Sir,

By your photo, you are old enough to recognize the fact that unregulated business is just as likely to move into the hands of the wealthy and powerful in not just the capitalist system, but in most others as well. You should also know, given the numerous examples that exist that an unregulated sector is just as likely to cause problems as a regulated sector. The problem is not how many laws there are but human nature.

I'm sorry, but that video starts off with enough red flags that I cannot even take it seriously. If you had kept religion out of it and presented it as a purely intellectual argument, instead of trying to draw Christians in, I would be able to appreciate, even if I didn't agree with it. Starting a video with politico-religious rhetoric, mentioning terms and names that Americans are only generally passingly familiar with (in a negative, knee-jerk sense for the most part, since that is the dominant undertone in schools and the media), and providing an altered definition undermine the integrity of the video. I'm sure that fans of Pat will be delighted to watch him state his opinion. I had hoped I might learn something but your video isn't designed to provide a balanced opinion - it is there to reinforce the existing opinion of one group of conservatives.

There is nothing particularly wrong with what Marx and Engels proposed - they sought to fight the accumulation of wealth which is, no matter what system of governance, built on the backs of many for the benefit of the few. The idea that people get their share based on their actual contributions is a fair concept - a CEO getting the lion's share just because of their skills in running the company from a macro perspective doesn't fly; too many other people live below an acceptable level financially, as well as in terms of healthcare and education, and the environment nearly always suffers in an unregulated market. Imagine what kind of nation we'd have if everyone got the best education, instead of the mediocre education most receive in public schools - America would be a paragon instead of the bully it currently is!

Unfortunately, Marxism contains the same flaw that exists in all extant systems - it is undermined by the variety of human behavior.

If you are willing to provide a briefly summary of what the video covers that is factual rather than rhetoric, I might reconsider watching it.

The claim that people on the left regularly engage in dishonesty to forward their goals is as ridiculous as it is unfair. There are people in every part of the political spectrum who are willing to lie, cheat, steal and kill to get what they want. Are you going to tell me that Jack Abramoff (a long-standing Republican), or companies like Anderson and Enron, which had strong ties to Republicans like Bush, Rove, Cheney, etc., were not Republican, or that they were falsely prosecuted? Are you going to claim that the human rights and employee rights abuses that occurred in industries like coal mining, railroad laying, oil and many other industries were because of regulation? Or that the BP disaster was because of Democrats lying instead of the greed of BP execs? You cannot blame an entire part of the political spectrum for what criminals of all political allegiances do and expect me to take you seriously.