POLITICAL THEORY - Karl Marx

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  • Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
  • Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out certain of its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.
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    “Most people agree that we need to improve our economic system somehow. It threatens our planet through excessive consumption, distracts us with irrelevant advertising, leaves people hungry and without healthcare, and fuels unnecessary wars. Yet we’re also often keen to dismiss the ideas of its most famous and ambitious critic, Karl Marx. This isn’t very surprising. In practice, his political and economic ideas have been used to design disastrously planned economies and nasty dictatorships. Frankly, the remedies Marx proposed for the ills of the world now sound a bit demented. He thought we should abolish private property. People should not be allowed to own things. At certain moments one can sympathise. But it’s like wanting to ban gossip or forbid watching television. It’s going to war with human behaviour. And Marx believed the world would be put to rights by a dictatorship of the proletariat; which does not mean anything much today. Openly Marxist parties received a total of only 1,685 votes in the 2010 UK general election, out of the nearly 40 million ballots cast…”
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 31 тис.

  • @ihazplawe2503
    @ihazplawe2503 3 роки тому +6102

    Fun Fact: Nobody in the comments have read Marx's books

    • @seriousbees
      @seriousbees 3 роки тому +309

      Tried. They're boring as hell

    • @madmouse4400
      @madmouse4400 2 роки тому +917

      @@seriousbees it's economic books , what did you expect.

    • @dieglhix
      @dieglhix 2 роки тому +126

      @@seriousbees I read the manifesto when I was 16 years old and was a commie idiot, now I am super anti-communist and my country is voting for an actual commie (Communist party)
      They are zealots and pro-terrorism

    • @fusionid6647
      @fusionid6647 2 роки тому +35

      @@dieglhix which country is it

    • @dieglhix
      @dieglhix 2 роки тому +28

      @@fusionid6647 chile

  • @MENtality100
    @MENtality100 3 роки тому +8310

    "Capitalism? More like Crapitalism am I right ladies..."
    -Karl Marx (probably)

    • @hollandkroese7427
      @hollandkroese7427 3 роки тому +75

      @abcd3625 I admire Biden and Harris for different reasons, but we are on the same team. NO TRUMP, NO KKK, NO FASCIST USA!

    • @hwdareu5848
      @hwdareu5848 3 роки тому +187

      @@hollandkroese7427 What a clown! KKK was founded by Democrats. How stupid and ignorant can you be ? Do you watch any news channel other than CNN and MSNBC?

    • @hwdareu5848
      @hwdareu5848 3 роки тому +86

      @abcd3625 yes vote Trump and completely eradicate the European Marxists ideologies from the USA. MAGA. #Trump2020🇺🇸

    • @abyssalknight4081
      @abyssalknight4081 3 роки тому +162

      Goddamn I didn't this thread would go to shit that quickly.

    • @hollandkroese7427
      @hollandkroese7427 3 роки тому +14

      @@abyssalknight4081 For real. All I said was that I admire the same leaders, but for a different reason. Then somehow I became the bad guy.

  • @storiesbynaima
    @storiesbynaima Рік тому +483

    This confirms that all the things that made me depressed actually were valid reasons even though everyone just says suck it up

    • @olivercheeseman8227
      @olivercheeseman8227 Рік тому +24

      There's no such thing as a valid reason to allow yourself to be depressed. To resign your happiness because of the worlds economic structure is pathetic. If you're upset about the state of things, do something. You don't have to start a communist revolution (zero chance of that working in the west anyway), you can start your own business and operate it in closer accordance to what you consider to be 'fair'. Be the change you want to see in the world.

    • @storiesbynaima
      @storiesbynaima Рік тому +74

      @@olivercheeseman8227 if the economic structure makes it so that it’s difficult for human needs to be met, I think it’s valid to be depressed about that. I think you can also do what’s in your control to make your situation work as best as it can for you. You can do both. You can be upset and take action. To call me or anyone that feels this way is pathetic is ignorant and sad. I get it. You don’t want to be a victim so bad that you don’t hold the people that hurt you accountable. Being sad does not mean you can’t take action. They’re not mutually exclusive. When you deny yourself the ability to feel, you make it easier for toxic systems to remain in power. It’s mindsets like yours that have kept us from making more progress towards a more kind and loving community and economic structure which is totally possible.

    • @R4KT1M
      @R4KT1M Рік тому +23

      @@olivercheeseman8227 Dude you are saying like if my boss makes me work 12 hr and gives me 1/4 of the wage, instead of getting depressed and sad I should do something to avoid thinking about it.
      It's just you are defending my boss, not me. His mental health not mine.
      His interests are opposed to mine.

    • @northernnaysayer1240
      @northernnaysayer1240 Рік тому +18

      @@olivercheeseman8227 that's a hell of a way to tell everyone you don't understand mental health or exploitation.
      There's no such thing as a valid reason to be depressed... Holy shit that's one hell of a statement.
      I take it you've never grafted through school, work and uni just to find out that you can't have a job because you don't live in the right area or come from the right family. You strike me as someone that thinks that meritocracy actually exists and that we should all pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

    • @olivercheeseman8227
      @olivercheeseman8227 Рік тому +5

      ​@@northernnaysayer1240 I said there's no valid reason to allow yourself to be depressed, not that there isn't ever a valid reason to be depressed. There are a hundred 'valid' reasons for a person to be depressed in this world. You won't be happy until you can find the reasons not to be depressed and in order to do that you need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. It's your life, no one is here to fix it for you.

  • @bhaveshtochabbra6853
    @bhaveshtochabbra6853 2 роки тому +102

    Since my childhood, I used to believe that hagrid from harry potter is karl marx.🙂

    • @havcola6983
      @havcola6983 Рік тому +2

      Given JK Rowling's political views I think he would have been written a whole lot let sympathetic if that was the case.
      "You're a Fascist, Harry!"

    • @KL-zg7lu
      @KL-zg7lu Місяць тому

      😅

  • @ethoskratos6688
    @ethoskratos6688 3 роки тому +7972

    Watching this on the most capitalistic medium ever.

    • @hmmhmm9017
      @hmmhmm9017 3 роки тому +196

      You realise most of what we have now was paid for by old systems? For example, many factories that allowed for the set up of modern businesses were paid for by slavery?

    • @justinp4659
      @justinp4659 3 роки тому +261

      Hmm Hmm And what do you have to back up that claim? Because most slave owners financially were fucked after the civil war and statistically millionaires today earn their money not inherit it.

    • @lola1987fudgeyouu
      @lola1987fudgeyouu 3 роки тому +9

      It really didnt hv to be tho

    • @lola1987fudgeyouu
      @lola1987fudgeyouu 3 роки тому +55

      @@eskanda3434 myth, debunked my friend. Look it up

    • @zeenuf00
      @zeenuf00 3 роки тому +44

      @@hmmhmm9017 found the idiot communist

  • @CrossBorderNerds
    @CrossBorderNerds 3 роки тому +5837

    Abandon all hope ye who scrolls down further.

    • @bosnianowitzkifan41
      @bosnianowitzkifan41 3 роки тому +179

      This is officially the greatest youtube comment i've ever read. You sir, deserve a medal.

    • @correctchristian4255
      @correctchristian4255 3 роки тому +68

      If they embrace Marxism, they have.

    • @kyledarrow1809
      @kyledarrow1809 3 роки тому +34

      I'm going down

    • @Coliocoliocolio
      @Coliocoliocolio 3 роки тому +51

      I agree with you man I'm chaotic neutral fuck both extremes we must meet in the middle

    • @JadetheGoober
      @JadetheGoober 3 роки тому +20

      This comment is RIGHT after the comment of the apologetic marxist stating “i predict this will be a level headed comment section” and now im afraid to keep scrolling

  • @rynli2153
    @rynli2153 2 роки тому +650

    the parts of video
    01:23 modern work is alienated
    02:26 modern work is insecure
    02:59 workers get paid little while
    Capitalist get rich
    03:49 capitalism is very unstable
    05:20 capitalism is bad for capitalist

    • @nidhimoda605
      @nidhimoda605 Рік тому +7

      Thank you

    • @sashat.2629
      @sashat.2629 9 місяців тому +4

      you are a prince

    • @haleyh9875
      @haleyh9875 7 місяців тому +2

      beautiful & helpful annotations to sum up the main points :' D I wish commenters like you a life of pure happiness

    • @Rick-ez1nt
      @Rick-ez1nt 3 місяці тому +1

      Modern work is alienated: Educate yourself on a occupation that improves your society.
      Modern work is insecure: Become skilled at that occupation.
      Workers get paid little while Capitalist get rich: Hardships in the production of a quality product the people or a organization wants to consume results in being paid. When the occupation is harder then other occupations results in being paid more then others.
      Capitalism is very unstable: Does China society seem stable to you? Its called the Peoples Republic of China.
      Capitalism is bad for capitalist: Capitalists would continue capitalism if it was bad and it takes a lot of critical thinking and understanding of reality to be a rich capitalists.
      Someone that earns what they have appreciate what they have, someone who is given what they have appreciate nothing. Being called a Marxist is a insult.

  • @AdityaKumar-bh2jz
    @AdityaKumar-bh2jz Місяць тому +41

    Who is watching in 2024 👍

  • @erish1005
    @erish1005 3 роки тому +1975

    “The two wrote each other adoring poetry”
    I see nothing but the best homies

    • @cykasoviet4604
      @cykasoviet4604 3 роки тому +77

      They had a bromance before it was cool.

    • @bogmanhimself4656
      @bogmanhimself4656 3 роки тому +128

      "the two wrote each other adoring poetry"
      engels: yo my fucking wife died
      marx: rip can i get some cash my rent is due
      engels: what the hell is wrong with you

    • @marcusjohansson5686
      @marcusjohansson5686 3 роки тому +6

      Friends Friends Friends..

    • @harshsoni9326
      @harshsoni9326 2 роки тому +10

      no homo

    • @KimHanlon
      @KimHanlon 2 роки тому +22

      And they were roomates...

  • @Max_Le_Groom
    @Max_Le_Groom 5 років тому +1756

    8:20 "The two men even wrote each other adoring poetry."
    The modern version of that is sending your homie your mixtape.

    • @JonesTheSecond
      @JonesTheSecond 5 років тому +10

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @oscarmoreno2585
      @oscarmoreno2585 5 років тому +3

      🤣🤣

    • @v3gas102
      @v3gas102 5 років тому +3

      😂

    • @mattfm101
      @mattfm101 5 років тому +5

      I'd look at some of those poems if I were you, it might give you a far darker understanding of the goals of Marxism.

