Book Review "The Problem with Socialism" by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

 

Book Format:

Publisher: Regnery Publishing: A Division of State Media

Copyright © 2016 by Thomas DiLorenzo

Pages: 226

Chapters: 1-16

The Mainframe of the Book:

The publisher printed the quote without a page number. Thus, I cannot give a page number. "As Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem with socialism and socialism is, "they always run out of other people's money."

Influencer:

The author is using "Friedrick Hayek wrote that the definition of "socialism" evolved in the twentieth century to mean income redistribution in pursuit of "equality," not through government ownership of the means of production but through the institutions of the welfare state and the "progressive" income tax." PG 5 As a capstone of his philosophy to justify his views against socialism like, "Great Britain adopted its brand of "democratic socialism, known as "Fabian socialism," after World War II as it nationalized many key industries, imposed very high rates of taxation, established a massive welfare state, and adopted socialized medicine and government-funded pensions." PG 7

Problem with Socialism:

People have risen to power under socialism; why fascism is just another form of socialism; how the "success" of Scandinavian socialism is a myth." PG13

Critical Point of Capitalism in the USA:

"The institutions of private property and free markets led to a burst of entrepreneurship and wealth creation. By 1776 the young American economy was a hundred times larger than it was in the 1630s, and Americans had already become among the most affluent people in the world."

The History Channel released an article titled "Slavery in America" that began in August 1619.¹ On September 20^th, 2020, the History Channel released an article titled "How Slavery Became Economic Engine of South." It illustrated how "slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America's southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation."²

Therefore, it was not the capitalist system which caused economic growth in the US. It was the slavery system which exploited workers to work on the land and not receive any form of wages. 

Most importantly, the European settlers stole lands from the First Nations. Therefore, the European settlers did not work hard to acquire land.

In conclusion, the author is 100% wrong in his assertion that the capitalist system in the US caused economic growth. The method of slavery and stealing lands from the First Nations caused the US economy to grow.

Pioneer of Capitalist Philosophy:

"As Adam Smith explained in his famous 1776 treaties, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, what motivates people to put forth all of this effort and cooperation with each other to give us "our meat and our bread" is not their selflessness or their love of their fellow man, but their concern for their well-being. By pursuing their own self-interest in the free market, they coincidentally, as though led by an "invisible hand," benefit the rest of society as well." PG 25

"When a product or service becomes more scarce, consumers look for alternatives, which is one engine of innovation. When price rise, investors are altered to consumer demand and look to provide consumers with what they want at a lower price or to improve on the existing product or service." PG 26

Mr. Adam Smith asserts people are self-interested and are not having love for others to provide meat; they do it for their well-being and self-interest. The author contradicts his comment on the following page by saying when the price of goods and services rises, investors are developing new goods or services at lower prices to improve the existing product or service. When people have no love for each other, why should they do anything for each other? It is time to exploit one another. 

Time to exploit one another is happening right now in North America. The landlords are increasing the price of rent. "Apartments where there was a change in tenants saw the rent go up by 18.9 per cent. Those where there was no change in tenancy saw rents go up by only 2.9 per cent, on average. "This reflects the fact that, once a tenant vacates a unit, landlords are generally free to increase asking rents to current market levels," the CMHC said."³ The trend of rent increases has been going on for the past two decades. 

The Power Elite:

C. Wright Mills is an American sociologist. He published his work with the title "The Power Elite." In his book, he proves how the power elite or 1% monopolizes the US economy by electing and re-electing politicians to the US legislative bodies. 

Thomas J. DiLorenzo, in this book, asserts that "An obvious consequence of this is that capitalist economy creates an interconnected community that constantly strives to supply all of us with the best goods and services at the lowest prices; it provides employment for people of all imaginable talents and abilities; it blows past subsistence economies...it creates wealth." PG 33

The whole essence of Dr. DiLorenzo is that the capitalist system provides low prices and creates wealth. Let's examine Dr. DiLorenzo's claim about society's low prices and wealth creation.

The economic pie is scarce. There is an English expression; money does not grow on a tree. Dr. DiLorenzo used Adam Smith's psychology of human beings as a self-interest entity. Therefore, humans compete against each other to acquire more of the limited economic pie. 

