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

  1.  @danielgloverpiano7693  Youtube is censoring you. We need our own Party a Labor Party based on a fighting trade union movement not these professional talk machines of both parties. Democrats and Republican all went to the same law schools and are financed by the same ruling capitalist class. Biden is as much of a problem as Trump is. Why waste money and resources on the Democrats? I don't want to belong to a company union why would i want to vote for a company man in city hall?
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  2.  @Zyrock  It a basic indication of the failure of capitalist system. You have these problems because its a rigged game to start with.
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  3.  @geraldbennett7035  Sure they do their going to br moving down the street from your gated community into the public park.
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  4.  @royandrade2929  That was before the bosses decided to fire everyone to save money and then the crash of 2008 occurred. Capitalism working as intended making the do nothing rich richer and the working class poorer.
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  5.  @Name-rl7lv  They don't always work which one reason abortion is necessary.
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  6.  @DriveInFreak  They will come up with some mumbo jumbo to explain themselves.
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  7.  @jonathantaylor6926  The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th amendments. No Congressional strike breaking. No using politicians to protect Rial Boss record profits.
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  8. When the US gov't talks Human Rights I know that's hypocrisy sounding. It became important after Vietnam when American Imperialism needed to 'spruce up the joint'. The height of the 2nd witch hunt was about 1952 with the Rosenberg trial and executions. The next battle for free speech, free association and freedom from endless investigations by government agencies and disruptions began about than. The legless veteran got his job at the VA back, an end to Smith act prosecutions, free speech at Berkeley. It took about fifteen years but HUAC closed down, Conitelpro was exposed and shut down, the Attorney generals list was dropped. These achievements were made by mostly ordinary people fighting back against government intrusions, and injustice not form the US military in Korea and Vietnam.
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  9. "...our position..." no you mean "your position" don't include me with you and I hardly think you represent everyone in China and Russia either.
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  10. "...killing the men who stole the secrets of the atom bomb was bad thing..." Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted and executed for 'stealing the secrets of the Nuclear Bomb' by the US government. It isn't really clear what information was passed or if it did or didn't help the Soviets construct a 'bomb' but Soviet construction of the 'bomb' and mutually assured destruction played a major role in keeping the 'cold war' no more than lukewarm.
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  11. The Syngman Rhee and General Park being democratically elected leaders? You got to be kidding. The French may have invented the word Coup d'etat but they South Koreans made it into a new way of government. They've only had six republics since 1948. Now if the Soviets didn't have nuclear weapons the US would have been much more likely to use them against China with MacArthur having a freer hand. US General Curtis Le May wanted to launch a full scale nuclear war with the Soviet Union, China and Eastern Europe over Cuba. Would Kennedy have done it if it weren't for mutually assured destruction? The Castro brothers and Che were not under some mythical orders from the Kremlin to organize a revolution in Cuba. Kennedy would later say those who make non violent revolution impossible make violent revolution possible. He mine as well convicted himself, Eisenhower and Truman for the Cuban Revolution. Historically before the Chinese Revolution the only thing Stalin provided was a lot of bad advice. You seem to think China and other people had no reasons to push out foreign imperialism as if they were getting some good deal out of the whole thing?
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  12. The US government was very frightened by the Soviet Union especially after the Soviets put an artificial satellite in orbit. The put millions into science and engineering education during those cold war years.
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  13. Yes the US got a lot of NAZI scientists and Vernier von Braun who made US rocket and space science possible. The US Congress passed the National Defense Education Act to increase the number of engineering and science university grads in response to a perceived science and engineering education gap with the Soviet Union.
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  14. The US Imperialist started the war when US Troops arrived in Korea and took over from the Imperialist Japanese war criminals in 1945. Once reaching the headquarters of the Japanese Imperialist War criminals in Korea they announced a new General Order Japanese would no longer be the official language of Korea it was to be replaced by English. The new ruler would be US Army General MacArthur. Germany was the leader of the WW2 losing side. The Imperialist Japanese war criminals had occupied Korea and the US Imperialists wanted Korea for themselves. They talk of the greatness and wealth of the puppet state but they refuse to leave their military bases in the puppet state because it would collapse without them. Korea belongs to Koreans not the US Imperialist War criminals.
