lonewolf1369- @CylonAndrew you contradict yourself. First you say you understand him and then you say crap to support left wing policy. It is 100% true that constant interventionism will lead to more interventionism and eventually to Totalitarianism. Obama's plans are quite interventionist and also contradictory. Obama admits that some regulations are just "stupid" and thinks he can get rid of the "bad" ones while keeping the "good" ones. All intervention fails because its intent is not the one it advertises
CylonAndrew- @DREwestcoast um, thats my honest oppinion. His argument is basicly Soscialism is bad because of Stalin. It is like saying Capitalism is bad because America placed pro-capitalist dictaots in South America who killed hundreds of thousands of people against Capitalism. I am not saying that either a soscialist or a capitalist approch is better in every situation posible but both systems are practical in individual situations.Capitalism promotes growth while Soscialist polocies secure peoples rights
Съветски Бетон- @modelmark more like a history of grate achievements ... this gorbachev treitor .... keeps spewing his anti - soviet crap " working there is understatement " what a idiot .. people like him sold out the country... and all workers all over the world ...
noprofitmaximierung- I am a Marxist-Leninist of the third-period of the Comintern. You see the hammer and sickle star on my avatar? That is the rank of officer my great uncle got in the bavarian Soviet Revolution. We communists will take the property of everyone with the armed militias of Proletarians, which now the vast majority of the western population are MoP-less wage workers. Serfs are history you stupid fool; I want you to be a proletarian, which you most likely are anyway, just an unconscious one,
modelmark- @finishstrongdoc I hope it is not going to drop down in socialism in one big slide, but that there will be a freedom bear market rally.
modelmark- @HK379 Looks like you are getting your centrally planned, coercion based, forced labor camps after all. You win, why the frustration?
Съветски Бетон- @heavens2kadonka ??? I don`t understand what you are saying ... you can be cynical all you want .. but my faith in the right cause ..the cause of communism , class war , dictatorship of the proletariat ... my spirit - the spirit of victory ... are armored deep in my chest ...and for them there are no such armor - piercing bullets developed yet ... do you understand .. you decadent individualist ...
Doc America- @modelmark I've been told that toward the end of the USSR, people joked about absolutely everything because there was absolutely everything was tragically funny. Humor is a fantastic way of disarming the lie and making its sting less severe. In every joke there's an ironic truth. If there was no truth, nothing would be funny, which is why everything was funny in the end, because the lie of Communism was finally as naked as the peasants.
Thomas Field- Very informative but the more interesting question for the West at the moment is: What lessons can we learn from the role played by agriculture in the post-Soviet context?
Doc America- ..i doan't belif iyn conspyraci therris , bot conspyraci therris happ'n all the tym...right aynd lyift......mostly lyift
Doc America- @m I have good friends from wisconsin, where Yuri teaches, who think that "Fighting Bob" LaFollette was a great hero of the progressive movement. He went to Russia in the 20's, came back to Wisconsin and told everybody " I have seen the future...and it works !!" They still love "Fightin' Bob" in Wisconsin; my nephew's gonna go to a HS named after him. U tell me, man, do u think it's gonna "work?" Communism only failed because they ran out of bullets at a bad time;when ppl were starving to death
Clay Ton- @residentzombie I agree with you. The Yuri 2012 was a joke. RonPaul 2012...that's just as much of a joke. I just do not see any real change (for the good) coming. We as citizens can see the problems before us and we ask for change but it never comes. People vote instead so they can keep their little tokens and in the process they sell their freedom. The constitution is bent and skewed or ignored to meet the needs of whoever is in office to benefit those who got them into office.
CylonAndrew- @pretorious700 i can understand this guy. And I took history and studied a lot of the stuff he is talking about. Yeah, Stalin was horrible. But he is saying that all left winged polocy eventually leads to a Totalitarian state. He keeps comparing Obama's plan with Stalin's 5 year plans. Also, I am Canadian and I can say that Obama is more conservative than our conservative party. So yeah this guy does not know what he is talking about. Its exactly like saying conservatives are evil because Hitler
Съветски Бетон- @modelmark Gulags are re - educational facilities for criminals , like those on that panel ... who preach their individualistic , capitalist , fashist ...bullcrap ...
noprofitmaximierung- "MALNUTRITION DEATH RATE BY COUNTRY" Google it you arrogant bastard. You see, Afghanistan is number 9 most deaths by starvaton of all countries. What kind of Socialism exists in Afghanistan please? What about number 17, Liberia, does there exist a universal health care service in Liberia? Wait, they don't even fucking have a sewage system! Number 36, Somalia, one of the freest capitalist countries in the world. Sell everything there, guns, women, children, no regulation; no social security.
modelmark- @HK379 ...when we get to power..... do you really think when it gets to someone pointing guns at someone innocent, imposing their will, that you will be the alpha male holding the gun, re-educating others that force wins from intellect? Or will you be with the 100 million plus dead that communism resulted in in the past? Statistics, such a hard thing to grasp.
kummando64- In which country with high economic freedom people are starving ? people are starving in high centralized countries like the majority of African ones... find a job, stop talking bullshit you german idiot. you don't know what socialism is, you never lived it. you will never understand.
