Michael Malice - Why US Intellectuals Supported the Soviet Union
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- Michael Malice explains why so many US intellectuals supported the Soviet Union despite all of its atrocities.
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Are Soviet atrocities glossed over in the West compared to the Nazi regime?
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*Yes it is.*
The interesting thing is that Communism & Nazism are both Left wing ideologies.
Yes, because of who did it. The Nazi crimes are amplified, exaggerated, and shoved down everyone’s throats because the victims wore tiny hats.
The Bolshevik crimes are glossed over because the perpetrators wore tiny hats.
@@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808incorrect.
National-socialism has more right wing than left wing traits.
Nationalism, Homogeneity, low time preference, hierarchy, personal responsibility, conservative values are all very right wing traits.
Socialism and public property are left wing traits, but then again H actually said he believes in private property rights so his version of socialism was more right wing than the contemporary idea of socialism.
So taking all this into account, nationalism-socialism is in fact a centre-right ideology.
Not just glossed over
Out right ignored
I learned 0 about Mao or Lenin’s evil.
@@skillfuldabest Nah, TIK did a deep dive, Hitler was a self-confessed Leftist in MK.
And the Nazi's were a small Socialist party, it was never right wing.
Nationalism can be Left or Right wing, for instance, Ho Chi Minh was both a Communist & Nationalist.
When you’re captured by your ideology, it’s hard for facts to change your mind.
it's so fascinating how Puritans come in so many shapes and sizes
Oof. The NPC’s are hating the the fact I have a law license in California. There’s no convincing me she’s anything but a blithering idiot. Try reading one of her briefs before’16. Embarrassing
Perfect description of a libertarian
"If you think admitting fault causes you to lose credibility, then you never had any in the first place."
-Admiral Fujitora
Their first mistake is assuming that 'the intellectuals' are the ones best equipped 'to understand things.'
Never has been true. Intellectual simply means 'interested in ideas,'--good or bad, insightful or stupid.
Bidenomics may be bad, but it's cronyism, not communism.
Except the bottom half get screwed just like communism. Banning energy that's effective, banning cars and appliances... All is a start. Fake elections...
And poor people aren't starving, they are living on absolute garbage that makes them ill...and overweight.
Sovjetunion was crony "capitalism" to the core and then some. Remember Marx letters to Lincoln after the American Civil war. Guess who's twisting the meaning and concepts of words? 😉
No one said it was. It IS the early stages of an American transition to communism. The decision to chase identity politics is a big part of that.
Which is all well and good to say, but history doesn’t spring into existence from the ether. There are foundations laid down years, decades, and centuries in advance. If you believed that the next existential threat to the Republic will come from the left-wing of this country, which has been shoring up its hold on politics and the media for decades, then why would scrutiny on the Biden administration ever be a bad thing? To call Biden a communist is plainly incorrect, but to identify sympathies or similarities to progressivism, collectivism, etc. is perfectly worthwhile.
What he describes is so similar to the woke movement we are currently experiencing in the West. These devotees of Socialism have so convinced themselves of the utter rectitude of the premise that no fact can at this point dissuade them; they will morph reality to suit their ideal, no matter who has to be sacrificed in the process.
I lived in West Berlin from before the Berlin Wall fell until after German Reunification. Every single leftist belief that I was indoctrinated in about the benefits of Marxism/Leninism as a young man evaporated immediately after seeing how the East German people were forced to live. Capitalism has serious issues when it’s allowed to operate without any constraints, but communism, when made manifest as was done by the East Berlin and other communist regimes, just sapped people’s souls. In less than a year the entire country disappeared, a decision voted for overwhelmingly by the East German people themselves in their first free and fair elections since 1932. They discarded the bankrupt rotting husk of the GDR, a country that survived for 40 years only by being propped up by the USSR’s umbilical and extorting their West German neighbor for hard currency, without a second thought. No matter what, their futures could never be worse than their past under communism. And 35 years on, it really hasn’t been.
“There are many people in the world who really don’t understand - or say they don’t - what is the great issue between the free world and the communist world… Let them come to Berlin!”
