@@Hopefilledremnant If you live in the USA, you shouldn't even know what socialism is. The USA was created by people who wanted out of socialist, big gov't , taxation, etc.. The land of the free has no place for socialism. You can move if you don't like it or can't make the cut in the USA. For those who can, there is no better place on earth.
@@littlelarry2912 socialism and “big government” are not synonymous lol. It was caused by brutality, repression, and lack of economic representation in the colonies. Had nothing to do with socialism
“And the more stuff it does, the more socialister the government is” -Fredrich Engels minutes before decapitating hitler and abolishing the pound-sterling
Virtually nobody correcting you all on socialism in this comment section is a conservative. The liberal characterization of socialism as "any government activity" is deeply flawed and basically tosses away all socialist theory. Socialism is not Keynesianism. Socialism is social ownership of the means of production, and unless you're a Leninist, national ownership doesn't count.
White Heterosexual Cis Male "But we are run on socialism" you remind me of an deceitful delusional ex girlfriend who became promiscuous at an early age who said she loved me but was not in love with me. The use of language in modern society is paramount if I was to judge political schools of thought for their criminal use of language liberals conservatives and all that seek compromise must go to the top of the list as their language is most deceptive and manipulative and vague.
***** Do yourself a favor lecture all these scum bag assholes that like and call themselves democrats and republicans social-democrats nationalists anarchists capitalists and libertarians whom in definition I think are all social-fascist murderer warmongers pedofile pieces of shit who are same as Al Qaeda Taliban ISIS Iranian Revolutionary Guards they all SUCK as do you and the fucking tasteless cute video as it is all a piece of shit who should all be arrested tried and shot as traitors: Social fascism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Social fascism was a theory supported by the Communist International (Comintern) during the early 1930s, which held that social democracy was a variant of fascism because, in addition to a shared corporatist economic model, it stood in the way of a complete and final transition to communism. At the time, the leaders of the Comintern, such as Joseph Stalin and Rajani Palme Dutt, argued that capitalist society had entered the "Third Period" in which a working class revolution was imminent, but could be prevented by social democrats and other "fascist" forces. The term "social fascist" was used pejoratively to describe social democratic parties, anti-Comintern and progressive socialist parties, and dissenters within Comintern affiliates throughout the interwar period. Oh and that includes the FBI pigs of the "left" the WWP CPUSA SPUSA SEP ISO etc. as most on the US left are agents.
Jatischar because of the decades of propaganda against the former USSR. decades of misinformation inside the USA for most of the cold war. that's changing though. boomer generation is starting to wear diapers and the younger crowd have never even heard of gorbachev. democratic socialism is now having its long overdue spotlight in america.
+Jatischar Some? We had a Communist Party and two Socialist parties in the 1930's. In the 1950's, we had a massive witch hunt against Communists. It was lead by Senator McCarthy, and in our lower house, we had a committee on unamerican activities. Anybody that had associated with the Communist Party even over twenty years earlier was hounded out of their positions and made persona non grata. It had a devastating effect on our universities and civic organizations. Ever since then, we've had a massive corporate propaganda campaign to equate "socialism" with "communism," until today, the John Birch Society is actually trying to tell us that Hitler was a left wing socialist! You're trying to tell me that only some of us don't really understand what it is?
No its Gov Intrusion and sticking their fucking noses in every crevasse of your life. You idiots really dont understand what Socialism is do ya ? Nazi's were Socialist Pol Pot was too. Lets have a gander at yer beloved Unions. Seen Detroit Lately Virginia and Pennsylvania. Unions did Great and wonderful things, but then they got greedy. Detroit is reverting back to Country side. Bears in the City limits, old Car Factory's Housing them. West Virginia is probably the poorest state. Your Unions ran Mines out of Business. Back Kentucky Hills the biggest Business Hill Billy Heroin Oxycontin and Meth. You best do real research before you totally fuck this Country up. Oledumbass has done a good Job so far dont polish us off with Bern. If you do we will be blaming you and you really dont want that
Yes! I do! and I don't think I'm the only one on this. Every person in america who received a degree in business should know. I am astonished at the ignorance from friends the so called media experts. I can see why people believe in conspiracy theories! I tell my self shame on them they must know what they are doing, it's so obvious they must know they are lining! These clowns point to what are obviously, to any thinking and knowledgeable, one of us to be free market capitalist economies and shout, "See!! Socialism! It has it right in the name you idiot!". I try to explain to these people that that is the political system they are talking about. And it only has very weak connotation even in that respect. It is they very last connotation in the definition, though that in itself is a threat to the current establishment. The Government works to benefit the people. Populist is a less complex word and is a much better fit. They probably didn't like the sound of the word. Socialism did not always use to be such a dirty word. Probably because of widespread misunderstanding among the population at that time. It is obviously a failed system and good riddance. I am afraid the population is still caught up in the angst of the battle to see if we would win the cold war. We did. I knew we would as long as we did not destroy ourselves first. We won it with one hand tied behind our backs, while we were trying to help feed them! Capitalism is the only system that works. OF COOOOOORSE! It just has to be as Ms. Clinton says "Bought to heel." I and Brilliant Bernie would agree on the phrase "Kept at heel" by the power invested in the Constitution. Our generation, unfortunately, looks like we are going to have to convene all the states. I can't believe I'm actually admitting this just now to myself. Maybe it's just our need for self importance right now which is a backlash at the current stress and anger many of us are experiencing. As subconsciously we collectively realize These difficult times for those at the bottom. Some say we should leave them behind. I say no. The complete opposite It's our job as a species to all work together. All of us who have 46 chromosomes. Please feel free to copy and paste this, or just tell me what you think.
@@genebaughbba Do you think a border wall paid for by tax dollars is socialism? I do not but having a hard time getting my point across to a friend. It's gotten to the point where I have walked away. Just because they can't see the difference.
@@JuwanBuchanan Yes I do, it is not an appropriate application to label a country socialist simply because it possesses socialist elements. A more appropriate description of America is: social democray with a mixed economy which is dominantly capitalist. Calling a country socialist implies that all of its means of production are owned by the state.
@@someones5551 if tax payers are the ones funding even part of the military, or part of anything, then that is still Socialism. It's just not a purely socialism based system. Rightwingers like to make excuses for their use of Socialism by calling the Socialism they approve of something else. And no I'm not for the Left either. Both just want us to continue arguing over which side is better, to prevent us from asking the rough questions. Because they don't have the answers, and because once we figure out that they only care about their own interests, and the right and left are essentially the same, we will strat to realize that we don't need them.
Teamototo TV Just because we have socialism integrated into our society doesn't mean we are a socialist country. Choosing not to recognize socialist programs as a form of socialism doesn't change the fact the these programs are a form of socialism. Now if you paid any attention to your high school government/economic classes, you would already know this. Now if you want to see socialist government supposed to look like, look at France and Norway. Now if you want to see socialism fail, add corruption and authoritarianism into the mix. You know, what Venezuela did. Too bad a dumbass like yourself doesn't have enough IQ points to really understand how Government works. Shame really. Such a waste of space too.
nah man, socialism is communal ownership over the means of production, what venezuela has is state capitalism, meaning the function of capital is not abolished but instead taken over by the state, it is clear that you know nothing about socialism, seeing that a simple dictionary search would have cleared up the definition of socialism.
puro catio "State capitalism" is considered socialism, Frederich Engels thought that state capitalism was the last step taken by the goverment to make a socialist country, and this was the main system in wich the Soviet Union was on. So basically "state capitalism" is the last step a socialist goverment takes in order to make a socialist country before it fails.
Just because it is the "step before socialism" doesn't make it socialism, it literally means that it is the BEFORE socialism, and, in any case, marxian socialism is not by any means the only type of socialism, I as an anarchist, am against the notion of a transitionary state.
+Christian Chiakulas I don't believe MLK Jr. ever explicitly referred to himself as a socialist; although, he did once mention a synthesis of capitalism and communism being his ideal economic system.
