The standard excuse for the failure of Communism from Communist sympathisers -- an excuse that we on the skeptical right have long found risible, a sick joke -- these young Marxists still find somehow persuasive. That standard excuse it this: "We've never tried TRUE communism!”
Oh, yeah? We've tried every version of it. We've tried the Tsarist Russia to Communist Soviet Union version. We've tried the agrarian China to Marxist-Leninist-Maoist version. We've tried the oil-rich industrial Venezuela to impoverished Hugo Chavist version. We've tried the North Korean commodity-rich to hellhole Kimilsungism version.
We've tried them all. The one I personally experienced and lived in, during the seventies, was the Chinese version of it. It wasn’t pretty. It was nothing in the slightest like the version imagined by Miss Trans, pretty in red, talking to Nate Friedman. I’ve also been to the purest version of Marxism in practice: to North Korea, three times. That’s even worse.
But to these dopes, to these "Useful Idiots" as Stalin called them, we still haven't tried Communism properly. We still haven't done the United States to Poverty States version of it. So let’s try that! FFS.
We should try it yet one more time. Yet one more time to mass murder our neighbours because they don't agree with us. Yet one more time to turn a rich and free economy into an impoverished dictatorial hellhole.
As the Russian guy at the end says: "how much more blood you want to spill to prove that communism doesn't work?" Exactly. How much more blood, zoomer?
Nate Friedman is a very active and insightful and useful on-the-ground reporter. Does a lot of good work. This is the best of YouTube.
