Debunking Every Anti-Communist Argument Ever

0:16 [Music] foreign [Music] to this day after the time in history when it was founded we still need [Music] communism

1:03 [Music] said if you could go back in time and kill baby hitler would you i need to know hell yeah i would if your hardline marxist leninist derozan backstabbing suck them you already know it's like to advocate for left-leaning policies on the internet and by left-leaning i really mean anything to the left of reagan it's just a constant barrage of venezuela animal farm and human nature just a waterfall of memorized talking points internalized since birth and spat out like the world's wrongest fountain even the tamest obtained suck dems are getting hit with the venezuela line which shows just how far right everything has gone if you're one of those people who instinctively reject any idea of

1:49 socialism or communism and just yell some overused line to debunk it without engaging in a discussion you're probably not going to like this video i don't even really know what you're doing here just go right that con about helicopters now vladimir stalin killed 100 trillion people there is a specific type of person i'm trying to reach however it's the type of person that understands that capitalism is flawed but can't bring themselves to support communism or socialism simply because they've been indoctrinated since birth with the holy lines but what about human nature though the biggest obstacle to being leftist is dealing with all these gantry marks but once you take a step back from the flood of vu vuzuela you'll realize that all of them don't make much sense the problem is that a lot of people simply haven't heard responses to all these anti-communist arguments which is why i'm gonna do the world a favor by debunking all of them and hopefully none of us will ever have to deal with these arguments again

2:35 oh who am i kidding [Music] admittedly this first argument is more of a misconception than anything else and surprisingly it tends to come from people who are new to the left and well sometimes people are just misinformed so what socialism means is the government does some things and the private industry does some things right so private industry does coca-cola nike makes your shoes government does other things like your police department your fire department your military so you like the military oh what a socialist you are no just no basically the argument goes that socialism is whenever the government does anything so everything

3:21 related to the government is socialist following this logic libraries welfare fire departments garbage removal streetlights policemen the military the cia fbi and prisons are all socialist hopefully everyone can agree libraries are good but grouping these things with the military police and prisons is ridiculous the police is the same institution that shoots unarmed black men incarcerates a massive amount of the population and gets away with murder this type of talk comes from people who want to normalize socialism to nominees by showing them that technically the united states already has socialism and while i agree that normalizing socialism is good at the same time it's not good to basically deprive it of all meaning so what is socialism well it's common ownership of the means of production distribution and exchange related to that is communism which is a stateless classless and moneyless

4:06 society with common ownership of the means of production but wait wasn't the soviet union and all those other places communists how could they be when there was still a state well they were run by communist parties so they are in the sense that they were trying to achieve it but strictly speaking they hadn't achieved a communist society that's enough definition squabbling for the sake of streamlining the video i'll just call any country that advertises itself as communist or socialist as a communist or socialist country even if it's a bit of an oxymoron considering the definition so please don't play in the comments it's supposed to be introductory video another children's typing [Music] the image that comes to most people's mind when communists or socialists talk about wanting more equality is that of a bland boring dystopia where everyone is forced to be equal communism would essentially force everyone to become part of a hive mind or at least how the general idea goes however the idea that more equality

4:52 means suppressing the talented lead to the common level of the masses is just wrong when communists say we want more equality they mean freeing the masses so they can unleash their suppressed talents after the october evolution there was a flourishing of art culture and creativity the futurist movement legalization of divorce for women and the growth of cinema where exciting developments compared to the tsar's regime over the masses of people it turns out liberating millions of people from the clutches of capital creates an exciting artistic society not one where everyone is forced to be a hive mind and conform to some incorrect abstract idea of equality meanwhile in capitalism schools prepare students for a lifetime of work while workers have to become mindless drones and jobs that a majority of them hate any sort of excitement or interest is usually reserved for the rich and powerful while the rest of us go on with their boring lives people worse off have to deal with the growing ecological disasters that are

