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E62: Rebranding Communism · The Junto Podcast

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Hello America, welcome to the Juneto podcast where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I'm your host Edgar Mills. Thank you for,
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Hello, America. Welcome to episode 62. So,
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based on the last episode, I was accused of not having a deep understanding
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or even knowing at all that there was a difference between communism,
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socialism, and democratic socialism.
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And I was accused by a 20 year old Belgian lesbian which is not to take away
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anything there except being 20 years old for one but.
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And as I think about that, I think that was more of a confession covered as a critique.
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Because I think this young person absolutely doesn't know what they're talking about.
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So I'm going to talk about it. Now look, I apologize for going on communist, anti-communist rants.
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So this is part two of the two-part series here.
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And I didn't set it up to be a series. There was just so much more to say.
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So this is going to be the last of the communism madness and they won't do something
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i don't know easy breezy after that so everybody knows that communism yeah we all know the big bad.
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Communism socialism which everybody thinks oh no but that's
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different that's softer and and then
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democratic socialism which is is the
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well it's not a new term by any stretch but that's what our politicians in america
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like to like to use that democratic socialism they all claim to to have obvious
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separation but all the way back to the communist manifesto,
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everything you read and and all the speeches and everything made by these prominent
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communists the the lines have always been blurred there's never been a well
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actually when communism came There was no such thing as democratic socialism,
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but there were already people in Europe calling themselves socialists,
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but they all share the same base doctrine, the same foundational doctrine,
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and they all claim the same enemy, which is...
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Yep, capitalism, capitalism. And they all logically, if you play out their policy,
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even as they call themselves three separate entities, as you play out the policy,
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they all end up in the same place.
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So is there a difference? Well, we'll go into it for sure.
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But their critique for all three of these,
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their critique is that capitalism concentrates power into the hands of a very
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few wealthy people and that those people are greedy and that they exploit labor
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and that they block true equality.
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So and that that may be partially correct but their answer is to consolidate
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the hands the power into the hands of a very few people who just claim authority
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in the name of government,
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all the other negative things still apply the government's greedy right anyway
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we'll get to that yeah it's madness so ultimately they all three want state
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ownership of of everything,
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Specifically, we're talking about the economic system.
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The use of the word democratic in front of socialism is,
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Well, it's not a genuine departure from socialism It's not a genuine departure
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at all It's just subterfuge It's just branding That's what it is They've just
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updated their brand Thank you.
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And the reason they've updated that brand, why does anybody rebrand?
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To either change their image, right? Or to separate themselves from whatever
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the old image was, whatever.
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And that's what they've done with the word democratic socialism,
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is they're trying to separate themselves from the, well,
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infamous failures of communism, as it was and as it is.
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And they're trying to, well, put plausible deniability, right?
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Well, that wasn't what we're, that was communism.
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We're not for that.
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But all the while carrying on with the same exact policies. Yeah. So let's look at it.
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I guess socialism kind of forms the broader umbrella because communism,
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although the policies are all the same, I think what they really want to differentiate
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is the means by which they achieve these policies. So communism is what?
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Single party dictatorship. That's what communism is. Single party dictatorship.
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They make the rules, you abide by the rules, or end up in the gulag period.
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Whereas socialism aims to do that via democracy, to a degree,
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via vote. But they still want the same thing.
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They want collective or state ownership of everything, means of production,
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land, economic system, all the resources, major industry.
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Socialism wants that. Communism absolutely wants that. But it's all still just
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collectivism. It's all the same.
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The term democratic socialism kind of narrows that focus in it.
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It adds that they want a socialist economic transition.
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But they still want to be committed to multi-party system and democracy and
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civil liberties and freedom.
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They claim these things, civil liberties and freedom of speech and just the
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pluralism, the diversity within the party or whatnot or within the system.
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But that's not the way that the policies logically play out.
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They can say they want that, but do their priorities show that?
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No, I don't think so. All right.
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So there's an organization that exists and it has existed probably since maybe
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the 50s, the Democratic Social America.
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They say that they would replace capitalism with a system that gives ordinary
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people real voice in workplaces, neighborhoods, and society.
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Rejecting welfare state capitalism, which I don't even know what that is,
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and Soviet-style authoritarianism.
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What is welfare state capitalism?
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I should have taken more time just to try to research that phrase,
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but just on the surface, I don't know what that means, welfare state capitalism.
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Yeah, I don't know what that means. If we were in a purely capitalist,
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purely constitutional republic, everybody's free, the government has very minimal
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fingers on things, what does welfare state even mean?
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And are they referring to private charity? You know, I don't know.
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I'm not sure what that means. I know what Soviet-style authoritarianism is.
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But even Marx, even in his own sort of analysis of their ideals,
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he says that socialism is an early transitional stage.
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To get to a classless, stateless society. Marx, Karl Marx, said that socialism
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is early-stage communism. Okay.
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From the horse's mouth, folks. That's from the horse's mouth.
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Yeah, early transitional stage. Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution,
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The socialist and communist Terms were used Kind of interchangeably.
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So I guess you could say communism was invented, you know, I guess you could
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say, in 18, whenever they wrote, 1848, I think, with the Communist Manifesto.
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Again, socialism sort of existed prior to that.
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But yeah, those words were used interchangeably. And here's why.
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Because both of the ideologies, even though they're not very distinct at all,
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they bemoan private ownership.
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As the root cause of class warfare, class conflict.
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And what does that mean? What is this class conflict?
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They bemoan capitalism as the root of class conflict.
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Well, what that means to me is one group is envious of another group.
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They have something that I don't have, and that's not right.
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Well, what makes it not right?
