Lenin before the Russian Revolution
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- This is the history of Lenin before the Russian Revolution of 1917. We'll discuss the rise of the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions within Russian Socialism, as well as how Lenin adapted Karl Marx's theories to the economic, social and politicial situation in Russia.
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History isn’t as boring as some people think, and my goal is to get people talking about it. I also want to dispel the myths and distortions that ruin our perception of the past by asking a simple question - “But is this really the case?”. I have a 2:1 Degree in History and a passion for early 20th Century conflicts (mainly WW2). I’m therefore approaching this like I would an academic essay. Lots of sources, quotes, references and so on. Only the truth will do.
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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.
Biden?
@@fernandez3841Biden: rich lawyer😊
That is EXACTLY what we have done in Canada
@fernandez3841 He was a lawyer and a landlord before becoming a politician. So yeah, he doesn't really fit the list.
@@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.
But was he a real socialist?
Well, nobody is a "real" socialist, according to the "real" socialists
Nah another power hungry psychopath hiding behind a banner of socialism
@@TheImperatorKnightnot even marx was 😔
@@TheImperatorKnight Capitalist propaganda aka logic
He was narc definitely
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.
Hitler
But Hitler wasnt a real socialist😏 Btw kamerad means comrade in german
@@kwestionariusz1 Kameraden = Comrades Plural. Your point being? Alte Kameraden = Old Comrades.
But real communism has never been tried!!!!!! !!!!
They were all real socialists
Sending Lenin to Russia was the worst thing Germany ever did... well except for the other thing.
Definitely if I see the number's
If they had not done the first thing, the table never would have been set for the 2nd thing.
@@johnwolf2829 I agree If communism never griped Russia nazi germany would never have been a thing
Their second mistake wouldn't have happened without the first
@@NeutroniousTemp One grotesque fad leads to another, eh?
"Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the other way around" (old soviet joke, or that they say)
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)
Then why do most E Europeans miss socialism especially Hungary?
@@glebperch7585Because majority of population is dumb
@@melchior2678I don't get it
@@glebperch7585 Conflation of the older generations reminiscing of simpler times with the entire population, a very easily challenged point.
Whoopie!!!! TiK's on again. Waiting for the Tobruk vid, but any TiK video is better than no TiK video. Cheers from Tennessee
Cheers! My editor/animator, Gigz, is currently working on Tobruk, so it's all in motion :)
@@TheImperatorKnight Tell Gigz that the Gazala video was absolutely wonderful. I can't wait. Cheers
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@@chiefslinginbeef3641 Howdy neighbor from West Tennessee.
"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.
Also known as female psychology.
Hatred of self and contempt for life of fellow citizens?
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 😁
@UCmRhlX6jdyG5wh9eOp2vxJw that's the nice lie that covers the murderous intent, just like feminism.
Perfect.
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.
I could probably win in a 1v1 boxing match with him, whats his height and weight?
@@Jduekengnhe was 5’5
Maybe for every photo session he did 250 pictures just for the propaganda purposes?
@@Ironhardt and 68kg XD Small fella
@@IronhardtSo he was a manlet then.
“They want to be Peter Pans” I’m dying here 🤣
I think it was a reference to that speech of jordan peterson
@@sergeysolosin5096
It's a reference to socialists
@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.
Lenin like Stalin didn't care for Marxist philosophy as they both wanted to be the communist versions of napoleon.
Peter Pan was a demonic character . Btw...killing children . Because he loved them so much .
Oh boy here we go. Thanks TIK all your videos man, you do great work.
Tik: "publishes Lenin"
Me(who suggested it in the pool): "for me? 👀👀👀"
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.
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.
@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 I've wondered the exact same thing. The same rules do not apply to all mass murdering tyrants?
@@johnhatchel9681 Exactly. Selective bias in ain sight. At least for those who can see through the narrative.
One is philosemitic one is anti semitic @@johnhatchel9681
@@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.
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
I like to check the sources, wish I had the time to read them throughly
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.
bro💀
Its the Juice, always been
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.
@@einfachignorieren6156 mao was a jew?
@@fate8007 the whole chinese communist Party was instructed by jews
16:35 I also am a proud communist Revolutionary and therefore demand the formation of an evil Kapitalist free market
*"Lenin was a Momma's boy"*
How many people must die for you to be happy?
I had no idea that all this time, I’ve been a communist!
@@chesschad81 Well, stop it.
