The Khmer Rogue went way to far even for communist and radical socialist states. Though to be fair the Khmer were messing around with Vietnam and starting crap. And the Vietnamese invaded them.
@@josephstalin839 Those two areas were dealing each other dirty for a long time, even before the French showed up... while somehow also agreeing to deal Laos even dirtier.... But yea once the prince was deposed in the early 70s, it was gonna boil over and both sides kept upping the tension as they had been doing prior the the Khmer takeover, and then Pol Pot was.... Pol Pot.
Karl Marx probably shouldn't really be considered a Secular Jew in the traditional sense. Marx's parents converted to Lutheranism and he was originally raised as a Lutheran. Although his parents weren't exactly very religious. So even though he was ethnically Jewish; he didn't grow up in a Jewish community or feel any real sense of connection to the Jewish community. So neither the Anti-Semitic trope of Marxism being part of the Jewish conspiracy nor the idea that he felt excommunicated from the Jewish community are really valid explanations for Marx's beliefs or personality.
One minor point, Vietnam removed Pol Pot because he attacked them first off so weird historic claims to territory in Vietnam,. not because of any moral revulsion over Pol Pot's atrocities.
@@josephstalin839 If they knew who Khmer was and what he was capable of before putting him in power. I highly doubt they would have cared about any of his atrocities. Keep in mind that the North Vietnamese were being supported by Mao Zedong's PRC during those wars. The same man whose actions led to the death of millions of people through the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.
@@charmlesscomic1353 I am not a boer like dewetmaartens359 i am from the background when english took over but i can also give a go. when apartheid ended society had was like when marxs as alive it was designed to keep none whites downs because they knew the country will fall apart, because SA is like the austrian hungarian empire before WW1 many ethic groups that hates each other. for you to know the reason you have to know the history. it is something called "the crushing were a million africans died" then shaka zulu turn the zulu into a powerhouse he did so by genocide all the men and turn the women into sex slaves. the problem is all the tribes around him started running away but they copied his method of war and did the same to the groups they ran into ,so each group that survived the period have a lot of bad blood that remains to today. so for the politic party that's in charge to survive the feuds they use the communist idea the whites are wealth (by exploiting the black) lets distribute the wealth to our people (by that i mean the party leaders) that what keeps the system going at least until they run out of money to steal
This video does such a good job of underpinning why the idea of being Australian has become so intrinsically entangled with the idea of being left-wing, because early on in our history being a penal colony, the assumption was that this new colony would basically be an experiment in liberal egalitarianism, which we see play out in history. Australians have been an extremely egalitarian and highly meritocratic peoples to the point where it's baked into our Constitution, because under the days of Transportation the idea was that whatever the Australian had he got entirely through his own merit and hard labour. The reason why Australia went completely off the deep end during covid, which is when Australia first really rises to global prominence in any meaningful capacity, where as before we were content to just be that island down the bottom of nowhere where no one really thinks about too hard, what we were seeing there was I believe an emerging conflict that's present within Australia whereby the presumed egalitarian nature of the Australian ruling class was shown to the masses to be built off a falsity given we've become increasingly Americanised since the end of World War 2, so basically the Establishment view of Americanism in Australia formulated at a time when the DNC was engaging in increasingly socialist or relatively socialist practices which encompassed the process of incorporating Australia into the American Empire, was coming into conflict with the more natural and homegrown Australian flavour of Americanism that emerged much more gradually as a process of cultural diffusion since the cultural revolution made its way here in the 1960's. And I want to evidence this by pointing out this thing we had here in Australia called the Freedom Movement that were active during covid and then largely faded away into irrelevancy today, and the best way to describe them would be a reimagining of the 1960's liberal hippy boomers that spew out cringe platitudes about muh human rights and egalitarianism bruh that were outraged at seeing the foundations of what had been their world view get eviscerated during covid. And given we never really went back to a pre-covid footing I think the evidence is begining to mount that Australia is becoming an increasingly class-based and less egalitarian entity over time. Whatever backlash or response to the crises in Europe and America manifests in Australia will be hwolly left-wing and pretty open to social wealth redistribution, and possibly the nationalisation of land given the power grabs taking place under Native Title and the lack of housing affordability. Effectively becoming the Union of Australasian Social Republics in embryonic form.
