Really great review. When I read the communist Manifesto I couldn't really articulate my feelings towards it but could feel something was off with Marx's thinking. Your video and Jordan Peterson's critique best encapsulate how I feel. The major caveat for me is Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Demons. It it he ilustrates the progression of the high ideals of communist platitudes into tyranny and authoritarianism. The novel has even gone as far as being prophetic to the anarchy that swept the 20th century in the Soviet sphere. Hopefully you'll be doing a review of Demons soon, it would be great to hear your views on it.
Also your remarks on how Marx failed to find an alternative to the free market really hits home. I live in South Africa and across the African continent prior to the colonial period, African countries had there own versio of free markets. George Ayittey in his book Africa betrayed talks about it and he criticizes how African leaders after independence tried to implement socialism but failed dismally. Leading to authoritarian rule and sparked the tails of corruption and poverty that is so often attributed to the continent.
Sort of, remember, there is a ton of Material you still need. A lot of lenin books helps, other marx works like wage labour etc. das capital is 3 volumes and huge. Its denseeeeeee. Comm manifesto is very vast and overly simplified. Thats why you didnt find your answer about free markets etc. you will find every answer in other readings lol.
Sort of, remember, there is a ton of Material you still need. A lot of lenin books helps, other marx works like wage labour etc. das capital is 3 volumes and huge. Its denseeeeeee. Comm manifesto is very vast and overly simplified. Thats why you didnt find your answer about free markets etc. you will find every answer in other readings lol.
Please rethink your marketing. Your ability to communicate through sincerity and brilliant word choice needs to reach more. Great analysis! Thank you for sharing.
‘Political movements that are rejecting the status quo, individualism, liberty in favor of ideas that wish to incorporate more collectivist attitudes.’ You’ve already shown your biases, my guy. I’ve seen how lately there’s been a wave of pseudo-intellectuals attempting to tie Marxism to Christianity. Philosophical thoughts and ideas are ever flexible and dynamic. Marxism is one such philosophical thought. Giving such a brainless and lazy explanation of it and condensing such a vast school of thought (with ample of time, you had 46 minutes to be truthful and act in good faith) says a lot about the interlocutor. You seem like a standup guy. But you parrot objectively deceitful political actors like Jordan Peterson, who have something to gain by lying. Your channel is not big enough to experience the same effect, but I see in which direction you’re going. And btw, I genuinely have no clue what you were on about during the ‘High-gull’ part. I’m sorry, but if you can’t even pronounce his name, how am I supposed to take your bs false claim about Hegel condemning communism seriously? I’m genuinely shocked at how lazy this type of content has become. Ah.. idk, you do you. But just. don’t. lie. And don’t be a slimy person.
right off the back we can see how you've tainted yourself with ideological spin that doesnt apply to the text. Marx is both pro-liberty and non-"collectivist". freedom from abstract form of domination (toil, wage labour, slavery) Marx literally explains in that very text how CAPITALISM is the single greatest collectivizing force in human history. and again you expose your bias with the misinformed notion that CRT and postmodernism are at all derivative of Marxism. they are in fact the rejection old Marxism. they are related to Marxism only insofar as they reject historical materialism, humanism and progress. also, this notion that communism is an ideology "people adopt" is basically the opposite of what Marx describes. His philosophy is MATERIALIST not idealist. as a Christian libertarian (seemingly), your thinking is stuck in idealism. your formulation suggests that if enough people simply "adopt" communism as their ideology, then we'll get a communist society. you obviously didnt read the text very closely. it is the material conditions themselves (which take the form of capitalism today) - not communists - that produce both the class struggle and by extension the struggle for socialism. communists are merely the conscious layer of the masses who see this historical process unfolding from a birds eye view. again your idealism reveals itself when you counter-pose religion to modernity as if this was just some value-choice people started making. its just the opposite! ass the material conditions of feudal society began to collapse and that of capitalism and bourgeois society rose up in their stead, the very basis for religious dogma collapsed. new ideas were taken up precisely because the organization of society made that possible. you really didnt read this very closely
You should read Capital by Karl Marx. The communist manifesto is litteraly a party panphlet.
