This was extremely helpful. Thank you so much. I was overwhelmed at the thought of getting through the Manifesto and decided to look for something in audio. I definitely picked the right one.
Yes it is a good summary of the Manifesto. I found it a good read and not difficult to understand. Maybe it had something to do with the people it was intended for. This was the manifesto of the Communist League; formed by a group of exiled German workers. I think it should be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the workings of capitalism and why so many people are opposed to this system.
This is a great explanation of the Manifesto. You are clear and precise in unpacking what is at times an unwieldy document for the common layperson to interpret.
I am so grateful to be able to enjoy this lecture. I always figured I’d be one of those old guys that takes random college course during retirement, but stuff like this.....we are now spoiled, with so much high quality content to learn from. Thank you. Marx was a reaction to Capitalism. Marx never would have happened, if not for the Astor’s and the Vanderbilt’s. Marx had no idea how absurd things were about to get with the Rockefeller’s and the Carnegie’s. Can you even imagine where we would be today without Marx? Would we have any social programs for the elderly, the ill, the disabled, or the unfortunate? Would we have ever had labor movements? We would have an 8 hour work day? On and on. Marx wasn’t a devil as he is often portrayed in Western Society. He was just a political philosopher, but has clearly contributed greatly to how our society is structured today. So people can pretend socialism is horrible, yet also enjoys the benefits that come from Marxist principles. We need Socialism to counteract unfettered Capitalism, and vice versa. Progress is painfully slow during one’s life. When you back away though, overall we are still progressing. Yet, I also feel we seem to be teetering on a dangerous ledge. Chaos feels close for a while now, unfortunately.
Marx is not portrayed as a devil in the west. Marx’s ideology-although wonderful in theory-when manifested in reality, to the degree which he intended, to put it mildly, is a catastrophe and resulted in atrocious human rights violations. And though I agree some principles are beneficial-you have to ask; do “beneficial” things ever come from bad ideas?
Yes, you would have still had socialist programs, because Marx, saw those, and deemed them insufficient. To the extent he was "devil" like was in the way he cynically appealed to vice, rather than virtue, oh and the call to arms, to a revolution of taking over the means of production, but he didn't really flesh out the details of how things would work, once the revolution had taken place, it is as if he assumed things would take care of themselves?!? That is the most irresponsible part of his writing. It is also why it was compelling to the prols of the time. To the extent I appreciate Marx, was that he made some valid points, and I agree unfettered capitalism is no picnic either, but he went too far.
@@lepidoptera9337 my point was only that Marx was effective, not because he was correct, but because he appealed to the common working man. If you can't address the common man, you are just another elite talking intellectually. The reason Marxism took hold then and is taking hold again, is because of elite formation. It has nothing to do with being a better system or anything, it is simply human nature. People hate to see inequality and they do and will act irrationally to resolve any perceived inequality.
@@KevinSamuelsKid capitalism has always had just as bad if not worse consequences. no country has either ever achieved true communism nor have they had a fair chance to, and a lot of that is on the US and other western countries that have put billions into making sure communism never gets a chance to even try to work. if you want i can link you something to read on this that provides actual evidence for my statements
@@lepidoptera9337 clearly you have not read das kapital, did you manage to pull up this statement from some right-wing forum in which others similarly did not read das kapital?
I live in the thumb of Michigan, a very moderately conservative area. It's like that weird liminal space between "Trump actually won the election" and "some left leaning policies are necessary." Needless to say, my perception of communism was stifled and suppressed out of fear. However, while I'm not a communist, this is so interesting, and the world would be so much better if the people who spouted "leftist this" or "communist that" at anything to the left of Rockefeller simply took time to listen. Same with radical leftists, we all just need to listen to each other and discount the bad ideas, not because someone told us to, but because we can. I think we all need a communist in us, the side that cares for the weak and oppressed, the side that will stand up to oppression from corporations and politicians.
This is an insightful bit of writing. "...we all need a little communist in us, the side that cares for the weak and oppressed," also what you said about listening. Those phrases of yours explain why capitalism fails, eventually. It is not the system, itself, it is due to human greed and lack of ppl at the top "needing a little communist in them". In fact, they also explain why trump won. Also, EVERY civilized society has SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMS; welfare, military, public schools. The truth is, societies benefit relative to the well-being of their citizens AND the cost of addressing the citizens who fall thru the cracks is MUCH more expensive than prevention. However, don't mistake the concept of SOCIAL PROGRAMS and their effects for SOCIALISM as a political system. Socialism and Communism initially, on paper and in theory, sound really good, the practice of it becomes murderous. In different ways, each fail MUCH sooner than capitalism because the ruling class can change things drastically as soon as they get into power with no recourse from the citizens. In the Asian countries when Communism was adopted, first the military kills all the teachers, religious leaders, politicians any kids too old to be indocrinated... that cut off is about 13 or 14 years old. They are lined up in front of guys with machetes and approach one by one. I was in school with two ppl who experienced that from the Khmer Rouge. It was worse in China, as well. That's Communism. A fundamental principle of SOCIALISM is that one party has the right to demand that the state confiscate the wealth of another party, with the assumption it will be REDISTRIBUTED to the entire citizenry. They don't need a reason.There is no proof or due process involved, AND, the state becomes actively involved in goading the "victim" to rise up against the "oppressor" whether they are actually oppressed or not. This happened in Russia and the proletariat rose up. Then, Lenin started confiscating the wealth of ppl non-stop for years but never redistributed anything. Because of this, the worst era of famine and canabalism in history occurred, starting from Russia under Socialism. Even after millions of Russians were dying per year, Lenin kept confiscating wealth and never redistributed any of it. Again, the Russians ppl had no recourse. The reason it stopped was because Dostoyevsky wrote a devastatingly descrtiptive book called THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO getting the world's attention. So far, Socialism has failed 24 times.
