Why Communism is a Failed Religion
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Sorry gang. I made a slip up when I said Voltaire let his children starve and liked being spanked. I misspoke and meant his rival Rousseau. Voltaire was widely seen as an incredibly intelligent, moral, witty and generally well liked person at the time, while Rousseau was the opposite.
Bro you good.
Ah, so your ad hominem targeted the wrong guy. Does that mean that Voltaire's arguments were right, then? Him being well liked and all...
Voltaire still sucked. He wasn’t a philosopher, historian or a proper political scientist. Dude was just a novelist. Not mention dude was a Mason which makes him a hypocrite since masonry operates a lot like an organized religion
What the fuck does being well liked have to do with anything lol? Being well liked by the nobility( the people who would actually write about these people) proves nothing. I don’t overly care about either but that just seems odd to me.
Will you make a video explaining your workflow when analyzing certain topics, especially those that you had no prior knowledge of?
I like communist jokes, since everyone gets it
I got one.
"Jesus isn't a communist, cuz He actually managed to feed people"
Dark humor is like food. Not everybody gets it.
@@sheldoniusRex Great joke, Comrade. Now go to Gulag.
Those jokes kill the audience every time.
@@2A_W3ND1G0 Do you know what’s missing in “G_lag?” It’s u
"Kill communism forever by supporting families, small business and religion"
Well now it's abundantly clear why precisely those factors are under relentless attack in our time.
@Mark Branham yeah lgbt is very educated. They dont know their own gender anymore, such intelligence
@Mark Branham Wake Up,Get Out Of The MarTrix(Marxian Matrix),Family Values IS Great.
this guy is crazy lmfao, he already got debunked.
Over the rest of this century there will be a mass self-inflicted die off of the Left due to no births combined with outright suicide. Meanwhile, the Right will expand slightly but the overall world population will be less than that of today by 2100.
That's PRECISELY what I was going to say. If you read radical M@rxist writings in the west today, they are very open about needing to "destroy the patriarchal nuclear family" to bring about their kind of society. They say similar things about traditional religions, and property ownership.
It's no secret, all hidden in plain sight.
It's no secret
> John Lennon's 'Imagine' is a retelling of the Communist Manifesto
I laud you for finally calling it out.
That song was written by a millionaire on a very expensive piano 😂
I thought that was common knowledge? It's got a good melody and chords, so I still like it, I just tune out the message
Check out the Ben Shapiro's take on it!
I knew that the first time I heard the song. Like it anyway, but reject the ideology utterly.
Yeah I’ve said this about this song too. It’s always made me cringe a little
I remember on an episode of Futurama, the crew become stranded on a planet whose society was basically a knock-off of ancient Egypt. Shortly after they arrive, the planet's Pharaoh dies and sensing opportunity, Bender pulls a scheme that makes him the new Pharaoh. His first public address included the line: "The cruelty of the old Pharaoh is now a thing of the past. Let a whole new wave of cruelty was over this lazy land!"
That scene gets a little less funny as time passes....
If I heard you correctly if women are in total control of the world is communism.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
damn thats good. what is that from?
Estas describiendo el regimen chavista de Venezuela, ellos se presentan a si mismos como patriotas y defensores del pueblo y de los pobres, pero al mismo tiempo viven una vida de lujo inaudita.
@@jamesshanks4346 God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology).
the karen, the liberal, the demcrap, the marxist.
@@zarach9459 é uma merda mano, eu moro na fronteira do Brasil e vejo a situação
But….but communism has never been properly tried yet!! We just need one more attempt and it’ll work perfectly!
BUT NEXT TIME we will try in perfect conditions, perfect humans and perfect environment. It will be paradise, and this is not a religion
@@DystopiaWithoutNeons Is there any system that won't inevitably collapse?
@@tuckerbugeater there isn’t a perfect system, but the capitalism exercised now will last much longer than communism ever could
@@tuckerbugeater Whatifalthists' "a study of decadence" is more specific on that topic, great watch if you haven't seen it
@@tuckerbugeater An interesting question, to be sure.
If I were a communist I'd be extremely pissed off at this. Bravo
Vaush, fredda, and xanderhal have already made videos, they are so pissed lmao
I know a dude who is drinking this coolaid, and the "women and feminine men" describe him to a T
@@jake_from_state7143good ol breathers lol
well there is a video made by some cry baby douche named Fredda titled why whatifalthist is a failed historian.
@@deadalkabob This guy only shows how dumb he actually is.
Judging by the inflammatory titles of responses to this video, I’m guessing you made the Tankies big mad with this one.
Nothing we haven't heard from nutcase before.
In principal, Purely Materialistic Ideologies fail because humanity needs more than just things and food to be happy.
I tried to reason with a delusional Scottish guy that maoism will fail the same way with communism, but he thrown the excuse that he went to China and said that China will be the new age. And that he lumped me up with a certain group because I had an anime pfp.
@@merafirewing6591 First of all, communist states often don't provide food, so how can you call it materialism when you don't have materials?
@@nathanseper8738 Well, the ideal is materialism. The highest form of human achievement under socialism is 'bread and land for all'. Unfortunately, this is a goal it never reached.
@@nathanseper8738 yeah. I told him that and he just wouldn't listen.
@@nathanseper8738 I'm pretty sure you misspelled capitalist states.
It’s basically a system in which miserable people fail to make their lives better so they make everyone else’s life miserable instead.
A very sore loser to boot.
funny you say this becuz the bigest revolutionaries are mostly allways midle class mao castro they all had family land ....
@@nonec384 Miserable people doesn’t mean having material means met but a lack of fulfillment in their life. They have a sense of purposelessness and are unhappy with their self.
@@tannerhagen774 miserable means your miserable be it becuz you starving or his barely haging alive or becuz youre depressed. so they lack of sence of poupose yet are whiling to die fighting a socialist revolution? aka a purpose
@@nonec384 exactly why they were more equal then the peasants. Communism isn't driven by compassion, it's driven by envy
On the topic of unions, an interesting thing that came onto my radar is that the Soviet Union spent a lot of money trying to covertly take over unions in the United States(by attempting to install communist aligned party members in control of said unions,) particularly with the entertainment industry, though they also did it for many other unions. It would then explain why these unions went communist, and it makes me wonder just how much of an effect it had on both here in the US, and the rest of the 1st world countries.
I used to think that "collective bargaining" was a pretty solid concept until I learned more about the individual who coined the term. Beatrice Webb.
“After every successful Masonic Revolution, since the first in 1789, down to and including the Spanish Revolution in 1931, the world soon began to hear of the country's entering upon the path of
‘progress’ by the introduction of ‘enlightened’ reforms, such as the separation of Church and State (or the putting of all religions on the same level), the legalisation of divorce, the secularisation of the schools, the suppression and banishment of religious orders and congregations, the glorification of Freemasonry, the nationalisation of property and the unrestrained licence of the Press.
[…]
Back in 1922, the Assembly of the Grand Lodge of France insisted that amongst the tasks lying ahead was "the creation of a European spirit…the formation of the United States of Europe, or rather the Federation of the World." On this side of the Iron Curtain and in the U.S.A. nations are being invited to give up their national sovereignty to enter a Federation in which those who control World-Masonry would certainly yield enormous power and in which the Authentic Teacher of the Moral Law would not be listened to. On the far side of the Iron Curtain, we see the continuation of what was stated by Mr. Oudendyke, the Dutch Minister at St. Petersburg, and published in the British White Paper of April, 1919. "Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately it is bound to spread in one form or another all over Europe and the whole world, as it is organised and worked by Jews who have no nationality and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things.”
In G. K.'s Weekly, February 4, 1937, Mr. Hilaire Belloc wrote: "As for anyone who does not know that the present revolutionary Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppressions of our deplorable Press." Anyone who carefully studies the rulers of Russia and of the satellite States Poland and Hungary for example, at the present day, will have the same conclusion forced upon him.
The opposition of all the branches of Freemasonry, French, Italian, Anglo-Saxon, etc., to the Catholic Church is essential and ineradicable, for it is the opposition of naturalism to the Supernatural Life of the Mystical Body of Christ and to the organisation of society based on the infinite dignity of that Life. In other words, it is the opposition of Anti-Christ to Christ. It will be well to stress this great truth, because of the statements one sometimes hears that English and American Freemasonry is quite different from Continental Freemasonry.
In the Encyclical Letter, Humanum Genus, Pope Leo XIII condemns the Naturalism of Freemasonry and not only makes no distinction between the different branches of Free-masonry, but teaches that no such distinction is to be made. He alludes to the controversy about God, or rather about the ancient landmark of the Great Architect of the Universe, between Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry and the French Grand Orient, but says that the fact that there has recently been a controversy about such a fundamental truth of the natural order as the existence of God is clear proof of the inevitably corrupting influence of Masonic Naturalism or Anti-Supernaturalism. The Pope does not exempt from condemnation the sections of Freemasonry that retain the ancient landmark.”
Foreword. “Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked.” Dillon, George F. New Edition. 5th September 1950.
The communists were successful in taking over the United States. Communism did not fall after the Cold War; communists went underground and simply pretended not to be communists anymore. Now, they are coming out proudly, especially during the month of Pride, the downfall of man (June). June is the sixth month, the number of the beast, repeated in a most unholy trinity of 6-6-6. Seven is the number of perfection and of God, of which there is only one, for whom there is only one true religion, the true religion of all, the religion of all the universe, the universal religion, the Catholic Religion. The word “Catholic” means universal. It’s the religion for everyone as we are all created by the one true God, the Most Holy Trinity.
It's easy to think about the individual when you have the biggest army in the world or your country is part of NATO.
@@felipejose8834 I'm a little confused on what this has to do about my post.
People are not exclusively good or evil. They’re both. Nature is not exclusive benevolent or catastrophic. Nature is both. Society is not exclusively security and tyranny. It’s both!