    • @Max_Le_Groom
      @Max_Le_Groom 5 років тому +8

      @@mattfm101
      _I love communism_

  • @Guilherme-nv5wq
    @Guilherme-nv5wq 2 роки тому +325

    Marx also understood that capitalists are also victims of the system. Capitalism makes capitalists raise their profit more and more as an obligation, if they not do it, a more ruthless capitalist will take their place.
    Marx also proposes liberty to capitalists on the Communist manifesto.

    • @donthasselthehoff5753
      @donthasselthehoff5753 2 роки тому +2

      "if they not do it, a more ruthless capitalist will take their place.
      ..", how does that work? A company does not require increasing profits to survive, it just needs to make profit

    • @Guilherme-nv5wq
      @Guilherme-nv5wq 2 роки тому +62

      @@donthasselthehoff5753 your point of view is quite utopic, that's because you're taking one key factor of capitalism, the competition.
      Let's take one example to make things easier to picture, Uber and Lift, two competitors.
      What will decide who will beat the other? Growing profit. They need it in order to adopt more and more techniques that increase productivity, decrease costs, sabotage their competitors. In the case of those 2 examples, the one who profits more can invest more in advertisigment, offer more discounts, have more drivers, monopolize the market, decrease the payment of the drivers without consequences, and so on...
      This is reality for any kind of business, even if you have a small grocery store. Competition will always force you to look for ways to increase your profit, otherwise your business will collapse. You can see that reality applies to countries as well, if the GDP doesn't grow, the economy crashes, that force us to always increase productivity, taking us to a path that makes us consume more resources than the amount of resources our planet can recover by itself, that is why capitalism is the system responsible for all of our troubles with the environment.

    • @Guilherme-nv5wq
      @Guilherme-nv5wq 2 роки тому +5

      @@donthasselthehoff5753 For more detailed explanation about the flaws of Capitalism, I recommend you to check two channels out: Hakim and Noncompete. They're alwesome.

    • @Guilherme-nv5wq
      @Guilherme-nv5wq 2 роки тому +20

      @@dudebros6122 What you said has no ground in reality. China is already more technologically advance and cientifically productive than US. URSS were also on that path.
      Technology is developed by necessity, and it's more of a product of cooperation than competition.
      Imagine if instead competing among themselves and keeping data from being shared, the pharmaceutical industries cooperate with one another to develop the COVID vaccine, we could have that vaccine ready on months in advance, saving millions of lives.

    • @Guilherme-nv5wq
      @Guilherme-nv5wq 2 роки тому +2

      @@dudebros6122 yes, your ideas have no bounds with reality, China is not just technologically advanced and scientifically productive than US, it's also socially superior since China is the solo responsible for the fall of the poverty rate, lifting more than 800 million people out of poverty.
      It's funny, if low wages bring advancement, why isn't any African country technologically advanced? Or India? Both places have practically starving wages, however, the average wage in China is higher than Portugal.
      If you call a economy under total control of it's government a capitalist economy, than you don't know what a capitalist economy is. Chinese government controls the financial system completely and have practically control over it's big industries.

  • @stevesuy1551
    @stevesuy1551 2 роки тому +900

    10 years ago I dismissed Marxism without knowing a single thing about it but now I cant help but agree with ideologies that reflect my own.

    • @chaitanyareddymuthyala2967
      @chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 2 роки тому +61

      Me too , my grandfather and grandmother were communist leaders , I used to totally dismissed their beliefs, but now , myself I'm a communist , lal salam ❤

    • @robertbaratheon2193
      @robertbaratheon2193 2 роки тому +38

      That’s what education is all about: being able to criticize your former views and think about them more. I don’t agree with a lot of Marx’s points but he had the right idea.

    • @Ghost_of_James_Doakes
      @Ghost_of_James_Doakes 2 роки тому +2

      @@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 YOU MIGHT AS WELL SMOKE CRACK

    • @arnoldmunez5057
      @arnoldmunez5057 2 роки тому +1

      @@robertbaratheon2193 no he did not, he was unable to see where the means of production would head in the future. He assumed so many things about human condition, that he failed to calculate that humans will never be satisfied in a forced equal system. We could easily keep the positives of Marxism, without the negatives of communism. But people are too ignorant to understand that we can create a system where the means of production belong to everybody, without needing a form of central government. The very notion of work would change to where everyone would be gaining the benefits of their work immediately. If Marx could see the effects of communism, if he had any decency, he would blow his own brains out. Mao, Lenin, Stalin, hitler, Mussolini, African warlords, Putin, the modern Democratic Party all are followers of Marx, and all of these people have made the world a worst place.

    • @RR-ph2cm
      @RR-ph2cm 2 роки тому +6

      @@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 konnintolo marxism corrct eh kaani,it s not going to help in real life,this marxism will actually cause more loss than the capitalism,also iam not complete ly with capitalism,a balance of bothe the ideologies would be beneficial for the structure of the society

  • @sathyajitshaji199
    @sathyajitshaji199 3 роки тому +6171

    "Dark humour is like health care, not everyone gets it" - USA

    • @triny89
      @triny89 3 роки тому +222

      Dude, in India ppl often comment - "sarcasm is like electricity in India, not everyone gets it"

    • @VitalXtreme
      @VitalXtreme 3 роки тому +148

      Dark humour is like a dead child... it never gets old.

    • @batzorigvaanchig6358
      @batzorigvaanchig6358 3 роки тому +24

      @Matt Justice You don’t trust the organization tasked with sabotaging and destroying communism and democracy around the world wherever it opposes U.S. interests?

    • @batzorigvaanchig6358
      @batzorigvaanchig6358 3 роки тому +8

      @Matt Justice Define greatness so we don’t have confusion, and when you say communist I assume you mean socialist

    • @revelacia
      @revelacia 3 роки тому

      Are you suggesting that this video is meant to be humorous?...

  • @ChessmasterHex
    @ChessmasterHex 3 роки тому +690

    I keep scrolling down to find the hell foretold in this comment section but all I come cross is comments describing the hell foretold in this comment section.....

    • @IjeskrewRBMC
      @IjeskrewRBMC 3 роки тому +1

      Same xddddd

    • @realkingofwales3917
      @realkingofwales3917 3 роки тому

      Sort be new

    • @neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326
      @neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326 3 роки тому

      Sort by new or read the replies

    • @spinebones8747
      @spinebones8747 3 роки тому +2

      The irony that your comment has become another comment describing the hell foretold in this comment section that I'm scrolling past to find said hell comments.

    • @-Ahmed8592
      @-Ahmed8592 3 роки тому +2

      - Comment describing hell foretold

  • @PetstoUwU
    @PetstoUwU Рік тому +167

    I always find it sad that Marx is seen as the grandfather of (dictatorship) communism. He rarely talks about "communism" he describes flaws in a capitalistic system. In acknowledging that these problems exist, we can work on improving a capitalistic system. But Marx=communism=bad is all most extremistic capitalists can think of...

    • @heinricheius1740
      @heinricheius1740 Рік тому +2

      ikr

    • @KellyRockefeller
      @KellyRockefeller Рік тому +29

      you realize that communism and dictatorship are two completely separate things right

    • @richarddu3797
      @richarddu3797 Рік тому +2

      @@KellyRockefeller You realized that what you replied is exactly what he said right?

    • @soulcapitalist6204
      @soulcapitalist6204 Рік тому +5

      Marx is the father of dictatorship communism because he was explicit in describing it and Lenin was astute in playing out that vision via state capitalism. Your position is one of somebody who isn't familiar with Marx's works from having not read them.
      The flaws which Marx contended of capitalism invoked the fallacy of treating externalities as the fundamental return of the capitalist mode, whereas he never indicated the wits or numeracy to actually analyze economics at the level of his contemporaries (like JS Mill, for example).

    • @soulcapitalist6204
      @soulcapitalist6204 Рік тому +3

      @@KellyRockefeller Communism requires what any modern person would regard as dictatorship. Certainly marxist communism requires dictatorship of the proles in lieu of "free" states which we'd term as liberal democracy. Liberal democracy requires a capitalist mode, on the other hand. The term "liberal" and Marx's "free" (of CotGP part 4) refer to economic liberalism like all of the nations in history to have achieved economic development, high wages and great per capita wealth.

  • @Mecca188
    @Mecca188 2 роки тому +326

    As an employee getting overworked and exploited at my job I agree with his philosophies 100%

    • @LlibertarianGalt
      @LlibertarianGalt 2 роки тому +22

      Except he was best friends with a Capitalist factory owner who helped write his ideas whilst exploiting the worker and being a giant racist.
      Infact they both were, regularly.

    • @simplelife6318
      @simplelife6318 Рік тому +45

      @@LlibertarianGalt Engels wasn’t a factory owner Engels was a son of a factory owner. Matter of fact his first ever protest was organizing a march against his dads factory :)

    • @LlibertarianGalt
      @LlibertarianGalt Рік тому +3

      @@simplelife6318 Interesting, I thought he had inherited his fathers wealth and businesses during Marxs life?
      I know he was the only reason Marx's works were ever finished, atleast. Still, mad racist haha.

    • @simplelife6318
      @simplelife6318 Рік тому +21

      @@LlibertarianGalt his dad was racist Marx and Engels weren’t. One of their biggest arguments was about the slavery in the US and segregation. They both didn’t have anything to do with their dads wealth however Engels worked in his dad’s newspaper studio and helped Marx couple times also Engels married the proletariat that spit in his dads face, but they never had anything to do with their dads factory. Also they used their dads gatherings and parties to fight the capitalist, this is how they were able to form their first party “workers unite” in the English parliament

    • @LlibertarianGalt
      @LlibertarianGalt Рік тому +2

      @@simplelife6318 Yeah both Marx and Engles were massive racists and talked about people of different races with disgust. Especially the slavs.

  • @morgan4xl
    @morgan4xl 3 роки тому +3561

    I came here because in political arguements someone often calls a person a Marxist, then a replier tells them they would bet a million dollars that the person doesn't have any understanding of Marxism whatsoever. I think I see their point now.

    • @sierralizotte3084
      @sierralizotte3084 3 роки тому +475

      Literally why I came here. Always hear it tossed around as an insult but seeing this I can't help but think of the quote from A Princess Bride. "I do not think that word means what you think it means"

    • @AutumnSage98
      @AutumnSage98 3 роки тому +124

      The issue isn't so much about Marx having an influence on people, if you're a philosopher, of course, that's going to happen. The real insult is postmodern marxism that's cancer.
      Illogical Communism = NOT WHAT WE WANT OR NEED

    • @2dcheifguy
      @2dcheifguy 3 роки тому +29

      Jon Sage here to learn. Can you explain your position?

    • @AutumnSage98
      @AutumnSage98 3 роки тому +12

      @Coal Fire b-b-b-but that's the wrong kind of socialism anon!!!

    • @OfficialSilverMoon
      @OfficialSilverMoon 3 роки тому +124

      @Coal Fire You're openly admitting you're a Nazi? Also I'll have you know that in the 1930s the first people sent to concentration camps by National Socialists (Nazis) were 150k communist party members and workers.

