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  • About 400 years ago the modern state was created in Europe. These states where ruled by extremely wealthy aristocrats. These states waged war on each other until 1945 when they realised that the atom bomb would destroy them selves. Under these years the also waged war on the rest of the world, kidnapped and sold slaves, funded their wars by drug trade and so on. In these states corporations where created as the aristocrats lost their privileges in order to enslave their own population.

  • 1:22:40 What a brilliant liar!

  • we only recognize propaganda when it's produced by the side we disagree with. when it's saying what we want to hear, we call it 'brave cutting-edge journalism'. but both sides engage exactly the same techniques. NPR is the same as Fox News, in fact they are funded by many of the same sources and their agenda is ultimately the same.

  • great!

  • this is whats happening to Ron Paul

  • The West manipulates its people to over-consume,while robbing the rest of the world of its resources. Then they deny the rest of the world the dignity of basic survival resources, while brainwashing its own citizens on how "superior" they are to those black and brown people. What is most tragic is that the people bought and perpetuated the lie. Now, they are disenfranchising these same citizens today, as they erase the old mind control by replacing it with a new one that doe not include them.

  • @seekingjustthefacts we deserve it for being so stupid and selfish. it's not hard to figure out that killing half the world and stealing their shit is wrong, yet we never find it important enough to mount a meaningful protest, we just utilize our freedom of speech to bitch and boast endlessly, as if that's enough. we deserve everything we're going to get and more, god willing.

  • what is the reflective tune playing at about 1:28.00 onwards. Sounds like such a sorrowful kind of tune, sung by Angels.

  • Its only when you conquer your fear of death that you can truly embrace the ultimate feeling of self worth and happiness whilst your incarnated and alive as a human being.

    The removal tyranny in a calculated and graceful manna is the solution, but when your enemy is unknown it is an extremely difficult predicament to find yourself in. The key to liberation of sentient beings is “Spiritual awareness”

  • 1:08:24

  • common sense duh

  • Check out "The Banker" on my Channel. It's a great 6 minute film made by a writer in Scotland. It pretty much sums up the global conspiracy perfectly in a short amount of time. Perfect fr all these people that say, I don't have time to watch all these things. 200,000 views so far.

  • 0:11:30 I grew up during this era when they had us cower under our desks for a nuclear bomb drill. We as young school children thought it was silly. I only wish I knew then what I know now. I would have refused to cower and instead stood in front of the windows saying I wanted to see the flash.

  • humans are misery, we have destroyed this planets habitable surface, the last human on earth will likely use a gun to kill themself.....humans are war

  • ... talk about vague, absurd generalizations. Humanity is not the enemy, it is the manipulators who are the enemy. It is those who seek destruction for destruction sake, who thrive on war, on misery, on death. You cannot classify every single human as a pestilence, as a cancer upon the earth. If you feel like one, then do yourself a favor and remove yourself. What destruction? I don't see the planet falling to pieces. Those who hate life, primarily their own, project their hatred onto humanity

  • @JoshieDoozie You don't see the planet falling to pieces?

    You are far too oblivious to the world around you to pass judgment on anyone.

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  • Cool, now I know where the word 'propaganda' comes from. But that is a good thing it says a lot about religion if secularism is just as stupid and ignorant as the dark ages.

    Go Religion!!

  • Nothing will change, the 'masses are asses'. The Black Friday segment proved this: people trampling someone to death at a Walmart and then refusing to allow anyone to attend to the body. If you want to change your world, you have to forget about the mass media, forget about pop culture; instead, focus on your local community. Make it the best place for you to live. This will never happen because everyone would rather watch the Oscars and the Super Bowl (huge propaganda events).

  • ron paul brought me here!

  • democrat and republic party are both pr outfits of the rich

  • i never learn about this history on fox news

  • 102,791 since 1am pst december 28, 2011

  • whoa, my mind is blown, what a great doc. so many topics to consider. amazing how relevant propaganda is in shaping our culture and getting us to behave in certain patterns/rituals... This talk about, how corporations get agendas met through propaganda and Freudian techniques is mentioned all throughout the doc, "Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. A must see also.

    may all of you have a GREAT day.

