro, great video keep going !
*BUT IN A DEMOCRACY, THE GOVERNMENT HAVE BALANCE TO STOP CORRUPTION.*
The government also protects and help the one that pay taxes. That's why s/he needs to pay taxes, to help himself.
In a democracy, 51% can oppress the 49%.
@@shorewall
*No,* That's called "the tyranny of the majority". That's called illiebral democracy.
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Without separation of authorities, supervision and constant criticism, it is not a democracy.
Without media for instance, democracy is almost impossible.
@@user-gr9fq9gt9w I don't think you get to tell the ancient Greek thinkers what their ideology gets to mean. Nazi Germany was a democracy. The US is not
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The US is a democracy and Nazi Germany was absolutely not a democracy.
@@user-gr9fq9gt9w Lol. So I guess you voted for Biden but not for Hitler and think that's how everyone else must have voted. One of those people was elected fairly. by popular vote... in a democracy. A history book will tell you which one
The great man theory of history is largely misunderstood, whenever I see people talking about it it's always in the intention to present whichever other theory they defend. I have yet to see anyone who actually read Thomas' work comment on it.
What does it mean?
@@htoodoh5770 The vague idea is that in times of crisis men are chosen by providence to shape history and take the ideas of an era and bring them into reality. But the problem is that when most people are talking about it assume this means only tyrants are great men, people like Cesar, Napoleon or even Adolf Hitler, this sort of claim is usually accompanied with the "The history of the world is nothing but the collection of the biographies of the great men" quote.
But this view that only Cesars become great men men is completely false and misrepresents what the actual theory talks about. Yes men like Napoleon were Great Men, but so were priests, prophets, poets and many other types of men who also took the ideas from an era and made them reality.
@@htoodoh5770 I couldn't not recommend reading Thomas Carlyle, search for his book, it's called "On Heroes, Hero Worship and The Heroic in History". It's easily found for free download on web archives like Project Guthenberg
@@tiltltt ok
@@tiltltt How much time and energy is spent by Defenders of "Great Men of History" to represent and explain the importance of good normal citizens to the advance and development of Society and History?
How much of that actually translates into the political leanings and directions of most Defenders of "Great Men of History"? Most of them usually make It into Fascist/Francoist/Stalinist leanings.
I don't oppose the Nationalist feeling and values, however I do oppose the political solutions that most self proclaimed nationalists propose to Human Society, which tend to hurt the nation istelf in long run leading to more chaos, conflicts and Misery.
The pragmactic analysis of end results of Napoleonic rule over France, for example, was humiliating military defeat, millions of casualities, economic depression, political authoritarianism, intellectual decadence and ideological fragmentation of nations and people's.
Is there a book out there that explains what is said in this video. I know there are the ones that you mentioned earlier, but I really am fascinated by this idea.
Laissez-nous faire would more accurately translate to “Let us do”.
I really want to give this video a dislike, but I know that you only retell the views of some people, however I dislike this theory a lot because it doesn't consider historical context at all, all of the examples have specific explanation on why they happend, partly because of the state, partly because of other factors
The most ridiculous thing is to connect the grain doll and the establishment of serfdom, which laid about 350 years apart from each other!
Want I want to say is, that any theory of history is wrong as history doesn't repeat itself or follows specific patterns, history is "just" recorded event's which are based upon events happening before them. This theory is way to general to explain history in a helpful manner
Agree. Especially hated the gaulic celt reference
Me too.
i think you got it wrong in the war thing, because there ara some people that say that we don't need a gonverment during war, that we could use private companies. But what i'm saying could be another theory
I have heard it alot, however the problem is that private mercenaries simply don't have the morale a national soldier, who is fighting to protect his land, family and nation has. A mercenary just does goes to war for his paycheck and as such he will simply leave the war when things go awry. We should also remember that one of the reasons the Byzantine empire couldn't protect it's borders and fell was due to overreliance on foreign mercenaries who, as long as they were paid, couldn't care less for the fate of the empire.
@@thebond275 yeah, but the problem is that they morale are low because of the state things, if they didn't did it just for the money, but for they family, and friends and land, they morale would be way higher probably, and the early Roman empire also expanded mostly from mercenaries in the early years, and also Switzerland is a great example, I think the Byzantine fell mostly of a poor management of the mercenaries and poor decisions, and also because of the fourth crusade and they also had some economic problems which didn't helped that much
@@algumacoisa1232 I mostly agree with what you said, however I would also say that had the Byzantines mostly relied more on the thematic army (as it provided a means of cheaply mobilising large numbers of men) and not on mercenaries, since as you said the empire was economicaly crippled, it could have proved more helpful against invaders. However the one most to blame were the self-serving aristocrats of the empire who eroded the institutions of the system and replaced them with mercenaries. Which meant that the empire, even at it's prime, was losing huge amounts of money on them in the long run and in the end could only mobilise fewer men to fight. This also is what contributed in the decline of the navy since the crew Italian mercenaries, afterwards the empire was left broke couldn't defend itself from the naval might of Venice (who also led the fourth crusade). All in all I believe the reliance on mercanaries while can save a country shorterm, we should in no way use them as longterm solution.
@@thebond275 The byzantines would be long gone had the crusaders not intervened in the first crusade anyway.
