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

  1.  @denisemcdougal6445  The American and Spanish civil wars were also both class wars. In the American civil the Rising industrial capitalist lead a national revolutionary war against the slavocracy. In Spain the capitalist and landlords led a counterrevolutionary war against the Republic out of fear that democracy would bring another Soviet Republic into power establishing instead a 30+ year fascist dictatorship.
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  2. They serve the capitalists. What's important is filling up bank vaults with fiat currency, bond issues, commercial paper and junk bonds. Now with the computer they create money out of electrons used to represent numbers. Paid lackeys of a system of thieves sucking up profits protected by a worldwide system of police and military violence. While clowns like Amazon exec take carnival rides into space everyone else is suppose to sacrifice for the good of the company and boss fairness.
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  3.  @MrMike0921  Ford raised wages because so many were quiting because of the poor wages and working conditions. Ford was a rabid anti semite who published "The International Jew" in his Dearborne Independent. It was translated into German by the NAZI"S and published in Germany. He made ex Boxer Thug Harry Bennet head of the Ford "Service" dept. who beat the Reuther brothers. You could not talk at work without being fired at work. Ford is the only American mentioned favorable and by name in "Mein Kampf". Ford received an award from the NAZI's ambassador just before war broke out.
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  4. The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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  5.  @wubinfan603  The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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  6. @Jack Hartzell Whos is going to take care of and raise the "60 million"? Not Catholic Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They have adopted exactly ZERO children. To busy giving sermons and harassing women entering clinics. There are 100,000 orphans in the US Today and 15 million in the world as a whole. 75 Million Catholics in the US alone. If their for adoption not abortion they have a funny way of showing it.
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  7.  @bobbun9630  Reagan the representative of American capitalist resisted the South African boycott up till the very end. Pressure was brought to bear by working class action in both South Africa and outside. The Cuban Troops in Angola defeated the Racist South Africans and Nelson Mandela visited and thanked Fidel Castro on his first Post Apartheid trip abroad.
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  8.  @harpjason208  Pro Life is a Give Birth or Die movement.
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  9.  @meganh9460  Macron President of the Rich and 70% of France agrees. Go Yellow Vests.
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  10. @ghost robles Abolsih all taxes on the wage earning class and tax the capitalists only. Stop borrowing surplus capital from the rich and start making them pay taxes.
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  11. Let's get all touchy feely telling stories. This course of action will lead to further erosion of abortion rights because the middle class gets its political marching orders from the ruling class. Abortion rights don't affect middle class women the the same way as they affects the rights of the poor and working class. Why? because they can afford to be touchy feely. They will always be able to get an abortion with their money, the ability to travel and with the money to buy a safe abortion just like before Roe v. Wade. Just like Ms Clinton. Abortion should be "...safe, legal and rare..." With Doctors being demonized and clinics being forced to close this is what is happening. Only mass action protests can reverse the sucess of the Give Birth or Die movement.
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  12. He tells you bosses what you want to hear.
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  13. This is like 9/11 in that Israel had supported the terrorist over the PLO. Just as the US supported the terrorist in Afghanistan in opposition to the Soviets. Will Israel do like Bush?
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  14.  @xCorvus7x  With the new capitalist system and trade came racism. It will be destroyed with the coming socialist revolution.
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  15.  @lordofthewoods  This doesn't really apply because its to simplistic and only makes any sense when just two people are involved not multilateral trade packs.
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  16.  @lordofthewoods  I assume US companies want to be paid in dollars and Chinese companies want to be paid in Yuan. The banks then trade money based on an exchange value. For simplicity 1 dollar equals 1 yuan in exchange value. I spend 10 dollars in China buying 10 yuan and a Chinese friend speeds 5 yuan in the US. buying 5 dollars. After the banks exchange that leaves the Chinese bank with 5 dollars and 5 yuan less in my friends account. And the US bank with 10 dollars less in my account. So which bank got the better deal?
