An interesting parallel:in WW I, the Germans helped revolutionaries bring down their rival, the tsarist regime, and soon thereafter the same kind of revolution helped bring down their own regime, just as Louis XVI of France helped American revolutionaries against his rival, Britain, and soon thereafter a similar revolution toppled his own regime
False. Lenin translated Industrial Democracy by Sidney Webb. Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin were groomed by the British. Sidney Webb was on the King's Privy Council. There's no doubt that King EVII knew of these three. It's doubtful the Kaiser ever heard of these nobodies. George Bernard Shaw called Stalin "Europe's arch-Fabian." Mass murder communism is 100% a British operation to kill off Germany and Russia, so that the British could inherit the world. The Queen knighted Mugabe and Mandela.
This is a challenging lecture. There a lot of truth in what Mr Herman says, particularly about Lenin. Unfortunately, there’s also quite some misinformation. The challenge for the audience is, to separate the two. For one thing, he contradicts himself: if Lenin was not a marxist, why then draw the parallel right to left thinking people in the West? It takes some careful listening to actually pinch the balloon. But educated people should be able to make up their own mind.
It's ironic, but the working class in the United States. Britain, Hungary, Poland and just recently, Italy, is stepping up to the plate to challenge and displace the left wing radicals. It wont be an easy task, but it has begun.
Brilliant lecture. Herman's also superb when discussing British industrial history, especially the enormous power & reach of the British Navy as it evolved. I've recently become fascinated & intrigued by Lenin, never really having an organized conception of the man. The Russian Revolution has its confusing aspects when trying to track all the events & comprehending it. Lenin took advantage of his moment in history, just when he thought he'd remain an impoverished & hunted exile. One has to admire his commitment to his beliefs, though certainly not the ends to which he put it. I learned alot from this lecture.
This guy lies Parvis is the one who took German money to print newspapers for Russia not Lenin. "By any means necessary." is a quote from Malcolm X not Lenin. Even so it only means by means that are necessary not those that are unnecessary. Charges of supporting his countries "enemy" when has a communist not been accused of supporting the "enemy." The left wing of the Socialist International condemned the Imperialist War including Eugene Debs who was jailed for it and got a miilion votes for President form prison.
This is completely incorrect as far as Lenin’s forecasting. As late as January 1917, Lenin said in a speech in Zurich that he did not think there would be a revolution in Russia in his lifetime; but possibly in the lifetimes of the children or grandchildren of some of those present in the audience (Lenin had no children of his own). Lenin hoped for a revolution in Russia before March 19i7, but he he did not accept it. When he learned of the outbreak of revolution in March 1917, he was surprised although of course pleased.
This lecture is completely incorrect as far as everything concerning Lenin, Marx, and the Russian revolution. This quack was given a podium to spread his quackery to young impressionable minds. A tragedy.
@@platosbeard4449 if you’re going to criticize the lecture like an educated adult, name his fraudulent points and then provide the historical/documented evidence of why he was wrong. Otherwise you just sound like a disgruntled proponent of the philosophies he’s analyzing.
Sorry, what this guy is saying makes perfect sense to me. Isn't it the case that Trotsky continued to believe in Lenin's vision of chaos in all sorts of other 3rd world countries as the way forward....or was it Trotsky's vision .
48:30 (quoting ??? at UN) "what we see [when] we look at a country like North Korea is not the failure to implement communism, it's the faithful implementation of communism."
north korea hasn't had assembly of the workers since 1981, it's not dictatorship of proletariat, people selfrule their work and life , it's not socialism. Its totalitarism with state ruling everything.
@@alfredkwaak How to distinguish Party from State in Communism? Clearly, whatever mechanisms of State existed under Stalin, were little more than arms of the Party.
@@johnpatmos1722 State communism is a oxymoron, solviet russia claimed 'state socialism' actually party vanguard, so countries copied from that are also state socialists at start, just like north korea, after that they moved to juche idea, autarky and kim clan selfrule. now it has no ideology, just following the old way because no other way. communism can't be implemented because it's a stage of developement, not a series of rules or points of definition.
@heath mcdonald State-capitalism is not oxymoron usually it's called corporatism or just corruption, nothing to do with markets just the profit motive that the state secures for minority,
@@alfredkwaak No capitalism is what you have whether it's the British Empire, US Imperialism, France, NAZI Germany, or Franco's Spain. Their industry was in private corporate hands.
@@Nik-jq4tx In any war in history there is rationing of food. Rationing during war is a good thing, otherwise more people will starve. This is such a dumb argument.
Eric Bush but it's totally different names. It's not that hard to say Alexey. It's like to say Alex and to ad ”e I think he just misspoke. He pronounced more complicated names like Kogonovich and Trotskiy.
At the end of Dr Hermans speech，he referred to Ann Applebarms response re her motive in writing books about the dark days in the USSR：“because I know they will come back” - VERY powerful！ As someone originally from China and who knows the Chinese Communist Party （CCP）very well，I will have to echo and amplify this concern and WARNING！！👊📢📢
m. 45,50 "They (Russian leader and Putin) are master of disinformation cause they learned it from the Soviet (Russian leader and Putin). Soviet regime was built upon disinformation." Absolutely true like all his intervention in this interesting seminar.
He says that Leninism wasn't an offshoot of Marxism and then goes on to explain that the only difference between them is that Lenin wanted to force a revolution and Marx thought a revolution would happen naturally. That sounds like they're pretty similar to me.
@@TheWhitehiker Basiclly this guy eventually can't help himself and goes on to accuse Lenin to be worse the Stalin and Trotsky to be the worst of all. Afterall Trotsky and Lenin didn't play fair because they supported the colonial peoples fight against Imperialists. Stalin according to the "Good Professor" is "too much of a moderate".
@@TheWhitehiker He's right though Lenin's idea of national self determination turned out to be much more important in shaping the world than just the economists idea of socialism run by a bureaucracy. You put an end to Imperialism and you put capitalism on notice that super profits and colonial exploitation are unacceptable.
If Lenin realized centralizing all food distribution from government as the way to maintain power, Who did he think would run a Centralized Government food program? A Stalin that is who. Not a charismatic leader who lives in chaos. These contradictions make me think the Professor's view of Lenin may have some flaws.
@@AgendaFiles His claim that Lenin was sent by the Germans to sabotage the Allied war effort. Lenin was in Switzerland at the time of the February revolution in Russia. They obtained passage across Germany in a sealed (sealed meaning not subjected to customs inspection) railway car. Lenin crossed by ferry into Sweden not across German lines into Russia. Trotsky left New York he was stopped and detained by the British in Halifax, Canada. They got Kerensky to request Trotsky's release for passage to Russia. It was well known that Lenin opposed all sides of the Imperialist war and so did American Socialist and labor leader Eugene Debs.
@@kimobrien. >"His claim that Lenin was sent by the Germans to sabotage the Allied war effort. Lenin was in Switzerland at the time of the February revolution in Russia." Lenin was supported by the Germans, he would not have made it back to Russia without their support, even Richard von Kuhlmann confessed himself. You are not even relating the argument correctly that is commonly inferred. >"They obtained passage across Germany in a sealed (sealed meaning not subjected to customs inspection) railway car. Lenin crossed by ferry into Sweden not across German lines into Russia." Lenin had to go through Germany which he did, the original idea was for Lenin to return by plane, yet he had fears of flying. >"Trotsky left New York he was stopped and detained by the British in Halifax, Canada." Trotsky was in New York during February. What does this have to do with Lenin being supported by the Germans to leave Germany? >"They got Kerensky to request Trotsky's release for passage to Russia. It was well known that Lenin opposed all sides of the Imperialist war and so did American Socialist and labor leader Eugene Debs." Kerensky took over with the Provisional Government that came to an end before these events. Lenin himself went into hiding. Many people were opposed to the war, what does this insert even mean? The February Revolution itself came out of the influence of Russia being in the war. Why you added this adds nothing to Lenin being allowed to return with a free pass by the Germans. You have your events of February, the Provisional Government, into October all backwards.
