Why is America infatuated with Socialism and Communism?
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2023
- Why are American college professors so in love with socialism and communism? Don't they know it has failed, and failed miserably everywhere it was tried? I hope they watch this video - as I saw it firsthand in the USSR #crazyrussiandad #socialism #communism
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Communism and socialism are popular in American academia because it flatters the vanity of academics; it proposes an authoritarian system where people like them are in charge. The fact that it has always failed before is irrelevant to them; they are conceited enough to believe that *they* will somehow "get it right."
"Built by genius, run by fools"
Hold on a sec socialism is not the same as communism socialism is successful in nordic countries it would just be our taxes being properly used instead of being used in an over blown war budget it would improve the life of the people we don’t have to be entirely socialist government we just need some socialist laws to help fix a large problem that sadly plague America
I appreciate you telling people, what it is really like living under those political systems.
You are so right, my friend. People here in Germany will wake up under a grey and rainy sky someday, too.
Germans are blinded by socialism, it's insane.
Absolutely! I'm amazed at the number of professors that have pushed this down the throats of these kids, and actually sold it hook, line, and sinker. It's scary. Our youth is tomorrows leaders
How is being taught a SINGLE class on ANY subject (in a 4-year span!) pushing it "down the throats of these kids"? 🤔
The way Canada handled the pandemic reminded me of the USSR. The collective western states are becoming more and more like the Soviet Union every year and the scary part is that people want the west to steer toward communism because their professors told them that it’s a good idea.
Your accent is so thick that CZcams's auto-captions feature lists "Russian (auto-generated)" as the only choice. But there are bits of English intermixed with the Cyrillic captions 🤣 [And I won't lie, I have trouble understand sometimes (but to be fair, I also sometimes have trouble understanding people with a native English accent, so I guess it's a problem with _my ears_ ).]
This is not his real accent. I watched his interview a while back, his English is perfect. This accent is just his playful persona. :)
Yes, the accent is part of the schtick and we - The Fanatics - LOVE it 🤩
I just found your channel. You seem like a nice guy. Cheers from Hungary, elvtárs
Don’t stop Crazy Russian Dad ☝️
Capitalismo, socialismo y democracia es un gran libro de Joseph Schumpeter, creo que es muy necesario retomarlo en el mundo actual (y sobre todo en mi desquiciado país). Saludos desde Argentina.
Communism and socialism failed my family and I’m not the only one 🇱🇻
My wife is Romanian, grew up under Ceaușescu
Which politician or revolutionary introducing socialism/communism/fascism was 'kind & pure'? Lenin was a power-mad monster, enjoying the death & destruction he caused; Mao was equally vile & laughed at the utter misery he caused; the same can be said of Pol Pot, Castro, Mengistu, &c., ad nauseam.
Ну это известная штука, профессора в США, в основном, леваки, восхищающиеся Брэндоном. Возможно, сказывается и то, что вы на северо-востоке. Перебирайтесь уже на юга! Барбекью, кстати, не только в Сан-Антонио классное :)
Русские иммигранты обычно не хотят переезжать в южные штаты, когда приезжают в Соединенные Штаты, потому что это самые бедные штаты в стране. Они хотят жить в богатых штатах, голосовавших за Байдена. Кстати, русская иммиграция в Америку сократилась.
@@gurbanoglu5143 Ну, каждому свое. Мне нормально, хотя я бы предпочел горный штат (кроме Колорадо)
@@barrios160679 Аляска, на мой взгляд, самый красивый штат Америки. Я был там прошлым летом.
No matter. I mailing a guy who living in the south, he thinks that ukraine is the same like the confederation was.
America is over because of population
@@gurbanoglu5143 Согласен! Я свой первый отпуск в Америке провел на Аляске. До сих пор вспоминаю с теплотой
In an argument about the pros and cons of a free market system versus a government run socialist system, one has to look at how many people move from one country to another. How many people from Russia, China, Vietnam and all other socialist paradises do you see living in the US? How many Americans or Western Europeans do you see living in socialist countries? Why did countries like the USSR, North Korea and Cuba forgive its citizens to emigrate while you could leave the US and Western Europe freely? Why do Cubans sail in rickety boats in shark infested waters to get to the US and not meet one American sailing in the other direction? Most importantly, why has not one of the brilliant defenders of socialism, be it from from the ivory tower or from the vast expanses of the internet, not moved to Cuba or North Korea to improve their life and experience true freedom and equality? Once one of the defenders of socialism can explain this difference between their theory and hard reality, only then will I be able to even consider their rantings about the beauties of Marx's theories.