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We'll get to this stuff about, well, rich versus poor and all.
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But if you go back to the very earliest man, I mean, everybody started out on an equal play and film.
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So it is the ideology of envy.
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I will stand by that. And I will argue that.
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And I will point case after case of that. But that statement alone tells us that.
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And this is from Karl Marx, folks.
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Yeah, so anyway, adding the word democratic to socialism, that's just tactics.
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There's no substance there. And it's about making leftist candidates electable.
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But there's it's just it's just for electability. There is no philosophical shift.
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There's no philosophical branch that doesn't target capitalism and the abolishment
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of private ownership of things.
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All right. That's just quick definitions that I kind of went off on. Look.
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So obviously this started in the 19th century industrial revolution.
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There was a utopian socialists
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that that was a group back then the british chartists
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and and then even the early marxists they they all wanted political democracy
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which is good right but they wanted that in in conjunction with government or
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public public so i'm going to use public and government interchangeably.
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When you say the public sector, they're referring to the government-run sector
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because everybody's, oh, well, we all own the government.
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We are the boss of the government. Functionally, that is not true.
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So public control, they want political democracy, but public control.
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But what if I vote against public control?
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Don't want political democracy at all well and what they want is pure democracy
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so that 51 percent can overrule the 49 percent and it's easy enough to pay off the 51 percent so anyway.
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Oh man so both marx and frederick ingalls about friedrich ingalls wrote wrote
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the communist manifesto and
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they they did praise sort of democratic election or elected there was a
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paris commune and and that
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was oh yeah democratically elected paris commune and and they used socialism
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and communism interchangeably they did and i'm gonna get never i'm getting off
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track i'm getting off track sorry the bolshevik revolution in 1917,
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that because that was such a hard line that forced a
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sort of a public split And then you had sort
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of democratic reformists slash socialists who rejected the hard revolutionary
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sort of vanguard Lenin style communism or Stalinist authoritarianism because
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that was hardline stuff, man.
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And so, yeah, there was a little split there just over tactics,
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though, not ideology, just tactics.
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And then fast forward that to the leftists of the 1960s and 70s.
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That's when we came up with the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Which, that, well, that's what sort of put that into our lexicon.
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And it became the new face, acceptable face, the new smiling face of an old, ugly, ugly ideology.
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That started back during the Bolshevik Revolution when there was a split as far as tactics go.
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Still all with the same goal of state ownership. And that never changed.
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But they only added that after the hardliners sort of claimed socialism, right?
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The hardline, communist, authoritarian, they claimed socialism.
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So then they felt a need to add democratic socialism onto it to make it more palatable.
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All still, all three with the same goals. So there are no They all converge
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There are no substantive.
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Philosophical differences there They all insist
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that Political democracy alone Ain't enough That they need control of the economy
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as well Because if you have control of the economy If you concentrate the economy
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Into very centralized hands Well,
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why they think that works, I don't know, but that's what they want,
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along with government control.
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So government control and economic control. As capitalism is,
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those are separate to a large degree. Now, I'm going to point out stuff a little
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later where they unfortunately merge.
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But these people all still want...
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Workplaces that have sort of, that run on like a democracy, kind of like what
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I imagine the unions, right?
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That's a very communist thing, a very socialist thing, a very democratic socialist
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thing, if you will. The unions, right?
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And what do unions ultimately do? Well, you might get paid more if you're a union guy.
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You might get paid a little more and you might have some good benefits. but they're
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choking out the the profit margin of the company oh well profits the owners
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of the company shouldn't get all these profits that's evil the means of production
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they couldn't do it without the labor i it's an age-old argument but the labor
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wouldn't have any place to labor,
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if if the creator didn't create the play to create the business to begin with
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and i'll get to that in a bit too with a direct quote from Karl Marx.
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So anyway, where was I at? Unions. Andrew, they all want major industries to
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be state controlled, which is basically one big giant union, I guess.
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And they argue that capitalism is just inevitably produces inequality without
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recognizing or acknowledging or admitting that that's what communism does. Well, no, I'm sorry.
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Communism does create equality. Everybody equally poor, equally hungry, equally uninspired.
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But they argue that it exploits people, leads to alienation and all this and that.
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And they argue, the communists and socialists and democratic socialists,
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that, that, and they say true liberty and equality and solidarity, right?
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It requires the absolute total replacement of our system as it is.
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I disagree. I disagree with that.
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So they all use the same scapegoat or straw man or whatever,
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which is that capitalism is bad and class warfare is bad because of capitalism.
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And the ultimate aim for these people is to make all businesses operate for
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no profit and essentially to abolish wage labor.
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So for me to go out. So what does that mean, though? Then how do I choose what job I want?
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Excuse me. Golly. How do I choose what job I want?
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Well, if I want to be a firearms instructor for a company, one company pays
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$300 a day and one company pays $500 a day, well, I'm going to go to the company
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probably that pays $500 a day.
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So if neither company pays anything, now I got to go and, okay,
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well, now I have to decide, okay, do I like this guy?
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Do I like that guy? Is this location good, my job, whatever?
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And then what's my incentive to go work at all if it's for free?
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I still got to pay bills. Or do I get all my food provided for free?
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Or do I have some universal basic income?
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Well, that's kind of their answer to that. It's so bizarre. It's so bizarre.
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So again, anyway, they want to nationalize everything.
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Redistribute wealth is a key talking point.
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Even in modern American democratic left politics, it's all about redistribution. That's what taxes are.
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They take taxes from people who earn money, and then they redistribute that
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money throughout various systems, whether it be welfare systems or just public
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works or whatever it is they do.
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And all that stuff kills incentive to do anything, to create.