  • @thedragon8989
    @thedragon8989 3 роки тому +2876

    "The two wrote each other adoring poetry"
    _Now hang on a minute there, they what?_

    • @brooklynjennings8955
      @brooklynjennings8955 3 роки тому +581

      They were the kind of “homies” that kissed eachother goodnight

    • @dessopopp
      @dessopopp 3 роки тому +261

      @@vesper9691 "Oh my God, they were roommates".👁👄👁

    • @tenyangxjw
      @tenyangxjw 3 роки тому +255

      Historians: And they were the best of friends

    • @j1gglypuff42
      @j1gglypuff42 3 роки тому +83

      @@tenyangxjw i know one wasn't pretty cuz i aint ever seen two pretty best friends

    • @ra-ix7kn
      @ra-ix7kn 3 роки тому +27

      @@j1gglypuff42 u must know that this comment made me scream. Thank u for that

  • @user-zh2ze2br4b
    @user-zh2ze2br4b 8 місяців тому +76

    I think you just saved me a few hours of crying over my sociological theory readings thanks king

    • @haleyh9875
      @haleyh9875 7 місяців тому +4

      my situation exactly :' D hope you get A++++ fellow learner

  • @Rhapsolin
    @Rhapsolin 2 роки тому +4

    i really like the amount of space there is in your vocal recording and how not bass boomy it is. it would be perfect if it wasnt panned left slightly

  • @Jason.F.
    @Jason.F. 5 років тому +5856

    Someone forgot to turn off the capitalist ads during this video.

    • @user-sf5iq2fl1l
      @user-sf5iq2fl1l 5 років тому +72

      Yeah, they are a plague, its the religion we live in, capitalism....sigh

    • @shabegsan
      @shabegsan 5 років тому +7

      Its demonetized

    • @Jason.F.
      @Jason.F. 5 років тому +29

      @@shabegsan there are ads

    • @shabegsan
      @shabegsan 5 років тому +5

      No there are not might be Because i am from India and here it is not monetized 😑
      In India they are doing crazy stuff lately.

    • @philippelauwers
      @philippelauwers 5 років тому +7

      @@shabegsan are you by any chance using an adblocker?

  • @pendejo6466
    @pendejo6466 9 років тому +327

    At least no idiots in the comment section tried to blame Marx for Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and what else.
    "But Mao read and quoted Marx!"
    So what? Mao also read and quoted the U.S Constitution, what does that make Mao? American?

    • @mariusbagu4962
      @mariusbagu4962 9 років тому +31

      Pendejo Every sistem has it's flaws. But to state the things above it's INSANE. I am living in Romania. Please ask my grandparents and my parents, and they will thel you how SHITY it was in the comunism time. People who make the video don't know anything about the aplicability of these STUPID and IDIOTIC ideas. Equality? Yeah, shit no. Rich and poor people existed under Marxism too. That's a dream. Between Capitalism with it's flaws and Marxism I WILL CHOSE CAPITALISM. Truth be told Marxism it's Diabolical.

    • @pendejo6466
      @pendejo6466 9 років тому +22

      Marius Bagu Yeah, but Marxism isn't really a "thing," anymore than what other philosophers were trying to do. Marx was trying to diagnose the problems of the industrial revolution which he witnessed on a day to day basis. Where he was entirely naive was his solution, but that's a long way from what Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao advocated.
      Let me know when you actually witness capitalism at work as a WHOLE system, because in America we only have corporatism, capitalism only shows up in spots like drugs and prostitution.

    • @Slavkod
      @Slavkod 9 років тому +27

      Marius Bagu well ask people of former Yugoslavia, and they will tell you it was better. So by that communism>capitalism. You cant just lable an idea by the one application of it. Esspecialy since Romanian or USSRs socialism isnt even socialism... So if i call myself a duck, that doesnt make me a duck.

    • @RiotHouseLP
      @RiotHouseLP 9 років тому +2

      Pendejo Mao didn't establish a Constitutional Republic in line with the Founding Fathers. He established a Communist regime. I get your point, you are trying to say that Mao read many political ideas, just like everyone who reads about politics, but in the end he settled on a Marxist ideology.

    • @theTOOLshed1
      @theTOOLshed1 8 років тому +2

      Sendobren Just like how none of the socialist experiments to date have anything to do with socialism. AmIrite?
      lmfao...

  • @tannermurphy1157
    @tannermurphy1157 2 роки тому +105

    I don't know anything about politics, but this sounds the closest to how I have come to think.
    The world is full of struggle and greed and we all have to do a bunch of really useless stuff for at least 8 hours a day 5 days a week to afford the lowest they have to offer. Life is not worth it in these conditions.
    We all deserve to be free.
    I think that we're god experiencing some hard times. I think the devil is that wickedness that made this structure.
    So much division among ourselves.
    We're all the same thing in the same place. I hope we can circulate love instead of currency someday. We'd do the work for eachother and everyone would have what they need. We have everything and all the knowledge, now all we gotta do is love eachother.

    • @suddenly_radical4558
      @suddenly_radical4558 2 роки тому +5

      And it will be some day, we as people have the power to make it happen. It will be extremely hard and it might fail, but if we succeed the world will be a much better place.
      Continue to educate yourself, that's my advice

    • @hamis490
      @hamis490 Рік тому +10

      Marx's criticism of Capitalism is good, but you should look at different views before coming to conclusion, just because his solution doesn't seem to be the best, as the video stated at the end. His ideas have been used to do very destructive things. Im no expert at all, but I'm just saying

    • @DrGurki
      @DrGurki Рік тому +2

      Yeah, this will work in a small community but not on the scale of a nation. It‘s utopian, won‘t work. Some
      have tried, with catastrophic outcomes. That doesn‘t mean we can and should correct some aspects of our capitalist system.

    • @soulcapitalist6204
      @soulcapitalist6204 Рік тому

      Marxist beliefs are immoral. Bad economics is immoral and marx and marxists are bad economics or anti-economics. Idealist government is immoral. Classist sociology is immoral. There's no excuse to entertain marx in 2022. Read Marx's bullshit yourself and not this cherry picking from marxists. Marxist have to lie for the horrible things marx asserts and for the fact that they have an unchanged and unchangeable ideology from the bigoted, authoritarian 1840s Germany.

    • @FoundationsofFreedom
      @FoundationsofFreedom Рік тому +4

      @@hamis490 I study and am pretty heavily involved in politics. My preferred system is a healthy balance of both capitalism and socialism. Basically you have a strong social safety net, like what the Scandinavian countries have. Rights to healthcare, education, high wages, housing, etc. These countries have proven to be the most successful systems, and their citizens are among the happiest in the world, though I admit they aren’t perfect. No system is. The US would benefit from an economic bill of rights, like what FDR was an advocate of.

  • @Zed86zz
    @Zed86zz Рік тому +3

    Does anyone know who produced the drawings at 7:28 ?

  • @noaliungman5329
    @noaliungman5329 7 років тому +4415

    Karl Marx: misunderstood by both his followers and his opponents

    • @martinchristian597
      @martinchristian597 7 років тому +303

      awwwwwww gulag

    • @anaximander5334
      @anaximander5334 7 років тому +120

      Conor Hoffman What the fuck?

    • @orionizaqt
      @orionizaqt 7 років тому +631

      This is absolutely undeniable true. People who follow him act as if he found the solution, when he really only identified the problems. People who oppose him brand him as commie scum. Both are wrong.

    • @77Kabum
      @77Kabum 6 років тому +147

      "The Problem of Marxism are the Marxists"
      "One thing I can definitely say: I am not a Marxist"
      I think these two qutes illustrate quite well, what Karl Marx himself thought about his followers.

    • @treatb09
      @treatb09 6 років тому +41

      somehow the philosophy twisted and released some demented sense of hive mentality in people. probably a result of systematic in breeding. its an inevitable result of controlled culture. money still holds a value in the effort to control the abilities of others to acquire certain levels of social status, or luxurial status, but which is more important? you need one, the other appears to be social profiteering. apparently, you take away the ability to profit off of a life, and you are a communist…there is something missing in between. there is a path to nirvana, kung fu, utopia. but its a blend of it all. unifying the diverse intellectual mind, through individuality. but doing so is challenging. its true the flaws of capitalism are far too many, and the blends of other governing systems results in the depended donorship of capitalists. so what do we do? but sniff out a simple problem and attempt to resolve it subtly there?. or create a recyclatory system of governance, blending all forms after we have unified the mentality of individualism in society. its not about communism, but more about social racism in all hierarchal senses of that word. we have doctors profiteering from life and death, no matter their causality or circumstance are expected to a duty and profit from it by contract. leaving a practice seem strictly infallible by chance occurrence. humans lack consistency. no wound is the same. but we have cats killed for their owner's lack of wealth. horses put down for broken legs. cattle slaughtered in the systematic structures of the holocaust, and yet humans believe in capitalism as the evil to solve all evil. communism started as an idea that takes the prodigy, and lets everyone live that life. but thats not possible, people have a thesos, and i believe that as individuals, the thesos for each person is different. a seed becomes a tree, a baby becomes a man, that man's individual thesos is the apples of his life and labors. some trees have many apples... why are we trying to make pears from apple trees and expecting them to be perfect, every time? i just want everyone to love their life, pursue a life that becomes representative of the definition of art, and to breed individuality. achieving that is difficult as there is lots of evil. so its like let the system that fights it now, keep fighting it. there are people being left behind, wronged in their free will. and you can't just start wars because someones been shot anymore, so then that grows to millions…and we have regret, and start governing the future based on the past, and when we regret this, govern the future on how we think we see the future, and this then creates a problem, and it seems more like people forget to just live in the now sometimes, and when you want everyone to do this, the people collapse as well. desire, regret, or passion. there are nice things to infinitely say. but we define evil in so many ways, that passion becomes a weapon, and judgement and righteousness…we have people following each and every trail, and so many ignoring them that victims are becoming weapons of distress to culture, and judgements that aren't rationally even there half the time. we have history of book burnings, translations, and changes to phrases that create power in an instance. and the peaceful forget that protection is a responsibility. instead of blending capitalism with communism. which is where its all apparently headed. like some pow camp. individuality isn't bad…so where do you go from there to construct a peaceful society without oppression or profiteering? obviously hive structure works for organizing society. but hive mentality creates hierarchal racism. its not about asking, why can't i be queen, as much as who am i, what can i do, and make happen. then pursuing that but in ethically unifiable manners. money obviously does some thing. it builds. it grows economies, and allows for orchestrated direction on a global scale. but socially it corrupts the ecosystem. it dissolves it. we can't keep solving problems with more problems if we want to actually solve the problem, even though ecosystems are structured problems of seemingly endless possible solutions and diversities. so there is a paradox.

