Douglas Murray - Why Marxism Is So Popular in the West

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Douglas Murray - Why Marxism Is So Popular in the West

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Douglas Murray explains why Marxism is so popular in the West.
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@Liberty-Vault 3 ай бұрын

Why do you think Marxism is so popular in the West? For more liberty clips, subscribe to my channel and click the bell!

@Ubu987 Ай бұрын

Cheap moral superiority is a hell of a drug.

@mustang607 Ай бұрын

@@Ubu987Imagine feeling you are allowed to punish your "inferiors" without consequences.

@Ubu987 Ай бұрын

@@mustang607 That is the essence of it. Marxism is a psychopath licence.

@TeaParty1776 Ай бұрын

Christianity, w/its faith and altruism. The early Marx is like the Sermon On The Mount. I had a Marxist philosophy prof w/ a Marx -like beard. God, waas he stupid!

@TeaParty1776 Ай бұрын

@@Ubu987 That, too, altho not basic.

@mustang607 Ай бұрын

Many people seem to love breaking eggs to make utopian omelettes that never get made.

@4uRicki Ай бұрын

As the world has become more secular people haven’t gotten less religious, they’ve just adopted false religions, and we are living through the results of that deception. Satan couldn’t be more ecstatic about all the new tenants for eternity it has produced.

@AndyJarman Ай бұрын

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

@OpenHLZFocus Ай бұрын

You must see the film The Death of Stalin. Fierce satire. 👋About breaking eggs.🥚☠️

@John.Doe.272 Ай бұрын

@@OpenHLZFocus great movie.

@abcdeshole Ай бұрын

The revenge of the untalented upon the world.

@kennethng8346 Ай бұрын

I like that turnabout, "true facism has never been tried"

@suvorovetz642 Ай бұрын

fascism is an Italian brand of marxism - that's all it is.

@antibull4869 Ай бұрын

It’s the most narcissistic thing one can say. It means “if i was the dictator in charge, then millions wouldn’t have died. But every other person who ever tried it, regardless of age, sex, culture, nationality, etc: i will do it better than them.

@gregregregregregre Ай бұрын

loved it too, I’ll be using it in every argument now hehe

@antibull4869 Ай бұрын

@@gregregregregregre i learned it from Peterson lol. His “response to the Communist Manifesto” in particular goes into more detail about the atrocities committed under the name of that horrid ideology.

@MarkMcDaniel Ай бұрын

@@antibull4869-- I believe that all these dictators go into thinking that genocide won't result. But, then they get in and start imposing their views on the citizens. The citizens revolt, then the dictator begins killing the citizens. All of this is because dictators refuse to accept that their citizens don't want to live in the foolish world in their heads.

@tompommerel2136 Ай бұрын

Insisting that we repeat something again and again that always fails disastrously is a sign of insanity or ideological capture.

@mustang607 Ай бұрын

"That wasn't real Marxism!"

@mikitz Ай бұрын

@@mustang607 Real Marxism is when there is no-one left to try it again.

@wolfu597 Ай бұрын

What you just described is what Albert Einstein referred to as the definition of stupidity. Nicely put by the way.

@stephendoherty981 Ай бұрын

You mean like capitalism?

@wolfu597 Ай бұрын

@@stephendoherty981 Name one country where Marxism/Communism has led to a better life for the ordinary citizen?

@BlueBeeMCMLXI Ай бұрын

Marx in his own early poems shows he wanted Marx to replace God in the world. Nothing weird there. He was constantly bailed out by an Aristocrat, married a lower noble, and had no working-class connections or genuine interest in working people during his life. His favourite outing were picnics on Hampstead Heath. That man was a fake.

@jimgravesus Ай бұрын

He was a loser who through verbal diarrhea and intellectual masturbation set out to convince people that it was right to lose and wrong to win. The world is full of losers so the message was well received. He employed a house keeper who he never paid and eventually impregnated. Engels told Marx's wife that the baby was his so she would wouldn't leave Marx. What could be more bourgeoise.

@Ares-dn3qp Ай бұрын

He openly derided the proletariat in his private correspondence as well. He was not only incompetent but a hypocrite.

@CleverGirlAAH Ай бұрын

"Scratch a rebel and find a closet aristocrat." -Frank Herbert

@vandatavna7681 Ай бұрын

Marx was certainly fond of the "luxury" life. Hampstead and Highgate (he is buried in Highgate Cemetery) are amongst the most elitist and wealthy areas in north-west London .... miles away from the working classes (proletariat), who at that time were living in the East End and docklands along the river.

@SteviePaints 29 күн бұрын

They usually are.

@leonorfraga68 Ай бұрын

Can’t get enough of Douglas Murray…what a privilege to have this young man in our time…particularly in these times!!

@Twentythousandlps 29 күн бұрын

His name is Douglas Murray. He is 45 years old.

@leonorfraga68 28 күн бұрын

@@Twentythousandlps I corrected the last name, thank you

@Person0fColor 26 күн бұрын

He isn’t saying anything that Pat Buchanan didn’t say 40 years ago 😂 but yea weren’t lucky to have him 😂

@aleks71438 24 күн бұрын

I can present even better answers than Douglas

@aleks71438 24 күн бұрын

@@Person0fColornot everyone is born 60+ years ago

@gulfcoastlife3901 Ай бұрын

Douglas Murray is an absolute treasure!

@tactik5903 27 күн бұрын

he’s a Zionist mouthpiece

@aleks71438 24 күн бұрын

I have better answers than him

@Miniver765 19 күн бұрын

@@aleks71438Stop claiming it and start showing us. Prove your assertion.

@LA-kc7ev Ай бұрын

Where there is freedom there will be inequality.

@Nerdiness1985 Ай бұрын

Ah the freedom to starve? Or the freedom to have less wealth? one is an abysmal failure of a society and the other is a reasonable result of life.

@yamiyugi2894 Ай бұрын

Marxism agrees with you

@arthursworld7302 Ай бұрын

@@Nerdiness1985the freedom for people to choose work. If two people work a job, one person will try harder and one will try less. The one who tried harder gets paid more.

@HahaDamn Ай бұрын

Marx literally makes this point

@jacksonstone246 Ай бұрын

@@Nerdiness1985the freedom not to work but you’ll pay the consequences. Work is the kryptonite for Marxists.

@archiet2205 Ай бұрын

I believe that one of the main reasons as to why Marxism is so popular in the west is down to education. In basic school curricular, particularly in that of history, we are all taught extensively about the wrong doings and horrors of fascism/nazism in the 20th century, however nothing is ever taught to school children about the horrors that took place in Soviet Russia, or, Cuba, say. I grew up in the UK and only found out about Marxism, Lenin, Stalin, the craziness of the Soviet Union etc when I enrolled on history courses at university. I’m lucky but many aren’t, and are therefore oblivious to what Marxism actually is and what it entailed throughout the 20th century. Marxism and the abhorrent consequences it has had on country and peoples since it’s birth should be at the forefront of the curriculum in basic school history lessons, so that the errors of the past are not repeated.

@PoussinNoNeko Ай бұрын

There will always be the excuse that communism was never applied in the correct way.

@Miparwo Ай бұрын

Fascism is also socialism, and was invented and implemented first in the Soviet Union by Lenin under the name of "New Economic Policy" (google it). It has never been "right", but far left. It's propaganda to claim that it was "far right".

@michaelscott70 Ай бұрын

While I agree for some people that apply common sense to how they view the world, this isn’t the same for those who are being educated on Marx in elite universities and thinking it’s the way of the future.

