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

  1.  @novakjovanovic7715  Being born bourgeoisie was NOT a crime in the early Soviet Union. Any Rand received both her university and advanced study under the Bolshevik governmnet.
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  2. Hitler was a Republican also. All the Social Democrats who were allowed to take their seats in the Reichstag vote against passing the enabling act that gave Hitler dictatorial power and none of the Communists were allowed to vote because Paul von Hindenburg the President of Germany issued the Reichstag Fire Act. This despite a famous trial were the Communist Party leaders were found "Not Guilty." Industrialist and former Chancellor the aristocrat von Papen were behind making Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Hitler would never have come to power without the machinations of the Industrialists and von Papen.
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  3. When Italy entered world war one it entered on the side of the British Monarchy and Democratic Imperialists, the Russian Czar. the French Democratic Imperialist as did the American Imperialists. Those who remained Internationalist were Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Eugene Debs, Leon Trotsky Karl Liebknecht to name a few. Debs was put into prison by Wilson (D) who promised to stay out of the war. Debs got a million votes for President from prison. British Labor Party voted for war. Fascism what it is and how to fight is a book by Trotsky. .
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  4.  @liubei3058  The idea of left and right came from the French Revolution when to make vote counting easier the Monarchist sat on the Right while the Republicans sat on the left. They were called Right Social Democrats because they favored their own Bourgeois class in the first Imperialist world war to redivide the worlds spoils among the Imperialist nations. Lenin like Eugene Debs opposed his own ruling classes war for profits. Democrat Wilson had Socialist Debs sent to prison for violation of the Espionage Act. Lenin also wrote about Left wing communism where some groups make more radical proposals to the workers mass movement without any hope of achieving the proposal at that particular time.
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  5. Socialism and history are NOT created by definitions in a dictionary. Since the meanings of words always change over time. Rather it is the result of the modern working class coming to power over the capitalist class on a world scale in the modern world since that hasn't happened yet we don't know exactly what t will look like.
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  6. Where do Marx or Lenin promote this idea of a superior race? The idea of building Socialism in one country was only theorize by Bukharin in 1928 and rejected by Trotsky with Lenin being already dead. Hitler came to power in 1933 with help of President General Hindenburg and the Conservative Capitalist parties. The Communist and Social Democtats represented the industrial workers while the Nazi found followers among the middles class being pauperised by the capitalist system. Stalin's basis was in a rising group of privileged officials while Hitler's Party was created to save the same social class of people being crushed between capital and labor. This is why you see so many similarities between the two. The Russian Oct revolution began with votes first among the bolshevik leaders then the St Petersburg Soviets. All power to the Soviets was the Bolshevik slogan. Hitler's was give me the power of dictatorship from the Reichstag after the fire denying all the communist and some Social Democrats their seats. Hitler tried and failed to get a conviction of the Communist leaders for the fire. Hitler got only votes of the capitalist parties for him and for his dictatorship. He came to power based upon thuggery, lies and deceit. Despite all the talk of free markets you see that the capitalist world adopted Keynes ideas. The only difference between Keynes and the neoliberals is how much should be left in private hands and how much should be managed by the state in the interest of other investors like those who own the central banks national debt. Stalin and his leading gangsters did not see the real threat that Hitler and fascism posed. Stalin was hoping to find liberal allies to save him and his regime. He feared the Spanish revolution and Trotsky more than Hitler. Instead the Stalinist originally thought Hitler was just leading another group of opportunistic politicians. They called the Social Democrats Social Fascists. Now the word fascist has become little more than a swear word.
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  7.  LibertarianGalt  Professor James Burnham left the Communist (Trotskyist) movement to become a conservative. Some wars are worth the fight like the one which defeated the slavocracy in the American Civil War. Which crushed slavery with a mighting blow creating a South more radical than the North for a short period of time. The Republicans betrayed Blacks and the Radical Republican governments in the South to Democratic Party violence with the compromise of 1877. The Franco Prussian war was launched by Emperor Napoleon the III. Marx must of realised just as Lenin did that a capitalist government with socialist ministers waging a war of plunder deserves no support or peace. Afterall in 1871 the Paris Commune was declared. The third Republic which you find so "peachie keen" would crush the Commune and continue French Imperial colonialism. Or the one which is being waged by the Jews against Hamas. Hams is a capitalist NAZI like Party of thugs and Jew haters making themselves rich off of UN Aid and sympathy for refugees that they care less about. It and its billionaire leaders and thugs deserve what the get. If they want peace then they can give up their hostages and surrender their criminala for trial and renounce their plans for the final solution of the Jews. . We called the Vietnam Peace movemnet the antiwar movement because we were for the Victory of the Vietnamese people over the Imperialist Power of the capitalist United States. The same reason we favor the Victory of Ukraine over Putin despite his hypocrisy about wanting to recreate the Soviet Union under Stalin since he clearly blames Lenin for Ukraine in the first place.
