Why I'm a libertarian (........SOCIALIST)

home goods furniture TV hi welcome to na kabhi I'm American Johnson and today's video is directed to and intended for all my right-wing libertarians out there and Arco capitalists and the like now my usual audience is pretty much radically leftist in nature whether they're anarchists or communists Marxist Leninist mutualists that sort of thing of course we also have the occasional alt-right fascist stroll through just to you know toss out a Down vote and call me a kook in the comments and move on with their lives but if you're a right-wing libertarian I want to welcome you into my bosom today and just have a little chat with you and and I hope you will have an open mind I believe and I assume that most people come to the right-wing libertarian ideology because they have sort of a inclination towards being a free thinker there they're critical about the world but they're also open-minded you know I know that that was a big part of how I fell into becoming a right-wing libertarian and so if that's the case I hope that you'll just hear what I have to say with an open mind and think about some of the ideas that I'm going to present here and you know I'd love to start a dialogue with you if you're willing to have one in good faith I don't want to just have a debate where you know we're just interested in who will win the argument or that sort of thing but I am interested in sharing these ideas and listening to your responses to them so without further ado I think I'll start by just telling you a little bit about my background how I was and why I was a right-wing libertarian some of the changes that I've made and some of the ways where I really haven't changed so to begin with I have been politically aware and conscious for most of my life I had a pretty unusual childhood because I remember you know even like at the age of five six seven years old I have strong memories of riding around in the car with my dad or you know he would be like working in the garage and he would always have the radio on and he would always be listening to talk radio so I grew up just enveloped in the voices of Rush Limbaugh neil bortz was a big huge influence on me Michael Savage Glenn Beck when I got a little older you know these were kind of the rock stars in my life and in fact when I was in college I would even like pay money to go to the live shows for people like Glenn Beck and you know I was just like starstruck when I saw them up on the stage and you know I bought the books I was really really heavily into this stuff and you know so yeah so since I was a child I've been exposed to you know this right-wing rhetoric and I really bought into it very very very deeply so one thing I have always valued my entire life as far back as I can remember is the idea of liberty and freedom you know like that's why we consider ourselves libertarians because we want people to be as free as possible so as far back as I can remember I've been enamored with the idea of people being free and when I heard stories about people in countries where they don't have freedom of speech or where they're where their rights are restricted it's always enraged me and I can't I can't stand the idea of people being oppressed and people not having the freedom to voice their thoughts you know when I thought it when I heard that like the Nazis burned books when I was a kid because I used to love read and stuff like that it just like broke my heart to think about you know this big pile of books being burned that kind of stuff really made me deeply upset when I heard stories like that and of course you know I heard about the Iron Curtain and how people in the Soviet Union were not allowed to travel and they didn't have freedom of speech and that sort of thing all my life growing up that's what I learned in school that's what I learned from watching you know I was big into the History Channel and so all that stuff really upset me and I wanted people to be free I wanted to be free myself and I wanted people all around the world to be free and that that was kinda like my guiding principle through all of my youth and well into my 20s and is today and I've always wanted everyone to have an equal footing in society okay so that's always been really important to me that you know the idea that we all should be equal we all should have equal opportunities the way I used to put it was everyone should be born with the same opportunity in life so you know it's in my mind it was a crime if one child is like guaranteed to have a really wonderful beautiful future and then another child is like destined for poverty and so I I you know liberty and equality those were the two things that were really like guiding principles for my political ideology and for the way I wanted to live my life so that's how I became a right-wing libertarian and when I read about these you know libertarian ideas you know and I and I was listening to like Cato Institute podcasts and I was reading a lot of stuff from like the founding fathers I was really into you know founding fathers of United States of America and I was really into these I these right-wing libertarian ideas because to me they presented me with a an alternative path to what we had in the United States of America because when I looked at the United States of America's government and the corporations and the systems that we had I realized pretty early on that you know we don't have real freedoms in the United States of America in a lot of ways and we don't have true equality in a lot of ways and so one of the reasons that I was a right-wing libertarian and an anarcho-capitalist was I wanted to dismantle the you know what I saw is corporate hegemony over the United States of America you know I thought that these big corporations had way too much power and the solution to that