What American Communism Would Be Like

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[@woolph58]

Under communism you line up for bread. Under capitalism bread lines up for you.

[@Gizziiusa]

communism subjugates their masses, capitalism exploits their masses. lesser of two evils actually.

[@MixiestA]

Lining up for bread and milk was one thing and if you want to spice it up even more add hyperinflation in the mix. Different price every 10 min. Fun memories 🤘

[@Gizziiusa]

and my comment gets deleted just like that. Speak Absolute Truths, get censored.

[@pancakewsx]

One thing people easily miss is a fact that ground rule for russian communism was "who doesn't work - doesn't eat". Let that sink in.

[@albertezratty4861]

What could really be frightening for me is the prospect of American communism reinforced with artificial intelligence

[@Markbell73]

How does artificial intelligence reinforce? The drones are not built in automated factories. You will need enough people loyal to the socialist cause to build, maintain, innovate and work. All those things above need sanitation. Fresh clean water. And food. Where are the soldiers? You can only run on fear for so long. You need to build a generation of loyalists. Those loyalists have to be workers. Across all the fields of work. Than they are your logistical and physical army, that put the rest of the people into a state of fear. You will comply, like us, or else. They have not built this. Thus A.I. will not be a supplement. The A.I. would need thousands of automated factories that run day and night cranking out soldiers and workers to be able to reinforce anything. They don't have it. Thus, the socialist/communist dream will collapse immediately.

[@kylebroflovsky6015]

I recall in 2008/2009 when Pelosi called being out of work "fun employment".

[@effexon]

why is she sticking to her "job" or role then? if unemployment is such fun. she should step down then.

[@demian7567]

Yugoslavia collapsed because the constituent ethnicities hated each other because of their allegiances during WW2. It only existed stably because of the force of Tito's character.

[@euridionvult7814]

And loans he took from the West granted to him because Yugoslavia was a buffer zone between Europe and the Warshaw Pact countries. As soon as Soviet Union collapsed that went out the window. Also because he had resource accessibility via trade agreements with countries like Iraq and because he cleverly enabled difussion of societal pressure by allowing a great number of people to become guest-workers in other countries. The conflicting ethnic and cultural entities were silent only because of Tito´s FORCE not character. He was a great statesman that achieved what no one 800 years before him could and probably no one ever again will, that is to stabilise Balkan. Yet make no mistake, he was a ruthless dictator.

[@effexon]

to Tito's credit, Stalin tried to assassinate him and push worse stalinist/soviet policies. shame it collapsed and exploded after Tito.

[@effexon]

@@euridionvult7814 well looking how well politicians everywhere do on average... ruthless may be needed to get things done and put people in check. also shame western windy policies, "mission accomplished" is always bad thing, places and people are just ignored allowing collapse.

[@hermitcard4494]

Diversity is division.

[@alexs5744]

Hell, it would be Hell on Earth.

[@Westcoastrocksduh]

We are already there.

[@user-pt5xc1pp4z]

@@Westcoastrocksduh Exactly, And the counterreaction to all of this Communism, Would either be Fascism, Or Religious Fanatism.

[@henrylicious]

​@@WestcoastrocksduhNot even close. Read the Gulag Archipelago.

[@Westcoastrocksduh]

@@henrylicious I’m just talking about socialism and communism being here in law, commerce and culturally. It hasn’t gotten that bad. Yet.

[@hermitcard4494]

But doesn't God offers equality in heaven? Communism in heaven? 😂

[@derpderpington5433]

Well for one thing, we are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[@teonactalpizza]

We still are. Just not for long if things don't change. Home of the weak and afraid.

[@PhillipFelix-kw3zi]

Timid and easy prey for predators that will show up to collect.

[@hermitcard4494]

Home of the pronouns and lunatics, and high taxes.

[@postmodernmining]

I got a Biden ad on this video. Ads for Fascism....

[@jamesmiller1231]

I got it too 😐

[@hermitcard4494]

Tag it as spam.

[@warrenshafer1281]

Socialism promises an equal share....of misery....Winston Churchill

[@pancakewsx]

Yet he was the one who pursued high standard public housing in the UK, which was then dismantled for a bag of screws by Thatcher. Her son bought like 30 public apartments for nothing. Socialism for rich and at power is always trendy.

