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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  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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