Marx: A Complete Guide to Capitalism

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Then & Now

Then & Now

Күн бұрын

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@ThenNow
@ThenNow Күн бұрын
If you want a bibliography, recommended reading list, with comments on the books and the order you should read them in, PLUS if you want to support the channel AND get bonus videos like a mini course on 'thinking like a historian' PLUS (yes, there's more!) these videos ad-free and early, join the Then & Now Patreon community at: www.patreon.com/thenandnow
@realchoodle
@realchoodle Күн бұрын
Locking your bibliography behind a pay wall seems strange. The other stuff makes sense.
@ThenNow
@ThenNow Күн бұрын
@@realchoodle The bibliography is cited through the video for free, but these videos take a lot to make and are only possible with Patreon, so I've turned my recommendations into a document with some comments for Patreons.
@realchoodle
@realchoodle Күн бұрын
@@ThenNow Oh fair. Probably should have double checked before commenting.
@ExiledGypsy
@ExiledGypsy 20 сағат бұрын
When I was in university, I met an American who told me that he was in England to study Marx since at the time (mid 70s) that was not possible in the U.S. Things have changed, but only partially. I wonder how this video would have been received if it were part of hoax of discovery of a secret diary of say J. F. K. Or one of these Bible thumbing pastors. Given the general gullibility of Americans, provided it was presented in appropriate disguise, I tend to speculate that it would become a best seller with people like Jordan Peterson waving it around like a little red book. It might not lead to any change, but it might lead to a new type of enlightenment. I have always thought Marx was not prescribing what Lenin or Mao interpreted. Marx was imagining how things might change with education and his only sin was that he was an optimist and didn't know human nature. That is that he didn't the know about the indisputable natural phenomenon that for the sake of evolution sympathetic nervous system must always override the parasympathetic part because unless life survives there would be no need for a parasympathetic system. You can't get any further from non-materialism than this. It is the very makeup of physiology of life. From that simple observation you can see why Marx prediction were bound to be wrong.
@derpfaddesweisen
@derpfaddesweisen Күн бұрын
No way! Over two hours of Marx, you are seizing my means of doing anything i planned to do right now!
@leonardopatrizio
@leonardopatrizio Күн бұрын
Siezing your means of being productive this afternoon
@derpfaddesweisen
@derpfaddesweisen Күн бұрын
​@@leonardopatrizio I have nothing to lose but my internet access.
@colonelweird
@colonelweird Күн бұрын
Today's modes of production are well and truly fucked. Not that I'm complaining!
@UCjNrKLyRJI-abFA8qiNo92Q
@UCjNrKLyRJI-abFA8qiNo92Q Күн бұрын
he's seizing the video quality from other videos about marx too
@SueDonim-iy6ml
@SueDonim-iy6ml 21 сағат бұрын
Neither communism nor capitalism has produced a functioning lightsaber.
@epochphilosophy
@epochphilosophy Күн бұрын
It finally happened! Super stoked to watch.
@freddiepullman5132
@freddiepullman5132 Күн бұрын
I won't get the chance to sit and watch this start to finish for a while, but MAN I cannot wait til that moment comes. Commenting to help out with the algorithm!
@iwouldreallyprefernotto
@iwouldreallyprefernotto Күн бұрын
When the world needed him the most, he returned with the G.O.A.T
@akhashverosh3555
@akhashverosh3555 22 сағат бұрын
Marx's famous analysis of history is encapsulated in the opening line of The Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
@ЛевМышкин-ъ5к
@ЛевМышкин-ъ5к 20 сағат бұрын
Concept of the class struggle was developed by french scholars of the mid 18 century. They also had described the economic reality, which creates classes and makes them oppose each other. Marx contribution is the assertion that this struggle will be resolved in post-class society.
@Abcxyz-n6j
@Abcxyz-n6j Күн бұрын
amazing work done here. a video-essay/documentary on Marx which is both accessible and comprehensive. I will definitely be recommending this to people as a perfect introduction to Marx's thought.
@ANewHuman
@ANewHuman Күн бұрын
I am a simple man. I see a new 2 hour Then & Now video, I click.
@JohnMoseley
@JohnMoseley Күн бұрын
Hey! It's here! And there was me today walking down Oxford St. today and thinking, 'I just feel so alienated.'
