I'm glad you're covering a lot of content like this, people aren't very knowledgeable on these economic/political systems but only hate it because everyone else does.
And murder tens of millions of innocents‼️ .. look no further than the jewish Bolsheviks in Russia. 60 odd million.. and 40? million Ukrainians.. from 1917 on.. all bankrolled by jewish Wall str banksters. Central banking is a tenet of communism .
All systems are flawed to an extent. Capitalism is just the least flawed system of them all. Therefore I support it and why I love living in America. Capitalism is not perfect by any means but I'll take it over the rest all day! 🇺🇲
Least flawed? It's the most dangerous. It allows from dystopian level inequality, rampant destruction for anything deem profitable, it requires socialist concepts to protect the middle and lower classes. Without unions ,a socialist concept, the working conditions would be worse, our pay would be worse which would lead to even worse health issues and more inequality because the ones forced to work in shitty conditions are the ones that couldn't afford healthcare. Also lowering the taxes of the rich actually made this country less on an innovator because instead of spending money that would be taxed highly into R&D or to employees it is now kept or moved around to appease the investors.
Exactly. People who genuinely think capitalism is bad and commumism is good are genuinely stupid... Capitalism keeps the market thriving and lives on innovation. What would be the motive to innovate without a financial incentive? Thats why capitalism is necessary.
One ideology is making the government owns everything in the name of its people and won't let them own anything, and the other ideology is enslaving people by making sweatshops and pay them that's enough to buy a meal, in the name of 'thriving market'. Both are terrible system. Whatever ideology in a show like Star Trek(the one that's used by The Unions), is better than what we have right now. But, of course they climbed to that point with capitalism, I am sure. So, humans in this current era can just suck it up.
bro if you have lived your whole life in the US, you actually have no clue about what Socialism REALLY is. All the arguments they say are based off stories and shit they read online. Socialists are very very good liars. Reality is way different.
majority of tech in your average iphone was made by publicly funded innovation. the touchscreen, much of the interior, etc. not to mention having a phone in a developed country isnt rlly a luxury anymore as it is a necessity. and despite @noknes's comment, innovation has been happening without the profit incentive for thousands of years. we constantly made better weapons, clothes, cities, agriculture. only limited by our lack of industrialization and trade systems, which has made it innovation and production skyrocket, which also is not inherent to capitalism. but the reality is much of the world is still too poor to afford either of those, which are in capitalist systems. just because we can enjoy some things in developed capitalist nations does not mean capitalism is inherently a better alternative. it has too many contradictions and issues inherent to itself (wealth inequality, imperialism, worker suppression, corruption, monopolization, chipping away at social programs, wage stagnation, environmental destruction, etc) to function long-term for humans. these are things that cannot be fixed by regulation nor a lack of it. it's only been around 500 years and we are already seeing our planet being destroyed, which the capitalist market yet has a solution for. we are going down a very dark path and saying people have starbucks does not mean anything in the face of this
Communism doesn’t believe in democracy and government and the ownership of certain industries and businesses is taken by several non government people probably while in Socialism government takes charge of every health care,food and other things, both are meant for welfare and not for personal profit.
I think I can help. Communism aims to essentially faze out the government, thus eliminating the ruling class. Socialism has the government control the market. Also, complete communism means that there is no official money, whereas a socialist one would have money that is distributed to its lower class. To use a questionable analogy, communism is like a bunch of children sharing food equally, whereas socialism is a grownup stepping in to distribute it for them.
None. Both are based in bloated government and an elite ruling class, which is where the unspoken wealth - financially or otherwise, is held. Their other common denominator is soaking the producers of whatever and doling it out in the name of "equity" to bums who don't produce. Neither exalts ambition but, rather, mediocrity - Why work when someone else is paying the bills or the government will take care of me? IOW, they are "nanny states".
Correction: This video states that Socialism and Communism works to right the wrong of Capitalism, which is exploitation of the workers and wealth disparity between the rich and the poor. Socialism and Communism both have problems with exploitation of workers and wealth disparity. Both take advantage of their workers by forcing those with higher skilled jobs not being allowed to use their higher skills. The reason for this is simple: why work harder when you will still be paid the same? In Socialism and Communism, there are those who are wealthy and those who are poor. In fact, the disparities between the rich and poor are even greater. Under Capitalism, the main driving force is the concern and welfare for others. This is the driving force. The reason is simple: If you neighbor doesn't like you or your product, they choose to pick a different product. Under Socialism and Capitalism, the choices of goods and services are diminished, due to the government control over means of production. This results in greater dependence on government choices than on your own needs and wants. There is greater freedom in a capitalist system. Finally, even capitalism has its own faults; but when compare to the other choices, it is far superior.
Wow. Basically wrong on every level. Neither Socialism nor Communism disallow higher skilled labor from pursuing those jobs. Cuba, arguably the most communist country, is internationally recognized for its healthcare force; 8.2 doctors per thousand people, 3x the amount in the US and with a lower mortality rate amongst its citizens. The reason for this is simple: the government spends a quarter of its budget on healthcare and another quarter on education. Despite not being paid much more than the average citizen, people are still entering the field of healthcare. Why work harder when you will be paid the same? Well, (and get this it may seem radical but) they actually *enjoy their work and helping people*. Woah. In Socialism, there are those who are wealthy and those who are middle-class because their basic necessities like food, shelter, and healthcare are provided by the government. In Communism (which has never been achieved) the class divide between wealthy and poor is abolished along with currency and private ownership of industry. Wealth inequality is greater in more capitalist countries and this is an actual fact. Do your own research. The US is ranked #4 in wealth inequality, just ahead of Brazil. Compared to countries with the least inequality: Norway, Denmark, Finland, & Sweden, all countries with robust social welfare programs. Europe’s lower inequality levels are mainly explained by a more equal distribution of pretax incomes rather than by more equalizing taxes and transfer systems. Under Capitalism, the main driving force is the maximization of profit and the accumulation of wealth. People want to be rewarded for their ingenuity, investments, and economic risks undertaken. The reasoning is simple: humans are self serving by nature but as long as everyone seeks the fulfillment of their own self interest, the material needs of the whole society will be met. Like, literally read The Wealth of Nations. "Under Socialism and Communism, the choices of goods and services are diminished, due to the government control over means of production." What do you mean by choices? "This results in greater dependence on government choices than on your own needs and wants." As opposed to dependence on the supply and demand of the market which can not be easily redressed for public grievances? "There is greater freedom in a capitalist system." Maybe for a few people who have made it to the top. The rest of us have to grind regardless. ah yes the "freedom" to work for low wages here rather than there. everything is on the individual and there's no way to tackle systemic issues such as wealth disparity or worker exploitation. Read up on the history of the US in the early 20th century. This is why socialist principles, like the "weekend" the "8 hour work day" and the "40 hour work week" became standardized. At least, in developed countries. Never mind the Global South... Purely capitalist countries based solely on the free market have never functioned as for the general welfare; it's kind of antithetical. The same can be said of purely socialist countries. That's why most developed countries have a mix of both, and the countries that have less wealth inequality and greater emphasis on social welfare have leaned more towards *surprise* Socialism.
Wrong! In a communist/socialist society, the workers just own the companies (=> now called cooperatives if run by the workers). As the company is owned by its workers, the money distribution can be fairer, as millions don't go in the hands of a CEO who does nothing but profiting of his workers (do NOT tell me that sitting in a desk and doing papers is a hard thing to do, some workers could be hired to do that). Anyway Capitalism is modern slavery, I hope you realize it one day, peace on you:)
@@emmanuelmacron4 Spoken like someone who is clueless how companies operate. I was one of those people who sat behind a desk all day doing paperwork. It was extremely tiring to do. The reason CEO's make the money they do is because of the expertise they bring to the company. Lastly, if a worker wants more say in the business, they either move up in the company, or better yet, start your own company. The person who starts the company is the owner, NOT the workers.
''Private property'' as mentioned in the video is NOT the house or the car of the worker. It refers to the means of production which you mentioned a second later. Communism isn't advocating for abolition of PERSONAL belongings, Private property refers to who owns the means of production
Fun fact: Socialism is not when the government owns businesses, but when workers do. So when most businesses in an economy are cooperatives and/or union run, that economy is socialist.
@@zigoter2185 ? If you are talking about my comment look up the Zapatistas, CNT FAI, Yugoslavia, and modern Vietnam. Each has their own issues, but each also has/d decentralized their economy, at least to some extent.
