So...when is America gonna make the playing field equal so every worker is of equal value? Socialism has not failed all over the world. Vensuala was doing well until the CIA and US took the people's money and cut trade.
@@JTKAMI the S American country that just adopted Bitcoin has "1000" people protesting, because it avoids fees for people sending money home. If we have "1000" people protest the billions of dollars sale of nuclear subs from USA to Australia, would they report it
"Communism is good in theory, but in practice it usually just ends up being destroyed in a military coup financed by the CIA." -- some dude on Twitter.
@wolfman02 hell look at Cuba; a decades long embargo causing shortages and yet I’ll occasionally get some video suggestion on TH-cam on a Cuban “reacting” to entering a Costco
Seems to me to indicate that using a proxy for value that isn’t ephemeral, one that stores value and the power value gives, leans any system with that proxy as a basis for trade and power towards corruption. The answer that homesteader wants is to eliminate currency that isn’t ephemeral. We need a proxy that doesn’t create long term wealth and therefore long term power.
A lot of them are that way because of conditioning rather than being actual bad people. It's why it's important not to give up on reaching them, because by doing so we only shoot ourselves in the foot. Those that are actually vile capitalize on the fears and ignorance and seek to keep these people that way.
@@chickensandwich8808 you also have to recognize who you can save and who you cant. A lot of them, especially right now, cant be reasoned with and are not worth the time or energy you are going to waste, trying.
@@AmFlora 100% agree. It's all about efficient application of time and effort. Some of them don't want to be saved and will resist every step of the way, so there's no use spinning your wheels with them.
Really interesting to hear an American voice talking about social and economic issues with more subtlety than we normally hear on the internet. It's so true that in the US, people appear to confuse socialism and communism with totalitarianism.
"taxing the rich doesn't work 'cause they are too few" But if a single rich guy makes more in a month than the whole population of Alabama, I'd say it would definitely work.
that was the first thing I thought. The guy had no clue how huge the difference is between middle class working "wealth" and outrageous shameless greed of the 1%.
Bezos might out-earn the entire state in a week; he is that disgustingly rich and he knows exactly how to hide it by paying himself in ways other than a direct salary.
@@ryanmckannan2134 Broke: The EU is a bunch of socialist foreigners holding us back from restoring the British Empire Woke: The EU is a way to overcome useless national boundaries that stand in the way of the free flow of people and things throughout Europe Bespoke: The EU is a tool of international neoliberal capitalism to maintain the hierarchies of wealth and power
Again, I am reminded of being in the waiting room of my VA Clinic. I did my thing in the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean in the 90's. I'm getting older now, seeing the Doc more, and now I'm sitting with some Cold Warriors, like my Dad was, before the Covid got him...Vietnam hats, bumper stickers, general grumpiness...And they're bitching about any affront to their ideas of personal freedom being a form of "Socialism"....while they wait for free socialized medical care.
Yes, the cold war propaganda was INTENSE and unless you were smart enough to see through that stuff and question everything you ended up properly indoctrinated. In other words brainwashed. I know because I lived it. As a kid we bought cards like baseball cards that made fun of Khrushchev and allowed us to mix different parts of of the cards to make him even more ridiculous. Like those dress up dolls, overlaying pieces on the base card. Our toys were designed to indoctrinate us for Christ's sake. The duck and cover drills were insanity as they served no purpose against an atomic bomb, but they scared the hell out of most which made them malleable to indoctrination. Civil defense drills for adults served the same purpose. All a well planned, oiled machine to destroy the working class unions and divide the people. These bastards play for keeps and run long term games not scattered battles.
PS those folks are supporting the anti vaxxers as they know that this virus is killing the POC at a higher rate than whites. Genocide in the name of white power. Super spreader events everywhere whites gather. Sturgis bikers, College football games, etc. Most do not see the man behind the curtain but he is there and he wears a KLAN robe or the modern equivalent.
In the east where the bear is dancing In the west where the eagle flies In the middle we stand our ground The forces pull us down down down Tensions on both sides We're paralyzed and victimized We're terrified and petrified Demoralized and mortified Of genocide and suicide And patricide and cyanide We're pacified by every side Force-fed pride and then we die for them We die for them
RomeoGammaBravo, Thank you for your service. Your VA benefits were well and truly earned by you when you entered into a contract with our country, your employer, just like any other company providing benefits to retired workers. They are not available to me or others who never served, so I wouldn't think of them as "socialized".
It's an uphill battle. People don't get how powerful trigger words are when it comes to causing people to refuse information. Hell even the word Trigger has become a trigger word for people to refuse to accept shit people say or do can have negative affects for another human being. Conspiracy Theory was one of the worst ever created because it results in people automatically treating actual things happening right now and "water turning the frogs gay" as the exact same thing. Untraining a brain takes a lot and that's after you manage to convince people their automatic reaction is bad.
@@M.M.83-U look up new car graveyards, food waste, fast fashion waste...there is plenty, but it is tossed to create a scarcity that gives the stuff a higher value.
@@M.M.83-U There would be enough for everyone's "need" if a few people's "greed", were not out there pushing and shoving, to grab for themselves, everything "needful", within their reach. That which is meerly in their sight, they have blocked off so that the "needy" must appease the "greedy" to get access to sustenance.
Beau's message is pretty in line with the lesson General Milley taught Matt Gaetz. Reading about Communism doesn't make you a totalitarian. Reading about history doesn't make you "woke". It just makes you educated.
To be "woke" , it's short for awake or better definition to be aware ok what's going on around you. Your community and your country. To truly be part of that you must be willing to be educated. It you are willing to challenge yourself your preconceptions and not just educated yourself but strive to understand you are woke. Education without understanding is indoctrination, But understanding with out education limits your perspective makes you short sighted. Knowing there is a problem but not wanting to take time the lean how to fix it is complacency. There are those the use "woke" and a slander, like being aware of what's going on around you is a Bad thing, but that's the group think some politicians want to push. The don't want peaple aware. Educate yourself and make sure your understanding what you are learning not just how you may understand something to me but how the person using it means it.
Great video, Beau! Reminds me of my lifelong, best friend who has voted republican her entire life. I have, in recent years, begun to gently point out that her views of right and wrong, the causes she supports, her beliefs about helping the socially, for whatever reason, disadvantaged, etc., are actually progressive values. She resisted this idea at first, but as I gave more examples to back up my perceptions, she began to evaluate the situation and realized that I was right. Through the process of civil, respectful conversations, she gained clearer political knowledge and made a huge leap in self-awareness. She is now registered independent, which I think is fabulous.
Can you write an outline of questions or examples that someone could follow to perhaps be moved liked your friend? I think we all might know someone with similar values to the left but votes right.
@@nowisallthereis I think it's individual to the person, but I can say I just paid attention to things she said in conversation that contradicted her being a republican and addressed them as they came up. At one point it came out that she had registered as a Republican when she first registered to vote and never really thought about it after that. Her parents were Republicans and so is her husband and I think she just followed along, but during the Trump years, she began to question that. She hated him from the start. She really hasn't followed politics closely and doesn't know much about it other than the talking points that make headlines. When I figured that out, I started countering those talking points with the fuller picture of issues we'd talk about; that helped her own ability to think critically to kick in. One example that comes to mind is the trans issue. Her initial view was that kids under 18 were too young to make that decision. First I told her that gender reassignment surgery isn't allowed until the person in question is 18. I then explained what goes on prior to 18, intense therapy, hormone treatment, etc. and pointed out the health consequences - both physical and psychological - of halting treatment once it had begun. She admitted she hadn't thought about it from that standpoint. Finally I asked her to think about things she knew about herself as a child or teenager. I used her heterosexuality as an example and asked how she would have felt if people told her she was wrong and that she was really homosexual and tried to get her to live that way. That really made her think. When the Uvalde shooting happened, arming teachers came up and I sent her a video of Beau's (I do that a lot) that explained why that was a bad idea. The bottom line is, I helped her to think more deeply and critically and it kind of took care of itself from there. I'm not sure any of that would work with a diehard Republican; that's why I say it's individual to the person. Hope that helped you at least a little bit.
It is really easy to do with the US political education. If you have a small garden it is pretty easy to trip into communism. Especially if you don't sell your food.
I remember as a kid watching UN debates during the Cuban missile crisis Khrushchev's response to accusations by US representatives of Russia trying to militarily position themselves to invade and turn the US into a communist country. His response was to the effect that American would eventually become communist without them having to fire a shot....That America would become socialist like "fresh fruit falling from a tree" into their ideology as a natural process.
I started giggling about this heading towards a leftist view as soon as you said the mechanic should own his tools and keep most of the profits from it.
@@julioperez1850 It goes back to Beau's recent video about soft language. If you take away the triggering words and use a description of the ideas instead, most people aren't nearly as different in perspective as they act 🙂
@@julioperez1850 Huh, I thought he was leading up to socialism because of the whole concept of "owning" stuff. When he said "stateless, classless, moneyless society" I was like, yeah _that's_ communism.
imagine that: a country still suffering from the remnants of Mccarthyism, a country in which just mentioning communism is taboo, doesn't know what communism is.
To be fair, there's a difference between being told to read dozens of 19th century books and laying it out for people in a video or teaching the basics in economics class.
-"Socialism doesn't work". I'm Swedish, so I beg to differ. Over here a carpenter or a mechanic can provide for their family plying their trade just fine...
Yes, even here in Australia ‘tradie’ culture thrives. Mechanics, electricians, plumbers, builders, painters etc earn a very good living and have high status. There is still too much wealth concentrated at the top of course but that is a global problem.
What we have in Scandinavia is not Socialism, but Social Democracy, also known as "welfare capitalism", a term of critique used by Socialists. The key distinguishing feature is who owns the means of production (means of production= Factories, Mines, Arable Land, and productive business in general). This video, from one of your countrymen, gives a succinct explanation of it with a few jokes in 11 minutes th-cam.com/video/vyl2DeKT-Vs/w-d-xo.html If your prefer a written explanation, continue below. In a socialist societies the means of production should be owned by the people who work them. (So the only shareholders of a business must be employees, and the board of directors should be picked by the employees. This ownership model is called a Cooperative). And the Ideologies espousing this ownership model as the only way are Anarcho-Syndicalism, and Anarcho-Communism. East-Germany and The USSR also experimented with this business model, but on a small scale. The USSR (and similar nations) mainly claimed to be a socialist economy, because all means of production were state-owned, and as such all business managers answered to the government, which was publicly elected (at least in theory). Hence all business were publicly owned (so, at least in in theory, every citizen of the nation was a shareholder in every company in the nation).
@@frederik7338 Yeah, yeah, but almost all Americans "know" that Sweden "ain't nutting but a socialist hellhole" and they don't give a hoot if we really are a socialist country or not. All they know is that we eat a lot of meatballs, make furniture that's impossible to assemble without an engineering degree, and pay like 90 percent of our wages in income tax for our subpar healthcare system, all whilst committing suicide in huge numbers because we aren't as free as Americans are (at least those that don't confuse us with Switzerland does). All I wanted with my little comment was to poke 'em a bit and say maybe the American ultra capitalist system isn't the best system out there for the working man, and that there are examples of that here in Europe. So fancy distinctions between socialism and social democracy is (I think) maybe a subject for another forum... But of course your definition is correct, so thank you.
They’d quit voting for democrats too. Both parties push neoliberal economic policies & support capitalist imperialism abroad. For rural people to vote in their own interests, they’d need to support an actual leftist party
The GQP party funds the religious regressive community and they sacrifice them self because they are told they are going to stop abortion and they have been using this type of thing since 1973 and it only works better every year and they will never give it up and the regressive party can never let any changes be made to the roevwade case because it will cause them to lose their vote base it is a strange relationship but it works for the rich people who need voters to for the ultra rich donors and don't expect anything in return for their tax dollars so the ultra rich can keep the money
Exactly why I say Democrats need to spend money in the Florida panhandle. However they have ceded it to the Republicans and don't even attempt to educate them. Hence my state will continue to to be trash with people voting against their own interests
@@tylerrice7145 They would start voting for the lesser, until a viable 3rd option happens. Which with more and more people trending towards progressive policy... would be much quicker and likely to happen.
@@donaldbrown7237 The GOP does dupe socially conservative & reactionary working class people to vote against their own economic interests. It’s part of the capitalist system. Take racism for example. Is racism original to capitalism? No. But it is beneficial to the class interests of the capitalist class to foment racism to divide the working class & prevent them from becoming a unified force against the wealthy minority. That tactic is an old one. Use any wedge issue to divide working class people. That way they’ll be too busy fighting each other instead of those that are actually wielding political & financial power. I’ll just add though. The Democratic Party relies on this as well. They take just as many big money & corporate donations as the GOP. They just try to hide it a bit more bc dem voters actually care a little more about it. But when Pelosi says dumb stuff like “America needs a strong GOP party” what she really means is “we need something to point to and say ‘at least we aren’t that bad! Vote for us!”
