I’m 15 and I recently started researching, reading and watching videos about Communism and socialism I’ve watched your videos and I have to say it helped me understand these concepts more.
@@x-popone6817 Hitler was a fascist, he put 'socialist' in the party name as a buzzword. In both ideology and function, it had nothing to do with socialism. Rat bastard even admitted it himself.
Computers evolved and hundreds if not thousands of people helped to create our modern day computers. Under capitalism it is a handful of already insanely rich individuals who enrich themselves. Of course those with skills that are in short supply can demand ridiculously high wages. Technology was developed by researchers, scientists in places such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, their are places at the Arctic circle and by the military.
I have always been more on the "right" side I should say. The word communist being used everywhere prompted me to have a look at it, so far it's not at all what it is portrayed to be. Great video! keep it up
Man... This channel is amazing. It's so much about understanding the world through a Marxist lens. As an American, I wish more people were educated in this way. It would be so much better than our current view of socialism and capitalism in the united States.
I strongly recommend that you check out perspectives from Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell or Walter E. Williams on Socialism and Capitalism. All of them publshed books and news columns decades ago about issues that still prevail today.
@@SkyrimFanForever1 I'll concede that you have me beaten here considering I won't be able to address all the points in your massive reply. I only meant to encourage others to explore the works of a few economists. Please elaborate on how Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman are detestable and why you insist on this idea of "political-economy." The idea of "political-economy" is antithetical to the idea of "free-market capitalism" which is in favor of "market allocation" as opposed to "political allocation." In other words, a free-market economy is supposed to be independent of policitics. In our lifetimes, this has never been the case in the US. I've read multiple books from each of the economists I mentioned and here are the books I'd recommend starting with: "American Contempt for Liberty" by Walter E. Williams; "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell; "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman. I'll stand by my original comment in that anyone reading this should explore multiple sources when researching the topics of Socialism, Capitalism or economics in general. Never trust people who assert conclusions for you. It's an injustice to your own intellect to not think for yourself.
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Can you please make a video on common property under Communism/Socialism? It is difficult to explain people why communal kitchens and healthcare in many prominent Socialist states is different from commodities.
Wow, that sounds awful, you should come to Bolivia where we have that struggle way before Covid, like 15 years ago... Kind of at the moment where Socialism began here... funny
Expectations exceeded!! Love the series. I assume these happen on a weekly basis; really helps to make my week more interesting. The visual transitions and reviewing at the end make things sooo clean. This is encouraging me to read more theory. :)
Thank you so much for the kind words! I try to get them out once a week, though sometimes it takes a little bit longer to get them done for various reasons. One every two weeks at the very minimum anyway. And yes, definitely get started on reading some theory and diving into all of this in much more detail :)
I remember my first part-time job in high school. I saw so many people got screwed over in that business, myself included. I always heard that things were how they were, and I had to get used to it. A friend introduced me to socialism at the time, but I blew it off as an unrealistic pipe dream. And now here I am 2 years later, a socialist watching socialists content. How things have changed.
@@Marxism_Today Thanks! Yeah, I watch you, Jason, Luna, some others along with the more anarchistic channels. Got to get that broad understanding, you know? :)
@@GraafBerengeur Kinda, but that doesn't mean there isn't valuable info in ML thought. I mean, there are anarcho-communists that blend the two with varying degrees of compatibility. I mean, even ideologies opposed to anarchists and marxists have some good nuggets in them.
@@GraafBerengeur Another note: I am 41 years old. I don't have the time, patience, or immaturity to indulge in that crap. Yep, bad shit happened back then, so there will be some...discomfort...and probably justifiably. All that means is we can trust to some degree but keep an eye on each other, not some blind trust. We're not children or gullible...well, some of us aren't :)
Thank you so much. Having struggled to engage with the theory for a few years now (thanks ADHD) I finally feel like it's sinking in. And hopefully this will make it so much easier to get into the reading in future as well!