@@Peak_Aussiemaninteresting take away from a fellow Aussie man. It’s interesting to also point out the differences and clashes between our traditional aristocratic elites attempting to enforce a paternalistic statist democracy upon us and the more socialistic Irish inspired labour democracy as well. Essentially meaning that left or right, our government will always value state intervention to deal with our problems. It was a right wing government after all that banned our guns for example.
@@doronaznible7298 True. Australia will probably be though of in the future as the British trying their darndest to be like the French. Where the British will always have this animosity against the French that to us doesn't really make sense but that doesn't translate well to Australia. I think the largest contributing factor is the dichotomy between the idea of an Australian, being a by-product of Pan-Australasianism, which up until the 1967 referendum had been evolving fairly naturally along a more pro-Anglo trajectory however the eventuality in that referendum result kinda forces the Commonwealth to do a bit of a doubletake and become more prescriptive on what is and is not Australian. Hence we see during covid state parochialism emerge as a potent force in Australian politics again for the first time where each State since joining the Commonwealth pretty much was able to exercise much more power over their respective citizens, becoming like micronations in the process. And we have a similar thing happening again where the State premiers reject Duttons nuclear plans because no State wants to be the one with a nuclear reactor being built, and it's interesting to note that of all the planned sites not one is located in an Australian Territory. I don't think that's an historical accident. We'll see. I think as things deteriorate we'll see the States start to take primacy more and more as the Commonwealth is rendered impotent in dealing with anything. That's why I use the term Republic(s) plural because there's no way the Commonwealth can continue to exist in it's current form, where we either abolish the States and have each LGA vote for their representative in Canberra, going fully down the path of decentralisation where each LGA mostly just looks after itself and sets it's own policies that would over all be Governed by a President, or we go for a weird half way measure where we abolish the Commonwealth instead and instead each State has it's own President who'd form pacts and alliances with each other and outsiders, so there is no one Australian President per se but rather multiple. Change is coming it's just a matter of determining what form it'll take.
I'm from Poland and my grandpa was an engineer that was in maddening position where he wanted to automate as much as possible and build indigenous factory lines, but higher ups would get mad as they where controlled by idiots for which number of employees and amount of western tech where included in the process where factors by which they measured succes - even when only machines that west was willing to sell to them where objectively inferior to machines that he was able to build and consistently produce. Another of his maddening stories was his experience with starting production of T-55 tanks where poles received incomplete or badly reproduced documentation that was partially made out of T-54 documentation. That's one of the reasons why different T-55 and T-72 variants from different factories have little interchangeability.
Also the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia because the Khmer Rouge were committing genocide against the Vietnamese minority in Cambodia and were also launching raids and massacres into the Mekong Delta. Now, the Vietnamese were horrified at what they found in Cambodia, but the war wasn't launched for humanitarian reasons.
They had issues during the war with us, over VC and NVA being in the country, even some small skirmishes by some reports. The Royals did not appreciate them being there or the strain it placed on them geopolitically or locally. Then they were deposed and the Khmer took over and it spiraled. As soon as they sorted the civil war, NVA was gonna go in, when not if. They were not expecting what they found, but once they found it.... oh boy, Charlie don't surf.
@@presidentmerkinmuffley6769 Cambodia was officially neutral and often ignored NVA presence in Cambodia. Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia is the largest port city in Cambodia and the Soviets and Chinese were actually unloading huge amounts of war material at that port and North Vietnamese soldiers would load it onto trucks and drive it to the border regions. This was done in the open even though officially it was not happening. Prince Sihanouk even allied with the Khmer Rouge at one point as well. What primarily happened was that with the "secret" bombing of Cambodia ended up killing tens of thousands of Cambodians (old maps did not recognize new developments in Cambodia and assumed built up areas not on existing maps were NVA bases) plus the limited invasion of Cambodia in 1970 helped destabilize the country and the opposition painted Prince Sihanouk as an American collaborator who was blamed for the bombings. Once North Vietnam conquered the South; they assisted the Khmer Rouge in taking over Cambodia and the rest is nightmarish history.
