Democratic Socialism, explained
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- More U.S. candidates are openly calling themselves socialists. From Bernie Sanders to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, far-left candidates are getting recognized as serious contenders in races across the country. But socialism is often misunderstood in U.S. politics. So what does it actually mean to be a democratic socialist in America?
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Poorly explained video misses the enormous difference between Democratic Socialism, which means collective ownership but with elections, and Social Democracy, which just means Capitalism with less shitty social programs than current.
@@dequilafeara5326 Biden isn't a social democrat, he's just a corrupt politician with a bad case of dementia.
Right Mike? The guy in the video with glasses was uninformed, I knew, when he conflated social dems and dem socialists.
this^^ u can be socialist and not have social democracy just like u can be capitalist and have a social democracy
@Sp00ky Socialist M-26-7 i thought the ussr wasn’t actually a dem socialist country but just used it as a label?
Oh you mean Capitalism with socialist programs aka Socialism?
Let me explain Democratic Socialism.
The workers own the means of production, as well as universal healthcare and equal opportunities for all people while having a fully democratic government, not intervened with wealth and is achieved through Liberal democracy rather than revolution.
Social democracies are not the same as this, they are capitalist nations that use taxation to fund some publicly owned assets but there is still private ownership of companies rather than worker ownership.
Socialist have this utopian fantasy that will NEVER happen, because not everyone can come along for the ride. A lot of people die because there is simply isn’t enough. Some require more than others. Socialism is something that sound good on paper only
民主社会主义也分为两派:革命派和改良派
改良派(如智利的阿连德)通过民主选举上台，致力于生产资料公有化
革命派认为，资产阶级国家的民主不是真正的民主，应该通过革命建立一个新国家，通过绝对民主的方式管理它，在这个过程中防止威权政府的出现
I believe it shouldn’t be age, but a video that explains each and every side, and gives you a general vision of what the people who are running for president did in the past and what the believe is right for America.
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I wonder if anyone realized that Karl Marx _wasn't_ a Marxist.
Who said that? That's soooo..... Oh, it's Marx himself !!! Smart
Explain
Karl marx is a communist
@@jorgeiv804 wrong... he's a socialist. different things. also he's dead.
@@jeannette8882 how come? Marx was a communist, could you please tell me why you believe he was not?
Yeah this video explains very little
Anything that doesn’t present it the insidious, murderous ideology it actually is and always has been, explains very little.
If they had to explain anything properly, they would just expose it as the complete garbage it is!
3:37 lmao she called it "Venzuela"
probably drank too much
I mean... 30 trillion dollars in debt (and counting) with inflation at 40 year high while the central bank needs to manipulate the bond market to stay solvent.
... Just because the US isn't Venezuela YET, doesn't mean it won't happen in your lifetime... Patience.
Not sure what part of it you find amusing Ian.
I'm lazy and you will hear me roar
"Democratic Socialism" is just another euphemism to make the real thing more palatable to the Grubers, like the terms "progressive" and "hope and change". It’s a marketing ploy.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana.
That is our own government at work helping to destroy statues and history of our own, recently. The sad part is they get our own people to do it for them.
The more our government is pushing us to forget the more we run to this commi society we are let happen, we let our rights be given away. This isn’t Star Trek where it works. This is a long history of genocide, first the guns will go then the rest of it then 2/3 or Americans probably.
Dumb dumb
Education is trial and error. Communism in its sense is a totalitarian ideology but if we take a step back and margenalize the ideology from the totalitarian power we get a democratic socialism which has in fact been a revolutionary idea for present day countries and has progressed their working class more than any other country. Its the simple idea of having collective rights and individual rights implemented in an equal society with no class division.
@@suicidalsatan2085 My understanding of Communism suggests no government. There has never been a communist state only small communities (usually hippies or religious). Marx suggested a long period of socialism was necessary in order to enter into communism. Most people associate socialism with the authoritarianism of Stalin. However, all of the political enemies he assassinated were rival socialists. The cold war version we were brainwashed into believing is nonexistent. If fear of socialism is influencing your vote, you are more than likely voting against the better interests of your community and country.
@@mtthw741 Yes there is a difference between democratic socialism and communism as i tried to explain before. And your statement " There has never been a communist state only small communities (usually hippies or religious)" is incorrect. In fact communism supports totalitarian or authoritarian power, however democratic socialism does not since it's "democracy". And also I am not against socialism, I believe socialism is the next best thing but hard to achieve in a country where they publicize opulence as a wet dream or something.
When talking about economic structure, it’s important to remember that Social Democracy is NOT the same as Democratic Socialism.
Social Democracy encompasses the large spectrum between Free-Market Capitalism and Democratic Socialism. So called “Social Safety Nets” are the defining feature of Social Democracy; and depending on how a country applies these safety nets determines where they fall along that spectrum.
(side note: social safety nets are easier to understand and better described as “economic safety nets in the better interest of the working class and the general public”)
A lot of countries today, such as the USA and much of Europe, are Social Democracies. The big difference between the USA and most European countries though, is that the social safety nets in the USA are few and far between and also very lacking comparatively.
Democratic Socialism on the other hand is entirely different. Instead of just regulating major industry and the means of production with social safety nets, instead the public now owns them.