I started my journey of socialist and communistic ideology a while back and I did learn a bit but I never started out well cause really I had no idea what to start with a year later I got to this series and this has helped me out already so very much, I appreciate you taking time to make these, they have improved my views on spots I didn't really even know upon
I know this video is old but i just wanna point out that these are super useful, even for people like me who have a more intermediate understanding of Marxism. I live in the US (ugh) and watching these videos has given me the ability to explain these concepts in a way more digestible way, especially since i suck at words. Will definitely be sharing these around! :)
Lowkey I still don't get what generalized commodity production(gcp) is. I get simple commodity prodcution, is people trading other products in exchange for money, is GCP when the capitalist uses SCP of workers as their primary way of creating products?
One of the biggest achievements of capitalism in my view is that they successfully divided what they call blue collars and white collars… while it is the same exact thing you are selling your time for a wage….
4:10 A lot of people who think of themselves as socialist, or think they understand socialist, make that same mistake. Socialism has nothing to do with the state running things, and has everything to do with the people (the "society") running things democratically. The "social" in the "ism," that is. When the *state* runs stuff, that's called "statism." "State capitalism" is a form of statism, not socialism, and is when the state takes the place of the private capitalist while maintaining the top-down model of capitalist production. China, the USSR, is/was never socialist. They were, at most, either state capitalist or a social democracy. It really gets on my nerves when people say "China is/was socialist" when it's pretty clear that worker democracy isn't exactly their thing, while state control of everything always has been. Mao knew the difference. Lenin knew the difference. Engels and Marx knew the difference. Socialism/communism isn't *only* changing things for the better, because if that was the case, then capitalism would have been called socialism by Marx et al as it replaced feudalism and absolutism. To be considered socialist (a party, an individual, or a country, but not the system that a country employs), there must be an active effort by the people and the state to democratize and put all of the power of the state into the hands of the whole society. Not as a republic, which is a top-down system that takes power away from the people and places it in the hands of a bureaucracy and political elite. Bottom-up democracy. It's really nice to hear that distinction made, such as @Marxist Paul does in this series (and I'm pretty sure elsewhere). It sucks that some of the people who commented on it didn't listen, or do the reading.
Finance capital is a component of imperialist capitalism. Lenin says that "finance capital is the bank capital of a few very big monopolist banks, merged with the capital of the monopolist associations of industrialists" (www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch07.htm ) You can read more about this in "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" at the above link
I would like to know your views on post-1976 China. Has capitalism in China already entered the imperialist stage? If so, what shall we prepare for the next major conflict between the imperialist states as leftists internationally?
Good text diving into this question (there's even a TL;DR on page 106-107 if you want the short answer): www.bannedthought.net/International/Red-Path/01/RP-8.5x11-IsChinaAnImperialistCountry-140320.pdf
Woah... Woah... Aren't all things produced for some use? Tomatoes that aren't used are generally considered WASTE. That's why many tomatoes are converted to dehydrated paste, this allows what would be wasted to be used in the off system. Waste is undesirable.
I will beg to differ. Waste is undesirable, only if you presuppose that nothing can be gained, only lost. (Zero sum fallacy) but since I can have more pies than I have now whether by buying them or baking them, we don't need to believe that life is a zero sum game. Waste is not undesirable, non-consensual impositions are undesirable.
You might even considered money to be created for a particular use, for example, I saved up about three months worth of my wages in case something happens, I can afford to take some time off. You could say I bought some "security" with that purchase.
