The Industrial Age: Communism Vs. Capitalism.

As the growing world advances towards technology and industry, two major marketeers come about with opposing ideas. These strapping young men, Adam Smith and Karl Marx, create the ideas of Communism and Capitalism. In this gunslingin', barfightin, hollerin and tootin old film, we observe the influences of Karl Marx and Adam Smith through two blue-collar workers and the world-renown John D Rockefeller.

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Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Industrial
• Capitalism
• Communism
• Karl
• Marx
• Adam
• Smith
• Rockefeller

[SuburbanShinobi8000]

@101011001 its still Communist - Capitalism because the Government owns everything. KILL ALL COMMIES!!!! In the Name of ALLAH!!!

[AnnoyingTypoSyndrome]

@101011001:

Oh, i suppose they arent chinses, either ?

They just call themselves chinese, but really are american underneath ?

[101011001]

@AnnoyingTypoSyndrome Modern China IS NOT communist! They are run by the Communist Party, but that is just a name. China is a free-market capitalism modeled after the US only with far fewer restrictions.

[AnnoyingTypoSyndrome]

@dadecountyhustler305:

And yet, communist china is set to become the worlds largest economy !

It seems that imperialism gets to a certain level of success, and then implodes, for various reasons.

1. its too large to manage efficiently, from acentral point

2. a shortage of ANY neccessary resource, can cause serious damage to the entire empire

3. old enemies will work against you in subtle ways, and new ones are always forming

4. war is neccessary, to gain every inch of land

no more space!

[dadecountyhustler305]

@PlatoTacitus Ya its strange how Russians still to this day really dont see their land grabs in Eastern Europe and elsewhere as "imperialistic" or anything like that. The Russians really do think different from you and I and its scary how dumb/brain-washed they are. Than they call you brain-washed... I once had a Russian tell me... "cold war was stopped because russian leader wanted to stop it coz it would have led to nuclear war"... I would just call bapyou an idiot and move on

[svettypoo]

good video

[PlatoTacitus]

@bapyou

Again, I'm talking about Soviet Union and You're talking about Russia. Please remember that the country I'm talking about(Soviet Union), ceased to exist in December 26 1991.

If we're comparing US vs Soviet Union on who's more imperialistic - well, US would win now, due to the fact that USA, unlike Soviet Union, still exists! Maybe I should have specified the timeframe, I was thinking 20th century, from the birth of the Soviet Union to collapse of it.

[bapyou]

@PlatoTacitus OK . . . but ultimately, revolution goes beyond nationalism.

I am still learning about many things. But you will not define me. I will come to my own conclusions in my own time.

The history of capitalism has been one of unchecked imperialism and cultural erasure. Your idea that Russia was/is more imperailistic that the US is laughable. Does Russia today have 700+ military bases around the world as the US now does? The list of US imperialistic acts is faaaar longer.

[PlatoTacitus]

@bapyou

Lenin's own ideas(also shared by Stalin) on international socialism(proletarian internationalism) and of course Lenin's "The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination"(written 1915, pub. 1927)

[bapyou]

@PlatoTacitus

"In his(Lenin) mind, Finland's independence was only temporary."

Source.