@@lepidoptera9337 Communism isn't authoritarian because it relies on everybody. I definitely sympathize with your experience, but if you're referring to state control and strict hierarchy as Communism, it's categorically not Communism.
@@lepidoptera9337 I'm not denying the horror of that event, but once again, that's not Communism. A No True Scottsman fallacy works more in the case of, say, Christians calling another Christian a heretic because they divert slightly in their beliefs. Here's an example: "The name "No True Scotsman" comes from an odd example involving Scotsmen: 'Suppose I assert that no Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge. You counter this by pointing out that your friend Angus likes sugar with his porridge. I then say "Ah, yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge." It's not a No True Scottsman fallacy because here, I can actually defend by claim rationally. Communism, definitionally, is when the community, the public, redistributes redistributes the land's resources back to the people instead of the rich. This is the philosophical opposite of what the Soviets did: deprive the poor of resources in favor of benefitting the rich and happy. Just because something mentions "the good of the people," that doesn't make it Communism, it's just a slightly left-leaning brand of Authoritarianism.
@@lepidoptera9337 Another way of putting this is that you're, in principle, equating Free Market Capitalism to Nazi Germany. Not that I think Capitalism is a great thing, but it's not Fascism. That's what you're doing with Communism and Authoritarianism.
An interesting piece of background information is that Marx & Engles were contracted by The League to draft their manifesto, but procrastinated on it for so long that the league threaten to revoke their pay advance if they did not produce a final draft in short order. Consequently, they drafted the manifesto in a single sitting to avoid getting their pay revoked. The two men were in their 20s at the time & apparently were pretty immature.
@@peterpeterpeterpeterpeterp1431 Because in practice and on paper, it can only happen through stripping people of their basic human rights and freedoms.
@@peterpeterpeterpeterpeterp1431 The fundamental basis of socialism/communism is to strip away all private ownership and give it to others who didn't work for it. Do you not consider your labor to be owned by yourself? Do you think it should be owned by society?
@@shanesonn But the people who own the private property didn't necessarily work for it either. They were acquired using a loan, or using money handed out to them by their families. The people who built the private property, who worked for it, don't own the property, instead they were given a wage that is a fraction of the value of their labor.
For anyone that winds up here trying to understand this document, its not a simple document to understand but things will start to click in ur mind about what the purpose of writting this document was about half way through the video. Just hold on :) it'll start to make sense after the guy finishes setting the scene for why this document was revolutionary and why it needed to be written. If I can catch on to the main idea, you can too!
Karl Marx just labeled Capitalism’s faults but he himself said he didn’t have a better system to replace it just ideas to help make capitalism more just
You don’t always need an answer to point out a problem. Sometimes, pointing out the problem is enough to wake those up who weren’t aware there was a problem to begin with
djcandle the fact is later in his life he said there was no better system then Capitalism. He live in an affluent London neighborhood and was bank rolled by wealthy people. I guess do as I say not as I do?
Capitalsim created the most powerful country on the globe. Socialism has ruined every country that once thrived... You people need to move to Cuba, Russia or Venezuela 😂. Then you can be happy and have it your way. 👍
The title 5 Spectres of Marx is an allusion to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' statement at the beginning of The Communist Manifesto that a "spectre [is] haunting Europe." For Derrida, the spirit of Marx is even more relevant now since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the demise of communism. With its death the spectre of communism begins to make visits on the Earth. Derrida seeks to do the work of inheriting from Marx, that is, not communism, but of the philosophy of responsibility, and of Marx's spirit of radical critique. Derrida first notes that, in the wake of the fall of communism, many in the west had become triumphalist, as is evidenced in the formation of a neoconservative grouping and the displacement of the left in third way political formations. At the intellectual level, it is apparent in Francis Fukuyama's proclamation of the end of ideology. Derrida commented on the reasons for that spectre of Marx: For it must be cried out, at a time when some have the audacity to neo-evangelise in the name of the ideal of a liberal democracy that has finally realised itself as the ideal of human history: never have violence, inequality, exclusion, famine, and thus economic oppression affected as many human beings in the history of the earth and of humanity. Instead of singing the advent of the ideal of liberal democracy and of the capitalist market in the euphoria of the end of history, instead of celebrating the ‘end of ideologies’ and the end of the great emancipatory discourses, let us never neglect this obvious macroscopic fact, made up of innumerable singular sites of suffering: no degree of progress allows one to ignore that never before, in absolute figures, have so many men, women and children been subjugated, starved or exterminated on the earth
My advice.... when reading from a teleprompter, put it close to the camera so it doesn't look like you are looking off into space when talking to your audience. In public speaking, people respond better when you look them in the eyes while talking to them. Looking up into the air doesn't convey confidence in what you are saying... even if it is facts.
