Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "How Tenure Insulates Many Intellectuals From Consequences | Thomas Sowell" video.

The same problem that Conservatives have. The problem is capitalism.
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@itinerantpatriot1196 Marx lays out a general direction. None of the russian revolutionaries thought they could do anything but a holding action until the revolution succeeded in one of the more advanced countries like Germany first. The Paris Commune lasted 70 days. Lenin declared a victory after they lasted 70 days. When the lost the revolution in German they turned to tearing Imperialism limb from limb. Marx never put some timetable on anything either. I'm not really interested in what some professors says. Communism is a movemnet not a bunch of Bourgeois Professors pontificating on what would be a good way to introduce a universal reforms of capitalism. The fact that the Soviet system lasted 70 years and included China itself shows the viability of a workers state and planing. Cuba is continuing on with a workers state and also shows how you can put Marx's ideas to work and out do the neoliberalism of Sowell and Friedman. China and the United States have very similar problems connected to capitalism and the neoliberal ideas of Sowell and Friedman with their "rob the workers" with central bank generated inflation first proposed by Keynes. The capitalist all hold meetings where they plan out how they are going to manage the exploitation of us at meetings of the federal Reserve board and the same is true in the rest of the world where central banks do the central planning.
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@liviamaclean6324 Well now you have Putin who succeeded Yeltsin and Gorbachev going back to Stalin who had Trotsky deported and would destroy Lenin 's Party. How are thing now with Putin as the New Czar? You got the flag of the capitalist counter revolution and a wealthy oligarchy in charge what more could a lover of capitalism want? Stalin accused all his opponents of wanting a return to capitalism yet its his followers who were the ones who succeeded. Why not move to China they are catching up with the number of billionaires. Why wait and not get in on the action on the ground floor as they say?
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@liviamaclean6324 Your just like Gorbachev who could wait to eat at Pizza hut. You've bought into this "happy meal" capitalism story where you just put everything up for sale then the magical free market does its work. How what a hard life you had in the gulag. Well would you have been happier if the United States had used nuclear weapons instead of the cold war? They would have used them if Stalin didn't have them. Reagan wanted a first strike capability also. You'd have been turned into a "happy meal" if people like Reagan had their way.
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