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

  1. Without the use of or the threat of use of the CIA, US Marines and US Army the New York banks and American Investors would have to accept local/national control of nations. No one in Cuba voted or had the right to vote for Trump so why does the US continue its blockade of the country. It also goes beyond US companies and forces other nations companies follow the US line by threatening to close the US market to those companies for not going along with the US Embargo. In the latest UN vote condemning the US blockade two countries voted against ending the blockade the US and Israel.
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  2. "...how does the U.S. government putting dictators in place in South America make capitalism responsible?" Easy the capitalist control the US Congress through campaign contributions. If Congress didn't want the CIA and US Ambassador doing things like that they could express their will by voting to cut off funds for doing that. If necessary then impeaching the president for not carrying out the laws they write.
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  3. If the Labor/Capital relationship is really voluntary why is it that the capitalists so forcefully oppose unions and strikes?
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  4.  @AndrewBouchierUK  The small boss is always just one step away from being eaten by the bankers or crushed by the price of labor. That's because he doesn't have the protection of being "to big to fail" like the big capitalist who own the politicians and control the money printing at the federal reserve bank.
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  5. Bill Gates started with a head start education at a private school. He than spent some time at a college where the saying is all the hard work has already done. At age 21 he left Harvard when he could access his 1 million dollar trust fund. His basic skills are being an expert manipulator of others and being a ruthless businessman. He fits in well with other ruling class robber barons like Thomas Edison, JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. He bought the DOS operating system from someone who lived on the other side of town. Windows and Mac OS/10 are ideas that came from Xerox The Microsoft office suite was built out of control of the Windows Operating system an advantage of secret source code knowledge his competitors and the original inventors didn't have. He was able to bamboozle the IBM Giant at lest twice first selling them the DOS software licenses and later agreeing to co develop OS/2 while working on a new version of Windows.
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  6.  @unsec-genantonioguterres5788  No it was Eisenhower (R).
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  7. Sure they pick something where they are trying to enter a mature market that requires a small initial amount of capital and then try and expand in size by holding down wages so as to be able gain the capital needed to expand. Gates had an initial $1 million dollar trust fund. Sure big business likes to talk about American Dreams while crushing all small business in their pursuit of profit or using contractors to isolate themselves from unions when necessary. My dad founded his business at age 48 did he need everybody to work like a dog for minimum wage? No How did he do it? He understood the business and wasn't trying to become the next GE, GM, Mcdonalds or whatever. He never had more than four employees yet he did quite well for himself. My dad had three giant manufacturing competitors. If they wanted to they could have crushed him like a bug including his former employer who had fired him and latter offered him a bottom level management job which he correctly rejected. His former employer never found his legal source of their equipment and decided to just leave the market in that area. At the end of the day maybe they felt getting into a battle with him wasn't worth it.
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  8. Why is it my responsibility to keep up the illusions of small business owners like the so called American Dream of small business owners? With 8 out of 10 new businesses failing after 18 months shouldn't you be knowledgeable before you enter into the world of small business?
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  9.  @doom4067  I hope it doesn't happen but with the capitalist means of production an inflation like that in post WW1 Germany is not an out of the possible. Germany's capitalist economy had workers taking their pay home in wheel barrows filled with Deutsche Marks. Two billion an hour pay for entry level workers might not be out of the question then.
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  10.  @nicolasarnold7210  So why do sweatshops exists? Certainly the owner does better in a sweatshop assuming he does not get hit by a strike and union or an excessive rate of worker turnover. The reason is that in any individual negotiation for wages the employer has the upper hand due to unemployment.
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  11.  @sifumode9460  In a socialist revolution the working people take control of industry and land. Land goes to those who will work the land. Industry comes under workers control. In Valenzuela 80% of business is in private hands. Neither Chavez or Maduro had or have any intention of going beyond social democracy.
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  12.  @jakeweberzwier8655  We collect Yankee dollars in union dues and use them against the bosses all the time.
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  13.  @Junius24  The bosses only want to pay in wages what it costs to reproduce our labor for the next pay period. Our labor produces more than what the pay us which is the origin of all profits and taxes the government collects. They do this in order to maximize profits and pay for the bosses.
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  14. @John Smith That sounds like the US Army in Vietnam.
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  15. @John Smith Operation Speedy Express, The (We) My Lia Massacre. The Tiger Cage prisoners. The anti 2nd Amendment villager gun confiscations. The strategic hamlet concentration camps. The use of carpet bombing. napalm, cluster bombs and agent orange. The US agreed to pay Vietnam war reparations at the Paris Peace treaty. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter refused to even provide help removing unexploded ordnance. Cater repeatedly voted to keep Pol Pot's seats at the UN. So next time you see Carter at Habitat for Humanity think about a pile of skulls.