That's just it. Is it possible to have an economy that works for everybody without the existence of an "out-group" whose poverty "subsidizes" the rest?
@@emsleywyatt3400 that's a good point. Not well versed in economic theory myself. I wonder if technology could become the sub in our society similarly to star trek aka space communism
Was not just the segregated but also the share cropping whites. Then set them to war against each other to distract from what you are doing. Every age of wealth disparity used this same formula. As long as they can split us into groups that fight each other, they win. Solidarity against any caste system is the only solution but hard to find a way so far. In theory Christ laid out the road map but the corrupted that as well. Love one another as thyself. Easy to say but hard to do. Especially with the rich creating ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY. When there is manna from heaven like in Polynesia before the whites came, everyone had enough and war was not a thing.
Thanks for helping me shed my Red Scare internalized bias. I'm early in my journey of understanding concepts I thought I had a baseline knowledge of. Once I became aware of how much of what I thought of as sound information was propaganda, it was time to try to purge the bias. This video has been up for a while now, & is even more relevant today, the beginning of the sixth week of the Ukrainian war. I am glad I am able to view the involved parties with a more clear eyed view than a younger and more ignorant me could have.
Beau’s on a roll. This was audience-participation par excellence too though. People are generally earnest, as the homesteader prompting the video shows If they’re presenting Marxist tenets unprompted, because Beau’s own earnestness encourages them to describe the basic economic issues that affect their lives, then you’ve really got to give Beau’s methods props too. Most of us that’ve learnt to see past the ideological rhetoric have had our worldviews forcibly displaced somewhere along the line, and tend to see Žižek’s analyses as confirmation that it’s hard to produce an ideological displacement any other way m.th-cam.com/video/pIwMIrj5Ulo/w-d-xo.html This’s made me think about incorporating it into tutorials (I teach history & politics) simply because we can see Beau’s video-response and the tweets & comments that prompted it. Pretty valuable tbh
@@geralyn-mm Well Marx used the terms interchangeably because he didn't think there was. One can be a Marxist without being a communist because we could adopt a Marxian worldview on history, social relations, economics and politics without going wholly along with Marx's speculations to their communist-utopian conclusion. For example, when someone tried asking Christopher Hitchens when he'd "given up on Marxism" he replied he never had, that he may not be a communist anymore but he'd always be a Marxist with regards to Marx's "engine of history' (class--struggle etc) because no other explanation made any sense o f history or sociology (I'm paraphrasing, cannot remember the quote verbatim). When you think about the Star Fleet Universe's cashless, post-want, post-market social arrangements though, it's definitely 'communist' in the way Beau recounts. Remember, Marx was an economic analyst of capitalism. He thought it was great but fatally flawed, so volumiously tried identifying the flaw. He didn't write much about what communism would ultimately look like though because he believed that once humanity had achieved a cashless, post-want, post-market and post bourgeois liberal-democracy social arrangements, communism itself would be the product of highly participatory 'communes' that'd give it a more organic and less prescriptive shape than he ever could (think the Jewish kibbutz, in the early developments of the now Israeli state). Very Star Fleet in some ways, when you think about it.
Awww...dont just tell folks about how hard learning is as process, tell us how satisfied you were when it all clicked and you felt like you really achieved learning something of value...Its a great feeling that happens to me when I study up on details of history and I never went to college or university.
No joke. I read some pretty hefty stuff - my favorite comfort book is History of Western Philosophy. But getting through Das Capital and Wealth of Nations were some tough slogs. There’s only so many charts on wool prices in the 1700’s a girl can sustain focus for.
Aside from the very historically-specific bits, like the various types of socialism and communism that pre-existed the organization he was writing for and how his related to them, and things of that nature, I found it a surprisingly engaging read - the very beginning where he describes how capitalism first took over from feudalism is _lightning_ prose
@dwc1964 i actually thought the beginning was the worst part for me to get through lol. i love the second half of the first chapter and the second chapter though. just banger after banger quotes
"The reddest of the red proletarians, when asked what they wished for, wanted higher wages, a shorter day, and longer rests, and aspired to have a small cottage with a garden to call their own."
Sounds like what they are doing in Scandinavian countries. (But we don’t talk about successful democratic socialist countries in the US only Venezuela )
@@theinvisiblewoman5709 I have always found it curious that Scandinavian countries and their apparent success at democratic socialism are NEVER brought up. It's frustrating and discouraging.
@@amysk2157 it’s not that it is never brought up, it’s that when it is, we get a yelled reply of Venezuela and China as a rebuttal even though China isn’t a true communist nation and Venezuela is a nation abused by foreign interest in which US Naval ships literally block medicine and food from entering the country while politicians say “Socialism leads to starvation!”
As someone who lives in the city and earns less than the average for someone in my demographic with my education and who teaches kids from low income communities, I'm real sick and tired of comments about about "throwing money at the problems" doesn't do anything. Throwing money at serious social ills may not solve them, and it may not be the most efficient of solutions, but it sure as hell does help. For those who are truly desperate, it helps A LOT. For those who are not desperate but vulnerable, it can make the difference between stability and destitution. Not everyone can be a homesteader, and people getting help from government programs aren't lazy.
Commonly, people love to opine about issues they don't or can't see up close. Also, there's a pretty common fallacy out there, always conveniently applied to policies the speakers oppose but never the ones they favor, that claims incrementalism is worthless, that a solution must work *totally* to be worth implementing, e.g. if the government spends to alleviate poverty but there are still poor people, then that money is just wasted. I too have taught school in a low-income area, and it made me appreciate exactly the thing you pointed out, Percy. It also made me beyond exasperated with America's funding model for public schools, where roughly 45% of funds are sourced from local governments (read: sales and property taxes), which is a recipe for cyclical poverty.
@@joshualavender YEAH the old "Well I gave them $20 on Tuesday in January '08 so he should be living really good right now. . ." BS. They never take into the account that when you initially give somebody that money, they STILL have to go back and pay off the bills that they weren't making from the previous months without money. THEN, they have to break even. After they break even then they have to establish a foundation where they're starting to make money instead of lose money. It can take decades to "invest" in the turnaround, but by the time folks get close to the rebound. . ? Here comes another round of "ThEy aRe LazY, LiVinG ofF MuH tAxes!!!". And the cuts come in starting it all over again.
Poor kids, kids from troubled families need HELP! They are our FuTURE! Thank God Calif. Is going to help feed them. Helps their BRAINS, etc. Be kind to everyone! You don't know what they are going through sometimes!! Esp. be kind to children at school!! Help them LOVE school! And learning! Thank God for kind and Good teachers! Better pay for teachers is needed!
As a farm Mama, I"ve given spinning wheel lessons, and been paid in alpaca fiber and raw Romney fleece. I've traded fiber rabbits for fleece, carding lessons for homemade soaps, and eggs for homemade bratwurst. This is how we function.
The US back then was also a little more “socialist” if I do recall, and during those times he’s talking about the taxes on the rich were much higher. Hell, land lording was even more regulated.
@Cooper Truth. In reality, nobody paid that highest rate (91%), BUT, the effective rate was OVER 70%! Business tax revenues covered over a third of the total Federal Budget back then (I can't believe I just typed 'back then')LOL. Now, they cover less than 8% of it. Working class people were buying homes, moving to the 'burbs' and rising into Middle class people. 1 out of every 3 workers carried a Union book. Now, it's 1 in 10. And people are astonished that their wages crawl far behind the cost of living. We were just white, middle class kids growing up in a paradise that we couldn't imagine would change. But, It's not a myth. I was a lucky witness. No, this is NOT a suicide note! Read on... I've watched America"s social advancements (Civil Rights Acts, Women's Rights, LBGTQ Rights, Gay marriage..BLM....etc) and its environmental awareness get fired up (hell before the EPA, I remember when that river in Cleveland caught fire and summer days in Brooklyn when Mom wouldn't let us kids leave the apartment because the air was so bad). I watched with great pride and satisfaction. But, I've also watched the return of the Gilded Age Economy and Social Darwinism. I"ve watched as the amount of money that was spent to get elected sky-rocketed. Which, naturally, increased the "buying power" of the growing uber-wealthy class and Big Business. Till the vast majority of OUR "political servants" became THEIRS, pretty much exclusively. Then, a 20 year long Wet Dream for the Military Industrial Complex, followed by a Pandemic. It is disheartening. But I remember. There was a place called Camelot. It wasn't a myth. I remember and if it was created once... it can be created again. I am Not going 'gentle into that good night', I'm gonna 'rage, Rage, against the dying of the Light'. Publicly Funded Campaigns / Elections (you know, Actually Drain the Swamp by cutting off the supply) and Tax the Wealthy (everyone Knows they can afford it)....And Shit, we could be more than 1/2 there.(and No, I'm not on the pipe). It's STILL doable. Hope I meet you there..
I love when people who are against tax increases on corporations and the rich also romanticize a time when taxes on corporations and the rich were much much higher then they are now.
I was laughing so hard as you read the letter. You have more patience than me with this. I just roll my eyes when they say “progressives/leftists are so dumb… they should..” and then goes on to describe far left ideas. But they don’t listen to me; my tiny woman brain doesn’t know things (ignore that I tutored half these people 15-20 years ago and that I have 2 social science degrees 😒)
Fwiw, from what I can tell, it seems like it's easier for men to have patience than it is for women to have patience. Not because of any character trait, but because the patience isn't all spent on trying to be heard, believed, or respected. Especially in their field of expertise. And also especially in mundane day to day interactions. 🤷🏻♂️ Getting that veil peeled back was not easy or painless, but once I saw it, it is staggering what women have to put up with every day.
In a way, but I think the bigger overall point is that words in genera, have absolutely no meaning in the MAGA GOP. There are no facts, there is no reality. It’s very much like a mass psychosis has gripped 50+ million of ye. Maybe somebody needs to start adding Thorazine into the tap water
"Everything I don't like is socialist!" "Anything I don't like is communist!" Translation: Everybody must be just exactly like me or I will hate them to the core of my being."
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Could you leave a link to the shirt you wear under every video? I usually dont care about merchandise, but your shirts get the message across
Thank you for tackling this. So often I find myself rolling my eyes whenever words like "socialism" or "communism" or "Marxism" are mentioned in media or even in conversation. The well has been so poisoned over the decades that people use them without even knowing what they actually are
That poisoning of the definitions was A DELIBERATE PLAN BY THE OLIGARCHS. Massive propaganda used to muddy the waters. The Rich do not fight fairly. This class warfare they started is a dirty back alley fight, not a boxing match.
Is there anything else that can call itself communism? Wasn't the rest "Real existierender Sozialismus" and so something that was to come before communism, at least in theory? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_socialism
@@irgendwieanders2121 I cannot answer that question with a "hard and fast" fact, sadly, because I simply don't know enough about it to not look at it without my own perception of the matter coming in the way. What I can tell you, though, is that often in Western common parliance we call Real existienrender Sozialismus communism, regardless of whether it is actual communism or not (or, in other words, regardless of what either Real existienrender Sozialismus or communism are). Personally, I consider communism only what is outlined in the Manifesto of the Communist Party (the one wrote by Marx and Engels) and Das Kapital, but that's MY personal take on it and, therefore, without any factual worth (i.e. how I see things, not necessarily how things are). To some extent, it shares similarities with which Christian schism considers canon which books.
We need more of this, Beau. When people harp about commies in their midst, they fail to realize that communism, like capitalism, is an economic system. Great videos.
Communism is a form of gov't. Socialism is a form of economics. Communism is authoritarian, democracy is supposed to be by the people. Socialism is the gov't using taxes to provide a service, which exists in every country to a degree. Capitalism is private owned and profit motivated. Needs should be socialized, greed can be capitalized.
@@DustinHawke According to Merriam-Webster's, "b: a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed." Capital "C" Communism is the totalitarian consequence.
@@davidhamburg7868 Yeah, the definitions have changed in my lifetime. I was taught that democracy/communism were political systems and socielism/capitalism were the economic systems with all kinds of blends of both but those terms defined the extremes. Now my daughter tells me to look it up and the books have changed. More damn word play to confuse the lower and middle class so that they don't notice the class warfare by the owner class. Just how I see it. Us old farts need to relearn the lingo.