Не думаю, что американцы поймут, о чем Вы говорите. Они-то ведь не жили при диктатуре
I have never ever had a interest in communism.
Some people, but not this girl. I think that people are treated badly in communist gov.
Took the words out my mouth, 🇵🇱
This is the direction they are guiding our young adults. It's up to us not to allow it to happen. They are promising fantasy and you can bet it's a nightmare. Im glad you spoke on this.
I personally dont traditionally side with a specific government but i do take interest in monarchy, communism is one that is a mistory to me as i have a hard time figuring out how it benefits the people, what did Lenin find so great about it? The government basically owns your life, and you only get fed proporganda (probably spelled that wrong) in order for the GOV to keep under their control even after they've brainwashed you in school. I mean, yeah my main philosophy is equalism but people like stalin took it to far
Great video! I am a millennial and I would say a good bit of our generation loves communism because they do not understand history. America has done a horrible job with educating the youth. The local Russian store has got a lot of business because of your videos! My daughter loves the black currant jams. She calls it Babushka jelly.
Отличная работа.Из Иран.❤
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well said mr russian dad i can agreed with you it only wanted to destroy family traditions and its society
I believe that the economic left-right axis is independent of the authoritarian-libertarian axis. If the two were correlated, then Russia should have become less authoritarian after the "shock therapy" transition to capitalism was inflicted upon her in the 90s. But after all that suffering, after a decline in life expectancy, and desperate people selling their personal possessions (and in some cases, their bodies) on the street so that they could buy food to eat, we see that Russia in 2023 is quite authoritarian - and not only authoritarian (with people routinely sentenced to prison for decades for speechcrimes), but also suffering from grotesque economic inequality. Evidently, capitalism ≠ freedom.
In the USSR there was a man who was sent to prison for being a thug, a common criminal, but he was released from prison, and in the 90s he became a capitalist, an oligarch, and now he runs the Wagner Group. The men who serve as cannon fodder for Russia are of course the working poor, not the oligarchs, the rich people. The conscripts tend to come, predominately, from the poorer regions, more so than Moscow or Saint Petersburg.
And then you have countries like Denmark, Norway, and Sweden which are fairly left (economically) but also fairly liberal, moderately libertarian, which is more evidence that the two axes, economic left-right and authoritarian-libertarian, are independent of each other.
(And note, also, that in the capitalist USA, the US Congress and US state legislatures continue to introduce authoritarian legislation in the name of "protecting the children" and "protecting from foreign influence" - see for example the RESTRICT Act. [Not to mention all the authoritarian, invasive anti-abortion legislation.] There are bipartisan demagogic elements in the US government who want to mandate that you upload your identification papers, proving your age, whenever you create a social media account, so as to "protect children." So capitalism does not necessarily protect civil liberties. [Nor does democracy, by itself, protect civil liberties: we had a thing called Prohibition in the 1920s; we still have a thing called the Drug War.] We can only hope that authoritarian laws do not pass in the first place, or if they do, that the courts strike them down as unconstitutional [sometimes they do, sometimes they don't; sometimes the courts strike down authoritarian laws and then change their minds a few decades later, as in Roe v. Wade].)
I think that Russia should have continued along the lines of the 'glasnost' and 'perestroika' reforms introduced by Gorbachev, improving protection for civil liberties and free speech, while simultaneously keeping more of the USSR economic system intact. They could have allowed for some entrepreneurship and small business without chaotically dismantling all the state enterprises and giving them away to the people now called oligarchs.
