Lenin before the Russian Revolution

[@night6724]

31:00 Marx - Never had a job Engels - Mooched off his rich dad Lenin - Only worked for 2 years of his life Stalin - Dropped out of seminary Hitler - Failed out of Art School and lived on the street selling his art for pennies Mussolini - Was a socialist propaganda Anyone notice a pattern? Maybe putting jobless losers in charge of government isn't the brightest idea.

[@fernandez3841]

Biden?

[@Jean_Jacques148]

@@fernandez3841Biden: rich lawyer😊

[@dougzack4565]

That is EXACTLY what we have done in Canada

[@IamaCosmonaut]

@fernandez3841 He was a lawyer and a landlord before becoming a politician. So yeah, he doesn't really fit the list.

[@night6724]

@@Jean_Jacques148 Biden was elected to the senate at 31. He like Obama was basically an activist lawyer. He spent a whopping 4 years in the private sector before being elected to office. He was also an unexceptional lawyer and student, placing 76th out of 85 in his class.

[@franciscosaez7953]

"Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the other way around" (old soviet joke, or that they say)

[@melchior2678]

Lenin before the revolution attended his local synagogue st least 4 times every month. Just kidding, it was 5 times a month. (old soviet proverb, so they say)

[@glebperch7585]

Then why do most E Europeans miss socialism especially Hungary?

[@ksztyrix]

​@@glebperch7585Because majority of population is dumb

[@kenon6968]

​@@melchior2678I don't get it

[@amongdrip8073]

​@@glebperch7585 Conflation of the older generations reminiscing of simpler times with the entire population, a very easily challenged point.

[@LoganLS0]

Sending Lenin to Russia was the worst thing Germany ever did... well except for the other thing.

[@oldschoolgaming1-y9q]

Definitely if I see the number's

[@johnwolf2829]

If they had not done the first thing, the table never would have been set for the 2nd thing.

[@NeutroniousTemp]

@@johnwolf2829 I agree If communism never griped Russia nazi germany would never have been a thing

[@sydneylousr]

Their second mistake wouldn't have happened without the first

[@johnwolf2829]

@@NeutroniousTemp One grotesque fad leads to another, eh?

[@KameradVonTurnip]

But Lenin wasn't a real Socialist. 😮 But Stalin wasn't a real Socialist. But Mao wasn't a real Socialist. But (Insert Name) wasn't a real Socialist.

[@ФилипЂукић]

Hitler

[@kwestionariusz1]

But Hitler wasnt a real socialist😏 Btw kamerad means comrade in german

[@KameradVonTurnip]

@@kwestionariusz1 Kameraden = Comrades Plural. Your point being? Alte Kameraden = Old Comrades.

[@TheOneVoxel]

But real communism has never been tried!!!!!! !!!!

[@DeadpanPear]

They were all real socialists

[@JoeyJoJoJrShabbado]

But was he a real socialist?

[@TheImperatorKnight]

Well, nobody is a "real" socialist, according to the "real" socialists

[@КонстантинКругляков-г1у]

Nah another power hungry psychopath hiding behind a banner of socialism

[@professionalmexican7919]

​@@TheImperatorKnightnot even marx was 😔

[@NeutroniousTemp]

@@TheImperatorKnight Capitalist propaganda aka logic

[@robrob9050]

He was narc definitely

[@geofflogan2402]

A life without TIK is not just a life unexamined, it's a life wasted. Your videos are without doubt the best thing on any KZbin channel ever. Real history from a unique perspective. Thank you so much. My eyes have been opened and I now see the world so much more clearly

[@metanoian965]

for you. For every thinking human it is = "Funny Cats"

[@Hillbilly001]

Whoopie!!!! TiK's on again. Waiting for the Tobruk vid, but any TiK video is better than no TiK video. Cheers from Tennessee

[@TheImperatorKnight]

Cheers! My editor/animator, Gigz, is currently working on Tobruk, so it's all in motion :)

[@Hillbilly001]

@@TheImperatorKnight Tell Gigz that the Gazala video was absolutely wonderful. I can't wait. Cheers

[@chiefslinginbeef3641]

Hello fellow volunteer.

[@Hillbilly001]

@@chiefslinginbeef3641 Howdy neighbor from West Tennessee.

[@coletrain6545]

​@TheImperatorKnight nobody says cheers from Tennessee or the south or else they'd be deleted. Definitely a bot

[@MadBroStudio]

I strongly dislike Lenin and communism at large, but I have to admit, in every photo of him, he has a look of wicked determination. I cannot imagine he was an easy adversary to have.

[@Jduekengn]

I could probably win in a 1v1 boxing match with him, whats his height and weight?

[@Ironhardt]

@@Jduekengnhe was 5’5

[@robrob9050]

Maybe for every photo session he did 250 pictures just for the propaganda purposes?

[@Jduekengn]

@@Ironhardt and 68kg XD Small fella

[@alienfish8521]

​@@IronhardtSo he was a manlet then.

[@SepticFuddy]

"A state will no longer be needed and thus whither away." Truly the fairy tale of all time.

[@lucaswatson1913]

Aye as if the state's number one goal isn't it's own continued existence above all else

[@redclayscholar620]

​@@lucaswatson1913as long as there are Masses of people they will require an administrative system. How malignant that system is depends entirely on what they are willing to allow it to become.

[@SepticFuddy]

@@redclayscholar620 It is far more lucrative to join the scam than oppose it... until it isn't, but by then it's far too late. Too many people are then fully invested in making sure nothing improves. And hence, Lucas's observation. The state is the fire that cannot stay contained indefinitely.

[@redclayscholar620]

@@SepticFuddy it's not even a scam it's a division of labor. Yes there is dishonesty, bloated bureaucracy, and unfair positional perks but for large scale representation we have not yet found a better system to replace it.

[@SepticFuddy]

@@redclayscholar620 The scale is exactly the problem. Decisions made to govern a large number of people and places invariably do not suit many (if not most) of those people and places. No critical mass can ever be reached to sufficiently solve missteps at the highest levels, and thus the political class is safely insulated from the consequences of their actions. Decentralization of decision-making is the ONLY remedy. No "representative" has ever come remotely close to caring about my interests, much less representing them, far less implementing them. The only one who cares about your interests is YOU, along friends and family if you are truly blessed. Also, there is no labor being divided here. Just the products of it being siphoned off by those who never contribute to production, and in fact seriously hamper it.

[@balasaashti3146]

Oh boy here we go. Thanks TIK all your videos man, you do great work.

[@rodgerhargoon3402]

I love Russia and the Russian people .....

[@ivanredford7926]

40:00 Im Russian, and I think instead of majority and minority, mensheviks and bolsheviks mean something different. "Bolshe" and "menshe", russian words for "more" and "less", can be interpreted as "those who wanted more "bolshe", more radical and those who wanted less "menshe", because mensheviks were part of State Duma post 1905. Interpretation of bolsheviks as minority and mensheviks as majority never made any sense, because they were completely reversed in that term. Is it another attempt of bending reality by Lenin, interpretation mistake in English literature, or something else?

[@kenon6968]

Yeah it speaks a lot about how petty their psychology was, taking the name to imply a majority even though they were actually held the minority position, of being maximalists in their doctrine (I forget what the schism was about)...they never would have let the constituent assembly convene and implement actual Soviet power (another word they hijacked) because they had little genuine popular support compared to the mensheviks or namely the SR party. I think it's intentional, the double nature of the word couldn't have been lost on them, they called themselves Bolsheviks, it wasn't a name given to them.