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  8.  LibertarianGalt  What's your point because you aren't the first to cite Galt (John Galt) someone who invents a perpetual motion machine. Maybe you should add it to you denial of the value of human labor including intellectual labor in creating value. If the object of the bank is to place more capital into circulation than why would you want to collect it back as interest? After all isn't that what the German and Japanese are doing now with the zero interest rates? The last time I checked the first and second law of thermodynamics remain unbroken. Meaning John Galt's machine is unbuildable.
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  9.  LibertarianGalt  You didn't answer my question. Where does the profit of the businessman/corporation come from?
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  10. @arianGalt I might be the British merchant who buys opium from India and sells it in China now do you think the Chinese Emperor has the right to tell me to stop my opium sales? The British crown fought wars to sell Opium in China. Now do you why the Chinese hate the British Merchant and call him an Imperialist? Why all this free market we just giving customer what they want is a big bunch of bullshit for other people.
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  11.  @JorgeCruz-mi5gc  Its capitalism creation of us the industrial working class that makes socialism possible. We are the people who work together to create everything. My father flew in a tin can over the South Pacific durring world war two. The capitalist era has been coming to an end since World war one. Jews like the Chinese have a culture that goes back thousands of years. Communism is internationalist in nature. Even though Hitler died after Lenin he lost the battle to create a new fascist Empire and instead the colonial people would make a break from Western Imperialism following world war two. Lenin vowed to tear Imperialism limb from limb and that's what happened with a United Nations of over two hundred sovereign nations. Its been about 80 years since the end of WW2. The American capitalist no longer have the economic power and military might to maintain the Imperialist Empire that followed the British Empire which saw its set set in 1945. American Imperialist power is financial the most parasitic of all capital. .
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  12. The Sun goes around the earth just as much as the earth goes around the sun until Galileo made careful observations with his telescope that showed the Sun to be at the center of rotation by what are the planets including earth.
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  13. Hitler was elected the same way the King of England is. He was never elected to any post in the German government rather he was appointed Chancellor of Germany by Persident General Hindenburg. His party never had a majority in the Reichstag either.
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  14. Have your neoliberal friends explained why the wages of goods producing workers stopped following productivity for workers in the US starting in 1973. Or the declining use of Industrial capacity beginning with the first date of statistics in 1968? What was the problem not enough neoliberal policy liberating markets? You can find those stats at the US Federal Reserve St Lewis. Northeaster Railroads had to be bailed out with ConnRail and then sold back for song and dance to the productive and profitable boss who cut jobs and wages. A crew size went from 5 to 2 or 3 in fifty years. Longer trains with the BNSF nicknamed the Better Not Start a Family RailRoad. Biden with his Emergency board and a vote by Congress to prevent a strike.
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  15.  @johnwolf2829  Not necessarily it more than likely would have only created chaos. Long term goal of the NAZI's was to murder all the Jews in the Ukraine and give the farmland to ethnic Germans. However the Army and the SS did not necessarily see eye on how to administer occupied territory.
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  16. Of course Stalin lied bit monopolie companies use internal labor time to create the price. They don't sell everything back and forth to generate the price.
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  17.  @julianpetkov8320  LMAO.
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  18. Reagan was reckless spender giving aid to gangsters in Central America and Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan. He dreamed of a first strike nuclear capability with a star wars defense.
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  19.  @HavianEla  Hitler was a Republican also,
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  20. Who was responsible for the first world war? A Serbian national Anarchist killed Austria Hungry's Archduke Ferdinand. The Austrians declare war and go into push the Serbs. The French promise to help the Sobs with independence. Then all the secret treaties bring in the rest of the capitalist world who have made agreements to carve up each other. Wilson the Democratic promises to stray out to get elected.
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  21.  @bomberharris1943  Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. It took the destruction of most of the induvial world before nuclear weapons used on Japan signaled a temporary long pause in the matter. Now your seeing a rerun of the early 20th century. Instead of a declining British Empire vs Germany a declining American Empire is on full display. A fear of China now grips the capitalist world.
