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The drudgery of life continued for the average Serf in John's time!

How do private citizens actually empower themselves in their daily lives ? J

Limits on sovereign power for the Barons ! J

I think you have read far too much into the Bill of Rights - you made a lot of very general claims without quoting any text, like someone imposing an ideology on a text that does not really support it. The Bill was not as revolutoinary as you claim, either, it represents the end of a long period of negotiation with government that started with Magna Carta. You seem to have forgoten that England had just been through a period of republican rule, with no monarch at all, and had decided that Kings were, after all, useful. The Bill of Rights is a statute that simply limits the power of monarchy and vests it in Parliament. It gives people the right to petition parliament, yes, but it also gives the right to bear arms - which no one in this country wants in any meaningful way.

As always, thank you for watching!

Wow, a much need convo. Nice and concise.

Huxley's Brave New World

The Roman rulers would have been so envious of our smart phones and devices. Next... Universal Basic Income and robot servants. Soon rulers will have no need for hoi polloi. Birth rates are declining in most countries. The "need" for a pristine planet has become a new religion, and humans are blamed as an impediment towards that end. Outside of the happy few who wander the Elysian Fields, *what is the value of an ordinary human being?*

Brilliant take, I think you're spot on. People are so incredibly disengaged and distracted. How bad does it have to get for people to wake up?

Thank you for further expanding our knowledge of Writing and thereby confirming the importance of literacy in human culture and evolution.

Distraction is profitable, but is it sustainable? At what point does an economy built on entertainment and convenience start to collapse under its own weight?

Thumb down 4 stupid musi

🙌 Well done. Great video. Thank you.

Where is Latin located on a map ?

Made rubbings! I do this at cemetery’s

I wish you could've got more likes :c

Turn the music off

great video! your voice with the music was so relaxing, and the information provided is really helpful

Very good work!

this video is going to help me in my research. thank you very much for this

This little presentation summaries the paradox of marxism very well.

Oh I know. The rich are doing a great job running the world. If people would only stop being so damn resentful.

Your understanding of Marx's economic critique is simplistic and reductive, as if it were being filtered through Neoliberalism and identity politics. Marx represents a MACRO view of both history and economics. You are giving an ahistorical, philosophical and psychological micro-critique. Indeed, this is your hypothesis: is Marxism a psychological complex masquerading as a political philosophy? Also, "Where ever Marxist principles have been implemented, they have led to economic stagnation, political repression and human suffering." 😹This line is ridiculous. Look at the leading global economy, China. This will be difficult because like Marxism, I suspect your response will be based on less on the subject experienced first hand, but on the straw men Western education and media have created on the subject. China is arguably more democratic than USA. It is more productive and prosperous. And China lifted 800 million people out of poverty. This represents 70% of global poverty reduction (which we are typically told is the result of globalized Neoliberalism. Nope! It was socialism with Chinese characteristics😹)

divide and conquer

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From the looks of it, you are willing to engage in a good faith discussion about Marxism/Socialism, and this is very rare to see, although very commendable. Personally, I view the world through a handful of very simple social axioms (cultural, moral, scientific) - of which I was taught in a capitalist society and which are also disregarded on a daily basis in fits of immense hypocrisy (or justified by lazy/dishonest means). I have not been a socialist for a long time, maybe 2 years at the time of writing this, but the transition was very simple and, in retrospect, inevitable. The point you make about every practical application of socialist state planning failing is demonstrably incorrect and dishonest, although it is basically spouted as divine gospel around the globe and believing this is an easy trap to fall for. As an example, I live in a post soviet country and my entire life was spent hearing nothing but terrible stories about the times past, and how an age of prosperity is soon due. As a child I did not question the legitimacy of the slander, why would I - the USSR had annexed my country after all, this was a binary evil. After actually learning history and seeing a different perspective, instead of regurgitating the accepted "truth", it became evident that the USSR, with it's countless faults, still achieved spectacular feats, and lifted millions of people basically from the middle ages. I do not wish for the USSR to return, as their sociological policies were blatantly wrong (Such as the russification of all member states and cultural repressions) and fueled alienation, that said, even to this day, the infrastructure built by the soviets is used millions of people. The homes that are so often made fun of, as they were built 50 years ago and nobody has renovated them since, housed and to this day house millions. I believe a socialist reality is possible, it is not supposed to be a Utopia, rather, it is our duty to try and justly distribute the resources created by mankind. And to answer the question, no, Marxism or socialism is definitely not an entitlement complex. If creating a more rational economic system entails compromise, I will happily accept, as for me humans are do not live in just Europe or America, but everywhere else as well (see The Unequal Exchange, it is pretty eye opening)

It’s reactionary identity politics like any other (like the Trump-ism we are worryingly seeing affecting the US)