In this competition to acquire wealth, it needs to create barriers to prevent others from gaining wealth, and others can grab more wealth from the economic pie. One barrier is the race issue. In 1991, I immigrated to Canada. I graduated from the University of Toronto in 2002 with a degree in sociology. In 2017, I gained employment because Canada has a labour shortage. ⁴

The US also has a severe issue of race. During the COVID-19 crisis, African-American faced a high unemployment rate compared to other races. ⁵

Documentary 13^th, illustrates how African-Americans are demonized on the big screen as a rapist and evildoers.⁶ Later, in the 90s, politicians passed laws that put African-Americans behind bars.⁷

The author begins to assert that the excellent definition of capitalism is "give me that which I want, and I will give you that which you want." PG 34

The author defines the capitalist system in light of fair trade. The nature of the capitalist system is to compete with others and exploit others. If a country does not want to trade with the US, it will deploy someone like Smedley D. Butler, a US Marine, to extract the resources.

Another example is NAFTA. "The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was enacted in 1994 and created a free trade zone for Mexico, Canada, and the United States, is the most important feature in the U.S.-Mexico bilateral commercial relationship."⁸ Canada is the biggest loser of NAFTA, and the US has the upper hand.

Universal Healthcare:

Chapter 9 of the author begins to bash Canada's Universal Healthcare. He asserts that the hospitals are unsanitized. 

If what the author says has merit, the Canadian population must be on the decline because people are going to the hospitals and they die from lack of hygiene. 

American filmmaker Michael Moore made a documentary about the US healthcare system, "Sicko," that private insurance companies hired doctors to reject patients who were dying from cancer.  

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Americans travelled to Canada to have surgeries and did not pay for them because they could not afford the medical bills in the US.⁹

Diving In:

I do not know the author. He has a natural right to express his views in any way. However, I found him to be sexist. 

The author says on page 171, "Anyone can then walk into her assigned grocery." I checked the author on google, and he is a white man. I understood that he came from a privileged white family and did not experience hardship, which concludes this book review.

Endnote:

1History.com Editors. (2009, November 12). Slavery in America. History.com. Retrieved January 30, 2023, from https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery

2Timmons, G. (2018, March 6). How slavery became the Economic Engine of the South. History.com. Retrieved January 30, 2023, from https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-economy#

3CBC/Radio Canada. (2023, January 26). Rent increased more than 18% last year for new tenants, new numbers show | CBC news. CBCnews. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cmhc-rent-report-1.6726764

4Government of Canada, S. C. (2007, September 7). Labour. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-402-x/2007/2621/ceb2621_000-eng.htm

5Report • By Elise Gould and Valerie Wilson • June 1. (n.d.). Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus-racism and economic inequality. Economic Policy Institute. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www.epi.org/publication/black-workers-covid/

6NewOnNetflix. (2020, April 17). 13th | full feature | netflix. YouTube. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8&t=418s

7NewOnNetflix. (2020, April 17). 13th | full feature | netflix. YouTube. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8&t=418s

85. (n.d.). North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). International Trade Administration | Trade.gov. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www.trade.gov/north-american-free-trade-agreement-nafta#:~:text=

9CBC/Radio Canada. (2020, June 14). Some living in U.S. eye canada for health care, but not everybody can get in | CBC News. CBCnews. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/americans-moving-healthcare-costs-medical-inadmissibility-1.5607594

 Bahram Moshiri released a video clip that began to disparage Crown Prince @PahlaviReza's proposal to ask Iranians to vote for him so he can act on their behalf of them. Moshiri wanted to illustrate Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as an incompetent leader and his belated brother Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi as a competent leader. He also mentioned that Pahlavi's modernity and progress programs were not the state of arts; they were some old technologies that they imported to Iran. Last, he claimed that if he asked people to vote for him, he would garner more than 300 000 votes from the public.

Moshiri did not have a formal education and needed to understand how the actual world function. Considering his age and not talking to anyone, he thought about the world around his space. He also did not read Immanuel Kant's book about voting, which means people give their consent and the will to politicians to act in their best interest. Therefore, he left in darkness. However, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and knows how the world function. He came from the royal family and received training in assessing critical moments and making decisions.  

No wonder the Bloomberg Persian survey asked who would have Iranians' consent and the will to lead Iran's 2022 AD or 1401 solar calendar. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi had 69% of the support of Iranians. 

Last, Mr. Moshiri could not garner votes from Iranians because @AlinejadMasih, with all her propaganda, had 1% support and @esmaeilion 3% support.

