POLITICAL THEORY - Karl Marx

Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out certain of its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.
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“Most people agree that we need to improve our economic system somehow. It threatens our planet through excessive consumption, distracts us with irrelevant advertising, leaves people hungry and without healthcare, and fuels unnecessary wars. Yet we’re also often keen to dismiss the ideas of its most famous and ambitious critic, Karl Marx. This isn’t very surprising. In practice, his political and economic ideas have been used to design disastrously planned economies and nasty dictatorships. Frankly, the remedies Marx proposed for the ills of the world now sound a bit demented. He thought we should abolish private property. People should not be allowed to own things. At certain moments one can sympathise. But it’s like wanting to ban gossip or forbid watching television. It’s going to war with human behaviour. And Marx believed the world would be put to rights by a dictatorship of the proletariat; which does not mean anything much today. Openly Marxist parties received a total of only 1,685 votes in the 2010 UK general election, out of the nearly 40 million ballots cast…”
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[@ethoskratos6688]

Watching this on the most capitalistic medium ever.

[@hmmhmm9017]

You realise most of what we have now was paid for by old systems? For example, many factories that allowed for the set up of modern businesses were paid for by slavery?

[@justinp4659]

Hmm Hmm And what do you have to back up that claim? Because most slave owners financially were fucked after the civil war and statistically millionaires today earn their money not inherit it.

[@lola1987fudgeyouu]

It really didnt hv to be tho

[@lola1987fudgeyouu]

@@eskanda3434 myth, debunked my friend. Look it up

[@zeenuf00]

@@hmmhmm9017 found the idiot communist

[@CrossBorderNerds]

Abandon all hope ye who scrolls down further.

[@bosnianowitzkifan41]

This is officially the greatest youtube comment i've ever read. You sir, deserve a medal.

[@correctchristian4255]

If they embrace Marxism, they have.

[@kyledarrow1809]

I'm going down

[@Coliocoliocolio]

I agree with you man I'm chaotic neutral fuck both extremes we must meet in the middle

[@JadetheGoober]

This comment is RIGHT after the comment of the apologetic marxist stating “i predict this will be a level headed comment section” and now im afraid to keep scrolling

[@rynli2153]

the parts of video 01:23 modern work is alienated 02:26 modern work is insecure 02:59 workers get paid little while Capitalist get rich 03:49 capitalism is very unstable 05:20 capitalism is bad for capitalist

[@nidhimoda605]

Thank you

[@sashat.2629]

you are a prince

[@haleyh9875]

beautiful & helpful annotations to sum up the main points :' D I wish commenters like you a life of pure happiness

[@Rick-ez1nt]

Modern work is alienated: Educate yourself on a occupation that improves your society. Modern work is insecure: Become skilled at that occupation. Workers get paid little while Capitalist get rich: Hardships in the production of a quality product the people or a organization wants to consume results in being paid. When the occupation is harder then other occupations results in being paid more then others. Capitalism is very unstable: Does China society seem stable to you? Its called the Peoples Republic of China. Capitalism is bad for capitalist: Capitalists would continue capitalism if it was bad and it takes a lot of critical thinking and understanding of reality to be a rich capitalists. Someone that earns what they have appreciate what they have, someone who is given what they have appreciate nothing. Being called a Marxist is a insult.

[@storiesbynaima]

This confirms that all the things that made me depressed actually were valid reasons even though everyone just says suck it up

[@olivercheeseman8227]

There's no such thing as a valid reason to allow yourself to be depressed. To resign your happiness because of the worlds economic structure is pathetic. If you're upset about the state of things, do something. You don't have to start a communist revolution (zero chance of that working in the west anyway), you can start your own business and operate it in closer accordance to what you consider to be 'fair'. Be the change you want to see in the world.

[@storiesbynaima]

@@olivercheeseman8227 if the economic structure makes it so that it’s difficult for human needs to be met, I think it’s valid to be depressed about that. I think you can also do what’s in your control to make your situation work as best as it can for you. You can do both. You can be upset and take action. To call me or anyone that feels this way is pathetic is ignorant and sad. I get it. You don’t want to be a victim so bad that you don’t hold the people that hurt you accountable. Being sad does not mean you can’t take action. They’re not mutually exclusive. When you deny yourself the ability to feel, you make it easier for toxic systems to remain in power. It’s mindsets like yours that have kept us from making more progress towards a more kind and loving community and economic structure which is totally possible.

[@R4KT1M]

@@olivercheeseman8227 Dude you are saying like if my boss makes me work 12 hr and gives me 1/4 of the wage, instead of getting depressed and sad I should do something to avoid thinking about it. It's just you are defending my boss, not me. His mental health not mine. His interests are opposed to mine.

[@northernnaysayer1240]

@@olivercheeseman8227 that's a hell of a way to tell everyone you don't understand mental health or exploitation. There's no such thing as a valid reason to be depressed... Holy shit that's one hell of a statement. I take it you've never grafted through school, work and uni just to find out that you can't have a job because you don't live in the right area or come from the right family. You strike me as someone that thinks that meritocracy actually exists and that we should all pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

[@olivercheeseman8227]

​@@northernnaysayer1240 I said there's no valid reason to allow yourself to be depressed, not that there isn't ever a valid reason to be depressed. There are a hundred 'valid' reasons for a person to be depressed in this world. You won't be happy until you can find the reasons not to be depressed and in order to do that you need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. It's your life, no one is here to fix it for you.

[@ihazplawe2503]

Fun Fact: Nobody in the comments have read Marx's books

[@seriousbees]

Tried. They're boring as hell

[@madmouse4400]

@@seriousbees it's economic books , what did you expect.

[@dieglhix]

@@seriousbees I read the manifesto when I was 16 years old and was a commie idiot, now I am super anti-communist and my country is voting for an actual commie (Communist party) They are zealots and pro-terrorism

[@fusionid6647]

@@dieglhix which country is it

[@dieglhix]

@@fusionid6647 chile

[@morgan4xl]

I came here because in political arguements someone often calls a person a Marxist, then a replier tells them they would bet a million dollars that the person doesn't have any understanding of Marxism whatsoever. I think I see their point now.

[@sierralizotte3084]

Literally why I came here. Always hear it tossed around as an insult but seeing this I can't help but think of the quote from A Princess Bride. "I do not think that word means what you think it means"

[@AutumnSage98]

The issue isn't so much about Marx having an influence on people, if you're a philosopher, of course, that's going to happen. The real insult is postmodern marxism that's cancer. Illogical Communism = NOT WHAT WE WANT OR NEED

[@2dcheifguy]

Jon Sage here to learn. Can you explain your position?

[@AutumnSage98]

@Coal Fire b-b-b-but that's the wrong kind of socialism anon!!!

[@OfficialSilverMoon]

@Coal Fire You're openly admitting you're a Nazi? Also I'll have you know that in the 1930s the first people sent to concentration camps by National Socialists (Nazis) were 150k communist party members and workers.

[@stevesuy1551]

10 years ago I dismissed Marxism without knowing a single thing about it but now I cant help but agree with ideologies that reflect my own.

[@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967]

Me too , my grandfather and grandmother were communist leaders , I used to totally dismissed their beliefs, but now , myself I'm a communist , lal salam ❤

[@robertbaratheon2193]

That’s what education is all about: being able to criticize your former views and think about them more. I don’t agree with a lot of Marx’s points but he had the right idea.

[@Ghost_of_James_Doakes]

@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 YOU MIGHT AS WELL SMOKE CRACK

[@arnoldmunez5057]

@@robertbaratheon2193 no he did not, he was unable to see where the means of production would head in the future. He assumed so many things about human condition, that he failed to calculate that humans will never be satisfied in a forced equal system. We could easily keep the positives of Marxism, without the negatives of communism. But people are too ignorant to understand that we can create a system where the means of production belong to everybody, without needing a form of central government. The very notion of work would change to where everyone would be gaining the benefits of their work immediately. If Marx could see the effects of communism, if he had any decency, he would blow his own brains out. Mao, Lenin, Stalin, hitler, Mussolini, African warlords, Putin, the modern Democratic Party all are followers of Marx, and all of these people have made the world a worst place.

[@RR-ph2cm]

@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 konnintolo marxism corrct eh kaani,it s not going to help in real life,this marxism will actually cause more loss than the capitalism,also iam not complete ly with capitalism,a balance of bothe the ideologies would be beneficial for the structure of the society

[@bhaveshtochabbra6853]

Since my childhood, I used to believe that hagrid from harry potter is karl marx.🙂

[@havcola6983]

Given JK Rowling's political views I think he would have been written a whole lot let sympathetic if that was the case. "You're a Fascist, Harry!"

