Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1.  @cameronr7223  It's the end of American Imperialism.
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  2.  @sarahmiller4734  Capitalism working as intended taking everything up into fewer and fewer hands.
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  3.  @malicant123  What do you expect from a system that glorifies the greed of the ruling class?
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  4.  @BeelP.  The capitalist nations can NOT come together and live in peace because that would mean abolishing the protectionism that keeps the Major capitalism nation classes artificially rich. The talk a good game about a free market until it comes time for them to compete then ali competition is unfair.
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  5.  @Erosgates  The author has a point in certain ways. The ideas involved are picked up and defended by a new class just as the initial ideas of Christianity were adopted by the Roman Empire to replace the older ideas of seperate Gods into mostly one god in different forms. The peasants were indoctrinated every week with the ideas that their rewards would come after life. As the new class of traders and merchants rose so too did the Protestant reformation. Calvinism in Switzerland, Anglicanism in England and Lutheranism in Germany. They would all emphasize the Protestant work ethic. The protestant Church became the meeting place for the new middle class who chose its preacher and would discuss issues and the meaning of the bible after the sermon. The workers create trade unions and this is where they can discuss their problems independently and freely. The initial ideas of communism came out of the old society and its thinkers only to spread among the industrial workers. Just as the initial ideas for capitalism originated in the old feudal society.
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  6. We are living the death Agony of capitalism.
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  7. At age 12 you aren't allowed to work with machines in a factory so you are most likely a sales person like newspaper delivery or maybe handicraft sales or farm work.
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  8.  @mattm7798  Who are you kidding the USA only wants the educated people from foreign countries to save on the cost of education. That was Stalin and those who followed him that developed the idea that they could build socialism in one country without having to advance the revolution internationally. Fidel Castro made it clear that the construction of socialism was voluntary and the minority who wanted to leave for the empty promises of Imperialism could do so. The poorest and most backward nation in Europe created the second workers state in history because the capitalist nations of Europe were destroying each other in the first world war. Capitalism went from the most productive to the most destructive system in human history right up to 1945 with the dropping of two nuclear weapons on Japanese cities.
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  9.  @lachanclita5907  Its the end of Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism.
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  10.  @erichamilton3373  Own what? I was a worker my whole life what I own is next to nothing a truck, trailer and hand tools.
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  11.  @onlyone2948  It resulted in the defeat of the bosses in Europe and Japan and victory for the American Imperialists but also the defeat of the Imperialists in the Soviet Union and China. So it had mixed results. The European bosses were no longer the colonial masters they once were, Wkle American business would dominate the capitalist world. Yhe Imperialists ended the slaugter with the nuclear bombing of Japan. Ome third of the world was left closed to unrestricted business investment the colonial people would demand national independence form Western Imperialism.
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  12.  @AltairEgo1  The end of capitalism as it fails as a world system.
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  13.  @aqua_addicts1787  Its a system that is failing because its working the way it should.
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  14.  @denverarchdekin738  Creating debt is part of what's wrong with capitalism. You can't expect to keep getting paid for the past.
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  15.  @monsieurlemon  As a boomer we had access to a limited number of books in public libraries and public school teachers you have access to world class professor online not to mention the ability to search huge academic libraries all at the tips of your fingers. If you can't get access its do to capitalist gate keepers charging exorbitant fees.
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  16. Class drives ideology. The industrial revolution has created a working class in every nation.
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  17.  treeghettox  Off the hook for what this is one of the most foolish videos I've ever seen.
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  18.  @pacjam418  The video equates the decline of capitalism with a lack of Puritan motivation and the decline of the middle class and plundering of the working class by big capital as the inability to make capitalism work for the masses of people though savings. This is the natural way in which capitalism works it creates an ever smaller and ever wealthier ruling class while the middle class is driven down and into the working class. Its nothing more than slavery to the big capitalist who are nothing more than a wealthy class of labor exploiters for the advancement of capital.
