Hey! Would you guys be willing to turn on community subtitles in your videos? I really want to translate this one to Portuguese but I wouldn't re-upload it and steal the views from you.

Like organisms that don't develop a healthy immune system, certain countries are vulnerable to invasion and destruction.

Venezuela resembles Algeria in North Afraca, the situation is identical, the fact that the economy is unsustainable and no development of other economic sectors relying only on oil, and particularly corruption, what baffles me why are these governments so corrupt?

@user-fi9gb1fb1d

5 жыл бұрын

I think they are not more corrupt than right winged governments, but it's more shocking when you claim to defend the poor and workers and end up doing exactly the same you criticized from the "elites". In my opinion the problem is, many people is involved in a government and it's quite difficult to control them all with not reliable institutions. Power corrupts people. Sadly the system works this way, and it's quite dissapointing but normally we end up choosing between parties we know they are probably going to be corrupt once in government, but to be content if they at least do something good for the people..

@pedropicapiedra1429

Жыл бұрын

Firstly, that comment bears no resemblance to the facts. Secondly, Chavez inherited a basket case economy which he largely resurrected despite constant sabotage from the US and a right-wing privileged elite which did not want to give up control of the economy and political system. Thirdly, their current economic problems are largely the result of deliberate and illegal actions of the US government.

He's almost 90. Will suck to see him go.

@chaoticnique9748

4 жыл бұрын

still alive and kickin'!

@josejamal4133

3 жыл бұрын

Hes an athiest. His soul will perish without coming to Christ.

@yespls4184

3 жыл бұрын

@@josejamal4133 I think "Christ" would agree far more with Chomsky despite him being an atheist than the right wing "religious" nutjobs that scream about socialism

@vajoynus

2 жыл бұрын

@@yespls4184 socialism is murder.

@jhonatancock2302

2 жыл бұрын

I'll make a party when he goes. The hero of Chavez, Chavez the killer of Venezuela.

Zizek is more entertaining, but Chomsky’s political and economic analysis can’t be compared.

@MrZeusOlympie

3 жыл бұрын

Yup ! even litteral bull shit is better than his linguist economic skills

@yanibethgarcia382

2 ай бұрын

Do you know what things do they share in commmon? I mean in terms of formation and so on because i see that people compares Them but not sure why, funny thing is i typed chomsky on zizek but ended up here

I wish there were brazilian portuguese subtitles, so i could share with my non english speakers brazilian friends. But thnx a lot 4 d video anyway.

Chavez's success was a mirage, the product of very high oil prices. Even under Chavez, street crime and violent death numbers kept growing and growing year after year. It hasn't stopped since. He did very little when it comes to infrastructure. He allowed the armed forces, everyone ranging from generals to low ranking troops, to get involved in the business of drug trafficking. He chased away, and suffocated, most of the private sector of the economy. With the income Chavez's administration got to (mis)manage, it should've been enough to solve, not all, but many of this country's structural issues. Instead, part of it was given away to Cuba, an even larger chunk is now in the private bank accounts of the regime's Nomenklature, and a smaller part was dilapidated in gifts to the local population to "buy" their affection. This didn't happen just "after" Chavez's death. Chavez died in 2013-2014 (depending on your sources), but the effects of lowering oil prices were starting to be felt at least a couple of years before that. The fact that someone like Noam Chomsky says that Venezuela's situation is a disaster is interesting. I wonder how long it'll be before I hear someone from the government accuse Mr. Chomsky for being a CIA agent.

@Rayhuntter

5 жыл бұрын

If anything, Chomsky is famous for speaking truth to power in a reasonable, rational, unbiased and factual way.

@Sidtube10

4 жыл бұрын

I think that's a good summary of the pre- and post-Chavez situation. One thing Chomsky didn't talk about was the role of US sanctions in any of this. Thoughts?

The Saudis relied on oil but they thrived. There is no excuse for Venezuela other than Socialism.

Is that KEB'MO in the begining?

So oil alone is not enough to sustain an economy? Has someone told the Saudis?

