Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. The both wanted the other Europeans colonies. Japan took what was French, Dutch and British. Had Germany defeated Britain they n doubt would have tried to take British and French colonies. In the end the colonial powers were weaken such that they would face revolutions though out the colonial world. The US cried about losing China. .
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  2. The basic job of fascism is to murder the leaders of the industrial working class trade unions and peasants who threaten the private property of the bosses. For this service the fascist demand a price be paid to them by the Bourgeois class. Hitler's unions were company unions. Unions set up under control of the bosses. Capitalist governments like the USA are well known for interfering in unions and strikes by use of injunctions and anti syndicalism laws. The idea behind the company union is the bosses set up a fake union with fake leaders to negotiate a contract.
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  3.  @gg_rider  Roosevelt started the second Red Scare witch hunt in 1940 against the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party with the first Smith "gag" Act trial. Under orders from Moscow the Stalinist Communist Party joined in supporting FDR during the war becoming the best strike breakers Stalinist ideology could create. Once their German and Japanese Imperialist competition was defeated the US/UK turned on Stalin in the cold war preparing for an Imperialist holy war against communism. The failed objective of the Korean war left the Imperialist world divided on how best to deal with Soviet Union, China and the rest of the workers states.
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  4.  @turtleboy1188  Its hard to avoid the truth. We are materialist because ideas even religion arise from the material world not the other way around.
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  5. Maybe it would be best if TIkhistory said what he is instead of trying to prove what others are. Seems to me his theories coincide with the Austrian school of economics.
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  6.  @TheImperatorKnight  No ones has created an industrial society without state control. Capitalism is based in nation states. The need for a state arose with agriculture, the division of labor and the cleavage into classes.. Groups of hunter gathers searching for food don't need to protect the surplus of food created by agriculture on land in a specific place. You can't get rid of the state because the capitalist need it to defend their control of the surplus value of production. Any theory that requires private property is going to require a state. Get rid of private property and you get rid of the requirement for a state but not necessarily the need for a new one. The use of state power was just one of the disagreements that broke out after Lenin's death. .
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  7. The thing left out here is the Right Social Democracy always favored class peace with the employers at all costs both before durring and after the war.
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  8.  @LibertarianGalt  You right we communists sell books and newspapers and a surplus is collected and spent but much more voluntary labor that gets no payment goes into making ourselves into a movemnet of the exploited and oppressed. The Bourgeois Professor knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him for without capital he risks the fate of the workers to do the bidding of the bosses without recourse.
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  9. ​ @LibertarianGalt  The Libertarian seldom understands how the banker begam creating money out of thin air once he could convince the owners of gold and silver to bank with him fpr safe keeping. Once it became possible to lend out on paper what was in the bank in gold it was only a matter of time before there was more paper money in circulation than gold in the banks. The fraction reserve banking of gold and silver banking paper money was born. More paper money in circulation allows prices to rise because the true value in gold has gone down.
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  10. The founding of the Soviet Union resulted in an invasion by 14 Imperialist armies from both sides of the Imperialist war over colonies. The German capitalist chose Hitler. Plan and simple. The enabling act would not have passed without German capitalist Conservative Parties unanamous support. The Communist Deputies were denied their seas and all the Social Democrats voted NO.
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  11. The NAZI's no doubt decided to murder their wounded soldiers when they were losing on the Eastern Front to save on the cost of care both immediate and long term.
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  12. @badofi There are plenty of Bourgeois scholars who decry the mistakes the bourgeois have made after the fact. Most fail to understand that it is the very economic and exploitative nature of capitalism that drives them into Imperialist wars of world conquest.
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  13.  @haraldbredsdorff2699  When you can't argue with the man's idea then you launch personal attacks.
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  14.  @LibertarianGalt  No doubt at best an off hand comment or one being misinterpreted by a bourgeois professor who makes a living selling books to those wanting an explanation for the Russian Revolution and the rise of the communist movemnet without doing any of the reading of the documents. If there is a single thing one can say about Lenin is that over and over he denounced Imperialism as capitalism use of war and slavery of other nations to create a few rich criminals. Lenin who called Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism.
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  15.  @LibertarianGalt  If Mussolini had waged war against the Italian king uniting the nation around that goal instead of around the goal of enter the war for a peace of the pie being taken by France, Britain and United States. The Imperialist war had broken out and unlike the "Socialist" in name only leaders of Germany and France they had kept to the promise of not entering the war. Yet the Italians did not use this opportunity to advance against the King and the nobility.
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  16.  @LibertarianGalt  . "They weren't Socialists only in name. Marx wasn't even the first Socialist." Are going to lecture me next on how Christ was a Communist? That comes from the fact that in 1912 the Socialist International announced its parties would not lead the workers into a war with each other. When they did vote for war credits then it was most likely Lenin who began mocking them as Socialist in name only.