  • @JPVeigaaaa The fact you even mention a label, "Leftist" just reiterates the fact, you don't get it. There is no Left and there is no Right. You feed the illusion. In reality, there is only the awakened.

  • @Vandalj glad someone is on my same level. thank you.

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  • check out this proaganda!

  • Typical leftist bullshit.

    Corporations are our friends, they help more for the envirement than those pot-smoking liberals...

    Too bad some people are too self-absorbed to understand other points of view.

  • @JPVeigaaaa lol sounds like you're talking about yourself

  • @JPVeigaaaa Yeah, I might agree with you, but what does pot have to do with any of this? you are associating pot to liberals - this is a fallacy in and of itself. Admit that you are using fallacies just support your argument... which btw is not supported by any evidence whatsoever. Critical thinking just bitch slapped yo ass, homie! you're welcome.

  • @MisterAaronRodriguez And not is not the miracle drug some people believe it is. Some people get sick from it.

    Why do you think it is illegal?

  • @JPVeigaaaa people get sick from lots of things - peanuts, shellfish, dairy, etc. JR said, "the only reason it's illegal is because of economics." It's so true, it would cost pharmaceuticals billions of dollars, and not just pharmaceuticals... think about about hemp's industrial and agricultural uses also. The people with the most invested interest have no interest in disrupting the status quo. Why cause ruckus when you could just as easily propagandize people and get them to outlaw it for you?

  • We have to destroy not only the mindset that money solves problems, (because brains are worthless apparently), we have burn down the ivory towers (harvard/MIT/other religious institutions such as them), and teach our children to be even more vigilant for the most profound scientific revolution humanity has ever faced. Don't be afraid, just take charge and tell those institutional freaks to shove it. Semper fidelis.

  • Duh. Basically everything the news says is wrong. There is no such thing as Al Qiaeda, "terrorists", financial crisis, whatever. It's all bullshit designed to make us afraid and do nothing for fear of ridicule and to protect our own lives. Well fuck that! I'm taking my country back!! First by destroying the scientific status quo. Youtube: Earth is older than the sun. The big bang never happened!!!!

  • Jesus Christ, get me off this planet.

  • wow, da 99% movement has been alive 4 a long time now! da answer 2 sufferin is UNITY!

  • gosh.! its okay to have democracy bt please guys... in a proper manner... ang magkabilang panig nagpapatayan nah... ano ba naman yan.!!

  • Wag The Dog...the worlds' a stage, yes, we are The Truman Show.

  • This's why i shut down the TV. For good!

  • a BIT of a conflict of interest? (9:31)

  • why is the share button not working here?

  • Fuck charity. Why do people HAVE to give away their damn wealth. it's their damn wealth. Jesus. When have you given 100,000 to anyone? Fuck percentages.

  • @Esoparagon ? Fuck theivery. Why do people ACCEPT to have their wealth taken away? It's their wealth. Jesus! When have you lied, cheated, bribed, murdered and used a system designed to make it easy to steal 100,000 from anyone? Fuck Percentages.

  • @slowmotionsystem It doesn't work that way. Good thought, though, but you'd be better off trying to pray with your prick. The completely controlled media is structured in a manner where the columnists have time & column inch constraints that prevent them from spending adequate time on real news. Then there's the editor, the legal team & the producer/publishers to get past.

    Think about the scale of the rackets, conspiracies & rampant corruption in our political systems.

    Try the alternative media!

  • Why doesn't this have more views?!!??!?!?

  • I think the world is finally waking up to this. The internet is changing things

  • Excellent, Well Researched Documentary!!!

  • Christ this is depressing...

  • Occupy Together! Occupy in your city! Now is the chance we have waited for! :D

  • Leftist propaganda about propaganda! LOL!

