Prepare yourself for the enraged Socialist/communists in the comments. The slightest criticism of someone like Lenin and they lose their shit. Worse than Jordan Peterson fans in that regard

Video is kinda bad and lacking in inderstanding development of Leninist political theory and Russian history. He was primarily Russian Jakobinist with Marxist endgoal=> vanguardist. No context was given by you. Why was this preferred approach for him. Country had no stability already at 1917 Russia was ruled quite loosely with huge power of local nobility and kulaks. End the video, you acknowledge his opportunist approach, but the rest of the video you portrayed him as a zealous marxist who saw revolution as morals. He was a pragmatic and well understood situation in Russia. Most of the policies he pushed were popular and worked. Moralist undertone comes from your disregard to the principle of historicism. Any revolution is violent because counterevolutiory force can spiral the country to endless instability.

So wait, you’re telling me the insane guy who claimed he could fix everyone’s problems had no actual solutions once he got power ?😮 no way!

Trying is what make us content regardless of the outcome which will make us happier or not. We can't always be happy, because we have constant unsatisfied needs. We can be temporarily happy, content or satisfied, it's normal.

I have a simple question to you, do you think socialism can be brought peacefully without sacrifices in a "democratic" manner today ? Let alone in Lenin's period a time of political and economical turbulence and instability. It's easy to criticize sitting from a comfortable position not experiencing the era in which these people lived and the suffering they went through. Throughout history practically no change has ever been done without sacrifice, abolition of slavery, worker's right, women's right etc. These people who sacrifice their minds, hearts and lives for the rest of us to live on a better place, we are standing on the sacrifices of these people let's always remember this.

Lenin ruined communism with the idea of a group of elites at the head which marxists didn’t write about. If the government was beneath the workers not the other way around it would’ve been successful that slight edit of a few words would have a century of party crushing dissent of people they’d promise to work with

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Appreciate the effort of trying to make a video on Lenin. But it is really evident from the narrative throughout the video you haven't really read much of Lenin's works. You could've at least read "Imperialism: the Latest order of Capitalism", "What is to be done?" or "Two tactics of Social Democracy" or "One step forward, two steps backward" before making this video. The part where you differentiate between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was laughable to say the least. With a bit of reading, you could have really deciphered that he actually formulated the most ingenius theoritical backdrop for a socialist revolution, how he characterized the future of Capitalism which reads almost like a prophecy since the 2008 financial crisis. This video reeks of Netflix which isnt a good place to research, mate.

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Lenin's major flaw was that he failed to consider that the maintenance of any type of state apparatus ultimately leads to both physical and systemic violence which is bound to cause backlash from those being oppressed. True communism can never work under any schema of nationalism. As long as the nation-state exists, there will be people who seek to both exploit and destroy it.