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  17.  @LibertarianGalt  I don't really care about Hegel. Many people have had mystical ideas about some things and good ones about others. After all should I reject Jefferson's ideas on Church and State because he still believed in God? Sure belief in God is mystical but does it make a difference 95% or 99% of the time? See that's you problem you think we are on some kind of crusade to create ideological purity.
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  18.  @LibertarianGalt  You guys are the real mystics with your belief in free market magic price signalling and the ability to escape labor value in prices.
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  19.  @LibertarianGalt  Where does the profit come from then?
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  20.  @LibertarianGalt  After all isn't the cost of labor the cost of the laborer to produce his labor for the next pay period.
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  21. @arianGalt Doesn't really answer the question because first if the service is illegal one can't legally buy it and not all business create profits all the time and businesses both compete and cooperate in making profits. The person who owns pays a capital gains tax needs only to own a business not run it so obviously you don'r have to offer a service ayt all just own the business to make a profit. What is the biggest business in the world if not the US Gov't if you buy its Treasury bonds your are guaranteed a profit. They talk endlessly about government but the clearly can't do without government or banks public or private. You have to be able to buy his services and he has to be able to hire people to create them. You can quit and work somewhere else and he can fire you and he can hire someone else. You can go on strike and he can close his shop and open it somewhere else. Of course its easier for you to go on strike than it is for him to just close down an auto factory or electric plant or coal mine or railroad. What if they say they can't make profits and close a bunch of businesses all at once. Who can wait longer for a business recovery you or the businessman?
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  22. @arianGalt If that was true there would be no arrests for corruption since someone is just selling a service others wish to buy. Go into an auto repair shop see if you can buy the service directly from the mechanic. Afterall he provides the service. The joke is go to America everything is for sale. The new immigrant gets off the boat he says I hear everything is for sale they tell him yes would you like to buy the brooklyn bridge or at least part of it?
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  23. The US President FDR the Democrat wanted war just as Wilson the Democrat did. Both lied about not wanting war. Oil was also part of what began the war with Japan the US refused to sell to Japan. That of course was a decision of the Standard Oil Monopolists despite being broken up into a number of companies. The US was secretly aiding the British sending American Officers who were already fighting with Japan in the Far East.
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  24.  @night6724  Hitler built a movement of political thugs based in a demoralized middle class suffering under the impact of Germany's defeat, war veterans and criminals. The capitalist turned to him with the fear of a coming socialist revolution being unstoppable. He would of course extract a heavy price for services rendered. But his promises of a Greater Germany. a thousand year Reich and a role for the national socialist employer was the much more attractive of the three alternatives.
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  25. So what is this suppose to prove besides Hitler being a liar about his own history? Plenty of people have changed their politics. Including one of the founders of the modern American Conservative movement Professor James Burnham a one time supporter of Leon Trotsky. Notice that the ideas that seperate them are not discussed but instead who belonged to which group. So when you get down to it British Nationalism Like the White Man's burden and America's Social Darwinism is really closer to Hitlers National Socialism. Afterall the NAZI defense at Nuremberg was they had taken their racial laws from America. Anglo American culture is full of racism in defense of Imperialism. And it biggest defeat has been inflicted upon it by Marxist revolutions. A defeat for the nationalism of the capitalist nations by the oppressed colonial nations was one of the unintended results of world war two. The Sun would now set on the British Empire.
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  26. The problem that many don't understand is that once you get to the place where you have banks. Banks create money. Now if you don't believe me you need to listen to Milton Friedman when you pass money back and forth between banks you create money privately. You can play a game by yourself on paper to see how this works the banks asset value will rise because because they can count the same deposits more than once if the beginning loaning money back and forth to each other all without ever violating the requirement to keep a reserve on deposit. As long as the money can be just numbers on paper not actual gold or silver you can't get away from this problem. People don't want to carry gold and silver around to buy and sell everything which is how banks came into being. They had to tell people that their money was insured against loss to get back the trust in banks. They also had to create the central bank because of this. How do you have a capitalism without money and banks? Why do you think so many banks failed durring the great depression? They use to issue private money durring the great depression. Why is this possible? Because you only keep a fractional amount of the total on deposit. Now you have the German and Japanese Central Banks having zero interest rates. The problem is that most people suspect something fishy about banks but don't really understand how capitalism involves both the circulation of money and the creation of capital. You think you can just easily assign prices with a market and forget that when you put money into a market it becomes possible to create more money and thereby change all the prices. That's why in a real socialist country not only are they internationalist in out look they try and get away from commodity production the production of commodities for money. This is why in Cuba people appear to be living much better than their salaries would imply.