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  15. The reason China didn't go very far with its Navy a half a Millennium ago was because unlike the English it did not build a factory system and use coal as the new slave. Under the older feudal system the slave had to be beaten and prevented from running away. Today the slave comes to work voluntarily seeking his pay at the end of the week while the master become richer beyond belief. If the slave becomes unmanageable the master finds more outside his door. No need to go to a slave market to buy labor of unknown quality. When your new slaves can be paid after they perform.
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  16. If US didn't enter WW2 it's not clear exactly what would have happened. It might have taken Mao longer to defeat the Japanese and once that happened Kim il Sung and Ho chi Minh would un doubtedly been able to defeat the Japanese in Korea and Vietnam. Would the Soviet Union been able to defeat Hitler without the US Lend Lease program? If the answer was yes then the Red Army could have marched all the way across Germany. France, Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia had partisan fighters tied to the local communist parties who would have certainly taken power. I doubt that the British could have held out without US supplies and Germany would have certainly attacked US shipping to England. If Eisenhower had not launched D day when he did the Soviets could have taken all of Germany as they were the first ones to enter Berlin. If the Soviets lost then Hitler would have had all of Europe under his control for a number of years. A peace treaty would have been signed with Hitler because it is unlikely either side could invade either Europe or America at that point only a naval war could continue.
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  17. Xu Alex I would count my chickens before they hatch. China has undergone a migration unheard of in human history. A huge working class created out of poor peasants exposed to marxism may not take kindly to corruption among the party elite and a Chinese stock market.
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  18. The Soviet Union with its planned economy did not have the need to expand the way a capitalist economy does. They only declared war on Japan because of an agreement with Roosevelt to do so after the defeat of Germany. One should avoid to many if this than that arguments. Stalin as the representative of conservative bureaucrats and their theory of Socialism in one country mentality was destined to create problems with different states having revolutions without Stalin's permission. Officially the split with China was over Mao accusing Nikita Khrushchev of being a revisionist for Khrushchev's secret speech to the 20th Party Congress exposing and condemning the excesses of Stalin. Khrushchev criticized Stalin for imprisoning and executing loyal communists including the followers of Trotsky. Stalin's refusal to believe reports that NAZI Germany was launching an assault of the Soviet Union despite his non aggression pact. Stalin's interference in organizing an effective defense of the Soviet Union. Unofficially Mao probable felt he wasn't getting enough cooperation from the Soviet Union and decided to blame Khrushchev for that saying his revisionism made the Soviet Union a capitalist country.
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  19. The roots of WW2 lie in the required reparations to be paid by Germany after WW1. Germany spent most of the post WW1 years in economic crisis with more than one failed socialist revolutions. Hitler rose to power while the idiot in Moscow prepared for his murderous purges and frame up trials. The largest communist party outside of the Soviet Union went down to defeat without so much as a punch being thrown. Going to far with if this than that in history starts requiring too many assumptions. The US was already providing England with non military resources and Roosevelt had secretly sent troops to help the British Empire in the far east with Japan and had imposed an oil embargo on Japan. Once the war in Europe began it was only a matter of time before the US would enter on Britain's side. The reason for waiting is that obviously by waiting you let the other sides bleed each other out and then swoop in for the sweets of war.
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  20. Trump should deploy THAAD in the backyard of the White House.
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  21. Why should the Chinese take orders from Washington. Oh that's right the US has a lot of power in their military. That's why they do so well against against all these terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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  22. Well if you back to the post WW2 era American Politicians were pointing fingers at each other for losing China. Well who did they lose it to? Oh I'm sure the US ambassador would have done much better job running China and saving those dozens of millions. Just like he did in Cuba by having Batista take over. It only cost 20,000 lives to get rid of Batista but people like you pine away for the 3,000 of the dictators best eye gougers, torturers, and bandits. Starting with the 1898 Spanish American war the purpose of the US military in foreign wars has been to win them for American Capital. In other words foreign investment and known outside of polite and gentile political correctness as US Imperialism. Harry Truman by engaging in the Korean Police Action made the US the gendarme of the world. The anti Imperialist league of 1898 which include Mark Twain predicted the end of the a Democratic Republic because of this policy. So today you see a Congress owned lock stock and barrel by campaign contributors. A presidential run by a man of wealth who wants to be a man of the people and Make America Great Again. Can he do it? Of course not because even if had good policies Congress would refuse to pass them.
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  23. Every High School student in Massachusetts and most likely the rest of the country is required to take a year of US history. In this years time almost the whole year is contained in pre 20th century history. The last thing they usually talk about is the Spanish American war in which the present the war as one of liberating Spanish colonies. That of course was the beginning of the American Empire and anything said afterwords can quickly become controversial.