was to have more capitalism and get rid of the big government I felt like government was standing in the way of freedom and liberty so to me long story short I felt like the government the United Sates was too big I felt like the best path forward for everyone to be free and equal as free and equal as possible was to dismantle the big government and just let capitalism take root and then society would flourish and we would all benefit from it because here's the thing I believe that competition breeds excellence ok that was like a big deal to me when I first heard I first heard that from a high school teacher I had and you know ever since I heard that sentence competition breeds excellence it made so much sense to me because I was a competitive guy you know I was like a pretty big into like I was I was going to a lot of debate tournaments and you know I wanted to go out there and prove myself in the world and I felt like you know yeah made perfect sense if everyone gets to compete freely and openly in the market then the best ideas will rise at the top the best products will be manufactured and everyone will have the best shake at having a good successful and fruitful life this is coming from you know I grew up in a pretty lower middle-class background my dad was a you know enlisted Navy and then when he retired from the Navy we spent about three or four years really poor like you know government cheese and you know constantly worrying about whether or not my parents could pay the rent and that sort of thing so I came from a background of poverty and I watched my dad work really really hard even though he was very poor yet still I had this mindset I guess I don't know I don't know why I had this mindset because you know that the role models I had like my grandfather's my father they're all working-class you know on the poor side of things and yet they all work really really hard they didn't want to just like sit back and be lazy they wanted to work and then when I started my career you know I worked really hard starting my businesses which we'll get into in a bit but I didn't I you know the poor people that I knew and the poor people in my family and all my friends you know were from late lower middle to poor backgrounds none of them were like these like lazy entitlement poor people but all of that propaganda that I was absorbing from Rush Limbaugh and neil bortz and glenn beck and all these people had me convinced that there were all these hoards of poor people who just wanted welfare so that they could just kick back and be lazy and I and I truly believed that removing those entitlements would be an enticement for them to work and improve their own lives it may surprise you to know that almost none of those basic values that I held as a right-wing libertarian almost none of those have changed as I have shifted into being a libertarian socialist I still value liberty and freedom I still think equality and egalitarianism is incredibly important I still think that people should have an opportunity to work and improve their own lives and you know reap the benefits of the sweat of their brow none of those core basic ideological foundations have changed in my mind at all I still very deeply believe in all of those same principles that made me a right-wing libertarian so what's changed what has changed is my perception of the world and the way that social systems and political systems and economic systems operate that has changed tremendously so what I have sort of stumbled upon pretty late in life really is this whole other way of looking at things and seeing things and the best shorthand I can use to explain what I'm talking about it's probably nested in the term power structure so you know right-wing libertarians you know you can think about power structures you probably think of them in terms of like you know this the state is a huge power structure and it has a lot of it has the monopoly on violence you know and it's it's this huge entity that has so much power over our lives right which I which I agree I totally agree with that even now and in that sense I very much agree with right-wing libertarians and anarcho-capitalists that the state as it exists is ruthlessly damaging to the lives of most people who are not you know high up in that hierarchy in that structure of state dominance okay but then what I started to realize slowly but surely is that there are other power structures entangled with the state power structure that are just as tyrannical and controlling over our lives and that need to be dismantled just as much okay so the first thing I noticed was just the fact that we have so much tremendous wealth inequality in the United States of America and I'm gonna have to go ahead and admit that you know it was Bernie Sanders who first started to open my eyes to a lot of this stuff when Bernie was talking about you know the 1% the 99% and some of this goes back to like the Occupy Wall Street as well I actually went around during Occupy Wall Street and talked to a lot of the people who were out camping on the Statehouse lawn in South Carolina and you know just had conversations with them and they kind of got some ideas plan in my head about the fact that you know you you have these billionaires they have so much wealth I mean a billion dollars is a lot of money check check out this graphic of like how much more money 1 billion dollars is than 1 million dollars and then you start to realize like how much power is embedded in that amount of money it's it's an insurmountable indomitable amount of power for a person to have to have a billion dollars and I was thinking about it you know and I was like you know I ran my own business for a decade I had about 15 employees we all worked really really hard my business did well you know we were pulling two or three hundred thousand