POLITICAL THEORY - Karl Marx
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- Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out certain of its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.
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“Most people agree that we need to improve our economic system somehow. It threatens our planet through excessive consumption, distracts us with irrelevant advertising, leaves people hungry and without healthcare, and fuels unnecessary wars. Yet we’re also often keen to dismiss the ideas of its most famous and ambitious critic, Karl Marx. This isn’t very surprising. In practice, his political and economic ideas have been used to design disastrously planned economies and nasty dictatorships. Frankly, the remedies Marx proposed for the ills of the world now sound a bit demented. He thought we should abolish private property. People should not be allowed to own things. At certain moments one can sympathise. But it’s like wanting to ban gossip or forbid watching television. It’s going to war with human behaviour. And Marx believed the world would be put to rights by a dictatorship of the proletariat; which does not mean anything much today. Openly Marxist parties received a total of only 1,685 votes in the 2010 UK general election, out of the nearly 40 million ballots cast…”
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Watching this on the most capitalistic medium ever.
You realise most of what we have now was paid for by old systems? For example, many factories that allowed for the set up of modern businesses were paid for by slavery?
Hmm Hmm And what do you have to back up that claim? Because most slave owners financially were fucked after the civil war and statistically millionaires today earn their money not inherit it.
It really didnt hv to be tho
@@eskanda3434 myth, debunked my friend. Look it up
@@hmmhmm9017 found the idiot communist
Fun Fact: Nobody in the comments have read Marx's books
Tried. They're boring as hell
@@seriousbees it's economic books , what did you expect.
@@seriousbees I read the manifesto when I was 16 years old and was a commie idiot, now I am super anti-communist and my country is voting for an actual commie (Communist party)
They are zealots and pro-terrorism
@@dieglhix which country is it
@@fusionid6647 chile
the parts of video
01:23 modern work is alienated
02:26 modern work is insecure
02:59 workers get paid little while
Capitalist get rich
03:49 capitalism is very unstable
05:20 capitalism is bad for capitalist
Thank you
you are a prince
beautiful & helpful annotations to sum up the main points :' D I wish commenters like you a life of pure happiness
Modern work is alienated: Educate yourself on a occupation that improves your society.
Modern work is insecure: Become skilled at that occupation.
Workers get paid little while Capitalist get rich: Hardships in the production of a quality product the people or a organization wants to consume results in being paid. When the occupation is harder then other occupations results in being paid more then others.
Capitalism is very unstable: Does China society seem stable to you? Its called the Peoples Republic of China.
Capitalism is bad for capitalist: Capitalists would continue capitalism if it was bad and it takes a lot of critical thinking and understanding of reality to be a rich capitalists.
Someone that earns what they have appreciate what they have, someone who is given what they have appreciate nothing. Being called a Marxist is a insult.
This confirms that all the things that made me depressed actually were valid reasons even though everyone just says suck it up
There's no such thing as a valid reason to allow yourself to be depressed. To resign your happiness because of the worlds economic structure is pathetic. If you're upset about the state of things, do something. You don't have to start a communist revolution (zero chance of that working in the west anyway), you can start your own business and operate it in closer accordance to what you consider to be 'fair'. Be the change you want to see in the world.
@@olivercheeseman8227 if the economic structure makes it so that it’s difficult for human needs to be met, I think it’s valid to be depressed about that. I think you can also do what’s in your control to make your situation work as best as it can for you. You can do both. You can be upset and take action. To call me or anyone that feels this way is pathetic is ignorant and sad. I get it. You don’t want to be a victim so bad that you don’t hold the people that hurt you accountable. Being sad does not mean you can’t take action. They’re not mutually exclusive. When you deny yourself the ability to feel, you make it easier for toxic systems to remain in power. It’s mindsets like yours that have kept us from making more progress towards a more kind and loving community and economic structure which is totally possible.
@@olivercheeseman8227 Dude you are saying like if my boss makes me work 12 hr and gives me 1/4 of the wage, instead of getting depressed and sad I should do something to avoid thinking about it.
It's just you are defending my boss, not me. His mental health not mine.
His interests are opposed to mine.
@@olivercheeseman8227 that's a hell of a way to tell everyone you don't understand mental health or exploitation.
There's no such thing as a valid reason to be depressed... Holy shit that's one hell of a statement.
I take it you've never grafted through school, work and uni just to find out that you can't have a job because you don't live in the right area or come from the right family. You strike me as someone that thinks that meritocracy actually exists and that we should all pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
@@northernnaysayer1240 I said there's no valid reason to allow yourself to be depressed, not that there isn't ever a valid reason to be depressed. There are a hundred 'valid' reasons for a person to be depressed in this world. You won't be happy until you can find the reasons not to be depressed and in order to do that you need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. It's your life, no one is here to fix it for you.
Abandon all hope ye who scrolls down further.
This is officially the greatest youtube comment i've ever read. You sir, deserve a medal.
If they embrace Marxism, they have.
I'm going down
I agree with you man I'm chaotic neutral fuck both extremes we must meet in the middle
This comment is RIGHT after the comment of the apologetic marxist stating “i predict this will be a level headed comment section” and now im afraid to keep scrolling
"Capitalism? More like Crapitalism am I right ladies..."
-Karl Marx (probably)
@abcd3625 I admire Biden and Harris for different reasons, but we are on the same team. NO TRUMP, NO KKK, NO FASCIST USA!
@@hollandkroese7427 What a clown! KKK was founded by Democrats. How stupid and ignorant can you be ? Do you watch any news channel other than CNN and MSNBC?
@abcd3625 yes vote Trump and completely eradicate the European Marxists ideologies from the USA. MAGA. #Trump2020🇺🇸
Goddamn I didn't this thread would go to shit that quickly.
@@abyssalknight4081 For real. All I said was that I admire the same leaders, but for a different reason. Then somehow I became the bad guy.
Since my childhood, I used to believe that hagrid from harry potter is karl marx.🙂
Given JK Rowling's political views I think he would have been written a whole lot let sympathetic if that was the case.
"You're a Fascist, Harry!"
😅
Who is watching in 2024 👍
“The two wrote each other adoring poetry”
I see nothing but the best homies
They had a bromance before it was cool.
"the two wrote each other adoring poetry"
engels: yo my fucking wife died
marx: rip can i get some cash my rent is due
engels: what the hell is wrong with you
Friends Friends Friends..
no homo
And they were roomates...
I came here because in political arguements someone often calls a person a Marxist, then a replier tells them they would bet a million dollars that the person doesn't have any understanding of Marxism whatsoever. I think I see their point now.
Literally why I came here. Always hear it tossed around as an insult but seeing this I can't help but think of the quote from A Princess Bride. "I do not think that word means what you think it means"
The issue isn't so much about Marx having an influence on people, if you're a philosopher, of course, that's going to happen. The real insult is postmodern marxism that's cancer.
Illogical Communism = NOT WHAT WE WANT OR NEED
Jon Sage here to learn. Can you explain your position?
@Coal Fire b-b-b-but that's the wrong kind of socialism anon!!!
@Coal Fire You're openly admitting you're a Nazi? Also I'll have you know that in the 1930s the first people sent to concentration camps by National Socialists (Nazis) were 150k communist party members and workers.
10 years ago I dismissed Marxism without knowing a single thing about it but now I cant help but agree with ideologies that reflect my own.
