The effects of Communist parties rebranding as Social Democrats in Europe has been miserable, frankly. Firstly they cannot refrain from wholely abandoning principles and traditional policy goals in fact, because they have to bend over backwards to be taken seriously as no longer Communists, so they became more Blairite than the Blairites (the Democratic Left in the UK was already fully Blairite in 1988, long before Tony Blair became leader of the Labour party in 1995, facilitated by ex-Communists of DL), more neo-liberal than the liberals. And the effect, electorally was unimpressive, and actually contributed to the rise of rightwing populism because by abandoning their traditional policy ground and working class constituency, they left working class electors demoralised and feeling abandoned and betrayed by the left, and in effect denied a real left alternative to the prevailing finacialisation and globalisation agenda. What has had to be learned through painful failure and disillusionment is that what can be done and has to be done because the social democrats, per se, including the ex-Stalinist social democrats abandoned traditional social democratic policy principles and goals, is that leftists must move into that electoral space, but without abandoning their anti-capitalist and anti-system analysis and goals, and make the centre-left at least democratic socialist, if not radical socialist, rather than the other way around. The logic of compromise is relentless - enough is never enough and eventually everything has to be forsaken. So communists becoming social democrats means becoming neo-liberals and imperialists. Instead European Marxists and anti-capitalists are trying to seize the left of centre electoral niche, which is the easy majority niche at this point, but to move it and society as a whole leftwards, not the reverse. It is a move driven by clear eyed class analysis and intentionality, not opportunism or so-called pragmatism, which is just moral cowardice and vacuity, of people applying their anti-capitalist perspective, not forswearing it.
Social Democrats have never been Communists. Communists have long been critical of the ineptitude of Social Democracy, just read Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme." Social Democrats have never advocated power be seized by the working class and the centers of the economy (the banks, factories, resources, and other means of production) be placed in the hands of the proletariat and operated rationally on behalf of the working masses. Social Democracy has only asked for better benefits and limited democratic input by the workers. And the Left has also been heavily infiltrated by utopians, Ultra-Left Adventurists, Trotskyites, Anarchists, RadLibs and others who are not always sympathetic to the cause of the international working class.
IT NEVER WAS COMMUNISM , NOT EVEN RUSSIA, CUBA ,N KOREA, CHINA. A REINVENTED SOCIALISM , POLICE STATE,. TALKING ABOUT POLICE STATE IT IS NOW THE NEW REALITY EVERYWERE. NO MORE FREEDOM, NO MORE RIGHTS. THIS IS NWO.
Vijay is an exhaustive man of work. He is the "worker". And for that, I thank Vijay. I can spend days studying with this guy. I do. He synthesizes massive volumes of multi-layers of scholarly understand of ideas,; personalities; factual histories; mindful, always, of the power & purpose of communication.
India should have people like Vijay to reform from democratic to socialism. Capitalism is a systems servings the top 1% and not people's of middle classes and bottoms under poverty's societies.
He can come here change policy here but to be at that position we need to have people's mandate and as well as their consensus and it's very difficult to do I'm not going to casteism which is rampant but here the people of India have a concept of work culture which is very similar to any capitalistic bourgeoisie country that if you don't work hard you don't deserve anything and which is a misconception that they don't understand that everyone works hard but everyone don't get the same outcome like a sweeper a labour a poor seller they don't consider their labour because it's not rewarding so it's hard to change that perception it takes generation...
@@rlinton123 At this point, discussions of 'communism' are simply debates about semantics. i.e. What is Communism? And what does this term mean to people?
Except he is a scientific socialist. It is the mode of production that we are born into. If you ask Grandi or for that matter the “prophets” to lead corporations would exploitation or theft of labor power be eliminated? No.
Very Interesting. Thanks for this wonderful Speach. Trust also hope PPL learn from all u have said n r saying and to better their lives and do not ALLOW their mind to dominate a BRIGHTER n better future. Everything beging with an INDIVIDUAL. Think wise for GREATER days to come. 🙏🙏🏻🙏🏽🕉☪️✝️💝 Continue to educate those with your Brilliantness. U r very bless
Oh, for Christ’s sake, choosing one form of government over another is like choosing between jumping off the left side of a thousand-foot building or the right. I'll run my own life.
Capitalism Says: The Ends Justify the Means Communism Says: The Means Determine the Ends From the Unconscious Hell ❤️ To the Conscious Hell 💚 Until the Paradise of Consciousness 💜 Thaaannnk Yooouuu ❤️ 💚 💜
I like some of Vijay's ideas yet find him to be absolutely biased against certain things. One can be brilliant sans guarantee to be in the right kind of balanced mind.
Exactly ... Communism as an ideology is destructive, dangerous and rejected outright by the world yet he tom-toms it by his warped thinking. Wont say a word about atrocities next door to him in Kashmir on the Pandits and their forced exodus when he was right there in Delhi like says in 1990. Also, on Taliban and their barbaric atrocities on their own Afghan people, exp Women. No, Vijay is conveniently blind to that :) :) ... but singles out one Mosque that a Mughal Invader built on the birthplace of the main Hindu God - Ram!! Like building a Mosque in the Vatican or a Church on top of the Kaaba in Mecca!!