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So the primarily advertised key difference with communism,
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socialism, democratic socialism is that democratic socialism claims multi-party democracy,
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whereas socialism and communism kind of, it's a state single party system.
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That's the key difference. That's the only real difference.
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And then the democratic socialists kind of on the surface reject authoritarian rule,
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you know, but again, the policies play out the opposite of that.
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Anyway, yeah, critics like myself, unrepentant capitalists like myself.
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Yeah, man, we criticize the term democratic socialism as just subterfuge. It's just cover.
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It's just an acceptable sounding name on top of communism.
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And there's communists in America that claim communism. But I don't know what
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in the hell they're thinking.
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I don't know what they think. I think that ultimately, I think if you're an
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American-born, American-raised, self-professed communist,
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I think it's just a form of, damn, what's the word I'm looking for, man?
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Being contrary, you know, just that you want to rebel against whatever the system
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is, whatever the system is.
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If we were a communist society, then you would be a freedom-loving capitalist.
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That's what I think. I think a lot of it's fashion. I think it's a lot of it
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is to put themselves in this position of the underdog,
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the downtrodden, the victim class, so that they can then speak from a position
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of seeking sympathy for being the underdog,
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I guess. That's what I think about that.
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But I've got no compassion for anybody who claims to be an outright communist in America.
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And I certainly, the Democratic Socialists, that's just a lie.
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That's just a nice sounding label. You're still a communist.
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All right. Who are some prominent figures who have blurred those lines?
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If they were distinct lines, let's see.
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Luxembourg was a, she championed socialism, but she co-founded the Communist Party of Germany.
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So she claimed socialism and then literally co-founded the Communist Party of
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Germany and was a committed, professed, committed Marxist revolutionary.
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Yeah. A fellow named Michael Harrington, the founder of the Democratic Socialists
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of America, who wrote a book, by the way, called The Other America.
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Which expectedly or not surprisingly inspired LBJ's war on poverty.
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Well, what happened with LBJ's war on poverty, folks? Did poverty go away?
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Was there any favorable impact on poverty whatsoever?
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All of those policies were very communistic, socialistic policies.
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And all they did was create an entire generation of state-dependent human beings.
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Anyway, sorry. Michael Harrington described himself as a democratic Marxist.
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That doesn't even make sense. It's almost, they're two contradictory terms. Yeah.
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He drew his philosophy straight from Marx and Engels. And even though it's the
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Democratic Socialists of America, he welcomed in hardline communists and Marxists. Yeah.
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To that organization. And then there's our, we all know him,
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we all love him, Bernie Sanders.
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He continually praises, like he's always on about the literacy campaigns in
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Cuba or the medical system in Cuba.
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To point out the flaws in our medical system does not mean you have to jump
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all the way to the communist model.
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Health care may be free, but you stand in line for it.
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Or if you're in the party, you have a, you know, you get the private doctor. Yeah, man.
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Bernie Sanders. You know, Bernie, he visited, he was a big, big buddy back in
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the Soviet days. He visited the Soviet Union, I believe on a honeymoon even, on vacation.
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He's a communist. He's a communist. He praises the Sandinista Nicaraguans.
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He praises China's development.
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And even though China is the biggest hypocrite on the planet,
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they are under communist rule, but they like to flirt with capitalism, for sure.
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But still, they'll just undercut the capitalist market in the world,
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the international market.
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They'll undercut that, but still all the money stays concentrated with the party.
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So that's just hypocrisy But Bernie praises him He praises him Bernie Sanders
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And Bernie He pushes I believe he called himself A democratic socialist He pushes
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their policies They hate capitalism I don't know why Bernie's a millionaire He's a millionaire,
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I remember an article a few years ago, how many multi-million dollar properties
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does Bernie Sanders own?
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If he's against private ownership, why does he own three or four multi-million dollar properties?
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Anybody care? Do you know Bernie Sanders never had a job, a proper job in his life? A paid job.
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Anyway, this isn't about Bernie Sanders.
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Yeah democratic socialism of america openly openly
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allows in communists and
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marxists and leninists yep so even for these figures the lines are still they're
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blurry they're blurry lines there's no distinct oh this is democratic socialism
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this is communism there's no distinct lines even in modern day,
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you can still see the overlap.
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And today's politics, and that was some figures from kind of throughout the
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past, you know, 100 years or whatnot.
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Today's politics, there's still no clear distinction.
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Again, the qualifier, the democratic qualifier is just a marketing tool, a branding tool,
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to tiptoe around the blood-stained legacy,
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the murderous legacy left behind by Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and Castro and Chavez.
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And all those guys pushed the same exact anti-capitalist rhetoric.
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They all had the same vision of total state control, nationalization of everything.
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Through ballots right some through vote but even
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then we'll get to fair elections
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here a little bit but mostly through violence yeah
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mostly through violence and in
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today's politics what you got bernie sanders style platforms right medicare
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free medicare for all new green deal shit wealth taxes there look at how many
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ways money gets taxed then they want to push worker ownership,
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like union stuff, right?
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Where workers seize the means of production.
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And all of that stuff mimics exactly the economic structures of these past failed communist regimes.
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Yeah. And in practice, you get the same results, folks. In practice,
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you get the same results.
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Now into today's modern dynamics the
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social media discourse right you can get into your little bubbles and you guys
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can pump up capitalism or or well okay capitalism and and liberty and all that
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and the ayn rand institute and all these things and austrian economics and we can talk about all
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And then the other end of that is you've got your communist bubbles who talk
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about, oh, how it could be this, it could be that.
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Well, we've got demonstrated success on one side and demonstrated failure on the other.