Me too , my grandfather and grandmother were communist leaders , I used to totally dismissed their beliefs, but now , myself I'm a communist , lal salam ❤
That’s what education is all about: being able to criticize your former views and think about them more. I don’t agree with a lot of Marx’s points but he had the right idea.
@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 YOU MIGHT AS WELL SMOKE CRACK
@@robertbaratheon2193 no he did not, he was unable to see where the means of production would head in the future. He assumed so many things about human condition, that he failed to calculate that humans will never be satisfied in a forced equal system. We could easily keep the positives of Marxism, without the negatives of communism. But people are too ignorant to understand that we can create a system where the means of production belong to everybody, without needing a form of central government. The very notion of work would change to where everyone would be gaining the benefits of their work immediately. If Marx could see the effects of communism, if he had any decency, he would blow his own brains out. Mao, Lenin, Stalin, hitler, Mussolini, African warlords, Putin, the modern Democratic Party all are followers of Marx, and all of these people have made the world a worst place.
@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 konnintolo marxism corrct eh kaani,it s not going to help in real life,this marxism will actually cause more loss than the capitalism,also iam not complete ly with capitalism,a balance of bothe the ideologies would be beneficial for the structure of the society
Marx also understood that capitalists are also victims of the system. Capitalism makes capitalists raise their profit more and more as an obligation, if they not do it, a more ruthless capitalist will take their place.
Marx also proposes liberty to capitalists on the Communist manifesto.
"if they not do it, a more ruthless capitalist will take their place.
..", how does that work? A company does not require increasing profits to survive, it just needs to make profit
@@donthasselthehoff5753 your point of view is quite utopic, that's because you're taking one key factor of capitalism, the competition.
Let's take one example to make things easier to picture, Uber and Lift, two competitors.
What will decide who will beat the other? Growing profit. They need it in order to adopt more and more techniques that increase productivity, decrease costs, sabotage their competitors. In the case of those 2 examples, the one who profits more can invest more in advertisigment, offer more discounts, have more drivers, monopolize the market, decrease the payment of the drivers without consequences, and so on...
This is reality for any kind of business, even if you have a small grocery store. Competition will always force you to look for ways to increase your profit, otherwise your business will collapse. You can see that reality applies to countries as well, if the GDP doesn't grow, the economy crashes, that force us to always increase productivity, taking us to a path that makes us consume more resources than the amount of resources our planet can recover by itself, that is why capitalism is the system responsible for all of our troubles with the environment.
@@donthasselthehoff5753 For more detailed explanation about the flaws of Capitalism, I recommend you to check two channels out: Hakim and Noncompete. They're alwesome.
@@dudebros6122 What you said has no ground in reality. China is already more technologically advance and cientifically productive than US. URSS were also on that path.
Technology is developed by necessity, and it's more of a product of cooperation than competition.
Imagine if instead competing among themselves and keeping data from being shared, the pharmaceutical industries cooperate with one another to develop the COVID vaccine, we could have that vaccine ready on months in advance, saving millions of lives.
@@dudebros6122 yes, your ideas have no bounds with reality, China is not just technologically advanced and scientifically productive than US, it's also socially superior since China is the solo responsible for the fall of the poverty rate, lifting more than 800 million people out of poverty.
It's funny, if low wages bring advancement, why isn't any African country technologically advanced? Or India? Both places have practically starving wages, however, the average wage in China is higher than Portugal.
If you call a economy under total control of it's government a capitalist economy, than you don't know what a capitalist economy is. Chinese government controls the financial system completely and have practically control over it's big industries.
Someone forgot to turn off the capitalist ads during this video.
Yeah, they are a plague, its the religion we live in, capitalism....sigh
Its demonetized
@@shabegsan there are ads
No there are not might be Because i am from India and here it is not monetized 😑
In India they are doing crazy stuff lately.
@@shabegsan are you by any chance using an adblocker?
8:20 "The two men even wrote each other adoring poetry."
The modern version of that is sending your homie your mixtape.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣
😂
I'd look at some of those poems if I were you, it might give you a far darker understanding of the goals of Marxism.
@@mattfm101
_I love communism_
I always find it sad that Marx is seen as the grandfather of (dictatorship) communism. He rarely talks about "communism" he describes flaws in a capitalistic system. In acknowledging that these problems exist, we can work on improving a capitalistic system. But Marx=communism=bad is all most extremistic capitalists can think of...
ikr
you realize that communism and dictatorship are two completely separate things right
@@KellyRockefeller You realized that what you replied is exactly what he said right?
Marx is the father of dictatorship communism because he was explicit in describing it and Lenin was astute in playing out that vision via state capitalism. Your position is one of somebody who isn't familiar with Marx's works from having not read them.
The flaws which Marx contended of capitalism invoked the fallacy of treating externalities as the fundamental return of the capitalist mode, whereas he never indicated the wits or numeracy to actually analyze economics at the level of his contemporaries (like JS Mill, for example).
@@KellyRockefeller Communism requires what any modern person would regard as dictatorship. Certainly marxist communism requires dictatorship of the proles in lieu of "free" states which we'd term as liberal democracy. Liberal democracy requires a capitalist mode, on the other hand. The term "liberal" and Marx's "free" (of CotGP part 4) refer to economic liberalism like all of the nations in history to have achieved economic development, high wages and great per capita wealth.
As an employee getting overworked and exploited at my job I agree with his philosophies 100%
Except he was best friends with a Capitalist factory owner who helped write his ideas whilst exploiting the worker and being a giant racist.
Infact they both were, regularly.
@@LlibertarianGalt Engels wasn’t a factory owner Engels was a son of a factory owner. Matter of fact his first ever protest was organizing a march against his dads factory :)
@@simplelife6318 Interesting, I thought he had inherited his fathers wealth and businesses during Marxs life?
I know he was the only reason Marx's works were ever finished, atleast. Still, mad racist haha.
@@LlibertarianGalt his dad was racist Marx and Engels weren’t. One of their biggest arguments was about the slavery in the US and segregation. They both didn’t have anything to do with their dads wealth however Engels worked in his dad’s newspaper studio and helped Marx couple times also Engels married the proletariat that spit in his dads face, but they never had anything to do with their dads factory. Also they used their dads gatherings and parties to fight the capitalist, this is how they were able to form their first party “workers unite” in the English parliament
@@simplelife6318 Yeah both Marx and Engles were massive racists and talked about people of different races with disgust. Especially the slavs.
"Dark humour is like health care, not everyone gets it" - USA
Dude, in India ppl often comment - "sarcasm is like electricity in India, not everyone gets it"
Dark humour is like a dead child... it never gets old.
@Matt Justice You don’t trust the organization tasked with sabotaging and destroying communism and democracy around the world wherever it opposes U.S. interests?
@Matt Justice Define greatness so we don’t have confusion, and when you say communist I assume you mean socialist
Are you suggesting that this video is meant to be humorous?...
"The two wrote each other adoring poetry"
_Now hang on a minute there, they what?_
They were the kind of “homies” that kissed eachother goodnight
@@vesper9691 "Oh my God, they were roommates".👁👄👁
Historians: And they were the best of friends
@@tenyangxjw i know one wasn't pretty cuz i aint ever seen two pretty best friends
@@j1gglypuff42 u must know that this comment made me scream. Thank u for that
I think you just saved me a few hours of crying over my sociological theory readings thanks king
my situation exactly :' D hope you get A++++ fellow learner
i really like the amount of space there is in your vocal recording and how not bass boomy it is. it would be perfect if it wasnt panned left slightly
I keep scrolling down to find the hell foretold in this comment section but all I come cross is comments describing the hell foretold in this comment section.....
