Capitalism and Socialism: Crash Course World History #33

You can tell he’s so stoked to talk about this. But I am watching this because I want to, not as an assignment

"We don't have a lot of time to explain the whole thing" *Proceeds to play with robot-toys, the globe, and talks about Marx's beard, and plays with the Mario-flowers*

"Bad if you're a sailor because you lost your life, but worse for stock merchants because you lost all your money." - America

Clovers add nitrogen to the soil... Wow I learned something new today!

This really should have been split into two separate videos. There's a lot to talk about and I don't feel that either topic was adequately expanded on.

In America is YouTube In soviet Russia is Ourtube

Crash Course World History is what I imagine the internal dialogue looks like for every history teacher I've ever had.

“...shortcomings of industrial capitalism: child labor, working conditions were awful, days were long, arduous and monotonous, workers lived in abject poverty...” lol no big deal

Pure capitalism and pure socialism would be absolutely disastrous. Neither system is perfect, in fact a perfect system (utopia) can't exist because frankly human beings aren't perfect and we'd always fuck something up. Too much capitalism and you have people starving in the streets with nothing being done. Too much socialism and... yeah you still have people starving in the streets with nothing being done. We need to strike a balance between the two and try our best to incorporate the best elements of each. Sure, there will be some inconvenient trade offs and people argue about those trade offs all the time, but that's the only thing that can possibly work.

The most important piece of information in this video is that clovers add nitrogen to the soil.

His hyperactivity gives me anxiety

You can argue that Marxism doesn’t work, but Marxism as an idea isn’t evil. Blaming Marx for Stalin and Mao is like blaming Jesus for the crusades.

Capitalism is an imperfect system. But it’s the best system we have. It accounts for human need and nature. However we do need some government intervention. Worker protection, child labor laws, and anti trust laws are required to help maintain the free market. It’s also the most democratic.

Pure socialism or communism and pure capitalism are both disastrous in different ways. The struggle we still face today is how to balance the two, or how much of each side we should embrace.

this was the most chaotic crash course episode i've ever seen and i support it

“Do not go to Alaska with a girl you just met.” Looking For Alaska? 🧐😂

12:42 Sweden is very pro free markets I don't get why everyone keeps saying they are a socialist example to follow. They are indeed an example to follow in MANY areas but they are definitely not socialist

All I want for Christmas is to seize the means of production

Oooohhhhh God I'm going into the comments section Wish me luck

I’m binge watching the entire series for fun. Not for school. For fun