+Mercurious Magus Cool, that mixture (balancing the "I" and the "We") is actually developing almost everywhere in the world. Unlike what many Westerners think of communism, it's an ideal that has basically NOTHING to do with totalitarianism. This was just the flaw of how it was implemented so far. I guess in the last 25 years many countries have learned, that both private enterprise AND some welfare is necessary.
Dear Socialists, Please consider the capitalism as a superior alternative to socialism. In a capitalist society, you have every right to give 90% of your income and property to the government, AND you can choose freely not to. In a socialist society, those of us who wish to remain in possession of our property are not permitted to do so. Please choose capitalism so you can donate or forfeit your property to whomever you'd like without forcing the rest of us to do so through violence. Sincerely, America
+TheSnorkeler Dear capitalists, Please consider learning what socialism actually is, rather than making inaccurate straw man arguments against it. Sincerely, Socialists.
Chris Wallace Dear liberals, Learn what socialism is, stop calling everything the government does "socialism", and stop calling capitalist countries "democratic socialist". Sincerely, Socialists
Anarcho Communist Dear Socialists You don't have to go balls deep into socialism in order to benefit from a few socialist ideals. You don't own it, so fuck off. Btw, the video is titled '5 Ways America is Already Socialist', they aren't claiming the US is socialist, they are claiming these are 5 socialist policies that the US has employed. Sincerely, Liberals
Socialism isn't reducible to government. I'd encourage anybody who is sincerely interested in a well-rounded and sophisticated understanding of Socialist thought to read the actual works of socialist theoreticians. Namely, I recommend: "What is Property?" and "The Philosophy of Misery" both by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; "Socialism, Utopian and Scientific" by Friedrich Engels; "Self-Government in Industry" and "Guild Socialism Restated" both by G.D.H. Cole; and "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George. All of these works can be downloaded for free onto your Kindles or as PDF docs from the Internet Archive.
Socialism is not when the government takes over the functions of the capitalists; on the contrary, it's when those who work the mill own the mill. The system you speak of is known as state capitalism, made famous by the Soviet Union, and used today in some degree in places like Norway and the US, as shown in this clip.
@@therealist3495 "The people who work the mill voluntarily work the mill. Just because they work it, doesn't mean they get to own it." Yes, and that's capitalism. Socialism is when they do own the mill. The US is not socialist by that definition. Neither was the USSR. Anzus was right.
@@pixydust4112 Socialism will mess up America if people keep buying into this propaganda. These ideas are dangerous. Socialism is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
@@drew786 Socialism is when the government does stuff that’s all it is and communism is when the government does a lot of stuff like what happened with Soviet Russia and cuba
@@pixydust4112 And the more power you give government to do stuff, the more power and control it has over you. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's happened over and over again in history, this time is no different.
I worked for a free clinic in Vancouver Washington and back in 2009 a rep from the local Walmart called me to ask if we would bring out a medical truck to their parking lot. I was appalled. I said no. We already had Walmart employees lining up to be seen at our clinic who were well aware of our services. I've boycotted Walmart ever since.
So if you use a few ideas from an ideology that means you're part of it. Glad to know AJ+'s stance on nuance. So if someone is a liberal but has a few conservative viewpoints, they are conservative. How do people take these guys' opinion seriously?
Awesome McBadass Probably because mostly american watches AJ+. Most american (at least the vocal ones) are really uneducated on a lot of topics. Probably due to the school system in USA.
After reading tons of comments on these socialism vs capitalism type videos, I've concluded that most people don't really know what they're talking about. An even bigger percentage just say stuff they read or heard from somewhere else without doing enough research to really make valid arguments. And even when the arguments sound reasonable, it's mainly based on assumptions and distorted information. One thing in common I found is no matter what the stance is, everyone seems to be quite confident that their view is the right view. We can't all be right. I have the suspicion that we're all mostly wrong. We're all a bunch of kids acting like adults and none of us really knows what the hell is going on.
+scar Socialism is the organization of production to benefit the whole of society. Capitalism is the organization of production to benefit the capitalists, accompanied by the manufacture of an ideology which permits many people to believe that this accomplishes a benefit to the whole of society.
+BIGBADWOOD That's what social-democracy is we used to call it social-fascism or socialist in words and fascist in deeds but so far as social-fascists are concerned Bernie Sanders is better as a social-fascist that the republicans who I would execute for being shit heads.
When she says "America is socialist" she means "[Some of] America is [influenced by socialist ideals]" Which is true. And a good thing. Also, if the military is socialism, then I guess everything the government does is socialist?
Emily Chang Yeah, you're right... We'll get the 52 million people on assistance to start deployments to protect and serve this country. Or at least pick up trash on the freeway.
Holy fucking shit. You seem to have a fetish for military. Do you not know how economics works? Wars destroy real economic wealth, and almost every economist (especially neoclassical people who you would have a boner for) would be against war. Unemployment exists because if it didn't people would starve and die every time they get fired from their job. This is not a scenario where "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" applies. This is the real world, with real people as imperfect as they are, and companies, run by people as imperfect (greedy, myopic) as they are. I'll grant you that unemployment may need to be reformed, but taking it away all together will lead to death and misery by the millions, without question.
I never Heard that Helen Keller was a socialist, I just couldn't See her being one and nobody ever Talked about it to me. Sorry, my 5th grade comical mentality is showing, must be too much Trumph in the media lately.
I love how you failed to mention that those corporate bailouts were also inspired by socialist thinking. But I'm sure that wouldn't have fit with your agenda ;)
I thought Medicare and social security was the majority of our tax dollars not military. Plus when people go to war it's a huge investment for rich people who invest into it.
The rich and the powerful, in free market capitalism don't call the shots in the economy. The common person who freely chooses from whom they purchases good and serves call the shots of the economy, and from there, the common person dictates who deserves to receive their money in a free transaction.
Issue is that monopolies exist and are superpowerful, so you don't even get much a choice regarding what to buy and people just tend to go to well-known brands because convenience and all that, and often these lot monopolise to some extent. Doesn't also help that these people also have connections with one another and can have ways of just influencing consumer purchasing decisions. Facebook is a good example of a company that does this, often by selling user data to advertisers and whoever else will buy a good price for it, and also censoring competition unless they are friends with and benefit facebook itself.
Infrastructure again can be fpund in article 1 section 8 pf the constitution as a means for the military transportation system. If we were invaded the roads would be put under military control.
@@hybridepigenes I just asked a question? If they have these 2 claims, than that means there must be that 3rd claim. Otherwise one of those claims must not be true.
@@matrixman8582 Syllogism can be applied or more often than not miss applied to disparage any position. To do so in favor of false logic is disingenuous. I understand that you do not support her position and I respect that but if you disagree then come out and make a cogent argument.
+Neil M Do you use streets? Do you use money? Do you live in a community of some sorts? Is there some sort of justice system and education system in that community? It's not the question if we need government, but what kind of government there is. As soon multiple people live together, there will be some form of government. The question is what kind of governance. Governance is a social law, it just happens. If you are not interested in your government, it does not mean, that the government will crumble. It means, that people of your community interested in politics will be able to govern upon you, because of your inaction. I give you, that atm US-Government is crappy, true. But to think no government is an alternative is nothing else than falling for the propaganda of those few who profit immensely by directing the government, because of the political inaction of the rest of US citizens. So from my point of view your argument is weak, because it's counter-productive, and short minded.
+MrChillerNo1 I rather spread a girl's legs than Bernie Sander's stupidity. The guy is delusional on economics. I thought we had our worse with odumbass, I didn't know he had a fucking twin.
Still mainly a Capitalist nation, Nationalizing the oil and having a few Social program for the poor does not make it Socialist. Norway due to it's huge control over key economic Public sectors and Cuba are practically the only Socialist countries. Hell, even Mondragon is more Socialist than Venezuela. At best Venezuela is still Social-Capitalist nation. It failure lies in it's governmet loops hole, dependency on oil, and allowing the rich to sabotage its economy and allow Capital to fly out.
The problem here is that none of this is socialism. The government instituted these social programs paid for by the taxation of privatization, not through the distribution of collectivism. Social programs have nothing to do with socialism. It's so sad to see these young people so confident and mis-educated at the same time.