Same xddddd
Sort be new
Sort by new or read the replies
The irony that your comment has become another comment describing the hell foretold in this comment section that I'm scrolling past to find said hell comments.
- Comment describing hell foretold
Could we just appreciate his pronunciation for a moment? His british english is on point and to hear him pronunce those german words this perfectly makes me want to develop my pronuncation. And german is my first language just to say
lol I know right
Alain De Botton grew up in Switzerland which probably helped him along the way.
also french he´s pretty good at. I just learned it in school but it sounds pretty natural
you are probably intrested in communication rather than Content
Jordan peterson best on Marxism th-cam.com/video/2-TadcPpIVA/w-d-xo.html
I don't know anything about politics, but this sounds the closest to how I have come to think.
The world is full of struggle and greed and we all have to do a bunch of really useless stuff for at least 8 hours a day 5 days a week to afford the lowest they have to offer. Life is not worth it in these conditions.
We all deserve to be free.
I think that we're god experiencing some hard times. I think the devil is that wickedness that made this structure.
So much division among ourselves.
We're all the same thing in the same place. I hope we can circulate love instead of currency someday. We'd do the work for eachother and everyone would have what they need. We have everything and all the knowledge, now all we gotta do is love eachother.
And it will be some day, we as people have the power to make it happen. It will be extremely hard and it might fail, but if we succeed the world will be a much better place.
Continue to educate yourself, that's my advice
Marx's criticism of Capitalism is good, but you should look at different views before coming to conclusion, just because his solution doesn't seem to be the best, as the video stated at the end. His ideas have been used to do very destructive things. Im no expert at all, but I'm just saying
Yeah, this will work in a small community but not on the scale of a nation. It‘s utopian, won‘t work. Some
have tried, with catastrophic outcomes. That doesn‘t mean we can and should correct some aspects of our capitalist system.
Marxist beliefs are immoral. Bad economics is immoral and marx and marxists are bad economics or anti-economics. Idealist government is immoral. Classist sociology is immoral. There's no excuse to entertain marx in 2022. Read Marx's bullshit yourself and not this cherry picking from marxists. Marxist have to lie for the horrible things marx asserts and for the fact that they have an unchanged and unchangeable ideology from the bigoted, authoritarian 1840s Germany.
@@hamis490 I study and am pretty heavily involved in politics. My preferred system is a healthy balance of both capitalism and socialism. Basically you have a strong social safety net, like what the Scandinavian countries have. Rights to healthcare, education, high wages, housing, etc. These countries have proven to be the most successful systems, and their citizens are among the happiest in the world, though I admit they aren’t perfect. No system is. The US would benefit from an economic bill of rights, like what FDR was an advocate of.
Does anyone know who produced the drawings at 7:28 ?
“the two wrote eachother adoring poetry” historians say they were good friends.
I know imagine people use to actually care about their friends.
@@mishasruros7633 let me guess, you're straight?
@@asiangf1384 this is getting ridiculous. Why can't two guys be nice to each other do friendly things without people like you questioning their sexuality
smells a little homosexual if you ask me
@@sn0wblake duh. i was being sarcastic cause whenever 2 people are homosexual historians say they are “close friends” to deny their homosexual relationship
I swear to god that everyone forgets that Marx was not a politician or even a leader, he's a philosopher like Adam Smith and theirs works were revisioned or expanded.
@Fellow Æthelweard bait
As far as influence goes he has no equal this side of Jesus or Muhammed. His believers think of him as a scientific prophet.
No. He is a politician.
Marx was not a philosopher. He fashioned himself some "revolutionary" and insisted on that leading role in the agitation for his political economic concept. He was a critic of philosophers in that he professed he knew better than Hegel, capitalist economists and other factions of socialists or anarchists of his time.
And the application of his ideas led to the deaths of millions of innocents.
Number 4, Karl Marx never said profit is theft. It was Proudhon who said property was theft. Karl Marx actual argued against that point. Karl Marx made a distinction between theft and exploitation.
anybody know what program they used to animate this in?
Karl Marx is justifiably famous as a political philosopher but noone ever mentions his sister Onya, inventor of the starting pistol
Get set, go! 😂
damn Onya Marx
😂😂😂😂😂
Well done
FUCK I GOOGLED THIS
Interesting. Or as the Germans would say Intervestishgarborlishtingvargendugensteinunch
interessant
@@ggguitar. Hey! Get out of here with your boring facts!
Ganz geil
Good thing this can't be deemed racist since it refers to white ppl
@@AbelR91 Only white people are racist, and all white people are racist, so when a white person is racist to a white person the racism cancels out, it is the only way a white person can't be racist.
Why is this video not in the School of Life's Political Theory playlist?
"ursprüngliche Akkumulation" makes more sense in its direct translation as "original accumulation": the accumulation stays close to its origin - the founder of the business, the Gründer - the entrepreneurs.
If only education was this open and free, not picking bias but rather just a respectful educational discussion along being accessible to the public...
I really dont think this video is unbiased. I think a lot of things 'seem' unbiased or 'free thinking' but are not
it is; pretty much everywhere except in US and some other few weird places LOL
But the Democrats and leftists want to educate your children in camps and force their ideologies down your throat!!
@@hwdareu5848 what are you on about??
@Quack quack In an actually socialist system there are little to no taxes and yet they can pay for your healthcare, housing and pretty much everything you need. See Albania, the USSR or GDR. Albania specifically abolished all taxes for a time and was still able to continue to prosper, the fact of the matter is that the free education isn't the problem but Capitalism is.
Everyone in the comment section has now evolved to a certified Economist
I'd sooner trust any random person in this comment section that opposes marxism on economy than I would a dumbass marxist. At least the former doesn't have a long track record of utter failure.
@@LennyCash777 Capitalism literally has periodic crises as a direct result of over-production, this was clearly addressed in the video.
Capitalism is only an economic structure, whereas Marxism is a political, economical, and social dictatorship. Bolshevik Lives Matter @
@@donrutter6550 What? Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis using dialectical materialism. It is in no way a dictatorship lol. You're confusing it with the dictatorship of the proletariat (DotP) - a justified dictatorship lead by the workers as a means of suppressing the bourgeoisie. The DotP is a transition phase between capitalism and socialism, which will then give way to communism.
@TheOfficialUnofficial how much have you actually studied economics or Marx's work? Or are you dismissing it entirely because of what other people have told you to think?
Not enough is ever written about Hegel. Marx studied Hegel as did many other socialists.
" Few of us need to work, because the modern economy is so productive" " No private property or inherited wealth"
At least no idiots in the comment section tried to blame Marx for Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and what else.
"But Mao read and quoted Marx!"
So what? Mao also read and quoted the U.S Constitution, what does that make Mao? American?
Pendejo Every sistem has it's flaws. But to state the things above it's INSANE. I am living in Romania. Please ask my grandparents and my parents, and they will thel you how SHITY it was in the comunism time. People who make the video don't know anything about the aplicability of these STUPID and IDIOTIC ideas. Equality? Yeah, shit no. Rich and poor people existed under Marxism too. That's a dream. Between Capitalism with it's flaws and Marxism I WILL CHOSE CAPITALISM. Truth be told Marxism it's Diabolical.
