Is Vietnam Socialist? with Emerican Johnson from NonCompete | Shit Island #15

[@qu.andoiz]

As a Vietnamese, as a Vietnam Communist Party’s member, I affirm that Vietnam is not a socialist country now but is building socialist now and will become a socialist country in future.

[@NonCompete]

Where did you find that wholesome ass pic of me I look like a good all American boi lol. Thanks for having us on! Looking forward to our next chat!

[@azureScapegoat]

It' s a screencap from your "Dirtbag Left" video, actually :)

[@MotivatedMan100]

@@azureScapegoat It makes me sad that so many people in Vietnam treat Americans so well. They shouldn't be mistreated, but they shouldn't be given special treatment or looked up to. I see this happen so much, in HCMC and in Hanoi. A very common raincoat/poncho people wear has ''US Army"" printed on it.

[@nguyenquangminh4814]

The Virgin Confucius vs The Chad Lao Tzu

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

Games aren't really 60$ anymore. They're more monetised than ever. Every game has a season pass a battle pass, DLC, microtransactions etc etc.

[@kcufdnim2670]

Not to mention that they make far more than enough to actually pay their workers well. The real problem is that most of it goes into CEO and Shareholder pockets, who would still claim that they are not making enough, the greedy fucks. Devs and other workers on games are underpaid and overworked, with an opressive atmosphere and media conditionig, that only rarly let's the true face come through. AAA gaming has become a microcosm of so much that's wrong with a capitalist economy.

[@hectorandem2944]

The worst part is, most of the AAA (put on your Jim Sterling voice lol) games coming out recently have been un-creative at best and, all to often, just downright bad. A saying about putting lipstick on a pig comes to mind.

[@kcufdnim2670]

@@hectorandem2944 Comes back to the profit motive. Next to the overmonetisation, they try to appeal to pretty much everyone, which turns games into repetitiv and similar slogs. Not to mention, how much of the budget goes into market. There are so many problems and it will only get worse. I still remember making fun of the horse armor bullshit and oh dear, did things escalate since back then.

[@juhead8222]

I love the chemistry between you three or better four because luna is amazing too

[@lordheadass8310]

As a Vietnamese I'll give you a short answer: "Well yes, but actually no." Its complicated as all things are, we're in a middle of a long process of transition

[@smokyondagrass2353]

So in short, you're working on it

[@lordheadass8310]

@@smokyondagrass2353 no, im short is: "yes, but actually no"

[@LucielStarz123]

@@lordheadass8310 just a hard no would suffice

[@lordheadass8310]

@@LucielStarz123 no it won't, our government party literally called the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Our gov control means of production for essential goods like water, electricity, rice, internet services,...etc... We are by all means in paper, a socialist country, however, we still adapt alot of capitalist pratices for independent business owners, in favor of growing local economy. There are way too many factors in plays but in short, yes, vietnam is a socialist country, but no, we don't abide everysingle socialist practices, we adapt and adjust to what the people and the country needs.

[@LucielStarz123]

@@lordheadass8310 agree.

[@angryyordle4640]

The vietnam war story actually is really interesting to me as a german. My grandmother was a teenager during WW2. At the last day of the war her house got bombed into the ground while she was sitting in the bunker below. Yet when talking to her about it all she had to say was "the americans were so friendly. They took care of us after the war, when our house was destroyed they forced other families to take us in with them for the time so that we wouldn't have to be homeless." People generally can differentiate between the soldiers fighting on the ground and the politicians causing these wars

[@nguyenquangminh4814]

Thank you for putting words to these true situations and changes in Vietnam Emerican

[@nguyenquangminh4814]

My grandpa always told me, sure I talk shit about our party and just about Vietnam a lot, and praise the societies of developed countries to the heavens, but at the end of the day Vietnam is still the easiest country to live in

[@LucielStarz123]

@@rendexrz2105 lawless until it’s heinous crime. You can literally rent wholeass villa here without proper paper, just need enough money

[@arizonatea8801]

37:40 Having looked into China's plan for the development of the nation, this is actually what the government is trying to do. You will notice capitalist businesses are growing, but are also being nationalized by China. China has huge ownership over lots of the economy, and if they do stay true to the plans laid out for them, I think it will be extremely effective.