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  22. Getting "Owned" one this guy is not shy about is being an "owner" I guess he thinks if he accumulates enough knowledge that will make him rich alone and make the accumulation of capital unnecessary.
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  23. To drive profits his way the capitalist must always seek to cut the labor time needed to produce but since the market is limited then he finds that his invested capital has risen while the labor time which is the source of the profit has gone down as does the skill since he replaces higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first because the price sinks toward the cost of production than his rate of profit must also decline. This is how they become too big to fail and need bailouts. The capitalist created the central bank and then central bank generated inflation to try and solve this problem which as no solution other than the end of finance capitalism the most parasitic of all capitalisms. They can not help create all kinds of problems by placing bets on stock and all kinds of financial products which are nothing more than fictitious capital tha has the problem of collapse in value caused by the undeling crisis of overproduction of commodities for markets that have no additional buyers. In order to save themselves from competition they have developed the most horrible labor savings measure of war like the nuclear weapons, drone bombers and the guided missiles.
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  24. Yes let's get rid of this evil central planning and let the railroads run when every they want to because we can make them like the internent and do switching so everyone arraves where they want when they want?
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  25. What is a species. The members of a species can all reproduce successfully with each other. Dogs are an example of humans breeding animals for specific traits. The idea of Darwin of natural selection is that the origin of the species come from nature doing the natural selection instead of us doing the breeding. So a crop like corn was grown by native American people and it is one which can't reproduce without human intervention in planting. It is theorized that ancient people bred it from a grain like plant. The idea of divergence of species is that groups of the same species get isolated from each other and the "magic" of natural selection occurs. This is theorised to play out in human skin color because a dark skin is less susceptible to skin cancer from the sun while a light skin can produce more vitamin D. The key thing that make the human different than the animals is we use fire to cook which helps digestion and allows for a more varied diet. We have a voice box to make sounds for communication. We are social animals who live in groups. Our hands our shaped by the need to labor. Our bodies are made from long periods of physical activity with sweat glands to cool allows us to cool off instead of overheating which we can use our advantage when a group of hunters chase a wild animal around until it becomes overheated.. What did a group of hunter gatherers do afterwards in their spare time? They created culture from which all science art math and even religion springs. Agriculture the deliberate raising of animals and plants for human use creates a suplus and the beginning of human civilization. It's not scarce resources that plague us because when have we not found more ways to use what we already have? Rather it's the uneven distribution and control over the productive forces.
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  26.  @-jammy4123  It historical FACT regardless of how good I can spell. Hitler put them in the concentration camps while big business flourished. Hitlers party was a party of strike breakers. That's why the capitalist loved Hitler. He cost them money where as a revolution would have cost them their property. Plus he was going to get back at the French and British capitalist after he created a German Empire to the East. Marx ends the communist manefesto with workers of the world unite not Germans build an Empire. Listen to the video instead of just commenting.
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  27.  @sonsvensson2652  Sure it flourished and the plan was to create a Great German Empire like the French and British had. Of course if you believe imperialism as the way things need to be done than you'll love Hitler and capitalism. Hitler lost to the Soviet Union and the Democratic Imperialists. Now the CCP is shepparding a new capitalism in China which is taking the first steps to be a new Imperialist power like the United States and the Democratic Imperialist United States capitalists insist they are better just as the British insisted their Imperialism was better than the German one.
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  28. Tik Socialism the evidence is overwhelming111
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  29. Hitler did quite frankly believe he could make NAZI Germany into a thousand year Reich as an Empire like the British American one. Part of his racial theory was that Britain and America were Germanic. But nevertheless his theory told him that the best Germans had left for America so he was unsure how he could defeat America and still believe in his racial theories. Maybe if he hadn't condemned Relativity as "Jewish Science" and the British surrendered after the atom bombing of London he could have reversed the Soviet offensive or turned them into a radioactive wasteland.
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  30.  @oscartang4587u3  Capitalism and the capitalist system is based in nation states. Marx makes clear that the proletariat has no nation unlike the capitalist. So Hitler and Mussolini belong with those who seek to form a superior nation state not with Marxist internationalist. Much of this confusion arises out of Bukaran's and Stalin's retreat from Marxism and the Theory of Socialism in one country adopted by the Comintern at its 6th conference in 1928. This was countered by Trotsky's draft criticism of that program.