True, but I find that even those things don't allow people to see past the propaganda our daily social experience gives us. Example; we love Capitalism here, but fail to acknowledge there's not a lot of moral leeway within that system, if any at all.
critical thinking skills as well. IMO schools dissuade people from using critical thinking rather then teaching people how to do/use critical thinking.......and it's designed that way
it's blatant propaganda, just keep repeating the narrative...they actually convinced the general public that smoking was good for you? result=...billions and trillions in profits and of course in TAX revenues. present day humans aren't ready for either socialism nor communism
Aside from taxing the rich, Progressivism also have a goal of removing money from politics. If the Rich weren't able to buy our representatives, senators, and presidents, we might be able to have some progressive legislation again.
@John Smith are you implying that higher taxes, regulations to deter concentrations of massive wealth, and laws regulating monetary contributions to campaigns can't exist with private property protections or capitalism? If so, I suggest reading some US history. If not, what does your comment have to do with the anchor comment?
@John Smith well then, I ask again, what does your comment have to do with Angus O'Sonnell's comment? You made that response on his thread, which seems to indicate they are related. I'm merely asking for clarification.
@John Smith oh, so all three of us agree that getting money out of politics (or at least working to limit it) would be a good thing that would help reduce corruption. You never stated anything about money in your original comment, and I'm still not sure why this led you to comment on private property or the "government controlling everything;" however thanks for the partial clarification.
@John Smith bit of an old idea, but if you think the government doesn't own your property, try not paying your taxes. Anything annually taxed is arguably government owned.
@John Smith It doesn't have to be one of those two extremes you see. There is room for a government that does good works and protects private interests. And as for corruption, just because it will always be there doesn't mean that we should do nothing about it. We shouldn't let corruption have an easy time of it. Getting money out politics is little more than rolling back to the efforts and endeavors of our parents and grand parents time, when it was illegal for monied interests to donate to political campaigns. There reasonable and sensible steps that can be taken to improve the system. And if that moves us closer to socialism, then perhaps "Democratic Socialism" is the correct direction after all. It's not true socialism, and it's certainly not communism, but it does sit somewhere in the balance of things where we can do smart things and good works.
I'm a mechanic and I own all of my own tools. The shop owner provides the lift and other specialty tools like A/C recycling equipment or wheel alignment equipment tire machines etc. It is a fair trade between us and the owners. In a small shop like the one I work at the system works pretty well. In larger shops or chains/dealerships not so much.
But a corporate model can work better for the workers so long as no one gets greedy and the profits are distributed fairly. In the example above, if you had a corporation/shop that owned twice as many tools and had a couple more lifts you would probably find that four mechanics could produce significantly more output than the current system does, with significantly less overheads per person, so more profit to be shared. Assuming there is the work available to be done of course. The reason the system falls down is the person that owns the shop/corporation decides that they must maximise their personal (or backers) profit on their investment and so squeeze the mechanic as hard as possible.
@@gordon861 Exactly. In the sixties when I started working, The stock market return on grocery companies was a reasonable one or two percent on average. Then came the day of stockholders demanding fifteen percent returns or more to even sell a stock. Blue chip, risk free investments demanding high returns ONLY CAME AFTER WE WENT OFF THE GOLD STANDARD AND CREATED FULLY FIAT CURRENCY. However the worker never really noticed as workers rarely owned stock. THE RENT SEEKERS KILLED US.
You couldn't be more wrong Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto: 1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. 6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State. 7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. 8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture. 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. 10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
@@oldschooloutlaw6522 "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme.
@@oldschooloutlaw6522 Hey, sorry I kept editing and wrote a giant reply. Brain barf in the comments section, cleanup on aisle 5th. 1)Why do you think socialism (which I consider to be a broad category of _many_ different equalitarian movements) is that monolithic, that even a flat majority of us are 100% on board with that above agenda? I'm not trying to put you down with that question, to be clear. 2) It's been too long since I read the Manifesto, but I remember thinking that it didn't seem quite right. ...I used to be an an anarchist, now I'm for a decentralized democratic socialism. I am now a statist, even if I want a minimalist state. (_"🎶It's just a jump to the left...and then a step to the ri-i-i-i-i-ght!!!🎵🎶_ If you don't get this joke, it's ok) So there's a lot of diversity in socialist thought and practice. I mean, some of us want no state at all, and I can respect that position as an ideal. Some socialists are on the opposite end, and want a "heroic leader," to mass murder the way to the people's paradise. ...Yeah, nope. 😖 I'm not a communist, either. That's probably in part a personal bias, I've got trust issues out the wazoo. Owning means of production with all of your coworkers, running the business democratically with inputs from the community? Sounds pretty good, though. There's no effective difference between an oligarch running a company from the top, and a well connected government minister running a company from the top? So the workers and not the state need to collectively own and democraticall run their very own workplaces. Government policy being crafted as much as possible by referendum and consensus? Keeping things as decentralized as possible to maximize accountability of officials to the citizens served? Good stuff.
@@oldschooloutlaw6522 WRONG. 1. The abolition of private property NO private possession. A third home? Property. One you live in? Possession. 2. Is not a plank. Also it HAPPENS, but it happens in capitalism too. 3. WRONG. It also was the law in Europe from 17thCentury, and the USA. 4. WRONG. Also appears to be a plank of the current republican party. 5. ONLY currency. Not credit. 6-10. And this is different from the USA how?
I see this message a lot from right leaning commenters in threads. "Educate yourself " I'm not certain they even know what that means or how to accomplish it.
They really mean, read the same propaganda that they read and make the same assumptions they make... Edit: I probably should have said watch and/or listen, as these are unlikely to be people that actually read much.
This reminds me of how life was in the ‘50’s. Everyone, more or less, was poor or lower middle class. Medicines and technology were minimal compared to now. The difference is the wide separation between the poor and middle class AND the middle class and wealthy. Society should have a “Go Fix It” page instead of a “Go fund Me” page!
@@janeenharris3074 Government has never provided infrastructure people do and once they produce the infrastructure government provides nothing tell me different
@@theinvisiblewoman5709 but is that communism? what country that has ever existed since the term created, has really been what that term means? almost all of them, have really been a dictatorship, not what communistic. though if you want to look in a really unique place, check the bible there some parts of the new testament that are either socialistic or communistic. and you can some of that in the US past too, on farms, where every body shared pieces of farming equipment since few could have bought it for them selves
@@davidwillims2004 The Amana Colonies in Iowa is still going strong. They've been socialist since they were founded. I can almost guarantee that you have at least one Amana or Maytag appliance in your house. Both of those companies were started by socialists from Iowa.
@@almitrahopkins1873 all i was saying was that every 'communist' country that existed to date, were only 'communist' in name only. was what was sold to the populace. as it turn we dont have either.
@@davidwillims2004 your comment is understood and true. Hitler did the same thing, but we know he wasn’t socialist he just used the namesake. But that was besides the point of me or the OP. Try to stay on topic.
Perfect timing for me Beau! I’m sending this sample (of Bofc) to a work friend who just accused me of being a communist for not supporting Trump. I’m not getting my hopes up but maybe someday he’ll look back at it as a catalyst. - eternal optimist
Some homesteaders are anti-social Socialists... They want to isolate themselves from society, but don't realize that they aren't totally self-sufficient. And I know that I want more from my existence than subsistence farming and never leaving the same plot of land until I die. They have a highly romanticized view of the past...
@@leealexander3507 I have family who are far right trumpists, and think communism = totalitarianism. But like this homesteader, if you broke down their actual beliefs, economically they align much more communist than republican. It's only their desire for a Christian ethnostate that keeps them in lockstep with Republicans.
@@AndrewAMartin that's a problem with the majority of Americans. It's why Obama's "you didn't build that" speech was so (sometimes willfully) misunderstood. No man is an island, entire of itself - John Donne
@@troublecloud1487 It could be because far left philosophy is never taught or explained here and it’s definitely not invited to the debate. So most people look at what is presented as left and right and scratch their heads knowing that both of them are not really desirable. That’s perhaps WHY far left is misrepresented and never sincerely explained.
😆 thanks Beau! The number of my friends and associates that consider themselves right wing (and vote that way) that I've outed as socialist and communist by basic analysis of their own statements is hilarious. Love the shirt btw.
I had a teacher in college shop said “Nothing works in it’s purest form; not capitalism; not communism; not socialism. It doesn’t mean you throw out the whole thing. It means you look at what each contributes that does work and use it for the benefit for the most people.” So we have big business, small business, fire and police, public libraries,and book stores, etc.
When socialism was finally explained to me by someone who actually knew what it was; it was then that I realized that I was a socialist. I wasn't convinced by the argument. I already agreed with the definition, I just didn't know what word the definition was for. I have Professor Richard Wolff to thank for the explanation. Democracy@Work
At its core socialism is just people keeping the value of their labor. I feel like many Americans would like the idea if it weren't for all the McCarthyism.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 And the wealthy have managed to trick lot's of people that what capitalism delivers, and blame regulations on businesses when it fails to deliver what (in reality) it was never meant too.
I was born in what was then, the USSR. We moved out when I was 3 but visited every year. One thing that stood our for me about people over there (not sure that has been retained now after the fall) is just how much everyone read. And I do mean EVERYONE, farmers and villagers read more world literature than I hope to read in 4 lifetimes, truck drivers who read every philosopher since the Greeks; nevermind the professors and educators - I always wondered how that came to be... As an example, I would go to fishing camps every summer, and all the kids my age had a few books a piece that they read morning or evening when they weren't climbing fire observation posts or jumping in the lake, even that kid who failed school the year before, was reading - there was no one there to tell us what to do or not do. Fishermen had their jobs and went about their business. As long as we didn't interfere with their work, we could do anything at all.
Keeping a low profile people could often manage to create their own little sanctuary where they lived in peace, within the then given restrictions like travel, in the GDR. I think Belle just talked about becoming the grey man when you go voting - no hats or t-shirts that identify you, quietly go and vote your own way, without drawing attention to you, in case you might have safety concerns. That's much the same principle.
Depends on where you're at. In super rural blue collar areas, the electrician only gets called for new installations (and only because the law requires it). Don't get me wrong, they still do alright, but not as well as they should.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn this is true in many ways. I come from a small rural town and moved to the city for more opportunity, including easier access to education. Many of my old friends and family still live there and none of them make as much as they would if they moved. Most of them are relatively successful within their community. If I may I would like to throw a question in here. What do you think are some of the most effective methods for communities to help elevate the opportunities and lives of the people that live in and build them? For a little context; many towns, like my home town, have become tourist driven economies so that they can share in the wealth of the country and world easier. However this can create a variety of issues that honestly the community does not appear to be equipped to deal with. I.E. market inflation pricing people out of their own community. The future i dream of is one where local communities can participate in the global community without being taken advantage of, but the rest of the world always seems to be one step ahead in reaping the majority of the benefits. And I do not see a realistic path toward that ideal, maybe that is why I still call it a dream.
@@dragnoc Personally I think you answered your own question here: Education. Simply improving the quality of education within your community starts a snowball effect that can help benefit the community as a whole. Better education leads to more people wanting to live there, which leads to more businesses springing up to serve those people, which means more jobs & tax revenue for the community which can be put towards upgrading other aspects (roads, utilities, schools etc.). This is why I don't have a problem with taxes in theory since I view them as an investment in our communities. My issue (and the issue many progressives have) is that right now most of those taxes are going towards making the super wealthy even wealthier rather than being invested back into the communities that are paying those taxes.
Your argument misses the point. MOST workers can’t run a family on one income. I congratulate you sir the beating the odds. Like the lottery, MOST people don’t. Get it?
@@RoninXDarknight its been my experience that greater education often gives people more options and opportunities every where else. Leading them to move, typically to bigger cities. Basically all the talent that gets developed feeds the labor pool in the nearby cities.
A problem with that talking point is the sources really only count rich people income, when obviously we know that's not how they get most of their wealth. The rich have enough money they just never have taxable events and therefore don't make much on paper.
@John Smith Where do you think the money is going to go, once its been taxed from the rich? It goes into social security, healthcare and the like, which takes an immense economic burden off of the poor people, who are then able to invest that money into their own pursuits. Advanced education, starting up their own businesses, etc. Which then allows them to build more wealth for themselves. The "redistribution" is just a process for de-stratifying society, and ultimately allows for more wealth to be generated by a wider demographic.
@John Smith Do you think Walmart or Amazon will lose customers because people have money to spend? The rich will be just fine paying higher taxes to fill the pockets of their consumer base.
Love the preamble. Yes, we should familiarize ourselves with historical thought, because for sure other people have already arrived at certain conclusions, and we can learn a lot by analyzing them.