Lol 40 hour work week and minimum wage, and having eliminated child labour aren't socialist ideas they are basic human rights. Unemployment insurance is more of a capitalist idea, if you lose your job in a socialist country you get benefits. There is barely anything about the US being socialist they are all abstract similarities that relate somewhat to socialism.
This video is full of fallacies and misleading talking points. First you must decide what the role of government is. When she refers to child labor laws and 40 hour work weeks, she refers to those aspects of legislation as socialism when that is really when government is supposed to protect Americans from exploitation to enforce justice. Secondly, public safety programs and institutions such as the fire department and the police, are indeed the role of government to enforce civil security and safety. Third point, spending money for defensive and offensive actions that deal with war is without question the role of government because it is the role of government to ensure national security. Socialism is not as American as apple pie, the constitution is. Not a centrally planned system that eliminates prices, places blind trust in government bureaucracies, discourages incentives that are in accordance to our human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. That's not American that's failure.
+Dusty Durr We need to find that balance between Being Capitalist but Having social programs to help those who need help disabled or old. If you stop it from making enough money it will not have the means to support all these social programs plus new ones if they are overdone. Many Europeans like the mixture of having Some capitalism and some Socialism... Either to far one way seems like it does not work good at all....
Jennai Shirow Kind of. But the political party is played by money. They are business factions working for the elite with money. That's how they get elected via lobbying. American politicians hate socialism, because in a socialist country, no one can get super rich. Most of the money is used for the people, not Super Pacs or lobbying. If America became socialist, they would need to be elected by their honesty, not through money, ads, and campaigns.
Yeah I'd say that's somewhat true. True hands off capitalism like we had during the industrial revolution and socialism with benefits for the people don't really mix.
chris chung this is why i made the comparison between liberal and conservatice. fox news are a conservative network and are in opposition of bernie sarnders who is a socialist. im not an expert on this stuff so if this dont make sense thats fine.
Socialism: "A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production distribution and exchange should be owned and regulated by the community as a whole" But who gets to define community? The dictators of the Gulf States? The only thing which is not misleading about this video is that it is filmed in what looks like a run down ghetto. There is a direct correlation between socialism and poverty ...crime ...racism ...oppression ...social disintegration.
Right. The community doesn't make decisions, the Party does, or the inner circle, or whatever it's called. And.......... Want Socialism? Go live in Venezuela or Cuba. This young lady is terribly misguided.
richtxn47 You're misguided as well. Socialism is not the party deciding things and Cuba and Venezula are not Socialist.Venezula is Social Democratic,the same thing this video says IS Socialism.Cuba is Social Democratic(democratic...yeah.) and probably even State Capitalist.I dont know much about Cuba
Dragon boy, you are either naive or an ignoramus. Socialism is not a "party", but a Socialist Party or Communist Party or some other party is the name of the power players organization. I should not have to go over basics with you. Your response is amusing but your ignorance is appalling.
Wow are you an idiot. Socialism is an economic system where the means of production are collectively owned by the workers, and workers are paid labor vouchers in accordance with how hard they work at whatever specific job. The state doing things in a "socialist" country, or a "Socialist Party" passing economic reforms to capitalism is not in itself socialism; rather a means by which to get to socialism. Socialism is supposed to be the transitional period from capitalism to communism; and in communism both money and the state are no longer needed and so are "abolished." By abolished I do not mean they're overthrown (like the capitalist state must be) but rather after a certain amount of time, there is no use for either of these things so they just become obsolete and have no power. I would suggest reading Lenin's "State and Revolution" for a more in depth look at how the transition from capitalism to communism is made; and it's important to understand that the things that happened in the USSR and China were not communism, rather attempts at getting there; failed attempts yes, but it did help both of those countries in the long run.
Sovereign Marxist Wow a useful idiot has called me an idiot. Socialism, communism or any ism based on envy and a desire for state control has one egalitarian result and that is instead of some people being rich and others poor the people are all poorer, and supporting ideologues who find value in the tomes of men who have never run a factory, had a business or worked as a laborer. Why don't you go to Venezuela and tell them how they are one more failed attempt at communism?
they are no jobs that pay enough to cover the necessities of life... for example you cannot live in Los Angeles without making 30+ an hour because rent is to high..
José Pablo Gramajo oh no I was agreeing the question was rhetorical and addressed to the creators of the video, I can see how that was unclear and I am sorry for being confusing
@@artsyrache no need to be sorry. I can’t believe someone is replying to a comment I made 4 years ago hahaha. I hope no one takes AJ+ as a serious and legit news source.
Its nothing new, socialism has always looked good on paper, but liberals don't realize that you cannot have the good points of socialism without the obvious horrible effects. 0:40 To better understand this statement replace the word community with government, in fact to better understand socialism, replace every occurrence of "the people" "community" "cooperative" "public collective" with government when reading its political theories and ponder that for awhile. If you live in America and after reading about socialism with the proper context you still desire to live in that system, please move!!
Interesting, that she equates any tax paid program as socialist. It almost seems like she thinks that any “free” program provided by the government is socialist. And furthermore, she knows we fought to stop communism not socialism right? She started the video by talking about the community regulating the means of production, but since when do the people make military decisions? We have no say until he budget or tactics of the military.
Democracy has socialism in it. Using taxes to help citizens could be called socialism, but it's socialism that passed as a bill through the democratic process in congress. It's what FDR used to rescue America from the great depression.
This is rather funny because Greece's problems are the result of, among others (like poor management), tax evasion. You know, when people don't pay to care for someone else.
Greece does not have a large number of giant corporations as America does. The economy of Greece is supported mostly by small business. To try making small business grow larger, they gave small business a far lower tax rate than large corporations and citizens, as well as providing a wealth of tax loopholes. Guess what happened? The economy of Greece crashed. Instead of easing taxes on business, they raised taxes on the citizens, complicating the issue. That is the problem with that particular nation. Now if you take a look at the US, they are heading down the same path. Giving huge tax cuts to the rich and the big corporations, some of which pay no taxes at all. This is why that when Trump passes his tax plan, big companies and the rich got a permanent tax cut but the citizens tax cut is only temporary. What Reagan did was similar. After his tax cuts, he had to raise taxes again. Guess who got taxed more then? Guess who will get the tax increase within the next decade?
Capitalism: the rich own the means of production and exploit workers. Socialism: the rich have to provide benefits to even out the massive imbalance between haves and have-nots. Communism: the workers own the means of production, there are no rich or poor, society is based around abundance. Private commercial property no longer exists in any meaningful way, and the government's role is sharply curtailed. For reference: the USSR was Leninist-Stalinist (bastardized offshoot of socialism; basically capitalism with one company--the state). The US is capitalist, heavily, with the most minor trappings of socialism. The closest thign to actual communism we've seen is the German model of mandating employee partial ownership of companies (which has worked fantastically well for their economy) and small productive communes where workers buy back their factories and use them to maintain production.
Big Government ≠ Community. We have a word for businesses owned and controlled by the community; they're called *cooperatives*. Social Democracy ≠ Socialism. Macroeconomics, nationalized industries, business unions, and the Welfare State are not examples of socialism. You cannot "collectively bargain" with capitalists, monopolize an industry in the hands of the state, or tax people to pay for corporate wars, and honestly say that you are acting socialistically. True socialism is anti-capitalist, and acts *outside* of the state; however, not all socialists oppose free markets (read Robert Owen, P. Proudhon, Benjamin Tucker, ext). Real socialism is practiced in America via intentional communities, mutual aid groups, cooperative businesses and housing, ext; not through the backwards reforms of statist capitalists posing as democratic socialists.
I just watched the entire 1st episode of socialism for dummies. It was mostly a lesson on what socialism is NOT... And that video and this one contradict each other a TON!! According to Wolff you are talking mostly about State Capitalism.
1:36 famous American socialists: Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller 2:03 FDR New Deal public works projects put a lot of people to work 3:04 hey, remember when the Pentagon only got a measly $600b?
