Comments by "pplr1" (@pplr1) on "TIKhistory"
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I don't have time to go through the whole video today but I'm 5 minutes in and already see a problem. TIK seems to have confused getting rid of unions with privatizing industries. The Nazis didn't just consolidate unions into the DAF but killed former union leaders, banned unions as a whole, and didn't require the DAF to let workers pick who ran the DAF nor choose what its goals are. Unions generally get to vote in their own heads (at least in the Local I've seen). Hitler murdering labor leaders and replacing them with his henchmen is not the same thing having labor unions for workers. The DAF was an organization for Hitler and the Nazis, not for workers. Unions are bodies of workers, elected by workers, that are supposed to have the goals of workers in mind.
TIK followed up with complaints by factory owners that they weren't free anymore and while it is quite possible they ran into problems with the Nazis and their henchmen deciding things that is probably still a step above union leaders that were killed or sent to concentration camps. People whom TIK did not mention.
Why bring up factory owners when the focus of that point is on workers and unions? Is TIK confusing nationalizing an industry which means the ownership of a business becomes that of the government even though people who work for a government organization (its employees) aren't owners and sometimes form unions to protect their own interests and concerns?
I don't know if TIK's intention is to confuses viewers or to use a red hearing to distract them-TIKs intent could be distraction and thus be dishonest or it could not be and thus be totally honest that is intent and I do not know his at this time. But, regardless of intention, he certainly did not address the issue.
Regardless of if organizations are privately owned or run by the government the employees sometimes form unions to look after their interests and concerns. It is how workers protect themselves and ensure good or at least fair treatment of themselves by an organization. So even if Hitler outright seized control over a business-thus giving owners even more reason to complain-that doesn't cover or explain how employees and the organizations that represent them were banned.
I don't know if TIK was trying to do a bait and switch on purpose, if he confused himself, or if what he read confused him over the issue at hand. But I can say there was an issue raised within the 1st 5 minutes of the video and he failed to address it even though this video is presented as him addressing the criticisms of a video made about one of his earlier videos.
I haven't yet seen his earlier video nor a video critical of it. From the audio it sounds like a couple of young guys-likely either college or high school level-so I honestly expect them to miss more things or get it more wrong simply because they are younger and perhaps not as well studied. I can see TIK is an older (but not old) man so I would expect him to be more detailed simply because of age and the expected maturity often related to it.
In perhaps a way that is arguably similar is my understanding that China also bans labor unions. It has its own Chinese Communist Party controlled organization that is supposedly filling their place but unlike unions as practiced where I come from the leaders in that organization are not elected and the goals for the organization are not put forwards by the workers. So workers in China don't have unions and perhaps China's government is similar to the Nazis in a way that many people don't realize.
Political henchmen being put in charge are not proof of nor a counter claim to either Socialism or Capitalism. But they are evidence that the concerns of workers may not be the goals of the organization thus the organization is not a real workers' union.
PS My apologies for a long comment-sometimes I get repetitive or long winded in a comment, but I am highlighting something that I noticed.
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