dollars a year I was living pretty comfortably when I was running my business but I was like you know how hard would you really have to work to actually earn a billion dollars is it possible for one person to earn a billion dollars whether it be through the sweat of your brow or through your ingenuity like that is a lot of money and power for one human being to possess okay and I just started you know that those thoughts just took root probably when I was around 27 28 years old and they were just kind of churning around in my mind as I was kind of exploring the world then Bernie Sanders comes along and you know Bernie's talking a lot about you know class inequality and wealth disparity and all this stuff and just building this case and I kind of jumped on the Bernie train okay didn't happen overnight there were these ideas were building in my head over time but to be honest today I no longer see eye to eye with Bernie Sanders I'm very much at all because I have discovered in the year 2016 early 2016 I discovered anarcho-communism or libertarian socialism and I want to now talk to you about this branch of socialism and why it appeals to me based on these same values of liberty equality and you know freedom to pursue happiness why these appeal to me now based on those same values that you probably have as a right-wing libertarian and so I'm presenting these ideas to you in good faith you know you can take him or leave him but I hope you'll just hear me out on what I have to say here so after the Bernie Sanders election after Donald Trump won I was feeling pretty my spirits were pretty broken and I was you know kind of upset and I was kind of like just doing a lot of research out there right and I was like what it look what went wrong what are we gonna do you know I if you like Donald Trump whatever that that's not really the point or the point is how I felt I was upset about that situation so I discovered anarchism anarcho-communism and I read the conquest of bread by Peter Kropotkin and I talked to anarchists and I and I you know got all these Facebook groups and I realized for the first time in my life what anarchism really is because when I was in high school and when I was in college I read about you know like the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and you know I had heard about anarchists but I didn't really know what the hell they were talking about because you know my teachers and my professors you know I'd ask them you know what's an anarchist a saleable anarchist believed in no government they just want to get rid of all I got and I was oh that doesn't really make sense because like you know even as a right-wing libertarian uh there's an anarcho-capitalist I was like there's gotta be some system of like organizing society and you know I knew the word anarchy and it's like means chaos in the in the common speech and I was like how does this make sense this is that that doesn't so I totally dismissed the idea of anarchism when I was younger and never thought about it ever again until I was you know about thirty years old and I I came to these ideas fresh and it was presented to me much differently and everything in that book made so much sense to me and it appealed to the virtues and the values that I had and that I you know that I felt were significant as a right-wing libertarian you know Peter Kropotkin was speaking like straight into that part of my brain that was seeking Liberty inequality and for everyone to have a fair shake in life and for everyone to profit from our own labor these are the kinds of things Peter Kropotkin addressed in that book and since reading that book you know I've talked to all these other leftist and you know watched all these videos and I've realized that if I really want to see the kind of society that I've always wanted to see where we're all free and prosperous and have equal opportunities in life capitalism will never take us there so that's that was kind of an epiphany for me when I discovered what anarchism really is and that it's not as ridiculous as I thought it was it's not just chaos it's not just dismantling and ripping apart all systems of government and then just letting chaos reign that's not what it is it's all about order and it's all about organization but in a way that is free of like state dominance and and dismantling state hierarchies and other unjust hierarchies so the first thing I guess the first thing that I want to talk about is egalitarianism as it pertains to right-wing libertarianism versus libertarian socialism so I think that we all have the same goal on the libertarian side of the equation anarchism and libertarianism in my mind even when I was arriving a libertarian I saw things this way is all about dismantling unjust hierarchies so anywhere we see one person having power over another human being for an unjust or arbitrary reason we should do everything we can to dismantle that hierarchy I hope that as a as a libertarian you're like nope nobody should have power over another person for an arbitrary reason okay hopefully we can agree on that I think I think that's a pretty boilerplate talking point for right-wing libertarianism and what I've come to realize is that capitalism is rooted in hierarchy okay so first let's talk about like democracy I love the idea of democracy I think that you know it's like they always say it it's it's got plenty of flaws but it's the best system out there right and as right-wing libertarians I think that we're all deeply invested the idea of making society as as democratic as possible so that everyone has a voice and there aren't these oligarchs who have like way more power and way more control over the way society has run than the common people right that's something that we're very allergic to as libertarians now capitalism is rooted in hierarchy and here's why we