@low_sky9
@low_sky9 Күн бұрын
Wonderful, you did a work here that should be praised, turning introduction to Marx so accessible, without losing it's senses. Congratulations, I hope a lot of people do watch this video as a whole, and not only the ones with left tendencies.
@nopasaran191
@nopasaran191 Күн бұрын
I literally yelled fuck yeah when I saw this video pop up
@epochphilosophy
@epochphilosophy Күн бұрын
Same, same.
@nopasaran191
@nopasaran191 Күн бұрын
@@epochphilosophy I got that initial feeling of excitement when I saw the thumbnail but once my eyes made it to the timestamp I threw my first up and yelled out. I don’t think I even waited to read the title at first to make sure it wasn’t titled like “why he sucks” because I saw dude in the thumbnail and knew that wasn’t gonna be the case
@gavinmcphie6936
@gavinmcphie6936 Күн бұрын
I won't have time to watch this for a while but I think this channel is incredible and I'd happily comment for engagement's sake
@lonepantalones8284
@lonepantalones8284 Күн бұрын
Had sat down to watch something at lunch and thought, maybe I'll watch an old Then&Now vid... and was greeted with this feature length Marx vid. Booyakasha!
@TwigRig
@TwigRig 12 күн бұрын
What a fantastic video - remaining accessible while tackling so many components of Marx. I will definitely recommend this as an introduction, although its breadth will naturally be overwhelming for any newcomer.
@rankcue6824
@rankcue6824 23 сағат бұрын
You crushed the Hegel video, now this? Thank you!!!
@karenbarto5057
@karenbarto5057 22 сағат бұрын
I was so confused, bc I have seen this (awesome video!!!) already -- I forgot I watched it as soon as it came out on Patreon. 😁 Amazing work, thank you so much.
@Jackieception
@Jackieception Күн бұрын
who needs college when we have this... absolute based gem, thanks for making this dude
@Bojoschannel
@Bojoschannel Күн бұрын
At the end of the day, Marx's most important message and the one that has kept me as a marxist thru the years, is the freeing of humanity from abstractions, be it gods, magic, kings, the market, capital or whatever, and opening the possibility for us truly becoming "human" (post human?). Can't wait to see this!
@Barklord
@Barklord Күн бұрын
Marx freed humanity from abstractions? I thought Aporia and Ch'an did that.
@LPSlight0
@LPSlight0 Күн бұрын
This also ties into one of the critical theories of Nazis being defined as seekers of destroying abstraction. The obvious examples of this were their disdain for modern art like abstract expressionism or conceptual art- reactionaries hating the Fountain (Duchamp) come to mind- or their systematic attacks on academia and higher education. But the ideological history of Nazis comes from Italian fascism, which has its hands in both irrationalism, the idea that emotions and feelings should be prized over reason, and something I call actionism- a form of anti-intellectualism whereby contemplation and abstract thinking are detested (the passive intellectual) and the concrete and practical are elevated are valuable intrinsically (the active intellectual). Moving along, Italian fascism was a response to the alienation felt within capitalism. It sought to end alienation through nationalism and perpetual war, so folks would feel comfortable subordinating themselves to the capitalist machine if they thought it was necessary for their survival and the survival and prosperity of the nation-state. So Italian fascism was at least symbolically anti-capitalist, and Nazism took after that tradition and this is seen in their official name- National Socialist German Workers' Party. When we think about capitalism, it is an incredibly abstract system with invisible working parts involving larger-than-life ideas. Finances, markets, banking, money, commodities, production, natural resource extraction, homogeneous labor, etc. It seems to create real-life consequences-like economic crises, poverty, unemployment, inflation, and deprivation of basic necessities- through purely fictitious and abstract means, some kind of invisible force that exerts an influence on the concrete life of humans from seemingly another dimension. Because anti-semitism in the 19th and 20th centuries implicated Jews to be the symbol of this abstract "international finance" system responsible for so many problems, the Nazis projected their internalized property relations and alienation regarding the abstract nature of the world *onto* the Jews, turning them into a scapegoat that must be sacrificed (through the Holocaust) in order to release this inner collective tension felt by the Germans-don't forget that most Nazis came from middle class or below backgrounds so they were most affected by the workings of capitalism. As a result, fascism and communism are both opposing responses to the same underlying phenomena: abstraction. But while communism identifies highly abstract systems and seeks to destroy those systems such as the state, capitalism, money, class, etc. Fascism identifies highly abstract PEOPLE (and nations) and seeks to destroy them through genocide, slavery, war, ecocide, and occupation.