5:38 literally killing them and destroying their homes while they should profit off of ignoring any sort of sustainable solution maybe all this talk about a communist dystopia is really just an example of capitalism projecting itself i've already dealt with the topic of death counts specifically concerning stalin in a previous video needless to say when scholars looked at actual archival evidence released from the soviet union they found that death counts were actually much lower than what was previously estimated the paper victims of the soviet penal system the pre-war years found that many of the previous estimates of historians were based on guesses rumors or extrapolations from isolated local observations i'm not going to go into too much detail because they covered in the full video but the point is the death kind of communism which includes stalin tend to be overblown and

6:24 exaggerated to gain more attention a lot of the hundred million stuff comes from the big black book of communism which was deliberately bloated to come to a nice round number methodology for these things is also highly suspected sometimes they can go as far as counting someone who stubbed their toe in a communist country another victim this conversation about victims of communism of course ignores the millions of deaths under capitalism from poverty hunger exposure and imperialist war we have more than enough resources to give food water and treat curable diseases for everyone in the world it's capitalism that refuses to provide these things because they aren't [Music]

7:14 profitable [Music] uh excuse me sir but i read this one fictional book about a farm in anthropomorphic furries and it shows that revolution will always fail george orwell's animal farm has probably done more to poison the discourse on communism than any other book yes even you the most obvious reason is that it's usually taught in schools with students being forced to swallow everything with an uncritical mind for those of you not in the loop animal farm is basically a short book with direct comparisons to the soviet union using farm animals eventually showing a devolution to a brutal dictatorship of the pigs which is totally what marx is advocating it's annoying to talk about any sort of leftist policy and just get animal farm yelled at you like suddenly these people become experts on socialism in the soviet union after reading it i feel like it's getting to the point that

8:00 people forget animal farm is fiction it's not a real thing it completely ignores the material reality that soviet union had to face namely the invasion of 14 capitalist nations that defined its policy going forward it also has sweeping reductions of history combining marx and lenin into the same character completely missing lenin's important contributions to the revolution and instead pinning them on the character representing trotsky his complete misrepresentation of soviet history begins to make sense when we realize that he himself had never even visited the ussr in addition orwell himself was a racist in a snitch while hypocritically complaining about big brother he reported communists to the secret police and provided them with lists of names where in typical mayo fashion it calls paul robeson a black internationalist anti-white while also being bigoted against jews and homosexuals

8:46 at the height of world war ii in a strictly anti-communist society while the soviet people were fighting to the death against the nazi hordes orwell somehow thought he was brave by speaking out against the soviet union when in reality he was just another tool of the bourgeoisie hopefully it's clear that orwell is not the greatest source on communism and that learning history from a book that literally calls itself a fairy story is not a replacement for an actual history book if you have criticisms of the soviet union or communism incite the little mermaid sorry to say but i'm not going to take you seriously [Music] the fact that commerce country said famines is mocked again and again but it ignores the fact that after these famines countries like the soviet union and china accomplish food security for the rest of their existence a study called economic development

9:31 political economic system and physical quality of life compare socialist and capitalist countries based on different levels of development looking at the physical quality of life of both data for the study was taken from the world development report of the world bank shockingly it found the daily per capita calorie supply was actually higher in socialist countries than those of capitalist ones contrary to the much proclaimed no food the average socialist citizen was receiving more food than the capitalist counterparts by the way the same publication also shows that only did socialist countries have a higher calorie supply they also had lower child death rates higher life expectancy population per physician population per nursing person adult literacy and secondary education in fact the physical quality of life index which is a composite and derived measure shows just how superior socialist countries are to capitalist countries in terms of quality of life the discussion section study goes on to

10:17 say historically there is some evidence that the discrepancies between capitalist and socialist nations have reflected varying social policies all the socialist countries have initiated major public health efforts these initiatives have aimed toward improved sanitation immunization maternal and child care nutrition and housing in every case the socialist countries have also reorganized their health care systems create national health services based on the principle of universal entitlement to care these policies have led to greater accessibility preventative and curative services for previously deprived groups expanded educational opportunities also has been a major priority for socialist nations as publicly subsidized education has become more widely available literacy campaigns these countries have brought educational benefits to sectors of the population who earlier had not gone to school wow what a dystopia how dare these

