Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "The Absurdity of Socialism | Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin #CLIP" video.

@benchi2 Sure the Bourgeois Professor is doing fine while the working class is told sacrifice is needed.
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@jackwallace32 It was an excellent example of Bourgeois self censorship. At no time were the words Socialism or Communism used during the talk on The Absurdity of "S....." Good frame job talking about what other unnamed persons say and think as proof about a word the censors don't allow to be used among polite company.
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@Hunterhunter-ir9nz I know exactly what happened. She's realizing that for the educated there is no connection between work, smarts, and wealth that it for the most part its entirely arbitrary and based in class origins.
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@irw4350 At no time is the word Socialist or Socialism used.
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@williamfriar6295 This was another self censored talk about a dirty word that can't be used in polite public circles. "Socialism". Note that no where in the talk is the dirt word used only in the title.
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@Rufusismydogsname I don't see him breaking a sweat but maybe I missed the day he poked himself with a pencil. I have no love for elite academics nor do I have any control over what the bosses government does. The only thing I found absurd in this video was the arguments made against an abstraction of whatever it is these guys are talking about. Capitalism is basically a rigged game where the house always wins. The Bourgeois are the controlers and funders of Elite University Professors chairs. They and their ideas are the ruling ideas of capitalist society.
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@poetmaggie1 Picking out facts seldom explains anything rather trends and directions are almost always more important. A fact by itself means nothing without you comparing it to something. Petersen is easily overwhelmed and confused about everything so he starts throwing around facts as if they in themselves prove whatever he is trying to say.
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When did they use the word Socialism or Socialist?
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@erickolb8581 Obama is a capitalist politicain who has nothing to do with unions or Socialism except when they wants our votes just like Trump or any other politician. Usually they only want to meet with our leaders seeking to convince them that they have something to offer us which they don't.
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@robertwalker2923 World capitalism has already entered it biggest crisis since the 1930's. The last time the Imperialist nations went to war without nuclear weapons 80 million died in 6 years of fighting.
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@toocoolfortheroom380 Why was the word Socialism only used in the title and never in the talk?
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@mardukevii9180 The thing the profit system ends up doing is leading to economic crisis and Imperialist war.
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@uploadinstuff Excellent job of self censorship by Petersen and Rubin never once did the use a dirty word that might evoke the need for censorship like Socialism or Communism despite the title.
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Give the two a Presidential medal for being easily fooled into thinking that capitalism has any economic or political stability.
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@golden.lights.twinkle2329 He went to the ER after passing out due to his brain swelling. Doctors are considering drilling a hole in his head to relieve the pressure due to the brain swelling.
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His is the kind that keeps on giving. That of an intellectual being bandied about by the class struggle looking for the same safe space as his bourgeois opponents. .
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Sure you love the talk because he never used the dirt word in the title so you were spared the ringing in you ear of the word "Socialism." They did an excellent job of self censorship never using that bad word the bosses hate to hear "Socialism".
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@loturzelrestaurant I'm not sure how my comment ended up under yours. I have no objection to your comment in fact I have looked at "second thought."
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@barrysherwin3297 Very good at beating around the bush and never using that dirty word that gets so many bosses hopping mad. "Socialism."
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@sabejreid2072 The very beginning statement is utterly ridiculous. A $50 smart phone supposedly means one can not be oppressed. The cell phone has become so ubiquitous that they illegally circulate inside prisons. Fifty dollars will not even come close to buying a $50 gold piece. Cuba has a higher literacy rate than the US.
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@Xanderbelle How come you do all this with the "Great writers of the past." but don't do it with the Marxists?
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@PlaidPenguinGaming If he's so smart why'd he name a daughter after Mikhail Gorbachev the last Stalinist leader of the Soviet Union? He's just another intelectual who sways about in the winds caused by the underlying class struggle.
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@PriyamChauhan-bc6tp As Marx stated the goal of the communists is to abolish private property the property used to exploit others. The Cuban revolution shows what can be accomplished where a true communist leadership is acting in the internationalist manner required. No need to engage in suppression of capitalist ideas since they will be rejected by the great majority having confidence in leaders who have always told the truth no matter how good or bad it was. This is something that capitalist politicians can never do because maintenance of their system requires telling lies and half truths about themselves and the workings if their system. Fidel Castro never had a problem creating enough educated people out of those willing to stand and defend the revolution. When the revolution came to power no one was told they couldn't be an administrator what they were told is that they couldn't use their position to exploit others.
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@willyreeves319 Don't you need to use the word Socialism if your going to talk about it being absurd?
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@soulcapitalist6204 The most absurd of all things is cryptocurrency which Petersen saw no problem with just a few weeks earlier. Only the money fetishism of capitalism would find the mining of special numbers by use of computer (the machine) algorithm and electricity to be creating something of worth.
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Ask Marx and he'd tell you Capitalism is just a stage in human history that was born in the belly of feudalism just as socialism is born in the workings of capitalism with the class struggle between the two most important class. The proletariat and the capitalist.
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@S0me0ne353 "Socialism on Trial" was the court transcript of the first Smith "gag" Act trial by FDR. Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General put the FBI secret police on trial and resulted Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell being held in contempt of court.
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@tom2659 Sounds more like its about college students who are spoiled brats. What does that have to do with say "The Militant" newspaper or the Socialist Workers Party?