Paying your taxes isn't socialist. Even feudal economies had tributes and taxes paid to the ruling class. Socialism doesn't come in degrees--some things being "more socialist" than others. No! Socialism is the ownership of the means of production. We don't own the means of production. It's really weird how after she correctly defines socialism, she goes on to tries to make capitalist things seem socialist. It's almost as if she's trying to convince people to remain compliant in capitalism. After all, what revolution is there to fight for if we already have what so many say we need? She's a capitalist liberal counterrevolutionary. (or maybe just dumb).
The real meaning of Socialism - various economic and political theories advocating governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. It is a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.
The military is not an economic system, so it is not socialist. The main concern of the military is to protect a country. It is not concerned with economics. In face, because the military consumes and produces products, it is more capitalist than socialist.
She mentioned Hugo Chava's, but she forgot to mention what's happening in Venezuela right now. Plus doesn't Nazi stand for nationalist Socialist German Workers Party . Lol
Go read some history books, dude. Nazi Germany has nothing to do with socialism (just the name of the party, obviously). Hitler hated Marx and everything that he wrote.
all welfare is corporate welfare. as she said, welfare subsidizes low wage workers and allows employers to pay lower wages. there is no way to have a middle class without a labor shortage.
1.Weekends were established first for religious observances: Saturday for Jews, Sunday for most Christians. Child labor was only eliminated after the nation was effectively rich enough to do so. No one sent their children to work in mines and fields because they wanted to, but because they had to in order to survive, just as they had for thousands of years before. 2. Irrelevant. Einstein was a great physicist, but a terrible father; we listen to him for his knowledge of physics, not parenting. Thus Hemmingway for his writing, Houdini for his magic, not their (lack) of knowledge of economics. 3. Public works "which are now crumbling"....because Socialism doesn't work. It's easy to build, particularly on debt, but when there is a lack of economic incentive to upkeep those public works, they degrade. This is why the best roads in Florida are on the Disney resort Properties, why toll roads are run better than public roads, private schools outperform public schools and so on. 4.The Military A. is not "the means of production", and B. the military (like virtually all government programs) is horribly mismanaged with tremendous waste. It's a model of inefficiency at a bureaucratic level. Thank goodness weapons and ships are produced by competitive enterprise, otherwise the military would fail on the battlefield as well as on the ledger. 5.Corporate welfare is awful, like all government forms of welfare. Companies should stand or fall on their own. This is a great case against all socialism. Seriously AJ+, learn a little about economics. And take a look at Venezuela while you are at it.
On the CORPRATE WEALFARE: You can not have it both ways. You can not claim it is Walmart's job to pay wages and taxes if you also claim it is the job of the STATE to take care of the people. In fact if you are pro social side of this you claim it is NOT THE JOB OF WAGES to pay for this stuff. Oh, and can you name one year where Walmart paid less tax than its workforce got aid? Like it or not Walmart pays in more than it asks its employees to take out.
This is social planning. Yes a socialist leftist idea, but actual Socialism is the people having ownership, the workers owning there work place, no capitalist that makes money off there labor. It just removes the capitalist and puts the power in the hands of the people for them to democratically own there workplace together. It’s a pure democracy. Social planning is when the people all pay into a program that pays for its function like all the things she names in the video.
5 ways American workers do not control the means of production
5 ways the workers in Socialist nations do not control the means of production. It's all a big scam, and end up as oligarchies.
West-Kurdistan has workers control of the means of production, halfway a little with capitalists and socialists competing (with 0 taxes)
Also known as: 5 Ways Private Property Is Still A Thing
Regulation of private property is liberalism. Abolition of private property is socialism.
Then why are iPhones so expensive? Because if capitalism the people have all the say in prices if products
“Socialism is when capitalism”
-these fools
Imagine literally reading out exactly what the definition of socialism is and then still not knowing what it is
Yeah that’s her.
@@Hopefilledremnant If you live in the USA, you shouldn't even know what socialism is. The USA was created by people who wanted out of socialist, big gov't , taxation, etc.. The land of the free has no place for socialism. You can move if you don't like it or can't make the cut in the USA. For those who can, there is no better place on earth.
@@littlelarry2912 socialism and “big government” are not synonymous lol. It was caused by brutality, repression, and lack of economic representation in the colonies. Had nothing to do with socialism
She used the definition to prove she is right
thats some next level shit
"Socialism is when government does stuff"
- Karl Marx minutes before creating communism and the universe
We all know that Karl Marx was created by Joseph Stalin!
“And the more stuff it does, the more socialister the government is”
-Fredrich Engels minutes before decapitating hitler and abolishing the pound-sterling
lmao
Stalin was worse human rights abuser than Hitler. So was Mao and Pol Pot. You socialists have a criminal history
Central banks, bail outs are the definition of socialism...
5 ways liberals co-opt the word socialism
5 ways that libertarians/so-called conservatives don't even know what socialism is and just call is "communasm".
Virtually nobody correcting you all on socialism in this comment section is a conservative. The liberal characterization of socialism as "any government activity" is deeply flawed and basically tosses away all socialist theory. Socialism is not Keynesianism. Socialism is social ownership of the means of production, and unless you're a Leninist, national ownership doesn't count.
Liberals are not socialist
I wouldn't just blame them; conservatives have been throwing the word a lot in the US
Democratic/Popular Fascism has been tried, it's bad, like really really not good though.
As a Swede, America is not socialistic.
Bigdawgphilleep We are socialistic with a capitalistic economy, yes. But we are run on socialism.
White Heterosexual Cis Male "But we are run on socialism" you remind me of an deceitful delusional ex girlfriend who became promiscuous at an early age who said she loved me but was not in love with me. The use of language in modern society is paramount if I was to judge political schools of thought for their criminal use of language liberals conservatives and all that seek compromise must go to the top of the list as their language is most deceptive and manipulative and vague.
***** term mixed economy would explain a lot though I would conject that it is impure a whorehouse
***** Do yourself a favor lecture all these scum bag assholes that like and call themselves democrats and republicans social-democrats nationalists anarchists capitalists and libertarians whom in definition I think are all social-fascist murderer warmongers pedofile pieces of shit who are same as Al Qaeda Taliban ISIS Iranian Revolutionary Guards they all SUCK as do you and the fucking tasteless cute video as it is all a piece of shit who should all be arrested tried and shot as traitors:
Social fascism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Social fascism was a theory supported by the Communist International (Comintern) during the early 1930s, which held that social democracy was a variant of fascism because, in addition to a shared corporatist economic model, it stood in the way of a complete and final transition to communism. At the time, the leaders of the Comintern, such as Joseph Stalin and Rajani Palme Dutt, argued that capitalist society had entered the "Third Period" in which a working class revolution was imminent, but could be prevented by social democrats and other "fascist" forces. The term "social fascist" was used pejoratively to describe social democratic parties, anti-Comintern and progressive socialist parties, and dissenters within Comintern affiliates throughout the interwar period.
Oh and that includes the FBI pigs of the "left" the WWP CPUSA SPUSA SEP ISO etc. as most on the US left are agents.
***** Ignorant aren't you that is why you ask questions and want to find out no the less nice police state we have in the US isn't it?
"socialism" means something totaly differend in the USA then in the rest of the world... some of you guys dont really understand what it is.
Jatischar We don't. Politicians and CEOs assume we are dumb and say that socialism is evil.
Jatischar because of the decades of propaganda against the former USSR. decades of misinformation inside the USA for most of the cold war. that's changing though. boomer generation is starting to wear diapers and the younger crowd have never even heard of gorbachev. democratic socialism is now having its long overdue spotlight in america.
+Jatischar Some? We had a Communist Party and two Socialist parties in the 1930's. In the 1950's, we had a massive witch hunt against Communists. It was lead by Senator McCarthy, and in our lower house, we had a committee on unamerican activities. Anybody that had associated with the Communist Party even over twenty years earlier was hounded out of their positions and made persona non grata. It had a devastating effect on our universities and civic organizations. Ever since then, we've had a massive corporate propaganda campaign to equate "socialism" with "communism," until today, the John Birch Society is actually trying to tell us that Hitler was a left wing socialist!
You're trying to tell me that only some of us don't really understand what it is?
