Karl Marx: The Socialist Revolutionary
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Karl Marx’s writing of the communist manifesto is one of the long term causes of the majority of the worlds problems, prove me wrong
The burden of proof is on you, that's a bold (and very ignorant) claim.
The Soviet Union is gone and China is capitalist in all but name now, after economic reforms beginning after Mao's death.
All of the world's major powers are capitalist, moneyed interests control our politicians and massive corporations are driving us towards ecological collapse with rampant pollution/rising emissions.
The PHG bad one
I’d say people are shitty, so no matter what you write. The Bible, philosophy, political ideology, etc. people will find a way to use it to control and dominate their peers.
His ideology is currently the leading cause of destruction of cultures.
KARL MARX IS PROTESTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
And the guy that wrote catcher in the rye is responsible for all those murders and shit.
Utopianism can be dangerous. But to suggest a critique of a system which involved literal slavery still happening in the US is responsible for the bloody revolutions against awful regimes like the Tsars of Russia or the Chinese Empire is... patently ridiculous.
The problem Yanks have (and it explicitly yanks) is that they rewrote history to justify the cold war and now reality is muddied by 70 years of propaganda, espionage and war.
Try picking up Marx actual work and then attempt to make IT responsible for things that happened 30 years after his death. "personal responsibility" right? Ha.
If you're saying that the revolutionaries were worse than those they overthrew, maybe. But the US has no problem with ruthless dictators, murderous/genocidal regimes and open corruption... so long as they do business on US terms.
"Now let me stop talking about Marx and Communism to talk about this overpriced luxury watch"
anything above $200 is pricy. $140 is nothing compared to some watches i have seen
unless you want a shitty watch. You get what you pay for. want cheap, have a cheap broken watch
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@@johnwescott1500 like ima believe a terrorist lol
I love the irony. It was absolutely on purpose
I'm sure Marx would've loved that watch ad in the middle of his biography.
He'd be spinning like a buzzsaw If he weren't dead already
And he helped create many more parasitic lazy leeches over the years...
Simon got top Marx,
And got a free watch...............
EbberDeeMills very nuanced indeed, you should go to college
EbberDeeMills you nailed it 👏👏👏
"If only Karl had made capital instead of just writing about it." Let's take a moment to appreciate that savage roast by Mama Marx
LOL !! Amen !!
Mama knows better
I get that this is hindsight, but can you really put a concievable price tag on a landmark in human history?
Marx wrote about society and it's course.
Jeff Oliver. I strongly disagree. Marx introduced me, and countless others, to the idea that the wealthy have already transgressively redistributed resources, and that an obscene saturation of power in individuals ensues because of this. You seem to believe that fixing the problem improperly hurts worse than ignoring it. I say that's part of the problem. Only within a malignant global regime can pursuing ownership of one's own assets be so dangerous. Systems designed to enrich the few get messy whenever that happens, and it will happen for as long as humans exist, Marxist or otherwise.
the first communist revolution occurred in 1871 with the Paris Commune not the Russian revolution...
Samuel Nauman yeah but there wasn’t enough purges for Americans to classify it as communist
That's very good have a sticker
The Paris Commune was more of a Amarcho-Syndicalist revolution rather then a Communist one.
Paris Commune was based
The Paris Commune was anarchist, not communist
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Lmfao love it
It's literally a useless item now. I have a computer in my pocket 24/7!
Why do I need yet another watch to add to the half-dozen I have in a drawer?
That said, I prefer the host selling the item like this over being subjected to the same clip from Honda or whoever again and again.
Also, first paragraph: "..inspired communists Mao and Lenin, but those weren't real communism."
Pass
For luxury watches lol
How do you call a communist sniper?
A marxman
Good one......
Good joke. I give you top marx.
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@@Flatbush21rst boom boom!
Sam The Hoarder as an american the wording of that joke is funny as the joke
So his older brother died when he was only 101... poor guy, if only he had a handcrafted luxury watch.
That is absolutely hilarious.
I was thinking the same, wtf
Best comment
This confused the hell out of me. So was that an error? Did he mean to say 1819?
Kyle Murdoch that’s what I was thinking_
“Once again, I’m asking for your financial support.”
