Comments by "jean-louis pech" (@jean-louispech4921) on "TheDC Shorts" channel.

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  14.  @hairedesigned3833  youtube strange :i have several versions of your message, the last one is not full..... i have lost your longer message..... well 1) what you say does not go against what i say because taking for himself (egoist/egocentric drive) is capitalist not socialist. Socialism being based on equality and unity is about sharing wealth not taking for himself. Real socialism is about working together and sharing the wealth produced, and not lower level ( the workers ) working and higher level ( the capitalists ) taking the wealth. The opening message is just a big liar. 2) you are missing the point of socialism versus capitalism. It is not a question of free market, this is a question of power! The power taken from the capital by the capitalist on the workers. I guess you are totally ignorant of the capitalism of the 19th century, before socialist idea were slowly infused in democratic society. What made lower the poverty was the better sharing of wealth and better condition of worker given by socialist ideas, else it is only very rich capitalist and workers living in misery without rights and freedoms. Look western countries where socialist or near socialist ( social democracy) governments have ruled, they offer better living condition , less misery, more rights and freedoms for workers, etc.... If it is not socialist or near socialist it is Worker's Union fight that help worker to have a better life standard as worker. In the 19th century capitalist was limitless, and the workers were living in misery. Then one century of capitalist did not reduce poverty. On the other hand socialist and communist pressure on capitalist societies helped worker to get a better wage, better working condition, more rights and freedoms, etc.... In fact you are just using the ego centered view of the capitalist who think only to himself, and unable to think about non capitalist people (workers, etc... ), and then reduce society and economy to a game between the capitalists discarding the reality of the majority of the population, discarding the game of power from the capitalism. In fact you are confusing economic liberalism with capitalism, a system of hereditary corporation owning all the market, is capitalist if the capital is owned by the members of the families, giving them the right to rule the enterprises and peoples in the enterprises, and defending their private interest before all , while there is no free market. Self made man or hereditary , does not answer to the real problem.
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  18.  @TheHilltopPillbox  Well i see you are unable to acknowledge what is pure capitalism, what kind of society it gives, and then you speak in the void. You are unable to understand that western Europe have some social politics originated from socialist movement, that was fought by defenders of the pure capitalism. I speak about socialism not about stalinism or other eastern authoritarians regimes you are out of subject, don't came with confusion from propaganda. You should recall me that north korea is a democracy too if we follow your ignorance coming from propaganda of authoritarians regimes that do not follow definition of socialism .... You are the one making mistake, i just have real knowledge about what is capitalism and socialism. I know that pure capitalism is about workers living in misery because capitalism have all the power and not limitation in their greed. You don't care about facts, history, then keep your useless lessons. The fact is if non capitalists peoples are not poor, in misery in western countries this is because there was sharing policies imposed to the capitalists against their will, by socialist and left wing movements. Then this is not because of capitalism that people are not poor, because it is against capitalism principle : the power of decision only to the owners of private capitalist property deciding for their selfish interest. You are useless you don't know what is socialism, all the name you are speaking are country that do not follow definition of socialism. For the french socialist Pierre Leroux socialism was defined by "freedom, equality, fraternity, together without loosing one member" he was the guy making this three values the values of the new French Republic in 1848, for other socialist thinker , socialism could be defined by democratic politic and economic power. None of the countries you are naming are close to this definition, then you are useless, you just bring lies with your "socialist paradise". You are really stupid because now china is a capitalist paradise, where capitalist companies can exploit Chinese workers at low price. You have no argument else lioes and bad propaganda for brainless peoples.
