Qatar: History, Class, and Western Hypocrisy

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Sources
Books
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth (McManus)
Qatar: Small State, Big Politics
Papers
BEYOND ALLOCATION: THE POLITICS OF LEGITIMACY IN QATAR
Social Stratification in Qatari Society: Family, Marriage, and Khalījī Culture
Web
- materialisme-dialectique.com/...
- lesmaterialistes.com/english/...
- lesmaterialistes.com/english/...
- liberation.ndfp.org/editorial...
- peasantmovementph.com/2020/10...
- www.bannedthought.net/Banglad...
- priyadsouza.com/powerful-famil...
- priyadsouza.com/qatar-top-busi...
- priyadsouza.com/the-al-thani-f...
- www.amnesty.org/en/location/m...
- data.unwomen.org/country/qatar
- www.timeoutdoha.com/sport-wel...
- www.theguardian.com/global-de...
- gazettengr.com/road-to-qatar-...
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[@antoniomariamacri7500]

Next time you watch Arcane, Yu Gi Oh 5D or any show where a super-rich and technological city Is built upon the backs of another city just a meter below, kept consistently poor and segregated, that's not a metaphor, it's not an hyperbole or anything, it's literally just any capital city in the Persian Gulf. In fact, It might even be a downscaling of It because the two cities are somewhat implied of being the same size, in reality the poor one's very much larger.

[@Cycrum]

That description also perfectly applies to Taris, the starting planet in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. It's also about as disease-ridden and chaotic as any other poor, segregated city effectively abandoned by the ruling class would be expected to be.

[@blede8649]

@@Cycrum Coruscant itself is like that, if not worse. Its lower levels are entirely abandoned to organized crime, and its police officer (when they, occasionally, show up) have to patrol with their faces covered to avoid retaliation against their families. The lowest levels (the closest to the actual surface off the planet) are completely empty, roamed by monsters and the Sith's favourite location for performing dark rituals.

[@gradualdecay]

I wish you had to lose in a card game to get arrested in Qatar

[@KayraTheNomad]

Mostly every single sci-fi movie is a criticism of capitalism.

[@toxicedge8308]

Awesome video! I never even knew that Qatar was so influential to international politics and capitalism. Keep up the good work!

[@AntonDiwa]

Greetings from the Philippines! I just wanna say that your pronunciation of Joma's name was perfect! Your attention to little details like that, I think, speaks to the quality of your work.

[@masonloeffler8064]

Great video!! Good to see a thoughtful analysis of the situation in Qatar as opposed to the usual moral posturing from liberals

[@thegreendragon-rongxanh5040]

Thanks for this video. I'm quite dissapointed in the lack of analysis on Qatar on the internet as of late that goes beyond surface level observations. It's good to see a nice educational video which gives avenues for further investigation.

[@gustavohab]

Who would knew that such a luxurious place would require labour exploitation that is very close to slavery?

[@Le_Petomane]

Nothing luxurious about the place. Its a desert. That has never contributed anything of worth, only to the money grabbing class. It is a 'non-place' and an awful stain on the world much like its neighbours.

[@marshadingle3550]

Im an American expat living in Qatar for over a decade. Thanks so much for the accurate depiction of the labor situation in Qatar. I'd like to add that much of the pro-nationalist sentiment in the country happened after the Saudi Embargo in 2017 (which nobody ever mentions for some reason). There were genuine fears that Saudi was going to invade. I'd also like to add that the British invented/brought the Kafala system to Qatar, and the labor of many Qatari Nationals was exploited by the British before they ceased to be a protectorate (which is just a nice way of saying colony). None of this of course excuses the ongoing exploitation of workers, but not enough attention has been given to who benefits - largely western construction companies/industries.

[@foca7550]

You are an immigrant, not an expat. White people…. ugh

[@mizzmix6928]

So true!

[@perfectmadness1234]

i grew up in qatar as a venezuelan immigrant, and the inequality and backward conditions of labour which i saw there was what put me on the path to marxism and socialism

[@sultanskinny]

Fantastic video. Best I've seen on the subject so far.

[@BesDMarx]

Thank you so much!!

[@Cybersyn]

Great video! I love how you tie your in depth vids to topical events!

[@boreddog-likedemon4512]

Belgian Hotel *shows an airplane* HAHAHA Thanks for the video mate! I didn't know a lot about Qatar and reading about it on western media was painful

[@BesDMarx]

Loool glad someone found that funny.

[@MohamedTarek-lz3hi]

Very great video, its almost as if you are an arab living in the region and understands its historical material development

[@Aussie_Truth]

All your videos are top-notch, and should have thousands of more followers. Obviously, when you tell the truth, the establishment makes it that much harder for the people to access the content, most probably having the algorithms throw your work to the back.

[@user-mm3eu4un6b]

No it gets shut down by God all the video frames get thrown outback.

[@maxwelterlen6097]

yet another banger from youtube channel Bes D Marx

[@Gardiyani]

great video bes. thank u for sharing. its nice to see a great quote from Kaypakkaya too.