@sobrietyK

3 жыл бұрын

They are supported by the US, Venezuela was not

A good example of this are Cuba, Guyana, Venezuela

@renardetrois6901

5 жыл бұрын

Brazil built a social middle class after kicking out the right wing junta. The right wing Temer was kicked out (corruption and inaction). Bolsonova is a Trump-like joker.the socialists, Thanks to the socialist, Uruguay is ranked first in Latin America in democracy, peace, low perception of corruption, e-government, and is first in South America when it comes to press freedom, size of the middle class and prosperity. Agentina went bankrupt after following the Chicago boys in the nineties, who they kicked with the multinationals. Central America has been under the CIA rule for decades and it's citizens are now fleeing at your border. Guyana????? Venezuela built it's economy on oil. What is the US savior can do to boost the oil price when Norway got rid of it's shares in oil? Etc, lousy ignorant!

@MT-cx2mo

4 жыл бұрын

"Thanks to the socialist, Uruguay is ranked first in Latin America in democracy, peace, low perception of corruption, e-government, and is first in South America when it comes to press freedom, size of the middle class and prosperity." Im uruguayan and can tell you first hand that 15 years of socialims have destroyed this country.Worst rate of highschool gradutes only better than Guatemala.12 HOMICIDES EVERY 100 k hab thats twice what Macri's Argentina has,twice of what rightwings Paraguay has.Evey year we break records in crime rates despite poverty being an all time low.Unemplyments been high since 2013 tho. The socialism goberment you praise is filled with former terrorist of the Tupamaros who tried to install a comunist Castro like dictatorship...all of them with inocent civilian blood on their hands.Murderers,thieves overall despicable wastes of human life that should be rotting in jail rather than in power.

@josejamal4133

3 жыл бұрын

@@MT-cx2mo ikr. Also chile is the most developed country in Latin america and they're not socialist lmfao

@fp8901

Жыл бұрын

@ MT All lies. Uruguay had the best performing economy in Latin America since they elected their first left leaning president and government. And most labor friendly. And social freedom. Yes crime increased in 2012 and 2018 (two years) but that's because of the drugs and weapons flowing from other countries continuously destabilized by right wing govts and protestors and gangs.

Sorry... I couldn't quite hear that. Can you repeat it louder? Like go on every possible outlet you can and repeat it LOUDER.

Noam never admits fault

@hunglukenguyen

4 жыл бұрын

"HDI of Venezuela is higher than Brazil" said Noam. This guy is on drug and still believe numbers

@ColorMatching

4 жыл бұрын

Why is it so hard for you to use google? Noam was right about the HDI.

@kingj7606

4 жыл бұрын

all socialist are like that

@MrZeusOlympie

3 жыл бұрын

The old lad don't want to admit that you CAN'T creat a sustainable economy if you make those who sustain it leave ...

@alangutierrez7368

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrZeusOlympie so how would you create the sustainable economies?

Venezuela was never socialist, Hugo Chavez never moved beyond capitalism.

@MrZeusOlympie

3 жыл бұрын

My guy you are ideologically blinded ...

In the very start of his career, was Nom Chomsky being against Soviet Union and its “revolution” , was, rather, being more dishonest, more careerist than being wrong??

i dont think he is right about the importance of comodities, its not true for brazil, which is 50% of latin america, comodities did raised in 2003-2008 period, but its not the big oportunity and not the reason those economies have rose, and certainly not the reason for the aparent failure almost 8 years later, its stupid to think (like conservative "economits" are trying to push) that brazil rose because of a minor 3% of gpd growth attributed to comodities in a 4-5 year period, followed by a deep international crysis and kept out of reach of the neoliberal arms of US and internal elites until 2015 only because of this minor bump to the economy, brazil tripled its gdp per capita simply by not following the neoliberal dogmas and crysis generating IMF policies, it internalized its debt and kept control of the currency, while regulating banking, not privatizing important enterprises and infrastructure and not making gigantic bail outs, by not following this suicidal path any contry naturally starts to float to a medium income per capta what brazil failed to do was to destroy the right wing media that is a machine for coups bult in th 60s along with the dictatorship, destroy the huge corrupt system of the infrastructure contractors that dominate much of the economy since again the 60s, and audit and destroy the debt service system which sucks 1/3 of its budget, brazil is the proof that you cant go half measures when fighting neoliberal elites, they come to bite you back

@fabrizio483

7 жыл бұрын

You're living in a fantasy world.

