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

  1.  @InternetMoneyPE  China capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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  2. Its basically that the Imperialist need someone to blame for the failure of their system of exploration.
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  3. This is just more evidence of the failure of the US Imperialist system.
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  4.  @erikkovacs3097  Well why do the most successful treat us the worst? I've worked for a "growing company" and conditions have just gotten worse and I was their 6 years. Of course they always say things are going to get better just like you but things get worse. They don't want anyone to work for more than a year now because it costs them health insurance. No one starts at anything above minimum wage. All you need to do is look the price of gold over time and compare it to wages since 1944 you see everything you just said is wrong. Wages stooped following productivity in 1973. Grows wealth? Only grows when you can make a profit but that comes to an end in industry as machines reduce labor time and capital value grows because then the rate of profit must decline since the profit comes from our labor. That's when you start making investments to drive up the price of fictitious capital value which then must collapse. Then to get things going again you must now keep adding money by the central banks because you insist that capital produces value. You've built a whole house of cards on fictitious capital such that your all afraid of the next coming collapse. Mountain of debt contacts and still buying up lots of worthless junk bonds to keep in Federal reserve vaults. Called quantitative easing. Refusal to raise the minimum wage. Now the federal reserve is making direct loans to companies because the private banks are afraid of taking a loss. Ya you system is working just great but sure Bezos is going into space where he says all the dirty energy production will go. Sure and I believe in the tooth fairy also.
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  5.  @erikkovacs3097  Capitalism is coming to an end because of its own logic. Just like feudalism had the seeds inside to produced capitalism. Capitalism has the seeds to produce socialism. But just like the end of feudalism becoming capitalism. It won't happen automatically. Feudalism came to an end when the ruling class became an obstacle to development. That's what the enlightenment and people like Thomas Paine figured out. Plus the property that John Locke talked about was not the same as Capital. Marx also looked over the whole history of human development and if you think your that smart or someone has successfully answered him well I've never read anything that wasn't just a lot of fables, lies, or personal feelings. Much like your writings. Sure maybe I'm not exactly correct but you are way off base. Did you ask for proof that a rocket could go to the moon before we built it? I can lead a horse to water but I can't make you drink. Growing wealth? Wealth for who? More ficticios capital? Absolutely correct! The system is set to maximize profit above all else Friedman justifies that. I and Marx have already show, along with empirical evidence if you care to research the classical economists, that profit must decline in industrial production as machines replace labor since the source of profit is our labor.
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  6.  @erikkovacs3097  Middle Class you mean those professor at Yale and Harvard and all the Government flunkies along with the media liars and the Non profit Philanthropic bosses. All the superstructure that consumes while producing nothing. The capitalist will give them the boot when they think they aren't getting their money's worth out of them. The rest of the middle class is driven into the working class. The independent boss now works as a company man for a bigger operation. The big like Walmart and Amazon battle withe each other and strong arm for better terms or take over their suppliers. Business is war and War is good.
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  7.  @born2bbald12  I understand how capitalism works. Your own accounting books prove everything Karl Marx wrote correct. Entitled well at 69 years old I receive a Soc Sec check that you capitalist want to take away to store as profit in a bank account somewhere. Debt is just another way for the capitalist to exploit the worker. He demands to be paid even more in the future the same way in which he exploits us. In some businesses the capitalist is paid before the workers are and in others they are paid after the workers is but the goal and success of the capitalist depends on always being paid more. The goal is maximizing profits and so maximizing exploitation. How to maximize profits well pay the lowest wage and charge the highest prices. Use monopoly tactics to beat the competition. Use government to advance an agenda to defend the rights of capital over labor. Keep people voting for the same people fighting for power and prestige in two parties of thieves.
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  8.  @born2bbald12  You want a foundation for my claims well read Karl Marx for yourself instead of asking me or someone else to explain everything to you like a child who can't do anything for himself. You lack any ability other than to point fingers and make noises like a child who wants a cookie but hasn't got the vocabulary to say baby wants a cookie.
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  9.  @born2bbald12  is a failed brain!!!
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  10.  @born2bbald12  I'm not interested in debating nonsense.