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  24.  @poopdeckpappy2658  The fetus can't sign a contact but the mother can. Oh and at one time you needed parental permission to enlist before age 21.
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  25.  @poopdeckpappy2658  Seems to me the same politicians making the biggest noise about abortion are strangely and almost completely silent when it comes to war. Biden and the Republicans are rushing head long into Ukraine after a bipartisan 20 year long war in Afghanistan costing 2.3 Trillion, 100,000 lives and millions of internally displaced persons. .
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  26.  @poopdeckpappy2658  Remember all your doing is changing a law that doesn't mean people will follow it any more than the marijuana prohibition halted drug use. The best way to breed disrespect for authority is to write and enforce laws that people don't agree to. The law will not apply to the rich only the poor anyway you look at it. Afterall we look people up for murder because we are afraid of them Do you plan on investigating every pregnancy that doesn't come to term? Second guessing every doctor's decision? Chasing after abortion pills legal in one state but not another? Are they going to transported in sealed containers through prohibited states.?
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  27.  @poopdeckpappy2658  So far they done just about everything but send in Troops.
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  28.  @poopdeckpappy2658  I agree that its bad case law if they had decided that women had a right to abortion before birth than it would have been decided clearly as a women's right and choice. Instead it was decided based on a Doctors right to practice medicine and viability. Which set it up for endless argument as to details. .
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  29.  @poopdeckpappy2658  Government steps in to protect the rich and monopoly all the time. Plus what corp doesn't want a government contract. One one hand the like to feed at the public trough and on the other had they cry about paying taxes. People like Bill Gates like to talk endless about business yet microsoft did more to kill not just IBM and steal everyone else ideas but people went to jail for redistributing disks that they and Dell provide free of charge. For years a copy of Windows sold for About $135 dollars but the big manufactures bought it for $20 a copy. It was illegal to import Windows licenses from foreign countries even if microsoft was the foreign manufacturer.
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  30.  @poopdeckpappy2658  No guarantee that the fetus will even come to term. Plus we don't give anyone a "Right to Life" nor can you consent to be murdered either despite your enlistment contract. Do I have a right to nourishment at your expense for 9 months? I guess not that would be placing an undue burden on you. But somehow because a women consented to sex that means she has a 9 month implied contract. I wonder how many employers would agree to implied contracts of any term upon hire vs employees at will. When it comes to child birth and reproduction the mens role has always been minimal. If not even less so since the rise of capitalism. Now the most that can be expected from a man is monetary damages if he has any money that is. Free speech would be meaningless if you were prohibited from expressing it on paper as would the right to assemble if no common property existed. It becomes a right for the same reason you don't want an undue burden. A women need only take an abortion pill up till 11 weeks.
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  31.  @poopdeckpappy2658  I guess you've really been in that safety hammock too long. The cops show up late if at all in places like Flint, MI. No Marxists don't ignore human nature and the Cuban revolution is far from over. If human nature is fixed and the greedy alway make it to the top then nuclear war is inevitable because that is the only way to assure a greedy nations ruling class wins the battle of the marketplace. None of them intended WW1 either. Once greed takes over intentions mean nothing.
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  32.  @poopdeckpappy2658  Why do people like you always assume you are older and wiser? I'm retired at age 69. You think your gods gift to the world because you opened a "business" as if no else has a brain in there heads? Most likely you will close it also or it will close on your death. At the end of the day you will push up daisies. If I'd been born in Cuba I would have been encouraged to learn and think of others. Here your encouraged to look inward and be part of the dog eat dog world of the animal. I'd probably be a Doctor or at least have a good education instead of being told "All you want is to be a Doctor" Like that wasn't enough for a 19 year old student.
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  33.  @poopdeckpappy2658  Youtube is censoring you. Have you ever noticed that you don't marry with in the family either? Other than the Church what organizations does capitalism encourage besides businessman's clubs. They rather we not belong to unions but we do anyhow. The certainly don't like work stoppages. We do that also.
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  34.  @poopdeckpappy2658  I was totally banned by youtube twice once right after Bidens election. Now they seem to just censor any kind of debate I get into.
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  35.  @superoldgamesaturday3277  Congress has exceeded its authority. The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments.