Like one comedian said: "I don't like communists, they've got nothing and they want to share it with you."
How can anyone say he didnt apply himself in school? He got top marx
😂🤘🏻
Dad joke level:beige trousers.well played Sir!
Why can't communists drive manual cars?
Cos they keep Stalin.
😂😂😂😂
That Joke is like food, not everbody gets it
I can’t wait for the totally civil conversations in the comment section.
And how those totally civil conversations will be fair to what Marx actually wrote and believed instead of the awful things done by his supposed followers.
David McDonald Actually he was pro free speech and condemned dictators of his time.
David McDonald To varying degrees yes and that could be said about any philosophical and political thinker; but what’s concrete is he stood against dictatorships and suppression of rights (check his views on Napoleon). He would’ve been against Authoritarian rulers like Stalin, Lenin, Mao.
David McDonald Marx died almost 40 years before the Russian Revolution. We can’t say his views on them but we can go off his views against the dictators of his time. Namely Napoleon and his offspring. You can see that in “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon”
And no he wasn’t evil, Marx was an abolitionist during slavery. He argued for the rights of Haitians while most people were still racist in Europe. While hard right capitalists were still arguing for racial hierarchies from an economic perspective. Who was wrong in the end on that?
Marx inspired Socialist heroes through out South America that fought for reform. Many of whom were overthrown for violent repressive capitalists who then were overthrown by even more violent socialists.
In Africa the greatest leader has been Thomas Sankara a Marxist who is beloved till this day. He fought for women’s rights, refused to take IMF loans instead worked with the people to rebuild the nation, was put in by the will of the people and was assassinated because of French/American actions.
The fear of the poor revolting if not taken care of is part of the reason people pushed for social security, Welfare etc. Prior to that robber barons were lining up their pockets while the elderly and the poor starved to death on the streets. Marx has come with a complicated history but pure evil is going too far.
David McDonald That’s all you got out of all that I said?😂 Ok fine than don’t take social security and if we bring back slavery I hope you’re my property.
Karl Marx is a historically famous philosopher and political theorist, but very few people know about his sister, Onya, the inventor of the starter pistol.
Oh my God
You got me bro 😂
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Ok that was a Wisconsin joke..... its the cheesiest!!!
Don't get it I'm dumb
_The Communist Manifesto_ was not Marx’s magnum opus by far lol. That work is a pamphlet. His magnum opus is very much understood to be _Capital_
I'm surprised on how many commies and far leftists haven't read the communist manifesto.
I love seeing the confusion in their eyes when I tell them that Marx actually praised capitalism in the pamphlet and his problem with it was that it didn't do enough to help with wealth inequality. While it allowed people outside of the aristocracy to become wealthy, it still left too many people behind in poverty.
Dmitri Ptrenko you do realise pretty much every leftist thinks this?
To sum it up, Marxist thought believed in three tiers in society, hunter gatherer, feudalism, and capitalism, with the succeeding system being more efficient and fair.
What brings the end of each system are contradictions and unrest within it.
To say that leftists explicitly hate capitalism is to ignore nuance and misunderstand them- critique does not equate to hate, and the focus on capitalism is because we live in such a system, what would be the point of critiquing feudalism if only 5 countries still practice it today?
@Dennis Massengill or don't see the opportunity
Together with Die Grundrisse, grundrisse is not to be under estimated
@Dennis Massengill With that level of a Intellect, you are lucky you are born rich with opportunities.
Pretty sure you meant 1819.
for sure
Yeah, I went back and listened to it again because I was only paying half attention to the video. I dont know the full story of Marx but that didnt jive with the timeline I assumed in my head. Glad to know I'm not nuts.
I know right, I was thinking wouldn't that make him 101
I paused at 1:27 to see if someone had made this comment...you have! bravo!
Glad im not the only one that noticed
"when his brother died in 1919"
you mean he lived 101 years?
Yes.
@Anonymous Panacea we are speaking about the the XIX
The idea that we're living longer now is statistic tunnel vision, the reason the life expectancy was much lower in the past was infant mortality rate, if you made it past childhood you were likely to live to old age.