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But if you would just let us do it the way we want to do it,
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well, that's not democracy, is it?
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Social media puts us in bubbles. The corporate media, i.e., ergo,
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e.g., whatever you want to say,
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state media, because it's all approved through some ideological whatever terms.
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It's all approved.
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Corporate media. And then you got all the political activists who are the loudest
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on both of these platforms.
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Yeah, they treat democratic socialism. I'm doing air finger quotes for you guys.
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Democratic. Every time I say democratic socialism, imagine me doing air finger
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quotes around the word democratic.
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They treat that term as a different thing.
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And so and it's so that it's palatable.
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Makes communism and radical socialism palatable and
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and they have some level of plausible
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deniability they still have the same exact enemy
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capitalism they here still have the
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same exact exact goals total system replacement
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i'm repeating this shit over and over again because
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i want you to understand you can't show me
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and you can't tell me where there's different goals if you can please pipe up
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please please please email me and lay out the argument your objective argument
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yeah don't just tell me i don't know what this and what that is tell me why it's good,
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and show me examples throughout the history of the system the communist system
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what universal so good has it brought to the world today. Show me that.
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They all three want centralization of power.
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And so you can be a democratic socialist and say, well, no, we want to vote
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in centralization. Or you can be a communist and say, no, we want to take over.
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Either way, they still wet their panties for centralized control.
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And once the government has total control over economics, the legal system,
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education, the medical system, whatever, it'll melt into one ruling party.
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Even if it does get voted in that way, it'll never get voted out again.
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Because once that system is locked in and you no longer are able to have free
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and fair and separate elections,
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you will never again see a multi-party election. And I point you to North Korea.
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Go look at North Korea, see how their votes work.
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Just Google North Korean voting system, election system.
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Is about to get tedious, but we're going to do it. I am about to go over the
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10 planks of communism taken directly from the Communist Manifesto,
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chapter 2, as written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848.
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And these were proposed as practical steps for the proletariat, read the people,
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the regular people, right, the low people, as practical steps for the proletariat
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to centralize power amongst themselves. But that alone is a contradiction.
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The people cannot centralize power.
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At any rate, to centralize power and the means of production in advanced countries,
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and it's very important that I said that they targeted advanced countries.
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Because what's the irony here? Why did they target advanced countries?
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Well, I'm going to quote straight from the Communist Manifesto.
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The bourgeoisie, now that's the in-charge people, the capitalists,
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all right, Be with me here.
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The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce 100 years, has created more massive
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and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
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Subjection of nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to
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industry and agriculture, steam navigation,
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railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation,
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canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—.
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Century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor.
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What that is, is an absolute acknowledgement
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and praise that the
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system as it built via capitalism that
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created all of these advancements and lifted
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the quality of life to such an extremely high level it couldn't have been done
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without the capitalism but they said it slumbered in the lap of social labor what does that mean.
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Is a visionary. People who are visionaries deserve to be compensated for their vision.
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All right. So anyway, Marx himself praised the productive power of capitalism.
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For good or bad, like, okay, yeah, we clear land to build a factory.
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Okay. Well, that factory employs people, pays people
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people's quality of life raises and now the carl's marks types wants to come
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in and take over the factory the people who built it no longer get profit off
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of it because now the state runs it the state has decided to pay everybody at
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a certain level much higher than the market.
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Dictates so now it costs more money to operate the factory so the profit margin
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shrinks and shrinks and then the state takes the profits and redistributes,
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redistributes in other sectors or whatever.
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And now the factory no longer makes any profit.
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And well, what happens after that?
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If the factory no longer makes enough money to pay the people working at it
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and it no longer makes profits.
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So nobody has any incentive to innovate or to, to, to keep it going.
35:41
Well, Now all those factory workers who had a job making market wages,
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who got this awesome state wage boost, who three, four, five,
35:52
ten years later, now they don't have any job at all.
35:55
Okay, well, the government will put us in another job. Come on, man.
36:00
All right, I'm off track. I'm going to go point by point.
36:05
There were ten, ten planks or pillars or points of communism.
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They thought would make things good and great and awesome.
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And then I'm going to point out in America, what policies do we have in place that support that?
36:22
And then what politicians are pushing to further support these 10 planks of communism.
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And mind you, when I'm saying this, I'm saying these are wrong.
36:33
These are no good. They sound good on the surface.
36:36
Some of them do. Some of them don't even sound good on the surface.
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Why is American politicians in a capitalist constitutional republic trying to
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prioritize law and policy to support any pillar of communism?
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Number one, abolition of property and land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
37:04
All right. Well, abolition of property and land. So abolition of private property,
37:09
private land ownership, and then apply all rents of land to public purposes, read taxes.
37:19
How do we see that in America today? Overreaching zoning laws.
37:23
Land use regulations, eminent domain.
37:27
The government wants a piece of land. If they're building a highway that goes
37:32
through square through the middle of your 20 acres, guess what?
37:36
They're taking it you may get
37:39
compensated you may not property taxes
37:42
like exorbitant property taxes these are
37:45
all direct supporting directly supporting this
37:49
number one pillar of communism here because these property taxes go where well
37:55
do they pay for school public schools or public i don't know they pay for different
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things they once the government gets your money it's kind of the accountability
38:05
of it's kind of lost anyway. Well.
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It goes into government revenue. That's what it is.
38:12
And then the control that the federal and state government has over vast public
38:18
lands, which restricts private development. Now, is that altogether bad?
38:23
No, I'm a fan of Theodore Roosevelt.
38:26
I think the public park system is good. I think there needs to be protected space,
38:32
historic and beautiful and preserve America in a way that it was,
38:39
I mean, in its originality, right?