[@satoshiyoshida7855]

You're guessing right. It was radicalsVSmoderates on the economic policies, hence why mensheviki were cosy with SR's. Author didn't look into this, because he has a crusade to fight, and these are his enemies (thumbnail checks).

[@ChristopherJames1993]

They used Bolshevik because the MAJORITY of the editorial board of Iskra (the Party paper of the RSDLP) supported Lenin. Not membership of the faction.

[@CaesarRenasci]

Yours is a truly subtle reading of the words. The answer to the question lies in the fact that the received interpretation is based not only on words but the context as well. In context, the words meant majority and minority.

[@Queretonix]

"Socialism is not about helping others, it is a desire to be taken care of, coming from a fear of independance, rooted in a hatred of the self" TIK, even god couldn't have phrased it better. Absolutely spot on.

[@postmodernmining]

Also known as female psychology.

[@robrob9050]

Hatred of self and contempt for life of fellow citizens?

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Well, nope. Socialism is simply public ownership of means of production. Thus seemingly less efficient than capitalism. But in the end ... most thing nowadays are made in China 😁

[@postmodernmining]

@UCmRhlX6jdyG5wh9eOp2vxJw that's the nice lie that covers the murderous intent, just like feminism.

[@LoganLS0]

Perfect.

[@TAM1906]

“They want to be Peter Pans” I’m dying here 🤣

[@sergeysolosin5096]

I think it was a reference to that speech of jordan peterson

[@Real_Joe_Rogan]

​@@sergeysolosin5096 It's a reference to socialists

[@sergeysolosin5096]

​@Eye_Of_The_Pyramid you did not understand, what I wrote. The example with Peter Pan, as an illustration of people who do not want to grow up, was very good explained in one of the peterson lectures. Similarly to what TIK said.

[@cristig243]

Peter Pan was a demonic character . Btw...killing children . Because he loved them so much .

[@psier11]

A very disquieting figure from this milieu by a very disquieting author. Ar least human sacrifice is all arounf the novel.

[@DeadendSatellite]

Socialism The Religion of Daddy issues.

[@lalaboards]

And mommies boys who live in the basement .

[@LoganLS0]

Also Feminism.

[@lalaboards]

@@LoganLS0 Thats a fact check TRUE ,✅✅✅

[@nikolascepanovic539]

​@@lalaboardsSays a great capitalist intellectual.

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@nikolascepanovic539 Whoa, watch out there Pol Pot!

[@kilogreene8738]

Your words have been unintentionally therapeutic for me personally. Something about "hatred and shame of the self leads to fear of independence" really spoke to me. Thanks lol

[@tylermorrison420]

Am I the only one that watches tik videos twice because it's impossible to consume all the content at once? Like I can watch the whole video over and over and still keep learning new things I didn't catch before Thanks again tik

[@kenon6968]

I like to check the sources, wish I had the time to read them throughly

[@faeembrugh]

Lenin was full of praise of Mussolini which usually perturbs my Socialist friends when they start talking about 'Fascism'. And the fact Mussolini had a Jewish girlfriend for many years!

[@johnclifford2371]

He "praised" him in 1912 when he was a socialist, the idea that he did this in 1919 is utter nonsense and the peddling of lies... but that's what your kind do, isn't it.

[@woodsmand]

And if there's one thing we know about Marxists they never engage in the peddling of lies 😆

[@kenon6968]

Fascism was not anti-semitic, there were a lot of prominent Jews in the party, surprisingly enough different countries have different political systems that have different variations within themselves across time

[@faeembrugh]

@@johnclifford2371 Thanks for confirming what I said: Lenin praised Mussolini before the revolution. Cheers comrade!

[@wtice4632]

​@@johnclifford2371🤣 you confirmed hwat he said was true but youre so angry you had to project your own bad faith. God you people are a joke

[@Ossiundstolzdrauf]

16:35 I also am a proud communist Revolutionary and therefore demand the formation of an evil Kapitalist free market

[@GAarcher]

*"Lenin was a Momma's boy"*

[@scottstambaugh8473]

How many people must die for you to be happy?

[@chesschad81]

I had no idea that all this time, I’ve been a communist!

[@scottstambaugh8473]

@@chesschad81 Well, stop it.

[@scottstambaugh8473]

Ooops... methinks I missed your sarcasm :0)

[@ComplainingIsRecreation]

I think Bertrand Russell's characterization of Lenin as the "reincarnation of Cromwell" was pretty much spot on. Lenin's orthodoxy was absolute and unwavering: he was utterly incapable of supposing that any idea Marx had was not immutable truth, or that any prediction Marx made was not inevitable. I believe he had every faith in Marxism, in much the same way as you or I might have faith that gravity will function the same way today as it did yesterday. It was a religious sort of certainty without any bounding from religious ethics. For Lenin, Marxism was pure natural science, and he never for a moment entertained any possibility Marxism could be wrong about anything, let alone perhaps seeing it for the limp wishy-washy social science nonsense that it is. You don't see a lot of that these days: even in socialist circles, it would be rare for someone to quote Marx as if that proved a point beyond what Marx himself said, no serious person would quote Marx as if to suggest that it must be true because Marx said it. In some ways, modern socialists with their postmodern approaches to truth are even more annoying, mind you, but for better or worse, they are certainly more ideologically flexible. It's a little bit hard to wrap your head around from a modern point of view that people ever thought this way, but among old school socialists it really was the way many of them saw it. Prior to the exposure of Stalin's terror and Khrushchev's speech in the west, it was common for communists around the world to conceptualize Marxist theories of capitalism, markets, labour, value, etc, as somehow every bit as predictive, natural, immutable, scientific, repeatable and empirically sound as say Newton's laws or Maxwell's equations. Admittedly, his ideas aren't half as disproven in their minds as they should be given the facts, but the rigid adherence to orthodoxy is nothing like what it was. In some ways, I have more respect for old Marxists. Their dogmatism, dangerous as it was, was more honest. They had clearer ideas, actual predictions and standards of measurement. They made falsifiable claims. Of course, such predictions (e.g. declining employment) had the notable drawback of indeed being falsified over time - they were simply proven wrong by history - which is why they replaced these claims with the postmodernist nonsense of Foucault & Friends. This re-defining of truth, obsession with power, and application of class divisions to new invented categories is even worse. Superficially less brutal, it had an absolutely corrosive effect on society; it rots young minds more irreversibly and unlike traditional socialism it even/especially preys upon people who have lived materially comfortable lives. Marxism once required an underclass to mobilize and could be cured by rising living standards, but this new socialism preys on resentment, not economic insecurity, and resentment unlike poverty is unbounded; a mind poisoned with this sort of jealousy demands the objects of its resentment be harmed.

[@penoge]

Sorry, but you are telling nonsense! The value theory of Marx (which even was not from him) is still valid. Also his historical materialism is still liable. The fact that socialism has failed didn't proof nothing for the liability of it's general theory. It only proves • that the idea of a plan economy to produce only what is really needed is impossible to realise and that this goal can only be reached by production on demand • and that the people must have the leading role in the society and not a party.

[@jamespong6588]

@@penoge you can't make these stuff up 😂

[@penoge]

​@@jamespong6588And where will you know it from? Reading in a coffee pad? Investigating an amputated lever of a drunkard?

