What is socialism? (Part 1 of 2)

Disclaimer: Besides the fact, that English is not my first language (luckily so, btw), I did not script this video, so it is moreless improvised, it is kind of a quick shot.

I made this because I realized how little people know what socialism is (btw, forget the Wikipedia-article, it didn't get the point), and I intend to explain from someone who is a member of Austria's Social Democratic Party, of course a member of the trade union, and is/was even an activist for both of them for at least some time, long story short:

Socialist ideologies (for there is a number of them) are the implementation of the very principles of liberalism and humanism/human rights regarding the economical environment of societies.

... And yes, I admit, maybe I at least should have taken some notes before I went to the attic to hang up my clothes to dry and thought, hey, why not take my camera with me and make a video simultaneously?

Any comments or responses please may go to the second part!

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[tenkins]

Ayn Rand would disagree with you. Because she was right.

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

@tenkins, I am not a communist.

[tenkins]

@ThatGuyFromAustria Didn't say you were. Socialism, just like all forms of collectivism, is a quest for the unearned.

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

@tenkins, correct, human rights are indeed not earned, they are *given.*

P.S.: Collectivist ideas are a subset of socialist ideas, not the other way round.

[tenkins]

@ThatGuyFromAustria But your definition of human rights is to take from people who succeed and give it to people who fail. How is that just?

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

@tenkins, nope, human rights just means that people are born with rights which cannot be sold. If someone "succeeds" in selling them out, "success" is a rather cynical term, don't you think.

[SebbeSucksBawlz]

I love all the "who killed more people?" comments you're getting.

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

@mcneese416903, capitalism. Without the crisis in 1929, Hitler would had not even the slightest chance of getting power, thus, without capitalism, there would have been no WW2, and no holocaust. WW1 now – the prelude to WW2 – was a direct result of imperialism, which was much about economic exploitation of other countries. And not to forget all the wars about oil.

[mcneese416903]

People that say that humans have more rights under socialism are horribly dumb.