Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

Well historically the working class has never really supported that uprising. Even the Trade Union movement in America has pretty much died away. I knew very few working class people who have positive opinions of trade unions. So even Syndicalism has failed in America. Bernie Sanders said it best when he said the Left has mostly abandoned the working class for other "Groups" as the Left has historically and repeatedly failed to deliver the working class what they promised. Meanwhile in the USA in particular, the Working Class just generally prefer to have Personal Freedoms even if it means those freedoms run the risk of poverty. ie Americans generally reject the Social Democratic view of the Nanny State.
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This isn't exactly privatized, being the government is the one handing out the rights.
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@thisfool89 And it was Marx who said we should have a 'Rationally Regulated Economy' if I recall. Wouldn't paying the State to be even allowed to do business part of that? I mean this video is a good example of the State regulating water resources, and only organizations that are associated or friendly with the State can benefit from it. Meanwhile weeded out private fishermen. Basically creating a State sponsored monopoly on fishing. PS Marx advocated such monopolies as well though he advocated direct state controlled monopolies in the context how the US does it it's kind of indirect but the state is still heavily involved. I'd highly recommend looking up the ten points or pillars of the Communist Manifesto. Basically things the Party was demanding needs to happen to the government/economy. For the USA I think the only three that have not been implemented currently are. 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (Some have argued that as a result of property taxes and the State's right to take land off people who refuse to pay those taxes, that this has actually been done in all but in name. Implying that we're all just renting land off the State.) 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (though I heard there are some pushing this actually as we speak.) 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State. (some still argue this one because of corporate monopolies and corporations and the state are in coexistence with each other. But i don't think we've gotten there quite yet, as the state doesn't have direct or indirect control yet.) Points 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 have all been already done in the USA. And yes 9 has been. Most farmers today are de facto employees of the Federal Government because of heavy subsesidation and even the state telling them what to grow as a result. So the State is rationally regulating agriculture. It's actually why so much produce is thrown out. The State is obsessed with stable prices, and over production will cause prices to fall. So a lot of over production of milk is bought by the state, thrown out or comically put into long term storage as dry cheeses, yes the USA as a cheese reserve. Canada they just dump their excess milk production USA we go the extra mile. Because ya can not have cheap affordable milk for consumers. Not the evil Corporation's fault either but the State. List goes on and on honestly. Yet somehow we live in capitalism.
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@thisfool89 What are you talking about Marx helped write the Communist Manifesto. How is Marxism not Communism? When he was a Communist. The term Socialist/Communist up until the 1920s were used interchangeably as synonyms of each other. After Lenin, Lening drew a line distinguishing a difference, but even then he considered the USSR Socialist not Communist, ie they hadn't reached Communism yet and he only did it as an excuse for how bad the situation was under his watch, ie he made the difference up on the fly. During the 1920s the Social Democratic Parties of Europe saw a massive splinter/facture/civil war of sorts as the parties split into multiple rival organizations with varying ideas on what socialism was or something as simple on the best methods of implementing it, like Social Democrats believed progressive reforms, which is the primary method used today. Communist believed in violent revolution and direct by arms take over of the means of production, not gradual reforms. But the end goal of both hasn't changed. Also no one is advocating unrestricted capitalism, but it's sure as hell a lot better than the alternatives. As it's actually difficult for large business to operate in a free unregulated market. No copyright laws to protect them. No government regulations to create unfair advantages for them. They have to compete with possible millions of competitors and no real means of stopping them. I mean look at what happened when the US limited regulation on alcohol sale/production? Thousands of microbreweries popped up across the country, and it's actually been a huge success. No more was the market dominated by only a few companies. Prior to cutting back on those regulations the USA only had a few major brewers that dominated the market.
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@HiDefHDMusic Ya I think you fail to understand what the Natural Economy is, vs the Rationally Regulated Economy that Marx was advocating. The Natural Economy is the economy functioning without any intervention. Like not managing a forest and letting nature to do it's own thing. The Natural Economy is the Capitalist Economy where Capital drives the economy, no outside forces rationally regulating it like deciding what goes where and who can do what. The moment they required federal blessing to "fish" is the moment that natural economy ended regardless whether capital is involved it is disqualified still. So even by Marx's own views wouldn't qualify as Capitalism. It may qualify as "State Capitalism" which is something he also endorsed btw as preferable because the economy is no longer the Natural Economy. Though this is actually more akin to Mercantilism where the government is doing the blessing of major trade empires because the State benefits from the wealth those trade empires (Corporations) generate. Again though is not Capitalism.
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Made 100k a year? Where did all his money go? If I made that much a year I'd be loaded. Could save a few thousand if not 10k+ a year into savings snd investments. 😂
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 @KekusMagnus irrelevant really.
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Wish they'd provide proper citation and perhaps even a PDF of the document in question because the only places I can find that specifically reference this document are activist websites. I even checked a few California University Archives that are available online and no copy of this document came up. I find it very suspicious.
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Like how it's Shareholders, Shared Ownership not Private Ownership yet it's called Private Equity. I guess the State = Public. 😂 I thought Socialist want business owned by a wider proportion of society? That is essentially what Shareholders are. It's called going Public for a reason when shares are made tradable. 😂
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Imagine getting rid of the middle man. Making/selling your own tickets and renting venues.
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Not surprising. All Democrat States.
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@thisfool89 Sure, denialist say so.
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@thisfool89 btw to emphasis how stupid you're being. Marx rarely if ever uses the word "Socialist." He almost exclusively uses the word Communist as a synonym/alternative to the word Socialist. Marx was the primary writer of the Communist Manifesto as well. So the fact you're trying to seperate the two is idiotic and not reflecting the reality of the history of these two words.
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@HiDefHDMusic What a great counter argument. Sorry but Motte and Bailey Fallacies don't work on me, as you're ignoring that it's State sponsored Greed. Which is the whole point. This isn't a business doing something bad and the State looking the other way. This is the State literally empowering big business by making it almost impossible for private fishermen to fish. Eliminating competition for big business rather than big business itself doing the eliminating. But it's done for the same reason why San Francisco and LA go after people living off of boats. Tax revenue. It's easier to tax large companies than hound hundreds of private fishmern. So it's a win win for both the bigger business and the government, but the loser is private fishermen.
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I would ban all seed oils, addictives made from metals and suger alcohols. All meat sold must be 100% no added ingredients, water or preservatives.. no glue, no artificial fake meats etc. I'd ban all plastic use in food or drink storage and packaging as well. No more plastic lined cans, or bottles, no plastic bags in cereal boxes etc etc.
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Not Captialism but Corporatism. Plus it's Shared Ownership not Private Ownership. Thought Socialist want business owned by a wider proportion of society? Hehe
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 @TheModdedwarfare3 the statr would get the billions then decide what you get. 😂
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