@Bojoschannel
@Bojoschannel Күн бұрын
@@Barklord no he didn't...
@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744
@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744 Күн бұрын
@@BojoschannelContradiction is not an Argument. I came in here for a good argument.
@Barklord
@Barklord Күн бұрын
​@Bojoschannel This is the No Theory Required faction of Post-Leninist-Marxism.
@FreyrDK
@FreyrDK Күн бұрын
28:22 made me spit hamburger all over my screen. Now my brand new shining gaming laptop feels alienated and is protesting against my exploitative use of it. Thanks.
@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744
@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744 Күн бұрын
Chapter 10 well done. Cuts right through the fog of culture war.
@johnayers2483
@johnayers2483 20 сағат бұрын
I can’t believe I haven’t subscribed until this episode. I’ve been freeloading for so long. Please forgive me!
@jmeals1
@jmeals1 Күн бұрын
16:31 He said the thing!
@Le0mas
@Le0mas Күн бұрын
This actually feels like video-essay is an appropriate term, great job in that!
@Miximinium
@Miximinium Күн бұрын
It's been a long time. I should reread Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to refresh myself with Pirsig's philosophical breakdown of value and quality and see how it layers over Marx's theory of value in labor
@Barklord
@Barklord Күн бұрын
I'm always a bit frustrated with the way Idealism and Materialism are presented as so opposed to one another. Surely, it is true that our material/phenomenological circumstances shape our subjectivity, and that includes the ideologies we inherit from family and education. But Plato says these very things as well in the Republic (reading Robin Waterfield's OWC translation now), and he's considered the prototypical idealist. Hegel, in fact, was hugely influenced by the neoplatonist named Proclus, but Proclus viewed the phenomena of a place in the 'material' world as the luminous vehicle of the Psyche. Psyche was thoroughly embodied. I don’t believe it diminishes Marx's analytical accomplishments to say this. I just think his (Marx's) temperament and metaphysics are more like Aristotle's than Plato's.
@colonelweird
@colonelweird Күн бұрын
I think it only makes sense to view the idealism vs materialism binary strictly within the historical context of 19th century philosophy. Marx was responding strictly to the "idealism" of his day. It just muddles things to broaden it out beyond that.
@Barklord
@Barklord Күн бұрын
​​@@colonelweird Maybe, but Marx was responding directly to the Hegelian influence, and that was influenced by Christian and Hermetic platonisms. Edit: And we see a very strict subculture of materialist/anti-idealists on youtube who've not actually engaged with idealisms beyond what is usually just ideological disagreement.
@NightRogue77
@NightRogue77 Күн бұрын
I’ll never understand the propensity for philosophical conversation to constantly revolve around the dissemination/evaluation of prior thinkers. Those that came before lead us to where we are, so I question the wisdom of placing SO much time and attention on these old ideas.
@Barklord
@Barklord Күн бұрын
​@NightRogue77 How do you interpret the nighttime torch horse relay-race at the festival of Bendis? Or the shadows on the wall of the cave?
@teleblisters
@teleblisters Күн бұрын
Marx doesn't have a metaphysical view, dialectical materialism was formalized by Engels. Marx's materialism is strictly historical and developed out of a critique of the perceived teleology of Absolute Idealism. Even his materialist 'critique' of religion was not so much a rebuke to metaphysics as much as an exercise in going from Feuerbach's anthropologizing 'what is the truth?' of God to his own 'what is the truth of the illusion?' As he says in his Theses: “that the secular basis detaches itself from itself and establishes itself as an independent realm in the clouds can only be explained by the cleavages and self-contradictions within this secular basis. The latter must, therefore, in itself be both understood in its contradiction and revolutionized in practice” In other words, the realm of theology is the result of real material contradictions man faces, and may only be resolved through resolving these material contradictions. The idea that the antinomies of philosophy have their basis and therefore resolution in resolving the contradictions within material reality Feenberg calls (taking Gramsci's term) the 'philosophy of praxis.' From here Marx focuses on the inner logic of mode of productions as the driving force of historical change, though not without affording agency to the people within it. His primary motivation is to develop a theory of real abstraction, a form of impersonal domination rooted neither in relations of direct domination nor ideological distortions but the unique material relations of man in the capitalist mode of production.
@illcommunicvtion
@illcommunicvtion Күн бұрын
Amazing work here my friend.