Mao was a librarian. In my opinion, he simply photocopied not Rousseau, but a book from his own land from before the 3rd century BCE, The Book of Lord Shang. It's all there in The Book of Lord Shang, a shockingly cynical book of totalitarian rule that makes anything written in Europe such as Machiavelli look like a children's fairytale. A sample: "Farming, trade and office are the three permanent functions in a state, and these three functions give rise to six parasitic functions, which are called: care for old age, living on others, beauty, love, ambition and virtuous conduct. If these six parasites find an attachment, there will be dismemberment ... If in a country there are the following ten evils: rites, music, odes, history, virtue, moral culture, filial piety, brotherly duty, integrity and sophistry, the ruler cannot make the people fight and dismemberment is inevitable; and this brings extinction in its train. If the country has not these ten things and the ruler can make the people fight, he will be so prosperous that he will attain supremacy." The Book of Lord Shang argues that anything we would consider a virtue has to be stamped out by the totalitarian government. China's philosophical legacy from the ancient past that is reverberating today has nothing to do with Abraham, it is their own philosophy of Legalism.
Interesting, you're clearly well read. Is there any actual link between Mao and that text?
@@ethanbrown7520 A brief web search has a book review of Jonathan Spence's biography Mao Zedong, and the book review claims "He [Spence] points out that, even at a young age, Mao's perception of governing foreshadowed much of how he eventually did rule: in an essay written about Lord Shang, a Qin dynasty minister, Mao argued that Shang's rule, considered by historians to be cruel, was just (""At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it"")."
Was Shang some sort of subhuman monster or something? Because he seems very evil.
@@comparatorclock No just your average ancient chinese philosophist and it kinda makes sense when you see how bloody the wars were during that time there.
@@comparatorclock Older Chinese and those of patriotic streaks, would agree with basic assessments and outlines like this. I remember seeing a video during their Covid lockdown of these old women doing a sort of ritual where they were simutaniously wishing for Covid to disappear from China and wishing Covid to spread as much as possible in the U.S. In the classical Chinese worldview, the strongest not only are the winners, they are also morally justified, and this arrogant attitude stems from a country that, historically, viewed itself as the dominate force of the world.
Seriously, we take our moral values that evolved to make modern day civil rights possible, dangerously for granted, imo, because here you have an industrialized nation that went in a vastly different direction.
I’m polish and just seeing the title I already love it. I wish people would listen more closely to the experience of people who lived through communism and understand why we despise it
the reason you dipise it was becuz you lived in post liberal east europe not comunist east europe , so you actualy hate captalism not socialism
Incorrect
@@dkoodziej2063 verry correct
@@nonec384 this is how communists work. Their system is so glorious that any complaints are answered with “that’s not real communism”. I was gaslit for years by them, so not surprising you are trying the same game
@@dkoodziej2063 so when i correct you by corrent the fact you hate captalism not socialism ,you try to gaslit me with some straw man , and say captalism is comunist?????
This reminds me about a company giving everyone equal pay. This leads to the workers that work heard to leave so they can get better paying jobs and the workers that don't work heard to stay because they don't worry about losing money.
no version of communism proposed equal pay, and Marx famously raged against the idea
@@emilianosintarias7337 Modern day communism tries to go for equality.
@@emilianosintarias7337 Then what dose Communism want?
@@tanimation7289 Communism wants the rightful pay of each position, so no person is exploited to extreme levels,according to their role.This is why the workers can decide on others pay,as they are paid as their work is valued by others,in other words,the wants of the society and those who provide it are more valued.
@@voidbruhrowski3156 When going far enough it will lead to the demand for equality.
Them: “communism failed cause the capitalists didn’t support them.
Us: “what?”
Why do they need support from Capitalists if they think it's going to replace it?
My grandmother was born in Beijing shortly before the Japanese invasion, and began working in a factory at 6 years old. Sometimes she tells me with a gleam in her eye about how her factory coworkers all heard that the Chinese Communist army had won the civil war as teenage girls and they all went out to greet them, as if they were religious martyrs delivering them from the Japanese imperialists and awful abusive child labour bosses. She has been a deeply convinced Communist ever since. She’s very old now, and I was born in Canada and appreciate my comfortable liberal-Democratic life, but sometimes I still walk in on her looking at pictures of Mao and Stalin on her ipad. Communism really does seem to be a religious-style source of spiritual stability and hope for her. It’s a little jarring to know just how truly different our upbringings were, under different civilizations. I’m no communist, but I found out a long time ago it’s useless to try and talk her out of it.
Excelently said.
The rules to our society and how our tools are made and work has changed.
We haven't.
Juan Donoso Cortes wrote about it in his "Essay on Liberalism Socialism And Catholicism" its because socialism is dogmatic just like religion and has a promise of a new heaven and earth.
My mon and her family fled south Vietnam and from communism. My mom and her family especially her dad when he served in south Vietnam military are disgusted by all these people who support pr think communism, fascism and socialism are great.
@@eidoneverchoosen1171 Vietnamese communism formed out of a cruel French imperialist reign. So it's easy to see how they adopted communism.
@@eidoneverchoosen1171aternal grandparents fled Vietnam too. My grandmother, is a super devout crazy Christian. My grandmother pushed my grandpa into making a boat to go across the pacific. My grandpa thought it was a bad idea and was willing to make peace with the communist and go on with life, but he ended up listening to my grandmother (Random fact but my grandpa was a really incompetent solider and at one point accidentally started a fire which almost burned an airfield) The left on boat with my family and other families fleeing the communist. The trip failed, they got robbed by pirates, and they ran out of food and water, the boat was leaking, and it turns out God was not going to protect them and they were going to die. Luckily, a ship rescue them.
My dad’s family had it easy. They were wealthier and had relatives in the US. They took the plane.
I like that you’re not just saying “communist bad” and leaving it at that. You’re actually dissecting the origins and execution of communism to explain how the world exists in a nuanced and very data driven but human way. You really are my favorite TH-camr
he's like the only political youtuber who doesn't really have an agenda
@@wolflaf911 That may just mean that his agenda matches your worldview.
@@wolflaf911 that’s because it’s almost impossible to not have an agenda when talking about politics unless you nothing major to gain from politics
Did he really have to say it? If you come of this video with anything but the idea that communism is bad idk what to tell you
Unlike food in communist regimes XD
I also read The Master and his Emissary, as well as Iain's new book the matter with things. The master and his Emissary is a completely ground breaking and reality bending book , totally visonary and incredible stuff. He is DEAD ON. Glad to find someone else who appreciates it.
God is the only Master. To call anyone else master is blasphemy. The devil often tries to get people to call himself master.
@@ochem123 yeah pretty much one of the underlying themes of the book, there is another book that goes into the neurophysiology and the mystical or religious experience, either through trauma, or just a natural experience, the activity in the brain during these experiences is dominated by the right hemisphere. The experience is temporary and you return to left-hemisphere dominated conscious thinking and abstraction, then tries to pick it apart, take ownership of it, the mistake is to assume that you've understood it and mastered it, its essentially the left hemisphere trying to take ownership and say 'I did that, I know that' when in reality it didn't and it doesn't even know how it happened. In extreme cases it leads to messiah complex where someone has this experience and believes them to be the reincarnation of jesus or god himself. He discusses in the book that Schizophrenia and OCD are closely related and left-hemisphere dominated disorders. Previous others like carl jung and william james 'variety of religious experience' have explored the same ideas These ideas aren't new obviously and are as old as history itself, including in the old testament, like in the story of cain and abel.... Of all human emotions, anger is the most asymmetrical that it is left-hemisphere dominated. it is like we have unconsciously mapped out our psychological architecture, which has physical parallels to the structure of the brain, which shouldn't so surprising. Even if reduced to low state of consciousness, like under sedation or near death, the left-hemisphere acts to 'grasp' things literally with the right hand will make pointless grasping motions, while the right-hemisphere will make exploratory motions with the left-hand. God cannot be grasped, to believe so would be insanity. and its essentially the luciferian post-modern marxist, hegelian-dialectic worldview. I don't quite feel comfortable lumping Gnosticism to this just because it has demiurge myth, to me the demiurge myth is just another prime example of this pattern of left and -right hemisphere view of reality the false god that believes its the master. It would be a very shallow understanding of Gnosticism, yet many youtube philosphers seem to influence eachother saying that its the belief system of the dialectics... (whatifalthist is pretty original but others will repeat his words verbatim) its a little bit deeper than that as its existed for thousands of years, and likely the followers of it throughout history wouldnt recognize eachother.. for deeper appreciation I would read Jung CW
@@moosehead4497 Interesting. Try this book and I’d be curious to see what you think. God bless you ♥️
“After every successful Masonic Revolution, since the first in 1789, down to and including the Spanish Revolution in 1931, the world soon began to hear of the country's entering upon the path of ‘progress’ by the introduction of ‘enlightened’ reforms, such as the separation of Church and State (or the putting of all religions on the same level), the legalisation of divorce, the secularisation of the schools, the suppression and banishment of religious orders and congregations, the glorification of Freemasonry, the nationalisation of property and the unrestrained licence of the Press.
[…]
Back in 1922, the Assembly of the Grand Lodge of France insisted that amongst the tasks lying ahead was "the creation of a European spirit…the formation of the United States of Europe, or rather the Federation of the World." On this side of the Iron Curtain and in the U.S.A. nations are being invited to give up their national sovereignty to enter a Federation in which those who control World-Masonry would certainly yield enormous power and in which the Authentic Teacher of the Moral Law would not be listened to. On the far side of the Iron Curtain, we see the continuation of what was stated by Mr. Oudendyke, the Dutch Minister at St. Petersburg, and published in the British White Paper of April, 1919. "Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately it is bound to spread in one form or another all over Europe and the whole world, as it is organised and worked by Jews who have no nationality and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things.”
In G. K.'s Weekly, February 4, 1937, Mr. Hilaire Belloc wrote: "As for anyone who does not know that the present revolutionary Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppressions of our deplorable Press." Anyone who carefully studies the rulers of Russia and of the satellite States Poland and Hungary for example, at the present day, will have the same conclusion forced upon him.