Marius Bagu Yeah, but Marxism isn't really a "thing," anymore than what other philosophers were trying to do. Marx was trying to diagnose the problems of the industrial revolution which he witnessed on a day to day basis. Where he was entirely naive was his solution, but that's a long way from what Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao advocated.
Let me know when you actually witness capitalism at work as a WHOLE system, because in America we only have corporatism, capitalism only shows up in spots like drugs and prostitution.
Marius Bagu well ask people of former Yugoslavia, and they will tell you it was better. So by that communism>capitalism. You cant just lable an idea by the one application of it. Esspecialy since Romanian or USSRs socialism isnt even socialism... So if i call myself a duck, that doesnt make me a duck.
Pendejo Mao didn't establish a Constitutional Republic in line with the Founding Fathers. He established a Communist regime. I get your point, you are trying to say that Mao read many political ideas, just like everyone who reads about politics, but in the end he settled on a Marxist ideology.
Sendobren Just like how none of the socialist experiments to date have anything to do with socialism. AmIrite?
lmfao...
Never read the comments section. You will only despair at humanity.
@M P you and me both
Both Marxists and capitalists are going to upvote your comment lmao
@@alfsink8321
Be a Free Savage
Sell cocaine to Capitalists
Sell opiates to the Socialists
Get money out of both Stupid Cults
@I$AA€ yea get up set cuss at comments free speech but what a waste of words when you could explain your belief's rather have that show hate toward some one else's and even if hey we're just being sarcastic. Cuss words are just not needed.
I came exclusively FOR the comments.
Did anyone notice the hidden hand of secret society in his photo? I didn't expect him to be one
WHat's the name of the painting at 4:17 ??
Kitchen Still Life with a Maid and Young Boy by Frans Snyders in mid 17th century
“Marx was born in trier Germany, and then soon joined the communist party” damn you really skipped a few things there...
What did you expect by a you tuber? A deep, complete, historical and philosofical lesson?
@@sirpente6651 lol he's not just a youtuber. Do your research.
@@sirpente6651 everyone makes mistake, what do you expect its youtube, if you really wanna learn this shit then go read some books.
Straight from his mother nipple, he Joined the communist party that he had yet to write about, while debt laden, a drunk, and ignored the welfare of his own kids. They call that socialism.
@Carrick Cullen Are you sure about that? My geography teacher is a scientist and a pretty powerful one ( he was a leader of some research or some shit) and what he told us are that most scientist says that lowering the CO2 emmision is necessary for us humans but that ''climate change'' as people say it is not true at all.. Earth since the begginning have suffered warming and ice age, and we're just passing in one.
Also something media that doesn't show is that although Artic Ice are melting, Antartic ice are just gaining more size..
Well I believe that people shouls recycle and use more eco friendsly things, but stop spreading bs and dont believe anythin that media says
Comments Synopsis: Everyone thinks no one else understands Communism as well as they do
Darthenator i don't
Perfect lol
@NPC#563.114.512.128 the count is actualized to 1 zilion last week, just marx himself
I think read 'the capital' is enough, the problem is: nobody did.
Love your profile picture. Hail to the Sith!
Humans are a valuable resource. While we don't need so many people working in menial positions as we have, that doesn't mean they should simply lay around. For our society to move forward we should be educating these people and putting the excess into research fields to push our boundary of understanding. This way we will progress more quickly through technology and medicine.
I think you’re hearing “leisure” through the capitalist lens. What Marx was saying, what Chomsky says and what all of the intellectuals in the study of humanism are saying is that when each human is valuable just for the fact that they exist, and their basic needs are met, there is a freedom to think, pursue their own interests and curiosities, and do so in a way that is valuable to them and thereby to society as a whole. When each of us understands our own value, not based on what work we can do, but based on empathy for the human existence, mental suffering decreases. In capitalist society, it is a privilege to pursue ideas, hobbies, goals, learning etc… When the members of society are free to explore what they have the ability to do, learn or have a passion for, innovation follows. As people are able to explore interests, learning takes place across multiple domains of human knowledge. The more people have multi-domain knowledge and skills the more innovation takes place. For instance look at the MIT Media Lab. Innovation is critical to moving forward - the survival of humankind on a planet we decimate. Along with this needs to be a movement toward secularism. Organized religion divides people. It’s tribalism. Humanism=One tribe. Also have to understand how ableism, which is a construct borne of capitalism, influences your ideas about what “work” all people should do.
True
There’s a resonant frequency around 230-40HZ that really bugs me on this.
His ideas of a classless society where never actually put in place, rather dictators destroyed the image of communism. While I'm not exactly a communist, a lot of his ideas reflect mine.
Might want to change your little image there to: Socialism: The radical idea of forcing people to share, at gun point.
+Fernando Marturet
Forcing the very hard-working rich people to share their hard-earned wealth with the lazy poor workers who are so useless in society, right?
You make me sick. If there are rich people, it is because they exploited poor people for their own interests. A gun to the head of a bourgeois is too soft. The trigger has a purpose and it is to be pulled. Splatter their brains and redistribute all the wealth they have stolen.
+Michael Nicolas ha!
+Michael Nicolas So rich people exploit the poor? so rich people put a gun to their heads and force them to work for them, because poor people have no freedom of choice in a free market? they can't quit? theh can't start their own business? Rich people don't work right, they're just exploiters? they don't spend hundreds of hours, capital, and take huge risks by starting their own businesses?
+Geoffrey Surratt Not an argument...
This is the first English video i see on youtube, where they pronounce German words the right way. sehr gut!
+SIP871 It's because the narrator is fluent in German
+tenochtitilian Who is the narrator? He sounds familiar.
It's that British guy from that British TV show.
well, not really. You can still hear that he is not german.
the narrator is Alain de Botton, he was born in Zurich in the german part of switzerland so it's not surprising he prononces it well ! :)
“at this point we should all be marxists…”
extremely loaded position to be held by anyone, because to be a “marxist” means to accept the tenets of the revolutionary faith. The horrors of communism are a feature, not a bug.
So what’s the right answer then, what do we need to do for society to run efficiently
That's the problem, we haven't figure that out yet, and there might not be a perfect solution due to the innate flaws of humanity.
‘The youtube comment section is a crazy place.’ -Karl Marx
"First" -Karl Marx
“I have never said that shit.” - Karl Marx
Robert Clawson stay triggered
Laces out
@Robert Clawson "fack off capitalist scum" -Karl Marx
Don’t know much about him but helped him in assassins creed syndicate
me too was fun quest for sure =0
Hahahahaha
😂😂😂
That's some dangerous and desperate brainwashing
@@seantv1510 what
3:16 "Primitive accumulation" não é isso. Acumulação primitiva é o processos de expropriação exclusiva dos seus meios de produção, quando ocorre a separação entre trabalho e propriedade, proletários e burguêses. As vezes me pergunto se vocês leem os autores sobre os quais gravam videos.
Is there a transcript of this video?
i live in trier, marx hometown.
and ironically, they opened up a "1 euro-store" straight under his flat.
😃😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Thats the best thing I read today! Poor, Marx...!
You could power a whole town with all that spinning he must be doing in his grave.
Then charge the town for it
@@sebastianduran2022 but with a discount! :D That would be more capitalist of you!
