Karl Marx: The Socialist Revolutionary

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  • @chakowe
    @chakowe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3194

    Karl Marx’s writing of the communist manifesto is one of the long term causes of the majority of the worlds problems, prove me wrong

    • @Centurion97
      @Centurion97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2054

      The burden of proof is on you, that's a bold (and very ignorant) claim.
      The Soviet Union is gone and China is capitalist in all but name now, after economic reforms beginning after Mao's death.
      All of the world's major powers are capitalist, moneyed interests control our politicians and massive corporations are driving us towards ecological collapse with rampant pollution/rising emissions.

    • @MrShanester117
      @MrShanester117 5 ปีที่แล้ว +490

      The PHG bad one
      I’d say people are shitty, so no matter what you write. The Bible, philosophy, political ideology, etc. people will find a way to use it to control and dominate their peers.

    • @FearlessP4P1
      @FearlessP4P1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      His ideology is currently the leading cause of destruction of cultures.

    • @meow121.5
      @meow121.5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      KARL MARX IS PROTESTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

    • @DmGray
      @DmGray 5 ปีที่แล้ว +545

      And the guy that wrote catcher in the rye is responsible for all those murders and shit.
      Utopianism can be dangerous. But to suggest a critique of a system which involved literal slavery still happening in the US is responsible for the bloody revolutions against awful regimes like the Tsars of Russia or the Chinese Empire is... patently ridiculous.
      The problem Yanks have (and it explicitly yanks) is that they rewrote history to justify the cold war and now reality is muddied by 70 years of propaganda, espionage and war.
      Try picking up Marx actual work and then attempt to make IT responsible for things that happened 30 years after his death. "personal responsibility" right? Ha.
      If you're saying that the revolutionaries were worse than those they overthrew, maybe. But the US has no problem with ruthless dictators, murderous/genocidal regimes and open corruption... so long as they do business on US terms.

  • @williamedwards5399
    @williamedwards5399 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1696

    I'm sure Marx would've loved that watch ad in the middle of his biography.

    • @Ktmfan450
      @Ktmfan450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      He'd be spinning like a buzzsaw If he weren't dead already

    • @marcoursi6062
      @marcoursi6062 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      And he helped create many more parasitic lazy leeches over the years...

    • @delboytrotter8806
      @delboytrotter8806 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Simon got top Marx,
      And got a free watch...............

    • @frenchguitarguy1091
      @frenchguitarguy1091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      EbberDeeMills very nuanced indeed, you should go to college

    • @v.v.7522
      @v.v.7522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      EbberDeeMills you nailed it 👏👏👏

  • @diegocm8636
    @diegocm8636 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2616

    "Now let me stop talking about Marx and Communism to talk about this overpriced luxury watch"

    • @0fficialdregs
      @0fficialdregs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      anything above $200 is pricy. $140 is nothing compared to some watches i have seen
      unless you want a shitty watch. You get what you pay for. want cheap, have a cheap broken watch

    • @diegocm8636
      @diegocm8636 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @CESAR FC Yea I really don't know anything about these, just wanted to make a joke =p

    • @johnwescott1500
      @johnwescott1500 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@0fficialdregs Casio F-91W. Cheap, reliable and approved by Osama Bin Laden. Absolute bargain.

    • @0fficialdregs
      @0fficialdregs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@johnwescott1500 like ima believe a terrorist lol

    • @Xayver1082
      @Xayver1082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I love the irony. It was absolutely on purpose

  • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
    @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1653

    "If only Karl had made capital instead of just writing about it." Let's take a moment to appreciate that savage roast by Mama Marx

    • @ehrldawg
      @ehrldawg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      LOL !! Amen !!

    • @mohammadaluthainah402
      @mohammadaluthainah402 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Mama knows better

    • @flednanders7556
      @flednanders7556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I get that this is hindsight, but can you really put a concievable price tag on a landmark in human history?

    • @ben-dr3wf
      @ben-dr3wf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Marx wrote about society and it's course.

    • @flednanders7556
      @flednanders7556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Jeff Oliver. I strongly disagree. Marx introduced me, and countless others, to the idea that the wealthy have already transgressively redistributed resources, and that an obscene saturation of power in individuals ensues because of this. You seem to believe that fixing the problem improperly hurts worse than ignoring it. I say that's part of the problem. Only within a malignant global regime can pursuing ownership of one's own assets be so dangerous. Systems designed to enrich the few get messy whenever that happens, and it will happen for as long as humans exist, Marxist or otherwise.

  • @bencebalint1956
    @bencebalint1956 5 ปีที่แล้ว +426

    So his older brother died when he was only 101... poor guy, if only he had a handcrafted luxury watch.

    • @BoraCM
      @BoraCM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That is absolutely hilarious.

    • @itaiweinberg4127
      @itaiweinberg4127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was thinking the same, wtf

    • @Cod4Wii
      @Cod4Wii 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Best comment

    • @Sian_Brimms
      @Sian_Brimms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This confused the hell out of me. So was that an error? Did he mean to say 1819?