11:03 socialists improve sanitation nutrition housing and education this is george orwell's nightmare i also want to add that if you're skeptical of that study i showed the cia itself acknowledged that american soviet citizens eat about the same amount of food each day but that the soviet diet is more nutritious hopefully that completely satisfies anyone who still thinks everyone's starved under communism in the communist manifesto karl marx states the theory of the communists would be summed up in a single sentence abolition of private property many people have taken this to me that communists don't want anyone to own anything even to the point of sharing our toothbrushes communally hey it's my turn oh okay here you go open wide [Music]

11:49 [Applause] but anyway if you actually read the manifesto literally one second earlier from that quote mark says himself the distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally but the abolition of bourgeois property how communists use private property in this context is different from the common definition communists don't want to take away your toothbrush or things that you possess those are personal properties private property are things used to make more money and give power to those that own them like a factory banks offices and infrastructure the abolition private property means taking those things from private hands and putting them to the hands of the community to sum it up communists don't want to tackle your personal property just the private property of the ruling class [Music] [Applause]

12:34 but under communism wouldn't a janitor be paid the same as a doctor does that discourage innovation just like every single argument against communism this one completely misunderstands what it is what the question misunderstands is that socialism which is probably what was meant doesn't mean everyone is paid the same just that everyone has common ownership of the means of production and as i'll cover in the next section there are more things than just money that incentivize humans as for innovation just ask yourself which country went to space first which country industrialized at a rapid pace turning from a backwards semi-fetal country to a world superpower if you're looking for innovation in socialist countries there's plenty there historical examples of socialism like the soviet union have provided free healthcare education subsidized housing that foster environment for learning on the other hand capitalism gives you extortionate prices for healthcare thousands of dollars in student loan debt and rent payments to your parasitic

13:20 landlord imagine how many possible scientists or visionaries have died before they could achieve anything because they were unlucky enough to be born in a poor family under capitalism if it conflicts with profits capitalism also often ignores and discourages science like in the case of oil companies denying climate change any innovation that does take place is usually for the benefit of the capitalists not us ask yourself why when a new machine or program that can replace workers gets created workers get laid off the answer is that capitalists are calling the shots and want to cut costs to make sure that they can make as much profit as possible under socialism where there's common ownership of the means of production this type of innovation wouldn't result in layoffs but rather pay raises and less working hours why would the workers fire themselves and i used to say this all the time when people uh you know back when uh russia was

14:06 the union of soviet social publics and they'd say oh but aren't you so glad that you're in america i said well i know a lot of russian filmmakers they have a lot more freedom than i have all they have to do is be careful about criticizing the government otherwise they can do anything and so what do you have to do you have to adhere to a very narrow line of commercialism communism will never work because of human nature humans are too greedy and lazy to do stuff unless we had a monetary incentive like we do in capitalism well let's see what other incentives could there be besides gaining money and power to get people to do stuff i don't know what about survival bettering another person's life passion satisfaction with your work curiosity

14:52 boredom and output for creativity necessity and companionship what do you think happened before capitalism came about do people just sit down in caves and die from hunger because they didn't have any monetary incentive i'm hungry wanna go gather some berries are you gonna pay me money what's that and speaking of pre-capitalism humans spent hundreds of thousands of years living a primitive form of communism where we lived communally incentives to work in human nature aren't static things they're shaped by the mode of production that we live under if we look at history there are huge differences in human behavior throughout the world and to simplify it all down to a monolithic human nature is ridiculous as the famous saying goes to look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature's egoism is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is drawing their lungs and saying that is human nature to cough