@Miparwo Ай бұрын

@@michaelscott70 Most marxists do not realize that, because marxism is founded in Hegel, it is designed to be a lie, since Hegel claims hat opposites are the same, so marxists cannot tell the difference between truth and lie, good and evil, life or death. In Dialectical Materialism, nothing means what it appears to be: the criminal is "the victim", religion is "atheism", dictatorship is "democracy", property is "theft", antifascism is "fascism", racism is "antiracism", men are "women", superstition is "science", fascism is "far right", repression is "tolerance", communism is "not real socialism", and so and so. Words have no meaning under marxism, so everything is a lie built over other lies...

@RCSVirginia Ай бұрын

To @archiet2205 I put this comment on this video up above, and YT immediately deleted it. Let's see if stays up as a response. "A body at rest stays at rest; a body in motion stays in motion." This popular description of inertia, also, describes much of what is happening here. Education, academia, the media, even many churches, with rare exception, are all controlled by the left. So, that is what people hear constantly: It does not change. When Marxism and communism are criticized, it is usually done mildly, and it is represented that anything bad about them was because they did not stick to their true ideals. In reference to the other part of the popular description, there is no strong countervailing force to oppose this support of Marxism and communism in these institutions. Just think about, what is the proportion of documentaries about Nazis and Fascists on PBS and other media channels, as well as movies about them, compared to those about communism? Yet, communism murdered far more people and ruined far more lives.

@toddbeamer6131 Ай бұрын

"where is the omlette" Wow, Douglas really knows his stuff. What a wonderful human being and public figure. Lucky the world has him.

@stephendoherty981 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@dr.badass702 Ай бұрын

Praisebots are so weird. No one really talks like this

@Nerdiness1985 Ай бұрын

the ability to speak long syllables with a pompous intonation and a posh English accent does not automatically equal intelligence.

@HahaDamn Ай бұрын

The Soviets turned a backwards feudal society into the worlds second industrial superpower in 30 years.

@pedrosherpa5848 Ай бұрын

Marxism is a theology, and its religion is communism. This is what we have failed to understand in the 175 years since Marx wrote the first drafts of the ‘Communist Manifesto’ with the suggestive and revealing title: ‘The Communist Confession of Faith’. Only later was it changed to what we now know as the ‘Communist Manifesto’. This is arguably one of the most damaging analytical errors in human history, if not the worst. It is time to set the record straight. Marx propounds a theology of evil, and the practice of his religion is a liturgy of death and destruction. Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History For a century and a half, people have failed to recognize Marxism for what it is, a theology. Marx’s emphasis on atheism and strict materialism in all things has obscured from view what Marxism really is. It is not a social theory. It is not an economic theory. It is a theology that sees economic and social conditions as what shapes human lives and, if reborn in faith, compels them to appropriate these means of human production and redirect them to achieve Marxist eschatology. This eschatology goes by a few names, but the most identifiable are “communism,” “liberation,” and “social justice.” The Dialectical Faith of Leftism To understand Marxist theology, we have to understand its theological antecedent, which was established by the German systematic theologian, speculative idealist, and hermetic alchemist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. His theology is one of dialectics; he was the father of what Marx later transformed into dialectical materialism, and is the combination of two mystery religions. Hegel, drawing on Jean-Jacques Rousseau (the father of leftism), Immanuel Kant, and others, dialectically synthesized Hermetic alchemy and Gnosticism, molded it into a metaphysical framework based on Christianity, and mislabeled it a “system of science.” Thus we arrive at what has been called “scientific Gnosticism,” “Gnosticism in the modern age,” and “dialectical leftism,” which outlines a broad system of faith in which man is necessary as the transformer of reality into his utopian ideal. These are the intellectual precursors of Marx’s theology: the leftist social theorizing of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Dialectical Alchemy of G.W.F. Hegel. Marx recognized that Hegel was not a mere philosopher, but in fact a theologian. Marx’s great mistake was to repackage Hegel’s theology in a materialistic shell and thus mystify the world about his theological creation. Hegel produced an Absolute Idea which men approximate in thought in the Theoretical Idea and in action in the Practical Idea, and dialectics is designed to reunite them and realize the Absolute, whereas Marx merely placed the Idea itself in the head of Man. Absolute Man, Socialist Man or the true Communist, has clearly in his mind the Absolute Idea, which is the perfect reunification of Theory and Practice. Absolute Man, or “the Last Man,” at the End of History is the deity of Marxist Theology, and true to his Hegelian Alchemical roots, Man exists to remember this true nature of himself by overcoming his “Fall,” which Marx said came with the division of labor and the establishment of private property. James-Lindsay

@yamiyugi2894 Ай бұрын

Marx couldn't have known anything about Gnosticism because the texts hadn't been discovered yet

@mrsentencename7334 Ай бұрын

@@yamiyugi2894to the average person, but these secret societies have been operating for thousands of years

@LosOne12 Ай бұрын

Wow.

@RorkesDriftVC Ай бұрын

Marx made observations that did not forsee the rise of unions and changes in the nature of work. The concentration of wealth and rise of Christian Nationalism are antithetical to the American experiment in self-government. The Marxist solution is obsolete. The dangers he warned of are as real today as they were then.

@LorenIpsem 28 күн бұрын

Your excellent essay deserves a wider audience than a KZbin comment

@secretgoldfish Ай бұрын

Easy-life apathy, being easily-led/manipulated, deliberately not learning from the obvious past .....and a subsequent BIG dose of cluelessly NOT knowing what you've got until it's GONE.

@illbeyourmonster5752 Ай бұрын

Modern conservatism?

@williamweb9782 20 күн бұрын

I sincerely hope you are wrong but I think you have hit the nail on the head with your post.

@AndyJarman Ай бұрын

Das Capital is NOT about economics, it's about faith in an utopian idea.

@steinarvilnes3954 Ай бұрын

you actually know what the book contains?

@NowioFel Ай бұрын

...written by a Satanist (Marx never condemned his satanic writings btw)

@TheWhitehiker Ай бұрын

A poorly envisioned idea; to mention the obvious.

@steinarvilnes3954 Ай бұрын

@@TheWhitehiker It does not contain a blueprint for an utopian society though.

@PhilipBurton-dn3ce Ай бұрын

Capitalism is not a political ideology...it took hundreds of years to develop throughout various parts of the world under various political inclinations...it was a true "will of the people" Mr Mao, Mr Stalin, Mr Marx, Mr Guevara, Mr Pot........there was no Mr Capitalism.......hang on..why are all the inflicters of pain, suffering and misery all on the left....Mr Hoxha, ....wow, the list goes on and on

@MGuesshart 21 күн бұрын

I'm not a college student, but I am a lover of history.So i'm very familiar with all of the despots you have mentioned, Douglas. Thank you for being a sane voice in an insane time.

@criticalsection Ай бұрын

I believe in fairness but fairness happens at the starting line - not at the finish line.

@NowioFel Ай бұрын

fairness is an unnatural concept. there is no fairness in nature

@stephendoherty981 Ай бұрын

@@NowioFelSo it's the law of the jungle for you then?

@NowioFel Ай бұрын

@stephendoherty981 we are no neanderthals nor native tribal africans or aboriginals, we have a social gene that lets us organise according to our conplimentary strengths to cover our lacking talents. There is a number of published diaries of women and men trying to integrate into such cultures... they had to give up due to such incompatibility. There is also an african dude traveling and interviewing tribal chiefs and warriors and how they think about slavery, rape and spreading STDs... go find those videos, they are... enlightening

@stephendoherty981 Ай бұрын

@NowioFel Fairness, decency, and the desire to aid our fellow man is intrinsic to human nature. There are equally fascinating You Tube videos of young children in kindergartens helping other children out to complete tasks etc. This benevolence dissipates as children get older due to societal influence and our 'dog eat dog' neoliberal culture.

