The World at War (Ralph Raico) - Libertarianism.org

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  • Ralph Raico was a specialist in European classical liberalism and Austrian Economics. He learned economics under Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek, and was professor emeritus of history at Buffalo State College. Raico was also the founder of the New Individualist Review.
    In this 1983 lecture, Raico teaches a Cato Summer Seminar group the history of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. He offers an in-depth look at the conditions which led to both wars and the ways in which governments throughout the 20th century have used war powers to justify and fuel their expansion.
    Download the .mp3 version of this lecture here: bit.ly/Jx1DkY

Komentáře • 475

  • @nofutility
    @nofutility Před rokem +20

    40 year old lecture is more history than than current undergraduate studies teach. Great lecturer. Very knowledgeable and fair.

  • @fourleafclover2885
    @fourleafclover2885 Před 3 lety +25

    If we'd have been taught history like this in school, the class would have been on the edges of our seats instead of doodling on notebooks, napping or staring out the window. They made history soooo boring but I can't get enough of this guy. I've watched this video 5 times already because it's so interesting and every time I pick up something I missed before.

    • @khedsz1976
      @khedsz1976 Před 2 lety

      Go to 2:56 on the video. That gives you a classroom view. Note that this is not a lecture to school age students, college or earlier. These seem to be all adults many of them older. It is nice to think that 18 year olds would be on the edge of their seats but I really doubt it. These are a group of people who want the information not kids trying to get a degree

    • @russellloomis4376
      @russellloomis4376 Před 2 lety

      Maybe you were to busy doodling to hear what was being said I know i was.

    • @TheGerogero
      @TheGerogero Před 2 lety

      I vaguely recall an essay assigned in history class that had me extolling the accomplishments of Bismarck...

    • @BushyHairedStranger
      @BushyHairedStranger Před rokem +1

      They are always at fault. Dam they! They are always getting in the way! especially in my learnings! Its the fault of they!

  • @chuckmartin935
    @chuckmartin935 Před 3 lety +41

    Raico was one of best speakers/lecturers & scholars on the planet. This 1983 talk was a epic performance. R I P

  • @bombasticbusterii6926
    @bombasticbusterii6926 Před rokem +5

    When this was recorded I was in 9th grade, and 15. I am now 55 and a grandfather of 3. The world keeps turning over in 2023.

    • @blaquenguni9249
      @blaquenguni9249 Před rokem

      The scary thing is that it wasn't even that long ago

  • @yahulwagoni4571
    @yahulwagoni4571 Před 5 lety +31

    Heard him live at a 1988 CATO conference. Sad to know he is gone.

  • @chrisjackson1244
    @chrisjackson1244 Před 7 lety +48

    I just stumbled across this while searching for libertarian lectures and couldn't be happier. I'm hooked on his talks.

  • @NikhileshSurve
    @NikhileshSurve Před 3 lety +17

    This was an incredible lecture.

  • @christopherpalmer6333
    @christopherpalmer6333 Před 7 lety +54

    This man's lectures are amazing.

    • @omalone1169
      @omalone1169 Před rokem +1

      16:30 War and the private investor;: A study in the relations of international politics and international private investment, Hardcover - January 1, 1935

  • @rosesprog1722
    @rosesprog1722 Před 3 lety +9

    A definition of insanity is repeating the same action again and again while expecting different outcomes.
    I just cannot conceive how someone like Haig did not have his parts torn off, much less be considered a hero.

  • @alfredoramirez9738
    @alfredoramirez9738 Před 4 lety +14

    Truly knowledgeable. Really enjoyed all the in-depth details.
    Highly recommend it

  • @liverdave1977
    @liverdave1977 Před 4 lety +6

    This has been 3 hours well spent, fascinating stuff..!!

  • @voltairedentotalenkrieg5147
    @voltairedentotalenkrieg5147 Před 11 měsíci +2

    I like that this guy, seems very fair and unbiased.
    He treats every country equally and explains every country's point of view.

  • @Jack-Spark
    @Jack-Spark Před 4 lety +15

    Incredible, Wish i could do a lecture or a presentation much like this one day

  • @franknunez
    @franknunez Před 5 lety +14

    He said debt will be 2 trillion by the time Reagan leaves office. Every single US president since: "hold my beer".

  • @Doug8521
    @Doug8521 Před 7 lety +55

    RIP Man... Great Intellectual

  • @constantined9015
    @constantined9015 Před 4 lety +4

    Can't believe that this lecture took place in 1983!!!!!!

    • @OldHickory7
      @OldHickory7 Před 4 lety +1

      Are you sure? It seemed like he was referencing all those obvious inside jobs before we had a clear understanding of it in 2001. That would be amazing if that's true. He truly knows his stuff

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@OldHickory71:18:30 report on gassing jews in 1942

  • @SomeGuy-nr9id
    @SomeGuy-nr9id Před 5 lety +4

    Passed out listening to a story about Clautzwitz on the Us Army War College site with auto play on and woke up to this, lol the irony.
    This just scratches the surface though the economic history during these times and the connections between the players paints a even more disturbing picture.

  • @Mrch33ky
    @Mrch33ky Před 4 lety +7

    Great teacher, excellent video!