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  16. @John Smith What about when a foreign government invades like the US in Vietnam? Also an ARVN General shot an unarmed hands tied suspect for the US TV cameras. Seems to me you idea of "unconstrained capitalism" failed in a number of places requiring a military bailout with some success or in the case of Cuba almost none at all. You won in places like Indonesia twice at the cost of about a million lives each time.
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  17. @John Smith I bet you even think you won the cold war. Really? because actually you defeated the most powerful labor aristocrats ever assembled. Now that you've removed them as an obstacle to revolutionary marxism increasingly any new fighting labor leadership will look to us instead of the old Moscow murderous bureaucratic sellouts.
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  18.  @stephenlord2200  Have you or Smith lived for a year in Cuba? Than all you know is also theoretical. Do you think you can lay this crisis at the feat of a virus and not the natural workings of capitalism and it's continued crisis. The natural under 10 year business cycle was already overdue. They were hoping to put that off with near zero central bank interest rates. The President and Congress knew they had a problem back in January so why did they do nothing then? The obvious answer is to wait for market forces to kick in and when that didn't happen they went for the flatten the curve strategy. Now they have 30,000,000 without jobs and counting.
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  19.  @stephenlord2200  I read the communist manifesto at the library in 10th grade. I knew about the 1936 to 1938 Moscow Trials, Leon Trotsky and can remember the 1968 Prague Spring before Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter was elected. Carter was the first to claim a human rights mantra after the failure of the bomb them back into the stone age Vietnam and cold war mentality. Carter who refused to spend a dime removing unexploded ordnance from Vietnam. Carter who supported the Pol Pot regime at the UN sending aid via the royal dictatorship of Thailand. Carter who accused Cuba of holding political prisoners didn't like the "Tony Montana's" he got. He locked them up and that's when they rioted over the dungeon like conditions. Carter who took the hit for supporting the Shah of Iran's bloody regime.
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  20.  @stephenlord2200  It's become fashionable to say like Comrade (He was once a social democrat) Professor Peterson without mentioning Trotsky by name that "..if I was the damn leader of the revolution I would have ushered in the damn utopia..." Now if Stalin was the leader that Comrade Peterson claims and no different than Trotsky how would Trotsky know that the Chinese (1929). German (1934), French (1938) and Spanish (1939) revolutions would all fail due to Stalin's Cominturn International policies? Shouldn't Stalin be able to pull of one win pre WW2? Stalin was at war with Finland at one point and Trotsky was asked how would Stalin deal with Finland if he won. Trotsky responded that he would be forced to Sovietize it. Which is what Stalin did post war in territory occupied by the Red Army.
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  21. Post WW2 Guerrilla partisan groups lead by Stalin's faction against Japan and Germany won revolutions in China, Yugoslavia, Albania, Vietnam and Korea. Yugoslavia/Albania was to go to Britain. This is why Marshal Tito and Stalin never got along. Tito sending Stalin a letter, "..if you send anymore assassins I will sent one to Moscow and he won't fail..." Moscow and Peking would later each accuse each other of revisonism and fight a short war. The Cuban revolution was lead by Fidel Castro of the 26th of July movement not the official Cuban Stalinist PSP. The PSP didn't even join in till later. There was no murder purge like the Moscow Trials and no hardened Stalinist leadership like in China or Yugoslavia. They never murdered homosexuals although the did send them to some kind of camps which they later admitted was wrong.
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  22.  @stephenlord2200  I saw that movie on the Central Banks on Amazon Prime. It also quickly brushes aside the Russian Revolution. The banks are connected with big industry. Why would big industry want to get rid of them? If you get rid of them why will that change the essence of capitalism? You would still have money lending by big industry now becoming banks. Wouldn't you just be changing the color of the ink with everything being losses in black instead of red. Industry will still want more back than what it puts in otherwise how could they make a profit? You would still leave a plutocracy in charge demanding to make a profit.
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  23.  @stephenlord2200  Capitalism started first at somewhere around the 16th century. The Manifesto in 1848 marks the beginning of scientific socialism and the communist movement. The last chapter is completely outdated. Ending all taxes except the graduated income tax. Even that will probably end quickly as voluntary labor replaces commodity production.