(side note: ‘the public now owns them’ generally means owned by proxy through the government, but the public directly decides how the industry is run by voting. Think of it like a board of directors, but the whole country is on the board and everybody gets equal say, with the majority decision being put into policy)
I believe the only current, real world example we have of this economic structure is Cuba. A common misconception with Democratic Socialism is that it eliminates all private ownership and private business practices, but this is not true. Typically, it is the general de-privatization of the necessities, the means of production, and especially the infrastructure that are needed by and used by the general public. It returns ownership of these industries back to the public, where they can decide what’s best for themselves through a direct popular-vote majority for policy changes, rather than leaving that decision to a group of people who stand to profit off of their own, potentially greedy business practices.
The other large businesses that don’t fall into this category of ‘necessities, means of production, and infrastructure’ (think Apple and their products) are then regulated through ‘social safety nets’ that are very similar to the ones introduced in Social Democracy (but they’re typically not so lenient). There are measures put into place to prevent companies that are based within these countries from becoming monopolies, as well as policies that are implemented to benefit, encourage, and support small businesses and the practices of maintaining them.
First they called it Communism, when that failed, they called it socialism, when that failed, they called it Democratic socialism. It is all the same totalitarian ideology that failed in North Korea, USSR, Venezuela, and Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge. It is just implemented differently in different cultures with different histories.
There are varieties of leftist ideologies that range from authoritarian to libertarian. Not all are going to be the same.
nope. if you studied history you would know socialism came before communism. and during the XX century in Europe there were many parties: the socialdemocratic, communist, socialist, democratic socialist, liberal socialism... so you are just assuming without studying.
I'm more of a libertarian Socialist, i'm against the idea of a state, thats how most ideologies turn authoritarian.
The more politicians say they will “take care of you,” the more expensive and unreachable a decent life will be for you (never them). Nothing in life is free. Run in the opposite direction from any politician who promises such things.
Yup the only solution is pure socialism
happy to live in sweden under socialist Democratcic , and their is different between socialist and social democratic
Sweden is capitalist system🙈
You’re right, but Sweden is social democratic.
Sweden has no minimum wage and lower corporate tax rate than usa. Sorry but they're capitalist
I just saw a video that said capitalism and socialism don't co-exist. Untrue. Most countries are a hybrid of the two. Medicare, social security are examples of the socialist aspect. The free market, supply and demand, the capitalist aspect. I think history has shown we don't want the excesses of one pure system.
And we are 100trillion in debt
"Far left"
This man knows what's up
It is not Democratic Socialism they are just your normal run of the mill Social Democrats. And what they want is regulated capitalism like the Nordic states. The problem is that they still suffer from the same contradictions that every capitalist society. This shows as those safety nets are slowly eroding. First it is lofting or modifying rent controls or rolling back some of the benefits. Capitalism will always end up with the capital class taking away the concessions they made before
So what is democratic socialism?
Serious question has socialism worked in any country? I can't find an answer on Google
You can actually, you just didn't
@@cracktoon_powerscaling everytime I type socialist countries in Google the usual answer come up china, Cuba, Venezuela ect but people keep telling me these are communist countries and not proper socialism. Can you provide me with any socialist countries where it as been implement properly?
@@hague444 Sweden and Finland lol
@@WassupDL66 they are free market capitalist countries lol
@@hague444 with huge socialist policies?
No European country has a real military...
It would help if we stopped the negative, poorly or vaguely informed criticisms and analyze what would be the REAL benefits and consequences. Government does everything to help support corporations - why can't the government help establish production and transfer that to worker-owned co-op's. No shareholders squeezing profit out of wages and benefits. Profits are shared among the workers. That provides the incentive to work hard and innovate while providing more prosperity to the middle and low class.
Sounds like a better model to me, but we've had it drilled in our brains forever that anything different or remotely "red" is evil. Our constitution was supposed to be fluid. Without progress we're doomed like previous civilizations have been as they failed to adapt to the changing world around them. We're back on our way to 1800's Great Britain with the extreme wealthy vs the extreme poor.
There’s just not enough wealth to go around for everyone. The rich are better at making money, so we should let them keep their money so they can make more cause the more money they make, the more the government gets. I still believe that they should pay more in taxes and we should help out those who are poor, but we shouldn’t ever force a business to give up their money to their workers, the money won’t go that far.
@@patricksullivan5642 I agree and there will always be haves and have nots, but there are many instances where public sectors are privatized as a way to induce growth and those companies are looking for profit, not to do public good. Large companies are creating wealth which is good, but they don’t pay their fair share and have so much power lobbying legislation and regulations in their favor. It feels like we’re moving towards private billionaires and mega companies having more control over democracy than the people it’s supposed to represent.
That’s Utopianism. That “perfect world” garbage will never happen. Greed is in human nature.
@@jimenez1221
"Greed is in human nature."
Yes but human nature is not define by only one property. Human nature is a lot more complex than that, human nature is: inteligence, compasion, competitive, cooperative, helpful, evil, good, bad, .... and so on and soo forth...
The greet aspect is only one aspect of humanity, it is not the only aspect of humanity.!!!