@@cookiemonsta6074 Try to look at the bigger picture of how Vijay is seeing it. India is practically the poorest country in the world with more than half of the people would go hungry everyday and 300 million are illiterate. Too many slums with those conditions of living that are totally unhealthy and undignified. With less than 1 % is super rich and the rest is struggling, in such a scenario, communism is the only answer to save India. Communism is not a dirty word, it’s just a system of governance that suits the poorest of the poor. The meaning of communism comes from communal, sharing. It’s a system of sharing wealth, everyone is entitled to have what the next person is having. Communism guaranteed a job for every man, a house for every man. Education for every child. For someone who is poor, even the simplest low paying job and a simple home is better than living in a slum. May sound like a dream impossible to achieve given the current situation in India today. India needs someone who has the social standing like a Jawaharlal Nehru or a Gandhi to galvanise the people to want a change for the better. Someone who is dedicated and motivated to govern India and to introduce reforms in such a drastic manner but in the long run, it’s worth it. May take decades to educate the people, to readjust their mindset into accepting that everyone is equal , no more caste system. The poor would like that. Communism saves China. From those days of Mao Zedong to the present, China has came a long way, gone thru years of decay, untold sufferings, hunger, famines, to what it’s today, rich, peaceful and powerful. The beginning wasn’t easy, but the people were willing to toil, work hard, gave up their personal rights for the betterment of progress, in return, everyone has a job, entitled to a public home, rural poor farmers were allotted lands. That’s communism. If China can do it, why not India too.
Can Mr Vijay Prasad transcreate his ideas into the many Modern Indian Languages which Indian communists as a rule have hitherto spoken and written and also have used as medium of their various discussions ? I would prefer Noam Chomsky to our very own Vijoy Prasad.
Thanks for your great presentation. How about 70% socialism & 30% capitalism? Apparently that's a good mixture - as long as the politicians are high integrity & FOR the people.
India wanted that, mixed economy to Venetian extend. But fall of Russia and oil crisis pushed us more towards capitalism. If both east and west decided to promote mixed model, this will work. Obviously our population problem is why we need mixed model
We need a bridge to the right who r actually leftists in most ways sans not having access to a wider understanding of things due to where they were raised live & the algos that stimulate their hatred to replace despair & the religions that assault (America’s mega Church’s even preach anti commie & armed Jesus) The US is on the brink it’s in dire straits & requires massive amounts of organisation
Sometimes I worry the first world will become a commie dystopia - then I remember, the metrics here can't even break 1k in 4 years, and I remember before the dislikes got hidden, this gem got absolutely ratio'd by dislikes lol
15:03 it was a mistake! He should have become the PM of India. A first and maybe the last pure left leader leading the country for short period of time. It was history making situation and CPM fucked up. It could also pass the message that a left party leader is the PM of India. Great mistake.
Frankly speaking, Vijay is a very impressive orator and has the ability to bring about change in the society for good. But ironically, the party that he has been associated with didn't show any kind of positive change in the society when it was in power in WB and elsewhere. In fact, it did exactly what he blames the other parties of. See, Communism is a natural consequence of what Capitalism or any other '-ism' does to the society after staying for a longer period. The fact that 'communism' working under a certain party banner fails its ulterior motive and ends up the society in ruins and makes it hostile. There is something so tragic about the whole 'Communism' thing( I mean the party or whatever association or union they form to support their cause, not the cause itself). They fail to acknowledge that there will remain disparity regardless of what they think or do because of the human nature and that's how the natural laws work as well (not that it cannot be dismantled but it only brings instability and havoc). The 'feeling of communism' should come from within everyone, seperately, for their fellow beings and not from a party's agenda or perspective shoveled upon their throats and minds. Their 'Communism' in itself is a religion in reverse. One of my personal fav. quote of Nietzsche, out of nowhere but applies here perfectly, is "In truth, there was only one true Christian and he died on the Cross". The change that they want to see in the society must come people's own conscience and that they mustn't push their agendas so hard on people and society, else there will be rise in crime rates, murders, hatred and whatever animals humanity have suppressed within itself from the dawn of civilization. I hope Vijay bring some good change in and around the political and social system in India. My best wishes to him☺️.
No Communist ever suggested, as you said, that 'disparities will not exist." Of course disparities exist, that is the case in the modern world, that is how the world has been organized ... to this point. These divergences are not, as you suggest - the result of "human nature." Humans don't actually have an inherent nature, friend. Human beings are a blank slate on which the realities of the modern world are drawn. We are products of our own environment. Maybe we, at some point previous, have heard the stories of the boys who were raised by wolves? And after growing up, and developing, in the company of wolves, the boys exibited all of the characteristics of wolves. Such a case, in itself, demolishes the concept of human nature. You are making the case, here, that there should be no community, and that everyone is simply an 'individual.' But, we all know, that human beings live in communities and have evolved within community. Of course, I don't believe that anyone can or should be coerced to accept someone's agenda; but if the people within a given party are honest actors, then they represent only the agenda of the masses of people. I don't know how it is in India, I have never been there. But, in the West, the forces that compromise the wider "Left" (if we can call it that) are dishonest actors. They ARE controlled, in many instances, by the wealthiest factions of society, and they represent the agendas of Post Modernists and the very bourgeois class that they claim to despise. Far too many of them place far too much emphasis on changing the broader culture; but culture is a set of social mores and values that have to develop on their own, over time. The only circumstances that can be changed, and should be changed, are the ones that have resulted in the masses of people slaving away to enrich a class of people that does not work, and produces no real value. Once these circumstances are changed, for the better, then - I believe - the culture will catch up, over time, entirely on its own.