Really great review. When I read the communist Manifesto I couldn't really articulate my feelings towards it but could feel something was off with Marx's thinking. Your video and Jordan Peterson's critique best encapsulate how I feel. The major caveat for me is Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Demons. It it he ilustrates the progression of the high ideals of communist platitudes into tyranny and authoritarianism. The novel has even gone as far as being prophetic to the anarchy that swept the 20th century in the Soviet sphere. Hopefully you'll be doing a review of Demons soon, it would be great to hear your views on it.
Thanks! I will definitely be doing a “Demons” review in the future.
Also your remarks on how Marx failed to find an alternative to the free market really hits home. I live in South Africa and across the African continent prior to the colonial period, African countries had there own versio of free markets. George Ayittey in his book Africa betrayed talks about it and he criticizes how African leaders after independence tried to implement socialism but failed dismally. Leading to authoritarian rule and sparked the tails of corruption and poverty that is so often attributed to the continent.
A planned economy is the fix. That what Marx eludes to in the manifesto.
Sort of, remember, there is a ton of Material you still need. A lot of lenin books helps, other marx works like wage labour etc. das capital is 3 volumes and huge. Its denseeeeeee. Comm manifesto is very vast and overly simplified. Thats why you didnt find your answer about free markets etc. you will find every answer in other readings lol.
You explained Marx's thought very well.
Sort of, remember, there is a ton of Material you still need. A lot of lenin books helps, other marx works like wage labour etc. das capital is 3 volumes and huge. Its denseeeeeee. Comm manifesto is very vast and overly simplified. Thats why you didnt find your answer about free markets etc. you will find every answer in other readings lol.
Please rethink your marketing. Your ability to communicate through sincerity and brilliant word choice needs to reach more. Great analysis! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you 🤙🏻
Are you saying that you just understood a book that some people have been studying for years?
‘Political movements that are rejecting the status quo, individualism, liberty in favor of ideas that wish to incorporate more collectivist attitudes.’
You’ve already shown your biases, my guy.
I’ve seen how lately there’s been a wave of pseudo-intellectuals attempting to tie Marxism to Christianity. Philosophical thoughts and ideas are ever flexible and dynamic. Marxism is one such philosophical thought. Giving such a brainless and lazy explanation of it and condensing such a vast school of thought (with ample of time, you had 46 minutes to be truthful and act in good faith) says a lot about the interlocutor. You seem like a standup guy. But you parrot objectively deceitful political actors like Jordan Peterson, who have something to gain by lying. Your channel is not big enough to experience the same effect, but I see in which direction you’re going.
And btw, I genuinely have no clue what you were on about during the ‘High-gull’ part. I’m sorry, but if you can’t even pronounce his name, how am I supposed to take your bs false claim about Hegel condemning communism seriously? I’m genuinely shocked at how lazy this type of content has become.
Ah.. idk, you do you. But just. don’t. lie. And don’t be a slimy person.
yup!
right off the back we can see how you've tainted yourself with ideological spin that doesnt apply to the text. Marx is both pro-liberty and non-"collectivist". freedom from abstract form of domination (toil, wage labour, slavery) Marx literally explains in that very text how CAPITALISM is the single greatest collectivizing force in human history. and again you expose your bias with the misinformed notion that CRT and postmodernism are at all derivative of Marxism. they are in fact the rejection old Marxism. they are related to Marxism only insofar as they reject historical materialism, humanism and progress.
also, this notion that communism is an ideology "people adopt" is basically the opposite of what Marx describes. His philosophy is MATERIALIST not idealist. as a Christian libertarian (seemingly), your thinking is stuck in idealism. your formulation suggests that if enough people simply "adopt" communism as their ideology, then we'll get a communist society. you obviously didnt read the text very closely. it is the material conditions themselves (which take the form of capitalism today) - not communists - that produce both the class struggle and by extension the struggle for socialism. communists are merely the conscious layer of the masses who see this historical process unfolding from a birds eye view.
again your idealism reveals itself when you counter-pose religion to modernity as if this was just some value-choice people started making. its just the opposite! ass the material conditions of feudal society began to collapse and that of capitalism and bourgeois society rose up in their stead, the very basis for religious dogma collapsed. new ideas were taken up precisely because the organization of society made that possible. you really didnt read this very closely
Bernie Sanders’ and AOC’s bible.