Karl Marx: The Socialist Revolutionary

[@chakowe]

Karl Marx’s writing of the communist manifesto is one of the long term causes of the majority of the worlds problems, prove me wrong

[@Centurion97]

The burden of proof is on you, that's a bold (and very ignorant) claim. The Soviet Union is gone and China is capitalist in all but name now, after economic reforms beginning after Mao's death. All of the world's major powers are capitalist, moneyed interests control our politicians and massive corporations are driving us towards ecological collapse with rampant pollution/rising emissions.

[@MrShanester117]

The PHG bad one I’d say people are shitty, so no matter what you write. The Bible, philosophy, political ideology, etc. people will find a way to use it to control and dominate their peers.

[@FearlessP4P1]

His ideology is currently the leading cause of destruction of cultures.

[@helicopter2992]

KARL MARX IS PROTESTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

[@DmGray]

And the guy that wrote catcher in the rye is responsible for all those murders and shit. Utopianism can be dangerous. But to suggest a critique of a system which involved literal slavery still happening in the US is responsible for the bloody revolutions against awful regimes like the Tsars of Russia or the Chinese Empire is... patently ridiculous. The problem Yanks have (and it explicitly yanks) is that they rewrote history to justify the cold war and now reality is muddied by 70 years of propaganda, espionage and war. Try picking up Marx actual work and then attempt to make IT responsible for things that happened 30 years after his death. "personal responsibility" right? Ha. If you're saying that the revolutionaries were worse than those they overthrew, maybe. But the US has no problem with ruthless dictators, murderous/genocidal regimes and open corruption... so long as they do business on US terms.

[@diegocm8636]

"Now let me stop talking about Marx and Communism to talk about this overpriced luxury watch"

[@0fficialdregs]

anything above $200 is pricy. $140 is nothing compared to some watches i have seen unless you want a shitty watch. You get what you pay for. want cheap, have a cheap broken watch

[@diegocm8636]

@CESAR FC Yea I really don't know anything about these, just wanted to make a joke =p

[@johnwescott1500]

@@0fficialdregs Casio F-91W. Cheap, reliable and approved by Osama Bin Laden. Absolute bargain.

[@0fficialdregs]

@@johnwescott1500 like ima believe a terrorist lol

[@Xayver1082]

I love the irony. It was absolutely on purpose

[@jeffreyfiegen1538]

"Now, let's get back to Marx" Ad instantly plays

[@SeanAnthony-j7f]

Pls. Do Kierkegaard and Hegel next

[@LiteraryRetreat]

"Workers of the world, unite! Break your chains."

[@adriancraiescu5790]

And be ruled by the Jews

[@felipe96ification]

Or the state

[@josephgriffin2388]

His last words: "gotta dollar?"

[@rjp8212]

The day he died was his best accomplishment in life

[@13orrax]

quit Stalin and show us your Marx! do i Kruuuuschev?

[@williamedwards5399]

I'm sure Marx would've loved that watch ad in the middle of his biography.

[@Ktmfan450]

He'd be spinning like a buzzsaw If he weren't dead already

[@marcoursi6062]

And he helped create many more parasitic lazy leeches over the years...

[@delboytrotter8806]

Simon got top Marx, And got a free watch...............

[@frenchguitarguy1091]

EbberDeeMills very nuanced indeed, you should go to college

[@v.v.7522]

EbberDeeMills you nailed it 👏👏👏

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

"If only Karl had made capital instead of just writing about it." Let's take a moment to appreciate that savage roast by Mama Marx

[@ehrldawg]

LOL !! Amen !!

[@mohammadaluthainah402]

Mama knows better

[@flednanders7556]

I get that this is hindsight, but can you really put a concievable price tag on a landmark in human history?

[@ben-dr3wf]

Marx wrote about society and it's course.

[@flednanders7556]

Jeff Oliver. I strongly disagree. Marx introduced me, and countless others, to the idea that the wealthy have already transgressively redistributed resources, and that an obscene saturation of power in individuals ensues because of this. You seem to believe that fixing the problem improperly hurts worse than ignoring it. I say that's part of the problem. Only within a malignant global regime can pursuing ownership of one's own assets be so dangerous. Systems designed to enrich the few get messy whenever that happens, and it will happen for as long as humans exist, Marxist or otherwise.

[@bencebalint1956]

So his older brother died when he was only 101... poor guy, if only he had a handcrafted luxury watch.

[@BoraCM]

That is absolutely hilarious.

[@itaiweinberg4127]

I was thinking the same, wtf

[@Cod4Wii]

Best comment

[@Sian_Brimms]

This confused the hell out of me. So was that an error? Did he mean to say 1819?

[@_cherrychi_]

Kyle Murdoch that’s what I was thinking_

[@carterthompson9473]

I can’t wait for the totally civil conversations in the comment section.

[@thedude4672]

And how those totally civil conversations will be fair to what Marx actually wrote and believed instead of the awful things done by his supposed followers.

[@spinner771]

David McDonald Actually he was pro free speech and condemned dictators of his time.

[@spinner771]

David McDonald To varying degrees yes and that could be said about any philosophical and political thinker; but what’s concrete is he stood against dictatorships and suppression of rights (check his views on Napoleon). He would’ve been against Authoritarian rulers like Stalin, Lenin, Mao.

[@spinner771]

David McDonald Marx died almost 40 years before the Russian Revolution. We can’t say his views on them but we can go off his views against the dictators of his time. Namely Napoleon and his offspring. You can see that in “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon” And no he wasn’t evil, Marx was an abolitionist during slavery. He argued for the rights of Haitians while most people were still racist in Europe. While hard right capitalists were still arguing for racial hierarchies from an economic perspective. Who was wrong in the end on that? Marx inspired Socialist heroes through out South America that fought for reform. Many of whom were overthrown for violent repressive capitalists who then were overthrown by even more violent socialists. In Africa the greatest leader has been Thomas Sankara a Marxist who is beloved till this day. He fought for women’s rights, refused to take IMF loans instead worked with the people to rebuild the nation, was put in by the will of the people and was assassinated because of French/American actions. The fear of the poor revolting if not taken care of is part of the reason people pushed for social security, Welfare etc. Prior to that robber barons were lining up their pockets while the elderly and the poor starved to death on the streets. Marx has come with a complicated history but pure evil is going too far.