[@jakublulek3261]

Don't badmouth Cromwell, he was at least a great soldier and military leader and unwilling to take power. He spent most of his time as Lord Protector searching for a political system that would replace him. He had consciousness. The way he dealt with clubmen was diametrally different from what Lenin did with his opposition.

[@misterlinux9290]

Tik: "publishes Lenin" Me(who suggested it in the pool): "for me? 👀👀👀"

[@marcelgroen6256]

Hi TIK, always happy to see you have done a posting on Monday evening. Enjoying your contribution. THNX !!!

[@night6724]

except he is a bit off about the Russian Empire which had the 4th largest producer of industry particularly in steel production during the 1890s. Edmund Thierry a french economist in 1910 predicted Russia would soon become the economic powerhouse of europe by 1950

[@GordonHouston-Smith]

@@night6724Which is why you never trust economists and their predictions.😁

[@night6724]

@@GordonHouston-Smith except obviously predictions isn’t fortune telling. The purpose of projections isn’t to make concrete predictions as there are factors that could arise like a massive war. The point remains that had Russia maintained its development, whether under the Emperor, a liberal republic or communist, it would’ve become the economic power of Europe. Obviously WWI and Stalin stunted that growth but the point remains the Russian economy was growing and living conditions were improving

[@GordonHouston-Smith]

@@night6724 Predictions aren't predictions when they are projections...Hmm interesting take. Living conditions were gradually getting better until WW1, they got a lot worse under communism. Having the potential is entirely different from actuality. The famous saying "Brazil is the country of the future and always will be" Springs to mind.

[@night6724]

@@GordonHouston-Smith but then stuff that no one could predict like change in regime happen.

[@IndivisacInsepa]

Idk what this guys deal is but I see him on posters and stickers all over University. He's obviously chill and not a mass murderer.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Isn't it unbelievable how that's socially acceptable, but the bad tiny mustache man is taboo to even be discussed? And just to be clear, I'm not saying bad tiny mustache man is good, he was bad too. It's just always blown my mind how that's not ok, but praising people like Lenin and Guevara is totally fine.

[@johnhatchel9681]

​@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 I've wondered the exact same thing. The same rules do not apply to all mass murdering tyrants?

[@vernmorris8898]

@@johnhatchel9681 Exactly. Selective bias in ain sight. At least for those who can see through the narrative.

[@damienchall8297]

One is philosemitic one is anti semitic @@johnhatchel9681

[@RambleOn07]

​​@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231well you see that one is a good socialist that only killed bad people and the other was a bad socialist that only killed good people. Also, you are supposed to pretend that one of them wasn't a socialist.

[@AlekseyVitebskiy]

I like your "post-Feudal economy" definition of Russian economy in late 18th, early 19th century. What Bolsheviks did was to deprive Russians of any other means to view their world. That's why Russia failed at becoming a democracy: they went to one form of slavery to another. For the majority of populace it's all they, and countless generations of their ancestors have known.

[@IamaCosmonaut]

Other major reason why democracy failed in the post tsar Russia was because the pro democracy parties were also pro war, meanwhile the Russian public was against continuing the war against the central powers. This meant that the pro democracy elements of the provincional government were easily replaced with more pro socialist but anti war elements which eventually paved the way for Lenin to grab hold of the power in the end.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

So called democracy in Western countries is a worst kind of slavery. There are no greater slaves than those thinking they are free.

[@AlekseyVitebskiy]

@@aleksazunjic9672 Lol, you're either a troll, or you lived in USA or in Europe and never lived in a country like Russia. Democracy may not be perfect: nothing humans do is, but it's certainly the best system of government we've invented so far.

[@DogmaticAtheist]

​@@AlekseyVitebskiydid he say democracy isn't? I think you're misunderstanding

[@night6724]

@@AlekseyVitebskiyNo democracy is not the best form of government monarchism is because monarchy ensures the best people run the government which is why europe peaked under monarchy and is a shell of a continent under democracies.

[@steveclarke6257]

#TheKnightImpirator I am going to contradict you and the sources in terms of economics in the UK during the 19th Century. Britain was not following "Capitalism" in its economics (the control of capitol) but "Mercantilism" (Control of Imports and exports where the country imported less manufactured goods than it exported). This is partially why the British military strategy was to control the seas and sea-lanes rather than the land and land boarder; as such that we invest far more in the Navy and ships than a standing Army. It also helps when the Navy also controls the effective countries national border (the coast) but its the control of Trade which mostly pays for the navy and its ships not internal taxation.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

I don't disagree with you. This is why I say I'm a free market guy, rather than a Capitalist. However, it is true that there was a freer market within Britain in the late 1800s than anything we've had since.

[@night6724]

Well it depends on the period. Under the Liberals, tariffs were reduced.

[@night6724]

@@TheImperatorKnight Can Mercantilism be considered capitalist or free market? Tariffs are probably the least bad form of taxation since you are not taxing personal income, instead you are taxing a hypothetical purchase. I strongly disagree with Milton Friedman that land taxes are the least bad form of taxation. While some might say sales tax or tariffs may raise the floor for prices, I disagree as there can always been a cheaper option even with taxation. Moreover in the modern global economy, labor is treated as a commodity and governments, such as China, use lower standards of living and subsidies in their country to syphon jobs, namely manufacturing, from the more developed west. When Smith wrote Wealth of a Nation, labor was not seen as capital and he also wrote it under the assumption of the modern and homogenous European economy not considering nations beyond Europe. Knowing that nations are willing to undercut developed nations via state subsidies, it is not unreasonable to enact a moderate tariffs to prevent a drain but not enough to impede trade

[@scott2452]

Odd, rather than calling Britain mercantilist in the 19th century, I’d say it was the leading proponent of the Free Market - especially after the repeal of the Corn Laws (and before Imperial Preference). Adam Smith’s Wealth Of Nations & Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage being in vogue

[@night6724]

@@scott2452 well the corn laws were repealed because of the Irish Famine of 1845 and received backlash from his Tory colleagues since they were poor protectionism. The tories, later conservatives, remained overwhelmingly protectionists

[@joethepagan3297]

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. - Ronald Reagan.

[@fahey7335]

@joethepagan3297 you mean Ronald Reagan the Philosopher? Or the Historian? The one I know was a Hollywood actor. Even worse, a cowboy movie actor.

[@sergeduijm7145]

​@@fahey7335So if an actor can become president.....is he than smart or dumb?

[@signorasforza354]

@@fahey7335 Well a cowboy movie actor has destroyed cummunists.

[@signorasforza354]

@@fahey7335 Commies are always jealous of sexy cowboys presidents who ruin their degenerate evil empire by making cartoons 😊😊😊

[@signorasforza354]

@@fahey7335 why are commies so jealous of sexy cowboys?) no testosterone big tits?))

[@seijakarjalainen]

The biggest reason why I detest Lenin is that he portrayed himself as a man of peace. There was no threat against him here when he sent weapons to the reds. He invaded Estonia, Armenia, Georgia and Latvia. He was just another imperialist.

[@jakublulek3261]

And invaded Poland as well

[@AJ-tr5ml]

Its a good day when tik uploads!

[@night6724]

34:00 It is also important to understand Marx hated agrarianism and believed farming was a backwards and unnecessary industry (don't know how you get good then) so it was Lenin who incorporated farmers as a part of the proletariat

[@iaminpain58]

Am I stupid? How exactly did the ingenious Karl Marx plan to replace farming so people wouldn't starve to death... bring back the hunter gatherer lifestyle?