[@kevinlawler3252]

Rudyard is gonna call out cappy

[@rational_observer]

The US Socialist Convention of 2019 is what you were referring to. "Quick point of personal privilege, PLEASE DO NOT USE GENDERED LANGUAGE TO ADDRESS EVERYONE"

[@teonactalpizza]

Dude that shit was fucking crazy I was simultaneously horrified and laughing. It was funny but also these jokers are .....serious isn't quite the word they certsintoy aren't that. But sincere. They are sincere in their dog shit Marxism beliefs

[@Carman-qg8op]

Did Aaron strike a nerve 😂

[@hermitcard4494]

Please dont applaud, comrades, it triggers me.

[@MixiestA]

Yeah, still hilarious.

[@rational_observer]

Professional Comedians cannot be this funny, intentionally. The fact this event was not lampooned on SNL, show you how far left SNL has become.

[@user-sy2jy1si8f]

When you Westerners are trying to imagine what socialism or communism in your countries would look like, you're making 2 mistakes: 1 - you think it will be short-lived and end quickly after the economy collapses. Unfortunately, it won't. Anti-communists in Russia and Cuba thought the same, and were proven wrong. 2 -you think that avoiding work and living off welfare will be easy. It won't. Welfare is a feature of well-developed capitalist economy. Under capitalism, you have a right to work, under socialism, you have an obligation to work. In USSR, for example, there were no welfare, and long-term unemployment was a criminal offence

[@harpsdesire4200]

Finally someone gets it, I'm not saying communism is good but a lot of the fear-mongering about the American right about so-called communism is straight up fantasy. The biggest reason I'm opposed to Communism is because of the religious persecution and compulsory atheism.

[@kieranm8844]

Stalin was placed in a useless committee position, but managed to become a man to select others to power. He was a Machiavellian genius but an overall idiot.

[@idolsrule4678]

He forgot what he did to others, others could do to him. Didn’t he try to assassinate Tito 3 times. Tito send Stalin a letter saying “He could off him on the first try” a few months later Stalin died. 😂😅

[@AZVIDE0Z]

Not only nuclear families but extended family who lived in close proximity to each other.

[@johnq.public2621]

Let's remember that The Social Credit System will also be implemented. Central banking. Chip implantation.

[@euridionvult7814]

That is just a conspiracy theory. Like the one about 2 planes crashing 3 towers.

[@calypsohandjack9278]

The MEGA plantation! Whitey wont ever escape!

[@KingMinos316]

There won't be anyone left to make the chips

[@bobbydogbear1710]

The American Socialist Revolution will go about as well as the First French Republic.

[@vikker8274]

This

[@phoenixrising4995]

Want your answer for American Communism just look up North for the answer.

[@PhillipFelix-kw3zi]

Good comparison, that is something to fear.

[@phoenixrising4995]

@@PhillipFelix-kw3zi Castro Trudeau knows what American communism is.

[@eyerollthereforeiam1709]

Canadian here, and yeah, you're right. Fuck it's painful to say that.

[@PhillipFelix-kw3zi]

@@eyerollthereforeiam1709 all of this is surreal like a bad science fiction movie. I think that they want to turn all of us into plant food. Stay frosty the monsters are coming for real

[@PhillipFelix-kw3zi]

@@eyerollthereforeiam1709 they didn't like my comment, truth makes their ears bleed. Makes em crazy

[@harpsdesire4200]

It'd probably look like East Germany imo. Some people might benefit but I definitely see reeducation camps being used, especially for religious folks.

[@SarkutheFive-HeadedLordofWorms]

FEMA camps converted into Education Camps for the Imperfects. You know, those that did not take the Treatment voluntarly and are Pure Blood?

[@effexon]

yey, 50% of people can be spies and rat out their neighbors.

[@vikker8274]

Interesting as they are one of the most heavily armed demographics in the USA

[@thijsjong]

It will probably involve everybody getting ubi. Women get 50% or a 100% extra for being a woman. Chikdren or not.

[@mikestrohmier8845]

Leon Trotsky in Mexico City. If memory serves, he was a guest of artist Diego Rivera.

[@randyquinn922]

Trotsky, with an ice pack, in Mexico City

[@user-pt5xc1pp4z]

The system won't last forever, The entropy and apathy is bad now there is no way there won't be an explosive breaking point some time in the not so distant future, This has to end.

[@kevinlawler3252]

This should be interesting to hear from Cappy.. I predicted that American communism if actually happens to the full extent of communism.. it will become the poster child of the worst atrocities.. dwarfing Moa, Stalin, The starvation and societal chaos will set records for death and the most horrific atrocities.