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

God i hope so.

[@AlexCab_49]

How to move to Cuba?

[@MrAsmil]

I wouldn't recommend it myself even as a Cuban, I would say the society is very fair but we are under a massive embargo by the worlds most powerful and influential country, a country that also happens to be our next door neighbor. Not exactly something you can beat.

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

@@MrAsmil just wait a few years. The empire is collapsing now. Soon they will not be able to do that.

[@TheLastSliceOfPie]

@@antediluvianatheist5262 I sure hope so. No nation should have the power to sanction other nations.

[@ethanpearson897]

Can’t if from US

[@fe1ip3]

@@antediluvianatheist5262 Yeah but the real question is: They will fall after or before they destroy one more socialist country?

[@Vincentpanh]

If hai Ba Trưng is lesbian it would be weird. Because they are SISTERS.

[@vukhuathuy2866]

sweet home Alabama

[@Vincentpanh]

@@vukhuathuy2866 Sisters, what are you doing ???

[@tantainguyen4290]

Game of thrones intensified

[@Alex-zv3sb]

Vu Khuat Huy where the sky’s are so blue

[@LibertarianLeninistRants]

finally the second part, can't get enough of you guys^^

[@kevincrady2831]

46:50 - Whoa. Now I wonder what Soviet Star Wars would have looked like.

[@Alkemisti]

A Finn here, new to your channel, hi. The name of the song, _Lenin-setä asuu Venäjällä,_ means, ‘Uncle Lenin lives in Russia.’

[@TomJohnson67]

Just woke up one morning and was like "I want to live in Vietnam". We decided not to go because they have *snakes* .

[@trieuhuan106]

Don't worry. It is tasty.

[@yellowloon]

@@trieuhuan106 fact

[@francescosorce5189]

We italians kiss each other on the cheek all the time I guess we've always been comrades XD

[@Holobrine]

I really want the cooperative movement to take off in Vietnam. That’s the thing that would make Vietnam truly socialist. Workers owning their workplaces in a market economy regulated by a bottom up democratic state.

[@smokyondagrass2353]

They still have five year plans

[@blueciffer1653]

thats not socialism. That's just capitalism with "democratic ownership" or whatever

[@franzsohn7676]

The two KZbinrs who got me primarily into the Far-Left in one video... Amazing

[@paz9963]

I've been wanting info on this topic for a while. Thx shit island + NonCompete!

[@htkh]

Tiny correction (only because I think it adds small but important nuance), in Vietnam, the "Vietnam war" is called "Resistance war against the United States" (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ)✊

[@moonlitpacific]

phương tây bọn họ thường gọi vậy thôi bạn, tại quen =))) mà bạn khỏi cần lo, kênh theo chủ nghĩa marx nên sẽ không có chuyện bợ đít anh mẽo vô điều kiện đâu nha =}}

[@ryanatkinson2978]

I don't usually like livestream/podcast sort of stuff, but I love this

[@SteveTheCookie]

Video games definitely have gotten more expensive. I remember the standard price of GameBoy Advance games was $29. Then Nintendo DS games were $34. Then 3DS games were $39.

[@winstonsgmx]

Vingroup is pretty laid back and in tie with Vietnamese government, the owner himself rooted back quite deeply with them, so the thought of Vingroup is the given the power to grow to amass power like a right hand of Vietnam government is not irrational. The telecom group of Vietnam spreading out in other country is a not a private own company but militarily based coporation, so whether you think it's imperialising or helping or invading, it's about your opinion, but since they're militarily based, they have all the resources to give good services with low price. Understandable because poor countries like Haiity suffer natural disaster all the time, only group like Viettel has the balls to invest in them.

[@paavohirn3728]

Finnish comrade here. I can't recall if I heard this song as a kid. Had to ask my mom too 😀 Thanks for enlightening me! Loved the discussion generally as well. Happy that Luna joined in as well.