-JFK, Berlin, 1963.
I was never taught this in school, and I have a BS degree. Down with the teacher's union.
You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
- some nutjob.
He’s making such a great point about the experimental scientific aspect of the Soviet Union. Everybody talks about the Cold War as two systems against each other, but that’s not the way it started. First, capitalism isn’t a system designed and implemented opposite to socialism. It’s the lack thereof, it’s leaving people alone. The two “systems” didn’t have the same goal. The Soviet Union wanted to transcend mankind and achieve utopia. I’m a libertarian, but even I can find the ambition of the early USSR as interesting and even admirable. Turns out it doesn’t work, but neat experiment. Sucks for the tens of millions who died trying.
What about that idea is interesting? I find it about as interesting a dog thinking a bone is over a ledge and then falling off a cliff. It was horrifying and silly from the start.
Like so much of the USSR's "accomplishments": at what price?
Never read the Tower of Babel
Experimentation is part of empiricism. Glad it wasn't us though...
The basis of capitalism isnt leaving people alone. Its the enforcement of property rights by the government at its foundation. Private property as a concept needs to be rigorously enforced by a government constantly. It isnt just letting people be.
What MM doesn’t understand is that Huckabee isn’t saying we are now North Korea but that those laws ARE North Korean style and they always lead to more and more laws like it.
Exactly. If you can tell me what size soda I can buy, what stops you from telling me what brand to buy, and then from banning soda entirely.
Great questions, great answers.
The chalk talk for communism didn't pan out. Happens all the time in medical research
Marxism and communism are "I can fix him/her" applied to all of humanity, and we know how often that works.
i'm sure many of those intellectuals', ummmm, heritage had nothing to do with it
Antisemitism prevented early entry of these communists into American academia. Only much later did left-wing universities admit that they played a major role in disseminating and legitimizing the work of J "intellectuals" in spite of healthy antisemitic pushback from contemporaries.
Because early life. That’s why. But then again Malice can’t say it because he’s no Pound or Fischer.
Going to a totalitarian state to pocket receipts for a skeptical crowd takes a whole nuther kind of crazy.
I immediately thought about how the media lies about israel in exactly the same way.
They are ALWAYS lying, in an attempt to get you to do something that will allow them to have more power over you.
We all hear the same stories of people being horrified about Israeli treatment of Palestinians. You're spot on with your observation .
@@poorman2457they treat them fine
@@John-bravoooWho builds hospitals or elementary schools over military installations?
@@John-bravooowho builds tunnels in order to attack their neighbor?
This reporters in 30s were like hasan pikers and young turk originations of today.
i recently read goldman. very interesting
Why do they wear headphones when they are sitting opposite each other?🤔
If you actually want to know, Audio University has an answer: m.th-cam.com/users/shortsFp_H4RM3NJo
In short, it makes for a higher quality recording, because people hear what's going through the mics and can adjust their voices so they come through clearly.
“Intellectuals”
What book is he talking about?
The White Pill
Malice is what we call a limited hangout whenever he talks on issues like this.
the reason we keep talking about communism is because we have already started on that road. You dont get there in one day
Socialism is just a step on the path toward communism.
I support Russia not the Soviet Union
Bring an intellectual just means you can rationalize away all your worst beliefs and attitudes.
Hmmmm I wonder if it’s bc they all have similar ethnic backgrounds?
White?
@@MMDelta9je
Jewish
Russians like vodka. I like vodka. so there's that.
Russia is looking like the good guy vs NATO at the moment.
By trying to subjugate it’s former colony?
No, it's not
@@leongremista95 So NATO is the good guy by poking Russia in the eye with a stick?
@@badart3204 All I know is NATO started this fiasco that has cost a million lives. Now, Where does that put Russia?
@@badart3204 exactly.. they have wiped out so many Ukrainians because Ukraine had different ideas of their future than Russia. These people that think that Russia is the good guy here are as dumb as the people that think communism is a good idea.
I like Russian lovely ladies and the pro hockey players.
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