Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Is the US Headed Towards Another Civil War? | Barbara F. Walter | TED" video.

@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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@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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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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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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