My preferred system would be some kind of market socialism, like a libertarian version of China with strong constitutional and institutional protections for civil liberties. Small businesses and entrepreneurship would be preserved; but large, institutionalized, bureaucratic, anti-competitive oligopolistic/monopolistic corporations, such as Google, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and Amazon, would be at least partially socialized (or nationalized). Phone companies, ISPs, and the housing sector would be nationalized. At the very least, the corporate governance for large corporations would have to include representatives from labor (to make sure that employees are compensated fairly and work in appropriate conditions) and representatives of the public in general, who could for example veto a proposal if it was excessively damaging to the environment, or if it was excessively anti-competitive against small businesses, or if it was anti-consumer, or if it excessively increased prices (thereby causing inflation) to fund profit payouts to shareholders.
The problems that we're having with inflation are caused by excessive profit-seeking. They corporations will raise their prices above costs because they are incentivized to deliver profits to shareholders. Socialization, or partial nationalization, of the economy would help to stop this. If Wal-Mart and a few large food distributors were nationalized, then any smaller competitor would be prevented from price-gouging their food items, because if they were to price-gouge, then their customers would move to the "public option" - the nationalized corporations - which could run on razor-thin profit margins and, with no profit motive, offer lower prices. So to be competitive with the public option, a private company would have to offer good prices (and good service, and good products, etc.).
Conversely, since a state corporation serves the public interest, and has no profit motive, it can avoid doing various anti-competitive things that oligopolistic corporations like Amazon and Wal-Mart are currently doing in order to protect their market shares, which harm small upstarts and other potential competitors.
A corporation is basically a way for entrepreneurs to attract investment while limiting the liability of investors, so it's only fair that labor and the public in general be allowed to play a role in corporate governance, in exchange for this shield of limited liability which the state grants to shareholders.
Paradoxically, such an economic system, the market socialism which I describe, would be more pro-small-business and more pro-consumer, than a capitalist system. Given enough time, capitalism naturally tends toward oligopoly. It is predestined. (The antitrust laws are merely a tenuous band-aid.) The oligopolies are harmful: they're anti-competitive, anti-labor, anti-consumer - and they are driving inflation.
The nationalization of the social media oligopolies would mean that our social media posts would be protected by the first amendment (and our devices and cloud backups would be protected by the fourth amendment). For example, if Twitter was a government-controlled corporation, then it wouldn't be possible for Elon Musk to arbitrarily and capriciously censor tweets, and then say, "It's OK for me to do censorship because I'm not the government and so the first amendment doesn't apply to me!" - the part about "I'm not the government" wouldn't be true anymore if social media corporations were state-controlled. (Of course, competition [a private option] would still be allowed and encouraged, and we could invest in decentralized social media networks as well, which are more censorship-resistant than a centralized system controlled by a corporation or the state.)
At the very least, my preferred economic system would include FDR-style social democratic policies like a Job Guarantee and Medicare for All, also known as single payer (a single payer [the government], plus multiple private healthcare providers). You can actually have these things and still have capitalism, but for some reason people like to call these FDR-type policies "socialism" (even though such policies actually saved capitalism after the Great Depression almost killed it).
You cannot have any liberty if someone else has centralized control of the economy. Also, your idea that current Russia is capitalistic is deeply wrong. Russia is currently mercantilistic--that is, the system in place is mercantilism, where the government chooses economic winners and losers without taking full control of the economy.
Capitalism and freedom is great, I'm ok. I'm happy
And I can't complain about my life. It could be so much worse
Arestovich was just talking about this with Latynina, you guys have like identical talking points.
СССР не был ни социалистической, ни коммунистической страной. Если вы посмотрите на определение коммунизма, вы заметите это.
СССР захватил государство, но демократии рабочим не дал. Государство контролировало промышленность недемократическим способом.
Однако, если вы поедете в русские деревни, русские постарше скажут, что жизнь при СССР была лучше, чем сегодня.
Если вы хотите представить себе капиталистическую страну с диктатурой, подумайте о сегодняшнем Китае. Истинный коммунизм был бы тем, как жили коренные американцы. Саудовская Аравия - еще один пример.
Кстати, я не социалист. Мне нравится капитализм в Скандинавии, где социальная мобильность выше, чем в Америке.
They did give democracy to workers, you need to read up a little.
@@sandels5805 Source please?
Your comment is negligent of everything CRD said in the video. Watch it again.
@@Melibond64 For example?
