Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why Did The Communist Regimes Fail In Eastern Europe?" video.

  1. And even if if we did, it would have still collapsed anyway.
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  2.  @jacobware8661  <although I think the chances of this would be better if workers owned the means of production instead of the state i.e. worker coops.> Like post-Tito Yugoslavia and even that failed due to mismanagement and disorganization and all the subsidies in the world couldn't save them?
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  3. Because it adopted some capitalist reforms and spared itself that fate.
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  4. Lenin was not any better. All Stalin did was merely pick up where he left off.
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  5. Exactly.
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  6. Even an ant's nest have a hierarchy.
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  7.  @socksock8538  None of those places were successful. Many of the places you named were regions of countries living off of the rest of their respective countries.
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  8.  @ahumanwhodoesntlikenoobs395  No there cannot as no one works for nothing let alone for everyone except their own benefit.
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  9. @Joseph McGrath Food and housing alone is just not going to cut it. Slaves were provided food and housing as well. But the rebellions and escapes prove that all the free stuff in the world are not adequate substitutes for freedom.
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  10. LOL. No. Lenin was every bit like Stalin.
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  11. Exactly.
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  12. On top of making a ruling class out of the Allocator as he controls the resources. Communism doesn't work, because it inevitably defeats its own purpose.
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  13. Communism like collectivism in general sees individual freedom and personal agency as a threat.
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  14. Tell that to the countries America had nothing to do with and yet their communism/socialism failed anyway like India, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Eastern Europe and Burma.
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  15. But it doesn't change the fact whatever success Soviet communism did achieve was short-lived.
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  16. Actually they did. It's just that the government took the whole cake and left the masses with crumbs otherwise known as rations.
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  17. Namely China, Laos, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba.
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  18. No. Communism was corrupt from the beginning.
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  19. Along with naive delusional sycophants living privileged lives in the very capitalist system they denounce.
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  20. Hardly. And you probably were a regime stooge. It figures why would say communism was a success.
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  21. In other words, it worked when it had the previous regime's wealth to live off of alongside foreign aid and then either collapsed or adopted capitalism once that money ran out and was forced to develop a real economy of its own.
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  22. The CIA had nothing to do with most of Eastern Europe collapsing. Take it up with the USSR (Russia) that cut off your funding.
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  23.  @comradeboris167  But humans are not insects. And even the insect colonies have hierarchies.
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  24.  @comradeboris167  LOL. Sure the collective cares about me. That is until I hold an idea/opinion in conflict with theirs.
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  25. Exactly. Plus, Marx grew up in the upper class and seldom worked a day in his life as an adult.
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  26.  @annonymous1508  LOL. The USSR collapsed. China adopted capitalism to spare itself the fate of its neighbors. Ditto for Vietnam who trades with capitalist America. North Korea is a Chinese client buffer state who only exist to keep America via South Korea at bay. Laos? Another Chinese client state.
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  27. Communism earned it bad rep. Plus, Marx came from the bourgeoisie and lived like a lumpen-proletariat while Engels was a business-owning capitalist.
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  28. Pretty much.
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  29. How about a better idea? Why don't you go talk to people and/or descendants of people who risked their lives to flee from communism? Socialists and anarchists cannot tell you anything as many are just privileged and naive Westerners.
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  30.  @justathought973  Wrong! This is communism and socialism. Capitalism doesn't do power-centralization.
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  31. Because even the socialism that Marx advocated called for a centralized power committee to oversee his "utopia" along with the wholesale killing of "the bourgeoisie" and any and everything individual to bring about "a whole new man."
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  32. And yet under Khrushchev, the USSR prospered.
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  33. Including the greed of communists themselves.
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  34. Until the US and Soviet aid dried up.
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  35. No more than Lenin and Mao did.
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  36. Like socialist Venezuela and totalitarian communist North Korea?
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  37. And in the end, she will be a total bust-down that even the most thirstiest of men wouldn't want.
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  38.  @gustavoc.621  In your propaganda bubble.
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  39. Just ask any Cuban.
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  40.  @TonyEnglandUK  Who adopted capitalism to get out of the gutter Mao put China in.
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  41.  @TonyEnglandUK  Oh yes he did which is why Deng had to do away with a lot of his policies.
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  42. No. It would have imploded anyway.
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  43. <And it's not like Lenin was responsible for the holidomer or anything. He was definitely going for that egalitarian society.> But he was responsible for Red Terror and the introduction of the gulag along with seizing property rightfully owned by the peasants.
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  44. LOL. Like post-socialist Somalia?
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  45. Better than the pro-communist propaganda you're used to.
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  46.  Eisenschmidt Proton  Pretty much.
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  47. Which is nothing as humans ultimately need to have a purpose for being.
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  48.  @SeriousCupOfTea  Poor comparison. Actually, America was once a UK colony.
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  49. No. Communism was "ruined" from the start. All Stalin did was pick up where Lenin left off.
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  50. Including the greed of communism's advocates and practitioners.
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  51. And where are those "better" humans going to come from?
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  52. Free doesn't exist. The schools, hospitals, etc. have to be established and maintained with high taxes.
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  53.  @animegamingdude  Exactly.
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  54. If communism is so great, why aren't you risking your life to go live in North Korea or Cuba or even Venezuela?
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  55. LOL @ Marx and Engels being "true" humanists. Marx came from the upper class and lived like a welfare queen. And Engels was a business-owning capitalist exploiter.
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  56.  @SverdlovYakov  No you don't. Especially if "misbehave."
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  57. Or you would be working a side job to supplement your meager state wages like in Cuba.
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  58. And human nature is lazy, unambitious, envious and want government or some other centralized power to take care of them for life?
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  59. Only for the workers to run it into the ground due to mismanagement and general lack of organizational savvy/acumen/know-how.