It is rare, but people do live that long. The oldest verifiable recorded person died at 113. An African women claimed to be 128 but could not prove it and a French women may have lived to 115, or may have been replaced by her sister. If people did live to nearly a thousand as the Bible claims, it was in a very different world.
@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts The oldest person to have ever lived is a french woman who lived for a 122 years and it has been verified.
"If only Karl had made capital, instead of just writing about it."
Damn, Karl's Mommy dissed him.
Mama knows best...
The proceeds from Marx’s literature being used to sustain himself and write more books would be an example of Marx creating and using capital. How money becomes capital is an intrinsic aspect of money, not capitalism.
We get it. His mother was a capitalist
No riches? 🧐
Marx died in 1883. In the 19th century!
He was born right after the Napoleonic Wars ended 3 years ago, lived during a time when the US allowed slavery, and Europe was preparing to get into a huge war against each other.
Never was a huge fan of Marx, but we can't complain about a man who lived in HIS time.
0:50 - Chapter 1 - Early years
2:00 - Chapter 2 - Off to university
3:45 - Chapter 3 - Focusing on philosophy
4:50 - Chapter 4 - France Beckons
6:55 - Chapter 5 - Brussels
8:35 - Chapter 6 - Hard times
10:35 - Mid roll ads
11:55 - Chapter 7 - London
14:10 - Chapter 8 - New York correspondent
16:30 - Chapter 9 - Das Kapital
18:25 - Chapter 10 - The final years
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@XZDrake rolex is def not middle class trash
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actualy its not, most of the top communist leaders were filthy rich, only the ppl were poor. the biggest hipocrits ever...
Not ironic. Commies are always wealthy.
Ron Froehlich this is the favorite go to rhetoric of unread philistine jackasses who love pointing to the wealthy politburo members. These individuals were corrupt rulers of an authoritarian system masquerading as “communist”. Stalin, Gorbachev, Castro, etc. These were rulers of authoritarian regimes that took more than generous salaries from the people. That, by very definition, does not make them a communist. A simple dictionary could solve this but apparently there are a shortage of them in the world today.
I showed this to my class
now it is OUR class
That was cute...should have more upvotes.
Now it's abolished
Now they understand that being a commie means being a parasitic leech
@@barrymccokiner7559 Besides attacking Communism as a fool, you should find a hobby instead of spamming "commUnizm bAd" or maybe seek psychiatric help?
The Wendigo of Maine. I should not have laughed so hard at this. I hope everyone gets it.
"I wish my son would go out and earn capital instead of just writing about it." Is my favorite quote about Karl. It was said by his mother of all people lol
He tried but everywhere he worked was shut down and he had to flee several countries...
@@eoin8450 Shoulda learned to code
@@josephpelletier9494 true
@@eoin8450 ohh communists always shifting the blame, Nothing has changed
@@alpacamale2909 he was literally chased out of several countries and his businesses closed down because the state saw him as a threat, what more do you fucking want?
The transition of communism to an advert was almost flawless
Let’s not turn this into a heated socio-economic argument form, Capitalist or Marxist, let’s all just enjoy this for what it is, a biography of a historical figure.
I know it’ll be ignored but a lowly RUclips commenter can hope and dream...
Historical for what?
I'm pretty sure RUclips comments are as full of trollfarm agitators as any social media platform.
Yaaay.
Delicious Hentai Communism.
@@sethprestenback8617 Don't forget the tentacles, Comrade!
C G Marx is a complete idiot and his ideas have done nothing but harm
Anti Capitalist Revolutionary
Sponsored by Watch company
Just shows how irrelevant he is.
Marx's grave is privately owned and you have to pay to see it.
@@ab5441 Wow.
Someone has to pay the bills... Not everyone can spend a lifetime mooching off other people.
Technically communism is a subset of capitalism.
These biographics would be perfect for classrooms. Easy history in a short span. Nice work!
in America you'd have hoards of rabid right-wing MAGAites with pitchforks attacking any school that taught Marx
Great watch and a great pitch for it! I enjoy watching ads for things that interest me and I wouldn’t mind seeing more about watches.
Simon and the team never fail me with great interesting information.
if a channel has you rewatching their entire video uploads, you know you done something right
Vincero is actually a pretty good example of capitalism failing. $5 Chinese watches marketed as high end and sold for 35x their value.