I'm a a conservative catholic who's not really a fan of both capitalism or socialism or communism but I just wanna see what a leftist has to say about these topics
Good video One thing I will say though is that I don't think you focused enough on class here, I'm glad that you mentioned Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia despite 95% state ownership is in fact capitalist, state capitalist, but what matters here is which class the economy serves, in Saudi Arabia Post-WW2 there was an oil boom and the former feudalists shifted the economy to benefit themselves and made the state act like a corporation for the interests of this small ruling minority, Saudi Arabia is capitalist because despite not having the anarchy of production or private ownership dominate, the economy serves a ruling comprador elite rather than the working people who create that wealth. Compare this to say China which functionally is state capitalist since the reforms of the late 90s and early 00s due to revisionist attempts to dismantle the proletarian structure, however as China has a dictatorship of the proletariat still intact, they were able to fight back against revisionism within the party where the USSR had failed to do so thanks to the cultural revolutions influence, as the CPC still rule and the economy of China serves the people through the PDD (DOTP), China cannot be called capitalist as the anarchy of production does not dominate the economy, private ownership of the means of production is not dominant (although the capitalist mode of production is strong), but it also cannot be called socialist (LSC) and it is because of that you get terms from Xi Jinping such as the "primary stage of socialism" and "socialist market economy" as well as in his New Years address "socialist modernisation will now begin" because this is explicitely refferring to the period of the USSR after the NEP but before it became socialist in 1936 when the DOTP had succeeded in abolishing antagonistic classes. (Xi Jinping is a socialist who has had to ally with nationalists who don't care about workers at all to purge the liberals who want to sell out to the west and there are definitely imperialist aspects of China's export of capital) - China centrist The class nature is key when it comes to capitalism as it is the DOTB which enforces capital but the bourgeoisie itself is not needed for "capitalism" to be capitalism as "market socialism" and coops pushed by Vaush and other radliberals is just capitalism because even though there would be no bourgeoisie, the economy would still serve capital, the issues of anarchy of production and imperialism would not have been addressed. There are capitalist states where what seem like soc dems such as evo morales in bolivia and maduro in venezuela rule through parliaments, but their power does not come from the parliaments, because no change can ever come solely from a parliament, their power comes from the grassroots collectivos and proletarian power on the ground, soc dems here in the west always like to point to them as examples of successful social democracy in action but that couldn't be further from the truth and we saw the failure of the revisionist euro-communists who thought they could muck around in bourgeois parliaments, however these are socialists who are trying to move capitalist states to socialism with what they got building mass movements without causing a violent reaction of capital internationally and externally, this is also seen in nicaragua, angola, mozambique where revolutions had been won but communists had been left between a rock and a hard place and had to submit to CIA backed rebels and setup parliaments and recently in Nepal where due to pressure from lack of support in urban areas as well as british gorka special units, the maoists had to make peace.
@@sierra1513 I keep saying. "Is a spook" There may be a definition for it, but so long as people aren't agreeing to use an elaboratable definition in good faith, the word is obfuscation.
I build subdivisions for a living literal neighborhood I lay the pipe build the roads the foundations all of it except build the house. so my skills and labor 12 hour days for 19 years now are on par with some kid who just picks up trash and are the same as doctors. Makes sense I didn't see how that would ever collapse on its self and not work. I hope this channel is a parody cause I feel I'm getting dumber the more I watch.
"the people" already get a say in where you live lol. You barely have any control over that under capitalism. You're just being paranoid about a system that would give you more control.
Correct, the people should get a say in where you live since you live in a society, moron. If you don’t want the people to get a voice or any real democracy, then you should live in the woods.
@@BenjaminWalburn When you say that, you're referring to the government. Or do you mean by having houses? Are you inferring that homeowners are physically harming you by not giving you their home? Cause there is a big difference between imposing something and not offering something. They aren't imposing anything the "vice" you blame them of committing is merely not offering housing. Have you considered that they might have laws over their heads imposing on them that stop them, or disincentivize them, from providing such things? Consider it from their shoes, does the government get in the way or make it worth the risk of supplying product? If you build houses at a loss, then stop all construction. It doesn't matter what economic system you are using, hemorrhaging resources especially vital ones is a sign your economic patient is gonna die.
You are aware that storng workers unions are able to form the workplace? and that the workers are able to vote in represantatives in those Workers unions? Sure there are laws in some nations that make it intentionally harde to form Unions, but nothing stops you from bending together with your fellow workers and form a company selling your combined labor in a package to a capitalist increasing your negotiationpower by multiple magnitudes. and if you somehow manage to create a dominant position in the labormarket in the form that most workers are in said union or company of workers you could force standards and wages beyond what regulations and laws demand just because the means of productions are worthless if there is no worker doing the work. During the times of Lenin and Marx democracy was for the rich. But today I'd argue that it is no longer the case. In most western nations Democracy is for the old, due to theire demographic size.
why is it when you show capitalism like “stock images” ig is what they’d be called, you depict them with weapons and food the things you like least, but your communism depiction is always clips of people working in a capitalist society?
I’m 15 and I recently started researching, reading and watching videos about Communism and socialism I’ve watched your videos and I have to say it helped me understand these concepts more.