[@PhillipFelix-kw3zi]

They were doing it wrong according to the death cult news.

[@labfixit]

If communism took root in America, there would be less fat women.

[@PhillipFelix-kw3zi]

@@labfixit it has taken root, a man-made famine coming and food is cheap compared to how expensive it will be when all of that money printed comes home to roost. The government passed laws that harm Americans and pay illegals to live here as Americans sleep in the streets and get arrested for camping and being homeless. I would say that they are here.

[@strategicviewpoint6672]

Year Zero= send all the intellectuals and students out of the cities to farm. Khmer Rouge might have been on to something......

[@williamwinkelmann8554]

Brilliant commentary Aaron! I am a fan even though sometimes i disagree!

[@andressierra457]

@18:10 When I was in the military we were forced to use Comcast for our internet because they were the only ones who had "security clearance". The service was terrible. I'm betting it'll be Comcast. They seem to have the government connections.

[@SarkutheFive-HeadedLordofWorms]

Man in the High Castle

[@rochskier]

People should read, "Behind the Urals," by John Scott to get an idea about the factory worker's plight in Stalin's USSR.

[@platoplombo15]

Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes

[@dmllr5615]

Cappy's smoke detector chirping 19:15 😆

[@rochskier]

For my money, the Soviet Union's most incredible technical achievements are the multiple probes they landed on the surface of Venus. Some all-time great engineering went into those missions.

[@11Bravo84]

What’s up comrade Aaron‼️👍🏻💯‼️🤣🤣🤣

[@alexk7286]

great topic 👍

[@idolsrule4678]

1 debate with my History teacher in high school was enough to become Anti-Socialist/Communist. He explained everything Stalin, that one Romanian dude, and Mao Zedong did in detail.

[@alexalexander1772]

I just figured it would be like the military again for the average person. Base housing. Standardize job. Pay grades.

[@YoungTeeke]

Survivor gave women the idea that if the lights go out the camera still rolls. Not many american chixks can bring them selves to admitting that if the lights went out they would provide zero value and complete liability. Like MOST men

[@randyquinn922]

I think it was George Carlin who said authoritarianism would come to America with a smiley face. So… Just like right now.

[@BaconNBeer]

Russian communism came from the US but it appears no one knows that

[@deker0954]

The NAZI party learned everything from the Democrat party.

[@MartymcFly-zz2pg]

Wall st

[@BaconNBeer]

@@MartymcFly-zz2pg Get the book None Dare Call It Conspiracy. Read it and you can see the truth about Communism.

[@Douglas_Gillette]

Would be like -- is like.

[@timothykuring3016]

I was raised by a politically conservative, Barry Goldwater style, Libertarian single mother. As the eldest child and the only boy, most household responsibilities fell to me, and my mother's excuse was that she had to make a man of me, and men had to know how to do things and take care of things, and she also spent most of the family resources on my little sisters, who were encouraged to do anything they wanted, while she always pressured me to work, and told me I would have to take care of her in her old age. She basically relied on me for everything as if she wanted me to be her husband, since I was a kid. She hated communism, but when I accused her of running her family like a communist, she didn't even bother to deny it. She admitted it and said a family was different. Men had to do everything and earn everything, but women needed stuff. It was feminist communism. From men according to their ability to work, to women according to their need for stuff. You even hear some feminists these days saying that single men should be taxed to support single women. And that's what the government seems to do.

[@timothykuring3016]

In the sixties and seventies, my mother gave me a lot of insight into where feminist rationalization was going. And prepped me well for destroying feminist arguments.

[@jorgealonso9792]

The answer to the title of the video is California right now!

[@NoidoDev]

The COX music is great but it's too loud.

[@venator-fb7yy]

Communism is great... for caloric deficits!

[@ro6742]

Everyone would be thin.

[@MurphWilds]

🔥🔥🔥

[@tommyhin998]

Thank god for second amendment from preventing that from happening

[@user-yc4nl1ox3c]

to repeat that thought below , the Bible states Let those who will not work , not Eat

[@albionicamerican8806]

We got communism in the first place because Friedrich Engels was the organized and competent half in his partnership with Karl Marx. Engels became a successful businessman and investor from working in the Manchester branch of his family's textile company, and he applied his wealth and business skills towards promoting Marxism like it was a company's product, with Karl Marx as the company's brand. Engels even wrote the first _Dummies_ level literature to explain Marxism in simpler terms which less educated people could understand. Without the help of Engels's capitalist assets and abilities, Marx's philosophy wouldn't have gotten very far; it was just too abstract, verbose and convoluted to have mass appeal.