[@moofoogee]

Clash or Bẫy Rồng is a really good Vietnamese film. Another strong female lead.

[@nguyenquangminh4814]

35:00 yess, folks becoming workaholic-istic as heck!

[@polilla318]

Goat gang

[@arnibah]

When people work together,life is less expensive.

[@valentinbarinov]

This is maybe be 4 year old video, but this January 2025 me and my wife are going to visit Veitnam:D

[@MotivatedMan100]

It makes me sad that so many people in Vietnam treat Americans so well. They shouldn't be mistreated, but they shouldn't be given special treatment or looked up to. I see this happen so much, in HCMC and in Hanoi. A very common raincoat/poncho people wear has ''US Army"" printed on it.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

I watch so many videos from Vietnam and China... I have a general impression that half the people in Asia are wearing t-shirts that say "New York" or "NYC" or something. I know it's not that many, but I notice it constantly! I think you have to be WAY out in the country in China until you see someone in a t-shirt with Chinese characters on it. I'm not hating this, it's just odd. If I was living in a big city in China I don't think I would be impressed by New York! I have not traveled the world personally by the way. My impression (from KZbin and a few travelers) is that you can get a better meal wherever you happen to be standing in Vietnam than anywhere in America I have ever been. If Vietnamese people are turning into workaholics that's a SHAME, but as a retired guy I can say I would personally be glad to sit around and drink tea, wander down the street/alley and see what people are cooking.... maybe drink a little liquor from an unlabeled plastic jug.... Things that just are not happening in America, where really we don't like to go outside.

[@user-justsomeone]

Most of it was produced in China (after copy random American shirt) and sold with extremely price (cheaper than Vietnamese clothes), and there is no law banning this so people just buy it, many Vietnamese are addicted to cheap prices an unnecessary way

[@tuyenho7035]

Thanks to tell the truth and another truth is why all people including the woman in the story feel that, comes from what government advised to Vietnamese. And appreciate if you can help us for dioxin victim. Get compensation they deserve from the war company

[@notbob6922]

"A vigorous kiss"

[@homuraakemi1684]

So if they basically invented anti-cloaking torpedoes in Undiscovered Country, why don't they ever use them again? They would've been very useful when they set up that blockade to prevent the Romulans from giving supplies to the Durras family in the Klingon Civil War.

[@ringotheflamingo6900]

star trek sucks

[@KING7CANTONA]

great listen, keep on doin them

[@doin_fine]

Nationalize Vincom. From monopoly capitalism to full communism.

[@smokyondagrass2353]

I think they need more trading partners in more of a developed state before doing that

[@Whoo711]

2011 Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights - Vietnam (refworld) "Strikes are also banned in sectors considered important to the national economy and defence, a definition which currently covers a total of 54 sectors. The Prime Minister can suspend a strike considered detrimental to the national economy or public security. Finally, if a strike is ruled illegal, the union and the individuals involved are liable for compensation to the employer for "losses and damages".

[@Whoo711]

"Activist Le Thi Cong Nhan, who served a three-year prison sentence, said: “Vietnamese laws provide no definition of what constitutes a strike, but they do define what constitutes an illegal strike!"

[@mausklick1635]

Wait, there are strikes in Vietnam?

[@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts]

Yeah. Lots of them.

[@Bluestarr]

41:30 Yeah video game companies aren’t being starved of revenue, sure the base price hasn’t risen, but the amount of dlc, season passes and micro transactions has increased, I can’t remember which but one major company made more money from micro transactions then from selling the games themselves. They are doing fine, they just need all the money in the world so they decide to screw over workers for increased profit, not just profit.

