Ben Shapiro Debunks 5 Lies About Socialism

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Socialism keeps getting a rebrand decade after decade. It's the brand new socialism. The last time that wasn't the real socialism. This one is so much better. Why won't socialism just stay dead? Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and now, get ready, New York City. In 1848, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in a Parisian cafe over the span of six weeks. They, of course, were living high on the hog, you know, in non-communist countries. All of world history, they said, was a class struggle. The proletariat, those would be the workers, are exploited by the bourgeois, those would be the owners. So Marx's solution was state ownership of the means of production. Marx believed that capitalism would inevitably devour itself and that socialism would arise naturally. Now, it turns out that wasn't true at all, but that's never stopped the socialists. So what is socialism and what is not? First of all, socialism is not wanting to help poor people. Socialism is instead giving the government complete control of the economy, and it is a failure everywhere it is tried. The number of deaths caused by socialism in the 20th century alone