@@sebastianduran2022 Fine work
Sebastian Duran can I help you market that
I think that "greed" are often the result of our upbringing itself. Since childhood, we are often told that yes, the purpose of life is to get rich
For example, if our parents worked in a shoe factory, we are often expected to work hard and own a factory ourselves
This in turn made us choose a "better" and more "financially stable" jobs in order to fullfil the expectations. Which led us to abandon what we actually enjoyed to do.
its more biological rather than cultural cause we had wars to get more land 1000s of years ago
@@Chris-tl1kh wdym by biological? Are you talking about the Freudian theory that human motives are passed down through ancestry. Which is simply wrong.
@@kapital6501 no that we need hierarchy to live cause we are serotonin based life forms
So what's better ? Communism which leaves most equally poor due to low or no incentives to get more or capitalism which drives you to get more innovative in your earnings .
@@cyanidegamingclipz7503 None of them. They're both shit.
BTW I'm student of political science, but i don't understand it deeply, i want to study this from very basic then I'll understand.
I love history subject but unfortunately I'm not eligible to opt. That subject , and my second preference was political . And i opt. This for masters. 😐🤗
A nice short induction to some interesting propositions by a famous philosopher. Future generations of humans living under capitalist systems would regret not being aware of those propositions.
As a native german I have to say: your german pronounciation is right on point 👌🏻
Is there such a thing as a posh German accent vs a peasant accent?
@@GrothendiecksWish Yes
@@GrothendiecksWish There is one posh accent and quite a few peasent accents
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Karl Marx: misunderstood by both his followers and his opponents
awwwwwww gulag
Conor Hoffman What the fuck?
This is absolutely undeniable true. People who follow him act as if he found the solution, when he really only identified the problems. People who oppose him brand him as commie scum. Both are wrong.
"The Problem of Marxism are the Marxists"
"One thing I can definitely say: I am not a Marxist"
I think these two qutes illustrate quite well, what Karl Marx himself thought about his followers.
somehow the philosophy twisted and released some demented sense of hive mentality in people. probably a result of systematic in breeding. its an inevitable result of controlled culture. money still holds a value in the effort to control the abilities of others to acquire certain levels of social status, or luxurial status, but which is more important? you need one, the other appears to be social profiteering. apparently, you take away the ability to profit off of a life, and you are a communist…there is something missing in between. there is a path to nirvana, kung fu, utopia. but its a blend of it all. unifying the diverse intellectual mind, through individuality. but doing so is challenging. its true the flaws of capitalism are far too many, and the blends of other governing systems results in the depended donorship of capitalists. so what do we do? but sniff out a simple problem and attempt to resolve it subtly there?. or create a recyclatory system of governance, blending all forms after we have unified the mentality of individualism in society. its not about communism, but more about social racism in all hierarchal senses of that word. we have doctors profiteering from life and death, no matter their causality or circumstance are expected to a duty and profit from it by contract. leaving a practice seem strictly infallible by chance occurrence. humans lack consistency. no wound is the same. but we have cats killed for their owner's lack of wealth. horses put down for broken legs. cattle slaughtered in the systematic structures of the holocaust, and yet humans believe in capitalism as the evil to solve all evil. communism started as an idea that takes the prodigy, and lets everyone live that life. but thats not possible, people have a thesos, and i believe that as individuals, the thesos for each person is different. a seed becomes a tree, a baby becomes a man, that man's individual thesos is the apples of his life and labors. some trees have many apples... why are we trying to make pears from apple trees and expecting them to be perfect, every time? i just want everyone to love their life, pursue a life that becomes representative of the definition of art, and to breed individuality. achieving that is difficult as there is lots of evil. so its like let the system that fights it now, keep fighting it. there are people being left behind, wronged in their free will. and you can't just start wars because someones been shot anymore, so then that grows to millions…and we have regret, and start governing the future based on the past, and when we regret this, govern the future on how we think we see the future, and this then creates a problem, and it seems more like people forget to just live in the now sometimes, and when you want everyone to do this, the people collapse as well. desire, regret, or passion. there are nice things to infinitely say. but we define evil in so many ways, that passion becomes a weapon, and judgement and righteousness…we have people following each and every trail, and so many ignoring them that victims are becoming weapons of distress to culture, and judgements that aren't rationally even there half the time. we have history of book burnings, translations, and changes to phrases that create power in an instance. and the peaceful forget that protection is a responsibility. instead of blending capitalism with communism. which is where its all apparently headed. like some pow camp. individuality isn't bad…so where do you go from there to construct a peaceful society without oppression or profiteering? obviously hive structure works for organizing society. but hive mentality creates hierarchal racism. its not about asking, why can't i be queen, as much as who am i, what can i do, and make happen. then pursuing that but in ethically unifiable manners. money obviously does some thing. it builds. it grows economies, and allows for orchestrated direction on a global scale. but socially it corrupts the ecosystem. it dissolves it. we can't keep solving problems with more problems if we want to actually solve the problem, even though ecosystems are structured problems of seemingly endless possible solutions and diversities. so there is a paradox.
Today i made the discovery that my teacher copies the transcripts of School of Life videos and puts them on the powerpoint presentations for class..
😂😂😂😂 He made a powerpoint presentation of Marx with the info of this video.. the exact thing 🤡🤡
As long as there is work, there will be classism, the only time when there will be no work would be an era of complete automation and that would be the time when the ultimate goal of the human society wouldn't be climbing up the corporate ladder but rather fixing the flaws and shortcomings in the economy like right of free food, shelter and education for all.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”- Frank Herbert. Complete automation will not free humanity of classism, humanity must free itself from classism before complete automation happens.
“Communism is when no iphone” - People who don’t own capital
communism is when government does things
@@trey3xxxxx no bro that’s socialism, communism is when government does a lot of things
@@pierrolunar8561 no, socialism is when vuvuzuela
@@jakes1566 the full name of the Nazis is national socialists. SOCIALISTS, those leftist nazis Marxists come here to destroy our country base on Christianity lord oh mighty they want to take away out Jesus who is totally white and american
@@mishlimon98 the nazis called themselves socialists because socialism was hella popular in Germany at the time and they needed to position themselves as populist. plus the nazis persecuted actual socialists and privatized more of the economy, which are two very unsocialist things
this taught me that marxist thought is so different and much more profound than soviet ideology
agree with russian guy
Results in reality
65 million in the People's Republic of China
20 million in the Soviet Union
2 million in Cambodia
2 million in North Korea
1.7 million in Ethiopia
1.5 million in Afghanistan
1 million in the Eastern Bloc
1 million in Vietnam
150,000 in Latin America
Allow these numbers that all were once real human beings hopefully teach you more about communism.
Socialist in name, not in practice, just like my country Cuba, North Korea, Soviet Union, and countless more in Africa and Asia, all a farce.
Eternal entropy Yet none of those countries were truly communist, so no lesson there...
***** If a political and economic ideology after 100 years and many times attempted can't even attempt one proper shot at said ideology how bad does that look?
Also where it has been implemented as much as possible it has resulted in the complete degradation to the means of existence including human life.
Utopian dreams, covered in hippie flowers and rainbow unicorns hiding the true fact that communism is a nightmare that destroys the human spirit of productivity, incentives and the will to innovate.
Time for you to re-evaluate your beliefs kiddo.
Communism has never won, not even once and the reason why all so called communist nations can never be fully communist is because they all had to implement capitalism to some extent or else they completely collapsed and that applies to ALL of them that tried.
the politicians and newspapermen have never as much as glanced at a line written by Marx, and that the social scientists are satisfied with a minimal knowledge of Marx
People who dismiss Communism as a silly Utopian dream have never engaged in the literature. Engles wrote a book called "Socialism, utopian and SCIENTIFIC" in which he breaks down utopianism vs a scientific desctiption of Marxism.