@@itzenormous nonsense. Humans can’t be a blank stage because of deterministic nature of the universe and the historical continuum. Wait a second I reread what you said. I find part of disagreeable but what I am thinking of comes to the same conclusion on the culture must evolve naturally and the likes.
Well, Vijay, with your intelligent and analytical mind have you seriously reviewed the journey of Marxism from its seminal rise in the USSR through to its pathetic fall? Have you bothered to juxtapose the observed realities in the tumultuous journey of Marxism and tried to deduce the cause(s) of its failure? Have you figured out the applicable form of Marxism for India? Apparently, its original form didn't succeed! Can you find an effective way to alert the India's proletariat and hand them a functional manual for putting forth their grievances and seeking redress? Rhetoric sounds good, but does it yield desired result?
Just look at the difference between India and China. The reason why China was able to turn capitalist was because Mao’s policy in advancements in rural development. Because of this, there was a huge amount of labor to fulfill what was needed to engage export oriented entrepreneurship. In other countries where this didn’t happen, capitalism isn’t as easy due to workers not being as literate, fed or healthy.
Yeah, lots wrong in the world. But try asking anyone to change their behavior by telling them they are doing wrong. I don't know what Communism is, but my understanding is that whatever it is, Marx had the idea that these changes happen over time organically. So, we might all have the same understanding of Communism at some point, whatever Communism means, but it will not happen until it is ready to happen and must happen ... i.e. the reason I watched your video is the insertion of the term "necessity". It is sad that we can all see the future must be better than the present, but tragic that we will most all be dead before any of that comes close enough to happen.
do not let the liberal hell which pushes down the hope of Communism take you over. if I'm to recommend where to start to understand the foundations of Communism I'd go to 4 texts: the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marz; Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx; Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels; and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels. These aren't easy reads but are some of the most comprehensive texts on the foundations of understanding Communism and some of its principles
From his speech I can decipher his whataboutism. Capitalistic reforms in India were a boon to India. It lifted 300 million people out of poverty. I have seen people around me completely transform themselves from owning a renting apartments to owning cars and being able to afford healthcare from all strata of life. Indian lives have become much better since 1991 and so has the number of riots decreased. Socialists that he looks so excitedly towards had the exact same people he describe. His arguments fall flat in the face with regards to the realities of modern India. Socialist India was equal because everyone was equally and pitifully poor. Hence, his audience is more or less from the west and China.
@@vaibhavsajith4267 a classic counter, Soviet Union wasnt socialistic, India wasnt socialistic, cuba wasnt socialistic enough. This arguments sound pretty much like Islamist who fight for sharia. Here is a fun fact perfection doesnt exist anywhere. Perfect socialism cannot and will not exist anywhere except some tiny city.
@@anmolmonga1933 bullshit ussr was Cuba was. You are pretty dumb if you actually believe social democracy is socialism. But then again most anti communist Indians are stupid af
I would definitely choose South Korea but what they have in North Korea I think is a totally fake socialism, not real socialism. Peter that Christian socialist.
Born rich,educated in renowned institutions,speak fluent English ,dont have to do anything for living and spew hate and misinformation about own people and country is called good communist.
As A free market supporter and a classical liberal, as well as an indian, I learnt where lies some of the potholes that need to fixed in a capitalistic economy for it to survive, We need to create safety nets for people who loose the war in the capitalistic market system, so they don't create an uprising. Thanks Professor
That's a saner response than some of the ones from truly deranged middle class communists. They go out of their way to defend China and to encourage the destruction of the world to feed their blood lust behind the veneer of intellectualism and compassion. And those "proletariats" in Hindi speaking areas speak English as well or better than I do.
The government, the political parties, the media, and the police are all parts of a state that is run exclusively by capitalists for capitalists. It has always been a tool of exploitation and will be until it is destroyed. George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden are all members of the same class. Similar case in India with BJP, Congress, CPM, CPI(M), CPI(ML), AAP, so on and so forth.... Capitalism is a mode of economic production built on putting limitless growth and maximizing profits over the wellbeing of people and nature. It is by far the primary force of climate disruption and habitat destruction. The only way to stop the ecological disaster is to replace capitalism with a sustainable mode of production that puts people and nature first. The wealth and comfort that even working-class Americans or Europeans or Scandinavians enjoy is extracted from colonized peoples across the globe. Look up _Stealing Africa_ doc on RUclips for example! This includes medicare and all other social safety nets. Their student loans, tax breaks, and subsidies in addition to the massive profits of billionaires are stolen from workers in the rest of the word. This extraction destroys people’s lives and the environment through war, pollution, and deforestation. Medicare for all, cancelling student debt, legalizing marijuana, the green new deal, and taxing the rich would not change this reality. Bernie Sanders or any other SocDem/DemSoc politician is not against imperialism, he or she’s just ok with using it to benefit workers domestically. Activists and leftists need to de-center themselves, give up their comfort, and support the liberation of black and brown working people everywhere in order to achieve true justice. The resources and value that have been extracted from black and brown folks over the centuries must be returned, even as people in the western and northern most hemisphere take a hit to their standard of living. Historically, racism was harnessed and developed by the emerging capitalist class to justify imperialism and colonialism. Likewise, different forms of sexism and patriarchy were also developed and cultivated by the capitalist class to place the burden of further unpaid labor and production on the shoulders of women. These social evils support capitalism and simultaneously are perpetuated by it. They must all be destroyed together purposefully in revolution. The imperial capitalist state machinery cannot be used to bring about this liberation or reverse the harm being done to the planet. This has been demonstrated historically countless times by the failures of reformism and “social democrats.” The only movements that have begun to come close to succeeding at this have been those rooted in the living tradition of Marxism-Leninism. Voting for the “lesser evil” as “harm reduction” simply allows the exploitation of the global south and internally colonized people to continue. Harm reduction for whom? It also legitimizes the settler-colonial state’s clam to this stolen land and to control over the rest of the globe. There is no end to perpetual capitalist violence except by meeting it with violence sufficient to stamp it out for all eternity, with the goal of achieving lasting peace and harmony. Please read Marx and Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg, Gramsci, Connolly, Stalin, Kollontai, Mao, Castro, Guevarra, the Black Panthers, Sankara, Fannon, Althusser, Federici, and others. Discuss them, Learn from them, Criticize them, Apply them in struggles to unify and organize your communities against imperial capitalism!