  • @ewright4108
    @ewright4108 Před rokem +4

    The gold standard prevented the uncontrolled expansion of capital. So what we had first was industrial capitalism. Once financial capitalism took hold from the Reagan area onwards, we have had the conditions for Marx’s and Engel’s vision.

  • @maxilopez1596
    @maxilopez1596 Před 7 lety +24

    This is perhaps my favorite video on youtube

  • @MsHburnett
    @MsHburnett Před 3 lety +4

    Outstanding comprehensive analysis of global power.

  • @bpm990d
    @bpm990d Před 5 lety +40

    OMG he is puffing on a cigarette in class. That is awesome and I don't even like smoking. :-)

    • @RockBrentwood
      @RockBrentwood Před 4 lety +4

      He died late in 2016. No cause is publicized, but it was something he had sufficiently advanced knowledge of, and which has a sufficiently high assurance of mortality, that he was already giving away his possessions (e.g. his library) in 2015.

    • @OldHickory7
      @OldHickory7 Před 4 lety

      It's a vape

    • @WJack97224
      @WJack97224 Před 4 lety +1

      @bpm990d, Oh how I wish he had smoked a big ol' cigaro.

  • @michaelwoodsmccausland5633

    Excellent Presentation

  • @GrumpyOldMan9
    @GrumpyOldMan9 Před 5 lety +64

    The most cynical historian I have ever seen, and therefore the best.

    • @WJack97224
      @WJack97224 Před 4 lety +7

      @GrumpyOldMan, I think Ralph Raico is just telling us the facts, truths.

    • @flemhawker9134
      @flemhawker9134 Před 4 lety +4

      WJack97224 that’s what he’s saying. It’s called irony.

    • @rudolphguarnacci197
      @rudolphguarnacci197 Před 3 lety +5

      @@flemhawker9134
      Telling truth and facts is not cynical.

    • @russellloomis4376
      @russellloomis4376 Před 2 lety +2

      @@rudolphguarnacci197 that maybe so but the way he delivers his facts can be.

    • @trapperarscott
      @trapperarscott Před rokem +3

      Sceptical. The first rule for any good researcher or academic. For that matter, for any of us.

  • @JamLeGull
    @JamLeGull Před 5 lety +8

    I am not at all sympathetic to right-libertarian ideology but there’s no such thing as unbiased history, so absorbing information from different perspectives is important for gaining a better understanding of our world. A very engaging speaker such as this man is also much appreciated.

    • @JamLeGull
      @JamLeGull Před 5 lety +1

      Holy shit the level to which this guy substitutes ideology for material analysis is bewildering.

    • @rdeloges7957
      @rdeloges7957 Před 5 lety +2

      It's a good talk, and perhaps beyond the scope of the intent of this lecture, but bias runs in both directions, on both the front and back ends of historical events. The fact that Japan was a virulently racist (ethno-nationalist) nation on par with Germany in their belief in superiority over, in particular, other Asian nations and peoples, has been almost completely memory-holed. The "villain" (racist) of WW2 are the Germans, who wound up killing or causing the death of millions of fellow Europeans. There's historical confusion of what the Germans and Japanese actually believed at the time, in order to make it more useful and yet palatable to political sensitivities in "the current year".

    • @w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538
      @w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538 Před 2 lety

      Like in 1984 with Doublespeak. Todays authoritarians have destroyed words. Conservative and Liberalism. I think this lecture shows up the old conservative that can look at all sides. Not the Conservative label used today. Nothing in this speech goes against the idea of "class warfare" and its denial.

    • @thermionic1234567
      @thermionic1234567 Před rokem +1

      I’d be interested to hear how your thought process has evolved on the three year anniversary of the two week “flattening the curve” mandate.

    • @JamLeGull
      @JamLeGull Před rokem

      @@thermionic1234567 those who advocated for protecting the market over people won out in the end. We could have stopped the virus, but instead we created a situation where the virus got to propagate freely and the rich consolidated more money and power. Right libertarians essentially got what they wanted in terms of prioritising capital over public health, but that’s a bad set of priorities that leads to bad outcomes.
      I know the libertarians will think it wasn’t anything like what they wanted, but that’s just because libertarians all imagine themselves as rich people, and they assume that anything that makes their life worse can’t be related to those free market philosophies they admire.

  • @PrivateAckbar
    @PrivateAckbar Před 10 lety +13

    I'm almost embarrassed how happy i am to find new Raico lectures. Reading my way through the epistemology, praxeology, philosophy, and catalactics in Mises and Rothbard is great, but Raico makes me wish i was a historian.

  • @mandefu007
    @mandefu007 Před 4 lety +9

    Sound stuff, good analysis. Thank you for posting this.

    • @alexluthiger731
      @alexluthiger731 Před rokem

      Sounds like Europe has to cut off fascist minded, illiberal european partners like Hungary, Poland and Turkey to get it to a divine and healthy tree with a liberal and wonderful future. 🍷🗽

  • @Thevisvideos
    @Thevisvideos Před rokem +10

    Fantastic lecture, too bad there's not much more of him out here.

