Why Did The Communist Regimes Fail In Eastern Europe?
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2018
- Why did the Communist regimes fail In Eastern Europe?
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For people who lived in a communist regime - do you miss it? Were there any good sides to living in those times? Do you think you're living a better life today?
Living in SFR Yugoslavia, I have to say that it was the best country to live in. It wasn't a tyranny as the West says so.
However, everyone opposed to socialism and the Party was sent to Goli otok (a Yugoslav gulag). Education and healthcare were free, the police (militia) was effective and the country was safe.
However everything started to fall apart after the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984. But I know that other Eastern Europeaners (who were allied with the USSR) were very very poor and didn't have as much freedom as we had.
I know that Czechoslovaks, Hungarians and Romanians were very very poor. When they came to Yugoslavia during summer vacation, they would sell almost all of their belongings just to make a profit and go home. And today, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary are one of the most prosperous Eastern European countries.
I think the Yugoslav socialist/communist model was the best one that existed, but the ethnic hatred that started to boil again after Tito's death is another problem.
@@Forkester Thank you for your side of the story. Would you say you lived a better life than now, despite not having all the goods that are now available?
I was born in 89'. My parents, and all people I know and where living during communism has told me that It was nightmare, stagnation and black times. We hate communism and all ideologies basing on it. Today we have anniversaries of shooting to coal mine workers where 7 people where killed(or yesterday was anniversary shooting to shipyard workers where 40 people where killed). We would never want to go back to that times. Communism is bad ideology always finally coming to brutal force againt citizens. Greetings from Poland.
I miss it.
@@TheInfographicsShow now with "democracy" we have just fools & thieves in government. Army is literally some guys in bicycles. Before yeltsin sabotage we had 300,000 men ready to fight, ballistic rockets & our nation wasnt poor eitherm
Stalin: *“so today I’m performing a social experiment”*
Stalin: its just a prank bro
Thats america... They are trying to spread capitalism
@[redacted] • 90 years ago bro he isn't owning fallout, he is the leader of bethesda, also who tf doesn't know what fallout is about
R u really todd howard
It’s just a social experiment bro
Want to hear a Joke
At one of USSR's bread lines during the Perestroika, a man in the crowd is mumbling to himself. "No bread, no milk, no meat, what a shame". Two policemen walking the beat hearing his mumbling walk up to him, and say:
"Citizen, if you said that 40 years ago you'd be shot, so just shut up and stand in line like everybody else"
As the policemen leave, the man turns back to the crowd and says:
"Not only we don't have bread or milk, but I was just told we ran out of bullets too."
Well this sums it up:THIS MAN is why communism ended
XD
You, my sir, have earned a like.
This is a great joke sir,we're sending this to everybody for equality.
Hahahahahahahahaha
I expect this comment section will be full of peaceful and constructive discourse.
Nope, its full of two opposing sides.
@@rogerlast8959 r/whoosh
@@pratheekbhat6595 like him or hate him, he is spreading straight fax.
DEATH TO COMMUNISM
You touched on how it failed but focused more on explaining how the Soviet Union "wasn't communism" but it was the closest a society of that time could get. If you give one entity too much control, corruption is inevitable. Weather it be the state, leader or the people. You need a system that self checks itself to limit power to minimize the damage and prolong the populous and their ability to pursue happiness.
Indeed, comrade
@@sunnex474 on the way to get to communism the Soviet Union promised that to get there (a moneyless stateless society) you would need to first have totalitarian socialism of course no county can ever get past that
@@sunnex474 you misunderstood the assignment, fascist
@@-p2349 it doesn’t need one
How about China
I'm sure there will be nothing but calm and reasonable discussion in the comments.
Bryan Fire Florida P.R Ball Indeed there's nothing political. Only uneducated swines whose only 'arguments' come from video games and memes
Potato DIE DIE DIE KILL ALL COMMIE SCUM!!!! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!!!!!!!
I expect a Highly intellectual conversation.
Frankly I’m glad no one actually takes communism seriously. It’s a terrible and immoral system. I don’t think people realize just how miserable it would be to live in a communist countey
Personally I'd love a future where I could do whatever I want while my robot assistant does everything from wiping my ass, to mowing the lawn. Though that's not communism, that's just a Utopian future that'll get ruined when my robot decides to rip my intestines out.
Yeah but Stalin dies in 1953, so he didn't rule the USSR until 1991. You think that it was all stalinism?
@Blaze Plays no, in fact, Khrushchev had a policy of de-Stalinization
Blaze Plays somwhat not all
Blaze Plays well that’s sad
@Blaze Plays not true, Mikhail Gorbachev let the people have some freedoms, something stalin would never do.