@@E.C.GoMusicandMore I'll start with the theory and then analyze your examples. First of all we have to assign definitions to key words. Government (state)- is a monopoly on arbitration in all conflicts, including conflicts with itself. Socialism - a system of public ownership of the means of production, where everything is owned by a society as a whole. Now let's see if we can derive the state (government) from those definitions. We will start with a premise of scarcity. Real world has scarse goods. Another premise will be the needs of the people and their willingness to satisfy them using these scarse means. Again, we leave in the world of scarcity, where goods are limited, but human needs seem to have no limits. If you have scarse means and people chasing them you will inevitably run into conflicts for these means. People will eventually engage in actions, that cannot be both completed in the same time. An example would be a Crusoe and Friday on an island. Crusoe wants to use a stick to spearfish, Friday wants to use a stick to stoke his fire. We have a conflict, these actions cannot be done in the same time. So how do you avoid these conflicts? Using property rights. Private property rights specifically. If we expand this experiment a little bit and say, that Crusoe was the one to find the stick first, then he has the ultimate right to use this stick in a way he wants. Conflict avoided. What if we use the socialist communal ownership idea on this example. Does it help avoid the conflict? In a system of communal ownership the Crusoe and Friday both equally own the stick. This does not mitigate the conflict over its usage, in fact it makes conflict unavoidable, since it allows both people to simultaneously use a single scarce good. How can socialist system mitigate this problem? First, we have to add atleast 1 person to the experiment, otherwise Crusoe and Friday will have to fight it out. Now, when we have 3 people owning everything on an island including a stick we can have a vote over who will get to use the stick. Suppose Friday wins the vote. Crusoe has to be forced to give the stick away. We can get 2 conclusions. 1. Socialist property rights theory does not help us avoid conflicts, in fact it makes them unavoidable. 2. Socialist system requires some entity that will have the power to resolve all conflicts over scarce goods including the conflicts with itself. This entity is also referred to as a *state* or a *government*. Making it democratic does not eliminate the state. This is obvious even by the etymology of words (which in this case also synonymous to their meaning, linking to etymology just illustrates it better) Democracy - rule of the people. Anarchy - no rulers. Anarchy is antidemocratic. Democracy is statist. Since socialism can't offer us anything better than a direct democracy, socialism is statist. I will discuss your historical examples in a follow-up comment.
Very useful! The one critique I have is that his explanation of Communism uses the terms "private property" and "personal property" interchangeably, but they are very different. From Wikipedia: "In Marxist theory, private property typically refers to capital or the means of production, while personal property refers to consumer and non-capital goods and services." So under communism, you can still own many of the items we cherish in modern life. Cheers!
Under communism, if I need your toothbrush or one of your lungs more than you need it, I have the right to take it by force, either by myself or through the government. There is no "personal property". "From each one according to their ability, to each one according to their NEED."
@@SL2797 Obiusly dont now whats communism. Everyone gets by his need is requarding to spreading the welt, nothing more. Personal property is everything that you use (house, car, land,tools), private property is when you extract money from dead capital with out working for it.
@@SL2797 ridiculous 🙄 1 if we achieve communism there will be enough toothbrushes for everyone. 2 if we achieve communism there won't be a state to enforce anything because it's a stateless society 3 take it easy
Literally the first thing i did when i controlled link was try to go up the stairs. Also i legit cried at the title sequence. I've been playing Zelda for the last 20 years and it's still amazing, the feeling when you start a new zelda.
@@vengefly6173 WHAT THE HELL Thanks for pointing this out. It must've left the comment on this video, despite me commenting on a prior one. Def leaving this comment for kicks
@@MyPieceOnThat I was just scrolling through random political comments and then I saw this out of nowhere. It's kind of a nice change of pace honestly though lol.
You know nothing about socialism if you think that it's being controlled by the state. That's an authoritarian regime, not the same. Also, you should know that socialism is wayyyy less democratic than capitalism. Capitalism => Democracy of the rich ("the freer the market, the freer the people" is totally wrong, it just makes very very rich people free, but no one else, really) Socialism => Democracy of the people (the workers own their ways of production)
@@NonLethalGhost Apparently yes, East Germany was also known as the Democratic Republic of Germany. It's just that historically the Soviet Union chose dictatorship. In fact, the Communist International at that time was also very keen to criticize the Soviet dictatorship.
@@sampletext1035 the communist ideology doesn’t require a state to ruin things. How does a stateless society deal with procurement of public goods and services and protection of common goods.
@@bigkingsean1330 easy. We already have all of the systems in place on the business level. Taking control of the means of production doesn't mean destroying capital or industry. It means the workers own it. In communism, democratic communal decision making and democratically elected supervisors that hold no power over their peers aside from organizing the means of production, and who can be immediately removed from their position by popular vote if the people so desire. I find it a little funny you're not even aware of how communism works yet are so confident in your own beliefs. These are basic principles.
@@sampletext1035 People 1. Have legal rights to their businesses and 2. Would not willingly just hand over their life’s work / investment because a group of people somehow believe they’re entitled to it. How exactly are you taking (stealing) someone else’s business? Violence? Authoritarianism … “Dictatorship of the proletariat “? How do communist think this would actually happen? So, removing the people who built and run the businesses and eliminating money, there’s no impact to industry or capital? Okay, that doesn’t pass the sniff test. Everyone owns everything equally without a government, just like that, hierarchy is no more, greed and motivation, the human condition eliminated? Now, everyone cooperates. Mono-thought. If people want to work where the workers own the means of production they can form a co-op right now in the current system … but then they’d have to build it themselves. This is a vague description of how decisions are made, appears to be mob rule, and vigilantism, now the protections for the minority are gone. Communism might work in a small group setting, a tribe, or where most people know each other. This doesn’t scale to populations with millions of people. “From each according to his ability to each according to his needs.” - Marx This incentivizes having the most need with the least ability. Who wants to work extra so the reward of their time and effort goes to people they don’t know? I don’t know how communists can be so confident in a theory that just doesn’t have the foundation to compute to reality and has so many logical flaws and inconsistencies.
In communism that private property belongs to the government, all of them. You cannot say that in communism private property is diminished or not existing. Don’t lie to people. I am from Cuba and I know what I’m telling to you
Capitalism's goal isn't profits. It's personal and societal advancement. It provides opportunity and rewards for work and achievement. The other two -isms do not reward achievements or progress. That's why everyone ends up poor and starving. No one does more than what's necessary. Capitalism provides a way out of your current condition while the other two do not.
The problem with your explanation of these systems is that basic human nature is ignored. People like to be rewarded for hard work. That happens best in a Free Market Capitalist system. Neither Communism nor Socialism provide incentive to work harder and do better, hence, those systems tend to produce less innovation. Also, to think that a bunch of bureaucrats can run an economy better than the free market is ludicrous.
I like capitalism as long as its followed by hard work. Showing your bhole on a website or spawning a 2 word phrase defining spitting on a willie and making a millions of dollars are 2 examples of capitalism i wish would go away.
This is wrong and misleading. It’s as simple as this.. Having ownership over the modes of production is the point of all of this. The modes of production are things like the land, the factory’s, the workplace, the state etc, things used as control and things used to produce things are the modes of production. Capitalist want individuals to hold total control and power over the modes of production privately. Socialist want no private ownership instead they want all members involved to hold democratic power over the modes of production, for example- workers owning the work place together democratically as a team would be socialist. A community owning the land together is socialist, the people owning the state democratically is socialist. Etc etc socialism is pure democracy over the modes of production by the members who are involved directly with it. It does not mean state owns things, the people do. Communism is a step out of socialism where it democracy over all modes of production is accepted as a norm and the state/ government can be abolished, class can be abolished, and private property can be abolished. Private property is not you’re car or you’re tooth brush, private property is property used to generate wealth off someone else. If the society is communist then everything the people produce is to be shared among the people. It’s a collective society where everyone works towards the betterment of society it’s self freely, the advancement of humanity would lie solely in the hands of the people and community’s themselves.
@@Curls3c I support socialism and communism both. I support both groups and all the factions and political groups of these ideas. The theory’s and methods to achieve it are a struggle forsure and the main reasons there so many different socialist/ communist groups. They often argue about how to achieve a socialism/ communism without being crushed by imperial powers. I enjoy listening to the back and forth debating that takes place between all the different groups like the anarchist, the democratic socialist, the authoritarian socialist the syndicalist, the Leninist, Maoist etc All of them wanna achieve the same goal in the end of cooperative and collective ownership of the people, for the people. But to create this system of human unity and workers solidarity its a real challenge for the reasons I’ll name below.. For one it’s obvious those in elitist positions of powers are not friendly to the idea of allowing such movements room to grow. For this very reason every attempt of workers mobilizing In solidarity not just in america but around the entire globe is almost always met with state oppression or violence from the capitalist state who protect the interests of the elitist class. In more large scale efforts to create the conditions that allow socialism or communism room to grow naturally they are always met with harsh economic sanctions and embargo’s ment to cripple and starve whole nations, or there met with foreign military invasions, coup attempts, assassinations, foreign meddling, manipulation, counter terrorism etc etc there’s always a big plot from elites nations to knee cap and destroy the effort. So coming at it from a democratic point of view the movement faces many challenges, a big one is propaganda used to divert the masses of people away from the subject or confuse everyone on the topic in general, although many European nations have had great grassroot success in creating socialist dominated city’s and towns that are almost completely worker owned/ democratically cooperatively run by the community’s and workers themselves, there are also often met with many obstacles, one being there government’s are always in favor of capitalist domination over cooperative dominance and they write laws and pass bills that target unions or workerplace democracy’s. Europe is still home to many grassroots socialist success story’s though. As for the rest of the world, Democracy is just not really an option for the 3rd world, there governments are extremely corrupted from all angles by foreign investors and monopoly capitalist of richer nations who aim to maintain control and dominance over global markets and major supply chains, some of there ties run back into the colonial era when capitalist established this global network through death, plunder and slavery. Other more recent developments were made through imperialist and fascist action. simply put they just pay desperate thugs good money to kill and scare people who organize and structure worker movements. Revolution seems like the 3rd worlds best option to escape the imperial strangle. They forsure have the hardest mountain to climb to escape capitalism and establish Socialism.