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  30.  @icet0p100  But Marx is not all the socialism .... There are many trends not associated with Marx, with many thinker who have made definitions of socialism before. When we speak about socialism it is for speaking about other trends than Marx. And even the socialism of Marx is about democratic institutions (assemblies) ruled by workers and common citizen, his model of reference is the Commune of Paris. Cuba is not about democratic institutions ruled by workers, but only the rule of the party. Capitalism is about the rule of the stronger, and under capitalism the stronger is the one who have the bigger capital. This is why capitalist nations are about strong relations between the state and the big capital ( the best proof the war in Iraq in 2003 ). Oh one thing about Marx, like he said one time Marx is not Marxist, and does not see his ideas in political movement called Marxist, and he would loathe on stalinism and other thing label Marxist-Leninist that share no political element with his vision of socialism . Then don't bring Marx when you speak about regimes labeled communist or socialist, and having a link with stalinism. "So, I don't think Socialism has any real democratic assemblies" socialism is defined by socialists and not you. Then your beliefs are not an argument. If i am wrong, then give me the name of the great leader who had all the power in the Commune of Paris in 1871. Which is the socialist experience of reference for Marx as socialist model for him. Well i will spare you time : there is none, the power was in an elected assembly. Showing that you think wrong. Speaking of socialism without knowing anything to socialism else propaganda from all sides of the pacific ocean, is useless. In Cuba it is the state in the hand of a bourgeoisie who own the economy. Like said already, this is not socialism, this is not Marxism too( i mean real Marxism following the philosophy of Marx without adding any 20th century Russian elements). Western Europeans countries are not socialist but : socialist trend have heavily influenced the societies inside democratic governments, this is why in western Europe public service are more important, there are less wealth inequality, less crime rate, better health system (while not perfect), etc... instead of making a society only in the hand of greedy capitalists. Without all this socialists influence,s well the situations in western Europe would be more more ugly. Along the cold war, in fact making the social situation of workers, and average citizen, very bad was forbidden because of the fear of a communist revolution. Between then end of the WWI ( reconstruction and reject of far right ideas ) and this, it allowed western European countries to have the greatest progressive politics.
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  31.  @icet0p100  The fact is that in practice socialism has democratic experience. The Commune of Paris was an assembly elected by peoples of Paris without any supreme leader or anything looking like a chief, a real socialist experience but too short. And this experience became the practical model for Marx for a socialist revolution. The practice that you are speaking is not socialism , it is leninism, stalinism, etc.... who switch the power for the workers/citizens by the power to the party , and with stalin a strong leader above. IN practice, the history says that after the Russian revolution socialist parties in western countries were split in two : socialist parties more reformists and staying in a democratic way, and communists more evolutionary who were taking the soviet experience as model. And with stalin taking the power, he has parasited all the communist parties i the world, with strong antagonism with the more reformists and democratic socialists parties. Only the rising of nazism and fascism in the 30's pushed some political alliances in western countries like in France with the Popular Front , while in the Spanish war Stalin made kill some socialists, anarchists, etc... while being in the same side...... And then in non western countries, and in particular in eastern countries, it was stalinism that was the model of the so called communist revolution. Stalin would no support a real socialist experience, because it goes against his ideology, this is why he left the Spanish republicans while taking the gold of the revolution. This is the proof that in fine socialism and stalinism and other "marxism leninism" are not friends and cannot being confused. This is the reality that the right wing propaganda hide to everybody. The so called "marxism leninsm" is not socialism, because it does not fit with the definition of socialism, not more with the philosophy of Marx. I must recall that the rule of a party on the state and economy by the state , is not socialism. The name of the party does no matters. Socialist do not defend this type of system. Stop to give to socialists ideas against their own ideas. Stop to take the propaganda from stalin, mao, etc... for true.
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  34.  @miker3875  "I would contend you don't have to be a socialist to believe in worker's rights and protecting the individual. " But it is socialism! This is why socialism is born because of the state of capitalist countries in the 19th century. Without socialist movements in western countries, there would have far less regulation, protections, good wage (and not for everybody now), etc.... Non regulated market does no offer opportunity to everybody to seek individual happiness, like the American system who does not allow some poor family to get health care to their children, and then making the young children death rate of some categories of the population ( poor blacks ) at the level of third world countries , far under the score the poor Cuba. Peoples with compassion, don't refuse healthcare to children, greedy heartless conservatives and libertarianism yes. Socialism, the real socialism from western Europe, is a left wing ideology, and scientific study about relation between ideologies and neurology show that progressive peoples use more their empathy than conservatives peoples ( who are sensitives to disgust without regulation by empathy ) . Yes socialism is about compassion for the weak, the peoples suffering, the exploited workers, etc.... Egalitarians ideologies are about compassion for all , equal dignity. Inequalitarians ideologies are about dignity for a dominant minority ( or just self ) , and lack of compassion for oppressed social minorities ( while it can be the majority of the population ). The USA spend too much money in army and jails. And conservatives who are anti socialists like to give money in army and jails. This is not a good example. Public Healthcare are the best Healthcare services in the world. Nations with good NHS have the best result with health of the population as a whole ( not just the riches ).
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