Why Communism Always Fails

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Absurd Chicken

Absurd Chicken

Күн бұрын

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0:00 Intro
1:06 What Should We Produce?
2:07 Who Should Produce Things?
3:10 Who Should Get Stuff?
#economics #politics #communism #capitalism #socialism
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@ProfTricky3168
@ProfTricky3168 Ай бұрын
Oh I thought this was how Chicken kills communism
@ros9764
@ros9764 28 күн бұрын
I genuinely want a video where someone debunks communism using chickens
@Dima-ym7fc
@Dima-ym7fc 28 күн бұрын
@@ros9764 there’s a video where someone debunks communism with cows. Close enough I guess 🤷‍♂
@suhnih4076
@suhnih4076 25 күн бұрын
Same lol
@Lea_Avi
@Lea_Avi Ай бұрын
On my own reading I've found out there's like six main reasons why central planning is impossible, and I think it might be worth bringing up the other ones. There's Mises' economic calculation problem which was explained here, there's Hayek's information problem about how only the people on the ground know how to use the information only they have access to and that central planners have no possible way of making sense of it in a timely or useful fashion, there's the corruption and rent seeking issue with massive unaccountable bureaucratic centralization, there's the problem that the tools employed by mathematical economics cannot possibly be used to figure out correct (or in the Kirznerian sense, *less wrong*) prices prior to the fact, there's the issue that central planning necessarily does harm to democratic and constitutional political institutions, and finally the problem with capital flight or brain drain where entrepreneurs will flee the country if the environment turns sour on them. (I'll add that the sixth point applies to any other form of discrimination and not just under communist central planning. Jews and overseas Hundu and Chinese communities, which often made up the backbone of commercial centers wherever they went, were heavily discriminated against purely out of spite and envy on the part of locals) Did I miss any?
@AbsurdChicken
@AbsurdChicken Ай бұрын
Would note that there's also no objective function that central planners can maximize (though this relates to what you listed as #1). Also would mention that the third question I pose is essentially Hayek's information problem (the planners don't know that there are two ways to make a chicken lay more eggs).
@ryangosling239
@ryangosling239 Ай бұрын
and if it is done by computers? It removes corruption and reduces time, isn't it?
@AbsurdChicken
@AbsurdChicken Ай бұрын
@@ryangosling239 The computer can't solve the information problem (question #3 in the video). It does not have all the relevant information about how each factory and each chicken farm works (multiply this problem x10000 for every different good/service in the economy)!
@ryangosling239
@ryangosling239 Ай бұрын
@@AbsurdChicken but what if it does? AI are fed with all the data from the internet, so why shouldn't a computer know that?
@Bratkartoffel16
@Bratkartoffel16 Ай бұрын
@@AbsurdChicken If the market was centrally planned there would actually be people involved in the planning that have an idea of what theyre doing. In your video you just assume that everyone is the biggest idiot and just dont account for experts running a planned economy. So the chicken example makes no sense at all.
@Batai22
@Batai22 Ай бұрын
This video taught me so much about how to make a strawman argument
@Bratkartoffel16
@Bratkartoffel16 Ай бұрын
Finally someone who isnt a 16 year old knowitall
@purplebreadloaf8677
@purplebreadloaf8677 Ай бұрын
At least the absurd part in your channel name is accurate
@bleederboss
@bleederboss Ай бұрын
you had to edit that simple sentence?
@purplebreadloaf8677
@purplebreadloaf8677 Ай бұрын
@@bleederboss Dyslexia
@zlodevil426
@zlodevil426 Ай бұрын
@@bleederbosstypos exist
@pablo4yu
@pablo4yu Ай бұрын
All commies are bad
@zuai946
@zuai946 Ай бұрын
​@@bleederboss "You had to edit that simple sentence" ☝️🤓. Bros acting like he has never made a typo or misspelled something before.