As I was listening to you describe what he said, I thought, “That’s socialism”. I didn’t realize it was even further to the left. I love learning!! I’d venture to say that the countries that “never got there” were interfered with by countries like the US.
I am one of those “some people” who loves economics and maths of all kinds. I really dig your videos, they are very informative for a computer programmer who doesn’t spend nearly enough time learning philosophy.
I see and hear people like this CONSTANTLY. C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-L-Y. Its so simultaneously enraging, heartbreaking, exciting, awesome, and dumbfounding to see. "YOU'RE SO CLOSE. SO. CLOSE. DO YOU NEED A GENTLE NUDGE WITH THE HAMMER? OR THE SICKLE?"
@@JeffMountainPicker Um... are there Kibbutzim outside of Israel? If there are, I don't think they're called Kibbutzim. (Sorry, the proper plural of Kibbutz is Kibbutzim.)
Nor to the disabled. I simply do not have the physical ability to work even a part time job efficiently, let alone accumulate the wealth needed to homestead!
You're right about the tools and time, but land can be had for free. It takes a lot of homework, but there's abandoned properties, tax seizures even ways to parlay squatting to ownership. It takes an assload of research and legwork and you might find something only to have to give it up on a technicality, but I think it can still be done in a lot of places. In northern Alaska I think there are still places that all you have to do is stake your claim.
@John Smith A lot of things 'can' be. The same 'can' be in any society. Capitalist isn't the requirement. As this guy is already living in one and yet many others, enough that he's upset by the state of things, don't.
Well Homesteading doesn't necessarily have to be expensive. It depends heavily on where that land is , how productive, developed & accessible it is. Homesteading does need considerable upfront cost. Those costs aren't necessarily Financial.
@@NWPaul72 not really and not always. For example, I live in Chile, if I were to go and try to squat or take over a property like that I will be legally kicked out by swating, if I get somehow a cheap or free piece of land to homestead I will lose it due to "contributions" (a ridiculously high tax for owning property designed to keep lower income people from owning property) and if I manage to overcome all that, I still have one problem, water, all the water is privatized in Chile. Capitalism a.k.a. "libertarian free market" does not work!
*begins to hum softly* "Cold: the air and water flowing. Hard: the land we call our home. Push to keep the dark from coming, Feel the weight of what we owe. This: the song of sons and daughters, Hide the heart of who we are. Making peace to build our future, Strong, united, working 'till we fall. Cold: the air and water flowing. Hard: the land we call our home. Push to keep the dark from coming, Feel the weight of what we owe. This: the song of sons and daughters, Hide the heart of who we are. Making peace to build our future, Strong, united, working 'till we fall. And we all lift, and we're all adrift together, together. Through the cold mist, 'till we're lifeless together, together"
You joke, but substandard education isn’t helping us at all. We really need to up our game there so that there will be less gullible people in the future.
As a person from outside your country, it scares the hell out of me when I see/hear about all the home education in your country. There is a generation being raised by parents whose main influences are Fox news, Max news and OAN. A lot of facts/events are totally ignored or grossly misrepresented.
@@BrianGay57 I couldn't agree more! To keep this reply from becoming a novel I offer a snippet and a quote. "Until the 1960s, it was common for American high school students to have three separate courses in civics and government". "Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.” Frank Zappa
@@fredtrent8992 what else is scary is how little we pay and value teachers. They are paid very little and they are expected to pay for their students needs out of their already low wages. It’s not surprising it’s so hard to get good teachers who are happy enough and stable enough to do their jobs well. And when they fail, the parents and school boards blame THEM, not the broken system that basically sets them up to fail. And when we see these problems we try and fix them by demanding high test scores, not true comprehension. So all these overworked, underpaid, undereducated teachers only have time to teach students how to fill in bubbles on standardized tests. As someone who is excellent at standardized tests, I can promise you, they have nothing to do with true comprehension or long term information retention, or a lifelong desire to learn and think critically. I got that from a few amazing teachers who took a personal interest, my parents, and the tv show Magic Schoolbus, which I still believe is a masterwork. It’s a fundamentally broken system that is ruining our society from the bottom up.
@@Tinyvalkyrie410 Ahhh The Magic School Bus, Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street!!! I took Critical Thinking in 8th grade at P.S. 218 Brooklyn NY. So glad I was educated before that whole standardized testing fiasco came to ruin our Education system.
I have an American friend who’s a self-described conservative and votes Republican. But on the occasion we discuss politics, we find ourselves agreeing for the most part, both economically and socially (and I’m a communist/Syndicalist). As I’ve gotten to know him, I’ve learned his exposure to ‘leftist’ ideas has pretty much been The Young Turks and that’s it. Suffice to say, I know EXACTLY what this channel’s talking about.
I started where this guy was a long time ago, and wound up promoting worker owned companies, and massive tax benefits to companies who transformed themselves into worker owned companies. You don't want the Govt. to own the means of production on behalf of the citizenry, that's tyranny. But worker owned companies not only distribute profits more equitably, they also will make more humane decisions on the products / services they produce in regards to the environment and social fabric because work becomes democratized. Markets are good for efficiency and price discovery, and overall are a tool that need to be used correctly. #MMT advocates a #FederalJobGuaranty that would regulate the minimum wage by offering jobs at that level, rather than waiting for congress to legislate it. Money then goes to those who need the work, or don't want to work for the Federal minimum wage (currently $7.25 / hr). Wipe away tax deductions (other than for things that better the environment, health and retirement), and progressively tax income at the rate the keeps income at the 2% target. We're not striving for perfect economic equality, just to reduce the yawning chasm.
Not everything scales up or down very well. Some things Scale easily for others it is a tremendous task. The problem with both the "Left" and the "Right" is the fact one see all tasks on the easy scale side the other sees it on the tremendous side. Most fixes are in the middle.
Reminds me of Joe's recent "Morning Joe" rant about redistributing the wealth in the US... "Joe's a Socialist now?!" I screamed as I was listening to him as he seemed to discover for the first time that Capitalism might need some guardrails.
OMG...Love the video content on this one. Thank you. Most persons who say they are against socialism and communism, do not understand those economic systems in their purest idealistic form. Like you say, they lack the understanding to grasp it, therefore advocating but unable to acknowledge.
Nice shirt....(grins ear to ear)
I've linked it a dozen times today. For those who are asking. The shirt is put out by this channel.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn poppiiopo
So...when is America gonna make the playing field equal so every worker is of equal value? Socialism has not failed all over the world. Vensuala was doing well until the CIA and US took the people's money and cut trade.
@@JTKAMI the S American country that just adopted Bitcoin has "1000" people protesting, because it avoids fees for people sending money home. If we have "1000" people protest the billions of dollars sale of nuclear subs from USA to Australia, would they report it
Compost the Wealthy. Lol. That is golden.
"Communism is good in theory, but in practice it usually just ends up being destroyed in a military coup financed by the CIA." -- some dude on Twitter.
Me, an expert on US covert operations: I mean, the were really financed by companies... that were financed by the CIA.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn We need a video on this, please.
@wolfman02 hell look at Cuba; a decades long embargo causing shortages and yet I’ll occasionally get some video suggestion on TH-cam on a Cuban “reacting” to entering a Costco
Seems to me to indicate that using a proxy for value that isn’t ephemeral, one that stores value and the power value gives, leans any system with that proxy as a basis for trade and power towards corruption. The answer that homesteader wants is to eliminate currency that isn’t ephemeral. We need a proxy that doesn’t create long term wealth and therefore long term power.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn See, see, this is a problem, these companies aren't paying for this themselves! Damn all the welfare coups!
This is why we so often talk about, conservatives voting against their own interests.
Actually, what it shows is that they value racism and bigotry over any economic standing.
@@TroIIingThemSoftly oh, I know. They are so blinded by being mad that they cant see what's actually happening.
A lot of them are that way because of conditioning rather than being actual bad people. It's why it's important not to give up on reaching them, because by doing so we only shoot ourselves in the foot. Those that are actually vile capitalize on the fears and ignorance and seek to keep these people that way.
@@chickensandwich8808 you also have to recognize who you can save and who you cant. A lot of them, especially right now, cant be reasoned with and are not worth the time or energy you are going to waste, trying.
@@AmFlora 100% agree. It's all about efficient application of time and effort. Some of them don't want to be saved and will resist every step of the way, so there's no use spinning your wheels with them.
Really interesting to hear an American voice talking about social and economic issues with more subtlety than we normally hear on the internet. It's so true that in the US, people appear to confuse socialism and communism with totalitarianism.
Yes some people here do.
And yet those same confused people are working hard to install totalitarianism. 🥴🤯🤬
100 years of indoctrination would do that to a society.
They conflate economic theory with political policies that some nations have employed to administer a version of said economic theory.
We gotta be careful here. Communism is illegal here.
"taxing the rich doesn't work 'cause they are too few"
But if a single rich guy makes more in a month than the whole population of Alabama, I'd say it would definitely work.
Yes, mathematically it would work phenominally.
Tax the Crap out of them, make them pay their fair share of Taxes..
that was the first thing I thought. The guy had no clue how huge the difference is between middle class working "wealth" and outrageous shameless greed of the 1%.
Also, because these super rich types are basically strangling the rest of the world, there might actually be more rich people after the tax increase.
Bezos might out-earn the entire state in a week; he is that disgustingly rich and he knows exactly how to hide it by paying himself in ways other than a direct salary.
"Leftist ideas are crap!"
"Sir the rest of your letter suggests you're basically Tennessee Karl Marx."
It is more common than you might think. On this side of the pond (UK), too.
"Tennessee Karl Marx" has me howlin. 🤣😂😭🤣❤️
@@olmostgudinaf8100 what’s amazing is that it’s true, and many of them voted leave.
Tennessee Marx Red Rye Whiskey
@@ryanmckannan2134
Broke: The EU is a bunch of socialist foreigners holding us back from restoring the British Empire
Woke: The EU is a way to overcome useless national boundaries that stand in the way of the free flow of people and things throughout Europe
Bespoke: The EU is a tool of international neoliberal capitalism to maintain the hierarchies of wealth and power
“The Accidental Communist” sounds like a book I’d check out.
Communism didn't work because of the top leader corruption and tyranny. It was response to western religion and culture forced on them.
"The Occidental Communist"?
In my late 30s I realized I was an Accidental Anarchist.
I still remember the Tea Party signs that read, “Keep your socialist hands off my Medicare!” so this checks out.
roflmao priceless
"Keep government out of Medicare" was my favorite variant, since it's even more ignorant 🤣🤣
This is why the word Derrrrrrrp was invented.
No way
Yet they will take ALL the Hand Outs that the Gov give & ask for more.
Again, I am reminded of being in the waiting room of my VA Clinic. I did my thing in the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean in the 90's. I'm getting older now, seeing the Doc more, and now I'm sitting with some Cold Warriors, like my Dad was, before the Covid got him...Vietnam hats, bumper stickers, general grumpiness...And they're bitching about any affront to their ideas of personal freedom being a form of "Socialism"....while they wait for free socialized medical care.
Yes, the cold war propaganda was INTENSE and unless you were smart enough to see through that stuff and question everything you ended up properly indoctrinated. In other words brainwashed. I know because I lived it. As a kid we bought cards like baseball cards that made fun of Khrushchev and allowed us to mix different parts of of the cards to make him even more ridiculous. Like those dress up dolls, overlaying pieces on the base card. Our toys were designed to indoctrinate us for Christ's sake. The duck and cover drills were insanity as they served no purpose against an atomic bomb, but they scared the hell out of most which made them malleable to indoctrination. Civil defense drills for adults served the same purpose. All a well planned, oiled machine to destroy the working class unions and divide the people. These bastards play for keeps and run long term games not scattered battles.
PS those folks are supporting the anti vaxxers as they know that this virus is killing the POC at a higher rate than whites. Genocide in the name of white power. Super spreader events everywhere whites gather. Sturgis bikers, College football games, etc. Most do not see the man behind the curtain but he is there and he wears a KLAN robe or the modern equivalent.
@@markpashia7067 I really doubt many of these people put that much thought into it.
In the east where the bear is dancing
In the west where the eagle flies
In the middle we stand our ground
The forces pull us down down down
Tensions on both sides
We're paralyzed and victimized
We're terrified and petrified
Demoralized and mortified
Of genocide and suicide
And patricide and cyanide
We're pacified by every side
Force-fed pride and then we die for them
We die for them
RomeoGammaBravo, Thank you for your service. Your VA benefits were well and truly earned by you when you entered into a contract with our country, your employer, just like any other company providing benefits to retired workers. They are not available to me or others who never served, so I wouldn't think of them as "socialized".