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  31.  @Oldkekistani  That's nice! Now what happens when you run into someone who doesn't share your beliefs? Because free association implies forced association and voluntary exchange also implies some exchanges are involuntary. See you wouldn't need to put in the modifier if you just believed in association and exchange. That's why things are said to be at least dialectical having two sides. Lets say you sitting on a bench and someone comes by and sits next to you. Is that not free association? but was it a voluntary exchange? Does it now make a difference who owns the bench? You the other person or an unknown third party? What if you get up and leave who's bench is it then? In fact the benches location and your relationship to the other person play a big role in a simple act of sitting on a bench in whether it is considered socially acceptable for the person to sit next to you on the bench in the first place.
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  32.  @5haNe5eb_71  First because no one has really been able prove it's not possible. I can tell you that John Galt's free energy machine is impossible according to the current knowledge but does what does that say about the rest of the thinkers ideas or will some prove the first and second laws of thermodynamics wrong?? They talk about it being a failure but then when they have to come up with a reason why well they don't really come up with a valid one because they are often doing the same things only in a different manner. So they talk about the failure of central planning until even their scholars realize they are doing the same thing with central bank controls on all these so called independent banks. Or the talk about over regulation until someone asks about how which you prevent insurance fraud without government or some kind of oversight on private insurance companies. They talk about censorship by state media being bad until they start doing it themselves. They talked about victory in the cold war and now they are talking about having a new cold war against China and Russia. If the rich western capitalist nations had not gone to war in 1914 the would not have had the Soviet Union and 70 years of communism as one of the results. The capitalist of all nations have to deal with trade unions, Cuba and communists. So they still face class struggle and because they are in the worst economic crisis since the great depression along with wars raging between Ukraine and Russia and between the Jews and Islamic terrorism its not "a peaceful" capitalist world.
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  33.  @5haNe5eb_71  Because the capitalism of the pre World War One is gone. The ability of the Imperialist Investors Capitalist Empires to make war on the small nations is much more limited. Industrial workers in the advanced capitalist countries in the west belong to trade unions. The Era of Fascism that followed the Russian Revolution was defeated. The class struggle keeps breaking out. Modrn industry only creates more workers on a world wide basis while the numbers of all other class keeps going down in proportion.
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  34. @ad3198 That's not true since the workers are never allowed to see the accounting books. Even Republican Senator Ron Paul complains about never being able to audit the Federal Reserve that the banking industry circles the wagons to prevent that from happening. The workings of capitalist exploitation have to be kept secret from the population to prevent the questioning of all the waste and privilege going to those at the top. You obviously don't understand how money is created by the banks with capitalism. Because the only way for capitalist to justify their profits you have to believe value is disconnected from labor and labor time. That's tiks problem in the end they can't explain how it can be disconnected. That's why they need to mystify the source of the profit. Anything to convince you that money just falls from the sky in a just manor in their favor.
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  35.  @curiousmind111  That is exactly why the capitalist farm those things out with government, nonprofit's and foundations to limit expenses and maximize profits to shift cost to the working class, farmers and small businessmen. Investments that can't produce quick profits need to by shouldered by the investor and borrower of last result the US Gov't. This way the losses can be socialised and the profits privatised. When the big company and financial system ends up a reversal of value caused by using profits to bid up fictitious values in contracts way over value then a financial crisis inevitable occurs. They all come from the problem of trying to pay for the past with present. Prices for industrial production would inevitable decline as technology cuts labor time without inflating the money supply.
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  36. Karl Marx calls for the abolition of private property the property used to exploit others. So that is why there was no stock market in the Soviet Union and other workers states. A trade union is one man one vote. A company is one share of ownership one vote.
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  37.  @NoNameNoWhere  You know that tankie slur came back to bite on the British Social Democracy when Tony "the big mouth" Blair's "New Labour Party" was released from its trade union cointrol. Blair joined the Imperialist Bush in the NATO tank wars that followed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  38.  @NoNameNoWhere  Henry Ford accepted a NAZI medal before the outbreak of war and Hitler translated and reprinted "The International Jew" from Ford's Dearborn Independent disrupted at Ford dealerships. Malcolm X gave old Adolf credit for providing the necessary target practice for Black Americans seeking freedom.
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  39.  @NoNameNoWhere  You lick the arse of Social Democracy. The Culturally Superior Brits began the "Tankie" thing applying it to anyone who opposed Imperialism's attacks upon the Soviet bloc countries after the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks. The Soviet Union imploded in 1989 and since than the Brits "New Labour" became the "new tankie". The Stalinist carried out the final betrayal of the Soviet Union when in 1993 Yeltsin's elite troops blasted a hole in the Supreme Soviet building. Yeltsin quickly called Bill Clinton to get Western Democracy's seal of approval.
