Episode 94 - The Truth About Communism (Ft. Ronald Reagan)
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- Join us in traveling back to the 1960s and finally unearthing the true nature of the most evilest meany boy ideology - Commanizmus. Our favourite modern philosopher, Ronald Reagan, joins us on the trip.
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I love how when Hakim makes a mistake with English rather than apologizing he just gets upset at English for even existing.
He just like me fr fr!
As he should!
As a non-native nearly perfectly fluent English speaker and translator, that's completely appropiate
@@leorevolt9865no matter how well you speak english, that is the proper response
english surely must be the only language where you can encounter a new word and not be able to tell how to pronounce it by reading it
Top 1 Reagan moment
1: He fucking died lmao
Rare W Reagan moment.
@@tomgu2285 Sole Reagan W
I get all my theory from Reagan's soviet jokes
idk what is worse the jokes or people laughing at them, they honestly look the same way anti communist tell stories about Stalin "if you don't laugh after him you're gonna get shot"
And reading Harry Potter
I can't believe they got comrade Reagan on the pod! Didn't expect the thing to get this big!
Comrade Reagan.
@@idontknoq4813 When the time traveler moves one chair.
@@aninternetuser8102if hes working class which I dont know his background of? He was an actor or something?? Then hes working class and technicall a comrade. But ideologically brainwashed. I only see classes. I have the glasses on that the guy on the profile picture has now.
Brainwashing is a shit theory
They resurrected him with enchanted jelly beans! 🫘
1:02:22 all I think about when hearing this book is the fact that Hakim once said he originally read it in its native Italian with a literal Italian dictionary next to him, translating line by line bc there wasn’t a widely published English edition at the time😭 what a mad lad
What a mad lad indeed. I would have done it for him for free.
Didn't know they had internet in the 9th circle.
The 9th circois reversed for treachery and pride, those who followed in Lucifer’s footsteps. Think Judas.
Only for white collar crime committers, it's like a federal prison.
They do, the ping is just extremely high so csgo is not possible
FT. RONALD REAGAN????!???
i was thinking the same thing, lol
They let him slither out of his eternal torment in hell once every 50 years, but he's only allowed to talk to communists.
Neolib zombies is basically the plot of Zom 100, Reagan is the final boss though!
As himself
Turns out Ronnie had been smoking experimental CIA crack trying to cure his dementia. It didn't work, but the unforseen side effect was delayed zombie resurrection
So I used dark magic to contact Reagan's spirit in the afterlife to ask for his comments on this episode and he replied "AAAHHHH IT BURNS, THE FIRE, AAAAHHHH!!"
he's so eloquent even in afterlife
The part where Yugopnik was tricked by his friend to think that pidgeons are dirty reminds me of an episode from Friends were Joey Tribianni, an actor, was tricked by his friend to use the stage name Joseph Stalin😂.
I FORGOT ABOUT THAT EPISOOODE HAHAHAHA
The theme song. Jesus fucking Christ it slaps so good. I woke my parents up by dancing around my room (theirs is under mine). Amazing work as always boys. Love you
I was listening to the podcast while taking a shower since my baby was "sleeping", as soon as the song played he just slams the fucking door open and starts dancing and smiling. I was terrified beyond belief and then laughed my ass off because I used to listen to this podcast all the time while taking care of him when he was younger.
Long story short, my baby supports communism and good music!
@@leorevolt9865 Based and real
What a wholesome commie moment
@@leorevolt9865 baby comrade! lol,
@@King-of-Corvids He's a great, strong comrade who's gonna stir up a lot of trouble for the bourgeoisie :')
That line - "no one knows what the end of the story will be" - has such an optimistic side. We can win, even if we're this beaten back - the end of the story is not here, unless we determine it to be finished.
One of my favs is: "Marx never was even a worker, but still always goes on about the working class!"
Yeah, and you dont have to be mentally ill to be a psychiatrist, and you dont need to be an alcoholic to study the effects of alcoholism on society.
And before some smartypants cuts in, no i didnt say that workers are mentally ill or alcoholists.
And damn, ive never been a woman but i wholeheartedly support the struggle for equality, cause i have eyes and brains, i can observe the world around me and see how women have been and are being oppressed.
So please dont say: "How can you support feminism when youre not even a woman!"
empathy does not maximize profit synergy! Your not allowed to be empathetic you can only say your a socialist if your homeless and have nothing to your name everyone knows that!
I can’t believe they used Juche necromancy to get Regan on the podcast when he’s in hell. I know the internet connection there isn’t exactly the best
Hitting the big time, featuring former president Ronald Reagan.