[@kenon6968]

The idiocy of rural life, my favourite Engels line, seeing as I live in the sticks

[@wtice4632]

​@@kenon6968leave it to the city dweller whos never labored in their life to crap on rural folk.

[@wtice4632]

​@@kenon6968the most ignorant backwards farmer is still a more intelligent and a better person than any follower of marx

[@kenon6968]

@@wtice4632 aren't you utterly surprised that the ultimate and most perfect theory of labor was propounded by those who've never labored?

[@олегснюсоед]

As russian, it's nice to watch somebody in english telling history of sick terrorist, who are still being cultivated all around

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Lenin was a scoundrel, but in 1918 majority of Russians supported him. This is the reason Reds won. Old Empire was weak and decadent, WW1 simply bared the truth.

[@олегснюсоед]

@@aleksazunjic9672 ah just no, the majority supported the SR party and voted for them in Constituent Assembly, where the Bolsheviks and their allies took like 20% while SR party(without left wing) took around 40% and also consider the fact there was no right parties in this vote, so they had a little support and this only support was from the poorest and uneducated and national minorities not the russian majority who voted for SR party in this leftist elections or just openly rebeled against the coup

[@ФилипЂукић]

@@aleksazunjic9672 Russians didn't supported him. He lost the elections organized by him.

[@олегснюсоед]

@@aleksazunjic9672 again this is just one more soviet myth, we must get rid of in the future

[@aleksazunjic9672]

@@олегснюсоед I'm talking about the support in the field . In the end of the day, Reds won because they had more soldiers than Whites, despite Whites being led by trained officers, having support of the West etc ... This simply means that Russian people in majority wanted revolution. I do agree they were tricked etc ... but this does not change the fact that majority of Russians disliked old empire.

[@blitzerblazinoah6838]

This is an excellent video. Please do a follow up video on Mao before the Chinese Revolution, as Mao adapted Marxism-Leninism from Lenin to use the peasants in the Chinese countryside as a substitute for the urban and industrial working class as the engine of a communist revolution. This tactic was adapted by the Frankfurt School and its adherents, who use minorities as a substitute for the Western, nationalistic and white working classes as the driving force a revitalised push for revolution.

[@surv3994]

bro💀

[@ns_gefolgsmann6156]

Its the Juice, always been

[@aleksazunjic9672]

It could be argued that Maoisim is something entirely different. After all, like it or not, it succeeded. China is now leading industrial power in the world.

[@fate8007]

@@ns_gefolgsmann6156 mao was a jew?

[@ns_gefolgsmann6156]

@@fate8007 the whole chinese communist Party was instructed by jews

[@vorynrosethorn903]

The ethnic hatred of many of the Bolsheviks towards Russians should be considered, almost all the leadership were not ethnically Russian and the people brought in to suppress the population were a mix of imperial minorities, latvians and Chinese, while the officer class in these groups was heavily of the same background as the Bolsheviks. You might not focus on ethnic interests but many historical groups did as you know. In the civil war the red army was far more representative to Russia due to conscription and the forced induction of tsarist officers than many of the core organs of the party. It should however be mentioned that what happened was not part of any wider plan, the provisional government likely came in with western support but the second revolution was due to the provisional government being so incompetent that the bar for launching a coup was low enough to be below the water table (less far than you think in st Petersburg). Most of these people were also internationalist, Russians were expendable, they sacrificing class enemies in order to bring together the communists of the world movement was natural thinking into the 20's. Doesn't help that they were individually horrible and revolting people usually, especially the party old guard.

[@julianr4375]

We need to talk about the latvian question

[@postmodernmining]

Who nose what ethnicity they were? It's a ✡️ mystery.

[@robrob9050]

I noticed also Yugoslav communists contempt towards Serbians, after 1944 it was brutal regime towards democratic opposition since only in Serbia they managed to stand against commies during one and last election which was completely rigged.

[@vorynrosethorn903]

The funny thing was that Latvian troops were the elite of the revolution in the first stages of the civil war, mercilessly massacring rioting peasants and ragtag revolts and being used as a firefighting force to rescue bad situations, but once they were deployed to invade Latvia and do the.same thing ethnic preference kicked in and the soldiers deserted, leaving only the Russian born and speaking ethnic Latvians and Russians who had joined these units due to their prestige making up the manpower of the regiments, they quickly lost elite status. Latvian continued however to form a considerable portion of the footsloggers of the secret police, partly because they weren't deployed to Latvia, partly because they were sort after as they were not reluctant to inflict extreme brutality on innocent Russians. The Chinese were mostly military units and were used to massacre civilians and mutinying red army troops, they were good combat troops, and introduced several horrific methods of torture to the Soviets, including the famous one with the rat and the bucket. Food requisition detachments were probably less heavily ethnically skewed, as the men in them were largely allowed to loot the villages and do what they wanted to the women as long as they brought the grain back, it was a very dangerous job, the peasants understandably loathed them and would killed tens of thousands over the years, but there was never any trouble finding men for such a role.

[@calebdaplaya363]

I think this helps explain why they were so brutal ethnic hatred is real in dehumanizing the opposite group it’s crazy cause I always wonder how the bolsheviks could kill and massacre their own. Germany could probably realistically call the bolsheviks the asiatic horde as I watched a video on the history zoomer where during the push westward the soviets told their troops, many of them asiatic conscripts, to defile the supposed master race for their atrocities

[@Dreadnaught98]

Just hammering that "Communism is the result of daddy issues" nail.

[@calebdaplaya363]

I agree, I also read that men with daddy issues also in turn view a higher power I.e. God the same way

[@legendarymarston9174]

Is that true? I personally don't think that a lot of people believe in God because of that. @@calebdaplaya363

[@psier11]

Mostly daddy issues are in females. With the two exceptions it works

[@RealGamerizer]

Came here expecting a video on Wall Street funding the Russian Revolution, instead got a video explaining the development of Lenin's philosophy. Don't know which one I'd have enjoyed more. Keep up the good work man, also, according to my sources LiquidZulu intends on making another video on why you should be an anarcho-capitalist, but has just been busy.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

I'm glad Zulu is still planning on doing that video as I've been looking forward to it. I thought he had forgotten

[@TheImperatorKnight]

Also, I've covered Sutton here and the funding of Wall Street idea kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ_Fd6OIZtJjsKM

[@floydlooney6837]

He already addressed the myth of Wall Street funding Hitler, I am sure it'll be the same with this one

[@DeadpanPear]

@@floydlooney6837 Not a myth at all

[@Real_Joe_Rogan]

​@@DeadpanPear It is

[@mitchea1668]

Brilliant video as always. TIK has changed my life over the last few years, given me a whole new perspective and made me a better, more informed individual because of it, I salute you sir!

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

Yes, same thing here. The detail & research is top shelf.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

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[@RambleOn07]

Revolutionary Socialists issue with the current regime is always that they aren't the ones in charge.

[@nickgoodwood4812]

"His character did not change as he grew older, only his medium of expression. And what a very unpleasant character it was: scornful, petty, spiteful, malicious, hypocritical, covetous, boastful, dishonest, grudging and intensely envious, wildly ambitious, arrogant and overbearing. He scorned peasants-they were barbarous “troglodytes.” He despised “the masses,” “the rabble.” " From: The Fiddler and His Proof: A glance at Karl Marx, poet and prophet.