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  40.  @schizoid7734  Basic they are all thugs organized to defend capitalism.
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  41. @eratorKnight Sure it is. So what caused the crisis of 2008? Was anyones arm twisted to set those prices? I hear the faint cry of the neoliberal Sowell that if only people paid their mortgage contacts and government had not underwritten such bad risks. Well when you've got both sides of the equation in your favor what could possible go wrong? Bush was on a campaign to create an ownership society. So the neoliberals were totally in charge. They were riding high in the saddle and could believe the profits they were making until suddenly everything went in the opposite direction. This whole problem was supposedly solved with the derivative allowing profits to be made regardless of the direction the market took. They had hired the best math and physics genius money could teach at he elite universities to solve the banking problem. . .At the end the the day they passed the "No Banker Left Behind Act." under Obama who swooped just in time to save the bosses. That's is really what destroyed the Republican Party allowing Trump to enter the fray. Originally Sowell hoped Trump would get elected because he be easier to Impeach. Trump is anything but a neoliberal ideologue nor is he a fasicts.
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  42.  @TheImperatorKnight  Maybe that what the salesman and retail workers think because they see no direct connection between what the do and the prices on the shelve. But you go ask a tradermen or a production worker they know that time at work is connected to pay. Everything tells us what we do is important in some way.
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  43.  @TheImperatorKnight  If that was true than economic crisis would not occur nor would the bosses make such a stink over labor time.
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  44. Well Tik now you've got the problem of De Lorenzo from the Misses Institute giving a talk on inflation where he talks about the FED opperting like a Soviet Central Planner. My only question is this if you get rid of all the central planners how many Indians do you want to hire to watch for those price signals.
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  45. The German capitalists turned to the NAZI's as a way to save themeselves from a workers revolution where the workers took control of Industry unlike the NAZI who were handed control of the capitalist state by the big capitalist bosses and President General Hindenburg. .
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  46.  @soulcapitalist6204  The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite! From the end of the Communist Manifesto. Nothing about a superior Germanic Race like Hitler. In fact Marx mocks the True "German" Socialism. "While this “True” Socialism thus served the government as a weapon for fighting the German bourgeoisie, it, at the same time, directly represented a reactionary interest, the interest of German Philistines. In Germany, the petty-bourgeois class, a relic of the sixteenth century, and since then constantly cropping up again under the various forms, is the real social basis of the existing state of things. " From the Communist Manifesto. It was in fact not the working class but the German middle class who were Hitler's base. A class being driven into a frenzy by the economic crisis of German capitalism caused in part by the Treaty of Versailles imposed upon them. It is common knowledge that "Henry Ford was an anti semite who published "The International Jew" and that the only American mentioned favorable in Mein Kampf is Henry Ford who also received a NAZI medal just before war broke out.
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  47.  @RS-xx5md  Why don't just become a worker yourself if its such a good racket? The only risk Warren Buffett takes is paper cuts from reading the Wall Street journal while rail workers and the communities risk their lives in disasters like East Palestine, Ohio that are the result of maximization of boss profit above all else. Why don't you just take all your knowledge and blast off in an Elon Musk rocket for an asteroid and don't come beck.
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  48.  @js290  It is capitalism with its demands for profits from wage labor that has destroyed the meaning of work for the human being. Because Fukuoka's ideas pose no real threat to the bosses profit system his theories were well received by the middle class fools at the New York Review who long for a heroic revolutionary who could both save their middle class privileges provided by capitalism without waging a serious class struggle. He and his ideas are being forgotten as I write. One half of the human population lives in cities not on farms of any size. Modern agriculture makes that possible along with the creation of the working class from which all human culture springs..
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  49.  @Jack-xy4fy  That is nothing but unadulterated horseshit. First because Marxists are materialists and second Marx has already taken on "German" or "True Socialism" in the Manifesto as reactionary socialism. Hitler wasn't thinking up anything philosophically new except to those who are ignorant to the history of the class struggle and ideas. Opposition to the workers class struggle in favor of a bourgeois nation's racial struggle is exactly what makes Hitlerism the exact opposite of Marxism. You make as much sense as telling someone to stop using salt because it contains chlorine which is a poisonous gas.
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  50.  @soulcapitalist6204  In the manifesto Marx specifically groups feudal socialism and German socialism under the heading of Reactionary Socialism. Look up the definition of reactionary if you don't understand the word.
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