Democratic Socialism is still Socialism ultimately fails. Social Democracy is the best description based on the beliefs of the Labour Party in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
Please read some Thomas Sowell.
Thomas Sowell the Black man who became a conservative after being a Marxist without a party or relationship to a party in the midst of the Cold War witch hunt after soldiering in Korea and later as a government official. How did he slip through the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations?
Please ignore Sowell, who is FoS. Instead, read and find out about Malcolm X.
@@mattw9764 Thomas Sowell knows more than you will ever know. But I also love Malcolm X.
@@davonfryar-frazier435 What Sowell knows is hardly the point. It's how he uses what he knows and who he uses it for.
@@mattw9764 Fair enough. Elaborate
Carl Marx did not invent Socialism it has its roots in the French Revolution he saw it as a transitioning point between capitalism and communism
Democratic Socialism today is the National Socialism (Nazism) of the 1930s in Germany and Europe. Freedom-loving Americans have an obligation today to resist Democratic Socialism the same way many good and decent Germans attempted to resist National Socialism in 1930's Germany, albeit unsuccessfully in the end. Americans need to be more resolute today. Socialism is Socialism no matter how you try to package it. Nazism is synonymous with the movement today of BLM, Antifa, the Progressive Left, and the Democratic Party.
I still dont know what democratic socialism is
Socialism is the future, Democracy or the Republic (Capitalism) hasn't worked well in this country except for the few and they'll be the first to tell you that Socialism isn't any good. The middle-class is shrinking and the lower-class is over crowded but the upper-class is lonely, it needs reforming. Embrace it.
"... and have no plan to move to Venzuela..."
Or even, evidently, learn how to pronounce the name of the place
I just farted.
2:59
This is exactly the problem.
That is not a problem because the ideology itself is not the one that produces or ends in communism and marxism, it's the nations' and leaders' fault that these countries have fallen or turned the leaders to dictators. This would be like saying being a kingdom or even a republic is bad because so many have fallen. It's just an incredibly flawed argument. Modern times bring modern mindsets that would obviously deal with these concepts and ideas in a much better way.
@Swastik Shukla I know they do, I lived in one. I never said republics are suddenly extinct. And by whomst exactly is monarchy considered unsuccessful? Do you deem Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands etc. unsuccessful countries? If you do I've got some news for you...
You obviously didn't understand my comment nor did you try to. Or you misunderstood.
@Swastik Shukla Just to be clear, I am not saying republics or monarchies are flawed they were just genuinely the first ones off the top of my head. The countries I named are indeed monarchies, they are all kingdoms if I am not mistaken. Them having parliamentary elections doesn't affect the top leaders. I never mentioned absolute monarchies, just monarchies, but I understand what you meant now. Anyways this still goes in favour of my argument because if you think the old fashioned way of monarchies (which were absolutist) isn't good for our society, but the "modern" type is good, wouldn't that mean socialism would have a chance as well if put into the right hands and the right community. Basically, what I'm saying is socialism doesn't equal dictatorship just like monarchy doesn't equal absolute power. Like I said in the first comment - think about the concept in a modernised way and in a progressive society.
@Swastik Shukla Same here and sorry for the long comment
@@meizumi I used to think this. Until I started working at a club and was talking to a young cocktail waitress from Venezuela who woke me up to reality. Socialism/marxism creates a vacuum. It creates the avenue by which totalitarian regimes/governments position themselves to have power over the means of production and property. It is an inevitability that this will happen. There are socialists now suggesting that generational wealth should be done away with. I can't think of anything more absurd than saying that the property and wealth someone has built up for themselves and their families and future generations no longer should belong to them.
"They don't have the memory of Soviet Russia, or of China" it's as if it's easier to identify with an ideology when you ignore the atrocities that were committed for said ideology.
It’s funny how you ignore the entire view of democratic socialism. Soviet Russia and China WERE NEVER democratic socialist nations. They had administrative-command state capitalist economies that were hugely undemocratic. Furthermore, China is not even a communist nation anymore. They’ve pretty much transitioned into what can be defined as capitalism and are still committing atrocities under it. Let’s not begin to pretend Marxist ideologies are the only ones that have had atrocities committed under them. Just take a look at the history of Capitalist nations that you seem to forget.
@@jacobdraves1731 I never brought up much less denied the atrocities committed by Capitalist nations every group committed some atrocity at some point in time, all I mean to point out is that these oppressive Communistic governments didn't pop up from nowhere, the Soviets promised liberation as they starved Ukraine and offed Stalin's ideological opponents, the Nazis promised the unification of all social classes as they gassed and forced the Jewish people into labor camps, and Mao promised industrialization as he forced his people to work themselves to death for grain. These are extremely important examples of giving the government too much power. I'm not saying the ideology as a whole is all bad, only that is it extremely important to remember the history of where these ideologies lead when they went unchecked.
China also isn't a good example of a country where Capitalism went bad as they transitioned from a very oppressive Communist government into a very oppressive Semi-Capitalist government. The governmental control didn't go away as soon as they switched to a more free market model because they very much still control the market as well as the people. Western Capitalism, as it exists today, is a very non-oppressive system, if the government would get out of people's way it'd be an even less oppressive system.