38:44
I agree with the public park systems, but also if the government decided they
38:50
want to section off a piece of a public park in order to put low-cost multifamily
38:58
housing on it, they would do it.
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That's the problem when the government owns things. You don't have much say in it.
39:04
And who's pushing it? Well, you're going to hear three names over and over again,
39:08
Cortez, Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren.
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Because they're the three most notable hard left, progressive,
39:19
whatever you want to call them, democratic socialists.
39:22
They, well, Cortez specifically has supported like very aggressive zoning and
39:28
planning reforms because of this new green or green new deal thing.
39:32
And it's all in the name of public purpose and some kind of climate equity.
39:37
What does climate equity mean? F if I know. And all in the name of affordable
39:42
housing and and all emphasizing the government oversight and government control
39:48
over these private private properties.
39:52
All right. Number two, a heavy progressive or graduated income tax. Right.
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We have it and that's it. Federal income tax.
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Tax brackets up to like 37 plus percent.
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And then you got state taxes. So state and federal combined,
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you could be paying well over 50 percent of your income to a state entity.
40:21
In what bizarro world is that legitimate?
40:25
Is that justified? When this first got sold, whenever the first time income
40:32
tax ever got sold to the American people, what in the hell was the sales pitch?
40:37
That must have been the most charming, most charismatic frigging lawmaker to
40:46
have ever walked the planet.
40:48
How can you justify taking somebody's income for any reason? Why?
40:56
So anyway, yes, income tax, that's it. And then, of course, you know,
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the lefties, they're all about, well, we got to tax the rich more.
41:05
We got to tax the rich more.
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Well, we got to tax the ultra rich.
41:09
Well, if that happens, man, like the ultra rich are going to leave.
41:15
Sanders and Warren always are calling for this, the higher progressive sort of tax rates on it.
41:22
And Warren has a thing that's called the ultra millionaires tax.
41:24
And Sanders has explicitly
41:28
and I quote said we need to soak the
41:31
rich soak them with what laws taxes
41:35
soak them with taxes well if I'm a if I'm a millionaire folks and I'm paying
41:41
all this ridiculous amount of money at some point yes there's already people
41:46
moving money offshore and there's loopholes there's plenty of them at some point
41:51
if they start closing those loop I'm just going to move to a tax-friendly country.
41:56
Patriotism goes a long way, but when your country no longer looks like what
41:59
it was founded to be, there are people that will move.
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And I'm not talking about these actors who, oh, if Donald Trump gets elected,
42:07
I'm moving to Canada. That's performative.
42:10
That's theater. I'm talking about real millionaires who are paying real taxes,
42:16
by the way, at high, high levels, and they're just going to take their money and go.
42:21
I draw the parallel with Atlas Shrugged.
42:26
All right, heavy progressive tax. Number three, abolition of all rights of inheritance.
42:34
How is that justified? If my dad started from scratch and built a business and
42:40
became wealthy and he dies and he leaves me his wealth, how does the government have a claim on it?
42:46
How does anyone have a claim on it? If my dad wrote in a piece of paper,
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I want my son to You have all of my assets.
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The government. Well, then you're just a trust fund baby and you didn't earn your money. Well, fuck.
43:03
My dad earned it and I'm a piece of my dad. So you're mad about how I got my
43:10
money because you don't have money. It's envy. It all comes back to envy.
43:15
Ultimately, inheritance tax.
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There some some rates are up to
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40 percent now there's an exemption currently of 13 million per person and that's
43:26
that's good right people like bernie sanders are trying to expand that and lower
43:31
the exemption to three and a half million and then raise rates even higher on billionaires,
43:39
because they don't want the money to stay in the family they want the money
43:42
to dissipate and go wherever.
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It's such bullcrap. It is straight out theft.
43:50
Abolition of rights of inheritance. Number four. Now this one is interpretive, right?
43:56
Confiscation of property of all immigrants and rebels. Well,
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who were immigrants and rebels when Karl Marx wrote this in Engels?
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First of all, let's talk about immigrants for just a sec.
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The communists are no friend to diversity. just so you know that and who they
44:14
are referring to as rebels aren't rebels against any they're rebels against
44:20
the communism, right? So you.
44:25
About now, if you're talking about confiscation of property on all immigrants,
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well, what about Americans who are immigrating somewhere else?
44:35
What about the millionaires who are leaving?
44:37
So they want to do exit taxes on wealthy citizens who renounce citizenship so
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that I can't take my money and I can't take my ball and go home, right?
44:48
They want to have a claim on my money no matter where i
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decide to leave live no matter why i
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decided to live there and then they tax there's expatriates there's tens of
45:00
thousands probably hundreds of thousands of expats living around the world working
45:05
in a foreign ecosystem earning money from foreign entities and americans are
45:12
and they're still getting taxed.
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That's insane. And then there's, now I've never been a fan of this,
45:22
and I disagree with it, civil asset forfeiture.
45:26
And in many cases, even if you get charged with something, they can seize your assets.
45:32
And if you get exonerated, they still have your assets and aren't compelled to give them back.
45:38
And you don't have enough money to go to court to get them back.
45:42
Bizarre it's all theft it's all
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theft and on that same note like your lefties like Bernie Sanders for instance
45:53
they're all about closing all these offshore loopholes and I mean I am too but
45:59
but but in a sense to where our entire tax code needs to be completely,
46:05
trashed and yeah trashed yeah.
46:11
I'm all about some flat, close all loopholes, do flat tax or do just sales tax on goods or something.
46:21
But even then, man, all this taxation, it's all literally theft.