The opposition of all the branches of Freemasonry, French, Italian, Anglo-Saxon, etc., to the Catholic Church is essential and ineradicable, for it is the opposition of naturalism to the Supernatural Life of the Mystical Body of Christ and to the organisation of society based on the infinite dignity of that Life. In other words, it is the opposition of Anti-Christ to Christ. It will be well to stress this great truth, because of the statements one sometimes hears that English and American Freemasonry is quite different from Continental Freemasonry.
In the Encyclical Letter, Humanum Genus, Pope Leo XIII condemns the Naturalism of Freemasonry and not only makes no distinction between the different branches of Free-masonry, but teaches that no such distinction is to be made. He alludes to the controversy about God, or rather about the ancient landmark of the Great Architect of the Universe, between Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry and the French Grand Orient, but says that the fact that there has recently been a controversy about such a fundamental truth of the natural order as the existence of God is clear proof of the inevitably corrupting influence of Masonic Naturalism or Anti-Supernaturalism. The Pope does not exempt from condemnation the sections of Freemasonry that retain the ancient landmark.”
Foreword. “Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked.” Dillon, George F. New Edition. 5th September 1950.
Yeah, I don’t get it. Somehow the typically rational, practical, realistic, analytical left brain is associated with communism and the inability to arrive at truth, yet these are essentially masculine traits? Meanwhile, the creative, nurturing, holistic, intuitive right brain, i.e. the female brain, is where the big truths can be found and presumably is where solutions to an effective ordering of society can be found? This seems somehow counter to the main ideas expressed in the rest of the video.
@@ochem123 Stop falling for the intellectual chew toys. Yes the Masons exist. No they are not the primary threat. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Stop peering into the shadows, just pound the Enemy in the face.
A 50 minute video that felt like a 10 minute video. You’re just so incredibly engaging to listen to
incredible narrator, and very interesting topics
He did forget to include what I think is the real reason that communism will ALWAYS fail. In my opinion the most difficult human attribute to overcome (that’s also present in animals) is LAZINESS! Every human society to ever exist has always been, and always will be, plagued with idle freeloaders that will happily game the system to keep from contributing to said society. We need to go back to “those whom will not work, will not eat”. Not to be confused with those whom cannot work.
Before anyone tries to complain about the title, that was a poll vote.
Poll where?
The community tap, @@VaetanThought
A communist is a good person for believing the correct politics. Real people are good for helping others, personally.
Good point.
I don't see why people think socialism is a failure. Each and every time it's tried, the socialists promise to liquidate the capitalists and liberate the working classes. Then they rob the capitalists, enslave the workers and make themselves into a hereditary aristocracy. Socialism is literally the most successful form of crime during the 20th century, and is still going strong.. It consistently makes socialists filthy rich.
Yuppers why I stopped being one none of them gave money to beggers or charity boxes unless it was a PR thing. They weren't making a impose decision to help someone the way I do. I thank God and Christ for many things helping me leave socialism an become libertarian or anarchist is a big one.
Social egalitarianism only brings riot and ruin.
@@long-hair-dont-care88. that’s because it’s value system runs of pr and is held up by shame. It sounds great initially because it is idealistic and depends on everyone being of a high moral standard which sadly isn’t feasible, hence why it so easily devolves into power plays by others where people take resources from others. Because they are inherently anti religious they don’t get that structure from a similar religion like Christianity in a sense without an authority like a god or hope for an afterlife to be that backbone of their moral system. That’s why I don’t hate them, they are us and we are them just with a different worldview but of like kind.
So many good points in this video. My favorite being that communists will never admit wrongdoing or failure because they seriously believe they are righteous in their beliefs and everyone else is just wrong or blind to it. Much like a religion. More specifically, the whole failure of the Soviet Union, and the blame on the West and/or "it wasn't real communism". Bottom line is the Soviet Union had the population, the resources, and the means to dominate the world, and they didn't. They collapsed from within and every rational person knows this. Beyond even the economics of a communist system just flat out not working, another huge problem is the power vacuum it creates. Just as with the French Revolution, you eliminate all the elites and give "power to the people", then who rules? A new set of elites, that is more often than not much more tyrannical than the former set that got eliminated. A system simply cannot be a 100% egalitarian system with everything including wealth, resources, and power distributed equally...there will ALWAYS be opportunists who will seize more of the power, and more of the wealth and resources, and oppress the rest.
Bottom line they were decades behind the most advanced countries in terms of technology, industrialization, GDP per Capita and life expectancy .. but that's neither here nor there as far as "it wasn't real communism." You're not actually dealing with that point, you're just talking about how much potential Russia had .. and they did grow past Britain and France, Germany and become the #2 for awhile. But that has nothing to do with "communism," which is some stage that was supposed to come *after* they first established "socialism" in Russia securely .. none of the revolutionaries thought they were creating a communist country, and marks and the other lefties were certainly turning in their graves, so you do the math :)
You raise some good points, the technology aspect is not entirely correct, as in they did send the first man into space, and they were toe to toe with the U.S. in terms of nuclear capabilities, but yes civilian technology was way behind the West of you look at things like automobiles and personal tech, but that was all a result of them pouring all their resources into their military and beating the U.S. at all costs as a show of power. They were indeed the 2nd superpower of the world for a time, though be it briefly in the grand scheme. What would be interesting to me would to see an alternate history where Russia embraced Western liberal ideals early on and stuck with it, because whether you are talking the Czarist days, or the Soviet Union days, and beyond the collapse to the Russian Federation days, it hasn't ever really been a free liberal country the likes of Great Britain, U.S., or the inventors of Western liberalism themselves, the Dutch. Would they have become dominant and stayed that way? Interesting to ponder. Interesting situation in modern times is the actual not-really-communist, communist China, who have more of an oligarchical crony capitalist system and are poised to take over as the #1 world superpower. The Soviets certainly had the Oligarchy, but the capitalism not so much. But let's be real here, who doesn't have some degree of oligarchy...the United States certainly does...just look how 2 families have basically dominated the political landscape for 3+ decades now (Bushes and Clintons), then you have people like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, etc, akin to the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Carnegies of yore. And when it comes down to it, who is REALLY pulling the strings?
Say the US never issued sanctions against Cuba and North Korea how would things turn out? This argument gets brought up a lot with no clear path.
@@blogdesign7126 that's a good question .. or with Korea, if they had never slaughtered the communist party members in South Korea and tried to lock the place down in the first place. If the "great powers" had acted differently the Korean war could have been avoided, or maybe less violent.
-- interesting side note, North Korea did much better than South Korea for years after the war. Altho the people of Korea were still violently divided, into "north" and "south" ..
Atheists became what they hated, and far worse than the predecessors. Imagine my shock.
Whatifalthist has a lot of great content, but he is young, naive, and gets a lot of stuff wrong.
I never lived in the communist era of my country of Czechia, but I can still feel the scars it brought to us.
Before communism, Czech products were seen as high quality, our cars were very competetive and just the sheer potential of our uranium mines could have made us a hub for everything nuclear in Europe.
After communism, you can see barely any Czech made products except for glass products, our cars are a mediocre offshoot of Volkswagen at best and all our uranium was stolen by the Soviets.
The absolute destruction brought on by communism can never heal, it never will be healed and will remain a tragedy for our nation.
It will heal, it will just take a long time, and the scars will always remain.
@@Kaiserboo1871 True, I shouldnt be so pesimistic about it.
And you are success story after communism. things are bad in Hungary,Serbia , Bosnia and other all ex-communist countries.
CZ firearms make some quality products! I hope things get better.
what? this is just untrue. first of all the reason the czechs lost their car industry is because a fucking world war happened. how stupid are you? Its almost as if recovering from a genocidal 5 year war where you were bombed into the stone age is going to destroy your car industry, jesus christ.
The moderates seem to be those with the best mental health according to your table, not the most religious. Great video, you get the most things very accurate!
Yes if you talk to the far right they are mentally broken too!
@@blogdesign7126 define 'far right'
@@thehtehteotheithe Anything slightly right of Stalin lol
I agree with a lot of what was said about Marx being a product of his time. Marx's ideology and overall conclusions made sense at the time of a lot of extreme social change.
I'm from Romania, my great grandfather was born in 1925, Romania became communist in 1945. He told me that in the kingdom years there were shops, food and his father would be able to buy him whatever he wanted: sweets, toys, despite being from a poor peasant family. All of this changed in 1945 when the communist came. Not only you didn't have enough money to buy food and objects anymore, but food and objects became scarce, and the previous shops were now closed, state owned, and on shortage almost every single time. He lived an economic life in 1925 - 1945 similar to how I live today, you also had more freedom, not as much freedom as today, but certainly beat the communist years.
During communist times in Romania they had a massive pr campaign to re-use needles. The nation also had a majority of the population leaving on bearly any food despite this it had incredibly firtile soil and was a large food exporter in the warsaw pact. It had the lowest srandert of living in europe second only to albania. As a Romanian my self while the government isn't perfect, the growth in the last 30 years has been enormous.
Of course you wouldn't have enough money to buy food on 1945 considering WW2 would have just ended.
Yeah, those good ol times of genocide with nazis... who wouldnt miss that.
@@dridentity1642 exhibit A of what he said, communists never have a sense of responsibility and it’s never their regime’s fault.
Life expectancy is so high, you could talk to your great grandfather? Only one of my grandparents is alive today, and I don't think any of my great grandparents are alive.
Imagine having the most fertile lands in the world and still failing to adequately feed everyone
Resources are scarce, aren't they?
Production and distribution are two very different problems. The former is a solved economic problem; the latter is impossible to solve given the existence of dependent people with selfish caretakers (whether that be a child with a drunk father or a populace addicted to government largess).
Prove it.
imagine having enough food to feed the worlds population and just throwing 1/2 of it away cuz you cant sell it for high enough. yeah capitalism is sooooo great at feeding people
@@astonersteve5310 The issue isn't capitalism. There are a lot of stores that would gladly donate the food they couldn't sell in time if not for regulations preventing them from doing so.
We say it’s never worked, but I fully believe that it didn’t fail. It did exactly what it was supposed to do. Destroy, Dominate, and Degrade societies. The literal road to Hell paved with good intentions.
You are profoundly misguided. I would love to see you try to define communism.