Capitalism also has never been truly achieved, but at least it's theory allows for individual freedoms and liberties all forms of Collectivism inherently curtail dramatically. All forms of Collectivism predicate themselves on the expectation of altruism from an all too powerful government, which is foolish at best. Government is the problem, laissez-faire is the solution.
Im thankful being malaysia because we use socialism, when goverment control pricing for product like rice, sugar and other ,it chance for poor people to living nicely
@@IllustratetoEducate going deeper into a topic with more examples. Yes. It’s very rare to see explanations without political biases being injected which is probably easier to do than to be neutral and provide an unfiltered info to simply educate. What you have is a very well made appetizer. I very much like your style of “cooking”. It’s not raw or overdone and I’d love to see more main dishes and desserts which build on what already exists.
@@ikalennyy6986 makes sense! Great suggestion. I’d like to get to that point. It’s a tough balance between going deeper into topics, but at the same time meeting the time constraints (which is people’s attention span 😂) unfortunately TH-cam penalizes videos/channels with their algorithm depending on how much of the video people watch. I wish it wasn’t that way.
There have only been two real world experiments where a single society was split into a more socialist half and a more capitalist half. Those are East/West Germany and North/South Korea. Both experiments resulted in economic and humanitarian disaster for the unfortunate souls who found themselves on the socialist side.
@@blakesterling6865 agree, we have to keep in mind though that it varies based on individual countries and each specific constitution or set of rights. We could probably use the universal human rights model as a base.
All thouse systems have Flaws and Communism is bigest Flaw thereself. Communism dosent allow people private property and yet Pivate property is essential freedom for privacy and independence. Another problem is system dependancy and control, you are not free to choose how much you work and where you work as state provides for you you need contribute as you are damanded, in capitalism you are basically free to choose, do you wish to be factory worker, office worker, farmer and maybe you aquire enought wealth to retire at 50. Another problem with communism is to provide for you government needs to know all abuot you and can choose not to provide to you if you misbeave or dont follow ideology. Capitalism biggest probelm is that Goverment supports enrichment of rich and keep poor in poverty with high taxes and regulations and some people are just too rich. In feudalism or agarian society there werent such big caps between poor and richest.
In a properly run Capitalist society taxes are kept low and regulations kept reasonable to prevent that situation, in the current situation attempts to mix two apposed systems(between the misguided trying to help and the power hungry trying to phase in a more centralised system) have caused taxes and regulations to go out of hand.
So capitalism is the best amongst all of these Like socialism is basically the government doing stuff and there ain’t much freedom Like Bruv I can’t have any of my current businesses And get rich
All human problems are solved!! just study quran if you are sincere in searching. If we follow god and his last messenger based on quran and the saying of the prophet our social injustice issues will all be solved. try to prove this statement wrong if you can!! after prophet jesus was sent. the last revelation by god was quran and god said it will be protected from changes and it did not change not even a single letter based on authentic narrations of companions of the prophet who documented quran when prophet Mohammed was alive. even the words of the prophet muhammed are all documented with narrators we can clearly tell the living situation for each narrator and wether they were trust worthy. and god fearing in their actions. it is all well documented and can be easily checked with the science of hadith.
Socialism encompasses a range of different systems relating to the social ownership / control of the means of production, with self-described socialists disagreeing with each other all the time over how exactly that is to be expressed. Don't be surprised if you get comments along the lines of "that's not real socialism" or "socialism in the 21st century is different."
My thought is that you forgot to mention how capitalism fights against the wrongs of communism and socialism. First you straight up didn’t mention that communist states never became fully communist because it’s impossible. And then didn’t point out that this didn’t stop the maniacs in charge from trying to make it happen anyway and literally killing more in the 20th century than the fascists. If you are trying to educate people I think it is pretty dishonest to not point out that communists were the most awful and murderous people of the 20th century, and considering the fascists murdered six million Jews that is a crazy amount of murder and oppression to gloss over. You also fail to point out that socialist systems are inherently authoritarian as they make everyone dependent on the the central authority of the government. With no private ownership everyone is working for state co., and if you do something state co doesn’t like then you are out of a job. You also fail to point out the advantage of capitalism is market pricing. The monopolies of socialist systems lead to deformations of price as there is no practical way to set realistic prices without an open market.
Pure communism would be ideal. Problem is that it can never exist among humans. There will always be top dogs. Top dogs always have first, more, and better. To ensure they stay top dogs, they have Lieutenants. They have seconds, but still more and better. They have to have enforcers. They are police/ army of the now upper class. You see how this is going, right?
Maybe we can agree with whatever you said about Socialism and Communism good and bad but not on Capitalism which this video seems to be promoting it, In fact, all the good qualities of capitalism you mention are not 100% true. for me is there any other system than these 3 here!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????
Capitalism is a concept as we know it only 300 years old! Attempt at socialism and communism happened only 120 years ago ! And the form of this system was pushed back! Only good old fashioned capitalism is hanging around stubbornly. You must take into account that 150 years ago only 75% of population on Earth did know how to read or write , no radio no television only religion kept them in line. Not one system survived, all were replaced and improved on, and changes arise from necessity and humanity’s collective ability to demand change
Socialism and communism why do people from the USA still talk about this? Capitalism is for sure economically the best system anyway. But everything can be improved. I am European like many here I live in a country that adds social aspects to it. Important here is that besides the free market we choose freely and democratically that there is a high-quality health care, education that does not put us in debt for years, justice that is affordable and focuses on rehabilitating our prisoners who receive psychological guidance and training. Life imprisonment is the heaviest penalty and not the death penalty. Because we never want to have on our conscience that we as a society want to kill that one innocent among the 99 others who deserve it. The height of a civilization you see how people care/ treath the weakest and witch respect the people have for animal rights. Free to go and free to talk about everything. Critical because our next chalenge is our energy, transport and innovation to become as green as possible. Those challenges are inportent. Not systems who are dead or not by us in the west. It almost kept alive as a kind of enemy . Than it is not necessary to give people those certain social elements which have proven their usefulness and which one could consider as an insurance for much less crime and more well-being.Think politicians who are sponsored by industry and wall street are not really independent. Just like with us, there is still a lot of work to do.
So if someone doesn't want to work, they still reap the benefits because they need stuff to survive. That won't go over too well for those who are working.
In the real life examples of communism in practice, most notably the USSR - there were many disparities of status within, between the members of the Politburo, whom were treated as if they were Tzars/Czars, who rode in luxury German made vehicles; & as Tzar Nicolas himself, they lived in luxury, they had penthouses, & had country estates worthy of feudal lords, whilst the peasants, serfs, & slaves lived in squalor much as they still do. The failed state of the Soviet Union was a Lord of the Flies writ large.
@@ivydark9741 So the choices are to be equally poor or let 1% become rich and let the rest of them poor? Damn, our species really needs a new and better ideology ASAP.
communism does not advocate for the abolition of personal property like electronics, clothing or anything else belonging to ones self, although, there are some things such as boats, cars and others that arent used too often, which would be removed as a form of personal property, in favour of also communally owned versions of them which can be rented and brought back when not in use. it also does not oppose democracy, it is one of the most democratic systems as it is run by and created for the workers. everything else seems correct though, good job!
I agree too. Many modern "socialist" states like china have only experienced economic growth from the liberalisation of their economy. Capitalism is also responsible for putting us in the information era, in which you can access unlimited information and communicate using advbancements in technology. Until state companies can produce technology to the same standard of apple/microsoft/sony, socialism has no comparative advnatage to capitalism.
@@callmecharlie0498 Deng Xiaoping liberalize the economy of china the cause unprecedented growth. but many american politicians and liberals want to follow mao zedong and hugo chavez failed socialist experiment Ironic.