Fair, but Lenin actually thought very highly of Stalin and repeatedly used him for many important tasks. Even Trotsky's writings ultimately divulged the realization that when Lenin wanted something REALLY done, he would often turn to Stalin. Richard Pipes has covered a lot of this.
I think you’re saying what I think, too....the lecturer here ...Arthur Herman, has made up.things about Lenin. It seems irresponsible of a so called scholar. And I’m surprised Hillsdale would give voice to such a biased so called “historian”. Yes it was a hard time, but the family of Lenin were careful hard working people and some of the situations Lenin found himself in, forced him to act in certain ways. I think one of Aleksandr and Vladimir’s ( Lenin’s) little brother, Dmitry, his great ( great?) nephew Is alive today and involved in caring about these issues. The family was such a good living family and I can’t stand listening to the extreme harsh characterization of Lenin. Yes it was cruel he gave the okay for the shooting of the tsars family....that is so sad. He says Lenin is more terrible and far reaching than Stalin’s...where did he get that idea?! Marxist ideas were theories only, They were an ideology ......with no pragmatic basis. Capitalism had started already in Russia, with the freeing of the Russian serfs in about 1861. Right around the time if the civil,war and freedom of our slaves here! He says waiting fir Marx...waiting for Godot...a silly comparison I think. 🔴Lenin wanted 🟢 capitalism along with some state owned parts of the society. Lenin spent 20 years in exile and he didn’t have a stroke...I think rather, Stalin had started poisoning him.....it can mimic a stroke, a little over a long time causes convulsions and death. Good grief, this guy thinks he understands what went on in STALINS head.
I’m extremely curious to hear Arthur Herman discuss how Antifa, Facebook and other social media data collection as well as Domestic spying and the previous administration tie into Lenin’s legacy.
Or how Putin's domestic policy and "diplomatic," actions came straight from the old Kremlin playbook. He was a KGB thug. You think he changed his thinking overnight. A lot of what the Communists did was no different than what the old Tsarists would have reacted in the same position. They were more efficient though.
This was a very interesting lecture for sure. I am very curious about the mother ship, Soviet Russia, and then China, and the spread of communism in the 3rd world former colonial nations like Korea, Cuba, Viet Nam, etc. in order to spread the western capitalist nations, especially the United States, too thin, attempting to bring them to economic collapse. It's fascinating to listen to all of this but that is my point of particular interest.
What did the Duma do with Tsar after the revolution in March 1917? Did they keep the family in prison or in house arrest? Were they not allowed to leave Russia?
After the February revolution they were staying at home waiting for departure to the UK, however the British let them down and refused them entry visas. Then, after Bolsheviks military coup in October 1917, they were transferred to Yekaterinburg where they were all murdered by the Bolsheviks
The commentary on Lenin’s view of Stalin and Trotsky is so ignorant. Far from wanting Trotsky to be his successor, Lenin had worked to sideline him steadily
And as far as I can gather,that's what he said, Lenin was basically 'grooming' Stalin as his successor and isolating Trotsky until near the 'end' when he had a 'change of heart'
@@MrBoreray Lenin left a testament which analyzed all his closest comrades. This was kept as a state secret until the Khrushchev era. In Lenin's last testiment he wanted Stalin removed from his post as General Secretary.
Actually the new Soviet Government published all the secret treaties concerning WW1. Showing it to be a scramble for colonies not a war for Democracy. Plus communism isn't a conspitoral movement. We want people to know what we are for and about. This video is for the most part the same repeated slanders that have been repeated ad nauseam only rewrapped up by a Professor for a student audience unfamiliar with anything ever written by either Lenin or Marx. The only time we operate in an underground manner is when we are forced underground by police repression. As the Socialist Workers Party in the US we run candidates for office, participate in the class struggle, publish a weekly newspaper, books, and pamphlets. TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com .
@heath mcdonald We don't operate in the democratic or republican party. Communism is not a conspiracy despite whatever lies your told. We are a legal party in the US. See Socialist Workers Party v Attorney General. We publish a newspaper and have been doing so since 1928. TheMilitant.com We publish hundreds of books and pamphlets in multiple languages. Pathfinderpress.com
@heath mcdonald We wouldn't let either Sanders or Obama join because you have to defend the party line. The party line is, "The workers need to break from the Democratic and Republican Parties and form a new party based on the unions." Sanders or Obama would be brought up on charges, tried and expelled for running as Democrats.
@@kimobrien. I don’t think Sanders and Obama would be the only ones tried and expelled. Where do you think the new communist regime would send all the anti soviet agitators in the US? Wyoming is pretty bleak in some parts. I think concentration camps would fit in well there
I lost professor when he said that Lenin's brother was Alexey, when the actual name is Alexander. The into was so promising. I can not continue to hear....
It was only 45mins FFS and if you're in possession of these 'substantiating facts' what are you disappointed about ? you presumably already know them, his 'opinions' are based on research NOT ideaology,I assume you have a different 'set of accounts' which hold the REAL truth.
Also he blames Lenin for the modern surveillance state when it was definitely an invention of the US in the invasion of the Philippines, complete with wiretapping and terrorized informants. This guy seems to be a part of the academic histrionics that seek to blame Marx or socialism as some central, total corrupting force. I don’t doubt that he’s got his facts straight, but that doesn’t mean his interpretations can’t be obtuse.
The Democratic Imperialist had no problem with the Kaiser until the British banking crisis began. The same goes for Hitler. The US/UK had no problem until he began to threaten their domination. Henry Ford received the NAZI Order of the German Eagle.
No, they were tyrannies in the early 1900s.Try studying things like the Vogt Affair and the Zabern Affair. And I could go on. And this culminated with things such as the German Emperor flatly stonewalling the Reichstag's attempts to punish outright genocide by its colonial officials in German Southwest Africa. Which is why you see contemporary German laments asking if their nation was becoming like a banana republic. It's not surprising this ultimately gave way to the Ludendorff era.
HCM studied Lenin for sure and later became no1 disciple of Mao, following his master's playbook to a T: cultural revolution, land reform, etc. The VNmese people, first North and later South, suffered and perished to all that HCM saw fit to carry out his communist ideology. He unfurled violence upon his own people when there was no longer any foreigner around, the French had gone home when HCM became leader of N Vietnam. Public execution of land owners, mass famine for the peasants, destruction of family/moral values (children were pressured to persecute their elders,)imprisonment of the intellectual/merchant/civil servant classes. Those ran in the millions who perished in mountain/jungle gulags, escaped to the South or simply starved out of their ancestral home. This was before any American Gi ever set foot on VN soil. And to learn what happened to the South VNmese after the Vietcongs came into town in 1975? Just google "boat people." All to the name of "Giai Phong," ("Liberation",) the clarion call of Uncle Ho to endless war. Just wondering whom, HCM, aka one of the greatest world-class charlatans, also one of the world greatest traitors (to his own country,) was liberating his own people from?