@@Cienfuegos.Can you?
@@KawaiiCanadafreememes It’s probably I’ll advised to take you seriously to begin with, given your name and profile picture, but I will indulge. Communism is an ideology which seeks to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless society. It’s quite simple.
@@Cienfuegos.Class is an emergent property of individuals' freedom of association as well as their differences. You cannot do away with such a thing without fundamentally destroying how humans see and interact with the world.
@@nameTBA Class is defined by one’s relation to the means of production, not some vague notion of “freedom of association.” In a classless society, each person will have agency over the fruits of their own labor and nobody else’s.
Wow. This is really interesting and well thought out. Makes a lot of sense to me.
Communism asked the rigth questions, but provided the wrong answers.
And just like religious faith, it simply assumed it was right.
Lenin and Stalin and China were all revisionists. George Orwell's books are great depictions of this. The Soviets and China have never been Communist though.
@@johnnnyjr8936 money and power corrupts the soul. Capitalist, communist, they both have people taking advantage of the system, which ruins it for everybody.
@@spaulding304 There is actually truth to that. That's the reason why communism has never occured. Because historically people take advantage and revise the goals of the revolution and then tell the masses "(Something clearly state Capitalism) proves we've done a Socialism comrades. :D Socialismz confirmed!" That's why Orwell wrote Animal farm, the Pigs took advantage of the masses. This is why Anarcho Communism is probably the best idea, because it doesn't say less government. OR more of it. It simply defines an economic system, but then delegates the powers to the personal level. For example Union blocks or other workers collectives. In China and Russia the second the "Communists" took power, they killed the Anarchists, they killed Unionists, and they started doing State Capitalism.
@@spaulding304 At least Capitalist know how to gain what they earned.
Greatest segment intro ever: “It’s pretty remarkable to see how Communism went from being the writings of some broke nerd to being a mass religion…”
Talk is for losers and fools: just make it happen.
@@georgepugh9863 first of all, that’s a smoothbrain take that isn’t supported by history at all. Secondly, what does that response even have to do with what I said?
@@kevinmarrett9532 You are a goon, show me, it had nothing as you are bloateer.
@@frentz7 I learned about Communism by living in a Communist country, and he's right.
@@OscarSchneegans oh he's all kinds of wrong lol .. just watch the first few minutes
Because it's not a religion it's a political and social construct. Religion was seen as a power to chain the masses.
Literally what communism is….
You mean like how Communism has been used every time it’s been tried?
A rich college educated man uses communism to get the poor people to kill the existing aristocracy then either he or another rich college educated man who killed him forms a new aristocracy from their buddies that only succeed in making a tyranny and killing a lot of people.
I’m just saying that communism is flawed, but a sprinkle of communism, capitalism, democracy, and empathy is key
Cuba is such a shining example that people are willing to swim from the tip of Florida to get on the island.
Not sure how well this quote applies, but the title immediately reminded me of:
"Failed prophecies are good for business."
I took a first-year sociology course as one of my art electives during my bachelor's (a bad mistake), and I found the material to be contradicting. From the textbook sociology used to be a cool field, something similar to anthropology, but over time it was warped by academics to justify things like "activist research is to conduct research with an initial bias and then find evidence of why your bias is correct". Most of the course just taught communism, who oppresses who, and how fighting for your opinions is what matters. Being in hardcore STEM, I absolutely hated that course. Now here's a funny story...the prof asked us to post online about our responses to the question "Do women have an innate advantage/or have a unique perspective when conducting research?". Me being a material chemist, and all my classes were 50/50 male/female, I said "No, since the world doesn't care if you're a man or woman. Conducting research entirely depends on your knowledge and research skills. If one is to assume this, then they are conducting research with a bias". Then one of my classmates called me a "misogynistic pig" since I challenged her opinion. The prof then had to step in and scold her, but afterward she gave me a very passive-aggressive comment saying that STEM research also has a bias. I could imagine she was gritting her teeth while saying that since she likely agreed with the person who insulted me lol. Either way, the field of sociology is now just used to indoctrinate people, it feels very culty.
dang its funny but at the same time really scary how much power these delusional people are starting to have
I majored in Sociology, just for my 2 year degree (then went into the workforce), and it was a tough time. My first prof taught it as an objective way of looking at the world, and was funny and balanced, and that's what kept me going. But every other prof and course, while interesting, was full of the woke propaganda, to the point where I started feeling guilt and shame over being a white man.
Ironically, that's what turned me away from the SJW cult, because I didn't want to embrace an ideology that made me feel bad just for being born. I think studying Sociology helped me a quite a bit though, because you see where the lefties are coming from, and you see the gaps in their logic. That's where I first was taught that stats can say anything you want them to, if you move the parameters around enough.
@@VegaTakeOver Agreed. Luckily my field has been spared, but my friend who's in law school noticed it's happening in his field. Although he complains about the school teaching students to always be politically correct
@@shorewall You saw it too? It's sad that it kind of devolves into woke propaganda. Like I thought it would be about cool human social behaviour. But yeah, they tend to have common logical flaws.
Also, about feeling shamed for being a man, I've felt that too. It's not a fun time to be a man right now. It's tough, but we gotta push through it.
I think you have a good point, and your teacher has a good point as well.
Atoms don't care if you are male or female, they give the same response
However, a people you interview might view you differently based on whether you are male or female, and give different responses.
Your lived experience is different under male or female social norms, like people living in another country.
Math, colors and shapes don't change that much, same for everyone
The "You must not understand this" because you didn't immediately accept it is very much the philosophy Christian missionaries had in the age of exploration. They explained the gospel to the natives. They said something like "That's cool and all, but we like what we have." The missionaries concluded they needed to explain it again because Jesus is cool--if the natives understood Jesus right, they'd obviously accept Him. So they did and the natives still said "Thanks but we'll pass." The missionaries and Westerners concluded the natives were thus ignorant, stupid savages because they _couldn't_ understand this--because again, if they understood it, they would certainly adopt Christianity!
you're talking out of your ass
The natives where cannibals, so they where savages in a sense. In a darwinistic view, christianity far surpassed them, so, yes, they where sevages and, compared to the europeans, less fit, otherwise we all would be living in a native-american society right now.
Thank you for this 🙏 it, and your video about gnosticism and communism spurred me into understanding more the current use of gnostic belief in today’s society
His videos are more akin to making things up on the fly. He did not even read any communist theory. Do you want to take advice on fascism from someone who thinks fascism is when opression happens, without knowing its background and various definitions? No. Neither would I take history lessons from someone, who quit studying history out of petty emotional reasons.
Yes, modern atheism is totally compatible with ancient spiritualism. Karl Marx, John the Baptist and Yeshua were all cut from the same cloth.
the people behind the soviet union and the elites in general are a different branch of gnosticism, not the original gnosticism, i recommend the gnosticism subreddit
@@doom5895 gnostic atheists? That's a contradiction. Monks with a hard-on for bureaucratic dictatorship, not afraid to use violence to change a world that is considered fundamentally evil, likened to a spiritual prison. Humanist materialist who's official doctrine says there is no God, no spirit/soul and that consciousness is an emergent property of the complex arrangements of matter.
Nearly every bit of the point of gnostic thinking is absent from dialectical materialism. The whole point is spiritual enlightenment and if they were truly "gnostic" they wouldn't have lived their lives as they did. Faustian gnostics, lol.
If Marx were a gnostic he would have never believed he could transform the world into a utopia, by force nonetheless. Did Buddha, Yeshua, or Confucius use violence to do what they did? You can't force enlightenment on anyone, especially not by gunpoint. Gnostics were typically martyred, annihilated. If they thought like Marx then it would have been them doing the annihilating. Surely you can see just how ethically incompatible these 2 ideas are.
I am glad you pointed out the song "Imagine". I am sad how many people believed in what that song strives for humanity, Lennon as Marx was a deadbeat dad (Julian Lennon even said he spent more time with Paul than John) and also very difficult to work with and we are holding these people as our moral guidance?
Agree. It describes a bleak, tepid, uninspiring, stifling existence.
Well you could do worse, the religious right-wing has failed us magnificently for all of history
@@velocitor3792 It's nice to see others who think this, I would absolutely hate to live in the world described in "Imagine". It's anti-reality and anti-human nature in a bad way.
@@xx_amongus_xx6987 as someone who used to be crazy like that and think that way during my depression and thought imagine is a masterpiece
It's basically that we viewed real world as horrible so the only possible hope is escapism to an utopia that exactly because it's unreal and a fantasy can be potentially great and idyllic because everything associated within reality can't be good
@@velocitor3792 when you have the crazy communist or happiness not based on spirituality and consciousness but happiness based on quantifiable metrics kind of mindset
Imagine is an ideal world that looks like the Pokémon world but there's no Pokémon battles no gyms badges to collect
Everyone has the same Pokémons
One of the things about Marx that is surprisingly rarely taken into account, both by his followers and critics, is essential to understanding his work: His temperament.
Marx was known for being an extraordinarily angry person, he reacted with shouts and insults to anyone who contradicted him, he liked to maintain control over the people around him: His wife Jenny left letters where, frightened and in pain, she recorded Marx's frequent outbursts of anger and how he used to throw the phrase "I'm going to annihilate him!" when someone made him angry. He also liked to live on money that wasn't his: When his father and brothers got tired of supporting him, he in Engels someone to push for money until he decided to give Marx a lifetime pension.
He loved poetry, and from a young age his poems are full of images about the destruction of the world and the revenge of the fallen. Poetic images such as “capital sucks the work of the living like a vampire” or "The bells toll for the capital" pervade his “scientific” work and it is what most excites those who admire him.
Marx was an envious, resentful, angry and extraordinarily controlling person... Just like the systems that his work inspired.
I always find ironic that Marx opposed inheritance in his book yet he always lived off it , also the fact that the knows how work should be done despite never having worked a single day of his life lol
So quick summary
> Marx was the first Twitter user
I always found it funny that Marx would create an ideology centred around redistribution of wealth when he himself never earned any.
@@peterg76yt The damn riches took his wages.
