I wish I could just beam this information into the minds people on the street with a wave of a finger. The best explanation on TH-cam of what Marx saw. Thank you so much for making such a well put together lecture.
Joe Shmoe your wish will be granted. we emerge human biological machine with interfacing it with computers and make them cyborgs. their brain will be like a hard disk, we will upload any information we want to it. then, we will upload CRAP to it. (at the momnet it is called television).. soon in future it will replaced by new information. (not marxism). then your children and their children will work for us HAPPILY.
I always thought, I wasn’t interested in economics. This is fascinating due to the presentation. I can’t imagine that it could be explained any better. OUTSTANDING!
Yes, he did. It's an interesting thing to note also, that Vladimir Lenin himself, in one of his April Theses, wrote that the Soviet Union had achieved state capitalism, not socialism, because this was needed in order to industrialize the country. Richard isn't saying anything new.
Yes That systems like USSR was state capitalism has always been a very large critique amongst anarchist (libertarian socialists/libertarian communists), many Socialists and many Communists. They still used M-M', where M' was taken from surplus value of workers surplus labor. The difference is who manages the extraction of surplus value from surplus labor. But that extraction defines capitalism and it's swindle, and the USSR operated like that also, so it is state controlled capitalism. Lenin even blatantly aknowledged that the NEP was state capitalism, even though it changed after NEP with the Great Break under Stalin was it real socialism?
I have come to think of the evolution of societies in a very different manner. Once settled in one place, groups of people had to come up with rules allocating access to land and natural resources. Initially, such rules were probably rules agreed upon by consensus to meet the needs of everyone in the group. However, over time as population increases and as interaction with external groups occurs, communitarian societies become dominated by an hierarchical structure that puts the producers of most of what the society needs at the bottom (i.e., the peasant producers). When the rules are changed to privatize the commons (i.e., the land and natural resources), the system is best referred to "agrarian landlordism." Markets eventually arise, as does some level of industrial production. Agrarian landlordism is not eliminated, only expanded into "agrarian and commercial landlordism," then "agrarian, commercial and industrial landlordism." And, finally, added on to systemic privilege is the financial sector, and we evolve into "agrarian, commercial, industrial and financial landlordism." More and more of the wealth produced is siphoned off by 'rentier" interests. From this perspective, there is no "surplus wealth." That portion of total wealth produced that justly belongs to all, to the community (i.e., aggregate rents), is privately appropriated (stolen, in more direct terms). Edward J. Dodson, M.L.A. Director School of Cooperative Individualism www.cooperative-individualism.org
I wish I could just beam this information into the minds people on the street with a wave of a finger. The best explanation on TH-cam of what Marx saw. Thank you so much for making such a well put together lecture.
Joe Shmoe your wish will be granted. we emerge human biological machine with interfacing it with computers and make them cyborgs. their brain will be like a hard disk, we will upload any information we want to it. then, we will upload CRAP to it. (at the momnet it is called television).. soon in future it will replaced by new information. (not marxism). then your children and their children will work for us HAPPILY.
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I always thought, I wasn’t interested in economics. This is fascinating due to the presentation. I can’t imagine that it could be explained any better. OUTSTANDING!
only 498 views! such an enlightening analysis!
Did he say that the Russian revolution was a change from private to state capitalism? And that the Soviet union was state capitalist?
Yep
Yes, he did. It's an interesting thing to note also, that Vladimir Lenin himself, in one of his April Theses, wrote that the Soviet Union had achieved state capitalism, not socialism, because this was needed in order to industrialize the country. Richard isn't saying anything new.
Yes
That systems like USSR was state capitalism has always been a very large critique amongst anarchist (libertarian socialists/libertarian communists), many Socialists and many Communists.
They still used M-M', where M' was taken from surplus value of workers surplus labor. The difference is who manages the extraction of surplus value from surplus labor. But that extraction defines capitalism and it's swindle, and the USSR operated like that also, so it is state controlled capitalism. Lenin even blatantly aknowledged that the NEP was state capitalism, even though it changed after NEP with the Great Break under Stalin was it real socialism?
The best living Marxist since Henri Lefebvre.
I have come to think of the evolution of societies in a very different manner. Once settled in one place, groups of people had to come up with rules allocating access to land and natural resources. Initially, such rules were probably rules agreed upon by consensus to meet the needs of everyone in the group. However, over time as population increases and as interaction with external groups occurs, communitarian societies become dominated by an hierarchical structure that puts the producers of most of what the society needs at the bottom (i.e., the peasant producers).
When the rules are changed to privatize the commons (i.e., the land and natural resources), the system is best referred to "agrarian landlordism." Markets eventually arise, as does some level of industrial production. Agrarian landlordism is not eliminated, only expanded into "agrarian and commercial landlordism," then "agrarian, commercial and industrial landlordism." And, finally, added on to systemic privilege is the financial sector, and we evolve into "agrarian, commercial, industrial and financial landlordism." More and more of the wealth produced is siphoned off by 'rentier" interests.
From this perspective, there is no "surplus wealth." That portion of total wealth produced that justly belongs to all, to the community (i.e., aggregate rents), is privately appropriated (stolen, in more direct terms).
Edward J. Dodson, M.L.A.
Director
School of Cooperative Individualism
www.cooperative-individualism.org
I would love to caption your videos for you, but I have no idea how to do that.
From a socialist like myself i have never felt so enlightened.