Really enjoy these episodes, they are more fun and easy to listen to than the heavy topics on your main channel. (Not saying the more heavy topics are bad)
I`m Bulgarian. My country had communism. My great grandfather lost his parents in an anti-Ottoman rebellion. He was a child slave in the Ottoman empire and he got killed by Bulgarian communists. My grandpa almost got killed as a child by the communists as well. A lot of people today still love communism though and Americans have a very half true view of the regime and so they don`t understand why. Communism in Bulgaria (and Russia) had two parts. The first part was the Stalinist period where all the "rule by fear" totalitarian stuff happened. The 2nd part was the post-Stalin period. During this period the communists changed their strategy from "ruling by fear" to "ruling by bribes". Kind of like in America. What happened during this period was that this was when most of the industrialization happened. People think this happened mostly top down but in reality every communist "feudal lord" just built a factory for whatever it is he wanted in his local village/town/city. These factories were not built with any economical growth in mind. It was just party member pet projects. They ran on debt but there was food and housing and stability and a standard of living that a lot of people were content with. When they couldn`t take out more debt the whole thing went crashing down. All the factories and industry built over the course of 50 years died. A lot of people migrated to the capital or West. The secret service were the only ones who had the knowledge of what was happening as well as the power and connections to do anything about it and so they stole as individuals a lot of stuff (factories, money etc) and still de-factor rule the country. We joined NATO and the EU and some parts of the country got better like the capital or the 2nd biggest city (Plovdiv) but most of the provinces were left in ruins and people were left dirt poor with no hope. And you can`t bargain a better job if you live outside the capital and like 2-3 other cities since the rich former secret service elites or their children just all know each other in the small towns and just decide that they are gonna put a cap on wages or not steal workers from each other etc and they use the government as a bat to enforce the whole thing. A lot of people also got disgusted by the West since they thought the West would help them once we became Western allies but in reality the West just 1. Allies with these thugs to get their interests across. 2. The Americans just turn evil where the US embassy just finance useful idiots to make propaganda medias for their goals or create NGOs which are just professional protestors when America needs to topple the government or even create their own parties to run the country which make their political appointments after direct orders from the embassy and they want to do basically American politics here than nobody really supports or wants. And if you are some poor guy from the provinces nobody cares about you and you are immediately labeled a pro-Russian bot by these self-appointed elites who work against you and so a lot of them eventually just become that. So the past sucked but the present sucks as well. There`s a guy called George/Georgi Markov who was alive during those times and worked from the bottom to becoming a writer who had lunches and trips with our dictator. He defected to England and wrote a lot of stuff on the life back then. You guys can check it out if you are interested.
Nice map at 50:20. By the way, communist symbols are actually illegal in most of the eastern europe. You would literally not pass air port security with something like Che Guevara shirt if it has star on it. And if you smuggle one in, you would likelly get beaten up in town for sporting it (Many such cases)
"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)
@@josephstalin839 Yeah I don't want to support Disney's cash grab of BF2 "Remastered". It sucked. But hey maybe we'll be playing Star Wars games on Mars one day.
At 41:01, you argue that we as a society have not made the philosophical breakthrough against communism. I would argue that we have, specifically with Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn’s argument against not just communism but ideology in general is really refreshing to read especially on why ideologies that view themselves as utterly good commit the greatest evil. I think the main reason why communism/marxism-leninism is still viewed more favorably than nazism is because communism came from the enlightenment and talked of equality while nazism was overtly anti equality and anti enlightenment.
In other words, Nazism is punished for being ever so slightly more honest about itself than Communism. That and Fascism in general is heretical Socialism, and nothing bothers the orthodox quite so much as a heretic.
I am from the Balkans and one of the last things that my Great Aunt said the last time I saw her before she died is that She Missed Tito because even though everyone was poor atleast they had a lot of their needs for survival meet.