  • @NativeVsColonial
    @NativeVsColonial 3 роки тому +1824

    Everyone in the comment section has now evolved to a certified Economist

    • @LennyCash777
      @LennyCash777 3 роки тому +48

      I'd sooner trust any random person in this comment section that opposes marxism on economy than I would a dumbass marxist. At least the former doesn't have a long track record of utter failure.

    • @nzuckman
      @nzuckman 3 роки тому +180

      @@LennyCash777 Capitalism literally has periodic crises as a direct result of over-production, this was clearly addressed in the video.

    • @donrutter6550
      @donrutter6550 3 роки тому +17

      Capitalism is only an economic structure, whereas Marxism is a political, economical, and social dictatorship. Bolshevik Lives Matter @

    • @nzuckman
      @nzuckman 3 роки тому +97

      @@donrutter6550 What? Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis using dialectical materialism. It is in no way a dictatorship lol. You're confusing it with the dictatorship of the proletariat (DotP) - a justified dictatorship lead by the workers as a means of suppressing the bourgeoisie. The DotP is a transition phase between capitalism and socialism, which will then give way to communism.

    • @nzuckman
      @nzuckman 3 роки тому +74

      @TheOfficialUnofficial how much have you actually studied economics or Marx's work? Or are you dismissing it entirely because of what other people have told you to think?

  • @cristhespence
    @cristhespence 2 роки тому +5

    Number 4, Karl Marx never said profit is theft. It was Proudhon who said property was theft. Karl Marx actual argued against that point. Karl Marx made a distinction between theft and exploitation.

  • @banankaka33
    @banankaka33 2 роки тому

    anybody know what program they used to animate this in?

  • @jessicajahn5386
    @jessicajahn5386 4 роки тому +3667

    Could we just appreciate his pronunciation for a moment? His british english is on point and to hear him pronunce those german words this perfectly makes me want to develop my pronuncation. And german is my first language just to say

    • @amadeusmalonje8263
      @amadeusmalonje8263 4 роки тому +8

      lol I know right

    • @GlennLSmith
      @GlennLSmith 4 роки тому +41

      Alain De Botton grew up in Switzerland which probably helped him along the way.

    • @humonchronos9048
      @humonchronos9048 4 роки тому +5

      also french he´s pretty good at. I just learned it in school but it sounds pretty natural

    • @sreekanth672
      @sreekanth672 4 роки тому +3

      you are probably intrested in communication rather than Content

    • @jabirkk863
      @jabirkk863 4 роки тому +5

      Jordan peterson best on Marxism ua-cam.com/video/2-TadcPpIVA/v-deo.html

  • @user-xh8nu
    @user-xh8nu 3 роки тому +2119

    “the two wrote eachother adoring poetry” historians say they were good friends.

    • @mishasruros7633
      @mishasruros7633 2 роки тому +77

      I know imagine people use to actually care about their friends.

    • @asiangf1384
      @asiangf1384 2 роки тому +11

      @@mishasruros7633 let me guess, you're straight?

    • @NaViAgain-ts9lj
      @NaViAgain-ts9lj 2 роки тому +8

      @@asiangf1384 this is getting ridiculous. Why can't two guys be nice to each other do friendly things without people like you questioning their sexuality

    • @sn0wblake
      @sn0wblake 2 роки тому +17

      smells a little homosexual if you ask me

    • @user-xh8nu
      @user-xh8nu 2 роки тому +140

      @@sn0wblake duh. i was being sarcastic cause whenever 2 people are homosexual historians say they are “close friends” to deny their homosexual relationship

  • @RAmedi-nf3ch
    @RAmedi-nf3ch Рік тому +4

    A nice short induction to some interesting propositions by a famous philosopher. Future generations of humans living under capitalist systems would regret not being aware of those propositions.

  • @geekpie100
    @geekpie100 Рік тому +1

    "ursprüngliche Akkumulation" makes more sense in its direct translation as "original accumulation": the accumulation stays close to its origin - the founder of the business, the Gründer - the entrepreneurs.

  • @ihazplawe2503
    @ihazplawe2503 2 роки тому +1430

    I swear to god that everyone forgets that Marx was not a politician or even a leader, he's a philosopher like Adam Smith and theirs works were revisioned or expanded.

    • @ihazplawe2503
      @ihazplawe2503 2 роки тому +3

      @Fellow Æthelweard bait

    • @tpxchallenger
      @tpxchallenger Рік тому +6

      As far as influence goes he has no equal this side of Jesus or Muhammed. His believers think of him as a scientific prophet.

    • @doubaoa6428
      @doubaoa6428 Рік тому +6

      No. He is a politician.

    • @soulcapitalist6204
      @soulcapitalist6204 Рік тому +13

      Marx was not a philosopher. He fashioned himself some "revolutionary" and insisted on that leading role in the agitation for his political economic concept. He was a critic of philosophers in that he professed he knew better than Hegel, capitalist economists and other factions of socialists or anarchists of his time.

    • @SL2797
      @SL2797 Рік тому +5

      And the application of his ideas led to the deaths of millions of innocents.

  • @geoffreysurratt6584
    @geoffreysurratt6584 8 років тому +405

    His ideas of a classless society where never actually put in place, rather dictators destroyed the image of communism. While I'm not exactly a communist, a lot of his ideas reflect mine.

    • @fernandomarturet2486
      @fernandomarturet2486 8 років тому +34

      Might want to change your little image there to: Socialism: The radical idea of forcing people to share, at gun point.

    • @weeweethemagicalbee8758
      @weeweethemagicalbee8758 8 років тому +47

      +Fernando Marturet
      Forcing the very hard-working rich people to share their hard-earned wealth with the lazy poor workers who are so useless in society, right?
      You make me sick. If there are rich people, it is because they exploited poor people for their own interests. A gun to the head of a bourgeois is too soft. The trigger has a purpose and it is to be pulled. Splatter their brains and redistribute all the wealth they have stolen.

    • @geoffreysurratt6584
      @geoffreysurratt6584 8 років тому

      +Michael Nicolas ha!

    • @fernandomarturet2486
      @fernandomarturet2486 8 років тому +16

      +Michael Nicolas So rich people exploit the poor? so rich people put a gun to their heads and force them to work for them, because poor people have no freedom of choice in a free market? they can't quit? theh can't start their own business? Rich people don't work right, they're just exploiters? they don't spend hundreds of hours, capital, and take huge risks by starting their own businesses?

    • @fernandomarturet2486
      @fernandomarturet2486 8 років тому +3

      +Geoffrey Surratt Not an argument...

  • @lillycirn
    @lillycirn Рік тому +7

    This guy is really good at saying German stuff

  • @timonnieveler1486
    @timonnieveler1486 Рік тому +4

    he gets so many concepts wrong it's really alarming. like commodity fetishism has nothing to do with what he was talking about.

  • @eachday9538
    @eachday9538 3 роки тому +2352

    Interesting. Or as the Germans would say Intervestishgarborlishtingvargendugensteinunch

    • @ggguitar.
      @ggguitar. 3 роки тому +166

      interessant

    • @eachday9538
      @eachday9538 3 роки тому +78

      @@ggguitar. Hey! Get out of here with your boring facts!

    • @evathegrand
      @evathegrand 3 роки тому +8

      Ganz geil

    • @AbelR91
      @AbelR91 3 роки тому +18

      Good thing this can't be deemed racist since it refers to white ppl

    • @eachday9538
      @eachday9538 3 роки тому +30

      @@AbelR91 Only white people are racist, and all white people are racist, so when a white person is racist to a white person the racism cancels out, it is the only way a white person can't be racist.

  • @chipledhungaman
    @chipledhungaman 3 роки тому +1910

    Karl Marx is justifiably famous as a political philosopher but noone ever mentions his sister Onya, inventor of the starting pistol

  • @louisnaude749
    @louisnaude749 2 роки тому +10

    " Few of us need to work, because the modern economy is so productive" " No private property or inherited wealth"

  • @morganmarti579
    @morganmarti579 2 роки тому +4

    Humans are a valuable resource. While we don't need so many people working in menial positions as we have, that doesn't mean they should simply lay around. For our society to move forward we should be educating these people and putting the excess into research fields to push our boundary of understanding. This way we will progress more quickly through technology and medicine.

    • @kennypickels
      @kennypickels Рік тому +2

      I think you’re hearing “leisure” through the capitalist lens. What Marx was saying, what Chomsky says and what all of the intellectuals in the study of humanism are saying is that when each human is valuable just for the fact that they exist, and their basic needs are met, there is a freedom to think, pursue their own interests and curiosities, and do so in a way that is valuable to them and thereby to society as a whole. When each of us understands our own value, not based on what work we can do, but based on empathy for the human existence, mental suffering decreases. In capitalist society, it is a privilege to pursue ideas, hobbies, goals, learning etc… When the members of society are free to explore what they have the ability to do, learn or have a passion for, innovation follows. As people are able to explore interests, learning takes place across multiple domains of human knowledge. The more people have multi-domain knowledge and skills the more innovation takes place. For instance look at the MIT Media Lab. Innovation is critical to moving forward - the survival of humankind on a planet we decimate. Along with this needs to be a movement toward secularism. Organized religion divides people. It’s tribalism. Humanism=One tribe. Also have to understand how ableism, which is a construct borne of capitalism, influences your ideas about what “work” all people should do.

    • @marlonjormungand7845
      @marlonjormungand7845 Рік тому

      True

  • @tommclarty17
    @tommclarty17 4 роки тому +771

    ‘The youtube comment section is a crazy place.’ -Karl Marx

    • @irisidem6580
      @irisidem6580 4 роки тому +35

      "First" -Karl Marx

    • @1990hennesy
      @1990hennesy 4 роки тому +37

      “I have never said that shit.” - Karl Marx

    • @kx7500
      @kx7500 4 роки тому +12

      Robert Clawson stay triggered

    • @supona9200
      @supona9200 4 роки тому

      Laces out

    • @HondaFit-ot5ws
      @HondaFit-ot5ws 4 роки тому +14

      @Robert Clawson "fack off capitalist scum" -Karl Marx

  • @CatHostage
    @CatHostage 5 років тому +393

    “Marx was born in trier Germany, and then soon joined the communist party” damn you really skipped a few things there...

    • @sirpente6651
      @sirpente6651 5 років тому +31

      What did you expect by a you tuber? A deep, complete, historical and philosofical lesson?

    • @FlorenciaVM1
      @FlorenciaVM1 4 роки тому +13

      @@sirpente6651 lol he's not just a youtuber. Do your research.

    • @operatorjewski9450
      @operatorjewski9450 4 роки тому +12

      @@sirpente6651 everyone makes mistake, what do you expect its youtube, if you really wanna learn this shit then go read some books.

