Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

@Kunfucious577 Japan was like the US a class divided society the sanctions on Japan that prohibited Japan from buying oil before the war only drove the Japaneses working people into the arms of the ruling class. All the world's Imperialist powers committed war crimes both during and after the war. Imperialist war is a crime in itself. Japan lost the war because it is an island nation and its navy was defeated. Not because of the US war criminals used nuclear weapons or sanctions on Japan. The US sanctioned China and many other countries simple because it can't get what it wants from them. It has nothing at all to do with any kind of justice. Its merely an act of Imperialist arrogance by the American ruling class.
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@Harthorn Yes it was wrong to sanction Japan since sanctions only hurt the ordinary people.
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@matheusvillela9150 I get it Communism BAD!!!! Capitalism GOOD!!! Anymore Sunday school lessons you want to teach?
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@SiVlog1989 It was NOT possible to reform the Stalinist bureaucracy and Stalin's followers. Gorbachev rose in the bureaucracy because Gorbachev as a child had written the most slavish praise of Stalin as the leader. A leader who had murdered all of Lenin's closet comrades. Stalin the butcher the leader of defeated revolutions and Gorbachev could not overcome what was rotten by restructuring the bureaucracy. Instead what happened is they adopted the neo liberal theories of Milton Freedman who advised on how to bring back capitalism and markets to unleash capitalist prosperity. Instead the only thing unleashed were depression like conditions and new laws making private ownership of property for use in exploitation the law of the land. It was they who became the new corrupt oligarchy and instituted shock therapy.
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@MoejiiOsmanTV China was also the site of the Taiping rebellion from 1850 to 1864 where upwards of 30 million died in a civil war.
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Ya that's why he killed himself in his bunker.
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@walterm2618 Bankruptcy is what happens where company takes on debit and then defaults on its payments. The creditors then haul it in to court for reorganizations or dismemberment. A better explanation is to say they entered a period of economic and political crisis. That the roots of the crisis lay in the use of capitalist methods by the Moscow Stalinist bureaucracy to advance its own interests seperate and apart from the masses of working people. The end up going back to a type of capitalism because the bureaucracy was not capable of self reform no new communist leadership was created or developed out of that struggle. Most of the workers still belong to trade unions and many industries remain in state hands
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@sayeedshah1434 That was when Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter was supporting the landlords terrorist war against the Afghan government. The same type of reactionary forces that would attack the world trade center and provoke the US Imperialists into 20 year war of revenge on Afghanistan killing 100,000 and creating millions of refuges in one of the poorest nations on earth.
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You still face the possibility of nuclear war because capitalism breeds national competition for markets and resources.
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@johnnotrealname8168 The traitor Bernard Cord killed Maurice Bishop opening the door to the invasion by the US Imperialists.
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It will continue because capitalism can not meet the needs of the workers and farmers. It's in a world wide crisis and this will produce the conditions that require a revolutionary transformation.
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@PoetofHateSpeech Ya his grave was danced upon in his capital city by his arch Enemies the Soviet Red Army.
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@abdirahmanidris290 Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Capitalism is responsible for the two world wars and will be responsible for a third nuclear war without world socialist revolution. Capitalism creates its own grave diggers in the working class which is stronger and larger than any time in history. All that is needed is a communist leadership like that of Lenin and Trotsky or Fidel and Che to bring us to powe somewhere else in the world.
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