  • Wow! :(

  • Wek up to deez!

  • 1:00:42 This boosted my already high regard for the Native American Indians.

    This documentary sums it up well. We have economic dictatorships but are given free elections. Those in power want the general public to think they have a say in the running or the country. This sh!t has got to stop.

  • You have done a fantastic job bringing this issue of propaganda to the public. Thanks for posting.

  • It's been disgusting for me watching this giant monster propaganda develop and grow in the U.S. and to see my own friends and some family members fall under its spell. Those that control the media have shattered families, countries and now are destroying the world with their overwrought egoistic and narsississtic , existentialist views. I knew how to check out what politicians lied about but very few wanted to know the truth. Now, too many have been conditioned only to the lie and fear truth.

  • @olga2415 Conditioned to lie and fear truth. Have had family and friends yell and scream at me and one man has studied this monsterous conspiracy to me since jfk was murdered.

  • @DangerousDan77777 Sometimes I don't know who to be more angry at; those who do not want to know the truth, yet want a "democracy" or those who take advantage of the idiocy that resides at the core of especially the most "educated" among us because they are the ones doing the most harm due to the fact that they are the most credible.

  • Nicely done. Thank you for your fine effort.

    When those lacking capital wealth are supported to obtain it, then those with much of it can easily obtain vastly more of that capital wealth than they had before.

    But can you get to do even more "doing-power" for yourself if you support those without power to better do power themselves? No, i say.

    The fewer who are at the table, able to do power, then the more chance you have to eliminate them all and do all the power yourself.

    & density comes

  • All that i will say is, When Saddam was in power. Not one Church was blown up, and not one christian was murdered because he is a christian, now they are killing christians in Iraq by the numbers.

  • @zyou8er Well they kind ov deserve it. Fundalmentalist fascist christians started the war/oppression in Iraq in the first place!

  • @DarknessUnresolved You have to remember something, the Christians you are talking about are known as Politicians, they do not know God, Honor Or Morals, they are simply Politicians. And if you look at the history, all the way back to Sumarians/Assyrians, you will see that modern day Iran and Iraq belonged to them, which they are now minority Christians of Iran and Iraq.

  • @zyou8er I would repectfully contend that NOONE "knows god" because god does not, nor has ever existed!

  • Whats the ENDING SONG?????

  • sownzgr8 your telling me that you trust politicians? natrually zombified. bullshit. go and read that stupid 1 book for the rest of your shitty shallow life!

  • @25lockie Psywars = Politicians ??

  • I'm not sold on psywars crap. Afterall, it's unecessary. Fact is the masses from every inch of the planet have been "zoned out" for decades and likely centuries of what the powers that be do .. to them. First they are too caught up in their own menial lives, but moreso, people are so naturally zombified that even propaganda is barely needed! Still an interesting video tho.

  • @sownzgr8 Everything you just described is part of the psywars, dude. They manipulate your education, and tell you how to think. THAT'S MIND CONTROL.

  • @Zementkopf1 Dude, I didn't describe anything. How can you zombify someone born zombified? Why even try? People can also decide for themselves what to do, think, etc.

  • @sownzgr8 We are NOT born zombified. We are born as Indigo children. If we are born zombified, then it is caused by the products and shit our parents consumed.

    We are caught in an illusion that they create through their propaganda and mind control. It is not as simple as "thinking for yourself", when even the smartest people are caught up in this mind control. This goes deep into our psyche, and holds on to us until we literally break free from it. Then you can see the illusion.

  • @Zementkopf1 Shit over half the worlds population are walking zombies .. zombies who never change. What does that equal? BORN zombies. They need no help to become zombies by some outside force. Believe it.

  • @sownzgr8 No. This is purely social. This is caused by the societies they live in. People control societies. The people who control the societies control the masses, and blind them. We are not born zombies. We are born with open minds, and those open minds get manipulated. 