@HoneycombProductions
@HoneycombProductions 27 күн бұрын
> "Why Communism Always Fails" > looks inside > Explanation of Capitalism
@kxbelsalat6390
@kxbelsalat6390 25 күн бұрын
he is delulu
@664theneighbor5
@664theneighbor5 25 күн бұрын
Ok move to NK then
@HoneycombProductions
@HoneycombProductions 25 күн бұрын
@@664theneighbor5 with a profile picture like that i wouldve thought you supported NK. guess they aint white enough for ya anyways the fact you even know about NK but have never heard of, like, Turkmenistan is a part of the problem. Not to say knowing about NK is bad, but there are plenty of other third world dictatorships that are violating human rights just as much as them but aren't getting that level of media coverage. hell, in some places you could say the US is worse/as bad as them (necrocracy (why are we still talking about the founding fathers), exploitation of workers, propaganda, etc) and unlike NK it doesn't really have a historical reason for it besides "free market babyyyyyy 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅". Hell, SK is run by like, 5 families that own every major corporation in the country, practically making it a capitalist monarchy (hilarious as capitalism was originally conceptualized as a removal of Kings from Feudal society). Leninism postulates that a newly formed socialist//communist government remain a dictatorship of the proletariat for as long as it is threatened by Capitalist powers. Remember: there is a reason every long-lasting socialist country has done this, from Cuba to China to, yes, NK. In NK's case, the threats from SK and the US never went away, and while that is not to suggest that the obscene glorification of the Kim family is normal in Leninist countries, there is a reason NK remains so hostile to Western capitalist powers. It would have never gotten nukes if there werent US and SK troops on it's southern border 24/7 threatening its very existence, and a Chinese partnership can only go so far. There are no NK troops on any US border, and yet the US still sees itself as the World Police, putting troops wherever it likes to ensure its interests.
@Qreator06
@Qreator06 28 күн бұрын
I am not socialist, nor capitalist, both systems are good and bad in their own ways But this video has some flaws I would like to mention 1) The actual biggest flaw that all Socialist countries do is being opposed by The United States. After all, no amount of good economic policy will beat a gun to the head. Fun fact: No socialist country in history has been free of US intervention! 2)The Demand for most good and service are highly predictable, especially in the era of computer, calculating and predicting demand should be no problem most of the time. 3)”To each according to their need” this is the socialist’s motto, everyone gets what they need to live and the rest you have to get it yourself. 4)Robots, Machines, AIs and future technology will continue to reduce the necessity for human worker + people naturally want to be useful, proof: volunteers. Though we can’t (yet) run an economy on volunteers, most people are fine with working whatever they are assigned as long as they get their needs
@ros9764
@ros9764 28 күн бұрын
We'll have to wait probably more than a century before AI becomes as reliable as people assume it can become
@Qreator06
@Qreator06 28 күн бұрын
@@ros9764 yeah we can wait, AI’s not necessary for socialism, but it would help!
@kxbelsalat6390
@kxbelsalat6390 25 күн бұрын
@@ros9764 it's just another pro, and another pro for marx's argument
@kxbelsalat6390
@kxbelsalat6390 25 күн бұрын
don't forget the maker of this Video is probably an american, brainwashed and held back by their education system
@seamusfinnegan1164
@seamusfinnegan1164 19 күн бұрын
1. Mongolia and Nepal, and probably a few other super minor ones lacked US intervention while socialist, what would be true however is no country, socialist or capitalist has not been interfered with by another country and thus any argument based on 'I cant do X because interference' is flawed by the nature that any system socialist or otherwise does not exist in a perfect vacuum and must contend with the realities of a vast global economy, and countless other nations with there own policies, beliefs, etc that can affect any given nations system no matter how isolated. 2. I disagree with this statement on a fundamental level, even things as 'basic' as food demands can be prone to sudden shifts that no one predicted. While such is more predictable in the past you can't fully truly predict consumer demand just make an educated best guess. 3. That's a communist slogan not a socialist one and there is a difference between the two as not all forms of socialism are communist although like anything of such a nature I don't doubt its been co-opted within socialism it is a primarily communist statement started by Marx. There is also a great deal of ideological argument on what that statement even means. 4. I could start a whole list of jobs id refuse to do regardless of the circumstances up to and including the threat of starvation or execution, and this is with experience being homeless and permanent childhood malnutrition related issues, I have starved before, and would do so again then do certain things.
@the_expidition427
@the_expidition427 26 күн бұрын
As government is a monopoly and it's the only business that isn't capable of breaking itself up. There is human envy, jealousy, misery, things that aren't able to be seen behind smiling faces which don't tell the truth. A enemy does no harm as people know where their enemies are coming from, handshakes, smiles, and pats on the back hold people back. Smiling faces sometimes don't tell the truth.
@Tirinir
@Tirinir Ай бұрын
It's a nice mental exercise but not really how it goes. Demand for planning spawns a sprawling buerocracy that doesn't really care for political goals and just does its own things, and ends up being taken over by some internal clique or a dictator. You coulld also make the analogy with companies in a capitalistic economy, which employ central planning. The difference is that the companies are embedded into the market which sends, hopefully, reliable (if the market is not too distorted by bubbles or monopolies) signals, and are allowed to fail (and go bankrupt or merge with more successful competitors).