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  11.  @born2bbald12  In fact why don't we start with that you explain why people think the earth goes around the sun and how they discovered that instead of just accepting the common sense that the sun goes around the earth. I'll play the pope and you have to convince me otherwise.
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  12.  @lacha608  The capitalist gets rich by use of capital and number theory. It works much like a gambling casino. Gamblers take most of the risk Casino takes the least. Gambler goes home with empty pockets. Casino puts money in the bank. If you play black jack a new and better number theory was discovered that you can use to beat the casino so the casino made card counting illegal. Casino's have pictures, and names of known card counters to keep them out of the Casinos instead of getting rid of the Black Jack game. Same reason capitalist will never get rid of capitalism it makes them rich no how much better socialism could work for the majority.
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  13.  @born2bbald12  Like I said you don't yet have the cultural level to explain even the why some of the simplest common sense notions are wrong so why would you understand anything I say. At least explain why the earth is not flat without telling me its round or why a 16 th century mariner common sense would tell him to sail away from vision of the shore wouldn't get him hopelessly lost? If I tell you the capitalist doesn't work to earn his money but makes it by ownership and number theory are you going to understand enough about numbers to follow the argument or are you going to tell me I'm wrong and he earns his money?
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  14. The US Imperialists have been exploiting Haiti for years. This is why the Democratic "Imperialist" Party must go.
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  15. The US Imperialist refuse to end the criminal blockade of the island.
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  16. The bosses collect the taxes for the government from our pay check and at the store we never see that money people like you talk about endlessly.
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  17. The 1940 Smith "gag" Act prosecutions of the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters.
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  18.  @davidl5119  They need workers to buy their products.
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  19. This is just part of the continuing crisis caused by the failure of capitalism.
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  20. Like Afghanistan this was caused by Imperialist greed.
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  21.  @AQuietNight  Working is not a crime especially since you produce more than what you are paid. The problem is the bosses refuse to hire without seeing an acceptable profit rate ahead. The let industry and infrastructure decline because of the tendency of profits to decline as machine replace and cut labor time.
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  22.  @AQuietNight  You don't need profit to have an economy work. Profit is surplus given to owners after all other expense are paid including salaries. As bosses replace labor with new machines to save labor time the need for labor the sourse of profit goes down and the capital value rises so as the price falls towards the cost of production than the rate of profit must go down. The capitalist all measure success by profit rate. Now the reason you don't see falling prices is central bank generated inflation. Kenynes advised the British capitalist to rob the workers by going off the gold standard. FDR and Nixon did the same. Now as they add money by making loans from the central bank they say that wages are causing inflation and stop asking for a wage increase but bosses raise price to capture more value and so the value of property rises faster than wages making it possible to shore up falling profit rates because the value of the wage declines as time goes by.
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  23.  @AQuietNight  Job should be a right not privilegie. Boss is the enemy not foreign workers who are exploited here or in other countries. We say bosses who get paid for doing nothing don't deserve any more than a welfare precipitant. Let them go sign up for PA. .
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  24.  @AQuietNight  Imperialist lost the cold war. Stalinist leadership defeated not the working class. Working class stronger and larger more internationalist than ever before. Imperialist becoming weaker and more divided. World market failure is putting capitalism on trial. World peace only possible with socialism and national self determination.
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  25.  @AQuietNight  No just a new way to issue wage cuts to keep up the falling rate of profit. Capital keeps demanding a return on the accumulation of past surplus value. For the present to pay for the past. Capitalist still demanding to be paid for the civil war debt not to mention all the debts accumulated Imperialist wars. Capitalist wanted war for profit you should pay not us. Cancel all Imperialist war debt payments. Not a dime in interest or principal on the 2.3 Trillion spent on the Afgan war. Put it on your books as red ink. You say capitalism works because you can take a loss. Well now's the time to step up to the plate and tske a big loss.
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  26.  @codycast  Workers don't have capital. That's the reason for going on strike.
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  27. Sure the way WalMart and Amazon are pitching in we can't go wrong.
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  28. Maybe you need to take a bath in the Rio Grande.