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  17.  @bosatsu76  So because he supports a raise in the minimum wage which the Democrats with their Congressional majority can't pass we are suppose to get all excited? Let him call for end to the Blockade of Cuba. Tell him to denounce Jeff Bezo's for his union busting scare tactic's at Amazon. How about he spend some of that loot for syringes and Covid vaccine for the poor of this world? He sitting on a pile of cash tell him to do something worthwhile with it instead telling everyone how hes has seen the light as if he's another born again Christian.
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  18.  @idreesmutahr865  Employers seek profit by replacing labor with machines and since this raises the capital value while reducing the labor used in each piece produced it inevitably leads to a declining rate of return on investment. This is why even if capitalism did not have the contradiction between the increasing ability to produce and the inability of the market to buy back al that can be produced production must inevitable halt as machines replace labor. Since labor produces the value that no longer resides in the product but instead the machine.
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  19.  @calebaw  You replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor not the other way around. That is the natural way in which capitalism works. You pay a skilled worker or engineer more because of the cost of the education needed to replace him. The engineer must now go into debt to pay for his education yet you only want to pay him to come back to work for the next week. He gets laid off or fired like any other employee. As Marx pointed out the middle class professional man is also pushed down into the ranks of the proletariat. Labor savings machines makes more production possible and initially drives profits in the direction of the firm or industry replacing that labor but it doesn't increase the size of the market unless the price goes down. Even then the world market is finite not infinite so the contradiction develops of the ability to produce rising while that which can be sold at a profit does not. The value of the machines keep rising while the amount of labor from which the profit and surplus value originates goes down this is what lowers the average rate of return on industrial investment. This is why the Wall Sr Journal says their is no good model for the electrical energy market. The capital value of the physical plant transmission and generation is so high compared to the labor to keep it in operation kills the profitability. The profit was made building the plant and transmission facilities so now the are being allowed to go into decline while working people are left in the dark when ever a natural disaster strikes the system. Lineman have to be brought in from around the country and Canada because of cost cutting measures. So the capitalist now have themselves a new market for small generators because electrical reliability is being allowed to decline. The economic advantage of an economy of scale is being sacrificed for more small scale production and all the problems that will arise form doing that.
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  20. The computer has made many fortunes while bankrupting thousands of small businesses fixing selling and building them. Not to mention the armies of clerical employees dismissed. Its become a world product manufactured out of the physical control of the American capitalist and now they are crying about the loss of intelectual property as if the can own ideas for eternity. China which they applauded for going capitalist is becoming a market competitor which is out of their military control. The had themselves convinced the won the cold war only to discover they created more Imperialist completion for markets. After spending 3 trillion over twenty years of war initiated by Bush to show that you are either with us or against us the US Imperialist Bankers cutting there losses were routed by a bunch of reactionary militia in Afghanistan. The war created thousands of internal and external refugees a disaster for one of the poorest countries in the world while the Imperialist talk about where they went wrong and how this has cost them "leadership of the free world." Spewing nonsense about how tightened they are now of terrorism and what great democrats they are. The real fear is that the working people around the world are tired of their wars and excuses about how they are going broke and can't afford to pay us a stable standard of living never mine a better one. Promising how they might turn most of us all into welfare recipients in a scheme of universal income just so the profits can keep rolling in. Throwing out a few crumbs like Marie Antoinette letting us eat cake. They are their rotting capitalist system are the real problem.
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  21.  @timobrienwells  Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalist world economy. Capitalism since 1914 is now more of a destructive force it has changed into its opposite. The national ruling classes can only resolve their differences through war and increasing efforts at capitalist exploitation to reverse the tendency of industrial profit rates to decline. While the Imperialist have spent two trillion on armaments this year alone. Our state power in Havana has developed a vaccine is on tract for 100% voluntary vaccination in Cuba by the end of the year and is offering technical and production aid to any country that wishes to proceed with their own manufacture of the vaccine. Mean while Biden talks a lot about doing something calls people ignorant and his government ignores its own scientists. Big Pharma and War profiteers will be posting record profits.
