Marx & Engels: The Communist Manifesto (Analysis & Interpretation)

[@Hyewot]

Very mature and critical analysis of one of the most important political treatises in the last few centuries. Nice to see someone take an objective stance on the subject in a cordial manner for a change.

[@ThomasLacovara]

IT ALWAYS COMES FROM THE BARREL of a GUN !

[@liamrkds]

Completely agree, so many opinionated, somewhat bias videos out there. Societal analysys objectively is so enlightening! Thank you

[@mbanana23456]

Tom Lacovara-Stewart ResurrectTheRepublic it comes from the look in a person's eye

[@faith4today]

Blind, blind, and blind!

[@nicholassigurdsson1559]

I read the Communist Manifesto for my Literature study on grade 10. And to my surprise, I have a similar approach and analysis about it. Good job!

[@luluzyz]

thank you so much, preparing for an exam

[@atmospherepress]

+Lulu Zhang You're welcome! If you ever need help with an interpretation, feel free to enlist my services at editygroup.com/academic!

[@shaelahossain5458]

Thanks for simplifying the hardest terms I have ever encountered in my life.

[@nikirancitelli7779]

I have had and bombed three quizzes on the manifesto with a makeup tomorrow so I was hoping you tube would provide me with someone who was able to put this into terms I could understand! Thank you!

[@adrianwhiteley4790]

in England we have the right to bear a cup of tea.

[@Ckamerad]

After listening to the original manafesto it's nice to hear your non biased overview. I am not a student as such. I just think it's important to see where modern ideals came from.

[@atmospherepress]

+Chad Kamerad Thanks for the compliment! If you ever need help with an interpretation, feel free to enlist my services at editygroup.com/academic!

[@J0113]

Very well explained, and refreshing to see such an objective, honest take on such a controversial text/issue generally. Thumbs up!

[@gre8]

I have a test in a couple of hours about this book. I'm counting on you, man! haha

[@MiguelHernandez-ui8cd]

+gre8 it would've taken you less than a couple of hours to read it, hah

[@ash86marie]

How did you do on your test?

[@gre8]

ash86marie Not bad really, its been quite a while, but i remember getting something above 85% score o/

[@mr11402]

lol >85% is more than just 'not bad'

[@ash86marie]

gre8 yay! I'm glad:)

[@dionnemurphy1855]

love this video. helped me loads with uni work

[@sandralopez9954]

right on! this helped me out thank you!

[@piggehbank]

just realized... He is a Professor... at my university.. Texas State.. cool

[@RittheBrit1]

Thank you, you explained that so well for something quite complex. You saved my skin that's for sure!

[@chriscole946]

Linda Ritlinger how did that save your skin who would run the system ?THE CONSTITUTION saves you !!!!! IF WE LIVED UNDER MARXISM IT WOULD BE REVOLUTION AFTER REVOLUTION your grandkids would go hungery have you ever lived in war?

[@tarfoh]

chris cole do you have downs

[@3Mewthree]

+chris cole I get the feeling she might have been talking about something along the lines of a study for class...

[@aubreyparker366]

I really appreciate this! I would love if you would do another video focusing on the end of the book. You explain this book so well when it (Communist Manifesto) mostly just confused me!

[@FolkBoyify]

The simplest way to explain it is that the means of production belong to the working class.

[@blakejech6846]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie... this should be obligatory and marx knew this. You will not bring the power away from the violent bourgeoisie in any capacity through kindness

[@bmphil3400]

How is the power owned by the people in Cuba or Venezuela?

[@EuropeChannel]

I bought the original untranslated version now, hoping to get some nice arguments against communists who haven't read it. Usually every statist I met turned out to be economically enapt, I don't expect anything better from this book.

[@TheEnepicanParty]

Against communist? Pro-capitalist?

[@TheEnepicanParty]

Free markets? A pipe dream which our nature would never allow. Do you seriously need a communist to school you in human behavior?