spend the vast majority of our lives working in our workplace okay at least most of us spend at least eight hours a day five days a week working and as a former capitalist as a former business owner when I look back on the business that I operated and that I ran I can no longer justify the amount of power that I had as the owner of that business now I did invest the initial seed money into that business I was the one who had the idea to start the business you know would never have existed without me quote unquote maybe all those things are true okay and I worked my ass off I worked hard I worked 60 70 hours a week okay but so did my employees my employees worked really hard too they often worked like overtime voluntarily just to get the project done on time or whatever they wanted you know we were a small company and we we had the kind of like family mindset and my employees work really hard and yet at the end of the day I always called the shots I had 100% control over the operation of the business and you know I had I had like a web designer and if my web designer and I disagreed on something even though my web designer knew way more about Web Design than I did my what I said went you know I it was my way or the highway I had control over that aspect of the business even though my web designer had way more knowledge and experience in it now I generally went with what my web designer suggested generally speaking but there were times whenever I would you know disagree with one of my employees and you know what I said rule today and often that worked out very much not in the favor of the business right um and you know we can go like here's where a lot of people are gonna leave the comments like oh you were a failed Capitol so you made bad decisions that doesn't mean capitals it's wrong that's not the point I'm trying to make the point try to make is that I had despotic tyrannical power over the work life of these people and you know a lot of this was during the time when the economy was really bad and I was getting stacks of resumes every day people were not able to find jobs and the people who were working for my company were pretty desperate they didn't really have any other opportunities out there okay so you know we were all kind of they were all kind of stuck with me and I had total control over their life so here's the first question I want to ask you right when libertarians what possible justification can there be for autocracy in the workplace what possible argument can there be against democratizing the workplace why does one person get to have so much power and control over the lives of so many other human beings whether that's a small business owner who has you know control over 10 or 15 employees or a CEO who you know can rule over hundreds or even thousands of people's lives just think about that you know this this is not you're not gonna win you over in one video I'm just asking you to think about these questions I'm asking you seriously I'm sincerely okay so now the next aspect of it is like where does the capitalists power come from right so one big idea in libertarianism is like this idea of meritocracy and so the idea is if I have a really great idea for a business and I work really hard and I put in my sweat and I and I do my very best then I can succeed and I deserve to reap all the rewards from that ingenuity and hard work and labor but okay so first of all it wasn't just my idea for starting a business that gave me the opportunity to start that business it was also the thousands and thousands of dollars that I invested into the business now in my situation I really sincerely did bootstrap my business from the from you know from the get-go I started with like a $5,000 student loan and I got some clients and I worked on my own for a while I got a business partner and slowly we built it up into this bigger business right but as soon as I hired my first employee I was offloading a lot of that work to that employee right and the employee was getting no equity in the business in return the employee was basically you know again I was like tyrannically in charge of this employee and they had to do a right to loan I do and I told them to do a lot of the work that I just didn't want to do you know like the the work that needs to be done but that I didn't feel like doing and this is how the business got built you know the more we would grow slowly I would bring in more employees and and delegation is so important as a capitalist you know you hire people and then you have them do the work that's very vital to running the business but that you don't really necessarily want to do or you're not necessarily very good at so you know I could never have grown the business to the size that it became if I didn't have those employees they were absolutely vital to building the business in any capitalist who thinks that they could have built you know a huge business empire without the blood sweat and tears of their employees is just diluted they're there they're delusional they're fooling themselves or else they're just lying okay you have to have good employee everyone will tell you the most important part of running a business is having good employees that's why I did marketing for a recruiting company for years and there's a reason that these big corporations will pay tens of thousands of dollars to recruit and hire one employee and it's because the people are what make a business successful and it's the people who are doing the work ok and yes I'm not saying capitalists are all lazy I'm not saying that they're all none of them deserve any of what they've earned ok I'm just saying that the workers deserve in most cases a lot more of the of the share of rewards and the employers in many cases are awake or making way more than they actually earn or deserve you know and that's not