[@KL-zg7lu]

😅

[@MENtality100]

"Capitalism? More like Crapitalism am I right ladies..." -Karl Marx (probably)

[@hollandkroese7427]

@abcd3625 I admire Biden and Harris for different reasons, but we are on the same team. NO TRUMP, NO KKK, NO FASCIST USA!

[@hwdareu5848]

@@hollandkroese7427 What a clown! KKK was founded by Democrats. How stupid and ignorant can you be ? Do you watch any news channel other than CNN and MSNBC?

[@hwdareu5848]

@abcd3625 yes vote Trump and completely eradicate the European Marxists ideologies from the USA. MAGA. #Trump2020🇺🇸

[@abyssalknight4081]

Goddamn I didn't this thread would go to shit that quickly.

[@hollandkroese7427]

@@abyssalknight4081 For real. All I said was that I admire the same leaders, but for a different reason. Then somehow I became the bad guy.

[@sathyajitshaji199]

"Dark humour is like health care, not everyone gets it" - USA

[@triny89]

Dude, in India ppl often comment - "sarcasm is like electricity in India, not everyone gets it"

[@VitalXtreme]

Dark humour is like a dead child... it never gets old.

[@batzorigvaanchig6358]

@Matt Justice You don’t trust the organization tasked with sabotaging and destroying communism and democracy around the world wherever it opposes U.S. interests?

[@batzorigvaanchig6358]

@Matt Justice Define greatness so we don’t have confusion, and when you say communist I assume you mean socialist

[@revelacia]

Are you suggesting that this video is meant to be humorous?...

[@AdityaKumar-bh2jz]

Who is watching in 2024 👍

[@Guilherme-nv5wq]

Marx also understood that capitalists are also victims of the system. Capitalism makes capitalists raise their profit more and more as an obligation, if they not do it, a more ruthless capitalist will take their place. Marx also proposes liberty to capitalists on the Communist manifesto.

[@donthasselthehoff5753]

"if they not do it, a more ruthless capitalist will take their place. ..", how does that work? A company does not require increasing profits to survive, it just needs to make profit

[@Guilherme-nv5wq]

@@donthasselthehoff5753 your point of view is quite utopic, that's because you're taking one key factor of capitalism, the competition. Let's take one example to make things easier to picture, Uber and Lift, two competitors. What will decide who will beat the other? Growing profit. They need it in order to adopt more and more techniques that increase productivity, decrease costs, sabotage their competitors. In the case of those 2 examples, the one who profits more can invest more in advertisigment, offer more discounts, have more drivers, monopolize the market, decrease the payment of the drivers without consequences, and so on... This is reality for any kind of business, even if you have a small grocery store. Competition will always force you to look for ways to increase your profit, otherwise your business will collapse. You can see that reality applies to countries as well, if the GDP doesn't grow, the economy crashes, that force us to always increase productivity, taking us to a path that makes us consume more resources than the amount of resources our planet can recover by itself, that is why capitalism is the system responsible for all of our troubles with the environment.

[@Guilherme-nv5wq]

@@donthasselthehoff5753 For more detailed explanation about the flaws of Capitalism, I recommend you to check two channels out: Hakim and Noncompete. They're alwesome.

[@Guilherme-nv5wq]

@@dudebros6122 What you said has no ground in reality. China is already more technologically advance and cientifically productive than US. URSS were also on that path. Technology is developed by necessity, and it's more of a product of cooperation than competition. Imagine if instead competing among themselves and keeping data from being shared, the pharmaceutical industries cooperate with one another to develop the COVID vaccine, we could have that vaccine ready on months in advance, saving millions of lives.

[@Guilherme-nv5wq]

@@dudebros6122 yes, your ideas have no bounds with reality, China is not just technologically advanced and scientifically productive than US, it's also socially superior since China is the solo responsible for the fall of the poverty rate, lifting more than 800 million people out of poverty. It's funny, if low wages bring advancement, why isn't any African country technologically advanced? Or India? Both places have practically starving wages, however, the average wage in China is higher than Portugal. If you call a economy under total control of it's government a capitalist economy, than you don't know what a capitalist economy is. Chinese government controls the financial system completely and have practically control over it's big industries.

[@noaliungman5329]

Karl Marx: misunderstood by both his followers and his opponents

[@martinchristian597]

awwwwwww gulag

[@anaximander5334]

Conor Hoffman What the fuck?

[@orionizaqt]

This is absolutely undeniable true. People who follow him act as if he found the solution, when he really only identified the problems. People who oppose him brand him as commie scum. Both are wrong.

[@77Kabum]

"The Problem of Marxism are the Marxists" "One thing I can definitely say: I am not a Marxist" I think these two qutes illustrate quite well, what Karl Marx himself thought about his followers.

[@treatb09]

somehow the philosophy twisted and released some demented sense of hive mentality in people. probably a result of systematic in breeding. its an inevitable result of controlled culture. money still holds a value in the effort to control the abilities of others to acquire certain levels of social status, or luxurial status, but which is more important? you need one, the other appears to be social profiteering. apparently, you take away the ability to profit off of a life, and you are a communist…there is something missing in between. there is a path to nirvana, kung fu, utopia. but its a blend of it all. unifying the diverse intellectual mind, through individuality. but doing so is challenging. its true the flaws of capitalism are far too many, and the blends of other governing systems results in the depended donorship of capitalists. so what do we do? but sniff out a simple problem and attempt to resolve it subtly there?. or create a recyclatory system of governance, blending all forms after we have unified the mentality of individualism in society. its not about communism, but more about social racism in all hierarchal senses of that word. we have doctors profiteering from life and death, no matter their causality or circumstance are expected to a duty and profit from it by contract. leaving a practice seem strictly infallible by chance occurrence. humans lack consistency. no wound is the same. but we have cats killed for their owner's lack of wealth. horses put down for broken legs. cattle slaughtered in the systematic structures of the holocaust, and yet humans believe in capitalism as the evil to solve all evil. communism started as an idea that takes the prodigy, and lets everyone live that life. but thats not possible, people have a thesos, and i believe that as individuals, the thesos for each person is different. a seed becomes a tree, a baby becomes a man, that man's individual thesos is the apples of his life and labors. some trees have many apples... why are we trying to make pears from apple trees and expecting them to be perfect, every time? i just want everyone to love their life, pursue a life that becomes representative of the definition of art, and to breed individuality. achieving that is difficult as there is lots of evil. so its like let the system that fights it now, keep fighting it. there are people being left behind, wronged in their free will. and you can't just start wars because someones been shot anymore, so then that grows to millions…and we have regret, and start governing the future based on the past, and when we regret this, govern the future on how we think we see the future, and this then creates a problem, and it seems more like people forget to just live in the now sometimes, and when you want everyone to do this, the people collapse as well. desire, regret, or passion. there are nice things to infinitely say. but we define evil in so many ways, that passion becomes a weapon, and judgement and righteousness…we have people following each and every trail, and so many ignoring them that victims are becoming weapons of distress to culture, and judgements that aren't rationally even there half the time. we have history of book burnings, translations, and changes to phrases that create power in an instance. and the peaceful forget that protection is a responsibility. instead of blending capitalism with communism. which is where its all apparently headed. like some pow camp. individuality isn't bad…so where do you go from there to construct a peaceful society without oppression or profiteering? obviously hive structure works for organizing society. but hive mentality creates hierarchal racism. its not about asking, why can't i be queen, as much as who am i, what can i do, and make happen. then pursuing that but in ethically unifiable manners. money obviously does some thing. it builds. it grows economies, and allows for orchestrated direction on a global scale. but socially it corrupts the ecosystem. it dissolves it. we can't keep solving problems with more problems if we want to actually solve the problem, even though ecosystems are structured problems of seemingly endless possible solutions and diversities. so there is a paradox.

[@erish1005]

“The two wrote each other adoring poetry” I see nothing but the best homies

[@cykasoviet4604]

They had a bromance before it was cool.

[@bogmanhimself4656]

"the two wrote each other adoring poetry" engels: yo my fucking wife died marx: rip can i get some cash my rent is due engels: what the hell is wrong with you

[@marcusjohansson5686]

Friends Friends Friends..

[@harshsoni9326]

no homo

[@KimHanlon]

And they were roomates...

[@Mecca188]

As an employee getting overworked and exploited at my job I agree with his philosophies 100%

[@LlibertarianGalt]

Except he was best friends with a Capitalist factory owner who helped write his ideas whilst exploiting the worker and being a giant racist. Infact they both were, regularly.