@@peterg76yt that's not ironic. It's inevitable.
It sounds like from your perspective, Communism reflects Nietzsche's slave morality. It really was a religion for many people, including the intellectuals of the 20th century who were still communists (either that or a way to cling to status)
Reading the comments here is hilarious, most people here have just watched Freda’s video and haven’t even brought any of his arguments here to actually start a proper debate and just solely rely on “Lol another TH-camr owned you so I’m right and you’re wrong”. I’m here for a intellectually honest conversation and not communists circlejerking about another wannabe Hakim’s hitpiece on someone. If you’re a communist here and want to have an actual discussion, I’d be more than pleased to do so in the thread below, but acting like you’ve enlighten yourself because someone supports your views about a content creator you don’t like only proves you’re sheep who move with the heard.
there isnt really much to debate to this video, a lot of the sense of "yeah, this video is right" comes from the narrative he creates and not from facts. I wont deny that there are some people who just circlejerk, i talk to a lot of leftwing people, because that my political environment, and 80% of them dont hace a concrete idea of what they want or what they even think, they just want what they think is morally right. On the other side, when i talk to right wing people, mostly in college, I see that they dont have a real perception of the reality our society and capitalism create. We live in a society of fake news and people who dont want to know the truth, they want to feel they are the winners in a debate.
I'm not for communism, but I am for heavy government intervention in markets with in-elastic demand like shelter, work, medicine and providing services that grow the tax base like infrastructure and education. Strong unions, government provided basic necessities, as little social-intervention as possible (while maintaining the necessary civility to upkeep the supply chain), and steeply increasing taxes on passive income, and taxing unrealized gains over certain amounts, as well as restructuring the tax code to be based on ratios as opposed to dollar amounts that are ever changing due to inflation. Capitalists still operate like we haven't discovered assembly lines or fertilizer, and still have limitless land for people to expand onto for free.
Also, Marx's labor theory of value is used by capitalists to understand operating costs. There are many of Marx's economic theories capitalists use to understand the economy. It's funny people always talk about morality but marx was pretty focused on sociology, economics and logistics management and capacity, very dry fields.
I always wondered why so many early Communists were Jewish. I always just chalked it up to being a coincidence and left it at that while racists have used it for decades to justify their antisemitism.
But I never had a good reason until this videos explained the world secular Jews lived in back at the turn of the century. They left their Jewish communities and couldn’t join the rest of society so they had no choice but come together and build their own new society based around atheism and secularism and a near complete rejection of the western civilization which rejected them
This has honestly changed my entire view of history
They wanted to oppress the goyim in a more subversive way.
This actually provided me with an answer that plagued me for a while and made me uncomfortable to ponder.
I couldn’t for the life of me understand why a lot of American Jews embrace and finance woke ideologies. Those racists were really good at pointing out how almost every Pro-Woke, Anti-White article or paper was written by someone named or someone married to a “Goldstein”. They also pointed out how the media that produces the most pro-woke content was owned by Jews as well.
Those racists claim that their support for woke ideology is rooted in Jewish genetic makeup and the entire Jewish race is corrupted because of it. But I knew this wasn’t true. There are plenty of anti-woke Jews who love this country and it’s culture.
Now I have the answer.
The secular Jews, having been rejected by the countries they lived in and shunned by the religious community they left behind, embraced Marxism to cope with the loneliness. Once the Nazis came to power, many of these secular Marxist Jews fled Europe and set up shop in American universities where they silently continued to espouse Marxism and made it a core component of their community.
Enter the 1960s, religiosity is collapsing in the youth. The Jewish youth has embraced secularism. Rather then forming a new community, these secular Jews entered the pre-existing secular Jewish community once that was built and maintained by Marxists once they entered college.
These radicalized Marxist jews then filter out into the work force becoming thoroughly entrenched within it.
After communism fell, these same secular jews embraced woke ideology to cope with communism failing.
Now they are in positions of power and influence (Bankers, Boards of Investors, political office, media owners, HR departments) so they can now spread their ideology to the masses.
@@Kaiserboo1871 no, it's true. Don't be so naive.
You just blew my mind
...good gods this explains why antisemitism is discouraged especially hard compared to other forms of ethnic discrimination.... 😨
21:22 "Do your duty. You are not special. You exist in a society with roles, which stretches back into history and into the future. The world is complicated and you can't know the answer to everything."
This needs to be a motivational poster.
The concept of duty does need reviving.
@@amh9494 Duty is used by the rulers to enslave others. If society owes me nothing then I owe society nothing.
I owe family and my closest friends loyalty.
Work, consume, obey, die.
@@Parapon3ra Sure, if that's the point of view you insist upon. With a more positive frame of mind, that quote can be all kinds of inspirational and motivational, however.
@@countvronsky4025 he talks as of there's some other secret way that is so much more fulfilling lol
My biggest critique would be that you should have spent less time quoting and sourcing from Anti-Communist literature, and spent more time dissecting and critiquing primary-source Communist literature instead (not pro-Communist material, necessarily, but I don’t see Marx or Engels on your source list, for example). If this were a master’s thesis or academic work, then you would want more primary sources, rather than relying mainly on the analyses of others. I think if you were to return to this topic in a year or so, you could present a much stronger argument from facts, rather than an argument from ideology (which is what I see being the case here with most of your points). This would also help focus your argument a bit more; as it stands, the video meanders a bit in the middle.
That being said, I liked how you took an interdisciplinary approach to the subject. I think with more polish, a better sourcing methodology, and a more straightforward structure, this could be one of the better videos on the subject on this platform.
Finally a good critique of the video, it’s almost impossible now that Fredda his band of tanktards have started circlejerking about how “bad” this video is.
I feel that the "Open Vision" had been further amplified by movies such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe which ran from 2008 to 2019 and may have made people think they can be a "hero" and take down the "oppressors".
When I studied in Germany I experienced the difference between masculine and feminine political philosophy first hand. During the first election, where our class was able to participate, we talked about who we would vote for and it turned out that most of the guys voted conservative or libertarian, while most of the girls voted social-democrat or socialist.
If only men voted the Republicans would win every election and if only women voted the Democrats would win every election in America, based on statistics.
Yeah in my uni accom we all did a political test and the girls were all far left while the guys were centre left or centre right
there is propably also the fact that women are litteraly sheep on average and base their opinions around what is the dominant ideology in society.
(we see it in russia, turkey and so on)
Women, without knowing it, are like mothers: they take food from the father and give it to the children.
Men know that to get food, they need to best other men for cash
@@civilengineer3349 And yet we allow women to vote...
I remember hearing someone say that history can’t be periodic/cyclical because people who say it is end up stretching definitions to get it to fit their idea of cycles. However, I think they’re trying to say that “because it isn’t exactly perfect you’re wrong,” and they think for something to be periodic, it has to repeat the exact same way in the exact same amount of time, akin to a sinusoidal plot. History still operates in cycles, even if they aren’t perfectly periodic or transpire the exact same way.
You don't need to strech anything to prove that in the same space you have exchange of Sumerians>Akkadians>Assyrians>Medes>Persians>Macedonians>Parthians>Romans>Persians>Arabs>Turks etc
And every time you see evidence of decline among a box of 10 items with every decline having at least 6 of those present. Sure, one empire or civilization lasts 200 years, another 1000 years but you always see the same thing happen.
I don’t remember who said it but it goes history doesn’t repeat it rhymes
If it's never perfect then you can't predict empirically what would actually come back in the cycle. If it's not perfect it means there is some logical process to be done, but you can't just look at the surficial facts and make predictions saying "it will be the same this time". History rhymes, it has logical reasons to repeat sometimes, but in on itself it can't be used to say amything specific would repeat.
History may not repeat, but it surely rhymes.
I think the cyclical hypothesis is in this funny middle ground where there's enough correlation that you have to say there is some insight there, but the parallels are loose enough that there's no predictive power to it.
33:15 "Abdication of responsibility" is absolutely something I saw in my 5 years living in China. It's hard to define it as communist - it's far more state capitalist or even fascist in its structure and ideology - but every single person passed the buck. Until the buck reached the top, then they'd blame someone low-down in the hierarchy and that's the scapegoat to be stoned to death.
State capitalism doesn't exist so it's pretty much impossible to define anything as being a part of it.
It's impossible to define it as communist
You completely hit the nail on the head. You said what I've been saying for years about communism conflating human nature with capitalism and claiming that replacing capitalism will therefor 'fix' the uncomfortable parts of the human condition
Saying "capitalism is human nature" is the stupidest thing I have ever heard, Jesus Christ...
Such a playful critique of communism that I found strange yet due to its quality very rewarding, appreciate it. I’ve been reading Orlando Figes and I think this quote supplements the video:
“The ideas imported from the West (as nearly all ideas in Russia were) tended to become frozen into abstract dogmas once the Russian intelligentsia took them up. Whereas in Europe new ideas were forced to compete against other doctrines and attitudes, with the result that people tended towards healthy skepticism about claims to absolute truth, and a climate of pluralism developed.”
Whenever I talk to a fanatic I’m amazed by how they appear to be frozen in the past. Take a revolutionary and they appear to be in 1917, take a critical race theorist/political correct/social justice warrior and they are stuck in the 1960’s. A most curious phenomenon that perhaps highlights their intellectual inflexibility to deal with any kind of critique or adaptation to new contextual circumstances.
I sometimes wonder if certain people are stuck in a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder where they are obsessed with whatever was the first injustice or real-world complexity that that they learned about in childhood, and spend their whole lives fighting for something that ceased to be an issue before they even became adults. And the people passionate about Marxist redistribution of wealth seem to still think Santa Claus is real.
The red scare is clearly still alive today, and that was about crushing ideas so they could not compete, and it started right around the time you say communists are stuck in. Communism has never been treated with intellectual honesty by anyone who gains from capitalist hierarchy, so they’ve attempted to suppress it anywhere, such as installing Pinochet when a socialist was ELECTED in Chile. Socialism is not antithetical to democracy just because Marx didn’t explicitly write in those terms. But when the two meet, they are always crushed in the cradle by capitalist nations and institutions
As a philosophy, Marxism-Leninism is not supposed to be dogmatic in nature. Historic material conditions are obviously not identical to today. The solutions of yesterday were for yesterday's problems, not today. That inflexibility was warned against. I'd argue it's a product of bad, incomplete theory. That doesn't make it a religion.
