Comments by "Gugle Yuser" (@fwfeo) on "🔴 Capitalism empowers people. Socialism empowers government - Ep. 528" video.

  1. Not necessarily! Capitalism empowers the businesses and the wealthy who then buy influence in the government, get it to protect their wealth and expand their market, shift the tax burden to the public, enact laws that empower the business and disempower the public as we are experiencing in the US right now! Socialism, depends on how it is executed and what version we are going for. The authoritarian flavor is the communist governments of USSR, China and Cuba. But it can be also a democratic government with socialist economic policies. However, we don't see much of that, because a superpower that is representing capitalism (USA) is always ready to fund, equip, train and deploy right wing paramilitary death squads to subvert the will of the populace and overthrow any left leaning government and replace it with a right wing capitalist/exploitation-friendly general! Government is the only institution able to reign in the powerful business monopolies and keep them from enslaving the populace, so we do need regulation and government power to protect the public! It's like advocating for a weaker government where any militia can beat its army! Then who's gonna defend the public?
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