@@thebond275 i think that if the Byzantine empire didn't had such economic problems it would be way more efficient to just hire mercenaries, cause there's demand in protecting your family and friends, and if you were paid a good amount for that, it would be better, but I honestly believe the major problem with the Byzantine empire was the government it self, cause they made possible the economic crisis and all that, and because of the economic crises, they couldn't pay quite well the private companies. Cause, like you he says in the video, the private companies of Britain practically made the British empire, cause they had to hire generals and have good weapons otherwise they wouldn't be hired, and they also needed to be true to the one that hired them (or just to be true to the morals). so a private company have to be good otherwise they wouldn't exist
Great film!
this guy deserves more subscribers
Very insightful!
is it just me that wants to see an episode on max stirner ?
Yooo spook boi lets gooo
I hope not. The way he presents other topics, I will bet he thinks Max Stirner is a proto-objectivist and thinks he liked private property.
Great video, flawed theory
Yeah take anything radical ideologies say with a grain of salt
My name is Andrew Ryan and I'm here to ask you a question...
The question is:
"Aren feet just socks for our bones?"
This is really great content!
0:20 Nice anime opening
When are more Vic2 videos coming out????
you could have made an anime opening for this video
You should do the Fascistic view of history, Evola or Gentile would be great
Evola was not fasist he was something he himself called spiritula rasist
And after that he should do one on historical materialism, which is the marxist theory of history:
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Then we have all the three big models of history. Capitalism, Communism and Fascism.
Are you kidding? A video talking about state corporatism? Without saying emphatically that it's the best system ever? UA-cam would decree that he be banned from the internet. It would be declared Eziekielrein.
For the curious, this is the song he uses in the video: ua-cam.com/video/Rr3RAlsF2vY/v-deo.html
Yo need more subs
Rothbard is the best libertarian
The intro felt like something out of an anime
"engagement"
Fucking hell yeah Ezekiel
A note from The Truth DiscWorld: "to pull together is the aim of despotism and tryranny." "that free people should pull in all directions for that is how progress is made"
Hey Ezekiel can you do a tutorial on NEO scavenger pls?
0:40 Ad Romam Imperii Gloria!
Would you really consider the French Gaulic?
In my eyes baaarely if at all at this point in history.
Technically they still are, most french words have gallic roots and the Franks were genetically Celtic but culturally Germanic.
In which world does 10% (at best) count as "most of"
French has more German words than it does Celtic, and even then Latin is the majority
wait is ezekiel a libertarian/
Hahaha Reason. Just like the magazine.
nice
4:50 is that Welsh coming for money from Britain? I thought England destroyed the Welsh, and carried the crown back to England. And made them drag those stones to Stonehenge. And they talk funny, that’s all I know. Are they living of Britain now? (Just asking cause: look at my name.)
Is this historically accurate? Like, if you analyze the last scientific discoveries over the origin of the state.
I love the the bavarian and german relation
Libertarianism is based af
Don't tread on me!
no step on snek!
@@zyanego3170No step indeed!
Don't tread on *US*!
@@frocco7125 Socialism detected! ;)
@@morumcadi Well, yes. Libertarianism is after all socialist
What about regulations like a minimum wage or maximum work hours?
All destructors of wealth
What about them? Do you view them as nessecary?
Libertarians “no and I promise it’s not slavery because they could work for someone else or start their own business with no money”
@@testtube70 Yes definitely as with out them workers would just be exploited and socialmobility would freeze.
@@nazarenogabrielmasetto9568 They don't destruct wealth they just redistribute wealth.
Song name?
im not sure victoria 2 agrees with libertarianism
On point!
I knew there was something good about you
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Looking at the current history, the USA are the most laissez-faire economy in the world, and I don't think that what is happening there right now can be called a success story in any way, shape or form, with the gig economy growing at alarming rates.
:..Unless you see the leaders of big businesses and the influential politicians holding back the poor the same way as you saw the altruists and monarchs in this video... but that would be socialism, now wouldn't it?
Current USA is not the most laissez-faire economy in the world. The government scratches the corporations' backs, and the corporations scratch the governments' backs. Small businesses are starved out, and you become desperate to work for some soulless corporation. The corporations get bail outs from taxpayer money, and are called too big to fail. Facebook sells your personal data to the Chinese (and let's be real, American) government. And the government likes it that way, because then they can control and make deals with just a few corporations, instead of a ton of different businesses and people.
@@shorewall That kinda IS laissez-faire (or rather the results of it): No rules, everyone does what they want. And if they want to bribe the big shots they may bribe the big shots.
From a pure arithmetic criteria Ireland is the most laissez-faire economy of the world because state sector is below 25% of GDP.
@Calandiel No. If you are more laissez faire and that makes you a tax haven because this attracts rich people you cannot say that you are not lassez faire because you are a tax haven.
@@larskaiser8131No, it's not. The USA is at one of the highest points of financial regulation and economic interventionism since 2008 yet there are fewer within the oligarchy's circle now than there was in the gilded age.
The average small business or self employed person is strangled by taxes, licenses, minimum wage etc; whilst corpos like Amazon or Blackrock receive billions in tax-payer subsidies and run the printing press to meet their own ends.
People who think that fiercely competitive, free market capitalism just magically morphs into corporatocracy by itself, with no state intervention, have no historical backing for this outside of cartoonish interpretations of the industrial revolution.
It's like they watched Oliver Twist once and that's their source proving capitalism is a diabolical evil that needs to be combated 😂
Epona by eluviete would have been a better opening xD EDIT: Wales would be fine economically if it weren't for that whole raping and pillaging and attempted genocide for about 1200 years.
Well this is a doozy.