@KamKamKamKam
@KamKamKamKam 19 сағат бұрын
You guys are wrong when saying that the "transformation problem" poses a problem to Marx's theory of value. It's a misinterpretation of the theory of value that leads to the transformation problem. Marx himself doesn't commit the error, so there is no "transformation problem" in his theory. Some other people, such as Answar Shaikh, disagree with Marx on some points and have a different interpretation of the theory of value. And the transformation problem is a problem to THEIR interpretation. Their interpretation directly leads to the problem, and they then try to find a way to work around it. But Marx interpretation doesn't have this problem to begin with. I can explain more, if someone else is also confused about that so called "problem". And if someone is curious about the difference between Marx's interpretation and that of those other thinkers (who run into the problem), I suggest checking out Andrew Kliman's book about Marx's Capital. He explain in depth where the misinterpretation comes from and why the problem isn't real.
@larryamisola
@larryamisola Күн бұрын
I Highly recommend this video. More power to your channel. 🎉
@jrkirby93
@jrkirby93 Күн бұрын
I think of the labor theory of value not as a descriptive theory, but as a normative theory. From that perspective, it's not wrong, it's just unrealized.
@jayzbreemo
@jayzbreemo 19 сағат бұрын
It’s not wrong as a descriptive theory. In terms of goods across industries, surplus outputs are directly proportional to labour inputs. This is easily tested and proven, like in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m57RioCcn76bZ7Msi=ecJlNKYMTqqks9Eq
@darillus1
@darillus1 Күн бұрын
Marx in a straightforward easily digestible form, fantastic video essay T&N!
@english4freedom
@english4freedom 19 сағат бұрын
Thank you! :)
@natywubet2175
@natywubet2175 18 сағат бұрын
Thank you so muchhh for uploading this, i know it took many work, i really respect you
@cre8erz
@cre8erz Күн бұрын
Be like Marx, join the revolutionary communist international 🚩🚩
@jonitrebicka5804
@jonitrebicka5804 Күн бұрын
amazing work!
@rodrigobarroso6075
@rodrigobarroso6075 23 сағат бұрын
Thank you so much for your top-notch work!
@faisalmuhammad6908
@faisalmuhammad6908 Күн бұрын
Great video, but my god, the caption is atrocious.
@hoseasheen
@hoseasheen 18 сағат бұрын
Love your video and your work as always, but you've mispronounced 'Feuerbach' I believe.
@user-wl2xl5hm7k
@user-wl2xl5hm7k Күн бұрын
Even _Chomsky_ made the horrendous continuous-mistake of telling people to vote for Democrats. You have to fully oppose Noam Chomsky telling you that, _and also all these media “journalists” for the Ds or Rs of the duopoly._
@stav-tt3vg
@stav-tt3vg Күн бұрын
Parenti is the Goat . He expose Chomsky in Blackshirts and Reds
@Barklord
@Barklord Күн бұрын
Even Ralph Nader said it repeatedly back in the 90s.
@aturchomicz821
@aturchomicz821 Күн бұрын
Ok Trumpist🤣🤣
@truthbetold8233
@truthbetold8233 Күн бұрын
WAT
@user-wl2xl5hm7k
@user-wl2xl5hm7k Күн бұрын
@@truthbetold8233 YAP
@DugongClock
@DugongClock Күн бұрын
Alienation, for Marx, is not a feeling. This is a tired and incorrect reading. Its too often abused as a muddled catch all concept that is used in the place of various phenomena to avoid saying something concrete. It’s a functional fact of property. I am quite literally estranged from my labor activity and its product not because I don’t feel like I see myself in it, but because I do determine it nor own the product. The firm does. I am estranged in actuality from my fellow worker as we compete for job positions. I am estranged from the world because I own none of it, despite everyday contributing to its creation. Althusser’s assertion of the young/late Marx dichotomy was rigorously disproven and even abandoned by him. It requires we pretend the Grundrisse doesn’t exist, a text which ought to have been mentioned. Alienation was never abandoned, it’s overcoming is the practical abolition of property. It also would have been helpful to dive into the “is/ought” dichotomy, particular Hegel’s critique of it, rather than just asserting it. Also, Marx did not wish to combine economics and philosophy, but just as with religion, thought himself to be going beyond these schools through their critique. Hence Capital being “A Critique of Political Economy”, or his earlier critique of philosophy as such.