+Paul Kent WE OUGHTA START IT BACK UP AND START WITH ALZHEIMER BERNIE. FUCK SOCIALISM IT HAS NEVER WORKED PUTIN EVEN HATES IT
No its Gov Intrusion and sticking their fucking noses in every crevasse of your life. You idiots really dont understand what Socialism is do ya ? Nazi's were Socialist Pol Pot was too. Lets have a gander at yer beloved Unions. Seen Detroit Lately Virginia and Pennsylvania. Unions did Great and wonderful things, but then they got greedy. Detroit is reverting back to Country side. Bears in the City limits, old Car Factory's Housing them. West Virginia is probably the poorest state. Your Unions ran Mines out of Business. Back Kentucky Hills the biggest Business Hill Billy Heroin Oxycontin and Meth. You best do real research before you totally fuck this Country up. Oledumbass has done a good Job so far dont polish us off with Bern. If you do we will be blaming you and you really dont want that
she has no idea what socialism is
Yes! I do! and I don't think I'm the only one on this. Every person in america who received a degree in business should know. I am astonished at the ignorance from friends the so called media experts.
I can see why people believe in conspiracy theories! I tell my self shame on them they must know what they are doing, it's so obvious they must know they are lining!
These clowns point to what are obviously, to any thinking and knowledgeable, one of us to be free market capitalist economies and shout, "See!! Socialism! It has it right in the name you idiot!".
I try to explain to these people that that is the political system they are talking about. And it only has very weak connotation even in that respect. It is they very last connotation in the definition, though that in itself is a threat to the current establishment. The Government works to benefit the people. Populist is a less complex word and is a much better fit. They probably didn't like the sound of the word.
Socialism did not always use to be such a dirty word. Probably because of widespread misunderstanding among the population at that time.
It is obviously a failed system and good riddance. I am afraid the population is still caught up in the angst of the battle to see if we would win the cold war. We did. I knew we would as long as we did not destroy ourselves
first.
We won it with one hand tied behind our backs, while we were trying to help feed them!
Capitalism is the only system that works. OF COOOOOORSE! It just has to be as Ms. Clinton says "Bought to heel." I and Brilliant Bernie would agree on the phrase "Kept at heel" by the power invested in the Constitution.
Our generation, unfortunately, looks like we are going to have to convene all the states. I can't believe I'm actually admitting this just now to myself.
Maybe it's just our need for self importance right now which is a backlash at the current stress and anger many of us are experiencing. As subconsciously we collectively realize These difficult times for those at the bottom.
Some say we should leave them behind. I say no. The complete opposite It's our job as a species to all work together. All of us who have 46 chromosomes.
Please feel free to copy and paste this, or just tell me what you think.
You're absolutely right
Socialism for her is only politics, but is worse is an ideology. My country almost got into it but thanks God we're free.
She doesn't care. She's an Al Jazeera mouthpiece.
@@genebaughbba Do you think a border wall paid for by tax dollars is socialism? I do not but having a hard time getting my point across to a friend. It's gotten to the point where I have walked away. Just because they can't see the difference.
You don't know what socialism is
Either do you. Nobody does.
@@JuwanBuchanan Yes I do, it is not an appropriate application to label a country socialist simply because it possesses socialist elements. A more appropriate description of America is: social democray with a mixed economy which is dominantly capitalist. Calling a country socialist implies that all of its means of production are owned by the state.
@@someones5551 social democracy is socialism…
@@jahbrenpanvilla No it is hardly that simple
@@someones5551 if tax payers are the ones funding even part of the military, or part of anything, then that is still Socialism. It's just not a purely socialism based system. Rightwingers like to make excuses for their use of Socialism by calling the Socialism they approve of something else. And no I'm not for the Left either. Both just want us to continue arguing over which side is better, to prevent us from asking the rough questions. Because they don't have the answers, and because once we figure out that they only care about their own interests, and the right and left are essentially the same, we will strat to realize that we don't need them.
when liberals think they're socialist lolz
wrong your happy to share the glory and success of others and god damn right I'm selfish i traded my life for the things i earned.
Javier C amen!
Right? I hate when they LARP as socialists. They are absolutely insufferable.
Teamototo TV I'm not even American.
Teamototo TV I don't want capitalists to take my surplus value and I really don't care what anyone thinks.
That's not socialism mate.
First Last
Uhhhh.... yes it Mate! You denying it is not going to change the fact that America integrated socialism into its society.
Teamototo TV
Just because we have socialism integrated into our society doesn't mean we are a socialist country. Choosing not to recognize socialist programs as a form of socialism doesn't change the fact the these programs are a form of socialism. Now if you paid any attention to your high school government/economic classes, you would already know this.
Now if you want to see socialist government supposed to look like, look at France and Norway. Now if you want to see socialism fail, add corruption and authoritarianism into the mix. You know, what Venezuela did. Too bad a dumbass like yourself doesn't have enough IQ points to really understand how Government works. Shame really. Such a waste of space too.
nah man, socialism is communal ownership over the means of production, what venezuela has is state capitalism, meaning the function of capital is not abolished but instead taken over by the state, it is clear that you know nothing about socialism, seeing that a simple dictionary search would have cleared up the definition of socialism.
puro catio
"State capitalism" is considered socialism, Frederich Engels thought that state capitalism was the last step taken by the goverment to make a socialist country, and this was the main system in wich the Soviet Union was on. So basically "state capitalism" is the last step a socialist goverment takes in order to make a socialist country before it fails.
Just because it is the "step before socialism" doesn't make it socialism, it literally means that it is the BEFORE socialism, and, in any case, marxian socialism is not by any means the only type of socialism, I as an anarchist, am against the notion of a transitionary state.
How the hell could you guys leave out Martin Luther King Jr.?
+Christian Chiakulas I don't believe MLK Jr. ever explicitly referred to himself as a socialist; although, he did once mention a synthesis of capitalism and communism being his ideal economic system.
He specifically said that the US should adopt "a modified form of socialism."
Christian Chiakulas Oh. Well, if that is true then I stand corrected.
+Christian Chiakulas because he's black
+Mercurious Magus Cool, that mixture (balancing the "I" and the "We") is actually developing almost everywhere in the world.
Unlike what many Westerners think of communism, it's an ideal that has basically NOTHING to do with totalitarianism. This was just the flaw of how it was implemented so far.
I guess in the last 25 years many countries have learned, that both private enterprise AND some welfare is necessary.
Dear Socialists,
Please consider the capitalism as a superior alternative to socialism.
In a capitalist society, you have every right to give 90% of your income and property to the government, AND you can choose freely not to.
In a socialist society, those of us who wish to remain in possession of our property are not permitted to do so.
Please choose capitalism so you can donate or forfeit your property to whomever you'd like without forcing the rest of us to do so through violence.
Sincerely,
America
+TheSnorkeler Dear capitalists,
Please consider learning what socialism actually is, rather than making inaccurate straw man arguments against it.
Sincerely,
Socialists.
+TheSnorkeler Socialists: "but i want to use YOUR money to do good things"
Chris Wallace
Dear liberals,
Learn what socialism is, stop calling everything the government does "socialism", and stop calling capitalist countries "democratic socialist".
Sincerely,
Socialists
Anarcho Communist Dear Socialists
You don't have to go balls deep into socialism in order to benefit from a few socialist ideals.
You don't own it, so fuck off.
Btw, the video is titled '5 Ways America is Already Socialist', they aren't claiming the US is socialist, they are claiming these are 5 socialist policies that the US has employed.
Sincerely,
Liberals
Chris Wallace
The problem is that none of the things in the video are socialist.
Socialism isn't reducible to government. I'd encourage anybody who is sincerely interested in a well-rounded and sophisticated understanding of Socialist thought to read the actual works of socialist theoreticians.
Namely, I recommend: "What is Property?" and "The Philosophy of Misery" both by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; "Socialism, Utopian and Scientific" by Friedrich Engels; "Self-Government in Industry" and "Guild Socialism Restated" both by G.D.H. Cole; and "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George.
All of these works can be downloaded for free onto your Kindles or as PDF docs from the Internet Archive.
Socialism is not when the government takes over the functions of the capitalists; on the contrary, it's when those who work the mill own the mill. The system you speak of is known as state capitalism, made famous by the Soviet Union, and used today in some degree in places like Norway and the US, as shown in this clip.