I’m more of a left-wing person, but I love watching your videos and criticism of the left, because I believe if you want to acquire more knowledge you have to listen even more to your political opponents, so I don’t only stick to my bubble and clearly, you seem being an educated guy. It’s an insightful remark Stalin wiped off the Russian social structure, but I’ll have to disagree fundamentally with the arguments from the black book of communism. The majority of deaths is caused by bloody wars that have nothing to do with communism. I live in Central Europe (Poland) and am reminded of German atrocities everywhere. My city (Warsaw) looks astonishing nowadays, but the more you live here, the more you see how scarred the city is. The Nazis killed 1/6 of Polish citizens just for sake of destroying our culture. Then they invaded the Soviet Union where they burned people alive in barns just for fun. Obviously, the soldiers sent by Moscow to the trenches were mainly human waves, but there we come to Stalin who I deem the person responsible for the communism failure. During Lenin’s reign he never desired genociding any population, he created Soviet Republics governed by the people inhabiting these areas and did what a normal leader would do if he were attacked from all sides and from within - defend himself and try to maintain control over the country, that’s the same thing a capitalist leader would do. There’s a plethora of civil wars and regular conflicts that we don’t blame the system for. Actually, both world wars were the flaws of capitalism where all the states were competing with each other in the fields of production, military, social institutions and it had to burst out sometime (fascism is a system created by bourgeoise in order to dwindle the working class influence). Stalin was a paranoid maniac who was a terrorist before and craved only power. He recreated many of the tsarist institutions Lenin toppled down for the sake of the people I.e. state-manufactured vodka plants that sold it for the masses to indulge and not disobey. I’ve read some of classic liberal literature (Bentham, Spencer)from the dawn of the XIX century and I think (I can’t recall who said that, but there was one author that inherited all his fortune and was just cruel for saying that a beggar’s place is in a sewer, because he deserves to, however him not working a day in his life and being just a merchant’s son is noble). I don’t wish to make it an academic scientific work, so I’ll be finishing here. The communist states of similar income on average had a better-fed, healthier population that lived more. There’s a paper called Economic Development, Political-Economic System, and the Physical Quality of Life from the 80s which studied various economic data from across the world that showed that. There are multiple studies from multiple scholars about that ranging from the left to the right. I like reading actually what the author thought to assess the ideology by myself and I don’t accuse you of ignorance. I like the works of Carl Schmitt, Rousseau (personally I think he was a jerk), Ronald Dworkin and so on that represent the blatantly opposite ideologies.
I love the historian Tom Holland and his buddy the historian Dominic Sandbrook. You (Whatifalhist aka Rudyard) mentioned Tom Holland a fair bit I’m wondering if you have watched his “The Rest is History” podcast? Fantastic podcast I especially love the ones on Luther but they also do more obscure stuff like the history of beavers and wine. I highly recommend it, never seen a boring episode yet. I think all his stuff just how integrated Christianity is into the western moral code will completely change how people view themselves or in relation to other cultures and give them a degree more understanding as to why different people outside their own framework think differently. I feel when a lot of western people say “all people want this” sometimes they say something that isn’t a human but a specifically Christian trait or when people don’t understand why another culture does something they seem to be on some level confused why the people of that different cultural background are not adhering to the western Christian moral code.
Anyway you can do a video on Modern Texas and it’s history? Could touch on topics of western expansion, rugged individualism, and how the frontiersman mindset of 18th and 19th century influences the population today. Also Texas right now is kind of like it was in the 1830s and 40s; everyone wants to move here and many see opportunities that other states don’t have.
@@jimjim01938 Similar, yes, but I'm anti-Georgist. Vietnam's constitution guarantees the right to your home, though, so there's that. You just don't own the land, only its use.
I'm sure this will be yet another episode of Rudyard pseud discussing a topic that has brought the world nothing but misery without naming the group behind it. Peak gate keeping.