[@spinner771]

David McDonald That’s all you got out of all that I said?😂 Ok fine than don’t take social security and if we bring back slavery I hope you’re my property.

[@thickpee1493]

*Clicks on Karl Marx biography* *instant ad* Oh...

[@mickeythemaltipoo3756]

But for some strange reason I desire a watch ,that I will never use😱😂

[@lmaozedong2259]

Lmfao love it

[@devodavis6454]

It's literally a useless item now. I have a computer in my pocket 24/7! Why do I need yet another watch to add to the half-dozen I have in a drawer? That said, I prefer the host selling the item like this over being subjected to the same clip from Honda or whoever again and again.

[@turnkeydirect]

Also, first paragraph: "..inspired communists Mao and Lenin, but those weren't real communism." Pass

[@owenb8636]

For luxury watches lol

[@samthehoarder6393]

How do you call a communist sniper? A marxman

[@delboytrotter8806]

Good one......

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Good joke. I give you top marx.

[@Flatbush21rst]

😂😆👏👏

[@lukeramage6276]

@@Flatbush21rst boom boom!

[@BDXRP11B]

Sam The Hoarder as an american the wording of that joke is funny as the joke

[@BomChickyBowWow]

Ironic this video is sponsored by luxury watches.

[@pine6193]

@XZDrake rolex is def not middle class trash

[@pine6193]

@XZDrake different watches for different purposes. Rolex is simplicity, functionality and low maintenance, while brands like patek, a lange and fp journe are popular for their own reasons such as the complexity of their movements and their craftmanship.

[@emperor-thesenate-palpatin5954]

actualy its not, most of the top communist leaders were filthy rich, only the ppl were poor. the biggest hipocrits ever...

[@ronfroehlich4697]

Not ironic. Commies are always wealthy.

[@BomChickyBowWow]

Ron Froehlich this is the favorite go to rhetoric of unread philistine jackasses who love pointing to the wealthy politburo members. These individuals were corrupt rulers of an authoritarian system masquerading as “communist”. Stalin, Gorbachev, Castro, etc. These were rulers of authoritarian regimes that took more than generous salaries from the people. That, by very definition, does not make them a communist. A simple dictionary could solve this but apparently there are a shortage of them in the world today.

[@baegon293]

"If only Karl had made capital, instead of just writing about it." Damn, Karl's Mommy dissed him.

[@jeffschlarb4965]

Mama knows best...

[@FadingFires]

The proceeds from Marx’s literature being used to sustain himself and write more books would be an example of Marx creating and using capital. How money becomes capital is an intrinsic aspect of money, not capitalism.

[@kainoamelendez8877]

We get it. His mother was a capitalist

[@fullmetaltheorist]

No riches? 🧐

[@texanman7191]

Marx died in 1883. In the 19th century! He was born right after the Napoleonic Wars ended 3 years ago, lived during a time when the US allowed slavery, and Europe was preparing to get into a huge war against each other. Never was a huge fan of Marx, but we can't complain about a man who lived in HIS time.

[@Ryan-Nowicki]

How can anyone say he didnt apply himself in school? He got top marx

[@CptMoroni35]

😂🤘🏻

[@jencheevers983]

Dad joke level:beige trousers.well played Sir!

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Why can't communists drive manual cars? Cos they keep Stalin.

[@andrewhoyle1521]

😂😂😂😂

[@jsmaldokj]

That Joke is like food, not everbody gets it

[@nathanricketts2415]

Anti Capitalist Revolutionary Sponsored by Watch company

[@F-Tier_Physique]

Just shows how irrelevant he is.

[@ab5441]

Marx's grave is privately owned and you have to pay to see it.

[@nathanricketts2415]

@@ab5441 Wow.

[@coolworx]

Someone has to pay the bills... Not everyone can spend a lifetime mooching off other people.

[@happy_thinking]

Technically communism is a subset of capitalism.

[@kknives36]

Pretty sure you meant 1819.

[@ennuiii]

for sure

[@zmanjace1364]

Yeah, I went back and listened to it again because I was only paying half attention to the video. I dont know the full story of Marx but that didnt jive with the timeline I assumed in my head. Glad to know I'm not nuts.

[@shortvideos6576]

I know right, I was thinking wouldn't that make him 101

[@YDdraigGoch43]

I paused at 1:27 to see if someone had made this comment...you have! bravo!

[@fallenknighttyler8695]

Glad im not the only one that noticed

[@telebread6970]

the first communist revolution occurred in 1871 with the Paris Commune not the Russian revolution...

[@frenchguitarguy1091]

Samuel Nauman yeah but there wasn’t enough purges for Americans to classify it as communist

[@randomantguy24]

That's very good have a sticker

[@AdamVikingen]

The Paris Commune was more of a Amarcho-Syndicalist revolution rather then a Communist one.

[@eliasapollo4131]

Paris Commune was based

[@Morgan_of_the_Maxilla]

The Paris Commune was anarchist, not communist

[@diff2587]

Simon, I want you to say these two words aloud to yourself: “Pawn”, and “Porn”.

[@unsrescyldas9745]

average brit always confusing superior-tongued Americans with their garbled up nonsense, be sure not to ask him to say "Free and Three" lest he has a mental breakdown.

[@hana-ng4ql]

"when his brother died in 1919" you mean he lived 101 years?

[@manbutt656]

Yes.

[@miguelalmeida9771]

@Anonymous Panacea we are speaking about the the XIX

[@BigHairyFenian]

The idea that we're living longer now is statistic tunnel vision, the reason the life expectancy was much lower in the past was infant mortality rate, if you made it past childhood you were likely to live to old age.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

It is rare, but people do live that long. The oldest verifiable recorded person died at 113. An African women claimed to be 128 but could not prove it and a French women may have lived to 115, or may have been replaced by her sister. If people did live to nearly a thousand as the Bible claims, it was in a very different world.