A totally irresponsible misuse of Juche necromancy, if you ask me.
@@josephgeorge5741 yo can we use it to bring back lenin from grave?
in addition to being before the civil rights act, 1964 is also before primaries required actually following votes, They held the primaries and then had the conventions, where party delegates would pick the candidates for president and vp. And if they felt like it they'd pick the person who got the most votes, but they could also just not.
The 1968 Democratic Convention is a particularly famous example.
Ive been feeling like crap lately. The story at the begining really cheered me up thank you.
Hope you get better comrade
The first 5 minutes proves that Yugopnik is a man of culture on his take on spitting
As famously said on the Trump podcast, “I fundamentally fuck with communism as a economic system”
29 years old i still cant whistle
It's easy. You just put your lips together and blow.
Heheheh
Whistling while inhaling is the easier method btw. Sometimes I even whistle something while both in and exhaling, the latter being more complicated😅
I remember them making us read rand in middle school. Anthem I think it was. There was a bit in the book about like an assigned reproduction facility. Basically a rape factory and both the concept and description kind of fucked me up as a kid.
All I remember about the book past that is being left confused and vaguely disgusted.
That's what I remember feeling about 1984. That and I noticed in middle school, before I knew anything else, that the critique didn't land. I knew that it was supposed to be a critique of communism, but it felt more like what I lived in while reading it.
Finally! A REAL socialist: RWR!
666...
@@mrtrolly4184 Killer Mike should be on the podcast.
@@Pandora234able that would be awesome
Ronald appearance let's goo
omg, finally my favourite comedian on the pod! ❤
1:16:42 Yugopnik casts [vicious mockery]. It crits
Damn everybody's playing BG3 huh
@@acid4413 Good guess, but no, my PC just can't run it, so I'm prepping for an irl D&D game with bros
title suggestion: reagan's post-humous wedgie for his crimes; another banger episode, love vibing to the outro at the end it goes so hard.
i hope you lads dont get me wrong on this one, but this episode made we wanna sucribe to your patreon. it was top tear. and while i was on there i saw you made 100k pr month from this, and i just wanna say damn good job?
and also good on ya. this isnt a poverty cult lol
More like 16k
@@freeloading_toad in my countries currentcy. i forgot to change it to dollars lol
The argument about collectivisation is infuriating to me.
Because this event of a country transitioning from small farms as primary agriculture method to large scale farming is not unique to USSR.
And when this economic transition happened in the UK this ended up in a huge amount of former farmers becoming landless, and thus homeless and poor ond the government response was to make vagrancy punishable by hanging.
Compared to that collectivisation was really humane.
Re: Hungarian flag. The HPP flag actually had a Soviet-style emblem in the middle and the rebels did cut it out.
Ah yes time to talk about the neoliberal ghoul himself, this should be very interesting.
Please make an Episode about how a fascist state (francos spain, italy) or an eastern block country like Romania for example worked and the history behind them.
You guys need to get a Ronald Reagan Voice Ai as a guest host
spitting in many cultures is considered insulting and sometimes the height of insult at that. In many place spitting at or on someone is more offencise than hitting them. The sex stuff is humilitation kink/porn because for some reason its a cardinal sin to show using lube on camera
For JT I can lift my left and only my left eyebrow without the other from being obssessed with wrestling and the rock who did the eyebrow raise thing as a kid. I force one done and practiced till I could do it. turns out since things on camera are mirrowed I practiced with the wrong eyebrow. So the Rock uses the opposite one that I cant raise alone
I shit you not, when I was listening, when y'all were joking about people in their car trying to do the eyebrow thing, I was driving down the road, about 5mph over the limit, and had some guy in a jacked up F-250 pass me while flipping the bird🤣. Little did he know, he was passing a dirty commie trying to arch specifically 1eyebrow😅
You guys get the best guests on
4:06 chill bro I'm eating over here.
Solidarité
Love u Hakim, thanks for all the book recommendations, I write them down, all of em. Someday I will catch up
I know there's no way in how they could ever do this but I would kill to have daily uploads of the deprogram
"Not doves, but... голуб, блят" - Yugopnik, 2023
Thank you for saying that you don't get paid from Spotify! Stopped the episode there and opened it up here
57:16 Just as a note about 'caught by surprise by the Nazi attack'. I'm assuming the point in the documentary is that the Soviet Union was now friendsies with the Germans that it did not prepare. Which is complete nonsense. You can actually trace a lot of what Soviets did internationally as reactions to German moves.