@AbsurdChicken
@AbsurdChicken Ай бұрын
Seems like you're making an argument based on Road to Serfdom, which is a political economy argument! The video is based on the impossibility of planning even with perfect political economy (which is based on Hayek's Use of Knowledge in Society).
@Tirinir
@Tirinir Ай бұрын
@@AbsurdChicken I was making argument based on my own observations and discussions I had with other people. It's interesting to know about the books that study these dynamics, I'll have to find time to read them!
@Racer942
@Racer942 Ай бұрын
The definition of becomming what you hate the most
@kxbelsalat6390
@kxbelsalat6390 Ай бұрын
Does Capitalism work? Are the living standards really worse overall? Or just more even.
@AbsurdChicken
@AbsurdChicken Ай бұрын
www.statista.com/statistics/1248540/us-ussr-life-expectancy-at-birth-cold-war/
@medi9945
@medi9945 Ай бұрын
@@AbsurdChicken unfair comparison but sure. America has been a "free" and "democratic" country since the 1700's and the USSR existed for about 70 years. Compared with countries with similar starting points in living standards, such as india. The USSR had higher living standards. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amjph00269-0055.pdf
@linksword7110
@linksword7110 Ай бұрын
that graph makes little sense, it first starts of with every point being 5 years, but halfway it changes and goes 1 year per point. Then we got the problem where at the start usa and ussr is basically the same(graph starts at 1970), but the ussr has existed much longer than that
@rabiscoebarulho8332
@rabiscoebarulho8332 Ай бұрын
​@@AbsurdChicken This video is a joke
@_human_1946
@_human_1946 Ай бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
@mRahman92
@mRahman92 28 күн бұрын
Five year plan my ass!
@weaponizedbattletoaster
@weaponizedbattletoaster 29 күн бұрын
you just gotta size the means of production
@cracked21
@cracked21 27 күн бұрын
Socialism is the state control of the means of production. It's impossible to calculate profits and or efficiency of something that big. which is why most of them actively lose money and require external funding and subsidies (money which can be better spent elsewhere if the companies were left to collapse to let other more successful and profitable competitors emerge)
@BlackenedBones
@BlackenedBones Ай бұрын
I don't think this really explains how the communist countries fell (i.e. it doesn't recognize the fact that the USSR did exist for several decades before falling, that Cuba still exists as a communist/socialist country, that most economists, or the ones I know about, don't even recognize any country as truly Capitalistic or Communistic, that most countries have some form of central planning but they aren't complete hellholes, etc.). It feels very oversimplified and too theoretical; "propagandic" is a fitting word. I would prefer to see an example of how a country, like the USSR or Cuba (which are probably the closest communist countries to have ever exist), have failed, and what events/situations led to it failing (other than just "muh, communism, muh central planning, muh [insert other thing here]"). I want something with a historical basis in reality (even though they can also be very misleading). I want something that is more than a University sponsored explanation with single word captions and images spaced throughout.
@bobskanal
@bobskanal Ай бұрын
They only achieved existing so long due to a repressing regime. And in the end they all switch to a more liberal market. And yes, of course a 5 min. Video will be oversimplified.
@bleederboss
@bleederboss Ай бұрын
that muh is an economic science explanation. in psicology we have a model that explains psicopathology, you dont need to have an historical view of the person. im saying this with a psicoanalitical position.
@BlackenedBones
@BlackenedBones Ай бұрын
@@bobskanal How does a regime extend the life of a economic system? And why support a video that oversimplifies things? Wouldn't it be better to have a video that just simplifies things (excluding the over)?
@BlackenedBones
@BlackenedBones Ай бұрын
@@bleederboss But you still need to a have an example of that person with that psychopathology. You can say a unicorn is real, explain how they evolved right along with humans, but that doesn't mean they actually exist.
@bleederboss
@bleederboss Ай бұрын
@@BlackenedBones yes the theory is made from the examples, but after that you use the theory. the some happens in economics and also from the normal function which is also based on examples. but you dont always go to the past ...
@Abs0luteCha0s
@Abs0luteCha0s Ай бұрын
My cat just subscribed to you.
@CatArmyGeneral
@CatArmyGeneral 29 күн бұрын
Can confirm.
@yukitakaoni007
@yukitakaoni007 27 күн бұрын
Remember, profit must always be above morality or your business will go bankrupt in capitalism. Ans always consider greed is the only morality to ever exist, any other thing will be considered as against (human nature). That is the unmovable rule of Capitalism. Break it and you will always be questions with: What about human nature?