This is a message every rural person who feels alienated from politics and from the general discourse really needs to hear.
Yes. Share Beau with folks who wouldn't otherwise come across him.
It's an uphill battle. People don't get how powerful trigger words are when it comes to causing people to refuse information. Hell even the word Trigger has become a trigger word for people to refuse to accept shit people say or do can have negative affects for another human being. Conspiracy Theory was one of the worst ever created because it results in people automatically treating actual things happening right now and "water turning the frogs gay" as the exact same thing. Untraining a brain takes a lot and that's after you manage to convince people their automatic reaction is bad.
"The world has enough for everyone's needs, not everyone's greed." Mahatma Gandhi.
BEAUTIFUL! That is "truth to power"
BRAVO!
Please, define: "need".
Because I think it has not, for 7 billions and counting.
Solar panels easily provide enough power for 11 Billion
We can grow enough food for those people as well
Cosey Apartment complexes
@@M.M.83-U look up new car graveyards, food waste, fast fashion waste...there is plenty, but it is tossed to create a scarcity that gives the stuff a higher value.
@@M.M.83-U There would be enough for everyone's "need" if a few people's "greed", were not out there pushing and shoving, to grab for themselves, everything "needful", within their reach. That which is meerly in their sight, they have blocked off so that the "needy" must appease the "greedy" to get access to sustenance.
Beau's message is pretty in line with the lesson General Milley taught Matt Gaetz. Reading about Communism doesn't make you a totalitarian. Reading about history doesn't make you "woke". It just makes you educated.
Smart. Personally, I'd rather be woke.
To be "woke" , it's short for awake or better definition to be aware ok what's going on around you. Your community and your country. To truly be part of that you must be willing to be educated. It you are willing to challenge yourself your preconceptions and not just educated yourself but strive to understand you are woke. Education without understanding is indoctrination, But understanding with out education limits your perspective makes you short sighted. Knowing there is a problem but not wanting to take time the lean how to fix it is complacency.
There are those the use "woke" and a slander, like being aware of what's going on around you is a Bad thing, but that's the group think some politicians want to push. The don't want peaple aware. Educate yourself and make sure your understanding what you are learning not just how you may understand something to me but how the person using it means it.
And educated does not mean knowing the truth.
Great video, Beau! Reminds me of my lifelong, best friend who has voted republican her entire life. I have, in recent years, begun to gently point out that her views of right and wrong, the causes she supports, her beliefs about helping the socially, for whatever reason, disadvantaged, etc., are actually progressive values. She resisted this idea at first, but as I gave more examples to back up my perceptions, she began to evaluate the situation and realized that I was right. Through the process of civil, respectful conversations, she gained clearer political knowledge and made a huge leap in self-awareness. She is now registered independent, which I think is fabulous.
Can you write an outline of questions or examples that someone could follow to perhaps be moved liked your friend? I think we all might know someone with similar values to the left but votes right.
Well done! ❤
@@nowisallthereis I think it's individual to the person, but I can say I just paid attention to things she said in conversation that contradicted her being a republican and addressed them as they came up. At one point it came out that she had registered as a Republican when she first registered to vote and never really thought about it after that. Her parents were Republicans and so is her husband and I think she just followed along, but during the Trump years, she began to question that. She hated him from the start. She really hasn't followed politics closely and doesn't know much about it other than the talking points that make headlines. When I figured that out, I started countering those talking points with the fuller picture of issues we'd talk about; that helped her own ability to think critically to kick in. One example that comes to mind is the trans issue. Her initial view was that kids under 18 were too young to make that decision. First I told her that gender reassignment surgery isn't allowed until the person in question is 18. I then explained what goes on prior to 18, intense therapy, hormone treatment, etc. and pointed out the health consequences - both physical and psychological - of halting treatment once it had begun. She admitted she hadn't thought about it from that standpoint. Finally I asked her to think about things she knew about herself as a child or teenager. I used her heterosexuality as an example and asked how she would have felt if people told her she was wrong and that she was really homosexual and tried to get her to live that way. That really made her think. When the Uvalde shooting happened, arming teachers came up and I sent her a video of Beau's (I do that a lot) that explained why that was a bad idea. The bottom line is, I helped her to think more deeply and critically and it kind of took care of itself from there. I'm not sure any of that would work with a diehard Republican; that's why I say it's individual to the person. Hope that helped you at least a little bit.
@@therewillbecatswithgwenhwyfar Thanks! ❤️
I guess your friend will by now be well in the habit of evaluating 'news'. You did the labor of love, she's lucky to have a friend who cares so much.
It's always a trip watching people independently arriving at marxism without even realizing it...
It is really easy to do with the US political education.
If you have a small garden it is pretty easy to trip into communism. Especially if you don't sell your food.
Socialism is such a good idea that other idealologies pretend to be it to get into power.
@@Giganfan2k1 I have no problems with voluntary communism. I have a problem with communism when some government regime forces it down others throats.
@@patrickharvey5736 No duh.
I remember as a kid watching UN debates during the Cuban missile crisis Khrushchev's response to accusations by US representatives of Russia trying to militarily position themselves to invade and turn the US into a communist country. His response was to the effect that American would eventually become communist without them having to fire a shot....That America would become socialist like "fresh fruit falling from a tree" into their ideology as a natural process.
I started giggling about this heading towards a leftist view as soon as you said the mechanic should own his tools and keep most of the profits from it.
I did too! I was like this dude is describing communism to a T and doesn't know it 🤣
@@julioperez1850 they know most people agree with this, that's why the conservatives demonize it.
@@julioperez1850 It goes back to Beau's recent video about soft language. If you take away the triggering words and use a description of the ideas instead, most people aren't nearly as different in perspective as they act 🙂
@@julioperez1850 Huh, I thought he was leading up to socialism because of the whole concept of "owning" stuff. When he said "stateless, classless, moneyless society" I was like, yeah _that's_ communism.
me too
imagine that: a country still suffering from the remnants of Mccarthyism, a country in which just mentioning communism is taboo, doesn't know what communism is.
Wasn't that the point of McCarthyism? To make people fearful of a boogie man so those in power could openly go after political rivals?
You don't have to imagine...
Beau: not everyone needs to read theory
Also Beau: let me read you some theory
I feel attacked by this incredibly accurate observation.
Reverse psychology.
I’d rather hear it from Beau than read it. I get it quickly when he explains subjects like that.
Exactly, some of us are lucky, we have Beau to translate it to kindergarten level.
To be fair, there's a difference between being told to read dozens of 19th century books and laying it out for people in a video or teaching the basics in economics class.
-"Socialism doesn't work". I'm Swedish, so I beg to differ. Over here a carpenter or a mechanic can provide for their family plying their trade just fine...
Yes, even here in Australia ‘tradie’ culture thrives. Mechanics, electricians, plumbers, builders, painters etc earn a very good living and have high status. There is still too much wealth concentrated at the top of course but that is a global problem.
What we have in Scandinavia is not Socialism, but Social Democracy, also known as "welfare capitalism", a term of critique used by Socialists. The key distinguishing feature is who owns the means of production (means of production= Factories, Mines, Arable Land, and productive business in general). This video, from one of your countrymen, gives a succinct explanation of it with a few jokes in 11 minutes th-cam.com/video/vyl2DeKT-Vs/w-d-xo.html
If your prefer a written explanation, continue below.
In a socialist societies the means of production should be owned by the people who work them. (So the only shareholders of a business must be employees, and the board of directors should be picked by the employees. This ownership model is called a Cooperative). And the Ideologies espousing this ownership model as the only way are Anarcho-Syndicalism, and Anarcho-Communism. East-Germany and The USSR also experimented with this business model, but on a small scale.
The USSR (and similar nations) mainly claimed to be a socialist economy, because all means of production were state-owned, and as such all business managers answered to the government, which was publicly elected (at least in theory). Hence all business were publicly owned (so, at least in in theory, every citizen of the nation was a shareholder in every company in the nation).
@@frederik7338 Yeah, yeah, but almost all Americans "know" that Sweden "ain't nutting but a socialist hellhole" and they don't give a hoot if we really are a socialist country or not. All they know is that we eat a lot of meatballs, make furniture that's impossible to assemble without an engineering degree, and pay like 90 percent of our wages in income tax for our subpar healthcare system, all whilst committing suicide in huge numbers because we aren't as free as Americans are (at least those that don't confuse us with Switzerland does). All I wanted with my little comment was to poke 'em a bit and say maybe the American ultra capitalist system isn't the best system out there for the working man, and that there are examples of that here in Europe. So fancy distinctions between socialism and social democracy is (I think) maybe a subject for another forum... But of course your definition is correct, so thank you.
@John Smith Then stop saying "that's socialism"
Profit sharing works very well gives the workers pride and a feeling of working towards something else instead of straight out capitalism haha
My favorite videos are like this where you show people the lies they are killing themselves with.
If rural Americans "dug into this" they'd quit voting against their own best interests (republican).
They’d quit voting for democrats too. Both parties push neoliberal economic policies & support capitalist imperialism abroad.
For rural people to vote in their own interests, they’d need to support an actual leftist party
The GQP party funds the religious regressive community and they sacrifice them self because they are told they are going to stop abortion and they have been using this type of thing since 1973 and it only works better every year and they will never give it up and the regressive party can never let any changes be made to the roevwade case because it will cause them to lose their vote base it is a strange relationship but it works for the rich people who need voters to for the ultra rich donors and don't expect anything in return for their tax dollars so the ultra rich can keep the money
Exactly why I say Democrats need to spend money in the Florida panhandle. However they have ceded it to the Republicans and don't even attempt to educate them. Hence my state will continue to to be trash with people voting against their own interests
@@tylerrice7145 They would start voting for the lesser, until a viable 3rd option happens. Which with more and more people trending towards progressive policy... would be much quicker and likely to happen.
@@donaldbrown7237 The GOP does dupe socially conservative & reactionary working class people to vote against their own economic interests. It’s part of the capitalist system. Take racism for example. Is racism original to capitalism? No. But it is beneficial to the class interests of the capitalist class to foment racism to divide the working class & prevent them from becoming a unified force against the wealthy minority.
That tactic is an old one. Use any wedge issue to divide working class people. That way they’ll be too busy fighting each other instead of those that are actually wielding political & financial power.
I’ll just add though. The Democratic Party relies on this as well. They take just as many big money & corporate donations as the GOP. They just try to hide it a bit more bc dem voters actually care a little more about it. But when Pelosi says dumb stuff like “America needs a strong GOP party” what she really means is “we need something to point to and say ‘at least we aren’t that bad! Vote for us!”
Those 'good old times' weren't so good for a large group of people who were...segregated
That's just it. Is it possible to have an economy that works for everybody without the existence of an "out-group" whose poverty "subsidizes" the rest?
@@emsleywyatt3400 that's a good point. Not well versed in economic theory myself. I wonder if technology could become the sub in our society similarly to star trek aka space communism
@@emsleywyatt3400 Yes, it's just not possible to have an elite class because your distraction is gone.
Was not just the segregated but also the share cropping whites. Then set them to war against each other to distract from what you are doing. Every age of wealth disparity used this same formula. As long as they can split us into groups that fight each other, they win. Solidarity against any caste system is the only solution but hard to find a way so far. In theory Christ laid out the road map but the corrupted that as well. Love one another as thyself. Easy to say but hard to do. Especially with the rich creating ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY. When there is manna from heaven like in Polynesia before the whites came, everyone had enough and war was not a thing.
Keyword, "were"
Thanks for helping me shed my Red Scare internalized bias. I'm early in my journey of understanding concepts I thought I had a baseline knowledge of. Once I became aware of how much of what I thought of as sound information was propaganda, it was time to try to purge the bias. This video has been up for a while now, & is even more relevant today, the beginning of the sixth week of the Ukrainian war. I am glad I am able to view the involved parties with a more clear eyed view than a younger and more ignorant me could have.
Man, these videos have been hitting it out of the park lately! Thanks for them.
Agreed - these last few days have been borderline epic.
She’s the only person that explains this stuff where I can understand it.
Beau’s on a roll. This was audience-participation par excellence too though. People are generally earnest, as the homesteader prompting the video shows
If they’re presenting Marxist tenets unprompted, because Beau’s own earnestness encourages them to describe the basic economic issues that affect their lives, then you’ve really got to give Beau’s methods props too.
Most of us that’ve learnt to see past the ideological rhetoric have had our worldviews forcibly displaced somewhere along the line, and tend to see Žižek’s analyses as confirmation that it’s hard to produce an ideological displacement any other way
m.th-cam.com/video/pIwMIrj5Ulo/w-d-xo.html
This’s made me think about incorporating it into tutorials (I teach history & politics) simply because we can see Beau’s video-response and the tweets & comments that prompted it. Pretty valuable tbh
@@quinbrady as I listened I thought "Marxism" and was surprised when Beau said "Communism". There are differences between the two - no?