Glad to help! Best of luck with your ongoing studies :)
Awesome! I'm 17 and I've been getting big into the subject. I really like what it offers
@@x-popone6817 well of course, everything should be taken with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, it's interesting to learn about
@@x-popone6817 Hitler was a fascist, he put 'socialist' in the party name as a buzzword. In both ideology and function, it had nothing to do with socialism. Rat bastard even admitted it himself.
@@x-popone6817 Mass Privatization is when Socialism
Im so early that I can start my own vanguard party
Sign me up plz! haha
Hahaha!
Capitalism is when lots of iPhone
Socialism is when some iPhone
Communism is when no iPhone
Easy!
@American Ba'athist Party BASED
no. incorrect.
Computers evolved and hundreds if not thousands of people helped to create our modern day computers. Under capitalism it is a handful of already insanely rich individuals who enrich themselves. Of course those with skills that are in short supply can demand ridiculously high wages.
Technology was developed by researchers, scientists in places such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, their are places at the Arctic circle and by the military.
Capitalism has no huaweis.
Socialism has some huaweis
Communism has all huaweis
Because misinformation about Huawei MUST be surpressed.
Mashallah daddy Paul has uploaded.
@SomeRandomGuy Paul and Hakim are my sugar daddies
@@Naheed_Ahmed14 lol
I have always been more on the "right" side I should say. The word communist being used everywhere prompted me to have a look at it, so far it's not at all what it is portrayed to be. Great video! keep it up
so how's it going so far, what do you think lol
Man... This channel is amazing. It's so much about understanding the world through a Marxist lens. As an American, I wish more people were educated in this way. It would be so much better than our current view of socialism and capitalism in the united States.
Thanks Trev, doing the small bit I can to help try to move things in that direction :)
I strongly recommend that you check out perspectives from Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell or Walter E. Williams on Socialism and Capitalism. All of them publshed books and news columns decades ago about issues that still prevail today.
@@SkyrimFanForever1 I'll concede that you have me beaten here considering I won't be able to address all the points in your massive reply. I only meant to encourage others to explore the works of a few economists.
Please elaborate on how Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman are detestable and why you insist on this idea of "political-economy." The idea of "political-economy" is antithetical to the idea of "free-market capitalism" which is in favor of "market allocation" as opposed to "political allocation." In other words, a free-market economy is supposed to be independent of policitics. In our lifetimes, this has never been the case in the US.
I've read multiple books from each of the economists I mentioned and here are the books I'd recommend starting with: "American Contempt for Liberty" by Walter E. Williams; "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell; "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman.
I'll stand by my original comment in that anyone reading this should explore multiple sources when researching the topics of Socialism, Capitalism or economics in general. Never trust people who assert conclusions for you. It's an injustice to your own intellect to not think for yourself.
@@mrandrew9480 you make me happy, it shows you aren't here just to argue but to learn too
As an American I love giving the comment so this channel can benefit from capitalism.
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Can you please make a video on common property under Communism/Socialism?
It is difficult to explain people why communal kitchens and healthcare in many prominent Socialist states is different from commodities.
Wow, that sounds awful, you should come to Bolivia where we have that struggle way before Covid, like 15 years ago... Kind of at the moment where Socialism began here... funny
@@mauryw.1818
Bolivia is a social democracy. But yeah, MAS is doing good work compared to what was their before.
Expectations exceeded!! Love the series. I assume these happen on a weekly basis; really helps to make my week more interesting.
The visual transitions and reviewing at the end make things sooo clean. This is encouraging me to read more theory. :)
Thank you so much for the kind words! I try to get them out once a week, though sometimes it takes a little bit longer to get them done for various reasons. One every two weeks at the very minimum anyway.
And yes, definitely get started on reading some theory and diving into all of this in much more detail :)
I remember my first part-time job in high school. I saw so many people got screwed over in that business, myself included. I always heard that things were how they were, and I had to get used to it. A friend introduced me to socialism at the time, but I blew it off as an unrealistic pipe dream. And now here I am 2 years later, a socialist watching socialists content. How things have changed.
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thanks man, dunno how i would have got through this video without that😓
Excited to see the rest of the series!
Thanks Pierre! Plenty more to come - there's gonna be about 20 videos in this series
I hope some of my fellow anarchists watch this channel...so good!