How somebody can make a video about Nero and the failures of historiography(because it’s done by people with intentions) and then immediately go to the most tired anti-communist tropes in capitalist historiography is beyond me. I’ll outline just how much this video falls into the same fallacies and misconceptions as the 18th century historical “research” into the Roman emperor Nero. 1. It wasn’t Lenin as a single “Great Man” who changed the trajectory of history. He saw the state of the Russian Tsardom: dozens of oppressed peoples in its border(he famously called it “the prison house of nations”), comprador capitalists of the future Allies(Britain and France) exploiting Russia and purposely hindering its development, revolutionary fervour increasing(as is seen in the failed revolution of 1905) and a worsening of conditions for the peasants and workers. It wasn’t Lenin who made history, it was the masses. 2. Lenin’s enemies are basically ignored to an absurd degree and whenever they’re acknowledged they are very nice and democratic. The Russian Civil War isn’t even talked about until the 25th minute or so. So let me fill in the gap: a) the Russian Tsardom The Tsar killed hundreds of workers and demonstrators, yes, but also did some less spontaneous and more important things such as selling his country out to foreign comprador capitalists, sponsoring the proto-fascist Black Hundreds, unleashing his secret police on all opposition(even outside of Russia) and fighting unnecessary, stupid wars to expand his empire. b) the Mensheviks The fact that the Bolshevik party newspaper was funded by worker donations while the Menshevik one was funded by wealthy patrons should tell you everything. Not to mention the fact that the Mensheviks were opposed to revolution, didn’t consistently condemn WW1 and would later collaborate with the next people. c) the Russian Whites A loose coalition between liberals, Monarchists, proto-fascists and conservatives, they basically immediately started to resist the new government, only held together by their fear of communism, foreign support(intending to “strangle the revolution in its crib”) and their love of antisemitic pogroms. It was in the context of their armies advancing on Yekaterinburg that a low-ranking Bolshevik officer decided to order the execution of the Tsarist(it was carried out far too hastily to be premeditated), preventing the strong symbolism the Tsar “fighting” on the White side would have had. 3. Famines and Terror Russia had been plagued by periodic famines(caused by the unequal allocation of food by the corrupt ruling class) for centuries when Lenin took power. After the abandonment of the NEP, these famines would be eliminated instead of being allowed to happen every 2-3 years. Estimates of “Lenin’s terror” (executions by the Cheka) vary from circa 23,000 to 1,500,000. The huge difference between these two, might I add “plausible”, numbers has to make one think that, perhaps, historiography isn’t as objective as it seems. The West indeed has a long history of “Sovietology”, research done about the Soviet Union without access to the Soviet archives which resulted in historians accepting all kinds of otherwise dubious sources as evidence(rumours, Nazi lies, testimonies by White emigrés, individual eyewitness accounts, etc.). 4. This video also suffers of a certain bourgeois irrationalism of the Nietzschean variety. It tries to stylise Lenin as a man “beyond good and evil”, making him this larger than life figure, an Übermensch, so to say. This of course plays into the erroneous idea that great men(emphasis on men) make history, completely ignoring the underlying material conditions leading to the rise of and influencing figures like Pugachev, the Decembrists, Tsar Alexander II., Tsar Alexander III., Lenin, Stalin, Yeltsin or Putin. But analysing the world scientifically is boring and complicated. This video tries to have a profound conclusion about “black and white thinking” and yet utterly fails to break out of ahistorical stereotypes of extremely powerful and determined men or degenerate, decadent elites, with the uninspired, dull and sheep-like masses merely being the tools of these great leaders to achieve their goals through sheer willpower. TL;DR: This video suffers from numerous errors, not of fact but of framing a lá “estimates vary”, not taking a stance to project a thin veil of “objectivity”. It tries to make Lenin this powerful tyrant who “changed the trajectory of history”, failing to realise that, without the brutally exploited masses, there could have been no Lenin, no October Revolution and, perhaps as the only redeeming quality, no extraordinarily bad KZbin video discussing Lenin.

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This is quite disappointing. A few critiques: 11:30 Lenin’s Idea of the Party: The jump from tight-knit revolutionary party to “Dictatorship” was completely unsubstantiated. The presentation is also very disingenuous in presenting Lenin as a hard-liner who did not want to compromise and kicked people out of the party; yes, he did that, that’s the point of political parties, to unite under one policy prescription. This is such a flatly biased and melodramatic presentation of a very normal set of events. 12:15 Twisting Lenin’s abdication from power into a point against him is another jump I truly do not understand. Yes, he didn’t want to follow along with the party he disagreed with, it would be cowardly to do so. Then saying around 12:35 he “craved power” after you just detailed how he gave up power. This is an incredibly specious and dissonant portrayal. 17:20 Parasitic: Yes, this is a central thesis of his book Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, but how are you going to talk about that when you haven’t even read it? There is much more specificity to this idea than just “there is a parasitic few.” In your sources you list none of Lenin’s work or any primary sources, which is really questionable in my view. 18:35 Deceptive & Power-Hungry: You literally give no specific sources or examples so I don’t even have anything to work with. 19:20 I suppose it’s not relevant to mention it was a bloodless transition of power? 20:30 “Dictatorial tendencies” and “manipulation” of Marxism? Please give some examples or specific sources, I am begging at this point. 23:15 Crushing Resistance: Yes, he crushed resistance to the government, that’s how governments work; if governments don’t quash rebellion, they will cease to exist. I’ve never really understood this point. 23:30 The Press: You cite a lot of what the decree and Lenin said, but nothing of what he actually did. 24:00 Food Shortages: Yes there were shortages, just as in Imperial Russia. Was Lenin supposed to fix it overnight? 25:00 Ok so we’re just lying now. Lenin did not order the execution of the Romanovs. And what historians allege a verbal order? Again you give no specific citations. What are we even doing here. The critique that the Cheka were given too much power is true, I won’t disagree with that. However, most credible estimates do not put the number of people killed in the millions, as you say generally in the intro-where is the source? 29:20 Chameleon: How are you going to critique his political theory when you haven’t read it?? There are legitimate critiques to be made against Lenin and his government, but this is a poorly-done, counter-productive presentation.

As always, amazing work 😊

девачки, а теперь обсуждаем, возможно ли вращение в мавзолее

Do the same for Adolf whatever his second name is.

What happened to the destruction of madame x video?

