What is the Industrial Reserve Army? | Karl Marx | Keyword

In this episode, I explain what Marx means by the Industrial Reserve Army.
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[@lotoreo]

thanks, this was super enlightening
also the cats are too damn cute

[@aquamama9430]

great video & explanation! I am currently writing a thesis about garment factory workers and was about to use Marx's term of industrial reserve army. Thanks so much for this!

[@jacavanheesch4593]

0:36 sir a second cat has hit the bookshelf

[@injusticeanywherethreatens4810]

For the algorithm!

[@dextershelby5780]

Great great great video, please always send up the video with automatically generated subtitles because my english is not my native language and my listening is not so good, so I a lot of times use the automatically generated subtitles to understand the video.
Thank you very much and sorry if I writed something wrong :))

[@Sandra-hc4vo]

The bookcase now has a cat on it... no two cats.. nice video. a little sad towards the end, fortunately the cats were there to keep the cheer up.

[@DARRAGH396]

Sorry have to watch again, was focusing on the cats too much

[@injusticeanywherethreatens4810]

Thanks for this!

[@piotrbaszczyk7844]

Great!

[@deet]

love your vids always

[@scottcampbell9356]

Thank you - helpful. Also, it just clicked with me. You sound very similar to Matthew McConaughey.

[@dangerousideas5356]

two kitties

[@dangerousideas5356]

kitty

[@Megaghost_]

What did the cats do to your books, man?!

[@voralom494]

5:59 cat flip

[@donaldjoy4023]

Wrong, cat pounce

[@donaldjoy4023]

At 8:18 you say, "...in order to make certain people very rich," as if that's the guaranteed result of any situation where capitalists exploit desperate workers. Nonsense, it's quite often the case that the capitalist is desperate to merely stay afloat, keep from going under due to whatever adverse(or normal competitive) factors possibly necessitate them seeking cheap labor in the first place. The entire spectrum of contingencies are possible in any situation, from complete bankruptcy and failure all the way up to, yes, making certain people very rich. But your Leftist ideological derangement is showing itself when you automatically ascribe to capitalists the assumed condition of just naturally getting "very rich" from exploiting workers.

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Donald this is too funny please don't keep making me laugh it hurts too much

[@limeslyx-z9453]

I don't think the youtuber is a leftist, you're absolutely right, many capitalist are doing what they have to in order to keep their business alive - which is another criticism of why capitalism sucks, because it literally leaves the worst options as the only viable ones for those running the economy. If our youtuber explained this, they be closer to a marxist line of thinking, but their talk seems very pro-capitalism which makes them not a leftist.
Let me clarify, a system where the people - who govern the places we spend most of our waking hours each week in order to stay alive - are often forced to take the worst conceivable actions to even maintain their business is not a good system. The economic anarchy of capitalism is best described as insanity, only the profitable can be done, and most things good for society are non-profitable, while a lot of bad stuff is profitable (like discrimination and unemployment)

[@donaldjoy4023]

So the people in Bangladesh you mentioned -- before the global capitalist came along and gave them crummy, low-paying jobs in crappy conditions(compared to, say, typical American job conditions etc), let's say they were actually completely destitute and starving, with utterly dismal life expectancy and so on. Now you bash the capitalist for not paying them more and not giving them all kinds of benefits, etc, but honestly the capitalist is not obligated to even come there and choose them to employ in the first place....why do you speak as if the capitalist is obligated to ensure they enjoy some arbitrary, lofty standard of living? Or any living at all? The capitalist would be morally solid only offering them very limited employment, part-time, temporary, whatever suited the capitalist's needs/wants, and the workers are free to accept or reject the terms. You talk as if capitalists don't have to weigh all kinds of alternatives, opportunity costs, risks, forecasts, other labor sources elsewhere pleading for the business to move there, incentives from governments, etc. The onus is on the laborers as to their standard of living, willingness to move to favorable locations, etc.