@@Melibond64 Everything that was stated, I have heard many times before. Anything specific you want to emphasize?
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Lazy people love anyone and anything that gives them something for nothing.
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CRD… ‘extolling” or just educating. That’s what universities do, right? Neither good nor bad… just information.
Karl marx is one of the most influential thinkers of modern human history, whether you like his ideas or not, so people in college should be taught what his ideas were. Also, I can briefly explain what most academics would say to refute your argument, keep in mind, this isn't my belief, i am not a communist, but I'm just explaining it for the sake of mutual understanding. Most left wing academics would say that while communism led to serious human rights abuses in the countries that tried, there has only really been one attempt at communism. Russia went communist, and then every other communist government was created with the support of the ussr, by leaders educated in the ussr, and they went on to rely on the ussr for economically and militarily. So communism wasnt tried many different times, soviet communism was put into place in many countries, and it had the same issues in each of them. So the professors believe the political structure that was created by lenin and reproduced throughout the world was corrupt, but Marxs ideas, which say very little about how the actual government should be run, was not the problem. Add to this the horrific conditions created for many people by neolibralism, which few people who dont just study all the time recognize because they arent visible in day to day life for relatively rich westerners, and the professors conclude that a brand new conceptualization of socialism is in order. Im not trying to argue with you, i'm just trying to help you figure out why these people think the way they do, and im happy to discuss it further.
leave.
Maybe lets try it without the authoritarian dictatorship?
You are completely uninformed, you have become an excellent product of Yankee propaganda. I'm so sorry, you say you lived in the USSR, but it seems you don't know the yankees,.
Cuba 🇨🇺 is also a socialist state. There are pros and cons for this form of government. At the end of the day, you have to choose what is best for your people and country. 😮
Dear CRD. You clearly have an emotional reaction to something your *adult* children are learning. Why not heed your _own_ advice, and visit a place with a lot of fresh air (not a "camp" of course, just a park) to think a bit? You might then realize that what (young) adults study in college becomes only part of their overall worldview. And even that, only sometimes. Looking forward to the next video (after that fresh air treatment!) where you're NOT overstating how much college students care about what they "learn" 😉
I mean, this is a nice sentiment, but ultimately an extremely naive one.
I mean this is a nice sentiment and all, but ultimately an extremely naive one.
There is no such thing as adult children, which are still in college. Even experienced adults fall for brainwashing, let alone your young and looking to make a difference/change offspring. At that age people are extremely likely to adapt the worldview of their superiors which they admire. Hopefully they are being also taught critical thinking, but personally i find that after going to such classes very few actually apply the skill.
@@RusUrtel interesting logic: with Critical Thinking "after going to such classes very few actually apply the skill" but with Marxism "people are extremely likely to adapt the worldview of their superiors"? You can't have it both ways: do young adults lap it ALL up or do they learn NOTHING in classes they study? Most likely, the answer is somewhere in the middle: they pick an choose, but no SINGLE class is going to be the *decisive* factor in determining their worldview. Which, actually, was the point of our original comment 🤷♀🤷♂
@@APlusRussian eh? Young people are more likely to adapt the worldview of those they admire. It actually does not matter which view it is, or which class. Nowhere did i say they were learning nothing either. What i did say is that having dedicated classes that teach critical thinking and logic help to formulate own opinion, both in young and adult people. However few are able to actually use them, because it takes real effort and time too.
Perhaps you should do more than just study history "a little bit".
Marx is probably the most important philosopher of the past 200 years, perhaps of all time; EVEN if you disagree with his political views. His analysis of materialism and of the history of class antagonisms was an incredibly important contribution to our collective understanding of the world. To write off Marx as just some left ideologue betrays a lack of intellectual engagement with the topic; it's all just superficial ranting.
Other than that, you are just repeating the same old talking points of the red scare without any nuance.
I need to stop procrastinating. 😂
no.