Ooops... methinks I missed your sarcasm :0)
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 UA-cam 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
for you. For every thinking human it is = "Funny Cats"
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."
- George Vladimir Ilyich Orwell
Socialism The Religion of Daddy issues.
And mommies boys who live in the basement .
Also Feminism.
@@LoganLS0 Thats a fact check TRUE ,✅✅✅
@@lalaboardsSays a great capitalist intellectual.
@@nikolascepanovic539 Whoa, watch out there Pol Pot!
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.
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.
So called democracy in Western countries is a worst kind of slavery. There are no greater slaves than those thinking they are free.
@@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.
@@AlekseyVitebskiydid he say democracy isn't? I think you're misunderstanding
@@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.
Revolutionary Socialists issue with the current regime is always that they aren't the ones in charge.
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!
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.
And if there's one thing we know about Marxists they never engage in the peddling of lies 😆
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
@@johnclifford2371 Thanks for confirming what I said: Lenin praised Mussolini before the revolution. Cheers comrade!
@@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
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.
"A state will no longer be needed and thus whither away."
Truly the fairy tale of all time.
Aye as if the state's number one goal isn't it's own continued existence above all else
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@joethepagan3297 you mean Ronald Reagan the Philosopher? Or the Historian? The one I know was a Hollywood actor. Even worse, a cowboy movie actor.
@@fahey7335So if an actor can become president.....is he than smart or dumb?
@@fahey7335 Well a cowboy movie actor has destroyed cummunists.
@@fahey7335 Commies are always jealous of sexy cowboys presidents who ruin their degenerate evil empire by making cartoons 😊😊😊
@@fahey7335 why are commies so jealous of sexy cowboys?) no testosterone big tits?))
#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.
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.
Well it depends on the period. Under the Liberals, tariffs were reduced.
@@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
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
@@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
As russian, it's nice to watch somebody in english telling history of sick terrorist, who are still being cultivated all around
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.
@@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
@@aleksazunjic9672 Russians didn't supported him. He lost the elections organized by him.
@@aleksazunjic9672 again this is just one more soviet myth, we must get rid of in the future
@@user-yx3vo3zl9z 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.
Just hammering that "Communism is the result of daddy issues" nail.
I agree, I also read that men with daddy issues also in turn view a higher power I.e. God the same way
Is that true? I personally don't think that a lot of people believe in God because of that.
@@calebdaplaya363
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.
We need to talk about the latvian question
Who nose what ethnicity they were? It's a ✡️ mystery.
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.
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.
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
This evil man is always overlooked because Stalin, but he was mad dictator in his own right
Criminal enterprise
crey about it)
ELEVATE YOUR MINDS FROM FLATLAND...ELEVATE YOUR MINDS FROM LEFT AND RIGHT
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Hi TIK, always happy to see you have done a posting on Monday evening. Enjoying your contribution. THNX !!!
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
@@night6724Which is why you never trust economists and their predictions.😁
@@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
@@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.
@@GordonHouston-Smith but then stuff that no one could predict like change in regime happen.
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.
I'm glad Zulu is still planning on doing that video as I've been looking forward to it. I thought he had forgotten
Also, I've covered Sutton here and the funding of Wall Street idea ua-cam.com/video/SnbFpR1m0zA/v-deo.html
He already addressed the myth of Wall Street funding Hitler, I am sure it'll be the same with this one
@@floydlooney6837 Not a myth at all
@@DeadpanPear
It is
Its a good day when tik uploads!
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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
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?
I bet Marx also thought food only came from the store
The idiocy of rural life, my favourite Engels line, seeing as I live in the sticks
@@kenon6968leave it to the city dweller whos never labored in their life to crap on rural folk.
@@kenon6968the most ignorant backwards farmer is still a more intelligent and a better person than any follower of marx
By doing the background of Lenin you have started on a critique of Marx. That would make an excellent video in its own right. With references to his life in London, and Paris perhaps where he was expelled! Here's a starter for you. In London, he was always borrowing money and never paid it back. He threw a stool against a pub bar wall mirror. I don't think he paid for that either. Biography explains so much. You are very talented.
How is that a critique of Marx? Smashed a stool in a pub, what a monster
@@kenon6968marx was a sociopathic deadbeat his whole life. Same as most of his modern followers 😂
@@kenon6968 Grr.
Smashed that like button and I’m not even past the ads.