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One day he likes Gorbachev the next is about Solzenitzyn. He's foolish enough to think bitcoin is producing wealth with computer nubmer miners for numbers that have no intrinsic use or value in the world outside of the worship of money and trade by the fetishism of capitalist money value.
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@paulpicquigny4494 The bankruptcy of the neo liberalism of the consevative Milton Friedman came to a jarring end with the crisis of 2008. A world capitalism in crisis is not going to have the friends it did in the post war period of growth for the western imperialist economies. You all though you won the cold war when all that happened was that the Stalinist revealed themselves to be liars and cheats just like the Imperialist ruling classes. Bush was talking about a "New World Order" where neo liberal hypocrisy ruled the day. Turns out that four Presidents of both parties did nothing but waste 5 trillion dollars on wars that did nothing but destroy the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. You throw people out of work and then wonder why you need a bailout? Marx stipped capitalism bare in Das Kapital and showed that it could only lead to economic crisis and war. That is all that worlds capitalist ruling classes are capable of. The greed that drives them in the end leads to the twin evils of fascism at home and Imperialist war abroad. The workers will have their say before this is over with. History already proves that. We are well over do for another socialist revolution somewhere in the world today much like the Russian and Cuban of the last century.
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@TheGreatRepeller Climate change has become an excuse for the problems caused by the decline of the world capitalist system. I have no confidence in Democratic Imperialist governments or the petty bougois left to accomplish anything.
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The absurdity of these fools will be seen as capitalism continues down its path of economic crisis and Imperialist War.
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"You've got a chance that's all your suppose to have in life." What a marvelous defense of capitalism!!! We let you play high roller at the casino what more do you want? Tired of a rigged game? Read Karl Marx.
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@michaelbullen4146 What does this have to do with the word that is never used or discussed in the video "Socialism."?
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@theveryworstluck1894 I was wondering why they never used the word Socialism or Socialist?
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The problem for world capitalism is that it goes into crisis of its own making after it achieves primitive accumulation. Once this happens the capitalist can not get out of their self made crisis without resorting to Imperialist War to redefine ownership of world resources and markets amongst the thieves of the ruling classes and fascism the drive against the trade unions who are fighting back against capitalist austerity measures. Only the victory of world socialism in a final victory over the ruling classes can achieve peace among the different nations of the world. That is because the world is one economic unit and the ruling capitalist have no interest in anything but exploiting labor ad resources for the growth of private profits. This is why Marx said the workers must raise upon their banners abolish private property.
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@gordonmurray3153 During the whole talk the words Socialism or Socialist is never used. Apparently the talk concerns the definition of oppression and Rubin clams that a $50 dollar cell phone in the back pocket ends oppression. Now we know what that the way to end the problem of oppression is with $50 cell phones in the back pocket. Too bad Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Fidel Castro didn't realize the value of $50 cell phones in back pockets. We now know the key tp ending all problems is with $50 cell phones in the back pocket.
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@gordonmurray3153 We aren't catering to the "general public". Since the crisis of 2008 our paper sales reach workers beyond just the national minority communities.
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@gordonmurray3153 You've had plenty of attempts to go past capitalism in Europe and so far all you've produced long term is Social Democracy and Stalinism. All that prosperity of Social Democracy is based on Imperialism which is capitalism's highest stage. The ruling classes of Europe are rearming and squabbling just as they did before the two previous world wars. The America workers have never suffered the historical defeats created and brought on by the Social Democracy or Stalinism either. We've had one small and modest Socialist Revolution in the America's and so far it's out dene anything anyone has done outside of the actual early years of the 1917 Russian revolution in terms of revolutionary internationalism and anti Imperialism. Once you can breakout of the thinking of the Scottish clan system and realize you live in a world economy with problems that no single country can solve than maybe you will understand why socialism is the necessary solution to Imperialism and not Social Democracy.
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@soulcapitalist6204 Foreign investment backed by military force is Imperialism. American Imperialism is the most powerful capitalist empire in world history but it is in decline. Capitalist only produce for a market and the workers can't buy back all that can be produced causing periodic crisis of overproduction. To drive profits their way capitalist replace more higher paid skilled labor with less lower paid unskilled labor and machines. Because commodity prices tend towards the cost of production so too the rate of profit by which the capitalist judge success must also fall because the amount of labor needed for exploitation goes down. Capital tends towards monopoly and profits go towards the most parasitic of capital's finance capital which demands a guaranteed return on investment. All of society is enlisted in the drive to halt the declining profit rates. The capitalist have themselves convinced they are creating value out of capital alone and so a giant fiction becomes foisted upon society until the value of capital collapses like a house of cards built in a gambling casino called the stock market. To defend their world wide investors Empire they must invest in more and more military spending and destruction of other nations to keep their crisis ridden system going. Because the capitalist who are nation state based compete must compete in the world market they are driven to the ultimate competition Imperialist World War.
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@GardaOrban Petersen doesn't know what he is talking about most of the time. He is easily confused and sees communism as reincarnation of the devil.
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@MrSmegfish Those two things are highly unlikely.
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Now that you have Putin's capitalism in Russia are you still happy with your "Peaceful Imperialism" of German Social Democracy?
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@Alberto-te5fj In the capitalist world each ruling class has its own self interests. They can't help come into conflict because capitalism develops the world in combined and uneven ways. Capitalism goes into decline as profit rates naturally go into decline in giant industries. The bosses waged world war twice to redivided the spoils of capitalism among the hyenas. Can you afford a third world war over who get to be the king of the profit makers.
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