Stalin took over where Lenin left off.
These people weren't russians,but bolshevik jewz.
Russians were equally victims of a greater enemy.
the fight is about principalities, light vs dark.
I suggest reading some books and learning who has ruled the world since French Revolution lol.
Maybe then you'll understand...
Edit: If i know any better, americans might get insta triggered and start calling me anti-semite etc... sorry Ad Hominems don't work on me, i'm Jew,German,Russian;Swedish Estonian :D
As a Hungarian I have to state that the victims of the Holocaust and the victims of Communism are not treated equally in the West at all. One should take into account that Stalin sent way more people in the Gulag camps than Hitler did in the Third Reich. He is responsible for the death of ~20 million people. IMHO this negligence is caused just by the fact that most Western people (except for the Eastern Germans) did not live a single minute under Communist rule. In the Hungary of the early 50s, too, you had to shut up if you didn't want to be taken away at night by the black car. In Russia, the situation was even worse in the era of Stalin. I have to write this because my mother's family, too, was torn apart by the Communist regime shortly after the fall of the Hungarian revolution in 1956.
The victims of the Holocaust were killed because they were Jews, Roma etc. The victims of the Communism were killed or jailed because of their political opinion, because of their aristocratic descent (their properties were taken away by the state, of course), because of being "kulaks" (peasants with large estates) or just because they were not necessary for the regime any more. You should read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Russian prison camps. The paragraphs of the Soviet penal code of that time were numbered, as usual, but the political crimes were marked with letters instead of numbers...
IMHO both genocides should be treated equally. I know of someone who was actually pursued by both regimes. After having survived the Holocaust, the Communists also looked after him before he finally left Hungary in 1956.
As a Hungarian I did not even forget the events on the Tienanmen Square. Although I do respect Chinese culture, it's completely unacceptable for me even if just a single man gets killed because of his/her political opinion, not ~10 000 as it may have happened.
Its crazy how much importance people put on racial motivated hate while victims of social class hate are laughed at.
i rather get arrested for opposing the government than get arrested for my race
@@zuippy845 which race are you?
@@juliogutierrez5256 asain
Ww2 killed 90 millions people or sat 3 percent of world population and 70 percent of jews population. Still clowns like you justified it with communist rant. Shame on you!!!!!
USSR: I fear no man, but that thing
That thing: Basic Economics
USSR: It scares me.
this comment is underrated
top comment material.
Meh still got some shit done.
Joshua Diebel through slavery, sure. if you eliminate worker protections, and have no economic regulations you can temporarily boost efficiency even if you don't have competition to refine things.
Otto Pike Two of the biggest promoters ( though now not true communism, and the US is not a true democracy and barely a republic) are now world powers. Shit happened, shit got done. Break an egg, Machiavelli etc. Do I agree with any of it? No. But here we are. Stating obvious.
Ever had communist food no? Nether have they
King Fedora that was clever props to u
Well duh yes. My country is communism.
MagenticArcanine when 3 famines in 100 years after devastating wars is being made into a joke cause the us never seen war and not like the west had famines during ww2 and afterwards but hey lets all be hypocrites sooo the nazis are also very nice cause rockets and stuff lol
@@kevinprinz3204 the US has never seen war? Since 1775, the US has had maybe 20 or so years where it hasn't been in armed conflict. We just dont lose often, if at all (Vietnam being the gray area there). And we are capitalists so... makes us pretty resilient to general famine.
@@benjamintim3542 Have you ever had a war take place inside your own borders? That's what I meant by seeing war. All the wars you have fought were outside of the US. Most of them useless. Also talk about being capitalist and having Famines. India, All of Africa, The Great Depression, Indonesia. You see the point
What is the difference between Communism and Stalinism?
Stalinism had Stalin.
Underrated comment
Exactly. They're the same thing.
@@buffaloman9671 no, Just look at Marx's policies and philosophy THEN see Stalin.
@@michaelbilotta1567 Communism was expected to occur in the heated cities of London and Paris, it never occured, as ideologies go no one has "achieved true communism" because greed is an inherent trait.
@@Evan-cv2ws Actually, search the Paris Commune.
"COMMUNISM IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF FAILURE!"
-Liberty Prime (Fallout 3)
“DESTROY ALL CHINESE COMMUNISTS! ANCHORAGE WILL BE LIBERATED!” -Liberty Prime (fallout 4)
So is capitalism, capitalists talk about freedom, but they have no freedom.
