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Date of upload: Nov 28, 2019 ^^
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The difference between socialism and capitalism has to do with who owns the means of production and NOT how much government involvement there is in the economy. There are statist and libertarian versions of BOTH capitalism and socialism. In fact, some forms of socialism (like anarchism) are in favour of completely abolishing the government.
What all forms of socialism have in common is that the means of production are collectively owned, which could mean either democratic control by the workers or authoritarian control by a centralized government. What all forms of capitalism have in common is that the means of production are privately owned for profit, which could happen within a free market or an authoritarian nation.
Also, Norway, Sweden and Denmark are NOT socialist -- they are social democracies, which is a kind of regulated capitalism and mixed economy that is between capitalism and socialism on the spectrum.
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1:06- Factually inaccurate. I don't know why people always describe public education or public healthcare as socialist. There is a vast difference between social programs (a program paid for socially, aka by the government) and socialism (by its own definition: "the collective/social OWNERSHIP of the means of production"). It doesn't take that much effort to look up a definition. Just because they both have the word 'social' in them does not mean they are the same thing, anymore than cart and carpet are the same thing just because they both have car in them.
This fundamental mistake permeates the rest of the video. For example at 2:50 it declares that Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are "generally considered socialist." But they're only "generally" considered socialist by Bernie Sanders. The leader of Norway even came out and publicly stated that "Norway is not a socialist system, we are a capitalist haven with the lowest corporate taxes in all of Europe. We have some well funded social programs but that is not the same thing. And we would appreciate it if American politicians stopped calling us that."
Whether this was just a lack of research because he was confident in things he'd heard from the media/politicians, or whether this was intentionally misleading, I can't say. But given the amount of genocides and famines that have happened in ACTUAL socialist countries over the last 120 years, this false definition is the equivalent of saying "Nazis are the National Socialist Workers party of Germany who followed Hitler, and also are anyone who voted for Bush in 2000." It gives the ACTUAL Nazi's an easy out by saying "oh no, I'm not like the bad ones, I'm like the ok ones."
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