[@simplelife6318]

@@LlibertarianGalt Engels wasn’t a factory owner Engels was a son of a factory owner. Matter of fact his first ever protest was organizing a march against his dads factory :)

[@LlibertarianGalt]

@@simplelife6318 Interesting, I thought he had inherited his fathers wealth and businesses during Marxs life? I know he was the only reason Marx's works were ever finished, atleast. Still, mad racist haha.

[@simplelife6318]

@@LlibertarianGalt his dad was racist Marx and Engels weren’t. One of their biggest arguments was about the slavery in the US and segregation. They both didn’t have anything to do with their dads wealth however Engels worked in his dad’s newspaper studio and helped Marx couple times also Engels married the proletariat that spit in his dads face, but they never had anything to do with their dads factory. Also they used their dads gatherings and parties to fight the capitalist, this is how they were able to form their first party “workers unite” in the English parliament

[@LlibertarianGalt]

@@simplelife6318 Yeah both Marx and Engles were massive racists and talked about people of different races with disgust. Especially the slavs.

[@PetstoUwU]

I always find it sad that Marx is seen as the grandfather of (dictatorship) communism. He rarely talks about "communism" he describes flaws in a capitalistic system. In acknowledging that these problems exist, we can work on improving a capitalistic system. But Marx=communism=bad is all most extremistic capitalists can think of...

[@heinricheius1740]

ikr

[@KellyRockefeller]

you realize that communism and dictatorship are two completely separate things right

[@richarddu3797]

@@KellyRockefeller You realized that what you replied is exactly what he said right?

[@soulcapitalist6204]

Marx is the father of dictatorship communism because he was explicit in describing it and Lenin was astute in playing out that vision via state capitalism. Your position is one of somebody who isn't familiar with Marx's works from having not read them. The flaws which Marx contended of capitalism invoked the fallacy of treating externalities as the fundamental return of the capitalist mode, whereas he never indicated the wits or numeracy to actually analyze economics at the level of his contemporaries (like JS Mill, for example).

[@soulcapitalist6204]

@@KellyRockefeller Communism requires what any modern person would regard as dictatorship. Certainly marxist communism requires dictatorship of the proles in lieu of "free" states which we'd term as liberal democracy. Liberal democracy requires a capitalist mode, on the other hand. The term "liberal" and Marx's "free" (of CotGP part 4) refer to economic liberalism like all of the nations in history to have achieved economic development, high wages and great per capita wealth.

[@Jason.F.]

Someone forgot to turn off the capitalist ads during this video.

[@user-sf5iq2fl1l]

Yeah, they are a plague, its the religion we live in, capitalism....sigh

[@shabegsan]

Its demonetized

[@Jason.F.]

@@shabegsan there are ads

[@shabegsan]

No there are not might be Because i am from India and here it is not monetized 😑 In India they are doing crazy stuff lately.

[@philippelauwers]

@@shabegsan are you by any chance using an adblocker?

[@Max_Le_Groom]

8:20 "The two men even wrote each other adoring poetry." The modern version of that is sending your homie your mixtape.

[@JonesTheSecond]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@oscarmoreno2585]

🤣🤣

[@v3gas102]

😂

[@mattfm101]

I'd look at some of those poems if I were you, it might give you a far darker understanding of the goals of Marxism.

[@Max_Le_Groom]

@@mattfm101 _I love communism_

[@user-zh2ze2br4b]

I think you just saved me a few hours of crying over my sociological theory readings thanks king

[@haleyh9875]

my situation exactly :' D hope you get A++++ fellow learner

[@Rhapsolin]

i really like the amount of space there is in your vocal recording and how not bass boomy it is. it would be perfect if it wasnt panned left slightly

[@thedragon8989]

"The two wrote each other adoring poetry" _Now hang on a minute there, they what?_

[@brooklynjennings8955]

They were the kind of “homies” that kissed eachother goodnight

[@dessopopp]

@@vesper9691 "Oh my God, they were roommates".👁👄👁

[@tenyangxjw]

Historians: And they were the best of friends

[@j1gglypuff42]

@@tenyangxjw i know one wasn't pretty cuz i aint ever seen two pretty best friends

[@ra-ix7kn]

@@j1gglypuff42 u must know that this comment made me scream. Thank u for that

[@jessicajahn5386]

Could we just appreciate his pronunciation for a moment? His british english is on point and to hear him pronunce those german words this perfectly makes me want to develop my pronuncation. And german is my first language just to say

[@amadeusmalonje8263]

lol I know right

[@GlennLSmith]

Alain De Botton grew up in Switzerland which probably helped him along the way.

[@humonchronos9048]

also french he´s pretty good at. I just learned it in school but it sounds pretty natural

[@sreekanth672]

you are probably intrested in communication rather than Content

[@jabirkk863]

Jordan peterson best on Marxism kzbin.info/www/bejne/aF63kpeZhdV8jKM

[@tannermurphy1157]

I don't know anything about politics, but this sounds the closest to how I have come to think. The world is full of struggle and greed and we all have to do a bunch of really useless stuff for at least 8 hours a day 5 days a week to afford the lowest they have to offer. Life is not worth it in these conditions. We all deserve to be free. I think that we're god experiencing some hard times. I think the devil is that wickedness that made this structure. So much division among ourselves. We're all the same thing in the same place. I hope we can circulate love instead of currency someday. We'd do the work for eachother and everyone would have what they need. We have everything and all the knowledge, now all we gotta do is love eachother.

[@suddenly_radical4558]

And it will be some day, we as people have the power to make it happen. It will be extremely hard and it might fail, but if we succeed the world will be a much better place. Continue to educate yourself, that's my advice

[@hamis490]

Marx's criticism of Capitalism is good, but you should look at different views before coming to conclusion, just because his solution doesn't seem to be the best, as the video stated at the end. His ideas have been used to do very destructive things. Im no expert at all, but I'm just saying

[@DrGurki]

Yeah, this will work in a small community but not on the scale of a nation. It‘s utopian, won‘t work. Some have tried, with catastrophic outcomes. That doesn‘t mean we can and should correct some aspects of our capitalist system.

[@soulcapitalist6204]

Marxist beliefs are immoral. Bad economics is immoral and marx and marxists are bad economics or anti-economics. Idealist government is immoral. Classist sociology is immoral. There's no excuse to entertain marx in 2022. Read Marx's bullshit yourself and not this cherry picking from marxists. Marxist have to lie for the horrible things marx asserts and for the fact that they have an unchanged and unchangeable ideology from the bigoted, authoritarian 1840s Germany.

[@FoundationsofFreedom]

@@hamis490 I study and am pretty heavily involved in politics. My preferred system is a healthy balance of both capitalism and socialism. Basically you have a strong social safety net, like what the Scandinavian countries have. Rights to healthcare, education, high wages, housing, etc. These countries have proven to be the most successful systems, and their citizens are among the happiest in the world, though I admit they aren’t perfect. No system is. The US would benefit from an economic bill of rights, like what FDR was an advocate of.

[@cristhespence]

Number 4, Karl Marx never said profit is theft. It was Proudhon who said property was theft. Karl Marx actual argued against that point. Karl Marx made a distinction between theft and exploitation.

[@Quantumtalesxx]

What the hell!! All the people commenting here about why capitalism is better than communism or why communism is better than capitalism, completely missed the point of this video.. I'm really struck right now at how ideology blinds you from fact.

[@solomonsiu8332]

Good job on your elaborate answer, nobody cares, its just a video.

[@engsaleh8793]

they are all BAD

[@Quantumtalesxx]

redlegagent Very nice. However you are missing the point as well, and this shows from your attempt criticize Marx by comparing the two socio-economic systems. Communism has failed. It's no secret. Marx's theory has been falsified because the revolution never came. However, this video does not try to make a stance for communism or what is widely perceived as "Marxism". Marx was a genius and an inconceivably difficult theorist. He set a great part of the groundwork for the modern human sciences, and is studied and analyzed till this very day by every student of the human being and human societies. If you take a look at Sweden and it's recent changes in policies concerning the working day, you will recognize in it, a lot of Marx's spirit. A 6-hour working day that leaves time for its citizens to pursue other activities of their liking. Thus leaving time for one to "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic". "This is national wealth, this is national prosperity". More leisure time for everyone. This is a true change for a better human society. And this my friend is part of the essence of Marx, which everyone seems to be painfully missing.