Long live Lenin

This is a very strange video. this is something between understatement and far-fetching. From the very first minutes. ватафак девачки :|

Any idea that centralizes power is a bad idea. You can shit on evil capitalists all you want but Walmart never had people arrested in the night. Amazon never sent my kids to war. Only the state has that power and only the state can abuse it. If a greedy businessman wants to rig the system in his favor he can only do so through the pen of a corrupt politician. History has repeatedly shown large governments with centralized power to be the most dangerous of all man's creations. Capitalism may centralize large sums of WEALTH in the hands of relatively few (this is a half truth), but socialism/communism centralizes POWER in the hands of few. Capitalists can only buy power if the state makes it for sale. As a life long member of the working class I am far more concerned about power distribution then I am wealth distribution.

What a masterful video!

More knowledgable marxists could probably pick apart a lot more, but the point about Lenin seeing it as his destiny to lead a socialist revolution is dubious, when he wrote in 1916 that he didn’t think he’d see a revolution in his lifetime. «There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen», comrades ✊🚩We need to criticize past movements, like that lead by Lenin, to have an even better revolution tomorrow!

Bro this video is terrible. Youre such a lib.

As a greek i would like to correct you on something. It is not pronunced mueo it is pronunced myiό. In greek script it looks like this μυήω

This made me love capitalism

Btw I haven't gotten any notifs for recent uploads but I still watch every upload as soon as I see it

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Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov?? I think I need to watch The Big Lebowsky again.

Hey Horses, great video as always. Small input wrt Marx. I know too little about Lenin to speak know if what he took from Marx was "just his reading" (or rather, misreading), but Marx did not say that the rich ruling class (ie. the bourgeoisie) formed and framed norms to benefit themselves, but rather that the proletariat was equally (or perhaps even more) involved in maintaining the material conditions. The villains in Marx' philosophy are the working class for not revolting and for even allowing the material conditions and thus distributive injustice. The rich are doing as one could expect from them, the poor, however, are not and Marx implore them to do so.

I really hate to use the word “Tankie” but I just really think it applies to the context of the people in these comments vehemently defending Lenin from any and all criticism. The foundations of Marxism are BUILT on historical critique. Both Marx and Lenin would be rolling enough in their graves to power hydroelectric dams if they knew how Marxist-Leninists basically see them as prophets.

It’s extremely disingenious to frame the dictatorship of the proletariat as a conventional dictatorship it refers to the proletariat becoming the ruling class we live in a dictatorship of the bourgeois because they are the ruling class

Thank you I won’t do my homework today l, rather I’ll stare at the tree in a backyard and watch it age

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This is meant to be a court defense???? Da fuqq?

A common 10/10 documentary

Kinda hard to argue that he had the Romanovs killed for the sake of a message and not for any practical concerns when the government didn't tell anyone they were dead & denied killing them for decades.

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tankies are gonna flood this comment section

💯 is the case going on in America for black and brown people and our "elites" pretending to still be in their hoods. and contributing to our negative stereotypes adopted as a result of our own disenfranchised position

Clicked on this video to see the Tankie comments, and I wasn't disappointed.

One consideration for killing the Romanovs that you didn't mention, is that the Bolsheviks feared they would be a rallying point for counterrevolutionaries. There were still plenty of people who would rather see the tsar be reinstated so they could profit from living in the prewar society. Tsar Nicolas and his family were a symbol of the old order that still attracted a fair number of Russians, and something the Bolsheviks wished to destroy.

God bless the Romanov family! The zionists Bolsheviks satanists destroyed the third Rome with the murderer Lenin!

Lenin was NOT an Idealist. That is just proving you haven't done proper research. He mastered the analysis technique of Dialectical MATERIALISM. An idea that was extrapolated by Marx and Engels from Hegel. They then applied to the current society, at their time, and analysed the world in a material way. That is where all of the Marxist theory comes form, a materialistic analysis of the world. That is how, if you read a Marx or Engels book, you will notice that they have essentially predicted the future of capitalism. The same can be said of Lenin. I am reading ''Imperialism'' right now and it is frightening how accurate it still is 100 YEARS later. Lenin's ideas were born of an analysis of the material world and how it changes. Lenin was NOT an Idealist

Lenin was also truley committed to the revolutionary aspects of communism. He even wished to remake society by encouraging things like communal living. Stalin upended that and opted for abmuch more socially conservative communism in hopes to stabilize the government

Love your channel, I didn’t know much about this man. Appreciate your deep dive, thanks.

Molotov said Stalin was a lamb compared to Lenin.