@@callmecharlie0498 socialism is by definition democratic because it would not be collective ownership if the government owns everything and it does not have any kind of democratic system
Of the three concepts, two are Government structures, historically oppressive Government structures, Capitalism is not necessarily a form of governing. Capitalism is simply what people engage in when freedom and liberty exist. To say that Capitalism is derived from Feudalism is a Marxist mantra and a falsehood. Feudalism involves a monopoly on land ownership, lords over said lands and fiefs or peasants. Does that sound like modern America, or a medieval Monarchy? Capitalism is more accurately described as a modern, monetized version of the barter system. Karl Marx hated Capitalism because he was lazy and a poor participant of it who quite often lived off of the means of his friends and family.
what oversimplified drivel: socialism means little more than an attempt to achieve material equality through the imposition of high taxes on the wealthy to fund massive, mandatory welfare programs within a capitalist system. the major economic systems are in order of their historical emergence are: feudalism vs distributism vs capitalism vs collectivism vs corporatism. Syndicalism (worker-owned and run co-ops or syndicates) was developed later as a compliment to distributism and extends its central idea of widely dispersed ownership of productive properties to co-ops like schools, hospitals, mines and factories.
Not bad.. Not totally unfair and inaccurate. When you reported criticisms of Marxism in another show you kept on saying experts say which is a bad way to argue and modern big business is close to the state and too big to fail which accords with Marxism. You are right that in the past hundred years there has been somewhere in the world governments claiming to be guided by Marxism and yet nowhere is there a classless society or anything like it. On the other hand no society on earth exists which is a perfect market without collapse, strong tendency to monopoly and goes on for a long time without war So some go on searching. and class struggle continues.
it is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest
Best explanation of our ideology in the shortest time I've listened or seen. Not detailed enough to understand how it works and some omisions, but still, pretty good. 2:30 Communists agree that Communism good but eventually obsolete. Socialism ok but not enough Capitalism good compared to Feudalism, obsolete nowdays, therefore bad.
i love when people forget that socialism is the failure of communism, communism has and will never exist, and capitalism (one with the money/points/resources makes the rules) is the only system that has ever existed.
Yeah, no. You drew images of PERSONAL PROPERTY and crossed it out as "PRIVATE property". What you claim we want to "take away or severely diminish" is exactly what we want more people to have (with the exception of cars in exchange for QUALITY public transportation). We don't want to take away your toothbrush, we don't want to take away your video games, we don't want to take away your home, we don't want to take away your family farm, we don't want to take away anything that you personally use. We just want the factories and other workplaces to be owned and operated by the workers not private employers in order to abolish the exploitation of wage slavery.
@@EarlOSandwich can you live in a family farm comfortably? Yes. Can you live in a family factory comfortably? No. A family farm is of your personal use because it doesn't produce really that much unless it's a super big ass farm, in which case it would not be a family farm.
You seem to have accidentally typed in a lot of "don't"s that don't belong. Here, let me fix it: "we -don't- want to take away your video games, we -don't- want to take away your home, we -don't- want to take away your family farm, we -don't- want to take away anything that you personally use." Let's face it. The farmers on a family farm sell their surplus crops to non-farmers in exchange for supplies and comforts that they can't make themselves. Of course, you are going to call it a "means of production" and seize it. And I am not impressed by your attempt to tell people not to look too closely.
You got socialism 98% wrong and Cuba and North Korea are 110% Communist until recently. Communism means the governments owns everything and can give or take anything away from you. Under socialism there is a free market and personal ownership. However taxes are used for things like, national defense, roads, highways, law enforcement, lifeguards, forest rangers, and even trash pick up. In many social list countries basic medical needs are free but you always have the freedom to find your own doctor and pay for your own treatment if you want a different doctor. In my view the US is socialist for things like roads and national defense but wants to say they are a pure capitalist society when it comes to healthcare.
a great idea in principle , however socialism cant accommodate the greed and selfishness of the few . those pepole will always corrupt any ideology that does not fundamentally serve them . this is what we see when any attempt is made to implement them ,even the less extreme social democracy's that have been shown to work to the benefit of a nation are slowly being ebbed away and drifting ever towards Corporate Fascism ,
Communism = Give me your watch and I'll give you the time.... Socialism = let's all pay for a watch, so we can all share the time... Capitalism = buy your own watch and overcharge others for the time.....
I feel dumb nit knowing but could someone answer this for me...Would a communist economy/government mean for example...we all work 8 hours, we all get paid the same, we all are able to afford the same things? Would there be some ppl who are extremely rich/poor? What about disabled people? What about extremely intelligent people?
All ima say is that many people from many different countries come to the United States to be successful. Usually because their nation doesn’t allow an individual to thrive as much as they could
Capitalism and communism are same the thing the only differences is in capitalism is private ownership and communism government ownership but not the people if were owners everyone will be rich then 😅
No matter what organizational structures exist in a nation when the leader of that nation is corrupt while becoming more and more meloganiacal too at the same time then everyone in their realm is often going to be groaning while suffering more than usual.
I'm glad you're covering a lot of content like this, people aren't very knowledgeable on these economic/political systems but only hate it because everyone else does.
propaganda bro
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Much agreed!
This is not an accurate video
@@somerandomchillpotato1991 how is it not accurate
"Socialism is when the goverment does stuff"
Pretty much. The more the government controls the economy of a region, the more socialist it is. And socialism in its maximum expression is communism.
Lmao I guess nazi Germany would be socialist then if doing stuff includes killing Jews
Bruh
And steal stuff, and destroy stuff
And murder tens of millions of innocents‼️ .. look no further than the jewish Bolsheviks in Russia.
60 odd million.. and 40? million Ukrainians.. from 1917 on.. all bankrolled by jewish Wall str banksters. Central banking is a tenet of communism .
All systems are flawed to an extent. Capitalism is just the least flawed system of them all. Therefore I support it and why I love living in America. Capitalism is not perfect by any means but I'll take it over the rest all day! 🇺🇲
Hell yeah
Capitalism is evil, but what am I gonna do about it? Nothing. Haha.
Least flawed? It's the most dangerous. It allows from dystopian level inequality, rampant destruction for anything deem profitable, it requires socialist concepts to protect the middle and lower classes. Without unions ,a socialist concept, the working conditions would be worse, our pay would be worse which would lead to even worse health issues and more inequality because the ones forced to work in shitty conditions are the ones that couldn't afford healthcare. Also lowering the taxes of the rich actually made this country less on an innovator because instead of spending money that would be taxed highly into R&D or to employees it is now kept or moved around to appease the investors.
@@FreeWorldSpirit313 you wrote your uneducated comment while living on a capitalist country...
What he said is completely true all u did at the end of the day is to show us how uneducated you are😢@@ankilo5519
Most people will whine and complain about Capitalism - from their iphone in one hand, and starbucks in the other.
Exactly. People who genuinely think capitalism is bad and commumism is good are genuinely stupid...
Capitalism keeps the market thriving and lives on innovation. What would be the motive to innovate without a financial incentive? Thats why capitalism is necessary.
One ideology is making the government owns everything in the name of its people and won't let them own anything, and the other ideology is enslaving people by making sweatshops and pay them that's enough to buy a meal, in the name of 'thriving market'.
Both are terrible system.
Whatever ideology in a show like Star Trek(the one that's used by The Unions), is better than what we have right now. But, of course they climbed to that point with capitalism, I am sure. So, humans in this current era can just suck it up.
bro if you have lived your whole life in the US, you actually have no clue about what Socialism REALLY is. All the arguments they say are based off stories and shit they read online. Socialists are very very good liars. Reality is way different.
yeah, because capitalism is our economic system. if the economic system of the world was say, feudalism then you could make the same arguement...
majority of tech in your average iphone was made by publicly funded innovation. the touchscreen, much of the interior, etc. not to mention having a phone in a developed country isnt rlly a luxury anymore as it is a necessity. and despite @noknes's comment, innovation has been happening without the profit incentive for thousands of years. we constantly made better weapons, clothes, cities, agriculture. only limited by our lack of industrialization and trade systems, which has made it innovation and production skyrocket, which also is not inherent to capitalism. but the reality is much of the world is still too poor to afford either of those, which are in capitalist systems.
just because we can enjoy some things in developed capitalist nations does not mean capitalism is inherently a better alternative. it has too many contradictions and issues inherent to itself (wealth inequality, imperialism, worker suppression, corruption, monopolization, chipping away at social programs, wage stagnation, environmental destruction, etc) to function long-term for humans. these are things that cannot be fixed by regulation nor a lack of it. it's only been around 500 years and we are already seeing our planet being destroyed, which the capitalist market yet has a solution for. we are going down a very dark path and saying people have starbucks does not mean anything in the face of this
Can you expand more on the differences between Communism and Socialism? They sound exactly the same. What are some key differences?
Communism doesn’t believe in democracy and government and the ownership of certain industries and businesses is taken by several non government people probably while in Socialism government takes charge of every health care,food and other things, both are meant for welfare and not for personal profit.
I think I can help. Communism aims to essentially faze out the government, thus eliminating the ruling class. Socialism has the government control the market. Also, complete communism means that there is no official money, whereas a socialist one would have money that is distributed to its lower class.