F the usa communism the real kind of it shall rise
@@UniquebyVik No thanks, I prefer to eat.
Double Channel go starve
"Hi, I am an East German Citizen and I would like to go for vacation to Belgium". Government: You go to jail!
*Liberty Prime Intensifies*
*Target: ALL CHINESE COMMUNISTS*
Better dead than Red.
*Begins throwing Mini-nukes*
By killing you, I am saving you from a fate worse than death.
*Death is a preferable alternative to Communism*
DEMOCRACY IS NON NEGOTIABLE
*COMMUNISM IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF EVIL*
Seize the memes of production
Nice
"It's just a social experiment bro!!!"
-Karl Marx
Did you know that Marx told Engel about his ideas to implement in his factory and after implementing in Engel’s factory, went broke in few months.
Because from an idealist point of view it looks like the best thing since sliced bread, but when put into practice it has failed every time. It's a great example of the term "Too good to be true."
Being raised in a country that was part of the soviet-block, it's crazy to me why so many people like communism on the west.
I think the Ideal system would be a mix, pure communism (that means no state, so by definition the URSS wasn't communist) isn't the best, but mixed It can be good.
@@fosterrico5546 yeah, literally fake communists. The Soviet Union being marxist makes as much sense as North Korea being called democratic Republic
@@fosterrico5546 the free and equal stuff attracts them. It'd literally wanting assets without the risk
@@fosterrico5546 I think they like the idea of communism as marks n engles wrote it, all Equaly free to become new men and weman. Not stalins horrible starving being shot version. Think it was trosky who called stalin gravedigger of the revolution.
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Eastern Europe: We will stay loyal to the USSR
U.S.A: Join the West, we have cookies!
Eastern Europe: Sorry Soviets, but we need democracy...
We from romania are cool with democracy, even tough the politicians are corrupt and its migration. But nobody is perfect
Yeeeeah, I'm sure the US funding Solidarity in Poland had nothing to do with it. I'm sure Gorbachev's replacing Eastern European leaders with Russian leaders had nothing to do with it.
/sarcasm.
@RoastWorthy yes, it was. It arose in the 1980s when Gorbachev's disastrous policies were antagonising Eastern Europe. The guy who posted this comment doesn't deserve a detailed rebuttal - his argument basically boils down to "eastern europeans greedy and cheap." The best critiques of the USSR come from communists.
Awesome analysis
Sorry soviets we are hungry and need food*
"The biggest flaw was focus on productivity" (looks at 10 million dead Ukrainians) yeah, sure man
Making a country starve to death.
Y'all talking about 1930s only
Post WW2 period - **laughs**
@@sooryan_1018 i mean didn’t Vladimir Putin move his troops into Ukraine killing people in the process
Also that’s another reason why Estonia joined Nato and USA starting funding Poland
Hol up wasn't it 2 MILLION Ukranians?
@@sooryan_1018 from the few sources I read it’s 6-10. But looks like there are varying opinions on the true number of deaths related to the famine
Ha ha funny joke, the Soviets have never fallen, gulag for you.
Gulag for *US
World History With Dan take away all of his possession's being his bed and half eaten loaf of bread
World History With Dan same
They failed. Communism caused that why Eastern Europe is corrupted and poor.
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It's unfair to only blame Stalin, Leninism is a huge can of worms on its own.
Let alone many years of Brezhnev's stagnation.
that is why trotsky should have been the leader. He was a meshivik
@@juanrosado9713 Trostky for Permanent Revolution and Globalism, while Stalin need to counter German Fascism, turn Russian Communism into Fascism State
Its MUCH easier to be a Communist in a Capitalist country, than a Communist in a Communist country.
Pretty much.
"oh THATS NOT rEaL Communism"
Divine Hazard It's not. If you were educated enough to have read a political book at least once in your life, you would know that the communistic government intended by Marx and Engels would have held "few but important powers". Stalinism is the exact opposite of what is written in the Communist Manifesto, so it's undoubtedly not real communism. Anyway I shouldn't be arguing with a person who's only source of political knowledge is probably memes.
Potato you just proved his point
Potato What would hypothetically convince you that Marxism and socialism don't work and are pathological?
Potato Oh daym, those political books.
Marx's view of communism and definition itself was: all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals.
Stating that there has to be a common government that runs everything because individualism is only possible in a capitalist state.
Plus, I was only making fun of the leftist who still continuously shout, "That's not real communism/ socialism/ democratic socialism/ etc. Etc." Because they can't own up to the fact that their economic system just leads to starvation and death.
German Alonso You do realise that his comment was ironic, don't you?