Capitalism is a slaughter house and you can never reform a slaughter house. No matter how hard you try. For better understanding, I highly encourage you or any other liberal to read _State and Revolution_ by *Lenin.*
@@justamoteofdust well brother, If Capitalism cannot be reformed, It will have to go, what I wont advocate or profess to anyone is the horrific methods of bolsheviks or later what happened in USSR or Mao's china, The reforms if and when they come must be bathed in the spirit of discourse and voluntary acceptance, Not through one party urging a revolution just to get power
@@justamoteofdust but I will surely take you up on the reading suggestion, I am quite young and want to learn as much as I can, While I would want you read the road to serfdom, Liberty, and Capitalism as freedom , and anything from authors like Adam smith, Ricardo, John stuart Mill, J.B SAY , Fa Hayek, Thomas sowell, Amartya Sen, on market mechanism and the idea of liberty of exchange
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Nothing brilliant about communism for we Indians who are knowledgeable of sanatana dharma Marx never knew about sanatanic dharma So ignorant of world spiritualities Today it has existential issues
@@factseek ok, explain it, how?? Just being anti capitalist doesn't abolish capitalist exploitation neither it helps the exploited. And conversely, just being pro poor without targeting capitalism can only be a welfare or charity service at the Most. And also, capitalist is a class, so you have to be pro-working class, not pro-poor.
@@samanwaysanket12345 when you go to another country/region and you colonize and exploit the workers and extract the minerals/oil..etc not to mention war on those countries, you make the people of that country extremely poor and that’s not a mistake that’s the goal to keep the people poor and uneducated so you see what I mean by pro poor.
Ideology of communism has no future, but reforming socialism will be applied to most countries because it would be organic based on each country’s realities. This kind of system should keep capital away from government decision making.
Mr. Prashad, sir. You have got guts. We need people like you. Great respect.
He's got the gut to support Sino-Capitalism and call it revolutionary. Wait, I think that's gaul. Guts is something else.
I see you're not a worker.
@@AntonioGarmsci Prashad ignores the plight of workers at Shein, Temu, Foxconn, etc.
Excellent lecture, I found him so knowledgeble and productive.
From an Anglo-Irish ML: I Salute Mr. Prashad! Long Live Our Movement and Our Peoples!
The key to real, sturdy democracy is for all workers to own their businesses and all homes to be owned by home owners.
I learned quit a bit today!! Third time listening to this
Vijay is a great thinker and speaker. So thankful for his work.
The effects of Communist parties rebranding as Social Democrats in Europe has been miserable, frankly. Firstly they cannot refrain from wholely abandoning principles and traditional policy goals in fact, because they have to bend over backwards to be taken seriously as no longer Communists, so they became more Blairite than the Blairites (the Democratic Left in the UK was already fully Blairite in 1988, long before Tony Blair became leader of the Labour party in 1995, facilitated by ex-Communists of DL), more neo-liberal than the liberals. And the effect, electorally was unimpressive, and actually contributed to the rise of rightwing populism because by abandoning their traditional policy ground and working class constituency, they left working class electors demoralised and feeling abandoned and betrayed by the left, and in effect denied a real left alternative to the prevailing finacialisation and globalisation agenda. What has had to be learned through painful failure and disillusionment is that what can be done and has to be done because the social democrats, per se, including the ex-Stalinist social democrats abandoned traditional social democratic policy principles and goals, is that leftists must move into that electoral space, but without abandoning their anti-capitalist and anti-system analysis and goals, and make the centre-left at least democratic socialist, if not radical socialist, rather than the other way around. The logic of compromise is relentless - enough is never enough and eventually everything has to be forsaken. So communists becoming social democrats means becoming neo-liberals and imperialists. Instead European Marxists and anti-capitalists are trying to seize the left of centre electoral niche, which is the easy majority niche at this point, but to move it and society as a whole leftwards, not the reverse. It is a move driven by clear eyed class analysis and intentionality, not opportunism or so-called pragmatism, which is just moral cowardice and vacuity, of people applying their anti-capitalist perspective, not forswearing it.