@@geralyn-mm Well Marx used the terms interchangeably because he didn't think there was. One can be a Marxist without being a communist because we could adopt a Marxian worldview on history, social relations, economics and politics without going wholly along with Marx's speculations to their communist-utopian conclusion. For example, when someone tried asking Christopher Hitchens when he'd "given up on Marxism" he replied he never had, that he may not be a communist anymore but he'd always be a Marxist with regards to Marx's "engine of history' (class--struggle etc) because no other explanation made any sense o f history or sociology (I'm paraphrasing, cannot remember the quote verbatim). When you think about the Star Fleet Universe's cashless, post-want, post-market social arrangements though, it's definitely 'communist' in the way Beau recounts. Remember, Marx was an economic analyst of capitalism. He thought it was great but fatally flawed, so volumiously tried identifying the flaw. He didn't write much about what communism would ultimately look like though because he believed that once humanity had achieved a cashless, post-want, post-market and post bourgeois liberal-democracy social arrangements, communism itself would be the product of highly participatory 'communes' that'd give it a more organic and less prescriptive shape than he ever could (think the Jewish kibbutz, in the early developments of the now Israeli state).
Very Star Fleet in some ways, when you think about it.
How can there not be enough rich when a relative handful of the richest people in the US have as much wealth as the bottom 50% _combined?_
Yep. You don’t need to have a larger number of rich people, you tax based on how much they have, not how many of them there are.
Since you wrote this comment things have become even more obscene.
Karl Marx asks alot of the reader. Even though the Manifesto is only 30 pages, it took me months to tease out the basic ideas. Learning is hard work.
Awww...dont just tell folks about how hard learning is as process, tell us how satisfied you were when it all clicked and you felt like you really achieved learning something of value...Its a great feeling that happens to me when I study up on details of history and I never went to college or university.
No joke. I read some pretty hefty stuff - my favorite comfort book is History of Western Philosophy. But getting through Das Capital and Wealth of Nations were some tough slogs.
There’s only so many charts on wool prices in the 1700’s a girl can sustain focus for.
Aside from the very historically-specific bits, like the various types of socialism and communism that pre-existed the organization he was writing for and how his related to them, and things of that nature, I found it a surprisingly engaging read - the very beginning where he describes how capitalism first took over from feudalism is _lightning_ prose
That's why MAGA people don't do it.
@dwc1964 i actually thought the beginning was the worst part for me to get through lol. i love the second half of the first chapter and the second chapter though. just banger after banger quotes
"The reddest of the red proletarians, when asked what they wished for, wanted higher wages, a shorter day, and longer rests, and aspired to have a small cottage with a garden to call their own."
Which is a nice idea.
When you don't attach the communist sounding labels, it sure sounds quite like the so beloved american dream, doesn't it?
Sounds like what they are doing in Scandinavian countries.
(But we don’t talk about successful democratic socialist countries in the US only Venezuela )
@@theinvisiblewoman5709 I have always found it curious that Scandinavian countries and their apparent success at democratic socialism are NEVER brought up. It's frustrating and discouraging.
@@amysk2157 it’s not that it is never brought up, it’s that when it is, we get a yelled reply of Venezuela and China as a rebuttal even though China isn’t a true communist nation and Venezuela is a nation abused by foreign interest in which US Naval ships literally block medicine and food from entering the country while politicians say “Socialism leads to starvation!”
As someone who lives in the city and earns less than the average for someone in my demographic with my education and who teaches kids from low income communities, I'm real sick and tired of comments about about "throwing money at the problems" doesn't do anything. Throwing money at serious social ills may not solve them, and it may not be the most efficient of solutions, but it sure as hell does help. For those who are truly desperate, it helps A LOT. For those who are not desperate but vulnerable, it can make the difference between stability and destitution. Not everyone can be a homesteader, and people getting help from government programs aren't lazy.
Commonly, people love to opine about issues they don't or can't see up close. Also, there's a pretty common fallacy out there, always conveniently applied to policies the speakers oppose but never the ones they favor, that claims incrementalism is worthless, that a solution must work *totally* to be worth implementing, e.g. if the government spends to alleviate poverty but there are still poor people, then that money is just wasted. I too have taught school in a low-income area, and it made me appreciate exactly the thing you pointed out, Percy. It also made me beyond exasperated with America's funding model for public schools, where roughly 45% of funds are sourced from local governments (read: sales and property taxes), which is a recipe for cyclical poverty.
@@joshualavender YEAH the old "Well I gave them $20 on Tuesday in January '08 so he should be living really good right now. . ." BS.
They never take into the account that when you initially give somebody that money, they STILL have to go back and pay off the bills that they weren't making from the previous months without money. THEN, they have to break even. After they break even then they have to establish a foundation where they're starting to make money instead of lose money. It can take decades to "invest" in the turnaround, but by the time folks get close to the rebound. . ?
Here comes another round of "ThEy aRe LazY, LiVinG ofF MuH tAxes!!!".
And the cuts come in starting it all over again.
We definitely need Education funding divided up among every district in the state, and more money given to fix problems in under performing areas.
Poor kids, kids from troubled families need HELP! They are our FuTURE! Thank God Calif. Is going to help feed them. Helps their BRAINS, etc. Be kind to everyone! You don't know what they are going through sometimes!! Esp. be kind to children at school!! Help them LOVE school! And learning! Thank God for kind and Good teachers! Better pay for teachers is needed!
As a farm Mama, I"ve given spinning wheel lessons, and been paid in alpaca fiber and raw Romney fleece. I've traded fiber rabbits for fleece, carding lessons for homemade soaps, and eggs for homemade bratwurst. This is how we function.
Awesome 👍😎
Long may these swaps work!
That homesteader just paraphrased Karl Marx: ". . .from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. . ."
❤ totally 💯
A golden concept - leaving scammers of all shades in the cold.
The US back then was also a little more “socialist” if I do recall, and during those times he’s talking about the taxes on the rich were much higher. Hell, land lording was even more regulated.
Yes! Unions were widespread & politically powerful & the corporate taxes under Eisenhower would be decried as “radical” or “socialist”, today.
Top marginal tax rate in the 1950's (you know, when 'Murica was GREAT) was 91%. Yup, ninety-one, no spelling error.
@Cooper Truth. In reality, nobody paid that highest rate (91%), BUT, the effective rate was OVER 70%! Business tax revenues covered over a third of the total Federal Budget back then (I can't believe I just typed 'back then')LOL. Now, they cover less than 8% of it. Working class people were buying homes, moving to the 'burbs' and rising into Middle class people. 1 out of every 3 workers carried a Union book. Now, it's 1 in 10. And people are astonished that their wages crawl far behind the cost of living. We were just white, middle class kids growing up in a paradise that we couldn't imagine would change. But, It's not a myth. I was a lucky witness. No, this is NOT a suicide note! Read on... I've watched America"s social advancements (Civil Rights Acts, Women's Rights, LBGTQ Rights, Gay marriage..BLM....etc) and its environmental awareness get fired up (hell before the EPA, I remember when that river in Cleveland caught fire and summer days in Brooklyn when Mom wouldn't let us kids leave the apartment because the air was so bad). I watched with great pride and satisfaction. But, I've also watched the return of the Gilded Age Economy and Social Darwinism. I"ve watched as the amount of money that was spent to get elected sky-rocketed. Which, naturally, increased the "buying power" of the growing uber-wealthy class and Big Business. Till the vast majority of OUR "political servants" became THEIRS, pretty much exclusively. Then, a 20 year long Wet Dream for the Military Industrial Complex, followed by a Pandemic. It is disheartening. But I remember. There was a place called Camelot. It wasn't a myth. I remember and if it was created once... it can be created again. I am Not going 'gentle into that good night', I'm gonna 'rage, Rage, against the dying of the Light'. Publicly Funded Campaigns / Elections (you know, Actually Drain the Swamp by cutting off the supply) and Tax the Wealthy (everyone Knows they can afford it)....And Shit, we could be more than 1/2 there.(and No, I'm not on the pipe). It's STILL doable. Hope I meet you there..
I love when people who are against tax increases on corporations and the rich also romanticize a time when taxes on corporations and the rich were much much higher then they are now.
@@thisfool89 gotta love Cognitive Dissonance
We stan our anarcho-syndicalist homesteaders
I was laughing so hard as you read the letter. You have more patience than me with this. I just roll my eyes when they say “progressives/leftists are so dumb… they should..” and then goes on to describe far left ideas. But they don’t listen to me; my tiny woman brain doesn’t know things (ignore that I tutored half these people 15-20 years ago and that I have 2 social science degrees 😒)
and thanks a billion for yr efforts. Funny how in America we often pay those who give us the most the least
@@davidhlnda I totally agree but that is the main ingredient of capitalism.
Fwiw, from what I can tell, it seems like it's easier for men to have patience than it is for women to have patience. Not because of any character trait, but because the patience isn't all spent on trying to be heard, believed, or respected. Especially in their field of expertise. And also especially in mundane day to day interactions. 🤷🏻♂️
Getting that veil peeled back was not easy or painless, but once I saw it, it is staggering what women have to put up with every day.
@@willbephore3086 it’s worth something and appreciated. And it’s 100x more valuable if/when you say that to other men
@@allyson87 glad it landed in a positive way. And yes, thank you, I do and will continue to, at every opportunity. That sh*t is nuts.
the right seems to believe communism, socialism and fascism are synonymous.
*cries in educated*
...while endorsing the tools, tactics and practices of the totalitarianism they are actually referencing.
In a way, but I think the bigger overall point is that words in genera, have absolutely no meaning in the MAGA GOP. There are no facts, there is no reality. It’s very much like a mass psychosis has gripped 50+ million of ye. Maybe somebody needs to start adding Thorazine into the tap water
@@ruaidriodomhnaill4489 Or, lithium. Or, maybe both? ;)
Meanwhile Capitalism is Killing Them because they Can't afford The best Medicine in the World... They Can't Afford any Medicine.
"Everything I don't like is socialist!"
"Anything I don't like is communist!"
Translation: Everybody must be just exactly like me or I will hate them to the core of my being."
Pretty much.
All that hating eats the souls of the haters before they know it. And then they go into overdrive...
Beau, love the shirt.
Seconded! 👏
I know where this one came from for once: www.etsy.com/listing/1053124173/compost-the-wealthy-punkanarchist
I want to know where you got it?
Soylent Green, anyone? Lol
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Could you leave a link to the shirt you wear under every video?
I usually dont care about merchandise, but your shirts get the message across
Thank you for tackling this. So often I find myself rolling my eyes whenever words like "socialism" or "communism" or "Marxism" are mentioned in media or even in conversation. The well has been so poisoned over the decades that people use them without even knowing what they actually are
Truth.
That poisoning of the definitions was A DELIBERATE PLAN BY THE OLIGARCHS. Massive propaganda used to muddy the waters. The Rich do not fight fairly. This class warfare they started is a dirty back alley fight, not a boxing match.
I'm starting to appreciate more Americans are more thoughtful than I believed. But we have these conditioned people to deal with yet.
These terms get regularly used as insults.
Oh, my dearest man. You are the most incredible breathe of fresh air.
For context: I believe when Beau says communism, he means "og" communism, the one Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote about in the XIXth century ^^
Well, yeah.
Is there anything else that can call itself communism?
Wasn't the rest "Real existierender Sozialismus" and so something that was to come before communism, at least in theory?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_socialism
@@irgendwieanders2121 I cannot answer that question with a "hard and fast" fact, sadly, because I simply don't know enough about it to not look at it without my own perception of the matter coming in the way.
What I can tell you, though, is that often in Western common parliance we call Real existienrender Sozialismus communism, regardless of whether it is actual communism or not (or, in other words, regardless of what either Real existienrender Sozialismus or communism are).
Personally, I consider communism only what is outlined in the Manifesto of the Communist Party (the one wrote by Marx and Engels) and Das Kapital, but that's MY personal take on it and, therefore, without any factual worth (i.e. how I see things, not necessarily how things are).
To some extent, it shares similarities with which Christian schism considers canon which books.
Your average Faux News consumer thinks anything they're not for is communist or "communist lite" (aka socialist).
@@kevinsiu4956 they also don’t appear to understand that if Antifa is the enemy , that generally means you are supporting fascism
We need more of this, Beau. When people harp about commies in their midst, they fail to realize that communism, like capitalism, is an economic system. Great videos.