@AlinejadMasih is Manifestation of Adolf Hitler

 Adolf Hitler published "Mein Kampf," translating it from Deutsch to English, meaning My Struggle or My Battler. The book "My Struggle" reflects how Hitler experienced World War I as a communication private who ran between armies to pass messages to them and lived as a destitute civilian post-World War I. He faced hunger, humiliation and rejection by society. Society created a monster out of him who wanted revenge against the culprits. Hitler lied and manipulated people's sentiments to acquire power. Hitler's actions were poison to the heart and soul of the German people and spread around the world.

@AlinejadMasih was born into an ultraconservative family, and his father obeyed the Islamic doctrine blindly without considering how his daughter felt in this modern world. Ms. Alinejad had one interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and said that one day her father saw her without a hijab and angered him. He told her that he had disowned her. She wanted her father's love and affection, not his rejection of her. Such an incident caused an emotional scar on her. She tried to stand up for herself and deemed herself a legal entity, not an object for her husband to have offspring. She revolted against the Islamic Republic of Iran and left Iran to start a new life in the US.

Alinejad asked Iranian women every Wednesday not to observe the hijab law, and some women followed her request. Women put themselves in danger of the strict Islamic rules, and women's action for her request empowered Alinejad. 

Alinejad began to think for herself that women were desperate for freedom from the tyranny of Islamic laws and would do anything to defy the rules. She felt that she was the leader of Iran's liberation force. However, she did not have the ingredients of a leader. She needed to gain leadership skills and a love for Iranians and Iran. 

She did not love Iranians; when she appeared on a television program for an interview, the interviewer asked her, how do you feel that you are sitting somewhere safe and asking others to put themselves in danger? She did not have anything meaningful to say. 

On January 08th, 2023, Alinejad appeared as a participant to commemorate the PS752 atrocity of the Revolutionary Guard of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the surviving families. She gave a speech and said that we must unite to destroy Iran. Let's say she may have jetlag and all kinds of reasons she unintentionally uttered a statement that she did not intend to display. However, on January 27th, 2023, Alinejad released a speech of herself saying that she asked Iranians to put aside their differences and form a coalition against Iran because Iran was the root cause of all problems. The second time is not a mistake; she displays her inner truth about Iran because the video clip is chorographic, and she was not physically or mentally exhausted. She declared war against Iran. 

In conclusion, Adolf Hitler was a product of his environment and expressed his feelings toward Germany and the world through aggression. Masih Alinejad is also a product of her environment and communicates to others explicitly that Iran is the root cause of all problems and must be destroyed. Nobody in their right mind wants to see Iran wipe off the map except someone like Masih Alinejad. 

Do Not Trust Googoosh

 Iranians like me are asking Crown Prince @PahlaviReza to step forward and lead Iran's 2022 AD or 1401 solar calendar to victory. Eventually, Crown Prince @PahlaviReza agreed to lead Iran's revolution to victory under one condition. Iranians had to vote for him. Ehsaan Karamy launched a petition on the change.org website and asked Iranians to give their consent and the will to Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to lead Iran's revolution. 

When people asked Googoosh about her vote, she refused to do so, and she made a racist remark toward Iranian Azeri in her concert when someone from her family called her in the US and asked her what the currency exchange rate in the US was. She laughed and continued her self-talk that she was an Azeri. She mocked Azeri people in her concert. It was a tactic the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) used to prevent Iranians from becoming one voice. The IRI employs the diversity of ethnicity as a countermeasure against Iranians to prevent the creation of class conciseness and cultivate an atmosphere of distrust among different ethnic groups in Iran. 

Googoosh is 72 years old woman who knows well that when the Islamic Republic of Iran collapses, new singers and new talents and skills will appear on the screen, and Iranians will forget Googoosh.

Therefore, Googoosh does not want regime change in Iran. It goes with bully Homa Sarshar and Parviz Sayyad, outdated stars who, after the regime change in Iran, must make resumes, learn the English language and gain employment. 

Iranians must stop giving them piggyback rides and let them gain employment in the real world. 

Three Stooges of the West

Three Stooges of the West – House of Intellectual (wordpress.com)

 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi had an interview with American journalist Mike Wallace in the late 70s. Wallace asked Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, do you want me to read the CIA report about you? The King told him yes. The reporter told the King that the CIA says the King is an unreliable ally of the US. The King obfuscates for a moment. Then the King tells the reporter that the US wants the King as a stooge, and he is not.

In 1979, the western powers (France, England, the US, and West Germany) came together on Guadeloupe Island and discussed the future of Iran and other Middle East countries. They wanted to purge the King and the Middle East region as they succeeded in what they wanted.

The western power established the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) to drain the wealth of the Middle East countries. The western countries made a substantial amount of wealth from the IRI’s terrorist activities in the region by selling weapons to Middle East countries.