"There can be no left in the west, without recapturing the history of the western left lost in the collapseof 91" - Vijay Prashad
Social Democrats have never been Communists. Communists have long been critical of the ineptitude of Social Democracy, just read Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme." Social Democrats have never advocated power be seized by the working class and the centers of the economy (the banks, factories, resources, and other means of production) be placed in the hands of the proletariat and operated rationally on behalf of the working masses. Social Democracy has only asked for better benefits and limited democratic input by the workers. And the Left has also been heavily infiltrated by utopians, Ultra-Left Adventurists, Trotskyites, Anarchists, RadLibs and others who are not always sympathetic to the cause of the international working class.
IT NEVER WAS COMMUNISM , NOT EVEN RUSSIA, CUBA ,N KOREA, CHINA. A REINVENTED SOCIALISM , POLICE STATE,. TALKING ABOUT POLICE STATE IT IS NOW THE NEW REALITY EVERYWERE. NO MORE FREEDOM, NO MORE RIGHTS. THIS IS NWO.
Vijay you are amazing. And thank you for mentioning Rosa Luxembourg and organization. And most of all about India.
Hats off Vijay. Your speech gives a correct picture about UK
Vijay is an exhaustive man of work. He is the "worker". And for that, I thank Vijay. I can spend days studying with this guy. I do. He synthesizes massive volumes of multi-layers of scholarly understand of ideas,; personalities; factual histories; mindful, always, of the power & purpose of communication.
"How do we create socialist aspirations?" is the best question put forth by anyone on the left in a long time.
EVERY Anarchist is a socialist but not every socialist is an ANARCHIST!!!!
Love you, Vijay!
vijay prashad... kindly input english subtitles in all your lectures... for deaf viewers... thank you...
They're there now.
this is amazing
Vijay’s analysis is Startling if one has never seen the issues his way ever before .
A great teacher
India should have people like Vijay to reform from democratic to socialism.
Capitalism is a systems servings the top 1% and not people's of middle classes and bottoms under poverty's societies.
He can come here change policy here but to be at that position we need to have people's mandate and as well as their consensus and it's very difficult to do I'm not going to casteism which is rampant but here the people of India have a concept of work culture which is very similar to any capitalistic bourgeoisie country that if you don't work hard you don't deserve anything and which is a misconception that they don't understand that everyone works hard but everyone don't get the same outcome like a sweeper a labour a poor seller they don't consider their labour because it's not rewarding so it's hard to change that perception it takes generation...
India is not democratic nor is it an archetypal capitalism. The way for revolution here is through agrarian mobile revolution.
If this man was in the majority the world would be a utopian world and that would be just fine..
Communist utopian society ...
@@egonemo6805 it doesn't have to be communist, but if that's what it takes I'm fine with it.
@@rlinton123 At this point, discussions of 'communism' are simply debates about semantics.
i.e. What is Communism? And what does this term mean to people?
@@itzenormous whats this about communism?
Except he is a scientific socialist. It is the mode of production that we are born into. If you ask Grandi or for that matter the “prophets” to lead corporations would exploitation or theft of labor power be eliminated? No.
Very Interesting. Thanks for this wonderful Speach. Trust also hope PPL learn from all u have said n r saying and to better their lives and do not ALLOW their mind to dominate a BRIGHTER n better future. Everything beging with an INDIVIDUAL. Think wise for GREATER days to come. 🙏🙏🏻🙏🏽🕉☪️✝️💝 Continue to educate those with your Brilliantness.
U r very bless
Oh, for Christ’s sake, choosing one form of government over another is like choosing between jumping off the left side of a thousand-foot building or the right. I'll run my own life.
Capitalism Says: The Ends Justify the Means
Communism Says: The Means Determine the Ends
From the Unconscious Hell ❤️
To the Conscious Hell 💚
Until the Paradise of Consciousness 💜
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very interesting
Vijay good to see you’re appreciating Arnab
"How do we create socialist aspirations?" Very important!
kindly input english subtitles for deaf viewers... thank you...
excellent
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700 milion of Indians go hungry every day
300 million are illiterate
240 million do not have electricity
Big F off you looters
I like some of Vijay's ideas yet find him to be absolutely biased against certain things. One can be brilliant sans guarantee to be in the right kind of balanced mind.
Exactly ... Communism as an ideology is destructive, dangerous and rejected outright by the world yet he tom-toms it by his warped thinking. Wont say a word about atrocities next door to him in Kashmir on the Pandits and their forced exodus when he was right there in Delhi like says in 1990. Also, on Taliban and their barbaric atrocities on their own Afghan people, exp Women. No, Vijay is conveniently blind to that :) :) ... but singles out one Mosque that a Mughal Invader built on the birthplace of the main Hindu God - Ram!! Like building a Mosque in the Vatican or a Church on top of the Kaaba in Mecca!!
@@cookiemonsta6074
Try to look at the bigger picture of how Vijay is seeing it. India is practically the poorest country in the world with more than half of the people would go hungry everyday and 300 million are illiterate. Too many slums with those conditions of living that are totally unhealthy and undignified. With less than 1 % is super rich and the rest is struggling, in such a scenario, communism is the only answer to save India.