80% of this is him guessing or assuming what Communist think and feel. Even said most people who believe in it haven feminine mentalities. No real basis just nonsense rambling
@@athsumerius6865 it's the undying and irrational loyalty to this "bad or incomplete theory" in the face of overwhelming evidence, that makes it a religion in 2023
As a Catholic, this was obvious. I haven't watched the video yet, but a cursory glance at the philosophers Marx and Engels built off of, and the many many similarities between communist ideals and german catholic philosophy of the era makes this even more obvious.
Gotta read On the "Communists" and their lies by Martin Luther ;)
its actually based on Gnostic philosophy.
Marx was Jewish and Engels protestant...
Oh shut up you. If it were for Christians we'd all be communists but replace communist with Jesus
what german catholic philosophy are you referring to
I think the problem with calling Communism a religion is actually that in intales more than that, it is not just a way of thinking and living, it is also a monetary system.
I think the word you are looking or is DIn, or deen
Or Judaism… most religions outside of christianity operate spiritually, legally, politically, and economically. Communism is a cult religion
“American constitution… lasted without interruption.” Uhhh, Abraham Lincoln shredded the constitution my dude
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As someone from Hungary,a former Eastern Bloc country that is now an EU member, I can tell you that communism almost made my country bankrupt in the 80s and did a lot of damage to our economy. Before WW2 and communism, Hungary was a pretty big manufacturer of electronics, especially radios. We produced 40 percent of all radios globally in the 1930s. Those radios had the brand name of Orion. We should be a leader in electronics, but communism happened, which made products that couldn’t compete worldwide, because there were no competition. Now we are nowhere in the electronics industry globally. If communism hadn’t happened, Hungary would be similar to Japan.
I am from Albania, an ex-communist country as well, and let me tell you, although there is still corruption to this day, we are way better than when we were during communism, I feel sad for people that think that communism is the solution to today's problems or people that have nostalgia for that time
Ight now your going a bit far saying it would be Japan
@@edvinparmeza1298People who want communism think they are the ones who will rule over it.
@@edvinparmeza1298 Hoxha was one of the most insane and paranoid dictators of all time
it wouldnt this was in part becuz the west wouldnt trade with the soviet block so no cooperation (cooperation beinf more important than competition )with the rest of the world , and the becuz it wasnt compatible before anyway hungry was destroyed in ww2 usa took the market moved factories to countries with cheap larbor like japan
Every day there's a new Whatifalthist video is a good day.
"Everywhere besides the US was falling apart and struggling."
... You're aware that there were several wars and political struggles present between 1810-1890, right?
Native wars and frontier Mormon skirmishes were trifling matters at the scales we are considering that they're practically incidental and largely just the byproduct of an overmatch being so extreme as to be unstoppable. It's not comparable to the absolutely intense dueling states free for all in the old world. Even the Mexico war was not especially intense, well not for the amercans anywhere away from the war I mean. In Mexico it was anarchy. The civil war is about the only serious conflict for America in all of that timeframe. The rest is a very clean bill of a cleanly functioning society.
That american history of our world being characterized by as immense a stability as it was was not an assured outcome. Latin america's situation has been the very "falling apart' the video is alluding to where in spite of a similarly thin list of pickings for major conflicts as in north america it's a commonly mentioned trivia that there are places in SA with higher per capita deaths by violence then countries engaged in wars.
to be honest i’d rather live in a system where i have to do hard farm labor, half of which i already do on a regular basis for work, under a hereditary duke or count that directly benefits from my success and vice versa than have to work for a soulless and faceless corporation with no vested interest in my well being
in the middle ages and the dark ages, if a lord mistreated his serfs, his prosperity would directly take a hit.
if i make a socially unacceptable post on the internet, i could be fired and replaced with someone hardly different from myself. if i’m mistreated by managers, i might be fired for “causing problems within the company” if i complain only to be replaced by someone just like myself.
our society has changed so drastically in the last 200 years and we as humans are yet to catch up to that change. i’m comfortable in saying i would trade my cell phone and modern medicine for a place in medieval peasantry. at least my life might have a chance of meaning something more than being a cog in the machine that is modernity.
"If we can find a way to return to the pre-industrial norms of running your own plot of land or business, then people will again feel the agency of running their own lives." -Rudyard
AI ran home hydroponic farms for everyone lol.
I do actually think using ai to make localized manufacturing is an important step for the future.
Completely ignoring the fact that the vast majority of people who "ran their own plot of land" in the pre-industrial era did so at the absolute behest of a lord, who answered to an individual in a palace whose entire base of authority relied on a 1,500 year old myth about an all powerful God entity. Lol.
The communist podcasts I listen to occasionally must really do a bad job of explaining communism, because "everyone running their own business" sounds like communism to me. I thought communism just meant: for every company, the shareholders give their voting power, right to dividends, and right to capital gains to the employees, and the employees become the shareholders
I just hear communism is against a few people per company controling the "means of production", whatever that means
Sounds like communism might not mean the same thing to different people. Which, supports the case of it being a religion. Religions like redefining terms, with the goal of arguing in bad faith. And they do have a lot to answer for, given that communist countries have, so far, been pretty bad places to be
@@PsilentMusicUK You complete miss the point. He isn’t praising the feudal system, he’s just showing what benefits it gave to the human spirit. That being autonomy which we lack in the modern world.
@@goatskin4487 Communism provided a plethora of benefits to the average Soviet citizen too. Why is his charitably reserved only for the Feudal system?
Seeing Communism as a religion, actually somehow makes it scarier, seeing how predisposed human beings are towards religion.
Got my degree in polisci and history and i focused on communism. I came to the same conclusion; that it is a religion(and I’m center left saying this)
It makes you realize Lenin was a religious prophet and the communists who took over early on were like the taliban. Later on after being in power for a few decades the communists were like a corrupt priest class; not really believing anymore but using their position for personal gain:
I miss dealing with the hard-line Christians at this point. At least we could agree to disagree, shake hands, and move on about our business.
@@greensmurf221 Hard-line Christians have seen a resurgence though, as an antithesis to this post-modern religion, with the same old 6000-year old flat earths where we never landed on the moon and the WASP is the true lost tribe of Judah, we had a great flood and science is bordered by the God of the gaps.
Any socio-anthropologist with their salt will conclude with the uttermost invariability that human civilization NEEDS unifying sacred principles in order for it to function.
Such principles need to be demarcated into the "profane" (the mundane things in life) and the "sacred" (the moral and transcendent values everyone agrees upon)... Without these, society implodes slowly then collapses suddenly.
This happened with the Abbasid Empire, the Roman Empire, the Roman Republic, the Greeks, several Chinese empires, Ancient India, the Bronze Age Collapse/Babylon, Great Britain, France, and now... The USA...
The USA was undeniably founded and found prosperity through Christianity. Without it, the United States is finished... Along with the entirety of civilization that it's attached to.
@@shoujahatsumetsuUganda, el Salvador, and the Philippines are just teeming with WASPs. Lol.
The greatest contribution to Marxist theory is Joseph Stalin's discovery of the basic economic law of modern capitalism and the basic economic law of socialism. Comrade Stalin formulates the main features and requirements of the basic economic law of modern capitalism as follows: “... ensuring maximum capitalist profit by exploiting, ruining and impoverishing the majority of the population of a given country, by enslaving and systematically robbing the peoples of other countries, especially backward countries, and finally, by wars and militarization of the national economy, used to ensure the highest profits." (I.V. Stalin, “Economic problems of socialism in the USSR”, p. 38).
The basic economic law of modern capitalism shows that under the capitalist economic system, the interests of millions of ordinary people are sacrificed to a small group of capital magnates. This law reveals the parasitic nature of capitalism and exposes the roots of the aggressive policies of capitalist states.
On the contrary, the fundamental law of socialism shows that under a socialist economic system, production develops in the interests of the whole society, in the interests of working people liberated from the exploiting classes. Joseph Stalin formulates the main features of the basic economic law of socialism as follows: “... ensuring maximum satisfaction of the constantly growing material and cultural needs of the entire society through the continuous growth and improvement of socialist production on the basis of higher technology.” (I.V. Stalin, “Economic problems of socialism in the USSR”, p. 40).
Thus, if under capitalism a person is subject to the ruthless law of extracting maximum profit, then under socialism, on the contrary, production is subordinated to a person and the satisfaction of his needs. This noble goal has a beneficial effect on production and the pace of its development. The action of the basic economic law of socialism leads to a rise in the productive forces of society, to rapid growth in production, to a steady increase in the material well-being and cultural level of all members of society. It leads to the strengthening of the socialist system, while the operation of the basic law of modern capitalism leads to a deepening of the general crisis of capitalism, to the growth and aggravation of all the contradictions of capitalism and an inevitable explosion. A comparison of the basic economic law of socialism and the basic economic law of modern capitalism reveals the decisive advantages of the socialist system over the capitalist one, as an incomparably higher system.
Dude all of your sources are outside of marx/engels or socialist thinkers. Don't you think your information is in the least bit biased? You didnt even cite Das Kapital or the manifesto.
He links plenty of books criticizing or analyzing the communist movement.
Did you read any of his sources?
Yes because the Communist Manifesto is totally reliable and not biased at all
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communism is the longhouse?
What I don't get is why are people who are into Communism never seem to acknowledge:
A) The countless genocides (e.g. Holodomor, Central Asia, Mao's cultural revolution, Pol Pot) and acts of horrific mismanagement (e.g. failed collectivisation efforts) by Communist states in order to create and maintain their state?
B) That much of the 'Communist utopia' created by communist regimes has often rested on at best 'coerced labour' and at worse slave labour in order for that Communist state to remain viable? And that enforcement of communism always leads to an artificial increase in poverty?