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  19.  @DefaultFlame  If you want a relationship you need to have them otherwise you will have a self fulling prophesy. Tell her your not promising white picket fence, life in the suburbs and life near hear mother. That way you won't need to get divorced why the next layoffs hit. Tell her you can give her what capitalism promises which is nothing. .
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  20.  @armonshakur_VMGmultimediaEnt.  The failure of world capitalism. Milton Friedman turns out to have egg on his face.
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  21.  @jamesc.e.s.4551  Capitalism working as should be expected.
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  22.  @dawnfire82  Tkat's all you have. "propaganda"
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  23.  @dawnfire82  Your kindness will be remembered when we abolish private property.
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  24.  @Mr.Needle-Hamster  The natural workings of the capitalist system.
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  25. It means the end of US Imperialism as economic investment defended by military force. The US LOST the cold war despite all the crowing about the defeat of communism.
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  26.  @frentz7  It took a civil war to end slavery what makes you think the capitalist will just give up peacefully?
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  27. Now I understand why this guy thinks like he does. He thinks everything can be simple described as a game. so games can have different outcomes. What he fails to understand is the connection between politics and economics. The role and history of money, industry and human labor on earth. If he is correct than what will be produced is massive trade union struggles and a new labor party. It will produce protests which can't be crushed.
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  28.  @Mr.Needle-Hamster  All that is happening is the natural workings of capitalism is catching up with itself. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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  29.  @armonshakur_VMGmultimediaEnt.  Its the death agony of capitalism.
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  30.  @Attmay  Sorry but I'm not going down the emotional road of crazy. Discussion over.
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  31.  @undrwatropium3724  It was an illegal and immoral war. They sent whoever they could including people like Forest Gump who had no business being their except as cannon fodder. My year they introduced the lottery so even without a student deferment I wouldn't be drafted. Some people joined ROTC because they decided they would be drafted on graduation and wanted to be officers if they had to go. Some were arrested for something minor and a judge gave then the choice of the army or jail time. Protests within the military developed as GI's discussed the nature of the war and minority soldiers racism. The antiwar movement reached all the way to both sides of Vietnam and across the world. Various state secrets were released that became very embarrassing for a government that claimed it was fighting a war for Democracy abroad to protect Democracy at home. Richard Nixon had won 49 of fifty states in reelection. VP Agnew was first forced to resign in a corruption scandal and Nixon after the Watergate break-in that was motivate by a paranoia of being surrounded by political enemies.
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  32.  @mosespray4510  Of course capitalism is failing because its strangling itself. The US, the West and the Eastern bloc are all follows advice of Milton Friedman of maximizing profits as the way to the future.
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  33.  @ameyb9241  Your living through the end of Imperialism the Highest stage of capitalism.
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  34.  @Trip_mania  World capitalism has been in crisis since August 1914 when the first Imperialist war began. The world has only become more developed and the worlds working class only become larger and more internationalist. Less racists and while the capitalist nations ruling classes have only become more divided. Unable to divide the spoils among themselves the capitalist nations march again towards war and fascism. Fascism or war on the trade unions at home and Imperialist war abroad. Revolutionary Cuba points the way forward in a world without Bankers and bosses running the means of production. The profit and private property system fails as capital replaces labor then the rate of profit must decline since the orgin of the profit is our labor. The capitalist become nothing more than a class of useless bosses demand something for nothing since capital can only accumulate and demand a return on investment.
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  35.  @Rootiga  China will have a revolution to establish a real communism as will America. Most likely though a third country will have another socialist revolution first.
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  36.  @libertariantranslator1929  For what? The failure of industrial capitalism stock markets driven by greed into collapse. The real cause of capitalism failure is the private property system itself. A free market is a fantasy dreamed up by the defenders of capitalism as an idealistic goal that can never be reached. Where as the real driver of human history is the class struggle.