[@dingleberrypie6612]

Sure looks a lot like socialism/communism right now.

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

Talk to Haz from Infrared if you want an actual answer.

[@marks2807]

Forget who said it but during a podcast someone said “if the left got a true socialism they want the obesity problem would vanish.”

[@effexon]

in socialism lower class has some money so that wont solve it.. as cheapest food is what makes fattiest and US has abundance of that food.

[@marks2807]

@@effexon maybe at first, but when no one sees any benefit in working food production will go down. There is a reason socialism usually leads to communism.

[@NoidoDev]

19:09 - Maybe we need to come up with a new terminology. This is more like a governmental aristocracy.

[@user-vf5mb7ui8r]

Socialism is the rich personally experiencing the misery of the working class and poor. Well except for those in power.

[@alansewell7810]

Communism moved the Soviet Union forward by opening up education to people of all classes. Under the Czars, only about 15% of Russians, and only those from the elite classes, knew how to read. The other 85% worked as drudges for the elites in the cities or as sharecroppers to big landowners. The country got a huge boost in knowledge power when the generation born before 1920 became educated in the Communist-run schools of the 1920s and 1930s. People who used to live in dirt hovels in the country were able to improve their lives with education that enabled them to obtain modest housing in the cities. Most Soviet citizens supported it compared to what they'd had under the Czars, even with the unspeakable brutality of Stalin's regime. Communist economics did not permit Russians to hire labor. But they could be self-employed as carpenters, furniture makers, music teachers, dentists, and so on, and could sell the produce of their private farm allotments in markets. "They could even form partnership enterprises that shared profits equally. "One could live" in an economic sense. The 3% of the economy that was privately owned and operated probably accounted for 50% of the GDP. The oppressive tyranny of the Communist police state made the system more odious than just the communist economics, which most found an improvement over what they'd had before the Revolution. After World War II, the rigidly planned communist economy reached its limit of efficiency and further economic progress became impossible.

[@user-sy2jy1si8f]

"The 3% of the economy that was privately owned accounted for 50% of GDP" - no it didn't. Not even close. The private sector was tiny, and it was banned from owning any industrial-grade equipment (because any private ownership of the means of production violated the cornerstone principles of Marxist state ideology). Therefore, its productivity wasn't that high.

[@alansewell7810]

@@user-sy2jy1si8f Thank you for the clarification. One of Russia's prominent military defectors, who wrote books in the West under the name Viktor Suvorov, wrote that the 3% of agriculture that remained in private allotments owned by individuals produced 50% of the food consumed in the Soviet Union, the surpluses being sold in city markets. I over-extrapolated his comment to apply to the economy as a whole.

[@user-sy2jy1si8f]

@@alansewell7810 well, this description is much closer to the truth. Still, let me do some more clarification. In the USSR, there were no private farms, as any private ownership of land and agricultural machinery was prohibited. But state let agricultural workers and some urban citizens to use small patches of land (typical quota was 600 square metres, or about 6500 sq.ft) to live on and grow food. In total, those patches accounted for a small percentage of all arable land (Suvorov's 3% seem accurate), but their productivity was so much higher than that of the state-owned land that at some point of time it indeed produced up to 50% of the total agricultural output of the USSR. But, of course, these figures cannot be extrapolated on the whole economy. There were some quasi-private cooperatives in the industrial sector, but, with the ideology-based restrictions on hiring and private ownership, their scale of production was small, and their share of total industrial production was negligible. Also, you're wrong about standards of living in the USSR. Communists didn't do very much to increase it. In fact, for the first 45 years of Communist rule, an average industrial worker was worse off than in Tzarist times. Even Khrushchev, who was a big believer in Communism, lamented the fact that his standard of living as an industrial worker in the 1910s was higher than that of Soviet workers in the late 1950s, and that this undermines the popularity of communist ideas among the working class. And, in agriculture, it was even worse. There's a reason why Soviet agricultural workers up until 1973 didn't have internal passports and were unable to move into cities without permission from their higher-ups.