@blrbrazil1718 Ай бұрын

@@stephendoherty981: the inspiring thing about humanity is that our spiritual side aspires to higher goals, even as our material side is subject to the laws of nature. Evil seeks to eliminate that spiritual side and persuade us to succumb entirely to materialism.

@ronaldwiggins3226 21 күн бұрын

It is narcissism from young people that keep getting told that capitalism is bad while they are reaping the bounty ungreatfully

@nayon9379 17 күн бұрын

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@toddhills3706 13 күн бұрын

Spot. On. These kids what no fucking clue how much worse things could be. And I have a secret wish they would find out.

@ldino2248 Ай бұрын

It’s just fun how Lex forgot the communism in Cuba, Venezuela saying the communism has never been tried!.. I would like to invite those a people to Venezuela now, so they can see how pretty well tried there, the people starving but their governors richer with all the power concentrate. That sir is real socialism, everyone is equal, equally poor!!!.. Except for the leaders

@Rwethereyet 18 күн бұрын

I invite anyone who considers socialism/communism to be good, to Google pictures of Cuba pre 1959 and then 2024. The only places that have been maintained are either tourist traps or where the officials live. You know that things are bad when hundreds of thousands of people would much rather risk their lives and that of their children, to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a make shift raft or dingy toward freedom and food in the U.S., than spend another day there. Many have died trying.

@blrbrazil1718 Ай бұрын

The lessons are very clear: extremism is BAD, regardless of whether it comes from the left or the right of the political spectrum.

@izkh4lif4 23 күн бұрын

I just say it’s two sides of the same coin, communism, fascism, two sides of the same coin of Socialism, and socialism lives in the bank of Totalitarianism, and waaay out in the desert, there lives anarchy, but if you look to the greener parts of the country, that is where constitutional republics live, and Liberty, Freedom, and natural rights, and limited government.

@blrbrazil1718 23 күн бұрын

@@izkh4lif4: In as much as they're the two extremes of left (communist totalitarianism) and right (fascist dictatorship), coming together in a circle (not the usual assumption of a straight line), I agree with you. The opposite side of the circle is anarchy, which some people try to convince me is healthy freedom, but how can it be healthy if there is no structure and no rules? People will just do what they want and we know how that ends up. So it is in the centre that we find the healthy moderation that enables people to collaborate in building and sustaining a decent society (ideally having all their basic needs met and realising their potential in the vast array of healthy pursuits).

@laertesindeed 19 күн бұрын

@blrbrazil1718 Your sleight of hand was not honest, there. You don't get to pretend that National Socialism in Germany ever had anything to do with the right. Ever. It was Leftist from the get go. So was the Socialism of the Soviets and all their vassals. One Leftist ideology being at war with another Leftist ideology does "NOT" make one of them have anything to do with the right. We have still never had any extremist ideology emerge out of the right ever in recorded human history.

@laertesindeed 19 күн бұрын

@blrbrazil1718 Name any extremist ideology that ever came from the right. Both of the ones you're probably thinking of were from the Left. They were both Socialist. So that doesn't have anything to do with the right.

@blrbrazil1718 18 күн бұрын

@@laertesindeed: Well we know that repression is a characteristic of right wing dictators also (hence the left's abuse of the term 'fascist' to label anybody right of the political centre). And when it comes to ideology one could perhaps cite the religious fanaticism that led to the crusades, the Inquisition, witch hunting, the spread of Islam, etc. But the essential point is that extremism is bad, from whichever side of the political equation one sits. We are seeing a huge backlash against the dangerous trends of woke extremism and communist totalitarianism right now and this is undoubtedly a good thing. But in curing the malaise, we must be very careful not to let the pendulum swing too far in the opposite direction.

@ClarenceChristmas 21 күн бұрын

Trying to go against basic human survival design has always failed, whatever names you give it. If it has to be imposed, and would never grow or develop organically, it’s against basic human survival and will fail.

@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc Ай бұрын

Life is NOT fair. Never was, never will be. Anyone born with a deformity can tell us that. Who is to blame for that particular happenstance? But there is a long, long list of persons who, despite the awful handicap, through hard work, discipline and diligence, do more than us ‘normal folk’. Tell me please, what’s fair about that? Too much victimhood today, it has become a profession!

@Mazatzal Ай бұрын

The corporations that polluted our water, food, air, and yes, our blood with 'vaccines'.

@maxweinbach3996 Ай бұрын

Marx doesn’t refer to fair as everyone should have the same thing or outcome. It means social structure such as “fair” wages, fair working conditions, fair voting structure. All western countries have adopted this form of what Marx is referring to. I am certain you have benefited from it.

@rangerdoc1029 22 күн бұрын

He's wrong about one major point. About not trying fascism. Most western governments are wholly fascist in Economic And governance models. All the problems we currently have in "capitalism" are because of fascist ideas that have infected it. Perhaps it's inevitable that capitalist societies devolve into fascism just as it's impossible for Marxism to result in anything other than mass exterminations of its own population. Given the choice, I'd much rather live in a corporatocracy or oligarchy than a Marxist Utopia. In the first you only lose your capital, in the latter you lose your life

@ehello2993 Ай бұрын

I actually find it really entertaining to see Douglas answering such simple questions

@mve6182 Ай бұрын

I would have liked to hear a bit more about neo-Marxism: Marx's original ideas were about economic inequity, neo-Marxism is about all other forms of concieved inequity, such as the differences between genders or races. Neo-Marxists still strive for revolution to erase these differences!

@LA-kc7ev Ай бұрын

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@Person0fColor 26 күн бұрын

It’s all the same thing it just metastasized into other areas of life. It no longer is enough to virtue signal to the working class because working class politics are more or less mainstream. In the 20th century it was politically expedient to fight for the white working class which is historically what all labor movements in the West were predicated on now it’s about protecting ever decreasing groups of minorities against the white working class.

@aleks71438 24 күн бұрын

I can explain

@TrampyPulsar Ай бұрын

The problem with the economic ladder is simple We keep trying to grab the lowest rung and raise it up, minimum wage, socailist policies, ect, when the problem is that the gap between each rung is getting so wide that its almost impossible to climb in the first place, and people who aren't on the ladder yet have to keep reaching for that constantly raising lowest rung

@86Akos Ай бұрын

And why is the distance increasing? Too much government interference

@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Ай бұрын

*Yep, Minimum wage laws and Inflation price many jobs out of the market because the cost of hiring someone exceeds the value of the position.*

@michaelplunkett8059 28 күн бұрын

Bottom rung is easy. - FINISH high school. WORK 40 + hours a week. NO illegal addictions. NO kids before adult marriage. Every year, look for a better job or promotion. Community college, night school if needed for a job.

@davidhansen1811 Ай бұрын

It is very disturbing that middle-school TEACHERS and the like (in my conversations with them) are unable to relate to me any details about Stalin, Mao, Marx, the Treaty of Versailles, what "from the River to the Sea" actually means, nor about thousands of other things that used to be considered within the realm of ordinary knowledge. Do not forget that from where these utopian ideologues like Gerald Butts sit (key Trudeau puppet master), it is much easier to govern ignorant people, and they know it. Furthermore, if middle school teachers teach some facts and evaluate students knowledge objectively and accordingly, their professional lives are the more miserable, because (1) they themselves would then have to know something and prepare lessons that have content, and (2) they would have to fail many students. So for Douglas Murray to bemoan the fact that students have little general knowledge is a little late, their teachers also have shockingly little general knowledge.