Great video. Socialism is the only way we're going to fix this in this world and send people to live on other worlds. It takes a lot of togetherness to do it.
I find interesting that people do not realize that the CM should be considered a historical curiosity. What the CM proposes are, at best, juvenile ideas. I don't get why so many people waste so much time with it. It looks like a cult. The truth is obvious for those outside the cult, but for those brain washed by the cult, this silly pamphlet reads as the path to Nirvana. Weird, very weird.
@@kevinjones2145 I have. He was poor. Engles helped him and he provided a good life for his family when he was able. There's plenty of conservative opinion pieces that say he neglected and starved his kids while he madly wrote anti capitalist propaganda. Mostly misinterpretations of history.
@@kevinjones2145 Marx worked as a writer, speaker, organizer, etc. He was exiled often and secret police literally threatened anyone who might hire him. Millions during his day were unemployed and starving because of capitalism...sorta why he wrote about it and workers all over the world constantly rebelled against capitalism. 😁 So it's interesting how you ignore that it is capitalism causing mass unemployment and starvation and blaming the victims of capitalism for speaking out against it.
Says the man whilst happily receiving minimum wage, living from paycheck to paycheck and careful not to every fall seek or descend into an unescapable abyss.
Thanx for this video explaining the core of Marxist theory. Hope these ideas will drive the humans' minds one day. Revolution shall be done in our minds, my brothers. Благодарю за это видео, объясняющее ключевые моменты марксистской теории. Надеюсь, однажды эти идеи охватят умы людей по всему миру. Революция должна произойти в умах, мои братья.
Marx was good at identifying problems, given the time he lived in that was easy to do, but identifying solutions for the real world? Not so much. Free market Capitalism actually solved the problems Marx identified.
This is pretty much how I feel too. I feel like these might have been reasonable ideas in the context of the time where being a member of the proletariat meant no choice but unrelenting back-breaking labour, exploitation and minimal rights, but the problems identified have largely been solved by modern, capitalist liberal democracies with service economies, worker protections and minimum standards of living.
No it didn't. The issue of oligarchy, imperialism and debt accumulation most certainly is getting worse with each capitalist crisis...as he literally predicted it would.
@@excitingfruit You ignore that those liberal democracies actually gave in to workers demands only after workers rebelled against capitalism for centuries. Thus proving Marxism correct; there is contradiction, class struggle, revolution or ruin. The only reason capitalism improved lives is because workers demanded it through revolutionary struggles and capitalism capitulated to many demands inorder to ward off full communism. WW1 only ended after half the world rebelled against capitalism and WW2 happened because liberalism defeated communism in France and Germany. Had the French and German Soviet states succeed a very different world war would have happened, one that would have toppled global capitalism for good.
Illuminati Manifesto 1748. Same exact ideas and words. Karl Marx wasnt origional. He didnt come up with anything. He was too Lazy. He was extremely evil.
@@AngelSanchez-hk1rs just Google was Karl marx a good person. And you can read some of his poetry. Two in particular one is called the fiddler and once called the player and they connect together. He's talking about making a deal with the devil. And you can Google this. He let his kids and his wife starve while he became obsessed with writing his books. So some of his kids starve to death. And he let his two daughters commit suicide in a packed while he just walked out the door and went for Sunday stroll. He also abandoned one child. Never had anything to do with it. He was pure evil. In opinion. Only someone who is demonically possessed would do such a thing. To let his family die and not even care.
you should be more critical about western-eurocentrism in the manifesto that was commonplace at the time with such theories as historical progression and normative developmentalism of societies when you read the first sentence of the manifesto.
@@rappakalja5295 and that makes it a bad? I don't see that as the reason for poor outcomes of revolutions. The reason is centuries of oppressive autocratic rule creating masses of desperate, humiliated people. These revolutions have been anarchy. You can't just kill the bourgeoisie, communism requires everyone working together. And doesn't mean everyone's poor or paid the same. The bourgeoisie have been extremely reluctant to the ideas of communism or socialists (without really understanding any of it) and that causes a power struggle.
@@boosted211 Capitalism has raised more people from poverty than communism ever can. Can you name me a communist leader that didn't live like a god relative to his/her subjects? It's funny how the communist leaders preach but don't apply their ideologies.
@@marblemadness8870 which leaders in any society don't? Capitalist leaders don't live like kings? Your talking about wealth concentration like it's unique to "communist". Bezos just bought a 500 million dollar yacht and his workers don't make a living wage. You have to understand, the spreading of wealth, the rights workers have fought for, are all concessions made by capitalist to keep a communist revolution at bay. That is a fact. Capitalism didn't do anything for the people. Never has. That's not what it is about.
Marx didn’t kill anyone, his ideas were fully intentioned to better the world and his ideas are still incredibly important but he did not kill anyone. Trying to blame Marx On the events that unfolded later on is like blaming Jesus on the crusades, ideas can be taken on a wild and totally unauthentic way
Let's speak about slaves killed and moved from their lands thanks to capitalism Let's speak about colonies conquered thanks to capitalism. Let's speak about modern society suffering the contradictions generated by capitalism. Don't be reactive. Be progressive. Communism is the next step of the society evolution.