    • @alexluthiger731
      @alexluthiger731 Před rokem

      A prof to enlarge your consciousness and your angle of perspective. 70 000 feet over the abyss. As good as a good aged Chateauneuf-du-Pape. 🍷✌️

  • @vatafakman
    @vatafakman Před 2 lety +3

    One great frikin lecture!!!Thank you very much!!!!!

  • @CaptainMorganxxx
    @CaptainMorganxxx Před 4 lety +6

    A very fair assessment of events, with a few slightly slanted views in places, but very listable .

  • @emmanueljimenez1289
    @emmanueljimenez1289 Před 11 dny +1

    "Closest ever came to being a Communist?...I was a Republican"...🤣Great lecture by Ralph Raico...The real never dies, the unreal never lived

  • @deaddropholiday
    @deaddropholiday Před 2 lety +4

    I can't remember the historian's name who said the entire focus of US foreign policy for all of the 20th century (and beyond) was preventing Germany and its technological superiority from aligning itself fully with the Soviet Union/Russia and its ocean of natural resources. Moreover, the Germans knew this and deliberately played on US fears to gain economic and political advantages.

    • @naradaian
      @naradaian Před rokem +1

      Whoever it is this was also what Churchill and many empire builders in britain said

  • @TheGerogero
    @TheGerogero Před 2 lety +4

    Mystery ships: USS Maine, Spanish-American War; RMS Lusitania, US enters WW1; Attack on Pearl Harbor, US enters WW2; Gulf of Tonkin incident, Vietnam War... mYsTeRy ShIpS...

  • @danwroy
    @danwroy Před 4 lety +13

    The stuff on Chinese markets being a myth at 2:00:30 was absolutely hilarious.

    • @JTKroll12
      @JTKroll12 Před 4 lety +1

      didnt age well

    • @Mrch33ky
      @Mrch33ky Před 4 lety +4

      At the time it was true. Hard to predict the future. :/

    • @Dheard91
      @Dheard91 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Mrch33ky I would argue Ralph was going on the assumption, that, America would treat China the same way it did the USSR. Not become corporate partners together.

    • @w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538
      @w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538 Před 2 lety

      This was the propaganda before 2000. Really after 1973. China and the US have had a very long relationship with Universities in the US being built on Opium money. It was a lie. As we are now finding out. Maybe good for the Multinationals and bankers. Not good for everybody else.

    • @w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538
      @w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538 Před 2 lety

      @@Dheard91 The US sided with China in the early 70's against the USSR. Maybe look at why Kissinger and Nixon had a chance at being chummy with China. What did it give the US. He mentions that the reason the US entered WW2 in the Pacific was the excuse of protecting China. The Oil embargo's and harsh stance with Japan saved the USSR from facing Germany and the Japanese in the war in the East.

  • @russellloomis4376
    @russellloomis4376 Před 3 lety +3

    I wish this was two maybe three-part series.

  • @Oo7Hola
    @Oo7Hola Před 11 měsíci +1

    Great talk

  • @nicudanciu5758
    @nicudanciu5758 Před 5 lety +3

    Excellent explanaton!

  • @manuelgris9995
    @manuelgris9995 Před 7 lety +5

    Great video!
    Raico is my favorite historian!

    • @joycenorment4720
      @joycenorment4720 Před 4 lety

      Manuel Gris However, I was under the impression that the Zimmerman letter Secretly, send to Mexico 🇲🇽 from the Germans but, intersected by, 🇬🇧
      The Contents from Zimmerman telegraph wanted support from Mexico for Germany with rewards of US lands to Mexico!
      US PRESIDENT WILSON used this telegraph to convince US into WW1

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@joycenorment47206:40 Sumner who

  • @akselkarlsson5229
    @akselkarlsson5229 Před 5 lety +22

    It is sad that this has 50k views and 25k are from me.

    • @arthurbolokov2029
      @arthurbolokov2029 Před 5 lety +2

      I thought it was just me.

    • @stevevukich8958
      @stevevukich8958 Před 5 lety +2

      hahahahoohah! feels like i've heard 25k versions of this period, all similar none resonant; finally a cogent, clear one ringing of truth

    • @russellloomis4376
      @russellloomis4376 Před 2 lety

      I go to sleep listening to this and have it on repeat.

  • @frankhoward4485
    @frankhoward4485 Před 4 lety +9

    Excellent, excellent, excellent presentation. Bravo.
    Every American should watch this a dozen times until they understand the implications. Then they should read the books Mr. Raico references.

  • @vincentmurphy9252
    @vincentmurphy9252 Před 3 lety +1

    Libertarian since I could First vote 1984!!! Keep it up and join in anyone.

  • @robdison2123
    @robdison2123 Před 4 lety +3

    great. and humour. love it

  • @richardbennice1119
    @richardbennice1119 Před 9 lety +3

    very enjoyable speech''........

  • @voltairedentotalenkrieg5147
    @voltairedentotalenkrieg5147 Před 11 měsíci +3

    37:43 - 38:45 "This is the last time."

  • @DimitrisAndreou
    @DimitrisAndreou Před 4 lety +1

    3 hours want enough, did he have other history lectures? I hope I'll find a bunch

    • @frankrusk6172
      @frankrusk6172 Před 4 lety

      go find out who started all the wars sicne the 1800's the rothschilds and their gang..