    • @_cherrychi_
      @_cherrychi_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kyle Murdoch that’s what I was thinking_

  • @thickpee1493
    @thickpee1493 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1704

    *Clicks on Karl Marx biography*
    *instant ad*
    Oh...

    • @mickeythemaltipoo3756
      @mickeythemaltipoo3756 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      But for some strange reason I desire a watch ,that I will never use😱😂

    • @lmaozedong2259
      @lmaozedong2259 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lmfao love it

    • @devodavis6454
      @devodavis6454 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It's literally a useless item now. I have a computer in my pocket 24/7!
      Why do I need yet another watch to add to the half-dozen I have in a drawer?
      That said, I prefer the host selling the item like this over being subjected to the same clip from Honda or whoever again and again.

    • @turnkeydirect
      @turnkeydirect 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Also, first paragraph: "..inspired communists Mao and Lenin, but those weren't real communism."
      Pass

    • @owenb8636
      @owenb8636 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For luxury watches lol

  • @samthehoarder6393
    @samthehoarder6393 5 ปีที่แล้ว +586

    How do you call a communist sniper?
    A marxman

    • @delboytrotter8806
      @delboytrotter8806 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Good one......

    • @Pining_for_the_fjords
      @Pining_for_the_fjords 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Good joke. I give you top marx.

    • @Flatbush21rst
      @Flatbush21rst 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😆👏👏

    • @lukeramage6276
      @lukeramage6276 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Flatbush21rst boom boom!

    • @BDXRP11B
      @BDXRP11B 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sam The Hoarder as an american the wording of that joke is funny as the joke

  • @telebread6970
    @telebread6970 5 ปีที่แล้ว +346

    the first communist revolution occurred in 1871 with the Paris Commune not the Russian revolution...

    • @frenchguitarguy1091
      @frenchguitarguy1091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Samuel Nauman yeah but there wasn’t enough purges for Americans to classify it as communist

    • @randomantguy24
      @randomantguy24 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's very good have a sticker

    • @AdamVikingen
      @AdamVikingen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The Paris Commune was more of a Amarcho-Syndicalist revolution rather then a Communist one.

    • @eliasapollo4131
      @eliasapollo4131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Paris Commune was based

    • @Morgan_of_the_Maxilla
      @Morgan_of_the_Maxilla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Paris Commune was anarchist, not communist

  • @vladimirerfan7721
    @vladimirerfan7721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    “Once again, I’m asking for your financial support.”

    • @pizzaboy3946
      @pizzaboy3946 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Like one comedian said: "I don't like communists, they've got nothing and they want to share it with you."

  • @Ryan-Nowicki
    @Ryan-Nowicki 5 ปีที่แล้ว +801

    How can anyone say he didnt apply himself in school? He got top marx

    • @CptMoroni35
      @CptMoroni35 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂🤘🏻

    • @jencheevers983
      @jencheevers983 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dad joke level:beige trousers.well played Sir!

    • @Pining_for_the_fjords
      @Pining_for_the_fjords 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Why can't communists drive manual cars?
      Cos they keep Stalin.

    • @andrewhoyle1521
      @andrewhoyle1521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😂😂😂

    • @jsmaldokj
      @jsmaldokj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That Joke is like food, not everbody gets it

  • @carterthompson9473
    @carterthompson9473 5 ปีที่แล้ว +606

    I can’t wait for the totally civil conversations in the comment section.

    • @thedude4672
      @thedude4672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      And how those totally civil conversations will be fair to what Marx actually wrote and believed instead of the awful things done by his supposed followers.

    • @spinner771
      @spinner771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      David McDonald Actually he was pro free speech and condemned dictators of his time.

    • @spinner771
      @spinner771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      David McDonald To varying degrees yes and that could be said about any philosophical and political thinker; but what’s concrete is he stood against dictatorships and suppression of rights (check his views on Napoleon). He would’ve been against Authoritarian rulers like Stalin, Lenin, Mao.

    • @spinner771
      @spinner771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      David McDonald Marx died almost 40 years before the Russian Revolution. We can’t say his views on them but we can go off his views against the dictators of his time. Namely Napoleon and his offspring. You can see that in “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon”
      And no he wasn’t evil, Marx was an abolitionist during slavery. He argued for the rights of Haitians while most people were still racist in Europe. While hard right capitalists were still arguing for racial hierarchies from an economic perspective. Who was wrong in the end on that?
      Marx inspired Socialist heroes through out South America that fought for reform. Many of whom were overthrown for violent repressive capitalists who then were overthrown by even more violent socialists.
      In Africa the greatest leader has been Thomas Sankara a Marxist who is beloved till this day. He fought for women’s rights, refused to take IMF loans instead worked with the people to rebuild the nation, was put in by the will of the people and was assassinated because of French/American actions.
      The fear of the poor revolting if not taken care of is part of the reason people pushed for social security, Welfare etc. Prior to that robber barons were lining up their pockets while the elderly and the poor starved to death on the streets. Marx has come with a complicated history but pure evil is going too far.