Communism is not a dirty word, it’s just a system of governance that suits the poorest of the poor. The meaning of communism comes from communal, sharing. It’s a system of sharing wealth, everyone is entitled to have what the next person is having. Communism guaranteed a job for every man, a house for every man. Education for every child. For someone who is poor, even the simplest low paying job and a simple home is better than living in a slum. May sound like a dream impossible to achieve given the current situation in India today.
India needs someone who has the social standing like a Jawaharlal Nehru or a Gandhi to galvanise the people to want a change for the better. Someone who is dedicated and motivated to govern India and to introduce reforms in such a drastic manner but in the long run, it’s worth it. May take decades to educate the people, to readjust their mindset into accepting that everyone is equal , no more caste system. The poor would like that.
Communism saves China. From those days of Mao Zedong to the present, China has came a long way, gone thru years of decay, untold sufferings, hunger, famines, to what it’s today, rich, peaceful and powerful.
The beginning wasn’t easy, but the people were willing to toil, work hard, gave up their personal rights for the betterment of progress, in return, everyone has a job, entitled to a public home, rural poor farmers were allotted lands. That’s communism. If China can do it, why not India too.
Can Mr Vijay Prasad transcreate his ideas into the many Modern Indian Languages which Indian communists as a rule have hitherto spoken and written and also have used as medium of their various discussions ? I would prefer Noam Chomsky to our very own Vijoy Prasad.
My sole living idol
Thanks for your great presentation. How about 70% socialism & 30% capitalism? Apparently that's a good mixture - as long as the politicians are high integrity & FOR the people.
India wanted that, mixed economy to Venetian extend. But fall of Russia and oil crisis pushed us more towards capitalism. If both east and west decided to promote mixed model, this will work. Obviously our population problem is why we need mixed model
You can’t coincide capitalism with the interests of the people. The dictatorship of the proletariat will only exist if the bourgoise state is crushed
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On the role of organizers in mass movements
Ugly - sending gold - smacks of continuation of colonization
No wonder India never got complete independence -
We need a bridge to the right who r actually leftists in most ways sans not having access to a wider understanding of things due to where they were raised live & the algos that stimulate their hatred to replace despair & the religions that assault (America’s mega Church’s even preach anti commie & armed Jesus)
The US is on the brink it’s in dire straits & requires massive amounts of organisation
Sometimes I worry the first world will become a commie dystopia - then I remember, the metrics here can't even break 1k in 4 years, and I remember before the dislikes got hidden, this gem got absolutely ratio'd by dislikes lol
This speech was three years ago, before this pandemic happened. Interesting 🧐
Communism is not the Absolute Answer but its a Good Start!!!
I’m transfixed on his hand teasing his pocket
Murder in Mudhukulathur is the book
15:03 it was a mistake! He should have become the PM of India. A first and maybe the last pure left leader leading the country for short period of time. It was history making situation and CPM fucked up. It could also pass the message that a left party leader is the PM of India. Great mistake.
Mr. Prashad will need a cross-class, rather cross-caste union to realize his ideals.
#citizensassembly
Excellent talk!
100 💯 you need a vanguard people need direction
I was thinking, how come he became popular in a short time.
It seems he is also a WEF puppet
Obviously he is 😂
Nice to hear.. Wonderful 👍
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34:02 There's no such thing as class. Class is an analytic understanding of power.
Is power imbalances exists, class will continue to exist.
Frankly speaking, Vijay is a very impressive orator and has the ability to bring about change in the society for good. But ironically, the party that he has been associated with didn't show any kind of positive change in the society when it was in power in WB and elsewhere. In fact, it did exactly what he blames the other parties of. See, Communism is a natural consequence of what Capitalism or any other '-ism' does to the society after staying for a longer period. The fact that 'communism' working under a certain party banner fails its ulterior motive and ends up the society in ruins and makes it hostile. There is something so tragic about the whole 'Communism' thing( I mean the party or whatever association or union they form to support their cause, not the cause itself). They fail to acknowledge that there will remain disparity regardless of what they think or do because of the human nature and that's how the natural laws work as well (not that it cannot be dismantled but it only brings instability and havoc). The 'feeling of communism' should come from within everyone, seperately, for their fellow beings and not from a party's agenda or perspective shoveled upon their throats and minds. Their 'Communism' in itself is a religion in reverse. One of my personal fav. quote of Nietzsche, out of nowhere but applies here perfectly, is "In truth, there was only one true Christian and he died on the Cross". The change that they want to see in the society must come people's own conscience and that they mustn't push their agendas so hard on people and society, else there will be rise in crime rates, murders, hatred and whatever animals humanity have suppressed within itself from the dawn of civilization. I hope Vijay bring some good change in and around the political and social system in India. My best wishes to him☺️.
No Communist ever suggested, as you said, that 'disparities will not exist." Of course disparities exist, that is the case in the modern world, that is how the world has been organized ... to this point. These divergences are not, as you suggest - the result of "human nature." Humans don't actually have an inherent nature, friend. Human beings are a blank slate on which the realities of the modern world are drawn. We are products of our own environment. Maybe we, at some point previous, have heard the stories of the boys who were raised by wolves? And after growing up, and developing, in the company of wolves, the boys exibited all of the characteristics of wolves. Such a case, in itself, demolishes the concept of human nature.