To use a questionable analogy, communism is like a bunch of children sharing food equally, whereas socialism is a grownup stepping in to distribute it for them.
@@Grant-nt9pt Well said, especially the last part where you use the children example sharing the food. Thank you!
None. Both are based in bloated government and an elite ruling class, which is where the unspoken wealth - financially or otherwise, is held. Their other common denominator is soaking the producers of whatever and doling it out in the name of "equity" to bums who don't produce. Neither exalts ambition but, rather, mediocrity - Why work when someone else is paying the bills or the government will take care of me? IOW, they are "nanny states".
Correction:
This video states that Socialism and Communism works to right the wrong of Capitalism, which is exploitation of the workers and wealth disparity between the rich and the poor.
Socialism and Communism both have problems with exploitation of workers and wealth disparity.
Both take advantage of their workers by forcing those with higher skilled jobs not being allowed to use their higher skills. The reason for this is simple: why work harder when you will still be paid the same?
In Socialism and Communism, there are those who are wealthy and those who are poor. In fact, the disparities between the rich and poor are even greater.
Under Capitalism, the main driving force is the concern and welfare for others. This is the driving force. The reason is simple: If you neighbor doesn't like you or your product, they choose to pick a different product.
Under Socialism and Capitalism, the choices of goods and services are diminished, due to the government control over means of production. This results in greater dependence on government choices than on your own needs and wants.
There is greater freedom in a capitalist system.
Finally, even capitalism has its own faults; but when compare to the other choices, it is far superior.
Wow.
Basically wrong on every level. Neither Socialism nor Communism disallow higher skilled labor from pursuing those jobs. Cuba, arguably the most communist country, is internationally recognized for its healthcare force; 8.2 doctors per thousand people, 3x the amount in the US and with a lower mortality rate amongst its citizens. The reason for this is simple: the government spends a quarter of its budget on healthcare and another quarter on education. Despite not being paid much more than the average citizen, people are still entering the field of healthcare. Why work harder when you will be paid the same? Well, (and get this it may seem radical but) they actually *enjoy their work and helping people*. Woah.
In Socialism, there are those who are wealthy and those who are middle-class because their basic necessities like food, shelter, and healthcare are provided by the government.
In Communism (which has never been achieved) the class divide between wealthy and poor is abolished along with currency and private ownership of industry.
Wealth inequality is greater in more capitalist countries and this is an actual fact. Do your own research. The US is ranked #4 in wealth inequality, just ahead of Brazil. Compared to countries with the least inequality: Norway, Denmark, Finland, & Sweden, all countries with robust social welfare programs. Europe’s lower inequality levels are mainly explained by a more equal distribution of pretax incomes rather than by more equalizing taxes and transfer systems.
Under Capitalism, the main driving force is the maximization of profit and the accumulation of wealth. People want to be rewarded for their ingenuity, investments, and economic risks undertaken. The reasoning is simple: humans are self serving by nature but as long as everyone seeks the fulfillment of their own self interest, the material needs of the whole society will be met. Like, literally read The Wealth of Nations.
"Under Socialism and Communism, the choices of goods and services are diminished, due to the government control over means of production." What do you mean by choices?
"This results in greater dependence on government choices than on your own needs and wants." As opposed to dependence on the supply and demand of the market which can not be easily redressed for public grievances?
"There is greater freedom in a capitalist system." Maybe for a few people who have made it to the top. The rest of us have to grind regardless. ah yes the "freedom" to work for low wages here rather than there. everything is on the individual and there's no way to tackle systemic issues such as wealth disparity or worker exploitation. Read up on the history of the US in the early 20th century. This is why socialist principles, like the "weekend" the "8 hour work day" and the "40 hour work week" became standardized. At least, in developed countries. Never mind the Global South...
Purely capitalist countries based solely on the free market have never functioned as for the general welfare; it's kind of antithetical. The same can be said of purely socialist countries. That's why most developed countries have a mix of both, and the countries that have less wealth inequality and greater emphasis on social welfare have leaned more towards *surprise* Socialism.
Wrong! In a communist/socialist society, the workers just own the companies (=> now called cooperatives if run by the workers). As the company is owned by its workers, the money distribution can be fairer, as millions don't go in the hands of a CEO who does nothing but profiting of his workers (do NOT tell me that sitting in a desk and doing papers is a hard thing to do, some workers could be hired to do that).
Anyway Capitalism is modern slavery, I hope you realize it one day, peace on you:)
@@emmanuelmacron4 Spoken like someone who is clueless how companies operate. I was one of those people who sat behind a desk all day doing paperwork. It was extremely tiring to do. The reason CEO's make the money they do is because of the expertise they bring to the company. Lastly, if a worker wants more say in the business, they either move up in the company, or better yet, start your own company. The person who starts the company is the owner, NOT the workers.
wdym wealth disparity u litterly have a fucking boss taking 90% of all the money.
@@spamman1032 Clueless...
''Private property'' as mentioned in the video is NOT the house or the car of the worker. It refers to the means of production which you mentioned a second later. Communism isn't advocating for abolition of PERSONAL belongings, Private property refers to who owns the means of production
Actually I heard if you live in a house and use it then you own it and that's what communism is about if you use it then you own it
You are brainwashed
Commie
All it takes for the car to become "private property" instead of "personal property" is for me to use it to help other people in exchange for money
Ok gulag propagandist. It ceases to be yours the minute you become a political enemy of the regime. Stop being so childish.
Fun fact: Socialism is not when the government owns businesses, but when workers do. So when most businesses in an economy are cooperatives and/or union run, that economy is socialist.
This definition is not historic
@@zigoter2185 ? If you are talking about my comment look up the Zapatistas, CNT FAI, Yugoslavia, and modern Vietnam. Each has their own issues, but each also has/d decentralized their economy, at least to some extent.
@@E.C.GoMusicandMore how this is relevant to the definition in any meaningful way?
@@zigoter2185ecause it means that socialism isn’t necessarily when the government owns the means o’ production, but when the workers themselves do.
@@E.C.GoMusicandMore I'll start with the theory and then analyze your examples.
First of all we have to assign definitions to key words.
Government (state)- is a monopoly on arbitration in all conflicts, including conflicts with itself.
Socialism - a system of public ownership of the means of production, where everything is owned by a society as a whole.
Now let's see if we can derive the state (government) from those definitions.
We will start with a premise of scarcity. Real world has scarse goods.
Another premise will be the needs of the people and their willingness to satisfy them using these scarse means. Again, we leave in the world of scarcity, where goods are limited, but human needs seem to have no limits.
If you have scarse means and people chasing them you will inevitably run into conflicts for these means. People will eventually engage in actions, that cannot be both completed in the same time.
An example would be a Crusoe and Friday on an island. Crusoe wants to use a stick to spearfish, Friday wants to use a stick to stoke his fire. We have a conflict, these actions cannot be done in the same time.
So how do you avoid these conflicts?
Using property rights. Private property rights specifically.
If we expand this experiment a little bit and say, that Crusoe was the one to find the stick first, then he has the ultimate right to use this stick in a way he wants.
Conflict avoided.
What if we use the socialist communal ownership idea on this example. Does it help avoid the conflict?
In a system of communal ownership the Crusoe and Friday both equally own the stick. This does not mitigate the conflict over its usage, in fact it makes conflict unavoidable, since it allows both people to simultaneously use a single scarce good.
How can socialist system mitigate this problem?
First, we have to add atleast 1 person to the experiment, otherwise Crusoe and Friday will have to fight it out.
Now, when we have 3 people owning everything on an island including a stick we can have a vote over who will get to use the stick. Suppose Friday wins the vote. Crusoe has to be forced to give the stick away.
We can get 2 conclusions.
1. Socialist property rights theory does not help us avoid conflicts, in fact it makes them unavoidable.
2. Socialist system requires some entity that will have the power to resolve all conflicts over scarce goods including the conflicts with itself. This entity is also referred to as a *state* or a *government*. Making it democratic does not eliminate the state.
This is obvious even by the etymology of words (which in this case also synonymous to their meaning, linking to etymology just illustrates it better)
Democracy - rule of the people.
Anarchy - no rulers.
Anarchy is antidemocratic.
Democracy is statist.
Since socialism can't offer us anything better than a direct democracy, socialism is statist.
I will discuss your historical examples in a follow-up comment.
There are no wrongs of capitalism to be righted. You get what you deserve, not what you "want".
Very useful! The one critique I have is that his explanation of Communism uses the terms "private property" and "personal property" interchangeably, but they are very different. From Wikipedia: "In Marxist theory, private property typically refers to capital or the means of production, while personal property refers to consumer and non-capital goods and services." So under communism, you can still own many of the items we cherish in modern life. Cheers!
Thank you for the clarification! That’s really good to point out. Learn something new everyday…
A critique of mine is that you can use communism + liberalism.