  • @Zementkopf1 Sure there's some societal connections. That doesn't contradict me unless you say thousands of years of brainwashing created all societies, then I wouldn't argue, but still begs some proof. We ARE born who we are. Some of us are zoned out from birth and never change, other's do. I know many closed minded people, kids and likely if you could go into an infant's brain and somehow diagnose him/her, bingo zombification... Who really knows for sure tho. So I'm dropping this here.

  • @sownzgr8 I disagree. Look at our society. Look at how it is set up, from darkest aspect to "cleanest" aspect. We are fucked up because of how we are brought up. That is all there is to it. We are brainwshed by media. TV, radio, movies, videogames, music, the news all of it. We are brought up as submissive pieces of shit. There's a reason they don't tell the truth to teenagers, there's a reason they don't speak of the injustice of our society in highschools.

  • @sownzgr8 You can vote for who you want but never WHAT you want.

    Wheres the democracy in that?

    Poloticians are bought by the rich too.

  • just turn off your TV's or stop your kids watching it, and you will see a differance!!!!!!

  • the whole rockerfeller family should be IRRADICATED FROM THE PLANET

  • This film is propaganda... The fuckin Rockerfellers got rich off of Blacks!

  • the narrator sucksssssssss

    

  • Realise this film is also propaganda.

  • metanoia-films. org/hr_watchonline.php

    authors has one more good documentary...

    also a must watch

  • This is an extremely well done video and one must watch the entire thing to really understand its point. If we as a whole do not change the human condition it is over. People who watch these kinds of things are intellegent enough to understand what is going on around them. I feel it is our duty to try to wake up the masses to the future. An aware world population can take this entire system down. Things like religion and political parties are there to devide us.

  • To all those who watched this a documentary which is also good to watch is The Union- The buiseness behind getting high. Its an amazing docuemtnary which should also open your eyes a little wider.

    Also, it amazes me how mmay little views these docuementaries have, please help me spread them.

  • My eyes have been opened a little wider. I hope to God we can make good this mess we have created. Brilliant documentary with good solutions and enough hope to work with. Come on people let's stop arguing about the details and work together. Prove the darkened souls wrong and create a dream for all to share.

  • Great contribution... Thank You.

  • Propaganda relies on faith. Perhaps that's why religions were invented.

  • @hucktunes preach, brother, preach!

  • @hucktunes One of the maxims of Neoliberalism (of which Television is the spokesperson) is to disenfranchise concepts antithetical to neoliberal expansion like art, religion, and philosophy.

    I often wonder how much of the recent reaction against religion is based on a Church's hypocrisy and how much of it is based on the influence of neoliberal antagonism and television's dominion of our psychical lives.

  • @hucktunes And compliant ignorance. That's why nationalism was invented.

  • @MarijuanaMichelle Good way to look at things lol

  • This film is pretty right on. The only thing I would add is that the conspiracy theorists keep saying Illuminati and NWO when they should be looking at Operation Paperclip of the past and know much of the current state of affairs was brought to the US via Nazi's who committed crimes against humanity.

  • I accept the non-aggression principle as the best solution to the problem of ethics. The socialist solution fails in theory and in practice because forcing people is a self-detonating contradiction. Children are naturally empathetic, co-operative, and have voracious appetites for knowledge and love. It is only when adults intervene and plan their lives via school and sports that anti-social characteristics arise. Lets agree to stop brainwashing children and the rest will take care of itself.

  • Is it just me or is the sound quality a little messed up on this? I mean its a great doc, but it seems like the audio is chopped.

  • C'mon people. Don't let yourself be ruled like this.

  • As a Media student of 2 years and an aspiring Media member (studying for a Degree in Media) I am absolutely disgusted to see what I am going to be entering into.

    I knew that there was corruption within the mainstream media but it is only within the past few months that I have taken an open mind to the dark side of the Media and the groups involved.

    It makes me re-think and want to give up on my aspirations but I know that would only make it easier for them... and I won't let that happen.