@MrReubenTishkoff Ай бұрын

Yet many would be self-proclaimed Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists and even Maoists. They exist in American schools and universities.

@Person0fColor 26 күн бұрын

? He can’t bemoan the students? The student movements are the ones leading the charge what are you talking about?

@kristinab8019 26 күн бұрын

"ordinary knowledge"'?... omg, you're living in a dream, nowadays you can't expect from anyone knowing basic simple things. once I open TikTok I feel like I am Einstein! Sometimes it is absolutely unbelievable, this level of ignorance

@davidhansen1811 26 күн бұрын

@@Person0fColor Of course we can all bemoan what is happening in education, 'to' students. Yes, young hysterical ignoramuses leading the charge.

@excellentcomment Ай бұрын

Love that: "show me the omelette.". Good one by George.

@strategic1710 25 күн бұрын

You produce better science not by trying astrology or magic, but by improving upon science. You also generate better economics by improving upon capitalism rather than discussing communism again. Capitalism works with a strong middle class, small businesses, nuclear families as the social focus, and political focus more localized. Oligarchs owning politicians is a big reason the middle class is dying.

@RextheRebel 23 күн бұрын

You just described capitalism destroying everything you hold dear and controlling the world via monied interests/oligarchs. Yet you blame socialism... It was because of labor activism and socialists that the middle class ever existed.

@RCSVirginia Ай бұрын

"Un cuerpo en reposo permanece en reposo; un cuerpo en movimiento permanece en movimiento". Esta descripción popular de la inercia también describe gran parte de lo que está sucediendo aquí. La educación, la academia, los medios de comunicación e incluso muchas iglesias, con raras excepciones, están controlados por la izquierda. Eso es lo que la gente escucha constantemente: no cambia. Cuando se critica al marxismo y al comunismo, generalmente se hace con suavidad y se representa que cualquier cosa mala en ellos se debe a que no se apegaron a sus verdaderos ideales. En referencia a la otra parte de la descripción popular, no existe una fuerza compensatoria fuerte que se oponga a este apoyo del marxismo y el comunismo en estas instituciones. Basta pensar en cuál es la proporción de documentales sobre nazis y fascistas en PBS y otros canales de medios, así como películas sobre ellos, en comparación con aquellos sobre el comunismo. Sin embargo, el comunismo asesinó a mucha más gente y arruinó muchas más vidas.

@VirgilHathaway-zj3xq 25 күн бұрын

It’s simple,why work if it’s given to you. Why work if it’s taken away.

@hugh-johnfleming289 Ай бұрын

My take is these kids are not interested in creating capital. My Grampa told me to make myself valuable. It worked...

@illbeyourmonster5752 Ай бұрын

Their whole view is that since they exist they deserve to have what everyone above them in life should have too, but without doing any of the work to get any of it.

@stephendoherty981 Ай бұрын

@illbeyourmonster5752 🦬💩. They're working harder for much less money than their parents. Even young professionals can't afford to buy or rent anywhere to live.

@stuartmc18 Ай бұрын

The ‘something for nothing brigade’.

@stephendoherty981 Ай бұрын

@hugh-johnfleming289 These kids have been sold a pup!!!!!! Grandma at least made a decent living when she worked and was able to buy a house. People, even young professionals, work harder for less and can only dream of buying a house!!. Nonsense comment!

@illbeyourmonster5752 Ай бұрын

@@stephendoherty981 Houses and life as a whole were much much smaller, simler and less well-built al along with everything else. On top of that life itself had far less convincing purchase items to drain people's money away on.

@kumar2ji 23 күн бұрын

What is called intelligence is collapsing.

@seeker.8785 Ай бұрын

Unfairness is not caused by capitalism. Unfairness is just an inherent part of living in a society with a great number of other people of mixed moral character and different levels of wisdom and rationality. You must give people the freedom to make their own choices and live their own lives. When you do, and when you allow everyone to interact with each other in a peaceful manner, their actions toward each other, though the law ensures that they are peaceful, will often be unfair. You have to allow people the freedom to make mistakes, both in their private lives, and in their social lives. You have to allow them the freedom to be unfair towards each other, just as you allow them the freedom to be lazy or ignorant or irrational. It is the purpose of the law to ensure that people's actions toward one another are peaceful. If you try to guarantee virtue, and fairness, by the heavy hand of the state - and that is the only kind of hand the government can have, for everything that it does is meaningless unless it is ultimately backed up by the threat of violence - then you end up taking away people's freedom to exercise their own judgement. The question then becomes: whose judgement and moral character are so reliable that they can properly wield that kind of power, to make other adults' life decisions for them? Who will decide who gets the power? It leads us straight into the vortex of authoritarianism. It is precisely against such frivolous and arrogant use of power that we need the protection of a constitution. You cannot escape the difficulty of these decisions about what is fair and unfair, or the fallibility of human nature, by concentrating the power to make those decisions in the state. That's only kicking the can down the road, or hoping that someone better than you will take responsibility so that you don't have to. It is completely the wrong way to solve our social problems. The truth is that you can never guarantee a fair society. You can only hope to guarantee a free society, and then let free individuals sort out the rest on their own. Then you can take advantage of that guarantee of peace and freedom to thrive in that controlled chaos as best you can. In that context you make your own life, and that is the only kind of fairness you can expect.

@vandatavna7681 Ай бұрын

Your comments about "unfairness" are very perceptive. Thomas Sowell, the American economist and philosopher, has similar views about personal freedom, and the overreach of the State in trying to engineer "fairness" in ways that result in the loss of that freedom. Thomas Sowell is now 94, and has never been awarded a Nobel Prize for his excellent and insightful books, research, and educational work ... and this in itself shows how biased the "elite" (who award such honors) are, in acknowledging the wisdom and insight of his views on western economics and society.

@dreamoftranscendence4415 24 күн бұрын

Unfairness is part of society because it's a core part of the human psyche.

@nayon9379 17 күн бұрын

@seeker.8785 17 күн бұрын

@@nayon9379 Everything you said is irrelevant, wrong, and insane. Because it is irrelevant I will not discuss it here, but I will say that.

@marcusgibson3899 Ай бұрын

It's because capitalism and Adam Smith is NEVER taught in Universities, on economics, politics and 'sociology' courses!

@068067 24 күн бұрын

I am concerned conservatives seriously underestimate how strong the socialism and communism sympathy is among the youths and 20somethings

@TheOrphicLyre 22 күн бұрын

"Captialism" is spoken about in nebulous terms but all it is, is the recognition of your right to own stuff, rather than surrender it to a bureaucracy that does not care about you.

@michaelwhitley2081 25 күн бұрын

Workers should own all of the value of their output. Really? So who “owns” the “value” (cost) of the input required to produce the output? As someone else commented “fairness happens at the starting line, not at the finish line”. Very true. Oh, except to a Marxist who wants all the profit but none - and I mean ZERO - of the input costs or stress, financial input, cost of buildings, equipment and all the stuff that creates a business that provides the ability to create an output. One of the best analogies I’ve come across is the pencil factory…

@izkh4lif4 23 күн бұрын

“Just make the govt do it.” - every Marxist ever

@antoniochang4553 Ай бұрын

Capitalism doesn’t work for the lower socioeconomic class. Many social policies in place in capitalist systems that protect the working class are Marxist inspired, such as minimum wage, medical cover, maternity leave, pension, holiday leave, sick leave etc etc… capitalism opposes and fights everything that impedes the profit of the capitalist system holders. This is how the system is. Systems evolve so does society and we see mixtures and inspirations from various social and political currents. Douglas Murray speaks of a Marxism frozen in ancient times and if we do that, then We need to compare to capitalism at that time as well in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was a savage capitalism where workers had absolutely no rights and when they voiced their complaints, they were shot at or fired without recourse

@PizzaLord Ай бұрын

There is a one word answer to the question in the title - resentment.