@@ahwasright1364 Marxism stands for equality not the oppression. If someone begins to oppress anybody then he contradicts to Marxism. BLM oppresses white and yellow. It ignores their presence. I know there are a lot of n guys who are latent racists. Because they feel offended when I call them n. Yet they don't think the word n is offensive and they call each other with this word. So they don't care about the word. They care of the skin colour of the speaker. It's racism.
"contains its own contradictions" goes on to cite sources of refinement. Nice teleprompter work there mate. You had me in the beginning. "oh Communism is bad", but with a neutralish tone through out you just made a case for it.
What attempts at socialism and communism were ever not obstructed by capitalist imperialism? Your argument proves capitalism is bad, so thanks. When capitalism instigated a military coup in Indonesia to control oil and gas it committed genocide and politicide on the scale of Adolph Hitler. 3 million died and thousands fled to Communist China away from capitalist Indonesia. After the capitalist sized control they invaded Timor Leste and killed another half a million people. Operation Condor was killing tens of thousands in The Americas which caused the defection of Philip Agee and dozens of CIA agents all who fled capitalism with black revolutionaries to Communist Cuba. Operation Condor also allowed the dictator of Chile, Pinochet, to commit a terrorist attack in Washington DC assassinating the Chilean ambassador. You should really stop repeating platitudes and truisms that were classically conditioned into your brain by things like operation mockingbird and the Red Scare.
China would have become an American colony if not for the Chinese Communist Revolution. Modern Communism has raised 800 million Chinese out of extreme poverty. Marxism like every ideology cannot exist unchanging over the years. All ideologies evolve and develope. China's present ideology may be be described as Practical Socialism. It is a system which has affinity with Chinese communality. 8n truth workers of the world cannot unite. Workers in different countries have different interests which may conflict with each other.
"The League of the Just" sounds like something that'd get copyright claimed by DC Comics.
stop looking at my forehead.
strelochnik pissed myself when this girl started talking, she even sounds a like a girl.
You mean OUR forehead XD
I actually had to stop watching because I couldn’t focus on anything except for the thought that he’s reading from a teleprompter.
@@apollothefirst this is gold
Don’t mind me, we can’t control her.
This was extremely helpful. Thank you so much. I was overwhelmed at the thought of getting through the Manifesto and decided to look for something in audio. I definitely picked the right one.
Yes @catreese qualls
It is an easy read. Try it.
It's 25 pages long
Yes it is a good summary of the Manifesto. I found it a good read and not difficult to understand. Maybe it had something to do with the people it was intended for. This was the manifesto of the Communist League; formed by a group of exiled German workers. I think it should be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the workings of capitalism and why so many people are opposed to this system.
The manifesto is the easy part compared to once you hit all the dialecticism stuff ...
I absolutely loved this. Please keep up the amazing work!
Ilovetheworld221 you love the world obviously u are gonna love this
Ilovetheworld221
Nothing is free. You try and take my shit, I dare you.
@@ahwasright1364 wot
This is a great explanation of the Manifesto. You are clear and precise in unpacking what is at times an unwieldy document for the common layperson to interpret.
I am so grateful to be able to enjoy this lecture. I always figured I’d be one of those old guys that takes random college course during retirement, but stuff like this.....we are now spoiled, with so much high quality content to learn from. Thank you.
Marx was a reaction to Capitalism. Marx never would have happened, if not for the Astor’s and the Vanderbilt’s. Marx had no idea how absurd things were about to get with the Rockefeller’s and the Carnegie’s.
Can you even imagine where we would be today without Marx? Would we have any social programs for the elderly, the ill, the disabled, or the unfortunate? Would we have ever had labor movements? We would have an 8 hour work day? On and on.
Marx wasn’t a devil as he is often portrayed in Western Society. He was just a political philosopher, but has clearly contributed greatly to how our society is structured today. So people can pretend socialism is horrible, yet also enjoys the benefits that come from Marxist principles. We need Socialism to counteract unfettered Capitalism, and vice versa. Progress is painfully slow during one’s life. When you back away though, overall we are still progressing. Yet, I also feel we seem to be teetering on a dangerous ledge. Chaos feels close for a while now, unfortunately.
Marx is not portrayed as a devil in the west. Marx’s ideology-although wonderful in theory-when manifested in reality, to the degree which he intended, to put it mildly, is a catastrophe and resulted in atrocious human rights violations. And though I agree some principles are beneficial-you have to ask; do “beneficial” things ever come from bad ideas?
Yes, you would have still had socialist programs, because Marx, saw those, and deemed them insufficient. To the extent he was "devil" like was in the way he cynically appealed to vice, rather than virtue, oh and the call to arms, to a revolution of taking over the means of production, but he didn't really flesh out the details of how things would work, once the revolution had taken place, it is as if he assumed things would take care of themselves?!? That is the most irresponsible part of his writing. It is also why it was compelling to the prols of the time. To the extent I appreciate Marx, was that he made some valid points, and I agree unfettered capitalism is no picnic either, but he went too far.
@@lepidoptera9337 my point was only that Marx was effective, not because he was correct, but because he appealed to the common working man. If you can't address the common man, you are just another elite talking intellectually. The reason Marxism took hold then and is taking hold again, is because of elite formation. It has nothing to do with being a better system or anything, it is simply human nature. People hate to see inequality and they do and will act irrationally to resolve any perceived inequality.