Darragh Tate if I could like a comment ten times, this would be it.
China has been moving away from pure communism for some time now.
I agree. All luxuries should be banned. Social credit systems for everybody.
FYI a Rolex only contains about a teenth of its actual price in base metals
Even the really good ones
That's because it's Chinese capitalism: a cheap immitation of the real thing.
"Last words are for those who haven't said enough" The last words of Karl Marx
I suppose I better... WATCH out for the newest episodes... Solid work!
Thanks for making a video about me, I appreciate it.
Love you boo
Nice
Hahahahaha! How’s the hell?
JcJ * 😎🤙🏽
Karl Marx it’s monitised tho...
Do a video on Adam Smith, one of the main contributors to modern day capitalism
He should, Adam Smith has nothing to do with modern day capitalism :)
It would terrify some how anti-capitalist Adam Smith actually was.
If today's capitalists actually read Adam Smith they'd declare him as much of a Marxist as Marx.
Of course, in today's world you get called a socialist if you give your employees a raise. And then the same pundits wonder why socialism is becoming more popular.
Glad to see some comments saying that Adam smith would be terrified and saddened by modern day capitalism.
@@the_exegete Adam Smith would hang himself if he saw what his economic philosophy had malformed into.
0:37 - Thank you, Simon, for mentioning this important statement! As a guy who studied Soviet communism compared to Marx's writings, I totally agree! Other suggestions for later videos similar to Marx include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marcus Tulius Cicero, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Hobbes.
Agreed!
100th like!
Simon, I want you to say these two words aloud to yourself: “Pawn”, and “Porn”.
average brit always confusing superior-tongued Americans with their garbled up nonsense, be sure not to ask him to say "Free and Three" lest he has a mental breakdown.
Didn't Marx's brother die in 1819,not 1919?
It's okay, even historians have stated themselves make mistakes.
He doesn't edit his videos very closely, watchers learn to just sort of shrug it off
He lived to see the Paris Commune. It was a success until government forces stormed the city.
Turns out you need a way to defend yourself from people who disagree with you.
@@loknaz97 not sure what your point is, Marx agreed with that lol
@@loknaz97 grapeshot would have done the trick.
@@loknaz97 it was a city vs the rest of the country. I'm pretty sure the country would win 98% of the time
The only thing I can ever focus on with Marx is his awesome beard
there is no better intro to a bio on Karl Marx than by starting off with a commercial for such a fine-looking watch.
looks gay and if you say otherwise you are gay.
Quit Stalin' and show me your Marx
Adam lol
That is just pulling wool over your eyes. You need to use Mao Lenin in your fabric.
Your Communications have been duly noted.
Do I Khrushchev?
oh thats just bad
I found it interesting that Marx and Engels traveled to England, and observed the terrible working conditions at the time, and used that as a basis for The Communist Manifesto. Things have changed significantly since then.
"If only Karl had made capital, instead of just writing about it." - Best....quote....!
yea... if only one of the most important philosophers of the last few centuries wasn't working a loom to buy bread...
@@conorredmond6217 80-hour weeks
@Google 'The Perestroika Deception' what do you mean "?"
@Google 'The Perestroika Deception' you don't know that the people used to work 12 hours a day every day of the week?
Not to even mention how much they were paid.
@Google 'The Perestroika Deception' No, he wasn't actually working in a factory, I was just adding to the point that, for some reason, people think that the quote was even remotely a good roast.
That would be the same as saying that Abe Lincoln should have been a slave owner instead of abolishing slavery.
A biography on Michael Collins (Irish revolutionary) might be an interesting one
Hi Simon Hegel pronounced his name 'haygel' for future reference.
I really enjoy the work you and your team are doing, thanks.
He has a sister who invented the starter pistol.
Her name was onya.
Love it 🤣
Thank you for another excellent video. Hope you will cover more literary figures like the Brontes or Jane Austen.
Karl mArx. Is. Cool
I would've liked for the video to mention his chronic skin condition, Hidradenitis Suppurativa. As somebody who's suffered from the condition for most of my life, I am interested in how much the condition shaped his philosophy.
Lots! Pain and disfiguring boils draining infections would tend to give a person a negative outlook.