    • @spinner771
      @spinner771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      David McDonald That’s all you got out of all that I said?😂 Ok fine than don’t take social security and if we bring back slavery I hope you’re my property.

  • @baegon293
    @baegon293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    "If only Karl had made capital, instead of just writing about it."
    Damn, Karl's Mommy dissed him.

    • @jeffschlarb4965
      @jeffschlarb4965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Mama knows best...

    • @FadingFires
      @FadingFires 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The proceeds from Marx’s literature being used to sustain himself and write more books would be an example of Marx creating and using capital. How money becomes capital is an intrinsic aspect of money, not capitalism.

    • @kainoamelendez8877
      @kainoamelendez8877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We get it. His mother was a capitalist

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No riches? 🧐

    • @texanman7191
      @texanman7191 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Marx died in 1883. In the 19th century!
      He was born right after the Napoleonic Wars ended 3 years ago, lived during a time when the US allowed slavery, and Europe was preparing to get into a huge war against each other.
      Never was a huge fan of Marx, but we can't complain about a man who lived in HIS time.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    0:50 - Chapter 1 - Early years
    2:00 - Chapter 2 - Off to university
    3:45 - Chapter 3 - Focusing on philosophy
    4:50 - Chapter 4 - France Beckons
    6:55 - Chapter 5 - Brussels
    8:35 - Chapter 6 - Hard times
    10:35 - Mid roll ads
    11:55 - Chapter 7 - London
    14:10 - Chapter 8 - New York correspondent
    16:30 - Chapter 9 - Das Kapital
    18:25 - Chapter 10 - The final years

  • @kknives36
    @kknives36 5 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    Pretty sure you meant 1819.

    • @ennuiii
      @ennuiii 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      for sure

    • @zmanjace1364
      @zmanjace1364 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yeah, I went back and listened to it again because I was only paying half attention to the video. I dont know the full story of Marx but that didnt jive with the timeline I assumed in my head. Glad to know I'm not nuts.

    • @shortvideos6576
      @shortvideos6576 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know right, I was thinking wouldn't that make him 101

    • @YDdraigGoch43
      @YDdraigGoch43 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I paused at 1:27 to see if someone had made this comment...you have! bravo!

    • @fallenknighttyler8695
      @fallenknighttyler8695 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad im not the only one that noticed

  • @hana-ng4ql
    @hana-ng4ql 5 ปีที่แล้ว +292

    "when his brother died in 1919"
    you mean he lived 101 years?

    • @manbutt656
      @manbutt656 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yes.

    • @miguelalmeida9771
      @miguelalmeida9771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Anonymous Panacea we are speaking about the the XIX

    • @BigHairyFenian
      @BigHairyFenian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      The idea that we're living longer now is statistic tunnel vision, the reason the life expectancy was much lower in the past was infant mortality rate, if you made it past childhood you were likely to live to old age.

    • @EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts
      @EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is rare, but people do live that long. The oldest verifiable recorded person died at 113. An African women claimed to be 128 but could not prove it and a French women may have lived to 115, or may have been replaced by her sister. If people did live to nearly a thousand as the Bible claims, it was in a very different world.

    • @nikoniortnike
      @nikoniortnike 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts The oldest person to have ever lived is a french woman who lived for a 122 years and it has been verified.

  • @adamh905
    @adamh905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    Karl Marx is a historically famous philosopher and political theorist, but very few people know about his sister, Onya, the inventor of the starter pistol.

  • @Kyle_Schaff
    @Kyle_Schaff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    _The Communist Manifesto_ was not Marx’s magnum opus by far lol. That work is a pamphlet. His magnum opus is very much understood to be _Capital_

    • @5ryans
      @5ryans 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I'm surprised on how many commies and far leftists haven't read the communist manifesto.
      I love seeing the confusion in their eyes when I tell them that Marx actually praised capitalism in the pamphlet and his problem with it was that it didn't do enough to help with wealth inequality. While it allowed people outside of the aristocracy to become wealthy, it still left too many people behind in poverty.

    • @frenchguitarguy1091
      @frenchguitarguy1091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Dmitri Ptrenko you do realise pretty much every leftist thinks this?
      To sum it up, Marxist thought believed in three tiers in society, hunter gatherer, feudalism, and capitalism, with the succeeding system being more efficient and fair.
      What brings the end of each system are contradictions and unrest within it.
      To say that leftists explicitly hate capitalism is to ignore nuance and misunderstand them- critique does not equate to hate, and the focus on capitalism is because we live in such a system, what would be the point of critiquing feudalism if only 5 countries still practice it today?

    • @masterraven2053
      @masterraven2053 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Dennis Massengill or don't see the opportunity

    • @EmilReiko
      @EmilReiko 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Together with Die Grundrisse, grundrisse is not to be under estimated

    • @whatwhat3432523
      @whatwhat3432523 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @Dennis Massengill With that level of a Intellect, you are lucky you are born rich with opportunities.