Ленин ни когда не говорил о захвате еды. Что за бред? Это не правильный перевод или он специально так лжет? Первые декреты которые издали большевики , придя к власти были таковы; 1. Декрет о мире. Прекращение мировой войны. Со всех сторон. 2. Декрет о земле. Земля принадлежит тем, кто на ней работает. То есть фермерам и крестьянам. 3. Декрет о власти. Вся власть советом рабочих и крестьян (фермерам). Далее были еще декреты. Эти были первые. И землю стали раздавать фермерам, бесплатно.
I don't know a lot of Lenins work, but he's pretty clearly an interlationalist communist. I don't think he felt any particualr hate to Germany or any state and probably would have agreed that peace would be preferable so I can't myself undertsant the contradiciton in principles?
@@user-xq4st9ie7r Name me one person who was murdered by the state after the Cuban revolution. Let's not forget Kent State, the Orangeburg massacre, My lia massacre, carpet bombing of Vietnam or the murder of Fred Hampton by the Chicago Police with FBI assistance and the list goes on.
@@kimobrien. Lol did you just ask me if I could name Cubans who where killed by the communist government? Btw your examples are not even close to being comparable let alone on body count
@@user-xq4st9ie7r Ya give me a name of someone who wasn't guilty of a serious crime like terrorism. armed piracy or torturing prisoners. Someone who can be verified by the mainstream media not somebody who name was withdrawn after being shown to be still living on the disappeared Cuban Quilt of genocided. LOL Body counts were supposed to mean victory in Vietnam not defeat.
Well, he forgets that controlling societies are flourishing in the West and the US, , that food-processing power is in the process of being taken by the Globalists from the farmers and that misinformation and corrupting elections comes from the Left. Furthermore interesting thoughts on this piece
Don't waste you money or time on some hackneyed and slander filled interpretation of Lenin. Do yourself a favor and read actual source material. Marxists.org and PathfinderPress.org.
Even if only 1 person was 'poor' under capitalism,you'd still say it failed,whereas 99% poverty under communism is a success,a case of 'double standards' there,wouldn't you agree on your 'capitalist' developed computer ?
@@MrBoreray The British capitalist was the most successful and the controlled Ireland. Ireland has never recovered from the famine which was caused by capitalist greed. More people lived in Ireland in 1841 than today. Ireland's biggest export is its people.
You're thinking here has a fatal short circuit. Ask yourself why everyone is impoverished in a communist society .. except for the people who have stolen their way to prosperity.
@@matthewmorgan7106 Ask where Russia began and where it was at the end of WW2. The US has not seen war on US Soil since 1865. In Russia it was in 1914 to 1921 and 1940 to 1945.
The historical depiction of the 3 myths about Lenin is quite accurate, but Herman makes major mistakes at the end when saying that the welfare state is a Leninist "legacy" and that political correctedness creates a totalitarian view. Other than such nonsense, not too bad for a right-wing journalist at a right-wing institution...
No, he's absolutely correct on those points. You leftists are just so busy defending the welfare state and pc that you don't realize what you're defending. And it's a constitutional school, which is what all colleges should be, but again, since you despise the Constitution, that's horrible and "right-wing" to you. Nice try, loser troll.
@@kimobrien. You might need to rewrite the parts about due process and freedom of the press when the communists take over. They might prevent the necessary concentration camps and firing squads that Stalin and Mao used so effectively when they established their workers paradises
Wow, absolutely no historical context, either no real familiarity with Lenin's writings or an inability to understand them and some real howlers. No mention of WWI, Kornilov and the White Russians, the Civil War, Bureaucratism of Stalin, the colonial legacy in Southeast Asia, U.S. imperialism in the Pacific and Asia, and I could go on and on. Claims Lenin would give a big thumbs up to ISIS. Wow, don't know how any self-respecting historian would make such an outrageous claim. Wonder how he feels about the U.S. and the origins of Al-Quaeda. Or funding right-wing paramilitaries in Central America during the 1980s. Or a real coup, that of the overthrow of Allende in Chile. You don't need to ignore context to be critical of Lenin's legacy. You don't have to practice double standards either. This is the sort of silliness that gives conservatism a bad name to some. I don't even know why they even bothered inviting Hermann to give a talk. Lazy. The Steinberg Hillsdale talk, on the other hand, is what talk by a historian should look like.
Historians really are going down hill. Much more concerned with peddling myths than any details or new evidence. Pipes and Kotkin are the best so far. It surprises me how, even Marxists, have nothing to say about any nuts and bolts evidence. You'd think people would be falling over themselves to write more about things like 'War Communism' and the actual system of government and apparatus of the State.
I utterly agree. I didn't know that for a fact about the Lenin and ISIS conjecture, but several of his concluding accusations about Lenin -- assumed accurate -- the USA (or Brits) has done the exact same things in a different manner. Cameras? Surveillance state? Prison for the "mental illness" of 'weed' vs "slow schizophrenia"? Backing of death squads vs peasants? Certain conservatives (or Liberals but not SJW) give excellent talks on issues in which they are unafraid of citing or discussing problems from what is normally a Left perspective. One example is Income Inequality, which Peterson (Canadian) describes as a serious issue, not only for the individual and family, but with wide-ranging consequences such as rising male murder rates at a statistical correlation of (I think) 0.9 (I'm not too familiar with stats but very high correlation). The part that Peterson disputes is that this problem is *caused* directly by racism. Or by free markets aka capitalism -- although i differ strongly with even critics of "crony capitalism" on the extent to which the entire so called "free market" is rife with subsidies and restrictions that 'invisibly' shift income from the bottom to the top (it's "politically incorrect" on the Right to discuss broadly that genuine free markets don't exist without state intervention and repression, going back to the earliest origins of capitalism centuries before America), by using aspects other than competitive market actions. I digress here TL;DR And it's not as though a magical libertarian commercial market could exist in the absence of laws of govt and state-standardized money, and it's not as though corporations can function in the absence of corporate law and "rights", and it's not as though leading-light libertarians like Rothbard or Hoppe cared a whit if total privatization aka corporate ownership of the commons left a shred of democratic public space. They WOULD still have governance and police, it's just envisioned as being ideally 100% undemocratic, run by the Owners. Justice and Law or Rules would be doled out by privately owned corporations without the pretense of a Bill of Rights. One of their ideals is Insurance Company bureaucrats making all the rules. Freedom of Speech and Thought applies to Govt, not to your employer nor your presence at the shopping mall or dept store, nor for the corporation that allows you to live in their housing. Bad lifestyles and opinions (such as being gay or immoral or discussing democracy in a positive light) may constitute rebellion, and are grounds for eviction if the Owner doesn't like that. What a nightmare! Mirror of the USSR system.
Dilbertgeg - Yeah the ''Private sector'' will end up being the ''Public sector''. Oh dear, LOL. Corporations aren't far off floating socialist countries with sovereignty. Something that observers pointed out in regards to the proto multi-national 'The Dutch East India Company'. Libertarians only ever factor in the economic theory without any of the practical realities to which they are anchored. We'd end up with one guy with a blue and a red pen operating out from the back of a caravan on a Lockheed Martin car park!! I tend to lean Libertarian when it comes to regulations, taxes and education but Government isn't ever going to play the game of real and true free, fair and honest Capitalism, they'll never risk it and I don't blame them. We could have quite the Libertarian small state situation for much of home policy but, it's foreign policy that counts. Unless you want to live under someone else's influence because they've [Country 'X'] taken over you in wealth and come up with some new weapon or even developed the latest technology leaving you behind and having the comparative advantage over you, that's why there'll always be state sponsored ''Too Big to Fails'' and a Military Industrial complex closely linked to R&D, Silicone valley and MIT. Compared to anything that's existed in world history so far though I think it's an incredibly impressive way of doing things.
