@comradeleereal: I hate when people say this in a argument, so I wanted to make this video to clear things up! #socialism #communism #politics

doughboy_ :

Kone :

It does not matter how good it sounds it does not work

Seraphina Feargod :

A huge example of non authoritarian communism is Thomas Sankara.

Chudinator :

Yo this guy hella wise

Nez ☣️ :

it confuses me bro like they make me question what i actually know ab it atp

silly :

deadfordays :

Considering one of the reasons Thomas got killed was because people thought Burkina Faso was becoming authoritarian is insane to me (please correct me if I miss represented I’m doing my best doing research)

bearatemykids :

Major Lewis :

Well what’s “authoritarian” about workers owning the means of production is that more often than not workers don’t actually wind up owning the means of production. What winds up happening is that committees or government structures are made to represent the workers and they don’t actually wind up doing so, or when they do, not doing so to the extent they should be, or they end up being reorganized to be more heavily overseen by the government. I find placing the blame of socialist failure on “siege socialism” to be a pretty big detractor from the reality of the struggles of socialism. While this is historically true, it’s important to take into account what all causes the factors of siege socialism, and apply that to reality. I think the existence of a global economy in the first place will always cause siege socialism no matter what. Socialist nation needs to trade to fulfill national needs-> no taxes or revenue generated-> exports reliance-> increased working hours and lowered quality of life to fulfill export requirements-> worker protests/strikes risk causing economic collapse-> siege socialism. The only real solution to this is for the entire world to become one big socialist mass (or at least every region with important resources), which will never happen. As for social and communist countries improving quality of life, this is true, but not so much in terms of “progression” as much as being able to fulfill the potential of industrial output and such. Under socialism and communism you’re working with something much more akin to a command economy with has the benefit of being able to pick and choose what issues the country focuses on directly. When everyone is working towards a combined clearly set goal, the industrial output is much more valuable towards the domestic quality of life. This is why you see such an improvement in the Soviet Union when Lenin first takes over. Billionaires and despots aren’t going to prioritize output towards the quality of life, under socialism there isn’t really another choice. Yet, capitalism will always yield entrepreneurship which is much better for technological progression, so finding a balance is very difficult.

ahahnjones :

Some of the kids are alright, good job young comrade

Jack ✞🇻🇦 :

Oh yeah the Great Leap Forward truly did progress society and improved millions of people living standards

613kaj :

Vote me 2048 so I can transform the us into a utopia 🙏🏾 no amount of money can corrupt me

Speed :

socialism inherently requires authoritarian enforcement because you can't implement centralized economic control without compelling people to obey the plan suppressing dissent and eliminating alternatives

Fent needles of Owen sound :

It couldn’t work it could be great, but when the people that are in power in socialism communism capitalism are just evil it not going to make it better. It’s gonna make it worse.

Drakes_captor69 ✝️✨🇵🇸 :

Also when has capitalism ever worked? A form of government is supposed to benefit the people, the general public, right? Capitalism inherently only works for the 1%, for the people using others labor so that they themselves don’t have to work, that’s a dysfunctional system. Capitalism is a failure the second it’s born, at least communist states get far enough and do enough for their people to be able to “fail”.

superbus-pasha🇹🇷 :

What do you mezn exactly by it being under siege?

marissa🇻🇪 :

Communism is inherently authoritarian since it doesn’t allow private property. Socialism is a failure in that you can’t work hard to get ahead. When corporations are overly taxed, profit is lost that would otherwise go towards wages which greatens the likelihood of downsizing which creates job LOSS which is arguably worse than low wages. The working class in capitalistic societies during times of struggle forget the privilege of survival that many in other countries don’t have. Nevertheless, welfare, section 8 housing, unemployment insurance, homeless shelters, nonprofits, and other resources are available as well in the United States’ capitalistic society which are arguably better than removing the incentive to get ahead and gain wealth by punishing people with taxes.

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@Joseph Banegas202

dozierbartlett :

Socialism must be authoritarian. You have central planning and central distribution of the means of production to the proletarian, this cannot exist efficiently without an authoritarian group. Main mine communist thought literally says socialism must be authoritarian. Has socialism is the final step before communism and socialism is with a vanguard party.

Lorenzo🪖 :

Your argument means nothing, you somehow managed to mix up communism and socialism, considering that they both hold almost completely different values within socialism, the workers own production, and then communism the government owned production. You somehow managed to use multiple communist countries and claim they are socialist of which is idiotic when you’re coming up to the argument of socialism not being authoritarian by using communist countries which communist is naturally , more authoritarian, leaning ideology due to the government, owning the means of production.

synthetic☢️⏪️🛖 :

This is such a weak claim, you say to look at the ideology in it of itself you completely ignore the inherent issue of socialism not being able to be implemented without authoritarian state, at that point I could say fascism is great because it helps to keep everyone in order and remove the wrong doers even if everytime its implemented it results in the murder of millions and oppress the peaple of the country