Hashishin13- What is the free territory?
jack n- Brilliant historical and philosophical perspective. I love his manner of speech as well. I call him Yuri Two Time.
danoedalo- Hell, the USSR sucked, that's for sure. But, this man is talking out of his ass, I've got no idea where he found the numbers of this and that. 40-60 millions executed, 75% of population are "slaves". That's just nonsense. What's the point in bullshiting like that? Oh, lemme guess, theRepublicans pay for that show.
Saptarshi Chaudhuri- Ha ha..as if before collectivization Russian people were buried under grain....Soviet union gave people the agency to produce food for themselves and feed people of other oppressed countries. This Maltsev fool says the church, the big landowners were support mechanisms for the people. Only a idiotic follower of Von Hayek can say so...tells alot about Gorbachev who allowed such a person to be his economic advisor-- no doubt soviet economy was betrayed from within by these bastards.
Doc America- In that case, then, let me just quote C.S. Lewis "I have never met a mortal person; we shall all live forever." Only the dead have seen the end of war. Without truth, nothing would be funny. Under Communism, everything's a lie, so everything is funny..including death. Have fun.
CylonAndrew- @dynomyght I find your comment extremely insulting! I make minimum wage and so do many of my friends. If it was not 10.25 in Ontario, Canada (a huge improvement 8 years ago) I do not know how I would survive financially without it considering the cost of School (my Tuition is only 4000 $ because the government pays for most of it plus I have Scholarships) if it was lower. However, my point was orrigionally that both Capitalism and Soscialism are practical in certain situations like education.
ThunderAppeal- @modelmark Cynical humor was the norm under the soviet union to mask the weight of the repression of the soviet system.
partisan21- Didn't know that there are Austrian economists from former Soviet Union.
residentzombie- @deadman12078 Just because we have had traitors as Presidents in the past doesn't mean we should ignore the Constitution. If you are trying to defend Constitutional principles, you must defend the entire document, not just the parts you like. This is the problem and WHY we've had traitors as Presidents. If we want to change that provision 2/3 of the House and 3/4 of the States must ratify it, not ignore it. That's why our founders gave us the ability to have Constitutional conventions.
andersottesen- @PanzerDivisionBOM Yes that to. I am no expert on the topic, but last time I checked, the US and its "allies" subsidize and they make other economically and politically poorer countries stop their subsidies and remove trade barriers. African counties is the best example I can remember, many of which now are dirt poor. Farmers get subsidies such as cheap diesel, lucrative tax-deductables, direct financial aid, beneficial loans and much much more.
Hashishin13- @HK379 So this is just a joke then? Your not really a raving lunatic? Just a troll making up garbage to irritate those who want to have rational debates?
noprofitmaximierung- "I ask you where the great famine of American history is?" The Great Depression, Dust Bowl,7 Million deaths of starvation and undernourishment. You have 1 BILLION humans rotting away in Capitalist slums, you have no right to talk about injustice you fucking filth.The Western Colonial playground of Landgrabs and Capital flight,African continent is a human disaster zone.Greece has "Sub-Saharan" human development indexes because of the Capitalist crisis, Spain 56% youth unemployment. Communism Now!
pretorious700- what nonsense
Clay Ton- @residentzombie I "like" Ron Paul and some of the ideas he has; very little government. I don't care about abortion or education or any of those "issues" politicians get wrapped up with because the people want to impose their beliefs on the rest of the population. That is not what our government is for. Our government is meant to ensure our rights of choice. To prevent a any person or group from restricting our actions, so long as we do not harm others. Ensure commerce and protect borders.
Съветски Бетон- @modelmark you lack understanding .... one day , we will grab the waters of time , and put them in a conkrtete sleave ..."thats how you will flow "- we`ll tell them ... AND THEY WILL FLOW LIKE THAT ! and there will be no more hunger and missory in the world .
Hashishin13- @HK379 So you want to enslave yurself to others and you regard people who respect themselves and want to be free to make their own choices as less then you, the person who wishes slavery on everyone? How did communism ever get started with such nonsense as it's founding belief? Oh yea they killed everyone who disagreed...
usernameted1- I love Yuri, he is by far the most entertaining speaker at LVMI besides Jeffrey "the bowtie" Tucker.He has a great and fresh perspective about centrally controlled economies that can only be gained by living in one of those hellholes.
MabusZero- @CylonAndrew I too am receiving my education in a similar fashion, but dynomyght is talking about economic distortions more so than otherwise. The government does not possess money. Rather, it takes in taxes from the productive and redistributes it, primarily to functions of security (military and police). This in turn produces a legal monopoly of force, driving up the cost of it. Other redistributions creates similar monopolies. When it has a private business face, it's called mercantilism.
Ligeti43- IF no one is growing food how are the people surviving to keep growing the coffee or tea? If you were starving wouldn't you grow food for yourself before anything else so you don't starve to death?
CapitalistOverlord- Collective/communal agriculture actually worked pretty well in the Free Territory, where peasants organized the system themselves, rather than having it forced upon them.
pretorious700- you must be a college sophomore
noprofitmaximierung- Thank You Comrade! I wish we had at least halfway disciplined and academic opponents who read Marx, put some effort into trying to deceive about Marx and manipulate people; but this is the sad, low level at which these parasites crawl...
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What Soviet Agriculture Teaches Us | Yuri N. Maltsev