As someone who went yo a communist grammar school, wore red star on his school uniform and red scarf too, have seen what state farms and collective farms look like and what they do... what long queues like, and what it is like when you feel watched a lot... living in uk, and getting so many vibes that are nostalgic to me but fresh here id like to say... England- dont fuck around marxism. Stop now. ...and they are not stopping.
so glad im pakistani. being able to go back to a village and live a natural life is like a cheatcode in these times. people with power in government organizations are so detached from reality. its all about managing the plebs for them
I have a question for you that’s a bit off topic, but do Pakistanis sympathize with Khalistanis ? I’m Sikh and it’s not only in our Gurus teachings to rule independently, Nation building was a huge concept in Sikhi (Sikhism) but Sikhs are still oppressed in India, not as much as the 80s and 90s which saw a mass genocide of Sikhs by the Indian government and police What’s your opinion of Khalistan ? we don’t necessarily want West Panjab since we wouldn’t have a voice with 110 Muslims nor do Sikhs even live there anymore, on the contrary East Panjab has barley any Muslims there either Both cases being because of partition Partition was horrible and a secret war between Panjabis but all who committed crimes are no longer alive anymore since it was 76 years ago, my grandma was a little girl and remembers having to take the bus and leave Faslabad to migrate to East Panjab but we Sikhs feel sympathy for those that had to migrate in west Panjab
It doesn't bother me but your audio would be way better if you just bought a $10 plug-in lapel mic from Amazon... I understand that the premise here is high value content with low effort production, but seriouslyA $10 lapel mic you plug it in there's nothing to it and it would make it 50 times better audio
I don't buy that because some idea somehow evolved from, or was influenced by, something Marx said that that idea falls under Marxism or should be considered Marxist.
Something that has evolved from Marxism is still Marxist. Perhaps heretical, but parentage counts. Something influenced, well, that's debatable by how influenced it was. If a thing was first said by Marx (or Engels), then it is Marxist. If a thing is primarily known because Marx pushed it or said it, it is either Marxist or obscure.
If an idea evolves from Aristotle, we call it Aristotelian. If an idea evolves from Plato, we call it Platonist or Neoplatonist. If an idea evolves from Kant, we call it Kantian or Neokantian. Why should we treat Marxism differently?
@@AJX-2 Because he is referring to ideas that have long grown past what Marx was talking about and ideas that had multiple influences rather than evolving simply from Marx. Aristotle helped start what became science. This would be like calling everything that can be called a science Aristotelian. If an idea has some things in common with what Marx said, but a whole lot different, it's misleading to call it Marxist. This gives the impression that the idea or theory or paradigm is essentially Marxism with a twist, when really it is vastly different. Such categorization does more to mislead than give us insight about the idea.
@@patrickjanecke5894 Fair enough. I suppose the phrase "know thine enemy", applies to this as much as anything, but at the very least I understand it well enough to know that it's eradication makes the world a better place. I've seen countries hollowed out, turned into pathetic former shells of their former selves, just like my country has been, so forgive me a bit of bitter bias. But now, to my disgust, I see Western nations also inching their way forward into what I term as "corpo-communism", where a handful of unaccountable companies have the same sway and effect as an unaccountable one-party state, creating the same miserable and anti-human conditions.
Comte and Dunoyer invented class theory, not Marx, they just defined it differently - and better. Also, materialism goes back to ancient Greece, it wasn't invented by Marx, either.
You never said your friends with uberboyo damn you guys are connected thats cool. I know someday we will also talk I would love to know you personally.
Your videos have so much good knowledge, reflection, and you tie the threads of history together with so much research behind it. I’ve never thought you not to be knowledgeable. I offer this critique out of genuine interest in your potential: work on your speaking abilities. I think if you made your points more concise and fluid with one another, you’d not only get your point across more clearly, but you’d draw a larger audience that doesn’t already have interest in the topic. You’re so clearly knowledgeable but you don’t package your knowledge well in this format. That being said, I don’t think you should scrap the format. I think you need more interaction from your “straight” guy who can almost act as a canvas for the audience member, more probing/questions from him. It would help in forcing you to make one point at a time rather then trying to go on as many rants at once as you can. You tend to begin a thought (that I can assume has a golden thread in your mind) and not really come back around to finish it, or at least not in a way that you draw attention to completing a point. Your voice is kind of monotone, as well, which doesn’t help with the constant shifting of rant to rant. It makes it all sound like a bit of a drawl. Your scripted videos do possess some of this too, though they have more refinement. The world you build does not allow for terribly economic speaking so I’m not trying to convey that you need to become Ernest Hemingway here. But I think you have solid points that are often lost in translation. I hope you understand, I do not say this to bash. It is entirely from good faith for your potential, and appreciation for what you’ve already produced. keep it up
wasn't Cuba already filled with vacation resorts and, specifically, casinos under Bautista? Wasn't that the very complaint Castro and his barbudos used to justify the revolution? Not saying I like commie or support it, but it seems like a glaring error for a historian to make.