However, surprise was a critical element of Barbarossa and its initial successes. Without going into the political manoeuvring and the actions the Soviet government took before 22 June (or about 12-14 June when the imminent attack became evident), the reason for what happened was that the Red Army did not have the time to properly mobilise, and was moving in multiple echelons towards the western border when the attack began, with the bulk of the army still far from it. The Germans initially always faced a small part of the Red Army as a result.
Man the last bit before the outro was so perfect
LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! ✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️
My favorite part of each episode is skipping ahead to the theme song and hear the last sentence of the intro with 0 context
slavic traitor to italian pipeline it's real
I wonder if that final speech could be actually remade using AI voice generator.
spotify cpm is like 1$/100.000 views or somthing insane like that
You guys should do a show on ICSID [International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes] & ISDS [Investor-State Dispute Settlement].
"Speaking of making money" TH-cam shows an add.
_We need to just go on and do fox news level garbage but against the right wing_ -Hakim
noted.
another banger, thankyou gentlemen for entertaining my mornings with vaguely educational content
We'll keep this red flag flying here.
Amazing episode, guys
JT make them read one of Maggy Thatcher's books
To be pedantic, the Soviet "part" of Poland given in the treaty also included Podlaskie Voivodeship, which didn't have any separatist claims or movements. Also while there's little justification for Polish occupation of Ukraine/Belarus, there has been little joy and a lot of loss when Soviets entered...
Who's the head statue on the 2nd shelf down?
I recognize marx but I can't tell who the hell that is.
Tito it says if you zoom in a bunch
idk but looks like the lobster guy
@@igku8339 it’s Maršal Tita/Marshal Tito. Former communist leader of Jugoslavia.
JBT
You guys should’ve waited until Halloween before bringing ghouls onto the podcast
7:28 Preamble ends - Episode start
Interestingly enough I was taught the Lenin train theory in school, from a history teacher xD
Just so you guys know, your outro theme music really slaps at 1.5x speed
I wish you would start a Broad Tent Left Unity Organization. I know JT always says to join an existing one, and I agree, but we need those orgs to communicate and work together better when possible. With their platform, range of diversity both in geography and leftist views. We can work together in popular mass struggles and stick to our main orgs for the rest. I know there are international broad tents but we need one that’s serious in the imperial core.
@DrEagleTalon How do you mean "serious in the imperial core"?
That gets into the ancestral splits and divisions among Leninists, and between Leninists and other Marxians. There are a number of Internationals on offer, made up of differing traditions, both Stalinist and Trotskyist (at least a couple of each), and two or three among alleged social democrats and Marxian electoralists. Attempts to build broad lefts are very much like movements for church unity. In the end no-one seems to be prepared to merge with anyone else or to disband their party to help form a new, class-wide one. If you're lucky you get a new party which is moderately popular, like Podemos (which did merge with the previous electoralist communist Left Unity, so now they are the same ticket of Podemos Unidos "together we can"). But for the most part ML parties don't play well together, because they areall hoping to get to play the Bolsheviks in their country some day, and snatch power from all their rivals.
@@patrickholt2270 orwell pfp opinion discarded
Can someone source/write all the book names please?
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend - Domenico Losurdo @1:02:23
When Titans clashed - David M. Glantz @1:02:29
Red Star Over China - Edgar Snow @1:03:52
Patriots Traitors and Empires - Stephen Gowans @1:07:43
Stasi State Or Socialist Paradise? - Bruni De la Motte and John Green @1:09:44
Khrushchev Lied - Grover Furr
The History of the Working Class Movement in Hungary - György Borsányi @1:11:18
US Hegemony and Its Perils - PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs @1:12:27
@@Mullkaw thank you! I had already watched it and was trying to find some of them!
@@Mullkawthank you so much for this brother❤
I felt that "голубь, блядь" in my fucking bones
@@nihilismful а чего такого?
pod casting is harder than coal mining and construction work put together
You forgot roofing in July
Solidarity to our hard-working podcasters, the highest level of all of the proletariat
@@ZS-rw4qqYeah, roofing in the middle of Winter sucks!
Love Me, I’m a Liberal (2022) - Ben Grosscup
Despite the grandmas shiting around there was a bomb implanted near the capital airpoirt, but the police dicovered it before it exploded. They really wanted it to scale, but it didn't.
Wow! It's 100% what happens here in El Salvador!
Cyan is the new red. TLDR: Bukele is our Tito.
Bukele is more like a less crazy Trump than a Tito.