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  22. I already have my pitchfork. http://www.themilitant.com Maybe it is time to get yours.
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  23.  @vojtasks  Our negotiation power is based in the ability to shut off the flow of profits. That what a real strike can achieve. Like the Teamster local 544 in Minneapolis during the depth of the Great Depression. The great CIO Autoworkers sit down strikes at GM. As Farrell Dobbs said, "You can have anything your big enough to take."
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  24.  @vojtasks  No you don't work less for more money. Wages stopped following productivity in 1973. Since then wages have stagnated while productivity soared. Capital intensive labor is paid more because that is where the industrial unions are. The CIO autoworkers take over of the GM plants with a sit down strike fighting off the cops with Chevy door hinges are history that still lives today. Everything workers have was won in struggle not because machines replace labor. Machines replacing labor only produces a falling rate of profit by which the bosses measure success. They replace labor with machines to drive profits their way but the increased capital value but with less labor in the commodity produced drives down the rate of profit as time moves forward in the whole economy.
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  25.  @HurricaneJD  Capitalism breeds racism and bourgeois universities and bourgeois professors can not change that system no matter how many books they write or classes they tesch. Capitalism began with rascism as idelogical justification for slavery and then dual wage scales it will end when destroyed in the coming socialist revolution.
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  26.  @darkskinglory899  Where did I say that and what makes you think I wrong about WOKE Bourgeois Professor being able to accomplish a goddamn thing? Most of them see themselves as having a stake in the capitalist system. The only thing they're interested is pointing fingers at anyone but those who are actually responsible the capitalist government, its two parties and the capitalist bosses themselves.
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  27.  @stephezak1  Conversation or no conversation the material roots of racism lie in the new capitalist system and the plantation slavery system that was grafted on to it. As an ideology it has taken many blows but only the end of capitalism can open the road to the final end of racism. It is world phenomena not limited to America alone.
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  28. This is nothing but more ruling class we will fix capitalism for you drivel.
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  29.  @innertubez  Unlikely to be sustainable since the slaves were already running away, better roads and the railway would only facilitate the problem of runaways and slave rebellions. The British and American navies were already putting an end to the African slave trade with the New World. Once they began putting black men in Union Army uniforms slavery was finished as an institution in the United States. Like Hitler the South was reckless. Confederates under orders from Jefferson Davis and the confederate cabinet fired on Ft Sumter giving Lincoln the political advantage of not having initiated armed conflict. Hitlers errors was first to sign a nonaggression pact with Stalin instead of France and Britain. Who then realized he was coming for them next. Instead of finishing off Britain he then attacked the Soviet Union. He would become so overconfident that he just casually declared War on the United States after the US declared war on Japan for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. .
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  30.  @thejfoshow1320  The right wing German Social Democrats have been pro capitalist since the days of Edward Bernstein who was one of the fist revisionist of Marx and his revolutionary teachings. All these gentleman have done is lead the workers into the slaughter for the Imperialist profiteers.
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  31.  @tradcatholic  Eugenics later used by Adolf Hitler was invented in America and supported by ruling class figures like Republican President Teddy Roosevelt. Sanger signed onto the Eugenics movement in an effort to get laws in thirty states and the Federal government overturned that classified any birth control information as obscene and outlawed material. Something your Catholic friends would no doubt want returned as that is their ultimate goal in the quest to save souls. The obvious reason that the poor don't want unlimited children is you wage is set by the class struggle and not the number of children you have nor can you raise additional food like a family farmer who can with enough land. For farm families additional children mean more hands to work the land where as more children to workers in cities means a bigger burden with no increase in pay.
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  32.  @clarkd1955  Capitalism works towards monopoly and combination. The profits come from the unpaid labor of the production workers.
