BANGER!!! I wish i had come across this channel long before
@Sam-qh1rs15 күн бұрын
Was off to a good start but the criticism of ‘tidy your own room’ disintegrating into an argument of establishment and economic problems was well… a bit off the mark
@scooberz201518 күн бұрын
Na I am sorry. I know the idea of people abstaining from joining a culture war that creates hate and vitriol, serves no purpose to the individual, doesn't better their lives, pushes them into a preconceived set of beliefs and only serves as a psuedo - self righteousness goldmine offends the F out of people who's identity and ego are completely tied to their political views but... Ya. We exist. This whole video was just a caserole of logical and srgumentstive fallacies...but those two things are like the sword and shield for politically driven drones so i shouldnt be surprised.
@elonmusksellssnakeoil174419 күн бұрын
What "lesser-evilism" functions to do, in actual practice, is give the self-proclaimed "lesser evil" carte blanche to commit whatever horrific atrocities they wish, on whatever scale they desire, all while marketing themselves as heroes for doing so. It is beyond mere cruelty; it is abject sadism.
@bugsymalone166020 күн бұрын
Wow nice half story!
@wissen5410Ай бұрын
So Karl marx was a capitalist with dident Unterstand Kapitalisem got it
@themaleflufffАй бұрын
Well....that Thumbnail was personal😂🤣
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
@@themaleflufff it was, indeed
@Wealth583Ай бұрын
Hey man your content is great but i just wanna put my point that if an author says to "Clean your room or surroundings" In order to maintain focus so whats wrong with that ? It's an advice then why you took that statement too restictively harmfull or serious ? May be unfair ! Btw plz dont mind i just wanna make sure what the actual reality is.
@elonmusksellssnakeoil1744Ай бұрын
Content on par with hair style. Well done, comrade!
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Haha lol why's everyone talking about the hair! I'm gonna go bald in a few years, so it makes me kinda preemptively sad 😂
@elonmusksellssnakeoil1744Ай бұрын
@@SamSinha, nah, you'll be fine. Stinging nettle root tea will do good. Gotta protect that glorious mane!
@larsharring5412Ай бұрын
this is BS meybe the elite was nomanig woriers and owner of menny goodst and cows
@RechargeratorАй бұрын
Good discussion, do Mohenjo Daro and Crete next and you might have something.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Stefan Milo has a great video on Mohenjo Daro. Crete, I'll take a look.
@whatabouttheearthАй бұрын
Of course hunter gatherers lived in "primitive Communism", for starters, they did not have a massive surplus so there would be no hierarchical class system developed, and so after the initial agricultural revolution it would of taken time for the state and therefore class society to develop. Of course the means of production would of been common. Engles historical analysis was generally correct (although specifics may vary)
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Yeah, I just thought it'd be good to stress on this particular feature of the classless society.
@Cutface141Ай бұрын
I like how I'm halfway through the video and I'm not hearing about what the video said I was going to be hearing about
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Really? I did talk about the topic. Spent some time explaining what I mean by "communism" though.
@FloyDJodeАй бұрын
I find applying modern economitics to ancient models is often inaccurate, but I'm willing to listen; People with bigger houses 🤔 Priestly caste 🤔
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Well, I haven't applied that. Going by what Marx writes, "primitive communism" is not what their hypothesized communism is. So, "primitive communism" definitely doesn't exhibit the spectacular achievements of capitalism in terms of productivity.
@dennythedavinchi3832Ай бұрын
You can call proto-communist but does not work that simple in this complex development of stage of our world. Everyone wanted communism went solution to be like spartan state.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
"Primitive communism" (or, whatever you call it) is obviously different from "communism". The hypothesis precisely makes this distinction (that's basically how Marx takes the idea of sublation). So, as I explain in the video, it wasn't "communism".
@LimeDude9999Ай бұрын
Arguably, it works best in small homogenous societies.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
"Primitive communism". Yes. Obviously.