46:25
That's not a catchphrase. It's not a meme.
46:28
Taxation is theft. You can't justify it.
46:33
Number five, this is a good one. centralization
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of credit in the hands of the state by means
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of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly that's a fifth
46:46
pillar of communism what do we know and love today in america that is exactly
46:52
that now i'm gonna let you dwell on it for a sec yes the federal reserve,
46:58
That is exactly what it is.
47:00
It is a centralized, heavily, heavily, well, they regulate, right?
47:07
When I say it's heavily regulated, that don't mean, the Federal Reserve has
47:12
a monopoly, no doubt about it.
47:14
They choose how much the dollar is worth. They choose when to print money and
47:18
when not, et cetera, et cetera. They control the credit of the United States
47:25
government or the United States Corporation, whatever you want to call it.
47:30
Now, it talks a little bit about Dodd-Frank and all that stuff,
47:33
but the Federal Reserve, it's not.
47:37
There's, it's a, it's a, it's a God, it's a dang scam. Yeah.
47:42
And then also back Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, you guys remember the entire
47:48
housing collapse and the too big to fail madness.
47:52
That's what happens when you have a centralized bank. That's what happens when
47:56
you have the Federal Reserve.
47:59
The the lefty politicians who love it they they love
48:02
it you know warren was a part of that consumer financial
48:06
protection thing and she wanted
48:09
stricter government controls to curb predatory lending but what that ultimately
48:16
would lead to is just nationalization of all lending and then what oh still
48:22
it'll be based on a credit score or a social score or some other shit if you needed money.
48:28
Now I don't advocate borrowing money. I've done it and I'm in a hole because
48:32
of it, but the lending wasn't predatory.
48:36
I was fully aware of what I was doing. That's the problem. The government wants to be your nanny.
48:41
All right. Number six, and this is a good one too.
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Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands
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of the state. Well, holy cow.
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Let's see what we got the FCC, right? The regular regulates broadcasting and internet to a degree.
49:00
We have government owned infrastructure
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like Amtrak, the Aviation Administration, the TSA, all that.
49:08
And then, of course, the federal highways going across the country.
49:11
Well, the lefties, AOC and the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
49:17
they talk about high-speed rail all the time.
49:24
I don't know why that's going to be a silver bullet for anything, high-speed rail.
49:31
The amount of money it would cost to build that, if the government does it,
49:36
is going to be cosmic, astronomical.
49:40
Even for a private company to build it, it's still going to be that,
49:43
but what we'll get to in a sec.
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They want to make internet as a utility so they can control,
49:51
obviously. So eventually you can be censored if they want.
49:56
Expand government oversight over big tech and communications, by the way, right?
50:02
So that they can probably do warrantless spying on your phone.
50:07
All in the name of equity and some climate goal. How do you attach that to climate goals?
50:15
Well, the data centers, Edgar, the data centers. Well, probably now.
50:23
So we talked about the rail system. We talked about Amtrak.
50:27
I'm going to give you a breakdown from 2016 until 2025.
50:32
And I'm going to tell you their net loss year on year. Are you ready?
50:38
In 2016, they lost $1.08 billion.
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That's B. I'm saying billion. In 2017, they lost $969 million.
50:51
In 2018, they lost $817 million.
50:56
In 2019, they lost $875 million.
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In 2020, they lost $1.6 billion.
51:08
From 21 to 23, for whatever reason, those numbers weren't tracked.
51:14
They lost $1.2 to $1.5 billion for each of those years.
51:22
2024, they lost $1.81 billion.
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And for 2025, they lost $1.76 billion.
51:32
Are you kidding me? That's a government-run operation.
51:37
Now i happen to have a love affair with with
51:40
the train the the romanticism of the train system of of taking a train up the
51:47
coast or across the country i think it's attached some 1920s it's a very to
51:53
me a very ayn rand atlas shrugged film noir thing i like it i think it's cool.
52:02
It's not failing because they still pay money into it, but it's existing at a loss.
52:07
Why? Why should it exist at a loss? If I was a private train company and I lost
52:13
that much money in one year, I'd be done. That's it.
52:17
Okay. Speaking of government run operations. Now this one is mandated by the constitution.
52:25
The postal service, the U S post office. I'm going to give you the same numbers
52:30
year-on-year from 2016.
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The post office law in 2016, $5.6 billion.
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2017, $2.7 billion.
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2018, $3.9 billion.
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2019, $8.8 billion. 2020, $9.2 billion.
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2021, $4.9 billion. 20, 20, where were we at? 22.
53:02
All right. They did a thing where they got a big cash push. Well, non-cash.
53:06
They got funded and still to the tune of 57 billion, by the way,
53:11
and still lost a billion dollars.
53:15
2023, $6.5 billion loss.
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2024, $9.5 billion loss. 2025, $9 billion loss.
53:28
Good people, that is government-run operations.
53:33
Billions and billions of dollars lost.
53:41
It's in someone's pocket, not mine and not yours. It came from our pockets.
53:46
Number seven, extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state.
53:53
The bringing into cultivation of wastelands and the improvement of the soil
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generally in accordance with a common plan.
54:02
Well, what do we do in America that props that pillar?
54:09
Well, government subsidies and mandates and whatnot on various sectors like
54:15
agriculture or industry, where they do these big, stupid green energy loans
54:21
to, you guys remember Solyndra.
54:24
They gave all this massive amounts of money to the solar company that was supposed
54:28
to change the way we consume energy, and then it failed.
54:32
The government picking winners and losers. Federal land management and agriculture
54:37
plan. And the government, when they decide what crop they want to sell overseas,
54:43
they subsidize that crop.