  • @PR-lz1oc
    @PR-lz1oc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +306

    I showed this to my class
    now it is OUR class

    • @PrisonKilljoy
      @PrisonKilljoy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That was cute...should have more upvotes.

    • @criteriumgoat6525
      @criteriumgoat6525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Now it's abolished

    • @barrymccokiner7559
      @barrymccokiner7559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Now they understand that being a commie means being a parasitic leech

    • @ungabunga3183
      @ungabunga3183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@barrymccokiner7559 Besides attacking Communism as a fool, you should find a hobby instead of spamming "commUnizm bAd" or maybe seek psychiatric help?

    • @imakebadvideos
      @imakebadvideos 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Wendigo of Maine. I should not have laughed so hard at this. I hope everyone gets it.

  • @BomChickyBowWow
    @BomChickyBowWow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +321

    Ironic this video is sponsored by luxury watches.

    • @pine6193
      @pine6193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @XZDrake rolex is def not middle class trash

    • @pine6193
      @pine6193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @XZDrake different watches for different purposes. Rolex is simplicity, functionality and low maintenance, while brands like patek, a lange and fp journe are popular for their own reasons such as the complexity of their movements and their craftmanship.

    • @emperor-thesenate-palpatin5954
      @emperor-thesenate-palpatin5954 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      actualy its not, most of the top communist leaders were filthy rich, only the ppl were poor. the biggest hipocrits ever...

    • @ronfroehlich4697
      @ronfroehlich4697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not ironic. Commies are always wealthy.

    • @BomChickyBowWow
      @BomChickyBowWow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ron Froehlich this is the favorite go to rhetoric of unread philistine jackasses who love pointing to the wealthy politburo members. These individuals were corrupt rulers of an authoritarian system masquerading as “communist”. Stalin, Gorbachev, Castro, etc. These were rulers of authoritarian regimes that took more than generous salaries from the people. That, by very definition, does not make them a communist. A simple dictionary could solve this but apparently there are a shortage of them in the world today.

  • @diff2587
    @diff2587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Simon, I want you to say these two words aloud to yourself: “Pawn”, and “Porn”.

    • @unsrescyldas9745
      @unsrescyldas9745 ปีที่แล้ว

      average brit always confusing superior-tongued Americans with their garbled up nonsense, be sure not to ask him to say "Free and Three" lest he has a mental breakdown.

  • @Reez-ql4lz
    @Reez-ql4lz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The transition of communism to an advert was almost flawless

  • @nathanricketts2415
    @nathanricketts2415 5 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    Anti Capitalist Revolutionary
    Sponsored by Watch company

    • @F-Tier_Physique
      @F-Tier_Physique 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Just shows how irrelevant he is.

    • @ab5441
      @ab5441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Marx's grave is privately owned and you have to pay to see it.

    • @nathanricketts2415
      @nathanricketts2415 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ab5441 Wow.

    • @coolworx
      @coolworx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Someone has to pay the bills... Not everyone can spend a lifetime mooching off other people.

    • @happy_thinking
      @happy_thinking 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Technically communism is a subset of capitalism.

  • @0fficialdregs
    @0fficialdregs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Simon and the team never fail me with great interesting information.
    if a channel has you rewatching their entire video uploads, you know you done something right

  • @richardarmstrong9770
    @richardarmstrong9770 5 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    "Last words are for those who haven't said enough" The last words of Karl Marx

  • @brentgranger7856
    @brentgranger7856 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    0:37 - Thank you, Simon, for mentioning this important statement! As a guy who studied Soviet communism compared to Marx's writings, I totally agree! Other suggestions for later videos similar to Marx include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marcus Tulius Cicero, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Hobbes.

  • @achimhaun2726
    @achimhaun2726 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Didn't Marx's brother die in 1819,not 1919?

    • @carloswater7
      @carloswater7 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's okay, even historians have stated themselves make mistakes.

    • @tjwatson0403
      @tjwatson0403 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He doesn't edit his videos very closely, watchers learn to just sort of shrug it off

  • @QueenetBowie
    @QueenetBowie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    Let’s not turn this into a heated socio-economic argument form, Capitalist or Marxist, let’s all just enjoy this for what it is, a biography of a historical figure.
    I know it’ll be ignored but a lowly TH-cam commenter can hope and dream...

    • @deliciousjunk5312
      @deliciousjunk5312 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Historical for what?

    • @uglyweirdo1389
      @uglyweirdo1389 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm pretty sure TH-cam comments are as full of trollfarm agitators as any social media platform.
      Yaaay.

    • @sethprestenback8617
      @sethprestenback8617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Delicious Hentai Communism.

    • @Mr.ShadeO
      @Mr.ShadeO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sethprestenback8617 Don't forget the tentacles, Comrade!

    • @WarmPotato
      @WarmPotato 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      C G Marx is a complete idiot and his ideas have done nothing but harm

  • @LilPrezzy36
    @LilPrezzy36 5 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    "I wish my son would go out and earn capital instead of just writing about it." Is my favorite quote about Karl. It was said by his mother of all people lol

    • @eoin8450
      @eoin8450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He tried but everywhere he worked was shut down and he had to flee several countries...