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  29.  @G00GleIsACr33p  Mexican bosses face strikes and united union action just across the border in Matamoros, Mexico. Where ever the bosses go they create more workers whose class interests is opposed to them and the profit system.
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  30.  @kevinodom2918  Bosses can't move a factory without workers. Plus they can't move that fast. We have stop giving into Boss blackmail. Plus we need to help workers to raise wages in the poor countries by opposing military aid to those countries especially the dictatorships like Saudi Arabia.
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  31.  @erikkovacs3097  Free market capitalism ended a long time ago with the domination of the big banks and the federal reserve system. One side the capitalists has the power to set the price of commodities. Our economic power is in combination into trade unions and a labor party independent from the two boss parties to challenge the capitalists politically. .
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  32.  @whatevergoesforme5129  Capitalist prefer the corrupt union or the ones lead by leaders who can't win a strike. They didn't like Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544. That why the bosses concocted a frame job with the Smith "gag" Act. Capital produces nothing why shouldn't a former capitalist work for a wage? As Farrell Dobbs said, "You can have anything your big enough to take." No reason to abusive if it wasn't a dog eat dog system based in competition. A system based in continually raising the cultural level of the working class and cooperation will allow an increase in the forces of production because capitalism is working against that now.
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  33.  @whatevergoesforme5129  Corruption comes from capitalism as the system runs on the logic of greed. The labor aristocrats are the corrupt like the Social Democrats and the Stalinist. People who's ideas and method Lenin and later Trotsky argued against. Just ask all the neo liberals from wall street "Greed is Good." You can as MR nice guy but that is not the way you "get ahead". Business is war and War is good. A single shoemaker if their is even such a trade even left (capital replaces higher paid labor with machines and lower paid labor first) is a worker with his own tools. Once he owns a shoe factory he isn't. Modern business requires the services of banks who are the most parasitic of all capitals. Their demands for profit drive the small into their direction or else. Its eat or be eaten for the small business and every 7 to 10 years a feeding frenzy takes place. Why because of the crisis of overproduction, the ability to produce more than can be sold at a profit, takes place. Whole industries stop operating, workers are thrown out of work and out of their homes. The bosses announce they are going bankrupt and need to cut wages. Sound familiar? It should it keeps happening and it keeps getting worse. So how was it solved in the past well WW1 and WW2. The destruction of capital to restart primitive capital accumulation. Each crisis can only end when enough capital has been destroyed. Of course no individual capitalist or capitalist class want to lose the war for markets.
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  34. Ya like when the Democrats try and silence Trump?
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  35. Sure lets hire more idiots with law degrees they will solve all problems.
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  36.  @BondJames-vz5wk  The Islamist are the ones who are responsible for ethinc cleansing. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a Jew Hater before the State of Israel was founded. He began lauching pogroms in rhe 1920's and was given amnesty by the British. He went to Hiler's Germany were he worked on the final solution.
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  37.  @G00GleIsACr33p  Wages keep rising in Mexico and the third world also. The bosses can't move to Mars like Elon Musk wants to. Put the bosses in a spaceship and send them to Mars.
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  38. You want a revolution that the Imperialists don't want. Thats why the have two parties that act as their two party imperialist dictatorship.
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  39.  @januszczapiewski7407  Capitalism only needs a few specialized people becase you don't need skill to operate machine. Medicene is an overhead cost on the bosses books for workers as is education. With socialism one of the first tasks of the revolution is to raise the educational level of the working people to work against labor privileges. Just like Fidel Castro turned the sons and daughters of sugar cane slaves into medical doctors. Tommorrow's Doctors and Engineer's are industrial workers. You are still thinking like a tradesman and not yet a class concience industrial worker. We do all and learn all the different jobs in the mill. We don't fight like tradesmen on construction job over who's job is to install pump electrician or plumber. .