[@TheEnepicanParty]

I won't lie to you. I know nothing of your economics, or whatever "ism" they may abide by. All I know of is the inevitable demise of our civilization if we do not alter our path. You may say communism is not possible because of our nature, and to this I reply, our natur3 is th3 subject of our environment. Shortages and the harsh uneasy access to valuable resources is what caused our natur3 to become greedy.

[@TheEnepicanParty]

I say to you. Our nature is not static. It can change, just as the seasons do. Our greatest enemy is our destructive tendencies. We are nearing the point where we need not a simple mistake in the reproductive process to decide our future, but we decide our future by our own hands.

[@FuZionSniperzZ]

Europe Channel Yes because economics are the most important this and I guess you also think that capital is the natural reward and driving force of all workers?

[@mushroomgods4707]

Interesting stuff Comrade

[@__-on8rk]

Mushroom Gods 🤣

[@klaceysphotography1107]

You saved my sking b/c we have a professor that wants to teach undergrads as if they were graduates and I've read the book ten times or more and don't understand it anymore than the first day I read it. I am a straight A/B student too. thanks.

[@carknower]

Being an A/B student doesn’t mean anything unless it’s for math and alike subjects. Inquiring, analysis, and critical thinking is what really matters. In understanding Marx and in real life.

[@stonefisher7660]

Comrade Ivan?

[@papichulo4171]

Based

[@windowssonic5953]

So glad I'm here for no reason.

[@alexfedorenko3785]

good job! nice and brief! all students appreciate it!

[@elderdragon799]

Invocation of dispare by carl marx

[@damianmartinez2924]

Thank you soo much!!

[@celestialteapot309]

this must be for school children Americans, people with learning difficulties or tabloid readers

[@FARTSTAINMAGEE]

Great analysis!

[@atmospherepress]

+FARTSTAINMAGEE Thanks for the compliment! If you ever need help with an interpretation or a paper, feel free to enlist my services at editygroup.com/academic!

[@jacksonbuckner9641]

This is a great analysis

[@antoniorangel2722]

YAY THANKS FOR SAVING ME!!!!

[@elephantwarrior53]

Do you think violent revolution is still necessary?

[@mainspringguerrilla6841]

Elephant Warrior well, there are many cases where TOTAL non violence at ALL times hasn't got us much of anywhere. In some cases arms and ammunitions are justified. But that's the very very last resort.

[@papichulo4171]

The Russian Revolution wasn’t too violent honestly, all that happened was the Bolsheviks had mass support and there was a lot of civil unrest so they walked into key buildings with guns and took them over. What was violent however is the civil war which followed, especially because four massive superpowers invaded too (Britain, France, USA, and Japan)

[@anthonykang6631]

Good explanation of communism, even though I still don't believe that communism is a good economic theory

[@jpviegas]

Comparing the work done on a mid 1800's factory to one of a current day office requires some elaborate mental gymnastics.

[@adrianwhiteley4790]

lumpenproletariat yes it is one word

[@jackwednesday]

fantastic commentary. Thanks.

[@atmospherepress]

+jackwednesday Thanks for the compliment! If you ever need help with an interpretation or a paper, feel free to enlist my services at editygroup.com/academic!

[@20thCenturySir]

Alright but how does the proletariat class actually govern a country once they have power?

[@GolfBaller]

With democracy, but it depends on the country and how the people want to organize.

[@DanM-ys5pz]

@@GolfBaller Democracy is two wolves and a sheep taking a vote on what to have for dinner.

[@sahajadhossain6114]

Very nice sir

[@andrewbenner6349]

Thank you for this. After having had read the manifesto and done alternative research; you've helped me understand the manifesto better and more comprehensively despise it.

[@maribelsaygidia2414]

As a Communist my self, The manifesto is our grail. this book is the very idea that we are guided by. We are not bad people comrades we are the fighters for a future that is free for the proletariat and a world free from the bourgeoisie scum.

[@maribelsaygidia2414]

Billy Burd pretty much

[@maribelsaygidia2414]

TheJesterRace the American people aren't being given a choice to decide what government they want to live under. as soon as the people start protesting the failure that is capitalism the elite police and the army are sent in. Trust me there are millions of communists in America waiting for the opportune moment to spring into action to begin the governmental change.