  • @1rishShaman We really need under cover investigative journalists- good luck :)

  • @1rishShaman I gave up my studies for marketing and switched to sociology. You can still concentrate in media depending on what school you go to, but it will be more of a critical perspective of media like this doc...

  • @1rishShaman Don't give up! Things will get better once we hang all these treasonous bastards! We need people with integrity more than ever. 

  • @1rishShaman Your first instinct was right;

    My father's been a Canadian political journalist my entire life.

    A wildfire raged in me since watching "Manufacturing Consent" 18 yrs ago, JFK & Benjamin Freedman's '61 First Amendment Speeches & John Swinton's '53 speech to the Press Club.

    When I asked Dad why he didn't write about the most critical issues (never covered in completely controlled media) he replied "Because I'd have been fired."

    Synthetic Reality Pimps; Political Puppets & Media Muppets

  • Scott Noble is a socialist, possibly a Communist. While I agree that psychiatry is a tool of governments to control populations, I don't subscribe to Noble's solution, which is essentially statist.

    I much prefer Thomas Szasz' approach to the subject.

  • @MarijuanaMichelle show more people the film! people have always been fleeing this kind of thing, it just makes the future even worse because it doesnt fix it.

  • So when will we hear something about Monsanto and their right over all animals and plants of the world to then create a global crop failure and kill 4 billion Humans from starvation in less than ten years.A nation of cannibals is what Nostradamus called the U.S. , a nation of cannibals.You can't own life,it's an Illuminati project started by Ronald Raygun and Bush,and the NWO will fail in the end. Fuck Monsanto and fuck anyone that doesn't know what these fascist cocksuckers are doing!

  • nice vid mike keep it up

  • @standupgun Of course a central commite running the show like in soviet would soon distance them selves from the average person and turn the hole country into a dungeon like soviet. But I want the oposite, a little bit like the indians in this movie, you and I like everybody else decide what to do but we have true representatives wich we can replace any minute, and we tell what to actually do. We (the people) are the real bosses no CEO, president or anyone have any right to tell us what to do!

  • 9 people seem to be sleeping... lol.

  • Having listened to proponents of many political/economic systems, I've come to the following conclusion:

    1. Any system can work, if it's participants believe in it, behave accordingly.

    2. Ultimately, a healthy and productive society relies more on irrational and intangible moral values than on sound theories

    Basically, use what works for you, but also have empathy for others.

    Or, in other words, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under the will"

  • @cchatttss It is such a shame; and yet the process of 'imperial colonisation' continues; in those few places left in the world un-touched by the "modern" world. Where people can live in harmony with the universe of possibilities around them. Look up the 'uncontacted tribes' in South America. The process continues; the land is raped for resources. And people who haved lived in peace for generations are destroyed. This is progress?

  • sweet 8th grade social studies paper guys......by the way.... move to canada

  • Vatican- NAZIS- Socialists­CFR (luciferian jews) run the world. The Globalist, the international bankers, secret societies, organized religions ruled by an elite bloodline, same bloodline ruling from Egypt 2 Rome 2 British (European) Empire 2 now American Empire (1913 Fed Reserve). Presidents & Kings stand at whim of the real power which is the priest hood (Priests - Bishops - Cardinals - Pope) standing behind the throne - trying to form it's one world luciferian gov't

    truthknowledge. Com

  • Hmmmm, I wonder why yr comments are being removed? Do you think it might have something to do with being a foul mouthed, eye bulging, paranoid lunatic? Hmm possibly. What do you reckon loony tunes? Latta LOSER

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  • @AritchWyess,, Liar, liar your bum's on fire.

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  • @AritchWyess Because your a foul mouthed lout and only those messages get removed.

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  • Thank You for this.