to say it's not even just labor I'm talking about it's also ideas my employees had fantastic ideas that they brought to the table you know and they they built a business with me every step of the way but they never got that ownership I always retained 100% of the ownership I was always 100% in charge it's unjust what what justification is there that for a full decade I had complete control over the company and complete 100% share in the profits whenever you know if you over the course of it yes I work really hard especially the beginning to build a company and throughout the life of the business but I certainly didn't work hard enough to be the captain of the ship with 100% operational control over the business just food for that I mean maybe you think it's justifiable for one person to make millions or billions of dollars off of the work that thousands of other people are doing I just don't see it that way anymore so now let's talk about Liberty okay freedom and again let's let's talk about democratization in the workplace what's so terrible about the idea of everyone who works to build something together sharing in the fruits of that lit collective labor and sharing in the decision-making process I mean at the end of the day I'm talking about democracy I'm talking about people owning their own labor which is what libertarianism is all about right you know you want to profit from the swai of your own brow right why don't workers get to do that now now what's the main reason that somebody is going to be a worker and not a capitalist why do people why do some people become capitalists and other people just stay as workers their whole lives I'm gonna throw out some numbers I've done I've gone through these numbers before my channel but I'm just gonna throw out here the average worker makes about thirty thousand dollars a year in the Unites States of America they live paycheck to paycheck they have a less than a thousand dollars in the bank they have six thousand dollars in credit card debt okay this is the average typical worker in the United States the average cost to start a new business in the United States reasonably speaking generally speaking is around thirty thousand dollars what a worker makes in a year the reason people don't become capitalist is because we don't have the capital okay and now some people say oh well why don't about your workers get together and they can make a cooperative a naked service people who make these kinds of arguments have never run a business okay if you've had 30 employees get together and throw a thousand bucks in together and start a business to you know to reach that $30,000 threshold to start a business there's no way that a thirty thousand dollar startup is from day one going to support 30 employees not gonna happen never gonna happen that's unrealistic the fact is that most workers will never have access to the capital that's required to start their own business now yes you could start your little micro business in your garage or in your home office and some people do that and they get very very successful but most people don't okay most people the number one reason that most businesses fail is undercapitalization not having enough money not having enough capital to float that for six months to a year where you're not even really having any income you know where your first just building up your business most people don't have the kind of money to not have income for that long it's just unrealistic okay so we have a situation where the vast majority of human beings will never have a chance to become a capitalist and that is totally against that whole idea of everyone starting from the same starting position okay I mean we could go all day about yeah some people can work really hard and have really great ideas and they can be successful but that's like saying you could go buy a scratch ticket or buy a lottery ticket or go to the casino and gamble and you might win a million dollars you know do we really want to have a casino model for our society the more I think about it the more I don't feel like that's a good direction for humanity to be pursuing so the other big argument for why capitalists should make all this money and you know be millionaires where while their employees are making much much much less is that the capitalists have risked their investment they've taken a big gamble and put this money in and they deserve to have a return on that investment because they've made such a big risk and to that I have a couple things to say first of all no good businessperson ever bets the farm you never start a business without some kind of an exit plan in place I've started five or six businesses two of them failed outright two of them kind of broke even one of them did really really well and but never in any of those investments did I put in so much money that I would just be completely hosed if the business failed I always had an exit plan I always manage the risk that's what business people do and that's what wealthy people do nobody bets the farm on a startup and if you do that you're just bad at business you're you're you're making a bad decision okay so first of all I don't have a whole lot sympathy for a typical capitalist who goes out there and invests you know a small part of their wealth so that they can get a huge return on their investment you know that if you're going out there every day and you're risking everything every time then you're making bad business decisions most capitalists are not really risking all that much in the grand scheme of things also it's very important to realize that employees also take risks and if you've ever gotten a job especially after a pretty you know difficult job hunt you would realize this that employees take a huge risk when they accept a new job I mean think event on a job hunt this is what