Marxism lecture 2: Reformation to French Revolution

[@Mousey316]

great lecture. keep up the good work!

[@prometheansujith5017]

Great work keep enlightening us.

[@AsifKhan-bv3iu]

Fantastic presentation.

[@donny_doyle]

Love this dude- I'm burning thru all his Marx/Communism vids- great work and presentation.

[@casarun1877]

love these lectures. m on a marathon on marxism

[@englishwithamanat]

Perfect ❤ Thank you so much for this informative series of lectures ❤

[@pietrorusso7094]

Great work

[@heisenberg6689]

The impersonation of Edmund Burke on 35:20 was just hilarious.

[@TaimurRahman-English]

@@heisenberg6689 heh heh. Thanks.

[@Edmonddantes123]

Thanks for the great lecture. Please don’t use AI art for the thumbnail, generative AI is not only hideous, it’s also based on the enclosure of intellectual commons and a catastrophe for the environment

[@numbersix8919]

👍 👌 ✅️

[@muhammadahmad96]

Seconded.

[@yahyachaudhry6729]

How is it an enclosure of the “intellectual commons?” Marxists don’t support any intellectual property rights.

[@testacals]

It's not hideous. Why would a communist society care about intellectual property ?

[@magrayfayaz1478]

Beautiful

[@mmekalmashhadi5467]

Sir, you look tired. May Allah keep you safe and healthy. Hope you get well soon.

[@happy-go-commie]

Great lecture. History lessons delivered from a Marxist perspective is the best.

[@beautifuldesonance]

Awesome lecture. I was looking for the Critique of the Gotha Program, but it's gone?

[@numbersix8919]

I think the professor is reorganizing the lectures on Marxism.

[@TaimurRahman-English]

Yes, I reorganised the lectures. Made new thumbnails and will release them in the right order. One new one will be released daily.

[@numbersix8919]

@TaimurRahman-English Thank you Profesion, it will be a good resource for us.

[@paulgraystone4919]

thanks for the magna carta. . no mention of the english levelers? during cromwells time. no mention of english thomas pain in a french prison before going to america? .. I can understand how trotsky came with perminan t revolution! . . industrial revolution created new labor, over the old guild movement. .

[@amritraj2774]

Comrade, your other lectures of this series on marxism are unavialable, like the one on hegel etcetera . We would love to see and learn from them. Can you please share all the videos in this list?

[@TaimurRahman-English]

All will be released on a daily basis.

[@amritraj2774]

Thanks comrade

[@khadi1213]

The Reformation movement in Europe culminated in a bloody war and the fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire. The thirty years of conflict between Protestants and Catholics resulted in immense destruction, both in terms of lives lost and socio-economic setbacks. This conflict was ended by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The 17th and 18th centuries were marked by revolutions such as the French and Industrial Revolutions, which made the world, particularly the Third World, more vulnerable to disasters and poverty. During the Industrial Revolution, Great Britain established colonies worldwide, extracting wealth and labor from these regions to fuel its industrialization, further deepening the global inequalities. The French Revolution, on the other hand, led to massive upheaval in Europe, especially during the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon's quest for power brought widespread destruction across the continent, culminating in his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Following this, the Congress of Vienna was convened, with leaders from across Europe (but not Turkey) to establish new rules regarding territorial sovereignty. The Congress resulted in the fragmentation of Italy and Germany into smaller kingdoms, which were controlled by the major powers of the era, such as Austria-Hungary, Russia, and France. In the following decades, both Italy and Germany pursued unification, driven by nationalism, and succeeded in forming unified states. At this time, the main powers of Europe included Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. Great Britain dominated naval power, and Germany sought a balance of power, focusing on increasing its naval capabilities. This period marked the beginning of intense power struggles, as these major powers sought alliances. The system of alliances divided Europe into two blocs: the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. This structure, which prioritized military alliances over diplomacy, left little room for negotiation and peace, contributing directly to the outbreak of the catastrophic World War I and later World War II. Given these events, one might question whether the Age of Enlightenment and the Renaissance, which were supposed to be periods of reason and causality, truly lived up to their ideals. The Enlightenment emphasized the use of science, art, philosophy, and logic to solve societal problems and improve the human condition. However, if the consequences of these ideals led to wars, destruction, and power struggles, can we still regard the Enlightenment as a genuine "Age of Reason"? Did the application of reason and causality really lead to the betterment of society, or did it simply lay the foundation for new conflicts?

[@numbersix8919]

By causality, you mean to say empiricism?