@michaelturley8222 22 күн бұрын

And greed. The fact minimum wage gets you more wealth than half the world shows that.

@RocketPropelledWombat 8 күн бұрын

@@michaelturley8222 That's before bills, tax, national insurance, food, clothing... Have you tried living on nat. min. wage surviving on your own? Simple fact is that a lot of people are struggling and I think (most of) the reasons for recent rise in Marxism could be attributed to / correlated to this. When I used to see the logic in Marxism I was struggling financially living in an economically FUBAR part of the world, and although I don't particularly feel like a fan of it, I still say to this day that i'll be more Conservative when I've got something to f***ing lose. Minimum wage gets you next to nothing in this economy, never has.

@michaelturley8222 8 күн бұрын

@@RocketPropelledWombat I'm aware, I've worked minimum wage and a bit over it for several years when I was a teen and early 20s, and I couldn't have survived healthily on it and got everything you've mentioned. But that's the point. If you haven't developed skills to get beyond that point, you shouldn't be buying new clothes, you shouldn't have insurance (you're better off going to emergency care if it's needed and filing for BK if it's that serious.) I know it sucks and it sounds harsh, but it's the world we live in. Unless some magic happens and all the wealthy decide to share it. But those calculations comparing different wages factor in what it gets you in your country. I actually live in colombia. A lot of people here make $500 or less in US money, and it gets them even less than what you'd be able to afford in the US. They live with their parents, don't have cards. Have old cell phones. Never eat out or go to bars. My point is, as bad as poverty is here, it's even worse in most of SA, Africa and Asia. Even our poor have it good, comparatively, as hard to believe as that may be I've seen it first hand. I know what I'm talking about unfortunately. Just have to learn to be happy with what you have and build from there. I understand the resentment and sympathize with it DEEPLY, however harping on it, is useless. Right?

@HonestMan247 20 күн бұрын

"Keep an open mind, but not so far open that everything falls out." - That expression was created for people like Lex.

@avancalledrupert5130 22 күн бұрын

I got deep into the commie shit for years . When you have a trade but still cant afford a house its appealing. Now im older im like just leave England. Its heart breaking to be priced out your country but being a commie wont help you just have to emigrate.

@toddhills3706 13 күн бұрын

The fact that owning a singular home ever became the goalpost in the first place is precisely the result of capitalism. It has spoiled us.

@blasvillasmil8875 19 күн бұрын

One important thing that nobody says about compensation is the importance of the value of what you do. Not every work adds the same value, or adds any value at all. What gives value to a work is the quality, the timing, the opportunity, the iniciative, the goods ideas, the good knowledge, the selection of materials, the ways that you mix things, and an interminable list of particularities of anything that you want to achieve. All of this requires lots of knowing and lots of making good decision at good time. How you could calculate all these factors in a manner that could be manageable at any level of complexity in a way that allows to achieve real and useful results on a fast pase ?? There's always one way: compare what the costs and procedures are for something similar that anybody else is already doing, and try to improve both. That will guide you to what you should pay for every job that you need to be done. The only fair way is the free choice from both parts, the contractor and the contratist. That's the only way, maybe difficult, and not always everybody will be happy, but that is human nature !!! From that point you can improve everything, while you preserve the freedom of choice and the right to preserve the property that you adquired without breaking the law.

@sole__doubt Ай бұрын

Popular among women and the young. Its important to make that distinction.

@hadror13 Ай бұрын

Wut? Women? Wth are you on about

@sole__doubt Ай бұрын

@@hadror13 Women love collectivism.

@mjpope1012 Ай бұрын

You are right. Like it as not. Marxism captures women more b/c it presents a new religion & what they think is morally &socially superior.

27 күн бұрын

Every time you say "should the boss get this amount or that amount", it presupposes an authority that overseas how much people can earn. Do we want that authority? Because that's the authority of a powerful government.

@SuedeStonn Ай бұрын

@13:38 The entrepreneur reaps the fruits of his ideas, the employee reaps the fruits of his labor. Try to take the entrepreneurs ideas and his fruits, you will get neither, short of a gov't going and taking it at the point of a gun. If you don't like the work, don't think you're paid enough, find work elsewhere, you're free to do so (in a free country, of course, good luck in a collectivist country, especially the more specialized your work). What's the real problem (problems, really)? Lack of education and, worse, "entitlement". People today seem to have this idea that they're entitled to anything and everything, it should be given to them, no strings attached (for instance, heaven forbid, work). Get this notion out of your mind, fast... if the entrepreneurs decided to pack up and ship out, you'll be left with NOTHING. Forget learning to code, you'll get to learn to forage, or if you're lucky farming, and how to build a house (more likely find a cave, but I'm trying to be generous), and so on. That TV you like watching so much? Dust. That iPhone you're glued to? Dust. Your car? Your clothes? Well, you can learn to ride a horse, I suppose, though you might be tempted to turn Hidalgo into an old fashioned suit and footwear. Bottom line: don't bite the hand that feeds you, especially one that feeds you well. (That's CAPITALISM, in case you didn't know.)

@illbeyourmonster5752 Ай бұрын

I went from deadbeat nobody to successful business owner and it makes me sad how many people whine about how it must be nice to be rich now, yet when I offer to help them get up to my level fast, they have absolutely zero want to do it.

@blrbrazil1718 Ай бұрын

The biggest weakness of capitalism is the division of the rewards. Capital is narrowly defined as money and property. Labour argues that their efforts are also a valid form of capital, but that notion keeps getting rejected. The sooner we move away from the shareholder focus to a stakeholder focus the better!

@illbeyourmonster5752 Ай бұрын

@@blrbrazil1718 And where does working smart and or efficiently fit into your concept?

@blrbrazil1718 Ай бұрын

@@illbeyourmonster5752: I believe in meritocracy. The problem lies in where the baseline is set. Currently, senior management has hived itself off into a separate category (apparently unaware that they too are 'employees') and meritocracy is either only applied to their definition of the 'employee' category or not at all (due to trade union protectionism in the name of class warfare). Accountability seems to be disappearing from senior management, the same way it is from politics.

@illbeyourmonster5752 Ай бұрын

@@blrbrazil1718 And? What about everyone who is working somewhere other than for a big corporation? Where do all of us independent small business owners and private operators who make good money fit into your views?

@sandponics 19 күн бұрын

Karl Marx thought that the British working class were opressed, but the working class ignored Marx because they were too busy earning money and getting rich, and thought that he was an idiot.

@terriblesilence1 18 күн бұрын

I’m not a “Marx stan” but this does not seem to be a really accurate telling of working class conditions in 19th century Europe. There is a reason why there were several revolutions and uprisings in the mid 19th (e.g the spring of nations 1848).