Yes, hi comrade.
Me too!
Anzus, What the hell do you smoked to make you dumber than a bag of horse crap?!?!
@@therealist3495 "The people who work the mill voluntarily work the mill. Just because they work it, doesn't mean they get to own it."
Yes, and that's capitalism. Socialism is when they do own the mill. The US is not socialist by that definition. Neither was the USSR. Anzus was right.
State capitalism is a redefining of socialism to shift blame to capitalism for the faults of socialism. Socialism is what you had in the Soviet Union.
This is an incredibly misinformed video
First of all it is not and second of all I can already guess you are a trumpie so you probably support the police which is a socialist system
Mr gizmo messed you up 😳
@@pixydust4112 Socialism will mess up America if people keep buying into this propaganda. These ideas are dangerous. Socialism is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
@@drew786 Socialism is when the government does stuff that’s all it is and communism is when the government does a lot of stuff like what happened with Soviet Russia and cuba
@@pixydust4112 And the more power you give government to do stuff, the more power and control it has over you. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's happened over and over again in history, this time is no different.
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest geniuses, was also a socialist.
Yet he didn't stand the idea to live in a ghetto in Nazi Germany which are essentially the only places that represent socialism
"Wow a scientific genius has an opinion on an economic system, we must believe him!!!!!"
I don't think you have read his book. He clearly said "the socialists, not looking out for the bigger part of the Economy, are delusional"
Who cares?
No Albert Einstien were not a socialist.
I worked for a free clinic in Vancouver Washington and back in 2009 a rep from the local Walmart called me to ask if we would bring out a medical truck to their parking lot. I was appalled. I said no. We already had Walmart employees lining up to be seen at our clinic who were well aware of our services. I've boycotted Walmart ever since.
No socialism doesnt allow private businesses
Funding stuff like the military through tax dollars isn't socialism...
These comments demonstrate that capitalism is the religion of America.
yeah and religion is evil
Socialism is the state ownership of the means of production. What gives the government that right?
+The_Dailey on twitter Where did you get that definition? karl marx? or your ass?
*****
I think that goes without saying.
The_Dailey on Twitter during the time it took for you to think of that you could have educated yourself, but you chose not to.
"socialism is when the government does stuff"
lmao
those are your words bud, not the video's
American definition of socialism and communism:
"Socialism is when the government does stuff. And when it does a whole lotta stuff, it's communism."
As a socialist, I can say that *EVERYTHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES IT NOT SOCIALISM*
Is the socialist government telling you to say that
Sorry AJ, Capitalism with a bit of social programs isn't socialism.
So if you use a few ideas from an ideology that means you're part of it. Glad to know AJ+'s stance on nuance. So if someone is a liberal but has a few conservative viewpoints, they are conservative. How do people take these guys' opinion seriously?
Awesome McBadass but america is more socialists than people think..:/
that's the gist of this video, there not communists. -.-
Mister mood but what's wrong with communist????
L'Humanité As history has proven it fails in the long run.
Awesome McBadass Probably because mostly american watches AJ+. Most american (at least the vocal ones) are really uneducated on a lot of topics. Probably due to the school system in USA.
Awesome McBadass So you want to have the benefits that socialists fought for but think Socialism is a dirty word like most dumb foxbots? Typical!
After reading tons of comments on these socialism vs capitalism type videos, I've concluded that most people don't really know what they're talking about. An even bigger percentage just say stuff they read or heard from somewhere else without doing enough research to really make valid arguments. And even when the arguments sound reasonable, it's mainly based on assumptions and distorted information.
One thing in common I found is no matter what the stance is, everyone seems to be quite confident that their view is the right view. We can't all be right. I have the suspicion that we're all mostly wrong. We're all a bunch of kids acting like adults and none of us really knows what the hell is going on.
+scar Socialism is the organization of production to benefit the whole of society. Capitalism is the organization of production to benefit the capitalists, accompanied by the manufacture of an ideology which permits many people to believe that this accomplishes a benefit to the whole of society.
Capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich !
Fuck off commie
+BIGBADWOOD That's what social-democracy is we used to call it social-fascism or socialist in words and fascist in deeds but so far as social-fascists are concerned Bernie Sanders is better as a social-fascist that the republicans who I would execute for being shit heads.
+TheNuttyVegan Yea I got it Back ass word !
TheVeganSocialist the shit holes of the world are socialist countries. I believe you have cancer its obvious.
When she says "America is socialist" she means "[Some of] America is [influenced by socialist ideals]"
Which is true. And a good thing.
Also, if the military is socialism, then I guess everything the government does is socialist?
Socialism is when the government does stuff
-this lady.
This is actually bs...
The military is a service, you serve, you get a check. Welfare, you stay at home, bitch there's no jobs, you get a check.
It is funded and controlled by the government - Socialism.
Emily Chang Yeah, you're right... We'll get the 52 million people on assistance to start deployments to protect and serve this country. Or at least pick up trash on the freeway.
Holy fucking shit. You seem to have a fetish for military. Do you not know how economics works? Wars destroy real economic wealth, and almost every economist (especially neoclassical people who you would have a boner for) would be against war. Unemployment exists because if it didn't people would starve and die every time they get fired from their job. This is not a scenario where "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" applies. This is the real world, with real people as imperfect as they are, and companies, run by people as imperfect (greedy, myopic) as they are.
I'll grant you that unemployment may need to be reformed, but taking it away all together will lead to death and misery by the millions, without question.
Well, that is what Security nets are for ^^
erokk121 Sorry, I just came back from a country that is so economically devastated that hearing 'plight' from 1st world citizens sounds like whining.
If you're angering Fox news, you're doing things correctly
+Omair Sheikh By that logic, terrorists are good.
Jon Michael Walters Uhh what the actual fuck?
Omair Sheikh terrorists anger fox news. Use your brain.
She's not angering Fox News. She's angering socialists by coopting our terms.
@@Tyler-C. yes, they are. I'm a Proudhonian socialist, and I'm pissed off that social liberals are co opting the word socialism.
You don't know what Socialism is.
America is predominantly capitalist though.
All conservatives and liberals need gulaging sigh...
I never Heard that Helen Keller was a socialist, I just couldn't See her being one and nobody ever Talked about it to me.
Sorry, my 5th grade comical mentality is showing, must be too much Trumph in the media lately.
yeah i thought she was in favor of trickle down
I love how you failed to mention that those corporate bailouts were also inspired by socialist thinking. But I'm sure that wouldn't have fit with your agenda ;)
.... that is her whole point. The video is showing how the United States government is, in some ways, inspired by socialist thinking.
Government running schools and infrastructure is not socialism.
3:08 We do not have the biggest military, China does.
China eats dogs and rats I don't think we should be scared
I thought Medicare and social security was the majority of our tax dollars not military. Plus when people go to war it's a huge investment for rich people who invest into it.
The rich and the powerful, in free market capitalism don't call the shots in the economy. The common person who freely chooses from whom they purchases good and serves call the shots of the economy, and from there, the common person dictates who deserves to receive their money in a free transaction.
Capitalists and Christians have something in common: If they actually understood their ideology, very few would subscribe to it.
Issue is that monopolies exist and are superpowerful, so you don't even get much a choice regarding what to buy and people just tend to go to well-known brands because convenience and all that, and often these lot monopolise to some extent. Doesn't also help that these people also have connections with one another and can have ways of just influencing consumer purchasing decisions. Facebook is a good example of a company that does this, often by selling user data to advertisers and whoever else will buy a good price for it, and also censoring competition unless they are friends with and benefit facebook itself.
Ask your parents or grand parents how they feel about your dream AJ.
True
5 ways you have no idea what socialism is
Socialism leads to communism!
Oh yes, I want this millennial that hasn't ever worked a hard day in her life to tell me what I should do with my money.
Yeah, probably better to take money advice from your likely cult leader, the sociopath in the orange clown suit who filed 6 bankruptcies.
@@dh3279 at least he doesn’t tell me what I should do with my money and supported a tax cut that allowed me to keep more of my paycheck.