@@KevinSamuelsKid capitalism has always had just as bad if not worse consequences. no country has either ever achieved true communism nor have they had a fair chance to, and a lot of that is on the US and other western countries that have put billions into making sure communism never gets a chance to even try to work. if you want i can link you something to read on this that provides actual evidence for my statements
@@lepidoptera9337 clearly you have not read das kapital, did you manage to pull up this statement from some right-wing forum in which others similarly did not read das kapital?
Unless you are an oligarch, you will own nothing and pretend to be happy, because your life will depend on it.
Thats how it is nowadays
About as based as Marx's commentary.
Are you talking about life under communism or capitalism? Because the correct answer is both.
It's rare to hear a fair description of Marx's ideas communicated in English. Thank you.
Wait till you hear a fair description of his life and character 😅
Workers have nothing to lose but their chains and a world to win. Workers of all countries unite
@BillG Dontjabme 😂🤣🤣🤣
Workers of the world unite. You desire to unite with Iran??? So much for your ideas.
@@jett7499 yes unite with Iran!
@@mandatory_motion Over your dead blood!
@@jett7499 I’d like to see you try punk
Thank you, you are the best; I know you will go viral eventually!
best video analysis on communist manifesto on youtube i've watched so far. thank you.
I live in the thumb of Michigan, a very moderately conservative area. It's like that weird liminal space between "Trump actually won the election" and "some left leaning policies are necessary." Needless to say, my perception of communism was stifled and suppressed out of fear. However, while I'm not a communist, this is so interesting, and the world would be so much better if the people who spouted "leftist this" or "communist that" at anything to the left of Rockefeller simply took time to listen. Same with radical leftists, we all just need to listen to each other and discount the bad ideas, not because someone told us to, but because we can. I think we all need a communist in us, the side that cares for the weak and oppressed, the side that will stand up to oppression from corporations and politicians.
This is an insightful bit of writing. "...we all need a little communist in us, the side that cares for the weak and oppressed," also what you said about listening. Those phrases of yours explain why capitalism fails, eventually. It is not the system, itself, it is due to human greed and lack of ppl at the top "needing a little communist in them". In fact, they also explain why trump won.
Also, EVERY civilized society has SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMS; welfare, military, public schools. The truth is, societies benefit relative to the well-being of their citizens AND the cost of addressing the citizens who fall thru the cracks is MUCH more expensive than prevention.
However, don't mistake the concept of SOCIAL PROGRAMS and their effects for SOCIALISM as a political system. Socialism and Communism initially, on paper and in theory, sound really good, the practice of it becomes murderous. In different ways, each fail MUCH sooner than capitalism because the ruling class can change things drastically as soon as they get into power with no recourse from the citizens. In the Asian countries when Communism was adopted, first the military kills all the teachers, religious leaders, politicians any kids too old to be indocrinated... that cut off is about 13 or 14 years old. They are lined up in front of guys with machetes and approach one by one. I was in school with two ppl who experienced that from the Khmer Rouge. It was worse in China, as well.
That's Communism. A fundamental principle of SOCIALISM is that one party has the right to demand that the state confiscate the wealth of another party, with the assumption it will be REDISTRIBUTED to the entire citizenry. They don't need a reason.There is no proof or due process involved, AND, the state becomes actively involved in goading the "victim" to rise up against the "oppressor" whether they are actually oppressed or not. This happened in Russia and the proletariat rose up. Then, Lenin started confiscating the wealth of ppl non-stop for years but never redistributed anything. Because of this, the worst era of famine and canabalism in history occurred, starting from Russia under Socialism. Even after millions of Russians were dying per year, Lenin kept confiscating wealth and never redistributed any of it. Again, the Russians ppl had no recourse. The reason it stopped was because Dostoyevsky wrote a devastatingly descrtiptive book called THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO getting the world's attention. So far, Socialism has failed 24 times.
@@tonybparalegal What you just described is Authoritarianism and fascism.
@@lepidoptera9337 Communism isn't authoritarian because it relies on everybody. I definitely sympathize with your experience, but if you're referring to state control and strict hierarchy as Communism, it's categorically not Communism.
@@lepidoptera9337 I'm not denying the horror of that event, but once again, that's not Communism. A No True Scottsman fallacy works more in the case of, say, Christians calling another Christian a heretic because they divert slightly in their beliefs. Here's an example:
"The name "No True Scotsman" comes from an odd example involving Scotsmen: 'Suppose I assert that no Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge. You counter this by pointing out that your friend Angus likes sugar with his porridge. I then say "Ah, yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
It's not a No True Scottsman fallacy because here, I can actually defend by claim rationally. Communism, definitionally, is when the community, the public, redistributes redistributes the land's resources back to the people instead of the rich. This is the philosophical opposite of what the Soviets did: deprive the poor of resources in favor of benefitting the rich and happy. Just because something mentions "the good of the people," that doesn't make it Communism, it's just a slightly left-leaning brand of Authoritarianism.
@@lepidoptera9337 Another way of putting this is that you're, in principle, equating Free Market Capitalism to Nazi Germany. Not that I think Capitalism is a great thing, but it's not Fascism. That's what you're doing with Communism and Authoritarianism.
