Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Hard to believe that middle America accepts the socialist line: Varney" video.

  1. We don't let the capitalist decide how the workers should proceed to a socialist revolution.
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  2. Police serve the ruling class used to bust unions and breakup protests of ruling class policy they are not socialist. Military and CIA defend foreign investment are also not socialist. A certain number of thing can't be done directly by capitalism. The capitalist system needs roads to move goods in commerce but building toll roads only resulted in early toll road builders going bankrupt. Much like city transit systems. So it became a government function to build roads and subsidize transit. With schools you keep the workers children busy. You can't invest in schools and make a profit because you can't use machines to replace the teachers labor and lower the price of education.
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  3. The way capitalism works is to privatize profit and to socialize costs. I don't need to spend money taking courses by bourgeois professors spewing nonsense in defense of capitalism. One can educate themselves on economic subjects by reading the writings of Marx, Engels, and Lenin. The Northern Industrialist took full control of the US government with the Lincoln Administration and smashed their former partners in crime the Southern Slavocracy. So why didn't the capitalists just build roads your way? In fact why doesn't a big Wall Street firm get New York to privatise at least Wall street and charge everyone to walk or drive down the street? Sounds like a good scam to me with the clearly capitalist Bloomberg administration what was preventing it? What you propose is a fascist like government much like the old Duvalier government in Haiti. There the police paid themselves by taking whatever they wanted. Or Private Police like the Pennsylvania Coal and Iron police and Pinkerton strikebreakers? "Smart Companies" you mean like those companies with artificial intelligence running the board of directors.
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  4. Obviously economics 101 fails when it comes to roads. Early England and America had turnpikes with someone collecting money to use the road. You could at the least make every bridge a toll bridge but don't because unlike a factory the bridge combined with the toll collector doesn't produce anything. He collects a toll based upon the past cost to build the bridge which would be a rent. It was decided long ago that the best way to build roads and bridges was with government and experts making the decisions to build, private road companies doing the building and financing done with tax money mostly from motor fuel taxes and bonds predicated on the tax money paying off the bonds. The capitalist investors love bonds that come with government guarantees because the risk is very low.
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