Yeah it’s like having coworkers who don’t pull their weight and still benefit by getting an equal share of the commissions
i think it’s more like a coworker is taking all of the money that you helped them earn, and then they are forced the give up some of that money so everyone in the workplace has equal opportunity
@@cjlair7476 I'm not from America so I don't understand this concept, but explain to me how somebody paying for and starting up a business is considered theft because they take a larger share of the profits.
@@belledelafriquemlk7499 it’s not, it’s the spoils of profit from the risk incurred!!!
@@belledelafriquemlk7499 Only stupid American college students who have never worked a day in their life and their Daddys are paying their school tuition believe this nonsense. It's the thinking of entitled brats. Weird.
@@cjlair7476
Right, except nothing like that.
Do try again.
For those of you that don’t understand
Capitalism: privately owned
Communism: government owned
Socialism: community owned
The fear that everyone has with socialism is that they keep relating it to communism when they are 2 completely different economic system, I don’t believe socialism has ever been exercised in modern society
This video does a very poor job and getting its viewers to understand this
This didnt explain anything
Yet... The US has been HEAVILY social Democratic for like 15 years now, but the wealth gap keeps widening... Please explain!
●○It's a matter of work ethic either you have it or you don't○●
Far too simplistic. Many people work hard under any system. Very few people want to live in a Communist state but equally would prefer a fairer society. Scandinavia provides one possible more balanced. approach
The job where I worked the hardest in my life, got pooped on, peed on, and vomited on, was the job where I earned some of the lowest pay, too.
Just saying, pay scale tends to have little connection to how hard you have to work.
My humble opinion, I would like to work my ass off to give myself a comfortable living. A lot of people see things differently, they think we all should have the same things in life be it pleasures, luxuries or privileges simply for being born.
Anyone know why the map that pans on the TV at 1:42 is just flat out missing Morocco? Like it’s colored as ocean for no reason...
Also referring to the Soviet Union and the PRC as “Orthodox Marxist societies” at 3:15 is definitely a stretch
This a good explanation as why weed is bad, its not, really its stupid,
DEMOCRATIC
(by the people)
SOCIALISM
(for the people)
Not even close, Wansum! w
Capitalism is not?
@Ann Linley ...What about the people who take care of other people: the policemen, firemen, teachers, prison guards, community workers, soldiers, road builders, nurses, etc, etc??? Not everyone is out for the MONEY!!! Shouldn't their self-sacrificing service be rewarded more than it is?... They're hard working, and probably more deserving of being called COURAGEOUS than you, if they've chosen professions like policeman, firefighter, soldier, etc...
This experience here on earth is not to see how much money you can make for you and yours... That may seem like success on a physical level, but if you can't get past that mindset, you're a FAILURE on the SPIRITUAL plane... Are you like Scrooge, not wanting anyone to have what you have?... Does the phrase "The earth is the LORD's and everything on it," mean nothing to you? ...Is the time you've spent building a company that will make you money, worth more than the time others have spent in service to their fellow sojourners (policemen, firemen, teachers, prison guards, community workers, soldiers, road builders, nurses, etc)?
Scrooge learned it's better to share what he had... Will you?
@Ann Linley ...Do you believe Jesus Christ IS the Messiah? Where do you get that He was wealthy? We're told that His disciples couldn't depend on having a pillow under their heads... Doesn't sound like a wealthy man who could provide sumptuous accommodations, to me...When He sent His disciples out, He told them not to take extra sandals for their feet, or a change of robes for their body... He wanted them to travel light, and depend on the goodness of God, and the goodness of the people they would be sharing SPIRITUAL nourishment with (in exchange for natural nourishment, and a place to sleep)... Jesus didn't care about MATERIAL wealth... He never devised money-making corporations... His wealth was SPIRITUAL, and He SHARED it w/all who would listen, and were open to receive it...
Responding to your comment, "They all get paid. And unless they work for free... it is about money." ...I agree that people who choose professions caring for people where governments are more socially minded, as opposed to capitalistic/profit-minded, are paid wages... Money is important as a medium for exchange of life's necessities/pleasures, but there should NEVER be as big a gap between the rich and the poor as is the case in America these days...
Your comment, "If you want what I have, work for it like I did," sounds pompous and delusional to me! It implies that you think the time you spend on money-making endeavors, is worth more than the same amount of time others may spend helping humanity in their time of need (soldiers, firefighters, police officers, etc). The fact that you said, "People choose to be police officer. I chose to be wealthy" underlines your priorities... From that comment alone, I have to conclude that for YOU it's all about the $$$... Hope your employees receive adequate wages and benefits...
Read Luke18:10-14... The Pharisee in those passages, sounds a lot like many self-deluded, self-righteous people in America these days...
Granted, there are people who take advantage of free services, but there are so many, many MORE that are desperately in need of them... They may have come from dysfunctional families (are coping w/sexual and mental abuse, neglect, malnutrition, etc), maybe dealing w/schizophrenia, alcohol/drug addictions, etc, etc... To me, as a follower of Jesus Christ, it's better to care TOO much, than too little...