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kalyan122333 what
Yay
Yeah, watching this isn't going to get you on a list. I mean you can go to urban outfitters and buy a Che Guevara shirt. Ironically, watching this video is supporting capitalism. You get an Ad for some big business and TH-cam makes money. Not to mention the channel makes money but that's a different thing considering it's just some guy making a video who owns no means of production.
this comment is stoopied.
not really
Marx was one of the earliest global economist with a deep understanding of the capitalism and its potential failure
However, people with greatest standard of living live in capitalist countries and people with the worst standard of living live in communist countries so....
Thankfully it's been a roaring success
马克思不是经济学家，诚然他对经济学理解要高出同时代不少经济学家，但只要稍加阅读过马克思的作品就会发现，在马克思的学说中“纯粹思辨的经院哲学家”和“私有制社会的庸俗经济学家”都是被批判的对象，马克思也从来不以经济学家或经济学工作者自居。比如马克思的经典著作之一《资本论》，看名字像一本经济学著作，但它的副标题叫“政治经济学品批判”。结论，用“经济学家”这个词指代马克思，本身是对马克思的思想的矮化与降维。
@@gavinbalajadia8697 你首先要明白不是共产主义或社会主义造成了贫穷与不公，恰恰是你口中的富裕的资本主义国家存在着贫穷与不公才造就了共产主义或社会主义思想。新事物的产生必然伴随旧事物的灭亡，而旧事物不会自己主动走向灭亡，需要新事物的“主动有为”。资本主义的社会阶级差别带来的不同阶级之间天差地别的贫富差距所造就的共产主义就是新事物，孕育共产主义的资本主义就旧事物，而旧事物会自己走向坟墓吗？旧事物会利用自己的先发优势对新事物斩尽杀绝，以维护自己的旧利益，这就是新旧之争，是资本主义与共产主义的斗争。资本主义早于共产主义，经济水平要高于后起的共产主义不是很正常吗？脱离历史发展的客观规律只以生活水平论不同制度优劣是得不出客观的结论的。
Except that it was a 1000 year old greek philosophy by the time he decided to re-write into class warfare.
I’m not any type of expert and there’s obviously pros and cons but I’m listening to some of this guys ideas and thinking they’re not that bad
His ideas aren't bad, what's bad is that his followers had no idea how to solve the problems he identified yet they decided to act upon it anyway.
@@None38389 I agree
Which is the best economic system of the World for Equality,Equity and Justice 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏????
I really appreciate all the efforts put in this video, but Marx's eyes creeped tf out of me 😭😭😭
Cause he was a creep
@@carpediem4887 Marx was one the greatest economist ever who has written what is known as the most influential political document in history. How is he a creep?
@@equinox2584 That is an opinion. My opinion is that he was a creep. Isn't it cool that we both get to have one?
@@carpediem4887 Very democratic of you, that is a key concept of socialism, welcome comrad.
@@carpediem4887 you can't just call someone a name and call it an "opinion" that's not how opinion works, he hasn't done anything that makes him a creep
Reading the comments will erase completely anything you may learnt from this video, and get you back to point zero.Avoid it at most cost
Or get more radicalized 😎
So anyone who disagrees with this video is automatically wrong and there is absolutely no way this video is wrong? Ok sure
@@the_awakening6044 dude this video is literally explaining a theory what the fuck do you mean "wrong" ? you can disagree with Marxism, but the video is almost entirely correct
This video is wrong because the only thing that has lifted people out of poverty has been capitalism. Even China while authoritarian to the people let their markets be free. It’s what freed them from starvation and moved them to an economic powerhouse. People want to be free which means enjoying the fruits of their labor - not giving the fruits of their labor to the lazy people who just want to write poetry and or consume hours of TH-cam lol. Marx was an entitled lazy rich kid who didn’t want to work and couldn’t wait for his parents to die to get their money.
@@micass3561 isnt marxism supposed to be some sort of evolution of capitalism? I havent read the communist manifesto but I want to do so soon. but what I got was for "it to work" capitalism needs to be at its peak. isnt it possible this might be a reason it failed to reach true communism in the past?
This guy is really good at saying German stuff
he gets so many concepts wrong it's really alarming. like commodity fetishism has nothing to do with what he was talking about.
This is a pretty bad summary of his thought. He didn't think "unemployment" was a positive good in the capitalist sense. He thought capitalist societies create unemployment because without unemployment laborers could demand higher wages without fear of replacement. He thought humans are alienated from their labor under capitalism but not that "unemployment" or "leisure" was the ideal. Rather, it's that we need a system in which leisure and labor are both enjoyable elements in every person's life.
He also didn't think that capitalism was efficient or productive. More productive than feudalism, yes, but he thought socialism would be more productive and more efficient because it would focus on use rather than exchange value. He didn't think you could just take the capitalist system and redistribute the products to satisfy all needs. He thought socialism would make society more productive, leading to a system of classlessness and universal material satisfaction.
Yeah. American workers oppressed and discriminated Chinese migrants in late 19th and early 20th, despite the fact that they bought the theory of Karl Marx. This is because the Chinese migrants were brought intentionally by the capitalists in America such that they can have a lower expense, but at the meantime the American workers were protesting against low wage in America. This eventually leaded American workers to blame everything on the Chinese migrants rather than the capitalists.
This can pretty much tell you the very nature of migration, multiculturalism, Neo-liberalism and even feminism in the West.
It's a structural problem that turns the low white male working class into far right and "racists", while low working class minority into far-left, women into rich class diggers and etc.
I'm from China and this is how most of leftists (communists) there thought about the Western politics nowadays.
It was a good summary tbh.
SuperHans how did that workout in the 20th century
a lot of new comments... guess we all being radicalised
TRUE
As the problems of the U.S keep increasing, there are more people looking for solutions in a variety of directions.
I just hope for free education so people won’t have to fear failure as much and instead embrace it as a part of learning
Not radicalised but woke up from the lies spread upon the masses for the last 100years
@@1drunk_dionysius aka radicalised
Communism can’t solve its incentivzation problem, and it always creates a power vacuum in which the last person you want to have power gets power. It has a stellar record of failure and death.
So he starts off by saying that "labor offers us a chance to externalize what's good inside us"… but then concludes with "men and women should have permanent option to ENJOY LEISURE"…. And in the middle of that, not a single thought for discipline. That explains a lot.
His sister was even much more famous but untold, Onya, an Olympic runner - that till this day her name is still mentioned at every start of each race.
"I HATE EVERY RULING CLASS I SEE, FROM BOURGEOIS-A TO BOURGEOISIE"
-KARL MARKS
"THEY FINALLY MADE A MONKEY OUT OF ME !!!"
-KARL MARKS
*Karl Marx
@@TheEnderRenderer it is misspelled intentionally
r/whoosh
maybe it's be better to put ""from bourgeois-A to bourgeoi-Z"
6:23 "An important aspect of Marx's work is that he proposes that there's an insidious, subtle way in which the economic system colors the sort of ideas that we end up having" - um subtle?!?!?! Have you seen how many BILLBOARDS you drive by on your way to work?!?!??!
Its subtle in the sense that those billboards are not telling you directly to do something, rather suggest it.