15:41 interestingly since it's difficult to attack the basic ideas of socialism and communism like economic democracy and work empowerment anti-communists have to find another way of shutting these ideas down you know what i'm talking about if you like socialism so much why don't you move to north korea or if you're a socialist why do you own an iphone in a karl marx body pillow hey insult me but leave him out of it don't worry carl the boys are gone so these arguments about social hypocrisy almost always never bother to address the actual ideas of socialism and serve only to attack the person talking it's a slimy tactic that doesn't actually mean anything the train of thought goes as follows socialists are against capitalism iphones are made in capitalism and then their galaxy-sized brain combines these two ideas to synthesize that therefore socialists are hypocrites the problem is

16:27 that using this logic you literally can't criticize any system at all because you're a hypocrite for living in it i don't think i like living in a slave society very much haha but you're eating food your masters gave you i don't think i like living under feudalism very much aha but you're using tools made out of feudalism i don't think i like living under capitalism very much aha much a phone and computer were made under capitalism no matter how you spend your money under capitalism someone is going to get exploited that's what the there is no ethical consumption under capitalism means because no matter what your consumption will always be unethical in some way what these anti-communists are really saying is that if you're a socialist known anything you're a hypocrite which is such a good way to shut down discussion the only way to satisfy these people is if you live in a makeshift hut in the woods but even then they would complain that you're breathing air in a capitalist society not to mention that capitalism doesn't

17:14 make anything labor does capitalism and socialism only determine who has control over the means production and gets paid as for the other argument if you like socialism so much why don't you move to insert vaguely socialist country here my response is if you like capitalism so much why don't you move to the slums of capitalist brazil hypocrite [Music] a common argument against the far left is that if you think about it the far left is actually as bad as the far right i mean one side advocates social justice and economic equality while the other side advocates for ethnostates in the subjugation of races of people jokes aside there's an unironic strain of people who believe in horseshoe theory that the far left is just as bad as the far right because both use violence and stuff such compelling evidence of course horseshoe theory completely ignores any

18:00 sort of deep analysis of communism or fascism but but what about the nazi party nazi stands for national socialism so doesn't that mean they were the same as communists yes that's true but both the german nazis and italian fascists purposely made sure to appear leftist appeal to the people and muddy the waters apparently they did a good job because centrists are still falling for it to this day if we look at fascism itself we can see that it's actually closer to capitalism than it is to communism fascism began when capitalists needed to revitalize profits but were stopped by those pesky unions so capitalists funded fascism in italy and germany and was in power those same fascists suppressed communist parties labor unions lowered taxes on the rich outlawed strikes privatized state-owned companies and generally supported business the word privatization was literally coined to describe fascist policies to argue that

18:46 fascism is left-wing or the same as communism would be to ignore who supported fascism and what fascism did in reality instead of a horseshoe i would argue that ideology is more of official with a far right sharing more in common with the centrists who are ready to support fascism as soon as profit levels drop this is another reason that fascism and communism are always incorrectly depicted to be two sides of the same coin in fact it's the central idea and a bunch of other arguments like communism is always implemented incorrectly or communism only works on paper if communism only works on paper it's a good thing i live in paper anyway these three arguments are essentially the same thing so that's why i'm mushing them together into the same section the idea that communism is inherently

19:32 authoritarian is misleading because it only developed these things after capitalism tried to crush it in 1918-20 14 capitalist nations invaded soviet russia to overthrow the communists with the years of this civil war intensifying the bolshevik siege mentality the same pattern of imperialist capitalist powers invading to protect capital can be seen in other countries that try to move beyond capitalism the spartacist uprising in germany was suppressed by the sukdems with fascist paramilitary forces in 1919. catalonia was crushed by fascists in the spanish civil war in 1939 cuba in 1961 suffered from an invasion and afterwards decades of terrorism from the u.s chile in 1973 nicaragua in 1986 the vietnam and korean wars and so much more as we can see capitalism will stop at nothing even going as far as supporting fascism if it means stopping communism from threatening the flow of capital the reality is that revolutionary countries