[@kulturfreund6631]

The "g" in "Engels" is silent. Don´t need to underline it.

[@Mark-nc5yq]

I was hoping this would be a deeper analysis of the book and ideas as opposed to explaining what the words generally mean as they’re sorted in their respective sentences. Yeah never mind the 20th century horrors of communism. This is a juvenile analysis of Marx. A good start for someone in junior high. If you’re in college you should probably look elsewhere. not trying to hate, just wished this video was an actual analysis and interpretation of the book.

[@simonbagel]

Kind of sad that Marx never got to see just how poorly his ideas played out in the real world when they were implemented.

[@vancouverjohn1]

Funny, "we have to be careful with, not to take the wrong way...we get wrapped up with all of 20th century notions of the evilness of it and all that" Let's play that same line out with Mein Kampf.

[@Jeremy-th5pt]

McDonald's employees are not enslaved. It's their CHOICE to work there. If you want to better yourself in America you can. If you want great rewards you take great risks.

[@Octoberfurst]

Yeah if you don't like working at McDonald's just be a neurosurgeon! So simply! So many jobs in America are low paying service jobs that pay squat and have little to no benefits. You believe in the America myth of "Everyone can get rich in America! You just have to work hard!" It's total BS and huge amounts of people are trapped living paycheck to paycheck. Try living in the real world.

[@Jeremy-th5pt]

@@Octoberfurst who said anything about being rich? The poorest of the poor have cell phones and eat fast food in America. Gtfo

[@jessamineleslie]

nice!!!! it really help me to understand :)))))))

[@christophernewell195]

Great stuff

[@atmospherepress]

+Christopher Newell Thanks for the compliment! If you ever need help with an interpretation or a paper, feel free to enlist my services at editygroup.com/academic!

[@williampower6167]

Holy shit. The end is near

[@wadehathawaymusic]

Great job. Though I might take some small umbrage with giving the impression that the manifesto 'led' to autrocities perpetrated by the likes of Mao, Stalin, etc. A more accurate reflection might be that they were violent autocrats using Marxism as cover, since they were rallying (manipulating) their respective hordes against capitalistic emperialism. Others have been just as violent taking stances against Marxism (Pinochet, Hitler, Marcos). Such a reflection might lead one to consider, back to Marx, that those who will do *anything* to be in/maintain power care little about the wrapper (ideology) used to cloak that naked violent desire from the hordes they seek to rally and simultaneously subjugate.

[@afg420007]

Thanks Dude

[@michaelliu201]

So let me get this straight, Marx says that "increased communication which will be the engine that will fuel the movement". That increased communication which he says is. due to modern technology would have not been produced if it were not for capitalistic ways. (especially not in a communist society). Kind of ironic huh

[@UNR3S7]

Also according to marx, communism is only the next stage. A stage that couldn't have happened as easily without the developments from the feudal stage of society. It doesn't mean that capitalism is historically unnecessary, only that there is a better system that we could progress to. Also, the internet was created by the state without any intention of profit. Not that the state is communism, but its creation was a non-capitalist event. Also, communism in the sense of a country ruled by a "communist" party is not what Marx meant by communism. It would be a proto-communist state at best and a capitalist state run by a dictator and bureaucrats functioning as the capitalist class at worst.

[@Octoberfurst]

Communist countries HAVE created many innovations. And Marx did believe that capitalism had it's place but socialism was the next step and communism after that.

[@davidcollins6215]

The perfect man doesn't exi-

[@Marco81blues]

To whom does Marx dedicat his books? Enough said on the ideas they contain.

[@shawnburnham1]

11:00

[@kendrickjahn1261]

Thanks, man.

[@JoeMansley]

I love the way he says interesting. Reminds me of Eminem

[@adrianwhiteley4790]

bourgeoise is the middle class

[@DimetriKhan]

+adrian whiteley They were. They are the ruling class in capitalist society. The middle-class is the petit-bourgeoisie.