  • @lornespry
    @lornespry Před 5 lety +5

    I seriously wonder if an American professor can make the same comment about the 'American Empire' (see the final part of the presentation) without getting cat-calls from students,, or more - getting censured or denied tenure by a university. Again, I seriously hope not, but I don't know.

    • @neilhillis9858
      @neilhillis9858 Před 5 lety +1

      They do all the time

    • @fourleafclover2885
      @fourleafclover2885 Před 3 lety +2

      I haven't gotten to that part, but if you mean can an American professor rip the United States, our history and our foreign policy to shreds in a University, that's pretty much all they do and have done for decades.

    • @w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538
      @w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538 Před 2 lety

      Because its anti-capitalism and goes against the Right wing lies of the last century. Blaming WW1 and WW2 as a conspiracy by bankers to control the population. Very few people let alone Historians touch the subjects touched here as it goes against the imperialist world we live today.

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@neilhillis985845:25 who is this historian ?

  • @SterileNeutrino
    @SterileNeutrino Před rokem +2

    46:40 Who is responible for WWI and how Germany sees the situation 1:54:00 Very "happening in Ukraine": Every crossing of any boundary is an act of aggression. Unless the Collective West does it. Also at 01:04:48 an important note on Kerenski letting the cat out of the bag! 1:49:40 The Balfour Declaration 1:03:10 Cynical & callous governments. 1:07:00 Annexation of Philippines through imperialist cabal 1:14:00 Belgian atrocities (cf Bernays but also check out "R*pe of Belgium" at Wikipedia, which has good info on actual "war crimes", as these activities are called today) 2:11:10 USS Greer incident 2:13:30 Interventionists vs. "Isolationists"

  • @AgainstCronyCapitalsm
    @AgainstCronyCapitalsm Před 7 lety +14

    RIP.

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      1:25:00 the English and the Belgian people

  • @davidcoleman2796
    @davidcoleman2796 Před rokem +2

    This man was brilliant . I still love his opening. This map was the one used by Hitler to invade Russia. 😂

  • @RankingRobert
    @RankingRobert Před 7 lety +6

    great teacher, greetings from Austria

  • @anchorbait6662
    @anchorbait6662 Před 6 lety +22

    Dude is smoking a cigarette indoors after the lecture. God bless merica

    • @jamesseiter4576
      @jamesseiter4576 Před 5 lety +8

      @ElPocho DelMundo Please correct me if I'm wrong. I would love nothing more than to learn something.
      But from what I'm aware, nobody at this lecture was held there against their will. They could have left at any point in time. If they felt the second-hand risk of cigarette smoke was more dangerous than the value of the knowledge provided by the lecture, they could have walked out the door.
      100% freedom of individual choice. Which is exactly what Mr. Raico is supporting and what the Cato Institute supports.

    • @NickO.-uz1re
      @NickO.-uz1re Před 5 lety +2

      @ElPocho DelMundo oof, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

    • @youguysdonthavetheright8070
      @youguysdonthavetheright8070 Před 5 lety +1

      @ElPocho DelMundo No, the property owners are victimized when the government proscribes certain victim-less beahviors on private property. Those in the audience sensitive to exposure to environmental carcinogens may leave, and go into the fresh city air....errr....hmmmm. Go back to class, you need an update.

    • @SomeGuy-nr9id
      @SomeGuy-nr9id Před 5 lety +2

      @ElPocho DelMundo One of those down with the usa guys. Can't beat them with nukes tear em apart from the inside out start with the personal rights and chip away bit by bit, take freedoms on other peoples private property. Declaring it public and therefore under your private law for you're ideal greater good. They even outlawed it at bars how ridiculous is that? Its ok to drink and drive and kill other people instantly and promote people becoming alcoholics which is drug use, why because in washington that is culturally acceptable. But smoking in a bar is too dangerous lol.
      How would you like it if someone came to your house from some city 1000 miles away and told you that you couldn't cook in your own back yard. Because the charcoal smoke was polluting the public air then take you're money for taxes and leave.
      Then you would rage as long as it's not you losing your freedoms. Its ok for it to happen to your neighbor right.
      Good for the goose but not for the gander take that social justice and gtfo.
      20 years later people still getting cancer at the same rate if not even higher.

    • @davidrahrer
      @davidrahrer Před 4 lety

      @@jamesseiter4576 There is no such thing as 100% freedom of individual choice, and there never has been. This is the flaw in that ideology. The best example of the closest thing we have would be a place like Somalia - a libertarian paradise.

  • @paulrugg1629
    @paulrugg1629 Před měsícem

    I am so great full that I got the chance to be exposed to this man and his observations.

  • @conancimmerian9829
    @conancimmerian9829 Před 5 lety +4

    Odd that he doesn't mention the Zimmerman telegram @1:35:00 in his Luisitania diatribe.

    • @neilhillis9858
      @neilhillis9858 Před 5 lety +2

      Or our warning regarding unrestricted sub warfare to Germany, or really the rape of Belgium, or Imperial Germany's obscene territorial demands/war aims.
      WW1 was justified.

    • @flashers.5212
      @flashers.5212 Před 4 lety

      Neil Hillis well, he can’t cover everything, it’s a great lecture, however I agree with your point. German war crimes against civilians were vicious especially against the French & Belgium’s.