This was extremely helpful for my coursework! Thank you so much for providing these videos
Little known fact: Karl Marx had a sister who invented the starter pistol. Her name was Anya.
wow matt, your everywhere ahahaha!
And then Karl shot his sister and stole her idea for the collective good 👍
An interesting piece of background information is that Marx & Engles were contracted by The League to draft their manifesto, but procrastinated on it for so long that the league threaten to revoke their pay advance if they did not produce a final draft in short order. Consequently, they drafted the manifesto in a single sitting to avoid getting their pay revoked. The two men were in their 20s at the time & apparently were pretty immature.
I was so distracted by the fact that he was looking slightly over the camera. It really bothers me
The Average Marxist attention span
I had just finished reading the Communist Manifesto, this was a very helpful reduction and summary of the text.
Thank you so much Professor, wish you good luck...
Your videos are have great content, expressed in a concise, yet comprehensive and accessible manner. Well done! I'm a big fan--keep up the great work!
Thank you for this breakdown ❤️⭐🌹
I guess now we need a video on F.A. Hayek
Ludwig Von Mises too!
i love your channel so much!
I'm not a supporter of communism, but thank you for making this video. Very informational and a great explanation!
How come?
@@peterpeterpeterpeterpeterp1431 Because in practice and on paper, it can only happen through stripping people of their basic human rights and freedoms.
@@shanesonn such as?
@@peterpeterpeterpeterpeterp1431 The fundamental basis of socialism/communism is to strip away all private ownership and give it to others who didn't work for it. Do you not consider your labor to be owned by yourself? Do you think it should be owned by society?
@@shanesonn But the people who own the private property didn't necessarily work for it either. They were acquired using a loan, or using money handed out to them by their families. The people who built the private property, who worked for it, don't own the property, instead they were given a wage that is a fraction of the value of their labor.
For anyone that winds up here trying to understand this document, its not a simple document to understand but things will start to click in ur mind about what the purpose of writting this document was about half way through the video. Just hold on :) it'll start to make sense after the guy finishes setting the scene for why this document was revolutionary and why it needed to be written. If I can catch on to the main idea, you can too!
Dania De Leo'n
Catch on what? Lenin, Zedong, Pol Pot ... you sick in your head?
@@ahwasright1364 But their IDEAS were very nice!
Van Ivanov
They are all very nice hard-working people ;)
Shit up, you fuckin asshole.
@@ahwasright1364
Catch on what? Batista, Pinochet, Efraín Ríos Montt, Jorge Ubico, Sukarno and Suharto...you sick in the head?
I’m reading about Marx on 5th may today when it’s actually Marx’s Birthday, it’s not a coincidence. The universe is telling me something lol
What a great privilege it is indeed (pun intended)
bruh thats my birthday too
@@dahliaroberts9114 happy belated birthday bruh
a mode of production is synonymous with a way of life
Karl Marx just labeled Capitalism’s faults but he himself said he didn’t have a better system to replace it just ideas to help make capitalism more just
You don’t always need an answer to point out a problem. Sometimes, pointing out the problem is enough to wake those up who weren’t aware there was a problem to begin with
djcandle the fact is later in his life he said there was no better system then Capitalism. He live in an affluent London neighborhood and was bank rolled by wealthy people. I guess do as I say not as I do?
Yes. And ideas have consequences. The worst the idea is the worst of consequence.
Capitalsim created the most powerful country on the globe. Socialism has ruined every country that once thrived... You people need to move to Cuba, Russia or Venezuela 😂. Then you can be happy and have it your way. 👍
He did have an idea. Democratic control of our economy!
can i ask a question what is the five spectrum of karl marx?
The title 5 Spectres of Marx is an allusion to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' statement at the beginning of The Communist Manifesto that a "spectre [is] haunting Europe." For Derrida, the spirit of Marx is even more relevant now since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the demise of communism. With its death the spectre of communism begins to make visits on the Earth. Derrida seeks to do the work of inheriting from Marx, that is, not communism, but of the philosophy of responsibility, and of Marx's spirit of radical critique. Derrida first notes that, in the wake of the fall of communism, many in the west had become triumphalist, as is evidenced in the formation of a neoconservative grouping and the displacement of the left in third way political formations. At the intellectual level, it is apparent in Francis Fukuyama's proclamation of the end of ideology. Derrida commented on the reasons for that spectre of Marx:
For it must be cried out, at a time when some have the audacity to neo-evangelise in the name of the ideal of a liberal democracy that has finally realised itself as the ideal of human history: never have violence, inequality, exclusion, famine, and thus economic oppression affected as many human beings in the history of the earth and of humanity. Instead of singing the advent of the ideal of liberal democracy and of the capitalist market in the euphoria of the end of history, instead of celebrating the ‘end of ideologies’ and the end of the great emancipatory discourses, let us never neglect this obvious macroscopic fact, made up of innumerable singular sites of suffering: no degree of progress allows one to ignore that never before, in absolute figures, have so many men, women and children been subjugated, starved or exterminated on the earth
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 19:04 , need to watch again
Great video! Thanks!
I was the 1000th like :)
Should i report this?
Sir plz can u share the notes of this topic......
really great video!
