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"Socialism Always Fails": A Dishonest Claim (3 Times It Worked) — Transcript · YTtoTranscript

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"Socialism Always Fails": A Dishonest Claim (3 Times It Worked)

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the the idea of socialism has become very popular failed in all countries where attempted every time a country started down the Socialist is because Marxism doesn't work as a positive thing as a way of running an economy Marxism ruins everything before we get into this when I started this video it was supposed to be about highlighting

successful socialist experiments which it still is but as I kept researching and reading a common theme popped up whenever a socialist State started to see success it was immediately meant with western-backed sanctions or cou d'as now this is something I already knew but I didn't fully contend with this fact until I was two days into

editing this video that's when I realized I was asking the wrong question I should have been asking does socialism always fail and if it does is it due to an integral flaw with the concept or is it due to constant stifling from the Imperial Corp I'll leave that up to you here is the video a common response by

the left to the claim that every socialist experiment failed is to claim that those failed socialist States weren't truly socialist this is a claim I don't necessarily disagree with by the way I do believe that many old Communist States devolved into tyranny and state capitalism due to the fact that the old oppressive dynamic between the Bourgeois

and the proletariat wasn't appropriately challenged or dismantled instead the state just mirrored that same Dynamic resulting in the people's subordination to the state instead of their subordination to the capitalist class this is a contested topic but we don't even need to argue on these grounds for the sake of this video I will not invoke

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the it was State capitalist argument another common approach to the claim that every socialist state was a failure is to Hype up the accomplishments of past totalitarian regimes like the Soviet Union now I'm very critical of the USSR and their egregious human rights violations but we should be able to highlight and more importantly learn

from what they did manage to accomplish and do so without playing defense for them and that leads me to how in this video I will delineate between what I consider to be successful and unsuccessful socialist experiments the three major criteria I will use to determine if a socialist experiment was a success are one it improved the

quality of life for the most amount of people two it replaced a regime that was significantly worse and three it did so without resulting in any sort of Human Rights catastrophe a few things I want to really quickly touch on before we get into the thick of this video often times when a socialist country experiences

economic or political hardship there are anti-communists ready to gleefully bask in its suffering so that they could place the blame on socialism I shouldn't have to point out how obviously inhumane this is I would not point to the crippled economy of Argentina at the hands of Anar capitalist Javier Malay and gloat about how Superior my ideology

is there's a lot of real people bearing the brunt of his stupidity out but aside from the obvious douchebaggery often times when socialist countries experience turmoil it isn't even due to socialism Venezuela is a great example no socialism did not destroy Venezuela Dutch disease along with other things did Venezuela hitched its bets to its

oil industry and failed to diversify its exports or properly nurture other economic sectors Venezuela also suffered sanction corruption and other economic Devastation that had nothing to do with socialism successful socialist experiment number one Bina Faso at the hands of Thomas Sankara Sankara is a personal hero of mine I could go on for

hours about him but for the sake of brevity I I won't fan girl this time Sankara was born in 1949 in what is now known as Bina Faso but at the time it was a French colony called Upper Volta Upper Volta was one of the poorest countries in West Africa it was largely

an agrarian society with low rates of productivity it lacked significantly when it came to infrastructure it had high levels of unemployment low literacy rates gender discrimination and poor Healthcare to top it off droughts and other environmental issues were prevalent and due to underdeveloped infrastructure they negatively impacted crop yields which led to more poverty

Sara an anti-colonialist Marxist leninist overthrew the existing regime in 1983 and one of his first decisions was to rename upper vulta to Bina Faso meaning land of upright men now I know what you might be thinking what a SE douche women lived there too Thomas he was actually based as hell when it came

to gender discrimination this little pamphlet is a copy of his 1987 Women's Day speech where the central thesis is that the revolution could not Prosper without the emancipation of women he also prohibited both female genital mutilation and forced marriages in addition to this he built schools water reservoirs medical centers raised the literacy rate planted 10 million trees

to combat desertification vaccinated Millions against menitis measles and yellow fever and for those who think socialism is an economically unsound Theory Sankara improved the economy and agriculture so drastically that within only 4 years un analysts declared the country food self-sufficient unfortunately this story does not have a happy ending Sankara was killed in a

coup in 1987 and Burkina Faso regressed without him successful socialist experiment number two yakobo arenes Guatemala in the ' 50s an American Business called the United Fruit Company had disproportionate control control over the Guatemalan economy they owned about 500,000 acres of land ports railroads and more this purchasing and appropriating of Guatemalan land forced

the peasantry of Guatemala into a terrible quality of life through ostracizing the people of Guatemala from their own resourcer lands and exploiting said lands for the financial gain of American big business the United Fruit Company played its role in exacerbating wealth inequality in the country unfortunately this is a story that is not all too uncommon in the global South