    • @georgea.567
      @georgea.567 Před rokem +1

      @@neilhillis9858 WW1 was a stupid unnecessary war. Especially for the US.

  • @harrymills2770
    @harrymills2770 Před 7 lety +8

    Dude gets it.

  • @GrumpyOldMan9
    @GrumpyOldMan9 Před 5 lety +2

    What does he mean with "First World Woua"?

  • @Shad0wack
    @Shad0wack Před 3 měsíci

    I like this guy

  • @abrambadal8997
    @abrambadal8997 Před 5 lety +2

    By Oct 2018 , it is moderately senscured and voice cut-outs in over 50 places of this video ! Fascism installed here !

    • @wowhallo
      @wowhallo Před 5 lety +2

      That's most likely not censorship, but faults in the actual recording.

    • @J0CKTheR1PPER
      @J0CKTheR1PPER Před 5 lety

      More likely that Abram is an SJW idiot.

  • @mfpreece
    @mfpreece Před 5 lety +8

    I would have asked about the Berlin-Basra railway the Germans were working on. In those days the great maritime power that was the British Empire at the time would have seen that very much as a threat to its global dominance.

    • @Error-fourOfour
      @Error-fourOfour Před 5 lety +2

      The British and French used WWI as a pretext for moving into and carving up the Middle East, undermining Turkish dominance and German expansion in the region.

    • @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523
      @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523 Před 4 lety +1

      They actually did

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@carlosenriquegonzalez-isla652337:30 what was the Russian issue ?

    • @lowersaxon
      @lowersaxon Před 6 měsíci

      So, come to the point: the mere existence of Germany posed a threat „to its global dominance“.

  • @trumanhw
    @trumanhw Před rokem

    It's not people fixated on people's wellbeing that spurred an impetus for a welfare state; it's the awareness of those in power that governments are not reliable stores of power as they're at the mercy of the mob. Instead, it's the desire of those in power to make the state's subjects as desperate for the government to survive as those who governing its minions.
    NO MATTER HOW MUCH ... Ralph Raico sounds like someone who loves liberty and abhors socialism... @15:00 ... listen to his reverence and respect for _The Great Society._ And the WELFARE state that's clearly worked SO well. Obviously the recipients are using the auspices to better their lives in the long run; not just surviving on the meager subsistence, right??
    Don't we know enough by now to know that BOTH socialism and welfare were created as a solution for the powerful to make its peasant class as interested in maintaining the status quo as those who are benefitting most from their power? Making loyal voters committed little self-appointed guardians of that status quo..?

  • @randallthompson5602
    @randallthompson5602 Před 2 dny

    It really discussed me how can I view the American government was even back then I expect that from European governments But for America and all our "vaulted" believes we have no problem even back then are deceiving our way into another war it is really no wonder we are hated as much as we are

  • @Galv140577
    @Galv140577 Před 4 lety +1

    According to the Corbet report: Cecil Rhodes, WIlliam T. Stead, and Reginald Brett conspired to start WW1

    • @naradaian
      @naradaian Před rokem

      In the 40 years since this lecture we have learnt more

  • @blackbeardgoatjr2434
    @blackbeardgoatjr2434 Před rokem

    Let us make this man proud. There is only one way out of this

  • @Pau11Wa11
    @Pau11Wa11 Před rokem +1

    Amazing lecture, Mr. Raico. Thank you

  • @efrem1
    @efrem1 Před 7 lety +2

    I will miss your insights Mr. Raico. Your departure along with the demise of Joe Sobran leaves us in a less better world.

  • @anchorbait6662
    @anchorbait6662 Před 6 lety +9

    Wow.. National debt of 1.2trillion dollars. Fast forward thrirty years and twenty trillion to today. Great speaker, great lecture... A little progressive tinge but that's to be expected. Thanks for the upload.

    • @nullclass0813
      @nullclass0813 Před 5 lety +2

      Anchor Bait ......progressive?

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@nullclass08131:11:00
      Politics of War describes the emergence of the United States as a world power between the years 1890 and 1920-our contrivance of the Spanish-American War and our gratuitous entrance into World War I-and by filling in the back story of an era in which mendacious oligarchy organized the country's politics in a manner convenient to its own indolence and greed, Karp offers a clearer understanding of our current political circumstance.
      The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic
      Walter Karp, Lewis H. Lapham (Illustrator)

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@nullclass08131:14:30 Belgium atrocities sounds like throwing babies out of incubators

  • @GregJay
    @GregJay Před 5 lety +2

    Growing up as a kid in the 60's if people said an older guy was German it meant he was very cranky, one casualty nobody ever seems to mention of war, is the taking of thousands of young guys just starting out in life and have innocence and then they are exposed to the horrors of war thus giving them a trauma they will never forget changing them for life. Take some young guy who is thinking about the things in life young folks do and make them into killers, then if they survive to say okay thanks bye They use words like he says here like patriotism, like a kid owes his life to the people that tax him, thus losing every shred of decency and revert to animalistic behavior. That should be a crime, if the President perhaps acted as a real leader and be the first boot on the ground the thinking would be much different.