You are making the case, here, that there should be no community, and that everyone is simply an 'individual.' But, we all know, that human beings live in communities and have evolved within community. Of course, I don't believe that anyone can or should be coerced to accept someone's agenda; but if the people within a given party are honest actors, then they represent only the agenda of the masses of people. I don't know how it is in India, I have never been there. But, in the West, the forces that compromise the wider "Left" (if we can call it that) are dishonest actors. They ARE controlled, in many instances, by the wealthiest factions of society, and they represent the agendas of Post Modernists and the very bourgeois class that they claim to despise. Far too many of them place far too much emphasis on changing the broader culture; but culture is a set of social mores and values that have to develop on their own, over time. The only circumstances that can be changed, and should be changed, are the ones that have resulted in the masses of people slaving away to enrich a class of people that does not work, and produces no real value. Once these circumstances are changed, for the better, then - I believe - the culture will catch up, over time, entirely on its own.
@@itzenormous nonsense. Humans can’t be a blank stage because of deterministic nature of the universe and the historical continuum.
Wait a second I reread what you said. I find part of disagreeable but what I am thinking of comes to the same conclusion on the culture must evolve naturally and the likes.
Looted Africa , gangsters ! Ik
When did arnab Goswami become genius?
Naipaul - wounded civilization ! -/ india
Well, Vijay, with your intelligent and analytical mind have you seriously reviewed the journey of Marxism from its seminal rise in the USSR through to its pathetic fall? Have you bothered to juxtapose the observed realities in the tumultuous journey of Marxism and tried to deduce the cause(s) of its failure? Have you figured out the applicable form of Marxism for India? Apparently, its original form didn't succeed! Can you find an effective way to alert the India's proletariat and hand them a functional manual for putting forth their grievances and seeking redress? Rhetoric sounds good, but does it yield desired result?
I’m saving this. Thank you very much.
Such a stupid comment
Just look at the difference between India and China. The reason why China was able to turn capitalist was because Mao’s policy in advancements in rural development. Because of this, there was a huge amount of labor to fulfill what was needed to engage export oriented entrepreneurship. In other countries where this didn’t happen, capitalism isn’t as easy due to workers not being as literate, fed or healthy.
32:30 Communism is not an abstract force. It is composed of individuals
India is considered a democracy 😜
The greatest revolutionary of all was the Lord Jesus Christ.
NOPE!! Not The Greatest, One of the Greatest! There were many many more! Barrabus was a revolutionary.
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21:00 🤣🤣🤣 Comrade Prishad the 🐐🐐🐐
Capitalism is the crisis!!! RBE, within ANARCHIST principles is the solution!
Yeah, lots wrong in the world. But try asking anyone to change their behavior by telling them they are doing wrong.
I don't know what Communism is, but my understanding is that whatever it is, Marx had the idea that these changes happen over time organically. So, we might all have the same understanding of Communism at some point, whatever Communism means, but it will not happen until it is ready to happen and must happen ... i.e. the reason I watched your video is the insertion of the term "necessity". It is sad that we can all see the future must be better than the present, but tragic that we will most all be dead before any of that comes close enough to happen.
do not let the liberal hell which pushes down the hope of Communism take you over. if I'm to recommend where to start to understand the foundations of Communism I'd go to 4 texts: the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marz; Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx; Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels; and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels.
These aren't easy reads but are some of the most comprehensive texts on the foundations of understanding Communism and some of its principles
Kammi nist s#!7 🤮🤮🤮
From his speech I can decipher his whataboutism. Capitalistic reforms in India were a boon to India. It lifted 300 million people out of poverty. I have seen people around me completely transform themselves from owning a renting apartments to owning cars and being able to afford healthcare from all strata of life. Indian lives have become much better since 1991 and so has the number of riots decreased. Socialists that he looks so excitedly towards had the exact same people he describe. His arguments fall flat in the face with regards to the realities of modern India. Socialist India was equal because everyone was equally and pitifully poor. Hence, his audience is more or less from the west and China.
India was never socialist
"India was socialist" 🤓
@@vaibhavsajith4267 a classic counter, Soviet Union wasnt socialistic, India wasnt socialistic, cuba wasnt socialistic enough. This arguments sound pretty much like Islamist who fight for sharia. Here is a fun fact perfection doesnt exist anywhere. Perfect socialism cannot and will not exist anywhere except some tiny city.
@@anmolmonga1933 bullshit ussr was Cuba was. You are pretty dumb if you actually believe social democracy is socialism.
But then again most anti communist Indians are stupid af
What a bunch of hogwash! Capitalism to Africa is the reason why we have so many poor communities before colonialism we never had poverty 😮.
Jyoti Basu and communist made a monumental mistake.
Just ask yourself, if you had to choose where to live; South Korea or North Korea?
north korea 100% lol have u been to south korea it’s a hell hole lol
@@comrade614 You're clinically delusional, but be my guest, you'll get the sleak malnourished physique the girls like ;)
I would definitely choose South Korea but what they have in North Korea I think is a totally fake socialism, not real socialism. Peter that Christian socialist.
north definitely
@@lunaticmacaronimushroom6198 you ask people to chose, then pleasantly insulted their decision.
Born rich,educated in renowned institutions,speak fluent English ,dont have to do anything for living and spew hate and misinformation about own people and country is called good communist.
You probably don't agree with the speaker about what communism is in the first place.