[@testacals]

Without industrial revolution, we wouldn't have 99% of the things we have now. Neapolian and Robspire are great men.

[@JolandavanBoekel]

@@testacals Napoleon

[@JolandavanBoekel]

@@testacals Robespierre

[@TaimurRahman-English]

All these changes from feudalism to capitalism required many violent revolutions in order to become reality.

[@pratikpatowary9404]

Why have you made the talk - British rule in india private 😭😭😭 , it is brilliant

[@Taimur_Laal]

I will reshare it in the right order of this course.

[@pratikpatowary9404]

@Taimur_Laal thank you 🍀

[@TaimurRahman-English]

@@pratikpatowary9404 I have made it public for you.

[@pratikpatowary9404]

@@TaimurRahman-English thank you so much 🙌🏼

[@gidrbridumarg3152]

Thanks for the presentation comrade Taimur. This is a hopeful reminder that it will take socialism also more than a century to establish itself.

[@numbersix8919]

Woh, no, it won't! Because we won't insist on implementing ideological purity among the proletariat.

[@gidrbridumarg3152]

What are you talking about?

[@JolandavanBoekel]

Calvin was a Frenchman, calvinism was very populair in France before it was hard suppressed. From France it spread (also) to the Netherlands. Spain went controlling the south of the Netherlands (roughly present Belgium). In 1585 Spain captured Antwerpen which was at that time the richest city in the (western?) world. Very much rich people, traders, many of them were Jews fled to Amsterdam. That made Amsterdam rich.

[@JolandavanBoekel]

While the feodalists (sons of William of Orange) had the military power in the Dutch Republic, the (economic) state power was in the hands of the bourgeoisie of Holland. Holland was in those days only 1 of the 7 Netherlands but the richest and by that the most powerful. This history is in my opinion a nice example of dialectics. There is a contradiction between modern-feodalism (Spain and the catholic masses of the Netherlands) and the old feodalism , protestant masses and protestant bourgeoisie in the North of the Netherlands. The result is the first bourgeois state in history. The people (like during the French Revolution) didn't exist as political force of there own but there struggle also started the Dutch revolution. Small 'fun' fact, in the Dutch Republic it was possible for a kid of very poor parents, if he had the skills, to become admiral of the fleet. That's why in those days the Dutch ruled the seas. In a country like Germany this was only possible in the 20th century (after 1918).

[@JolandavanBoekel]

The Netherlands became the first modern republic ( with the exception of the North-Italian city states). Why was that? The Dutch (with the exception of the catholics)revolted against the policy of their lord, who was also king of Spain. That king (Philps II) wanted to build a modern (centralized) state and for that he needed (a lot of money). His father already took an awful lot of money from Spain to buy the crown of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany) that lead to a big revolt in Spain. That's why Philips looked at the Netherlands for money. He imposed a tax of 10% on all trade. Ofcourse traders didn't like that. At he same time (beginning 16th century) the economic power of feodalists was declining. A part of the centralization politics of Philips was to end the local powers of the feodalists. Ofcourse the feodalists didn't like that. Another part of the centralization politics of Philips was that there could only be the catholic faith. Protestants were burned at the stake. Ofcourse the protestant people didn't like that. So those 3 groups united and liberated their land (roughly the same as present Netherlands). The original Netherlands also included present Belgium and Luxemburg. The new country needed a head of state, so they offered the crown to Engeland which refused it because that could give serious problems with Spain. Then they offered the crown to France, which also refused it. Then they saw no other option then to form a republic.

[@TaimurRahman-English]

Thanks or that detailed history. Are you from Netherlands?

[@JolandavanBoekel]

@@TaimurRahman-English Yes, and have studied history all my life. I thank you for your very wise, clear, correct and fundamental presentation, many people, teachers included (also in the Netherlands) could learn a lot from you. I was raised as a hard core Calvinist. Went to study history and found out that for a real understanding of history we must look through the lens of historical-materialism. Because of my background i'm very interested in a Marxist analysis of Jewish and Christian history. In this context i like to name the work of professor Michael Hudson. He has done splendid work about the relation between Jezus and debts but also about debts in ancient society. He didn't do this for fun, not that i'm against fun, but besides being a top historian, prof Hudson is also a top economist and in this role played an important role in the United Nations about debts. A lot of him, also on geopolitics, can be seen on youtube. On debts (and Jezus) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWScd4N7bbqbeac but maybe you are already familiar with him. Anyway i'm looking forward to see all your lectures.

[@TaimurRahman-English]

@ I’m not familiar with him. Thank you for this great recommendation. I’ll find his books.