Man the sponsored ad plug for a luxury watch really hits different in this one 😂
The pen is stronger than the sword
food is better than no food
And easier to write with too😉
Not if you want to cut an apple in half.
Mightier
As long as the pen targets a group of easily manipulated sword wielders, then yes.
That’s actually... a really nice watch. I was about to skip the sponsorship but man that watch looks awsome
Thank you for this video, it was very informative and i have learned a lot.
you get a like.
How ironic that unemployment followed him throughout his entire life...
just like bernie sanders
He was physically ill most of his life.
I mean, it’s not incredibly likely that a very wealthy person would be such a vicious champion for the rights of the poor
Sod off
Such is often the life of a writer.
"He became the eldest son in 1919" he died in 1883
Love your channel!!! Please do Jackie Kennedy!!
Thank you Simon!
The most famous quote of Karls family was his sister Onya's quote " get set, GO"
A man writing a DIY hate the rich while never holding a single job in his whole entire life
"If only Itay was rich instead of simping for the rich." - your mom
and that's relevant how?
This defines an angry bum! Easier to carp than work. His ideas have never panned out in reality.
@@alcoholfree6381I hope you know a giant wave of youngsters are seeing things in a different light. Many young people locked out of opportunity for financial mobility by the same capitalist politicians that decry Marx and fear monger over the left gives nice cannon fodder for anti capitalist sentiments. You can call Marx an angry bum, maybe he was. But his works are so influential even today, new comrades spring up quietly all around us :)
Writer, and editor in Chief are jobs and the government shut down most of the places he worked at, he was also arrested and banished several times. He was a political refugee and was spied on by the secret police. That's why he was supported by his friend. Europe during that time had mass unemployment because of mechanization, an issue socialist philosophers warned about, this contributed to millions of deaths through starvation. It's almost like capitalism was horrific, he wrote about it, and you make up BS proving how ignorant you are.
How does this channel only have 440k subscribers is beyond me.
Fantastic video 👏👏
Biographics he, has an interesting way to structure sentences. Learning about Karl Marx it's, always a fun and interesting story. These videos they, are a great thing to listen to at work.
*“Remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him”*
-Old Major, Animal Farm
Fun Fact about the part at the end when Karl Marx died: At his funeral, Friedrich Engels said of Marx that when he died, "The greatest thinker ceased to think". When I first discovered this, it just stuck with me
I enjoyed the irony of the commercial/advertisement in the middle of this presentation. :-)
Could you do a Biographic on Ho Chi Minh?
Simon, please make a biography episode about karl steffanson
Attempt #13
I love my Vincero watch, really high quality! I've had it for 3 months and wear it everyday, absolutely a great watch.
Petit Bourgeoise.
Simon you are doing a great job
A video on FDR? Would be interesting to see.
He def needs was one of the greatest leaders in American history
Would Simon’s political bias get in the way? That’s the real question
Seek Ken Burns' documentary: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The documentary tells the life stories of Teddy, Franklin and Eleanor. I think it's on Netflix. You will not be disappointed.
@@chrisj197438 - FDR was a pragmatist. Even if your foolish proposition that he was a socialist was true, so what? What is it about empowering workers and bettering the life of the common man that frightens you so?
@@Jason918114 Yeah, why are people focused on the WHOLE Internement Camp thing!
I mean all his appointed judges on SCOTUS said it was JUST FINE, with them.
A real Hero...
You should make a video about Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
very informative and unbiased video, nice vid.
from the Marx quote, "the greatest financial difficulties are preferable to public begging" then directly to a message about a flashy watch... priceless.
i don't know why I thought this would be original.. scrolled down afterwards to see countless watch comments. The timing of the add is immaculate, though.
People seem to like to ignore that his criticisms of capitalism are still extremely valid and need to be solved either within the framework of capitalism with a system like social democracy or outside of capitalism in accordance with something like anarcho-syndicalism or democratic socialism.
Hm, I don't quite agree, he certainly pointed out some mistakes, but far from all his points are valid.
Also, "Democratic Socialism"? That's still socialism, and socialism has proven to not work and always end in chaos.
Agree though that problems do need to be tackled, favorably withing the Capitalist framework, as you referenced.