20:17 are not going to be allowed to develop a socialism that is unhindered instead what we see is a sort of siege socialism with authoritarian measures being adopted just to fight back the onslaught of the west in the whole context we can see that the totalitarianism of communism is not a natural development but an unnatural one caused by the constant barrage of capitalist terrorism so when communist states fail to defend themselves from capitalist massacres and genocides then capitalists laugh and pin the blame on communism's inherent weakness but when communist states do defend themselves while they implement strict security measures to protect their people from capital's death squads then the capitalists run crying decrying the commies for being power-hungry monsters who were just a forward taoian seeking to seize state power all along so if communism is bad and weak when it fails to defend itself but it's also bad and authoritarian when it does defend itself then when would communism ever

21:03 not be depicted to be villainous the answer is never because no matter what communist states do it's always spun to be bad this is not an argument it's a dogma this argument goes hand in hand with the totalitarian one before the idea goes that communist governments are oppressive and that the poor and downtrodden are prevented from exercising the democratic rights they had before the truth however is much less dramatic democratic rights hadn't existed in these countries before communism arrived poland was a righteous dictatorship russia was a czar citocracy albania was an italian fascist protectorate cuba was a us monster dictatorship lithuania hungary and romania were all fascist regimes these countries had known little democracy if you're actually curious about democracies under communism check out this video detailing

21:49 how cuba's democratic system works needless to say it's much better than system we have in capitalist countries so while capitalists are willing to virtually signal political rights and liberties in communist countries they will brutally crush it if people actually support the communist regimes before the dissolution of the soviet union the people held a referendum in which the vast majority of people wish to preserve the union of course the political will of the people should be ignored if it goes against capital's interests and went ahead anyway if you want to discuss political rights being taken away in communist countries there's no better time than during the overthrow of communism yeltsin the u.s supported capitalist president russia disbanded the russian parliament along with every other elected represented body abolished russia's constitutional court banned labor unions from political activities outlawed parties and attacked the parliament building killing two thousand people wilson's popularity rating right before the election of 1996 was

22:36 eight percent it got so bad that the united states had a rigged elections in russia to ensure his victory ironic considering today's situation russians russia oh my god my throat the same pattern existed in other former communist countries with marxists enduring political suppression and elections being rigged to prevent the people from voting to bring back communism whenever communists won victories in fair and open elections judged by outside sources like in albania and bulgaria they were forced to step down from the pressure of capitalists all this virtue signalling about political rights from capitalists goes away when the people themselves want communism back [Music] wow look at that breadlines for the hungry people under communism how shameful this is obviously proof

23:22 that communism doesn't wait a second these are pictures from the great depression a failure stemming from capitalism not communism although it's a common stereotype that communists are bad with economics it's often because they get the short end of the stick many countries were faced with decades of male development and exploitation when communism arrived the devastation of warm and widespread poverty in misery in eastern europe china and russia communism rebuilt these countries from the bottom up leaving them in much better shape than when they found them in contrast to communists building up formerly destroyed nations capitalism destroyed the economies of former communist nations when cattle's arrived in these countries real income shrank around 30 to 40 percent rent in real estate prices soared inflation increased consumer spending decreased by 38 in russia poverty and homelessness was commonplace definition suicide illness and infant mortality increased security for workers became essentially non-existent and unemployment rates went as high as 30 percent keep in mind that before capitals arrived commerce countries had full

24:08 employment free health care widespread literacy and education along with strong worker benefits of course capitalists will say the transition to capitalism and free markets will obviously have a period of hardship but it's only temporary until economic prosperity magically appears but guess what they've been saying it for decades left at the tour to go get cigarettes and haven't come back since it only takes a quick look at latin america to prove that something's up as an afterthought it's funny how capitalist apologists will laugh at red lines and communism but ignore the fact that there are already breadlines under capitalism it's called the grocery store and you actually have to pay for the bread and those who can't afford it just starve to death those commies sure are oppressive by handing out free food huh [Music] sure maybe these communist countries