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Great work!!
The state didn't disappear because a socialist state can't do so in a capitalist world, it would be sanctioned/invaded.
Like the blind master in Kung Fu, speaking his philosophy.
Very nice
My advice.... when reading from a teleprompter, put it close to the camera so it doesn't look like you are looking off into space when talking to your audience. In public speaking, people respond better when you look them in the eyes while talking to them. Looking up into the air doesn't convey confidence in what you are saying... even if it is facts.
Hey, I'm looking you in the eye 👁 ! your comment wasn't needed 😏
If you can't take some constructive criticism, that tells me all I need to know about you. Good luck on your journey through life.
I thought "Is he is blind?"
Thank you sir
Fuck off
He's the greatest of them all.
Subscribed!!!
Great channel
Nice!!!
U NEED MORE VIEWS BRO
It's mayday my pals
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Great video. Socialism is the only way we're going to fix this in this world and send people to live on other worlds. It takes a lot of togetherness to do it.
Sativa or indica.?
Why your eyes not moving?
He reads a script from a screen.
Look at us
Fuck you, bitxh.
I love pp
You will own nothing and be happy.
I find interesting that people do not realize that the CM should be considered a historical curiosity. What the CM proposes are, at best, juvenile ideas.
I don't get why so many people waste so much time with it.
It looks like a cult. The truth is obvious for those outside the cult, but for those brain washed by the cult, this silly pamphlet reads as the path to Nirvana. Weird, very weird.
And how did it all work out...
Why don't you critique Marx's personal character as you did in your videos about John Locke?
What's there to critique? Do you believe he starved his kids while he wrote propaganda?
@@boosted211 Do some research. He lived at the expense of some other people such as Engles and he did neglect his family.
@@kevinjones2145 I have. He was poor. Engles helped him and he provided a good life for his family when he was able. There's plenty of conservative opinion pieces that say he neglected and starved his kids while he madly wrote anti capitalist propaganda. Mostly misinterpretations of history.
I think that is because he personally loves Marx's you can see the language in the beginning how he subtly endorsed Marx.
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Marx worked as a writer, speaker, organizer, etc. He was exiled often and secret police literally threatened anyone who might hire him. Millions during his day were unemployed and starving because of capitalism...sorta why he wrote about it and workers all over the world constantly rebelled against capitalism. 😁
So it's interesting how you ignore that it is capitalism causing mass unemployment and starvation and blaming the victims of capitalism for speaking out against it.
"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions." T.S. Eliot.
Okay?
Says the man whilst happily receiving minimum wage, living from paycheck to paycheck and careful not to every fall seek or descend into an unescapable abyss.
Im 13 thx
kérem a magyarra forditást.
Thanx for this video explaining the core of Marxist theory. Hope these ideas will drive the humans' minds one day.
Revolution shall be done in our minds, my brothers.
Благодарю за это видео, объясняющее ключевые моменты марксистской теории. Надеюсь, однажды эти идеи охватят умы людей по всему миру.
Революция должна произойти в умах, мои братья.
Eh Marx was a racist and anti-Semite I’m good
@@theanimationlads7598 why do you think Marx was racist?
TheAnimationLads Marx was Jewish dude
Therefore, Jews cannot be racist?
@@Jack__Bolt at the very least, antisemitism in a jew implies self hatred haha
you talk like Caitlyn Doughty
Marx was good at identifying problems, given the time he lived in that was easy to do, but identifying solutions for the real world? Not so much. Free market Capitalism actually solved the problems Marx identified.
This is pretty much how I feel too. I feel like these might have been reasonable ideas in the context of the time where being a member of the proletariat meant no choice but unrelenting back-breaking labour, exploitation and minimal rights, but the problems identified have largely been solved by modern, capitalist liberal democracies with service economies, worker protections and minimum standards of living.
No it didn't. The issue of oligarchy, imperialism and debt accumulation most certainly is getting worse with each capitalist crisis...as he literally predicted it would.
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You ignore that those liberal democracies actually gave in to workers demands only after workers rebelled against capitalism for centuries. Thus proving Marxism correct; there is contradiction, class struggle, revolution or ruin.
The only reason capitalism improved lives is because workers demanded it through revolutionary struggles and capitalism capitulated to many demands inorder to ward off full communism.
WW1 only ended after half the world rebelled against capitalism and WW2 happened because liberalism defeated communism in France and Germany. Had the French and German Soviet states succeed a very different world war would have happened, one that would have toppled global capitalism for good.
@@buff114 So communism is now unnecessary. It sounds like we agree.
I knew JESUS wasn't real
Communist manifesto 1848
Illuminati Manifesto 1748. Same exact ideas and words. Karl Marx wasnt origional. He didnt come up with anything. He was too Lazy. He was extremely evil.
@@sonofroyalty4113 why was he evil? Honest question I want to know
@@AngelSanchez-hk1rs just Google was Karl marx a good person. And you can read some of his poetry. Two in particular one is called the fiddler and once called the player and they connect together. He's talking about making a deal with the devil. And you can Google this. He let his kids and his wife starve while he became obsessed with writing his books. So some of his kids starve to death. And he let his two daughters commit suicide in a packed while he just walked out the door and went for Sunday stroll. He also abandoned one child. Never had anything to do with it. He was pure evil. In opinion. Only someone who is demonically possessed would do such a thing. To let his family die and not even care.