Are you SURE that you don't see yourself (and your money) as your GOD?... You said, "It's how you aquire your wealth and not letting money take the place of God."... I don't know HOW you acquired your wealth, but it seems it's become all important to you, and if you're honest w/yourself, HAS taken the place of God... Are you willing to give up the money if the Lord asked you to? That would tell you if you hold GOD in highest regard, or the money...
Like I said earlier, the earth is the LORD'S and the fulness thereof... You may have been allowed to accumulate material wealth in this physical life, but you can't take it with you into the spiritual hereafter... THEN, spiritual laws will apply, and those laws are that whoever loves the most (and shares that love and knowledge the most), is rewarded the most... Maybe that will apply to you at some future date... Maybe not...
Wrong,
By the Government
For the Government
This video is correct when it concludes that Sanders, like AOC, is barely any kind of socialist, by the real definition. If you want an example of a present day US socialist, try professor Richard D. Wolff. Democratic workers coops are socialism. Single payer healthcare is not (even though, yes, it is leaning more in a socialist direction but it is very much the safety net of social democracy or the welfare state).
I denounce Socialism in all it forms!
She's really not all there. This country has become worse since she's been in Congress
No, it has not. Biden has seen to correcting some of the damage done under conservative republican administrations...But I understand where you are (probably) coming from....the country was established by a well-meaning elite who gave us just enough federal government to protect THEIR lives and property and convinced everyday people that was all the government THEY needed....which, given the times, might have made sense but the world and society has become vastly more complex since 1788...I am wondering if you understand that.
Marx was a communist and anti-socalism as he though it would eventually lead to capitalism and imperialism.
Marx also traded on the London Stock Exchange despite his views on capitalism
This video is, quite frankly, rubbish.
Real socialism is a countries assets and wealth being managed and shared by the people via democratically elected politicians and ministers. As much as I agree with concepts such as free trade and sytems of merit, I wholeheartedly believe that the state should be in full ownership of certain things. For example, the railway network, gas, water and electricity provision.
All children should be entitled to free childcare, a free education including meals, uniforms, sports kits and books. Everybody should be entitled to free healthcare and dental care and a free funeral.
Outside of this, anybody who wishes to and has the means to pay for private schools or healthcare for their families and themselves is absolutely entitled to do so.
stop this 'real socialism' rubbish please. socialism is like heat. What is real heat? There's varying degrees like 20 deg or 50 deg, but there's no real heat. North Korea can be 50deg and Sweden 20deg, but saying Sweden's system is 'real socialism' is analogous to me saying that 20 deg is real heat.
Also this notion of 'free' is just flat out wrong. Just because your grandma pays something instead of you doesn't make it free obviously. Its tax-funded, not free.
Just so people know, Socialism always ends up turning to communism.
If there are so many who want this then look to the pass in the U.S. and did it them selves, they did not expect the government to do everything. this is a free society. people can come together and create their own coops of healthcare and college education and day care or anything. no need to impose on others. Unless you are actually just looking for someone else to give you something.
They call it democratic, but want to impose it by force on those that are opposed. I think they should pick a state who's people are most favorable to socialism and try it. Make it work while keeping it in a democratic frame. And if after 10 years, the people still want it, go for it.
idk why americans think socialism or democratic socialism is a good thing ...trust me ....i live in a socialist country ....India....the opportunities are very scarce ...thts y u see a lot of indians working all over the world ....because the country can't provide enough jobs and is very inefficient in managing resources
India hasn't achieved socialism.
@@flatarthur3161 thts just an arrogant statement....socialism is in the indian constitution ....its just tht socialism is shitty
@@shashankpradhan1393 India doesn't have a socialist economy.
FACT: No socialist country ever had equality of income as a goal, much less a fact.
Sweden is not a socialist country. Democratic socialists are not the majority party in Europe, and socialists will never outnumber advocates of market-based economy (well-regulated capitalism) in the US. Social Democrats are the leading party on the left throughout Europe, and in government they vastly outnumber democratic socialists. Social programs have never been a part of socialist ideology, and were the policies of liberals who advocate capitalism with safety nets. That's what the overwhelming majority of Democrats in the US believe as well.
Just give free healthcare, free education and no homeless people (public housing) that is the type of economy people would prefer. Call it capitalism/socialism people won’t care.
Sounds good on paper, but people need to choose what healthcare they WANT. IF the government gave "free" healthcare , who puts in place what healthcare i would get?
Dont make since all those level and rope pull someone to level but still keep them steps behind. You can't move up to a different social class. So if you have plan to move out of your poor ass town you cant . Keeping the poor from getting ahead I don't know that what it sounds like no goals to reach. People are going to be crazy pisses off
Under Capitalism you can't move up to a different social class either...
What are you talking about???
Thomas Jefferson summed up the relationship between government and the
people brilliantly: "When the government fears the people, there is
liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." The
Democrats would have us all fearing the government!!!
Dumb clown. You obviously don't even care what the truth is.
Go back to your Facebook group.
@@leftyshawenuph4026 When you move out of your mother's basement and get a job you will have the right to give an opinion.
@@michaelstark777
Aww, I touched a nerve, huh?
Again...
Dumb clown. You obviously don't even care what the truth is.
Go back to your Facebook group.
Your fellow sheep won't call bs there.
@@leftyshawenuph4026 What is the truth?