@@dutchbiker4825 Other than calling Lenin a murder, revising the meaning of Marx into social democracy along with slanders like Lenin being planted in a German plot against US democracy nothing to be learned here by some professor who calls himself a scholar.
Hey, Arthur, I am just an amateur historian, and you wasted 9 minutes of my very precious time. Marx, Trotsky and Jewrashvili (Son of a .....), did they not belong to the same TRIBE???
Most people blame Stalin for the terror state, but Herman is right, Lenin and Trostky were just as bad, perhaps even more fanatical. Anyways, socialism always ends in totalitarian, brutal regimes, in fact just about any ideology that tries to suppress and silence any other way to thought is going to be totalitarian and will always end in bloodbath, as did Nazism and Socialism. The great tragedies of the last century happened in both Russia and China, were millions and millions of peasants died in famines created by these fanatical communists, and millions also perished in gulags and in concentration camps, executed, hanged, beaten, incarcerated, only because they dared to think differently. Capitalism and free markets have many flaws, and they are legion, but it is hundreds of times better for people, freedom is better, nothing is better than that.
That didn't happen in Cuba and Cuba still retains a planned economy and despite the 60 years of predictions otherwise continues on despite anti Cuba policy by both parties in Washington.
I bet ol Vlad ain't having a good time right about now. Same with mao and ho. Not because they were horrible people but because they all out right rejected Jesus the Christ as their savior and as the only provision. Now they are in torment by their own choice. I've sinned and just as guilty. I stand on the same dirt as did they. I choose the way, the truth, and the life
It is unacceptable for anyone giving a lecture (and even having written a book) on any subject to so mercilessly mangle names of key people and places. Mistakes in his speech are numerous, including: he cannot properly name the city where Lenin was born; he talks about Lenin's brother, but gives him a wrong name. Likewise, he is barely familiar with Marx/Lenin's philosophical writings. In short, he is a fake. A populist journalist - may be. Historian - no way.
@@olpossum5186 They also forget that Krensky head of the Provisional government was also a labor lawyer and a Menshevik. The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions. A republic is simply defined as a government without a King or Queen. Mexico is a republic. Canada is not a republic.
@@kimobrien. you are right. Whether a country is a Republic or not isn’t a useful way to distinguish good systems from bad ones. I think the governmental systems that murdered 100 million people in the last century can be distinguished from other systems by the death toll
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He is the product of current education system unfortunately. He represents the most crude and obvious layer of disinfo with these silly stories, something like revolutionary flat earther. I ques for those who are starting in on the topic this may seem like intellectual ramblings. Sadly they will not be able to take their time back.
You see capitalism is failing and now they have a problem even in the advanced capitalist countries. The contraction of world trade and production is showing the end of capitalism is near.
A historian who reads a lecture on something he is supposed to know very well ... and then proceeds to a) mispronounce Lenin's native town (it's Simbirsk, not Smibirsk), and b) to say that Lenin's older brother (whose death sentence and execution indeed most significantly impacted Lenin's life and choices) was named Alexey, instead of Alexander. After that I stopped listening and closed the app. Go back to the books, buddy...
That's a nice fantasy. Along with the "real story". Why spend all that time writing pamphlets if all you want to do is organize a coup? Did anyone spend all that time writing when the US CIA organized a coup in Latin America? Most of this is a case of the "Good Professor" telling you want he believes based upon his theories. If you want to read the real Lenin than go to this website. Marxists.org
@D Madd11 Oooh a Hillary Clinton (irredeemable deplorables) disguised as a conservative because you can't get around the fact that the bolsheviks won the 1918 to 1921 civil war. A coup government would have collapsed. Not only did the Russian counter revolutionaries fight but they had 14 imperials nations send their troops to join the counter revolutionaries including US/UK troops invading the territory of the old Russian Empire. This would be the first defeat for the US Army in a war against communism. With their tails between their legs the US invaders withdrew via the port Vladivostok.
I assume you are talking about Allende. He was going to turn Chile into Cuba, with all the attendant terror, starvation , and murder that occurs under communism. Thank God Pinochet removed him and if the CIA helped him we did a good thing
@@kimobrien. to what end did those glorious victories lead the Soviet Union? Terror, mass starvation, GULAG, show trials, mass murder. Wouldn’t it have been better if those criminal reds had not won?
Every generation must fight for liberty
This channel is the new PragerU.
Just as deceptive.
Lenin's elder brother's name who was hanged was Alexander.
An interesting parallel:in WW I, the Germans helped revolutionaries bring down their rival, the tsarist regime, and soon thereafter the same kind of revolution helped bring down their own regime, just as Louis XVI of France helped American revolutionaries against his rival, Britain, and soon thereafter a similar revolution toppled his own regime
False. Lenin translated Industrial Democracy by Sidney Webb. Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin were groomed by the British. Sidney Webb was on the King's Privy Council. There's no doubt that King EVII knew of these three. It's doubtful the Kaiser ever heard of these nobodies. George Bernard Shaw called Stalin "Europe's arch-Fabian." Mass murder communism is 100% a British operation to kill off Germany and Russia, so that the British could inherit the world. The Queen knighted Mugabe and Mandela.
My Question would be Exactly who were these Germans?
This is a challenging lecture. There a lot of truth in what Mr Herman says, particularly about Lenin. Unfortunately, there’s also quite some misinformation. The challenge for the audience is, to separate the two. For one thing, he contradicts himself: if Lenin was not a marxist, why then draw the parallel right to left thinking people in the West? It takes some careful listening to actually pinch the balloon.
But educated people should be able to make up their own mind.
marx is not the only kind of left
he was definitely a marxist ... unorthodox
The march through the institutions is almost complete here in the U.S..
sadly so.
It's ironic, but the working class in the United States. Britain, Hungary, Poland and just recently, Italy, is stepping up to the plate to challenge and displace the left wing radicals. It wont be an easy task, but it has begun.
Look at it now fml
Brilliant lecture. Herman's also superb when discussing British industrial history, especially the enormous power & reach of the British Navy as it evolved. I've recently become fascinated & intrigued by Lenin, never really having an organized conception of the man. The Russian Revolution has its confusing aspects when trying to track all the events & comprehending it. Lenin took advantage of his moment in history, just when he thought he'd remain an impoverished & hunted exile. One has to admire his commitment to his beliefs, though certainly not the ends to which he put it. I learned alot from this lecture.
This guy lies Parvis is the one who took German money to print newspapers for Russia not Lenin. "By any means necessary." is a quote from Malcolm X not Lenin. Even so it only means by means that are necessary not those that are unnecessary. Charges of supporting his countries "enemy" when has a communist not been accused of supporting the "enemy." The left wing of the Socialist International condemned the Imperialist War including Eugene Debs who was jailed for it and got a miilion votes for President form prison.
This is completely incorrect as far as Lenin’s forecasting. As late as January 1917, Lenin said in a speech in Zurich that he did not think there would be a revolution in Russia in his lifetime; but possibly in the lifetimes of the children or grandchildren of some of those present in the audience (Lenin had no children of his own). Lenin hoped for a revolution in Russia before March 19i7, but he he did not accept it. When he learned of the outbreak of revolution in March 1917, he was surprised although of course pleased.
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This lecture is completely incorrect as far as everything concerning Lenin, Marx, and the Russian revolution. This quack was given a podium to spread his quackery to young impressionable minds. A tragedy.
@@platosbeard4449 if you’re going to criticize the lecture like an educated adult, name his fraudulent points and then provide the historical/documented evidence of why he was wrong. Otherwise you just sound like a disgruntled proponent of the philosophies he’s analyzing.