As someone who considers myself left leaning (but who also holds a lot of views that would be considered right wing by many on the left, I.E. I am very pro 2nd amendment), I am very against Communism, because I, well, know history. But I think one of the biggest reasons that modern American capitalism is pushing people towards communism, both those on the left and right, because the American dream that Millennials and Gen Z have been promised is a lie. Obviously Communism is a terrible solution to our societal issues, but masses of people don’t want a good solution, they want an easy solution. So if a populist explicitly communist party comes up in America in the next few decades I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised.
@@yux.tn.3641 Agreed. I don’t personally think a larger welfare state necessarily I just think the US healthcare system needs a major overhaul, giant corporations need to be broken up so that economic power is more decentralized, and that housing should stop being viewed as an investment by corporations. And I also hate the 2 party system I hate that we have to choose between 2 geriatric nut jobs. Oh yeah also lobbying is bullshit it’s literally just government corruption a la corporate buy outs.
If you actually knew history you wouldnt be against communism All you know is conservative propaganda And you are classic modern conservative Doesnt think he is personally right wing, but only speaks and holds right wing ideology and propaganda I have a friend like that, and he is always offended when i call him conservative/right wing, and ironically he only ever speaks of conservative values This just goes to show that average right winger is media illiterate Like recently rightwingers got mad at The Boys because they only now realized that its anti right wing show Till then homelander was their hero Rofl So almost as if you have to be illiterate to be a right winger, which this comment section just proves lol Your comment is so comically oblivious and ignorant its hilarious "I dont think im right wing, just my annoying actually left wing friends think im right wing" XDDDDDD
Born in the Lithuanian SSR. God bless America, your tax payer keeps my family safe. I know many Americans are not happy about Biden's fiscal deals like the Ukranian money but I just wanted to say thank you. And fuck communism.
No, most of us support the Ukraine aid, both from polling and what I've seen here irl. Its less than half a percent of our government budget to hold back an invasion of Europe. The economic problems people are mad about are mainly off covid spending. Nothing but love to you people in eastern Europe from me.
@monkeyladder Thank you for filling in the details. I am polarized by the news as it's become extremely partisan and it's hard to recieve accurate unbiased information. Edit: It actually reminds me of the split during thr Gorbachev era, it had extreme polarization in the Soviet Uniom and it was a 50 50 split amongst the larger populace in general.
@@kangaroocaliphate1577 I think the most recent polls have it being something like 60 percent in support of it. For most Americans its not a top priority, though it is for me and some sections of the country. For other reasons, its looking to be like the democrat party who supports Ukraine more will likely win the next election, they've overshot most special elections.
Rudyard, do the podcast with someone else. Your co-host contributes nothing and frankly if you just do the conversation by yourself, that's also great. Ideally it'd be better to have another history and religion RUclipsr as a co-host such as Let's Talk Religion. Also, having a super strict time constraint on conplex topics like this does it injustice. I wish you the best but if you don't change I don't think this channel will reach the great heights it otherwise could. Good Luck.
I don't get this channel. You have someone else do all the talking, contribute nothing to the conversation, and then basically kick him out because you've "ran out of time". Really weird.
Many like to criticize communism, and rightly so, but either don't at all or barely mention the founders and people of it. Just mentioning Karl Marx and his racial origin, then hand waving it away with: "Oh, he was just anti-semitic" is dishonest.