@GrahamCahill-uj3sc 13 күн бұрын

I think Engels was a more balanced theoretician whilst studying Victorian Manchester and the inequalities

@rhs5683 Ай бұрын

Marx was some unemployed PhD in Philosophy living of inherences and Engels welfare payments and smoking opium regulary, always in dept and had some strange obsession with not-bathing going so far, that liquids from his blisters mae the original of "Das Kapital" so smelly Engels complained about it. Jenny Marx was a fromer Aristocrat, that turned life long alcoholic after marrying him... I wonder if there are some repeating settings

@Music-pq8cm 17 күн бұрын

One thing is common to all economic systems… human entitlement, greed and corruption. No economic system yields optimal outcomes with the persistent entitlement, greed and corruption.

@andrewstryker3549 29 күн бұрын

This guy is the greatest Brit since Churchill.

@michaelplunkett8059 28 күн бұрын

He's right not to knock Churchill on health. At birth, UK life expectancy was 42 and he made it to 90 years of a NOT stress free life.

@Moonuuu 21 күн бұрын

Churchill was white supremacist and mass criminal killed millions of people

@LW1Tok 21 күн бұрын

Douglas gives off Bond villain vibes hehehe. I say that in a good way. Love the guy. National Treasure for sure.

@janetnadler7832 Ай бұрын

No one can defeat you, Douglas.

@sammic7492 29 күн бұрын

Just look at what happened in Cambodia, Pol Pot followed Marxism to the letter and we all know how that ended.

@nischiy4530 29 күн бұрын

Pol Pot had nothing to do with Marxism, not even close. You just making up things

@TonySmith-jj9fv Ай бұрын

Douglas Murray will go down in history as one of the great men of our period.

@williamweb9782 20 күн бұрын

I like that he does not care about being popular or unpopular like the Kipling poem about meeting success and failure the same way.

@tensaijuusan4653 6 күн бұрын

"Where's the omelette?" - perfect!

@TheWhitehiker 6 күн бұрын

The omelet is no property rights and no freedom, plus poor economics.

@harry2bells Ай бұрын

Can I just ask this question? Which one was Karl? I do remember Zeppo and Groucho from Saturday morning pictures at Uxbridge Odeon but not the other geezer. Oh yeah Harpo him too!

@graveyardshift6691 26 күн бұрын

Groucho, Harpo, Chicho, and Zeppo. Karl was their retarded cousin no one talked about because he was disowned.

@wilfredruffian5002 Ай бұрын

It's a wonderful, comforting philosophy for losers and children. For losers,because it justifies their failure. For children,it's clinging to the care of family while facing the uncertainty of an independent future.

@unbreakable7633 Ай бұрын

How can anybody think Marxism is a good idea? But I'm a Marxist -- a Groucho Marxist.

@MrReubenTishkoff Ай бұрын

The only acceptable type of Marxist.

@excellentcomment Ай бұрын

@@MrReubenTishkoff you took the words right off my fingertips.

@maxweinbach3996 Ай бұрын

They aren’t discussing Marxism. They are discussing totalitarianism

@Person0fColor 26 күн бұрын

@@maxweinbach3996right! No true Scotsmen it’s just a pity you weren’t there to correct him 😂

@d38yv4 27 күн бұрын

What Douglas is very very reticent to say - traditional capitalism is completely different to modern capitalism. And it’s no more beneficial than communism

@shadowkhan422 22 күн бұрын

Basically , everything is good in moderation . Problem is , people love to be in cults and hate everyone who says cults are stupid...

@excellentcomment Ай бұрын

Isn't the textbook definition of marxism the distribution of economic goods based on need? And capitalism is defined as the distribution of economic goods based on what you produce. An economy gets more & more of the one it rewards: either more & more need OR more & more production. Economics is defined in the Samuelson primer as the study of how we can best meet our infinite need with our finite resources. Marxism inevitability increases need until need crushes resources. The next to fall is California . Conversely, in capitalism, production increases to meet or exceed need. Then charity becomes widespread. America is most charitable because it is most capitalist.

@TheWhitehiker Ай бұрын

excellent comment!!

@maxweinbach3996 Ай бұрын

Not exactly. Marxism is different from communism, which is different from socialism. You are mostly referring to communism, which is those who contribute to society’s wealth has a say in how it is distributed. That voice is the “need” of society.

@TheWhitehiker Ай бұрын

@@maxweinbach3996 Sure, max.

@maxweinbach3996 Ай бұрын

@@TheWhitehiker thanks for broadening your perspective or for the sarcasm.

@TheWhitehiker Ай бұрын

@@maxweinbach3996 Oh shucks, max, I guess we should call it a day!

@Victor_Andrei 20 сағат бұрын

About the CEO pay, yes, I've been in that situation before where the CEO of my company was literally making 500 times more money than me. My only thought was "look, it's okay for you to be top dog, but like... why by this absurd margin?".

@UdiKoomran Ай бұрын

The kibutzes in Israel tried it too The first kibbutzniks hoped to be more than farmers. They sought to create a new type of society where all would be equal and free from exploitation

@joge2468 Ай бұрын

The kibbutzim were/are largely successful by virtue of their small size, community-wide buy in, lack of freeloaders, and the ability to kick members out for not participating or following the rules. Lots of alternative social/economic structures can work at such a small scale, where everyone knows each other and is committed to the community.

@joeruiz4010 Ай бұрын

@@joge2468 Most of them transitioned to Market-Based Economies by 1950, and those that didn't were assimilated into those Market-Based Economies. The Soviet Union then turned on Israel. 😂

@joge2468 Ай бұрын

@@joeruiz4010 I’m not sure I understand what you mean. If you’re saying they moved to a distributionist system, I agree.

@_permanence Ай бұрын

Vehicles of settlor colonialism

@joeruiz4010 Ай бұрын

@joge2468 Basically yes. Once the Israeli Federal Government transitioned the Country to a Market Economy, getting rid of the Soviet System of Centralized, Economic Planning, the Kibbutzim Systems were abandoned. The Kibbutzim systems were forcefully imposed on the population.

@IW-44 11 күн бұрын

Douglas on Churchill's health advice... Priceless

@DFMoray Ай бұрын

It’s a worse solution to a real problem.

@johnbell1874 Ай бұрын

I wish I had triceps like Douglas Murray

@andyjay9346 Ай бұрын

Too many dang ads. 👎

@JohnSmith-fo5cx Ай бұрын

use an adblocker?

@aykay7828 25 күн бұрын

Tribalism is a human traits, such as a bargaining (virgin brides vs herd of goats), slavery, no incest, genocide, superstition, interconnection within members and groups (hierarchy,, castes, trade groups) and so on. Where should be these Marxism or Christianity be? Tribalism /trī′bə-lĭz″əm/ noun The organization, culture, or beliefs of a tribe. A strong feeling of identity with and loyalty to one's tribe or group. The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics

@RextheRebel 23 күн бұрын

Well you said it. Bargaining. Socialism focuses on groups bargaining and collectively organizing to attain power for themselves. It often fails because the tent becomes too big and too many fellow groups ultimately can't coexist for long.

@55tranquility Ай бұрын

Marx was a political economist and philosopher not a politician or activist, he wrote books and tried to understand the structures of capitalism and its inherent problem. Marx was both a critic and big fan of capitalism, he did admire it in a lot of ways. He actually wrote "The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground - what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?" Marx also was categorically clear that communism could only come from the working classes, the proletariat - not from a vanguard class of professional revolutionaries and intellectuals, as we have seen everywhere in the world that has claimed communism, which is Leninism and versions of Leninism. In all cases these were an utter failure of monstrous, genocidal proportions. The left today, in fact particularly today in the West who claim Marx will not usher in a Marxist revolution, for they are not the working classes they are not the toiling people.in fact they seem to hate the working class - and certainly don't speak for them and for anyone who understands Marx can't speak for them. In fact Marx would view woke activists as just a reflection of bourgeois or petit bourgeois behaviour. A Marxist revolution will come out of the same people who vote for Trump, it has to - this is who Marx was writing about. The politics of Trump is only a moment in history, the masses are the only group who can create a Marxist revolution as it is the masses who are exploited by capitalism. Woke college students are the petit bourgeois, they are not materially exploited or oppressed.