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  33.  @tomdonahoe3539  Capitalism is creating its own problems. There can be no real Democracy with a capitalist class private profit and profit system. They will corrupt the government to make themselves even richer. It naturally corrupts any Democracy. Capitalism produces the centralized nation states whose wealthy bosses compete in a world market. They can not help but enter into decline as capital replaces labor the rise in capital value and the decline in the labor needed to produce works to lower the rate of profit by which capital defines success such that giant industries enter into decline.
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  34.  @bryanmachin3738  It's quit apparent it only took a few critics including one from the boss class itself to fracture the whole neoliberal project which had collapsed in 2008 due to the bosses greed. Now they talk of civil war, coup d eta and how they are the true product of Democracy. Their right to rule and the "smarts" who follow are all being questioned now.
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  35. CIA and Ronald Reagan was supporting South Africa and Unita in the Angolan civil war. The Defeat of South Africa by the ex Sugar Cane slaves of Fidel Castro's rebel Army drove a nail into Apartheids coffin and the myth of the invincible white man.
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  36.  @Neimfeltrite Their is exactly NO EVIDENCE of that. Instead all the evidence points in just the opposite direction that the masses hate their bosses and the system. That neoliberalism is no longer enough to hold the masses in check. The Establishment Hates Trump because he exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of the liberal establishment institutions.
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  37.  @anthonypeterson5618  We need to follow the Cuban Road to Socialism in America.
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  38.  Pure Blood  Its about capitalism and it will go in the coming socialist revolution.
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  39. The workers are in a class conflict with the capitalist class. It's the capitalist profit system that is in a world wide crisis caused by its own natural workings.
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  40.  @Spodogo  What your realizing is that the neoliberal propaganda is no longer enough to hold the masses in check. That Trump let the Cat out of the Bag and Humpty dumpty won't go back together again.
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  41. LOL
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  42.  @saesungchang6451  The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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  43.  @davidregi7571  "Chinese have a philosophy that too much democracy is bad." Sounds like Stalin's and Hitler's idea. So I guess your a believer in the US Meritocracy. "Most people are stupid." Most people are told the are stupid. Democracy was fine until Trump was elected. In fact bourgeois democracy is always fine until the wrong candidate gets elected.
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  44. The Imperailist have miscalculated in the past. They past they can not be trusted.
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  45. Our class will come forward and abolish private property in the coming socialist revolution which has already began destroying the capitalist foundation of racism.
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  46.  @TeaParty1776  Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with its holy priests. It starts with facts and proceed from there. Its one classes history in the modern class struggle of victory and defeats between the working class and the capitalist class.
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  47.  @TeaParty1776  Facts like the profit and surplus value coming from our unpaid labor are supported by the bosses own accounting books. Unpaid labor made the chattel slave owner rich. All you do is throw around words to make yourself sound smart but can't explain a thing just level charges against Marx. Rand is a Bourgeois romantic writing novels to propagandize for the rights and justice of bourgeois exploitation. .
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  48. It is time to go back and read "Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism." by V.I. Lenin.
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  49. Hes a psychopath for the psychopaths
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  50.  @howard49  The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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  51.  @pangterence9796  Trade war comes before real war. Chinese capitalists now have foreign trade in Asia that was once US Bosses Trade. This is nothing more than another battle between bosses over profits. Workers have no interest in their battle for profits at home or abroad.
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  52.  @bosatsu76  He's no differnt than Trump they are all going to promise to fix the system just to save their rotten necks.
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  53.  @reasonerenlightened2456  But in the modern Imperialist system the big capitalist are overwhelming distributed among the developed nations while the poor nations have only a few of the big capitalist. Then you have the governments who as actors intervene on the side of the capitalist politically for economic advantage such that they further distort the free market view of only production and distribution with two economic actors the capitalist and the workers. They idea that you can make the system work by playing with the numbers to get the desired result is one that was developed by bourgeois economist seeking to get around the class struggle view of the organization of production. Like the renegade "Marxist" Sowell who sees government standing above class.
