Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Why Did Economy of Ukraine Collapse After Capitalism Came to Town? #ukraine" video.

@Whatshisname346 Capitalism is based in capitalist nation states which must compete in a world market. This competition leads to trade war and then real war. The richest capitalist nations destroyed themselves in World Wars One and Two leaving only the United States untouched by wars destruction. Now the United States and its Investors Empire is in decline. The natural tendency of profit rates to fall has caught up with the capitalist mode of production. They can only keep fooling themselves for so long with Central bank generated inflation as a way to cut wages and to keep the profits flowing.
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In 1928 Trotsky warned that the Soviet Union could be brought down by not just by war but also by cheap capitalist goods. That's why the whole idea of building Socialism in one country was utopian. Stalin betrayed the revolution and as Fidel Castro stated the Soviet Party never properly dealt with the injustices of the Stalin era.
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@michaelwarenycia7588 Stalin is the commander who refused the order to advance given at the time the Trotsky and Red army reached the gates of Warsaw. Had the revolution reached Germany than the Soviets would have had a contiguous economic area that included an advanced capitalist nation. Capitalism has the problem of greedy ruling classes using war to advance their competing economic interests. That was the whole reason the Russian revolution occurred. In the US Labor leader Eugene Debs was imprisoned for opposing the Imperialist war. The same thin happened to the American Trotskyist in 1940. The Stalinists applauded FDRs action at the end of the war instead of shaking the hands of the monopolists they were sent to prison for 5 year terms.
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