Communism is a form of gov't. Socialism is a form of economics. Communism is authoritarian, democracy is supposed to be by the people. Socialism is the gov't using taxes to provide a service, which exists in every country to a degree. Capitalism is private owned and profit motivated. Needs should be socialized, greed can be capitalized.
@@DustinHawke According to Merriam-Webster's, "b: a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed." Capital "C" Communism is the totalitarian consequence.
@@davidhamburg7868 Yeah, the definitions have changed in my lifetime. I was taught that democracy/communism were political systems and socielism/capitalism were the economic systems with all kinds of blends of both but those terms defined the extremes. Now my daughter tells me to look it up and the books have changed. More damn word play to confuse the lower and middle class so that they don't notice the class warfare by the owner class. Just how I see it. Us old farts need to relearn the lingo.
@@markpashia7067 You're certainly right about my being an old fart.
@@davidhamburg7868 Didn't notice the "us" which is including me? Old white boomer here.
Education lifts human beings! Go Beau!
Reading and comprehension matters
True, but I find that even those things don't allow people to see past the propaganda our daily social experience gives us. Example; we love Capitalism here, but fail to acknowledge there's not a lot of moral leeway within that system, if any at all.
critical thinking skills as well. IMO schools dissuade people from using critical thinking rather then teaching people how to do/use critical thinking.......and it's designed that way
it's blatant propaganda, just keep repeating the narrative...they actually convinced the general public that smoking was good for you? result=...billions and trillions in profits and of course in TAX revenues. present day humans aren't ready for either socialism nor communism
Critical thinking while reading is fundamental. Can't have one without the other. You'll just have well read idiots.
@@charbo187 You speak da Tru-Tru!
Aside from taxing the rich, Progressivism also have a goal of removing money from politics. If the Rich weren't able to buy our representatives, senators, and presidents, we might be able to have some progressive legislation again.
@John Smith are you implying that higher taxes, regulations to deter concentrations of massive wealth, and laws regulating monetary contributions to campaigns can't exist with private property protections or capitalism? If so, I suggest reading some US history. If not, what does your comment have to do with the anchor comment?
@John Smith well then, I ask again, what does your comment have to do with Angus O'Sonnell's comment? You made that response on his thread, which seems to indicate they are related. I'm merely asking for clarification.
@John Smith oh, so all three of us agree that getting money out of politics (or at least working to limit it) would be a good thing that would help reduce corruption. You never stated anything about money in your original comment, and I'm still not sure why this led you to comment on private property or the "government controlling everything;" however thanks for the partial clarification.
@John Smith bit of an old idea, but if you think the government doesn't own your property, try not paying your taxes.
Anything annually taxed is arguably government owned.
@John Smith It doesn't have to be one of those two extremes you see. There is room for a government that does good works and protects private interests. And as for corruption, just because it will always be there doesn't mean that we should do nothing about it. We shouldn't let corruption have an easy time of it. Getting money out politics is little more than rolling back to the efforts and endeavors of our parents and grand parents time, when it was illegal for monied interests to donate to political campaigns. There reasonable and sensible steps that can be taken to improve the system. And if that moves us closer to socialism, then perhaps "Democratic Socialism" is the correct direction after all. It's not true socialism, and it's certainly not communism, but it does sit somewhere in the balance of things where we can do smart things and good works.
Beau, I love learning from you. You are truly a gifted teacher! Well done, sir 👍
I'm a mechanic and I own all of my own tools. The shop owner provides the lift and other specialty tools like A/C recycling equipment or wheel alignment equipment tire machines etc. It is a fair trade between us and the owners. In a small shop like the one I work at the system works pretty well. In larger shops or chains/dealerships not so much.
It is the corporate model that fails. Too many upper management who do know real work stealing the profit.
But a corporate model can work better for the workers so long as no one gets greedy and the profits are distributed fairly. In the example above, if you had a corporation/shop that owned twice as many tools and had a couple more lifts you would probably find that four mechanics could produce significantly more output than the current system does, with significantly less overheads per person, so more profit to be shared. Assuming there is the work available to be done of course. The reason the system falls down is the person that owns the shop/corporation decides that they must maximise their personal (or backers) profit on their investment and so squeeze the mechanic as hard as possible.
@@gordon861 Exactly. In the sixties when I started working, The stock market return on grocery companies was a reasonable one or two percent on average. Then came the day of stockholders demanding fifteen percent returns or more to even sell a stock. Blue chip, risk free investments demanding high returns ONLY CAME AFTER WE WENT OFF THE GOLD STANDARD AND CREATED FULLY FIAT CURRENCY. However the worker never really noticed as workers rarely owned stock. THE RENT SEEKERS KILLED US.
What labor does the owner provide?
@@gordon861 the corporate model doesn't work for everyone without heavy regulation, as history has proven.
"Everyone puts out what they can, and gets back what they need."
Oh...I see what you did there.😁
In my country, this philosophy owes more to Groucho than Karl
You couldn't be more wrong Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto:
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State.
7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
@@oldschooloutlaw6522 "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme.
@@oldschooloutlaw6522
Hey, sorry I kept editing and wrote a giant reply.
Brain barf in the comments section, cleanup on aisle 5th.
1)Why do you think socialism (which I consider to be a broad category of _many_ different equalitarian movements) is that monolithic, that even a flat majority of us are 100% on board with that above agenda?
I'm not trying to put you down with that question, to be clear.
2) It's been too long since I read the Manifesto, but I remember thinking that it didn't seem quite right.
...I used to be an an anarchist, now I'm for a decentralized democratic socialism.
I am now a statist, even if I want a minimalist state.
(_"🎶It's just a jump to the left...and then a step to the ri-i-i-i-i-ght!!!🎵🎶_ If you don't get this joke, it's ok)
So there's a lot of diversity in socialist thought and practice.
I mean, some of us want no state at all, and I can respect that position as an ideal.
Some socialists are on the opposite end, and want a "heroic leader," to mass murder the way to the people's paradise.
...Yeah, nope. 😖
I'm not a communist, either.
That's probably in part a personal bias, I've got trust issues out the wazoo.
Owning means of production with all of your coworkers, running the business democratically with inputs from the community?
Sounds pretty good, though.
There's no effective difference between an oligarch running a company from the top, and a well connected government minister running a company from the top?
So the workers and not the state need to collectively own and democraticall run their very own workplaces.
Government policy being crafted as much as possible by referendum and consensus?
Keeping things as decentralized as possible to maximize accountability of officials to the citizens served?
Good stuff.
@@oldschooloutlaw6522 WRONG.
1. The abolition of private property NO private possession. A third home? Property. One you live in? Possession.
2. Is not a plank. Also it HAPPENS, but it happens in capitalism too.
3. WRONG. It also was the law in Europe from 17thCentury, and the USA.
4. WRONG. Also appears to be a plank of the current republican party.
5. ONLY currency. Not credit.
6-10. And this is different from the USA how?
Watching this again October 2024!
I see this message a lot from right leaning commenters in threads. "Educate yourself " I'm not certain they even know what that means or how to accomplish it.
They really mean, read the same propaganda that they read and make the same assumptions they make...
Edit: I probably should have said watch and/or listen, as these are unlikely to be people that actually read much.
"Just do the research"
They seem to think that "educate yourself", means reading "r/pol", and nodding with vigorous agreement, when their biases are confirmed.
Yeah, I think it's mostly a way for certain people to feel special and better than the people they talk to.
Right, they all should read more US history. So many Senate members spew made up crap because they don't know the facts.
This reminds me of how life was in the ‘50’s. Everyone, more or less, was poor or lower middle class. Medicines and technology were minimal compared to now. The difference is the wide separation between the poor and middle class AND the middle class and wealthy. Society should have a “Go Fix It” page instead of a “Go fund Me” page!
Not true lots of white folks lived well in the 50s
For details check in with Tim Walz. He does mini tutorials in car maintenance. Won't work with Tesla's though
The rich have enough money to be taxed.
Damn straight !!!
Taxation is theft, mob rules and they rule you
@@cabdriver4103 it is not. Government provides the infrastructure that a society needs to function. It costs money.
@@cabdriver4103 You understand neither taxation nor theft.
@@janeenharris3074 Government has never provided infrastructure people do and once they produce the infrastructure government provides nothing tell me different
When you’re a communist and you think you’re a capitalist.
You can replace communist with authoritarian or theocratic and it would still describe conservatives to a T
@@theinvisiblewoman5709 but is that communism? what country that has ever existed since the term created, has really been what that term means? almost all of them, have really been a dictatorship, not what communistic. though if you want to look in a really unique place, check the bible there some parts of the new testament that are either socialistic or communistic. and you can some of that in the US past too, on farms, where every body shared pieces of farming equipment since few could have bought it for them selves
@@davidwillims2004 The Amana Colonies in Iowa is still going strong. They've been socialist since they were founded.
I can almost guarantee that you have at least one Amana or Maytag appliance in your house. Both of those companies were started by socialists from Iowa.
@@almitrahopkins1873 all i was saying was that every 'communist' country that existed to date, were only 'communist' in name only. was what was sold to the populace. as it turn we dont have either.
@@davidwillims2004 your comment is understood and true. Hitler did the same thing, but we know he wasn’t socialist he just used the namesake. But that was besides the point of me or the OP. Try to stay on topic.
Listening to this in March 2024. This is a calm response.Things are as calm today.
Perfect timing for me Beau! I’m sending this sample (of Bofc) to a work friend who just accused me of being a communist for not supporting Trump.
I’m not getting my hopes up but maybe someday he’ll look back at it as a catalyst.
- eternal optimist
I laughed when you said without the state and money. I thought to myself- ooh! I wouldn't dare call that homesteader a commie! 😂😂😂
Some homesteaders are anti-social Socialists... They want to isolate themselves from society, but don't realize that they aren't totally self-sufficient. And I know that I want more from my existence than subsistence farming and never leaving the same plot of land until I die. They have a highly romanticized view of the past...
You could have called either of my grandfather's or my father a commie and they just would have nodded and smiled.
@@leealexander3507 I have family who are far right trumpists, and think communism = totalitarianism. But like this homesteader, if you broke down their actual beliefs, economically they align much more communist than republican. It's only their desire for a Christian ethnostate that keeps them in lockstep with Republicans.
@@AndrewAMartin that's a problem with the majority of Americans. It's why Obama's "you didn't build that" speech was so (sometimes willfully) misunderstood.
No man is an island, entire of itself - John Donne
@@troublecloud1487 It could be because far left philosophy is never taught or explained here and it’s definitely not invited to the debate. So most people look at what is presented as left and right and scratch their heads knowing that both of them are not really desirable. That’s perhaps WHY far left is misrepresented and never sincerely explained.
Missing you Beau
But it's a pleasure to meet Belle regularly.
😆 thanks Beau! The number of my friends and associates that consider themselves right wing (and vote that way) that I've outed as socialist and communist by basic analysis of their own statements is hilarious.
Love the shirt btw.
I’ve been trying to explain this philosophy for years. Thank you for laying it out so succinctly!
Remember, "Billionaires United Will Never Be Defeated!"
I had a teacher in college shop said “Nothing works in it’s purest form; not capitalism; not communism; not socialism. It doesn’t mean you throw out the whole thing. It means you look at what each contributes that does work and use it for the benefit for the most people.” So we have big business, small business, fire and police, public libraries,and book stores, etc.
When socialism was finally explained to me by someone who actually knew what it was; it was then that I realized that I was a socialist.
I wasn't convinced by the argument. I already agreed with the definition, I just didn't know what word the definition was for.
I have Professor Richard Wolff to thank for the explanation. Democracy@Work
Funny thing is I'd bet he calls himself a libertarian not realizing the actual definition refers to anarcho-communism/syndicalism
Modern libertarians are mostly corporate apologists.
If I had a nickel for everytime someone took "increase taxation on the rich" as "take the money they have now and give it away"...
At its core socialism is just people keeping the value of their labor. I feel like many Americans would like the idea if it weren't for all the McCarthyism.
"People keeping the value of their labour" - isn't that the definition of the "American dream"?
@@olmostgudinaf8100 And the wealthy have managed to trick lot's of people that what capitalism delivers, and blame regulations on businesses when it fails to deliver what (in reality) it was never meant too.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 Nah, the American Dream has always been everyone* can become king.
*Terms & Conditions apply
we just need a rebrand
Thanks, Beau. A lot of people need to hear this.
I was born in what was then, the USSR. We moved out when I was 3 but visited every year. One thing that stood our for me about people over there (not sure that has been retained now after the fall) is just how much everyone read. And I do mean EVERYONE, farmers and villagers read more world literature than I hope to read in 4 lifetimes, truck drivers who read every philosopher since the Greeks; nevermind the professors and educators - I always wondered how that came to be...