@@sonofroyalty4113 his daughters committed suicide after he died. Right wing misinformation.
@@boosted211 Okay. I guess you're right. I stand corrected.
Workers of the world, unite!
Let me guess, the concept of individualism vs the concept of collectivism will be completely absent.
Wats same eqwil pay
Why do they have statue of him ever where as like he was a God
Long live capitalism
Feel free to explain why.
@@boosted211 because freedom is better than tyrants ruling the country.
@@Infamous1892 so you don't know anything about communism is what youre saying?
@@boosted211 Some people just enjoy living under minimum wage, whilst imagining that they every have chance to own any factors of production
The politics of ENVY. Written by a powerlusting laggard and his lackey Engels.
you should be more critical about western-eurocentrism in the manifesto that was commonplace at the time with such theories as historical progression and normative developmentalism of societies when you read the first sentence of the manifesto.
Carl Marx loves capitalism and he loves Donald Trump.
Karl Marx is a badass then.
@@marblemadness8870 wtf?
The Natzi Manifesto. Hummm.
"Mass killings under communist regimes" from Wikipedia is a good read along side this.
Revolution is the opium of the intellectual- Raymond Aron
Does it mention that communism hasn't been implemented by any of those regimes?
@@boosted211 Doesn't change the fact that they were still regimes which used Marxist-Leninism as their catalyst.
@@rappakalja5295 and that makes it a bad? I don't see that as the reason for poor outcomes of revolutions. The reason is centuries of oppressive autocratic rule creating masses of desperate, humiliated people. These revolutions have been anarchy. You can't just kill the bourgeoisie, communism requires everyone working together. And doesn't mean everyone's poor or paid the same. The bourgeoisie have been extremely reluctant to the ideas of communism or socialists (without really understanding any of it) and that causes a power struggle.
@@boosted211 Capitalism has raised more people from poverty than communism ever can. Can you name me a communist leader that didn't live like a god relative to his/her subjects? It's funny how the communist leaders preach but don't apply their ideologies.
@@marblemadness8870 which leaders in any society don't? Capitalist leaders don't live like kings? Your talking about wealth concentration like it's unique to "communist". Bezos just bought a 500 million dollar yacht and his workers don't make a living wage. You have to understand, the spreading of wealth, the rights workers have fought for, are all concessions made by capitalist to keep a communist revolution at bay. That is a fact. Capitalism didn't do anything for the people. Never has. That's not what it is about.
Marx killed so many 😢
Marx didn’t kill anyone, his ideas were fully intentioned to better the world and his ideas are still incredibly important but he did not kill anyone. Trying to blame Marx On the events that unfolded later on is like blaming Jesus on the crusades, ideas can be taken on a wild and totally unauthentic way
Let's speak about slaves killed and moved from their lands thanks to capitalism
Let's speak about colonies conquered thanks to capitalism.
Let's speak about modern society suffering the contradictions generated by capitalism.
Don't be reactive. Be progressive. Communism is the next step of the society evolution.
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Damn right brother. BLM is a marxist movement. Thanks.
@@ahwasright1364 BLM has nothing common with Marxism. If it was Marxist it was ALM or BLM2
@@ahwasright1364 Marxism stands for equality not the oppression. If someone begins to oppress anybody then he contradicts to Marxism.
BLM oppresses white and yellow. It ignores their presence. I know there are a lot of n guys who are latent racists. Because they feel offended when I call them n. Yet they don't think the word n is offensive and they call each other with this word. So they don't care about the word. They care of the skin colour of the speaker. It's racism.
"contains its own contradictions" goes on to cite sources of refinement. Nice teleprompter work there mate. You had me in the beginning. "oh Communism is bad", but with a neutralish tone through out you just made a case for it.
What communist countries worked out? What communist countries are so amazing people flock there for a better life?
What attempts at socialism and communism were ever not obstructed by capitalist imperialism? Your argument proves capitalism is bad, so thanks.
When capitalism instigated a military coup in Indonesia to control oil and gas it committed genocide and politicide on the scale of Adolph Hitler. 3 million died and thousands fled to Communist China away from capitalist Indonesia. After the capitalist sized control they invaded Timor Leste and killed another half a million people.
Operation Condor was killing tens of thousands in The Americas which caused the defection of Philip Agee and dozens of CIA agents all who fled capitalism with black revolutionaries to Communist Cuba.
Operation Condor also allowed the dictator of Chile, Pinochet, to commit a terrorist attack in Washington DC assassinating the Chilean ambassador.
You should really stop repeating platitudes and truisms that were classically conditioned into your brain by things like operation mockingbird and the Red Scare.
China would have become an American colony if not for the Chinese Communist Revolution. Modern Communism has raised 800 million Chinese out of extreme poverty. Marxism like every ideology cannot exist unchanging over the years. All ideologies evolve and develope. China's present ideology may be be described as Practical Socialism. It is a system which has affinity with Chinese communality. 8n truth workers of the world cannot unite. Workers in different countries have different interests which may conflict with each other.
Argh. dry. but informative. but dry. would not recommend but would not not recommend.
In other words they want everyone to be equally everybody will be poor