@@Ajente02 th-cam.com/video/uS6KsmE2AyY/w-d-xo.html
No way you got former war criminal Ronald Reagan on the podcast?!?! Mr. Destroy Nicaragua and kill hope in Afghanistan himself?!??
It will be some special for the 100 episode?👀
No lie we have a thing over here that is a child sized ar 15 called the jr 15 look it up
The only thing that can stop a bad kid with a gun is a good toddler with a JR15.
Literally on the highway raising an eyebrow as Hakim says it
I'm starting to suspect capitalism might not be a good system... Also, that music man! It's insane how good it is
Google Paleta Payaso for a Mexican popsicle lmao
Kerensky is only remembered by seething monarchists with 200 youtube subs
Chickens or neighbors, hmm quite a conundrum
Does anyone have a list of book recommendations?
On which topic?
Gonna have to crowdfund the full ten hour point by point breakdown episode. Which might cause the boys to actually breakdown, so maybe not.
17:10
As an Italian I feel insulted
Nancy had a mouth on her, eh?!
The throat GOAT! 🐐
I can't believe they got Reagan the red!
Hahah i can raise my left eyebrow
Can't with my right tho
Came from @historiapublica love your work, guys.
LMAO
Best episode I have ever heard! 🚩👍
Yo Hakim why are people calling you a tankie?
Loving the deprogram! You guys make these frustrating and lame capitalist propaganda teachings fun and manageable. Thanks guys!
I prefer raising my right eyebrow.
4:05 I came for communist theory and this is what I get instead 😊
Reagan and/or Thatcher are the cause of every TH-cam video on the platform.
Y'know... I wouldn't say a basic reading would refute thoughts like "Carl Marx said the revolution is pre destined." That one... arguing *against* that idea isn't such a basic level understanding because Carl Marx economic life work was basically illustrating how capitalism (like very other system before it) is a finite "game" rather than a infinite game and will grind itself to a halt in a crash. As the profits fall the leadership desperate to retain their flow of power squeezes the workers more and more until there is nothing left to squeeze out of them and the whole system collapses. Marx dialectical materialism ( "material reality determines ideas" as opposed to idealism's "ideals determines our reality" ) is this huge argument about our paths being pre determined by the core rules of whatever social structure we are currently in. Saying it is not arguing that we are on a pre determined path, or pre destined path actually seems... to be a misreading of his work...
Revolution is not pre-destined because, though dialectical materialism posits that material reality determines social consciousness, it doesn't eliminate the subjective agency of the social classes in historical processes. Thus, it's perfectly possible for capitalism to continue running (at least until climate change kill us all, or overexploitation/depletion of natural resources leave us with nothing to survive), despite having cyclical crisis and squeezing out every single surplus possible from the workers, as far as workers don't acquire consciousness of their situation, and deliberately organize and mobilize to destroy the system.
In a nutshell: revolutions are not spontaneous events, they are consciously organized by the revolutionary subjects in history (given, of course, the proper material conditions for them to flourish).
@@Ajente02 I think your first paragraph actually really helps demonstrate the point I was going for. Material reality determines social consciousness "the world determines all ideas" instead of Hegel's "Ideas determines the world."
This viewpoint has some philosophical consequences. For one it denies at a fundamental level any human agency (and the existence of man as a precious living thing with will, instead of a mere chain of chemicals reacting to stimuli with no more moral value than a shiny stone) and therefore falls into believing in social determinism. Ie, the revolution is inevitable because capitalism will change the environment, which determines social consciousness. At least that's the logical conclusion of dialectical materialism. It's also one of the reasons why even as I find myself sympathetic to various Marxist causes I'm not a supporter.
@@colonel__klink7548 We are both in the same page with the DiaMat's material determination of ideas. What I was clarifying to you is that, contrary to what you're trying to expose, this doesn't mean human agency is denied, or that historical events are fatally determined. That would be a mechanicist view of materialism, not a dialectical one.
Both Marx and Engels, and well as Lenin, recognized consciousness is not just _"a mere chain of chemicals reacting to stimuli",_ but an emergent phenomenon *produced* by such chain of electro-chemical reactions. Some examples of this can be seen through their works:
*_"Men make their own history,_*_ but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past."_ - 18th Brummaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx (1852).
