Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Thomas Sowell" channel.

  1. Only spoiled brats and deadbeats believe in Marxism.
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  2. <Even poor African nations have welfare states. If government has one role, it's to help the poorest, neediest and least self-sufficient in society.> At the expense of their already limited economies. <Every former Soviet state, emerging African nation and fledgling Middle Eastern democracy could have chosen to go a libertarian route. None did.> Only after finding a natural resource to exploit like oil. So instead, they became kleptocracies.
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  3. Mostly Black men.
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  4. If it isn't inflation or high taxes, then it's that most people are generally lousy at managing money.
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  5. Just Marx. At least Engels owned and ran a business.
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  6. Socialism cannot survive without capitalism even by Marx's own admission.
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  7.  @what1864  <socialism is a village> Where isolation, backwardness and poverty reign supreme. LOL. Socialism is a village indeed. It figures why many countries that were run like such often ended up being isolated, backward and impoverished in a couple of generations requiring outside aid just to support itself.
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  8.  @what1864  What wealth? Socialism has no wealth to spread.
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  9.  @kimobrien.  Peterson is not a politician.
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  10. Like communism itself, they can't do without capitalism or the benefits capitalism provides. It's easier to be communist in a free society than free in a communist one.
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  11. <communism betrays the foundational principle of socialism> Which can already be achieved in capitalism through entrepreneurship. Too bad socialism would much rather co-opt what was already established by capitalism than build its own from scratch.
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  12. Socialism/communism has its own aristocracy while leading to kleptocracy like Russia and most ex-Soviet bloc states.
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  13. Also, Marx was the OG male feminist.
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  14.  @Kalimdor199Menegroth  And also his maid.
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  15.  @meferswift  Not really as how Marx lived was more or less reflected in the way every other communist nation was governed.
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  16. And there you have it.
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  17. But in "real" socialism, intellectuals are among the first to get sacrificed.
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  18. Fascism is communism's "illegitimate" offspring.
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  19. <opiate promises of Marx> Who himself was an upper-class privileged German J**.
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  20. Including themselves.
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  21. Only after China ditched communism for capitalism under Deng.
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  22. And 100% of socialist countries eventually adopted capitalism or resigned themselves to kleptocracy.
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  23. Pretty much.
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  24. Well, because many of its immigrants risked death to flee the socialism of their home countries preferring dystopian USA over worker's paradise (insert country they fled from).
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  25. China only started prospering when it ditched the communism for capitalism.
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  26. Exactly.
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  27. In a nutshell.
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  28. Or Justin Trudeau for those who live in Canada.
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  29. Just like the average person.
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  30. Capitalism is sustainable and far less than 99% of the population you're probably not even part of anyway got "screwed."
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  31. Socialism = forced charity.
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  32. Probably because in many socialist countries, intellectuals are among the first to get sacrificed.
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  33.  @madkoala2130  Bet they: national democratic communist scientific or even social democracy with mass immigration.
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  34. <Consumerism is inherently "evil" as it helps keep the rich and powerful, rich and powerful.> Yet deprivation isn't? Deprivation is every bit as "evil" as it allows an entity to withhold resources from those in need for "non-compliance." Most dictatorships operate that way by granting food and opportunities to loyal supporters while leaving everyone else to starve.
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  35. Especially when the ignorant, foolish and conniving are allowed to vote.
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  36. Exactly. And yet Marxists have the nerve to call capitalists exploitative and parasitic.
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  37. Only book-wise.
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