24:54 achieved all these great things but doesn't the fall of these countries prove that in the end communism [Music] fall of communism the soviet union in eastern europe was a crime for capitalism but that happened over a quarter of a century ago let's see what's happened since since the collapse of communism the united states and capitalist powers have attacked and even outright invaded various countries like iraq yugoslavia afghanistan iraq again libya and the smaller interventions in between the social democracy in scandinavia you all love the main reason is so strong is because communism was literally around the corner without communism to blunt the edges of capital capitalists have been free to exploit workers and are continually rolling back

25:41 rights saying the fall of communism proves it doesn't work ignores the fact that communism did work it provided essential services like health care education for free full employment rough income inequality and inexpensive housing with a reliably growing economy compared to the instability of capitalism communism worked far better the only reason communism and soviet union collapse is the west efforts to bring it down the strains of the cold war with a punishing amount of gdp spent on military the cost of being anchored to other socialist countries and movements urban shops awful policy failures and a good attack led by pizza hut the bloody [Music] though that smug piece of [ __ ] none of these reasons have anything to do with communism itself on the contrary it proves that capitalism doesn't work because of how far kapos will go to crush any attempts at communism as former gdr minister heinz kessler said sure i heard about the new freedom that people are enjoying in eastern europe but how do you define freedom

26:27 millions of people in each neighborhood are now free from employment free from safe streets free from health care free from social security modern-day communists are often stereotyped as lazy good-for-nothing white college students who want nothing to do with their lives of course this is all nonsense communists can come from any and all backgrounds and are usually from the most marginalized groups and if we actually look over people who live in our communism think we can see that majority of them actually want communism back as i mentioned earlier a majority of russians actually wanted to preserve the soviet union in referendum held before the switch to capitalism in fact now a majority of russians actually prefer the return of socialism and the soviet union after all this time nostalgia for the soviet union is strong among the older generation here they say that two decades of capitalism

27:12 in this declining town have spawned rampant corruption and a lawlessness that didn't exist before these clips didn't come from a communist propaganda outlet it came from a radio free europe which is an anti-communist american funded organization one comment said it best why are you playing yourself like this you're

27:58 supposed to be an imperialist propaganda outlet lol anyway back to the video another poll says that reflecting back on the breakup of the soviet union that happened 22 years ago next week residents in seven out of 11 countries that are part of the union are more likely to believe its collapse harm their countries than benefited them here's another poll that shows the majority of former east germans actually feel life was better under communism another that shows a whopping 72 percent of hungarians say that they are worse off under capitalism and another shows that many czechs say they had a better life under communism and here's another that shows the majority of serbs say life was better under tito okay you get the point country after country you see large amounts of people and usually majorities that want to bring communism back what a surprise that a system that benefited people's lives is actually popular with the people who lived under it contrary to the blatant lies of those in power

28:46 beep boop apathy detected initiating speed round debunking good [Music] yes you there uh what is survivorship bias [Music] the first time yes [Music]

29:37 you foolish commie have you ever considered vuvo zwiela [Music] there it is the elephant in the room i've avoided talking at length about specific countries for this video because i simply can't cover all of them and i would get a lot of comments saying i forgot include this country or the other but venezuela is pretty much something that anyone to the left of joseph mccarthy has heard and i do mean it so i'll make an exception this time now why is venezuela in such a bad place is it because of socialism no venezuela funds public programs by relying on the money it makes on oil when the price of oil collapsed that meant a lot of its funds for these things did as well so the root cause of venezuela's financial struggles has to do with the sudden collapse of oil prices a staple of capitalist markets not socialism not to mention that u.s sanctions are wielded horrifically to [ __ ] the economy and serve the people and that corporations are hoarding and

