Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Why Democratic Socialism Is Gaining Popularity In The United States" video.

death to socialism To clarify some call a country socialist because a socialist a socialist party is in power. I do not. The Nordic countries remain capitalist because industry remains in the hands of private owners. You give the impression you think Finland is socialist.
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death to socialism Finland IS a capitalist country. Every advanced capitalist country from the very beginning has had taxes. England, France, the US, Germany. They raise taxes to pay for activities that don't make profits. Name me a single advanced capitalist country without taxes? A REAL country not an Ayn Rand mental invention.
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death to socialism You have no right to you bourgeois property which you use for the exploitation of others. The only thing a capitalist does is use the rules of exchange to make himself rich. He pay one price for our labor and then turns around and sells it for a higher price. Capital produces nothing while labor produces everything. A machine is merely labor already preformed to save labor to be preformed in the process of production. No machine can be built that operates in perpetual motion and no one has ever created a machine which can reproduce itself. All machines must be built by labor and all machines must be set in motion by labor.
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death to socialism All the rich people left Cuba and they are still going strong.
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death to socialism You want everything done for you. You tell me where you can become a Doctor and not take out about 100,000 in loans like in the US. The Covid death toll in the US is sixty times the rate in Cuba right now and they are on track to have the whole pop vaccinated by Nov. with a vaccine they developed. In Cuba the Doctors come to you. Here you can't trust the Doctors because a lot of them do stuff for the insurance money. Life is hard there one reason is the US multinational Blockade but they don't have the crime problems like in the rest of Latin America. You cross to Mexico from Texas and you see soldiers with rifles riding in pickups with one guy standing up ready to fire.
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@shopliftingshame8828 The rich should pay 100% tax on profits tax before anyone else pays a penny in taxes. Biden is a tool of big business and Sanders was a traitor to the working class when he voted for the Afghanistan war.
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Fook Yuu They are Imperialist countries without the military expenses of the American Imperialist they are able to buy off a section of the working class with a few reforms issued with the end of WW2 in the Western countries destroyed in the 2nd World Imperialist war. Rebuilt with US Marshal Plan loans. They are part of the world market and the capitalist classes have been unable to escape the Imperialist stage of market competition instead it has only intensified since the end of the Cold War and the crisis of 2008 and now the Covid Crisis.
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@macq1 The industrial workers produce surplue value so they should be paying no tax on their wages neither should anyone at that income level and then the profits should be taken first and spend on the overhead social costs of education and healthcare. Since Imperialist military adventures are unnecessary than all that productive capacity can be redirected into production for human needs of the people in the colonial countries to help them develop their nations instead of destroying them in the intestes of profit and foreign investors.
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death to socialism Is Finland not a capitalist country? Why would the capitalist NOT want to shift the tax burden to the working class. Only a fool believes the Social Democratic lie that capitalism can become socialism by changing the name of everything. The Social Democrats say let me run the capitalist state for the capitalist and I will give you socialism presto chango.
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death to socialism The Social Democrats and Stalinist agree that capitalism can be made to work for the benefit of all. They tell the workers you need to share costs with the capitalist. I argued about this win another Finn he tells me that capital produces. I told him wealth can only be generated by labor he insists otherwise. What do you think and why.
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Democratic Socialists basically Social Democrats who are afraid of being called a commie.
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@xx5zi Communism is not a new doctrine with its holy priests. It's a movement it starts with facts and its the history of the modern class struggle both victories and defeats of the proletariat in its struggle with the other important class in the modern world the capitalists class. The road to socialism is paved by the class struggle. Capitalism reached its highest stage Imperialism with the investment in the colonial counties. It began the reactionary first world war to redivide the colonies among the Imperialist masters. Since then the capitalist classes have played a destructive and reactionary role in the world. American Imperialism declaring itself the lead of the free world has just finished a 3 trillion dollar 20 year war on terror in Afghanistan. This war created a disaster for the people of one of the poorest countries in the world. After thousands were killed and millions displaced by war and turned into refugees the Imperialist talk of how the are human rights leaders who care for women's rights and girls while moving to deny women and girls the right to their own bathrooms. No lie is too big to be told and nothing is so sacred to escape the Imperialist drive to prop up declining profit rates and a system based in exploitation, war and racism.
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