Sorry, what this guy is saying makes perfect sense to me. Isn't it the case that Trotsky continued to believe in Lenin's vision of chaos in all sorts of other 3rd world countries as the way forward....or was it Trotsky's vision .
This imo is the most important lecture of our time that too few people are hearing and taking to heart.
Brilliant lecture. Lenin was the only Wunderwaffe ever deployed by the Germans that actually had an impact.
48:30 (quoting ??? at UN) "what we see [when] we look at a country like North Korea is not the failure to implement communism, it's the faithful implementation of communism."
north korea hasn't had assembly of the workers since 1981, it's not dictatorship of proletariat, people selfrule their work and life , it's not socialism. Its totalitarism with state ruling everything.
@@alfredkwaak How to distinguish Party from State in Communism? Clearly, whatever mechanisms of State existed under Stalin, were little more than arms of the Party.
@@johnpatmos1722 State communism is a oxymoron, solviet russia claimed 'state socialism' actually party vanguard, so countries copied from that are also state socialists at start, just like north korea, after that they moved to juche idea, autarky and kim clan selfrule. now it has no ideology, just following the old way because no other way. communism can't be implemented because it's a stage of developement, not a series of rules or points of definition.
@heath mcdonald State-capitalism is not oxymoron usually it's called corporatism or just corruption, nothing to do with markets just the profit motive that the state secures for minority,
@@alfredkwaak No capitalism is what you have whether it's the British Empire, US Imperialism, France, NAZI Germany, or Franco's Spain. Their industry was in private corporate hands.
“If you want to control people, control their food” ~ V.I. Lenin
Those who take only the word of another are complete idiots who can be dismissed with the wave of the hand. V.I. Lenin.
Lenin never said that.
@@ArmyJames But he did it by controlling the food distribution during the civil war.
@@Nik-jq4tx In any war in history there is rationing of food. Rationing during war is a good thing, otherwise more people will starve. This is such a dumb argument.
6:56 Alexander Ulyanov, not Alexei.
Alexander is the Anglicised form of Alexei.
Eric Bush but it's totally different names. It's not that hard to say Alexey. It's like to say Alex and to ad ”e I think he just misspoke. He pronounced more complicated names like Kogonovich and Trotskiy.
At the end of Dr Hermans speech，he referred to Ann Applebarms response re her motive in writing books about the dark days in the USSR：“because I know they will come back” - VERY powerful！ As someone originally from China and who knows the Chinese Communist Party （CCP）very well，I will have to echo and amplify this concern and WARNING！！👊📢📢
Communisam = globalisam
m. 45,50 "They (Russian leader and Putin) are master of disinformation cause they learned it from the Soviet (Russian leader and Putin). Soviet regime was built upon disinformation." Absolutely true like all his intervention in this interesting seminar.
The Democratic party uses the same methods, disinformation and deveoloping and exploiting differences between various internal groups.
He says that Leninism wasn't an offshoot of Marxism and then goes on to explain that the only difference between them is that Lenin wanted to force a revolution and Marx thought a revolution would happen naturally. That sounds like they're pretty similar to me.
yes.
@@TheWhitehiker Basiclly this guy eventually can't help himself and goes on to accuse Lenin to be worse the Stalin and Trotsky to be the worst of all. Afterall Trotsky and Lenin didn't play fair because they supported the colonial peoples fight against Imperialists. Stalin according to the "Good Professor" is "too much of a moderate".
@@kimobrien. All bad, throw in Mao, the Kim's, etc.
@@TheWhitehiker He's right though Lenin's idea of national self determination turned out to be much more important in shaping the world than just the economists idea of socialism run by a bureaucracy. You put an end to Imperialism and you put capitalism on notice that super profits and colonial exploitation are unacceptable.
@@kimobrien. Lenin had nothing to do with the rejection of colonialism--that was quite obviously western democratic capitalism.
If Lenin realized centralizing all food distribution from government as the way to maintain power, Who did he think would run a Centralized Government food program? A Stalin that is who. Not a charismatic leader who lives in chaos. These contradictions make me think the Professor's view of Lenin may have some flaws.
This man is one of the biggest liars I have ever head.
@@kimobrien. So much that you're unable to cite any example?
@@AgendaFiles His claim that Lenin was sent by the Germans to sabotage the Allied war effort. Lenin was in Switzerland at the time of the February revolution in Russia. They obtained passage across Germany in a sealed (sealed meaning not subjected to customs inspection) railway car. Lenin crossed by ferry into Sweden not across German lines into Russia. Trotsky left New York he was stopped and detained by the British in Halifax, Canada. They got Kerensky to request Trotsky's release for passage to Russia. It was well known that Lenin opposed all sides of the Imperialist war and so did American Socialist and labor leader Eugene Debs.
@@kimobrien.
>"His claim that Lenin was sent by the Germans to sabotage the Allied war effort. Lenin was in Switzerland at the time of the February revolution in Russia."
Lenin was supported by the Germans, he would not have made it back to Russia without their support, even Richard von Kuhlmann confessed himself. You are not even relating the argument correctly that is commonly inferred.
>"They obtained passage across Germany in a sealed (sealed meaning not subjected to customs inspection) railway car. Lenin crossed by ferry into Sweden not across German lines into Russia."
Lenin had to go through Germany which he did, the original idea was for Lenin to return by plane, yet he had fears of flying.
>"Trotsky left New York he was stopped and detained by the British in Halifax, Canada."
Trotsky was in New York during February. What does this have to do with Lenin being supported by the Germans to leave Germany?
>"They got Kerensky to request Trotsky's release for passage to Russia. It was well known that Lenin opposed all sides of the Imperialist war and so did American Socialist and labor leader Eugene Debs."
Kerensky took over with the Provisional Government that came to an end before these events. Lenin himself went into hiding. Many people were opposed to the war, what does this insert even mean? The February Revolution itself came out of the influence of Russia being in the war. Why you added this adds nothing to Lenin being allowed to return with a free pass by the Germans. You have your events of February, the Provisional Government, into October all backwards.
Fair, but Lenin actually thought very highly of Stalin and repeatedly used him for many important tasks. Even Trotsky's writings ultimately divulged the realization that when Lenin wanted something REALLY done, he would often turn to Stalin. Richard Pipes has covered a lot of this.
I've actually never heard the romanticized version of Lenin. Most people I know have no idea who he is.
Pensul pusher guess you’ve been out of school for a while.
His biggest 'admirers' are the people who know nothing about him !
@@MrBoreray This guy is nothing more than a liar and repeaters of various slanders. No lie is to big to tell.
And now unfortunately you will learn
I think you’re saying what I think, too....the lecturer here ...Arthur Herman, has made up.things about Lenin.
It seems irresponsible of a so called scholar. And I’m surprised Hillsdale would give voice to such a biased so called “historian”. Yes it was a hard time, but the family of Lenin were careful hard working people and some of the situations Lenin found himself in, forced him to act in certain ways. I think one of Aleksandr and Vladimir’s ( Lenin’s) little brother, Dmitry, his great ( great?) nephew Is alive today and involved in caring about these issues. The family was such a good living family and I can’t stand listening to the extreme harsh characterization of Lenin. Yes it was cruel he gave the okay for the shooting of the tsars family....that is so sad. He says Lenin is more terrible and far reaching than Stalin’s...where did he get that idea?! Marxist ideas were theories only,
They were an ideology ......with no pragmatic basis. Capitalism had started already in Russia, with the freeing of the Russian serfs in about 1861. Right around the time if the civil,war and freedom of our slaves here! He says waiting fir Marx...waiting for Godot...a silly comparison I think. 🔴Lenin wanted 🟢 capitalism along with some state owned parts of the society. Lenin spent 20 years in exile and he didn’t have a stroke...I think rather, Stalin had started poisoning him.....it can mimic a stroke, a little over a long time causes convulsions and death.