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  54.  @reasonerenlightened2456  No they don't they need only serve the interests of the ruling economic class. Modern capitalist government is an overhead cost of production not a provider of anything but military and police protection of private property followed by what the capitalist deem necessary social costs that can't be directly meet by private property and the profit system.
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  55.  @reasonerenlightened2456  A government of the majority the workers and farmers.
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  56. The US Imperialist bosses are obsessed with communism the are only interested in Democracy that produces the right outcomes for them. They in fact encourage and prolong civil wars to defend their Imperialist profit system. That is the whole purpose of the CIA to begin with.
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  57.  @capt.jtspaulding7682  Communism is a movement that is based in facts and ones sides history in the modern class struggle of victory and defeats. The class struggle is the motor of history. Class struggle is what we are all about. Rebuild the unions and use the strike weapon for workers control of industry. Take on the bosses politically with a labor party independent of the Boss two party system.
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  58. The write laws to exempt themselves from taxes while making the rest of us pay. They need to pay a 100% income tax on all profits while all other taxes should be abolished.
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  59.  @smithjason5887  The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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  60.  @sandythompson2973  Racism came with capitalism and it will be destroyed in the coming socialist revolution. A vote for either party is a vote for capitalism and racism.
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  61.  @vfigueroa3042  Ya and Johnson's two party idea totally failed. Today the KKK consists of just a bunch of overweight police officers. Neither Party nor Donald Trump wants the overt racists. They remain political prahias.
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  62. An excuse for censorship by other means. The CIA is a secret spy and coup d'eta service dedicated to seeing that other nation democracy choses what serves the American capitalist bosses national interests. Theoretically based upon the neoliberal theories of Milton Friedman where capitalism roles magically in the direction of Democracy for all time. What the bosses fear most is a self determining and self confident working class.
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  63.  @timobrienwells  "Man produces wealth by transforming nature." John Locke. Market exchange or exchange in general produces nothing no matter how beneficial to both parties. Tools in of themselves can not produce. Otherwise the 1 st and 2 nd laws of thermodynamics would be false. That leaves Adam Smith and his labor theory of value. True capital organizes vast collections of tools, uses coal, oil and nuclear for energy and it does so sole in the interest of competition for profit. It creates a class of people who work to survive without owning anything. The sole interest of the proletariat is to keep production running. As capital replaces labor with machines the profits of the industries slump as exchnge price slumps because the source of the profit is our labor and with less labor in the product but higher capital value then the industries rate of profit must decline. The goal of every capitalist moves away as he becomes more of a capitalist. Monopoly pricing and then monopoly pricing of banking capital the most parasitic of all capitals become necessary.
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  64.  @timobrienwells  That is its exchange value. The use value is not the same as the exchange value. The customer want a use value higher than or equal exchange value. Like I said earlier trade can be valuable to both parties without trade producing anything. Sure the capitalist risks capital but over time risk works the like a casino the bank and insurance company accumulate capital in the most predatory way just like a casino. The gambler enters with full pockets only to usually leave with empty ones unless he is the card counter. Then the power of the state comes down on the card counter. Without class struggle made possible by solidarity the working class would have no standard of living. To drive down our standard of living the capitalist must ultimately defeat not just the reformist leadership but the industrial trade unions and the workers state power. The basic problem for the capitalist class is you must compete we only need to produce and by increasing our solidarity we defeated you. First we defeat you politically then economically.
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  65.  @timobrienwells  You don't own you home until you die by which time you don't need it. You have credit card debit and auto debt. Most of you life you owe more than you own. We live pay check to paycheck and when the inevitable crisis comes the libertarian small business man gets a lesson on the facts of life from the banker who wants a collateralize contact. Put up what ever you own says the banker who has no sympathy for the efforts of the small boss. FDR and Nixon ended the Gold standard so they could rob the working class with inflation as Keynes advised the British capitalist to do.
