John Green, Socialism and Capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=833&v=B3u4EFTwprM

Sp00ky Skeletonman, Why Does Nobody Know What a Fascist is?!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi818Ieypvo

John Green offers an entertaining overview of both Capitalism and Socialism as part of his Crash Course history series.

Sp00ky Skeletonman (that's Sp00ky not spoopy, ok man?) makes some salient points regarding a general lack of historical-literacy leading to the misuse of the word fascism.

Crash course history is full of oversimplification and lies by omission.

You'll never see a Crash course video talking about how Jews disproportionately supported Communism or how the Frankfurt school leftists took over public education.

hmm I wonder why a man with a "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" laptop sticker doesn't spend his time and effort furthering conservative nationalist narratives

real mystery there

Edited 10/28/2017 23:06:10

Actually it's because he's a Jew

Democratic Socialism>European Liberalism>European Conservatism>American Liberalism (NOT Leftism, PC Culture and Antifa etc. is bullshit)>Economic Conservatism>Ecological Protectionism>American Conservatism (Tea Party, not alt-right)>Theocracy>Monarchy/Dictatorship>Communism>Nationalist Fascism>Anarchism

Leftism, PC Culture, and Antifa are part and parcel of Democratic Socialism

also you're literally Jewish

Democratic Socialism in the economic sense. Denmark, not Antifa-land.

And yes, I am half Jewish.

Social democracy = Democratic socialism > Liberalism > Libertarianism > Christian Democracy > Socialism > Conservatism > PC-Leftism > Ancoms > Ancaps > Alt-Lite > Tea Party > Communism > Fascism > Theocracy > Absolute Monarchy > Feudalism > Nazism

Totally throwing the rise and fall of cultures etc. out the window for a second, and invoking Hoppe:

Democracy and socialism lead to rising social and institutional time-preferences; people that can produce more wealth end up with less wealth (because the state collects it). The result is a shrinking ability for those with the skills to build capital to invest long-term, and a decline in overall capital for everyone, since the capitalist can pay less workers, and the state has progressively less and less to collect from taxes. Technological progress slows, poverty increases, and IQ drops. Eventually civilization ends and humans revert to barbarism.

What was the status quo in the West prior to neoliberalism?

It varied.

In the United States it was liberalism, from the time of FDR until Walter Mondale lost the bid for President. Arguably this was true even during the administrations of Eisenhower and Nixon. Prior to that time the notions of Classical Liberalism held sway.

In Spain from the time of the Civil War 'till the death of Francisco Franco it was an anti-communist authoritarianism.

On the whole the West has been largely ruled by Democratic-Republics most of which are multiparty democracies dependent on coalitions to establish a government. This remains the case.

American Liberalism is an outgrowth or even a mere variety of Classical Liberalism in so far as one of the fathers of Liberalism was Thomas Paine who in his work the Rights of Man argued that access to health be regarded "as a matter of right."

Edited 10/30/2017 00:59:53

... people that can produce more wealth end up with less wealth ...

You're onto something there. The workers who's sweat and knowledge builds and maintains the United States are getting less and less of the wealth that they create.

and people that produce less wealth than they receive from the government should be expected to continue producing a deficit.

... people that produce less wealth than they receive ...

Such as children and the elderly?

Actually it's because he's a Jew.

Actually he is a Christian.

Thanks, though, for reminding us of your prejudices.

Families can provide for their children and elderly.

People that collect welfare are usually inherently reluctant or unable to produce wealth, and since they have no need to produce wealth because the welfare state will provide for them, they certainly cannot be expected to produce wealth in a welfare state.

The welfare state has a two-fold destructive effect on the economy:

the "haves" have an incentive to produce less, since more will be taken from them, and the "have nots" will also have an incentive to produce less, since they will receive money anyway.

Edited 10/29/2017 04:52:51

Families can provide for their children...

There are 3144 counties in the United States of America. In the store where I work, which is located in one of the 20 richest counties of the country, formula for infants is kept in a locked cabinet.

This is the only class of food so treated.

I'm with Cata. Centrism FTW

Speaking of popular ideologies, Dr. Jonathan Swift has a proposal for people who have difficulties feeding their children. His proposal is looked upon with approval by free market libertarians, and parents rights advocates the world over.

Notwithstanding the fact that his essay was written 288 years ago, its ideas are so sound that it is incredible that they have not yet been put into practice.

Dr. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal: http://www.secret-satire-society.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Jonathan-Swift-A-Modest-Proposal.pdf

Edited 10/29/2017 06:05:21

WTF HPW DID TAGGY POST THAT AT 7:26 THAT'S 46 MINUTES IN THE FUTURE

Explain