As A free market supporter and a classical liberal, as well as an indian, I learnt where lies some of the potholes that need to fixed in a capitalistic economy for it to survive, We need to create safety nets for people who loose the war in the capitalistic market system, so they don't create an uprising. Thanks Professor
That's a saner response than some of the ones from truly deranged middle class communists. They go out of their way to defend China and to encourage the destruction of the world to feed their blood lust behind the veneer of intellectualism and compassion. And those "proletariats" in Hindi speaking areas speak English as well or better than I do.
The government, the political parties, the media, and the police are all parts of a state that is run exclusively by capitalists for capitalists. It has always been a tool of exploitation and will be until it is destroyed. George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden are all members of the same class. Similar case in India with BJP, Congress, CPM, CPI(M), CPI(ML), AAP, so on and so forth....
Capitalism is a mode of economic production built on putting limitless growth and maximizing profits over the wellbeing of people and nature. It is by far the primary force of climate disruption and habitat destruction. The only way to stop the ecological disaster is to replace capitalism with a sustainable mode of production that puts people and nature first.
The wealth and comfort that even working-class Americans or Europeans or Scandinavians enjoy is extracted from colonized peoples across the globe. Look up _Stealing Africa_ doc on RUclips for example!
This includes medicare and all other social safety nets. Their student loans, tax breaks, and subsidies in addition to the massive profits of billionaires are stolen from workers in the rest of the word. This extraction destroys people’s lives and the environment through war, pollution, and deforestation. Medicare for all, cancelling student debt, legalizing marijuana, the green new deal, and taxing the rich would not change this reality. Bernie Sanders or any other SocDem/DemSoc politician is not against imperialism, he or she’s just ok with using it to benefit workers domestically.
Activists and leftists need to de-center themselves, give up their comfort, and support the liberation of black and brown working people everywhere in order to achieve true justice. The resources and value that have been extracted from black and brown folks over the centuries must be returned, even as people in the western and northern most hemisphere take a hit to their standard of living.
Historically, racism was harnessed and developed by the emerging capitalist class to justify imperialism and colonialism. Likewise, different forms of sexism and patriarchy were also developed and cultivated by the capitalist class to place the burden of further unpaid labor and production on the shoulders of women. These social evils support capitalism and simultaneously are perpetuated by it. They must all be destroyed together purposefully in revolution.
The imperial capitalist state machinery cannot be used to bring about this liberation or reverse the harm being done to the planet. This has been demonstrated historically countless times by the failures of reformism and “social democrats.” The only movements that have begun to come close to succeeding at this have been those rooted in the living tradition of Marxism-Leninism.
Voting for the “lesser evil” as “harm reduction” simply allows the exploitation of the global south and internally colonized people to continue. Harm reduction for whom? It also legitimizes the settler-colonial state’s clam to this stolen land and to control over the rest of the globe.
There is no end to perpetual capitalist violence except by meeting it with violence sufficient to stamp it out for all eternity, with the goal of achieving lasting peace and harmony.
Please read Marx and Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg, Gramsci, Connolly, Stalin, Kollontai, Mao, Castro, Guevarra, the Black Panthers, Sankara, Fannon, Althusser, Federici, and others. Discuss them, Learn from them, Criticize them, Apply them in struggles to unify and organize your communities against imperial capitalism!
Capitalism is a slaughter house and you can never reform a slaughter house. No matter how hard you try. For better understanding, I highly encourage you or any other liberal to read _State and Revolution_ by *Lenin.*
@@justamoteofdust well brother, If Capitalism cannot be reformed, It will have to go, what I wont advocate or profess to anyone is the horrific methods of bolsheviks or later what happened in USSR or Mao's china, The reforms if and when they come must be bathed in the spirit of discourse and voluntary acceptance, Not through one party urging a revolution just to get power
@@justamoteofdust but I will surely take you up on the reading suggestion, I am quite young and want to learn as much as I can, While I would want you read the road to serfdom, Liberty, and Capitalism as freedom , and anything from authors like Adam smith, Ricardo, John stuart Mill, J.B SAY , Fa Hayek, Thomas sowell, Amartya Sen, on market mechanism and the idea of liberty of exchange
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Nothing brilliant about communism for we Indians who are knowledgeable of sanatana dharma
Marx never knew about sanatanic dharma
So ignorant of world spiritualities
Today it has existential issues
It's impossible for one to be anti-capitalist and pro-poor simultaneously.
What????
What did you even write??
@@samanwaysanket12345 A fact.
@@factseek ok, explain it, how??
Just being anti capitalist doesn't abolish capitalist exploitation neither it helps the exploited.
And conversely, just being pro poor without targeting capitalism can only be a welfare or charity service at the Most.
And also, capitalist is a class, so you have to be pro-working class, not pro-poor.
@@Gigika313 capitalism is pro poor????
@@samanwaysanket12345 when you go to another country/region and you colonize and exploit the workers and extract the minerals/oil..etc not to mention war on those countries, you make the people of that country extremely poor and that’s not a mistake that’s the goal to keep the people poor and uneducated so you see what I mean by pro poor.
Ideology of communism has no future, but reforming socialism will be applied to most countries because it would be organic based on each country’s realities. This kind of system should keep capital away from government decision making.
@Kevin Tewey Your “f****” reflects you are a real western extremist or radical, who knows nothing about what he is talking.
Say no to communist. Be Indian be global.
No it doesn't
They do not teach their history to their children.