  • What complete and utter tosh. This is just paranoia. Anyone who takes this film seriously really does need to get out of the house a little more. Make some frieds, live life and stop hiding behind the curtains worrying that the government is planning to take away your freedom. Yours Goerge Tenant. Ex C.I.A 

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  • @AritchWyess Listen loser, why don't u go away an get back 2 me when yr balls have dropped and you've grown some hair on your chin. I don't have the time or the energy 2 be arguing with a pimply teenager. I actually have a life with some meaning 2 it. We can't all sponge off the state and live with our parents. Some of us earn a living and contribute 2 society. You just stay in yr bedroom typing away on yr computer and ranting about aliens, the secret Goverment and how ''THEY'RE OUT 2 GET ME''

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  • PsyOps? PsyWarPsyOps? PsyWar

    Obamaggeddon! 2012 greenbergs already said the us is committed to war at end of 2012!

    look up HAARP b4 they knock out another city (ps they plan on hitting the madrid drift soon)

    get educated then get armed!

  • I can't wait 'til people wake up and realize that The Zeitgeist Movement is the solution to the majority of today's problems. The insane people heading our government will one day be irrelevant.

  • THERE IS NO FEAR ONLY POWER!

  • All MSM by design today offends the aware to the extent of avoiding it. It's only purpose is for the unaware to echo the predictive programming.

  • Another great documentary from this film maker!

  • @FeverIAm

    i think you meant "not for commercial distribution" instead of "Not for distribution"

    or are you serious that i cant link this video?

  • @tazmaniainc Hi, I am not the author of this video. He agreed to allow me to put it on my YT channel; you'll need to ask him, not me :) contact through metanoia-films [dot] org (in the info section).

    Thanks, Mike

  • @cchatttss

    What about all of the blood shed between waring tribes of natives in the Americas? To paint it as a paradise is false, of course Columbus didn't exactly bring hope either. Ain't humanities history a bloody mess?

  • @standupgun do not believe the lies on that. The majority of tribes were peaceful; and lived simple lives. Yes, there were raids between the tribes (often introducing new female blood); but usually a peaceful solution was found.

    Do not believe the movies designed to show how 'heathen' the tribes were. It was mainly when greed was permitted (usually at the hand of medicinemen) that wars started. For the majority of the time there was no war.

    Peace and Love

  • @FeverIAm

    I am not basing my opinion upon Hollywood movies, the fact is that although they lacked the brutal efficiency of their European cousins, native Americans often fought with each other. Sometimes resulting in the complete destruction of the losing tribe. Don't get me wrong, the Europeans brought a much worse fate for all of the native Americans, but its important to notice that it wasn't a utopia before they arrived either. That's all, take care!

  • Its all about greed isn't it? I find it impossible to believe that our governments could let the world carry on as it is, but if the leaders of the world really wanted the better for us all(maybe they do but aren't in a position to disobey their masters) they would see the end of money. These elitists aren't human, they all deserve to die so that their evil can never haunt us again(and thats not something i would ever say lightly).

  • How can I upload a full length video like this?

  • @BIHS54 I am a YouTube partner; so I can upload pretty much anything (up to 2GB I think?) The main reason for accepting YouTube partner was to upload my own long videos.

    Currently regular users are limited to 15 mins. However I suspect they'll drop this limit too. the 10 minute limit was originally to prevent people uploading TV shows; but as their technology to detect 'known' videos has improved they are considering dropping limits altogether (as they can block copyright TV shows easier)

    Mike

  • @FeverIAm Thank you for the information man. How would I go about becoming a youtube partner?

  • @FeverIAm Great Video Fever! Keep up the good work! thx! 

  • @josh1492

    What's your email?

  • @JOSH1492

    What's your email?

  • I agree. These followers of the Mises institute seem to feel a need to create value. I listened to the latest V-Radio episode and it had Stefan Molyneaux. He had a lot of invalid party line arguments for the free market. He did bring up one semi-valid point which had to do with evaluating human needs and or wants but it is perverted with the need to create profit. Those that follow that line of thinking don't seem to realize how that need for profit will eventually lead to aberrant behaviors.

