Caleb Maupin "Socialism Did Not Fail!"

Speech at Workers World Party forum held on Oct. 22nd, 2011 entitled "Socialism In the United States: Is It Possible?" The forum was directed as member of the Occupy Wall Street movement who had become interested in Marxism-Leninism and Socialism.

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[ClevelandFIST]

@porchmunkE4life The USSR cured starvation for the first time in the history of the country. Under the Czarist empire, starvation was an everyday occurence, with millions dying annually. By 1935, the USSR was starvation free due to socialist construction. The life expectancy tripled. The starvation that occured in the early 1920s was due to the civil war and blockade. The famine of the early 1930s was due to the transition from private to collective farming so rapidly. Socialism worked.

[porchmunkE4life]

I appreciate the response thanks for the info

[porchmunkE4life]

Wat about ussr food shortages?

[z0mby]

@minxlabrada Uhm.. Hate to break it to you, but the Electronics industry is actually notorious for monolopies.

[sewbuttns]

Socialism is what transformed Russia from an agrarian backwater into a world superpower in just a few short decades.

[Textynn]

Socialism is what made the banks and the oil industry unfathomably rich. Unfortunately, for the rest of us, we socialize them in everything they do but for the people , the bill.

[minxlabrada]

@Abhaya1993 Opening sentence under Stalin @wiki: Researchers before the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union attempting to count the number of people killed under Stalin's regime produced estimates ranging from 3 to 60 million. Wow! That proves Eddie Izzard "Well done!" theory. Smedley Butler would kick his ass any day of the week! LOL (if we were able to somehow set that match up in MMA). Free energy will break out like the PC industry. Real free markets. Not cronies.

[Abhaya1993]

No socialist says anything negative about Stalin. Because he was man who liberated the whole world from the grip of imperialists. It was only after russian revoluton, all the colonies started fighing for liberation. Just imagin a poor country like russia(before revolution) fighting against a fascist like Hitler, to whom the world imperialists surrendered… That’s Stalin, a great man the human race has seen..

[jayroth6]

Excellent job!

[madebutante]

Liked this alot but wonder what Caleb says about Stalin's murderous reign. Why don't I ever hear any Socialist say anything negative about Stalin? Thanks for this vid!