    • @limerickman8512
      @limerickman8512 4 роки тому +5

      Straight from his mother nipple, he Joined the communist party that he had yet to write about, while debt laden, a drunk, and ignored the welfare of his own kids. They call that socialism.

    • @mudan8152
      @mudan8152 4 роки тому +1

      @Carrick Cullen Are you sure about that? My geography teacher is a scientist and a pretty powerful one ( he was a leader of some research or some shit) and what he told us are that most scientist says that lowering the CO2 emmision is necessary for us humans but that ''climate change'' as people say it is not true at all.. Earth since the begginning have suffered warming and ice age, and we're just passing in one.
      Also something media that doesn't show is that although Artic Ice are melting, Antartic ice are just gaining more size..
      Well I believe that people shouls recycle and use more eco friendsly things, but stop spreading bs and dont believe anythin that media says

  • @dimetronome
    @dimetronome Рік тому +1

    Why is this video not in the School of Life's Political Theory playlist?

  • @sooryasreejith2846
    @sooryasreejith2846 2 роки тому +12

    For jordan Peterson fans out there, internet is not capitalistic. It is more like public Library. Many people came together to build it especially the university of Michigan and Cambridge University set up and developed the fiber and many people without even getting paid they started to do computing and start clearing all bugs and stuff. It's an end result of many people hardwork. Even some of the initial internet developers still exist today and they are advocating for open internet and to remove all the gateway for internet. Do your research before speaking jp fans

  • @Darthenator
    @Darthenator 5 років тому +1417

    Comments Synopsis: Everyone thinks no one else understands Communism as well as they do

    • @nostringsabove4002
      @nostringsabove4002 5 років тому +3

      Darthenator i don't

    • @CultistOfNimrod
      @CultistOfNimrod 5 років тому +1

      Perfect lol

    • @robsonpires2777
      @robsonpires2777 5 років тому +51

      @NPC#563.114.512.128 the count is actualized to 1 zilion last week, just marx himself

    • @robsonpires2777
      @robsonpires2777 5 років тому +17

      I think read 'the capital' is enough, the problem is: nobody did.

    • @happyvalleykid6324
      @happyvalleykid6324 5 років тому

      Love your profile picture. Hail to the Sith!

  • @TheGinglymus
    @TheGinglymus 5 років тому +1868

    Never read the comments section. You will only despair at humanity.

    • @austintoney471
      @austintoney471 5 років тому +8

      @M P you and me both

    • @alfsink8321
      @alfsink8321 5 років тому +87

      Both Marxists and capitalists are going to upvote your comment lmao

    • @apeman2035
      @apeman2035 5 років тому +21

      @@alfsink8321
      Be a Free Savage
      Sell cocaine to Capitalists
      Sell opiates to the Socialists
      Get money out of both Stupid Cults

    • @letsthinkitover1
      @letsthinkitover1 5 років тому +1

      @I$AA€ yea get up set cuss at comments free speech but what a waste of words when you could explain your belief's rather have that show hate toward some one else's and even if hey we're just being sarcastic. Cuss words are just not needed.

    • @VinayMenon222
      @VinayMenon222 5 років тому +7

      I came exclusively FOR the comments.

  • @michaelking8903
    @michaelking8903 6 місяців тому +2

    Not enough is ever written about Hegel. Marx studied Hegel as did many other socialists.

  • @LeeRenthlei
    @LeeRenthlei 10 місяців тому +6

    Blaming Karl Marx for the crimes the communist regime committed is like blaming car companies for car accidents.

    • @mosehlewi3081
      @mosehlewi3081 10 місяців тому +5

      No your analogy is still too relevant. Blaming Marx for the crimes of totalitarian regimes is like blaming Marx for the crimes of totalitarian regimes. No analogy needed.

    • @Cienfuegos.
      @Cienfuegos. 10 місяців тому

      Marx was cool and based, socialist countries have been and are cool and based

  • @studi0651
    @studi0651 3 роки тому +1980

    “Communism is when no iphone” - People who don’t own capital

    • @trey3xxxxx
      @trey3xxxxx 3 роки тому +149

      communism is when government does things

    • @pierrolunar8561
      @pierrolunar8561 3 роки тому +253

      @@trey3xxxxx no bro that’s socialism, communism is when government does a lot of things

    • @jakes1566
      @jakes1566 3 роки тому +148

      @@pierrolunar8561 no, socialism is when vuvuzuela

    • @mishlimon98
      @mishlimon98 3 роки тому +47

      @@jakes1566 the full name of the Nazis is national socialists. SOCIALISTS, those leftist nazis Marxists come here to destroy our country base on Christianity lord oh mighty they want to take away out Jesus who is totally white and american

    • @drew7906
      @drew7906 3 роки тому +174

      @@mishlimon98 the nazis called themselves socialists because socialism was hella popular in Germany at the time and they needed to position themselves as populist. plus the nazis persecuted actual socialists and privatized more of the economy, which are two very unsocialist things

  • @von_freiesleben64
    @von_freiesleben64 4 роки тому +484

    i live in trier, marx hometown.
    and ironically, they opened up a "1 euro-store" straight under his flat.

    • @itswednesdayscrewironing7576
      @itswednesdayscrewironing7576 4 роки тому +16

      😃😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Thats the best thing I read today! Poor, Marx...!

    • @sebastianduran2022
      @sebastianduran2022 4 роки тому +87

      You could power a whole town with all that spinning he must be doing in his grave.
      Then charge the town for it

    • @marcinsola4179
      @marcinsola4179 4 роки тому +4

      @@sebastianduran2022 but with a discount! :D That would be more capitalist of you!

    • @Matsumae_Taiyo555
      @Matsumae_Taiyo555 4 роки тому +2

      @@sebastianduran2022 Fine work

    • @crockrau3962
      @crockrau3962 4 роки тому

      Sebastian Duran can I help you market that

  • @sarveshjewalikar9921
    @sarveshjewalikar9921 Рік тому +3

    As long as there is work, there will be classism, the only time when there will be no work would be an era of complete automation and that would be the time when the ultimate goal of the human society wouldn't be climbing up the corporate ladder but rather fixing the flaws and shortcomings in the economy like right of free food, shelter and education for all.

    • @None38389
      @None38389 Місяць тому

      “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”- Frank Herbert. Complete automation will not free humanity of classism, humanity must free itself from classism before complete automation happens.

  • @petersanmiguel1164
    @petersanmiguel1164 Рік тому +7

    “He who withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.” -Proverbs 11:26

    • @hex2637
      @hex2637 2 місяці тому

      James 5:1-6 "Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you."
      Acts 2:44-45 "All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need."
      Leviticus 25:35-37
      "If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you."

    • @hex2637
      @hex2637 2 місяці тому

      James 5:1-6
      "Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you."
      Acts 2:44-45
      "All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need."
      Leviticus 25:35-37
      "If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you."
      Corinthians 10:24
      "No one should seek their own good, but the good of others"
      Proverbs 28:27
      "Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses."
      Deuteronomy 10:18
      "He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing"
      Matthew 19:23-24
      Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”"

  • @lorderik237
    @lorderik237 9 років тому +3362

    "Capitalism? More like CRAPitalism, amirite?"
    -Karl Marx, probably

    • @ElPinguinLoco
      @ElPinguinLoco 9 років тому +75

      ***** Can confirm.

    • @nickc2011
      @nickc2011 9 років тому +2

      ***** Damn son

    • @karlmarx3431
      @karlmarx3431 9 років тому +306

      ***** Did you publish my joke without my permission? That's fine. I don't believe in individual property rights.

    • @lorderik237
      @lorderik237 9 років тому +27

      lmaoyourekiddingme It was a joke.

    • @dart200
      @dart200 9 років тому +28

      lmaoyourekiddingme why do people always bring up the bath thing? Who the fuck cares how he smelled?
      Also who the fuck cares who he was in person? His ideas were much bigger than his person.

  • @maxbarthel3055
    @maxbarthel3055 5 років тому +383

    As a native german I have to say: your german pronounciation is right on point 👌🏻

    • @GrothendiecksWish
      @GrothendiecksWish 5 років тому +6

      Is there such a thing as a posh German accent vs a peasant accent?

    • @vagabaassassina3461
      @vagabaassassina3461 5 років тому +5

      @@GrothendiecksWish Yes

    • @kitsch_bitch
      @kitsch_bitch 4 роки тому +1

      @@GrothendiecksWish There is one posh accent and quite a few peasent accents

    • @GrothendiecksWish
      @GrothendiecksWish 4 роки тому

      kitch bitch thanks Kitsche Bitch

    • @GrothendiecksWish
      @GrothendiecksWish 4 роки тому

      Peter Parker que coño dijistes vos?

  • @andreaheuergallo4489
    @andreaheuergallo4489 Рік тому +4

    Today i made the discovery that my teacher copies the transcripts of School of Life videos and puts them on the powerpoint presentations for class..
    😂😂😂😂 He made a powerpoint presentation of Marx with the info of this video.. the exact thing 🤡🤡

  • @dstuart2918
    @dstuart2918 9 місяців тому +9

    Really well done--I love all of your lessons.

  • @nighty6274
    @nighty6274 3 роки тому +2803

    If only education was this open and free, not picking bias but rather just a respectful educational discussion along being accessible to the public...

    • @kikikurumo7243
      @kikikurumo7243 3 роки тому +116

      I really dont think this video is unbiased. I think a lot of things 'seem' unbiased or 'free thinking' but are not

    • @gadget00
      @gadget00 3 роки тому +26

      it is; pretty much everywhere except in US and some other few weird places LOL

    • @hwdareu5848
      @hwdareu5848 3 роки тому +18

      But the Democrats and leftists want to educate your children in camps and force their ideologies down your throat!!

    • @bubbledumbb
      @bubbledumbb 3 роки тому +69

      @@hwdareu5848 what are you on about??

    • @jimmytimmyy1747
      @jimmytimmyy1747 3 роки тому +45

      @Quack quack In an actually socialist system there are little to no taxes and yet they can pay for your healthcare, housing and pretty much everything you need. See Albania, the USSR or GDR. Albania specifically abolished all taxes for a time and was still able to continue to prosper, the fact of the matter is that the free education isn't the problem but Capitalism is.

  • @paulliu8502
    @paulliu8502 7 років тому +337

    this taught me that marxist thought is so different and much more profound than soviet ideology

    • @paulliu8502
      @paulliu8502 7 років тому +10

      agree with russian guy

    • @Eternalentropy
      @Eternalentropy 7 років тому +5

      Results in reality
      65 million in the People's Republic of China
      20 million in the Soviet Union
      2 million in Cambodia
      2 million in North Korea
      1.7 million in Ethiopia
      1.5 million in Afghanistan
      1 million in the Eastern Bloc
      1 million in Vietnam
      150,000 in Latin America
      Allow these numbers that all were once real human beings hopefully teach you more about communism.