[@twidilidee8303]

Yes, we prefer leisure to work: did Marx discover this? Sweden's wealth, the condition of leisure, comes from Protestantism and free market economics. Contra real Marxist inspired economies in Venezuela and Cuba. Marx was a fraud. When he got his big payoff from his capitalist buddy Engels, which made him a very rich man, he went full bourgeoisie in his lifestyle-the hunting fishing stuff was just a literary conceit of classical origin.

[@beezlbub7956]

Just Saleh shut up lenin wanted a revoliution for the workers benefit

[@user-xh8nu]

“the two wrote eachother adoring poetry” historians say they were good friends.

[@mishasruros7633]

I know imagine people use to actually care about their friends.

[@asiangf1384]

@@mishasruros7633 let me guess, you're straight?

[@NaViAgain-ts9lj]

@@asiangf1384 this is getting ridiculous. Why can't two guys be nice to each other do friendly things without people like you questioning their sexuality

[@sn0wblake]

smells a little homosexual if you ask me

[@user-xh8nu]

@@sn0wblake duh. i was being sarcastic cause whenever 2 people are homosexual historians say they are “close friends” to deny their homosexual relationship

[@morganmarti579]

Humans are a valuable resource. While we don't need so many people working in menial positions as we have, that doesn't mean they should simply lay around. For our society to move forward we should be educating these people and putting the excess into research fields to push our boundary of understanding. This way we will progress more quickly through technology and medicine.

[@kennypickels]

I think you’re hearing “leisure” through the capitalist lens. What Marx was saying, what Chomsky says and what all of the intellectuals in the study of humanism are saying is that when each human is valuable just for the fact that they exist, and their basic needs are met, there is a freedom to think, pursue their own interests and curiosities, and do so in a way that is valuable to them and thereby to society as a whole. When each of us understands our own value, not based on what work we can do, but based on empathy for the human existence, mental suffering decreases. In capitalist society, it is a privilege to pursue ideas, hobbies, goals, learning etc… When the members of society are free to explore what they have the ability to do, learn or have a passion for, innovation follows. As people are able to explore interests, learning takes place across multiple domains of human knowledge. The more people have multi-domain knowledge and skills the more innovation takes place. For instance look at the MIT Media Lab. Innovation is critical to moving forward - the survival of humankind on a planet we decimate. Along with this needs to be a movement toward secularism. Organized religion divides people. It’s tribalism. Humanism=One tribe. Also have to understand how ableism, which is a construct borne of capitalism, influences your ideas about what “work” all people should do.

[@marlonjormungand7845]

True

[@louisnaude749]

" Few of us need to work, because the modern economy is so productive" " No private property or inherited wealth"

[@ihazplawe2503]

I swear to god that everyone forgets that Marx was not a politician or even a leader, he's a philosopher like Adam Smith and theirs works were revisioned or expanded.

[@ihazplawe2503]

@Fellow Æthelweard bait

[@tpxchallenger]

As far as influence goes he has no equal this side of Jesus or Muhammed. His believers think of him as a scientific prophet.

[@doubaoa6428]

No. He is a politician.

[@soulcapitalist6204]

Marx was not a philosopher. He fashioned himself some "revolutionary" and insisted on that leading role in the agitation for his political economic concept. He was a critic of philosophers in that he professed he knew better than Hegel, capitalist economists and other factions of socialists or anarchists of his time.

[@SL2797]

And the application of his ideas led to the deaths of millions of innocents.

[@ChessmasterHex]

I keep scrolling down to find the hell foretold in this comment section but all I come cross is comments describing the hell foretold in this comment section.....

[@IjeskrewRBMC]

Same xddddd

[@realkingofwales3917]

Sort be new

[@neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326]

Sort by new or read the replies

[@spinebones8747]

The irony that your comment has become another comment describing the hell foretold in this comment section that I'm scrolling past to find said hell comments.

[@-Ahmed8592]

- Comment describing hell foretold

[@RAmedi-nf3ch]

A nice short induction to some interesting propositions by a famous philosopher. Future generations of humans living under capitalist systems would regret not being aware of those propositions.

[@lillycirn]

This guy is really good at saying German stuff

[@nighty6274]

If only education was this open and free, not picking bias but rather just a respectful educational discussion along being accessible to the public...

[@kikikurumo7243]

I really dont think this video is unbiased. I think a lot of things 'seem' unbiased or 'free thinking' but are not

[@gadget00]

it is; pretty much everywhere except in US and some other few weird places LOL

[@hwdareu5848]

But the Democrats and leftists want to educate your children in camps and force their ideologies down your throat!!

[@bubbledumbb]

@@hwdareu5848 what are you on about??

[@jimmytimmyy1747]

@Quack quack In an actually socialist system there are little to no taxes and yet they can pay for your healthcare, housing and pretty much everything you need. See Albania, the USSR or GDR. Albania specifically abolished all taxes for a time and was still able to continue to prosper, the fact of the matter is that the free education isn't the problem but Capitalism is.

[@TheGinglymus]

Never read the comments section. You will only despair at humanity.

[@austintoney471]

@M P you and me both

[@alfsink8321]

Both Marxists and capitalists are going to upvote your comment lmao

[@apeman2035]

@@alfsink8321 Be a Free Savage Sell cocaine to Capitalists Sell opiates to the Socialists Get money out of both Stupid Cults

[@letsthinkitover1]

@I$AA€ yea get up set cuss at comments free speech but what a waste of words when you could explain your belief's rather have that show hate toward some one else's and even if hey we're just being sarcastic. Cuss words are just not needed.

[@VinayMenon222]

I came exclusively FOR the comments.

[@geekpie100]

"ursprüngliche Akkumulation" makes more sense in its direct translation as "original accumulation": the accumulation stays close to its origin - the founder of the business, the Gründer - the entrepreneurs.

[@rukhsanarukivlogs]

BTW I'm student of political science, but i don't understand it deeply, i want to study this from very basic then I'll understand. I love history subject but unfortunately I'm not eligible to opt. That subject , and my second preference was political . And i opt. This for masters. 😐🤗

[@eachday9538]

Interesting. Or as the Germans would say Intervestishgarborlishtingvargendugensteinunch

[@ggguitar.]

interessant

[@eachday9538]

@@ggguitar. Hey! Get out of here with your boring facts!

[@evathegrand]

Ganz geil

[@AbelR91]

Good thing this can't be deemed racist since it refers to white ppl

[@eachday9538]

@@AbelR91 Only white people are racist, and all white people are racist, so when a white person is racist to a white person the racism cancels out, it is the only way a white person can't be racist.

[@SB-hs4yn]

I agree with Marx's critical analysis of capitalism, even though i wouldn't consider myself a communist. You do not have to be a communist to realize that capitalism, like all economic systems, have problem points. I think that it is nonsense to pick a side. We must understand that there isn't a perfect system, and be critical of all systems.

[@SB-hs4yn]

But then you also have to deal with the fact that half of your life will be consumed by work. That is my only issue. I am a programmer by trade but i'd also like more than 3 hours a night to read, and study things that i would like to study in my free time. Same thing every day just breaks the soul. Get up at 6, head to work, leave work at 6, go home, eat, be too tired to do anything I actually enjoy and end up just watching TV, go to bed, repeat. That is not a way for a human to live. I think a healthy medium is essential for human happiness.

[@ziggyzaggy8840]

But you see Mr S B. You have an identity, you have worth, you have value. You even mention that you are a programmer and I assume you are paid well and valued by your employer. If this was a communist system, you have no value, you are replaceable and paid the same (say in terms of foot stamp), as someone who works 2 hours a day washing dishes. You are highly educated and made it reasonably far in life, you might even own a property (which you have to give up in communism). Are you sure you would contribute as much to society and valued as much under a communist ruling?

[@SB-hs4yn]

I just cannot stand the thought waking up and doing the same thing for 8 hours a day for the rest of my life. I want time to read, learn and explore. I get 5 days off a year not including weekends... 5 days.. That isn't a way for a human to live.

[@ziggyzaggy8840]

I understand what you mean. Capitalism isn't perfect but it's the best there is. I have a friend that feels like you. She studied law, and even got accepted into the Bar. She then realized she didn't want to work there so, she now does facial product reviews, tutorials and does talk shows as well. She is highly valued, have good amount of followers and makes decent money from her job. And that is the beauty of capitalism, if you are willing to risk and put in the effort, you have choices and opportunity. Imagine communism. No one would appreciate her talent (communism makes everyone equal), she would not feel appreciated or feel any need to provide such service, and ultimately, the government wouldn't even allow her such a job (since communism requires people to do things the government needs. Jobs like Beauty product reviewer may not be recognized by a communist government).