What is subtle is the way to lead people considering those billboards (and anything related to those) normal
And that's the point explained at 6:50, capitalist systems bring you to consider superior values that are actually strengthening the position of capitalists (such as thinking someone who doesn't work as worthless to take over the example in the video). Make sure, as someone told above in the answers section, to put any writing in its context and to think in terms of concepts and abstraction rather than in terms of material objects you can see in the 21st century when it comes to philosophy
I started reading just when the vid said it like wth
@@luisadrian2684 I always wondered if Aliens came down to earth what would they think of all the billboards?😁 Would they be like wtf?
His most important mistake was his strong emphasis on building worker political parties as the strategy for revolution. This was the main cause of the split in the International Workingmen’s Association. The majority, aligned with the libertarian socialists, favored the mass union and community organizations as the means to self-emancipation and social transformation.
Marx, on the other hand, said it was crucial to build worker political parties to “win the battle of democracy.” At the time Marx was alive universal right to vote didn’t really exist anywhere. The USA had only just enacted universal right to vote for working class white men in the 1830s. As Bertrand Russell pointed out, socalled “representative democracy” was such a new thing that Marx could be pardoned for having failed to see its limitations.
What we’ve learned over the past century and a half is that the capitalist elite have ways to control the political system and the state and the masses have actually little real control over what the professional politicians do. The tendency for the socialist parties once in power was to manage capitalism - and gradually came to accept its existence.
And when political parties take power in revolutions, as in Russia in 1917, the tendency then is to think in terms of their own leaders using the state hierarchy to implement their program. But the state is based on the layer of bureaucratic bosses presiding over public sector workers. Relying on a strategy of the party running a state is a recipe for a bureaucratic ruling class to emerge.
And that’s another of Marx’s mistakes. He predicted the demise of the old small business class (petit bourgeoisie) which has shrunk continuously over the years. But over the past century a new major class has emerged based on relative monopolization, not of ownership of assets, but control of decision-making and information, as in the role of the high end professionals and managers in the corporations and the state today.
Not understanding the basis of power of this class is an important flaw. Especially when we see how the various Marxist-Leninist parties coming to power simply generated a new bureaucratic class controlled mode of production.
You've not read Critique of the Gotha Program, so you have failed to recognize Marx's actual support for ruling communist bureaucrats. Rather than a flaw, Marx accurately predicted that dictatorship was required for communist society to develop. He clearly understands that "free" governments like US were not possibly a road to communism and the requirement for violent revolution based on his statements in part 4.
Marx's flaw was his inane capital accumulation model. He left out the value of equity and so his cynical observations resulted in economic disaster.
L'economia dello stato rappresenta la struttura, mentre la politica rappresenta la sovrastruttura. La storia è dunque fondata dalla concretezza e gli elementi portanti di essa sono i mezzi di produzione (o forza produttiva): lavoro, tecnologie e macchinari; e rapporti di produzione: rapporti tra varie classi. MARX
What do you call a communist sniper Marx Man
Hendrix Rider I know
How many capitalists are required to change a lightbulb?
One. Its.... A one man's.. job.
So many puns in comment section
Evil
@@Matsumae_Taiyo555 how many capitalists do you need to change a light bulb? one because then they pay someone else 3 cents to do it before using their labor for personal gain while making 80% of the profit
Little known fact: Karl Marx had a sister who invented the starter pistol. Her name was Anya.
🙄 my dad told me that joke the other day... haha
@@Lynks5 i dont get it
@@bobtheplayer9777 "Anya Marx" sounds like "on your marks"
@@bobtheplayer9777 🥴
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Hey you forgot to add this video to Political theory playlist
I have read somewhere that most of his books were written by his wife, Jenny Marx, and that he was actually not that good of a writer. Most of his ideas have been written into a cohesive and legible piece. The piece also mentioned that she had introduced Karl to his ideas about feminism and prostitution.
From "Why Socrates Hated Democracy" to "Karl Marx political theory".
The demagogue has tarnished the public opinion on so many things. I've seen so many people discredited an idea without any understanding of the said idea.
Can you give me references to understand the idea more? Would reading the communist manifesto be the place to start? Or the capital volumes? Idk if I can handle those right away but this video gave me nothing.
@@robert4445 Try this:
There is no perfect ideology. There is a good side and a bad side to everything. Ideology won't harm you, infact it will gives you a different perspective thus widened your vision. Learn about Communism for what it is, the bad and the good, no bias.
@@hutauruk_andika Good argument, but you forget communism isn't an ideology. It's a political program. Marx said that ideology was crap and the humanity should get rid of all them, religion first of all.
Communism is the society in wich workers aren't exploited and own and control the means of production. So you get richer alongside all the others and not impoverishing the others.
@@sirpente6651 oh, thank you for the correction. I learn something new today. But still my argument stand, just replace "There is no perfect ideology" to "There is nothing perfect". There you go.
@@hutauruk_andika Well. So Marx was right: Praxis will tell us if a theory is correct. The theory improves the practice and the practice helps to correct the theory in a neverending spiral. That's how we get better.
I don't entirely agree with him, but I respect and agree with some of his views.
This is the heart of the problem in modern Society, we learn the history of something and identify with it completely. It doesn't have to be one thing or the other, It can be a mix of the two. Evolve in intelligence from history, and create a current political philosophy and mind.
Dave Johnson I don’t think that’s the *heart* of the problem. People do this, I think, consciously or not.
Could you explain where you differ from Marxism? I genuinely want to know what points you agreed and where you feel you could make other suggestions.....
Why capitalism survives for centuries and communism falls after only decades of survival? Because capitalism hits closer to reality and Freudian human psychology, while communism was misused by communist regime from its true value. That's my opinion.
Rizki Djakaria That’s assuming communist/socialist structures collapsed from faults of communism and socialism. What aspect of Marx’s communism crumbled the Soviet Union? What aspect of socialism crumbled socialist governments in South America? We’ve been lied to for generations by enterprise empires with opposing interests to socialism.
@@danirabinowitz5049 This requires a major analysis on Marxism as well as Leninism, Maoism and Socialism. This video doesn't cut through the core of Marx's communism as it only explains what it is, not how it works.
The thing is that any philosopher is a product of its age (for example: Hobbes wanted a monarchy bc of the instability of England at the height of the civil war) Therefore Marx is the same, a victim of its age
@@riowhi7 Marx's claims were all debunked before Marx claimed them. Your adulation is a product of your ignorance on the topic Marx was discussing. For example, Marx's observations of business cycle were debunked before Marx ever issued them and here you are presenting the stupid notion that business cycle is a capitalist flaw rather than the nature of economy. Marx used this claim to justify that his stupid approach be taken to control away business cycle but this is impossible, of course.
Another example of how you ignorantly claim that Marx accurately ore usefully criticized capitalism is your presentation of Marx's narrow capital accumulation model. He issued one because opinion on economy by the 1850s was relegated to mathematicians and all had a model for capital accumulation which was more detailed and realistic than Marx's. Marx had no real mastery of algebra, obviously, and left out most capital accumulation known at the time in order to serve his demagogy and compensate for the fact none of his claims are scientific (tautology in his value theory being another example).