[@efthimios1917]

hierarchy intensifies

[@Whoo711]

"Describing an incident in Ho Chi Minh City in March 2007, two months before he went missing after fleeing to Cambodia, Le Tri Tue, a Vietnamese labor activist said: “While walking down the main street of Phu Nhuan District, I was approached by two policemen who asked me to come to the police station with them. When I refused, they beat me. I had been beaten many times before by people on the street. The police had told me that they were just locals who hated people who struggled against the government, but I believe that they were secret agents. I was scared so I never told anyone about the beatings. But this was the first time I had been beaten by policemen in uniform. “ ^^^ “The Vietnamese government responded to the surge in strikes and labor activism in 2006 with threats, legal sanctions, and arrests-as well as some reforms, such as wage increases for workers at state- and foreign-invested enterprises as well as government employees. Fearful of political instability and upsetting foreign investors in advance of the APEC summit, during the latter part of 2006 the Vietnamese government took steps to shut down independent union activities in Vietnam, as well as contacts between Vietnamese activists and their supporters abroad. In August 2006 police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested Huynh Viet Lang, a member of the opposition People’s Democratic Party who had issued a lengthy critique of Vietnam’s violations of labor rights. In October 2006, democracy activist Le Thi Cong Nhan was denied a passport and barred from traveling to Warsaw, Poland to attend a conference on workers’ rights in Vietnam organized by CPVW, where she was to present a paper. ^^^ In November 2006 police arrested all of UWFO’s known members in Vietnam, including Doan Huy Chuong, Doan Van Dien, Tran Thi Le Hang, Nguyen Thi. Tuyet, Le Ba Triet, Nguyen Tuan, and Ly Van Sy. Police prevented other activists, including Le Thi Cong Nhan and IWUV leaders Nguyen Khac Toan and Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, from leaving their homes or receiving visitors. Police padlocked the back door to Nguyen Khac Toan’s house and guarded the front door, where they placed an English-language sign stating, "Security area. No foreigner allowed." The arrests and detention of the labor activists were followed by trials in which at least eight were convicted and sentenced to prison for violating national security provisions of Vietnam’s penal code. These prosecutions violated Vietnam’s obligations under international human rights law to uphold the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly."

[@HenryHoang-x]

Welp, thanks for making me sad :((.

[@amurrjuan]

NINTY FUCKING DOLLARS????? For that I could get a single drop of insulin. Bro what???????

[@nopasaran191]

I love non compete and this channel but the first 10 minutes of this conversation almost make me lose my shit

[@littlestone1541]

Luna and E.J. are Trekies!!! I knew it!

[@Shinimusha]

ALgorithm

[@joepa9309]

DOI MOI GANG RISE UP

[@vukhuathuy2866]

ew

[@kidkous]

What if I have a criminal record but it's pushing for human rights?

[@dektran4843]

OVER REGULATION IS EXPENSIVE

[@UncleZhou49]

"The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an 'immense accumulation of commodities' . . . ." Anyone know who said that and where it comes from? More importantly: Does the wealth of Vietnamese society present itself as an immense accumulation of commodities? If the answer is no, then the capitalist mode of production does not prevail in Vietnam. If yes? Well, you can draw your own conclusions.

[@Setsunascarletstorm24]

Late reply. I'm Vietnamese, and...sadly, yes. Having big house, cars and other luxury "commodities" are things that a lot of people dream of.

[@CalebMaupintime]

​@@Setsunascarletstorm24To be fair if we go by Marx no country fits the criteria of socialism, but merely changes the relations of the means of production. So not just vietnam but every "actually existing socialism" country was capitalist.

[@Setsunascarletstorm24]

@@CalebMaupintime true. It’s just there are countries that are attempting to move away from it and countries that embrace it

[@Whoo711]

