Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Marxism vs Communism (w/ Richard Wolff)" video.

@jamesduda6017 Capitalism has created greatest wealth ever seen for a smaller and smaller ruling elite group of owners. It has also created a huge working class that owns absolutely nothing. We are debt slaves to the credit card, the student loan, the car payment, and the mortgage. One might ask how could such a thing happen? The answer lies in the profit quest. The workers are bombarded with you need this and you need that and a higher wage is unnecessary because what you really need is good credit that we will give you should you not strike or anyway violate our rules or terms of agreement.
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@juniorgod321 Opening a small business or a small (food) coop can not change the natural way in which capitalism works. Capitalism naturally leads to monopoly and the rate of return on investment drops as machinery replaces labor that drives investment into paper values. The 2008 crisis is not an accident or due to bad policy.
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@brianlacy8870 Not so the working class is less racists than at anytime in past history. Instead of healthcare for all. We got a Romneycare (It made bigger profits for insurance companies in Massachusetts) Renamed Obamacare. Instead of better and cheaper cars We got a "sand in the carburetor" program. Insead of road repair we got the "Orange Barrel". Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize while continuing the endless war policy. Instead of affordable education we got the Obama Speech "To open a book sometime." Now you tell us Trump should never have been elected. Why? Because you wanted not a President but instead a Dynasty headed by Queen Hillary the first. Trump was the only visible candidate without the Good Housekeeping Ruling Class Seal of Approval.
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@juniorgod321 As I said the 2008 Crisis is not an accident or due to bad policy. It stems from greatly driving up paper values way over actual value. Within the nation state the capitalist settle their difference between each other with contract law. Colt Industries in Hartford, CT doesn't send an army up to take out Smith and Wesson in Springfield, MA.
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@juniorgod321 Outside of the nation state they use alliances, trade pacs, treaties and the UN. However competition between them and the ability to produce more than just for the home market, the ability to overproduce, leads them into trade war and then real war. The world is not an infinite market with an infinite supply of cheap labor.
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X @أفلاكالأفكار No it was due to capitalist greed. The Capitalist control the two party politicians not the other way around. This is why many of them are.against Trump even more so the workers who voted for him. No capitalist party politician is suppose to pay any attention to us. They do what wall street wants with some leeway.
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X @أفلاكالأفكار Workers have nothing in common with the Bosses. The workers should never sacrifice to keep the bosses in business. The unions should demand universal healthcare as a way to prevent the bosses healthcare promises from going south with the next round of bankruptcy.
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