[@simonlafrance58]

Prime Sernh Lee Chng You know that Marx’s utopia doesn’t have a government, it only has people’ interests, and beauty is one of people’ interests

[@timonnieveler1486]

he gets so many concepts wrong it's really alarming. like commodity fetishism has nothing to do with what he was talking about.

[@laprimularossa4626]

L'economia dello stato rappresenta la struttura, mentre la politica rappresenta la sovrastruttura. La storia è dunque fondata dalla concretezza e gli elementi portanti di essa sono i mezzi di produzione (o forza produttiva): lavoro, tecnologie e macchinari; e rapporti di produzione: rapporti tra varie classi. MARX

[@NativeVsColonial]

Everyone in the comment section has now evolved to a certified Economist

[@LennyCash777]

I'd sooner trust any random person in this comment section that opposes marxism on economy than I would a dumbass marxist. At least the former doesn't have a long track record of utter failure.

[@nzuckman]

@@LennyCash777 Capitalism literally has periodic crises as a direct result of over-production, this was clearly addressed in the video.

[@donrutter6550]

Capitalism is only an economic structure, whereas Marxism is a political, economical, and social dictatorship. Bolshevik Lives Matter @

[@nzuckman]

@@donrutter6550 What? Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis using dialectical materialism. It is in no way a dictatorship lol. You're confusing it with the dictatorship of the proletariat (DotP) - a justified dictatorship lead by the workers as a means of suppressing the bourgeoisie. The DotP is a transition phase between capitalism and socialism, which will then give way to communism.

[@nzuckman]

@TheOfficialUnofficial how much have you actually studied economics or Marx's work? Or are you dismissing it entirely because of what other people have told you to think?

[@pendejo6466]

At least no idiots in the comment section tried to blame Marx for Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and what else. "But Mao read and quoted Marx!" So what? Mao also read and quoted the U.S Constitution, what does that make Mao? American?

[@mariusbagu4962]

Pendejo Every sistem has it's flaws. But to state the things above it's INSANE. I am living in Romania. Please ask my grandparents and my parents, and they will thel you how SHITY it was in the comunism time. People who make the video don't know anything about the aplicability of these STUPID and IDIOTIC ideas. Equality? Yeah, shit no. Rich and poor people existed under Marxism too. That's a dream. Between Capitalism with it's flaws and Marxism I WILL CHOSE CAPITALISM. Truth be told Marxism it's Diabolical.

[@pendejo6466]

Marius Bagu Yeah, but Marxism isn't really a "thing," anymore than what other philosophers were trying to do. Marx was trying to diagnose the problems of the industrial revolution which he witnessed on a day to day basis. Where he was entirely naive was his solution, but that's a long way from what Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao advocated. Let me know when you actually witness capitalism at work as a WHOLE system, because in America we only have corporatism, capitalism only shows up in spots like drugs and prostitution.

[@Slavkod]

Marius Bagu well ask people of former Yugoslavia, and they will tell you it was better. So by that communism>capitalism. You cant just lable an idea by the one application of it. Esspecialy since Romanian or USSRs socialism isnt even socialism... So if i call myself a duck, that doesnt make me a duck.

[@RiotHouseLP]

Pendejo Mao didn't establish a Constitutional Republic in line with the Founding Fathers. He established a Communist regime. I get your point, you are trying to say that Mao read many political ideas, just like everyone who reads about politics, but in the end he settled on a Marxist ideology.

[@theTOOLshed1]

Sendobren Just like how none of the socialist experiments to date have anything to do with socialism. AmIrite? lmfao...

[@ectjim]

3. They take risks, workers don’t.

[@onlyhereformoney175]

are you ok?

[@mycodingchannel9690]

if you think living paycheck to paycheck isn't a bigger risk than investing 10000 from your father, then I don't know what to tell ya

[@Zed86zz]

Does anyone know who produced the drawings at 7:28 ?

[@chipledhungaman]

Karl Marx is justifiably famous as a political philosopher but noone ever mentions his sister Onya, inventor of the starting pistol

[@edwinlucianofrias1643]

Get set, go! 😂

[@valentinogoksirkairesideba3981]

damn Onya Marx

[@maggiekeelan3204]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@eddiefleming6556]

Well done

[@soffren]

FUCK I GOOGLED THIS

[@Darthenator]

Comments Synopsis: Everyone thinks no one else understands Communism as well as they do

[@nostringsabove4002]

Darthenator i don't

[@CultistOfNimrod]

Perfect lol

[@robsonpires2777]

@NPC#563.114.512.128 the count is actualized to 1 zilion last week, just marx himself

[@robsonpires2777]

I think read 'the capital' is enough, the problem is: nobody did.

[@happyvalleykid6324]

Love your profile picture. Hail to the Sith!

[@michaelking8903]

Not enough is ever written about Hegel. Marx studied Hegel as did many other socialists.

[@petersanmiguel1164]

“He who withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.” -Proverbs 11:26

[@hex2637]

James 5:1-6 "Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you." Acts 2:44-45 "All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need." Leviticus 25:35-37 "If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you."

[@hex2637]

James 5:1-6 "Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you." Acts 2:44-45 "All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need." Leviticus 25:35-37 "If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you." Corinthians 10:24 "No one should seek their own good, but the good of others" Proverbs 28:27 "Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses." Deuteronomy 10:18 "He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing" Matthew 19:23-24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”"

[@geoffreysurratt6584]

His ideas of a classless society where never actually put in place, rather dictators destroyed the image of communism. While I'm not exactly a communist, a lot of his ideas reflect mine.

[@fernandomarturet2486]

Might want to change your little image there to: Socialism: The radical idea of forcing people to share, at gun point.

[@weeweethemagicalbee8758]

+Fernando Marturet Forcing the very hard-working rich people to share their hard-earned wealth with the lazy poor workers who are so useless in society, right? You make me sick. If there are rich people, it is because they exploited poor people for their own interests. A gun to the head of a bourgeois is too soft. The trigger has a purpose and it is to be pulled. Splatter their brains and redistribute all the wealth they have stolen.

[@geoffreysurratt6584]

+Michael Nicolas ha!

[@fernandomarturet2486]

+Michael Nicolas So rich people exploit the poor? so rich people put a gun to their heads and force them to work for them, because poor people have no freedom of choice in a free market? they can't quit? theh can't start their own business? Rich people don't work right, they're just exploiters? they don't spend hundreds of hours, capital, and take huge risks by starting their own businesses?

[@fernandomarturet2486]

+Geoffrey Surratt Not an argument...

[@SIP871]

This is the first English video i see on youtube, where they pronounce German words the right way. sehr gut!

[@tenochtitilian]

+SIP871 It's because the narrator is fluent in German

[@reversalmushroom]

+tenochtitilian Who is the narrator? He sounds familiar.

[@kilmoturtles1]

It's that British guy from that British TV show.

[@FelixNBR]

well, not really. You can still hear that he is not german.

[@Pacome.de.Champignac]

the narrator is Alain de Botton, he was born in Zurich in the german part of switzerland so it's not surprising he prononces it well ! :)

[@Carljung.we.are.what.we.hate.]

Did anyone notice the hidden hand of secret society in his photo? I didn't expect him to be one

[@sarveshjewalikar9921]

As long as there is work, there will be classism, the only time when there will be no work would be an era of complete automation and that would be the time when the ultimate goal of the human society wouldn't be climbing up the corporate ladder but rather fixing the flaws and shortcomings in the economy like right of free food, shelter and education for all.

[@None38389]

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”- Frank Herbert. Complete automation will not free humanity of classism, humanity must free itself from classism before complete automation happens.

[@kapital6501]

I think that "greed" are often the result of our upbringing itself. Since childhood, we are often told that yes, the purpose of life is to get rich For example, if our parents worked in a shoe factory, we are often expected to work hard and own a factory ourselves This in turn made us choose a "better" and more "financially stable" jobs in order to fullfil the expectations. Which led us to abandon what we actually enjoyed to do.

[@Chris-tl1kh]

its more biological rather than cultural cause we had wars to get more land 1000s of years ago

[@kapital6501]

@@Chris-tl1kh wdym by biological? Are you talking about the Freudian theory that human motives are passed down through ancestry. Which is simply wrong.

[@Chris-tl1kh]

@@kapital6501 no that we need hierarchy to live cause we are serotonin based life forms

[@cyanidegamingclipz7503]

So what's better ? Communism which leaves most equally poor due to low or no incentives to get more or capitalism which drives you to get more innovative in your earnings .

[@kapital6501]

@@cyanidegamingclipz7503 None of them. They're both shit.

