Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Blue Lives Matter flag forced down, deemed 'racist'" video.

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  27. Capitalism is more productive and raised more people out of misery than any other previous social and political system. However just like feudalism, the American slavocracy and the Roman empire slave system it is a class divide system and has its own internal contradictions that spell its doom. That contradiction lies in private property in the means of production and the inability of the producers to buy everything they produce with the surplus going to the capitalist owners. As long as there are new markets to sell the overproduction and more labor from the countryside that can be brought into the system it seems not only the best thing since sliced bread but it also made the sliced bread possible. However as more skilled labor is replaced with more general labor and since the world is only so big a number of things begin to happen. The rate of return on investment begins to decline as capital not only replaces skilled labor but labor in general and the various capital business divided by nation begin to fight over markets. At the same time financial investment in new machinery declines when the realizations set in that capital market manipulation can produce fictitious capital. That is bigger profits on paper than represented by new machinery. All this is happening before our eyes today. These predictions of Karl Marx are being cursed by monied interests throughout the world. A large section if not a majority right now of both the American and European financial interests (Globalists) don't want to go down the road of nationalism and another World war. However the Nationalists want to defend their capital and bring the working classes of each country along with their nation promising jobs via higher tariffs or threats of them. Karl Marx said the solution to all these problems lies in the working classes of all countries overthrowing capitalism abolishing private property in the means of production and establishing socialism on a world scale. So now you know if you haven't figured it out yet I am a communist. Modern racism is based in the need to drive down and hold down wages by dividing the working class along some cultural line. The police as professional enforcers of the rights of private property can not but help to fall into the category of racial discrimination enforcers. As you can see by Trump's nationalism and his war on immigrants who are culturally different that is the way the system is heading.
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  28. Rather than prattle on about a libertarian utopia name a single nation where capitalism develpoped without contract law, a parliamentary way to make law, a police and judicial way to enforce law and a military to define its borders. No large industrial corporate employer can be founded and grow without an infusion of capital from other capitalists. Their called joint stock companies. Yes anyone can become a cockroach in a niche business or one with a small capital to labor ratio. Look up from your screen how many things are produced by a single factory from a single raw material where you walked over and bought it? A few backyard tomatoes that you bought packaged seeds for after driving a car made from parts and raw materials from mines and factories the world over? If socialism were to fail because of human laziness than the Bourgeois society would have died with its owners a long time ago. They are not compelled to lift so much as a finger with servants to dress them, chiefs to feed them, chaffers to drive them, maids to clean house and a bank account with money than can't spend fast enough. If Bill Gates worked it was estimated he would lose more money by picking up a dropped $100 than continuing on with his 'work'. He started with a million dollar trust fund and through favorable court decisions, cronyism (all capitalism works through cronyism), market manipulations and monopoly practices created Microsoft. Capitalism with it built in flaws produced WW1, WW2 and the current 2008 crisis which is behind the problems faced by both capitalism and its political system in the US today. It's not the successes of capitalism its but it failures that bring about a revolutionary situation and the ability to change it. It's major flaw is its periodic crises of overproduction caused by the inability of the workers to buy back what they produce, a decline in rate of return in investment which leads not to investment into new means of production but the creation of fictions capital through market manipulations and the limited size of the world and therefore the world market. They 'globalist' are sections of the capitalist classes that don't want nationalism and competition between national capital to get out of hand and result in another world war. The 'Nationalists' whether they are the Trumpsters, Brexit or others in national capitalist ruling classes want to use the working class against itself by promising jobs via tariffs or threats of them. Neither the globalists nor the nationalists can solve the world crisis set off by the 2008 mortgage crisis. All capitalist forces will begin squabbling with each other and blame the working class for their profit crisis. It's approaching the ten years it usually takes for another crisis to occur and many working people in the US have not been able to recover from the last one. The choice humanity faces is Nuclear war or world socialist revolution. The key country where the working class must take power is the United States. No invasion can successfully disarm the nuclear bombs Washington has posed to destroy anyone who gets in its way. A mass Marxist Leninist party must be built in time before a revolutionary situation develops in the United States that can lead a socialist revolution here.
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  29. Crony less has capitalism never existed. In the United States the rising capitalist class defeated the slavocracy in 1865. The debt and cronyism was so great that they wrote into the 14th amendment of the constitution that the public debt could not be questioned. The Union Pacific Railroad charter made corruption an open secret. Microsoft would not exist if the Supreme court had ruled that computer code was a mathematical means for solving problems and not intellectual property. We have no interest in retaining private property in the means of production. After the Cuban revolution no one was told that they couldn't be an administrator what they were told is they could no longer use their position as a way to exploit others. A planned economy has no need for stocks, bonds, mortgage contracts and other commercial paper. We will replace EPA, OSHA and MSHA with workers control of production, safety and environmental protection we will need scientific experts as advisers not lawyers. We are against efforts to block free speech and discussion by working people such as ' the amendments to overturn Citizens United'. We are interested in what other workers want to do about problems not SJW's, 401c executives and Bourgeois feminists. As working people come into struggle they will change how the see each other and develop a true internationalism like the Cuban People who gave their lives as volunteers to defeat South African Troops and took nothing home but their dead. Thousands of Cuban Medical personnel volunteered to go and defeat Ebola. Thousand serve in internationalist missions overseas as medical personnel and construction workers from Cuba. When Hurricane Katrina hit Cuba offered to send medical personnel without preconditions President Bush said No. His explanation was that the poor didn't understand the need to refuse help. Cuba trains more doctor than it needs including some from underserved districts in the US without a charge for room and board or tuition. While in the United States the costs of education for a physician is such that many don't even try for the spots open. Doctors are constantly recruited from the poorer nations. Unlike other nations with underdevelopment Cuban children do not go to bed hungry and they all attend school. Everyone has a home no one goes without shelter or lives in a car.
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