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  24.  @stephenlord2200  To make a profit you must sell at a price above the cost of production. You don't sell at the "best price possible." The best price for the seller is not the best price for the buyer. If anything you try and sell at a monopoly price where demand exceeds supply. The labor time per unit is held to a minimum. The labor quality is correct for the commodity produced. The workers production work week hours are the longest. If you can't make a profit your headed for bankruptcy court which is in the constitution. if no one could lend and no one could borrow would we need a bankrupsy court? You say your going to end fractional bank borrowing replacing it with banks doing exchange processing for fees only. If I'm GM with a pile of profits can't I still lend what I have in the bank or from a self bank. If I just keep the profits I and other companies making profits will contract the money supply just as you blame the banks for doing so now. Most of the working class is in some kind of debt now. If the banks or GM and other profit makers can't lend do we rent everything so we can stay out of debt? The advantage to selling and lending money over renting is an owner becomes responsible where as a renter is less likely to be. Since money itself is a universal commodity a lending contract is really just a renting of money contract. If I am bad at fulfilling my money renting contracts my credit score goes down. That's why I say your idea of being able to get rid of debt such that the banks or others can't lend is not possible within the framework of a capitalist system and more like a medieval one were usury was forbidden. If you do allow lending that it must be kept above a black line. If you do that then all your doing is moving where the zero is on a number line of positive and negative numbers.
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  25.  @stephenlord2200  You want to rant on and on about Stalin and whatever so I'm not going to reanswer most of what I've already answered. A good example? How about 10,000 foreign medical students studying at no direct cost to the student at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana today? It wasn't until 1986 that the US Supreme court over turned sodimy laws. At most gays in Cuba were sent to work camps for voluntary labor. The US still uses forced convict labor and it wasn't until 1970 that whipping of convicts in Alabama ended.
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  26.  @stephenlord2200  The constitution says, "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin" for the federal government. The GPO prints the money and the US Mint coins money. To regulate value you have a presidential appointed board of governors of the Federal Reserve Bank.
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  27.  @stephenlord2200  Actually I don't live in suburbia but in campground/trailer park in a modest sized camp trailer with a reg cab pickup. I shop at Walmart have never used Uber or Uber Eats or whatever. I considered driving for Uber but they requires a 4 door vehicle and I can't drive a taxi without a Medical exam that I can no longer pass. I not going to convince you of anything you've already made your mind on up. At my age and with my physical problems it makes no sense to work without company provided healthcare which most companies won't provide until a year or more service. Caulk that loss up to a system that can't provide universal healthcare. Sure I could work for Uber if I had a four door vehicle or a Taxi/Limo company if I could pass the state required medical exam. I still put a couple thousand miles a year just driving my truck trailer cross country. I bet it just burns your up because I'm "cheating the system." Drives a Truck Trailer down empty rural interstates and over the NY through way Tapanezze Bridge just north of NY City straight on though Big cities like Chattanooga, TN on I 24/I 75 but can't drive a taxi cab.
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  28.  @stephenlord2200  I don't see any answer to my criticism of your central bank and banking reform theory.
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  29.  @stephenlord2200  The height of power and prestige for Stalin and his Western little Stalins was in 1945 with the Defeat of Germany and Japan. For the whole wars years western media could say enough good things about this leader of the big three. He even sat for pictures with Roosevelt and Churchill. A year and a day to date after the defeat of Germany Churchill gave the famous beginning of the Cold War "Iron Curtain" Speech while President Truman sat on the same stage. The honeymoon with Stalin was over. The American Stalinists who had been such loyal strikebreakers during the war years were caught with little support in the labor movement. They were taken completely surprised by the post war strike wave. They would be begin serving 5 year stretches in the Federal pen for violation of the Smith 'gag' Act. As those witch hunt years progressed it became apparent that the real treat to civil liberties in the US was coming from the witch hunters themselves and not a disgraced Communist Party USA.
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  30.  @stephenlord2200  You can continue with all the rhetoric about Cuban labor camps. But the truth remains that there has never been a blood purge of the Cuban revolution like that carried out by Stalin. Lenin's 1917 Politburo had seven members two died of natural causes Stalin and Lenin. The other five were all executed after frame up changes of being agents of Hitler and a Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center. This didn't go on in 1917 or 1927 it started in 1936 long after the Bolshevik victory in the civil war in 1922. The evidence and charges were looked at by a group of American Intellectuals lead by John Dewey. Their conclusion was that they were frame up charges of all the individuals involved.
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  31.  @stephenlord2200  They whole problem for the Cuban counterrevolutionaries is they talk about thousands being executed unjustly but can't name a single person who was unjustly executed.