    • @sunman8139
      @sunman8139 7 років тому

      Socialist in name, not in practice, just like my country Cuba, North Korea, Soviet Union, and countless more in Africa and Asia, all a farce.

    • @LouHS
      @LouHS 7 років тому +7

      Eternal entropy Yet none of those countries were truly communist, so no lesson there...

    • @Eternalentropy
      @Eternalentropy 7 років тому +4

      ***** If a political and economic ideology after 100 years and many times attempted can't even attempt one proper shot at said ideology how bad does that look?
      Also where it has been implemented as much as possible it has resulted in the complete degradation to the means of existence including human life.
      Utopian dreams, covered in hippie flowers and rainbow unicorns hiding the true fact that communism is a nightmare that destroys the human spirit of productivity, incentives and the will to innovate.
      Time for you to re-evaluate your beliefs kiddo.
      Communism has never won, not even once and the reason why all so called communist nations can never be fully communist is because they all had to implement capitalism to some extent or else they completely collapsed and that applies to ALL of them that tried.

  • @dustinchen
    @dustinchen 2 роки тому +1

    the politicians and newspapermen have never as much as glanced at a line written by Marx, and that the social scientists are satisfied with a minimal knowledge of Marx

  • @harrison9691
    @harrison9691 4 роки тому +483

    Don’t know much about him but helped him in assassins creed syndicate

  • @SIP871
    @SIP871 8 років тому +2593

    This is the first English video i see on youtube, where they pronounce German words the right way. sehr gut!

    • @tenochtitilian
      @tenochtitilian 8 років тому +102

      +SIP871 It's because the narrator is fluent in German

    • @reversalmushroom
      @reversalmushroom 8 років тому +3

      +tenochtitilian Who is the narrator? He sounds familiar.

    • @kilmoturtles1
      @kilmoturtles1 8 років тому +31

      It's that British guy from that British TV show.

    • @FelixNBR
      @FelixNBR 8 років тому +16

      well, not really. You can still hear that he is not german.

    • @Pacome.de.Champignac
      @Pacome.de.Champignac 8 років тому +46

      the narrator is Alain de Botton, he was born in Zurich in the german part of switzerland so it's not surprising he prononces it well ! :)

  • @smudgepost
    @smudgepost Рік тому +7

    Another great video! Be interesting to see one on how communisim hs been interpreted and how even that changed, such as the CCP deciding the state mattered most around the time of Mao.

    • @user-mi8ht4gn1o
      @user-mi8ht4gn1o Рік тому

      mao put class struggle first,chosen a wrong way,Maxism put more emphasis on human freedom whatever a capitalist.

  • @ectjim
    @ectjim Рік тому +3

    3. They take risks, workers don’t.

    • @onlyhereformoney175
      @onlyhereformoney175 Рік тому

      are you ok?

    • @mycodingchannel9690
      @mycodingchannel9690 16 днів тому

      if you think living paycheck to paycheck isn't a bigger risk than investing 10000 from your father, then I don't know what to tell ya

  • @Quantumtalesxx
    @Quantumtalesxx 7 років тому +1947

    What the hell!!
    All the people commenting here about why capitalism is better than communism or why communism is better than capitalism, completely missed the point of this video..
    I'm really struck right now at how ideology blinds you from fact.

    • @solomonsiu8332
      @solomonsiu8332 7 років тому +27

      Good job on your elaborate answer, nobody cares, its just a video.

    • @engsaleh8793
      @engsaleh8793 7 років тому +2

      they are all BAD

    • @Quantumtalesxx
      @Quantumtalesxx 7 років тому +97

      redlegagent Very nice. However you are missing the point as well, and this shows from your attempt criticize Marx by comparing the two socio-economic systems. Communism has failed. It's no secret. Marx's theory has been falsified because the revolution never came. However, this video does not try to make a stance for communism or what is widely perceived as "Marxism". Marx was a genius and an inconceivably difficult theorist. He set a great part of the groundwork for the modern human sciences, and is studied and analyzed till this very day by every student of the human being and human societies. If you take a look at Sweden and it's recent changes in policies concerning the working day, you will recognize in it, a lot of Marx's spirit. A 6-hour working day that leaves time for its citizens to pursue other activities of their liking. Thus leaving time for one to "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic". "This is national wealth, this is national prosperity". More leisure time for everyone. This is a true change for a better human society. And this my friend is part of the essence of Marx, which everyone seems to be painfully missing.

    • @twidilidee8303
      @twidilidee8303 7 років тому +21

      Yes, we prefer leisure to work: did Marx discover this?
      Sweden's wealth, the condition of leisure, comes from Protestantism and free market economics. Contra real Marxist inspired economies in Venezuela and Cuba.
      Marx was a fraud. When he got his big payoff from his capitalist buddy Engels, which made him a very rich man, he went full bourgeoisie in his lifestyle-the hunting fishing stuff was just a literary conceit of classical origin.

    • @beezlbub7956
      @beezlbub7956 7 років тому

      Just Saleh shut up lenin wanted a revoliution for the workers benefit

  • @kalyan-
    @kalyan- 4 роки тому +703

    Welcome to the Fbi watchlist.

    • @theohallworth2632
      @theohallworth2632 4 роки тому +3

      kalyan122333 what

    • @chadstuff1875
      @chadstuff1875 4 роки тому +9

      Yay

    • @DZ-hh5dw
      @DZ-hh5dw 4 роки тому +36

      Yeah, watching this isn't going to get you on a list. I mean you can go to urban outfitters and buy a Che Guevara shirt. Ironically, watching this video is supporting capitalism. You get an Ad for some big business and UA-cam makes money. Not to mention the channel makes money but that's a different thing considering it's just some guy making a video who owns no means of production.

    • @Babayaga34567
      @Babayaga34567 4 роки тому +7

      this comment is stoopied.

    • @thomahperin7953
      @thomahperin7953 4 роки тому +4

      not really

  • @Jennnn._.
    @Jennnn._. 7 місяців тому +3

    Absolutely marvelous narration which makes it even more engaging

  • @gelodude07
    @gelodude07 6 місяців тому +1

    8 years ago yet very relevant in the age of inequality, deglobalization, and inflation.

  • @mattjohnson1953
    @mattjohnson1953 3 роки тому +1681

    Little known fact: Karl Marx had a sister who invented the starter pistol. Her name was Anya.

    • @Lynks5
      @Lynks5 3 роки тому +47

      🙄 my dad told me that joke the other day... haha

    • @bobtheplayer9777
      @bobtheplayer9777 3 роки тому +12

      @@Lynks5 i dont get it

    • @hollyanderson2494
      @hollyanderson2494 3 роки тому +226

      @@bobtheplayer9777 "Anya Marx" sounds like "on your marks"

    • @CM-so1cf
      @CM-so1cf 3 роки тому +3

      @@bobtheplayer9777 🥴

    • @HamzaKhan-fm1dx
      @HamzaKhan-fm1dx 3 роки тому +5

      Assassins Creed Syndicate

  • @Yakov_EPH-6.12
    @Yakov_EPH-6.12 3 роки тому +582

    "I HATE EVERY RULING CLASS I SEE, FROM BOURGEOIS-A TO BOURGEOISIE"
    -KARL MARKS

    • @fypos
      @fypos 3 роки тому +16

      "THEY FINALLY MADE A MONKEY OUT OF ME !!!"
      -KARL MARKS

    • @TheEnderRenderer
      @TheEnderRenderer 3 роки тому +4

      *Karl Marx

    • @guernica4992
      @guernica4992 3 роки тому +8

      @@TheEnderRenderer it is misspelled intentionally

    • @user-zi3ej1gm2j
      @user-zi3ej1gm2j 3 роки тому +1

      r/whoosh

    • @paramountofpuns6913
      @paramountofpuns6913 3 роки тому +2

      maybe it's be better to put ""from bourgeois-A to bourgeoi-Z"

  • @ShoSho-cq7ct
    @ShoSho-cq7ct 5 місяців тому

    WHat's the name of the painting at 4:17 ??

    • @billydekid580
      @billydekid580 5 місяців тому

      Kitchen Still Life with a Maid and Young Boy by Frans Snyders in mid 17th century

  • @laprimularossa4626
    @laprimularossa4626 2 роки тому +4

    L'economia dello stato rappresenta la struttura, mentre la politica rappresenta la sovrastruttura. La storia è dunque fondata dalla concretezza e gli elementi portanti di essa sono i mezzi di produzione (o forza produttiva): lavoro, tecnologie e macchinari; e rapporti di produzione: rapporti tra varie classi. MARX

  • @kapital6501
    @kapital6501 3 роки тому +1295

    I think that "greed" are often the result of our upbringing itself. Since childhood, we are often told that yes, the purpose of life is to get rich
    For example, if our parents worked in a shoe factory, we are often expected to work hard and own a factory ourselves
    This in turn made us choose a "better" and more "financially stable" jobs in order to fullfil the expectations. Which led us to abandon what we actually enjoyed to do.

    • @Chris-tl1kh
      @Chris-tl1kh 3 роки тому +24

      its more biological rather than cultural cause we had wars to get more land 1000s of years ago

    • @kapital6501
      @kapital6501 3 роки тому +74

      @@Chris-tl1kh wdym by biological? Are you talking about the Freudian theory that human motives are passed down through ancestry. Which is simply wrong.

    • @Chris-tl1kh
      @Chris-tl1kh 3 роки тому +41

      @@kapital6501 no that we need hierarchy to live cause we are serotonin based life forms

    • @cyanidegamingclipz7503
      @cyanidegamingclipz7503 3 роки тому +28

      So what's better ? Communism which leaves most equally poor due to low or no incentives to get more or capitalism which drives you to get more innovative in your earnings .

    • @kapital6501
      @kapital6501 3 роки тому +59

      @@cyanidegamingclipz7503 None of them. They're both shit.

  • @srushtishetty16
    @srushtishetty16 3 роки тому +1354

    I really appreciate all the efforts put in this video, but Marx's eyes creeped tf out of me 😭😭😭

    • @carpediem4887
      @carpediem4887 3 роки тому +23

      Cause he was a creep

    • @equinox2584
      @equinox2584 3 роки тому +33

      @@carpediem4887 Marx was one the greatest economist ever who has written what is known as the most influential political document in history. How is he a creep?

    • @carpediem4887
      @carpediem4887 3 роки тому +11

      @@equinox2584 That is an opinion. My opinion is that he was a creep. Isn't it cool that we both get to have one?

    • @equinox2584
      @equinox2584 3 роки тому +34

      @@carpediem4887 Very democratic of you, that is a key concept of socialism, welcome comrad.