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  60.  @a.p3877  Namely everyone who isn't friends or relatives of the regime. Contrary to communist rhetoric, communism has rich and poor.
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  61.  @a.p3877  <Under communism everyone gets the same, yes its not the best, but atleast youre not homeless, > In other words, everyone gets to suffer the same while the government gets all the good stuff.
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  62.  @ragreff5603  As if communism doesn't do that with government bureaucrats being the bosses.
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  63.  @liammcshane7985  Courtesy of the government. .
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  64. Lenin was not any better.
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  65.  @Red_Angel-dw4cv  LOL. No it couldn't. And any system dependent on people to be "fair and square" is pretty much dead on arrival.
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  66. Only because of government subsidies. When that ran out, so did the Kibbutz.
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  67.  @Anshuwuuu  Communism is trash as it's based on envy and covetousness.
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  68. Communism is bad and you don't need to have been taught from early childhood to figure that out. There's a solid amount of immigrants who fled the communism of their home countries who can attest.
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  69. Communism and democracy are enemies of each other.
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  70.  @mathisnotforthefaintofheart  Every other time communism implemented democracy, it was the final nail in the coffin for communism and the regime.
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  71. And both WW's.
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  72. Neither Switzerland or Sweden are democratic socialist but capitalist welfare states. Plus, Sweden hasn't done socialism since the 1970's when the economy collapsed.
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  73. Not really.
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  74.  @SeriousCupOfTea  And both offspring of socialism.
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  75. Also: Romania Yugoslavia Hungary Bulgaria Albania Ethiopia Somalia Tanzania Mozambique Zimbabwe Benin Venezuela Mongolia Madagascar
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  76. Propped up by China serving as a buffer between China and pro-US South Korea.
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  77.  @lovynil  And how did that work out for Somalia?
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  78. LOL. Only thanks to borrowed money.
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  79. Plus, no one in Afghanistan recognized the communist government in charge as legitimate, not even their Soviet backers.
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  80. China adopted capitalist reforms. Ditto for Vietnam.
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  81. <If the world population is reduced to 500 million then it would be a perfect place to be as long as it's not going up again> No it wouldn't. And communism didn't work even in places where overpopulation wasn't a problem such as Cambodia and North Korea.
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  82. And what happens when those robots break down and die?
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  83. Namely by the USSR and their Eastern European puppets.
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  84. Marx = upper-class grifter. Engels = bourgeoisie business-owner.
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  85.  @snake922  Fascism is a communist idea just like social democracy.
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  86.  @fatpenguin7736  And would have turned into Somalia due to that lack of hierarchy.
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  87. Anarchy? Like in post-socialist Somalia? LOL
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  88. Unethical, unjust and immoral.
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  89.  @abc64pan  Exactly.
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  90.  @aquirkymooncake1988  Or if they do admit to it being real communism, they'll blame CIA/US/western sabotage for why it failed.
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  91. LOL. Really? So you're saying that before agriculture, we were naturally lazy?
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  92. @Mr.Beant Which is what? Playing PS5 games all day?
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  93.  @sidnazz5951  Until the money runs out. Just ask Venezuela or Nauru how that worked out.
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  94. Yet no jobs and the average Cuban monthly salary is $40/month at best.
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  95. As in people rendered useless and just existing for the sake of it.
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  96. LOL. Stop being naive. In communism, the state is the aristocracy And good luck on being there if you're not friends or relatives of the state.
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  97. Communism made fascism.
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  98. Pretty much.
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  99.  @dlew223  Exactly.
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  100. Marx refused to work for a living opting to live off of his uncle and Engels, a business-owner.
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  101. LOL
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  102. Communism earned its demonization.
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  103. Yet the results were still the same. Tyranny, economic stagnation and collapse, etc.
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  104. Meh. Standard autocrat behavior.
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  105.  @soulfreaz  Maybe not, but they have every right to buy it as it's their hard-earned money paying for it. Who are you exactly to decide how they should spend their money?
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  106.  @animegamingdude  Any why anyone with some skills and aspirations for better want nothing to do with socialism/communism risking their lives to flee it.
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  107. Communism cannot provide any of the basics in an adequate let alone sustainable manner.
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  108.  @snake922  Outside threats are not a valid excuse for inside tyranny and ineptitude.
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  109. Yeah! As a government stooge. Of course communism worked well for you!
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  110. Define right power.
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  111. No millionaires except the communist top-brass themselves.
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  112. Communism invented fascism. Benito Mussolini, the original fascist, was a card-carrying communist.
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  113. But done in by its own delusions of grandeur.
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  114. Or non-Americans who had the misfortune of having to live under communism/socialism.
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  115. You mean Gorbachev as he granted the former Bloc political freedom and independence. <I prefer living in USSR or DDR> Most likely because you were a regime loyalist.
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  116.  @strafniki1080  But they were less efficient and productive. But that company can seize it should you "get out of line."
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  117. As a result of the command economy being no longer viable and public property too costly to maintain.
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  118.  @ragreff5603  You know that in capitalism, you're free to start your own business, right? It's not capitalism's fault that you're lazy and ignorant. That's because you have less than a quarter of the responsibilities of your manager.
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  119.  @gdlghdghslghsdghksdghk  Yet produced the same results.
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  120.  @Red_Angel-dw4cv  Yes it is. <its not even close to what true communism is> Like Somalia after 1991?
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  121. Yes it is un-American as equality doesn't exist and is unjust. Why should the successful and brilliant be punished for the sake of not hurting the feelings of the failed mediocre?
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  122. Because capitalism's death toll pales in comparison to communism's.
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  123. Communism could never be great. It's the ideology of naive delusional idealists and opportunistic power-mongers.
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  124. And expect more willing to do more.
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