This should be a fun comment section
Yes, when communists here opened their mouth, i feel my brain cells commiting suicide.
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Darren Atm Ok were gonna talk about communism communism I'd the best economy system existed cuz it's good for people who want to break their own u know it the police cuf
Maxxx Strong YES!
Stalin's version of communism was predicted fifty years before communism prevailed and it was predicted by anarchists. The belief that a dictatorship must prevail in order to bring communism and when that happens the dictatorship will quietly step down from power, thus establishing a stateless society, is rather naive. Anarchists were right on that and this is why they separated themselves from communists.
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Trevor GTA ???? That is not seperate ideologies.
Gorbachev was the most Glasnost.
How did they forget about Gorbachev?
World History With Dan
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ThePhillyfire1986 indeed
Because Gorbachev only hasted what was already going to happen. The USSR was doomed from the onset.
DasBubba I agree with that notion but I think in any discussion of the fall Gorbachev should come up because he was such a massive figure in its fall.
Edit: Because he was mostly responsible for how it fell (mostly peaceful).
Too bad he got you first.
Who remembers waiting 6 hours at the shop
I have family in Cuba - which is communist - who wait up to 12 hours in the line for chicken meat. Another thing to notice is that lines can get really violent there. I’m taking about people stabbing each other and fights occurring.
Dope Cat Yep...
@@csm5040 can you explain further?
@@annaworthington9522 Have you ever seen how people sleep in lines for highly demanded products like tickets for a show of a specific celebrity or to get the latest model of a given cellphone?
Well, in Cuba that happens during the sales of basic supplements
"True communism has never been tried"
The kill counts of "almost communism" is astronomical. I don't want to know the kill count of "true communism".
Robin Hood except it's not. Thanks for playing, though.
Robin Hood if you count third world dictatorships without a functioning market economy, you might be right. But that's not capitalism, son.
It would be zero. Or at least very low. One of the things that caused “almost communism” to kill so many were greedy despots, something absent in true communism.
Βασίλειος Φίλιπποu I don’t disagree. I’m just saying that if True Communism did, somehow, exist, then the deaths wouldn’t be anything of note. I’m just disputing that the death rate of True Communism would be all that high.
Alex Pelc Well, you have to count the people who died from insufficient safety protocols in the workplace, preventable diseases, the civil wars and coups supported by the US and the dictatorships that came from it, the various East India companies including the VOC, deaths by preventable diseases due to lack of quality healthcare, deaths from various US supported dictatorships, corporatist-backed third world dictatorships, and arguably most modern deaths caused by starvation.
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nani lol. what is this.
Nanny
Hahaha good joke
Relevant Relevancy It is though. They are not the same thing.
I like how even though they lasted long they “failed”. If anything collapses, does it fail? Did the British Empire fail? Did the Ethiopian Empire fail?
A doctor didn't make the same amount as a construction worker, all doctors that had same experience made the same amount. Get your facts straight. This is a big misconseption. My family lived in the Soviet Union and the more education you had, experience and knowledge the higher paid you were also depending on how valuable your job was , they also had listed jobs that paid more because they were more in demand and you applied for them.
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A lot of commies are upset
@Joseph McGrath A system where people have no private property, the government controls everything
@Joseph McGrath fuqing rekt kid
@@3000bigrandy "socialism is when government does stuff, the more stuff it does the more socialist it is, and if it does a great deal of stuff its kamyunism" my man cracked the system
You confused Facism with Authoritarianism. You can be an authoritarian communist and not be a facist. You guys really need to step it up.
Frederick Röders Are you confused? Authoritarian communism is a type of communism just like Maoism, Stalinism, Marxism, Anarcho-communism, Leninism, or any of the other numerous types of communism. Just because it doesn't match Marx's ideas doesn't mean it's not a type of communism. If you every took a political theories class youd know that. I can link you some if you'd like so you can better understand what seems to be your ideology.
"Authoritarian communism is a type of communism just like Maoism, Stalinism, Marxism, Anarcho-communism, Leninism, or any of the other numerous types of communism." Ok so communism failed then, good finally we all agreed on something.
@ Ryan Rodriguez
I think you missed Marx's definition of communism for your own. At best, the USSR was an authoritarian socialist state. Is authoritarian socialism mutually exclusive with fascism?
Can you think of a regime that was both authoritarian socialist and fascist? I'll give you a hint:
The Allies fought a total war against them for the freedom of millions.
Note: I'm not in any way endorsing socialism or communism.