Good grief, this guy thinks he understands what went on in STALINS head.
I’m extremely curious to hear Arthur Herman discuss how Antifa, Facebook and other social media data collection as well as Domestic spying and the previous administration tie into Lenin’s legacy.
Or how Putin's domestic policy and "diplomatic," actions came straight from the old Kremlin playbook. He was a KGB thug. You think he changed his thinking overnight. A lot of what the Communists did was no different than what the old Tsarists would have reacted in the same position. They were more efficient though.
I’m extremely curious to hear MAJ HMR discuss how Stalin’s show trials, GULAG, and 20 million dead tie into Lenin’s legacy
@@gopher7691 Putin is just continuing in Stalin's footsteps as a bunch of new capitalist wanna bees take over to the delight of Reagan and company.
"once and for all" ?????? I heard that one a million times all my life!!!!!!!
This was a very interesting lecture for sure. I am very curious about the mother ship, Soviet Russia, and then China, and the spread of communism in the 3rd world former colonial nations like Korea, Cuba, Viet Nam, etc. in order to spread the western capitalist nations, especially the United States, too thin, attempting to bring them to economic collapse. It's fascinating to listen to all of this but that is my point of particular interest.
What was the United States roll in Russia at this time besides being there ?
What did the Duma do with Tsar after the revolution in March 1917? Did they keep the family in prison or in house arrest? Were they not allowed to leave Russia?
After the February revolution they were staying at home waiting for departure to the UK, however the British let them down and refused them entry visas. Then, after Bolsheviks military coup in October 1917, they were transferred to Yekaterinburg where they were all murdered by the Bolsheviks
Was Ulyanov not ......?
The commentary on Lenin’s view of Stalin and Trotsky is so ignorant. Far from wanting Trotsky to be his successor, Lenin had worked to sideline him steadily
And as far as I can gather,that's what he said, Lenin was basically 'grooming' Stalin as his successor and isolating Trotsky until near the 'end' when he had a 'change of heart'
@@MrBoreray Lenin left a testament which analyzed all his closest comrades. This was kept as a state secret until the Khrushchev era. In Lenin's last testiment he wanted Stalin removed from his post as General Secretary.
@@kimobrien.
Lenin might have been at home in the intelligence community in Washington with his tactics.
Actually the new Soviet Government published all the secret treaties concerning WW1. Showing it to be a scramble for colonies not a war for Democracy. Plus communism isn't a conspitoral movement. We want people to know what we are for and about. This video is for the most part the same repeated slanders that have been repeated ad nauseam only rewrapped up by a Professor for a student audience unfamiliar with anything ever written by either Lenin or Marx.
The only time we operate in an underground manner is when we are forced underground by police repression. As the Socialist Workers Party in the US we run candidates for office, participate in the class struggle, publish a weekly newspaper, books, and pamphlets. TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com .
@heath mcdonald We don't operate in the democratic or republican party. Communism is not a conspiracy despite whatever lies your told. We are a legal party in the US. See Socialist Workers Party v Attorney General. We publish a newspaper and have been doing so since 1928. TheMilitant.com We publish hundreds of books and pamphlets in multiple languages. Pathfinderpress.com
@heath mcdonald We wouldn't let either Sanders or Obama join because you have to defend the party line. The party line is, "The workers need to break from the Democratic and Republican Parties and form a new party based on the unions." Sanders or Obama would be brought up on charges, tried and expelled for running as Democrats.
@@kimobrien. I don’t think Sanders and Obama would be the only ones tried and expelled. Where do you think the new communist regime would send all the anti soviet agitators in the US? Wyoming is pretty bleak in some parts. I think concentration camps would fit in well there
@@kimobrien. When you say expelled I think you mean shot.
Can't hear at all one minute.
I lost professor when he said that Lenin's brother was Alexey, when the actual name is Alexander. The into was so promising. I can not continue to hear....
Heavy on opinion, very light on substantiating facts. Disappointingly lightweight
It was only 45mins FFS and if you're in possession of these 'substantiating facts' what are you disappointed about ? you presumably already know them, his 'opinions' are based on research NOT ideaology,I assume you have a different 'set of accounts' which hold the REAL truth.
Enlighten us with your transcendent, glorious facts, comrade!
@@Incandescence555 An outraged bourgeois professor. We supported the revolutionary struggle in Vietnam against the French and American Imperialist.
Also he blames Lenin for the modern surveillance state when it was definitely an invention of the US in the invasion of the Philippines, complete with wiretapping and terrorized informants. This guy seems to be a part of the academic histrionics that seek to blame Marx or socialism as some central, total corrupting force. I don’t doubt that he’s got his facts straight, but that doesn’t mean his interpretations can’t be obtuse.
@@kimobrien., the symbol in your profile picture should be viewed with the same disgust as a swastika.
Germany and Austria-Hungary were not tyrannies in the early 1900s. At least this perception is very unsophisticated..
The Democratic Imperialist had no problem with the Kaiser until the British banking crisis began. The same goes for Hitler. The US/UK had no problem until he began to threaten their domination. Henry Ford received the NAZI Order of the German Eagle.
Germany had a parliament like England.
No, they were tyrannies in the early 1900s.Try studying things like the Vogt Affair and the Zabern Affair. And I could go on. And this culminated with things such as the German Emperor flatly stonewalling the Reichstag's attempts to punish outright genocide by its colonial officials in German Southwest Africa. Which is why you see contemporary German laments asking if their nation was becoming like a banana republic. It's not surprising this ultimately gave way to the Ludendorff era.
HCM studied Lenin for sure and later became no1 disciple of Mao, following his master's playbook to a T: cultural revolution, land reform, etc. The VNmese people, first North and later South, suffered and perished to all that HCM saw fit to carry out his communist ideology. He unfurled violence upon his own people when there was no longer any foreigner around, the French had gone home when HCM became leader of N Vietnam. Public execution of land owners, mass famine for the peasants, destruction of family/moral values (children were pressured to persecute their elders,)imprisonment of the intellectual/merchant/civil servant classes. Those ran in the millions who perished in mountain/jungle gulags, escaped to the South or simply starved out of their ancestral home. This was before any American Gi ever set foot on VN soil. And to learn what happened to the South VNmese after the Vietcongs came into town in 1975? Just google "boat people." All to the name of "Giai Phong," ("Liberation",) the clarion call of Uncle Ho to endless war. Just wondering whom, HCM, aka one of the greatest world-class charlatans, also one of the world greatest traitors (to his own country,) was liberating his own people from?
Ленин ни когда не говорил о захвате еды. Что за бред? Это не правильный перевод или он специально так лжет?
Первые декреты которые издали большевики , придя к власти были таковы;
1. Декрет о мире. Прекращение мировой войны. Со всех сторон.
2. Декрет о земле. Земля принадлежит тем, кто на ней работает. То есть фермерам и крестьянам.
3. Декрет о власти. Вся власть советом рабочих и крестьян (фермерам).
Далее были еще декреты. Эти были первые. И землю стали раздавать фермерам, бесплатно.
I don't know a lot of Lenins work, but he's pretty clearly an interlationalist communist. I don't think he felt any particualr hate to Germany or any state and probably would have agreed that peace would be preferable so I can't myself undertsant the contradiciton in principles?
