Unify Action - September 26, 2025


He Covered for Socialism’s FAILURES – But I Left Him Speechless


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11 minutes

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1,607

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71

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In this episode, we talk about the history of socialism and why it is a scam. Is socialism a scam or not? Is it a scam? What is socialism and what does it entail? How did socialism fail and why did it fail? We also discuss the impact of colonialism and neo-colonialism on socialism.

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00:00:00.000 What does capitalism mean?
00:00:04.000 Prosperity for everyone who can work.
00:00:08.000 Who exists there?
00:00:12.000 I disagree with that. Mainly because of
00:00:16.000 what are they called?
00:00:20.000 Scandinavian countries?
00:00:24.000 They're not socialist. They don't have
00:00:28.000 have wealth redistribution. So 80% of what they tax from you will go back to you in your lifetime.
00:00:35.040 It's redistributed back to you in your lifetime. So they tried the whole
00:00:39.760 eat the rich, tax the rich thing in the 70s and what happened especially in Sweden was for 20
00:00:47.040 years they didn't add a single job to their private sector for 20 years. So unemployment
00:00:53.520 rose to like 11 percent even in the teens and it was an incredible financial crash in the 1990s
00:01:02.640 because they simply they drove the rich from their country and people celebrated as like
00:01:07.200 we've equalized the income gap everything's great now but in reality they had driven the
00:01:11.760 rich from their country they went to like switzerland and other countries ikea left
00:01:17.040 and in the 90s they had a financial crash and the same with denmark as well well i mean obviously
00:01:22.720 Especially the social democracy that we were not fully socialist because of the social democracy
00:01:27.720 But our capitalism was more socialist on the stage
00:01:31.720 Socialism is that we never had an actual socialist society exist, yet
00:01:36.720 We only had interpretations and countries that came out of colonialism, attempted socialism
00:01:45.720 But they were already destroyed by colonialism, so they did not have the resources to be socialism
00:01:50.720 So then they just collapsed.
00:01:52.720 So that was also because of neocolonialism.
00:01:54.720 So then there's the argument that,
00:01:56.720 in socialism,
00:01:58.720 how is...
00:02:00.720 I mean, assuming socialism is a scam,
00:02:02.720 is...
00:02:04.720 What am I thinking of?
00:02:08.720 I have an example that I have, I'm set to make it exist.
00:02:10.720 What I'm saying is,
00:02:12.720 countries that have attempted socialism
00:02:14.720 in the context of socialists
00:02:16.720 were always obviously
00:02:18.720 and their capitalism would evoke and she explodes.
00:02:23.720 And that's an obvious thing that happened because of post-elementalism.
00:02:28.720 Whereas rich countries that are already based in capitalism
00:02:32.720 have ensured that socialism cannot exist in any country to its fullest extent.
00:02:39.720 So then, because of that, how can we see that socialism is a scam
00:02:43.720 if every single time socialism attempted to exist, it was overrun.
00:02:47.720 either through post-colonialist policies from capitalist countries or through prostitutes,
00:02:53.720 as was the case in the Cold War.
00:02:55.720 I assume because, obviously, the Cold War is very much nominated,
00:02:59.720 but Africa and the Cold War are focused on socialism.
00:03:02.720 Yeah, so there's a lot of examples of countries that were extremely prosperous
00:03:07.720 before they tried socialist policies,
00:03:09.720 and I think Venezuela and North Korea are prime examples of that.
00:03:13.720 But Venezuela, they tried, they tried socialism, they tried wealth redistribution and price
00:03:19.140 controls and government owning of enterprise and things like that, and they were fabulously
00:03:26.480 wealthy before.
00:03:27.960 And now people are fleeing those countries because the price controls especially cause
00:03:33.000 mass starvation.
00:03:34.640 And I think like the average Venezuelan civilian lost like more than 10 pounds, 20 pounds in
00:03:41.240 just a few years because there was some mass starvation due to the price controls.
00:03:45.980 Yeah, but who's going to be talking about pre-first colonialism or post-first colonialism or during that?
00:03:52.680 Post. So, um, Maduro, what's his name? I have to interject here and correct myself. So I said
00:04:03.180 Maduro and it was actually Hugo Chavez who started the whole trek towards socialism. So they were,
00:04:10.460 they were not a colonialist country. They haven't been for a while. And then Maduro,
00:04:16.960 I forget his first name, he came in and they were very wealthy before. And then he came
00:04:24.940 in and tried socialism and everything fell apart.
00:04:29.560 How were they wealthy at the time?
00:04:32.640 No, I'm saying that they were wealthy after the colonialist era.
00:04:37.960 How many of them got the first colonialists?
00:04:40.460 right before they tried socialism. So, I don't know how many years, but they were
00:04:48.280 very, very few years.
00:04:58.680 Venezuela gained its independence in 1811. So the whole argument that colonial
00:05:05.600 oppression is the result of their poverty today does not hold. They had
00:05:09.740 almost 200 years of freedom and capitalism to gain up wealth before socialism came along and destroyed
00:05:17.820 it. So what about that? And obviously colonialism is a branch of capitalism, so... No, it's more
00:05:28.160 mercantilism. Well, yeah, but give or take capitalism from both... But back to the point,
