Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Joe Rogan | Why Socialism Has Yet to Work w/Naval Ravikat" video.

  1. Ummm, most modern countries have mixed economies. A mix of capitalism and socialism is working almost everywhere. We went through periods of little socialism, where only the rich were educated and got the best health care, while the poor were mostly uneducated, except for a very few that charity schools could handle, and they only had access to charity hospitals where you were more likely to die, or get sicker. The Western frontiers were basically ancap environments, before the law and government moved in. Private landowners hired private armies and settled disputes privately. It quickly devolved into feudalism. Cattle barons were a problem right into the 20th century, until the law and government moved in and stopped them. Feudalism may have worked for some time, but it ultimately failed. People got sick of private land owners, with monopolies, running their lives. Marx pointed at tribal socialism as the roots of socialism. Tribes didn't haggle over trading part of a deer for the use of a fire. That's just nonsense. People just had different roles, and they shared pretty much everything. That worked for tens of thousands of years, before people started settling and claiming property. Socialism/anarchism was also working in Spain. Their system didn't fail, it was conquered by fascists. People point at Venezuela, but they nationalized a single resource. That's not outright socialism. That's a mixed economy, like almost every other. Their problem was being too dependent on a single resource and then the price of oil dropping. Even Saudi had losses. They just had more savings and had already started diversifying their economy. Also, very authoritarian versions of anything are bad. Sure, authoritarian chrony communism sucks. So does authoritarian chrony capitalism (fascism). Authoritarian capitalism has failed its citizens. Anarcho-capitalism has failed, by devolving into feudalism. Randian Libertarian capitalism has failed, because the rich just aren't charitable enough. Authoritarian communism has failed its citizens. Mixed economies, democratic socialism, anarcho-socialism, are still up for debate, and the only positions that aren't proven failures.
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