“There is a moral equivalence between the Swaztika, and the Hammer and Sickle.” Very true. We forget that.
What a load of shite.
@@ArmyJames GUlag, Holodomor, Cultural Revolution, Red Khmer... The list goes on
@@user-xq4st9ie7r Name me one person who was murdered by the state after the Cuban revolution. Let's not forget Kent State, the Orangeburg massacre, My lia massacre, carpet bombing of Vietnam or the murder of Fred Hampton by the Chicago Police with FBI assistance and the list goes on.
@@kimobrien. Lol did you just ask me if I could name Cubans who where killed by the communist government?
Btw your examples are not even close to being comparable let alone on body count
@@user-xq4st9ie7r Ya give me a name of someone who wasn't guilty of a serious crime like terrorism. armed piracy or torturing prisoners. Someone who can be verified by the mainstream media not somebody who name was withdrawn after being shown to be still living on the disappeared Cuban Quilt of genocided. LOL Body counts were supposed to mean victory in Vietnam not defeat.
"While Lenin read a book on Marx...". ... or was that Lennon? (From "American Pie") 😁
The final anti Putin runt is simply despicable for a guy who is meant to be an historian
Aleksandr, not Alexey.
Arthur Herman, I respect you.
The man is a unabashed bald faced liar.
Coming from the guy with a hammer-and-sickle icon.
HERMANN, the Tatars used to RULE RUSSIA!!!
Now we know where Klaus S. gets his textbook from...
Well, he forgets that controlling societies are flourishing in the West and the US, , that food-processing power is in the process of being taken by the Globalists from the farmers and that misinformation and corrupting elections comes from the Left.
Furthermore interesting thoughts on this piece
This was Great!"
Fantastic talk! Now I will read his book on the topic.
Don't waste you money or time on some hackneyed and slander filled interpretation of Lenin. Do yourself a favor and read actual source material. Marxists.org and PathfinderPress.org.
We hear all this stuff about freedom, but we’re never supposed to ask about what freedoms those without capital have under capitalism
Even if only 1 person was 'poor' under capitalism,you'd still say it failed,whereas 99% poverty under communism is a success,a case of 'double standards' there,wouldn't you agree on your 'capitalist' developed computer ?
@@MrBoreray The British capitalist was the most successful and the controlled Ireland. Ireland has never recovered from the famine which was caused by capitalist greed. More people lived in Ireland in 1841 than today. Ireland's biggest export is its people.
You're thinking here has a fatal short circuit. Ask yourself why everyone is impoverished in a communist society .. except for the people who have stolen their way to prosperity.
Freedom to enjoy general progress that’s impossible under socialism. That’s what history shows us.
@@matthewmorgan7106 Ask where Russia began and where it was at the end of WW2. The US has not seen war on US Soil since 1865. In Russia it was in 1914 to 1921 and 1940 to 1945.
Lenin the gangster. i know them well!
Goodness me, fellow burns & churns like a little Lenin himself. Who once wronged him (like the Tsarists who knocked off Lenin’s brother?)
Herman???????
Today you heard truth
Lenin did nothing - BY HIMSELF"???
Very enlightening!
The historical depiction of the 3 myths about Lenin is quite accurate, but Herman makes major mistakes at the end when saying that the welfare state is a Leninist "legacy" and that political correctedness creates a totalitarian view. Other than such nonsense, not too bad for a right-wing journalist at a right-wing institution...
No, he's absolutely correct on those points. You leftists are just so busy defending the welfare state and pc that you don't realize what you're defending. And it's a constitutional school, which is what all colleges should be, but again, since you despise the Constitution, that's horrible and "right-wing" to you. Nice try, loser troll.
@@LouieKaboom What makes it a "constitutional school"?
@@LouieKaboom Nothing in the US constitution that would prevent a socialist revolution.
@@kimobrien. You might need to rewrite the parts about due process and freedom of the press when the communists take over. They might prevent the necessary concentration camps and firing squads that Stalin and Mao used so effectively when they established their workers paradises
45:39 regarding the alleged tens of thousands of Russian trolls, which are supposedly "very serious". actually, this has been disproven.
Lenin a GOOD GUY, there he goes???????
Wow, absolutely no historical context, either no real familiarity with Lenin's writings or an inability to understand them and some real howlers.
No mention of WWI, Kornilov and the White Russians, the Civil War, Bureaucratism of Stalin, the colonial legacy in Southeast Asia, U.S. imperialism in the Pacific and Asia, and I could go on and on.
Claims Lenin would give a big thumbs up to ISIS. Wow, don't know how any self-respecting historian would make such an outrageous claim. Wonder how he feels about the U.S. and the origins of Al-Quaeda. Or funding right-wing paramilitaries in Central America during the 1980s. Or a real coup, that of the overthrow of Allende in Chile.
You don't need to ignore context to be critical of Lenin's legacy. You don't have to practice double standards either. This is the sort of silliness that gives conservatism a bad name to some. I don't even know why they even bothered inviting Hermann to give a talk.
Lazy.
The Steinberg Hillsdale talk, on the other hand, is what talk by a historian should look like.
Historians really are going down hill. Much more concerned with peddling myths than any details or new evidence. Pipes and Kotkin are the best so far. It surprises me how, even Marxists, have nothing to say about any nuts and bolts evidence. You'd think people would be falling over themselves to write more about things like 'War Communism' and the actual system of government and apparatus of the State.
I utterly agree. I didn't know that for a fact about the Lenin and ISIS conjecture, but several of his concluding accusations about Lenin -- assumed accurate -- the USA (or Brits) has done the exact same things in a different manner. Cameras? Surveillance state? Prison for the "mental illness" of 'weed' vs "slow schizophrenia"? Backing of death squads vs peasants?
Certain conservatives (or Liberals but not SJW) give excellent talks on issues in which they are unafraid of citing or discussing problems from what is normally a Left perspective.
One example is Income Inequality, which Peterson (Canadian) describes as a serious issue, not only for the individual and family, but with wide-ranging consequences such as rising male murder rates at a statistical correlation of (I think) 0.9 (I'm not too familiar with stats but very high correlation). The part that Peterson disputes is that this problem is *caused* directly by racism. Or by free markets aka capitalism -- although i differ strongly with even critics of "crony capitalism" on the extent to which the entire so called "free market" is rife with subsidies and restrictions that 'invisibly' shift income from the bottom to the top (it's "politically incorrect" on the Right to discuss broadly that genuine free markets don't exist without state intervention and repression, going back to the earliest origins of capitalism centuries before America), by using aspects other than competitive market actions.
I digress here TL;DR
And it's not as though a magical libertarian commercial market could exist in the absence of laws of govt and state-standardized money, and it's not as though corporations can function in the absence of corporate law and "rights", and it's not as though leading-light libertarians like Rothbard or Hoppe cared a whit if total privatization aka corporate ownership of the commons left a shred of democratic public space. They WOULD still have governance and police, it's just envisioned as being ideally 100% undemocratic, run by the Owners. Justice and Law or Rules would be doled out by privately owned corporations without the pretense of a Bill of Rights. One of their ideals is Insurance Company bureaucrats making all the rules. Freedom of Speech and Thought applies to Govt, not to your employer nor your presence at the shopping mall or dept store, nor for the corporation that allows you to live in their housing. Bad lifestyles and opinions (such as being gay or immoral or discussing democracy in a positive light) may constitute rebellion, and are grounds for eviction if the Owner doesn't like that.
What a nightmare! Mirror of the USSR system.
you're just pissed because this Vladimir is exposed to the rat he was. mention that !