[@robrob9050]

It must be deeply flawed character who despises peasants, yup they are not rocket scientists but most of them lived honest life through hard labour, not by mom financing their mental exercises.

[@JahNgomba-ir2zi]

Can’t wait to watch this video , I’m so glad you’re back

[@praxben]

Smashed that like button and I’m not even past the ads.

[@Jduekengn]

If it aint mr. Victoria 3 😂 Victoria literally proves how Real communism can work. Checkmate liberal(tarian).

[@bassamalfayeed1384]

Hi Ben love your stuff

[@bigmouthstrikesagain4056]

Ayyyyy... didn't expect to see you here

[@laurac.405]

My great-grandmother and her family - Low German Mennonites living in Russia - had to flee their home due to Lenin's Bolshevik revolution. This is a bit of a buried piece of history, but Bolsheviks would come in and raid Mennonite settlements and brutalise the people - killing entire families. So, they made the risky trip - and eventually got on a ship that was taking Mennonites over to Canada to set up farms over there. It's crazy to think that if it weren't for Lenin who ultimately led the Bolshevik revolution, I wouldn't be sitting here typing this today.

[@OriginalBongoliath]

But their current adherents run the Canadian government, the American government, the vast majority of governments worldwide. They aren't done with us.

[@thepaintjobber]

Lenin literally was a "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" kind of guy

[@PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS]

ELEVATE YOUR MINDS FROM FLATLAND...ELEVATE YOUR MINDS FROM LEFT AND RIGHT

[@Phil-jq5vl]

38:07 Zorenaser predicted this hell 6 000 years ago 39:11 😮

[@juanmanuelaprea1703]

The writer Vasily Grossman, before he died, wrote that after all, fascism and communism were not so different. Both movements were led by lazy and lumpen mystics. Lenin managed to be supported, pampered and idolized at an unspeakable human cost. We have a great responsibility to the world where we belong. One of the best videos.

[@crash_matix4859]

Around 1905 Alexander Bogdanov opened the first two communist universities in the world in Italy, one in Bologne and the other at Capri Island. Bogdanov was a scientist, writer and his basic culture came from the russian cosmist movment; while Lenin was jelous of Bogdanov successes, he feared to be dethroned by him (with no evidences of this but ok)..so he encouraged a political campaign against him to the point Bogdanov was forced to leave, and then he was called revisionist. Years later Bogdanov joined the comminists during the russian revolution (as like many cosmists, who after would been killed by the bolsheviks) and he died during blood experimentations. This man as others, as for me an example how Lenin was very rude and he envied the much better people who were inside the discontent movment in Russian Empire. He literally just wanted the absolute power. Still, many people today, professors aswell in some way or just in this way love him.

[@kwekspeps7207]

Ofcourse Lenin as a politician wanted to reduce the power of rivals but Bogdanov did not leave the party because of just some “campaign”. Bogdanov led a campaign himself to remove the RSDLP members who were in the duma, he also tried to lead an armed uprising in hopes of bringing back the 1905 revolution. His actions were putting the Bolsheviks in danger by pushing an ultra left violent politics during a time when the party was retreating because of the failure of 1905.

[@crash_matix4859]

@@kwekspeps7207 This is a piece of information really important i didnt know, thanks. But im sure that ideological issues were important aswell. In fact both Lenin and Bogdanov came from different philosophical approaches, one cosmist the other machist (if i write it correctly)...so in theory (without fall under the hoi4 red flood mod influence😂) Bogdanov wouldnt suppress the soviets as Lenin did for himself

[@kwekspeps7207]

@@crash_matix4859 I thought Machists were post Kantian? I know Bogdanov is popular for pushing tektology, a system management theory. And the reason Lenin even wrote Empirio-criticism was to critique Bogdanovs Kantian influences.

[@crash_matix4859]

@@kwekspeps7207 Mach was originally a positivist, then i developed a own view of positivism...in general positivists werent kantian

[@crash_matix4859]

But I think that Lenin didnt like the nature itself of the russian cosmist movment, which advocated to set a new kind of spiritual like religious creed and replace the abrahamic principles from society

[@captainphoenix]

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake." - George Vladimir Ilyich Orwell

[@GordonFalt]

Modern leftists need to watch these videos.

[@daeemabrar7243]

i have seen fascist propaganda more factually correct than this

[@artyjnrii]

The funniest thing Marx ever said was implying that "critics" are of equal value to an economy as fishermen, hunters, and farmers, just so he could feel like he has a real job lmao

[@M0rshu64]

Another Banger Vid-Lecture Mister Tik!

[@charlesferdinand422]

And to state a few facts: Capitalism and the United States WON the Cold War while the Soviet Union disintegrated under its own weight without a single shot being fired; Socialism is the obsolete ideology that failed miserably in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Grenada, Vietnam, North Korea, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Libya, Sri Lanka, Chile, Hungary, Nicaragua, Poland, El Salvador, Mozambique, Romania, Honduras, Mongolia, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Angola, China (which has been Capitalist in everything but name since the economic reforms of 1964 by Deng Xiaoping), Russia (of course), and everywhere else it has been tried. Capitalism continues to be the best and only option while Socialism continues to be the worst, the most failed and most lethal after having caused at least 120 million deaths in less than 90 years which would translate in more than 1 million deaths per year. BTW, how come reds keep bitching about American "imperialism" but never mention Chinese imperialism in Vietnam or North Korea? Or Soviet imperialism in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, East Germany or Yugoslavia? Or Cuban imperialism in Angola, Mozambique, Grenada, Nicaragua or Venezuela? Or Yugoslav imperialism in Albania? And let's finish with the Socialist prayer: If it's a Socialist atrocity, it never happened If it happened, it wasn't that bad If it was that bad, they deserved it If they didn't deserve it, mistakes might have been made If mistakes were made, that wasn't real socialism.

[@bloocheese2902]

What Yugoslav imperialism in Albania? Are you daft??

[@alexzhangdragonn3438]

Chinese imperialiam in Vietnam? What was the US doing for 10 years helping kill millions of people. Both the US amd Soviet Union are imperialists.

[@Hazelnut_surprise]

Capitalists have never overthrown a government or invaded a neighbour or killed millions of civilians …… ok got that 🤣

[@charlesferdinand422]

@@bloocheese2902 Yeah just ask Tito if I'm bullshitting you, but I'm sure Yugoslavia always respected its little neighbor's soveriegnity, I mean of course you can trust Commie dictators.

[@charlesferdinand422]

@@Hazelnut_surprise Did I say anywhere that Capitaists never did any of that? No, I did not; all I said was that Red crimes would make even the most evil Capitalist blush.

[@johnnywest1735]

Found you’re channel recently and have watched nearly every video , you’re videos are a hidden gem for history , keep it up 👍🏻

[@catholicmilitantUSA]

Watched the video TIK-well done really liked it! If you're gonna do a vid on the Russian Revolution I'd definitely recommend the last chapter of Norman Stone's epic "The Eastern Front 1914-1917" which speaks a lot about why the Revolution happened. Basically he feels that the February Revolution did not happen because Russia was backward, but because it was undergoing rapid modernity and economic progress in the war years-he calls it a crisis of growth.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

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[@peterhessedal8539]

And my niece is still being fed the tripe in a public school that Communism has failed because it has never been properly tried. That may have held a slight amount of water when I was in school 35 years ago when we had burned out old hippies for teachers. Anyone with a slight semblance of intellectual honesty could not honestly make such statements.