Michael Stark
You know that Thomas Jefferson was for Socialism and social safety nets and high taxes righ?
Right??? Right??!!??
Because if you don't, then you better go back and read more on Thomas Jefferson to learn what he was actually for!
He was not for unregulated Capitalism!!
Tbh its obvious how bad socialism, but let's not talk about that since it'll end up a who can shout the loudest an everybody is right in their own mind. So let's start at how ppl want free healthcare, college, debts removed an so forth basically I dont wanna work just hand me life free on a platter. So let's say you tax the 1% or let's just say ppl 100k since that's viewed as alot of money to the poor(I dont wanna hear how do you know since I've work at walmart for years an walk 2hrs to an from work during my life). Well with that said just how are you gonna tax them? 50,60,70,80,90, or what even 100% of what they earn? Sure go ahead they'll move out the country an then what? Whose gonna pay then? To me looks like your back at square 1 or your gonna tax the middle class whose worked hard for what they've got, but let me guess that really doesnt matter as long as your own needs are satisfied at the expense of others. However its better to ask yourself are you willing to pay whatever tax you'd purpose on the 1% since I can definitely tell you that you'll never touch them before they bail out an call it a day. Lastly if ppl are so against what the US is why not move elsewhere, or do what iceland did an abolish their government an start a new? Definitely things that are spoken of an are options as well.
We vote for ethnicity rather than ability and we end up with bartenders running the country that can't do simple math. 😉
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No, we vote on ability, youre just a racist 🤷🏼
Sounds like of a bunch of B.S. by underachievers looking for a free ride off of others.
I love socialism
Nothing but lies.
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I don't believe it is ever fair to redistribute wealth. We already have quite a few social safety-net programs. The countries in the the Netherlands had to move more to a Capitalism model a few decades ago. This, according to one of the Presidents. I cant remember which country. I think it was Sweden. It really comes down to not hurting incentives of people. The more programs we create, the more dependency and the less incentive. That is my view. We are already seeing it play out.
Who cares she's the most beautiful senator in history
I would vote for Michael Moore.
young people you have to work hard in capitalism it's going to be ok . quit freeking out
Explained 🤣
What's to stop the government from taking it all
Trump 2020
Communism, Socialism, call it what you like.
There's very little difference in the two...
Now ain't i right?
So basically, democratic socialism is ethical capitalism. That's how I understand it.
Great work, thanx; also, please: Why "....we(e),...", can't just "...take away the drug war...", as you so simplistic suggest we should. First, going in that direction is a civil rights slew of issues I've been working on for decades; successfully. Second, States are proving that legalization of weed, even with less emphasis on decriminalization, is working. Three, if we just did as you assert we could, which we couldn't, inside 2 years we'd be living in a drug den instead of a country; simplified version- as that's the way you obviously like it. We're trying to have a progressing society, let alone a country here; if you don't mind. Indivisible, illimitable u's inner-nature's abundance self-actuating in the world :)
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Whoops, I followed your lead. Here's alittle more flesh on the bone, or wound in this case. Due to the cheap connects our ex-military have in Afghanistan over the last dozen years, because of the remocrat conspiracy's addiction to unending unnecessary global war (and the dempublicans lack of desire to stop them), with the largest narco-state on the planet; that your tax dolla's propped up for all that time. As well as the main reason why we can't have full spectrum drug legalization; probably, ever. Also it's why a full 30 % or more of the drug addicts in the united suck of assassins are herion, or it's opiods addicts; duh. For, our country would break into narco-nation-states aligned with global narco-states inside of 3 years; imagine the drug cartel wars that would take place on 'Turtle Island', it would put 'Queen of the South''s drug wars to shame- as well as our first civil war. reality
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Well done -
I love the women that said I don't want to move to Sweden or venezuelan. I understand venezuelan but Sweden has a higher quality of life then the us
Scandinavian countries are NOT socialistic in the sense like Venezuela.
Prices of goods and services are determined on purely capitalistic basis. They are socialistic democracies in a way that they are WELFARE states. Meaning - they pay more taxes but they get free education and free healthcare etc.
They can most certainly afford nice cars.
In can give you two simple examples:
In USA - if you are not wealthy, your parents will not be able to pay for your university degree. So you have a couple options: (i) you may be lucky and receive a full scholarship, (ii) you have to get a student loan, (iii) you are unable to get a loan and thus unable to receive education you wish. Let's be real here and state that option (ii) is the most common for middle class people. You graduate and you have thousands of dollars of debt... You get a job and most commonly, you are paying of your loan for a better part of your life. But hey, at least taxes are low. If you are option (iii) - yeah, your taxes are low but your income is also low because you are uneducated.
In Denmark - education is free. So anyone, regardless of their income is able to receive education. Everyone may get their degree and NO ONE is in debt when they are starting their lives. And yes, you get a job and pay high taxes. But that is the price for free education. You are still able to afford cars.
Similar example can be made for healthcare.
The beauty is that if you are unable to pay for education, you still have the opportunity to make something of yourself. Super rich people pay much higher share of taxes - because they can afford it. There is much less class disparity and thus people are happier, healthier and live better lives. The premise is that someone who is able to afford 10 cars SHOULD pay high taxes because they DO NOT NEED 10 cars. Them paying high taxes means that someone else is able to get education and someday become successful and also receive a salary that would oblige them to pay high taxes.