[@studi0651]

“Communism is when no iphone” - People who don’t own capital

[@trey3xxxxx]

communism is when government does things

[@pierrolunar8561]

@@trey3xxxxx no bro that’s socialism, communism is when government does a lot of things

[@jakes1566]

@@pierrolunar8561 no, socialism is when vuvuzuela

[@mishlimon98]

@@jakes1566 the full name of the Nazis is national socialists. SOCIALISTS, those leftist nazis Marxists come here to destroy our country base on Christianity lord oh mighty they want to take away out Jesus who is totally white and american

[@drew7906]

@@mishlimon98 the nazis called themselves socialists because socialism was hella popular in Germany at the time and they needed to position themselves as populist. plus the nazis persecuted actual socialists and privatized more of the economy, which are two very unsocialist things

[@LucklessGun]

“at this point we should all be marxists…” extremely loaded position to be held by anyone, because to be a “marxist” means to accept the tenets of the revolutionary faith. The horrors of communism are a feature, not a bug.

[@jessebella9901]

Marx is the only man powerful enough to have had his legacy split the world into two.

[@thanos8638]

Nah!

[@weybye91]

Not really, since Lenin only took what he knew people wanted to hear, and then did nothing towards implementing any of it

[@lorderik237]

"Capitalism? More like CRAPitalism, amirite?" -Karl Marx, probably

[@ElPinguinLoco]

***** Can confirm.

[@nickc2011]

***** Damn son

[@karlmarx3431]

***** Did you publish my joke without my permission? That's fine. I don't believe in individual property rights.

[@lorderik237]

lmaoyourekiddingme It was a joke.

[@dart200]

lmaoyourekiddingme why do people always bring up the bath thing? Who the fuck cares how he smelled? Also who the fuck cares who he was in person? His ideas were much bigger than his person.

[@maxbarthel3055]

As a native german I have to say: your german pronounciation is right on point 👌🏻

[@GrothendiecksWish]

Is there such a thing as a posh German accent vs a peasant accent?

[@vagabaassassina3461]

@@GrothendiecksWish Yes

[@kitsch_bitch]

@@GrothendiecksWish There is one posh accent and quite a few peasent accents

[@GrothendiecksWish]

kitch bitch thanks Kitsche Bitch

[@GrothendiecksWish]

Peter Parker que coño dijistes vos?

[@dustinchen]

the politicians and newspapermen have never as much as glanced at a line written by Marx, and that the social scientists are satisfied with a minimal knowledge of Marx

[@dimetronome]

Why is this video not in the School of Life's Political Theory playlist?

[@Ms.-Lily]

To all people blaming Karl Marx here, I have a message for you all. He was a philosopher and economist, not a politician or bureaucrat.

[@SVSky]

So the problem isn't Marx, but Marxists? I'm fine with that but Marx bears responsibility. The fact that he's still relevant in the 21st century is an atrocity given what we know.

[@Ms.-Lily]

@@SVSky absolutely no! Marx believed in 100% republic world, he was an anarchist but his followers went crazy and imposed 100% authoritarian government. That's not his fault anyway. Also, I ain't really sure about the atrocities we often hear about socialist countries. If you ever go to Russia, you will see people still love Lenin and Stalin and believe USSR was the best period for Russia. In China, people still love Mao despite of thousands of allegations against him. Unfortunately, cold war produced too many fake news around the world and there's no fact checker who can debunk all the lies. So, why is he still relevant? Because he unleashed the dream of a better world where everyone will have proper justice.

[@nikosk.8216]

@@SVSky while Marx was still alive there were some organised Marxist/communist attempts in France (correct me if I'm wrong). And Marx himself said "If that's Marxism then I'm not a Marxist". A lot were missing from his theories when it'd come to practice. And I don't think that was by his fault

[@supernice_auto]

@@Ms.-Lily the majority of the population living in post USSR states don't love Stalin or Lenin you're delusional

[@Ms.-Lily]

@@supernice_auto absolutely! People living in Russia don't love them. They treat Lenin and Stalin like a God.

[@CatHostage]

“Marx was born in trier Germany, and then soon joined the communist party” damn you really skipped a few things there...

[@sirpente6651]

What did you expect by a you tuber? A deep, complete, historical and philosofical lesson?

[@FlorenciaVM1]

@@sirpente6651 lol he's not just a youtuber. Do your research.

[@operatorjewski9450]

@@sirpente6651 everyone makes mistake, what do you expect its youtube, if you really wanna learn this shit then go read some books.

[@limerickman8512]

Straight from his mother nipple, he Joined the communist party that he had yet to write about, while debt laden, a drunk, and ignored the welfare of his own kids. They call that socialism.

[@mudan8152]

@Carrick Cullen Are you sure about that? My geography teacher is a scientist and a pretty powerful one ( he was a leader of some research or some shit) and what he told us are that most scientist says that lowering the CO2 emmision is necessary for us humans but that ''climate change'' as people say it is not true at all.. Earth since the begginning have suffered warming and ice age, and we're just passing in one. Also something media that doesn't show is that although Artic Ice are melting, Antartic ice are just gaining more size.. Well I believe that people shouls recycle and use more eco friendsly things, but stop spreading bs and dont believe anythin that media says

[@andreaheuergallo4489]

Today i made the discovery that my teacher copies the transcripts of School of Life videos and puts them on the powerpoint presentations for class.. 😂😂😂😂 He made a powerpoint presentation of Marx with the info of this video.. the exact thing 🤡🤡

[@sooryasreejith2846]

For jordan Peterson fans out there, internet is not capitalistic. It is more like public Library. Many people came together to build it especially the university of Michigan and Cambridge University set up and developed the fiber and many people without even getting paid they started to do computing and start clearing all bugs and stuff. It's an end result of many people hardwork. Even some of the initial internet developers still exist today and they are advocating for open internet and to remove all the gateway for internet. Do your research before speaking jp fans

[@paulliu8502]

this taught me that marxist thought is so different and much more profound than soviet ideology

[@paulliu8502]

agree with russian guy

[@Eternalentropy]

Results in reality 65 million in the People's Republic of China 20 million in the Soviet Union 2 million in Cambodia 2 million in North Korea 1.7 million in Ethiopia 1.5 million in Afghanistan 1 million in the Eastern Bloc 1 million in Vietnam 150,000 in Latin America Allow these numbers that all were once real human beings hopefully teach you more about communism.

[@sunman8139]

Socialist in name, not in practice, just like my country Cuba, North Korea, Soviet Union, and countless more in Africa and Asia, all a farce.

[@LouHS]

Eternal entropy Yet none of those countries were truly communist, so no lesson there...

[@Eternalentropy]

***** If a political and economic ideology after 100 years and many times attempted can't even attempt one proper shot at said ideology how bad does that look? Also where it has been implemented as much as possible it has resulted in the complete degradation to the means of existence including human life. Utopian dreams, covered in hippie flowers and rainbow unicorns hiding the true fact that communism is a nightmare that destroys the human spirit of productivity, incentives and the will to innovate. Time for you to re-evaluate your beliefs kiddo. Communism has never won, not even once and the reason why all so called communist nations can never be fully communist is because they all had to implement capitalism to some extent or else they completely collapsed and that applies to ALL of them that tried.

[@Nebuchadnezzar18]

Capitalism and communism have flaws. You can take what's good about both systems and have a hybrid system. However corporations, multi billionaires, have too much control over government and society. They won't give it up.

[@Casa_Y]

Nice the world explained in four sentences 👌

[@edwardnygma3216]

Society doesn't arise perfectly overnight, it takes a lot of experimentation. The problem is that we don't have an equal distribution of power, therefore people have been deprived of their natural freedoms and are unable to grow and become that which they are.

[@robbiepinkerton8625]

Yes, the hybrid system is called Fascism. See China today for an example.

[@yusharider]

People giving up control for nothing in return is unrealistic. My biggest problem with communism is that in order for it to work every one in the system if not thee entire world needs to put other above themselves. So what do you do when someone doesn't want to do that, or if entire countries don't want to. Well the same thing as when most people want there way of life to be the only one war.

[@edwardnygma3216]

@@yusharider I agree with you entirely. But if we were able to teach people the truth of reality, this problem may be avoided, I think.

[@Jennnn._.]