Capitalism fails every 4-5 years on average with recessions. It then has to be bailed out to keep it running. Socialism on the other hand wasn't supported by the number one world superpower. It was in fact heavily sanctioned by it. Considering this, and the fact that it was constantly under attack by western secret services, and the fact that it developed in impoverished and war thorn countries, it did pretty well, in fact socialist countries on average provided a higher quality of life for its citizens than capitalist countries at the same level of development. The US only hated socialism because it was the only ideology that questioned the tireless exploitation of the working class from slavery, feudalism and now capitalism. No wonder the US opted for bloody wars instead of holding free and fair elections in Vietnam and Korea because they knew that the communists would have won them with 70-80% of the votes. And those are only two of dozens of countries they bombed, invaded or couped after WW2. But sure, go ahead and continue supporting the system that kills 20 million people on average each year, from wars, hunger, easily curable diseases and generally poverty.
blah blah blah
I would really love to see your sources and verifiable statistics on your claims there bucko.
@@chuckn4851:
Do you ever read a history book?
@@chuckn4851 As for recessions, I was wrong. According to the IMF which considers a recession when the annual global real GDP growth is less than 3%, there were six global recessions since 1970, precisely 1974-5, 1984-5, 1990-3, 1996, 2008-9 and in 2018-9, which gives an average of 6.3 years between the recessions. As for socialism being under attack by western secret services, just look up what was done during the Cold war. And look at what is being done today with Cuba. If socialism always fails, why would you need an embargo? Why not just let it fail on its own? Plus the US, the so called "bastion of democracy" openly stated that they want to cause despair in Cuba to alienate the support for their communist regime. Read FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1958-1960, CUBA, VOLUME VI
499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom). And the Soviet KGB in particular was full of moles, while the Soviet Union was heavily sanctioned even before the beginning of the Cold war. As for socialist countries achieving a higher standard of living for its citizens compared to their capitalist counterparts with the same economic development, look up the study by Shirley Celesto and Howard Waitzkin, Economic Development, Political-Economic System, and the Physical Quality of Life from 1986. As for Eisenhower being against holding elections in Vietnam due to the possibility of communists winning with 80% of the votes, read Benjamin Spock's The Example of Vietnam from 1970. As for the number of countries invaded, bombed, couped, etc. by the US, look up the article How Many Countries has the US Invaded 2023 on the website World Population Review. As for the 20 million people unnecessarily dying due to capitalism each year, 3.1 million children die each year due to hunger (even though we produce more than enough food, enough to provide food for the projected 9.7 billion people in 2050, look up Current global food production is sufficient to meet human nutritional needs in 2050 provided there is radical societal adaptation by Anne R. Kapuscinski et al.), look up World Child Hunger Facts on World Hunger website, 1.2 million people die due to lack of clean water, look up Clean Water by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser on Our World in Data, and about 4 million people die from viral pneumonia each year, look up the study by Professor Olli Ruuskanen called Viral Pneumonia (note that the study is from 2011, so before the pandemic). This gives us a figure of about 8.3 million deaths each year, and that does not include adults dying from hunger, people dying from diseases other than pneumonia (malaria for example is another easily curable and preventable disease, yet it takes so many lives each year), imperialist wars fought for oil and other resources (waged mainly by the US), workers dying due to austerity, low wages and poor working conditions, etc.
@@matthewmagee31 What a reply! Completely based with arguments! I'm astonished!
USSR wasn't real communism.
LMFAO the average redditor response
@@chuckn4851 so do you know the actual definition of communism and think that the USSR remotely fit that definition, or are you just here to start pointless arguments with everyone who isn't agreeing with the video in the comments?
I support this message. Fords aren't real cars
@@chuckn4851 I mean you can often hear the same kind of argument by some capitalists. When capitalism fails (and it fails regularly) they say its not real capitalism, its corporatism or whatever. The thing is, the capitalist philosophy of infinite growth and infinite competition ultimately leads to corporatism, as sooner or later one or a few luckiest companies climb up the ladder and then kick it down, and thus become monopolies. Its a natural thing to happen in a system where your only goal is to defeat the competition by any means necessary.
If you want to use newspaper like a toilet paper and go to by sausage and refrigerator to the capital of the country or if you want to go to prison for any criticism of the regime, than communism is for you. To us Russians this is absolutely unbelievable that you are making such a mistake. Our country has not yet overcome this socialist catastrophe that has occurred. You, too, will fight this plague for decades if you will fall in to this shit