[@alansewell7810]

@@user-sy2jy1si8f Thank you again for clarifying with specifics. You know so much more about life about how life was in the Soviet Union than I ever will. I based my information from what I have read by ordinary Russians who lived there before and during WWII, such as Evgeni Bessonov's book TANK RIDER, Konstantin Simonov's THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, and the accounts of British journalist Alexander Werth, raised in Leningrad who went home to Britain, then returned as their BBC correspondent during WWII. He was no friend of communism, but described vignettes of life in Russia as described by ordinary Russians during the war, in his book RUSSIA AT WAR, such as this: The girls were called Valya and Nadya. Valya was lively, red-cheeked and flirtatious in a coy way. She was twenty-one and married, with her husband in the Army. She was in uniform, and when the war broke out had been studying biochemistry at the university. The other girl had one of those full but pale Russian faces with large grey eyes, with perfect large white teeth and lips that were full without being sensuous. From time to time they would put on a well-worn record on their portable gramophone-bits from Werther or Manon of all things. When the gramophone played, they were silent. Nadya wore a red woollen jumper which stressed the paleness of her beautiful face. “I am not a nurse,” she said, “I am a medical statistician, attached to this hospital base.” “Some statistics you must have had to do here through the autumn,” I remarked. “Yes,” she said, “some statistics.” Her home was in Stalingrad, and her address was 24 Frunze Street. It seemed odd that anyone should have an address at Stalingrad! “You should go to Stalingrad after the war,” she said, with a faint smile. “Not that you will find my house there any more. It was destroyed like the rest of the city. And what a pity! We had those lovely boulevards, and so many fine new buildings, and public parks, and the new Volga Embankment; and, on Sundays, there were lots of young people everywhere, and lots of trees and flowers, and all those steamer and sailing-boats and motor-boats on the Volga. It was a gay town. I was in my last year at school when the war started, and I joined up as a medical worker, after a short training.” A copy of Simonov’s poems was lying on the table. I asked Valya if she liked Simonov. “Yes, very much; we all do.” “What, Wait for me?” “Yes, that, and much else.” “Dear Simonov,” said Valya sentimentally. Nadya said: “We’ll have a glorious life after the war. Stalingrad will be very beautiful again. We shall again go for holidays to the Caucasus, as we did before the war.” It was confirmed that day that the Germans had begun to pull out of the Caucasus; Nadya’s daydreaming wasn’t so fantastic, after all. Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941-1945: A History (pp. 653-654) And this: And Elena Nikolaevna’s husband, the railwayman? They had last heard of him in June 1942. He was at Voronezh then. Now that the postal service had been restored at Kotelnikovo, they might hear from him soon. They might-or they might not… “You can say what you like,” Elena Nikolaevna said one day (not that anybody had said anything), “but our Soviet régime is a good régime. Even babushka, to whom it was all very strange at first, has now become very fond of it. And look at this little house of ours. Five roubles rent a month is all I pay; you wouldn’t get a house so cheap in any other country.” Here was, indeed, a strangely mixed family: the grandmother still thinking of the good old days under the Tsar, the mother with her Cossack background and her petit bourgeois instincts; the father a real Soviet proletarian; and the boy who could only see a happy future for himself under the Soviet system with its stress on education-to all these people the Germans were unspeakably odious. Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941-1945: A History (p. 667)

[@user-sy2jy1si8f]

@@alansewell7810 Of course I know a lot about how life was in the USSR. I am Russian, and I'm old enough to remember USSR quite well. Also, I've studied Soviet history a bit. The excerpt you've posted is written beautifully and poetically, but you should understand that there's no way Soviet authorities would allow a Western journalist to communicate with random Soviet citizens. Most likely, all those people he had talked with were carefully selected by some party apparatchiks and were instructed what to tell and what not to tell. If there was one thing the USSR was very good at it was propaganda and building Potemkin villages for foreign visitors ))

[@NoidoDev]

Your argument is kind of flawed. It's also about status and not feeling bad about the world. Maybe being part of a moral elite. Just ask them if they would be okay to let in a lot of poor people in a rotation from the poor parts of the world but not give them citizens rights. They could work for cheap.

[@robowaifutechnician]

How did I come across you twice in a random comment section lol.

[@Biosynthnut]

These dorks never even read Marx. "I don't want to work!" "Get in mine, or face the wall, Komrade."

[@Agent77X]

Frankfurt School in Germany!😁 Herbert Marcuse of University Of Columbia! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School