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s expiry date has arrived, and the power vacuum reverberates before the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Western countries like Canada and the US want to make sure their stooges are in the right places, like Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih), Hamed Esmaeilion (@esmaeilion) and Nazanin Boniadi
(@NazaninBoniadi).

Masih Alinejad has a long history of exploiting women in Iran by launching White Wednesdays. Women would leave their homes by removing their scarf in public areas to defy the Islamic Republic of Iran’s hijab laws. These women would videotape themselves and would send the footage to Masih Alinejad. While these women were walking in the streets, the moral agents would arrest and charge them with hijab laws, plus other criminal charges of sedition. Masih Alinejad would show these videotapes to the US dignitaries to gain leadership attention from the US dignitaries.

Did Ms. Masih Alinejad hire lawyers to defend those women in Iran who faced imprisonment for defying the IRI’s hijab laws? She never spends a dime on them.

Why did Ms. Masih Alinejad defy the Islamic Republic of Iran’s laws? Ms. Alinejad was born into an ultraconservative family struggling to pay their bills. Her father took part in the 1979 Revolution because Khomeini promised Free Ride Society platform. The promise that was never delivered to people. Masih did not like the living condition, revolted against her family and establishment, and left Iran. She changed her Muslim name to a Christian name. The act of changing her name from a Muslim to a Christian name. It meant that she had changed and was a new person. She takes pictures with high-profile individuals to prove that she has made progress from her past and is not the person she used to be.

She is associating with Iranian separatists. On January 08th, 2023, she appeared on Mel Lastman Square and gave her final thought about Iran. She said Iran must be vanquished. Same as her. She changed her name because she wanted to vanquish her past and identity, and now she wanted to vanquish Iran.

Ms. Masih Alinejad regularly appears on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC); the US made a fraudulent case for her that the IRI wanted to assassinate her.

Hamed Esmaeilion, by profession, is a dentist who travelled to Iran before the IRI shot down PS752, which claimed the life of his wife and young daughter.

The individuals who travelled to Iran never wanted to participate in any movement against the IRI. They did not want to burn the bridge. After the IRI brought down the PS752, they turned against the IRI. It is a marriage of covenant for them. Hamed Esmaeilion and other individuals like him want to seek revenge against the regime in Iran. They are interested in something other than what is good for Iran. Esmaeilion, the leader of PS752, removed the Lion and Sun emblem from Iran’s flag during the rallies. It is a direct assault on Iranian identity. For example, Canada’s Maple Leaf emblem results from Canadian identity. It was rejected when it was suggested to have three maple leaves because the Canadian demographic was composed more of English, French and First Nations.

Let’s Ask Esmaeilion, what did he do before the shot down of the PS752 for Iran’s liberation? Zero. He was part of the IRI. He regularly appears on CBC and Iran International. The @KoochehChannel YouTube channel plays an excellent public relation campaign for Esmaeilion. Most Iranians respect the Pahlavi family and regret participating in the 1979 Revolution. Most Iranians display love for Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. @KoochehChannel comes and uses the social status of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as a good character and narrates a story to connect Crown Reza Pahlavi to Esmaeilion.Esmaeilion dislikes Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. He displayed his displeasure toward Pahlavi, who appeared in the PS752 movie. Esmaeilion refused to shake Pahlavi’s hand.

In some cases, @KoochehChannel transforms Esmaeilion into a crusader, like when Esmaeilion was going to take the IRI to the International Court of Justice. Once the IRI was found guilty of the charge, the IRI would pay reparations to the surviving family, as was the case for Muammar Gaddafi, who paid blood money due to his terrorist activity of bringing an airplane down. Eventually, it caused Gaddafi to collapse. @KoochehChannel grabs stories from different news sources and makes one childish story for twenty minutes.

Nazanin Boniadi wrote on her Twitter profile about her profession as an actor, not an actress. One more time, what did she do for the liberation of Iran before Mahsa Amini’s death which was a catalyst for the uprising in Iran? She hovers around Ms. Alinejad and associates with Iranian separatists to disintegrate Iran among its ethnic groups. Ms. Boniadi also appears on the CBC and other news outlets.

In conclusion, Iranians need to open their eyes to ensure opportunistic people are not hijacking Iran’s 2022 AD or 1401 solar calendar revolution. West wanted to make sure Iran’s wealth was deposited in their countries by promoting stooges like Alinejad, Esmaeilion and Nazanin.