@@pizzabagel4868 don't ask dumb questions. Jews are over represented in positions of power and influence. I can see you're not aware of the Jewish problem
Lucky! I took a lefty anthropology course im college and got a 60% (even though im known for writting and essays) becuae i was not expressive enogh. She was just mad i went typical essay rather than creative writting
FYI, Lenin had only 3,000 supporters in March of 1917, in November of that year he was in charge of Russia
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@@somenamesome it was russia of 1917, the Tzarist government already broke down after loosing in ww1 and the new one wasn't too competent either.
@@somenamesomeLots of foreign money!
@@somenamesomelots of Jewish money, same in the 1960s counter culture movement
Khmer Rogue Cambodia:...
Vietnam: "ITS TIME TO STOP! IT'S TIME TO STOP!"
The Khmer Rogue went way to far even for communist and radical socialist states. Though to be fair the Khmer were messing around with Vietnam and starting crap. And the Vietnamese invaded them.
Pol Pot: possibly the first ruler crazy enough to commit autogenocide on purpose
@@josephstalin839 Those two areas were dealing each other dirty for a long time, even before the French showed up... while somehow also agreeing to deal Laos even dirtier....
But yea once the prince was deposed in the early 70s, it was gonna boil over and both sides kept upping the tension as they had been doing prior the the Khmer takeover, and then Pol Pot was.... Pol Pot.
Karl Marx probably shouldn't really be considered a Secular Jew in the traditional sense.
Marx's parents converted to Lutheranism and he was originally raised as a Lutheran. Although his parents weren't exactly very religious. So even though he was ethnically Jewish; he didn't grow up in a Jewish community or feel any real sense of connection to the Jewish community. So neither the Anti-Semitic trope of Marxism being part of the Jewish conspiracy nor the idea that he felt excommunicated from the Jewish community are really valid explanations for Marx's beliefs or personality.
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Loving this series. It’s been a very good way for Rudyard to pump out content that doesn’t require days of editing. Keep it up!
One minor point, Vietnam removed Pol Pot because he attacked them first off so weird historic claims to territory in Vietnam,. not because of any moral revulsion over Pol Pot's atrocities.
True didn’t his Khmer forces start attacking Vietnamese border villages where the claims were? And massacred a bunch of villagers.
@@josephstalin839 If they knew who Khmer was and what he was capable of before putting him in power. I highly doubt they would have cared about any of his atrocities. Keep in mind that the North Vietnamese were being supported by Mao Zedong's PRC during those wars. The same man whose actions led to the death of millions of people through the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.
I mean aside from the CIA and neighboring governments, no really knew what was going on over there
That was the most awkward ending I have ever seen to an interview holy crap.
im still cringing and it's been minutes since the impact
Rudyard, ditch that dude.
The audio was out of sinc at the end
Dude needs to chime in more and have at least a few pre planned questions for rudyard.
I'm a Boer from South Africa. I feel that my people arrived here through a time machine. We are what you were 100 years ago.
Then why wouldn't you fuck off to the future.
How is it like being a Boer in South Africa? Seems like SA is not in a good state id be interested to hear your perspective
@@charmlesscomic1353 I am not a boer like dewetmaartens359 i am from the background when english took over but i can also give a go. when apartheid ended society had was like when marxs as alive it was designed to keep none whites downs because they knew the country will fall apart, because SA is like the austrian hungarian empire before WW1 many ethic groups that hates each other.
for you to know the reason you have to know the history. it is something called "the crushing were a million africans died" then shaka zulu turn the zulu into a powerhouse he did so by genocide all the men and turn the women into sex slaves. the problem is all the tribes around him started running away but they copied his method of war and did the same to the groups they ran into ,so each group that survived the period have a lot of bad blood that remains to today.