Communism is so silly, only children believe it would work based on the evidence we have
Theaksten There is a very stark difference between Authoritarian Communism and Fascism. That is motivation. Fascism is under a guise of Nationalism while Authoritarian Communism is under thr guise of the destruction of the wealthy class. An Authoritarian Communism doesn't follow Marx's ideology perfectly. But that doesn't make it any less Communism. All 3 major Authoritarian Communism regimes people are familiar with being Communist China, the USSR, and North Korea were not following Marxism at all but were simply their interpretation of communist.
"communism is the definition of failure"
-Liberty Prime, 2277
What is China's state in fallout?
Medicsk Maoist
@@adriankepler5254 OK thank you
Only capitalist that can be trusted is a dead capitalist
-Collectron
Medicsk lol is this like liberty prime younger brother who forever lives in his shadow
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honestudy Don't use this as it's an extremely biased view of communism.
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Because Eastern Europeans as much as they are stereotyped as the opposite were smart and realised that as an ideology it was a failure and on a political level was no different from imperialism. Anyone who views communism as a system that works and isn't prejudiced isn't human
"Better dead than Red."
Dante-1321 the bottom 50% only holds 1% of the wealth ;)
better Red than dead because if you're dead your blood is still Red
im ok with that, with no capitalist pigs left.. a new society with simmiliar ideals will arrive and not americas liberal individualist trash
James Kosusnik when you assume all Americans are hillbillys regardless of their ethnicity
when you assume im not american lmao
Implying that “true communism” doesn’t inevitably always convert to capitalism or Stalinism after a certain amount of time
The problem with automation is, if everything is automated, what is left for humans to pursue? If robots can perform surgery or create works of art or even devise policy, what role will humankind play in the world anymore? Marx himself stated that we humans find fulfillment in our work. If we leave all the work to robots, we essentially write ourselves out of the equation. What then becomes humankind's purpose for being?
Things like this drive me nuts, i don't understand how anyone can support communism when you'd be just cog a massive machine. At least in capitalism we can work, spend money, think freely. Freedom is a basic human right.
Yeah, freedom to either starve or choose your own master to which to work for with the hope of sometimes maybe you'll get promoted. I love the freedom of being robbed daily of 10 hours while making less than a quarter than what my manager makes.
@@ragreff5603
You know that in capitalism, you're free to start your own business, right?
It's not capitalism's fault that you're lazy and ignorant.
That's because you have less than a quarter of the responsibilities of your manager.
@@ragreff5603 You just starve under communism there’s no choice there 😂
Interestingly enough in China the class separation is one of the worst in the modern world. While there are wealthy businessmen almost akin to lords and dukes of the middle ages there is also many peasants that don't even have access to plumbing.
I hate the, "Nobody has ever achieved REAL communism yet". If all the other practices in the past were just "slight" versions of communism, I can't imagine what true communism looks like.
A classes, wealthless society, is a deluded idea for people who have never seen the outside world.
"The invention of the helicopter is the greatest achievement of mankind" - Augusto Pinochet.
The success of Stalin - the man who used to boast that he conquered the United States "from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a generation" - compared to Gorbachev's failure shows that a socialist economy is unable to function with a minimum of efficiency without requiring a massive dose of political violence. In an attempt to reform a decadent regime, Gorbachev moved faster with the process of economic opening in the hope of removing the predictable resistance that the Soviet bureaucracy would create to economic reform measures, as thorough proof with the failed attempt. coup d'état in August 1991 - which ended up precipitating the final crisis of socialism and the dissolution of the USSR itself
Its Chinese parallel - Deng Xiaoping - adopted a logic diametrically opposed to that of Gorbachev: it prioritized the achievement of economic prosperity (adopting in practice capitalism) precisely to delay any attempt at political opening, as was evident with the acceleration of the economy. reforms after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
It is important to note that it was Karl Marx himself who, in his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, discerned the scenario in which the conditions for a social revolution process are formed, describing it as follows:
“At a certain stage in its development, the material productive forces of society contradict existing production relations or - which is only their legal expression - with the property relations in which they have been active until then. From the forms of development of the productive forces, these relations are transformed into fetters of them. So, it is a time of social revolution. ' (Reproduced according to MARX, K. Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, organized by Florestan Fernandes and published under the title K. Marx: Theory and historical process of the social revolution, In Marx & Engels, Great Social Scientists Collection, History, vol. 36. São Paulo: Ática, 1983. p. 232. Commemorative edition of the centenary of Karl Marx's death)
By rejecting the pursuit of profit maximization as an instrument to stimulate innovation, socialist countries ended up condemning themselves to obsolescence. Thus, they lost the chance to incorporate the productivity gains made possible by technological progress. That is why the capitalist countries managed to provide a greater rise in the standard of living of their population, even without pursuing the egalitarian ideal. Therefore, until the “final crisis of socialism” (to paraphrase K. Marx's own definitions once again), it was only a matter of time. But religious fanatics do not give up on their faith, even against the indisputable proof of the facts, which completely refute it!