  • @richsill3134
    @richsill3134 Před 8 měsíci

    3 hours of incredibly based content 🔥🔥🔥

  • @3rdager
    @3rdager Před 4 lety

    Fascinating: I just wonder why he chose to refer, throughout his lecture, to England instead of using the terms Great Britain (Britain) or the United Kingdom?

    • @curtiskretzer8898
      @curtiskretzer8898 Před 2 lety +1

      B/C England runs Britain/United Kingdom. Welsh,Scots & N.E.Irish get to follow along,w/o much say(@ least,back in the day)

    • @rudolphguarnacci197
      @rudolphguarnacci197 Před rokem

      Why not?

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@rudolphguarnacci1971:57:30 free trade imperialism

  • @IJAbraham
    @IJAbraham Před 8 lety +3

    Otto Von Bismarck was not a Capitalist. Really?
    Book: "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", by Charles Maynard Keynes.
    "The Governmental Habit Redux" by Jonathan R.T. Hughes.

  • @TheMajorActual
    @TheMajorActual Před 8 lety +12

    Fekking. Brilliant.

  • @terryfarley1027
    @terryfarley1027 Před 6 lety +1

    Pretty good, but, when talking about America's entry into WWI he never mentions the Zimmerman telegram. Yes, England chose the best time to release it to Wilson, but it should still be mentioned.

    • @youguysdonthavetheright8070
      @youguysdonthavetheright8070 Před 5 lety +2

      Yeah, Mexico declaring war on the US in that era? Cause losing Texas to a bunch of ruffians wasn't enough, the Mexican government wanted to be totally obliterated. Zimmerman telegram was the same kind of threat a lighter makes to an ocean.

    • @porcudracului
      @porcudracului Před 2 měsíci

      Mexico had Texas for 23 years, officially. They never had it in fact, the Spanish empire did.

  • @mu99ins
    @mu99ins Před 4 lety

    @2:26:00 - 1941 - It was known that air power could sink ships. It was not yet demonstrated that aircraft carriers could attack a target like Pearl Harbor, 3800 miles from Japan.

    • @mu99ins
      @mu99ins Před 4 lety

      @2:32:00 - It would have been the ultimate lack of responsibility to not push back against the expansion of the Axis Powers. It was the isolationists who prevented the U.S. from coming to the aid of Great Britain, and this lack of will by the U.S. anti-war movt., convinced the Japanese that the U.S. would sue for peace when attacked. It was the isolationists who are responsible for the rise of the Axis powers. So, being anti-war comes with the paradox that it encourages war. Being anti-war is about as effective as establishing no gun zones to prevent mass murder. FDR was the leader of a country dominated by the peace movement. Sometimes, leaders have to lie. 1941 - 42 wasn't a Boy Scout jamboree. We were up against some truly evil enemies, who at the time, had bigger militaries than the U.S.. It reminds me of the Norm MacDonald joke about rape and hypocrisy. Loosely paraphrasing, "The worst thing about the Cosby rapes was the hypocrisy. No, the rapes was way worse." Lying is a sin, but letting the world go to heck, dwarfs lying.

    • @mu99ins
      @mu99ins Před 4 lety

      @2:42:00 - It was looking like Hitler was winning for the 1st half of WWII. That puts the fear in you. This idea that you should only fight Hitler with moral allies has it's undeniable points, especially with hindsight, but at the time, the immediate consideration was the need for a 2nd front.

    • @mu99ins
      @mu99ins Před 4 lety

      @2:43:00 - 1940-41 - London Blitz, from Sept 1940 continuing until May, and it included other cities besides London. With all the civilians that the Germans killed during that war, and the same applies to the Japanese, it was imperative to stop these 2 monstrous states as soon as possible. I had a neighbor who walked away from Dresden as it burned. He remembered the glow in the sky. He was a kid from Lithuania. He was a child slave owned by an abusive German family.

    • @mu99ins
      @mu99ins Před 4 lety

      @2:45:00 - I doubt that anything was clear coming out of Japan. For one thing, the Japanese generals were powerful, and it was not clear that the Emperor had the support of his military. There were military leaders who didn't want to surrender. Meanwhile, the Japanese sent 3,800 Kamikazes to successfully sink American ships, killing thousands of sailors. If the U.S. had not used the nukes, the plan was to burn Japan to the ground, killing millions more than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The plan was to fly all those bombers that were in the European theater of war and have them join in a horrific napalm attack on cities and towns of Japan. Ralph Raico is very intelligent, and I agree with him on most of his points, except when he has "an axe to grind". "The closest I ever came to being a communist, I was a Republican." That speaks to his extremism. Extremists are notorious for not being open minded. Is there such a thing as a moderate libertarian?

    • @curtiskretzer8898
      @curtiskretzer8898 Před 2 lety

      November 11-12,1940 🇬🇧RN send 21 Fairey Swordfish torpedoe bi planes n2 Taranto,Italy.
      This is where the idea 4 Pearl Harbor came from,but don't let that get in the way of your"lack of demonstration"observation.
      I🇯🇵N literally sent a rep 2 Taranto 4 research purposes as part of the Pearl Harbor attack preplan

  • @MsHburnett
    @MsHburnett Před 3 lety

    Interesting if any of these students entered government. Any one know?