@Alex-jj1jx
@Alex-jj1jx Күн бұрын
Alienstion is both a feeling and a socio-economic reality for Marx. It's a socio-economic reality felt by the worker. So saying alienation is a feeling isn't wrong, just incomplete.
@DugongClock
@DugongClock Күн бұрын
@@Alex-jj1jx I am discussing specifically how Marx develops the concept. Not to be conflated with other uses or misappropriations. You can “feel” alienated, just as you can feel like you’ve been robbed, but the feeling is not equal to the actuality of the situation. If I feel like I see myself in my work, but I’m a wage worker without ownership of my product, I am still alienated from my labor in reality.
@oisingunning7483
@oisingunning7483 21 сағат бұрын
He mentioned the Grundrisse several times man
@124Outdoor
@124Outdoor Күн бұрын
Early night tonight. 2 hours early. Cheers for this. 👍🏼
@wolfalshehri6200
@wolfalshehri6200 21 сағат бұрын
Thank you for the exceptional content.
@CraftyArts
@CraftyArts 23 сағат бұрын
Man imagine the human species finally moving away from god like Star Trek tng "who watches the watchers" episode.
@ejdavidson8800
@ejdavidson8800 Күн бұрын
The materialist dialectic is the theory of the proletarian revolution
@shanefoster2132
@shanefoster2132 21 сағат бұрын
23:20 "being alienated, innit?"
@alostplot
@alostplot Күн бұрын
I'm very excited to watch this
@P.Aether
@P.Aether Күн бұрын
2:12:59 This is so much Hegel
@kwisin1337
@kwisin1337 Күн бұрын
Summit this to education institutions for knowledge based learning. This is such a high-grade, high-quality, breakdown of Karl Marx.
@harryburganjr.969
@harryburganjr.969 Күн бұрын
Wake up babe, Then and Now just dropped a Marx video
@JohnAranita
@JohnAranita Күн бұрын
Thanx, Marx.
@stuntvist
@stuntvist Күн бұрын
The transformation problem has long been "solved", as it hinges entirely on the assumption that rates of profit will equalize over time, yet it has been reasonably argued that it is not the case. Therefore no transformation problem exists in the labour theory of value. It wasn't necessarily a problem to begin with, but alas it has largely been resolved.
@DugongClock
@DugongClock Күн бұрын
I cringed when he brought up Althusser’s abandoned late/early Marx dichotomy. I haven’t even got to the part where he brings up the so-called “transformation problem”. A pretend problem which was born of misunderstanding and nevertheless provided fodder for an embarrassing amount of academic discourse surrounding it. I don’t understand why he’d waste time in this video talking about irrelevant intellectual fashions which popped up a century after Marx’s death.
@5driedgrams
@5driedgrams Күн бұрын
Amazing work! Cadê os camaradas do Brasil?
@SeeMeTalk
@SeeMeTalk 20 сағат бұрын
Long live "Then & Now"💪💪💪🏻
@bloodyairforceones
@bloodyairforceones Күн бұрын
Thank you so much ❤
@vanleeuwenhoek
@vanleeuwenhoek Күн бұрын
Insert histrionic statement of one's enthusiasm here.
@GiffyPooh
@GiffyPooh 21 сағат бұрын
Left is best
@ubik5453
@ubik5453 21 сағат бұрын
How about we try a bit of Anarchism🏴🚩...wink wink 😉
@alewiina
@alewiina Күн бұрын
Oh hell yes a new Then & Now vid?? So excited! :D
@lorriechristian7164
@lorriechristian7164 Күн бұрын
Marx had always seen that capitalism would see the maximization of profits, but leave working people stagnant and in desperate need for resources. He took a scientific approach to observing the practices of capitalists and saw where it would lead to. Once people collectively start to listen, maybe we'll be free.
@Craig121000
@Craig121000 Күн бұрын
You're responsible for yourself being poor.
@lorriechristian7164
@lorriechristian7164 Күн бұрын
@@Craig121000 Have a good day.
@lucqq3792
@lucqq3792 Күн бұрын
​@@Craig121000 your parents being poor has a massive impact on social mobility. is that really your responsibility? free will is an acceptable argument (in extremely small doses) but the science does not agree with you ultimately.