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  36. "Give men a pill, to prevent pregnancy?" Good idea now all you need to do is invent one. Let's make all birth control free and available along with scientific sex education in the public schools for children not yet at puberty. That would decrease the need but not eliminate the need for abortions. You can't give a fetus a right to life anymore than you can give a person with a kidney disease the right to a kidney from someone else's body. The feus belongs solely to the mother before birth. You only become part of the community after birth.
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  37.  @jonathantaylor6926  We struck Westinghouse in 1976 and went back with a dollar an hour raise. I'm rooting for the Rail Workers not a bunch of Milton Freedman types who want to maximize profits above all else. Capitalist greed was the cause if 2008 and the effects of which have never been fully reversed. Build the unions build workers power.
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  38.  @jonathantaylor6926  I pushed a lawn mower as a child. Who do you think you talking to? "Why should someone who shows up and uses my equipment make the same as me." Why should they work for you in the first place? I quit jobs at the drop of the hat just to piss people like you off. Any fool can enter the landscaping racket. Fairness? We don't care about being "fair" to bosses like you in fact we think a boss who can't make a profit DESERVES to go out of business. Like Eastern Airlines. .
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  39.  @jonathantaylor6926  Quit you beefing no one cares about how great a business tycoon you think you are. You were born stark naked and when you die you'll be nothing but dust. Plenty of people don't want to waste their time trying to become the next Bill Gates. After all they hired all the smartest dumbies from MIT and Harvard to implement Milton Freedman's economic ideas at the Big New York Banks and nothing they did could prevent the crisis of 2008. All these fools care about is how many dollars they have in banks. The problem is all the ruling class does is place bets in a casino called Wall St. The do nothing to advance the forces of production which why capitalism just like the feudal system must come to an end. Its private property laws stand in the way when a crisis occurs. Their own accounting prove that. I know someone who actually owns a factory and was a libertarian. As soon as his business had problems he found out how much the bank loves him just like you will find out that no has any friends in business its all a war for profits against each other. Some have to learn the hard way and can't be taught anything. The logic of capitalism means if no one buys anything than nothing gets made. You can't just keep piling up profits and demanding more profits without choking off all economic activity. The profit comes from the unpaid labor of the production workers and the system can't be fixed just by reallocation of wealth. Production needs to be planned and the educational and cultural level of the working class needs to be raised such education and healthcare become rights for all. Instead of throwing people out of work we can send construction workers to the rest of the world.to help them raise the standard of living.
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  40.  @jonathantaylor6926  Just where can I read that quote from Lenin (his English Language works are available on line). The middle class has always been ground down when capitalism goes into crisis. Before central banking they had private banks that went bust with script that became worthless just before the great depression. And no what went wrong in the soviet Union was the rise of Stalin as a leader of a privileged bureaucracy. Lenin was the first to want him removed and when he died Trotsky tried to have him ousted. Hitler was a creature of German capitalism and his coming to power despite Germany having the largest communist party outside of the Soviet Union was Stalin and the Social Democrats fault and failure to lead the workers to power. Those who will go on strike on the railroad are workers not people to dumb to open landscaping rackets. .
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  41.  @jonathantaylor6926  Milton Freedman and all the rest of those who subscribe to capitalism call themselves free market advocates despite how monopolized they are. All the Big companies and the banks are intertwined along with the Central Bank. The federal Reserve is controlled by the same people who own wall street.They are classed based on the ownership of private property. The Soviet Union had no private property instead it was based upon central planning by a group who had made itself into a privileged caste not a new class since a class has a specific property relationship to the productive property. Stalin and what was left of the communist party after the murder purges owned nothing. Its privileges were based upon giving itself more and more incentives which pushed it back in the direction of capitalism.
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  42.  @jonathantaylor6926  The Federal Reserve act of`1913 created the Federal Reserve bank. It was created by the biggest financial interests as in an effort to prevent banking crisis. You can call it free market capitalism Like Ronald Aegean or Imperialism like Lenin but capitalism is what you have. It can't be "fixed" because its problems are caused by the root way in which the system is organized with private property, profits and markets. Banking capital became important because the production process goes though many steps from farm or the earth before reaching the end user. At each step trade and exchange of money occurs.
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  43.  @jonathantaylor6926  Your the one who oppose class struggle against the rail bosses. You the one who says free markets work. Your the one who has defended capitalism at every turn and has no solution other than to sit back and become a landscaping boss. Now suddenly you recognize that the federal reserve was set up to defend the capitalist ruling class. So you were dishonest the whole time in making your argument.