Under communism, if I need your toothbrush or one of your lungs more than you need it, I have the right to take it by force, either by myself or through the government.
There is no "personal property". "From each one according to their ability, to each one according to their NEED."
@@SL2797 Obiusly dont now whats communism. Everyone gets by his need is requarding to spreading the welt, nothing more. Personal property is everything that you use (house, car, land,tools), private property is when you extract money from dead capital with out working for it.
@@SL2797 ridiculous 🙄
1 if we achieve communism there will be enough toothbrushes for everyone.
2 if we achieve communism there won't be a state to enforce anything because it's a stateless society
3 take it easy
I love capitalism
Thanks for this video. Now, I have a better understanding of why I don't like and will never accept communism or socialism.
Literally the first thing i did when i controlled link was try to go up the stairs. Also i legit cried at the title sequence. I've been playing Zelda for the last 20 years and it's still amazing, the feeling when you start a new zelda.
Yo I'm loving the new zelda but do you know what video you're commenting on lol
@@vengefly6173 WHAT THE HELL
Thanks for pointing this out. It must've left the comment on this video, despite me commenting on a prior one.
Def leaving this comment for kicks
@@MyPieceOnThat I was just scrolling through random political comments and then I saw this out of nowhere. It's kind of a nice change of pace honestly though lol.
what does this have to do with the video
@@winkydinky1436 bro look at the other reply
Socialism is FIRST stage of communism, no vs.
Capitalism for sure - I was done allowing my life to be controlled by a babysitter when I was 10 years old.
You know nothing about socialism if you think that it's being controlled by the state. That's an authoritarian regime, not the same.
Also, you should know that socialism is wayyyy less democratic than capitalism.
Capitalism => Democracy of the rich ("the freer the market, the freer the people" is totally wrong, it just makes very very rich people free, but no one else, really)
Socialism => Democracy of the people (the workers own their ways of production)
@@emmanuelmacron4 your comment is confusing.. did you meant to say "capitalism is wayyy less democratice than socialism" ?
@@NonLethalGhost Apparently yes, East Germany was also known as the Democratic Republic of Germany. It's just that historically the Soviet Union chose dictatorship. In fact, the Communist International at that time was also very keen to criticize the Soviet dictatorship.
Thank you, you videos are very educational
I’m glad you are enjoying them! 👍🏼☺️
Mutually agreed exchange is exploitation while redistribution of peoples work and earnings, in the name of equity, is not exploitation?
human greed creates exploitation. it doesn’t matter what ‘ism’ we operate on, whoever is in charge will ruin it and cut corners for themselves.
It's a good thing under communism we don't have a state to ruin things
@@sampletext1035 the communist ideology doesn’t require a state to ruin things. How does a stateless society deal with procurement of public goods and services and protection of common goods.
@@bigkingsean1330 easy. We already have all of the systems in place on the business level. Taking control of the means of production doesn't mean destroying capital or industry. It means the workers own it. In communism, democratic communal decision making and democratically elected supervisors that hold no power over their peers aside from organizing the means of production, and who can be immediately removed from their position by popular vote if the people so desire. I find it a little funny you're not even aware of how communism works yet are so confident in your own beliefs. These are basic principles.
@@sampletext1035 People 1. Have legal rights to their businesses and 2. Would not willingly just hand over their life’s work / investment because a group of people somehow believe they’re entitled to it. How exactly are you taking (stealing) someone else’s business? Violence? Authoritarianism … “Dictatorship of the proletariat “? How do communist think this would actually happen?
So, removing the people who built and run the businesses and eliminating money, there’s no impact to industry or capital? Okay, that doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Everyone owns everything equally without a government, just like that, hierarchy is no more, greed and motivation, the human condition eliminated? Now, everyone cooperates. Mono-thought. If people want to work where the workers own the means of production they can form a co-op right now in the current system … but then they’d have to build it themselves.
This is a vague description of how decisions are made, appears to be mob rule, and vigilantism, now the protections for the minority are gone.
Communism might work in a small group setting, a tribe, or where most people know each other. This doesn’t scale to populations with millions of people.
“From each according to his ability to each according to his needs.” - Marx This incentivizes having the most need with the least ability. Who wants to work extra so the reward of their time and effort goes to people they don’t know?
I don’t know how communists can be so confident in a theory that just doesn’t have the foundation to compute to reality and has so many logical flaws and inconsistencies.
In communism that private property belongs to the government, all of them. You cannot say that in communism private property is diminished or not existing. Don’t lie to people. I am from Cuba and I know what I’m telling to you
Capitalism's goal isn't profits. It's personal and societal advancement. It provides opportunity and rewards for work and achievement. The other two -isms do not reward achievements or progress. That's why everyone ends up poor and starving. No one does more than what's necessary. Capitalism provides a way out of your current condition while the other two do not.
The problem with your explanation of these systems is that basic human nature is ignored. People like to be rewarded for hard work. That happens best in a Free Market Capitalist system. Neither Communism nor Socialism provide incentive to work harder and do better, hence, those systems tend to produce less innovation. Also, to think that a bunch of bureaucrats can run an economy better than the free market is ludicrous.
Honestly, this is the most unbiased video I've seen on TH-cam so far
Thank you! My goal is to make content that is as well-balanced as possible. Hope you’ll check out some of my other videos. :)
Sounds basis, I think their is an agenda aka the left
You need to watch more videos.
To bad it’s still heavily biased
this video is 100% biased towards communism and socialism.
I like capitalism as long as its followed by hard work. Showing your bhole on a website or spawning a 2 word phrase defining spitting on a willie and making a millions of dollars are 2 examples of capitalism i wish would go away.
This will be a great source of back and forth conversations. Copying and posting this to a group chat time now...
Yeah, this just confirmed that I despise socialism more than communism since the latter doesn't really exist.
Poorly explained. S8mple isnt always better.
This is wrong and misleading.
It’s as simple as this..
Having ownership over the modes of production is the point of all of this.
The modes of production are things like the land, the factory’s, the workplace, the state etc, things used as control and things used to produce things are the modes of production.
Capitalist want individuals to hold total control and power over the modes of production privately.
Socialist want no private ownership instead they want all members involved to hold democratic power over the modes of production, for example- workers owning the work place together democratically as a team would be socialist. A community owning the land together is socialist, the people owning the state democratically is socialist. Etc etc socialism is pure democracy over the modes of production by the members who are involved directly with it. It does not mean state owns things, the people do.
Communism is a step out of socialism where it democracy over all modes of production is accepted as a norm and the state/ government can be abolished, class can be abolished, and private property can be abolished.
Private property is not you’re car or you’re tooth brush, private property is property used to generate wealth off someone else. If the society is communist then everything the people produce is to be shared among the people. It’s a collective society where everyone works towards the betterment of society it’s self freely, the advancement of humanity would lie solely in the hands of the people and community’s themselves.
Appreciate the clarification.
Now in your ideal world, what political and economic ideology would you back?
@@Curls3c I support socialism and communism both. I support both groups and all the factions and political groups of these ideas.
The theory’s and methods to achieve it are a struggle forsure and the main reasons there so many different socialist/ communist groups. They often argue about how to achieve a socialism/ communism without being crushed by imperial powers.
I enjoy listening to the back and forth debating that takes place between all the different groups like the anarchist, the democratic socialist, the authoritarian socialist the syndicalist, the Leninist, Maoist etc
All of them wanna achieve the same goal in the end of cooperative and collective ownership of the people, for the people. But to create this system of human unity and workers solidarity its a real challenge for the reasons I’ll name below..
For one it’s obvious those in elitist positions of powers are not friendly to the idea of allowing such movements room to grow.
For this very reason every attempt of workers mobilizing In solidarity not just in america but around the entire globe is almost always met with state oppression or violence from the capitalist state who protect the interests of the elitist class.
In more large scale efforts to create the conditions that allow socialism or communism room to grow naturally they are always met with harsh economic sanctions and embargo’s ment to cripple and starve whole nations, or there met with foreign military invasions, coup attempts, assassinations, foreign meddling, manipulation, counter terrorism etc etc there’s always a big plot from elites nations to knee cap and destroy the effort.
So coming at it from a democratic point of view the movement faces many challenges, a big one is propaganda used to divert the masses of people away from the subject or confuse everyone on the topic in general, although many European nations have had great grassroot success in creating socialist dominated city’s and towns that are almost completely worker owned/ democratically cooperatively run by the community’s and workers themselves, there are also often met with many obstacles, one being there government’s are always in favor of capitalist domination over cooperative dominance and they write laws and pass bills that target unions or workerplace democracy’s. Europe is still home to many grassroots socialist success story’s though.
As for the rest of the world, Democracy is just not really an option for the 3rd world, there governments are extremely corrupted from all angles by foreign investors and monopoly capitalist of richer nations who aim to maintain control and dominance over global markets and major supply chains, some of there ties run back into the colonial era when capitalist established this global network through death, plunder and slavery. Other more recent developments were made through imperialist and fascist action.
simply put they just pay desperate thugs good money to kill and scare people who organize and structure worker movements.