@MasterOfBaiterАй бұрын
The Spartans were literally a slave society like most other city states in the Greek peninsula? To understand sublation a good example is plants who start out as seedlings then grow into proper plans who then wilt passing on more seeds but the new seeds are not the same plant but a new plant containing a part of the previous plant. Communism and primitiv communism have the same relationship. Starting from a classless society into a class society into a again a classless society but every change informed by surplus. In primitiv communism there is little surplus to be spoken of, you produce as much as you need to survive cause it's often difficult to get more than that. In proper communism the hypothesis is that we produce so much that it doesn't make any sense to artificially restrict who gets to use it.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
This is such a fantastic explanation.
@moxxy3565Ай бұрын
I know this has nothing to do with the video.... But Indians in 2024 have the best hair on Earth. I'm always jealous.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Haha lol, I don't know what to say. Trust me, I'm gonna go bald in a few years.
@Andrew513FisherАй бұрын
Is it the Bounce Curl shampoo?
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Wait a sec, are you guys serious? And no, I use a basic shampoo. My obsessive hair wash routine was stripping off the natural oil a little too much. So, went a little soft on that.
@gugakiziria3845Ай бұрын
Great video. i think it's very valuable to view Çatalhöyük as a society that is in the process of observable transformation from primitive communism to a sedetary way of first class societies, maintaining the "egalitarian" superstructure while undergoing profound changes in foundation.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
This is a great way to summarise.
@LuisAldamizАй бұрын
We commies are the ultimate conservatives: too conservative for even warlordism-landownerism-patriarchy (slaveism = feudalism, no real difference), we demand the real deal and will settle for nothing else. Also Vasconic, which also produced many other ancient communist or somewhat socialist societies, such as Cucuteni or later the Farmer Revolutionary Free Zone in Vasconia-Cantabria, product of the 5th century Bagauda and which was focused on persistence of the family farmstead (against feudalism but also against atomization by split inheritance), participative democracy and collectivist work (auzolan), judging for its legacy which, albeit mutilated, has reached present day. Said that, it's not an ethnic issue: Vasconic societies also developed class and hierarchy in other contexts, from El Argar to Varna. Such degeneracy was surely unavoidable as the Metal Ages arrived and the militarist tendencies became dominant, bringing patriarchy and slavery/serfdom. In a sense the ancient notion of the "ages of man", with degeneracy taking over from a legendary Golden Age to the very violent and cruel Iron Age, is real and happened everywhere.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Haha true. I was recently watching a video about the Cucuteni and was thinking the same. Your comment is very enlightening. A small point of disagreement might be a matter of mere semantics: I'd refrain from calling the transition from classless to class a degeneration (although I totally get what you're saying, it's just a matter of semantics) - in a John Milton Paradise Lost sense haha.
@LuisAldamizАй бұрын
@@SamSinha - I feel it's a degeneracy from our natural (primitive) communist stage, which also defines our instinctive desire for return to communism or something similar (and also democracy/freedom and science/truth). But of course it was driven by natural dynamics as well, including our group instincts and surely a long tradition of warrying for territory, which is not strictly derived from the development of Metal Ages' patriarchal militarism and class society. I do wonder in fact if the blunt injuries you mentioned may have been product of warfare vs nearby communities. "Tribal" warfare is surely pre-class and even pre-neolithic. AFAIK it tends to dissipate after the first serious injury or death happens but it's still a thing. Humboldt documented such "tribal wars" as late as the early 19th century in the Basque Country, as agreed cane fights between bands of youngsters from nearby rival towns, which sometimes resulted in deaths. These traditional Basque canes were (are?) topped with a heavy blunt pommel and had a dangerous spike at the bottom, so they were veritable weapons in a sense, not just some stick. Anyway, what about the Elamo-Dravidian Neolithic? Especially IVC: some people have claimed it was classless even in clearly urban context, while others clearly want to interpret it as classist instead. Maybe different periods?
@danielyoho7783Ай бұрын
Propaganda
@whatabouttheearthАй бұрын
No, the guy just isn't dumb and uneducated Of course hunter gatherers lived in "primitive Communism", for starters, they did not have a massive surplus so there would be no hierarchical class system developed.
@whatabouttheearthАй бұрын
No, the guy just isn't dumb and uneducated Of course hunter gatherers lived in "primitive Communism", for starters, they did not have a massive surplus so there would be no hierarchical class system developed.
@chrisrosenkreuz23Ай бұрын
communism and paradise in the sam sentence lmfao
@ZaXp10s0inАй бұрын
What about Sam’s sentence?