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  44.  @jonathantaylor6926  Class struggle is the road to socialism. A defeat of the greedy rail bosses will encourage other workers to fight back with the strike weapon. The landscaping slaves may decide they want better pay or conditions also.
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  45.  @jonathantaylor6926  We will get to the bankers in due time. Chairman Powell only gives orders to print bonds and money he doesn't do the actual printing. Slavery ended with the end of the slave market capitalism will end with the end of the capital market. Marx's observations are the lesson of human history. The road forward is paved by the class struggle not by complainers who sit on the sidelines with no path forward. Yours is the role of the philosopher who solves all problems by changing nothing. Get rid of the central bank you say just how are we suppose to do that? What do we replace it with? Do you have an answer besides DA YOUR A SLAVE and I'M A LANDSCAPING BOSS. Ha Ha Ha???? Of course not because you've read as much as I have and no one has any idea how to do that except us and even we understand that it is not something that can be done overnight. No one can just order the closing of the federal Reserve bank
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  46.  @jonathantaylor6926  We don't control the federal reserve. Besides you your self said that the super rich like it that way so you have no way to change that since the two parties do their bidding. Inflation favors property owners over wage earners. Why should they close down and stop printing money? We will build the labor movement and a new labor party to take state power away from the capitalist parties. We don't know exactly how things will go but we plan to establish a solid and predictable currency based upon labor time and use education to fight labor privilege. We also plan to take things out of the market so the need for a currency will decline. To fight inflation in the meantime we propose a sliding scale of wages and hours. Wage increases to match inflation.
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  47.  @jonathantaylor6926  That won't happen because the politic divide is based in classes not left right center ideology. Plus it won't "fix" capitalism. Its is merely a scheme proposed to save capitalism by placing the problems of the system on finance alone a not the profit and private property system itself. Financial panics occurred before the creation of the central bank and their is no reason to believe that leaving industry in private hands will prevent them. Nor is the idea of conservatives who say that a panic should be ridden out in bankruptcy courts. The solution remains for the working class to take control of production and planing to replacing market/profits as the way to run industry. Every fictitious capital market panic is caused by the operation of the fictitious capital market. Opening the books of the capitalist so the workers can see where money goes is also part of the revolution. No one in Cuba was told they could not be an administrator what they were told is they could no longer use their position to exploit others. Big companies are based in pooling capital just like all banks. Now a government has no incentive to inflate the money supply unless their is private property because inflation artificial raises property values in respect to wages. With no owners of capital its value becomes a use value not and not an exchange value.
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  48.  @jonathantaylor6926  People like Bill Gates the Windows monopolist stand in the way of innovation. China is moving ahead without intellectual property. Fidel Castro didn't get up everyday and smoke weed. The Cuban revolution shows Stalin's excesses were completely unnecessary. The new President of Cuba is a trained electrical engineer. If laziness were a problem bourgeois society would have gone to the dogs a long time ago. Cuba shows what's possible in just a small and poor country. Despite 60 years of blockade the US Imperialist are in no way near to reversing the revolution and the communist leadership in Cuba. What is played down in 1989 was the defeat of the Imperialist of South Africa in Angola bt Revolutionary Cuba. Instead the Imperialist became giddy thinking they had "Won the Cold War" and the "end of history had occurred". The came the "George Bushes" the men who were going to lead a "New World Order" defeating the "New Hitler" and "Terrorism." along with saving the "free market" by intervening in the "free market." A better question would be why is capitalism failing? Capitalism has to exhaust all its possibilities before it get's replaced. Its a world system and its been in overall decline since the beginning of World War one. The 1917 Bolshevik revolution was its first big defeat. Stalin was the leader not of victories after taking over from Lenin and Trotsky but defeats until his heirs were defeated in 1989 by popular revolutions. Imperialism remains the highest stage of capitalism because the ruling capitalist classes are still tide to their nation states and they are unable to peacefully settle trade disputes among themselves on the world market. The working class has only become larger worldwide compared to all other classes and the New Chinese working class has already shown its ability to struggle. The quest for profits is what drove it to "globalism" in production while national independence in what were the colonial nations works against the financial centers of capitalism.
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  49.  @jonathantaylor6926  The friend of the capitalist paid for most innovation over the last century. (The US Gov't funded University connected labs.) Which someone like you would close down as a frivolous government overhead expense. The FBI rooted slander of communists being weed smokers isn't worth the time of day.
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  50. "..Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child ripped open..." Hosea 13:15
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