_"With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. [...] Man’s own social organisation, hitherto confronting him as a necessity imposed by nature and history, now becomes _*_the result of his own free action._*_ The extraneous objective forces that have hitherto governed history pass _*_under the control of man himself._*_ Only from that time will man himself, with _*_full consciousness, make his own history_*_ - only from that time will the social causes set in movement by him have, in the main and in a constantly growing measure, the results intended by him. It is the humanity's leap from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom."_ - Anti-Dühring, Friedrich Engels (1878).
Revolution is "inevitable" only insofar as capitalism (due to its inherent internal contradictions) lays the material conditions for revolution to happen eventually. But, again, as I said in my previous comment, for revolution to happen *_someone_* has to make it happen; it won't happen spontaneously nor automatically, it must be deliberately and consciously organized by the working classes. If there is no revolutionary consciousness, no revolutionary organization, and no revolutionary action, the constant spontanous revolts and social upheavals during the cyclical capitalist crisis will pass and go without a fuss. If this work is not done, if class consciousness is not raised, if revolutionary organizations are not built, and if revolutionary actions are not taken, capitalism will continue to reign free perpetually until the Earth is made uninhabitable thanks to overexploitation/depletion of natural resources and antropogenic climate change.
Workers make everything isms just decide who gets paid. Holy gee wilikers.
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I hate old Ronnie
I've got no problem with the idea that in most cases the rule by communist parties had majority approval, or at least acceptance, but that it was "what the people chose", as if there was a monolithic consent, is much harder to demonstrate. Elections as well as opinion polls do give you some periodic data about who supports what and who. So like with Russia "the people chose" when and how? The Bolsheviks lost the elections for the Constituent Assembly, for instance. They previously won all the elections to the soviets, especially in Petrograd and the Supreme Soviet (a structure itself made up on the spot by the Bolsheviks and others to house the revolutionary party leaderships that didn't have to be made up of delegates from the local and regional soviets). You can argue that the October coup expressed the revolutionary will of the Petrograd proletariat, and perhaps the whole Russian proletariat, but only at that moment. Indeed part of the reason for Trotsky's haste in particular was the recognition that such revolutionary zeal could wane away if Kerensky was left in authority much longer spreading despondency by setting up interminable all-party conferences that could never come to any firm decisions about how to move forward due to the obstinacy of the Cadets and other bourgeois representatives. So this issue of consent doesn't go away because there was a revolution once that created a government of one party but which went on to ban all opposition. The claim of consent thereafter is unverified by the kind of elections that happened in the soviets during 1917. Without competitive elections there's no range of candidates to choose between, and no means of recall of anyone who was previously elected or subsequently appointed. Recall being another of the proletarian demands made since the Levellers and the Chartists, to keep elected people obedient to those who voted for them. But their primary demands were for the vote, and frequent elections, annually, in the case of the Chartists. Elections where voting is mandatory and there is only one candidate for every position don't tell you anything about what the people want or believe in. That isn't the people being in charge. Whoever selects the candidates before the people are compelled to vote for them is. "Who do you think makes up the party?" Well, obviously only a small minority of the voting age population, and then you have a membership which is largely by appointment. Membership is given out to those considered deserving, not to all who apply even. Like famously Putin was made a member of the party as a job requirement to graduate as a lawyer. He hadn't previously applied because he didn't believe in Marxism, but he said the right words and signed the correct documents so he could progress in his career. Membership was conferred by local party leadership on whoever was considered necessary, as having leadership ability or administrative talent. So increasingly the membership of ruling parties had a different class character than would be expected for "the dictatorship of the proletariat". Increasingly pmc, made up of white collar professionals, managers and bureaucrats, more than ordinary workers, continuously pruned for loyalty to the incumbents above them rather than proletarian consciousness, or understanding of and enthusiasm for Marx.
Of course Reagan says "pitiful social progress". Conservatives always denigrate social gains because they fundamentally don't give a shit about workers and poor people, and resent being forced to think or talk about social problems, and despise any money or help being given to ordinary people rather than to bourgeois. It's always a minimised afterthought, because the whole of conservative political thought is an exercise in hiding from the elephant in the room of the distribution of wealth and income, and the human consequences of the system that enriches them, and making mountains out of molehills of cultural this and spiritual that to shift attention and priority away from class conditions.
25 decembee 1991
Rip bozo🚬🚬
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55:44 I love you Hakim, but that's a silly argument. Poland was reborn after more than a century of partitions and was in territorial conflicts with almost all of its neighbors. Do you think that all these neighbors had the same right to regain the territories they lost to Poland (hint: Germany was one of those neighbors)? Would the same apply to Poland and its pre-partition lands, or is a century too long? What is the cut-off date?
I LOVE RONALD !!!
McDonald?