    • @josephpelletier9494
      @josephpelletier9494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@eoin8450 Shoulda learned to code

    • @eoin8450
      @eoin8450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@josephpelletier9494 true

    • @alpacamale2909
      @alpacamale2909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@eoin8450 ohh communists always shifting the blame, Nothing has changed

    • @eoin8450
      @eoin8450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@alpacamale2909 he was literally chased out of several countries and his businesses closed down because the state saw him as a threat, what more do you fucking want?

  • @squid.com8927
    @squid.com8927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The only thing I can ever focus on with Marx is his awesome beard

  • @wozzamungo7690
    @wozzamungo7690 5 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    Do a video on Adam Smith, one of the main contributors to modern day capitalism

    • @MrTweedyDocumentaries
      @MrTweedyDocumentaries 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      He should, Adam Smith has nothing to do with modern day capitalism :)

    • @Yezu666
      @Yezu666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      It would terrify some how anti-capitalist Adam Smith actually was.

    • @the_exegete
      @the_exegete 5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      If today's capitalists actually read Adam Smith they'd declare him as much of a Marxist as Marx.
      Of course, in today's world you get called a socialist if you give your employees a raise. And then the same pundits wonder why socialism is becoming more popular.

    • @MLPGamer44
      @MLPGamer44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Glad to see some comments saying that Adam smith would be terrified and saddened by modern day capitalism.

    • @Odinsday
      @Odinsday 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@the_exegete Adam Smith would hang himself if he saw what his economic philosophy had malformed into.

  • @mushroomsamba82
    @mushroomsamba82 5 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    Quit Stalin' and show me your Marx

  • @SoulStealer2012
    @SoulStealer2012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    He has a sister who invented the starter pistol.
    Her name was onya.

  • @Koivro
    @Koivro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    These biographics would be perfect for classrooms. Easy history in a short span. Nice work!

    • @pwp8737
      @pwp8737 ปีที่แล้ว

      in America you'd have hoards of rabid right-wing MAGAites with pitchforks attacking any school that taught Marx

  • @samuelspicer7468
    @samuelspicer7468 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    He lived to see the Paris Commune. It was a success until government forces stormed the city.

    • @loknaz97
      @loknaz97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Turns out you need a way to defend yourself from people who disagree with you.

    • @kitpalmer1583
      @kitpalmer1583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@loknaz97 not sure what your point is, Marx agreed with that lol

    • @madisondines7441
      @madisondines7441 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@loknaz97 grapeshot would have done the trick.

    • @dango6266
      @dango6266 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@loknaz97 it was a city vs the rest of the country. I'm pretty sure the country would win 98% of the time

  • @jimtalbott9535
    @jimtalbott9535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    "If only Karl had made capital, instead of just writing about it." - Best....quote....!

    • @conorredmond6217
      @conorredmond6217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yea... if only one of the most important philosophers of the last few centuries wasn't working a loom to buy bread...

    • @danilopetrovic5697
      @danilopetrovic5697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@conorredmond6217 80-hour weeks

    • @danilopetrovic5697
      @danilopetrovic5697 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Google 'The Perestroika Deception' what do you mean "?"

    • @danilopetrovic5697
      @danilopetrovic5697 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Google 'The Perestroika Deception' you don't know that the people used to work 12 hours a day every day of the week?
      Not to even mention how much they were paid.

    • @danilopetrovic5697
      @danilopetrovic5697 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Google 'The Perestroika Deception' No, he wasn't actually working in a factory, I was just adding to the point that, for some reason, people think that the quote was even remotely a good roast.
      That would be the same as saying that Abe Lincoln should have been a slave owner instead of abolishing slavery.

  • @themegagliscor1043
    @themegagliscor1043 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I suppose I better... WATCH out for the newest episodes... Solid work!

  • @Codehead3
    @Codehead3 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great watch and a great pitch for it! I enjoy watching ads for things that interest me and I wouldn’t mind seeing more about watches.

  • @janedoe5229
    @janedoe5229 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I found it interesting that Marx and Engels traveled to England, and observed the terrible working conditions at the time, and used that as a basis for The Communist Manifesto. Things have changed significantly since then.

  • @MarielaQue
    @MarielaQue 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    The pen is stronger than the sword

    • @sirlionson2207
      @sirlionson2207 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      food is better than no food

    • @joeobrien196
      @joeobrien196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And easier to write with too😉

    • @CelticSaint
      @CelticSaint 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not if you want to cut an apple in half.

    • @bransky
      @bransky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mightier

    • @GrandElemental
      @GrandElemental 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      As long as the pen targets a group of easily manipulated sword wielders, then yes.

  • @Justsegarra
    @Justsegarra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I would've liked for the video to mention his chronic skin condition, Hidradenitis Suppurativa. As somebody who's suffered from the condition for most of my life, I am interested in how much the condition shaped his philosophy.

    • @alcoholfree6381
      @alcoholfree6381 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lots! Pain and disfiguring boils draining infections would tend to give a person a negative outlook.

