Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "" video.

  1. Not only is the funding problematic, but the antiquated educational system. This country does not produce free thinkers, but a complacent labor force. There is no surprise to me anymore at how capitalism screws over the working class in all aspects of society.
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  2. Objective Viewer my access to knowledge (internet and books) has made me into a Libertarian Socialist, an Anarchist. Capitalism is an oligarchic system where wealth and capital is accumulated to the hands of a minority elite. They undermine democratic institutions and lay with government officials to maintain a status quo of wealth and power. You have no freedom under such oligarchy. A system based on hierarchy, class creation, wealth disparities, and exploitation of workers is not fit for any society of freedom. Anyone who does not seek to dismantle concentrated power, wealth, and privilege has forsaken the Liberal values they claim to be about. It is that fervor for the doctrines of liberty and equality from the Enlightenment that founded liberal democracies.
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  3. Objective Viewer will you hear yourself? “Empire” like that has ever been a progressive form of State. Actually Libertarian Anarchist communes have existed and they succeeded in forming socialist societies free of government and institutions of hierarchies and coercion. Such as the Paris Commune, Revolutionary Catalonia, Rojava, Free Territory Ukraine etc... These societies functioned in decentralized free associations in federal organization. They abolished the State, and any coercive agents. They implemented Socialist economies (worker’s ownership of the means of production) and lived in solidarity and general happiness. The only reason they aren’t around is cause Capitalist interests and the old governments won the wars ultimately where they had been established. Take Anarcho-Syndicalist Catalonia for example. The author George Orwell immortalized them in his “Homage to Catalonia.” It was the most liberated society he ever witnessed, he was enamored with the Anarchists, he fought along side them against Fascist Franco, and was a staunch Democratic Socialist ever since. You see Libertarianism (Anarchism, Socialism, and Communism) are the next step in Classical Liberal values of liberty and equality. All innovations and advancements aren’t driven by individual greed or profit. They are driven by passion for one’s work and knack for doing what they love. By allowing resources to the benefit of the worker and communities. Capitalism is a grotesque system where due to commodity production and profit motivation while there is enough produce to end world hunger or shelter the homeless it is not so. Individual actors would not do anything were it not incentivized by individual profit. “Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. [Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.” - Albert Einstein
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