[@signorasforza354]

And they never want to pay the price for those “mistakes” which causes hundreds of millions lives.

[@KAZVorpal]

You say that the Tsarists resisted reform, but outside of Alexander III, they were actually rapidly reforming the system. You mentioned the end of the feudal system in 1861, but there was also the judicial reform in 1864 and a number of subsequent changes. While some of them were reversed by Alexander III, a ton of additional progress was made after him. If you look at the history, the facts on the ground, it seems like the more they reformed things the more aggressive the critics got, and the more violent the resistance got.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

What do you mean by "acrylics"? I've not heard that term before

[@TheImperatorKnight]

@joshualoganhoi4 Yeah, that's the only thing I can think of too. It must be an auto-correct mistake?

[@gbcb8853]

It was the bolsheviks with their pink acrylic nails who got more violent, surely?

[@KAZVorpal]

@@TheImperatorKnight Yes, it was speech to text...was supposed to be critics, I think.

[@kenon6968]

That's pretty much the thesis of Theda Skopol (spelling)

[@yohannbiimu]

"It's not about constructing something new, it's about tearing down the old, and punishing those who dared to hurt him." The only thing about this attitude that seems different from anyone who still believes that Socialism matters is that they want to punish those who disagree with them, rather than anyone who has actually done anything wrong to them. Apart from that, anything that can be seen as having a positive impact on society is hysterically attacked and degraded.

[@Headless6789]

Tik you’re my favorite KZbinr ong,you show how these people truly think and feel and how they try to deceive everyone around them.I’m only 21 but I remember when I was younger reading and believing this stuff and thinking why none of it made sense and your channel is a treasure trove of exactly why because it’s not supposed to,it’s supposed to contradict itself to lie to anyone who read it to not get the real message

[@MisterS.]

Thanks for covering this Tikhistory.

[@BackwaterEnclave]

This video leaves me with the same naive question I had when I first started learning about socialism writ large: "Why didn't anyone stop this?"

[@pathutchison7688]

Everyone else had to work for a living.

[@crimony3054]

Lenin and Hitler rose to power on the changes caused by new technology. New technologies of transportation (railroads, trucks, automobiles) and communications (telegraph, radio, telephone, films) transformed the social control infrastructures. The Tsar realized Russia was becoming ungovernable and quit. Lenin stepped into the chaos. Hitler stepped up to the chaos, and then suppressed all opposition. In each case, Lenin and Hitler were both the solution to your question that people were asking about the social and economic chaos where they found themselves -- "Who will stop this"?

[@signorasforza354]

Actually there were interventions inside ex ruzzia empire, Bolsheviks occupied majority of developed regions which were producing weapons. And they were mobilizing everyone they wanted and terrorizing everyone they wanted and huge amounts of thugs were pro Bolsheviks. They were very cruel and Machiavellian.

[@zandrus9191]

13:21 Correction, unless I am wrong, but wasn't Nikolai Chernyhevski a Utopian Socialist/ Narodnik rather than a materialist/Marxist, therefore pointing out that Lenins socialist roots actually began with idealism, not materialism.

[@matematic4837]

This evil man is always overlooked because Stalin, but he was mad dictator in his own right

[@robrob9050]

Criminal enterprise

[@Fulcrum01]

crey about it)

[@robrob9050]

@@Fulcrum01 Crey?

[@Fulcrum01]

@@robrob9050 cry

[@robrob9050]

@@Fulcrum01 Gulag waits for you.

[@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye]

Love your channel brother! We shall call it: “TIK’s fireside chats”….. 😁😜

[@schweinhund7966]

Another outstanding video class! I remain proud to be a sponsor of TIK due to his superior research and presentation skills!

[@bhhbcc4573]

This is such a brlliant explanation of what is happening right now in western university campuses.

[@HazyFelix]

14:01 A small correction. You make it sound as if 400,000 died of famine in Samara, but in reality it was the death toll for the famine in the entirety of the country. Samara didn't even have that much population at the time. Other than that, great video!

[@HazyFelix]

@@Hunterchuck I believe it was an honest mistake since the error is very simple to trace. Besides there's no ideological reason for him to overblow the famine, the one he mentions happened before the communists came to power.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

Yes, it's 400,000 for all of Russia, not just Samara. Sorry about that.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

"Lenin" otherwise known as Lehana, was an African revolutionary who was exiled to Russia following a failed revolution against British rule in SA. During his journey, he contracted an illness that made his skin lighter. With modern tech, we can see what he would've looked like.

[@AlanMcBride-yw6in]

Lenin's collaboration with Alaskan separatists doomed them to servitude under the Fishmen yoke. If only the pheasants had made peace with the starling federation history might have been different. Especially for the Welsh.

[@sambarnett6996]

Wait this is a joke yes?

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@sambarnett6996 it is 420% truth

[@wtice4632]

We wuz revolutionaries n shiet

[@devilshermannmatern6380]

Dictatorship being democratic was pointed out as a problem of representative democracy by Carl Schmitt. If you can take away the power from the people and give it to representatives, what keeps it democraticly legitimite has to be, that the people are identifying with its representatives. But there is no minimum number of representatives needed, thus a homogeneous society could be identifying with one single person as representative of them all. That would be a dictator in a representative democracy.

[@greggcal4583]

Thank you, TIK. I look forward to the next video.

[@robertbeckler5058]

My family left the Ukraine in 1899 and came to the good old USA. My grandpa was born there in 1899. Great grandpa grabbed his wife and kids and went to Minnesota. So I got to hear stories from my grandparents about the old country when the czars were being tyrants.

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

Beckler... I'm guessing if that was your grandfathers last name he was a Volga German? I'm sure he would be sad to see Minnesota becoming a Bolshevik state!

[@signorasforza354]

@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip Not necessary Volga German. There were many German colonists living in Ukraine. There are still ethnic german living in Ukraine since 18-19 century.

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

@signorasforza354 @signorasforza354 Yes I'm pretty well educated on the subject as my Argentinian wifes father's family were Volga German expelled by the bolsheviks and her mothers family were Germans who were forced to flee the ethnic cleansing by the Bolsheviks when they tookover East Prussia during and after the war. Most Germans came to Russia under Cathrine the Great and settled in Southern Russia and a few areas in eastern Ukraine. They were given farm land and autonomy and allowed to retain their language and traditions. These germans that came to the Russian empire during that time were known collectively as "Volga germans". When the bolsheviks took over they took their land and forced them to settle in the city of Engels (I can't remember the former German name of the city before they were expelled) and created a German Oblast (Can't remember the name of it either lol) then when during and after the war they were deported and or killed.

[@signorasforza354]

@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip ruzzkie were also starving them in 1920s (now they are claming that it was natural famine and that it were Ruzzkie starving there, while it was never a ruzzkie region) and in 1938 committed German national nkvd operation. And then claimed that they didn’t start ww2.

[@signorasforza354]

@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip It is good that your wife ancestors escaped ussr before it was too late

[@sdrc92126]

@16:14 The center plank of Marx's Manifesto is "Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state", or 'A central bank'. This is the antithesis of capitalism.

[@gbcb8853]

Yeh, like, who rode to the rescue in 2008? Capitalists?