  • @traceysinnott752
    @traceysinnott752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    A biography on Michael Collins (Irish revolutionary) might be an interesting one

  • @karlmarx9632
    @karlmarx9632 5 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    Thanks for making a video about me, I appreciate it.

  • @iamgasmask9575
    @iamgasmask9575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "He became the eldest son in 1919" he died in 1883

  • @ToddWBucy-lf8yz
    @ToddWBucy-lf8yz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    there is no better intro to a bio on Karl Marx than by starting off with a commercial for such a fine-looking watch.

    • @unsrescyldas9745
      @unsrescyldas9745 ปีที่แล้ว

      looks gay and if you say otherwise you are gay.

  • @maggiecorrigan2705
    @maggiecorrigan2705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Man the sponsored ad plug for a luxury watch really hits different in this one 😂

  • @darraghtate440
    @darraghtate440 5 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    Vincero is actually a pretty good example of capitalism failing. $5 Chinese watches marketed as high end and sold for 35x their value.

    • @marthab-c5226
      @marthab-c5226 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Darragh Tate if I could like a comment ten times, this would be it.

    • @918Mitchell
      @918Mitchell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      China has been moving away from pure communism for some time now.

    • @Ktmfan450
      @Ktmfan450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree. All luxuries should be banned. Social credit systems for everybody.

    • @Ktmfan450
      @Ktmfan450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      FYI a Rolex only contains about a teenth of its actual price in base metals
      Even the really good ones

    • @ChrisGeden
      @ChrisGeden 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That's because it's Chinese capitalism: a cheap immitation of the real thing.

  • @ElvenAngel
    @ElvenAngel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for another excellent video. Hope you will cover more literary figures like the Brontes or Jane Austen.

  • @quelcrutchfield2456
    @quelcrutchfield2456 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Simon!

  • @markostojanovicSokrat
    @markostojanovicSokrat 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic video 👏👏

  • @misterkrazy8401
    @misterkrazy8401 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    A video on FDR? Would be interesting to see.

    • @brodybouillion1224
      @brodybouillion1224 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He def needs was one of the greatest leaders in American history

    • @WarmPotato
      @WarmPotato 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Would Simon’s political bias get in the way? That’s the real question

    • @Jason918114
      @Jason918114 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seek Ken Burns' documentary: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The documentary tells the life stories of Teddy, Franklin and Eleanor. I think it's on Netflix. You will not be disappointed.

    • @Jason918114
      @Jason918114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chrisj197438 - FDR was a pragmatist. Even if your foolish proposition that he was a socialist was true, so what? What is it about empowering workers and bettering the life of the common man that frightens you so?

    • @jeffschlarb4965
      @jeffschlarb4965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Jason918114 Yeah, why are people focused on the WHOLE Internement Camp thing!
      I mean all his appointed judges on SCOTUS said it was JUST FINE, with them.
      A real Hero...

  • @andrewswift2727
    @andrewswift2727 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hi Simon Hegel pronounced his name 'haygel' for future reference.
    I really enjoy the work you and your team are doing, thanks.

  • @rachel8057
    @rachel8057 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love your channel!!! Please do Jackie Kennedy!!

  • @ThePatxiao
    @ThePatxiao ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So Marx was angry that the working class allowed a dictator to rule over them. Man must be rolling in his grave since everyone that uses his ideals become dictators.

    • @DipayanPyne94
      @DipayanPyne94 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, a dictator is not necessarily a bad one. If I become a dictator, the world will become a remarkable place.
      We have known about a benevolent dictator for more than 2000 years. Who ? Plato. A modern day Plato is exactly what we need.

  • @sturmtruppler6909
    @sturmtruppler6909 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Could you do a Biographic on Ho Chi Minh?

  • @ToasteerGoblin
    @ToasteerGoblin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The most famous quote of Karls family was his sister Onya's quote " get set, GO"

  • @floppalover2326
    @floppalover2326 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s actually... a really nice watch. I was about to skip the sponsorship but man that watch looks awsome

  • @luanasuka
    @luanasuka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for this video, it was very informative and i have learned a lot.
    you get a like.

  • @valmid5069
    @valmid5069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    *“Remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him”*
    -Old Major, Animal Farm

  • @jonjones6804
    @jonjones6804 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I love that you are explaining Marxism while trying to sell me a watch😂

    • @joshuawaring4180
      @joshuawaring4180 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tbh that’s probably what Marx himself would have done

  • @Fracpanda7414
    @Fracpanda7414 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Simon you are doing a great job

  • @eriya181
    @eriya181 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun Fact about the part at the end when Karl Marx died: At his funeral, Friedrich Engels said of Marx that when he died, "The greatest thinker ceased to think". When I first discovered this, it just stuck with me

  • @JuniorAngel8888
    @JuniorAngel8888 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Thank you Biographics! I think you did a great job covering the basics of Karl Marx's life. This was a well done and non-partisan account of the major parts of Marx's life.