[@nikoniortnike]

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts The oldest person to have ever lived is a french woman who lived for a 122 years and it has been verified.

[@QueenetBowie]

Let’s not turn this into a heated socio-economic argument form, Capitalist or Marxist, let’s all just enjoy this for what it is, a biography of a historical figure. I know it’ll be ignored but a lowly KZbin commenter can hope and dream...

[@deliciousjunk5312]

Historical for what?

[@uglyweirdo1389]

I'm pretty sure KZbin comments are as full of trollfarm agitators as any social media platform. Yaaay.

[@sethprestenback8617]

Delicious Hentai Communism.

[@Mr.ShadeO]

@@sethprestenback8617 Don't forget the tentacles, Comrade!

[@sethprestenback8617]

WarmPotato Still a part of history.

[@mushroomsamba82]

Quit Stalin' and show me your Marx

[@josephstalin8423]

Adam lol

[@nexusofice9135]

That is just pulling wool over your eyes. You need to use Mao Lenin in your fabric.

[@304MTodd63]

Your Communications have been duly noted.

[@dingleberryhandpump802]

Do I Khrushchev?

[@christopherstarr8050]

oh thats just bad

[@Kyle_Schaff]

_The Communist Manifesto_ was not Marx’s magnum opus by far lol. That work is a pamphlet. His magnum opus is very much understood to be _Capital_

[@5ryans]

I'm surprised on how many commies and far leftists haven't read the communist manifesto. I love seeing the confusion in their eyes when I tell them that Marx actually praised capitalism in the pamphlet and his problem with it was that it didn't do enough to help with wealth inequality. While it allowed people outside of the aristocracy to become wealthy, it still left too many people behind in poverty.

[@frenchguitarguy1091]

Dmitri Ptrenko you do realise pretty much every leftist thinks this? To sum it up, Marxist thought believed in three tiers in society, hunter gatherer, feudalism, and capitalism, with the succeeding system being more efficient and fair. What brings the end of each system are contradictions and unrest within it. To say that leftists explicitly hate capitalism is to ignore nuance and misunderstand them- critique does not equate to hate, and the focus on capitalism is because we live in such a system, what would be the point of critiquing feudalism if only 5 countries still practice it today?

[@masterraven2053]

@Dennis Massengill or don't see the opportunity

[@EmilReiko]

Together with Die Grundrisse, grundrisse is not to be under estimated

[@whatwhat3432523]

@Dennis Massengill With that level of a Intellect, you are lucky you are born rich with opportunities.

[@adamh905]

Karl Marx is a historically famous philosopher and political theorist, but very few people know about his sister, Onya, the inventor of the starter pistol.

[@milkywilky123]

Oh my God

[@georgeo7167]

You got me bro 😂

[@IbelieveinJesusAmen]

😂

[@josephgriffin2388]

Ok that was a Wisconsin joke..... its the cheesiest!!!

[@bezllama3325]

Don't get it I'm dumb

[@PR-lz1oc]

I showed this to my class now it is OUR class

[@PrisonKilljoy]

That was cute...should have more upvotes.

[@criteriumgoat6525]

Now it's abolished

[@barrymccokiner7559]

Now they understand that being a commie means being a parasitic leech

[@ungabunga3183]

@@barrymccokiner7559 Besides attacking Communism as a fool, you should find a hobby instead of spamming "commUnizm bAd" or maybe seek psychiatric help?

[@imakebadvideos]

The Wendigo of Maine. I should not have laughed so hard at this. I hope everyone gets it.

[@syourke3]

It is ridiculous to blame Marx for the atrocities committed by 20th century dictators like Stalin and Mao. Only someone who is completely ignorant about Marx;s writings could do so. Sadly, most people really are that ignorant. How many American have even read the Communist Manifesto, never mind Marx's more mature and substantial works like Das Kapital. Marx never bothered to write about how to organize a socialist society at all - he was strictly a critic of capitalism, not a utopian socialist at all. Lenin complained that he could not find anything in Marx to guide him in setting up a socialist society. Of course not. It is not there! Marx was a brilliant social critic and economic theorist and he valued personal liberty more than any liberal ever did. He hated tyranny and he would have been horrified at how he has been blamed for the crimes of the Communist monsters of the 20th centuries. But the Communists used Marx to provide legitimacy for their crimes and the western capitalist rulers were only too happy to use their identification with Marx to slander Marx and socialism generally.

[@Osindileyo1]

Is it really though? His views are what caused these atrocities since all of these people believed in his vision. They showed how these ideas that may work on paper, can never really work in real life since it completely ignores what humans are like.

[@jahadijeff7252]

@@Osindileyo1The only thing Marx did was fight for equality, he was pro-democracy and would absolutely despise Maoist China and Stalinist Russia, Mao and Stalin completely botched the idea of Communism and Marxism. The idea of someone writing books to inspire people to revolt against an oppressive and exploitive system (keep in mind this was the Industrial Revolution) only for your work to be misinterpreted by some power hungry dictators 100 years later which leads to the deaths of millions is idiotic

[@jordanthomas4379]

by that logic, It is ALSO ridiculous to blame Hitler for the atrocities committed during the holocaust, I mean, they're just ideas, they can't actually inspire pure evil and mass murder, can they???

[@jahadijeff7252]

@@jordanthomas4379 how is trying to make everyone economically equally and causing the systemic genocide of millions of Jews the same thing? Marx’s ideas were misconstrued, Hitlers actions weren’t

[@Osindileyo1]

@@jahadijeff7252 him creating the communist manifesto gave the basis for lennin and all the other vile creatures that wanted that economic structure. Lennin based his ideas off the manifesto, creating a regime that could only be bested by the nazi party, which may I remind you where socialist’s which just so happens to be what inspires communism. The Soviet Union also gave putin a position of power which has lead to modern Russia being the way it is. North Korea where also allied with the soviets and we know what a mess that place is. Had Marx not showed a complete misunderstanding of what people are like and never written the maifesto none of this would have happened. Those dying now in Ukraine by Putins army is all the fault of Marx writing the manifesto. What you’re saying is also no different to saying it’s unfair to blame the nazis for the existence of neo nazis. Use some common sense next time.

