Materialism and knowledge | The philosophy of Marxism

[@theriversexitsense]

Damn, Alan Woods. Killin it 👌👍😎

[@wolfcookerBack]

This sort of lectures should be promoted amongst worldwide. THAT is Communism

[@derantiobskurant]

Thanks a lot!

[@Sherjan0077]

Solidarity from Afghanistan

[@revolutionarycommunists]

We send our solidarity to you! Have you considered getting involved in the International Marxist Tendency? You can check out our international website here: www.marxist.com Jack

[@derantiobskurant]

Solidarity from IMT in Germany too!

[@maralnour6160]

Came through with facts, insights, AND jokes? SHEESH

[@castaway115]

Thank you for this video 👍

[@wedas67]

A Piece of Art

[@classconsciousness4077]

For the algorithm! ✊🏽

[@franknitti6328]

History of philosophy was a nice book. Well done Alan, thank you. I hope there will be a more extensive one with something more related to post-modernism.

[@rfvtgbzhn]

What he says about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is wrong. It doesn't state that "things only exist when they are observed" but that measurement accuracy is limited because measurements influence the system that is measured. That from this follows that ""things only exist when they are observed" is only Heisenberg's interpretation of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (and it's also part of some other interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, e.g. the Copenhagen interpretation). Bohmian Mechanics actually don't imply anything like this but still retain the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Actually the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is very well tested and was never disproven so as long as it is not disproven there is no reason to assume that it is not right. Even better tested is the fact that measurements influence the measured systems, especially in the double slit experiment. Actually Alan Woods described this much more accurately in "Reason in Revolt", but I guess he got a little confused since then, also because it is very difficult to understand the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics without understanding the basic mathematical framework of quantum mechanics, which almost all non-physicists don't understand.

[@Dibyajit1917]

Please make a video on Trotsky's critique of the bureaucratic caricature of socialism.

[@cletusbufford]

TikTok format would suffice: Trotsky was a salty hysteric

[@davidc6244]

👏👏👏✊✊✊

[@GUILLOTINE_GANG]

*For* *Marx* *sake* 🙏

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

He still said 'God's sake' midway through the video.

[@alexanderharris8310]

👍

[@williamforrestall2161]

Epistemology a philosophy concerned with human knowledge the study the world, nature, the origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification is based in the rationality of belief... and how anyone could believe in the nonsense "logic" of Marxism is beyond me . Sadly people still fall for this stuff … one would think that people would learn, but no.. there is one born every minute … classic case of people being blinded by their own ego aggrandizing fantasies that they understand the world and… that they “know how to run a the world” … the oldest delusion (or political con) in the world. Satan by the apple tree…we have heard it all before ever since Satan introduced himself in the garden of Eden. A lie, veiled in ego aggrandizing nonsense…narcissists fall for it every time. Marxism has often been passed off as a ‘science” ( Scientific Marxism/ Socialism ... LOL ) Marxism is a ‘science” , so is UFOology, and phrenology and I am sure some cutting edge researcher has found the missing link between all three… The inverted reality of Marxists leaves the Objective world of rational belief behind - sad but true. There are still suckers who fall for the Marxist toxic nonsense of coercion based “socialism” in spite of it always failing with every conceivable iteration. Socialism always fails, from the mass killings and failure of the French revolution, to the countless failures of ‘socialism” in the twentieth century and today. The never ending list of total ‘socialist” failure runs from Lenin and Stalin’s terror regime and the collapse of the USSR, the Castro brothers Cuban failed state, the screwball North Korea “rocket man”,, the racist organ salesman Xi Jinping the nut ‘emperor” of China’s one party thug state, Pol Pot’s Cambodian genocide, Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe murder regime, Hugo Chávez (socialist) destruction of Venezuela ( once the richest nation in South America,), the toxic regime of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu in Romania ( ending in a people execution of those nuts), Erich Honecker and the demise of the failed East German state, Josip Tito and the no longer existing Yugoslavia, the screwballs attracted by Marxism includes such discusting personalities like Lavrenty Beria The list goes on and on Albania, Ethiopia, Grenada, Hungary, Vietnam, Yemen, Mongolia, Bulgaria …..all tried “socialism” and all have failed…. OH.. I forgot … the “socialists” key example Denmark… sadly Denmark is not a “Socialist” state … it actually has more economic freedom than America …what deluded fools fall for this.... too many ?? The Dunning-Kruger effect is never to be underestimated when it comes to often-angry fundamentalists of “socialism”. Their clear cognitive bias is masked by the victims/activist narcissistic need for recognition or importance (i.e. only they can “save the world”). This systematic pattern of deviation from any rationality in judgment includes any sober reflection on the long history of “Marxist” failures, or ‘socialisms” impact on the basic human rights (UDHR 1948) www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights of others, or the embed racism, and just out and out nonsense intrinsic to Marxist “theory”. Such easy to spot nonsense like the “labour theory of value”. Narcissists always fall for this guff… sad but true. Sadly there will always be people who will defend socialists like Hitler (full employment, the autobahn, the Volkswagen) Stalin, (Uncle Joe won the war), Pol Pot (at least he tried), Mao (50 million dead was not too many???) these are the same kind of people will also promote the racist nut Karl Marx. As most informed people know Karl Marx was an academic fraud, a virulent racist and a rapist (ask the maid). He used the “N” word over and over, hated Mexicans, Asians and just about every race except northern European, and in spite of being of Jewish origins He particularly hated Jewish people. It is so sad to see people still falling for his rhetorical con game that plays a faux coherent economic theory (that has never worked anywhere) off an emotionalized claim to ‘justice” of economic redistribution (state theft)… that can only happen in a totalitarian police state … where of course they are the totalitarians sorry “saviours” . Karl’s kooky writings model a rhetorically closed self-justifying system, subjective definitions, an absence of natural economic or independent price signals, lack of internal consistency, the pagan wackiness of “historical materialism”, sectarian intolerance, racism, anti-Semitism a series of rather glaring epistemological problems and so on. It was just so much egocentric nuttiness. Karl’s overarching characteristics stand out as the emphatic symptoms of poor mental health and a failed life….. it is so sad to see people still suckered by this nonsense….

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Pls stop crying...😅