Documentaries/Youtube Videos?

[Drace]

As long as the right has its claim of millions dead in socialist countries due to communist policies, we cannot progress much in educating the public.

I think it would be important to make refutations of such claims available to the public.

Documentaries are a lot of work and cost money but how bout Youtube videos as an alternative?

[Q]

I always point out to the little fact 30 000 children die, a day, due to poverty and malnutrition. That's about 10 million, a year. Using only that number, further ignoring all wars in the last 100 years, the claim that capitalism has caused a multifold of those "100 million" deaths is very easily made. Beside that, we could also add to that the discussion that a) the USSR wasn't even close to those 100 million anyway and b) the USSR wasn't even socialist, let alone communist. It was a complete parody and reactionary opposite of communism.

[ellipsis]

You Tube videos that were well made would certainly have some impact. The more our point of view is made available and accessible, the more people will listen to it and the more that people would be persuaded/ influenced by it.

[Drace]

Now just to get people to make them...

[heylelshalem]

I would do it if i could figure out how to edit video with linux. It wouldnt be that hard mix some stock film of various things..and mix that in with interviews of some local scholars..have a friend who is musically inclined to do a soundtrack.

[Q]

I would do it if i could figure out how to edit video with linux.

Kdenlive (http://www.kdenlive.org/).
Kino (http://www.kinodv.org/).
Cinerella (http://cinelerra.org/).

[Omegared]

I always point out to the little fact 30 000 children die, a day, due to poverty and malnutrition. That's about 10 million, a year. Using only that number, further ignoring all wars in the last 100 years, the claim that capitalism has caused a multifold of those "100 million" deaths is very easily made. Beside that, we could also add to that the discussion that .

GENIUS!!!!!! I have been preaching this same point to people I know.

[Drace]

And how we go around to show that capitalism is the fault for this mass poverty?

[MarxSchmarx]

And how we go around to show that capitalism is the fault for this mass poverty?


Use principles from graphic design to express complex phenomena visually and help tell a story. Michael Moore used to do this if I recall (I haven't seen his recent stuff so I can't say).

Also, if those screwballs at "loose change" can do it, I don't see why we can't.

[Q]

And how we go around to show that capitalism is the fault for this mass poverty?

There have been many examples already which point out how the third world is tied to big multi-billion corporations.

[heylelshalem]

anyone who know politics in the third world know that the man who has the cash keeps the stash. We can see that plainly in south africa with the diamond trade..or anywhere in africa due to the diamond trade. the Us government has serious involvement with oil interests in south america. And to some degree other countrys in which oil is essential to us interests. i find that funny due to the face that we consume at least 40 percent of the worlds oil.

We see the megabillionaires now running the 95 percent that they have in their hands. the hedge funds are doing quite well for the most part pushing billions and billions of dollars skimmed off of banks that do nothing but build enterprises that build up into what...we all know that the mortgage scandal involved banks..but did you know that those banks were loaned large portions of cash by the hedgefunds and investment firms.. who were the ones to cook the books? this is comparable to the travesty of Enron. When poor morals and greed tactics caused a scam job that raped the american economy.

The men who did this walked away with billions and billions of dollars and left the rest of us out to winter with no provisions.

the primary difference involved in corporate interests and third world countries is the same as any...to sieze any of the un-claimed asserts or resources that it can aquire. we now know why the zapatistas have so much power in their own regions. We also know why in some countries narco's make decisions for high officials. They throw their weight. The cost of the black market trade is usually paid in blood..in some border towns on the us border murder is a daily occurance more then multiple times a day.

The irony being the economys low level of industry compared to the states...although the compensation in mexico for labor is quite low. So often the deaings of corporate interests in the third world is usually just to shop out labor for a windfall that they can save on hourly rates for those peoples times lol.

But is their any decent industrial base left in northern america? We have witnessed the bankruptcy of two of the three major auto manufacturers. Notwithstandedly are we to blame that one the unions?
What is the principle of capitalism if not survival of the fittest and the stern purchase of darwinian approach. We see the prey do we not? And whom are the predators? This seems like bit of a game of chess.