No, not possible. Once automation starts churning out templated goods and people start doing whatever they want, then the artisans will begin producing non-templated goods that other people will desire.
Sure you can hypothetically have a basic blanket or a computer-printed house, but that guy over there has a hand-woven blanket... that woman over there has a hand-built house. The goods and services produced by living humans will gain heightened value, and value means commerce. Artisans will become the new rich, and create a wealth disparity.
Why? Because humans are competitive. People will always covet. People are individuals, and will want custom-made goods and services to fit their needs and desires, not a one-size-fits-all template.
Communism is one of those things that's great on paper but terrible in practice..
Except that if you look at the history of Russia before and after the revolution it actually didn't entirely fail. Before the revolution Russia was a feudalist country with vastly oppressed peasants with almost no rights or quality of life. After the revolution, the system of government was still authoritarian largely due to the fact that most Russians were uneducated and could not read or write, let alone vote; however, you'll find that the quality of life was vastly improved for the average peasant even if still not great. Russia also was able to industrialize faster than any other nation in history, largely due to not dealing with inefecienes of capitalism. Of course later when Stalin took over things stopped improving. Democracy in Russia was never meant to be because of the illiteracy and lack of infrastructure for any voting or media to be possible. However, a revolution in a capitalist nation with technology of today and an at least somewhat educated population could very well succeed; although I think the chances of this would be better if workers owned the means of production instead of the state i.e. worker coops. No disrespect to you though I used to think the same way before I became a socialist. I hope that anyone who unlikely reads this can at least be more open minded even if they don't change their minds.
@@jacobware8661 pretty sure you sound like bixch if you said that face to face
@@jacobware8661
Like post-Tito Yugoslavia and even that failed due to mismanagement and disorganization and all the subsidies in the world couldn't save them?
@@shauncameron8390 I don't know too much about Yugoslavia specifically but my general understanding is that it failed due to becoming a welfare state after the government having to support failing businesses (coops) and eventually running out of money.
You forgot to mention the lack of competition.
Just watch "the Allocator," from Star Trek. They put an AI intelligence in charge of Allocating resources fairly, and instead it starves half the people of resources. No matter how efficient you get, redistributing resources will always be unequal and inefficient.
On top of making a ruling class out of the Allocator as he controls the resources. Communism doesn't work, because it inevitably defeats its own purpose.
Communism, no thank you
This comment and your pfp is sending mixed messages
@@ThotslayFeetusdeletus
I didn't even look at the pf, thanks for pointing that out. Lol 😂👍
Your pfp doe...
@@sooryan_1018 well because communism is a joke his pfp is a joke too
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 so people enjoyed the joke? Irony coming from the Western people like you
Eventually evil collapses under the weight of its own absurdity.
oooh, so that's why the american economy collapses every 10 years
After the wall fell, I crossed over to "East Germany". As I drove deeper into the country, I was amazed to see the pollution.
Fun fact: Communism was envisioned as an ideology that would make Democracy more Stronger.
Here come the political arguments..
*gives popcorn*
communism is political system - what the hell do you expect
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Joseph Stalin wants to know your location
Because liberty prime said so
Wise words
Liberty prime your a bold one
Communism would be a great thing for the modern but Stalin alone tarnished the image of communism to such a level when the USSR was seen as the most opressive and inequal state in the world where the government officials and politicians would be the most powerful class in the country
What was the track playing in the background?
It wasn't in subscription box, I wonder why..........
Communism wasn't Stalin, especialy in eastern europe. Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian communism were different than Stalinism just to name a few. Belarus also lasted quite a while.
Yet the results were still the same. Tyranny, economic stagnation and collapse, etc.
WOAH WOAH WOAH!! Slow your rolls...what if Capitalism, and the automation of labor is the way to Communism?
Well obviously! Communism would never be achieved by Socialists, it'll be achieved by Capitalists through automation! The only thing we're missing now is an UBI. After that, several steps forward to true Communism on the machine path! The alternative would be Hivemind and Cultists, but I like Machine path much better.
Look into shadowrun. The end goal of communism is a country where companies could even own a whole city and make their own rules in it since they own enough money and power to just do so.
Check out the definition of communism and the whole context of this ideology...is completely opposed to capitalism as we know it because it is against our liberties, entrepreneurship, free speech and so on...
