Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "That Time the Soviets Tried to Abolish Money" video.

  1. Hard to do that in a centralized power structure in which freedom including that of thought is suppressed.
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  2.  @socalpumpballer  It figures why Pol Pot killed off anyone who looked the slightest bit educated and Cambodia is still dealing with the fallout as its current leader was once a card-carrying Khmer Rouge member.
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  3.  @dzanderallison  Just ask Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
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  4. Venezuela: Hold my toilet paper.
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  5. Pretty much.
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  6. And becoming the monopoly you replaced.
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  7.  @esbenm6544  Not really. Even Marx admitted that communism needed capitalism to make his dream come true.
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  8. UGH!
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  9. Stockholm syndrome and nostalgia.
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  10. The USSR treated Central Asia and Eastern Europe like France treats Western Africa.
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  11.  @johnnynick3621  Especially freedom.
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  12. Yet socialism did plenty to stifle India's development having to rely on Soviet and US aid to stay afloat.
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  13. Communism/socialism becomes exactly what capitalism is accused of and then some.
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  14.  @DMM1840  Only because WW2 happened.
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  15.  @quantisticman8415  So did Leninism, Maoism, Ceausescu-ism, Kim-ism, Pol Pot-ism, etc.
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  16.  @xp7575  You weren't saying that during the USSR's prosperous years.
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  17.  @deborahdean8867  <it will take a total restructuring of society to get people actually interested in working in a project or goal without compensation. > Called for by people who wouldn't do such a thing themselves, yet think it's a great idea for others.
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  18. Only to subject humanity to the bondage of socialism. There are a billion Chinese folks with 1st-hand experience.
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  19. Too bad society will just crumble.
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  20. Capitalism may have had its flaws, but socialism/communism was a false solution.
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  21.  @hereticalbug6361  Yet the results remain the same.
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  22. Thanks to oil.
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  23.  @neilreynolds3858  And risk jail time.
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  24. <which the workers own their workplaces and share resources based on need"> Which they can already do in capitalism if they had the foresight to save their money and start their own business instead of thinking they're entitled to the means of production bought by the business-owner.
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  25.  @shadowxgaming4247  <Bosses LITERALLY would not be able to make profit without the employees below them.> While employees wouldn't have a job without the bosses employing them or signing their paychecks.
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  26. So did the Cubans and Ethiopians.
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  27. <many Black leaders in the U.S.> Including the Black Panthers, Eldridge Cleaver aside.
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  28. I wouldn't say dumb, but incredibly naive and delusional.
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  29. <half of human population who is fighting to survive.> In countries that practiced what the USSR had to varying degrees and are dealing with the fallout.
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  30. 12:38 So this is what the left mean by TAX THE RICH.
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  31.  @socalpumpballer  More or less.
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  32.  @xp7575  <Marxism is the abolition of government> Like what Somalia had after Barre was ousted for the next 2 and a half decades?
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  33.  @doorhanger9317  As long as someone else is footing the bill, I presume.
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  34. <It's impossible to build socialism without democracy and basic human rights.> Because when socialism does have democracy and human rights, everything comes apart. Case(s) in point: the USSR and Yugoslavia. <The dictatorship of the proletariat, was in fact a dictatorship of the party's beaurocracy against the proletariat.> When they say power to the people, what they really mean is power to the state. Power OVER the people. Margaret Thatcher was right.
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  35.  @terrancex339  <The US for example spend close to trillion of dollars annually on it's military alone but yet have baffling no healthcare system to speak of.> Which allows the likes of Sweden, the UAE, Canada, etc. to enjoy their social democratic welfare states taking their own defense for granted.
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  36.  @DarkZerol  <by Mao Zedong.> Who condemned 45 million of his own countrymen to starvation and death what he envisioned.
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  37. Communists are some of the biggest capitalists around.
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  38.  @SmashingCapital  And when it did become democratic, it was the final nail in the coffin. The results: collapse, civil war and its vassal states opting for independence.
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  39.  @deborahdean8867  No. The famine was a matter of government policy. Drought alone cannot cause famines.
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  40. There are no benefits.
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  41. Russia also created Mongolia. And Mongolia had its own Lenin/Stalin with Choibalsan.
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  42.  @jimgravesus  Exactly.
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  43.  @xp7575  Every communist's favorite excuse.
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  44.  @xp7575  Yes it is. That's what they always say when it fails to produce the utopia it promised.
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  45.  @socalpumpballer  Pretty much. Plus, Marx had nothing in common with the working class he had so much solidarity with. He was an upper-class deadbeat grifter.
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  46.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  And today, Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Asia. Poorer than the Philippines that some of the left cite as proof of capitalist failure.
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  47.  @jimgravesus  And that's considering Marx was part of the very same bourgeoisie he wanted destroyed.
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  48. Pretty much. Because communism/socialism is a consumer, not a producer and can only sustain itself by brute force and taxing "the rich."
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  49.  @bushwalker6214  The average Liberal/Democrat/leftist.
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  50. <Socialism is when the people control production and the distribution of wealth> And mismanage them into ruin due to their own greed and incompetence.