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Lol
@chrisrosenkreuz23Ай бұрын
@@ZaXp10s0in fortuitous typo lol
@LimeDude9999Ай бұрын
Eutopian ideologies always lead to totalitarianism and bloodshed because…. Human nature
@Gordon_Freeman_PhDАй бұрын
I would like a stateless and classless society, thank you very much.
@ChaseSaddyАй бұрын
This stuff is like what Dawn of Everything talks about right? These old civs are so cool
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
The Dawn of Everything's view on "primitive communism" is... Well, I don't agree with that part completely. Will try to discuss it in the future. Nonetheless, I love that book.
@ChaseSaddyАй бұрын
@@SamSinha Ah cool. Can’t wait
@ValeryLevchenkoTurinАй бұрын
Thank you for the great video! Your channel like a breath of fresh air for me, I enjoy every piece you produce. I have a question about theoretical possibility of a classless society. Classless equals in practice to monoclass, since all the members of society enjoy the same economical conditions. But doesn't it contradicts the dialectics where everything has its opposite? We can define proletariat in contrast to bourgeoisie and vice versa, but how could we define a member of a classless / monoclass society?
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Thanks for watching. Well, "classless" isn't monoclass. Class as a distinction only begins to exist when two people can be differentiated on the basis of that distinction. In practice, it won't be "monoclass" cause that distinction doesn't make sense anymore. There is nothing to compare. After all, dialectics is an epistemological tool. Not a crude description of categories. A classless society means the resolution of the class contradictions. Not all contradictions. Let's say, the unity of opposites of class distinctions resolves and becomes one. Now that new "one" will definitely have contradictions with something else. Nature? Aliens? A new species? Rain? Lightning? Black holes? We have no idea. Will some form of category emerge in the humans itself based on something else, like accumulation of ideas? No idea.
@thescholar-general5975Ай бұрын
Great video! I also agree that classless society does not necessarily equate to a violence free society. The scope of possible human societal configurations is very large, and I could easily imagine a fairly economically classless society wherein violence is an important religious or cultural practice and not directly the result of class conflict. Also, the gender findings are very interesting! It does seem as though the society was fairly egalitarian when it comes to gender. Though I suspect there is a gender imbalance when it comes to the scars of violent attack. Did any of the sources in your research specifically mention the gender distribution of the head trauma found in the later period of the settlement’s history?
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Interesting thought. About your question, the paper "Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Catalhoyuk reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers" talks about something related to that. The section immediately before the "Conclusion" part. And yes, there's a gender-related side to that (but I'm not sure if we can deduce anything from it without having deduced a larger context first). In that paragraph itself.
@wyattcole5452Ай бұрын
@@SamSinhaa gender related side to head trauma? Ok, I’m guessing favoring men? I think it’s obvious why that is and the larger context you claim to need is already present, but that’s just me
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Can be. But I'm not sure, in the absence of more parameters. It's obvious that the classes had started emerging in some form within the base. But, can we say the same about gender? I'm not sure. It's obvious that it'd have emerged. But, does the evidence clearly say that yet? If you haven't read that particular paper, I'd 100% recommend. It's very interesting.
@wyattcole5452Ай бұрын
@@SamSinha I don’t think that relates to why males might be more susceptible to head trauma caused by another than females
@michaeldellaratto1075Ай бұрын
Egg heads getting hundreds of millions killed for over a hundred years . But if you try it out. It will work this time
@scold-y4fАй бұрын
Love you videos also finished how to read marx thanks for the recommendation.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
Oh, that's a fantastic book. I always go back to that.
@hyperdiegesisАй бұрын
Just found your channel while I was looking for videos about lesser evil voting and I loved your work! Will definitely watch your other videos. so much has changed in US politica since youve made this video but it still is true. I wanted to add the 2023 Turkish elections as an example for this too. KK was a relatively progressive candidate running against Erdogan who has been in seat over 22 years now. People demanded for another running candidate but KK did not listen. That was the last time I voted for lesser evil bc he lost by a landslide bc his voting base did not bargain for smth better. I now know as much as voting is my right, withholding my vote until a candidate actually does what we ask them to is also my right. Thanks again for the video.