[@sdrc92126]

@@gbcb8853 "To the Rockefellers, socialism is not a system for redistributing wealth - especially not for redistributing their wealth -but a system to control people and competitors. Socialism puts power in the hands of the government. And since the Rockefellers control the government, government control means Rockefeller control. You may not have known this, but you can be sure they do!" ...The Rockefeller File by Gary Allen

[@HahaDamn]

No it wasn’t?

[@sdrc92126]

@@HahaDamn You can find _The Communist Manifesto_ online. Download and read it. The quote is a cut and paste from the manifesto. I just checked and it's on wikipedia under the demands of communism by Marx.

[@sdrc92126]

@@gbcb8853 my reply is gone

[@scottstambaugh8473]

Lenin was a monster. Just finished a biography on him, and can't find much of anything to admire about him. Even Hitler was less malevolent.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

No need to demonize him. He wanted to be in charge and didn't care much what it took to get there

[@scottstambaugh8473]

@@samsonsoturian6013 No one needs to demonize him: He did that to himself. He is responsible for a mountain of corpses. Can’t imagine why anyone would defend him.

[@RedWolfenstein]

At least old Adolf cared for the German people in his own way and loved them. While Lenin and Stalin truly despised the people.

[@GrubHuncher]

H was like the duality of man personified. Like yin and yang if it was a person. On one hand he loved his mom and animals, he loved children and cartoons, especially Snow White. He loved to paint. Almost everyone who knew him personally said he was very pleasant to be around and was always nice to people around him. His driver said he had occasional moments of impostor syndrome where he couldn't really believe that he was the leader. Supposedly asking, "am I really the emperor?" to which his driver would have to respond by reassuring him that he was, indeed, the emperor. He was idealistic in many respects and seemed to genuinely believe that he was going to create a paradise in the end. On the other hand he had this hyper-realist and cynical view of things. And was not in any way opposed to committing the most heinous possible acts to advance his agenda. He was a totalitarian and a despot, and was willing to stomp on entire groups of people to get his way. He looked down on (I would go so far as to say despised) outsiders, especially those in the east. He signed off on blatantly horrible programs (TIK has videos on them, I have to generally tiptoe around what I'm trying to say here, you can't go into depth on "bad stuff" or as we all know your comment will not post). It was like two different people were living in one body. Very interesting character, especially considering how blatantly cynical and pragmatic most of the other 20th century leaders were.

[@signorasforza354]

@@GrubHuncher Same like every serial maniac. All of them were cool and interesting guys until were not captured

[@joedoe783]

This is one of the best things you've done. Lenin's a guy I know of but not a tonne about, so it's interesting.

[@PefectPiePlace2]

Always good to see a new video, TIK! I can't watch it now, but I look forward to watching it later today. Keep it up, TIK, you are easily the best history youtuber right now.

[@ArthurJohnson-m2r]

Karl Marx actually did have jobs during his life, most notably as a journalist and as a newspaper editor.

[@colonel__klink7548]

@15:28 I think your mistaken here. Your assertion is "the more reform we have the less capitalism we have." The problem is that you don't understand Lenin's objective. He was playing a very common tactic radicals play today. They call it "accelerationist theory." Basically the idea is that the suffering of the common people will cause the revolution. Therefore anything done to relieve their suffering only prolongs the period of suffering by delaying the revolution. Therefore worsening current crisis is the most humane strategy possible. In their minds at least.

[@kenon6968]

That's exactly what he says

[@colonel__klink7548]

@@kenon6968 that's not even close to what he says. Tik asserts that Lenin is trying to develop CAPITALISM by refusing to help those suffering from famine. I point out it considering the context of it all it appears to he accellerationist theory, basically intentionally increasing the suffering on society not to create capitalism but collapse the society so he can have his revolution and rebuild it in his image. These are opposite objectives. Helping develop capitalism is practically reformist compared to lenins revolutionary stance.

[@kenon6968]

I get what you are saying, which is correct, and it's what I thought he was saying, I'll rewatch the section again

[@signorasforza354]

@@colonel__klink7548 commies were starving people long after revolution. And after ww2. So maybe you should read something on the topic?

[@colonel__klink7548]

@@signorasforza354 brief history lesson. In the 1920s the commies defaulted on all debts and seized all property including foreign companies property. As a result the western states would understandably not trade with them. This was essentially a fuedal tech level society that just fought a global war and now years of civil war. Never the less by the late 20s people were at least getting fed. But then the great depression happened. The western capitalist economies were on their knees and were so desperate they'd trade with tbe commies. So Stalin made the deal, Ukrainian grain in exchange for industrial development and technology transfer. He kept firm to these agreements calculating (probably correctly) that this was their only chance. However when bad weather caused an unusually poor agricultural year this meant quite simply put, Stalin was trading Ukrainian lives for British and American technology. In the end the massive Russian capacity to produce weapons and tanks that destroyed the German army came out of this deal. After the war? Dude the soviet union was a empire of rubble. Every major industrial center leveled, all the moved industrial production was tooled for weapons. 60 to 80 million people were dead. The fields were full of bombs. Of course they were starving. And by 1960 the Cia was briefing the us president that the average soviet citizen had a better diet than the average American. We got a real blind spot for our poor. The ussr spent a lot of resources fighting tuberculosis and small pox for the poorest people in the world and ultimately that led them to managing to get the un to agree to campaign to end smallpox once and for all. Too bad it was the sort of brutal government and society that people didn't want to be part of ultimately.

[@AnthonyConstable]

A reminder to abandon all hope as the UK is about to vote in a socialist government. Thanks TIk! ;-)

[@allowit328]

Which party is offering worker control of their workplaces?

[@signorasforza354]

@@allowit328 None. Mommy taught me don’t believe creepy men with magic offers

[@keithplymale2374]

Such an important video Tik I shared it on X and Facebook.

[@makhnothecossack4948]

39:53 Not exactly, as bolshe and menshe can be also translated as hard and soft, meaning hardliners and moderates.

[@mattism.7594]

06:52 "Lenin came from a religious background, which is important because he fell under the religion of socialism" man to good we don't live in a system in which some people defend the wealth of some individual people almost religiously.

[@richardque1036]

Interesting note,hitler grew up in a catholic family

[@william_prescott_ii3277]

Amazing analysis, further discussion of pre-post revolutionary Russia would be great. A delve into the Stolypin Reforms which I would like to hear your opinion about would also be interesting.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

Yes, definitely. Always makes me so sad; so much potential-StoIypin & the reforms that were on the tabIe, with some great things just barely missed.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

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[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

AIso, the 1st haIf of SoIz2ooYrzTgr has a great & *nuanced ovrvw/rsrcs.*

[@signorasforza354]

Not ruzzia, but ruzzian empire. You really don’t call India an Australia England or Austro-Hungarian empire Austria

[@digitallee5006]

"Democratic Dictatorship" Managed Democracy?

[@ksztyrix]

Democracy is dictatorship of majority

[@lights473]

I think it makes perfect sense. Democracy is just socialism applied to politics. Tyranny by a majority against the individual.

[@kenon6968]

The vanguard party embodies all the ideals of the proletariat, unclouded by false consciousness, so whatever they say is democratic since what it decides is in the best interest of the people, and they would choose the same, if they weren't soo stupid... that's the logic, party democracy ran along the similar lines, you were "free" to debate an issue, theoretically without getting shot, but the Politburo actually knows best and had final say...they level of how collective that leadership was varied

[@iwannabethekid34xc]

Legendary thumbnail. Singlehandedly brought me back to the channel. Great work bro.