[@ge1ber919]

Wait this channel has only bangers how come i follow you a long time on twitter and seeing this now? !!

[@calebr7199]

Once again, another high quality video! How does he do it?! Great job!

[@therongjr]

You continue to make some of the best videos on KZbin.

[@rug052]

lets gooooo new video

[@rhumal]

great video, thank you for your hard work!

[@AKY131]

As always Great video Would like to see a same analysis video about kuwait, because it have the same class structure there but at the same they have a parliamentary system that is fully voted by the Kuwaiti people and the parliament is the legislative power in the country., although the Amir have some veto power, sometimes the parliament can overrule the Amir’s decisions.

[@fun_ghoul]

So it's like Britain, except with a richer royal (capitalist) family? Hmph. Like father, like son.

[@AKY131]

@@fun_ghoul basically yea 👍

[@abundantchemical6335]

Amazing work as always!

[@PRSRod]

This essay was incredible!! Congratulations 👏👏

[@ThePhantomRenegade]

Very strong analysis! Thanks for the video

[@allurbase]

Thanks for the informative video.

[@comradecastor]

This is such a great video. It reminds me of Morocco, as a Moroccan-American. Would love a video analyzing imperialism/colonialism and bureaucrat capitalism today in Morocco :)

[@Bell_plejdo568p]

The government is nothing but a westren puppet state

[@dolphin550]

This is a pretty through analysis of Qatar! I watched a similar video done by a different Geopolitical youtuber, and they did not cover as much details regarding Qatar as this video did. This is a pretty extensive and through video and I hope that this video will get more traction because this is pretty great!

[@jaaecl2001]

The GOAT is here.

[@A1un9ine]

This is the best demonstration of explaining the whole Gulf states not just Qatar.

[@blankname5177]

this is another banger video!!

[@RomanPhantomIX]

I fucking love your videos, how do you explain things so objectively and cleanly?

[@Le_Petomane]

Very well made video as always.

[@salcom1566]

Thank you for covering this

[@ay2431]

Great video as always!

[@spud8814]

Like how Joma Sison is mentioned. Mapulang pagpupugay!

[@fun_ghoul]

Maradeka! ✊

[@Octoberfurst]

Just found your channel! It's great! I subscribed!

[@HopALongSassidy]

Thank you. I didn’t know any of this.

[@Chorwacjen]

New content

[@platosbeard4449]

Just discovered this channel. Like the materialist analysis of this gulf monarchy. Liked and subscribed!

[@Daniel-cg8rn]

Bes this video is insanely good, how the fuck do you make them

[@JohnT.4321]

There is a concept of uniting the workers of the world internationally. It's an old concept which was thought through in the early 20th century. It is called Socialist Industrial Unionism (SIU). This gives workers a rank-and-file structure for collective ownership of the means of production and distribution. Of course, it has to be retooled for the 21st century since it was only meant to be tried in the US. But because of ideological differences of that of the creator of the SIU it failed to form alliances with other socialist organizations citing he had the true socialism and attack, verbally and in writings, what their faults were.

[@TheYolo20]

Bes you are with Hakim and maybe yugopnik my favourite youtuber. But brother where are you from?

[@number9number9number9]

nice

[@oliverbohn8861]

Thank you so much for making this amazing video, ecspecialy at this time!

[@DrAnarchy69]

The idea of “bureaucrat capitalism” as a separate institution is nonsensical. Capitalism has NEVER come “bottom up” as a popular movement. “Bourgeois revolution” is a contradiction in terms. Capitalism ALWAYS comes top down, it has never been a popular movement. Every so called “bourgeois revolution” was in reality a popular revolution which was taken over by the bourgeoisie and then crushed. Either that or in the case of the UK in which the bourgeoisie literally fucked and married their way into power

[@Aussie_Truth]

I'm loving your work 👏👏👏 I really appreciate all the hard work that's involved in producing such a detailed documentary. So thank you very much 😊

[@BesDMarx]

Thank you so much really appreciate it!! ❤️

[@alvaroga1n]

Very nice vidoe. At 23:21 made me think of Burke's Peerage books in the uk and otehr similar ones, detailing who the noble and royal families were in the UK for centuries.

[@KobaGhibli3628]

Can you please send me the source of what writing the Akram Yari quote is from

[@BesDMarx]

From here: materialisme-dialectique.com/images/dossiers/dossier-afghanistan/Akrami-Yari-sur-le-capitalisme-bureaucratique.pdf but this is in French you'd have to translate it!

[@KobaGhibli3628]

@@BesDMarx thanks

[@TreyPDB]

banger

[@toomuchadam875]

He shoots... and he scores! Very informative and great analysis, comrade! Also, the ASoIaF tie-in is always welcome 😉. Also also, sportsball was created by Yakub to render unity of workers impossible, it is known. ✊

[@sushicat999]

Incredibly informative video! Quite a broad approach to fully understand the country, amazing work

[@hans8205]

❤

[@gradualdecay]

What's the Arabic bop at the start?