Absolutely marvelous narration which makes it even more engaging

[@THekahugo]

His most important mistake was his strong emphasis on building worker political parties as the strategy for revolution. This was the main cause of the split in the International Workingmen’s Association. The majority, aligned with the libertarian socialists, favored the mass union and community organizations as the means to self-emancipation and social transformation. Marx, on the other hand, said it was crucial to build worker political parties to “win the battle of democracy.” At the time Marx was alive universal right to vote didn’t really exist anywhere. The USA had only just enacted universal right to vote for working class white men in the 1830s. As Bertrand Russell pointed out, socalled “representative democracy” was such a new thing that Marx could be pardoned for having failed to see its limitations. What we’ve learned over the past century and a half is that the capitalist elite have ways to control the political system and the state and the masses have actually little real control over what the professional politicians do. The tendency for the socialist parties once in power was to manage capitalism - and gradually came to accept its existence. And when political parties take power in revolutions, as in Russia in 1917, the tendency then is to think in terms of their own leaders using the state hierarchy to implement their program. But the state is based on the layer of bureaucratic bosses presiding over public sector workers. Relying on a strategy of the party running a state is a recipe for a bureaucratic ruling class to emerge. And that’s another of Marx’s mistakes. He predicted the demise of the old small business class (petit bourgeoisie) which has shrunk continuously over the years. But over the past century a new major class has emerged based on relative monopolization, not of ownership of assets, but control of decision-making and information, as in the role of the high end professionals and managers in the corporations and the state today. Not understanding the basis of power of this class is an important flaw. Especially when we see how the various Marxist-Leninist parties coming to power simply generated a new bureaucratic class controlled mode of production.

[@soulcapitalist6204]

You've not read Critique of the Gotha Program, so you have failed to recognize Marx's actual support for ruling communist bureaucrats. Rather than a flaw, Marx accurately predicted that dictatorship was required for communist society to develop. He clearly understands that "free" governments like US were not possibly a road to communism and the requirement for violent revolution based on his statements in part 4. Marx's flaw was his inane capital accumulation model. He left out the value of equity and so his cynical observations resulted in economic disaster.

[@kalyan-]

Welcome to the Fbi watchlist.

[@theohallworth2632]

kalyan122333 what

[@chadstuff1875]

Yay

[@DZ-hh5dw]

Yeah, watching this isn't going to get you on a list. I mean you can go to urban outfitters and buy a Che Guevara shirt. Ironically, watching this video is supporting capitalism. You get an Ad for some big business and KZbin makes money. Not to mention the channel makes money but that's a different thing considering it's just some guy making a video who owns no means of production.

[@Babayaga34567]

this comment is stoopied.

[@thomahperin7953]

not really

[@tommclarty17]

‘The youtube comment section is a crazy place.’ -Karl Marx

[@irisidem6580]

"First" -Karl Marx

[@1990hennesy]

“I have never said that shit.” - Karl Marx

[@kx7500]

Robert Clawson stay triggered

[@supona9200]

Laces out

[@HondaFit-ot5ws]

@Robert Clawson "fack off capitalist scum" -Karl Marx

[@gelodude07]

8 years ago yet very relevant in the age of inequality, deglobalization, and inflation.

[@treykennedy8897]

Well this isn't biased at all

[@DeathBuzz]

Agreed. 0:39 shows just that.

[@treykennedy8897]

@@DeathBuzz Oh ya, pretty blatant there!

[@menesebastiao2468]

Bryce Long this video is biased against Marx lol, the end proves thst

[@otakushinobi1451]

What do you call a communist sniper Marx Man

[@otakushinobi1451]

Hendrix Rider I know

[@Matsumae_Taiyo555]

How many capitalists are required to change a lightbulb? One. Its.... A one man's.. job.

[@hijraulyha6429]

So many puns in comment section

[@poopcold92]

Evil

[@lukashernandez130]

@@Matsumae_Taiyo555 how many capitalists do you need to change a light bulb? one because then they pay someone else 3 cents to do it before using their labor for personal gain while making 80% of the profit

[@pauloyih1]

Marx was one of the earliest global economist with a deep understanding of the capitalism and its potential failure

[@gavinbalajadia8697]

However, people with greatest standard of living live in capitalist countries and people with the worst standard of living live in communist countries so....

[@540BC]

Thankfully it's been a roaring success

[@user-oo4hi8od8b]

马克思不是经济学家，诚然他对经济学理解要高出同时代不少经济学家，但只要稍加阅读过马克思的作品就会发现，在马克思的学说中“纯粹思辨的经院哲学家”和“私有制社会的庸俗经济学家”都是被批判的对象，马克思也从来不以经济学家或经济学工作者自居。比如马克思的经典著作之一《资本论》，看名字像一本经济学著作，但它的副标题叫“政治经济学品批判”。结论，用“经济学家”这个词指代马克思，本身是对马克思的思想的矮化与降维。

[@user-oo4hi8od8b]

@@gavinbalajadia8697 你首先要明白不是共产主义或社会主义造成了贫穷与不公，恰恰是你口中的富裕的资本主义国家存在着贫穷与不公才造就了共产主义或社会主义思想。新事物的产生必然伴随旧事物的灭亡，而旧事物不会自己主动走向灭亡，需要新事物的“主动有为”。资本主义的社会阶级差别带来的不同阶级之间天差地别的贫富差距所造就的共产主义就是新事物，孕育共产主义的资本主义就旧事物，而旧事物会自己走向坟墓吗？旧事物会利用自己的先发优势对新事物斩尽杀绝，以维护自己的旧利益，这就是新旧之争，是资本主义与共产主义的斗争。资本主义早于共产主义，经济水平要高于后起的共产主义不是很正常吗？脱离历史发展的客观规律只以生活水平论不同制度优劣是得不出客观的结论的。

[@n0madtv]

Except that it was a 1000 year old greek philosophy by the time he decided to re-write into class warfare.

[@fernandoalvarado7248]

Regardless of whether or not one agrees with Marx's ideas, I congratulate you on your videos. Good summary and presentation of ideas.

[@TheEncouragementKid]

agreed, i am confused about it still, i think i'd need to read his books and have open discourse about his views vs other political theories to understand fully

[@ParkerEdwardsParties]

I love that we would have had no clue about Karl Marx if not for capitalism. One point for griffundor.

[@von_freiesleben64]

i live in trier, marx hometown. and ironically, they opened up a "1 euro-store" straight under his flat.

[@itswednesdayscrewironing7576]

😃😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Thats the best thing I read today! Poor, Marx...!

[@sebastianduran2022]

You could power a whole town with all that spinning he must be doing in his grave. Then charge the town for it

[@marcinsola4179]

@@sebastianduran2022 but with a discount! :D That would be more capitalist of you!

[@Matsumae_Taiyo555]

@@sebastianduran2022 Fine work

[@crockrau3962]

Sebastian Duran can I help you market that

[@harrison9691]

Don’t know much about him but helped him in assassins creed syndicate

[@nadams127]

me too was fun quest for sure =0

[@gamerboy5908]

Hahahahaha

[@thegoldenboy294]

😂😂😂

[@seantv1510]

That's some dangerous and desperate brainwashing

[@harrison9691]

@@seantv1510 what

[@mooninyellow]

he was ahead of his time

[@categories5066]

People who dismiss Communism as a silly Utopian dream have never engaged in the literature. Engles wrote a book called "Socialism, utopian and SCIENTIFIC" in which he breaks down utopianism vs a scientific desctiption of Marxism.

[@Yakov_EPH-6.12]

"I HATE EVERY RULING CLASS I SEE, FROM BOURGEOIS-A TO BOURGEOISIE" -KARL MARKS

[@fypos]

"THEY FINALLY MADE A MONKEY OUT OF ME !!!" -KARL MARKS

[@TheEnderRenderer]

*Karl Marx

[@guernica4992]

@@TheEnderRenderer it is misspelled intentionally

[@user-zi3ej1gm2j]

r/whoosh

[@paramountofpuns6913]

maybe it's be better to put ""from bourgeois-A to bourgeoi-Z"

[@originalcharacter2747]

"we should all be marxists *in the sense of agreeing with his diagnosis of our troubles* " "but we need to go out and find the cures that *really* will work " Guys, does he have to spell it out for you?

[@vladimirlenin9120]

To many Americans are brainwashed to think that communism=end of the world and the destruction of the utopian and flawless society of the US

[@nguyenn99527]

not just americans, you guys do it to americans too by not teaching democracy in ur countries

[@robertakers3555]

Just how many horrific attempts at this ideology do you need before you finally realize that it will never work? No matter how much government force you apply you can not change human nature.

[@robertakers3555]

@@26ensosbradav84 they have free markets with a heavy tax burden. The only reason it has worked this far is because of small populations with similar backgrounds. In time they will fail too when anyone with the skills and ability to produce tires of this heavy tax burden.