[@achimhaun2726]

Didn't Marx's brother die in 1819,not 1919?

[@carloswater7]

It's okay, even historians have stated themselves make mistakes.

[@tjwatson0403]

He doesn't edit his videos very closely, watchers learn to just sort of shrug it off

[@LilPrezzy36]

"I wish my son would go out and earn capital instead of just writing about it." Is my favorite quote about Karl. It was said by his mother of all people lol

[@eoin8450]

He tried but everywhere he worked was shut down and he had to flee several countries...

[@josephpelletier9494]

@@eoin8450 Shoulda learned to code

[@eoin8450]

@@josephpelletier9494 true

[@alpacamale2909]

@@eoin8450 ohh communists always shifting the blame, Nothing has changed

[@eoin8450]

@@alpacamale2909 he was literally chased out of several countries and his businesses closed down because the state saw him as a threat, what more do you fucking want?

[@beleagueredbeluga5228]

I think that Marx was a bum, and that his works are absolute garbage. For example, The Communist Manifesto isnt even good as toilet paper! But its important to have these insights into the lives of historical figures, no matter how controversial.

[@foxfx8340]

Have you read any of his works?

[@darraghtate440]

Vincero is actually a pretty good example of capitalism failing. $5 Chinese watches marketed as high end and sold for 35x their value.

[@marthab-c5226]

Darragh Tate if I could like a comment ten times, this would be it.

[@918Mitchell]

China has been moving away from pure communism for some time now.

[@Ktmfan450]

I agree. All luxuries should be banned. Social credit systems for everybody.

[@Ktmfan450]

FYI a Rolex only contains about a teenth of its actual price in base metals Even the really good ones

[@ChrisGeden]

That's because it's Chinese capitalism: a cheap immitation of the real thing.

[@wozzamungo7690]

Do a video on Adam Smith, one of the main contributors to modern day capitalism

[@MrTweedyDocumentaries]

He should, Adam Smith has nothing to do with modern day capitalism :)

[@Yezu666]

It would terrify some how anti-capitalist Adam Smith actually was.

[@the_exegete]

If today's capitalists actually read Adam Smith they'd declare him as much of a Marxist as Marx. Of course, in today's world you get called a socialist if you give your employees a raise. And then the same pundits wonder why socialism is becoming more popular.

[@MLPGamer44]

Glad to see some comments saying that Adam smith would be terrified and saddened by modern day capitalism.

[@Odinsday]

@@the_exegete Adam Smith would hang himself if he saw what his economic philosophy had malformed into.

[@richardarmstrong9770]

"Last words are for those who haven't said enough" The last words of Karl Marx

[@pasttenz2568]

Literally no word on his blatant EXPLOITATION of working class people. He frequently didn’t pay bills to the butcher, grocer, etc. He sponged off of Engels who made his money as a factory owner. Hypocrisy doesn’t quite cut it. That’s not to mention that he shagged his maid, siring a bastard son that he never acknowledged, while never paying her a penny...

[@jethroflint9906]

Communism is probably the worst thing what happened to Russia, causing majority of the problems, from which country is still not recovered.

[@danilopetrovic5697]

You've lost it haven't you? Are you taking the piss? Turning Russia from a feudal backwater to a space-fairing global superpower is the worst thing to happen to them?

[@squid.com8927]

The only thing I can ever focus on with Marx is his awesome beard

[@SoulStealer2012]

He has a sister who invented the starter pistol. Her name was onya.

[@texasred1408]

Love it 🤣

[@brandonthailand2062]

Soo Marx was an 19th century millennial. Never had a real job.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

and lived off of other peoples' money.

[@archyneverpicked]

Ok boomer

[@jimtalbott9535]

"If only Karl had made capital, instead of just writing about it." - Best....quote....!

[@conorredmond6217]

yea... if only one of the most important philosophers of the last few centuries wasn't working a loom to buy bread...

[@danilopetrovic5697]

@@conorredmond6217 80-hour weeks

[@danilopetrovic5697]

@Google 'The Perestroika Deception' what do you mean "?"

[@danilopetrovic5697]

@Google 'The Perestroika Deception' you don't know that the people used to work 12 hours a day every day of the week? Not to even mention how much they were paid.

[@danilopetrovic5697]

@Google 'The Perestroika Deception' No, he wasn't actually working in a factory, I was just adding to the point that, for some reason, people think that the quote was even remotely a good roast. That would be the same as saying that Abe Lincoln should have been a slave owner instead of abolishing slavery.

[@brentgranger7856]

0:37 - Thank you, Simon, for mentioning this important statement! As a guy who studied Soviet communism compared to Marx's writings, I totally agree! Other suggestions for later videos similar to Marx include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marcus Tulius Cicero, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Hobbes.

[@AdamVikingen]

Agreed!

[@josiahmodaff6406]

100th like!

[@MarielaQue]

The pen is stronger than the sword

[@sirlionson2207]

food is better than no food

[@joeobrien196]

And easier to write with too😉

[@CelticSaint]

Not if you want to cut an apple in half.

[@bransky]

Mightier

[@GrandElemental]

As long as the pen targets a group of easily manipulated sword wielders, then yes.

[@samuelspicer7468]

He lived to see the Paris Commune. It was a success until government forces stormed the city.

[@loknaz97]

Turns out you need a way to defend yourself from people who disagree with you.

[@kitpalmer1583]

@@loknaz97 not sure what your point is, Marx agreed with that lol

[@madisondines7441]

@@loknaz97 grapeshot would have done the trick.

