Wealth inequality in America

[Comrade Samuel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

I was Browsing YouTube and came across this. Discuss.

My first thoughts were that it was disappointing and not properly cited but I'll go deeper later- I wouldn't doubt it either.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Yeah this is a pretty hot topic in America at the moment, I was at a discussion of this very video earlier in the week.

Of course, the video itself is flawed because it believes that a permanent re-distribution of wealth (to 'normal' capitalist levels) can be actioned. This, looking at all economic performances of capitalist economies -and especially the US' - hitherto, doesn't really stand up statistically, and certainly from a Marxist POV not theoretically either.

But yes, as we know, America is a ridiculously un-equal society. Grotesquely so.

[Orange Juche]

I found the video aggravating in that it seemed apologetic for capitalism and desiring a "better capitalism" of sorts, rather than just letting go of the rotten system. That, and the direct implication that socialism is everyone making the exact same amount of money. It's people like this taking the outrage in Occupy and trying to smother and dope it up into some vaguely liberal, social democratic nonsense.

I mean, yeah the points are true, but what to do? The way the tone came off, I'm guessing not even a maximum wage would be considered something viable to talk about. The understanding (or lack thereof) of socialism seems almost juvenile, to the point where I can't take this seriously. Sure, I know that things are insanely unequal, and the facts are the facts, but the narration to it is nonsensical.

Middle class liberals *****ing about wealth inequality without any meaningful solution, is all it is.

[The Intransigent Faction]

I found the video aggravating in that it seemed apologetic for capitalism and desiring a "better capitalism" of sorts, rather than just letting go of the rotten system. That, and the direct implication that socialism is everyone making the exact same amount of money. It's people like this taking the outrage in Occupy and trying to smother and dope it up into some vaguely liberal, social democratic nonsense.

I mean, yeah the points are true, but what to do? The way the tone came off, I'm guessing not even a maximum wage would be considered something viable to talk about. The understanding (or lack thereof) of socialism seems almost juvenile, to the point where I can't take this seriously. Sure, I know that things are insanely unequal, and the facts are the facts, but the narration to it is nonsensical.

Middle class liberals *****ing about wealth inequality without any meaningful solution, is all it is.

Pretty much this. I've seen this video twice---once in class---After the first minute or so I thought "Hmm okay this could be interesting", but then the moron had to go and make at best a straw-man argument against "socialism", and it was just downhill from there.

Though I guess even gross misrepresentations of socialism have their uses. Sometimes it catches people's attention enough that they'll listen when you say "Well, actually, he's wrong about socialism...*explain what socialism really is*. That would be a better system."