  • @4OHz
    @4OHz Před rokem +1

    Ironically the wellfair state did not attach many to the government as described; actuarially, the age to receive welfare was set at the end of the average persons life. So, the perception that the government was looking after “retired” persons they were looking after the few who beat the average. So, even though the welfare state may have been a established may have been established by the “beneficent “ Kaiser,” very few people benefited.
    To date, what we have seen that even though capitalism has increase the wealth of certain nations as per Reagan’s acting on behalf of laissez-fairs capitalism has destroyed the American middle class.

    • @porcudracului
      @porcudracului Před 2 měsíci

      Reagan didn't have anything to do with laissez-faire capitalism. It's an attack of that by his critics, on both him and capitalism. Good political tricks but not true

  • @superfuzzymomma
    @superfuzzymomma Před 4 lety

    Wow

  • @damianbowyer6258
    @damianbowyer6258 Před 4 lety +6

    Back in 1988 things a little less Dramatic compared to 2019.

  • @thebestofallworlds187
    @thebestofallworlds187 Před 6 lety +3

    1:35:14 ... damn

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      1:48:00 Keynes the economic consequences of peace

  • @jonathanccast
    @jonathanccast Před 4 lety

    It's important that it be clearly noted that libertarianism is only a restraint on the *American* and *British* governments, and not, for example, on the Chinese or German governments. In other words, China adopting a restrctionist policy is *not* illibertarian force, but Britan stopping it *is*.

  • @urdude67
    @urdude67 Před rokem

    Absolutely correct about FDR!

  • @thebestofallworlds187
    @thebestofallworlds187 Před 6 lety +2

    "Belgium atrocities" 1:17:35

    • @felidiusz
      @felidiusz Před 4 lety +1

      He meant German atrocities in Belgium.

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@felidiuszH. C. Peterson: Propaganda for War, The Campaign against American Neutrality, 1914-1917.

  • @user-di5rm9ee1p
    @user-di5rm9ee1p Před 4 lety

    It is always interesting listening western historians! This guy knows a lot, but is clueless about Serbs and Balkan, it is funny. And serbian government DID informed AH government about Young Bosnia actions and Gavrilo Princip.

    • @thomaslee1982
      @thomaslee1982 Před 4 lety +1

      The West has always marginalized the Balkans and historically treats them as the 2nd world Euro citizens even though the Balkan countries have saved them from a few hordes here and there. I hear you what you're saying.

    • @eddyerle3338
      @eddyerle3338 Před 4 lety

      are there any proofs of it?

    • @naradaian
      @naradaian Před rokem

      Its 40 years ago, before the web...and the end of ussr,eastern europe - pointless criticism

  • @jamesclark7682
    @jamesclark7682 Před 7 lety +3

    Do not equate Libertarianism with Liberalism please. We will miss you Ralph. I only regret that I found you after you died. You were totally brilliant!!!

    • @wowhallo
      @wowhallo Před 7 lety +3

      Well the new liberalism is certainly nothing like libertarianism, but strands of classical liberalism certainly were forerunners to libertarianism. In the time before the new liberalism, classical liberalism was known as liberalism.

    • @SirJamestheIII
      @SirJamestheIII Před 6 lety +3

      Classical liberalism was just called "liberalism." Mises wrote a book called "liberalism." The tide changed after the Lippman Colloquium, which was an effort to find a "new liberalism." Now called classical liberals, opposed the findings of that colloquium.

  • @voltairedentotalenkrieg5147
    @voltairedentotalenkrieg5147 Před 11 měsíci +2

    1:22:01 The same argument he made could be made the other way; Doesn't the fact that the allegations made about them in WW1 were false give you pause that maybe the allegations made about them WW2 were also false.
    Ha ha

  • @yankeegonesouth4973
    @yankeegonesouth4973 Před 4 lety

    He has a lot of interesting points, but some of his research is now a bit out of date. In particular, more recent scholarship based on research in allied and German archives has shown that the Germans did commit atrocities in Belgium, though not to the extent or extremes depicted in the wildest propaganda. The German treatment of Belgium in general is pretty dank.

  • @bexhill8777
    @bexhill8777 Před 11 měsíci

    The articles of the elders of zion explain all the ills of the world.

  • @fellowcitizen
    @fellowcitizen Před 5 lety +2

    2:11:25

  • @bullshitvendor
    @bullshitvendor Před rokem

    this aged like fine milk

  • @neilhillis9858
    @neilhillis9858 Před 5 lety +6

    "Certainly no-one here would support an arms embargo on the Afghan Mujahidin, the freedom fighters"
    Funny how things change.

  • @horsefish2525
    @horsefish2525 Před 4 lety +1

    I randomly click to hear what about and hear that country Silesia was given to Poland. Who gave? Did this man hear about 3 Silesia Uprisings or Wielkopolska Uprising. This territories were won by Poles themselves against the wishes for example of British. All around Polish borders were won in fighting Those territories and Gdansk was Polish before partitions.