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  40.  @sethshaw5680  Those are just more lies because one thing peasants know is how to farm just like the former Black Slaves in the US. One of the first acts of the revolution was to teach the peasants and workers how to read so they could not be fooled. The revolution passed the Agrarian reform act giving peasants land to work out of the old Cunan Plantations and US plantation system. Fidel did what General Sherman proposed giving the ex slaves 40 acres and a mule. The US Imperialist first act was and has always been to destroy the revolution. The Imperialist always need to attack, wage war and blockade if socialism would just die of its own accord you would need to attack and lose. Trotsky's Red Army defeated 14 Imperialist Amy's including the US/UK. The Democratic Imperialists lost the cold war because only the Stalinist's were defeated in popular revolutions. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
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  41.  @sethshaw5680  Sure their opposition in Cuba it just isn't very popular given what the US Imperialist have done and continue doing to the Cuban people. You bomb them with repainted in Cuban colors with Alabama national guard B-26 and lie at the UN and have to eat your words. Your CIA kills their diplomats and blows up a Civilian airliner killing their Olympic fencing team and then you wonder why they don't believe the lies you tell them on you propaganda station Radio Marti. You tighten your trade blockade while talking how peaceful you are and call them terrorist when your the biggest terror operator and war monger in the world and every one knows it despite all the lies told by you Democratic Imperialist media. You tired to destroy the country of Vietnam and wonder why everyone hates your military. Same with Korea you ask why don't they love you because you've been so generous to Korea. Sure you only leveled the country to no more than a few two story houses with your bombers. Your dictators had to run away with CIA help from South Korea and your the only foreign power that keeps troops in Korea and Japan since the end of WW2. Soviet's and Chinese left Korea a long time ago and never entered Japan. For over 20 years you insisted that Taiwan was China and Taiwan sat on the UN security council. Now only one country in the world recognizes Taiwan. You and the the Democratic Imperialist Churchill invaded the new Soviet Republic in an effort to strangle Bolshevism in its cradle yet all you ever talked about during the cold war was about a Red invasion and nukes coming inbond at any day. People like me began to see throw all the lies and now you say I'm brainwashed. I remember the old Democratic Party leaders and the Segregation Now!!! Segregation Tomorrow!!! and Segregation Forever!!! How you send out the cops to beat people mercilessly because they wanted what was promised them with the end of slavery. I hare the US government I never vote for you rotten parties.
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  42.  @chrisheist652  Working women need the right to abortion and birth control to plan there lives. Abortion is a working class issue its part of the fight for unity against the bosses. Unity based upon rights and freedom for all. Equal pay and equal rights to jobs for all. The one thing the bosses can't afford is unity among the workers. That's how a strike is one. Unity among all and the fight for jobs for all who want to work at union wages and conditions.
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  43.  @morrnmanderson7376  That's the way capitalism operates the boss gives the orders and you do what they tell you. The Bosses know best. They''ll tell you that. You don't need to think. They're going to do that for you. When Bill Gates need an idea he pulls out a few bucks and he rents a brain by the hour.
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  44. What would be wrong with that?
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  45.  @YourMom-cu8yt  Well the capitalist don't see it that way. Higher wages are a drag on profit rates. They want profits and we want higher wages. We produce the profit and the surplus value when we work. The unpaid labor is the source of the profit and surplus value and the bosses own accounting books prove that. That is what the class struggle is about a fight over who gets and controls the profit and surplus value. The rate of profit tends to decline as machines replace labor in production because the capital value increases while the labor in the product the source of profit declines.
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  46.  @born2bbald12  Karl Marx to the long view of human history and put political economy on a historical materialist foundation. What would you like me to try and explain? All the Great Marxist were both revolutionary leaders and thinkers like Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel Castro and Che. It doesn't make them infallible but they all wrote on what they were doing and debated their opponents. Their is a rich literature they left behind after their deaths.
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  47.  @sandman1688  Hamas speaks for itself in both words and deeds. It wants a Jew free Muslim Caliphate for Palestine not a two state solution. Nor does it want like say the ANC a Democratic nonracial South Africa, or the Irish revolutionaries who wanted a Republic for both Catholic and Protestants. Instead of pursuing development with funds and material it gets for humanitarian needs it use them to build and buy rockets, explosives and tunnels. It cared out this pogrom and kidnapping knowing full well that Israel would fight back. Why should there be any ceasefire on Hamas?
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  48. Impeach the 9 justices.
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  49. That's the whole problem rich people like you who think you own everything.
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  50. The is the result of Imperialist greed.
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