@karlisulmanis3810
@karlisulmanis3810 Ай бұрын
I don't get the like/dislike ratio, this video is a pretty good layman's summary in my opinion..
@bobskanal
@bobskanal Ай бұрын
But a lot of communists get triggered by the title click on in, dislike and leave.
@Bratkartoffel16
@Bratkartoffel16 Ай бұрын
@@bobskanal Im here man come on, you wanna fight then fight.
@treedai7787
@treedai7787 Ай бұрын
@@Bratkartoffel16 Why don't you go and actually change things? Like fixing our corrupt governments and starting revolutions instead of arguing with people on the internet.
@bobskanal
@bobskanal Ай бұрын
@@Bratkartoffel16 Ich verstehe die Sehnsucht nach einer besseren Welt, aber der Kommunismus ist eine materialistische Ideologie, die gleichzeitig gegen den Materialismus der Menschen kämpft. Wenn du die Welt wirklich verbessern willst, musst du bei dir selbst anfangen.
@greenmeanieofficial4293
@greenmeanieofficial4293 29 күн бұрын
@@treedai7787 what are you doing about any of those?
@altairtodescatto
@altairtodescatto Ай бұрын
Just like Mises told us :)
@HoneycombProductions
@HoneycombProductions 28 күн бұрын
found ben shapiro's alt account
@justsomeguytrynasleep4590
@justsomeguytrynasleep4590 Ай бұрын
The thing is that you can actually now what people want to buy and what not. A.I for example can nowadays calculate how much Sushi will be sold at a mall by simply just looking at the weather and data from last week. A planned economy can work and will eventually even be better than a capitalist one (which suffers from alot of the points you have adressed in the video) if you actually get competent planners and enough data.
@bleederboss
@bleederboss Ай бұрын
with that premise you admit that before ai it was imposible though. and you need A) a product of capitalism (being ai) and B) for it to work as you described it without like you described which in itself 1) its not how you think ai works (because its not easy to understand ai and if you think it is you are not very smart) and 2) you dont know the scale that ai works and you wouldn have an example until its tried.
@bobskanal
@bobskanal Ай бұрын
Look: The difference between capitalism and communism is the following: When a big company in in capitalism goes bankcrupt, some prices may get higher, but eventually the company gets replaced by another. When a big company in communism goes bankcrupt, the big company is the only company, so it can't get replaced, because it's the state, which means that there will be another great starving. And AI is a human product, which means that it makes mistakes and it gets controlled by humans, who also make mistakes.
@altairtodescatto
@altairtodescatto Ай бұрын
What do you mean by competent planners and enough data? How in the actual hell we prevent the next stalin to rise to power and how in this world we will be able to getter what i want next week?
@hugitoburrito4011
@hugitoburrito4011 Ай бұрын
​@@bleederbossnothing is a product of capitalism or communism, everything is a product of researchers and workers, AI as we know it wouldn't be a thing it it was for state-sponsored development
@ryangosling239
@ryangosling239 Ай бұрын
@@altairtodescatto so he says that AI fixes planned economy. It removes much of the bureaucracy, and Stalin rose to power because he was in charge of that bureaucracy. Also, Malenkov (the guy after Stalin) lost power because the bureaucracy didn't like him
@suhnih4076
@suhnih4076 25 күн бұрын
0:18 is the answer you’re welcome
@wooju08
@wooju08 28 күн бұрын
The people in charge were bad - Slavoj Zizek
@ridomix
@ridomix 23 күн бұрын
I don't care what neocomies say about this guy, i like him because he based
@Diskaria
@Diskaria 25 күн бұрын
I can see these arguments came from an echochamber. Also the scarcity mentality is literally stalinist pragmatism. You are which you critique.
@MrBigShot264
@MrBigShot264 29 күн бұрын
It would have been way faster if you just attacked the labor theory of value
@AbsurdChicken
@AbsurdChicken 28 күн бұрын
One day!
@AndrewBryantFuentes
@AndrewBryantFuentes 13 күн бұрын
Fails at whot though?
@storemy7237
@storemy7237 Ай бұрын
I am from Latvia, which suffered from communism a lot, and currently am cringing from these comments. Like bruh, you all didn't witness the life in USSR, you don't know a damn about how it really was. Poor quality clothes, electronics (except Latvian ones), transport and so on. Still you can see on the streets crappy, collapsing apartment complexes, search for zolitude or imanta for example. Everything is a consequence of a planning economy. Atleast icecream was good and limonade was 5 cents for a cup, y'know...