    • @horsefish2525
      @horsefish2525 Před 4 lety

      @Vasian Vasianich It was Polish [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Piasts ] and in 14th centaury was part of Kingdom of Czechia. And although Habsburgs became Kings of Kingdom of Czechia Silesia were still part of Czechia. It was stolen by Frederik II the Thug in 1740-ies. But Germans cooked up themselves the Lebensraum but disappointed Hitler who just before his death, in his bunker bedamned them that they were not strong enough. Result Germans had to limit their Lebensraum

    • @horsefish2525
      @horsefish2525 Před 4 lety

      @Vasian Vasianich There is a village of Karwice in Pomerania [Western] which was called Karvitz until 1945. There is a beautiful palace near beautiful lake owned by Brockhausen family. The last owner had a son and a heir, 700 ha of arable lands, 800 ha of forests [with beautiful botanical garden with trees from all over the world] What you need more in life? But they wanted more. The result was: his son lost his life deep in Russia [wonder what did he do there?] and he himself had to flee before Soviet front leaving everything behind. When you are a gambler and you put at stake everything you have you can win a lot but you can also loose everything. And dont cry then. It`s a pity that Germany wasnt ploughed or is not bombed every 50 years as Churchill proposed. Today Germany once again brings a catastrophe on Europe with its crazy immigration policy. And Germany finances another idiot Putin.

  • @lisettem1009
    @lisettem1009 Před 11 měsíci

    Interesting lecture but why is there no transcript but a 'Report' button....? The lecture supports Hans Herman-Hoppe is position what America has become....

    • @porcudracului
      @porcudracului Před 2 měsíci

      You forget that this platform is a commie one

  • @praski149
    @praski149 Před rokem

    He is brilliant, but I wonder if people used to say umm and ahh a lot more in the past?(1970's -90's)

    • @porcudracului
      @porcudracului Před 2 měsíci

      Those are not verbal ticks like you would call it today if a speaker doesn't have perfect flow, it's the sound of them thinking before saying something

  • @FreemonSandlewould
    @FreemonSandlewould Před 5 lety +12

    David Irving is anything but uneven. His in depth research of original documents is beyond compare.

    • @neilhillis9858
      @neilhillis9858 Před 5 lety +6

      His holocaust denial and general unevenness are pathetic.

    • @porcudracului
      @porcudracului Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@neilhillis9858if you don't read enough, yes. You have to read a lot more

    • @porcudracului
      @porcudracului Před 2 měsíci

      Of course, but he couldn't say it, otherwise he'll be banned, like Irving

  • @michaelharrington7656
    @michaelharrington7656 Před 5 lety +1

    Britain was the first free trade nation and kept to free trade longer than any other. Yet the greatest imperialist country was Britain.

  • @creedlang419
    @creedlang419 Před 5 lety +3

    @2:01:30 You can eat those words as of today bro..

    • @akselkarlsson5229
      @akselkarlsson5229 Před 5 lety +1

      He spoke about trade theories in the 1930s and their immediate impact on ww2, he doesn't talk about later Chinese growth.

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      ​@@akselkarlsson52291:56:00 the wars with russia ?

  • @deniseb.5883
    @deniseb.5883 Před rokem +2

    Excellent lecture. Amusing the times back then when a professor could smoke at the lectern 😅

  • @eingew
    @eingew Před 4 lety +4

    4:17 "The welfare state came in to reattach the masses to the state" is a very weird euphemism to describe Bismarcks successfull operation to prevent a socialist uprising and in the long run even possible civil war. Bismarck didn't want a welfare state. The socialists did. He only wanted them not to riot.
    Otherwise a very good talk so far, I am at 1:19:31 now and did not hear any other mistakes.

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      59:30 all quiet on the western front

    • @lowersaxon
      @lowersaxon Před 6 měsíci

      Well, yes, basically he would have preferred „a more liberal“ solution. But B. was a smart man and always looking into the future, all in all the logic ( insurance principle) and essence ( to keep the work force functioning and treat the laborers as human beings) of the then „German welfare state“ was inevitable, respectable and acceptable.

  • @patrickyoung3503
    @patrickyoung3503 Před 4 lety

    I have just been woken up by Dr. Ralph Raico as to what actually happened in world history . I'm lost for words to express my disgust in human behaviour . I have escaped all major wars in my lifetime . I don't know who to thank for my good luck , believe me I'm really indebted to ever was responsible .

  • @whatsyurprob158
    @whatsyurprob158 Před 3 lety

    . . . something about a reoccurring stimulous.
    😎

    • @londonbowcat1
      @londonbowcat1 Před rokem

      1:42:00 had no ideas these were palace names
      Successor states

    • @whatsyurprob158
      @whatsyurprob158 Před rokem

      @@londonbowcat1 The very first city taken by the Allies on German soil >>>>> "Bloody, Aachen". This is also the city where all Royalty within Germania were christened.
      Now you have an idea regarding the minds of those who ruled at the time, and to this very day. They set examples out of those who stray.
      🇺🇸

  • @martinlisitsata
    @martinlisitsata Před 4 lety

    2:01:20 well isn't that ironic

  • @alexluthiger731
    @alexluthiger731 Před rokem

    The people should understand that not everyone will make it to the 2nd resurrection, and those who fail to stand the 2nd resurrection are dedicated to sleep, to pay unpayed bills or getting visitations by angels it's what we call 'hell' in the Spirit of God, hot stuff. 🍷🦍