  • It seems ridiculous that "we wont know how to create value without money" is even considered as a valid argument against a resource based economy

  • I have continually seen opponents of a RBE bring up the calculation debate. I generally know what this states but I feel like I am not yet knowledgeable enough to offer a complete and credible counter to the claims. Does anyone know of any good books or other sources where I could get more info on the calculation debate?

  • I am a big fan of a resource based economy. I am usually a little hesitant to come right out and start speaking about a RBE because the trolls love to jump on top of it and say all kinds of bullshit. I usually try to bring up some of the ideas and gauge peoples' reactions before talking to them directly about a RBE. It seems to be a very plausible solution though I plan to do more research about other socialist type systems to see the likenesses and what possible problems could arise from the R

  • That's right there is no ultimate answer. A Utopian society cannot be achieved but I will dare say that we can come up with something a hell of a lot better than what we have. We cannot expect widespread altruistic policies or behaviors in a society based on a profit motive. The drive for profit has carried us a long way but it is simply outdated. The current system will break down; no question about it. We must ask ourselves what will replace it.

  • There is no Illuminati. The NWO is a propensity; not a defined group of people who are planning to rule the world. The only thing the masses have to do is shift our values. If we wake up and refuse to be mindless consumers we will break the cycle and end the control.

  • @drake0074

    Wise words... but a difficult prospect. There are no easy answers and probably no ultimate answers.

  • Possibly one of the most important documentaries to watch, the Yankee propaganda machine and "the free market" or capitalism is responsible for more deaths than any propaganda before and after it and any ideology before and after it. Our founding fathers might have been slave owners but they weren't exactly capitalists although capitalism was a necessary step towards freeing mankind it is not going to be the last ideology of our time, in fact America is living in a corporatacracy.

  • I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils [of capitalism] , namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.

  • @infiniteinfiniteinfi

    Maybe instead of establishing a socialist government (see totalitarianism) we could reduce governments power so much that it ceases to be a club with which the wealthy use to beat the poor. Whenever attempts are made to attack the capitalist free market...you create poorer societies, this is because a government is terrible at understanding the rule of supply and demand.

  • @standupgun

    There is nothing inherently totalitarian about socialism, certainly nothing more totalitarian than capitalism. In the presence of a government, both are tools for oppression. However, in the absence of a state, socialism is probably way more useful than capitalism.

  • @Jcolinsol

    When you have a socialist system, you need a governing agency to steal to wealth from individuals, without that all powerful agency it just doesn't work. At least with a free market individuals are free to spend their wealth as they see fit, and if you take away things like the federal income tax, then you also make it impossible for a government to spend money on reckless wars, with the taxpayer funding it.

  • @standupgun

    That's exactly as ridiculous as the anarcho-communists who claim that property equals theft and therefor could not exist in Anarchy. It's a hard-liner position, which would likely be incompatible with a real world Anarchy.

  • @Jcolinsol I don't really see the comparison to what I said with Anarchist/capitalist's theory. If property equals theft, then who is the person stolen from? All I said is that any form of wealth redistribution is a theft of property from one to be given to another. To coordinate this theft you need a government agency with guns/power at their disposal. In a REAL free market...(not what we have now), no one could force anyone, you don't like it...you don't buy it. Which is freedom encouraging.

  • @standupgun

    You are only drawing the comparison more strongly! You define "socialism" too narrowly, just as some anarcho-communists define Anarchy too narrowly and end up excluding anarcho-capitalists.

    In a functional Anarchy socialists and Capitalists have to coexist. If the socialist wants to voluntarily re-distribute his wealth collectively, that's great! If the capitalist wants to sell her time to a rich man, go for it.

  • @Jcolinsol

    Ahh, now if you are talking "voluntary" socialist tendencies then I hear and support you, but socialism by its definition is a little different then voluntary sharing of resources...and if you are talking about voluntary re-distribution of wealth...well, that happens all the time in a capitalist setup. It's what charities are all about. Basically its when the word "voluntary" is replaced with "mandatory" that I get a little concerned. :)

  • A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

    Albert Einstein

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