Comments by "coolmodelguy" (@coolmodelguy6304) on "Trump Wages Class War Against You (w/ Richard Wolff)" video.

@faanlouw6109 - Your essay is flat out wrong. You have been indoctrinated, what you have written comes straight out of the Oligarch's Propaganda Handbook. Socialism is dynamic, not static. What you refer to as socialism is capitalism's propagandist version, not the evolving socialism of the current era. Even Professor Wolff is not entirely current on the evolution of socialism. Capitalism is finished as an economic model. Infinite growth is not possible for any system, natural or artificial. Capitalism surpassed the capabilities of a production based economy at least two decades ago and has long before that time been looting entire countries, draining treasuries and impoverishing the citizenry. Your last two sentences are what the wealthy rely on to protect themselves from the masses they have oppressed, while they are busy stealing the wealth of nations. Oh, and by the way, there were always private property and markets, even in the primitive beginnings of socialism. It figures you would think such garbage, you are reliant on dogma instead of the hard work of researching through these ideas for yourself.
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@faanlouw6109 - That is the go to response of all deniers, show me one example where socialism has worked successfully. Every country on the planet uses socialism to one degree or another. Socialism, for Marx, is a society which permits the actualization of man's essence, or in the modern sense a system where the basic needs of survival are a social responsibility and the individual person can rise to the level made possible by accomplishment of both the individual and the society combined. Capitalism now relies on annualized compounding of wealth, unearned income derived from wealth itself, which is unsustainable.
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@faanlouw6109 - "Cathy Elings-Sysel good for you. Enjoy it while you have the freedom to do so. It is a lot more difficult to enjoy socialism under a socialist system." Still carrying on with your indoctrinated nonsense I see. Seems that we have arrived at a spot where capitalism is difficult to enjoy under a capitalist system. See how easy it is to turn the meaning of a phrase by substituting a different word? Think for yourself man! You are just regurgitating what the wealthy want you to believe.
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@zx7siovia213 - Well said. What is little understood, is that the multiple crises of capitalism grow from the idea that infinite growth is possible. Realistically, no system of natural or artificial origin is capable of infinite growth. That said, the path forward is to use the structure of capitalism that is in place currently, to evolve into something better, made possible by introducing one major modification to capitalism, a universal individual limit to wealth accumulation. I would propose setting the wealth cap at three million dollars, thus allowing for the rewarding of endeavor but not allowing the buildup inherent in systems using compounded annual growth.
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@helengarrett6378 - Well said! Could not agree with you more. "I want a new way altogether." That just might become a new revolutionary slogan.
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No system, natural or artificial, is capable of infinite growth.
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As the castles are built and stocked with the loot stolen from national treasuries, so the castles will be stormed, brought down and the treasures evaporated back into the thin air they were created from.
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As the castles of the 1% are built and stocked with the loot stolen from national treasuries, so the castles will be stormed, brought down and the treasures evaporated back into the thin air they were created from.
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@indricotherium4802 - Yes, the "how" occupies my daily thoughts. First is information and education, we have a populace which has been indoctrinated. My indoctrination was broken over several years of self education. We don't have time for that, so my thoughts have been very preoccupied with breaking down the components into small packages of easily digestible information. Still a work in progress and frankly right now I fear the country tipping into authoritarianism, which will inhibit or even outlaw the dissemination of critical information to the population.
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@indricotherium4802 - You are correct, the "them" started out on their path decades ago. Have you ever read the 1971 Powell Memo? That was a Supreme Court justice writing the roadmap for the wealthy to take over the government and end democracy, all under the guise of saving the country from "communism and socialism".
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@wesleygordon1645 - We are in agreement about one thing you wrote, the unscrupulous super rich do abuse capitalism. What people are experiencing with China and their allies, have been described by journalists and scholars as authoritarian socialism. Russia on the other hand, is not a socialist country. There are other wings of socialism, which is not a "one size fits all" economic system. What you wrote "Socialism first creates poverty, then starvation", clearly references the authoritarian model. That model is highlighted in our propaganda, which conveniently leaves out other wings of socialism. Venezuela has a successful version of socialism even under duress, that country has has vast resources with which to support it's people. Venezuela is under siege warfare and blockade by the USA and it's allies, yet even under that duress the people of that country are not starving or living in squalor. What you hear about Venezuela in the USA is pure capitalist propaganda or the result of the use of financial and military force being applied against that country, which puts Venezuela outside your narrow interpretation of socialism.
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@allgoo1990 - Nope, the 1% lost no money. The 1% have been exponentially hollowing out the 99%. Where do you think this is leading to people?
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