yet in the Imperial Corp we always find a way to demonize the people who choose to do something about the situation we've imposed upon them yakobo arbend is one of those people democratically elected arens knew that he had to do something about the way that American big business was destroying the country so he purchased yes purchased the land

back and redistributed it to the people of Guatemala by 1954 a sixth of the population had received land due to aren's reform law formerly known as decree 900 this legendary agrarian reform program not only resulted in higher living conditions for for many farmers and their families but it stuck up to Big corporate imperialist bullies

told them that Latin America is not their playpen and proved to be influential across the continent the Americans subsequently funded launched and orchestrated the coup that exiled ARB this CIA operation was called PB success if you want to read more about it but there was a certain individual who was living in Guatemala at the time

and he happened to witness all of this and take inspiration from Arben and his policies and that individual was sha successful socialist experiment number three Salvador aand Chile now this case is one that I think is very nuanced but I firmly believe that aand Chile when all was said and done was a successful

implementation of socialist policies and I'll explain why Salvador aende was a democratically elected socialist who nationalized mines telephone lines and More in Chile his socialist policies raised the quality of life for many Chileans helped the country fight back against inflation that was ravaging not only the country but most of the continent he lowered unemployment and he

helped create the Chalan National Health Service which was the first program in the Americas to guarantee universal healthcare all of these achievements occurred within the first year of his presidency and proved how quickly good policy could turn a country around now if you can sense a butt coming in my delivery you would be right aande

socialist policies were working well until the second year of his term American intervention in Chile became so aggressive and overbearing that it's hard to believe any country socialist or not would be able to hold its own the American government and American economists namely Milton Friedman did whatever they could to meddle with the

Chalan economy fredman was a notorious Economist who promoted economic theories of mass privatization defunding social programs and overall hyper capitalism he was one of the faces of neoliberal Economics at the time the Americans launched the Chile project in the ' 50s with the goal of turning Chile into a massive neoliberal experiment many

Chileans now known as the Chicago boys were brought to Chicago to study under Milton Friedman when those Chicago boys returned home and when aande who threat to nationalize us copper mines became president both the US government and the indoctrinated Chicago boys fueled domestic Flames leading to lockouts strikes and boycotts these lockouts were

promoted heavily by the Nixon Administration with the goal to Halt the Chalan economy local business owners truckers and other Chileans in an attempt to spite aande would withhold their products or mark them up unnecessarily to artificially demean the economy in addition to this copper which was Chile's biggest export was not only suffering a drop in price but there was

a reluctance to purchase Chalet and copper due to America's disapproval of the country things like this always make me wonder if socialism is such a bad idea from the get-go and it's doomed to fail then why does the West constantly feel the need to intervene and spend billions of dollars or kill millions of

people to make sure that it fails I thought I thought it was doomed from the jump why would Nixon need to give the direct order and I quote make the economy scream when referring to what he wanted to see done about aand Chile I thought this [ __ ] was supposed to crumble on its own long story short

September 11th 1973 aande was killed in a coup and replaced by a military hun which then devolved into the right-wing dictatorship of austo Pinos now you would think that since the pesky socialist was out of the equation the economy would boom under Pinos Especially since one of his economic advisers was the great Milton fredman

one of the thought leaders behind neoliberal capitalism but no no the opposite happened actually I'm going to read you a few lines from one of my favorite books the shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein in 1982 despite its strict adherence to Chicago Doctrine Chile's economy crashed its debt exploded it faced hyperinflation once again and

unemployment hit 30% 10 times higher than it was under aande the only thing that protected Chile from a complete economic collapse in the early 80s was that Pinos had never privatized celo the state copper mine Company nationalized by aande that one company generated 85% of Chile's export revenues which meant that when the financial Bubble Burst the

state still had a steady source of funds so not only were A's policies preferable to fredman's and but aand was literally saving the economy from Beyond the Grave I'll leave you with a quote from a super normal and definitely not evil dude named Henry Kissinger we didn't do it I mean we helped them we created the conditions as

great as possible one argument I often hear from anti-socialist is well if ex socialist country can be destroyed by sanctions embargos and Western intervention then socialism is to blame because it created a weak and susceptible country this line of logic is idiotic the West has sanctioned non-socialist countries in the past and they have also suffered similar economic

troubles but to make an ethical argument here I don't think it's right to blame a sovereign developing socialist or neoliberal country for that matter for being stifled by the largest global superpower and its embargos sanctions or cou d'as in stark contrast to all of these aforementioned examples of what I consider to be successful socialist

experiments I can list a great many failed capitalist societies one could make the argument that America being the richest country in the world where one of the primary causes of premature death is treatable illness is not only a pragmatic and logistic failing but a moral Abomination that's all from me if you like the video let me know in the

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