Do you know why places like Venezuela "fail"? Because when they start showing positive results, the US comes in and squashes it. They've been doing that for decades.
You need to remove the word FREE from your vocabulary, it is not FREE, it is called THEFT.
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lol I thought she said,
“It’s not okay to put donuts before your community”
unless they're chocolate
A movement I can get behind😭
Ok
These people are scary
a lot of democratic socialists support getting rid of the electoral college, and having one person one vote. So if you didn't like what was happening, it would be a MORE democratic society, that the people would have the power to change it.
@@laurens4042 The US isn't a democracy. The word appears in non of our founding documents. The reason is because democracies are unstable and always fail.
stupid click bait video. so, whats democratic socialism? how will it pay free healthcare for all?
@@oszy6069 exactly.. Notice your question.. Particularly the words "pay" and "free". There lies the crux
@@JM-kq4le this is crazy. so, more taxes for everyone.
There is or was also very strong anti-"wage slavery" and anarchist tradition, based around the idea that everyone would have the skills and the other means of production to be their own independent self employer and to be an educated equal member of a local community. This is essentially libertarian socialism in ideology and practice. Chomsky likes to make this point about the history of socialism in the US.
That sounds far too idealistic. What does it even mean for everyone to have "the skills and the other means of production"? I'm assuming you mean collective ownership of the means of production, but what would be collective property and what would be personal property? Not to mention, organized labor is a necessity to provide most of the products we have today, which would become much harder if everyone was "self-employed". It feels like the system you described would likely lack organization and leadership, and would probably be much less efficient than what we have now, assuming that society doesn't immediately collapse as a result of it. I'm sorry if I'm understanding it wrong but your description is incredibly vague and that's what I got from it.
We will Rock💪☮️🇺🇸 the world in 2 years and imagine the next 20 years. Presidential election results in 2030's.. 🇵🇷🇺🇸
Por eso la isla esta como esta. Gobierno paternal siempre termina en embrolla, y los coudadanos ignorantes despues culpan a politicos quienes ellos elegieron para que administre el Gobierno paternal
Nobody seems to making the distinction between what real democratic socialism is and what people seem to want, social democracy.
Thats because they eventually end up being two sides of the same coin. Social democracy is unstable. It is totally dependent on the capitalist mama. Eventually it has to be abandoned or just revert to Capitalist heavy with welfare like Sweden. But that is already unsustainable in Sweden. all that worker owned and heavy tax on industry failed in the 70's and 80's. They had to abandon it. More and more now they are dwindling down the "free stuff" Welfare state is what people want just that sounds to icky to Americans. Bernie would never get far pushing that. That is why he has mis used the term Democratic Socialist to describe him self. It sounds more intelligent than welfare statism.
You don’t want to be either. Or if you’re not saying you do but you’re saying other people do. They don’t want it either. They just think they do. To be a Democrat a socialist or a mixture of those is to be politically ignorant
@@vc6984 What are you on about? No it doesn't, it's to completely different things. And the only reason why Sweden is having the trouble that it has now is because of globalism and unchecked mass immigration dictated by the E.U.
@@pendragonshall Thinking that Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy is the same thing, IS POLITICALLY IGNORANT.
@@Maorawrath “dictated by the EU” no it’s not. It’s everyone’s choice. Many countries in the EU took nearly no refugees. Some took many. Germany and Sweden decided to take many refugees. It was their will and no that’s not the root of their problems.
I consider myself a "progressive capitalist". I'm for private enterprises following rules that bring down inequality, guarantee public education, Medicare for all, environmental sustainability, money out of politics, etc. Obviously I'm for a transparent and functional democracy. Call me a socialist, it's a semantics issue.
Semantics issue? No, it's a sophistry issue. The sophistic underpinnings of socialism cannot stand up to the light of logical scrutiny. Every real socialist knows this. They depend upon the ignorance of the masses to fall for their slight-of-hand. Critical thinkers know better.
Sounds good to me.
The opportunities are endless in america "If you don't work you don't eat it's as simple as that.
Ocasio cortez es una ignorante
@@texasjouleelectric it's rather sad how uneducated you are about the USA
@@MarkWrightPsuedo capitalists love ignorant masses that are easily distracted
correct me if im wrong, but i thought Marx condemned socialism for its failures and instead proposed communism as a good alternative. i thought socialism was around before marx.
yes, basically Marx thought that socialism was just not enough, that was a kind of softer capitalism that didnt really want to change society. To be fair, Engles made a list of three types of socialist: the reactionary, the "bourgeois", and the democratic. He said that communists can only work with the latter because the first one wants to go back to the Ancient Regime and the second one is just an ally to capitalists. but, i think it should be pretty clear, the democratic socialist of 1848 is not even close to the one of 2023.
lmfaoo u used candace owens🤣🤣
In your echochamber and head she did.
Just a more palatable way of saying "communist".
And "conservative" is just a softer way of saying fascist youre welcome
I’m actually trying to learn the “how” of socialism, but I’m constantly reminded of the Underpants Gnomes.