C) That most Communist states were only held together by being horrific police states and totalitarian states that policed not just what people said but what they thought too? The novel 1984 was based on an actual reality.
D) That revolutionary Communism, like it's descendant 'wokism', is not only a political cult that pretends to be 'scientific' whilst being destructive as it is incoherent but that it's also a type of religion with it's own pageantry and rituals? Furthermore Communism's critique of religion is an outmoded 19th century materialist conception of religion (e.g. see writings of Feurbach).
I'm with you on that one, I met a delusional Scotsman that might be an even worse version of Mao, Pol Pot or even Stalin.
One more thing: 100% of economic growth in the Soviet Union and Maoist and later China occurred by those societies parasitizing technology and innovation, (and usually actual technical experts,) from the United States.
None of your A points are genocides, they were indiscriminate famines. The Holodomor occured because the USSR inherited debt from the Russian Empire and had to pay it off to western debtors, who (due to the ongoing great depression and in an attempt to exacerbate the critical Soviet grain shortage) only accepted Grain as payment, even though the USSR had substantial gold reserves.
Your B point is retarded, every communist state saw a decrease in poverty and rapid increase in life expectancy, material goods, etc
For C, look around you, do you think there aren't capitalist represive police states? Look at the history of South Korea...
Most people tend to avoid acknowledging realities that destroy their worldview, understandbly.
@@chico9805 me and many others knew that eventually, that scotsman might not survive for what's going to be a turbulent age.
Good vid! Insightful and detailed, yet succinct.
It's so incredibly refreshing to see a big channel break through the myths and twisted definitions to share some actual good information. Honestly I probably think about this shit a bit too much but I can't help it when no matter where I go there's always some socialist preaching bullshit. It's near impossible to convince these kinds of people that the problems they whine about are not caused by Capitalism. More often than not socialist ideas and policies are responsible.
And good fuckin luck getting them to realize and accept that socialist ideology is Gnostic. The vast majority of people haven't heard of the religion or otherwise know what Gnosticism is. It's just as stupidly frustrating to get them to accept that Fascism and National Socialism are also leftist/gnostic ideologies/religions. They consider themselves as a third position to Capitalism and Communism, a synthesis of the thesis and antithesis. Textbook 'progressive' gnostic garbage. Ultimately they're both textbook socialism.
Highly reccomend TIKHistory to anyone interested in more of this. He actually just recently started deconstructing the Gnosticism behind socialism. He has a lot of other videos on common myths and deconstructing leftist rhetoric and beliefs.
I'm back real quick cause I forgot to mention that this will inevitably lead to a reaction from others doing and saying whatever they can to dismiss it as credible. The response videos have already started.
A common ground with Kraut talking about Europe would be amazing(idc how unlikely it is, I'll circlejerk this comment until Rudy sees it).
Can I join this circle jerk? we need our good ol boy American rightwinger with the leftwinger, bourgeois Kraut (both are great)
They have so different ideas about the future of Europe that such video would probably end nowhere (that if it keep civilized)
@@Leo-ok3uj Exactly why we need to see it! If they end up fighting its good content, if they actually listen to each other its even better content
Kraut's a dummy
The pregnancy is very short
As a russian, I fully confirm that the fall of the Empire and implementation of communism was the greatest tragedy in history of our country. Leftists like to exaggerate how backwards it was and how they "industrialised" it, but the truth is that before ww1, Russia was the fastest growing economy in the world. Manufacturing and industrialisation was following western countries, first modern oil drilling methods were invented, as well as radio, and by railway coverage, it was only behind US. Agriculturally it was the biggest exporter (unlike USSR which couldnt feed its population because of the slave kolhoz system), Russian culture, art, literature, music, philosophy was respected worldwide. It was one of the most tolerant places as well, with different religions and cultures peacefully coexisting with each other. Russia being naturally medieval and barbaric undemocratic country is also not true, 1905 revolution gave people same rights and freedoms as western liberal democracies and also it was one of the first countries to introduce universal suffrage to both men and women. Sure tsar Nicolas was not the greatest leader, but what followed after him pales in comparison. When communists took power, however, they repressed all freedoms, all in the name of achieving their utopia. They prohibited free enterpreneurship and trade, made giant ineficcient state monopolies that were uncompetitive and were subsidized by government to "work for the people". This is why soviet goods were shit and there was always deficite (prices were also fixed) , people were desperately trying to get yugoslav or later chinese goods because there was still capitalist competition. Capitalism is just superior, but corrupt nomenclature communist elite would rather die than admit it (which they did). In spiritual life and culture, indeed, everything must have obeyed communist marxist ideas, any expression of freedom and disobedience was brutally repressed. As a result of economic stupidity, Russia and all of eastern Europe still lacks today in economy and standarts of living, when markets were opened in 1990s all state run enterprises collapsed because they did not have competition before and could not compete with western ones. USSR lived on borrowed time, it survived at first by enslaving private farmers and taking all of their grain for their "industrialisation", the only good thing about it being military industrial complex, then by borrowing from the West and by exporting big amounts of oil. Then it finally collapsed after another famine was nearly avoided, and free markets were finally introduced, when the whole system was collapsing. The saddest thing is that this could have been avoided. Either under constitutional monarchy or republic, Russia would have not abandoned capitalism and free markets and prospered much better, civil freedoms and democratic values would be respected, russian companies and corporations would be worldwide important, the ties with the western world would have never been cut, and we would live in a much better world. Perhaps, WW2 would not have happened if Russia was not so weakened, and todays war in Ukraine would definitely not happen, because Russia would never collapse.
Even more than that, the world would be unrecognizable today if it didn't happen
"Russia and all of eastern Europe still lacks today in economy and standarts of living, when markets were opened in 1990s all state run enterprises collapsed because they did not have competition before" in reality they were all sold to some politicans causing then to become super rich and lowering standards of living for the working class jumping all of east europe from decaying socialism to late stage captalism in ultra forced way
@@nonec384 yes, they were sold, because they were not profitable and state could not run them. That is called privatization. At least I do not have to wait in long queues for basic food like eggs, dairy, meat because some bureaucrats do not want to run enterprises and workers do not want to work because no matter how hard they work they get equal pay and no profit
@@AmirSatt socialism is when equal pay (it aint and beurocrats are paid more than workers)
@@AmirSatt for profit is a thing a statal under socialism would never be , for profit is a terible thing profit for the few at the cost of the working class what happaned in russia , the same beurocrats that passed legislation and stuff to make the state onwed stuff inoberable causing food lines were the ones that got the companies and became bilhonaires its why the ussr colapsed in short greed and liberalism
This was all in teddy's manifesto, the industrial revolution and its future
As a bulgarian i find it strange that, according to youtube comments socialism and communism seem to be hugely popular with americans, to where as in bulgaria young socialists, let alone communists are very hard to come by. Obviously me seeing a lot of communist comments getting a lot of likes doesn't mean much, but i wonder how many americans believe in the communist cause. Then again youtube comments make America look like a worse place to live in than Bulgaria, which i doubt.
America is a country of mentally ill people. Living in Bulgaria is preferable to America if you don't mind being poor.
Its mainly because the horrors of communism arent being taught in schools.
That happens in any former communist or Socialist nations.
“So, how’s communism working out for you?”
“Well, can’t complain.”
good one.
Well, you can. Once.
I would say the main flaw is that it demands people to give up all they own when demanded by authority.
Nope. It failed because it relied on peoples charity too much. Few narcissists in the elites scrambled entire system. I believe current capitalism is a self-destruction path, while former communism proved to be incompatible with human nature. If we want to survive as species, we have to find a middle ground.
Nah the main flaw is that it's simply unrealistic
Main flaw is it just exists lol, garbage made by garbage French "revolutionaries"
@@PeruvianPotato not to mention it turns many people into delusional madmen or women.
@@PeruvianPotato you would be surprised but majority of big corps uses plan economy invented by commies internally. So the economical system not just realistic, but actually works. Social system, however, does not.
Love your videos despite the constant criticism you get, you may sometimes say some slightly crappy things (of course you do, you make rapid 50 minute videos) but you are a really nice original thinker that actually makes me think as well.
I also like your videos, obviously they are all biased as fuck but thats the point isnt it lmao.
It’s an ideology. Not a religion.
An ideology treated as if it was a religion. Which is incredibly stupid
As Cuban this video reinforces what I’ve been trying to tell people for such a long time. Communism can sound beautiful but it is not the way society should go. What scares me about communism and honestly many other ways of thought is that many times these people make it seem as if there isn’t a possibility for a new idea that could be better than what we are arguing about today. Democracy, communism, capitalism, authoritarianism, etc. There is still ideas that are completely different from these that will come one day. Maybe they’ll be better or maybe worst. Only way to find out is to explore and talk about these ideas
I prefer Crowley to communism, Magick to Marxist Leninism.
Cuban Americans have been one of the biggest minority blocs of anti communism in this country because they or a family member experienced first hand the negatives of such a system. This is very apparent in their voting, in which they overwhelmingly support the Republican and Right candidates, and oppose the Democrat Left, which has basically become "communist-lite" in this country.
Gusano spotted
I appreciate your open mindedness regarding new ideas.
Also, did you live under castro's rule? I did some research on fidel and the revolution and to me it seemed like a positive for Cuba, atleast regarding healthcare and education. Or what do you think?
@@CamouflageMasterHealthcare and Education
Nothing else matters in cuba i guess
The lack of factories
The lack of free speech
The lack of Basic needs
But the population has a high literacy rate so communism good
- Capitalism is a manifestation of Protestantism (Max Weber).
- Communism is a manifestation of Catholicism/Early Christian Church.
- Not Seeism is a manifestation of Judaism
Every ideology comes from the ideas of the society it was born in.
Communism a manifestation of the church? I need a toke of whatever you're smoking.
Explanation of the last point:
- Both Nazis and Jews want their Greater Homeland
- Both Nazis and Jews prohibit miscegenation
- Both Nazis and Jews believe themselves to be a superior race
- Both Nazis and Jews have committed genocide, admittedly
Communism literally has Rousseau's utopia as it's guiding light, in a very real sense it is the inversion of Christianity, but yeah it's far more with the enlightenment/post-reformation context, early Christians literally would have killed them sooner than debated them (they killed people over far lesser heresies).