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  37.  @libertariantranslator1929  Anyone who has read Mein Kampf knows its a plan to create a racial pure German Empire like the British and French Imperialist. The Bolsheviks were the first to call for an end to the war and a peace with no annexations. The signed a seperate peace with Germany and after the US/UK signed the armistice they invaded the Soviet Republic along with 12 other Imperialist armies and counter revolutionary whites. Imperialist NAZI Germany, capitalism on steriods, was defeated by the Soviet Union. You lost every major confrontation of the cold war and you did not defeat communism rather the rise of the popular revolutions in the East means a return of the workers of the east into political struggle. As the counterfiet communism of Stalin was revealed for all to see. The Cuban revolution keeps moving forward like a bone in the throat of US Imperialism. As comrade Trotsky said if our generation is too weak to create a socialist world certain the future will be bright as we bring the spotless banner of socialism forward. Meanwhile your two capitalist party system is in crisis caused by the failure of the Empires war in Afghanistan along with your crisis of 2008 and the use of police state methods against Donald Trump for criticizing the Empires policy of globalism. .
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  38.  Varza Aryata  The American Imperialists investors want a world Empire not refugees from the colonies. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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  39.  Varza Aryata  After the Paris Commune the Soviet Union was the second attempt at a workers state. The new Soviet State was invaded by 14 imperialist powers including the US/UK. In the US a red scare was started by the Democrat Wilson who had Socialist Eugene Debs imprisoned. In Cuba Fidel Castro drove the American Imperialist and their collaborators from power. All attempts to overthrow the revolution and reestablish a capitalist Cuba have failed.
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  40. This is nothing more than a BIG LIE told by the capitalist bosses.
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  41.  @PeruvianPotato  All you need to do is look at the federal Reserve stats to see that all the new wealth is going to the top since Nixon ended the gold standard gains in productivity stopped going to the working class. Why don't you end the blockade of Cuba? What are you afraid of now after sixty years of blockade? Your going to see a rise in class struggle now as the long retreat by labor is over. Look at the protests rocking Peru now.
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  42.  @wiswc  Do not kid your self this guy enjoys a good time as much as anyone else. You living through the death agony of capitalism that began in 1914. and out of the ashes rose the new Soviet Republic.
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  43.  @paigejo24  The civil war was fought over slavery vs wage labor and capital. The next civil war / revolution will be fought between capital (private property) and labor (social property). All theses so called "leftist" will side with private property because that is their ultimate goal. Keeping private property by using these past marginalize groups to hide behind.
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  44.  @mamabear71234  This is the death agony of capitalism.
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  45.  @DavidWilliams-qr5yj  Social Security works for a simple reason those who work support those who don't. The problems that develop with capitalism are the result of the natural workings of the system itself. The workers are only paid a wage so long as the work and the capitalist accumulate wealth only so long as they can sell at a profit. The continue to accumlate wealth and demand a return on investment even the investment in itself produces nothing. Rather wealth is created by labor and their is never a shortage of labor. Rather an in abilty to match labor with capital begins to occur because of the natural tendency to overproduce which causes the capitalist to shut down production. Capitalism is the first system to have crisis not due to lack of savings but the overproduction of the system itself.
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  46.  @DavidWilliams-qr5yj  You welcome to try an refute anything I say if you like. By using central bank created inflation the capitalist raise the money value of property at the expense of wages. This is how they replaced the old fashion wage cuts they use to issue when the industrial rate of profits being to naturally decline.
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  47.  @DavidWilliams-qr5yj  Facts? Well you haven't presented any. Except to call me names and act like a spoiled brat.
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  48.  @alarrim29574  The bosses want the most out of us that is because we are the source of their profits. S they want us working the longest hours for the lowest wages.
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  49. Capitalism is the problem.
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  50.  @xX_Pokeman_Xx  The problems in the Soviet Union began with the defeat of the German Socialist Revolution in 1923. That was because the leaders of the Russian Revolution never thought of the revolution initially as more than a holding action in the broader world revolution. They had won the civil war in 1921 but needed to reconstruct the economy since war communism the simple requisitioning of everything was not an acceptable method especially for those who had received cash payments for food production on the land before the war. The land reform had broken up the nobles estates and made land to the tiller possible But why would the peasant want to produce more than what he needed to survive and why would they now not band together or sell to the highest bidder and to try obtain higher prices by stifling production?
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