[@dango6266]

​@@loknaz97 it was a city vs the rest of the country. I'm pretty sure the country would win 98% of the time

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:50 - Chapter 1 - Early years 2:00 - Chapter 2 - Off to university 3:45 - Chapter 3 - Focusing on philosophy 4:50 - Chapter 4 - France Beckons 6:55 - Chapter 5 - Brussels 8:35 - Chapter 6 - Hard times 10:35 - Mid roll ads 11:55 - Chapter 7 - London 14:10 - Chapter 8 - New York correspondent 16:30 - Chapter 9 - Das Kapital 18:25 - Chapter 10 - The final years

[@cheaptricked3148]

Can really spot the Americans in this comment section...

[@Justsegarra]

I would've liked for the video to mention his chronic skin condition, Hidradenitis Suppurativa. As somebody who's suffered from the condition for most of my life, I am interested in how much the condition shaped his philosophy.

[@alcoholfree6381]

Lots! Pain and disfiguring boils draining infections would tend to give a person a negative outlook.

[@itayamsalem925]

A man writing a DIY hate the rich while never holding a single job in his whole entire life

[@RRR66620]

"If only Itay was rich instead of simping for the rich." - your mom

[@shawnyadeadhomie]

and that's relevant how?

[@alcoholfree6381]

This defines an angry bum! Easier to carp than work. His ideas have never panned out in reality.

[@alexmancera6566]

⁠@@alcoholfree6381I hope you know a giant wave of youngsters are seeing things in a different light. Many young people locked out of opportunity for financial mobility by the same capitalist politicians that decry Marx and fear monger over the left gives nice cannon fodder for anti capitalist sentiments. You can call Marx an angry bum, maybe he was. But his works are so influential even today, new comrades spring up quietly all around us :)

[@buff114]

Writer, and editor in Chief are jobs and the government shut down most of the places he worked at, he was also arrested and banished several times. He was a political refugee and was spied on by the secret police. That's why he was supported by his friend. Europe during that time had mass unemployment because of mechanization, an issue socialist philosophers warned about, this contributed to millions of deaths through starvation. It's almost like capitalism was horrific, he wrote about it, and you make up BS proving how ignorant you are.

[@omfug7148]

Marx failed to see that the proletariat were as big a twats as the bourgeoisie and given half that chance the lower classes would gladly become one of the exploiters, LOL. You left out quite a bit of his history, the death of a son, the illegitimate child produced with the maid, and so forth, but I know that time is limited.

[@FadingFires]

The inherent problem of statist solutions for achieving communism is that the state (from their perspective) is a neutral apparatus which can be used in the name of good/justice, rather than what the state actually is: an inseparable component of the ruling class. To expel the occupants of an existing state and replace them with the working class is to •become• the ruling class. One cannot be the working class and ruling class with a monopoly on coordinator privileges simultaneously. The state will never “whither away” upon the abolition of capitalism. The capitalism and the state are fundamentally bound to one another, and will always serve one another first. They must. And that is why the USSR failed to achieve communism, much less socialism.

[@ryanoconnor5176]

The workers these days are so ignorant they don’t know that they aren’t free.

[@Reezy1888]

The transition of communism to an advert was almost flawless

[@coopmurphy9216]

Karl Marx is like a genius architect who designed the worlds greatest structure, and created a detailed blueprint which laid out every step in the process. Unfortunately, when the construction company took his blueprint and attempted to build that structure, it collapsed in a complete fucking failure every single time they tried.

[@perkeles23dobre59]

OR.........they followed the instructions perfektly........

[@janedoe5229]

I found it interesting that Marx and Engels traveled to England, and observed the terrible working conditions at the time, and used that as a basis for The Communist Manifesto. Things have changed significantly since then.

No mention of his house maid whom he never paid and who essentially worked as a slave? The same one that he effectively raped and gave birth to his illegitimate child who he tried to hide by claiming that it belonged to Engels? In reality, like SJWs today Marx didn't give a crap about the poor as he was perfectly willing to exploit them for his own personal gain.

[@Lukeor]

Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your life, as you build a utopia for people like me to be professional writers/intellectuals while you all do all the farming.

[@md-lc8gq]

May be right but he still described pretty well how flawed capitalism is

[@Lukeor]

tabascosauce Man compared to what? Everything is flawed as perfect does not exist and never will.

@@flednanders7556 What impactful innovation was Marx responsible for besides re-education/death camps?

[@flednanders7556]

DaLagga Human rights abuses and corruption are clear examples of public alienation from political and economic power. As we have seen, that can and will facilitate cycles of unfathomable destruction that have existed for millennia and that few even have the resources to fully understand. Marx is one of the few people explaining how that societal organization can be dismantled, and we need to know fast.

[@misterkrazy8401]

A video on FDR? Would be interesting to see.

[@brodybouillion1224]

He def needs was one of the greatest leaders in American history

[@Jason918114]

Seek Ken Burns' documentary: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The documentary tells the life stories of Teddy, Franklin and Eleanor. I think it's on Netflix. You will not be disappointed.

[@Jason918114]

@@chrisj197438 - FDR was a pragmatist. Even if your foolish proposition that he was a socialist was true, so what? What is it about empowering workers and bettering the life of the common man that frightens you so?

[@jeffschlarb4965]

@@Jason918114 Yeah, why are people focused on the WHOLE Internement Camp thing! I mean all his appointed judges on SCOTUS said it was JUST FINE, with them. A real Hero...

[@purplepotatoes9255]

@K A yeah that tends to happen when the govt decides to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on the military, killing people around the world instead of providing for it's people. Even just the amount the budget was raised under trump would be enough to pay for free college, and we managed to give cooperations trillions in months thanks to corona, but noooo giving people healthcare is ToO eXPenSIvE

[@abz998]

Writes about the ills of capitalism while living of the stipend of his bourgeois mother in-law.

[@taliawtf6944]

Just like the college commies of today, only ours whine on twitter. xD

[@EmilReiko]

Is this a: "U critizise the state of society, yet you live in society... cUrIOuss"

[@FadingFires]

What are the ills of capitalism and how was his mother-in-law bourgeois? If you are opposed to communism, what are the “ills of communism”?

[@cpt.honklerof3rdkekistania400]

I love how capitalism throatfucks his biography with a luxery watch ad. The chad capitalism vs the beta communism

[@ThePatxiao]

So Marx was angry that the working class allowed a dictator to rule over them. Man must be rolling in his grave since everyone that uses his ideals become dictators.