Constructive Criticism of Dolat 4 Iran @Dolat4Iran or https://dolat.io/

 Introduction:

The Dolat 4 Iran group claims to be a civic organization to respond to the current unrest climate of Iran. The spokesperson is Mr. Majid Zamani (@thisismajid). 

On December 13th, 2022, the Dolat 4 Iran group YouTube channel posted its first video clip on YouTube (دولت برای ایران - YouTube), followed by its second video clip posted on YouTube on December 19th, 2022 (دولت برای ایران" مشروطه‌ی حقوق اساسی را به عنوان نظام نوین حاکمیت ایران پیشنهاد کرد" - YouTube), and its final video clip, which was posted on YouTube on December 24th, 2022 (بدون نفرت به رفراندوم قانون اساسی خواهیم رسید - YouTube). 

Objective:

Every person may claim that s/he acts in a manner free from bias. However, every person has values and belief systems which shape their way of life as the only correct way to live and becomes a capstone for a person to cultivate an atmosphere of peace in communities. 

The author of this paper will be examining the three video series of the Dolat 4 Iran group to understand how Dolat 4 Iran's sought to accomplish peace in Iran.

Timeline:

This paper will commence on January 06th, 2023, and each week will give one constructive criticism based on each video clip. 

Structure of the Paper:

The journey of this paper will begin with the introduction, parts, and synopsis.

Part 1 of 3:

The first video clip is one hour, eight minutes and three seconds.

The video introduces Mr. Majid Zamani as a successful businessperson who created jobs in Iran and had 350 employees. The interviewer asked him, what did inspire you to involve yourself in politics? Mr. Zamani replied to his question by saying that he used business to improve Iran's quality positively by influencing political actors in Iran. He asserted that he believed in cultivating a work atmosphere that would make meaningful changes in Iran's political landscape. There was a turning point in his view toward the Islamic Republic of Iran when he witnessed the Islamic Republic of Iran shut down PS752 civilian aircraft. The other issues lingered over his head and illustrated that the Islamic Republic of Iran needed to move in the right direction. However, the Islamic Republic of Iran's foundation prevented Iran from moving in the right direction. The Islamic Republic of Iran failed in the area of its nuclear program to negotiate with the international community, and its domestic policy on COVID-19 failed to protect Iranians from the widespread of COVID-19. The situation in Iran is deteriorating. He divided Islam into two sections, Islam and Iran. 

In the section on Islam, the faith of Islam lost its reverence among Iranians, and lying, deception, and falsely accusing others became a current currency among Iranians. He said to compare before the 1979 Revolution people's view about Islam and post the 1979 Revolution people's view about Islam. He said the Islamic Republic of Iran hurt the faith of Islam. The systems in the past 500 years of Iran's history have not damaged the religion of Islam, like the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

In foreign relations, the Islamic Republic of Iran failed to safeguard and secure the interest of Palestinian because before, the Islamic Republic of Iran interfered in the affair of Palestinian and Israel. Israel was under pressure from external forces to recognize the rights of the Palestinian people. Israel was no longer under pressure from external influences. Israel enjoyed an excellent relationship with external parties due to the Islamic Republic of Iran's stand against Israel.

Majidi asserted that the 1979 Revolution occurred due to the US Armed Forces and the US government's intervention in the domestic affairs of Iran by directing the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces. As a result, the Islamic Republic of Iran never took action in the best interest of Iranians to provide peace for Iranians. The Islamic Republic of Iran gave points to foreign countries to pursue its nuclear ambition. Majidi claimed Iranians' purchase power declined. 

Majidi concluded that the above actions led Iran's politics in the direction that there was no turning point. 

Majidi did not join politics because of the above events. He entered politics because there was no alternative. Iranians outside of Iran did not do anything meaningful to provide an alternative platform against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian expatriates had hollow slogans. Therefore, it caused hopelessness among Iranians.

Majidi asserted that Iranians rejected the Islamic Republic of Iran because they lost hope for a better future. 

Majidi asserted that Iran was walking toward Syria's scenario because the regime in Iran would not stop its plan, and Iranians would not stop their revolt against the regime in Iran. 

The interviewer pointed to Majidi that the Islamic Republic of Iran was spreading the propaganda Syria scenario to stop Iranians from the revolution. How do you address the above matter? Majidi said that I offered a proposal that Iranians asked for themselves. The Islamic Republic of Iran could not stop the revolt in Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran was a failed state.

He had the plan to use civil disobedience to use against the Islamic Republic of Iran. He would employ coercive methods against the Islamic Republic of Iran if civil disobedience did not work.