Revolution seems like the 3rd worlds best option to escape the imperial strangle. They forsure have the hardest mountain to climb to escape capitalism and establish Socialism.
Capitalism also has never been truly achieved, but at least it's theory allows for individual freedoms and liberties all forms of Collectivism inherently curtail dramatically. All forms of Collectivism predicate themselves on the expectation of altruism from an all too powerful government, which is foolish at best. Government is the problem, laissez-faire is the solution.
Im thankful being malaysia because we use socialism, when goverment control pricing for product like rice, sugar and other ,it chance for poor people to living nicely
and keep you uneducated too
You should do more of these. I like it better than crash course Channel. I wish you could do extended videos on the same topics.
Keep being unbiased
Thank you so much for the compliment! What do you mean by extended videos? Like longer videos?
@@IllustratetoEducate going deeper into a topic with more examples. Yes. It’s very rare to see explanations without political biases being injected which is probably easier to do than to be neutral and provide an unfiltered info to simply educate.
What you have is a very well made appetizer. I very much like your style of “cooking”. It’s not raw or overdone and I’d love to see more main dishes and desserts which build on what already exists.
@@ikalennyy6986 makes sense! Great suggestion. I’d like to get to that point. It’s a tough balance between going deeper into topics, but at the same time meeting the time constraints (which is people’s attention span 😂) unfortunately TH-cam penalizes videos/channels with their algorithm depending on how much of the video people watch. I wish it wasn’t that way.
There have only been two real world experiments where a single society was split into a more socialist half and a more capitalist half. Those are East/West Germany and North/South Korea. Both experiments resulted in economic and humanitarian disaster for the unfortunate souls who found themselves on the socialist side.
You maybe should've included the aspects of freedom per each system.
That’s a great idea for future video. Thanks for the feedback.
And what rights are taken away.
@@blakesterling6865 agree, we have to keep in mind though that it varies based on individual countries and each specific constitution or set of rights. We could probably use the universal human rights model as a base.
Here after Oppenheimer and i am from india!
All thouse systems have Flaws and Communism is bigest Flaw thereself. Communism dosent allow people private property and yet Pivate property is essential freedom for privacy and independence. Another problem is system dependancy and control, you are not free to choose how much you work and where you work as state provides for you you need contribute as you are damanded, in capitalism you are basically free to choose, do you wish to be factory worker, office worker, farmer and maybe you aquire enought wealth to retire at 50. Another problem with communism is to provide for you government needs to know all abuot you and can choose not to provide to you if you misbeave or dont follow ideology. Capitalism biggest probelm is that Goverment supports enrichment of rich and keep poor in poverty with high taxes and regulations and some people are just too rich. In feudalism or agarian society there werent such big caps between poor and richest.
In a properly run Capitalist society taxes are kept low and regulations kept reasonable to prevent that situation, in the current situation attempts to mix two apposed systems(between the misguided trying to help and the power hungry trying to phase in a more centralised system) have caused taxes and regulations to go out of hand.
So capitalism is the best amongst all of these
Like socialism is basically the government doing stuff and there ain’t much freedom
Like Bruv I can’t have any of my current businesses
And get rich
All human problems are solved!! just study quran if you are sincere in searching.
If we follow god and his last messenger based on quran and the saying of the prophet our social injustice issues will all be solved.
try to prove this statement wrong if you can!!
after prophet jesus was sent. the last revelation by god was quran and god said it will be protected from changes and it did not change not even a single letter based on authentic narrations of companions of the prophet who documented quran when prophet Mohammed was alive. even the words of the prophet muhammed are all documented with narrators we can clearly tell the living situation for each narrator and wether they were trust worthy. and god fearing in their actions. it is all well documented and can be easily checked with the science of hadith.
Socialism encompasses a range of different systems relating to the social ownership / control of the means of production, with self-described socialists disagreeing with each other all the time over how exactly that is to be expressed. Don't be surprised if you get comments along the lines of "that's not real socialism" or "socialism in the 21st century is different."
it is purpose built to be a grey line.
@@maxwelljohnson7358 of course, extreme-leftism feast on chaos.
all systems are faill system is just islam
Glad I stumbled upon this. I only learned things about Communism only through memes. I know 😂
My people learned about it through their sweat and blood.
short and sweet explanation! love it ty
You're welcome!
My thought is that you forgot to mention how capitalism fights against the wrongs of communism and socialism. First you straight up didn’t mention that communist states never became fully communist because it’s impossible. And then didn’t point out that this didn’t stop the maniacs in charge from trying to make it happen anyway and literally killing more in the 20th century than the fascists. If you are trying to educate people I think it is pretty dishonest to not point out that communists were the most awful and murderous people of the 20th century, and considering the fascists murdered six million Jews that is a crazy amount of murder and oppression to gloss over. You also fail to point out that socialist systems are inherently authoritarian as they make everyone dependent on the the central authority of the government. With no private ownership everyone is working for state co., and if you do something state co doesn’t like then you are out of a job. You also fail to point out the advantage of capitalism is market pricing. The monopolies of socialist systems lead to deformations of price as there is no practical way to set realistic prices without an open market.
Pure communism would be ideal. Problem is that it can never exist among humans.
There will always be top dogs. Top dogs always have first, more, and better. To ensure they stay top dogs, they have Lieutenants. They have seconds, but still more and better. They have to have enforcers. They are police/ army of the now upper class.
You see how this is going, right?
Personal property(tooth brush , household)and private property ( farm, factory ) are 2 different things.
You’re 100% right and that was a misunderstanding that I had when making the video. I apologize. It is corrected in my Communism Explained video.
I guarantee that 45/34 doesn’t have a clue about the differences between the social systems.
You make complicated issues easier to understand, illustrations are helpful. Subscribed.
Maybe we can agree with whatever you said about Socialism and Communism good and bad but not on Capitalism which this video seems to be promoting it, In fact, all the good qualities of capitalism you mention are not 100% true. for me is there any other system than these 3 here!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????
If we want an advanced society go capitalism. If we want a 3rd world country go socialism or communism
Can you guess which one most encourages competence, innovation, improvement?
Oooh oooh I know, I know. It's the one without free healthcare right? Lol
@@jahndee2140There’s nothing more expensive than ‘free’ money.
Personally, I think any system could work as long as the leaders have the peoples needs at hart. I wouldn’t even mind living in a dictatorship.
literally no one:
LOUDWARD: "communism is better than capitalism!"
Capitalism is a concept as we know it only 300 years old!
Attempt at socialism and communism happened only 120 years ago ! And the form of this system was pushed back!
Only good old fashioned capitalism is hanging around stubbornly.
You must take into account that 150 years ago only 75% of population on Earth did know how to read or write , no radio no television only religion kept them in line. Not one system survived, all were replaced and improved on, and changes arise from necessity and humanity’s collective ability to demand change
Socialism and communism why do people from the USA still talk about this? Capitalism is for sure economically the best system anyway. But everything can be improved. I am European like many here I live in a country that adds social aspects to it. Important here is that besides the free market we choose freely and democratically that there is a high-quality health care, education that does not put us in debt for years, justice that is affordable and focuses on rehabilitating our prisoners who receive psychological guidance and training. Life imprisonment is the heaviest penalty and not the death penalty. Because we never want to have on our conscience that we as a society want to kill that one innocent among the 99 others who deserve it. The height of a civilization you see how people care/ treath the weakest and witch respect the people have for animal rights. Free to go and free to talk about everything. Critical because our next chalenge is our energy, transport and innovation to become as green as possible. Those challenges are inportent. Not systems who are dead or not by us in the west. It almost kept alive as a kind of enemy . Than it is not necessary to give people those certain social elements which have proven their usefulness and which one could consider as an insurance for much less crime and more well-being.Think politicians who are sponsored by industry and wall street are not really independent. Just like with us, there is still a lot of work to do.
Great video. Thanks for the info, I needed this brush up.
Glad it was helpful!
Maybe nice video. But wrong in almost every aspect. Especialy when free market is coined with position from Marx.
Great vid, keep it up
Thanks, will do!
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nizam system sirf Allah pak ka just islam
So if someone doesn't want to work, they still reap the benefits because they need stuff to survive. That won't go over too well for those who are working.
Is say so.. Why commusit hide their .. On capiralist. Is that much safe hide resrve on capitalist..
Private property is not a car, it is a factory owned by single entity.
There is a difference between private and personal property.
Why isn't the factory personal property?
I'll take Capitalism at it's worst over Communism/Socialism at it's best.
I want Freedomism
Freedom of religion
Freedom to Love God and obey His commandments..