@SamSinhaАй бұрын
It's an interesting point. I'll definitely read up about it. And yes, not voting is also a choice. Dictating what others should do, that too from a subjective "moral" standpoint (without making an effort to genuinely and transparently convince them)... is terrible.
@GRSsixАй бұрын
how often do you find "Uncoditional love" and how often do you find greed and exploitation? we only cooperate when we get something out of it for ourselves, there might be exceptions but that doesnt mean its human nature to act selflessly
@GRSsixАй бұрын
if the "cooperation because its human nature" thing was real, people wouldnt ask for salaries to work jobs
@meatsuit6922Ай бұрын
This whole critique seems really biased and manipulative. Especially to posit that all postmodernist thought is in the aim of capitalism. I think there are useful things to take from both philosophies and individual philosophers without being a card carrying member of either mode of thought. I think postmodernism proves itself useful by that merit alone, not to mention the fact that it seems fucking impossible to find anyone on this god abandoned hellhole website who can actually describe either of these fucking concepts objectively without inserting some sort of ideological bias People come to these videos to learn and are inevitably manipulated
@ChaseSaddyАй бұрын
Amazing channel. Will be watching most videos
@micahwright5901Ай бұрын
I’m apolitical due to mental health focus. Politics does not stress me out, but I’ve determined that if I cannot effectively navigate my own life, I have no position making decisions on behalf of broad society. I’m very content to influence people who know me and forge meaningful reciprocal relationships that work for the benefit of all parties. This is not an arrogant isolationist attitude nor one that ignores reality. It’s simply a pragmatic choice of focus.
@riyadongre2852 ай бұрын
This is a gem
@SamSinha2 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@Muhammadnoble12 ай бұрын
Just because your life is shape around politics doesn’t mean you need to be involved for example a person life can be shape by religion as a child but it may affect them but you don’t have to be involved
@AutrevmlM2 ай бұрын
Lysenko didn't destroy or ruin genetics in the USSR, he just represented the Michurinist Proletarian trend in Biological science, Soviet science Socialist science. Bourgeois science is the one that upholds Idealism with their chromosome(now DNA) Theory of heredity. Also, even Bourgeois scientists don't say he ruined Soviet science(only more Reactionary Idealist sections) they say he was "incorrect about X or Y." **The Problem of Lysenkoism** by Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins > During the war years, the Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic loss of productivity while it was recovering in the United States. Then, beginning in 1950, both countries began a period of rapidly increasing yields which kept pace with each other, the Soviet increases being somewhat higher. *We should note that 1948 - 62, the period of Lysenkoist hegemony in Soviet agrobiology, actually corresponds to the period of most rapid growth in yields per acre!* Moreover, even a time-delay hypothesis, supposing that the effects of Lysenkoism on genetical research are felt only later, is at variance with the observed continued growth in yields per acre. The data in the table are even more remarkable if it is noted that, during this period, the total acreage occupied by wheat increased in the Soviet Union from 30 million to nearly 70 million hectacres, while US acreage shrank from 60 to 45 million acres. Thus increased Soviet yields have been in spite of bringing large amounts of new and marginal land into cultivation, while the opposite process was going on in the United States. > > While there may be particular crops and situations where Lysenkoist doctrines prevented the solution of some specific problems (breeding for disease resistance, perhaps) *there is no evidence that Soviet agriculuture was, in fact, damaged* and Soviet yields have followed the same upward trend as yields in other advanced technologies, chiefly as the result of massive capitalisation of agriculture, including pesticides, fertilisers and farm machinery.
@Sam-dc9bg2 ай бұрын
There are some good ideas in them, but the main problem is the main measure of "self-help" is books is how many dollars and dating app matches one has. Some of the most vile narcissistic people on this planet love these books, but they are rotting inside.
@NightingaleAndRose2 ай бұрын
If you remain apolitical in an opressor-opressed situation you side with the oppressor? That's utter bullocks. By thatblogic if I don't give my money to starving kids in africa I am solely responsible for their starvation. And by not donating my kidney I am a killer because I could have saved the life of a terminally ill person. Not actively helping someone is not the same as actively harming someone. I'll leave it to the politicians to actively harm us as they usually do.