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  27. Benedict Arnold was an American revolutionary general until he became a traitor. Huber Matos was a Comandante in the Cuban revolution until he became a traitor. Assuming this is true what exactly does Hitler being a one time communist prove?
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  28. The reason for calling Amazon a Public company is it shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Since it is publicly traded it comes under the rules of the Security and Exchanges commission whach was set up as part of the New Deal to save capitalism and return "faith" in "honest" markets. According to your definition of socialism the United States was probably more Socialist than the Soviet Union in 1929 before the stock mrket crash. Everyone was conned into put every extra dime into the stock market.
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  29. Whats wrong with the price calculation theory is that the prices are not natural with capitalist trade and production. The real value of labor is in both labor time and the quality of the labor. After all what is the cost of labor but the cost of the worker to reproduce his labor for a given time period. The ability to centralize has both advantages and disadvantages. With capitalist pricing each capitalist if he is not part of a cartel to begin with calculates his price based upon labor time if his profit if not held up artificially it tends to fall towards the cost of production. If you believe US Steel ups and lowers it prices like Gas Stations to the producers of finished goods but instead the sets prices in contracts for a given time period I don't know what to say. Ford was at one time almost a complete vertical monopoly. Starting with Ford Iron ore shipped on Great Lakes Ford vessels to the Massive Furnaces of River Rouge. Hitler was also an admirer of Fordism.
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  30. I can create a corporation for business purposes for about $20 in any state of the union. Now if I want to raise capital from a stock exchange I must contract with the exchange to be listed and then come under the rules of the federal SEC. So the corporation is privately owned. Only a very select few corporations receive national charters from Congress. The number of shares you own usually determines the number of votes you cast in elections for officers. The trade union is seperate from the federal gov. or state with the exception that they want the federal gov. or state to certify them as the bargaining representative for which a secret ballot election is petitioned for and granted. .Should the workers which to decertify an election or change certification an election can be held. Since trade unions came about differently in Britain I don't know how you join or don't join one.
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  31. He also forgets that the US also had fascist monuments and so did Spain. Their was even an anti comintern. Henry Ford wrote "The International Jew" and Hitler translated it into German. The idea of the fascist movements was to crush the trade unions and replace them with company union set ups. As Trotsky said. "Fascism would have a Russian name had the Bolsheviks not taken power in the October revolution." The only way to halt the rise of fascism is with the socialist revolution not to rely upon the capitalist and their state. Fascism always hides in the background until the workers begin to move into struggle. Then the fascists despite whatever their ideology is come out to attack the workers and their leaders to shut down the political space working people need to discuss ideas. The ruling class only turns to fascism as the last alternative to save themselves from socialist revolution. The very first thing Hitler did after taking power was to murder purge his party with the night of the long knives. Hitler was able to pass the enabling act after having been appointed Chancellor of Germany by President General Hindenburg with the support of the capitalist parties.
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  32.  @Outlier999  Speak for yourself. I HATE the lottery!!! I was born into the working class but I also understand Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Castro and enough math to win the actuaries award and attend MIT. Marx and Engels were the founders of the communist movement not a new Doctrine with its holy priests but the history of a class the proletariat of victories and defeats in the struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the Capitalist.
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  33.  @johnburns4017  Who was then?
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  34.  @purplefood1  It was a a war among the Imperialist thieves and to defeat the Soviet Union.
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  35.  @BenjaminEaster-b8b  You just can't talk about anything without crying about your money can you?
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  36. The Fascist in Italy are like the Brits because they are Monarchists.
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  37.  @heroesytumbas  His desire to create a Greater German Empire based upon a finance capitalism of a new German type. It was supposed to last for a thousand years. Instead American Imperialism won the war and its rule is crumbling in less than a eighty years,
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  38.  @heroesytumbas  Mark Twain founded the American Anti Imperialist league in 1901 before Lenin wrote Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism in 1916 based upon the work of the English Economist Hobbs. Republican McKinley made The American Republic an Imperialist nation with the Spanish American war taking over Spain's colonies and denying the Cuban people their right to national independence until the 1959 revolution lead by Fidel Castro and the 26th Of July movement. You aren't entitled to your own facts. The first world war was one to redivided the world among the Advanced capitalist Imperialist powers. It signaled the end of capitalism progressive era and the rise of the reactionary one. Hitler's plan "Mein Kampf" is what it is. A diatribe about the how the Superior German people were denied their rightful place by Jews, Communists, the French and Anglo Saxons. In 1945 the Era of Imperialist capitalist fascism ended with the defeat of NAZI Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Imperial Japan.