it's like you're you're spending weeks maybe months sending out all these resumes putting in a lot of labor a lot of your time investing in you know trying to find an employer finally you start to get some interviews and if you're really lucky maybe you get an offer or maybe even two offers right and what is the fear that always goes through your head once you finally get that offer it's like oh great I finally got a job offer but oh my gosh what if I accept this offer and in three days I get another job offer you know there's that's the first step of risk or that's the first element of risk in being an employee you know you're you're taking a gamble you're taking a risk that this company is going to be the best fit for me and it's going to give me the best return on my investment of my time okay that's a risk then you're also risking you're also gambling that the company that you're gonna work for isn't gonna go under in three weeks because that happens all the time especially I mean let's look in the video game industry alone look at all the the the tell-tale games look at like what EA has been doing you have all these like mass layoffs with no notice that happens all the time especially happens with startups you know I mean I have a lot of friends who work in the Bay Area for startups and tech industry and they're constantly having you know to go and find new jobs because whatever startup company they're looking for just goes out of business overnight with no warning and as a former business owner let me tell you not just myself but all my clients cuz I had a lot of corporate clients and small business clients and they were all we were all running by the skin of our teeth you know one two three bad months for a pretty sizable business could totally sink us you know and in most business owners especially small business owners but even many large business owners are you know just a few bad decisions away from total jeopardy you know and that one capitalist can make some bad decisions that just screw over all their employees and have them all looking for work you know in a heartbeat so you're taking a risk that the people that you're working for and the people who are profiting off of your labor aren't gonna screw you over with a sudden layoff that's a big risk you're also risking and gambling on not entering into a really toxic work environment because you never know that you might spend the first week or two in an office and suddenly realize oh my god all these people are totally toxic this is a horrible place to work but I can't just quit my job after week that's gonna look terrible on my resume it's gonna be really hard to you know find another job after if I if I quit this quickly I gotta stick with it and also you know they might be asking you to come in and work overtime and pressuring you to to do extra work without being compensated I mean you never know what kind of toxic work environment you gonna get into so employees take a tremendous risk when they go to work for an employer and and if you look at like a typical wealthy capitalist risk based on you know what they're what they're putting into risk versus what they hold their their risk margin is gonna be much lower than like somebody who is just on the brink of poverty who's been out of work for a few months and who desperately needs a job you know they have a lot more to lose in the grand scheme of things that that worker does by accepting this job with your company and and and you know gambling that you are going to provide them with a stable and and reasonably non-toxic working condition and the very last thing I want to talk about today is the whole idea of profiting off of other people's labor and the whole the libertarian mindset that you know one person should not benefit from the sweat of another person's brow you know like if I work really really hard where do you come off coming and asking for a handout and I just have to say this that's exactly what wealthy capitalists are doing when I was a libertarian a right-wing libertarian I hated paying my taxes every year I hated it and I still do hate it I hate paying my taxes because I'm giving all this money away to this state that makes decisions that I don't agree with I don't feel like I have true participation in the democratic mechanisms of the United States of America I hate paying taxes I do feel like it is theft I felt that way when I was a right-wing libertarian I feel that way now taxes especially in the kind of political structure that we have are theft that is true every paycheck you get Uncle Sam's reaching in and pulling out way more than their fair share and they're doing god knows what with it starting Wars you know doing committing evil acts and they're doing that with my money I hated that when I was right with libertarian I hate it now okay but they're not the only people stealing out of the paychecks of people who work very very hard and if you look at the profits that capitalists are taking out of their workers pockets taxes pale in comparison to that in many many many cases if you were actually paying people what their labor was actually really worth no capitalist could make billions of dollars the only way for a capitalist to make a billion dollars they've got to be taking it from somebody unjustly and that's going to be their employees and that's just a fact I mean this is where I'm saying I just want you to kind of meditate on this for a little while is it really look at the graphic of what a billion dollars looks like versus a million dollars and what a million dollars looks like versus a hundred thousand dollars I've never had a hundred thousand dollars in my entire life you know and I feel like I've lived pretty comfortably but I've never even seen a hundred thousand dollars in my bank account ever ok and 1 million dollars is way more