[@DipayanPyne94]

Well, a dictator is not necessarily a bad one. If I become a dictator, the world will become a remarkable place. We have known about a benevolent dictator for more than 2000 years. Who ? Plato. A modern day Plato is exactly what we need.

[@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986]

The comments are going to be fun here. *grabs popcorn*

[@TKinfinity01]

Rory Cullen HERE THEY COME!!! ‘Dives in trench’

[@Dhalp661]

Ikr

[@charion1234]

So far it seems to be similar to Facebook comments by people who think he ruled Russia.

[@sturmtruppler6909]

Could you do a Biographic on Ho Chi Minh?

[@traceysinnott752]

A biography on Michael Collins (Irish revolutionary) might be an interesting one

[@vladimirerfan7721]

“Once again, I’m asking for your financial support.”

[@pizzaboy3946]

Like one comedian said: "I don't like communists, they've got nothing and they want to share it with you."

[@jonjones6804]

I love that you are explaining Marxism while trying to sell me a watch😂

[@joshuawaring4180]

Tbh that’s probably what Marx himself would have done

[@watchman-pu7tp]

Anyone who thinks favorably of Marx should read Paul Johnson's account of his life in his book "Intellectuals". Marx was a lazy, intellectually dishonest hypocrite who utterly failed to live up to his own ideals. His family was perpetually impoverished through mismanagement of his finances and his unwillingness to take a real job to supplement what he earned from writing. In fact, he never held any job aside from writing. He was a selfish user who leeched off of friends like Friedrich Engels throughout his life, and ran up numerous debts with just the sort of common people he claimed to defend. His family often went hungry because he refused to take any job he considered beneath him, and was at times the only person who could leave the house because he had pawned everyone else's clothes, yet again. And as stated by others, the implementation of his fraudulent. flawed Marxist ideology has led to the deaths and oppression of hundreds of millions of people.

[@prschuster]

Ad hominem = focus on someone's character rather than address their argument or ideas.

[@edwardsanchez3708]

So he was basically a melenial?

[@0fficialdregs]

Simon and the team never fail me with great interesting information. if a channel has you rewatching their entire video uploads, you know you done something right

[@nilesh382000]

Being honest...the world won't be the same after you read DAS KAPITAL.

[@bdan6954]

I read it. Nothing changed.

[@WestValleyTransparency]

Karl Marx sounded more like a mooch than anything else. He reminded me a lot of the people who called me friend when it was convenient for them

[@JustANumber0123]

I was thinking the same thing..a loser of course he wanted without earning it 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@mollyjune6164]

Yeah no surprise he was a basement dwelling mouth breather

[@informitas0117]

Did those people get deported 4 times?

[@RealSnuuy]

Ah yes The guy who led to 100,000,000+ deaths

[@tw3f4tes52]

Ah yes, an armchair historian knowing just about nothing of 19th (and early 20th) century history

[@RealSnuuy]

@@tw3f4tes52 Ah yes; a sneeder

[@tw3f4tes52]

@@RealSnuuy I’m just gonna admit I’ve got no clue what a sneeder is, but it doesn’t change that fact that your knowledge of history and Marx is shite.

[@Wi-Fi-El]

Honestly communism isn't a bad idea on paper. Many aspects are good ideas, but it's impossible to properly fully implement communism unless you have a way to completely stop corruption. That being said, socializing certain things like pharmaceutical companies and hospitals would greatly benefit the average person, especially if it could be done on a global level

[@dogetaxes8893]

I find communism is so much easier to understand when you view it though the prism as a religion or a belief system like Confucianism. All models are wrong but some are useful, communism has some great ideas, but it’s incredibly wrong about a lot of things and when applied it will always follow the path of least resistance becoming a totalitarian hell hole.

[@Nameplease12blacknobility]

It never will be. And if it did, they’ll hide the reason they’re giving it for ‘free’

[@AnthonyChinaski]

It’s also a good idea in practice, not just paper. Capitalism is t even a good idea on paper LOL

[@rockstar-kp2jy]

​@@AnthonyChinaskihuman nature is to lie, cheat and steal. It's not good on paper if you're honest about it.

[@Koivro]

These biographics would be perfect for classrooms. Easy history in a short span. Nice work!

[@pwp8737]

in America you'd have hoards of rabid right-wing MAGAites with pitchforks attacking any school that taught Marx

[@BDXRP11B]

me: porn shops used to buy silver? also me: ohhhhhhh he said pawn which when said in fancy sounds like porn.

[@How23497]

"fancy" that's borderline racism but ok

[@JohnDoe-fo3fn]

4:24 He shoulda learned to code.

[@jeffschlarb4965]

Medical coding, or Computer coding?

[@DawsonW417]

I'm stupid for bothering with these kinds of politics but I have to say before you think of calling the man incapable of providing for his family, please recall how many times he was kicked out and censored. If your job is to ride bikes and every time you start biking a group stronger than you take away your bike how well would you work? capitalist btw just saying use your heads.

[@iamgasmask9575]

"He became the eldest son in 1919" he died in 1883

[@knutthompson7879]

It is an interesting question as to what Marx would think of the Soviet and Maoist dictatorships. They weren't quite what he had in mind. Brutal strongmen and gangs simply used the promise of working class revolution to do what they have always done.

[@socialnetjerk]

Marx was in fact very vague about actions to take for him the transition to first socialism and then kommunism must be a natural process.....the problem in russia was that they where pretty mutch a fudal country right to World war one they never had the same capitalist economy the western european countrys had they had a diskussion inside the russian communist party what where the right actions to take and how to get to a socialist transition without a capitalist class one side voted to go the democratic route the other one voted for a violent skip from fudalism to socialism without the natural transition they voted and the Bolsheviks came out on top thats hat the name Bolsheviks mean it means majority the other part was later known as the Mensheviks that meinst minorety and they Split up......the thing with marks writings is that he is pretty mutch vague about actions to take it was more about economy relations

[@anthony452]

So he was a lazy activist who wouldn't find work he didn't like, all while having his entire life financed by a wealthy person.......... Shocker.