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  66.  @urdbest3212  The American ruling class remains the center of world reaction and Empire. They would not hesitate to launch ICBM's to maintain their system of exploitation. Karl Kautsky and Vladimir Lenin argued about this before WW1 Lenin was right. They went to war rather than form an ultra Imperialism as predicted by Kautsky.
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  67. LOL LOL
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  68. Racism developed with Capitalism and it will be destroyed in the coming socialist revolution.
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  69.  @urdbest3212  Trump is not setting up a Space force for nothing. In a few years they may be headed back to a Star Wars defense system. The Imperialist can not be trusted for a second.
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  70.  @kjinteredthechat3183  The capitalist along with their politicians are beginning to fear the unions and the workers who belong to them.
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  71.  @jv-lk7bc  He just repeats the drivel the bourgeois socialists have been saying since Marx's time. How the Bourgeois is a Bourgeois for the working class.
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  72.  @davidlloyd-jones8519  We will do much better negotiating with a militant trade union movement that takes up workers control of industry and a new labor party based in the unions independent of the two boss parties to take on the capitalist politically.
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  73.  @vojtasks  Teachers can win a strike because of the political impact. Any strike of a private corp can win by shutting off the profit stream. If you weren't productive you wouldn't have a job to begin with the bosses don't hire workers because they like paying out wages. An individual trying to negotiate on the basis of productivity in other words producing above average is only going to work himself to death. The bosses will throw him an extra dime while making an extra dollar. Then the'll demand everyone else work like a fool gone crazy.
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  74.  @vojtasks  All the wealth has been going to the bosses and their hangers on. People who serve the bosses like professors and engineers. In 1970 the minimum wage was $1.60 an ounce of gold was $32 gallon of gas about $.30 Today the minimum wage isn't even $16.00, gas is $3.00 gallon, the price of gold is $1806.00 over 50 times what is was in 1970. The price of gold was set at $32.00 at Breton Woods in 1944. For most of the previous history it was about $23.00. Issac Newton set the price of gold in English pounds back in the 1600's it remained about the same until about 1914. Nixon shut the $32 gold window because the Vietnam war had caused the decline of the dollar such that France wanted gold for dollars. The capitalist have been robbing us blind with the central bank created inflation which cuts wages while raising the value of property. Since capitalism created the 2008 crisis the world has not recovered in production and trade to the 2008 levels. In France the government and politician's are so hated less the 40% turned out to vote. The Yellow vests called Macron "President of the Rich." The true rate of unemployment in the US is somewhere around 18% that's because the elderly are even bothering with part time work and the gov doesn't count those who don't show up as looking after a week or two and those who work one hour are counted as employed.
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  75.  @vojtasks  If productivity raises wages why are they so much lower for autoworkers in Mexico making Chevy Trucks sold at the same price as those made in Ft Wayne, IN. They use the same production capital equipment in both. Obviously the bosses only pay what is needed to get you to come back to work for the next pay period. Only class struggle can change that relationship.
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  76.  @vojtasks The capital investment for a software company is low as is the capital investment for small electrical contractor wages are higher due to the skill level not the capital value. A software company is nothing but a few computers in an office. A bigger capital to labor ratio is in the trucking industry. For get about caveman we are talking about capitalism not the pre history period. A unless a trucker is union he has a hard time paying his bills. One Truck is about $100,000 compared to maybe $10,000 per worker for a software engineer. Under your theory the trucker should be making 10 times the software engineer. Yet he makes way less. Switzerland is rich because banker live there not because of high tech Swiss watches.