If it aint mr. Victoria 3 😂 Victoria literally proves how Real communism can work. Checkmate liberal(tarian).
Hi Ben love your stuff
Ayyyyy... didn't expect to see you here
Can’t wait to watch this video , I’m so glad you’re back
they promise diamonds but pay in sand
We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us
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?
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.
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).
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?"
Everyone else had to work for a living.
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"?
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.
"Democratic Dictatorship"
Managed Democracy?
Democracy is dictatorship of majority
I think it makes perfect sense. Democracy is just socialism applied to politics. Tyranny by a majority against the individual.
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
Another Banger Vid-Lecture Mister Tik!
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!
Yes, same thing here. The detail & research is top shelf.
I’m not trying to prmte myseIf, but since you mentioned something similar, I put together a pIist which no one can watch without it changing their life/expndg their WV.
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Lenin being a literal anarcho-capitalist at one point has got to be the funniest and craziest thing ever.
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.
Bernstein you say...
"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.
Thank you, TIK. I look forward to the next video.
Thanks for covering this Tikhistory.
As a leftist myself I wouldn't outright reject the assumption of fear of independence although I do not think that major socialist figures suffered much from that. I see it in another way: If independence is only thinkable in a system where there is because of the division of labour a lot of dependence and this interdependency of people is not capable of solving society's problems then not only are you individually incapable of solving big problems but also your independence is a fake one while you're still held accountable for inevitable failure. So yeah, this situation strikes me with fear but not the one where the implication is supposed to be that I'm just lazy.
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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!
@@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.
Yes, it's 400,000 for all of Russia, not just Samara. Sorry about that.
Found you’re channel recently and have watched nearly every video , you’re videos are a hidden gem for history , keep it up 👍🏻
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.
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.
Thanks for the resources.
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Btw, I’m not trying to prmte myseIf, I just truIy want the info out.
"the state will wither away" only makes sense if you think everyone is dead (since they can't possibly mean they like capitalism)
Sweet a Tik Video!!!! Good to see you back again!!
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.
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.
Modern leftists need to watch these videos.
This film should be translated to all the languages and should be shown in all schools as a part of a new compulsory subject "How to withstand psychopaths in the modern world"
Legendary thumbnail. Singlehandedly brought me back to the channel. Great work bro.
This is why childhood is so important to a developing human being & why care is taken to raise children properly. And also why much of our intentions, actions, beliefs etc can often be understood through the lens of our early development. This is also why Israel is making future martyrs & enemies with every terroristic move they make in the occupied territories. They are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Well self victimisation on large scale through propaganda eventually brings you to war crime, genocide trials. Few nations went through this before.
This is such a brlliant explanation of what is happening right now in western university campuses.
Great to see you back at it tik
The factories in Russia were often very concentrated with 100s or even 1000s of workers grouped into small areas giving the impression of being numerous. These industrial centres were in St Petersburg and Moscow and some regional capitals which meant that when they were mobilised during the revolution and civil war they had a decisive influence on communications and transport. The farmers (I dislike the word "peasant") were spread more or less evenly across the empire and had very little influence on events.
I know that a Western Christian sounds strange when talking about Lenin, but 15% of the population didn't consider themselves Orthodox. If you want a positive picture of the Tsardom, "Za spichkami" is a romantic comedy written by Algot Untola in 1910 (Mosfilm 1980).
Thanks for that. Sounds like something that could give valuable insight.
The word "bolshevik" did not mean that they represented any parliamentary or electoral majority (though they did pretend they were the only legitimate representatives of the great toiling majority) but that wanted a maximum of radical measures (like nationalizations of all industries and agricultural activities) to be passed right from the onset, while the mensheviks wanted to start with trying a minimum of radical measures (like nationalizing a few utilities already managed by monopolies, like electricity and water), provided they be surefire, implement and evaluate before going further. The first quite accurate official translation of the Russian word was Maximalist while the Mensheviks called themselves Minimalist.
Большевизм - это стремление к большему
Karl Marx actually did have jobs during his life, most notably as a journalist and as a newspaper editor.
Happy to see your latest work. Enjoying the lesson now.
"Ok all you guys who are top officials in this Socialist state, living way better than everyone else, we achieved our goals of communism, and you are no longer needed, you can work in a Bauxite mine, or plow a field now if you wish, but you're no longer needed in this role. You can go now."