The interviewer said that the people who participated in the 1979 Revolution did not like what was unfolding. They would not take part in 2022AD/1401 solar calendar revolt. What would you like to say to support the Islamic Republic of Iran? Majidi said that Iranians could not handle the current politics in Iran due to the rise of poverty and the failed state of the regime. He also mentioned that Iran's regime used excessive force against people illegitimately because the Islamic Republic of Iran's constitution has a clause for peaceful assembly. The result was the reign of terror in Iran.

Majidi only recognized some of the assembly as legitimate because their slogans and approaches needed to meet the Dolat 4 Iran group mandate. There was an alternative approach to reaching the final destination. 

At 18:50, Majidi said we could not oppose the Islamic Republic of Iran's path and approach. We could use the Islamic Republic of Iran's tactic to accomplish our goals.

The interviewer asked Majidi, what do you want to achieve for Iran? Majidi said that he wanted to create something that the Islamic Republic of Iran did not have. Majidi defined the notion of Dolat (state) as a good fortune for people; he had a plan with four clauses. He dreamed of passing the current time toward an ideal position encompassing all four clauses. The next step was justice for the actors who shaped Iran for the past 100 years. The next step was looking at the future and what we wanted to accomplish. He said that what he meant was that it was a "Pathway Toward a Dream" and that it did not exist under the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was already drafted and would be released as a living document. 

The interviewer asked Majidi, could you become a peacemaker between individuals revolting against the establishment and those who wanted to preserve the regime? Majidi said he stood on the segment of Iranians who wanted a peaceful assembly, and the security forces did not have legal rights or religious grounds to use deadly force against people. He said he did not believe the (2022) movement had a higher degree of intellectuality than the past campaigns. There were words and violence that they stood against his ideas and plans. Regardless of the circumstances, the Islamic Republic of Iran was solely responsible and accountable for what was unfolding because it had the prerogative to use force. It prevented people from forming peaceful assemblies. 

The interviewer asked Majidi if you were a reformist. Where did you stand on the reform movement? Majdi replied that he advocated the reform movement for a long time and collaborated with significant actors who supported the reform movement. It was my civic duty. He believed the reform movement was intellectual in Iran compared to the 100 years of activities. The reform movement in Iran was dead. The reform movement wanted to move Iran toward civil society; it was the opportunity Bakhtiar (Shapour Bakhtiar - Wikipedia) wanted to build a better Iran. The reform was founded on the principles of moving Iran forward and intellectual movement. However, it was defeated. It was time to step over the original version of the reform movement and reinvent a new version of the reform movement within the framework of fundamental principles of reform, conservative values and intellectuality because the current climate of Iran was a by-product of the reform movement in Iran. 

At 28:56, he asserted that the 2022 revolt in Iran was the by-product of the reform movement in Iran. He called for a referendum to have a new contract. We could not become a fascist system. He believed in working within the system to the system to bring a better version of the system. The reform would happen by applying a change in the constitution. 

He admired the reform movement for several minutes as a champion of civil society in Iran.

At 25:30, he said that Hokomat (government) had come and left. However, he used the word society; I used the word people, that people formed the government and people's will and values shape the government's policy and direction. People's choices and values should not make a dictator. 

Majidi covered the issue of environmental issues which mattered the most for Iran. Majidi claimed that brain-drain, it caused a shortage of capital knowledge. 

Majidi said that Iran lacked experts to move Iran's economy, which caused Iran's economy to regress. The world moved away from fossil fuels, and it was time to seek alternative avenues to have a source of energy. 

Majidi did not want anger to shape the future of Iran and wanted to have a state which was not a source of rage. He wanted to have transparency and clarity in the plan for regime change. He wanted an interim government to have a plan for regime change in Iran. 

At 49:00 minutes, he said that the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iranians must open a door of discussion to prevent bloodshed in Iran.

At 54:48 minutes, he said he wanted his pious Muslims to flourish in Iran and not lose anything. 

Synopsis:

1. Mr. Majid Zamani contradicted himself from time to time. He believed the regime in Iran was open for reform. However, he advocated for regime change. It was unclear his stand for the regime in Iran.
2. It was clear that he wanted to continue the path of the Islamic Republic of Iran, employing a referendum to change Iran's constitution.
3. Majidi felt that the Islamic Republic of Iran was about to collapse due to failed domestic and foreign policies, and the power vacuum was on its way. Thus, he made a political nest to play as a political actor.