http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ejG962EYEs&feature=g-all-u&context=G2826452FAAAAAHgAAAA
Has anyone payed attention to this guy? I subbed to him awhile ago on youtube because he kept up with current events and thats something i fail to do. There were some other informative things to but, i think he has attacked the mises.org several times.
I like how devoted he is that he has a bunch of government propaganda in the backround, and he wears uniforms and what not. I remember one time he was smoking a cigar or something in a uniform and i wondered if he was doing a che Guerva impression. He just cracks me up sometimes, thats all. I'm still subbed.
What are your thoughts?
All statism is socialism. Any state economy will be part socialist.
The capitalist nature of capitalism?
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
Btw, as an anology, he is basically saying "how can a 'murderer' be a murderer is he is killing a fellow murderer?"
ahivento:I subbed to him awhile ago on youtube because he kept up with current events and thats something i fail to do.
I'm sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, but there are other ways to get news.
In fact, someone made a thread about it recently.
Freedom4Me73986:
Mises uses the word socialism as anything that isn't completely free market, Maoist Rebel uses the word capitalism as anything that isn't pure socialism. There's a huge chunk inbetween, and that's where National Socialism is. The Nazis were far left-wing collectivists and National Socialism was the high-point of the Progressive era, I wouldn't say it was "socialism" though. It was hardcore interventionist capitalism, about as far towards socialism as you can get without widespread starvation. Interestingly, Stalinism wasn't that much more socialist than National Socialism, it had a monetary system and companies where the practical decisions were made by managers, who were allowed to keep some of the profits. After it became clear that central planning wasn't feasible, the planners more or less just took the data they were given by the managers and wrote them into a central plan. So the Soviet Union had the same "socialism in name only" system. All countries had some degree of markets and monetary allocation, if they managed to feed themselves. Obviously it's real easy to make the case that country x wasn't socialist, since no country was. So then you can just cherry-pick the evil ones and blame "capitalism". There is no disputing though that this evil happened because of socialism.