    • @superiorredditor8173
      @superiorredditor8173 2 роки тому +33

      @@carpediem4887 you can't just call someone a name and call it an "opinion" that's not how opinion works, he hasn't done anything that makes him a creep

  • @gilagarden2535
    @gilagarden2535 4 місяці тому +1

    His sister was even much more famous but untold, Onya, an Olympic runner - that till this day her name is still mentioned at every start of each race.

  • @LucklessGun
    @LucklessGun Рік тому +3

    “at this point we should all be marxists…”
    extremely loaded position to be held by anyone, because to be a “marxist” means to accept the tenets of the revolutionary faith. The horrors of communism are a feature, not a bug.

    • @adisonransley
      @adisonransley 2 дні тому

      Factual. I struggle to see how most are missing this.

  • @pauloyih1
    @pauloyih1 2 роки тому +674

    Marx was one of the earliest global economist with a deep understanding of the capitalism and its potential failure

    • @gavinbalajadia8697
      @gavinbalajadia8697 2 роки тому +3

      However, people with greatest standard of living live in capitalist countries and people with the worst standard of living live in communist countries so....

    • @540BC
      @540BC 2 роки тому +36

      Thankfully it's been a roaring success

    • @user-oo4hi8od8b
      @user-oo4hi8od8b 2 роки тому +20

      马克思不是经济学家,诚然他对经济学理解要高出同时代不少经济学家,但只要稍加阅读过马克思的作品就会发现,在马克思的学说中“纯粹思辨的经院哲学家”和“私有制社会的庸俗经济学家”都是被批判的对象,马克思也从来不以经济学家或经济学工作者自居。比如马克思的经典著作之一《资本论》,看名字像一本经济学著作,但它的副标题叫“政治经济学品批判”。结论,用“经济学家”这个词指代马克思,本身是对马克思的思想的矮化与降维。

    • @user-oo4hi8od8b
      @user-oo4hi8od8b 2 роки тому +17

      @@gavinbalajadia8697 你首先要明白不是共产主义或社会主义造成了贫穷与不公,恰恰是你口中的富裕的资本主义国家存在着贫穷与不公才造就了共产主义或社会主义思想。新事物的产生必然伴随旧事物的灭亡,而旧事物不会自己主动走向灭亡,需要新事物的“主动有为”。资本主义的社会阶级差别带来的不同阶级之间天差地别的贫富差距所造就的共产主义就是新事物,孕育共产主义的资本主义就旧事物,而旧事物会自己走向坟墓吗?旧事物会利用自己的先发优势对新事物斩尽杀绝,以维护自己的旧利益,这就是新旧之争,是资本主义与共产主义的斗争。资本主义早于共产主义,经济水平要高于后起的共产主义不是很正常吗?脱离历史发展的客观规律只以生活水平论不同制度优劣是得不出客观的结论的。

    • @n0madtv
      @n0madtv 2 роки тому +8

      Except that it was a 1000 year old greek philosophy by the time he decided to re-write into class warfare.

  • @mabs1970
    @mabs1970 3 роки тому +385

    a lot of new comments... guess we all being radicalised

    • @brendenkasprzyk
      @brendenkasprzyk 3 роки тому +8

      TRUE

    • @volume163
      @volume163 3 роки тому +31

      As the problems of the U.S keep increasing, there are more people looking for solutions in a variety of directions.
      I just hope for free education so people won’t have to fear failure as much and instead embrace it as a part of learning

    • @1drunk_dionysius
      @1drunk_dionysius 3 роки тому +23

      Not radicalised but woke up from the lies spread upon the masses for the last 100years

    • @artempatrushev6684
      @artempatrushev6684 3 роки тому +34

      @@1drunk_dionysius aka radicalised

    • @Trapping_ackbar7
      @Trapping_ackbar7 3 роки тому +27

      Communism can’t solve its incentivzation problem, and it always creates a power vacuum in which the last person you want to have power gets power. It has a stellar record of failure and death.

  • @jessebella9901
    @jessebella9901 Рік тому +5

    Marx is the only man powerful enough to have had his legacy split the world into two.

    • @thanos8638
      @thanos8638 Рік тому +1

      Nah!

    • @weybye91
      @weybye91 4 місяці тому

      Not really, since Lenin only took what he knew people wanted to hear, and then did nothing towards implementing any of it

  • @reversefulfillment9189
    @reversefulfillment9189 Рік тому +1

    It's hard to start a revolution when the proletariat are watching TikTok videos on their lunch breaks.

  • @alias40anon
    @alias40anon 3 роки тому +258

    Reading the comments will erase completely anything you may learnt from this video, and get you back to point zero.Avoid it at most cost

    • @bloodygano7313
      @bloodygano7313 3 роки тому +16

      Or get more radicalized 😎

    • @the_awakening6044
      @the_awakening6044 2 роки тому +10

      So anyone who disagrees with this video is automatically wrong and there is absolutely no way this video is wrong? Ok sure

    • @mem7806
      @mem7806 2 роки тому +36

      @@the_awakening6044 dude this video is literally explaining a theory what the fuck do you mean "wrong" ? you can disagree with Marxism, but the video is almost entirely correct

    • @micass3561
      @micass3561 2 роки тому +11

      This video is wrong because the only thing that has lifted people out of poverty has been capitalism. Even China while authoritarian to the people let their markets be free. It’s what freed them from starvation and moved them to an economic powerhouse. People want to be free which means enjoying the fruits of their labor - not giving the fruits of their labor to the lazy people who just want to write poetry and or consume hours of UA-cam lol. Marx was an entitled lazy rich kid who didn’t want to work and couldn’t wait for his parents to die to get their money.

    • @cyborgchimpy
      @cyborgchimpy 2 роки тому +1

      @@micass3561 isnt marxism supposed to be some sort of evolution of capitalism? I havent read the communist manifesto but I want to do so soon. but what I got was for "it to work" capitalism needs to be at its peak. isnt it possible this might be a reason it failed to reach true communism in the past?

  • @Gembappe
    @Gembappe 3 роки тому +529

    "All I did was put my thoughts on paper, write a couple of books about it, and now everyone hates me for things I didn't even do or say they should be done." - Karl Marx

    • @omega0195
      @omega0195 3 роки тому +54

      He did say he wanted those things done. He had a fantasy about it. His ideas killed millions upon millions of people.

    • @Gembappe
      @Gembappe 3 роки тому +169

      @@omega0195 You're gonna have to be specific. What things did he want done? Genocide? Totalitarianism? Gulags? No.

    • @B20C0
      @B20C0 3 роки тому +198

      @@omega0195 Let me reframe that to Christianity.
      Christian ideology: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
      Christian reality: crusades, slaughtering of millions of people over centuries, torture and execution of people with different beliefs.

    • @pewpewlazers5702
      @pewpewlazers5702 3 роки тому +16

      B20C0 was there ever a situation where those in power did not take advantage or destroy millions of lives? Humans are dominant species...we evolved that to become “modern entertainment”...civilization should evolve one day as we hopefully become a more peaceful species

    • @hopscotchoblivion7564
      @hopscotchoblivion7564 3 роки тому +8

      More like: I put my ideas on books, and I singlehandedly divided the world powers, with people portraying my ideas as either inhumane or admirable

  • @Faolan03
    @Faolan03 3 місяці тому +1

    The way you pronounced the german words was incredible good

  • @Carljung.we.are.what.we.hate.
    @Carljung.we.are.what.we.hate. 7 місяців тому

    Did anyone notice the hidden hand of secret society in his photo? I didn't expect him to be one

  • @vixxa1719
    @vixxa1719 3 роки тому +676

    Marx really said “eat the rich” huh.

    • @oldman5540
      @oldman5540 3 роки тому +29

      I can’t work hard because that’s bad

    • @user-hf4qy3mt6z
      @user-hf4qy3mt6z 3 роки тому +89

      @Normal Person lmfaooo oh, sweet summer child... how naïve you are!

    • @vixxa1719
      @vixxa1719 3 роки тому +32

      Normal Person some people who are known to be very rich often misuse their money, like Jeff Bezos. He may be running Amazon but is underpaying some of his staff. People like Elon musk have the money to ruin the worlds current state. Some people who have a good amount of money live a comfortable life and aren’t doing anything wrong. It’s just implied that some of the rich are misusing their power instead of supporting others.

    • @Iron_Grizzly_Heavy_Metal
      @Iron_Grizzly_Heavy_Metal 3 роки тому +1

      You didn't know he was a cannibal too?

    • @Iron_Grizzly_Heavy_Metal
      @Iron_Grizzly_Heavy_Metal 3 роки тому

      @Normal Person LMAO!!!

  • @otakushinobi1451
    @otakushinobi1451 4 роки тому +1914

    What do you call a communist sniper Marx Man

    • @otakushinobi1451
      @otakushinobi1451 4 роки тому +17

      Hendrix Rider I know

    • @Matsumae_Taiyo555
      @Matsumae_Taiyo555 4 роки тому +27

      How many capitalists are required to change a lightbulb?
      One. Its.... A one man's.. job.

    • @hijraulyha6429
      @hijraulyha6429 4 роки тому +2

      So many puns in comment section

    • @poopcold92
      @poopcold92 4 роки тому +2

      Evil

    • @lukashernandez130
      @lukashernandez130 4 роки тому +21

      @@Matsumae_Taiyo555 how many capitalists do you need to change a light bulb? one because then they pay someone else 3 cents to do it before using their labor for personal gain while making 80% of the profit

  • @henryarero
    @henryarero 4 місяці тому

    Which is the best economic system of the World for Equality,Equity and Justice 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏????

  • @Joabe08
    @Joabe08 2 роки тому

    3:16 "Primitive accumulation" não é isso. Acumulação primitiva é o processos de expropriação exclusiva dos seus meios de produção, quando ocorre a separação entre trabalho e propriedade, proletários e burguêses. As vezes me pergunto se vocês leem os autores sobre os quais gravam videos.

  • @phatrickmoore
    @phatrickmoore 4 роки тому +280

    6:23 "An important aspect of Marx's work is that he proposes that there's an insidious, subtle way in which the economic system colors the sort of ideas that we end up having" - um subtle?!?!?! Have you seen how many BILLBOARDS you drive by on your way to work?!?!??!

    • @luisadrian2684
      @luisadrian2684 4 роки тому +32

      Its subtle in the sense that those billboards are not telling you directly to do something, rather suggest it.