@ravindranathnikunj6164

5 жыл бұрын

That's why bolsanaro win

democratic socialism with real leadership... you need enterprise with social and environmental standards, the whole world has to rise together or sink... right now we're all loading up on anchors

@wojosquad4680

10 ай бұрын

Democracy is cringe🤮🤢!!!

pretty sure the US had nothing to do with it

I wonder how Venezuela and other Latin American countries would do if they adopted a more local, Zapatista-style way of governing and economy? Just a thought.

@davidulanovsky8943

3 жыл бұрын

Venezuelan communities are cooperatively run by collectivos, stop falling for western propaganda.

@urbaneblobfish9624

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@davidulanovsky8943Not all of them are.

they came up against calculation problem.

I think Chomsky's point shouldn't become lost on people. Venezuela has huge demographic problems which underlie it's economic issues. The giantic swaths of arable land are almost entirely empty and owned by private elites. Most of it lays idle as real estate assets. It has some of the highest lumpen proletarian urban populations in the world some 98% live in the cities and rely of the commodity and transport economy. Now the country does have an exciting projects of worker self management, commune movements and radical cooperative movements, but there has been a real failure on the part of the UNT (the main trade union confederation) and the federal government to expand and defend these projects. The potential for these projects to create the solid economic foundation Chomsky speaks of is immense, and there seems to be a lot of violent resistance from private landlords, and lazy corrupt resistance from unionists and the governments to actually see the project of worker ownership through. It's incredibly disappointing. For a deeper analysis of these problems check "Building the Commune" and "We Created Chavez" both by George Ciccarello-Maher.

The old saying of Give a man a fish you feed him for a day but teach him to fish and he feeds himself for life, springs to mind. Socialist policy doesn't work unless it plants loads of fruit trees and fish farms to first feed the people on a continuous level that doesn't depend on a countries income. Planting food bearing trees everywhere would have been smart and taught the locals how to harvest. Too late now.

That's something that the socialists do a lot. Rely on the commodity.

News flash Chomsky, governments don't necessarily develop economies, people with freedom develop economies by pursuing their own self interest. Do you think Ford revolutionized the auto industry because of a government mandate.

@FOEHMR0024

6 жыл бұрын

Cunning Cat Don’t bother socialists and communists are stupid and can’t understand......

@jcolona1

5 жыл бұрын

Oh but it FLOURISHED in WW2

@HuntingTarg

2 ай бұрын

​@@jcolona1Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. Nor did he invent the Internal Combustion Engine. He invented the Assembly Line Process. Why? Why would he want to build dozens, hundreds, thousands of cars a year, when there were no paved roads, no fuel stations, and almost no auto mechanics shops? Because Ford _saw the future before it became real._ That's what a visionary does that ordinary people do not. He made the 'horseless carriage' available to the masses. No gov't. subsidies, grants, or mandates. He saw, he built, he profited.

Will Chomsky ever recognise as immoral the coercion of state-imposed socialism? He seems to think that all we need are more-honest coercers, rather than a reduction in governments’ license to coerce and take our liberty.

@jaishu123

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Lee he's an anarchist you tool

@bloodwargaming3662

5 ай бұрын

If stealing from workers is called "liberty" consider us Socialists as the most authoritarian people anywhere in the world and we don't care

He's spent the past 60 years desperately seeking the "better angels" in Socialist societies. He admits to the inherent failures of Socialism, but just can’t seem give up on it. You think he’s on the correct path?

@hunglukenguyen

4 жыл бұрын

"HDI of Venezuela is higher than Brazil" said Noam. This guy is on drug and still believes those numbers.