@joefatalooch8057 Ай бұрын

Anarchy is its own punishment. And this has been proven many times in Russia, Cuba and Venezuela.

@codex3048 Ай бұрын

Ironic that Douglas mentioned Orwell in this context, since he, too, was an advocate of "real Socialism has never been tried in the West." Orwell was very much a deluded Socialist himself, and he imagined that an English variety would somehow "work," because the English believed in "decency."

@user-cg1fx8px7u Ай бұрын

Wasn’t the holodomor that changed his mind about socialism?

@andrewxiaoping1852 Ай бұрын

No, he wasn't. At least not after a certain point. He did say that he was a believer in "Social Democracy" up until the end, however he was somewhat heterodox even among them. You should read some of his essays, they can be quite illuminating on his worldview. He was a compassionate realist more than anything else, in my opinion.

@teonactalpizza Ай бұрын

@@andrewxiaoping1852social democracy is socialism by another name it's a way to sneak it in.

@AndyJarman Ай бұрын

Have you read Animal Farm?

@WinstonSmithGPT Ай бұрын

@@andrewxiaoping1852social democracy can mean a lot of things, one of which is a couple of more government benefits than you currently have, or maybe just different ones.

@dallasonfire604 19 күн бұрын

The way Douglas described the state of capitalism in America and Canada with the snakes and ladders analogy was very accurate.

@jhljhl6964 Ай бұрын

Because people don't want to work?

@antibull4869 Ай бұрын

Moreso people want to put the blame for their failures on society’s inability to provide for them. Which isn’t the point of society.

@BloodSweatandFears Ай бұрын

They also want to be safe, coddled, and taken care of. They unfortunately would rather trade their freedom for “safety”

@dr.rangarajc9691 13 күн бұрын

The God of Marx is from "Labour theory of value" (originally Adam Smith's error)is the labour embedded in every commodity , just like a ghost in embedded inside a haunted house. Developments in economics by Marginal theory of Austrian school (Mises school) had refuted Marx , even when he was alive - he brushed it aside(typical of cult). Voluntary exchange between owners of properties (every commodity ) by supply and demand produces prices. Tribute to free markets by Nikitha Khrushchev Premier of Soviet Union "When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything". Socialist countries could never tell the price of anything. They were blind. They had to take ratios of prices in west to fix prices of all commodities.

@jogarthehutt Ай бұрын

Wasn't Marx Jewish?

@sskuk1095 Ай бұрын

Of Jewish descent, he was an atheist!

@Miparwo Ай бұрын

Marxism is Gnostic, not the mainstream judaism. The Gnostic believe that the Jew god is evil, because he expelled humans from paradise to stop humans from acquiring "knowledge" (gnosis), hence the serpent is the "good god", since the serpent tried to help humans to eat from the fruit of knowledge. That's why the gnostic hate the mainstream jews.

@poetmaggie1 Ай бұрын

He was also a typical human.

@drlca6601 Ай бұрын

so what?

@Mintcar923 26 күн бұрын

@@sskuk1095I’m thinking maybe the reason why so many Jewish people are atheist is they are not fans of the Old Testament

@pistonburner6448 Ай бұрын

5:20 I was literally making an omelette while watching(/listening to) this!

@Carl2k7 17 күн бұрын

If you keep cooking the same meal following the same instructions and it comes out shit, its not that your not doing it right, its that the recipe is shit. What an absolute truth bomb:

@TeaParty1776 Ай бұрын

> Douglas Murray - Why Marxism Is So Popular in the West Christianity.

@Stormer-Europa Ай бұрын

While he tells you 15 millions jews are worth more than 15 million Christians. I'm noticing

@minkleymcmoo5248 Ай бұрын

Good point. A religion of the slave is bound to lead to material historical accounts.

@TeaParty1776 Ай бұрын

@@Stormer-Europa Sometimes I associate ham sandwiches with orange cats. Theres no cause and effect, no reasoning. I just associate them in my imagination.

@TeaParty1776 Ай бұрын

@@minkleymcmoo5248 The minds actions come from within the mind when man chooses to think or to evade thinking. The mind creates ideas, intuitions, emotions, imaages, memories as a result, often indirectly, of mand choice to think or evade. Thats a fundamental self-responsibilityy that has frightened most people into subjectivism or mysticism.

@TeaParty1776 Ай бұрын

@@minkleymcmoo5248 The mind functions by choice, not external causes. Man must choose to focus his mind and abstract from concretes. An unfocused mind may have subjective or mystical ideals, ie, intuitions, not knowledge of concretes.

@deeanadraupadi6930 27 күн бұрын

That any chanse to watch douglas murray tomy robinson and geert wilders sit together and talks about european issues, I love these guys 🔥🔥

@anomaliesanonymous 10 күн бұрын

USSR, North Korea, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Vietnam, etc etc. all of whom have stellar human rights records

@excellentcomment Ай бұрын

Roger Clemens is one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time. Barbara Walters asked him if it were fair that he was paid so much more and some of his teammates were paid so much less. He replied that he was one of fewer than six men in the world who could throw a 90+ mile an hour fastball in each corner of the strike zone. If we are paid for performance, then fairness is not the basis. And if we are not paid for performance, then what are we paid for? Every worker, including a CEO, sells his labor at the price where the supply of his ability & the demand for his ability intersect. That's the general economic principle of how things work. Granted, humans game the system. There's probably a supply & demand for that, too.

@johnnynick3621 Ай бұрын

Great comment..... no - excellent comment.

@James_36 Ай бұрын

Sports is easy and not complex.... where your point becomes almost false is the CEO arguments... sorry but a CEO is an employee like the rest these days unless it is a smaller business, he likely did not do anything to create the business he is in and in the 80s these people earned 10-40x salaries of the other employees... now it has gone insane and very elitist despite these people not doing much more than anyone else. CEOs do not get there these days on competence, they get there based on Politics, deceit, nepotism, elitism. These people are not a thousand times more competent or productive either. So the current structures do need reforming

@johnnynick3621 Ай бұрын

@@James_36 There are cases where CEO's are paid too much and there are cases where they are paid too little - who decides which is which - YOU? In a free and fair society, the OWNERS make the decisions.... Not YOU - not some political hack - not some judge or lawyer - not the mob - not the voters....... only the OWNERS get to make that decision, and it won't always be the right decision.... but it is still theirs to make. In a fascist society, the government makes all those decisions. Be careful what you wish for.

@James_36 Ай бұрын

@@johnnynick3621 not saying me or govt.. markets and performance decides. Don’t be an idiot

@johnnynick3621 Ай бұрын

@@James_36 I will ignore your silly insult and stick to facts. YOU: _"the current structures do need reforming"_ WHO do you propose reform the current structure? If you are not saying it should be YOU or the government that should reform the current system, precisely WHO are you suggesting should be in charge of determining the amount of compensation paid to the person in charge of a corporation? "Markets and performance" is not an answer - be specific. Who decides?

