Maxinomics on Socialism: ...what?
I don't know if anyone else has seen the new Maxinomics video on Nebula yet, but it is driving me up the wall. He keeps saying socialism but his main examples are all explicitly communism.
He talks about Berlin being capitalist on one side and "socialist" on the other (it was communism).
He talks about a factory not responding to what customers actually want because all the decisions were made at the top (communism).
He talks about Karl Marx and Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto but then conflates socialism with the latter because...?
He talks about who owns the land because "socialism can't answer that question" except it does. Because private ownership of land is an option under socialism, as is government or co-op ownership and so on.
^(My family owned their farm in socialist Yugoslavia, and they owned the apartment they bought inside a government-built apartment tower (it was more complicated than that, because my grandfather was an engineer for the government and that apartment was part of his compensation, but they did outright own it).)
So... why? Why is Maximonics working so hard to portray socialism using the hallmarks of communism?
He changes tacks towards the end to be like "it's not clear to me if this is what people mean when they say socialism" but he just spent twenty minutes talking about it as if it is while not even clarifying, from the start, that this was EXPLICITLY COMMUNISM. LABELED AS SUCH BY THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT THAT RAN IT.
Then, even after that disclaimer: He shows photos of Stalin, Mao, and Castro, and then describes them as leaders of socialist countries. Each and every one of those was communist.
What sucks is that I usually really look forward to his videos because they are very informative and I often end up learning a lot, even if I don't agree with much of what he says (a standout being his video on how to read the economy through cargo data). But being this blatant with misinformation (possibly disinformation) has me doubting everything I thought I'd learned from his work.