[@HugBugi]

💥🚩🔥

[@criticalcommunist5]

I love how you insinuated Gandhi and Nehru as Bourgeoisie Nationalist. 😂😂😂

[@oye4511]

👏👏👏

[@humanwithaplaylist]

I hope you can consider doing a video on the involvement of the Soviet union with iran and Irans now disbanded communist party, before the coup that took place in 1953 orchastrated by the US and UK/CIA (the documentary coup 53 can give you more details on that if you haven't already seen it, also the director is going to at some stage release an 8 part series covering it in more detail)

[@frankeenmcdonagh4183]

Alot of Irish Workers go to Qutar go work as nurses and Doctors, cause the jobs arnt here, would they be 'Labour Aristocracy'. most people i kno that went out thare said work was easy, and well paid. better than here, so i supose they would be? but they could still supprt Indian workers i guess.

[@danishaffer934]

Good football is futbal the US can get over itself; and start using the metric system.

[@Le_Petomane]

well is it football or futbul?

[@danishaffer934]

@@Le_Petomane both obviously we should respect other linguistic difference

[@Le_Petomane]

Ok cool so we can write in one language and then suddenly podemos hablar otro? Que chido.

[@danishaffer934]

@@Le_Petomane Well my point was actually that football is usually called by the same name spelled different. Opposed to the US where the name football refers to a totally different sport which is more a variant of rugby. Pero claro, cualquiera que sea el idioma que sea genial, el traductor de Google existe en estos días. And it will help people learn other language, that can only be good right?

[@Le_Petomane]

@@danishaffer934 Cool bro your a hero.It didn't seem like you had or have a point. People dont talk like that and you sound insane but ..cool.

[@peacefulmountain2]

"the qatari's learned this of course from the british empire" 🤣🤣 please be so fr

[@Gaff.]

Just so you know, it's called soccer in Ireland as well. 'Football' is perceived to refer to Gaelic football, so soccer is soccer. Also interesting, the word soccer is itself 19th-century British slang for 'association football', which made its way over to the US and never fell out of fashion. North American football evolved from rugby football, which is why it's still called that.

[@tomasroma2333]

Everyone I know in Ireland calls it Football and Gaelic Football Gaelic

[@Gaff.]

@@tomasroma2333 Far as I know that's a Dublin thing. Unless I'm just old.

[@tomasroma2333]

@@Gaff. I live in the North of Ireland so I don't think its really a Dublin thing

[@Gaff.]

@@tomasroma2333 Obviously by Ireland I meant ROI. (though yes, Gaelic does refer to Gaelic football as well, hence the Irish language being called Irish and not Gaelic)

[@syedmaricar9946]

Small but mighty visit them.

[@augustovicentepereira8323]

I am the viewer 301

[@bijtmntongaf]

i am the viewer 1491

[@Ys_Guy]

4000 cars!!! if he drove 1 car a day it would it would take him 10.95 years to get around to his 1st car

[@zZZZzzZzzZzzzzzzZzzzz000]

18:37

[@buymybooks437]

This is the second Arabic golden age

[@nephalemresurrection7518]

Gold with iremediabil mold .

[@user-mm3eu4un6b]

This is pissing me off WOW

[@majdmerghad764]

You used footage of the king of Bahrain instead of the emir of Qatar in many parts of the vid.

[@ronaldomessi9000]

who rule qatar? oil money

[@muhammadarekat2605]

Some things I'd like to point out: - 14:28 that's the King of Bahrain, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, not a royal member of Qatar. - 20:32 that's Dubai International Airport, not in Qatar.

[@ProudlyQatari..]

👑 🇶🇦

[@yuyu444m]

Nationalism is rotting your brain

[@yuyu444m]

Did you even watch the video

[@ProudlyQatari..]

@@yuyu444m I dont get the point, is it with or against?

[@yuyu444m]

@ProudlyQatari.. u seem too young to understand watch the video carefully and try to put your nationalism aside ...you are more than your nationality

[@ProudlyQatari..]

@@yuyu444m I asked a simple question, don’t act all wise now. I never said i didn’t understand what he was saying, I said I didn’t get the “point”. Answer as much as asked…

[@vengyfries6934]

Allah rules hejaz, qatar, uk, usa, china, the entire world and all the multiverses سُبْحـانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْـدِهِ عَدَدَ خَلْـقِه وَرِضـا نَفْسِـه وَزِنَـةَ عَـرْشِـه وَمِـدادَ كَلِمـاتِـه سُبْحانَ اللَّهِ الْعَظِيم. سُبْحَانَ رب الْعَالمين

[@user-mm3eu4un6b]

God the Father of Jesus Christ is the True God.

[@yuyu444m]

The world is controlled by few old white men

[@yuyu444m]

​@user-mm3eu4un6b both of your gods aren't real open your eyes sheeple

[@Dfgdf91]

​@@yuyu444m dude you worship Stalin and Lenin

[@yuyu444m]

@Dfgdf91 lol at least stalin is real

[@yuyu444m]

Great video