@@Comintern1919 Socialism works, look up Mondragon and other cooperatives
@@Comintern1919Democratic Socialism has few examples of national implementation throughout history. Democratic Socialism would be a Liberal democracy where the workers control the means of production and private property is still allowed. If it hasn't really been implemented I wouldn't say we have proof of whether it works or not. I would imagine it would but also be subject to change since it would allow other parties presumedly to take power if they lose an election. It's sort of similar to Social Democracy that does work and is prevalent in the Nordic countries. How well it works is the part that can be debated.
Thank you so much for sharing this video, I learned a lot about Karl Marx today!
So Marx was angry that the working class allowed a dictator to rule over them. Man must be rolling in his grave since everyone that uses his ideals become dictators.
Well, a dictator is not necessarily a bad one. If I become a dictator, the world will become a remarkable place.
We have known about a benevolent dictator for more than 2000 years. Who ? Plato. A modern day Plato is exactly what we need.
Who owns a watch these days? - Great video as always
The Proletariot.
I love that you are explaining Marxism while trying to sell me a watch😂
Tbh that’s probably what Marx himself would have done
Thank you Biographics! I think you did a great job covering the basics of Karl Marx's life. This was a well done and non-partisan account of the major parts of Marx's life.
Trying to decide which watch to order from Vincero! Thinking Chrono S
Btw, for future videos heavely involving german: The german "V" is pronunced like the english (and german) "F". The equvivalent of the english "V" in terms of pronunciation in the german "W".
Otherwise, your pronunciation is quite good for someone who appears to never have taken any german classes.
It is an interesting question as to what Marx would think of the Soviet and Maoist dictatorships. They weren't quite what he had in mind. Brutal strongmen and gangs simply used the promise of working class revolution to do what they have always done.
Marx was in fact very vague about actions to take for him the transition to first socialism and then kommunism must be a natural process.....the problem in russia was that they where pretty mutch a fudal country right to World war one they never had the same capitalist economy the western european countrys had they had a diskussion inside the russian communist party what where the right actions to take and how to get to a socialist transition without a capitalist class one side voted to go the democratic route the other one voted for a violent skip from fudalism to socialism without the natural transition they voted and the Bolsheviks came out on top thats hat the name Bolsheviks mean it means majority the other part was later known as the Mensheviks that meinst minorety and they Split up......the thing with marks writings is that he is pretty mutch vague about actions to take it was more about economy relations
Love the way he mispronounces Hegel's name!
“heegle”
Das Kapital was published in Hamburg in 1867! It is even written on the first page of the book. Check 16:48 !
starting the video by a luxury watch ad... very appropriate :D
"Now, let's get back to Marx"
Ad instantly plays
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I’ve watched a hundred of your videos and I’ve never wanted one of your ads, I don’t even like watches and I’ve never had one. I would for sure buy these watches! I’m poor with 3 kids so it won’t be soon, but soon enough I’ll be successful enough to buy one!
Many people volunteer at Academic Decathlon and do literary competitions at libraries, so there definitely is an audience for thoughtful excellence.
So seeing people solve problems (after they show they work) and utilize English could be paid by
1) creating phone apps for each building (to reduce the expense for cashiers who don't even show proof of paying the specified "sales tax" to the government),
2) maintaining public_transportation and GPS kinds of phone apps, and
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It is ridiculous to blame Marx for the atrocities committed by 20th century dictators like Stalin and Mao. Only someone who is completely ignorant about Marx;s writings could do so. Sadly, most people really are that ignorant. How many American have even read the Communist Manifesto, never mind Marx's more mature and substantial works like Das Kapital. Marx never bothered to write about how to organize a socialist society at all - he was strictly a critic of capitalism, not a utopian socialist at all. Lenin complained that he could not find anything in Marx to guide him in setting up a socialist society. Of course not. It is not there! Marx was a brilliant social critic and economic theorist and he valued personal liberty more than any liberal ever did. He hated tyranny and he would have been horrified at how he has been blamed for the crimes of the Communist monsters of the 20th centuries. But the Communists used Marx to provide legitimacy for their crimes and the western capitalist rulers were only too happy to use their identification with Marx to slander Marx and socialism generally.