Since we know he debunked his own historical materialist dialectic claim by proving Hegel's idealist dialectic is the reality of economic progress. This is born out in Gotha and Erfurt programs - the control-variables for German workers' materialism of Marx's late career. Marx's position in opposition to workers' own material wants as a non-worker himself proves that such ideas as his must be introduced and championed by an idealist. He points out in French Rev and Brumaire that this should be educated marxist at the top of a party of marxist ideals. In Critique of the Gotha Program, he shows that force of these idealists is entailed in the resolution of the dialectic to marxism: the imposition of dictatorship with marx's prolish notions, rather than liberal democracy of their own choosing.
@@soulcapitalist6204 the economy does not have a nature. what an absurd thing to say.
@@gtenhave You are an ignoramus. Economics is the study of economic nature. For example, David Ricardo is credited with discovering the cyclical nature of all economies and the overallocation causation for it.
@@soulcapitalist6204 How can something not of nature have a nature? economics is controlled by policies of politics and or capitalism. i.e. people. How can it have a nature?
@@gtenhave Nature refers to things reacting the same way to the same inputs. This is regarded as the nature of whichever subject. Economics (economies), anthropology (societies) and structural engineering are all examples of studies of the nature of man made things.
I mentioned ricardian business cycle for you to understand that the nature of economies is not policy, but inherent in the fact of economy. Policy like the Fed reserve's raising of interest rates to slow overallocation is developed based on knowing how economies will react based on their nature.
Blaming Karl Marx for the crimes the communist regime committed is like blaming car companies for car accidents.
No your analogy is still too relevant. Blaming Marx for the crimes of totalitarian regimes is like blaming Marx for the crimes of totalitarian regimes. No analogy needed.
Marx was cool and based, socialist countries have been and are cool and based
Marx's Critiques:
- Due to specialization, we are alienated from the fulfilling feeling we can derive from our work and it's effects on society.
- Specialization means the scope of skills you need to know to function in the work place has been reduced. Meaning your job is less secure, cause you're more easily replaced.
- Primitive accumulation, capitalists make more money than workers.
- We need to stop pursuing money, but freedom that comes from having it. We can all afford to be leisurely in our lives.
- Capitalists systems reduces the freedom of capitalists. For example, leisure is evil , and marrying a someone below your socio-economic class is marrying wrong.
I read Capital at 16. Decided to become a theacher, didn't need to own much and mostly no debts (Education and health care are ''free'' in Canada), in order be free and do whatever I like. I am now 63, just retired, absolutely loved having an impact on kids minds and souls, didn't marry, had a few women friends, I have a house, real interesting friends who cares, I traveled around the world all my life not working in the summer and Hollydays, did I say no debts, I read and keep in shape and always did volonteer work. I never felt stress in my life. Give to the next. No religion. Stoicism. This life is still available in 2020 with a few sacrifice.
Not really, education is ridiculously expensive right now.
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Pretty sure your last point was just human nature. People generaly cant relate to others who were raised different. I understand balancing the money might help make people be more relatable... But we all have the decision to do what we want as long as we have the capacity. Makeing less money is an active decision for most. They make daily decisions that decide. 0lease dont comment about sick people and such. The percentage isnt worth bringing up. And I dont disagree with helping those who cant help themselves.
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"All I did was put my thoughts on paper, write a couple of books about it, and now everyone hates me for things I didn't even do or say they should be done." - Karl Marx
He did say he wanted those things done. He had a fantasy about it. His ideas killed millions upon millions of people.
@@omega0195 You're gonna have to be specific. What things did he want done? Genocide? Totalitarianism? Gulags? No.
@@omega0195 Let me reframe that to Christianity.
Christian ideology: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
Christian reality: crusades, slaughtering of millions of people over centuries, torture and execution of people with different beliefs.
B20C0 was there ever a situation where those in power did not take advantage or destroy millions of lives? Humans are dominant species...we evolved that to become “modern entertainment”...civilization should evolve one day as we hopefully become a more peaceful species
More like: I put my ideas on books, and I singlehandedly divided the world powers, with people portraying my ideas as either inhumane or admirable
I consider myself to be pro-capitalist, but I think it would be a mistake to completely dismiss many of his critiques.
For jordan Peterson fans out there, internet is not capitalistic. It is more like public Library. Many people came together to build it especially the university of Michigan and Cambridge University set up and developed the fiber and many people without even getting paid they started to do computing and start clearing all bugs and stuff. It's an end result of many people hardwork. Even some of the initial internet developers still exist today and they are advocating for open internet and to remove all the gateway for internet. Do your research before speaking jp fans
I'm so confused by the comments help
same , some people are die hard marxists and some are die hard capitalists
im basically confused about everything in the video and the comments, well tbh im confused about the world/universe
@@aarieftwentysix7282 same dude
@@aarieftwentysix7282 Truth is we all are just some of us are willing to admit it
@@Robert-cp1je you really should read the primary sources and form your own opinions about these things.
I love this guy because he analyzed the reality we live in with such precision as if he were a scientist.
He was the father of sociology along with Durkheim and Weber, so in a way, he was :)
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@@omarsuarez694 bruh this comment got me crying out laughing LMAO
這个視頻根本就是曲解，隨便去網上搜搜都比這個真實且詳細。
How am I supposed make a living building computers in my own workshop?
We gonna pretend like marx and Engles didn't write adorable poetry to each other ?
What do you want us to say about that subject xD? I myself have no knowledge of this poetry letters among them to begin with. Thanks for highlighting that part btw.
Marx wrote poems about himself that displayed egomania.
+gud bie 8:19 Adoring poetry, not adorable.
It was mentioned. Listen .
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What the hell!!
All the people commenting here about why capitalism is better than communism or why communism is better than capitalism, completely missed the point of this video..
I'm really struck right now at how ideology blinds you from fact.
Good job on your elaborate answer, nobody cares, its just a video.
they are all BAD
redlegagent Very nice. However you are missing the point as well, and this shows from your attempt criticize Marx by comparing the two socio-economic systems. Communism has failed. It's no secret. Marx's theory has been falsified because the revolution never came. However, this video does not try to make a stance for communism or what is widely perceived as "Marxism". Marx was a genius and an inconceivably difficult theorist. He set a great part of the groundwork for the modern human sciences, and is studied and analyzed till this very day by every student of the human being and human societies. If you take a look at Sweden and it's recent changes in policies concerning the working day, you will recognize in it, a lot of Marx's spirit. A 6-hour working day that leaves time for its citizens to pursue other activities of their liking. Thus leaving time for one to "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic". "This is national wealth, this is national prosperity". More leisure time for everyone. This is a true change for a better human society. And this my friend is part of the essence of Marx, which everyone seems to be painfully missing.
Yes, we prefer leisure to work: did Marx discover this?
Sweden's wealth, the condition of leisure, comes from Protestantism and free market economics. Contra real Marxist inspired economies in Venezuela and Cuba.
Marx was a fraud. When he got his big payoff from his capitalist buddy Engels, which made him a very rich man, he went full bourgeoisie in his lifestyle-the hunting fishing stuff was just a literary conceit of classical origin.
Just Saleh shut up lenin wanted a revoliution for the workers benefit
Marx is the only man powerful enough to have had his legacy split the world into two.
Nah!
Not really, since Lenin only took what he knew people wanted to hear, and then did nothing towards implementing any of it
Another great video! Be interesting to see one on how communisim hs been interpreted and how even that changed, such as the CCP deciding the state mattered most around the time of Mao.
mao put class struggle first,chosen a wrong way,Maxism put more emphasis on human freedom whatever a capitalist.