  • @Sahiyena11
    @Sahiyena11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Biographics he, has an interesting way to structure sentences. Learning about Karl Marx it's, always a fun and interesting story. These videos they, are a great thing to listen to at work.

  • @kitten4790
    @kitten4790 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    very informative and unbiased video, nice vid.

  • @trolly9206
    @trolly9206 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    How does this channel only have 440k subscribers is beyond me.

  • @cassandraralph5906
    @cassandraralph5906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you so much for sharing this video, I learned a lot about Karl Marx today!

  • @laser__unicorn
    @laser__unicorn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    How ironic that unemployment followed him throughout his entire life...

    • @trollpolice
      @trollpolice 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      just like bernie sanders

    • @Varkhal218
      @Varkhal218 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He was physically ill most of his life.

    • @1234lavaking
      @1234lavaking 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean, it’s not incredibly likely that a very wealthy person would be such a vicious champion for the rights of the poor

    • @IronMaiden1164
      @IronMaiden1164 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sod off

    • @Jason918114
      @Jason918114 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Such is often the life of a writer.

  • @Westley6578
    @Westley6578 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great man

  • @tonyscott1658
    @tonyscott1658 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I enjoyed the irony of the commercial/advertisement in the middle of this presentation. :-)

  • @mirzarafi9595
    @mirzarafi9595 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simon, please make a biography episode about karl steffanson
    Attempt #13

  • @itayamsalem925
    @itayamsalem925 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    A man writing a DIY hate the rich while never holding a single job in his whole entire life

    • @Riasat202
      @Riasat202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "If only Itay was rich instead of simping for the rich." - your mom

    • @shawnyadeadhomie
      @shawnyadeadhomie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and that's relevant how?

    • @alcoholfree6381
      @alcoholfree6381 ปีที่แล้ว

      This defines an angry bum! Easier to carp than work. His ideas have never panned out in reality.

    • @alexmancera6566
      @alexmancera6566 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ⁠@@alcoholfree6381I hope you know a giant wave of youngsters are seeing things in a different light. Many young people locked out of opportunity for financial mobility by the same capitalist politicians that decry Marx and fear monger over the left gives nice cannon fodder for anti capitalist sentiments. You can call Marx an angry bum, maybe he was. But his works are so influential even today, new comrades spring up quietly all around us :)

    • @buff114
      @buff114 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Writer, and editor in Chief are jobs and the government shut down most of the places he worked at, he was also arrested and banished several times. He was a political refugee and was spied on by the secret police. That's why he was supported by his friend. Europe during that time had mass unemployment because of mechanization, an issue socialist philosophers warned about, this contributed to millions of deaths through starvation. It's almost like capitalism was horrific, he wrote about it, and you make up BS proving how ignorant you are.

  • @PutBoxOnMe
    @PutBoxOnMe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You should make a video about Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / Lewis Carroll

  • @UtsukushiSekai
    @UtsukushiSekai 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Trying to decide which watch to order from Vincero! Thinking Chrono S

  • @wheelskis
    @wheelskis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    from the Marx quote, "the greatest financial difficulties are preferable to public begging" then directly to a message about a flashy watch... priceless.

    • @wheelskis
      @wheelskis 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      i don't know why I thought this would be original.. scrolled down afterwards to see countless watch comments. The timing of the add is immaculate, though.

  • @jeffreyfiegen1538
    @jeffreyfiegen1538 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Now, let's get back to Marx"
    Ad instantly plays

  • @Maperator
    @Maperator 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why do i get the felling i want to shave Simon's beard😂😂😂

  • @Trout-kc2xr
    @Trout-kc2xr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love my Vincero watch, really high quality! I've had it for 3 months and wear it everyday, absolutely a great watch.

  • @pasttenz2568
    @pasttenz2568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Literally no word on his blatant EXPLOITATION of working class people. He frequently didn’t pay bills to the butcher, grocer, etc. He sponged off of Engels who made his money as a factory owner. Hypocrisy doesn’t quite cut it. That’s not to mention that he shagged his maid, siring a bastard son that he never acknowledged, while never paying her a penny...

  • @Genericdruid
    @Genericdruid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "this video was made possible by Vincero luxury watches"

  • @goosesaladman8546
    @goosesaladman8546 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "You say you want a revolution. Well, you know."

  • @zicada7661
    @zicada7661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Delicious irony opening the video about Marx with an ad about fancy watches.

  • @JohnDoe-fo3fn
    @JohnDoe-fo3fn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    4:24
    He shoulda learned to code.

    • @jeffschlarb4965
      @jeffschlarb4965 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Medical coding, or Computer coding?

  • @neilpavett3413
    @neilpavett3413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love the fact that Karl Marx was a bit of waster as a young man.

  • @games2try863
    @games2try863 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    starting the video by a luxury watch ad... very appropriate :D

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 19:47

  • @brianrodgers4636
    @brianrodgers4636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the way he mispronounces Hegel's name!

  • @theeyebro
    @theeyebro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    A surprisingly good and unbiased video, good job!