@WorkersRepuplicOfParava
@WorkersRepuplicOfParava Ай бұрын
Womp womp
@storemy7237
@storemy7237 Ай бұрын
@@WorkersRepuplicOfParava dong stuck in your mouth so you can't say anything intelligible?
@storemy7237
@storemy7237 Ай бұрын
@@WorkersRepuplicOfParava cry more.
@kholodyeg7210
@kholodyeg7210 Ай бұрын
Latvian industry became a piece of shit after the USSR collapsed,many factories have been closed. Apartment complexes were just a temporary measure to give people housing , because in the fifties many people still lived in wooden houses. And also such thing as decentralised planning economy exists, that fixes many issues of central planning economy(but it can work only in an anarchist society). Also calling the USSR "a communist country" is not correct, because communism is a classless stateless and moneyless society,in which everything is distributed from everyone according to their ability,to everyone according to their need. You can't really call it socialist tho. Because socialism means that the workers control means of production they are working at. But in the USSR the means of production were fully controlled by the state,so its just capitalism,but the owner now is not bourgeois,but the state. To make the long story short,if you say that your country have suffered from the USSR,you basically say that your country have suffered from state capitalism,not communism
@AbsurdChicken
@AbsurdChicken 29 күн бұрын
@@kholodyeg7210 Latvia's life GDP per capita has risen tenfold since the fall of the USSR with its life expectancy also increasing by five years!
@onefor2
@onefor2 25 күн бұрын
60 dislikes wow. Some people really skipped history class.
@kxbelsalat6390
@kxbelsalat6390 25 күн бұрын
You skipped intellect
@onefor2
@onefor2 25 күн бұрын
@@kxbelsalat6390 So what commie fanboy? Go to China or even North Korea if you love socialism and communism. Tell me how it went for you there.
@markash4399
@markash4399 28 күн бұрын
Income and wealth re-distribution schemes don't work either.
@Bratkartoffel16
@Bratkartoffel16 Ай бұрын
I genuinly dont know if I should laugh or cry over this video, it just shows such little understanding of how the REAL capitalist market works or how a "communist economy" could work if implemented into the REAL WORLD. If you really want to debunk central planning you should atleast take the real world as examples and not invent situations that suit you perfectly and let everyone make the dumbest decisions. If you had at least taken the real world as example your video would still have been probably based on a lot of misinformation about the soviet/chinese economies, but it would have had some basis.
@Penguin4096-si9fz
@Penguin4096-si9fz 29 күн бұрын
My chicken was communist hmm...
@Ismail-fv6ki
@Ismail-fv6ki Ай бұрын
It's really weird that an ex-USSR filo-russian university financed this video. And I think that if in the future we achieve communism we would have the technology and the energy to give to everyone what they want.
@vol7381
@vol7381 Ай бұрын
Even if such advanced technology makes ccommunism achievable, why not use it to enhance capitalism instead? I mean, we don't have that Star Trek-style futuristic technology, and yet we're much better under a market economy than under a central-planning economy. Why opting for risky changes when we already have a model that works relatively well? The risk and costs associated with changing systems are not worth it for the purely hypothetical gains.
@youngcapitalists9714
@youngcapitalists9714 Ай бұрын
Having a better calculator isn't going to help you calculate variables if you don't have access to such variables in the first place.
@bobskanal
@bobskanal Ай бұрын
The human itself can't make an unfair world fair. And behind communism is a hedonistic/materialistic world view. And this hedonistic/materialistic world view will sooner or later get in conflict with communism. You like it when the state gives you a big house. But after 25 years it could be that the state pushes you out of the house into a small 1-room flat, because someone else needs it more, or because of corruption.
@Ismail-fv6ki
@Ismail-fv6ki Ай бұрын
@@vol7381 your also right but I think that the more we go into the future and the more businesses will become more powerful just look at BP or Samsung they have control ove intuire government and this results in the exploitation of the millions of workers that work in that industry and generally all over the world
@vol7381
@vol7381 Ай бұрын
​@@Ismail-fv6ki I understand your worries. Caring about workers is always a necessary and valid reason to object economic systems. But the world has gotten more "capitalist" in the past decades, and we haven't seen worker's condition deteriorating. In fact, they've improved a lot. Even if one says it is because of the welfare state, well, that is by no means a reason to end capitalism, since welfare-state and capitalism work well together. That is more like a reason to upgrade capitalism rather than end it.
@danielschoch9604
@danielschoch9604 27 күн бұрын
Nonsense. Outdated 1950s theory. Communist failure is systemic, not due to bad planning. Read János Kornai's "Economics of Shortage". There is a lack of capital. And Vietnam is a mixed system of market socialism/capitalism.
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