She literally believes socialism is when the government does something
Spot The Logical Fallacies.
"I dont want to waste my time on that , I should better read the comments" -Me.
Infrastructure again can be fpund in article 1 section 8 pf the constitution as a means for the military transportation system. If we were invaded the roads would be put under military control.
*Nationalism is love for your country. Socialism is love for the individual.*
*It's ok to be a National Socialist.*
Government loves good obedient citizens!
AJ+: America is socialist
Also AJ+: America is killing the middle class
So according to AJ+: Socialism is killing the middle class?
You have little understanding of anything.
@@hybridepigenes I at least have an understanding of syllogism
@@matrixman8582 then you must know what a false one is too.
@@hybridepigenes I just asked a question? If they have these 2 claims, than that means there must be that 3rd claim. Otherwise one of those claims must not be true.
@@matrixman8582 Syllogism can be applied or more often than not miss applied to disparage any position. To do so in favor of false logic is disingenuous. I understand that you do not support her position and I respect that but if you disagree then come out and make a cogent argument.
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+MrChillerNo1 Only the weak need government to take care of them.
+Neil M
Do you use streets? Do you use money? Do you live in a community of some sorts? Is there some sort of justice system and education system in that community?
It's not the question if we need government, but what kind of government there is. As soon multiple people live together, there will be some form of government. The question is what kind of governance. Governance is a social law, it just happens.
If you are not interested in your government, it does not mean, that the government will crumble. It means, that people of your community interested in politics will be able to govern upon you, because of your inaction.
I give you, that atm US-Government is crappy, true. But to think no government is an alternative is nothing else than falling for the propaganda of those few who profit immensely by directing the government, because of the political inaction of the rest of US citizens.
So from my point of view your argument is weak, because it's counter-productive, and short minded.
+MrChillerNo1 I rather spread a girl's legs than Bernie Sander's stupidity. The guy is delusional on economics. I thought we had our worse with odumbass, I didn't know he had a fucking twin.
John Maloney I guess industries will play fair if we politely ask them to do so
One word - VENEZUELA!
Still mainly a Capitalist nation, Nationalizing the oil and having a few Social program for the poor does not make it Socialist. Norway due to it's huge control over key economic Public sectors and Cuba are practically the only Socialist countries. Hell, even Mondragon is more Socialist than Venezuela. At best Venezuela is still Social-Capitalist nation. It failure lies in it's governmet loops hole, dependency on oil, and allowing the rich to sabotage its economy and allow Capital to fly out.
The problem here is that none of this is socialism. The government instituted these social programs paid for by the taxation of privatization, not through the distribution of collectivism. Social programs have nothing to do with socialism. It's so sad to see these young people so confident and mis-educated at the same time.
This has to be satire.
This is probably the most illogical video I have ever seen. Congrats!
Smart and beautiful! Well said my dear, I really enjoyed your video, well thought out and insightful. Thanks for sharing!
ehh wat? plz get your facts straight
Lol 40 hour work week and minimum wage, and having eliminated child labour aren't socialist ideas they are basic human rights.
Unemployment insurance is more of a capitalist idea, if you lose your job in a socialist country you get benefits.
There is barely anything about the US being socialist they are all abstract similarities that relate somewhat to socialism.
This is hilariously wrong.
she was soo off, way off,
This video is full of fallacies and misleading talking points.
First you must decide what the role of government is. When she refers to child labor laws and 40 hour work weeks, she refers to those aspects of legislation as socialism when that is really when government is supposed to protect Americans from exploitation to enforce justice. Secondly, public safety programs and institutions such as the fire department and the police, are indeed the role of government to enforce civil security and safety. Third point, spending money for defensive and offensive actions that deal with war is without question the role of government because it is the role of government to ensure national security.
Socialism is not as American as apple pie, the constitution is. Not a centrally planned system that eliminates prices, places blind trust in government bureaucracies, discourages incentives that are in accordance to our human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. That's not American that's failure.
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You are joking, right? LOL
it is a hybrid, It has some social programs but mostly Capitalist. The Hybrid works th best for country this size.....
+Dusty Durr We need to find that balance between Being Capitalist but Having social programs to help those who need help disabled or old. If you stop it from making enough money it will not have the means to support all these social programs plus new ones if they are overdone. Many Europeans like the mixture of having Some capitalism and some Socialism... Either to far one way seems like it does not work good at all....
@@MrDman333 Agree, and the best way to navigate that balance is probably democracy. We may need a new form of it, but...
BLOWN AWAY!!! GREAT WORK FRANCESCA and AJ+ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your work is great, thank you
would i be wrong in saying that socialism is a conflict to capitisim like conseravative is to liberal?
It depends on what you mean by that
Jennai Shirow Kind of. But the political party is played by money. They are business factions working for the elite with money. That's how they get elected via lobbying. American politicians hate socialism, because in a socialist country, no one can get super rich. Most of the money is used for the people, not Super Pacs or lobbying. If America became socialist, they would need to be elected by their honesty, not through money, ads, and campaigns.
Yeah I'd say that's somewhat true. True hands off capitalism like we had during the industrial revolution and socialism with benefits for the people don't really mix.
chris chung
this is why i made the comparison between liberal and conservatice. fox news are a conservative network and are in opposition of bernie sarnders who is a socialist.
im not an expert on this stuff so if this dont make sense thats fine.
Jennai Shirow Yes because socialists don't just disagree with capitalists, they end their existence lol
Socialism: "A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production distribution and exchange should be owned and regulated by the community as a whole" But who gets to define community? The dictators of the Gulf States? The only thing which is not misleading about this video is that it is filmed in what looks like a run down ghetto. There is a direct correlation between socialism and poverty ...crime ...racism ...oppression ...social disintegration.
Right. The community doesn't make decisions, the Party does, or the inner circle, or whatever it's called. And.......... Want Socialism? Go live in Venezuela or Cuba. This young lady is terribly misguided.
richtxn47 You're misguided as well.
Socialism is not the party deciding things and Cuba and Venezula are not Socialist.Venezula is Social Democratic,the same thing this video says IS Socialism.Cuba is Social Democratic(democratic...yeah.) and probably even State Capitalist.I dont know much about Cuba
Dragon boy, you are either naive or an ignoramus. Socialism is not a "party", but a Socialist Party or Communist Party or some other party is the name of the power players organization. I should not have to go over basics with you. Your response is amusing but your ignorance is appalling.
Wow are you an idiot. Socialism is an economic system where the means of production are collectively owned by the workers, and workers are paid labor vouchers in accordance with how hard they work at whatever specific job. The state doing things in a "socialist" country, or a "Socialist Party" passing economic reforms to capitalism is not in itself socialism; rather a means by which to get to socialism. Socialism is supposed to be the transitional period from capitalism to communism; and in communism both money and the state are no longer needed and so are "abolished." By abolished I do not mean they're overthrown (like the capitalist state must be) but rather after a certain amount of time, there is no use for either of these things so they just become obsolete and have no power. I would suggest reading Lenin's "State and Revolution" for a more in depth look at how the transition from capitalism to communism is made; and it's important to understand that the things that happened in the USSR and China were not communism, rather attempts at getting there; failed attempts yes, but it did help both of those countries in the long run.
Sovereign Marxist Wow a useful idiot has called me an idiot. Socialism, communism or any ism based on envy and a desire for state control has one egalitarian result and that is instead of some people being rich and others poor the people are all poorer, and supporting ideologues who find value in the tomes of men who have never run a factory, had a business or worked as a laborer. Why don't you go to Venezuela and tell them how they are one more failed attempt at communism?
Literally none of these are examples of socialism in America.
Stop caring about me.. Please !!! I'm broke and hungry and I don't want government money. Everybody get off your ass and get a job!!!
they are no jobs that pay enough to cover the necessities of life... for example you cannot live in Los Angeles without making 30+ an hour because rent is to high..
Yeah, houdini was a genius in the economic field 😉
Yes please tell me how a man escaping a box will give the people the ownership of the means of production, I’ll be waiting!