@aglimmerofhope53212 ай бұрын
Interesting. Wondering when art hasn't been a tool of propaganda? When art wasn't sponsored perhaps? Well done. Liked & subbed. 👍 (over from reddit btw)
@SamSinha2 ай бұрын
Hmm. Interesting take. My opinion is still... Undecided. I find these propaganda pieces cool, actually! 🤣 Napoleon Crossing The Alps is a favorite, especially because it subtly exposes the contradictions of the artist.
@elonmusksellssnakeoil17442 ай бұрын
Another phenomenal video!
@fromthebackseat48652 ай бұрын
Very good video, thank you.
@miss_adventure2 ай бұрын
Hell yeah comrade! So happy I found your channel
@SamSinha2 ай бұрын
Haha, I'm not sure if I deserve that address. Thanks a lot for watching. Stay tuned.
@miss_adventure2 ай бұрын
@@SamSinha you’re providing well researched and produced socialist history thru a Marxist lens, quite a valuable resource for growing class consciousness and awakening minds in preparation for the revolution. I’d say you more than deserve that title :)
@SamSinha2 ай бұрын
Well, who doesn't like compliments lol! Thank you.
@veyselbatmaz21232 ай бұрын
Very enlightening summary. Postmodernists wrongly interpreted the situation of capitalism through the lenses of modernism that they were all against in one sense or another. The most famous one, Foucoult, once said that if he had read the Frankfurt School, he would not have written 90% of his works. I say in my book "Digitalism vs. Capitalism" that if he had read McLuhan, he wouldn't bother to write the remaining 10%. The real basis for their wrongness is that technology determines everything. In fact, what they refer to as social determination is nonsense. because without technological infrastructure, society could not survive. Read Harold Innis. To the questions, "Where is capitalism coming and going? Going to its graveyard?" I have a hopeful answer, which is highlighted in my book: Digitalism is killing capitalism. A novel perspective, a suggestion first in the world! “Digitalism vs. Capitalism: The New Ecumenical World Order: The Dimensions of State in Digitalism” by Veysel Batmaz is available for sale on the Internet.
@andrewfoster12102 ай бұрын
The lidar planes use to to see what might lie below the ground makes it appear as though there are several pyramids, possibly cities buried deep in the Amazon. I'm not saying that is El Dorado but there are definitely still things to be discovered if they are ever able to be escalated.
@andrewfoster12102 ай бұрын
Excavated
@WildeMarshall2 ай бұрын
Garcia Amy Jones Sharon Smith Helen
@evolgenius11502 ай бұрын
Postmodernism basically was: Yeah our system doesn’t work and facts keep proving it. It must be the facts that are wrong! Fuck objectivity! 😂
@SamSinha2 ай бұрын
Lol
@elonmusksellssnakeoil17443 ай бұрын
Human nature is to be shaped and molded by our surrounding environment. The capitalist system rewards avarice and selfishness, which are therefore the traits people might default to in order to protect themselves from the downward pressure the system is putting on them, and conclude, erroneously, that these traits are natural to human behavior, when in reality they are natural to the _system_ of capitalism. The problem most people have is they are unable to conceive of existing within any other type of system, because they have probably never experienced it.
@SamSinha2 ай бұрын
That's how the ideological superstructure functions.
@markstuart9013 ай бұрын
“Marxist theory anticipated that the dictatorship of the proletariat would be a temporary measure leading to the eventual establishment of a classless society. However, in practice, what has emerged is a new form of despotism, where the revolutionary leaders become the new ruling class. The promised end of oppression has been replaced by a new tyranny, revealing the profound limitations of Marxist thought in achieving genuine liberation.”
@elonmusksellssnakeoil17443 ай бұрын
We are witnessing the negation of the negation in real-time right now in China as capitalism is sublated by Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, one quantitative change at a time, leading toward an eventual qualitative change thereby creating a totally socialist society (potentially by 2050, as China is targeting). The folks who love to boast that "China isn't socialist!" seem unable to comprehend what you have so eloquently elaborated on in this phenomenal video. Excellent work!
@SamSinha2 ай бұрын
Nice example.
@AutrevmlM2 ай бұрын
Can't wait for China to be socialist by 2050! ... No 2060!!! ...no 2100!!!!