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  39.  @die1mayer  What does Hitler do for an encore after he conquers everything right up to the border with India? He was leading a thousand year Reich of superman. Hitler is just going to let a small group of people on an Island and the French whom he hated control their own Empires? The European ruling classes ALL hated and feared the Soviet Union because when the Revolution in Germany failed Lenin and the Bolsheviks turned towards freedom for the colonial peoples. The held the 1920 Congress of the Peoples of the East and were sponsoring Communist Parties among nations that never had a Social Democratic Party like China. He had declared war on Imperialism itself.
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  40.  @primmakinsofis614  It shows what had already been prdeicted by Marx and Lenin. That the capitalist would enter into such acute competition for markets and resource that they would go to war.
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  41.  @hq3473  Capitalism always needs new markets and resources to exploit. Like the US the Japaneses were late getting into the game so to speak but when they did they went all out in their area of the world. They would go to war with the CZAR in 1905 and defeat the Russian Navy.
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  42.  @ralphbernhard1757  I can't disagree. The US however didn't count on losing China to the Chinese.
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  43. Of course Brittain was rich because its colonies were poor. It lost it's colonies after the war. Now it's in an economic crisis despite being one of the first countries to adopt capitalism.
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  44. Thomas Sowell is just a disciple of Milton Friedman he even sits in his Chair at Stanford University. His book Basic Economics is what you would call a hymn to capitalism and Free Markets. At the end of the day the only thing he proves is how foolish he is. His big claim to fame is his claim to have been a marxist who saw the light You can call him a marist if you want to voulgaris Marx's teachings. Go ahead chuck the labor theory of value in the trash for one so stupid only an intellectual could think it up. Trade can be beneficial to both parties and big risk can result in big rewards. Wow what Genius Sowell is!!!! I might want to trade something I don't need for something I do and some else might have something they don't need that I do. Big Risk can produce Big rewards. Anyone with a brain knows you usually want risk as little as possible to get the biggest rewards. Fidel says he risked the whole revolution to win the battle with South Africa in Angola. Well that was certain a big risk and it produced a big reward the defeat of the invincible white man in South Africa. What did the big banks and capitalist do when the crisis of 2008 hit? Did they reject the use of the central bank for waiting for everything to naturally reset? Like Friedman postulate for the fix after the Great Depression? No the headed straight to Washington for a bailout. The only thing Friedmans ideas in the old Soviet Union produced was a deep economic crisis which is why the Chinese didn't put everything up for sale like the neoliberals told them to.
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  45.  @thefrenchareharlequins2743  Basicly its propaganda since he can't even define economics. it'a little more than a collection of cherry picked facts meant to make himself look like a genius for collecting them. .
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  46.  @thefrenchareharlequins2743  What makes you think resources are scarce to begin with? Afterall hasn't humanity always found new ways to use what nature has already provided? The idea of scarcity is one promoted by the bourgeois as the twin excuse for its privileges' and poverty. Capitalism with its world money economy is something new in human history. In a matter of a few generations we have gone from crossing the oceans to landing on the moon. He insults you intelligence when he uses Babe Ruth as an example of exploitation and the janitor as someone who isn't because he can find another job and Ruth has only the skill of being a ball player. He quotes Milton Friedman when he insults John Lewis as the greatest oil salesman. Lewis lead the CIO industrial union movement which organized the basic industries of American capitalism. Lewis was a working miner with a 10 th grade education. Yet Lewis had the ear of Presidents and Congress.
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  47.  @benheisen2135  Those are the kind of people who will join a fascist movement. Because ideology is not what is behind Fascism but the crisis of capitalism.
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  48. He begins with a number of problems and assumptions which are questionable in themselves first is that some ideologies are evil well isn't that a Christian idea? Some ideas are wrong and if start with the wrong ideas you will end up with an unforeseen result. Hitler spends his time arguing about racial superiority of the German people. Now today that idea is rejected as trash but when Hitler was doing so it was an idea quite prevalent among the capitalist ruling classes in America and Britain also. The British had an Empire that the colonial peoples had no votes in and the United States was a society where "Jim Crow" racism was law. The Western allies had imposed onerous terms upon Germany after the first world war demanding they be paid the cost of the war. These were the ruling capitalist classes of France, Britain and America speaking demanding Germany pay including with their milk cows. If the Weimar Republic proved anything it is that capitalism in one country does not work. It was too late in history for that Germany needed an Empire like Britain. France or the US or it would have to become part of the Soviet Union.
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  49. The greed of the ruling capitalist ruling classes is what drove the first of the second world war. Churchill presided over the end of the British Empire and the shift to America as the worlds capitalism Imperial investors Empire.
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  50.  @kaliyuga14surfer88  Something like Che Guevara who told the drunken Bolivian Army Sargent Shoot Coward you only going to kill a man. Or the Rosenberg's who refused to give up names or confess before their execution.
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