@@ADHD_40K that’s completely false, the system you’re referring to here is anarchist capitalism. money wouldn’t exist under communism
To give a neurosurgeon and a factory worker similar salary is a great injustice, to be a neurosurgeon it requires at least 14 years of studying and practicing,no wonder that communism failed.
Capitalism gives you the choice to fail or succeed
In communism you just fail
gives certain people the choice to succeed. others are the working class.
Depends on what you understand by " succeed " . Our current system requires the exploitation of severely underpaid workers
No, no it doesnt. The middle and high class get that choice, the low and working dont.
@@a.p3877Yes, yes it does. Consider under Communism no one gets that choice.
People don't undrrstand! Inequality should be a thing, just not as extreme as today.
We all wonder, what would happen if Trotsky was installed instead of Stalin?
Helpful video 👍👍
a neurosurgeon and a factory worker should be paid the same wage as equals... cant handle the stupidity...
The Idea of a world where the earning of a company gets equally distributed to all workers is actually a good concept.
I would love to live in a place where it works like that.
I know,but the concept is still a great idea. Just being able to work as whatever you want with out having to think about how much you earn. For example Hair stylist is one of the worst paid jobs in my country and I know some people that would like to work as one but do not do it because it is so poorly paid. I know it probably wouldn't work,but still a nice idea.
@@Pump-King That example is really bad, considering hairdressers usually work in private self-owned businesses, or in something like a partnership. No. 2 - the market decides how many hairdressers there can be. A society cannot sustain itself with 10% of population being hairdressers. Also, most people would want to work amazing jobs, but most jobs are not really extravagant. To be the best you need to put in so much effort, and it does pay off.
That would be an unfair system.
That's unfair considering that an owner carries all the risk and has to invest money to set up a business
United Federation of Planets > Internationale
Money doesn't exist 🚀🌟
Well, we also assume people would be willing to go into the nothingness of space for prolonged periods of time facing the risks of getting blown up by various hostile factions like Klingons or Romulans or getting assimilated by Borgs *at all* , let alone for *NO COMPENSATION* . Basically, Picard and Kirk would live in the same conditions as a pig farmer.
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A pig farmer in our society, yes. But we're talking about their universe now. And in a society without a meritocratic economic system, pig farmers are as rich as star captains, without actually working as hard.
Got a 4th of July sale preroll ad... seems fitting...
“BUt tHat wAsN’T ReAL cOmmUniSM”
Right bc it doesn’t include rainbows and unicorns
*Starlight Glimmer wants to know your location*
To prove that the communism implemented wasnt real marxist communism. All a person needs is one single example of how that system conflicts with the system in the manifesto. Geuss what there are multiple conflicts just like what was shown in the video. So the claim is completely valid. Your sarcasm is misplaced
@Arexme Communism, by definition, wouldn't even have a government hierarchy, so it really hasn't been tried yet. That's not a joke, that's fact.
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And would have turned into Somalia due to that lack of hierarchy.
@@fatpenguin7736 a govermentless society is guaranteed failure
I liked this video cause you explained it very well and why it failed or what was done wrong.
I can tell modern socialist or communist will hate this cause you weren't able to say to make it confusing enough for someone can agree with you.
When your friend has 4 diamonds and you only have 2
You should do a video on West German army vs East German army at their peak
Sees the word communist *CLICKS*
Costin 2.0 Yes, comrade
Bryan Fire Florida P.R Ball probably about how they have better “missiles” and “rocket ships”
With the rise of automation and IT, I don't necessarily envision the idea of a communistic future but I rather see capitalist system radically transformed by these changes. I see a capitalism system where in robots and AI would tirelessly perform work on behalf of manual laborers and the only people employed are those who have the skills to operate, maintain, and repair those machines. With this, comes a surplus of goods and revenue for capitalists. This revenue, ballooned by incessant production, would be taxed by the government who continues to regulate these businesses to ensure they do not abuse and fraud either their remaining workers or consumers. This government would then distribute these tax revenues into infrastructure projects and social programs, which includes a universal basic income that gives all citizens the same amount of money so that they could meet their needs. With these projects, earning a living would be an option, but would not be a necessity, and people could pursue whatever their wants and needs.
The vision of communism is not just to build a classless and moneyless society. It also aims to make governments unnecessary, and removing a body such as a government would inevitably cause chaos, which would make the communist project fail.
"I see a capitalism system where in robots and AI would tirelessly perform work on behalf of manual laborers and the only people employed are those who have the skills to operate, maintain, and repair those machines. "
Won't happen.