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  51. <But with money, 90-99% of the population is miserable because they have to work a job they hate just to keep a roof over their head> And keep society going. If everyone just did the jobs they love, who's going to be around to build and maintain infrastructure? Robots can't do everything. <A system with no money would have no problems functioning as the people within that system would be far more content then those in a system with money.> It would have plenty of problems functioning as such a system would stagnate and eventually die as it's not sustainable. <If they don't, they'll die.> Just like animals do. They're not above having to work to eat.
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  52. Socialism is about control under the guise of upliftment.
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  53. Fascism is a product of socialism.
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  54. For what? There is a reason why humanity moved on from that once money proved far more effective and efficient in conducting transactions.
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  55. Nah. He was just merely picking up where Lenin left off with the Red Terror and kangaroo trials.
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  56. <it's based on hatred and theft of those more successful than you.> It's proper term is envy. <It's also based I'm complete disregard for life.> Like all other collectivist ideals, communism does not value or respect individual liberty or personal agency.
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  57. It is because of the system itself as it was based on a ignorant premise.
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  58. But it's even more ridiculous to have a society based on infinite resources to meet everyone's needs. Even the wealthiest of capitalist countries don't have infinite resources.
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  59. And Somalia achieved communism after 1991 with its stateless (no government for the next 2.5 decades), moneyless (no formal currency or economy) and classless (just warlords, pirates, goat-herders and peasants) society.
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  60.  @aliensoup2420  Our master.
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  61. No. Try flat taxation. Everyone pays the same rate.
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  62.  @Youtuber69428  But they weren't allowed to repair them.
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  63. The only thing communists/socialists seem to never have any shortage of is excuses.
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  64. Because left-wingers swear that socialism/communism is the ultimate solution to everything that ails humanity.
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  65.  @ДмитрийСадков-с4о  Like post-Barre Somalia?
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  66.  @JTguitarlessons  The problem lies with humanity itself with pride being the father of all other sins.
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  67. Communism outlaws God only to make itself God. Notice the only countries that ever had and/or still have state religion were run by Atheists and Muslims?
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  68. But whatever successes it does achieve will be short-lived just like all the other previous communist revolutions.
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  69. Be it national like Germany, democratic like Jamaica and Greece, fascist like Italy (by the way, Mussolini was a communist), communist like the USSR and Red China or regular like Zimbabwe.
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  70. <The goal is to bring about ECONOMICAL EQUALITY> With everyone except Party elites equally poor. Well, it achieved that.
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  71.  @xp7575  What communists always say when their beloved experiment blows up in their faces.
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  72. The USSR imploded largely on its own.
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  73.  @xp7575  <America had it's best economy when it was in it's most socialist form following WW2> And then socialism outlived its usefulness.
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  74.  @tw3f4tes52  <The USSR saw what had been at the time the greatest economic growth ever recorded until roughly the end of Khrushchev. > And then it fell as fast it rose.
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  75. Well, it needed capitalism to fund its communist ambitions.
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  76. Communism by nature is a parasite and cannot support or sustain itself without capitalism to give it the illusion of viability.
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  77. AOC's only experience with the working class were her weekend visits to see relatives in the Bronx.
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  78. And how many famines were due to anything other than politics?
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  79. Also 106 years to get it to work.
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  80. At the time of the Cold War, 38% of the world was socialist/communist.
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  81. Just like you can't eliminate greed as socialists are subject to the human condition like everyone else. <without establishing world socialism/communism> Which would just end up being a globalized version of what the USSR was.
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  82.  @socalpumpballer  Exactly.
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  83. Communism is hierarchal while insisting on being the opposite.
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  84.  @aliensoup2420  North Korea also has 0% unemployment.
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  85.  @socalpumpballer  Don't forget the public sector.
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  86. Where blood, child, virgin and animal sacrifices = currency.
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  87. Somalia after 1991 actually had "real" communism.
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  88.  @aliensoup2420  <For them it is wonderful, except when they lose control.> Like Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania.
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  89. Plus the equivalent to Stalin condemning 7 million Ukrainians to starvation and death was Marx condemning his own family, maid and love-child to the same as he refused to work and provide.
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  90.  @adiofhiowfawjfjalwdfjk1300  Yeah! So what? Life is about making the most out of what you have.
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  91.  @deborahdean8867  <Answer, power. Same reason.> Driven by ego and pride.
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  92. Money is not the problem. Humanity's own pride (along with the vanity, ego and arrogance) is.
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  93. Or Venezuela, Or Cuba. Or Angola (with the late dictator's daughter becoming the richest woman in Africa). Or North Korea. Or Zimbabwe.
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  94. Not really. Why would you trust a person who could barely run his/her own life, finances and household with the country?
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  95.  @rubenlarochelle1881  <while socialism aims at eliminating them.> While imposing taxes on anyone who dare try and improve their own financial situations. Capitalism taxes the rich. Socialism taxes any attempt to be rich.
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  96. But communism and socialism produce scarcity with state meddling.
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  97. But shopping vacations to the very same capitalist countries they sneered at.
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  98.  @aliensoup2420  Pretty much.
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  99.  @RealFemale69  Only because he became a property-owning millionaire.
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  100. Well, the USSR fell as fast as it rose. The problem with socialism/communism is that whatever success it does achieve is often short-lived.
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  101. And then what happens when the robots and AI break down?
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