Step 1: implement socialism.
Step 2:
Step 3: utopia.
@@sebastienholmes548 bro you made my day ❤
So they... _checks notes_ CARE about PEOPLE other than the rich?! How evil!
Other way around buddy
Socialism is not about caring for the poor but hatred for the rich. - Margaret thatcher.
@@sebastienholmes548 why do you think quoting thatcher will convince anyone?
@@Mariasantacruz2005 I'm not a fan of here myself but that doesn't make it anyless true.
@@sebastienholmes548 yes
Socialism is an economic system characterized by worker ownership the means of production. Democratic is a political system characterized by citizens voting for their government. Kind of like Germany in 1932 - the National Socialists were voted into power and liked it so much they eliminated any further elections. Soviet socialists, of course, dispensed with any pretense of democracy. In this country "democratic socialism" is marketed as tax other people and give you the money. Not socialism but opportunism.
Bernie Sanders, the loudest cheerleader for Democratic Socialism is a multi-millionaire who owns three homes including a million dollar waterfront vacation retreat. That doesn't democratic nor does it sound socialist to me.
Jazz hands , or something.
Why is Burkina Faso never mentioned in the discussions concerning socialism?
i don't mind left of center or a hard left if they have good ideas for all voters,won't put Americans in debt ,are working for progress NOT the direct opposite of autocracy then maybe. Also, when you're using slavery in any analogy or talking about DEMS as if they aren't at least party adjacent to you we got problems!
Two words: "Gulag Archipelago."
Ps democratic socialism is not social democracy
youre confusing democratic Socialism with leninism, Leninism does the Gulags, democratic Socialism keeps the democratic ruled state and just simply changes the economic system.
Comparing the two just not right or oh wait they're almost literally exactly the same,, two words, Gulag archipelago!!!!!
@@HFTYKCK Yes, read it.
I have read. I'm usually the guy telling people to go read it
They teach anti capitalism classes in college what do you expect
You're going to allow a government to gaurantee 350,000,000 people to not live in poverty?
Lulz
You guys are high AF
Yeah, you do it by confiscating what the rich have stolen!!
You think the rich are going to stick around to live under Socialism?
you're higher than an astronaut Bud.
Haha
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The rich aren't rich without their money, So we'll keep that too.
@@rstevewarmorycom why is it that people think that all rich people stole. This is not Arrow, we do not live in a tv show grow up.
@@Sarah-ke3jg
ANY TIME one person earns more for their hour of work than another, they have robbed the other, period, end of story. NO ONE has the right to decide that their hour of work is more deserving than another man's hour of work!! And NO ONE has the right to pay one man more than he pays all the other men for their hours of work.
That means ALL of capitalism, which at its heart is paying some more than others, is NOTHING BUT THEFT!! Pretending that some man's work is more "valuable" than another is NOT an excuse, if you want someone to work for you that means you value their work and want it done for you. If you want that you must PAY for it, the SAME AS IF YOU HAD TO DO IT YOURSELF!!
A fair society is NOT some catch-as-catch-can step on each other's faces situation where you only have to pay what you can connivingly get away with paying because another man is desperate!! Rather Socialism is a FAIR society where every man is paid EQUALLY for any hour of work that the rest of us want him to perform!! Wanting a man to do what we would otherwise have to do ourselves and the paying him LESS than we would pay ourselves to do it IS PROPERLY CALLED CRIME!!!
Please god, please show these people how much pain and suffering socialism has brought to humanity!
Adam Martin You are a complete idiot and fascist you acting like socialism is the only system that has caused great human suffering in history but guess what? capitalism has also cause human suffering for example: the reason people are homeless is because, of capitalism, and the reason why there is income equality is because, of capitalism so please do your research you idiot
In Denmark?
Dear Adam Martin. You confound democratic socialism with the socialism they had for example in the GDR. But don´t be sad. most of americans make this mistake. In your argumentation each european country would be a deeply socialist even communistic Country. And we are not!
We should send the army into Sweden and Denmark to relieve their people of their pain and suffering. Can we convince them that our capitalist system has caused no pain and suffering?
@@kobeburrows8648 AS A A MAN WHO LIVED IN SOCIALISM. IT IS VERY BAD SOCIALISM. ALL PEOPLE ARE POOR IN SOCIALISM. IN MY COUNTRY WE USED TO HAVE 4 HOURS ELECTRICITY PER DAY. AND IF YOU TELL ME ABOUT DENMARK OR SWEDEN, THE POOR PAY THE HIGHEST TAX. WHAT MEANS IS THAT VAT AND AND TAX ON GOODS ARE THE BIGEST PERCENTEGE OF GOVERMENT MONEY.
Americans that think Sweden is socialist is so damn hilarious. Today it could hardly be described as social democracy not talking about socialism.
100% possible but not if you give all your money to different countries
Big on that dudes last sentance, its not socialism its "democratic socialism" which just means social programs and not worker ownership of the means of production.
this video strikes me as biased against democratic socialism
We hope so
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. - Plutarch
Remember when Hitler, Stalin and Mao said they were Democrat Socialist
This video doesn’t really explain Democratic socialism
Wow. This explained absolutely nothing.