1.) This would cause mass layoffs.
2.) With less people working, there is less revenue being generated which means less people being able to buy things which means less revenue for the companies, less money coming into their coffers means they can't afford to operate nor maintain those machines. With less people working and being able to buy things means less tax revenue on income and sales which means the government goes bankrupt under the weight of its own upkeep which means they won't be able to afford to maintain those regulations. Even if you taxed the rich 100% of their income, you wouldn't have enough to run the country.
Automation, AI and IT are the tools of the lazy that will destroy the world.
Do on over Poison Ivy/Poison Oak/ sumack. And what the bumps are amd what they look like
Why should a doctor be paid the same as factory worker? One goes to school for a decade longer.
All the types of Communism managed was to simply replace the people at the top who provide nothing with different people.
@@thevettegetsitwett With this amount of uneducated opinions I'd love to know in which soviet country you grew up to claim that "doctors are paid the same as factory workers"
"Rocks fly! I swear!"
* throws rock and it falls *
"Oh... erm... that's not a *REAL* rock..."
The industry was completely obsolete, due to renegading completely the capitalism and its principles. Also, the dictatorship regimes implemented using those principles were the main evidence that it would fall one day. When USSR got dissolved, those other regimes (who have been established by Stalin and some imperalist influences back in WWII end and some past years after it) collapsed as well. The end of the cold war was the communism sunset.
Luiz Felipe Man They also failed to innovate for purely political reasons. They weren't stupid, they knew what they were doing didn't work. Or at least didn't work nearly as well as it could. But they party line was 100% employment, and making more efficient factories, farms, shops would have lead to layoffs. Which the party said couldn't happen. And what the party says, is law, reality be damned.
i am sorry to say to you than hundreds of european and american ingegneers were employed in URSS during Stalin's years. The most famous are Littlepage and John Scott. You can find them just by googling if you don't trust me.
you have to consider that when the Bolshevik took power russia was a medieval nation. I am studing this topics because of my political work in Italy and I can give you some data. In this10 years of Stalin power industrial production had this evolution (1927-1937):
(milion of tons)
steel: 3,3 -> 14,5
coal: 35,4 -> 128
electricity (megawatts/hour)
5,1 -> 36,2
In total in the sixties the industrial power of the USSR was 5200 times bigger than when the first industrialization plans began.
If you are interested in this topic I have plenty of boocks that speack about the gain and the losses of the soviet union.
Robin Hood Successful is a relative term here. Yes, they dragged an agrarian society into the industrial age. 50 years after the beginning of the industrial age, but they did do it. They then became almost frozen in 1960's-70's level of efficiency. Using systems that required a dozen workers, when two could do the same job in Western Europe or America.
They developed many things, but did little to nothing with them. Without the pull of profit potential, there was no real need to make lasers (for example) anything other than a scientific curiosity.
Broadcast entertainment would still be four stations on an AM radio. The advance from AM to FM to TV to satellite to internet wasn't because it was a good idea. This was done because innovative people realized they could make truckloads of cash doing it.
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You can be right, but in soviet union were made innovation that we still use today or that still influence our way of living, such as the cordless phone, some kind of engines, some ways to interact with the satellites that today we use for comunication and also things that western nation refused to implement, like the light the infinite light bulbs or the long term batteries.
The fact that the beginning isn't synced annoys me way to much.
Talk about trying to put a pretty face on a horrible idea...
Eastern Europe lolll
It failed everywhere
Asia - That's where you're wrong
@@sooryan_1018 communist party of the philippines is getting it's assed kick by Filipino troops
Communism/Socialism gives an incredible amount of power to the elites and strips it from ordinary people. So the ideology will never die when you have evil power hungry elites.
Along with naive delusional sycophants living privileged lives in the very capitalist system they denounce.
No. No one truly wants to be equal. Nature made us that way.
Wow great video!!!!!!!
In America we are taught to hate Communism and fight against it to the death!!
Let's goooooo Patriotism!!
when automation takes over almost all aspects of labor communism seems to the only way for a large population to prosper
Innovation affects production that would cause the delay of shares.
this is surprisingly based and i think many people need to watch this
Video starts off with typical socialist disclaimer: Ackshually, true communism has never been tried
No 5 countries are still communist and 3 are politically rules lot of times by communist
technolung well technically it’s not wrong. it’s only ever been used to seize power and favour from uneducated and starving workers.
@@cool4556 capitalist pig spotted
Mahesh Kumar i’m a communist. i’m defending communism as an ideology, but it’s never been done.
@@cool4556 ok