Warm welcome to the anarchist squad! :)
@@Marxism_Today Thanks! Yeah, I watch you, Jason, Luna, some others along with the more anarchistic channels. Got to get that broad understanding, you know? :)
@@GraafBerengeur Kinda, but that doesn't mean there isn't valuable info in ML thought. I mean, there are anarcho-communists that blend the two with varying degrees of compatibility. I mean, even ideologies opposed to anarchists and marxists have some good nuggets in them.
@@GraafBerengeur Another note: I am 41 years old. I don't have the time, patience, or immaturity to indulge in that crap. Yep, bad shit happened back then, so there will be some...discomfort...and probably justifiably. All that means is we can trust to some degree but keep an eye on each other, not some blind trust. We're not children or gullible...well, some of us aren't :)
These are done really clearly and succinctly.
Thanks Khrishan!
Simple, short and precise, wonderful content keep up the work 👌
Thanks Frank, I appreciate that
I'm trying to take notes here but I'm basically just shorthand-transcribing every video because everything you say is so important!
Solid vid
Really enjoying this series. Makes understanding these concepts so much easier.
I eagerly await each episode. Great job
Thanks Pertinax!
Another great video, Paul!
Thanks, Joely!
Thank you so much. Having struggled to engage with the theory for a few years now (thanks ADHD) I finally feel like it's sinking in. And hopefully this will make it so much easier to get into the reading in future as well!
Yea. Those sub-stages of sub-stages video coming up sounds awesome. Cant wait
I started my journey of socialist and communistic ideology a while back and I did learn a bit but I never started out well cause really I had no idea what to start with a year later I got to this series and this has helped me out already so very much, I appreciate you taking time to make these, they have improved my views on spots I didn't really even know upon
Very well made vid with great graphics, well done
Thanks! Started using new video editing software - glad to see it's having a noticeable result
Great work, comrade! You've really found your feet for the style and pacing of this series, getting better and better with every episode 😁😁
I know this video is old but i just wanna point out that these are super useful, even for people like me who have a more intermediate understanding of Marxism. I live in the US (ugh) and watching these videos has given me the ability to explain these concepts in a way more digestible way, especially since i suck at words. Will definitely be sharing these around! :)
These are very helpful. I've been writing notes for the past hour. Thanks a lot. I eagerly await the next video.
Honest question since I'm new to all of this: is imperialist Capitalism what people colloquially refer to as "Late-stage Capitalism"?
Good job!
Thanks!
@@Marxism_Today no. Thank you, you beautiful bastard 😍🚩🙏
Learned a lot as always
Keep up the good work
Thanks Zidan, I appreciate that!
This channel has clear no bullshit explanations. Great stuff
Lowkey I still don't get what generalized commodity production(gcp) is. I get simple commodity prodcution, is people trading other products in exchange for money, is GCP when the capitalist uses SCP of workers as their primary way of creating products?
Amazing Content as always!!
Thanks Abe!
Nice accent sir. Perfect for teaching and explaining.
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"You're gonna be SICK talking about imperalism"
Sick? You mean hyped?
One of the biggest achievements of capitalism in my view is that they successfully divided what they call blue collars and white collars… while it is the same exact thing you are selling your time for a wage….
Excellent! Love the production quality!
Thanks for another educational banger, comrade.
These videos are so cool! Thanks!
Thanks Tom! Glad you're finding them useful
4:10 A lot of people who think of themselves as socialist, or think they understand socialist, make that same mistake.
Socialism has nothing to do with the state running things, and has everything to do with the people (the "society") running things democratically. The "social" in the "ism," that is. When the *state* runs stuff, that's called "statism."
"State capitalism" is a form of statism, not socialism, and is when the state takes the place of the private capitalist while maintaining the top-down model of capitalist production.
China, the USSR, is/was never socialist. They were, at most, either state capitalist or a social democracy. It really gets on my nerves when people say "China is/was socialist" when it's pretty clear that worker democracy isn't exactly their thing, while state control of everything always has been. Mao knew the difference. Lenin knew the difference. Engels and Marx knew the difference.