As an example, I would go to fishing camps every summer, and all the kids my age had a few books a piece that they read morning or evening when they weren't climbing fire observation posts or jumping in the lake, even that kid who failed school the year before, was reading - there was no one there to tell us what to do or not do. Fishermen had their jobs and went about their business. As long as we didn't interfere with their work, we could do anything at all.
Keeping a low profile people could often manage to create their own little sanctuary where they lived in peace, within the then given restrictions like travel, in the GDR. I think Belle just talked about becoming the grey man when you go voting - no hats or t-shirts that identify you, quietly go and vote your own way, without drawing attention to you, in case you might have safety concerns. That's much the same principle.
“He's a Communist? Yeah. I thought he was a farmer? They're all farmers.”
😂😂😂
There are a lot of people who think they are a Conservative that aren't. Thanks for the bit of education Beau.
As an electrician that raised his family and owns a house I want people to know this can still be done.
Depends on where you're at. In super rural blue collar areas, the electrician only gets called for new installations (and only because the law requires it). Don't get me wrong, they still do alright, but not as well as they should.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn this is true in many ways. I come from a small rural town and moved to the city for more opportunity, including easier access to education. Many of my old friends and family still live there and none of them make as much as they would if they moved. Most of them are relatively successful within their community.
If I may I would like to throw a question in here. What do you think are some of the most effective methods for communities to help elevate the opportunities and lives of the people that live in and build them?
For a little context; many towns, like my home town, have become tourist driven economies so that they can share in the wealth of the country and world easier. However this can create a variety of issues that honestly the community does not appear to be equipped to deal with. I.E. market inflation pricing people out of their own community.
The future i dream of is one where local communities can participate in the global community without being taken advantage of, but the rest of the world always seems to be one step ahead in reaping the majority of the benefits. And I do not see a realistic path toward that ideal, maybe that is why I still call it a dream.
@@dragnoc Personally I think you answered your own question here: Education. Simply improving the quality of education within your community starts a snowball effect that can help benefit the community as a whole. Better education leads to more people wanting to live there, which leads to more businesses springing up to serve those people, which means more jobs & tax revenue for the community which can be put towards upgrading other aspects (roads, utilities, schools etc.).
This is why I don't have a problem with taxes in theory since I view them as an investment in our communities. My issue (and the issue many progressives have) is that right now most of those taxes are going towards making the super wealthy even wealthier rather than being invested back into the communities that are paying those taxes.
Your argument misses the point. MOST workers can’t run a family on one income. I congratulate you sir the beating the odds. Like the lottery, MOST people don’t. Get it?
@@RoninXDarknight its been my experience that greater education often gives people more options and opportunities every where else. Leading them to move, typically to bigger cities. Basically all the talent that gets developed feeds the labor pool in the nearby cities.
And once your ideas are informed, you know *who* to unite and organize with. Power to the people
Great topic. Let's get rid of labels and understand we're people are coming from.
When the few rich have all the money, yeah, there are enough rich people to tax...
A problem with that talking point is the sources really only count rich people income, when obviously we know that's not how they get most of their wealth. The rich have enough money they just never have taxable events and therefore don't make much on paper.
@John Smith Where do you think the money is going to go, once its been taxed from the rich? It goes into social security, healthcare and the like, which takes an immense economic burden off of the poor people, who are then able to invest that money into their own pursuits. Advanced education, starting up their own businesses, etc. Which then allows them to build more wealth for themselves. The "redistribution" is just a process for de-stratifying society, and ultimately allows for more wealth to be generated by a wider demographic.
@John Smith Do you think Walmart or Amazon will lose customers because people have money to spend?
The rich will be just fine paying higher taxes to fill the pockets of their consumer base.
@John Smith Then that's on them and their desire for profit. On the positive side, that will make their taxes go down.
@John Smith Ohh, you're a troll. Got it.
I made it most of the way the the video listening and not looking. Glanced over and saw "Compost the wealthy" and I'm dead. I need this shirt.
The youtube channel heavy metal homesteading has them
Love the preamble. Yes, we should familiarize ourselves with historical thought, because for sure other people have already arrived at certain conclusions, and we can learn a lot by analyzing them.
As I was listening to you describe what he said, I thought, “That’s socialism”. I didn’t realize it was even further to the left. I love learning!!
I’d venture to say that the countries that “never got there” were interfered with by countries like the US.
Every single one of them, lol
Beau, your insight and presentation is unequaled. I absolutely love your videos. Thank you!!
I am one of those “some people” who loves economics and maths of all kinds.
I really dig your videos, they are very informative for a computer programmer who doesn’t spend nearly enough time learning philosophy.
Could this video also have been called: “let’s talk about when you are a comrade but don’t know it yet”? 😉 (Welcome to the future, brother!)
John, I’m not sure if you got to the end of the video?
@John Smith socialism or barbarism.
Pick one.
DO not answer John a known troll with literally zero things to say besides not understanding what hes talking about
I just started laughing half way through the description, knowing what’s coming. Great support to the message.
I see and hear people like this CONSTANTLY. C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-L-Y. Its so simultaneously enraging, heartbreaking, exciting, awesome, and dumbfounding to see. "YOU'RE SO CLOSE. SO. CLOSE. DO YOU NEED A GENTLE NUDGE WITH THE HAMMER? OR THE SICKLE?"
Lol. I have been saying "Comnpost the Rish" because they are 'too toxic to eat' for many years. I am so happy to see it on your shirt.
Goodness... the guy is a socialist! "From each what they are able, to each what they need." (I lived on a Kibbutz by the way.)
Me too
Was that in Israel?
@@JeffMountainPicker Um... are there Kibbutzim outside of Israel? If there are, I don't think they're called Kibbutzim. (Sorry, the proper plural of Kibbutz is Kibbutzim.)
Anyone who has not read Das Capital should not even discuss socialism, or communism.
Now I notice Beau's "soft language" and I'm no longer frustrated that he didn't say the "M word" 😛
I find it even more effective when its absence makes you say it in your head
@@whispersmith Starting new life-long adjustments are often difficult, especially if they're healthy xD
You need to be well off enough to own land, tools, etc to be a "homesteader". That is not a path open to the impoverished.
Nor to the disabled. I simply do not have the physical ability to work even a part time job efficiently, let alone accumulate the wealth needed to homestead!
You're right about the tools and time, but land can be had for free. It takes a lot of homework, but there's abandoned properties, tax seizures even ways to parlay squatting to ownership. It takes an assload of research and legwork and you might find something only to have to give it up on a technicality, but I think it can still be done in a lot of places. In northern Alaska I think there are still places that all you have to do is stake your claim.
@John Smith A lot of things 'can' be. The same 'can' be in any society. Capitalist isn't the requirement. As this guy is already living in one and yet many others, enough that he's upset by the state of things, don't.
Well Homesteading doesn't necessarily have to be expensive. It depends heavily on where that land is , how productive, developed & accessible it is. Homesteading does need considerable upfront cost. Those costs aren't necessarily Financial.
@@NWPaul72 not really and not always. For example, I live in Chile, if I were to go and try to squat or take over a property like that I will be legally kicked out by swating, if I get somehow a cheap or free piece of land to homestead I will lose it due to "contributions" (a ridiculously high tax for owning property designed to keep lower income people from owning property) and if I manage to overcome all that, I still have one problem, water, all the water is privatized in Chile. Capitalism a.k.a. "libertarian free market" does not work!
That was beautiful Beau. Thank you. Thank you sooo much.
*begins to hum softly*
"Cold: the air and water flowing.
Hard: the land we call our home.
Push to keep the dark from coming,
Feel the weight of what we owe.
This: the song of sons and daughters,
Hide the heart of who we are.
Making peace to build our future,
Strong, united, working 'till we fall.
Cold: the air and water flowing.
Hard: the land we call our home.
Push to keep the dark from coming,
Feel the weight of what we owe.
This: the song of sons and daughters,
Hide the heart of who we are.
Making peace to build our future,
Strong, united, working 'till we fall.
And we all lift, and we're all adrift together, together.
Through the cold mist, 'till we're lifeless together, together"
Hello there, Tenno.
Warframe!
Why don't we just send everyone back to middle school with excellent teachers,like you, and maybe we can get somewhere.
You joke, but substandard education isn’t helping us at all. We really need to up our game there so that there will be less gullible people in the future.
As a person from outside your country, it scares the hell out of me when I see/hear about all the home education in your country. There is a generation being raised by parents whose main influences are Fox news, Max news and OAN. A lot of facts/events are totally ignored or grossly misrepresented.
@@BrianGay57 I couldn't agree more! To keep this reply from becoming a novel I offer a snippet and a quote. "Until the 1960s, it was common for American high school students to have three separate courses in civics and government". "Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.” Frank Zappa
@@fredtrent8992 what else is scary is how little we pay and value teachers. They are paid very little and they are expected to pay for their students needs out of their already low wages. It’s not surprising it’s so hard to get good teachers who are happy enough and stable enough to do their jobs well. And when they fail, the parents and school boards blame THEM, not the broken system that basically sets them up to fail. And when we see these problems we try and fix them by demanding high test scores, not true comprehension. So all these overworked, underpaid, undereducated teachers only have time to teach students how to fill in bubbles on standardized tests. As someone who is excellent at standardized tests, I can promise you, they have nothing to do with true comprehension or long term information retention, or a lifelong desire to learn and think critically. I got that from a few amazing teachers who took a personal interest, my parents, and the tv show Magic Schoolbus, which I still believe is a masterwork. It’s a fundamentally broken system that is ruining our society from the bottom up.
@@Tinyvalkyrie410 Ahhh The Magic School Bus, Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street!!! I took Critical Thinking in 8th grade at P.S. 218 Brooklyn NY. So glad I was educated before that whole standardized testing fiasco came to ruin our Education system.
I have an American friend who’s a self-described conservative and votes Republican. But on the occasion we discuss politics, we find ourselves agreeing for the most part, both economically and socially (and I’m a communist/Syndicalist). As I’ve gotten to know him, I’ve learned his exposure to ‘leftist’ ideas has pretty much been The Young Turks and that’s it. Suffice to say, I know EXACTLY what this channel’s talking about.
When the guy made the list of things he grievanced against and despised he didn’t realized he was holding a mirror.
I started where this guy was a long time ago, and wound up promoting worker owned companies, and massive tax benefits to companies who transformed themselves into worker owned companies. You don't want the Govt. to own the means of production on behalf of the citizenry, that's tyranny. But worker owned companies not only distribute profits more equitably, they also will make more humane decisions on the products / services they produce in regards to the environment and social fabric because work becomes democratized. Markets are good for efficiency and price discovery, and overall are a tool that need to be used correctly. #MMT advocates a #FederalJobGuaranty that would regulate the minimum wage by offering jobs at that level, rather than waiting for congress to legislate it. Money then goes to those who need the work, or don't want to work for the Federal minimum wage (currently $7.25 / hr). Wipe away tax deductions (other than for things that better the environment, health and retirement), and progressively tax income at the rate the keeps income at the 2% target. We're not striving for perfect economic equality, just to reduce the yawning chasm.
Beau, you are an amazing man! Love you, Brother!
Isn’t it nice to listen to someone speak common sense. Love you man!
" When Everyone Does Good , Then EVERYONE Does Well ! ! ! "
The minute you talked about the mechanic owning what he produces I knew exactly where you were going. 😊 I love this and agree! Nice!
"As little as 40 acres of land?" Oh you poor sweet summer child.
That's where I was. How many people even have that much less "everyone" get 40 acres lol
I'm usually have a pokerface watching these videos, but I was laughing at my phone before the 4-minute mark because I saw where this is going.
Not everything scales up or down very well. Some things Scale easily for others it is a tremendous task. The problem with both the "Left" and the "Right" is the fact one see all tasks on the easy scale side the other sees it on the tremendous side. Most fixes are in the middle.
It is, indeed, precisely how we get by. 😊 Love and Light from Mississippi. Y'all stay safe and take care of each other. ✌🏼💚
Reminds me of Joe's recent "Morning Joe" rant about redistributing the wealth in the US...
"Joe's a Socialist now?!" I screamed as I was listening to him as he seemed to discover for the first time that Capitalism might need some guardrails.
While you normally very good. This is excellent. These are the things we need to discuss and better understand. Thank You.
OMG...Love the video content on this one. Thank you. Most persons who say they are against socialism and communism, do not understand those economic systems in their purest idealistic form. Like you say, they lack the understanding to grasp it, therefore advocating but unable to acknowledge.