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Dandy Don Documentary · Episode 1
The Socialism Menu: Every Kind, Explained in Two Minutes Each
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Your forty-hour work week was once called socialism. So was Social Security. So was the minimum wage. Somehow the same word also gets used when the government buys stock in 707 banks. One word. Eight meanings.
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Tonight, the menu. Who came up with each kind, who ran it, and what happened, with the number and the source on screen:
Short cuts
part · 130s
A rich factory owner bought an entire American town to build a perfect society. It lasted about two years.
part · 122s
One sentence. That's how long it takes the Communist Manifesto to explain communism.
part · 115s
A socialist walks into Georgetown and announces he does not want to own the means of production.
part · 120s
Denmark sent its own prime minister to Harvard to say: please stop calling us socialist.
part · 133s
Some all-American companies are owned by their customers. Not investors. Customers.
part · 134s
There's a kind of socialism that hates government more than any Republican campaign ad.
part · 121s
A communist party running a market economy. That's not a punchline. It's the business model.
part · 138s
You were once a shareholder in seven hundred and seven American banks. Nobody sent you the annual report.
part · 109s
They know there are eight kinds. They are counting on you knowing one, and fearing it.
aspire · 26s
One word. Eight meanings.
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