[@dmitrivlad8538]

Next: FRIEDRICH ENGELS!!! Please & Thank You 😃

[@georgiomesina6977]

Karl Marx did not look into HUMAN NATURE...he was more an intellectual and political mind..His father was a Jewish Rabbi, but did not followed his culturale and religious footsteps....his family were not wealthy but a poor peasent farmer..He had a large family of 7 children for a peasent farmer...he became a irresponsible father which cause 3 of his children died of illness and malnutrition...He was against CAPITALISM because he was most of the time unemployed and out of work...because he could not gain any Capital, he despite(hated) CAPITALIST!!...most of his life time was spend reading books and spending days in the BRITISH LIBRARY reading and sleeping...then he started writing a book The COMMUNIST MANIFESTO which tells about workers Revolution against the Capitalist ruling class and more power to the working class...the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION has replaced the AGRICULTURAL Reforms of his generation..He believes in Darwin's theory of EVOLUTION and the Communist Revolution , which is opposite of CHRISTIAN principles and teaching...Karl Marx have never or intended to see the HUMAN NATURE of people..all Human beings, if Asian, African, European, Russian, American, Latin, Rich,worker, Poor Peasent etc.etc.etc. want more, more, more, bigger, and better!!!...all HUMAN beings are born greedy...the more stronger and greedy are the CAPITALIST wealthy class...they are more greedy and teaches to be greedy!!!..COMMUNIST WORKERS REVOLUTION is more in favour to the CAPITALIST because working class will have to fight and die for their cause to win their revolution!!!...Look what happen in the RUSSIAN EASTERN FRONT when the NAZI German fought in STALINGRAD to take the city..the Russian factory workers had to bear arms and turn soldiers to defend their factory buildings...millions of soldiers died on both side!!!....more power to the ruling class CAPITALIST....all Communist country's leaders are demigods or worshipped like a GOD...in CHINA their great leader Moesetug is dead, but now KARL MARX is their new demigod, worship like a SUPREME GOD!!!!...Karl Marx should have study the HUMAN NATURE first before he wrote his book the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO..........Gorigio Messina........God Bless.....

[@bicyclist2]

Socialism or Communism needs to be tempered by capitalism. And capitalism needs to be reigned in by socialism. The rich & powerful are never going to work for the people as people with money feel superior to those without it. A society should not be organized by who has money and who doesn't. Jesus wasn't a capitalist, he was a socialist. Hierarchys are going to appear in any society and aren't inherently bad. Listen to Jordan Peterson. The northern European countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) have a great societies because they have very low poverty and well funded social programs. We could learn a lot from other countries. Thanks.

[@eho6380]

@Mark Rainbolt Jesus shared the food equally, which is exactly what Socialism/Marxism teaches.

[@kasperkurpershoek1937]

Right I can see what you're putting down but I only see arguments for socialism, I'm not yet convinced we'd need any form of capitalism in this?

[@chrisstrobel8490]

Imagine that, Marx was a freeloader.

[@Lukeor]

Bernie Sanders applauds his lifestyle. "tax payers should give me money so I can sit back and tell them what to do with whatever I let them keep"

[@md-lc8gq]

Writing economical analysis of a whole system takes a lot of time

[@BomChickyBowWow]

Do a bio on MICHAEL COLLINS of Ireland.

[@alancotter4825]

The Cloyne man himself, legend.

[@foodhaul8382]

@Lord Jagged explain that?

[@foodhaul8382]

@Lord Jagged why did the brittish pay the IRA to chuck them out of NI?

[@foodhaul8382]

@Lord Jagged people will start taking kindness for weakness you should start charging them, Britain's bankrupt it cant afford to fund both sides of a war against itself.

[@purplepotatoes9255]

Yo, let's talk about communism. No "CoMMunIsM bAd BeCAusE StALiN", I would like a nuanced open discussion with someone who doesn't agree with communism. We can talk about why famines happened, the actual morality of communism, history of communism around the world. C'mon, let's do it.

[@jithinprimz2972]

Let's face it some guys get unemployed it does not mean they failed.... there were many factory workers who eat good food and wore good clothes Meh who cares about those idiots... LONG LIVE COMRADE

[@ethermendoza9587]

Dictatorship is what happened in many of Communist governments??? Or better said ALL of the Comi governments?

[@nickmarquez4794]

Ether Mendoza Some didn’t like revolutionary Catalonia. It was syndicalist.

[@amitlevin8841]

Nice talking about luxury watches with talking about Karl Marx think that's ironic

[@RaelThomas]

Not really. Biographics is a business. This is a biography. Not necessarily an endorsement of his beliefs.

[@ultimatetadpole9607]

"Marx was a monster"-People Who Have Never Read Marx

[@jeffschlarb4965]

"Marx was a monster"-People Who Lived Under His Ideals

[@ultimatetadpole9607]

@@jeffschlarb4965 ah yes the part of Kapital where he goes on about massacring your own people because they didn't clap long enough. Oh wait, no that was just Stalin being a nutter. Marx's work consists of critiques of capitalism, historical analysis and the core ideas of socialism. Stuff that influenced basically every economist and political philosopher for the last 120 odd years. His idea of historical materialism and his work on dialectics have been really important steps forward. At no point did he advocate for violence unless it is an absolute last resort. Marxist ideals were important in the labour rights movement and even the civil righgs movement. Thank Marx and Engeld for your paid overtime and weekends off.

[@DoppelgangerShockwave]

You did a mostly good job, except for the following. Karl Marx never wrote about a communist government. Marx never got that far. Marx died before he could. And likely, if Marx was able to, he would've favored an autonomous self-governing direct democracy or Anarcho-Communism as some may call it, which absolutely proves no communist government ever existed in the 20th century. They were all totalitarian dictatorships. Also, how was what Karl Marx said about the masses uniting anti-Semitic. I'm not even sure how you even come to that conclusion. Sounds like some ignorant propaganda in the same vain of people claiming Nazis were communists when they were pro-capitalism.