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  77.  @vojtasks Man creates wealth though social labor. Man's mind and hands interacting with nature. Tools and machines are wealth that man creates that save future labor time. No machine can run in perpetual motion and despite man's cleverness we have never built a machine that can reproduce itself without man's giving it direction. So machines can not produce wealth they merely enable man to produce more wealth with less labor time being used in the future. The fact that capitalism developed first in Europe is an accident of history and their is nothing special about a factory except that it is the result of previous development and far better social organization of labor. The capitalist measures success in profits but his profits or wealth come from labor not machines and so as he replaces labor with new machines to drive profits his way. He diminishes his source of profit while increasing his capital investment resulting in a declining rate of profit the very measure by which every capitalist uses to measure his success. This drives the idiot called a capitalist to attack his laborers for producing less wealth for him instead of more with his new machines since to sell more he needs to win the battle of the market place but the workers can not buy back all that they can produce, plus the world is a finite market not infinite and the capitalist refuses to sell at a loss so he halts production and creates a crisis along with attacking his workers the source of all wealth. This is why the capitalist class becomes reactionary and must be removed form its past historical place in the production of wealth. Capitalism is nothing more than a historical stage that man pases though on his quest to meet his needs and better his social organization.
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  78.  @vojtasks  What about all the time spent looking for a precious stone and not finding one? Tell my why your stone has value? Just who is it precious to and why? If you start eating stones things will most likely not work out well for you. Their is no paradox since labor wasted obviously produces nothing but scrap value. For something to have value it must first be found. A green pasture has no value to a group of herdsman if they don't know of its existence. Same with mineral deposits. Build me a machine that can produce without a man setting it in motion and I will entertain your idea of machines producing wealth without labor. Obviously it also takes a social agreement to decide the value of wealth. A 1st Century man may have no use for an electric light bulb other than as a curiosity. The US Army does not pay it troops in salt as the Roman legions did either.
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  79.  @vojtasks  Interest on capital is just another way for the capitalist to rob each other it produces nothing and as can be seen with fiat currency being used by central bankers it produces inflation as a way to rob the working class without having to institute wage cuts. No Marxist has ever claimed that you can assign an exact monetary or labor value to every transaction taking place in an economy much less a capitalist one where each actor keeping business secrets works in his own way to rob the others.
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  80.  @vojtasks  Well than we should all be able to become capitalist renting everything to each other thereby avoiding all work if renting and interest is really producing wealth. You will note that vast sums of wealth seemingly disappeared in the 2008 crisis. Interest rates are close to zero or negative in some countries. How could such vast sums just disappear if they weren't a fiction to begin with? Why are interest rates so low if interest it is such a productive activity? If capital accumulation in itself produces growth why do the more developed countries grow slower than the less developed. You problem is you refuse to face facts. Instead of looking at things from a materialist view you have to bring in just so many cob webs to confuse the situation. The problem for you and others is the bosses own accounting books confirm all of what Marx has layed bare in the workings of capitalism. The Dutch Tulip crisis was the first case of bidding up value beyond its real value. The resulting collapse of tulip value effected the whole Dutch economy for years after.
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  81.  @vojtasks  The vast sums of wealth in the modern world are produced in the mines, mills and factories of modern capitalist industry not by a few petti bourgeois social democratic fools of the Nordic Imperialist countries renting out cars.
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  82.  @vojtasks  Issac Newton set the value of Gold in English pound it kept that value with few exceptions right up to 1914 the great war and the British banking crisis. Obviously the capitalist who built the defective air bags ended up taking a loss. Now what ever firm is making the new good airbags is making a profit. If you don't see how labor can create value than you probably have never built anything of value either. Instead of siting around contemplating your navel maybe try fixing that car of yours. The bosses don't pay people like me for having Good Looks like Ms. Trump. We know how to get things dome and make things work. Our ability to labor is what makes us valuable. Bill Gates ownership of a baseball glove made him money by renting it to his sister. Like I said before exchange produces nothing. The exchange can seldom be exactly equal anyway so that's why money as a universal medium of exchange has value. Now each side can try and benefit from a trade and many times the do but the trade in it self produces nothing otherwise man would only need to trade and not labor. Capitalism shouts free trade as the solution to all problems natural when he means free trade he means free to also own everything that can be used in the trade. You trade him your labor time and he pays you just enough of the wealth to maintain yourself for the next pay period. So he seeks from you the longest hours at the lowest wages in that pay period. Before the capitalist the peasant surf worked three days for the land Barron and three days for his families upkeep. The seventh day he rested and the priest told him how he would enter the kingdom of heaven after death.