30:23 hiding food from the people kullux style chaos hunger and strife is inevitable when you're the target of american imperialism and despite this economic chaos the people venezuela still support the bolivarian revolution chavez and the democratically elected maduro over the u.s back attempted coup in fact they probably supported more now because the us is starving and attacking them the problem is that with venezuela being america's number one target right now the corporate media is working overtime to try and print a lot of misinformation like for example when a news story broke out about venezuela's burning aid it was immediately called out as fake by people with a strange ability called critical thinking it wasn't until weeks later that the failing new york times finally published a piece revealing that yes the footage probably wasn't real but maduro is still a dictator guys please listen to us what i'm saying is with venezuela being the target of american imperialism don't believe everything you read on the news like come on guys we've been through

31:09 iraq and we all know how that ended hopefully you can all see why the us is so interested in venezuela [Music] it's easy to debunk all these arguments but it will never get anywhere unless we examine why anti-communism is so prolific communism first and foremost is a threat to property owners so ruling interests have made sure to pound anti-conus doctrine into our heads for literally centuries i gave a little snippet of this idea earlier but a full explanation is given by michael prenty in blackshirts and reds in the united states for over 100 years the ruling interest tirelessly propagated anti-communism among the populace until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis during the cold war the anti-commerce ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence if the soviets refused to negotiate a

31:55 point they were intransigent and belligerent if they appeared to be willing to make concessions this was about a skillful ploy to put us off regard by opposing arms limitations they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent but when in fact they supported most armed treaties it was because they were mendacious and manipulative if the churches in the ussr were empty this demonstrated that religion was suppressed but if the churches were full this meant that people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology if the workers went on strike as happened on infrequent occasions this was evidence of their alienation of the collectivist system but if they didn't go on strike this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom in this sense anti-communism is not really a position to take but rather an unfalsifiable religious doctrine and as we know anything that can't be proven false isn't scientific most people absorb this sort of anti-christ doctrine by moses simply from interacting and living in a capitalist society they never bother even learning what communism is just that it's against human nature and

32:40 verizon and have you ever heard this little book called animal farm trying to challenge these notions is exhausting simply because to them ideas are not at stake but rather their whole view of reality in mark fisher's book capitalist realism he discusses a widespread condition that contributes to this prevailing anti-communism capitalist realism as fisher describes is the sense that only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system but that is impossible to even imagine an alternative to it as the phrase goes it's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism maybe it's not that people are hostile communism just that the variety of life beyond capitalism is impossible for us to even picture with the collapse of the soviet union and the eastern bloc excluding a few examples actual existing socialism is pretty much extinguished from the world capitalism won and now we take it for granted that's pretty much all we know cap's realism is so prevalent that even debunking anti-communism contributes to it sure capitalism may spread poverty

33:25 famine and war but isn't that just reality isn't it utopian to even suggest that these things can be eliminated in this way catalyst presents itself as an unchangeable reality therefore any action to move beyond it is simply unrealistic but as with all realities it's not the full story it's entirely possible to eliminate poverty famine and war in fact we're well able to do it right now capitalism's need for ever-growing markets and infant resources has depleted our planet and brings us ever closer to environmental catastrophe breaking apart the notion that capitalism is the best system we have capitalism is literally going to destroy the entire planet and we have very little time to do anything about it we have to realize that capitalism is not natural it is literally killing us and the world we inhabit we must achieve an alternative or it will drag humanity and the planet down with [Music]

34:19 power it this video is the epitome of the mountains of strongman policies and ad hominem attacks we live in a society venezuela hypnos human nature [Music] wait a second hey no don't touch me porky i knew it was you all along and i could have gone away with it too if it weren't for you meddling or commies take him away nkvd thank you sir and please be on the lookout for any more kind of revolutionary activity i often get told in the comment section of videos that i'm biased and stuck in my own bubble and let me just say that you're right but the thing about bias is that it