54:45
They pay farmers massive amounts of money for that crop. So if you're a farmer
54:49
that doesn't do that crop, you just got effed.
54:53
Because the government don't look at how we feed America. They look at how we
54:56
import. How much money can we make on this overseas?
55:00
They don't care about you. So they'll subsidize a thing, whatever that thing
55:05
is. So if you're adaptable as a farmer, you can change your crops and you can
55:11
get the government subsidies and you can live large.
55:13
If you're not adaptable, if you're a smaller sized farmer, yeah,
55:18
that's it. You're effed.
55:20
Now, this is where AOC's new or Green New Deal comes into play.
55:25
She's all about government control and restrictions on all this. Yeah.
55:32
Industry and manufacturing and agriculture
55:35
as a just transition into government-controlled energy production.
55:44
Yeah. Number eight. Now, this is a good one. Check it out. Some of you ain't going to like it.
55:50
As far as communism goes, none of this is good, but check it out.
55:54
Equal liability of all to labor.
55:59
Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
56:03
Okay, let's look at that.
56:06
Equal liability. What that sounds like on the surface is everybody should work. Well, okay.
56:13
We have a lot of people on welfare and unemployment, a lot, and they get money.
56:17
Well, if we propose as a conservative or whatever, a libertarian,
56:23
propose that, hey, if you're on welfare, there's got to be some kind of work requirement.
56:27
It ain't got to be freaking manual. You ain't got to go cut trees down for 12 hours a day, right?
56:32
You have to have a job to where you make some kind of contribution to society.
56:36
But that gets bemoaned. People on welfare don't want to work.
56:40
Unemployment benefits.
56:43
Well, used to, and I don't know if it's still this way if you want unemployment.
56:46
You had to go to an unemployment office every week and show,
56:49
like, I've applied to this many places. And here's the status.
56:53
They don't do any such thing now but so that's that's a little in contrast,
57:01
now.
57:07
Literal industrial armies right but creating these
57:11
federal work programs and and
57:14
these government guaranteed jobs that's that
57:18
kind of mimics that the government look the government is not in the the government
57:24
should get out of the way so that jobs can happen but instead it wants to stick
57:31
its fingers in and then pick and choose what jobs happen.
57:35
And it's just a manipulation of the market, really.
57:41
And of course, Bernie Sanders is a big advocate of the federal job guarantee.
57:46
I guess that would mean everybody would work, I suppose.
57:50
But they got to get paid and they got to get paid from somewhere.
57:54
And if it's at the post office and they're getting paid, but the post office
57:58
is losing $5 billion a year.
58:03
It's all it's madness it's absolute madness
58:06
number nine combination of agricultural
58:10
manufacturing industries gradual abolition
58:13
of the distinction between town and
58:16
country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country hmm
58:25
let's see as we drive through atlanta i I remember in the 80s and 90s,
58:33
Atlanta existed, and then Buckhead, there was a pretty distinct,
58:39
there was a little kind of a distinct space there, and then it sort of started blending together.
58:44
Well, what about on the northwest side where the Braves State, the arsenal is?
58:49
That northwest corridor, it's merging, right? Our suburbs are just getting engulfed.
58:55
Gwinnett County, it's all getting engulfed, right? The urban area is spreading.
59:01
The suburban areas are spreading. And that right there is a gradual abolition
59:08
of the distinction between town and country.
59:11
Now, I don't necessarily hate that as long as it's natural from the free market. Yeah.
59:21
But what we're talking about via government control is what does the government like to do?
59:27
Well, you go to a rural area and you've already de-subsidized.
59:34
So let's say a farmer was getting subsidies for years to do a certain crop and
59:40
he owns 300 acres or whatnot.
59:43
And he no longer gets those subsidies. His crop has fallen out of fashion. He was not adaptable.
59:51
And now the government comes in and says, hey, we want your land.
59:54
We'll give you this much for it.
59:56
He's on the end of his productive year, so he's like, yeah, okay.
1:00:01
So the government now has this guy's 300 acres of land and they decide to turn it into a little,
1:00:09
multifamily, high-capacity, low-cost housing development and the beginnings of a smart city.
1:00:17
Well, all the other farmers around are now like, What the hell?
1:00:24
What's going on right there when the government gets involved.
1:00:26
And you got these rural development grants.
1:00:29
You see neighborhoods popping up everywhere, but they get government money if
1:00:33
there's going to be some low-cost housing sprinkled in, right?
1:00:39
So the government's subsidizing things that the free market just doesn't care for.
1:00:45
Yeah, man. That's just another form of redistribution.
1:00:50
All right, number 10. This is the last one.
1:00:53
Excuse me. Free education for all children in public schools.
1:01:00
Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form.
1:01:04
Combination of education with industrial production.
1:01:07
All right, that's three sentences. I'm going to break them down.
1:01:10
First of all, free education for all children in public schools.
1:01:13
We already have laws. You have to go to school. Kids have to go to school.
1:01:18
Fortunately in America, it doesn't have to be public school,
1:01:21
but that's the most common. Is it free?
1:01:26
Nope. Why isn't it free? Well, because you pay property taxes and you pay for it.
1:01:32
Somebody pays for it. If you're a single couple in your 20s and you have no
1:01:36
children, you still pay for the school system.
1:01:40
Is that fair? I don't think so.
1:01:43
If you're a retired couple and your children have long since been out of school,
1:01:47
you're still paying for it.
1:01:49
Is that good? No, I don't think so.
1:01:52
However, well, don't you want kids to go to school, Edgar? Yep.
1:01:55
Private school, charter school, Montessori school, and my favorite, homeschool.