than a hundred thousand dollars and 1 billion dollars is just like mind boggling I can't believe anymore that it's possible for anyone to earn a billion dollars and capitalism is an engine that takes the labor of workers you know it produces profit and all that profit gets siphoned up by the wealthy capital owning class there's a lot more than I want to discuss in terms of you know like competition versus collaboration there's so many things that I really want to talk to right-wing libertarians to all of you out there about but I just this video is already too long as it is so gonna I'm gonna wrap it up right here and I'm gonna say first of all if you made it this far in the video thank you so much for listening with an open mind thank you for considering these ideas and you know I hope that we can have you know a good faith conversation about this stuff and and and really the last thought that I want to leave you with is just it I hope that you'll consider the possibility that the things that you value when it comes to your political ideology the things that you think are really important the reasons that you became a right-wing libertarian those don't have to change they didn't change for me and and and maybe if you really think about these systems that you're supporting right now in terms of capitalism and in terms of you know the exploitation of the working class I hope that the you'll you'll look into this stuff you'll read some books like the conquest of red would be a great place to start you know watch some other videos on left to try to get an idea for what we're saying and why we're saying it and ask questions and just just participate in this in this discussion that I'm that I'm inviting you to have with us I don't hate right-wing libertarians I don't think that you're evil people I think that you and I probably want the same things in life and we just see things differently as far as how to get those things how to accomplish what we dream of when we when we dream about like a perfect society there are options that you might never have heard of so again if you made it this far thank you sincerely for for watching this this ramble and rant from a dirty commie I do plan on making follow-ups to this video so if people have good questions or comments you know down below I will try to respond to them in future videos I'll try to dig into the comments and engage as much as I can there as well but yeah that's all I got to say thanks for watching subscribe if you want to see more I'm American Johnson this is non-compete and i'll see you next time private ownership of land is theft let's take a square of land let's say 50 acres okay that looks pretty good let's say I want to own this part by the river and build a factory that uses the water or maybe I want to privately own this piece of land and cut down the trees to sell for lumber now some problems emerge one what happens to the land has far-reaching implications perhaps my Riverside factory limits access to water or pollutes the water perhaps the deforestation leads to increased landslides and flooding etc etc these impacts are certainly aggressive too you can only do so much with a piece of land choosing to do one thing means you can't do another you can't have a factory a landfill a quarry a school a parking lot and a public park occupying the same plot of land this too affects other people again perhaps aggressively affecting them 3bi privately owning land which produces profit that can pass that profit down through the generations so that each generation increasingly unfairly benefits from my initial theft of the land as the Morgans and Rockefellers in dupont's and other family dynasties certainly demonstrate for there's only so much land and even less of that land is prime real estate with access to a river or a forest or a precious metals for example so why is it that I get the land and not someone else in fact let's look at all the land that is currently in private hands hmm okay so who owned that land before the current owner okay what about before then and before then and before then if you look any land that claims to be owned by private hands was at one point on owned and that's the trick an owned is just a fallacious term for owned by everyone or owned in common so any private ownership of land is in fact stolen land stolen from everyone else hence proud hence famous anarchist phrase property is theft

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Keywords: libertarian socialism, ilbertarianism, anarchocapitalism, anarchocommunism, leftism, nap, non-aggression principle, non-aggression pact, socialism (political ideology), libertarian party, libertarianism debunked, libertarianism explained, libertarianism philosophy, libertarian socialism (political ideology), anarcho communism explained, anarcho communism vs anarcho capitalism, anarcho communism debate, libertarian non aggression principle, lefttube, breadtube

Id: 7QQdnOVvM5o

Length: 39min 28sec (2368 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 19 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/sexy_bethany]

This video really spoke to me, as someone who has very similar core values to NonCompete

[u/ZackOfSpades]

I remember thinking libertarianism sounded really cool as a teen for the same core values that Emerican had and still has. But being a teen I wasn't well informed and didn't realize North American "Libertarianism" was almost exclusively anarcho-capitalism, nor did I understand that anarcho-communism and libertarian socialism were closely linked, otherwise I'd have gotten over the stigma of the former much more quickly.

Emerican's ability to be informative, easy to understand and his refrain from punching down is one of the reasons he's my favourite BreadTuber.

[u/funkalunatic]

I went ahead and posted this on r/libertarian.