35:05 doesn't really mean anything because everyone skews everything to their own perspective the only difference between me and everyone else is that i'm willing to admit it look at it this way how many times have you heard the claims that communism killed 100 million people or communism always leads to dictatorship how many times you ever complained to this anti-communist speaker that they were being biased against communism if your answer to the second question was zero then what you're really mad about is that i'm biased but that i'm presenting inconvenient information that goes against your worldview too often skepticism is weaponized against one side without actually applying it to the other as well i'm not asking you to accept everything i've argued without doubt i'm just asking you to apply that same doubt to yourself and what you think you know as well anyway i know you hardcore leftists in the comments will be telling me that this video reeks of liberalism and is naive to believe that arguments debates and facts can win people over this post-trump world and that's actually a pretty good point i had an exact thought while i was making this video i mean as i explained

35:51 earlier the proliferation of anti-climate sentiment is ingrained in us and it's almost impossible to imagine a future beyond capitalism but maybe it's the little lib inside of me that believes that people aren't just global loudspeakers of capital i mean before i became the plucky comments i am now i was just another person spotting off these exact and economist talking points it was until i stopped and listened to real communists that my mind slowly started changing as for this video i'm reminded of a lion london road after years of working on the development of capitalism and russia if the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems he shall regard his labors as not having been fruitless [Music] wow quoting lenin how pretentious it's good to be back obviously i probably didn't debunk every argument against communism but i did debunk all the common ones i heard if you have any arguments i didn't address feel free to comment i might make a part too if there's enough material really the big reason i made this video

36:37 was because i was tired of making the same exact arguments over and over and over again and i wanted to sort of master video that debunked all this stuff in one place so if you're arguing with some anti-communists and they make one or many of the points here feel free to link this video and if you're one of those anti-climbers who are brought here hey stick around for a little bit and i'll recommend some stuff to learn more about communism as i said before one of the biggest reasons i became a communist is because i talked and listened to real communists rather than the straw man communists were told about so if you have any further questions feel free to put them in the comments they're also dedicated subreddits this type of thing so if you really want to engage with communists check out our communism 101 or our debate communism in addition if you want to learn more about communism there are good resources out there red menace and marx madness are great podcasts for learning communist theory revlof radio is also good for learning about miscellaneous communist things

37:22 in fact they have their own version where they debunk anti-communist myths as well there are multitude of people on youtube who have done a much better job debunking specific arguments such as hakeem halima raw azure scapegoat and thought slime just off the top of my head i also have a playlist with some great documentaries and parenty talks that provide a wealth of information finally of course if you want to learn about communism nothing can actually replace reading theory yourself as for the future of this channel i'm not planning on stopping anytime soon i'm planning to focus more on theory and i have a series of videos in mind i've apologized in every video now about my upload schedule and at this point it's probably not going to get any better still i'm really sorry that this one is late by two years two years is a lot of time and i've grown up a lot since i first started making videos honestly just follow my twitter if you want updates and long stretches between videos i also now have a second channel to post memes

38:09 extra content and other things during these breaks i create an instagram as well for any communist theory and book reviews i make as the end of this video it's a good time to talk about the current events that are going on namely the numerous uprisings occurring around the united states it should go without saying to please materially monetarily and physically support these protests in any form i've already donated as much as i can on my part and there will be links to donate pinned in the comments class warfare and the struggle against national oppression will always be staunchly supported on my end finally more importantly than ever no war but the class war it was better in cuba where i didn't see any kids with swollen bellies and hungry and begging i didn't see any people begging it was

38:55 better in cuba than it was in washington dc where i lived and i walk down the street and i see people in total misery and disorientation standing there begging for food begging for money sleeping in hallways i see that in the richest country in the world that's where it was better and when you talk about freedom that's freedom that's up and when you talk about oppression that's oppression sleeping in a doorway is oppression you want to know what oppression is then sleep in the doorways of the land of the free and the home of the brave and you all know what oppression is you want to know what oppression is then think about the guys who sit there wondering if they're going to blow their brains out because they can't pay the mortgage on their house and they can't feed their kids and they see the whole thing falling apart that's where it's better and those are

39:42 real things and that's part of freedom