Socialism/communism isn't *only* changing things for the better, because if that was the case, then capitalism would have been called socialism by Marx et al as it replaced feudalism and absolutism. To be considered socialist (a party, an individual, or a country, but not the system that a country employs), there must be an active effort by the people and the state to democratize and put all of the power of the state into the hands of the whole society. Not as a republic, which is a top-down system that takes power away from the people and places it in the hands of a bureaucracy and political elite. Bottom-up democracy.
It's really nice to hear that distinction made, such as @Marxist Paul does in this series (and I'm pretty sure elsewhere). It sucks that some of the people who commented on it didn't listen, or do the reading.
can you talk about taxation and capitalism?
and why not enough houses for the average person?
Very nice production man, well done!
Also, maybe give practical examples as to how the rich influence the government in some later video?
Man, this video looks professional AF!
Good
fiending hard for part 5
Awesome comrade 😊
Thanks for the education
Allende was trying to establish a dictatorship and killed himself when he failed 😊 1:47 1:48
Informative video, thank you!
the best and most well informative series
Is finance capitalism just an aspect of one of the phases?
Finance capital is a component of imperialist capitalism. Lenin says that
"finance capital is the bank capital of a few very big monopolist banks, merged with the capital of the monopolist associations of industrialists" (www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch07.htm )
You can read more about this in "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" at the above link
@GraafBerengeur Thanks for that! Should be fixed now
Another amazing easy to understand laymans mans worded explaination!
Thanks, Paul! ✊💖 Slan agat.
Cheers Sam! :) ✊
I would like to know your views on post-1976 China. Has capitalism in China already entered the imperialist stage? If so, what shall we prepare for the next major conflict between the imperialist states as leftists internationally?
Good text diving into this question (there's even a TL;DR on page 106-107 if you want the short answer): www.bannedthought.net/International/Red-Path/01/RP-8.5x11-IsChinaAnImperialistCountry-140320.pdf
@@Marxism_Today Very informative, thanks!
great video! 😁
Thanks Rul! :)
Love this channel
Thanks Percy! :)
Woah... Woah... Aren't all things produced for some use? Tomatoes that aren't used are generally considered WASTE. That's why many tomatoes are converted to dehydrated paste, this allows what would be wasted to be used in the off system. Waste is undesirable.
I will beg to differ. Waste is undesirable, only if you presuppose that nothing can be gained, only lost. (Zero sum fallacy) but since I can have more pies than I have now whether by buying them or baking them, we don't need to believe that life is a zero sum game. Waste is not undesirable, non-consensual impositions are undesirable.
Off topic, but can you make a video on your opinion on Saoradh?
for the algorithm 🌸
You might even considered money to be created for a particular use, for example, I saved up about three months worth of my wages in case something happens, I can afford to take some time off. You could say I bought some "security" with that purchase.
I'm a a conservative catholic who's not really a fan of both capitalism or socialism or communism but I just wanna see what a leftist has to say about these topics
You’re conservative… you’re supposed to love capitalism lol
Amazing video!
I have a question. If i was a physically-disabled person and i could do little, how was my position in a communist society?
Good video
One thing I will say though is that I don't think you focused enough on class here, I'm glad that you mentioned Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia despite 95% state ownership is in fact capitalist, state capitalist, but what matters here is which class the economy serves, in Saudi Arabia Post-WW2 there was an oil boom and the former feudalists shifted the economy to benefit themselves and made the state act like a corporation for the interests of this small ruling minority, Saudi Arabia is capitalist because despite not having the anarchy of production or private ownership dominate, the economy serves a ruling comprador elite rather than the working people who create that wealth.