[@Sam-lf3hn]

Karl Marx was very much an anti semite and the nazis were very much anti capitalist. If you take the time to analyze nazi Germany then you'll see that they are clearly left wing.

[@Firmus777]

Terrible video. It makes it seem like Marx never changed his views during his lifetime and misrepresents his ideas, making it seem like he thought that after the revolution everyone would just peacefully hold hands and live in complete equality.

[@annwilliams6438]

Ironic that the man who supposedly fought for the working man never did a day of physical labour in his life and was not in the least interested in looking after his family financially.

[@tejjy25]

Ann Williams modern day dems

[@deniseg-hill1730]

Absolutely

[@How23497]

Tyler Tyler ok then

[@chocodawwg]

Rich people too btw

[@FadingFires]

The same could be said for members of the working class who do not understand what capital is or how capitalism works yet are ready to blindly defend it with their lives or at their own expense to the point of homelessness.

[@merlingeikie]

Capitalism is a named coined by Karl Marx, over 200 years ago, to describe the, horrific by today's standards, factories and sweatshops of the day. Marx made a living from these folks, donated to him by factory owner/friend Freddy Engels, yet Marx coined the word capitalism to describe those workplace/market dynamics, but took the money. Marx, from a very wealthy family, didn't ever practice law, his PhD. Instead, as a violent thug, he was banned from Europe and lived in London, all his life. Marx was sure that the working poor would rise up and make a revolution, because he didn't know that these folk were happy to have work and had come from far worse and starvation conditions, on the farm. His predictive 1848 Communist Manifesto with its 12 points, failed to come near to reality. Most of Marx's economic ideas were plagiarised from great economic pioneers Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Marx sincerely thought he had the answer to the world's problems, but his handling of his only employee, the maid, whom he made pregnant, says it all.

[@HorrorUberAlles]

Reminder that Karl Marx did nothing wrong -- because communism has never been tried :^)

[@HorrorUberAlles]

@@billyosullivan4514 I know, I'm just messing about. Communism and its roots can be traced back to the XVII century in France, where people like François-Noël Babeuf (a real proto-communist) attempted a coup called "The Conspiracy Of The Equals". He (Babeuf) even went as far as to defend the Reign Of Terror and murderous politicians like Robespierre, after his execution. So Marx is to Robespierre what Hitler is to Madison Grant and his book, "The Passing Of The Great Race". Marx, just like the French revolutionary figures he used to read about (while he did nothing but live off his family, never working a day in his life), is just as reprehensible as they were - the French "Reign of Terror" was responsible for over 16.000 deaths all over France. Additionally, he was well aware of the effects caused by the proletariat dictatorship, a violent but necessary transition towards communism because well, he's read about it trying to get off the ground in France a century ago. So it's fair to hold him accountable for what he suggested in his writings but it wasn't entirely a new concept.

[@HorrorUberAlles]

@@billyosullivan4514 No doubt about it, it's a plague

[@Comintern1919]

Reminder that "true" Communism could never be achieved with anything other than the brutal socialist regimes that tried to achieve it.

[@O-plaat]

Here is a list of things I personally got because of the socialist union in my country, socialized health care, education, a 38 hours working week, weekends in general, 4 weeks of paid vacation, worker safety standards, I like Marx's Ideas.

[@Lukeor]

No system ever written about has ever been tried by that measure.

[@shragamildiner8472]

You keep throwing around the word "liberal" with regard to Marx. Why? Marxism is openly and utterly opposed to actual liberalism

[@lucianoosorio5942]

“Look dummy, sharing money is the communist vision. Engel’s bank was the crank that got the revolution spinning.” Karl Marx

[@valmid5069]

*“Remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him”* -Old Major, Animal Farm

[@ToasteerGoblin]

The most famous quote of Karls family was his sister Onya's quote " get set, GO"

[@JuniorAngel8888]

Thank you Biographics! I think you did a great job covering the basics of Karl Marx's life. This was a well done and non-partisan account of the major parts of Marx's life.

[@phrous]

Engel was a true freind

[@kl0wnkiller912]

In a 'perfect world' where all are selfless and intelligent, where every person is willing to live a normal life without excelling communism might have a chance but that is not the real world and it does not take into account the foibles of human nature. As stated in this documentary, there has not been a 'proletariat' where a leader did not arise and this is because human nature makes a leader necessary. If travelling the world and seeing 34 countries have taught me anything it is that the largest percentage of humanity is not intelligent nor particularly wise. In fact most of humanity is small, mean spirited, petty and self-serving. The 'masses' that Karl Marx spoke about are mostly people who lack ambition and are content to do menial work for a low wage as long as they can have a few luxuries. This is why any changes of merit require a leader (whether an individual or group) to focus and direct their actions to enact change and this will always be the downfall of purist Communism. I find it quite amusing that a man who offered his idea of the salvation of humanity couldn't even keep a job to keep food on his family's table and in equal parts sad that so many have revered this guy's writings despite the repeated proof of its failure. People are not what he expected and for this alone, his dream of a 'people's paradise' is flawed and doomed to failure. An excellent Biography by the way, as usual!

[@Lifesizemortal]

Everyone should watch Animal Farm

[@matiasgazzarri4959]

I would read the book personally

[@md-lc8gq]

Shows pretty good how bad totalitarianism is

[@Vmvmvmvmvn]

Everyone should read Animal Farm to understand how bad totalitarianism is. George Orwell was a socialist.

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

@@Vmvmvmvmvn Yes he was. These people dont care. They just use him as a poster boy.

[@n3v3rg01ngback]

n_e_e_t Watch?

[@PublicBenemyNum1]

Better known as "Grumpy Santa"

[@dmitrivlad8538]

Everyone gets one present.... But, you have to work for it!

[@cassandraralph5906]

Thank you so much for sharing this video, I learned a lot about Karl Marx today!

[@genewickersham4593]

Marx would have been horrified by Lenin's or Mao's work. Absolutely nothing to do with his ideas.