Dilbertgeg - Yeah the ''Private sector'' will end up being the ''Public sector''. Oh dear, LOL. Corporations aren't far off floating socialist countries with sovereignty. Something that observers pointed out in regards to the proto multi-national 'The Dutch East India Company'. Libertarians only ever factor in the economic theory without any of the practical realities to which they are anchored. We'd end up with one guy with a blue and a red pen operating out from the back of a caravan on a Lockheed Martin car park!! I tend to lean Libertarian when it comes to regulations, taxes and education but Government isn't ever going to play the game of real and true free, fair and honest Capitalism, they'll never risk it and I don't blame them. We could have quite the Libertarian small state situation for much of home policy but, it's foreign policy that counts. Unless you want to live under someone else's influence because they've [Country 'X'] taken over you in wealth and come up with some new weapon or even developed the latest technology leaving you behind and having the comparative advantage over you, that's why there'll always be state sponsored ''Too Big to Fails'' and a Military Industrial complex closely linked to R&D, Silicone valley and MIT. Compared to anything that's existed in world history so far though I think it's an incredibly impressive way of doing things.
Absolutely agree. Rabid nonsense.
Excellent!
The Jewish factor is ignored.
at first I viewed Herman with respect, but now I realize he is leaving out the truth....sad
What did he leave out then?
@@dutchbiker4825 Other than calling Lenin a murder, revising the meaning of Marx into social democracy along with slanders like Lenin being planted in a German plot against US democracy nothing to be learned here by some professor who calls himself a scholar.
@@kimobrien. You didn't answer my question
Rather than leaving a baseless platitude state what is allegedly being left out.
@@dutchbiker4825 You can't ask me to answer a question directed to someone else's comment.
Where did he. Lenin , obtain his survival monies ?hw
Самое интересное 51.30, 55.20, 1.02.10
Hey, Arthur, I am just an amateur historian, and you wasted 9 minutes of my very precious time.
Marx, Trotsky and Jewrashvili (Son of a .....), did they not belong to the same TRIBE???
Well, there are some good and accurate arguements but he is certainly biased and exaggerating.
Hillsdale communist admiration club.
Most people blame Stalin for the terror state, but Herman is right, Lenin and Trostky were just as bad, perhaps even more fanatical. Anyways, socialism always ends in totalitarian, brutal regimes, in fact just about any ideology that tries to suppress and silence any other way to thought is going to be totalitarian and will always end in bloodbath, as did Nazism and Socialism. The great tragedies of the last century happened in both Russia and China, were millions and millions of peasants died in famines created by these fanatical communists, and millions also perished in gulags and in concentration camps, executed, hanged, beaten, incarcerated, only because they dared to think differently. Capitalism and free markets have many flaws, and they are legion, but it is hundreds of times better for people, freedom is better, nothing is better than that.
That didn't happen in Cuba and Cuba still retains a planned economy and despite the 60 years of predictions otherwise continues on despite anti Cuba policy by both parties in Washington.
I don't think being like a sack of potator, all different but alike, sounds partiucalrly insulitng. Seems endeering to me
Lenin fought to free Russia from imperialism and free the peasants from tyranny of the aristocracy- This is a joke
Sure Koba! Where is pipe?
Remember this is a conservative Christian college. So you have to view this lecture that is void of many of the important facts with that in mind.
Lmao you mad?
Yeah you mad
Well I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
@@purplegorilla9592 lmao you want a third try at this reply?
It would only be my second actually.
@@purplegorilla9592 uh huh
I bet ol Vlad ain't having a good time right about now. Same with mao and ho. Not because they were horrible people but because they all out right rejected Jesus the Christ as their savior and as the only provision. Now they are in torment by their own choice. I've sinned and just as guilty. I stand on the same dirt as did they. I choose the way, the truth, and the life
Atheist don't worry about the Christian problems of getting into heaven.
Coming from an obvious Commie, it’s no wonder you’ve contracted the virus.
It is unacceptable for anyone giving a lecture (and even having written a book) on any subject to so mercilessly mangle names of key people and places. Mistakes in his speech are numerous, including: he cannot properly name the city where Lenin was born; he talks about Lenin's brother, but gives him a wrong name. Likewise, he is barely familiar with Marx/Lenin's philosophical writings. In short, he is a fake. A populist journalist - may be. Historian - no way.
He is a historian. But this isn’t his specialty (American history).
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he seems to be a either a disinformation agent himself or an American regime stooge. and i'm saying this as an American.
So, in other words, a description of the democrat party !
He makes him sound so bad
Terrible lecture
Smart guy.
5 minutes of bla bla bla and again MORE bla bla bla??? And he is a HISTORIAN???
You should have title it:"Lenin, and the JEWISH Revolution" That is more truthful but you will be out of a job.
That's Nazi anti-semitic drivel
Republican government....you mean a parliamentary democracy with a prime minister and parliament. Freudian slip ed professor?
no, not a freudian slip. you obviously don't know what a republic is.
@@olpossum5186 They also forget that Krensky head of the Provisional government was also a labor lawyer and a Menshevik. The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions. A republic is simply defined as a government without a King or Queen. Mexico is a republic. Canada is not a republic.
@@kimobrien. you are right. Whether a country is a Republic or not isn’t a useful way to distinguish good systems from bad ones. I think the governmental systems that murdered 100 million people in the last century can be distinguished from other systems by the death toll
Many mistakes, but thanks anyway
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He is the product of current education system unfortunately. He represents the most crude and obvious layer of disinfo with these silly stories, something like revolutionary flat earther. I ques for those who are starting in on the topic this may seem like intellectual ramblings. Sadly they will not be able to take their time back.
Lmao okay
You see capitalism is failing and now they have a problem even in the advanced capitalist countries. The contraction of world trade and production is showing the end of capitalism is near.
@@kimobrien. we really need a Stalin now to fix the failing capitalist system. Terror and mass murder are just what we need right
A historian who reads a lecture on something he is supposed to know very well ... and then proceeds to a) mispronounce Lenin's native town (it's Simbirsk, not Smibirsk), and b) to say that Lenin's older brother (whose death sentence and execution indeed most significantly impacted Lenin's life and choices) was named Alexey, instead of Alexander. After that I stopped listening and closed the app. Go back to the books, buddy...
Nitpicking in the service of a closed mind.
That's a nice fantasy. Along with the "real story". Why spend all that time writing pamphlets if all you want to do is organize a coup? Did anyone spend all that time writing when the US CIA organized a coup in Latin America? Most of this is a case of the "Good Professor" telling you want he believes based upon his theories. If you want to read the real Lenin than go to this website. Marxists.org
@D Madd11 Oooh a Hillary Clinton (irredeemable deplorables) disguised as a conservative because you can't get around the fact that the bolsheviks won the 1918 to 1921 civil war. A coup government would have collapsed. Not only did the Russian counter revolutionaries fight but they had 14 imperials nations send their troops to join the counter revolutionaries including US/UK troops invading the territory of the old Russian Empire. This would be the first defeat for the US Army in a war against communism. With their tails between their legs the US invaders withdrew via the port Vladivostok.
I assume you are talking about Allende. He was going to turn Chile into Cuba, with all the attendant terror, starvation , and murder that occurs under communism. Thank God Pinochet removed him and if the CIA helped him we did a good thing
@@kimobrien. to what end did those glorious victories lead the Soviet Union? Terror, mass starvation, GULAG, show trials, mass murder. Wouldn’t it have been better if those criminal reds had not won?
This is rabid nonsense.
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