1:02:01
I wish I'd have been more educated on homeschool.
1:02:04
Yeah, I wish I would have. I strongly encourage everyone out there listening
1:02:08
to look into homeschool.
1:02:10
If you remotely have the time and capacity to do it. The capacity isn't that
1:02:16
big of a deal. It's just a time.
1:02:18
But even then, there's programs, there's collectives, there's other things out
1:02:21
there where you can get it done without having your kids indoctrinated,
1:02:25
which leads us into the next sentence.
1:02:29
Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Remember,
1:02:32
this was written in 1848.
1:02:36
So they want kids in school. they don't want kids working straight away why
1:02:40
because in school is where they can be at indoctrinated,
1:02:47
was Lenin who said, give me a child in eight years, I will give you a Bolshevik
1:02:53
or something to that effect.
1:02:55
Meaning that those are the formative years.
1:02:59
And once they're indoctrinated, they're probably indoctrinated for life.
1:03:03
All right. Those school years, those first, those early school years.
1:03:08
So yeah, that's what that means, I think to me. And then the combination of
1:03:12
education with industrial production.
1:03:15
What does our public school, what are the foundations of our public schools now?
1:03:20
That is the foundations of them, the factory model.
1:03:24
So they're getting indoctrinated ideologically, philosophically,
1:03:28
while being on the beep, on the classroom beep, classroom beep,
1:03:34
classroom beep, listen to the boss, the teacher,
1:03:39
yes, yes, yes, repeat, yes, yes, yes, Beep. Next class.
1:03:43
That's the model. Yep.
1:03:47
Doing it. Yeah, universal K through 12, that happens. That's taxpayer funded.
1:03:52
We have child labor laws, so there's no factory, that right there.
1:03:57
But I think that was more of an ideological thing. We want to indoctrinate them
1:04:00
first is what the communists are saying.
1:04:02
Now, we got Bernie and so forth trying to carry on.
1:04:08
There needs to be free, colleges need to be free.
1:04:12
What does free mean? There is no such thing as free. There is no such thing.
1:04:17
And if something is free, then what does it mean? It's not valued.
1:04:22
There's scarcity. There's a way that the market works, and the market encompasses all things.
1:04:28
It's not free. The quality, if you can't pay an intelligent professor who's
1:04:34
objective and smart and the ability to teach,
1:04:39
If you can't pay him what he's worth, he's going to go somewhere else.
1:04:44
So you get the free guy. Well, we give him a universal income.
1:04:49
Well, who pays for that? It's madness. It's all madness.
1:04:54
Bernie Sanders said that the time is long overdue to make public colleges and
1:04:58
universities tuition free.
1:05:01
How are you going to pay for it? You going to depend on the football team to
1:05:06
bring in the revenue from the games?
1:05:14
We're providing an entertainment. You're paying for that entertainment.
1:05:17
It's just then the money goes and gets redistributed however, right?
1:05:23
Excuse me, God, I'm sorry. So look, there's already parallels in America. There's already.
1:05:28
And it's tragic. And we should work it as diligently and as hard as possible
1:05:36
to erase what already exists that supports these pillars.
1:05:41
And go back to our pillars, the Constitution. Yeah.
1:05:48
All right, I'm going to wrap it up here, man, pretty soon.
1:05:51
So anyway, subterfuge. I was talking about why the three systems,
1:05:58
communism, socialism, democratic socialism, are not different, that they are the same.
1:06:04
It's not the opposite at all. Democratic socialism is just a branch.
1:06:09
They're all three just branches from the same ideological family tree.
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They're all just branches from the same ideological family tree.
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The term democratic, again, I'm saying that with air fingers quotes.
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It's just a virtue signal. It's just a virtue signal.
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It's only for surface level, again, subterfuge.
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They say they reject authoritarian methods, But the logical consequences of
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the policies lead to authoritarian methods.
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Democratic socialism never really harshly denounces any of the communist method.
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They just say, oh, we don't do that. We don't do it that way. But they do.
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They do openly. They do.
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I'll say rage, against capitalism and all things capitalistic.
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So the terms are, they all have the same vision. They all have the same enemy.
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And therefore, they are the same.
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Only superficial differences exist. And you can't show me instances where that's not the case.
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So as one of my listeners, as you out there in the wild listening to this,
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and I hope you're enjoying it. Please, I do want your feedback.
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You've got to look past these labels and this identity politics and understand
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it for what it is, whether it's called communism, socialism, democratic socialism,
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that that movement or those three movements combined, they all advocate for
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state control. That's it.
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And the little democratic label is
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just it's it's a
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shallow rhetorical distinction
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for public relations it's top cover to try just to to superficially separate
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them from again the blood-stained legacy that communism leaves in its wake.
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The overlaps in these ideologies, they're not overlaps.
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They're just slightly branched off a little. They're no different at all.
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And they're all very deliberate. And they're all rooted in the same exact Marxist ideology.
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And they're all still creeping around by whatever name in today's political
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discourse to make politicians more palatable at the ballot box.
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Episode, folks, on communism. I may, you know, we may revisit this in a few years from now.
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So that's it. A lot of that stuff was repeated, but I want you to understand
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the 10 pillars of communism. Okay.
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Control. And any of you out there who are communists or socialists or democratic
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socialists, whatever you choose to call yourself, or even leftist progressives, imagine,
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yes, we want the government control.
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And this is why I know ultimately, even if you vote your way into it,
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it will still become one, a single party dictatorship at some point.
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This is how I know this because if you
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want government control so bad imagine the other guy the other party is the
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party that emerges as as the top dog in the system and then you are at the mercy of them,
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and you can't vote your way out of it that's it
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