Marx came from protestant family lol. And in his works he had positive bias towards protestantism
I would say German fascists more came out of pre-Christian German values (which survived the introduction of Christianity) taken to their absolute extreme when the decline of Christianity meant there was nothing left to balance it out. I would say Judaism either fed into communism, alongside the catholic and orthodox churches, or was demographically small enough to have no large effect.
This video made alot of the commies mad.
Not really... it's a pretty weak vid. Definitely not convincing anyone who isn't already part of the capitalist death cult
And you get mad when all the points get disproven lol
@@RealQuarlie What points?
@@DucdeBourgogne01 Indeed "what points" lol
Nah, this video is enough to make anyone with experience in a basic high school history course angry. Improper citations, plenty of strawman arguments, reliance on pseudoscience/heavily criticized and outdated historical narratives like those of Malthus, and not to mention nonsensical rambling about Jews and women
This was a very thoughtful video. I love how you are able to articulate in a very factual manner what a lot of people think and feel about communism
thoughtful? hes literally just rambling about the first words that come to his head lol the channel "Fredda" posted a good crtique of his video
How is he rambling? He is explaining his view of communism and gives evidence to back up what he is saying. This video is of his personal opinion of flaws of communism.@@mqge2481
I mean, I'm better than him, I think all history after 1920 is woke. The earlier you go back with history, the less woke and more accurate it is.
If your a christian. you need to repent of your sins PLZ
@@Alexander_Grant dont you have something more stupid to say?
2:13 1. Marx's influences
10:01 Communism as a religion
35:36 Who supports marxism?
44:57 Red civilization
Thanks :)👍
I am a massive fan of the Iron Channel. I cannot say how many times I have rewatched his videos. Saddens me that he’s not uploading, but I’m happy that he has found a career alongside yourself.
Anyone that disliked this video is sub-430 credit score you cannot change my mind
00:00: Introduction
2:13: Marx's Influences
10:12: Communism as a Religion
35:36: Who supports Marxism
44:58: Red Civilization
Being saying that for 2 decades since College. Pissed the hell out of my Communist professor.
Because he's right... literally just read more
If I shit talk capitalism to a capitalist, they would agree with me, and would think abt how to change the actual logical structure of their thought.
The biggest similarity between a communist and a 12th century catholic priest?
The fact all their arguments are based off circular reasoning.
"God exists because the bible says god exists"
"Capitalist societies will inevitably fall to communist revolutions. Why? Because marx(jesus) says so"
"Once Communism is established, it will be paradise! Why? Because the bible(das kapital) proves it"
"The proletariat will gain class consciousness and rise against their oppressors. Why? Because the nature of class struggle is under capitalism!"
"Communism is superior. Why? Because under communsim there's no exploitation, no class struggle, and everyone's needs are met! How is this achieved? Idk"
"True communism has never been tried. Why? Because all attempts have not been true communism. Is communism achievable? Idk"
"Communsim is necessary because capitalism is exploitative. Why is capitalism exploitative? Because its not communism"
@@codenamepyro2350 Who's "he"?
@@codenamepyro2350 did you just assume the profs gender? How dare you
@@HeortirtheWoodwarden Said professor
An entire religion based on envy. Class envy, power envy, money envy.
And unsurprisingly, fails as a direct result.
How is it envy to not want to be systematically stolen from? You literally just ignore everything a communist believes to mock them, it's almost like you don't have an argument beyond lying
Ie Judaism....
Envy is good actually
@@dexterjettster8875 only when directed at self improvement. Impotent envy kills the self and society
Great presentation!
Obviously this is well trodden ground and we’re seeing more and more videos popping up dealing with these topics from a rational perspective, but this is particularly great.
The particular scope you’ve chosen serves as maybe the best introduction for someone blissfully unaware.
When you mention that more and more videos are dealing with these topics which side are they on?
Just a heads up, you missed Mongolia in the map. Good video 👍🏻
At this point, dunking on communism is an art form. There are so many things wrong with it that each is like a key in a piano. There are many ways to play the piano, some people compose beautiful pieces. This one is alright, it has a nice range of chords.
*dunks on communism but forgets the crimes committed in the Holocaust by the Nazis*
@@austria-hungary4981 Whataboutism. Pointing out that something else was bad doesn't make your wrongs any better. Another student failing an exam doesn't mean it's ok for you to fail too
Curious how he "dunked" on communists by not citing a single source from Marx, Engels or Lenin. Bet he never read anything from them either. Too afraid to go to the original source because then it's harder to manipulate.
@@asliceofcheese7888 you're just responding to tone right now. That is pretty low on the hierarchy of disagreement of Graham. You don't even know if he has read their works, you just don't like that he didn't directly quote those specific people. If he indeed did not read about communism and doesn't understand it, or if even worse, he lied about it, you have pretty much one hour of arguments to find mistakes, and respond to them. I will gladly listen if you have any real criticism but baseless accusations won't help people agree with you
@@edgar7456 This video criticises a stereotype of the people that believe in communism, but doesn't say anything about communism apart from that it is bad.
What was one actual criticism of communism he mentioned in this video other than "communists are bad because they are cringe?"
After hearing the stories of horror from the elders in my family and the number of dead relativies due to communism in Cambodia, I can confidently say yes its a dark religion, always the most ruthless becomes the leader and the most bloodthirsty has the guns
They never told you who ended Pol Pot's regime and who was supporting it?
Thank US foreign policy for Pol Pot, especially the walking corpse Kissinger
You know,you can buy guns . Then you can use them.
you know pol pot admitted to not even understanding marxism right?
*due to FALSE COMMUNISM in Cambodia
Another amazingly my video!! Thank you for your knowledge!!
You mentioned your age once and I’m very impressed by the amount of good books and propel you reference. Ian Mcgilcrhrist Is a powerhouse.
You are an easily impressed fool.
As a chilean, I hate when people say "but Allende was demicratically elected, people loved him, it was going to work"
He was literally elected because of a legal loophole, no one liked him and in less than a year a good chunk of urban buisnesses had to close
One term he needed to create a crisis
Allende sounds alot like Biden.
Oh my God, poor millionaires are no longer able to exploit millions of people for their exclusive gain... That's so bad!!
@@em_monarch No more millionaires except the government
There were also the "Pots and Pans" protests in Chile where there shortages of food goods, so housewives protested by banging their empty pots and pans in response to the shortages caused by Allende's shitty policies.
@@kiljaeden5405 yes
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I was a former communist and idk but i think communist is more like a victim mindset atleast that's what I felt I blamed the world for not following communism for my problems I would like to say it was the single worst decision of my life thankfully it was not at a crucial point in my life and I grew out of it now I have actually started working hard and grinding
Great video! The thoughts are well articulated. The good historical retrospective is there. I love it.
Hearing the “they say it failed because the capitalists wouldn’t support them” tells me a new angle:
If your system fails because the other system doesn’t support you then your system is inferior.
It is interesting between Lenin’s take over and Stalin’s farm collectivization the Kulaks were literally the ones supporting the rest of the Soviet Union.
Once Stalin got rid of them it was down hill from there.
You'll even hear it today: Venezuela's poor because of "the sanctions."
If you follow up with, "which sanctions specifically are you referring to?," they disappear. It is enough for them that they have an imaginary scapegoat. That alone should be proof that they operate on faith; not reason. No Marxist - like any devout believer - is capable of arguing in good faith with regard to their worldview because they are starting from assumed premises you don't agree upon and which they are unwilling to doubt or suspend for the sake of argument. They will _always_ presuppose their conclusions.
Communists: DOWN WITH THE CAPITALIST PIG-DOG OPPRESSORS!!!!
Also Communists: Why didn't the Capitalist support us? It would have worked if they did, seriously guys.
Communists cannot imagine a world where communism fails on its own. It must be by some mass conspiracy, where the workers are brainwashed and evil bankers cut off trade unfairly. In their eyes, communism is an inevitability. We should be living under it right now according to their theories, so something must have interfered. But don't worry comrade, communism is nigh. That's why they throw around terms like "late stage capitalism", still believing communism's inevitability rather than realizing that the world is quickly leaving their industrial-era philosophy behind. It's like listening to some prophet claiming the Rapture will happen next year, then God gave them a revelation where it's been put off for another five.
literally what are you talking about when did it go downhill? it went downhill after stalins death
@@Maoismus1917 it didn’t even work then. The Kulaks were basically funding communism until he got rid of them and collectivized the farms. Then came even more mass murder and starvation of the 1930s. So no it was headed down hill from the start. It is an inherently bad system.
You seriously saying it “worked” because of one of the “greatest” mass murderers of history? You do know that any system that requires “the right people” to be in charge is a bad system.
The term, “kindfulness” was coined by the Buddhist monk, Ajahn Brahm. He has a book of that title. He’s a very respectable monk and meditator.
Communism isn't a religion. It's a political ideology.
Great video. I especially enjoyed the background and context you provide for these different ideas. Marx got Capitalism wrong because of the time and place he lived in. I've also been enjoying James Linsay's critique of Marxism as a religion of gnostic beliefs, where humans with the secret knowledge become the 'saviors' of the world. Marxists told his followers to study the world not to understand it, but to change it. That's one reason they don't think realistically. They only interface with non-communists systems to try to destroy them.
Marx didn't get Capitalism wrong, and you'd know that if you actually ever read Marx. Same as whatifalthist. Video about communism and not a single source is Marx or Engels or Lenin. What a joke. This channel is super fake and garbage history.
It didn't make him uniquely qualified either
the people behind the soviet union and the elites in general are a different branch of gnosticism, not the original gnosticism, i recommend the gnosticism subreddit
Marx got capitalism right because of the time and place he lifed in.
Socialism and their movements shaped capitalism to what we have nowerdays.
People often forgett that and be like: Bruh it is obvious!!!
Marx was a loser. Read the letters written by his wife that were addressed to him. He had a nasty temper that he couldn't control and was terrible with money. His own life disproves his theories.