@@artsyrache i was being sarcastic XD
José Pablo Gramajo oh no I was agreeing the question was rhetorical and addressed to the creators of the video, I can see how that was unclear and I am sorry for being confusing
@@artsyrache no need to be sorry. I can’t believe someone is replying to a comment I made 4 years ago hahaha. I hope no one takes AJ+ as a serious and legit news source.
Idk why anyone would think you’re funny
Wow she's beautiful
Is she saying we should tear down our military so foreign enemies can trample us
Socialism in progress. Venezuela. Waiting in line for toilet paper. Real progress.
please AJ you guy dont understand socialism.
Its nothing new, socialism has always looked good on paper, but liberals don't realize that you cannot have the good points of socialism without the obvious horrible effects.
0:40 To better understand this statement replace the word community with government, in fact to better understand socialism, replace every occurrence of "the people" "community" "cooperative" "public collective" with government when reading its political theories and ponder that for awhile.
If you live in America and after reading about socialism with the proper context you still desire to live in that system, please move!!
Don’t know what socialism is ...have you actually read anything about it.
Interesting, that she equates any tax paid program as socialist. It almost seems like she thinks that any “free” program provided by the government is socialist. And furthermore, she knows we fought to stop communism not socialism right?
She started the video by talking about the community regulating the means of production, but since when do the people make military decisions? We have no say until he budget or tactics of the military.
Just in case you were wondering there’s a difference between socialism and crony capitalism
What’s the difference?
@@rapfire2003 crony capitalism is where business are just regulated and socialism is where you divide the wealth of individuals equity
Democracy has socialism in it. Using taxes to help citizens could be called socialism, but it's socialism that passed as a bill through the democratic process in congress. It's what FDR used to rescue America from the great depression.
Go to Europe then. I heard Greece is nice these days.
And please stay there.
This is rather funny because Greece's problems are the result of, among others (like poor management), tax evasion. You know, when people don't pay to care for someone else.
Greece does not have a large number of giant corporations as America does. The economy of Greece is supported mostly by small business. To try making small business grow larger, they gave small business a far lower tax rate than large corporations and citizens, as well as providing a wealth of tax loopholes. Guess what happened? The economy of Greece crashed. Instead of easing taxes on business, they raised taxes on the citizens, complicating the issue. That is the problem with that particular nation. Now if you take a look at the US, they are heading down the same path. Giving huge tax cuts to the rich and the big corporations, some of which pay no taxes at all. This is why that when Trump passes his tax plan, big companies and the rich got a permanent tax cut but the citizens tax cut is only temporary. What Reagan did was similar. After his tax cuts, he had to raise taxes again. Guess who got taxed more then? Guess who will get the tax increase within the next decade?
Capitalism: the rich own the means of production and exploit workers.
Socialism: the rich have to provide benefits to even out the massive imbalance between haves and have-nots.
Communism: the workers own the means of production, there are no rich or poor, society is based around abundance. Private commercial property no longer exists in any meaningful way, and the government's role is sharply curtailed.
For reference: the USSR was Leninist-Stalinist (bastardized offshoot of socialism; basically capitalism with one company--the state). The US is capitalist, heavily, with the most minor trappings of socialism. The closest thign to actual communism we've seen is the German model of mandating employee partial ownership of companies (which has worked fantastically well for their economy) and small productive communes where workers buy back their factories and use them to maintain production.
Big Government ≠ Community. We have a word for businesses owned and controlled by the community; they're called *cooperatives*. Social Democracy ≠ Socialism. Macroeconomics, nationalized industries, business unions, and the Welfare State are not examples of socialism. You cannot "collectively bargain" with capitalists, monopolize an industry in the hands of the state, or tax people to pay for corporate wars, and honestly say that you are acting socialistically. True socialism is anti-capitalist, and acts *outside* of the state; however, not all socialists oppose free markets (read Robert Owen, P. Proudhon, Benjamin Tucker, ext). Real socialism is practiced in America via intentional communities, mutual aid groups, cooperative businesses and housing, ext; not through the backwards reforms of statist capitalists posing as democratic socialists.
I just watched the entire 1st episode of socialism for dummies. It was mostly a lesson on what socialism is NOT... And that video and this one contradict each other a TON!! According to Wolff you are talking mostly about State Capitalism.
1:36 famous American socialists: Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller 2:03 FDR New Deal public works projects put a lot of people to work 3:04 hey, remember when the Pentagon only got a measly $600b?
Paying your taxes isn't socialist. Even feudal economies had tributes and taxes paid to the ruling class. Socialism doesn't come in degrees--some things being "more socialist" than others. No! Socialism is the ownership of the means of production. We don't own the means of production. It's really weird how after she correctly defines socialism, she goes on to tries to make capitalist things seem socialist. It's almost as if she's trying to convince people to remain compliant in capitalism. After all, what revolution is there to fight for if we already have what so many say we need?
She's a capitalist liberal counterrevolutionary. (or maybe just dumb).
You understand that if the community isn’t regulating the means of production, it’s not socialism.
The real meaning of Socialism - various economic and political theories advocating governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. It is a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.
The military is not an economic system, so it is not socialist. The main concern of the military is to protect a country. It is not concerned with economics. In face, because the military consumes and produces products, it is more capitalist than socialist.
She mentioned Hugo Chava's, but she forgot to mention what's happening in Venezuela right now. Plus doesn't Nazi stand for nationalist Socialist German Workers Party . Lol
Go read some history books, dude.
Nazi Germany has nothing to do with socialism (just the name of the party, obviously).
Hitler hated Marx and everything that he wrote.
@@Vchk1917 All centralized government systems are evil .
@@kase3176 Yeah, the world is black and white.
USSR evil, murica good
@@Vchk1917 Freedom over slavery !
@@kase3176 Good luck with that mindset.
But don't forget who invaded another country and started a war just for oil.
all welfare is corporate welfare. as she said, welfare subsidizes low wage workers and allows employers to pay lower wages. there is no way to have a middle class without a labor shortage.
How to be politically illiterate in 4 minutes:
SSI is 1 trillions dollars a year in funding that is almost double our military spending. Where did she get those figures?
Brilliantly put !
1.Weekends were established first for religious observances: Saturday for Jews, Sunday for most Christians.
Child labor was only eliminated after the nation was effectively rich enough to do so. No one sent their children to work in mines and fields because they wanted to, but because they had to in order to survive, just as they had for thousands of years before.
2. Irrelevant. Einstein was a great physicist, but a terrible father; we listen to him for his knowledge of physics, not parenting. Thus Hemmingway for his writing, Houdini for his magic, not their (lack) of knowledge of economics.
3. Public works "which are now crumbling"....because Socialism doesn't work. It's easy to build, particularly on debt, but when there is a lack of economic incentive to upkeep those public works, they degrade. This is why the best roads in Florida are on the Disney resort Properties, why toll roads are run better than public roads, private schools outperform public schools and so on.
4.The Military A. is not "the means of production", and B. the military (like virtually all government programs) is horribly mismanaged with tremendous waste. It's a model of inefficiency at a bureaucratic level. Thank goodness weapons and ships are produced by competitive enterprise, otherwise the military would fail on the battlefield as well as on the ledger.
5.Corporate welfare is awful, like all government forms of welfare. Companies should stand or fall on their own.
This is a great case against all socialism.
Seriously AJ+, learn a little about economics. And take a look at Venezuela while you are at it.
On the CORPRATE WEALFARE: You can not have it both ways. You can not claim it is Walmart's job to pay wages and taxes if you also claim it is the job of the STATE to take care of the people. In fact if you are pro social side of this you claim it is NOT THE JOB OF WAGES to pay for this stuff. Oh, and can you name one year where Walmart paid less tax than its workforce got aid? Like it or not Walmart pays in more than it asks its employees to take out.
This is social planning. Yes a socialist leftist idea, but actual Socialism is the people having ownership, the workers owning there work place, no capitalist that makes money off there labor. It just removes the capitalist and puts the power in the hands of the people for them to democratically own there workplace together. It’s a pure democracy.
Social planning is when the people all pay into a program that pays for its function like all the things she names in the video.
Just because not every single aspect of American life is run by the free market, that doesn't make America socialist
This video has confirmed for me that most people who throw around the word socialism have no idea of its meaning.