Is it really though? His views are what caused these atrocities since all of these people believed in his vision. They showed how these ideas that may work on paper, can never really work in real life since it completely ignores what humans are like.
@@Osindileyo1The only thing Marx did was fight for equality, he was pro-democracy and would absolutely despise Maoist China and Stalinist Russia, Mao and Stalin completely botched the idea of Communism and Marxism. The idea of someone writing books to inspire people to revolt against an oppressive and exploitive system (keep in mind this was the Industrial Revolution) only for your work to be misinterpreted by some power hungry dictators 100 years later which leads to the deaths of millions is idiotic
by that logic, It is ALSO ridiculous to blame Hitler for the atrocities committed during the holocaust, I mean, they're just ideas, they can't actually inspire pure evil and mass murder, can they???
@@jordanthomas4379 how is trying to make everyone economically equally and causing the systemic genocide of millions of Jews the same thing? Marx’s ideas were misconstrued, Hitlers actions weren’t
@@jahadijeff7252 him creating the communist manifesto gave the basis for lennin and all the other vile creatures that wanted that economic structure. Lennin based his ideas off the manifesto, creating a regime that could only be bested by the nazi party, which may I remind you where socialist’s which just so happens to be what inspires communism. The Soviet Union also gave putin a position of power which has lead to modern Russia being the way it is. North Korea where also allied with the soviets and we know what a mess that place is. Had Marx not showed a complete misunderstanding of what people are like and never written the maifesto none of this would have happened. Those dying now in Ukraine by Putins army is all the fault of Marx writing the manifesto. What you’re saying is also no different to saying it’s unfair to blame the nazis for the existence of neo nazis. Use some common sense next time.
Literally no word on his blatant EXPLOITATION of working class people. He frequently didn’t pay bills to the butcher, grocer, etc. He sponged off of Engels who made his money as a factory owner. Hypocrisy doesn’t quite cut it. That’s not to mention that he shagged his maid, siring a bastard son that he never acknowledged, while never paying her a penny...
"You say you want a revolution. Well, you know."
Great man
A perfect society requires perfect people, and no such person ever has or ever will exist.
I love the fact that Karl Marx was a bit of waster as a young man.
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 19:47
Delicious irony opening the video about Marx with an ad about fancy watches.
4:24
He shoulda learned to code.
Medical coding, or Computer coding?
I luv the way this guy teaches. I could sit and listen to him for hours. And i heard that Karl Marx was poor man for most of his life.
Marx was a loser
Why do i get the felling i want to shave Simon's beard😂😂😂
“Look dummy, sharing money is the communist vision. Engel’s bank was the crank that got the revolution spinning.” Karl Marx
Honestly communism isn't a bad idea on paper. Many aspects are good ideas, but it's impossible to properly fully implement communism unless you have a way to completely stop corruption.
That being said, socializing certain things like pharmaceutical companies and hospitals would greatly benefit the average person, especially if it could be done on a global level
I find communism is so much easier to understand when you view it though the prism as a religion or a belief system like Confucianism. All models are wrong but some are useful, communism has some great ideas, but it’s incredibly wrong about a lot of things and when applied it will always follow the path of least resistance becoming a totalitarian hell hole.
It never will be. And if it did, they’ll hide the reason they’re giving it for ‘free’
It’s also a good idea in practice, not just paper.
Capitalism is t even a good idea on paper LOL
@@AnthonyChinaskihuman nature is to lie, cheat and steal. It's not good on paper if you're honest about it.
A surprisingly good and unbiased video, good job!
*The Eyebro*
He flubbed the _On The Jewish Question_ a bit, and he brushed over _Capital_ calling _The Communist Manifesto_ his magnum opus. But I was actually pretty surprised, too. I do cringe though when he mispronounces names like Hegel (such a fundamental philosopher). It makes me feel like he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I know he doesn’t write the show, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth
@@Kyle_Schaff true, but when you expect them to just completely screw him over like the other communists they have covered this is a very positive surprise
@@Kyle_Schaff When he said "Rouge" for Ruge instead of "Roo-guh" I was completely thrown off.
little slip of the tongue; Moritz died in 1819 not 1919