@doodlemecrzy8075 20 күн бұрын

The end point of capitalism is dynastic levels of wealth & power. It becomes a sort of mini monarchy that agglomerates into plutocracy

@DM_Curtis 20 күн бұрын

There will always be people willing to knock over the apple carts to get at the apples.

@sodapopjones260 21 күн бұрын

I think capitalism is just unpopular, I know lots of people who work very hard, yet are stuck in a dead-end. People who succeed at capitalism like to imply that the failures are lazy, stupid, and marxists even when they are none of those things. If you feel one system is letting you down and you already get accused of Marxism for complaining, it isn’t a hard choice to take the alternatives into consideration.

@25Soupy 16 күн бұрын

Yes, it seems unfair when the person taking all the chances, building and maintaining a business takes a disproportionate amount of profits. But anyone who has run a business has experienced that fact that not every year is large profit taking. Machines wear out and need replacing, trucks need constant maintenance and repairs. Some years there are losses greater than the profits the year before. It's not like workers are going to take the losses with the gains like owners of businesses do. If you save for 5 years and buy a dump truck you have to work for free for 5 years to make the purchase of the dump truck back before there are any profits.

@shadowwars357 27 күн бұрын

Anyone that says communism failed because it wasn’t true Communism is a clown and a fool. I talked to actual people from the former eastern block countries and I asked them why they think communism failed and their answers were always very interesting. They told me that there were always people who were gung ho for this utopia communism always promises at first. But as the years go on, they see Boris and Ivan sitting on their asses and they’re getting the same amount of gruel as the guy who is working hard to achieve their socialist workers paradise. Sooner or later, they get the idea finally that they are wasting their time. When enough people figure that out that is when communism collapses. Communism will always fail because you are not going to get people to sacrifice and work hard for some ridiculous fantasy and getting nothing out of it. When people who do not work hard get the same amount regardless of how much or how little work they do it is revealed to be a scam. When you add in the corruption and the theft, you have a recipe for disaster. That is when communism must become authoritarian and brutal because they know the system will collapse if everybody just says to hell with this. They will never admit the philosophy is flawed. They will simply blame the people and then there will be people that are lined up and shot. It will be an incentive for others to fall in line

@brentritchie6199 Ай бұрын

Human beings are selfish and greedy is problem with any system. Which is why no system can ever work for long. Some systems are just more horrible then others.

@samuelstephens9921 22 күн бұрын

I think it's popular because it's an abstract concept that reaches towards the least successful and gives them a sense of empowerment with an unearned sense of moral superiority that comes from being poor.

@henrymeers234 Ай бұрын

Stock options work to help pay, but labor unions forbid workers from receiving them.

@truthhurts79 21 күн бұрын

Cuz everyone wants to put on a cape and save the world

@auralepiphanies4055 23 күн бұрын

Douglas hits it right on the head-people in the US are giving up on Corporate living as they see how the companies themselves give a little and the top get everything. What the US population fails to see however is the fraction that they get is ginormous compared to all 3rd world countries where true poverty lies. Its a problem but its also a problem of perception.

@gergenheimer Ай бұрын

Marx wasn't even criticizing Capitalism - he was a Hegelian and he believed that Capitalism was just an evolutionary stage that would be "outgrown" as civilization discovered more evolved ways of organizing itself. Marx's self-serving claim was that the march to socialism and eventually full Communism was inevitable - it could only be sped up or slowed down, but it was coming. He structured his argument this way because he knew that Communism was an inherently petty, resentful and destructive idea and that it stood no chance in the battle of ideas against free markets and free people. Marx clearly didn't care about the "little guy". He wanted to watch the world burn because he was a privileged, spiteful, nihilistic child.

@Yogiologybymarcovinicio Ай бұрын

Wow, Gad Saad should review this video 😂.

@julibugable 11 күн бұрын

So, thoughts on bosses making a million times more than the employee. So, what happens is, someone has an idea. They take the risks, they try to implement their idea, but in order to do so, they need others with expertise they don’t have and they need others to do the menial tasks. The expertise pays more because it took more to get it and it’s less easy to replace. The menial pays less because there are many who can do that job and they are easily replaced. They also need managers who are harder to replace because not everyone has the ability to manage well. Not everyone wants the headaches of dealing with many different types of people and motivating them to do the job required to implement the idea that the boss has. And, of course, their are other supporting personnel needed, secretaries, human resources, erc., for example. So, a contract is made with each of these individuals and they agree to it. If the idea is successful and a lot of money is made, that does not effect the contract. The contract with the individual remains the same. The money goes to the person who had the idea, hired all the people and took the risk. What he does with it is what makes the difference between a good boss or a bad boss. Some invest in new ideas, some help people, some pass it on to their employees, some spend it on themselves. But, should they not be rewarded for all the work they put into the idea, all the sacrifices they made and all the risks they took? And should they not have the choice to do with the money what they want? This coming from someone who considered starting a business and hiring someone to help. The mountains of paperwork alone, for taxes and government laws, for insurance and contract items was overwhelming to me. The time and money for learning it alone was too much. Kudos to those who do it.

@chetisanhart3457 18 күн бұрын

When you are hungry you don't care where the food comes from. Try it sometime before you write a book about it. You never forget your first bout of desperation. It reshaped your belief system.

@Macondo-pj8nj Ай бұрын

I´m just gonna wait for Volume 4 of Das Kapital, the one where Marx explains how his grand plan for a Socialist Utopia will be implemented. In the meantime, I prefer not to rehash any previous (incomplete) implementations for fear they might cost human lives.

@Thalanox 29 күн бұрын

Dude seemed a little high and a lot out of his depth, but he got a fantastic education. He also did so in good spirits. Good on him.

@williamlukach603 Ай бұрын

Is it possible to be a proponent of "equity" without being marxist? I think many liberals assume equity and equality are the same concept...but upon researching the term it seems its origins are purely marxist in nature. How can ideas such as "equity" fit within a western free market system? You will by the very nature of competition have people that are very skilled and therefore generate more income and wealth... and people who do not. So there cannot ever be true "equity". I hear this word from people like VP Harris all the time... and I'm trying to understand how you can believe this idea fits into our economic system as it is. Thoughts?

@marlow769 22 күн бұрын

Ok, I’ve got the first lesson - “Never start a land war in Asia”. What’s #2?

@brownwhale5518 24 күн бұрын

I think the common denominator between all the ‘isms’ humanity has tried is the reason they all tend to fail.

@gregwang8628 21 күн бұрын

If the capitalism system is working properly as designed, Marxism will not be popular at all, will it? So how do people improve the capitalism and better their outlook for life?

@AndreiAndrei-pg8eg Ай бұрын

Gustave le Bon coined the entire crowd behavior science, almost 200 years ago

@aarfeld Ай бұрын

You can't have socialism in one country, or even a handful of countries. It would have to be a world-wide system, as global capitalism is in order to work. In a brief moment of honesty, Lenin, shortly after the Bolsheviks prevailed in their revolution, said that what they must now do is to establish a temporary state-capitalist dictatorship of the proletariat. But temporary became forever, because Russia, and those who followed their example, had to trade with other nations in the global marketplace. This requires money, and all the rest of it that Marx said would disappear. You can't get there from here, folks. The best you can achieve is what we have in the west: reformed, regulated capitalism, which works in the best interests of people to raise their standards of living. It's not perfect, but it's our best hope.

@LorenIpsem 28 күн бұрын

OMG…Dude…you just said in deferent words that “Marxism just hasn’t been done right, yet.” Marxism has never worked. Never will. It’s a flawed philosophy.