[@GolfBaller]

There is no such thing as the "middle class". The bourgeoisie are the *owning* class. They *own* the means of production. The money you make doesn't define your class, your relationship to the means of production defines your class.

[@JavierOrtiz-vr4qg]

"Ber-ges-ses"😂😂

[@barron4000]

Dude you’re not thinking you’re just rambling

[@owenkilleen]

Great idea, pity human beings get in the way of it.

[@aestheticpaw8399]

That's exactly why the F.B.I. made Steve Jobs put a back door on the Apple...however this is the internet, they have no power here

[@ericvedin1500]

ILY

[@JavierOrtiz-vr4qg]

Im reading this just because i like to think im smart although im clearly not😂😂

[@charlesnwarren]

Too much has happened since Marx.

[@TomiDeLuna]

अग्नि पेले की देवी मुझे नास्तिकों को नष्ट करने के लिए शक्ति के साथ आशीर्वाद देती हैं Om Agni Pele key Devi mujhe nastikon ko nasht karne kay lie shakti kay sath ashirvad deti hain! Om Sri Peleya Namaha! Om Pele Honua Mea Shakti Namaha!

[@perryb.1733]

it takes globalization to get oranges from FLORIDA to Oregon? ..............

[@HelenBrown-s1j]

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[@faith4today]

For a college professor, I have to give you grade of "D-" for your analysis and interpretation. For one, how can you even give an analysis of only one chapter, when there are four? _The Communist Manifesto_ isn't a book, but a pamphlet or booklet...not being very long. Second, you are giving Karl Marx a pass, when he was directly responsible for the uprising and murder of approximately 100 million people in the 20th century because of this document! Yet, you say that his words did not have the baggage back in the mid 1800's when he wrote this, but this is a condition of our modern interpretation. What??? No wonder you focused more on the ideas of inequality between the rich and poor, rather than on the means that Karl Marx said needed to carry this out, the vicious brutality. In my opinion, this is why I believe you may have chosen not to cover the other three chapters that go over this in more detail...unless you just didn't know all the facts. Are you not aware that Karl Marx got his revolutionary ideas from the French Revolution, that happened in the previous century before he lived? The French Revolution killed thousands of people, where factory and business owners (and their families) were dragged out and killed, in order to prevent any retaliation or later claim to the factories or businesses they owned, which were taken over by the mob force of the peasants. Priests were dragged out of churches also and killed, and the churches were burned down, as Karl Marx, an atheist, stated that religion was the _"opium of the masses"_ and should be overthrown/destroyed also. The period of the French Revolution that was called the Reign of Terror, was extremely bloody and vicious. Many were beheaded publicly with the guillotine, and even those who did not support the Revolution were now considered enemies of the state and were killed. This is exactly why Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and many others followed suit, doing exactly what Karl Marx advocated in his book to *_"overthrow capitalism by any means necessary."_* Again, Karl Marx is totally responsible for the deaths of approximately 100 million people in the 20th Century, because of his radical, revolutionary ideas published in his book: _The Communist Manifesto._ Yet, this guy, Karl Marx, is being portrayed as a good guy, an example of promoting equality in our society -- in our colleges and universities?? Amazingly sick!!! Seriously, you need to rethink your position on this guy, professor!!! For real! -

[@Jeremy-th5pt]

Kids are being taught to admire Marx and communism. Scary.

[@faith4today]

@@Jeremy-th5pt Sad to say, but yes.

[@williampennjr.4448]

the wage earners have it made compared to the business owner. The wage earner risks nothing. They are guaranteed to make an income from their work. It like comparing someone who receives interest on their saving and someone who receives dividends on their investment. The saver pays higher taxes than the investor because he risk nothing. His income is guaranteed. The investor pays lower taxes because he risk losing his entire investment. Progressive don't seem to understand this.

[@SpayNeut.Always]

to "the kirk", maybe capitalism is responsible for some of those issues, but the fruit of communism is much more sour

i h8 markis communist he should abourted