@robertpolanco1973

4 жыл бұрын

@@hunglukenguyen - What makes you think that Noam Chomsky is "on drugs"? That's just plain nonsense!

@hunglukenguyen

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertpolanco1973 You do not understand that figuratively ?

@robertpolanco1973

4 жыл бұрын

@@hunglukenguyen - Well, hung, what do you want me to understand? What you said about Noam Chomsky is pathetic and wrong!

@bloodwargaming3662

5 ай бұрын

No he is Socialist and that's he has common sense and has balls to figure mistakes not only in Capitalism but also in his own ideology . Rationalism is. Integral to socialism not like rw loonies who can't ever accept any criticisms of their ideology

So I guess real socialism has still never been tried then.

@rutwikdixit5885

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@HussainBuAdam

3 жыл бұрын

*shrugging gif*

@charlesquinn1526

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

It's not Latin America's fault, it's the U.S. Everytime a Latin country elects a socialist President and Congress or tries to go socialist or communist, the United States tries to crush it because imperialism is an outcome of capitalism.

@HuxleyWasRight

7 жыл бұрын

free markets create huge amounts of wealth, the state then taxes that wealth and uses it to create empires. latin american needs free markets, not crony capitalism or socialism.

@lucien927

7 жыл бұрын

Lol free markets - Adam Smith's invisible hand bullshit. Free markets create large amounts of wealth for the capitalists, while the majority of people are left enslaved by capitalists and only make slave wages. The workers should own the means of production, not CEOs and shareholders. This will ensure everyone is paid accordingly to their need and the work they put in.

@cristiangonzalez-perez7842

7 жыл бұрын

say it how it is comrade.

@HeltonM7

7 жыл бұрын

You're an idiot. Socialist countries crush themselves. Obama was a close friend and booster of Chavez and Castro, and to no avail. Socialism destroy everything, but paranoid airheads like yourself will never be able to face that reality and will instead continue to blame everything on the U.S. Nice try, but fail.

@cristiangonzalez-perez7842

7 жыл бұрын

HeltonM7​But wait friendo have you heard about the Guatemalan Civil War?en.m.wikipedia.org The US backed a military coup and installed a dictatorship.

Venezuela is a paradise. The US destroyed one of the last utopias on Earth. Only DPRK and Cuba remain. Shame on Americans.

@facundozapata7364

5 жыл бұрын

It's sad that people this brainwashed exist.

@monsieurcandie8894

5 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHHA un paraiso! vente pa aqui pana!!

@ravindranathnikunj6164

5 жыл бұрын

Did USA did Greece crisis stop blaming America for everything idiot leftist socialism doesn't work

Thank you Mr. Chomsky. Markets and exchanges are an important and obvious part of human history always and not exclusive to capitalism. The problem with capitalism is narrow obsession with profit over people, education, equity and the environment, that's why it is not sustainable... it is a transition system.

@vodkatonyq

6 жыл бұрын

You don't understand capitalism.

@boroluitmaster5288

4 жыл бұрын

@@vodkatonyq If you know more then please explain instead of being butthurt.

Viva Chávez !

@elcojoilustrado5367

4 жыл бұрын

Claro ajajaja.

Corruption is inevitable, it just so happens that the results of corruption in Socialist or full Communist countries are far more catastrophic than in capitalist countries. Socialism sees humanity in an idealised light, capitalism sees us as we are.

It's like Communism doesn't work? Weird, watching the democracy now echo chamber I would have thought differently....

he,s full of shit ,we know what really happens every time a progressive gets elected, the us of Israel takes them out.

I am Hispanic but I am definitely going to vote for Trump 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This ideological defense of socialism is whats leading us to misery in poorer countries, I would cry thinking of all the victims of Chomsky's words if I still had tears to cry.