@Craig121000
@Craig121000 Күн бұрын
Absolutely Lorrie, I've been having a great time not being impacted by inflation. I'll be lovely and warm, again, this winter. 😁
@shtarpark7938
@shtarpark7938 Күн бұрын
@@Craig121000 And yet you seek gratification...maybe sexual, but I'm not kink-shaming...from trying to wind people up with silly comments. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems you are maybe even more needier than most people.
@thekaratekidpartii2169
@thekaratekidpartii2169 Күн бұрын
you should watch Jonathan Meades.
@clintmichigan9112
@clintmichigan9112 23 сағат бұрын
You want long from videos? I'll show you looooooong form videos
@adrianobastardi
@adrianobastardi 20 сағат бұрын
But no one wants to change the world for the worse.
@benwarnock
@benwarnock 17 сағат бұрын
Way ahead of his time.. AI will make it all possible
@DaleColeman
@DaleColeman 20 сағат бұрын
Let’s goooooooo!!!
@admin00
@admin00 Күн бұрын
Love him or hate him, he is still right, capitalism still has the same problems, and would have disagreed with the leninism of USSR and China.
@turpinglipper9171
@turpinglipper9171 17 сағат бұрын
Magnum Opus Lewis.
@AnthonyLongboarding
@AnthonyLongboarding Күн бұрын
Christ, this video is too agood
@glatzo7709
@glatzo7709 Күн бұрын
Omg yes thank you
@irsh2072
@irsh2072 22 сағат бұрын
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@BadZomby
@BadZomby Күн бұрын
Another masterpiece video.... Thank you for the hard work ! ❤
@chadmarx7718
@chadmarx7718 23 сағат бұрын
algo comment!!
@mohomarbaraki9000
@mohomarbaraki9000 Күн бұрын
The most monumental event of the year.
@SneakySteevy
@SneakySteevy Күн бұрын
« Accuse your enemy of what you are doing as you are doing it to create confusion. » Karl Marx
@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744
@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744 Күн бұрын
I am going to recommend this to a favourite high school humanities teacher. You can safely do so in some places ❣️🇨🇦
@arslanaslam8183
@arslanaslam8183 Күн бұрын
Was desperately waiting for this to come out. Finally!
@MehmetYılmaz-j9g
@MehmetYılmaz-j9g Күн бұрын
I really wonder the music being played in the beginning part of the video
@Cannabonsai
@Cannabonsai Күн бұрын
Omg!! I'm so happy, thanks for making this. Been looking up a lot of Marx videos recently
@Tocoolant
@Tocoolant Күн бұрын
No communist in here. But Marx paved the way to a more constructive understanding of society. This is simply a fact.
@pierogipower3075
@pierogipower3075 Күн бұрын
Just as I started reading capital yesterday lol perfect timing
@scottandcoke1342
@scottandcoke1342 Күн бұрын
I wash myself with a rag on a stick
@joecage7394
@joecage7394 Күн бұрын
My man! It's always a good day when there's a new video. Cheers!
@michaelogle9547
@michaelogle9547 Күн бұрын
Mmmmm delicious
@dipkhatiwada836
@dipkhatiwada836 Күн бұрын
holy shit dude
@MW-me7vn
@MW-me7vn Күн бұрын
LFG
@adamseckas
@adamseckas Күн бұрын
brother has balls for posting this
@bobjary9382
@bobjary9382 Күн бұрын
Surely not ?
@SneakySteevy
@SneakySteevy Күн бұрын
Spinoza is much more influential than Marx on every levels.
@FreyrDK
@FreyrDK Күн бұрын
It's not a contest, nobody cares who's more influential. It's about the content.
@SneakySteevy
@SneakySteevy Күн бұрын
@@FreyrDK it’s always a contest
@FreyrDK
@FreyrDK Күн бұрын
@@SneakySteevy In the terms of effect, yes. But neoliberal ideology is also very effective, that doesn't make it better than Marx. Either way, I don't recall Spinoza's philosophy having lead to an almost direct overthrow of half of regimes worldwide. Why do you think Spinoza is more influential? I'm not hating on Spinoza by the way.