" Fking disgusting propaganda. You haven't read anything marx has written but only the propaganda to discredit Marx. Marx never had resentment towards those who posses more but was merely doing analytical critique of capitalism which you seem to have no idea what that is, you're literally doing personal attacks against someone who died 2 centuries ago and without basis. Marx was Hegelian in his early years and incredibly smart unlike you, he could've grifted like you and your source (the writers in the book in your sources haven't read marx either and are grifters and evil propagandist) but never cared about himself but rather he was interested in doing scientific analysis of economics (allocation of limited resources for unlimited needs). " --> this is the message I had posted before. But seeing you only read biased interpretation of Marx and it influenced your views, I have deleted the previous comment and I do apologize. But that comes from the place of seeing and responding to so many people pretending they know what Marxism is. I fail to account that most people in the west have a very twisted understanding of Marx not due to their faults by the proxy of how the western political education and media operates to dull the minds of masses. And was being stupid and callous, just hearing the same stupid words about Marx infuriated me. I am sorry. Also, Kengor and Sowell are neocons and dishonest and evil. Their ideas have caused more suffering and deaths than world war ii, and endless holocausts. The books I recommend : Western Marxism (by Losurdo) Liberalism (Losurdo) Democracy for the few (Parenti) The capital( Marx) Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire (David Michael Smith) Just one channel where you'll learn about Marx and other youtube channel to find if you're visual learner: www.youtube.com/@criticaltheoryworkshop5299 If you actually have background in science or math (I am a mathematician I have minor in economics). You'll absolutely fall in love how Marx analyses the capitalism and problems of our society so deep, its so beautiful. You'll see how and why the world is so cruel and evil, and the way it is. You'll learn to do scientific analysis of the problems in our society and distinguish up from down. Imagine whole life being told that 2+2=5, and then someone actually teaches you math and you see 2+2=4 for yourself. That's what understanding Marx is like. Its like understanding geodesics and manifolds and getting what the fk gravity is. And yes its hard, because world is very very complicated. I see people pretending that they know such complex topics and its so infuriating. I apologize if you saw my message without my explanations. You should definitely read Losurdo, Parenti, marx and Michael smith at the very least if you actually want to understand the world. I am not joking, it'll shatter your bubble and you'll never be able to go back. Its very depressing but liberating feeling.

Very good video, I look forward to your channel becoming bigger, it got so much potential

Are you another one of those guys who read nothing but the Manifesto and decided you're qualified to assess the sum total of this man's work? Do you even know what material analysis is? You needn't read Kapital yourself to acquire these concepts (though it's by no means impenetrable); TH-cam is full of information on what Marx actually did and said, which was fundamental philosophy and historical analysis more than it was some facile judgment or a prescription of any particular remedy toward it. Search for "dialectical materialism" and you'll find simultaneously a consensus on what it is -- something very simple and agreeable on its surface -- and a deep divergence as to its applications. This concept alone -- this massive resolving synthesis of a century-old question -- is all that's necessary to demonstrate that your remarks do no justice to the philosophical groundwork Marx was responsible for bringing to the world and which illuminated the process of all academic historical analysis today.

Yeah when your first argument is " Its too mean" or " Some capitalism is good" i think your missing the point which is the better ment of society. Again people will always matter more then property or profit, any other mindset leads to fasiscm

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Thank you for the video. Just some thoughts Marxism does try to account for the interdependences between workers, managers, financiers and entrepreneurs. Workers rely on the above for wages and livelihood, but this reliance is seen as a product of the alienation and dispossession of workers from the means of production. Conversely those who are higher up within the ownership of companies etc and their intermediaries depend on workers to generate surplus value, which is the foundation of profit. Marxism does not dispute this relationship. It frames it within a broader conservation of wealth disparity within society and the inherent inequality between a minority of people born into wealth, and usually some form of ownership of the means of production, and the majority who statically no matter their hard work will be vastly more improvised simply by the position of their birth. The above is not ideological but born from statistics that can be shown over the last 60 years. In times of liberal socialism wealth disparity decreases due to wealth redistribution through means such as taxes by the state. In times of state capture by private organisations and their owners this gap widens as the majority are given little opportunity to education, stable housing, medicine or food as these non state organisation privatise these services. Marxism does not say that managers ect are not hard working, only that the system they operate within is inherently unequal, undemocratic and offers little room for recognition of workers hard work or talents. In a socialist or communist society, the means of production would be collectively owned, eliminating the hierarchical relationships between workers, managers, investors, and entrepreneurs. This is the aim of these ideologies, not to disregards individuals work currently but to attempt to give peoples more meaningful and fair forms of it. Think the 8 hour working week, black and women’s right to equal pay and a minimum wage, these are all forms of progress founded by unions which hold socialist and when radical Marxist ideals. Hope this provides some context and wishing you a lovely day.

Honestly its interesting looking at Marx's early life to get a bit more insight into his though process. I think he is a chronic materialist that spent his parents money, smoked his lungs away, and did not contribute much other than make an ideology based on entitlment and devoid of hard work.