[@jugjivan]

@@robertakers3555 China and Vietnam would beg to differ. Besides that only the DPRK and USSR have really implemented the system. Cuba did as well but was more authoritarian than communist and still made huge strides in education, eradicating poverty, and health care until the cold war sanctions for nuclear weaponry destoryed them.

[@gilagarden2535]

His sister was even much more famous but untold, Onya, an Olympic runner - that till this day her name is still mentioned at every start of each race.

[@Icemanr85]

Mark sounds like an all rounded please everyone type of guy.

[@srushtishetty16]

I really appreciate all the efforts put in this video, but Marx's eyes creeped tf out of me 😭😭😭

[@carpediem4887]

Cause he was a creep

[@equinox2584]

@@carpediem4887 Marx was one the greatest economist ever who has written what is known as the most influential political document in history. How is he a creep?

[@carpediem4887]

@@equinox2584 That is an opinion. My opinion is that he was a creep. Isn't it cool that we both get to have one?

[@equinox2584]

@@carpediem4887 Very democratic of you, that is a key concept of socialism, welcome comrad.

[@superiorredditor8173]

@@carpediem4887 you can't just call someone a name and call it an "opinion" that's not how opinion works, he hasn't done anything that makes him a creep

[@TannerJarring]

who's watching this post corona era?

[@SqueezeMonger]

Its still corona era, post corona era is far to come

[@SharifAhmed08]

Grow mature, Don't ever post these

[@blipblap614]

I trust you're enjoying your leisure time, comrade. The food shortages will commence momentarily.

[@Manamanamana36]

@@blipblap614 fuck your comrade

[@mansurx26]

Is it over?

[@thefbiman2116]

I think thats one thing most people miss in Marx's work and honestly even though I'm a commie a lot of attempts: the aim for equal leasure and prosperity. While work is good for the body and mind, the leasure of speaking to one another or enjoying an afternoon breeze is Communist leisure encarnate. We want to be with our families too, its why we support the 4 day work week and weekend

[@natywubet2175]

they kinda touched on that on their video titled "history of ideas - work" and show what marx vision of un alienating work is not stop working for people but for people to enjoy work and see them self in their labor

[@reversefulfillment9189]

It's hard to start a revolution when the proletariat are watching TikTok videos on their lunch breaks.

[@shamerzaihan8638]

Im a barbie girl, in a barbie world - karl marx -

[@timburke694]

Spot on lol "I'll go hunting in the morning, fishing in the evening....." yeah whos gonna willingly go unclog the sewer!!! haha

[@anerkant]

@@timburke694 haha.. Yes, who is going to lay bricks?

[@paul5324]

aner kannt you realize once our technology hits supreme, all these tasks will be done by robots. And what will be left for us humans are tasks that require creativity and passion, not mundane chores and bullshit work. Marx’s criticisms on Capitalism are fair.

[@bgymn-fn8jy]

@@paul5324 automation is only efficient to an extent. you cant let robots do everything. metallic resources are finite, and some of them will be depleted very soon. silver for example.

[@paul5324]

b00g3ym4n and resources under capitalism are somehow infinite? Also space mining will become a thing...

[@Rod1712]

I love this guy because he analyzed the reality we live in with such precision as if he were a scientist.

[@mbarbierif]

He was the father of sociology along with Durkheim and Weber, so in a way, he was :)

[@TheConstitutionFirst]

*Karl Marx was a unique man.... See his life in these very rare photos!📷* kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmnOdaKphrFsi7s

[@chrisbroussard4951]

DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY THE EVILS OF MARXISM.

[@omarsuarez694]

@@chrisbroussard4951 DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY THE EVILS OF LOWERCASE LETTERS

[@alekhinesgun9997]

@@omarsuarez694 bruh this comment got me crying out laughing LMAO

[@TomeyTran]

Hey you forgot to add this video to Political theory playlist

[@henryarero]

Which is the best economic system of the World for Equality,Equity and Justice 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏????

[@mabs1970]

a lot of new comments... guess we all being radicalised

[@brendenkasprzyk]

TRUE

[@volume163]

As the problems of the U.S keep increasing, there are more people looking for solutions in a variety of directions. I just hope for free education so people won’t have to fear failure as much and instead embrace it as a part of learning

[@1drunk_dionysius]

Not radicalised but woke up from the lies spread upon the masses for the last 100years

[@artempatrushev6684]

@@1drunk_dionysius aka radicalised

[@Trapping_ackbar7]

Communism can’t solve its incentivzation problem, and it always creates a power vacuum in which the last person you want to have power gets power. It has a stellar record of failure and death.

[@mattjohnson1953]

Little known fact: Karl Marx had a sister who invented the starter pistol. Her name was Anya.

[@Lynks5]

🙄 my dad told me that joke the other day... haha

[@bobtheplayer9777]

@@Lynks5 i dont get it

[@hollyanderson2494]

@@bobtheplayer9777 "Anya Marx" sounds like "on your marks"

[@CM-so1cf]

@@bobtheplayer9777 🥴

[@HamzaKhan-fm1dx]

Assassins Creed Syndicate

[@PerryJoeMusic]

There’s a resonant frequency around 230-40HZ that really bugs me on this.

[@dr.meanmachine9562]

Just wanted to add, that low wages are the only factor that are able to constitute a profit in the long term, since every aspect of ingenuity just gains a profit in the short term until it gets adopted by the competitors and becomes the new standard. So log term success is possible through exploitation. … as i understand Marx Primitive Akkumulation is (well actually -duh!) a term for appropriation of common goods (which incudes ideas i.e. patents, e.g. genes of grains and crop) into private Ownership… nobody is going to read this anyway :(

[@Pyrostands]

I read it

[@s3rmak123]

The comment section makes me lose faith in humanity.

[@the500mphtortoise]

Really? I mean are you really surprised people dont like communism/marxism?

[@WickedKnightAlbel]

You're clever. I have no idea which side you're on, so you get upvotes because everyone naturally assumes you're on theirs.

[@TheFPSTech]

i also lost hope, so many people supporting communism. according to this video marx was an even worse critic of capitalism than I originally thought. these communist seriously think profits is greedy and monopolies is a part of capitalism.

[@TheFPSTech]

blade 1970 i find this argument on different subject way too often, maybe we're not the same people? what about national socialism? another left ideology that failed.

[@rdizzy1]

National socialism isn't socialism at all, it was called that to lull the population into a false sense of security, they actually actively fought against socialism.

[@alias40anon]

Reading the comments will erase completely anything you may learnt from this video, and get you back to point zero.Avoid it at most cost

[@bloodygano7313]

Or get more radicalized 😎

[@the_awakening6044]

So anyone who disagrees with this video is automatically wrong and there is absolutely no way this video is wrong? Ok sure

[@mem7806]

@@the_awakening6044 dude this video is literally explaining a theory what the fuck do you mean "wrong" ? you can disagree with Marxism, but the video is almost entirely correct

[@micass3561]

This video is wrong because the only thing that has lifted people out of poverty has been capitalism. Even China while authoritarian to the people let their markets be free. It’s what freed them from starvation and moved them to an economic powerhouse. People want to be free which means enjoying the fruits of their labor - not giving the fruits of their labor to the lazy people who just want to write poetry and or consume hours of KZbin lol. Marx was an entitled lazy rich kid who didn’t want to work and couldn’t wait for his parents to die to get their money.

[@cyborgchimpy]

@@micass3561 isnt marxism supposed to be some sort of evolution of capitalism? I havent read the communist manifesto but I want to do so soon. but what I got was for "it to work" capitalism needs to be at its peak. isnt it possible this might be a reason it failed to reach true communism in the past?

[@jetdeleon]

So he starts off by saying that "labor offers us a chance to externalize what's good inside us"… but then concludes with "men and women should have permanent option to ENJOY LEISURE"…. And in the middle of that, not a single thought for discipline. That explains a lot.

[@sammcdermott78]

If we can create a system where everything is made for us and we just enjoy leisure then we would all love that, but it’s impossible even now with a more efficient system.

[@thanos8638]

Why do you think it's impossible?

[@nikhilpranav6915]

@@thanos8638 Because if everyone enjoys leisure, who's gonna do the work? Who's gonna provide leisure? Who's gonna build, farm, work, etc.

[@thanos8638]

@@nikhilpranav6915 the answer is people themselves by democratizating the economy

[@nikhilpranav6915]

@@thanos8638 Democratize the economy? What is that?

[@thanos8638]

@@nikhilpranav6915 workers control their workplaces through economic democracy