Chomsky said that Venezuela is a world model 5-6 years ago. You should be quiet now. lol

@Jorav95

5 жыл бұрын

Lack of information, american imperialism, and international dependency has changed the perception and actuality of Venezuela. The reason he argues in this video that Venezuela should have diversified their economy and decreased international dependency is due to how immensly affected Venezuela then will be by the US and its efforts to consolidate power in the region. The US has used sanctions, coup attempts and other means repeatedly to weaken and destabilize the country, especially during recent years, so of course predictions must change over time. lol

"If I would have been in [Marxist dictator]'s position, I would have ushered in the Utopia! ..because I understand the doctrine and everything about me is good." THINK AGAIN, SUNSHINE!

Brazil has learnt that Socialism doesn't work by the most terrible way, our economy is slowly recovering because of the people are working hard and the State has adopted a less leftist agenda...

@DucksCourage

6 жыл бұрын

Igor Pereira da Silva didn't you have 25 million people lifted out of poverty? The greatest democracy in South America is Uruguay which has a socialist government.

@bloodwargaming3662

5 ай бұрын

​@@DucksCouragefacts are something which Capitalists are rightists ignore all the whenever they find it against their Rhetoric which is basically 90%+ of the times

Poor Chomsky. He has lived through the 20th Century and witnessed socialism produce corrupt, authoritarian, governments which fail to build sustainable economies. Chomsky’s superior intellect and formidable debating skills let him to dodge the really difficult question for all socialists and anarchists:- ‘Are my political beliefs justified by the facts?’ The answer cannot lie in a critique of capitalism and the West. There is plenty there to criticize; Western democracy does not live up to its ideals, but this is not evidence that socialism works. The history of the 20th century shows that it does not. As for Chomsky - there is no fool like a clever fool.

@pacificalliance3782

6 жыл бұрын

Stafford Campbell Chomskys brand of socialism has never been attempted before. He is not a statist. He believes that authoritarianism is inherently problematic.

@ironicmeme8734

6 жыл бұрын

Chomsky's brand has been implemented with a degree of success before. For example: -Anarchist Catalonia and Andalusia in the 1930s -Zapatista held Chiapas from the 90s to the present -Kerala in India (while not anarchist, it is leftist and has high levels of grassroots democracy and bottom up planning) - Marinelada in spain (this communist run town managed to escape the global financial crisis unharmed in an area was hit quite hard) and in the present day in Rojava in north Syria.

@SevenRiderAirForce

6 жыл бұрын

"Version X of socialism has never been tried before" is the no true scotsman fallacy. Chomsky's libertarian socialism has briefly appeared in small batches for short periods of time, like a cookie stand at Burning Man or a synthetic new element in a particle accelerator. He's a great critic, but I don't see his ideal society working any better than any other society that's all figured out on paper.

@bherber

6 жыл бұрын

@ Pacific Alliance - What exactly is Chomsky's brand of socialism.... Would love to hear

@bherber

6 жыл бұрын

@SevenRiderAirForce - Totally agree. It's easy to be a college professor and just say shit. You're behind a desk and giving lectures. You're never in the real world.

Noam is really out of his league in anything other than linguistics. The idea seems to boggle his mind, that consolidating power and money into a central government would somehow create perverse incentives and unintended consequences (as if that hasn't happened dozens of times before). And yet, this idiot still gets asked to talk about economics and politics on a regular basis.

@Jorav95

5 жыл бұрын

He has explicitly criticed the consolidation of power to the government in Venezuela. One of the main tenets of Anarcho Syndichalism, which he promotes, is exactly the decentralisation of power, both from the government and other organisations/individuals: Your world view is shaped after what knowledge have been made available to you, and i can see why you would believe what you do under limited subsets of the knowledge out there. Try to expand your information network; i hope you can see that there is a great financial and political incentive out there to keep it limited.

Can't stand this guy's voice. Sounds like a crackling, muffled microphone.

@seankelly378

4 жыл бұрын

Well he is 90 years old , most people are six feet under by the time they hit 80

HDI of Venezuela is higher than Brazil. This guy is on drug and still believe numbers

@ColorMatching

4 жыл бұрын

You're too stupid to figure out when this was recorded and how to use google.