[@johnnyrocketed2225]

Very well explained. First time I actually understood Lenin and his motivations- without all the fluff.

[@Mferr7]

The 🐐 of YT !! Man 3 weeks is too much in between your vids 😂

[@mikefitzgerald41]

There is a statue of this monster in Seattle 😞

[@bearcubdaycare]

So nobles seized power and imposed feudalism. Is it surprising? Even modern self described Marxist Black Lives Matter, used funds to buy mansions. Members of the ruling circle in China are far richer than the average American member of Congress, by orders of magnitude. A former king of England was quite taken with National Socialism, but never showed an urge to experience less than opulent wealth. Why is socialism=feudalism so hard to see, with all the myriad examples, and the pseudo intellectualism used to promote it so palpably amateur (like a noble just making stuff up at a garden party)?

[@123100ozzy]

this video is extremely prescious. only you could do it TIK. amazing, filled with sources, we need more of this about communism.

[@AlexanderRodriguez-rs7xo]

Thank you so much for all the information.

[@vStoned]

they promise diamonds but pay in sand

[@kenon6968]

We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us

[@dannydacheedo1592]

I don't understand your dislike of altruism. I understand that you cannot expect people to be altruistic (since that just isn't human nature) but that doesn't make it wrong. Being a little altruism (but not so much you get taken advantage of) is a positive trait

[@Dario-uj6qo]

My take is that he dislikes more when people force it to others or try to make them sacrifice themselves for others at the same of not really helping those in need or actually helping those narcisistic who don't need help and just take advantage of others. At the end that's what happens with these ideologies, they don't really help nor intend to help people, just make it so people waste their lifes for others in exchange of barely anything, wich obviously aside that unethical isn't worthy

[@dannydacheedo1592]

@@Dario-uj6qo so it's just expecting altruism from others that's the problem? That makes more sense

[@Dario-uj6qo]

@@dannydacheedo1592 no, i don't think it is neceserally. If I recall correctly when he talks about he does in the context of it being forced by others or to expect others to give you things because you are entitled to do so. If someone chooses to be altruistic because it comes from them while not hurting them I think it is something he wouldn't be againts based on what he is talked, while if someone just desires to be helped (for whatever reason) but do not get into being entitled to think they have the right to have others to waste their time/resourses into them then I think the same would be applied here. That's the problem, when your narcisism makes it so you get to have others to have it worse just because you want to have it better, basically that you think you have the right to take advantage of others or make it so people have the same mentally in order to support you under the false message that it is for a good cause or something beneficial, when it is just a lie to justify their greed

[@DeadpanPear]

@@Dario-uj6qo You have a downright satanic view of humanity. You need God.

[@RedWolfenstein]

I'm only altruistic towards those I care about such as family or extended family

[@pathutchison7688]

All of the people you’ve spoken about here seem to have absolutely no understanding of what a human being is and what motivates a human to actually do things.

[@rufusray]

Tik you make life worth living

[@barsukascool]

@@rufusray holy WHAT

[@jacobrosa7653]

I can’t thank you enough. I throughly enjoy every video you put out.

[@AlexFoxZZZ]

I really hope TIK will one day do a big dive into the history of late Russian Empire. It is arguably the most misrepresented and lied about segment of history. Despite it's significance, this period has mostly been covered by communist historians, who often lied for the sake of justifying the bolsheviks and their actions. The caricatures of backwardness, impotence and violent greed that these historians drew were never challenged, neither abroad nor inside Russia, except for some modern fringe russian nationalists, whose ideas haven't reached the mainstream perception anywhere yet.

[@kenon6968]

What positives could anyone pick out of Romanov autocracy? Especially if your autocrat is an imbecile

[@signorasforza354]

ruzzian nationalists who praising Ramzan Kadyrov😂

[@marklegomancartoons2310]

так если никто не отрицал все тобой перечисленное, не значит ли что так оно и было? А насчет идей... видимо как раз тебя они и достигли

[@MisterDogg]

There’s an old statue of Lenin still standing in a busy part of Seattle. It’s displayed on private property. (Ba-dum-chya)

[@richardque1036]

Statue of satan

[@senry.]

From the thumbnail alone I can tell this video will be fantastic 😂

[@paulcostello1807]

From the thumbnail alone I can surmise it might be click bait. I should watch it all and form an independent critical opinion. Do you think it's possible that other forces acted as influences from outside Russia?? I would love to deep dive or just cross reference this guy. Could be a mouth piece for an ngo

[@igorzlobinski738]

Your psychoanalysis of Lenin's behavioral pattern was mind-blowing for me. Thank you very much TIK

[@bigmouthstrikesagain4056]

Great to see you back at it tik

[@MadMoler]

Tik does it again.

[@honk813]

Whilst I may not be as interested in communism as I used to be, Tik somehow makes me always hop on, maybe one day you could make a documentary about the crusades, as such a topic is what I’m most interested at the moment

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

I offer you this: (And to ck the rsrcs in the dscrp of my 🖥️on this-reaIIy expndd my WV)

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

It hasn’t been 🧢 v. Cmm, but Freedom/FreeMks v. CnBk-Attempts at cntrI 0f mks & rsrcs (incl. ‘over-abundant’ humans).

[@manuelcoutinho9426]

"the state will wither away" only makes sense if you think everyone is dead (since they can't possibly mean they like capitalism)

[@randomka1]

Superb video as always mate, keep them coming !

[@larsgotting423]

Dear TIK, first of all I love your work, great job! I don't agree with erverything you say, but you certainly have given me a lot to think about and challenged some of the things I considered a given fact. I stumbled onto your channel via accident and endet up binge-watching your Battlestormvideos from the North-African campaign. At the face of it, a rather dull topic, listing of involved units, commanders, etc. But you made it so entertaining and gave so much backround info, just awesome! Since I'm german I have to be honest, your pronounciation is terrible^^ Having watched a lot of different of you videos including some that are several years old, I just wanted to give you some tips on how to better pronounce german names or words. The main difficulty for englishspeakers are "Umlaute" because they don't exist in english. "ü" like in Günther or "ä" like in Märchen (fairytale) "ö" like in Göring no equivalent, for simplicity just go with "u, a, o" its close enough "au" like in Bauer would be "ow" in english like Browning "eu" no equivalent, pronouncing it "u" close enough "ai; ay; ei; ey" like in Seydlitz or Bayerlein are just "i" in english "ie" like in Wiener Würstchen (vienna saussage) would be english "ei" like in receiver or "ee" like in weed "sch" equals "sh" in englisch "z" and "tz" in german are both pronounced like the latter, so "Panzer" in german sounds not like panser, but pantzer, hope that makes sense "ch" at the beginning of a word is just like "english character" "german Charakter" equals "k" "ch" at the end of a word like in Bach (small river/stream) no equivalent, we would say sounds like the Swiss laugh^^ A friend of mine once told me, that Eichhörnchen (squirrel) would be the hardest german word for englishspeakers 😂 More on topic with the video, do you know of any state in human history that was actually 100% governed by capitalism? Only free market, no interference by any laws like taxes, subsidies or other regulations. You got me thinking that socialism in its core concept is right, only captalism can destroy capitalism. But since there always was a state and laws that interfered with the free market, we never actually had true capitalism. Would love for your thoughts on this matter. In my opinion such a system would self destruct in a matter of months or cupple of years at most, since inevitably monopolies would form and eradicate the free market that made them possible in the first place. Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing more of you :)