Yeah, right....😂
Looking at my own country of Sweden as we have gone the neo liberal route of privatisation and less taxes for rich people while it has generated more billionaires per capita than many other countries including the US we also have more crime and unequality than before. You can say it’s unjustified but when people can barely afford a 20 year old car and they see others driving new Tesla cars it will generate issues. Also peoples obsession with showing off wealth means they steal just to have some designer clothes. Capitalism worked better when people were conservative and religious. Take away religion and ethics and modesty and make it so anything is justifiable as long as it increases shareholder value and we get the modern companies that say “you will own nothing and be happy”.
Exactly, just because the country is free doesn’t mean the country is competent. The capitalists Lenin’s generation were talking about are here with all the power.
The 🐐 of YT !! Man 3 weeks is too much in between your vids 😂
Perfect upload, just in time for the grind of the afternoon
"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.
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.
Wait this is a joke yes?
@@sambarnett6996 it is 420% truth
We wuz revolutionaries n shiet
Love your channel brother! We shall call it: “TIK’s fireside chats”….. 😁😜
Went of Lenin when I found out that one of his first acts was to bring in an American Industrialist to get the Soviet Heavy Industry running.
Superb video as always mate, keep them coming !
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.
What Yugoslav imperialism in Albania? Are you daft??
From the thumbnail alone I can tell this video will be fantastic 😂
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
Tik you’re my favorite UA-camr 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
TIK, keep doing your great work !
Socialism is a miracle cure that promises to solve the inner conflict of the socialist.
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
I offer you this:
(And to ck the rsrcs in the dscrp of my 🖥️on this-reaIIy expndd my WV)
It hasn’t been 🧢 v. Cmm, but Freedom/FreeMks v. CnBk-Attempts at cntrI 0f mks & rsrcs (incl. ‘over-abundant’ humans).
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.
And they never want to pay the price for those “mistakes” which causes hundreds of millions lives.
A professional student, a professional criminal, and a journalist walk into a bar...
Lenin's dad looks like Andrew Tate
Narcs 😆
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.
What positives could anyone pick out of Romanov autocracy? Especially if your autocrat is an imbecile
ruzzian nationalists who praising Ramzan Kadyrov😂
Lenin trusted women, and his party had a lot of female revolutionaries: Kollontai, Balabanova, Reissner, and of course Armand & Krupskaya duo. But he certainly had close male friends as well: Krzhizhanovsky and Martov come to mind.
Explains alot right there
Lenin, before the revolution, sounds like a Disney movie.
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.
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.
There is a part of *”0owndrTh🪧0fTh🦂”* which covers some of this time (start at 30min).
AIso, the 1st haIf of SoIz2ooYrzTgr has a great & *nuanced ovrvw/rsrcs.*
Not ruzzia, but ruzzian empire. You really don’t call India an Australia England or Austro-Hungarian empire Austria
Nothing "Russian" about the Leadership of the 1917 Revolution.
There was two revolutions. First one, Februrary revolution was widely supported and its goal was to abolish monarchy and create democratic republic.
Second one, October coup was just Bolsheviks lose democratic elections and decide to take power by force
it was basically proto-israel
So true king
Shut it down!!
Nikolai Bukharin ? Sergei Kirov ? Nikita Krushchev ? Alexandra Kollantai ? V. Molotov ? Josef Stalin ? Kalinin ? Tomsky & Rykov ? Malenkov ? Zhukov ? Dzerzhinsky ? Malinovsky, ? Krupskaya ? …The list is nigh on interminable . And includes Lenin himself. A legion of ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians , Finns ( Otto Kusinen, amongst others ),…clear exceptions to the notion of Jews ( There you go,..in contrast to the ‘oh so brave ‘ haters of ‘Jewry’ , I’m perfectly capable of employing the fearful noun ) encompassing the entirety of Bolshevism . Not to me too that the party ( along with both Martov’s faction of the Mensheviks & it’s ‘right’ counterparts ) spent years harrying & ostracising even ANTI Zionist Jewish Marxist parties such as the committedly Yiddish - centred, ‘Pale’ based Bund.
Tik, you never cease to blow my mind!
Superb stuff TIk🎯
I swear I’ve read the works of Christian and Muslim mystics on the apocalypse and the millennium. I do swear Marx would have made a great religious prophet.
Well Marxists are all millenarians
Tik does it again.
I can’t thank you enough. I throughly enjoy every video you put out.
Thanks for the vids, TIK.