A Marxist YouTube personality named MaoistRebelnews2 has posted a number of videos attacking the Mises Institute, here are three of those videos:
Mises Institute Succumbs To Market Forces:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_iCsSBXH38&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtlp4ib2oNc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBuT08A-Gqs&feature=player_embedded
What do you think of his views and/or can you refute them?
No, his logic is simply too sound. Austrian economics is wrong because the Mises Institute cut the prices of its summer lectures by 40%.
So, what makes this person a rebel?
A bearded goofball with a flag behind him who follows an old Chinese dictator/ cult-of-personality; even wearing the matching hat. The background itself is meant to make his mom’s basement look like he is in a compound or ‘rebel’ fortification.
And then he calls other people a cult. Projection much? This is too much of a parody of leftism – though, leftists gave up this type of thing in the seventies – to not be a troll.
One of the things you should do before insulting people:
Find a definition of said insult that doesn’t include yourself in it.
We should quit now before the entire Mises Institute crumbles under his intellectual superiority.
He talks too slowly and too verbosely.
=Counterindications of seriousness
Indeed.
He rambles on about child labor and how theses kids are forced to work against their parents wishes, without ever addressing the root cause for child labor. I guess he thinks there are roving bands of capitalist that snatch children from their homes and chain them to a carpet loom. His theory is to fire all the children, thereby lowering productivity, and this will enable you to give raises to the remaining employees. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. If he did the slightest amount of research on emerging market economies he might realize that increased production is precisely what is bringing them out of poverty.
I don’t see the point in giving this guy any attention anyway- that’s all he’s looking for. There’s no threat of anyone changing their opinions on anything after watching his videos.
ahahhaaaaaa… great stuff!
hey maorebel, if your reading this, please sign up here so we can keep the laughs coming.
i wonder how much money he traded (in his voluntary, consentual transaction) for that hat…
"DOWN WITH CAPITALISM!!!…
…unless they carry my brand,"
I think he’s somehow related to one of more goons who have been posting comments on the website recently.
Nothing to worry about, it’s the same people we had to deal with at the university.
I’ve got no problem with someone that supports communism or socialism, if you fail to educate yourself about economics then that’s your business, but the way this guy talks about Mao and worships him makes my skin crawl.
Lol this guy is a wuss. He does not allow ratings. He blocked me from posting comments.
Obvious demogogue is obvious.
Every time a moron is found on the internet it gets posted here. We get it. There are morons in the world.
Why not laugh at them?
Yeah, it was old in 2009.
On this guy’s main channel page he lists various wars and the death tolls of each…then states capitalism has killed 1.4 billion people.
Things that make you go…“what?”
Old age is the biggest cause of death so we should ban ageing!
Go logic!
Looking at the face of this Maoist, I must now rank physical attractiveness of people on the basis of their political beliefs, in the order of most attractive to least attractive. Note that I mean attractive in the sense of neat, well-maintained, and pleasant/bearable they are. Not an exhaustive list.
British conservatives (George Osbourne, David Cameron)
High-level elitist American conservatives (Bill Buckley, John Boehner)
Xenophobic European party leaders (Jorg Haider)
Social Democrats (Segelene Royal, Bruno Kreisky)
“Center Right” party leaders (Nicholas Sarkozy)
American Democrats (Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton)
Libertarians (most public ones moderately ugly, except the Pauls)
Communists, anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, Maoists, Marxists, anti-establishmentarians, and left-libertarians
Note that the first five are all nice looking and well-maintained, but once you enter 6, 7, and 8, you really enter the territory of unsavoury people from whom you might want to slowly step back. Exceptions are there. Norman Thomas was the only well-dressed, polite-speaking Socialist politician ever known, while the current Socialist leader in US is another neckbearded college hippy. Reports were also there that many libertarians and “left-libertarians” seen in conferences and public events never bothered to shave and never bothered to dress properly and arrive in T-shirts and torn jeans, with the older and more formal ones never wearing a proper tie.
I read Bill Buckley’s book where he publishes 40 or so years of letters from National Review and his reply… called Cancel Your Own Goddamn Subscription. It seemed like about 75 percent of the letters were people telling him to sit up straight, look directly at people, get a haircut, comb his hair, stop chewing his pencils, put on nicer shirts, etc. on his TV show Firing Line. Amusing book, but reminded how ridiculous National Review is and was.