@user-wl2xl5hm7k
@user-wl2xl5hm7k Күн бұрын
*1 of 2. This is how you always need to vote worldwide-* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including *Tim Walz, Kamala Harris,* AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Mark Pocan, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge. *2 of 2. This is how you always need to vote worldwide-* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including *Trump,* RFK Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
@TheStarBlack
@TheStarBlack Күн бұрын
There is no way to vote ourselves out of capitalism. The capitalists own and control the whole system. Trusting our current 'democracy' to deliver change is a multi-generational waste of our time. We cannot revolt because there is no mass appetite for revolution. So what remains, if we want change, is to build that change from the grassroots up. Prove to the indoctrinated that there is a viable alternative. Let's not waste our time on political parties and elections. We should use your lives to build something progressive and anti-capitalist in our communities. Build a network with others, demonstrate the reality of putting people before profit. Here are some ideas: start a profit sharing co-operative business that doesn't exploit people or the environment, start a local solar energy network with your neighbours, work to help people who are struggling to survive, join a food bank, start a communal vegetable garden, volunteer at a community repair workshop. Most of all, we need to unite against the established forces of greed and exploitation.
@NightRogue77
@NightRogue77 Күн бұрын
Dude. Shut up.
@DugongClock
@DugongClock Күн бұрын
This is like begging you to use the suggestion box at work. It won’t do shit to save us. Democracy is and always has been an ideal which hides the dictatorship of the bourgeois. We will not ask the bourgeois to be nice. “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
@aturchomicz821
@aturchomicz821 Күн бұрын
You are genuinely among the dumbest people on "Left-Tube". No logic, no strategy, only rants that are made up of fears and insecurity. Just sad really.
@bulletsandbracelets4140
@bulletsandbracelets4140 20 сағат бұрын
@@TheStarBlack You can do all of this while also spending 5 minutes to vote for the side that doesn't want to immediately tear down everything you want to build at their first possible opportunity. One party is apathetic towards you. The other is rabidly against you. The choice is pretty obvious. You can also vote in more progressive Dems in the primaries. We've made progress that way. This doesn't have to be all one or all the other.
@alexanderkorte-stapff6824
@alexanderkorte-stapff6824 Күн бұрын
Can't wait to find out why my previous extensive studies of Marx have been wildly insufficient!
@nny2055
@nny2055 Күн бұрын
もういらんやろ流石に。この手のやつは
@Robert_McGarry_Poems
@Robert_McGarry_Poems Күн бұрын
It's a dialectic social partnership. It has to be because without the social, the dialectic can't exist. Language only forms through disparity between the other. The existentialism of sharing space with each other in the first place.
@handeggchan1057
@handeggchan1057 Күн бұрын
Wow, can't believe Then & Now has gone WOKE
@daudimasinde6280
@daudimasinde6280 Күн бұрын
Considering that you can barely spell and punctuate a 9 word sentence it’s fair to say that pretty much every concept covered in this video went over your head. That’s just sad.
@handeggchan1057
@handeggchan1057 Күн бұрын
@@daudimasinde6280 you're right, and I'm definitely being 100% serious about Marx being "woke"
@NikosKoutsilieris
@NikosKoutsilieris Күн бұрын
You people are just illiterate. Only buzzwords. Can you explain what woke is and then go on and explain why marx is indeed "woke" ;
@nimged8952
@nimged8952 Күн бұрын
They went woke 8 years ago 😢
@handeggchan1057
@handeggchan1057 Күн бұрын
@@NikosKoutsilieris Marx is woke because explaining class relations under capitalism and applying DiaMat makes me feel bad for expropriaters and other bourgeois elements 😔
@cosmic-Xplosion
@cosmic-Xplosion Күн бұрын
gott seid dank ❤❤❤
@Dark_Tesla
@Dark_Tesla Күн бұрын
WE IN HERE!!!
@hjeriz
@hjeriz Күн бұрын
is this guy a red?
@Tocoolant
@Tocoolant Күн бұрын
Almost certainly a Socialist in european common terms. Communist? Bits of it possibly... but I don't see him having any sympathy for any kind of dictatorship..
@MagisterialVoyager
@MagisterialVoyager Күн бұрын
Let’s go!
@HugoArgentina
@HugoArgentina Күн бұрын
The intro was pretty funny!
@ThoreKoelemeijer
@ThoreKoelemeijer Күн бұрын
HELL YEA
@zlorrrrrf
@zlorrrrrf Күн бұрын
0.5% of the population in the UK. In the US, they're 2%.
@Deus_Galicus
@Deus_Galicus Күн бұрын
How funny it is, i had to start one of the books explaining marxism this evening, and drop the phone. I'm cooked now, i habe to go through thos now
@AggyRAT
@AggyRAT Күн бұрын
Yippee
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