    • @Kyle_Schaff
      @Kyle_Schaff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *The Eyebro*
      He flubbed the _On The Jewish Question_ a bit, and he brushed over _Capital_ calling _The Communist Manifesto_ his magnum opus. But I was actually pretty surprised, too. I do cringe though when he mispronounces names like Hegel (such a fundamental philosopher). It makes me feel like he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I know he doesn’t write the show, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth

    • @theeyebro
      @theeyebro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Kyle_Schaff true, but when you expect them to just completely screw him over like the other communists they have covered this is a very positive surprise

    • @hmhamam_ham
      @hmhamam_ham 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Kyle_Schaff When he said "Rouge" for Ruge instead of "Roo-guh" I was completely thrown off.

  • @geoffmeakin3139
    @geoffmeakin3139 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who owns a watch these days? - Great video as always

  • @pwp8737
    @pwp8737 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    little slip of the tongue; Moritz died in 1819 not 1919

  • @knutthompson7879
    @knutthompson7879 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It is an interesting question as to what Marx would think of the Soviet and Maoist dictatorships. They weren't quite what he had in mind. Brutal strongmen and gangs simply used the promise of working class revolution to do what they have always done.

    • @socialnetjerk
      @socialnetjerk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marx was in fact very vague about actions to take for him the transition to first socialism and then kommunism must be a natural process.....the problem in russia was that they where pretty mutch a fudal country right to World war one they never had the same capitalist economy the western european countrys had they had a diskussion inside the russian communist party what where the right actions to take and how to get to a socialist transition without a capitalist class one side voted to go the democratic route the other one voted for a violent skip from fudalism to socialism without the natural transition they voted and the Bolsheviks came out on top thats hat the name Bolsheviks mean it means majority the other part was later known as the Mensheviks that meinst minorety and they Split up......the thing with marks writings is that he is pretty mutch vague about actions to take it was more about economy relations

  • @BomChickyBowWow
    @BomChickyBowWow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Do a bio on MICHAEL COLLINS of Ireland.

    • @alancotter4825
      @alancotter4825 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Cloyne man himself, legend.

    • @foodhaul8382
      @foodhaul8382 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lord Jagged explain that?

    • @foodhaul8382
      @foodhaul8382 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lord Jagged why did the brittish pay the IRA to chuck them out of NI?

    • @foodhaul8382
      @foodhaul8382 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lord Jagged people will start taking kindness for weakness you should start charging them, Britain's bankrupt it cant afford to fund both sides of a war against itself.

  • @lucianoosorio5942
    @lucianoosorio5942 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Look dummy, sharing money is the communist vision. Engel’s bank was the crank that got the revolution spinning.” Karl Marx

  • @Victory987
    @Victory987 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    His London Tomb keeps getting vandalised.

    • @dawnklug6986
      @dawnklug6986 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It should be destroyed completely.

  • @bambambigelowlove5307
    @bambambigelowlove5307 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do one on Czar nicholas ii

  • @normiukkeli3739
    @normiukkeli3739 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Do mannerheim next please

    • @lmaozedong2259
      @lmaozedong2259 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gold play button with no videos oh yes please

  • @matejeber91
    @matejeber91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Das Kapital was published in Hamburg in 1867! It is even written on the first page of the book. Check 16:48 !

  • @robertpalumbo9089
    @robertpalumbo9089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great watch ads in the karl marx biography

  • @batzorigvaanchig6358
    @batzorigvaanchig6358 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    People seem to like to ignore that his criticisms of capitalism are still extremely valid and need to be solved either within the framework of capitalism with a system like social democracy or outside of capitalism in accordance with something like anarcho-syndicalism or democratic socialism.

    • @Comintern1919
      @Comintern1919 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hm, I don't quite agree, he certainly pointed out some mistakes, but far from all his points are valid.
      Also, "Democratic Socialism"? That's still socialism, and socialism has proven to not work and always end in chaos.
      Agree though that problems do need to be tackled, favorably withing the Capitalist framework, as you referenced.

    • @md-lc8gq
      @md-lc8gq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Comintern1919 Socialism works, look up Mondragon and other cooperatives

    • @noobicalnoob8073
      @noobicalnoob8073 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Comintern1919Democratic Socialism has few examples of national implementation throughout history. Democratic Socialism would be a Liberal democracy where the workers control the means of production and private property is still allowed. If it hasn't really been implemented I wouldn't say we have proof of whether it works or not. I would imagine it would but also be subject to change since it would allow other parties presumedly to take power if they lose an election. It's sort of similar to Social Democracy that does work and is prevalent in the Nordic countries. How well it works is the part that can be debated.

  • @beleagueredbeluga5228
    @beleagueredbeluga5228 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I think that Marx was a bum, and that his works are absolute garbage. For example, The Communist Manifesto isnt even good as toilet paper! But its important to have these insights into the lives of historical figures, no matter how controversial.

    • @foxfx8340
      @foxfx8340 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have you read any of his works?

  • @arachnesiofra1735
    @arachnesiofra1735 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The irony of interrupting your presentation on Marx, in the middle, to hock some bougie watches.