We still live in a feudal society of capitalism.
only if you educate yourself from 2 minutes youtube videos biased towards socialism
In the real life examples of communism in practice, most notably the USSR - there were many disparities of status within, between the members of the Politburo, whom were treated as if they were Tzars/Czars, who rode in luxury German made vehicles; & as Tzar Nicolas himself, they lived in luxury, they had penthouses, & had country estates worthy of feudal lords, whilst the peasants, serfs, & slaves lived in squalor much as they still do.
The failed state of the Soviet Union was a Lord of the Flies writ large.
There was no homelessness in the Soviet Union like you see in the US. You are clueless.
@@ivydark9741 So the choices are to be equally poor or let 1% become rich and let the rest of them poor?
Damn, our species really needs a new and better ideology ASAP.
the soviet union was state capitalist, not socialist...
I suppose I’m a capitalist just my way of thinking wow thanks for the explanation
It's like there is a thin line between socialism and capitalism in todays society and the government is flirting with it lmao ahahahahah
The car and the house are personal properties, not private properties, that are used to make money
communism does not advocate for the abolition of personal property like electronics, clothing or anything else belonging to ones self, although, there are some things such as boats, cars and others that arent used too often, which would be removed as a form of personal property, in favour of also communally owned versions of them which can be rented and brought back when not in use. it also does not oppose democracy, it is one of the most democratic systems as it is run by and created for the workers.
everything else seems correct though, good job!
Yeah that was a misunderstanding on my part. Thanks for your comment and for the clarification. I appreciate it. :)
@@IllustratetoEducate yeah, they allow personal possessions and property, but not private that can create capital
@@IllustratetoEducate no worries, always happy to help! :)
"communally owned cars and boats" That is one of the stupidest idea's i've ever heard. Who would think that's a good idea?
No Communism takes even your partner
I like capitalism despite many shortcomings of capitalist it is still the bedrock of economic and technological progress.
I agree too. Many modern "socialist" states like china have only experienced economic growth from the liberalisation of their economy. Capitalism is also responsible for putting us in the information era, in which you can access unlimited information and communicate using advbancements in technology. Until state companies can produce technology to the same standard of apple/microsoft/sony, socialism has no comparative advnatage to capitalism.
@@callmecharlie0498 Deng Xiaoping liberalize the economy of china the cause unprecedented growth. but many american politicians and liberals want to follow mao zedong and hugo chavez failed socialist experiment Ironic.
*but only if it benefits a bunch of billionaires
@@ekeg_and socialism only benefits wealthy beaurocrats. Everyone today would be considered bourgeois a hundred years ago.
@@callmecharlie0498 socialism is by definition democratic because it would not be collective ownership if the government owns everything and it does not have any kind of democratic system
thank you for sharing. kids these days have to learn.
Of the three concepts, two are Government structures, historically oppressive Government structures, Capitalism is not necessarily a form of governing. Capitalism is simply what people engage in when freedom and liberty exist.
To say that Capitalism is derived from Feudalism is a Marxist mantra and a falsehood. Feudalism involves a monopoly on land ownership, lords over said lands and fiefs or peasants. Does that sound like modern America, or a medieval Monarchy? Capitalism is more accurately described as a modern, monetized version of the barter system.
Karl Marx hated Capitalism because he was lazy and a poor participant of it who quite often lived off of the means of his friends and family.
Capitalism literally did derive from feudalism and mercantilism. Many non Marxists know that.
Thank you . Your topics matter. Wake up and watch America
Hey! That middle symbol..B.L.M..
I guess im capitalism mostly it seem like an a little socialism
Democracy-Republic next?
what oversimplified drivel: socialism means little more than an attempt to achieve material equality through the imposition of high taxes on the wealthy to fund massive, mandatory welfare programs within a capitalist system. the major economic systems are in order of their historical emergence are: feudalism vs distributism vs capitalism vs collectivism vs corporatism. Syndicalism (worker-owned and run co-ops or syndicates) was developed later as a compliment to distributism and extends its central idea of widely dispersed ownership of productive properties to co-ops like schools, hospitals, mines and factories.
Bro wanted an in-depth explanation in a 4 min vid covering 3 major topics 🤦🏽
All of this makes sense but at the same time it doesn’t
Would America be considered Uber-Capitalist?
Take money from smart people & give it to ignorant baby machines
"right the wrongs of capitalism "? Ok yeah sure
All three are evil for different reasons
Seems like all these economic political system is wrong
Not bad.. Not totally unfair and inaccurate. When you reported criticisms of Marxism in another show you kept on saying experts say which is a bad way to argue and modern big business is close to the state and too big to fail which accords with Marxism. You are right that in the past hundred years there has been somewhere in the world governments claiming to be guided by Marxism and yet nowhere is there a classless society or anything like it. On the other hand no society on earth exists which is a perfect market without collapse, strong tendency to monopoly and goes on for a long time without war So some go on searching. and class struggle continues.
distributism/syndicalism is the most stable, productive in the long run and fairest system of the 5.
it is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest
Best explanation of our ideology in the shortest time I've listened or seen. Not detailed enough to understand how it works and some omisions, but still, pretty good.
2:30 Communists agree that Communism good but eventually obsolete.
Socialism ok but not enough
Capitalism good compared to Feudalism, obsolete nowdays, therefore bad.
SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST, LIBERAL DEMOCRAT! WHAT'S THE FUCKIN DIFFERENCE?
In what they do and want
i love when people forget that socialism is the failure of communism, communism has and will never exist, and capitalism (one with the money/points/resources makes the rules) is the only system that has ever existed.
Video: exists
And let the comments come in.....
Yeah, no. You drew images of PERSONAL PROPERTY and crossed it out as "PRIVATE property". What you claim we want to "take away or severely diminish" is exactly what we want more people to have (with the exception of cars in exchange for QUALITY public transportation). We don't want to take away your toothbrush, we don't want to take away your video games, we don't want to take away your home, we don't want to take away your family farm, we don't want to take away anything that you personally use. We just want the factories and other workplaces to be owned and operated by the workers not private employers in order to abolish the exploitation of wage slavery.
@@EarlOSandwich can you live in a family farm comfortably? Yes. Can you live in a family factory comfortably? No. A family farm is of your personal use because it doesn't produce really that much unless it's a super big ass farm, in which case it would not be a family farm.
You seem to have accidentally typed in a lot of "don't"s that don't belong. Here, let me fix it:
"we -don't- want to take away your video games, we -don't- want to take away your home, we -don't- want to take away your family farm, we -don't- want to take away anything that you personally use."
Let's face it. The farmers on a family farm sell their surplus crops to non-farmers in exchange for supplies and comforts that they can't make themselves. Of course, you are going to call it a "means of production" and seize it. And I am not impressed by your attempt to tell people not to look too closely.
You got socialism 98% wrong and Cuba and North Korea are 110% Communist until recently. Communism means the governments owns everything and can give or take anything away from you. Under socialism there is a free market and personal ownership. However taxes are used for things like, national defense, roads, highways, law enforcement, lifeguards, forest rangers, and even trash pick up. In many social list countries basic medical needs are free but you always have the freedom to find your own doctor and pay for your own treatment if you want a different doctor. In my view the US is socialist for things like roads and national defense but wants to say they are a pure capitalist society when it comes to healthcare.
What you describe sounds more like social democracy than socialism.
Your understanding of communism is 100% wrong. Communism means that everyone can take anything and the government may not exist anymore.
Thanks!
Really appreciate the super thanks! 🙏🏼 made my day! Thank you!
@@IllustratetoEducate You are welcome!🙂
honestly with that description socialism sounds pretty good
a great idea in principle , however socialism cant accommodate the greed and selfishness of the few . those pepole will always corrupt any ideology that does not fundamentally serve them .
this is what we see when any attempt is made to implement them ,even the less extreme social democracy's that have been shown to work to the benefit of a nation are slowly being ebbed away and drifting ever towards Corporate Fascism ,
Capitalism is freedom
Communism = Give me your watch and I'll give you the time.... Socialism = let's all pay for a watch, so we can all share the time... Capitalism = buy your own watch and overcharge others for the time.....
This really wasn't well done
I feel dumb nit knowing but could someone answer this for me...Would a communist economy/government mean for example...we all work 8 hours, we all get paid the same, we all are able to afford the same things? Would there be some ppl who are extremely rich/poor? What about disabled people? What about extremely intelligent people?
2:31 What do you think
All ima say is that many people from many different countries come to the United States to be successful. Usually because their nation doesn’t allow an individual to thrive as much as they could
Capitalism and communism are same the thing the only differences is in capitalism is private ownership and communism government ownership but not the people if were owners everyone will be rich then 😅
the ideal scenario is probably a combination of them all
while there is not a perfect example, I believe Scandinavia probably shows it the best
No matter what organizational structures exist in a nation when the leader of that nation is corrupt while becoming more and more meloganiacal too at the same time then everyone in their realm is often going to be groaning while suffering more than usual.
What about goverment ? What is peoople are unhappy with goverment ?
Anarchh