    • @planbei5785
      @planbei5785 4 роки тому +1

      What is subtle is the way to lead people considering those billboards (and anything related to those) normal

    • @planbei5785
      @planbei5785 4 роки тому +1

      And that's the point explained at 6:50, capitalist systems bring you to consider superior values that are actually strengthening the position of capitalists (such as thinking someone who doesn't work as worthless to take over the example in the video). Make sure, as someone told above in the answers section, to put any writing in its context and to think in terms of concepts and abstraction rather than in terms of material objects you can see in the 21st century when it comes to philosophy

    • @Dragonball-tv8hs
      @Dragonball-tv8hs 4 роки тому +1

      I started reading just when the vid said it like wth

    • @kasparov937
      @kasparov937 4 роки тому +2

      @@luisadrian2684 I always wondered if Aliens came down to earth what would they think of all the billboards?😁 Would they be like wtf?

  • @TannerJarring
    @TannerJarring 4 роки тому +994

    who's watching this post corona era?

    • @SqueezeMonger
      @SqueezeMonger 4 роки тому +180

      Its still corona era, post corona era is far to come

    • @SharifAhmed08
      @SharifAhmed08 4 роки тому +19

      Grow mature, Don't ever post these

    • @blipblap614
      @blipblap614 4 роки тому +35

      I trust you're enjoying your leisure time, comrade. The food shortages will commence momentarily.

    • @Manamanamana36
      @Manamanamana36 4 роки тому +5

      @@blipblap614 fuck your comrade

    • @mansurx26
      @mansurx26 4 роки тому +1

      Is it over?

  • @greeshmaanantharaman9742
    @greeshmaanantharaman9742 2 роки тому

    Is there a transcript of this video?

  • @shamerzaihan8638
    @shamerzaihan8638 3 роки тому +1348

    Im a barbie girl, in a barbie world
    - karl marx -

    • @timburke694
      @timburke694 3 роки тому +41

      Spot on lol "I'll go hunting in the morning, fishing in the evening....." yeah whos gonna willingly go unclog the sewer!!! haha

    • @anerkant
      @anerkant 3 роки тому +6

      @@timburke694 haha..
      Yes, who is going to lay bricks?

    • @paul5324
      @paul5324 3 роки тому +38

      aner kannt you realize once our technology hits supreme, all these tasks will be done by robots. And what will be left for us humans are tasks that require creativity and passion, not mundane chores and bullshit work. Marx’s criticisms on Capitalism are fair.

    • @bgymn-fn8jy
      @bgymn-fn8jy 3 роки тому +3

      @@paul5324 automation is only efficient to an extent. you cant let robots do everything. metallic resources are finite, and some of them will be depleted very soon. silver for example.

    • @paul5324
      @paul5324 3 роки тому +20

      b00g3ym4n and resources under capitalism are somehow infinite? Also space mining will become a thing...

  • @christopher23222
    @christopher23222 7 років тому +454

    This is a pretty bad summary of his thought. He didn't think "unemployment" was a positive good in the capitalist sense. He thought capitalist societies create unemployment because without unemployment laborers could demand higher wages without fear of replacement. He thought humans are alienated from their labor under capitalism but not that "unemployment" or "leisure" was the ideal. Rather, it's that we need a system in which leisure and labor are both enjoyable elements in every person's life.

    • @christopher23222
      @christopher23222 7 років тому +73

      He also didn't think that capitalism was efficient or productive. More productive than feudalism, yes, but he thought socialism would be more productive and more efficient because it would focus on use rather than exchange value. He didn't think you could just take the capitalist system and redistribute the products to satisfy all needs. He thought socialism would make society more productive, leading to a system of classlessness and universal material satisfaction.

    • @easternstrategist5276
      @easternstrategist5276 6 років тому +15

      Yeah. American workers oppressed and discriminated Chinese migrants in late 19th and early 20th, despite the fact that they bought the theory of Karl Marx. This is because the Chinese migrants were brought intentionally by the capitalists in America such that they can have a lower expense, but at the meantime the American workers were protesting against low wage in America. This eventually leaded American workers to blame everything on the Chinese migrants rather than the capitalists.

    • @easternstrategist5276
      @easternstrategist5276 6 років тому +16

      This can pretty much tell you the very nature of migration, multiculturalism, Neo-liberalism and even feminism in the West.
      It's a structural problem that turns the low white male working class into far right and "racists", while low working class minority into far-left, women into rich class diggers and etc.
      I'm from China and this is how most of leftists (communists) there thought about the Western politics nowadays.

    • @derekchangedyou1392
      @derekchangedyou1392 6 років тому

      It was a good summary tbh.

    • @sittingforthenationalanthe9409
      @sittingforthenationalanthe9409 6 років тому

      SuperHans how did that workout in the 20th century

  • @Icemanr85
    @Icemanr85 Рік тому +2

    Mark sounds like an all rounded please everyone type of guy.

  • @hankreardon2764
    @hankreardon2764 Рік тому +17

    I love this! Really love this! It is one of the best encapsulations of Marx’s beliefs and his impact upon the world. Very well done! Beautiful!

    • @ZoZo-wb1nr
      @ZoZo-wb1nr Рік тому

      Right?! This was beautifully made.

  • @AincentWisdom
    @AincentWisdom 4 роки тому +421

    I don't entirely agree with him, but I respect and agree with some of his views.
    This is the heart of the problem in modern Society, we learn the history of something and identify with it completely. It doesn't have to be one thing or the other, It can be a mix of the two. Evolve in intelligence from history, and create a current political philosophy and mind.

    • @danirabinowitz5049
      @danirabinowitz5049 4 роки тому

      Dave Johnson I don’t think that’s the *heart* of the problem. People do this, I think, consciously or not.

    • @srivatsadamaraju1473
      @srivatsadamaraju1473 4 роки тому +15

      Could you explain where you differ from Marxism? I genuinely want to know what points you agreed and where you feel you could make other suggestions.....

    • @rizkidjakaria9570
      @rizkidjakaria9570 4 роки тому +23

      Why capitalism survives for centuries and communism falls after only decades of survival? Because capitalism hits closer to reality and Freudian human psychology, while communism was misused by communist regime from its true value. That's my opinion.

    • @danirabinowitz5049
      @danirabinowitz5049 4 роки тому +18

      Rizki Djakaria That’s assuming communist/socialist structures collapsed from faults of communism and socialism. What aspect of Marx’s communism crumbled the Soviet Union? What aspect of socialism crumbled socialist governments in South America? We’ve been lied to for generations by enterprise empires with opposing interests to socialism.

    • @rizkidjakaria9570
      @rizkidjakaria9570 4 роки тому +4

      @@danirabinowitz5049 This requires a major analysis on Marxism as well as Leninism, Maoism and Socialism. This video doesn't cut through the core of Marx's communism as it only explains what it is, not how it works.

  • @champagnesocialist3716
    @champagnesocialist3716 3 роки тому +401

    Marx & Engels were definitely lovers but yall ain’t ready for that conversation yet

    • @officialburrito3874
      @officialburrito3874 3 роки тому +5

      Lmao

    • @Mr0Justice
      @Mr0Justice 3 роки тому +3

      Makes sense now how the LGBTQ are the biggest supporters of BLM (Blacks Love Marxism)

    • @jungxehuin9404
      @jungxehuin9404 3 роки тому +19

      A communist was secretly gay? How surprising...not. It all makes sense now

    • @Mr0Justice
      @Mr0Justice 3 роки тому

      @@jungxehuin9404 indeed

    • @officialburrito3874
      @officialburrito3874 3 роки тому +7

      @Eszra Falcontail ok buddy

  • @categories5066
    @categories5066 Рік тому +1

    People who dismiss Communism as a silly Utopian dream have never engaged in the literature. Engles wrote a book called "Socialism, utopian and SCIENTIFIC" in which he breaks down utopianism vs a scientific desctiption of Marxism.

  • @treykennedy8897
    @treykennedy8897 2 роки тому +6

    Well this isn't biased at all

    • @DeathBuzz
      @DeathBuzz 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed. 0:39 shows just that.

    • @treykennedy8897
      @treykennedy8897 2 роки тому

      @@DeathBuzz Oh ya, pretty blatant there!

    • @menesebastiao2468
      @menesebastiao2468 2 роки тому

      Bryce Long this video is biased against Marx lol, the end proves thst

  • @mathuang95
    @mathuang95 4 роки тому +167

    Marx's Critiques:
    - Due to specialization, we are alienated from the fulfilling feeling we can derive from our work and it's effects on society.
    - Specialization means the scope of skills you need to know to function in the work place has been reduced. Meaning your job is less secure, cause you're more easily replaced.
    - Primitive accumulation, capitalists make more money than workers.
    - We need to stop pursuing money, but freedom that comes from having it. We can all afford to be leisurely in our lives.
    - Capitalists systems reduces the freedom of capitalists. For example, leisure is evil , and marrying a someone below your socio-economic class is marrying wrong.

    • @likearollingstone007
      @likearollingstone007 3 роки тому +24

      I read Capital at 16. Decided to become a theacher, didn't need to own much and mostly no debts (Education and health care are ''free'' in Canada), in order be free and do whatever I like. I am now 63, just retired, absolutely loved having an impact on kids minds and souls, didn't marry, had a few women friends, I have a house, real interesting friends who cares, I traveled around the world all my life not working in the summer and Hollydays, did I say no debts, I read and keep in shape and always did volonteer work. I never felt stress in my life. Give to the next. No religion. Stoicism. This life is still available in 2020 with a few sacrifice.

    • @ralx225b
      @ralx225b 3 роки тому +8

      Not really, education is ridiculously expensive right now.

    • @mohanraghu1139
      @mohanraghu1139 3 роки тому +4

      @@likearollingstone007 adopt me

    • @mattneville2864
      @mattneville2864 3 роки тому +3

      Pretty sure your last point was just human nature. People generaly cant relate to others who were raised different. I understand balancing the money might help make people be more relatable... But we all have the decision to do what we want as long as we have the capacity. Makeing less money is an active decision for most. They make daily decisions that decide. 0lease dont comment about sick people and such. The percentage isnt worth bringing up. And I dont disagree with helping those who cant help themselves.

    • @brianbauer3148
      @brianbauer3148 3 роки тому +1

      @@ralx225b and run by Marxist 🤔

  • @Ashmoke
    @Ashmoke 6 років тому +930

    We gonna pretend like marx and Engles didn't write adorable poetry to each other ?

    • @CapetanBarbosa
      @CapetanBarbosa 6 років тому +11

      What do you want us to say about that subject xD? I myself have no knowledge of this poetry letters among them to begin with. Thanks for highlighting that part btw.

    • @RM-zu1kk
      @RM-zu1kk 6 років тому +7

      Marx wrote poems about himself that displayed egomania.

    • @redlightmax
      @redlightmax 6 років тому +9

      +gud bie 8:19 Adoring poetry, not adorable.

    • @gavinreid8351
      @gavinreid8351 6 років тому +3

      It was mentioned. Listen .

    • @teresamartins9658
      @teresamartins9658 6 років тому

      gud bie ha ha ha 🤣🤣🤣