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  32.  @stephenlord2200  I've gone through at looked how the fed adds to the money supply. The buy securities from banks and treasury bonds with federal reserve notes (money or electronic credits). If they buy securities like junk bonds during the Great Recession well that's a form of possible fraud. At the end of the day the banks must have a certain percentage of reserve if not they must either borrow from another at the prime rate or from the fed at the discount window usually at a higher than prime rate. Changing the reserve requirements doesn't change the total capitalization it just allows more or less to be borrowed by the banks customers. Treasury creates 30 year bonds whenever they don't have enough tax funds. Bank securities might be of questionable value.
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  33.  @abpg0578  DA?
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  34.  @anandadaquino3604  So we are now basing politics on accents? How about all the people without a slavic English accent. Like those who don't speak English to begin with?
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  35.  @brianharder7714  I'm still wondering why no can come up with the name of a single innocent person executed by Che or the Cuban government after 1959?
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  36.  @brianharder7714  Actually ever since the Oct Russian revolution you've been trying to deport us. AG Palmer went crazy and predicted a communist uprising exactly 100 years ago today May 1, 1920. He, J Edgar Hoover, and local cops were arresting anyone suspected of being a labor radical, socialist, communist or anarchist as a nationwide roundup was underway to beat the May 1st deadline. They call that the first red scare. The American Bourgeois saw the writing on the wall and they didn't like what they read.
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  37.  @brianharder7714  The real bloodthirsty demagogues are the US Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon since they presided over the Mad carpet bomber campaigns in Korea and Vietnam. The estimated numbers of dead in both those wars is around 1 to 2 million for each war. The number who died getting rid of the US Dictator Batista is an estimated 20,000. Amnesty International puts the number of death sentences after the 1959 victory at less than 300. the US CIA 3,000, Other groups have even higher numbers based upon increased believability just as the way the CIA number was chosen.
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  38.  @brianharder7714  Don't you want to sell bone saws to Saudi Arabia?
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  39. Victimhood? You mean all those fine counterrevolution victims of the revolution who are in Miami pleading for a US invasion that will never come.
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  40.  @theoddone887  That's not a marxists problem since the teargas fired by a capitalist policemen smells the same regardless of the ethic or class origins of the policemen firing the teargas canister.
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  41. @mythicfolfi4652 Bosses would rather fund more wars for their foreign investments and get their hands on that social security money so they can gamble with the future.
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  42.  @jonnyreb3032  Capitalism breaks up families because the bosses realize they only need to pay for a single worker not a whole family.
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  43.  @Noname-dr1jm  By hammering away against Imperialist war you trap the capitalist within his own nation. Then you can demand he meet the needs of the working class instead of driving down the price of labor for bigger profits. In the end he must surrender to the socialist revolution since bankruptcy is not the only solution.
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  44.  @idkidk3893  True about the labor unions and we a for them getting bigger and defending the rights of working people as a whole on and off the job. By hammering away at Imperialist war you prevent the capitalist solving the problem of the economic crisis with world war like in the 20th Century WW1 and WW2. With the end of WW2 the American capitalist were able to revive themselves by floating Marshall Plan loans to rebuild Industrial Western Europe and Japan. Communists are for development not destruction by war. We don't want the clock set back to primitive accumulation.
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  45.  @Noname-dr1jm  Civil war become necessary when bourgeois Imperialist forces obstructed development by making alliances with feudal and warlord elements. China was free in 1949 and went back to capitalism in 1989. Democratic India was free in 1946 with an extra 40 years of capitalism its still behind China. Spain spent years under a fascist dictatorship and is now a kingdom. Same with Saudi Arabia. Unlike many countries in Western Europe capitalism is no longer capable of overthrowing feudal relics in a therogoing democratic revolution but instead they find allies in these relics and methods of a bygone era.
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  46. Capitalism destroyed the Black family when Black people went from being sharecroppers to industrial workers. Instead of the family being the basic production unit on the farm a capitalist boss need only hire a single worker not a family and the business cycle further exacerbates the situation with layoffs.
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  47. Because of the hostility of the two different social property forms. On one hand you had the ownership of human beings. The other required a free labor market where the slave can rent himself out to the capitalist bosses. Slavery was hostile to capitalism just as capitalism is hostile to socialism.
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  48. Donald Trump was also a Democrat back then.
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  49. General Batista was a corrupt dictator armed and supported by the United States. Twenty thousand died in the revolution to drive him from power.
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  50. Capitalism means private property that is property that can't be used by others and profits derived from the exploitation of others by the use of private property.
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