Did he just claim, w/ a straight face, that state-affiliated Vietnamese labor unions- esp. prior to new laws supposedly "allowing WROs (independent unions)"- have "autonomy" and "strike frequently"? ...the unions affiliated with the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL)?? lol Did he look that up, or did Luna feed him some more horseshit with her weird, idealized 'take' of "Vietnamese socialism in the modern era"?? As stated above, until perhaps recently, Vietnamese 'unions' are all, more or less, under the umbrella of the VGCL, which, from what I can tell, is the 'Vietnamese equivalent' of the ACFTU in China, which, for a while, was pretty "impotent" when it came to "truly fighting for and representing workers." Wildcat strikes in China, for, like, the last 10 or 20 years, have been LEGION, all across the country! Hell, anyone remember, for example, the JASIC strike? Similarly, probably, is the situation in Vietnam w/ regard to "impotent" or "inert" state unions... Not to mention that there are *several* stories in recent years about Vietnamese authorities- at various levels of gov't, I think- 'cracking down' on striking workers in *various* situations! "They struck at the wrong time" or some horseshit, probably What "autonomy" is EJ even referring to, then? Has he himself, even, worked in that kind of labor environment with an "active, vibrant union that always represents us quickly when shit goes wrong"?? Did Luna work many jobs like that? ...I wonder Granted, I can't speak for the claim that, "all companies must have a union" in Vietnam, though I guess it doesn't sound too 'out of the ordinary', theoretically. But EJ almost seems to be giving this really-weird impression that Vietnamese unions, "have a lot of freedom to strike and do as they will to represent and fight for workers immediately." But that's... perhaps not quite 'the case', assuming the countless stories reporting, in many instances, state authorities "cracking down" on striking workers are remotely true Lastly... did EJ really just compare the "weird", state-run union system in Vietnam to "union rules w/ regard to the NLRB" in America?? lol. You gotta be fucking kidding me here... Where does EJ *get* this shit?? Does Luna just tell him, "all this stuff I 'know' for sure about Vietnam" ,and he just agrees and regurgitates it?? Does he not know how to do basic, independent research on his own?? At the very least, I'm interested to know his 'sources' of info on 'Vietnamese unionizing'?

[@noeljoseph4493]

Socialism in Kerala is also one of the best in the world.

[@bandygamy5898]

DOI MOI GANG

[@NA-ck6cz]

Nah

[@bandygamy5898]

@@NA-ck6cz ang la cut!

[@NA-ck6cz]

@@bandygamy5898 begone revisionist

[@PhongTran-wg6qm]

The big telecom company doing bussiness in Myanmar is Viettel, a company controlled by VNPA , and dont worry, vnpa under government control. Many state own companies and private companies have closed tie to government are encouraged to invest in other countries, to help vn economy and boost vn prestige in a good way. They dont do capitalism bullshit here, they dont exploit or shady biz, its a way vn contribute to the world and influence, so win win situation here.

[@gupyb4165]

7:10 Do you want some sauce? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furie_(film) - - - - 22:10 Strikes every days? Well, seems France taught them well. - - - - 30:40 Nani? I'm french and a wisdom tooth removal cost 50-100$ here. - - - - 42:30 Figures. Good ridance of olds, and let indies take place.

[@weirdestpersonguaranteed2244]

25:07

[@cemoguz2786]

Can you make video about turkey everyone thinks turkey politicaly bad I hear lots of black ptopaganda abot turkey. I am turkish and i don't like erdoğan at all but nowadays people talks too much shit about turkey. I don't agree most of it. I need your opinion about it.

[@lizzyfrizzle8986]

Short answer: no

[@yazhajohnson254]

quick answer: no

[@vulturez5913]

54:30 yOu CaN't MaKe FuN oF cOmMuNiSt LeAdErS iN cOmMuNiSt CoUnTrIeS, well another one debunked

[@marshallyoungmandy8434]

No. Period.

[@vukhuathuy2866]

I'll back you up

[@yellowloon]

ong

[@sleepyleftie]

Nice video, but you didn’t touch on the totalitarianism, censorship, and harassment and punishment of opposition.

[@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts]

The first does not exist in Vietnam, the second exists but is more of a nuisance than anything, and the third is more complicated than you make it out to be.

[@LucielStarz123]

@@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts boy don’t you wish you could take back the “the first one (totalitarianism) don’t exist” now huh.

[@ElectricAlien577]

​@@LucielStarz123 America is more totalitarian than vietnam.

[@n8orious699]

no. flat out no.