Compare this to say China which functionally is state capitalist since the reforms of the late 90s and early 00s due to revisionist attempts to dismantle the proletarian structure, however as China has a dictatorship of the proletariat still intact, they were able to fight back against revisionism within the party where the USSR had failed to do so thanks to the cultural revolutions influence, as the CPC still rule and the economy of China serves the people through the PDD (DOTP), China cannot be called capitalist as the anarchy of production does not dominate the economy, private ownership of the means of production is not dominant (although the capitalist mode of production is strong), but it also cannot be called socialist (LSC) and it is because of that you get terms from Xi Jinping such as the "primary stage of socialism" and "socialist market economy" as well as in his New Years address "socialist modernisation will now begin" because this is explicitely refferring to the period of the USSR after the NEP but before it became socialist in 1936 when the DOTP had succeeded in abolishing antagonistic classes. (Xi Jinping is a socialist who has had to ally with nationalists who don't care about workers at all to purge the liberals who want to sell out to the west and there are definitely imperialist aspects of China's export of capital) - China centrist
The class nature is key when it comes to capitalism as it is the DOTB which enforces capital but the bourgeoisie itself is not needed for "capitalism" to be capitalism as "market socialism" and coops pushed by Vaush and other radliberals is just capitalism because even though there would be no bourgeoisie, the economy would still serve capital, the issues of anarchy of production and imperialism would not have been addressed. There are capitalist states where what seem like soc dems such as evo morales in bolivia and maduro in venezuela rule through parliaments, but their power does not come from the parliaments, because no change can ever come solely from a parliament, their power comes from the grassroots collectivos and proletarian power on the ground, soc dems here in the west always like to point to them as examples of successful social democracy in action but that couldn't be further from the truth and we saw the failure of the revisionist euro-communists who thought they could muck around in bourgeois parliaments, however these are socialists who are trying to move capitalist states to socialism with what they got building mass movements without causing a violent reaction of capital internationally and externally, this is also seen in nicaragua, angola, mozambique where revolutions had been won but communists had been left between a rock and a hard place and had to submit to CIA backed rebels and setup parliaments and recently in Nepal where due to pressure from lack of support in urban areas as well as british gorka special units, the maoists had to make peace.
Great comment! Thanks for the contribution
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Algorithm comment
Thanks Henry
I thought that capitalism was free market?
Au contraire, a true free market is impossible under capitalism
@@McHobotheBobo What system would you say all markets could be truly free?
The same system where unicorns and fairies exist
@@sierra1513 I keep saying. "Is a spook" There may be a definition for it, but so long as people aren't agreeing to use an elaboratable definition in good faith, the word is obfuscation.
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One thing America isn't a democracy it's a social republic but whatever.
I believed a lot of stupid junk too when I was 15 yrs old😅😅
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I build subdivisions for a living literal neighborhood I lay the pipe build the roads the foundations all of it except build the house. so my skills and labor 12 hour days for 19 years now are on par with some kid who just picks up trash and are the same as doctors. Makes sense I didn't see how that would ever collapse on its self and not work. I hope this channel is a parody cause I feel I'm getting dumber the more I watch.
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Why should “the people “ get a say in where I live??
What makes you think you can't have private property?
"the people" already get a say in where you live lol. You barely have any control over that under capitalism. You're just being paranoid about a system that would give you more control.
Correct, the people should get a say in where you live since you live in a society, moron. If you don’t want the people to get a voice or any real democracy, then you should live in the woods.
@@BenjaminWalburn When you say that, you're referring to the government. Or do you mean by having houses? Are you inferring that homeowners are physically harming you by not giving you their home? Cause there is a big difference between imposing something and not offering something. They aren't imposing anything the "vice" you blame them of committing is merely not offering housing. Have you considered that they might have laws over their heads imposing on them that stop them, or disincentivize them, from providing such things? Consider it from their shoes, does the government get in the way or make it worth the risk of supplying product? If you build houses at a loss, then stop all construction. It doesn't matter what economic system you are using, hemorrhaging resources especially vital ones is a sign your economic patient is gonna die.
This video could easily be called "What is Socialism in Latin America?"
You are aware that storng workers unions are able to form the workplace? and that the workers are able to vote in represantatives in those Workers unions?
Sure there are laws in some nations that make it intentionally harde to form Unions, but nothing stops you from bending together with your fellow workers and form a company selling your combined labor in a package to a capitalist increasing your negotiationpower by multiple magnitudes. and if you somehow manage to create a dominant position in the labormarket in the form that most workers are in said union or company of workers you could force standards and wages beyond what regulations and laws demand just because the means of productions are worthless if there is no worker doing the work.
During the times of Lenin and Marx democracy was for the rich. But today I'd argue that it is no longer the case. In most western nations Democracy is for the old, due to theire demographic size.
why is it when you show capitalism like “stock images” ig is what they’d be called, you depict them with weapons and food the things you like least, but your communism depiction is always clips of people working in a capitalist society?
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