May be have a look at the material presented by cathartic humania as a potentially viable alternative

I haven't watched your videos, but i assume its nothing but pictures of your penis, according to somewhat scientific, showing your penis to women is the best way to get a date when in public.

"Marxism nurtures a sens of entitlement, the emphasis on the idea of workers being owed the fruits of their labor, often ignores the broader picture" Somewhat scientific? More like somwhat of a little human being, as little as they come!

As always, thank you for watching.

enjoyed! Your voice and pacing is calming, but your background is distracting and busy. I'd recommend cutting up the face time with some relevant historic filler images. Dense subjects need visual stimulation. Also maybe an introduction to channel? Great channel name!

As always, thank you for watching. Please, let me know what you think.

Given that current events involve the power of a group of people who castigate and demonize others for their ethnic identities and explicitly want to go back to a time when things were supposedly "great" in the past, denying the freedom of individuals to be who they truly are, then perhaps you might consider the direction of your disdain.

The right to fart in an elevator vs the right to not be stuck I a farty elevator.

This channel is cool, i subscribed

Yeaahhh, no. A great deal of our understanding of the Middle Ages is a characterization that wasn’t really prevalent until much later in time. Medieval Europe underwent an extensive period of growth in the economy and societal norms that was unprecedented in the region. A great deal of what we think of when we say “Medieval Europe” is frankly not found in western half of the continent, although the absolutism and more rigid social structures were prevalent in Eastern Europe and especially the Russian States that developed after the Mongol invasions. The church was the only thing that kept literacy up to any standard at all in Europe after the fall of Rome, and was as well as still is a major funder of scientific endeavors in the world. It was not a particularly ossified societal structure! Although it worked differently depending on where you were, the majority of Medieval European Peasants could see substantial growth in status, sometimes becoming Ennobled. It worked the other way too, Noble families falling out of favor and becoming townsmen or merchants, sometimes falling farther depending on circumstances. Medieval Europe was not what we think it to be, a lot of what we attribute to the time period either didn’t exist there yet, or existed much later in the Early Modern Period.

Well said

This is an infantile analysis, one completely expecting conquered peoples to abandon their identities to embrace the power of an empire, of a people who never treated them as equal until maybe the past few decades, even then it's not like it's been an easy road. Our diverse identities need to be cohered into one American identity if we want to survive intact I'm not sure if you're educated on the history of race or class struggle in the US, but racism plays a role in so many areas of life in this country it's hard to describe I was born and raised in the US, I have perfect command of the English language and have been told more than once "WOW, you speak English well" I didn't even speak Spanish until I was in my teens I've been called racist names and told to go back to Mexico more than once You expect people to embrace an identity that we've always been told doesn't belong to us

HELLO what I have been saying for some time look at any urban center ( was born here in My LA in 60 BUT any modern city will do) AND there are thousands of homeless barbarians that were not there when I was young. The growing homeless barbarians are gathering for seems like their enlightenment as we (our culture) enter our new Middle Ages and we await for WHAT is Our modern Renaissance. You get 2-points my friends AND remember VIva Roma but don't forget your Ostrogothic(homeless) barbarian taxes HUH.

Do you think they are more powerful than the global South. There are many nations in the global South that have nuclear weapons. They have leftist and socialist and transhumanist movements. We will borrow the useful things from the American revolution, in order to spread socialist transhumanism to the global South. The South vs America will race for the singularity. Our battle will be legendary. The revolution will live on. We told you the socialist revolution isn't over, just like we tell you the industrial revolution isn't over, just like we tell you the American revolution isn't over. The American revolution have it's merits, will we use it. some of it's merits are : 1)recognizing all humans are equal, this is to first approximation true, because all human brains are about the same order of magnitude in mass and complexity. 2)freedom of expression, this is good and useful for learning new ideas, and exposing corrupt people and bad people. This free expression can expose morally corrupt people and make sure the bad people don't slowly outnumber the good people in government and the army. 3)the rule of law, not rule of a human. If it's rule of a human, then you are just subject to his whims, so he can take whatever he wants, so why work, when powerful people just steal? This leads to a society where people just joust for power. This leads to factions and groupism and group interest where the nash equilibrium game is to just fend for the group. This leads to people wasting a lot of time in politics, instead of investing time in their businesses or their work or their dream. Because without rule of law, you are always busy looking for your groups shifting internal politics. With rule of law, people are no longer at cold war, so can focus on many things, leading to a productive society in the long run. We will incorporate these merits in our own revolution. The Atheist afterlife is in the prosperity and Utopia for the superorganism. We only need the future of humanity. As long as the future of humanity is happy, I can die happy.

You’ve nailed it. DEI is toxic. People resent it. It corrodes social and work place cohesion. A successful pluralistic society is built on respecting our shared humanity and shared values: fairness, merit and equality!

I fully agree with pretty much all that you said. And you laid it out very coherently and clearly without any confusing nonsense thrown in. Good vid man! Keep doing what your doing! 😁