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  83.  @vojtasks  At the end of the day the class struggle will be decisive not how many truly believe in the second coming of Christ.
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  84.  @jamesdemaio4938  The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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  85. @Me Alexander Then explain why Saudi Arabia and other oil rich states are the most repressive regimes in the world? The only pay why we forced them with union contracts backed up by strike action. Its not good bosses but class struggle that guarantees democracy. Class struggle won the Vote for Blacks in the South and class struggle made social security possible. Class struggle put food on the table during the great depression. Class struggle is the road to socialism not voting Demopublican. Class struggle won the Cuban revolution.
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  86. @Me Alexander No collaboration was always the Social Democrats and Stalin's Idea after the defeat in Germany. It brought nothing but fascist victories in Spain and France. The New Deal didn't end the depression the FDR War Deal did. Eighty million dead and a revival of capitalism with the victory of Democratic Imperialism. We all heve seen how US Democratic Imperialism supported the most vicious dictator's post WW2. Now with capitalism failing in the US the workers wiil beguin to struggle and the bosses will resort to extra legal thugs and cops to keep there factories going. "Socailist" Volvo Bosses already said we will run scabs if you don't take the final offer.
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  87. @Me Alexander Sure it is Trump all but directly admitted it talking about American carnage and how he was going to Make America Great Again. In Europe they say, "Macron President of the Rich." We are all going to become bankers and big businessmen because of capitalist opportunity . Everyone will be a Bill Gates just as rich and the computers will do everything right? Capitalism has brought 70 years of oil revenues to the middle east and the most repressive Regimes in the world. You buy a few Bourgeois Professors like this guy plans to do and you think you can fool us with a bunch of hand waving idiots.
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  88. @Me Alexander The bosses profit comes from our unpaid labor and the bosses own accounting books prove that. He takes profit and then he buys politicians and invests in new machinery to drive profits his way so he uses the profit against us making himself richer and us poorer. His system goes into decline as machines replace labor because the profit originates from our labor and with less labor but more capital profit rates must go down. So his success heralds decline. Always talks about how anyone can become rich like him because just like him his system works by probability and you might become a billionaire if you can steal enough unpaid labor but more than likely you will end up with nothing because the rich play a game of musical chairs the business cycle strikes bankrupting the weak so the can be eaten up by the strong. This is why capitalism tends to monopoly and not more opportunity.The middle class becomes smaller not larger. The only class increasing in both size and percentage is the wage earning class on a world scale. .
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  89.  @XOguitargurlOX  The profit system is in decline because as machines replace labor the rate of profit goes down. Then to prop the system up the begin investing in factious capital until the over valued market collapses. All this does is awaken the class who will abolish private property. Us. The modern industrial working class.
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  90.  @pmacksmith2167  Racism came with capitalism and it will be destroyed with the coming socialist revolution.
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  91.  @tuttuts560  The Capitalist media isn't interested in truth its interested in presenting a narrative where it can put capitalism and all its wars and rottenness in the best light possible. When deemed necessary outright lies and censorship is imposed. Censorship is done in the name of protection from disinformation. Where as fake news is where truth is stretched to its breaking point. Outright lies are Donald Trump being installed by Putin and Donald Trump losing the 2016 election and winning the 2020 election.
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  92.  @tuttuts560  The New York Times can run "All the lies fit to print." it just doesn't make them true. The US Imperialist lost the cold war as evidenced by the New World Disorder. You can not be both a Capitalist Military Empire of foreign investors and a Republican Democracy at the same time. Imperialism is in worse shape today than it was in 1914. Biden can talk all he wants about how Democracy is not dead and America is leading the free world but the laughter coming from the rest of the world is deafening.
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