00:05:36.600 how does how does that work because obviously the venezuela before french colonialism was pretty
00:05:43.560 wealthy but what you're saying has to take into consideration the effects of the venezuelan war
00:05:49.640 the effects of post-colonialism and the effects of neo-colonialism that impacted the venezuela's
00:05:56.280 ability to properly put socialism into place all of this on top of the effects of the fourth war
00:06:01.880 where obviously that's the venezuelan war the cold war had long ended before hugo chavez gained
00:06:08.680 control of venezuela in 1988. we have to consider did they even have an opportunity to properly put
00:06:16.920 socialism given everything that's been just okay so so what you're saying is that
00:06:25.960 but socialism hasn't been properly tried?
00:06:28.960 It has not been properly tried.
00:06:30.960 Okay.
00:06:31.960 Because it has never been changed.
00:06:33.960 How will we try it better?
00:06:35.960 Sorry?
00:06:36.960 How will we try it better?
00:06:38.960 How will we try it better?
00:06:40.960 That's a good question.
00:06:41.960 I mean, the thing with socialism is that, as a principle, it kind of requires...
00:06:46.960 I mean, the thing with socialism, to try it properly, you first have to ask what are
00:06:51.960 Do we remove it? Do we combine it like the social democracies did?
00:06:58.960 What can we do with capitalism?
00:07:00.960 If we were to completely remove capitalism, how would we achieve that?
00:07:04.960 Because in socialism, those countries did attempt to counter capitalism.
00:07:09.960 But the problem is, that was during a time when globalization was starting, and during a time when colonialism.
00:07:16.960 So the problem is there were a lot of countries that grew wealthy off of capitalism and who knew that obviously
00:07:24.960 they did not allow socialism to rise because then that could threaten their capitalist society
00:07:31.960 because of the fact that if a person in a capitalist society would see a socialist society
00:07:37.960 they might decide to turn their capitalist society into a socialist society
00:07:42.960 And governments, at the same time, don't really like Czechoslovakia.
00:07:46.960 So, the question here is like, to give socialism to properly implement it,
00:07:54.960 first have to remove somehow the possible influence or interjection that capitalist countries would have.
00:08:02.960 Because any country that would try to put socialism at any level,
00:08:06.960 immediately there would be an intervention of some kind from a capitalist country because it affects them.
00:08:11.960 So his solution here would be that the entire world should move towards socialism at the exact
00:08:16.960 same time, which is basically saying we need a one world government. That is something that
00:08:21.420 the world is actually moving towards and Canada joining the EU or even the talk of it is one of
00:08:27.680 the results of the world trying to push to more globalism. And Mark Carney is a globalist and
00:08:32.660 he is traveling the world trying to make Canada more connected with the world.
00:08:36.980 and the countries that he's visiting like the UK are moving towards socialism and this mass move
00:08:44.240 towards socialism would have to be coupled with a radical re-education of the entire populace
00:08:49.860 which is actually something that they seem to be trying to do by teaching everyone that socialism
00:08:54.860 is great and that is why it is so important what we're doing talking about socialism because there
00:09:00.500 are so many people that seem to love it. So the conversations that we're having need to be
00:09:05.020 happening all across Canada yeah so like um are you saying though that capitalism creates wealth
00:09:11.900 yeah so what is your biggest argument again what is your reason that
00:09:34.940 The main reason is that capitalism does not work as it is described in the theme because capitalism at its core is just about someone making some sort of money and the money grows.
00:09:50.940 The problem, though, is that capitalism eventually reaches a point, like we are seeing, where the wealth just accumulates in one area, whilst everyone cannot really access that wealth.
00:10:01.940 How did they accumulate that well?
00:10:03.940 Because of monopolies.
00:10:05.940 Not in every case.
00:10:07.940 Maybe one company that is not in a monopoly and that has global markets.
00:10:13.940 Amazon is not a monopoly.
00:10:17.940 There are other companies in the online retail business.
00:10:23.940 Amazon is big because they do it well.
00:10:27.940 So, if Amazon is not a monopoly, because the argument of monopoly is that if there exists a monopoly in an industry, a company, an opponent's company should not rock.
00:10:44.940 So, obviously we have Amazon is pretty big, so could another company come in and rival Amazon today?
00:10:53.940 If they do it better, if they do it cheaper, faster, like, do their service even better than Amazon, then yes, they would succeed.
00:11:07.620 What about the effects of $9? Because wouldn't Amazon have promoted to make sure to impose a barrier of entry so that they acknowledge any revenue?
00:11:18.680 Yes, but how could they do that? 0.93
00:11:21.180 They can only do that if they get into the legislature somehow.
00:11:25.320 Not only. Monoplieus also operates with customer loyalty.
00:11:29.200 When you have customers or people that are totally willing to use one product.
00:11:33.740 Then they're not being exploited.
00:11:36.060 If they really love that product, then they're not being exploited.
00:11:42.560 If they truly want a different provider for that service, they're going to find somewhere else.
00:11:47.780 That's why something like Shopify would explode if people really, truly hated Amazon.