so for the politic party that's in charge to survive the feuds they use the communist idea the whites are wealth (by exploiting the black) lets distribute the wealth to our people (by that i mean the party leaders) that what keeps the system going at least until they run out of money to steal
This video does such a good job of underpinning why the idea of being Australian has become so intrinsically entangled with the idea of being left-wing, because early on in our history being a penal colony, the assumption was that this new colony would basically be an experiment in liberal egalitarianism, which we see play out in history. Australians have been an extremely egalitarian and highly meritocratic peoples to the point where it's baked into our Constitution, because under the days of Transportation the idea was that whatever the Australian had he got entirely through his own merit and hard labour. The reason why Australia went completely off the deep end during covid, which is when Australia first really rises to global prominence in any meaningful capacity, where as before we were content to just be that island down the bottom of nowhere where no one really thinks about too hard, what we were seeing there was I believe an emerging conflict that's present within Australia whereby the presumed egalitarian nature of the Australian ruling class was shown to the masses to be built off a falsity given we've become increasingly Americanised since the end of World War 2, so basically the Establishment view of Americanism in Australia formulated at a time when the DNC was engaging in increasingly socialist or relatively socialist practices which encompassed the process of incorporating Australia into the American Empire, was coming into conflict with the more natural and homegrown Australian flavour of Americanism that emerged much more gradually as a process of cultural diffusion since the cultural revolution made its way here in the 1960's. And I want to evidence this by pointing out this thing we had here in Australia called the Freedom Movement that were active during covid and then largely faded away into irrelevancy today, and the best way to describe them would be a reimagining of the 1960's liberal hippy boomers that spew out cringe platitudes about muh human rights and egalitarianism bruh that were outraged at seeing the foundations of what had been their world view get eviscerated during covid. And given we never really went back to a pre-covid footing I think the evidence is begining to mount that Australia is becoming an increasingly class-based and less egalitarian entity over time. Whatever backlash or response to the crises in Europe and America manifests in Australia will be hwolly left-wing and pretty open to social wealth redistribution, and possibly the nationalisation of land given the power grabs taking place under Native Title and the lack of housing affordability. Effectively becoming the Union of Australasian Social Republics in embryonic form.
This was great
@@WhatifAltHist I've taken your musings on the world and then applied them to my homeland. If anything I should be thanking you. So thanks.
@@Peak_Aussiemaninteresting take away from a fellow Aussie man. It’s interesting to also point out the differences and clashes between our traditional aristocratic elites attempting to enforce a paternalistic statist democracy upon us and the more socialistic Irish inspired labour democracy as well. Essentially meaning that left or right, our government will always value state intervention to deal with our problems. It was a right wing government after all that banned our guns for example.
@@doronaznible7298 True. Australia will probably be though of in the future as the British trying their darndest to be like the French. Where the British will always have this animosity against the French that to us doesn't really make sense but that doesn't translate well to Australia. I think the largest contributing factor is the dichotomy between the idea of an Australian, being a by-product of Pan-Australasianism, which up until the 1967 referendum had been evolving fairly naturally along a more pro-Anglo trajectory however the eventuality in that referendum result kinda forces the Commonwealth to do a bit of a doubletake and become more prescriptive on what is and is not Australian. Hence we see during covid state parochialism emerge as a potent force in Australian politics again for the first time where each State since joining the Commonwealth pretty much was able to exercise much more power over their respective citizens, becoming like micronations in the process. And we have a similar thing happening again where the State premiers reject Duttons nuclear plans because no State wants to be the one with a nuclear reactor being built, and it's interesting to note that of all the planned sites not one is located in an Australian Territory. I don't think that's an historical accident. We'll see. I think as things deteriorate we'll see the States start to take primacy more and more as the Commonwealth is rendered impotent in dealing with anything. That's why I use the term Republic(s) plural because there's no way the Commonwealth can continue to exist in it's current form, where we either abolish the States and have each LGA vote for their representative in Canberra, going fully down the path of decentralisation where each LGA mostly just looks after itself and sets it's own policies that would over all be Governed by a President, or we go for a weird half way measure where we abolish the Commonwealth instead and instead each State has it's own President who'd form pacts and alliances with each other and outsiders, so there is no one Australian President per se but rather multiple. Change is coming it's just a matter of determining what form it'll take.
Name checks out!
I like that the beginning of these is like Oblivion Dialogue between npcs
The irony is crazy lmao
Russia didn't return to 1913 levels of wheat production until the 1970s
Progress!
I have search for quite a while and did not find that anywhere, can you back your statement with a source?
I'm from Poland and my grandpa was an engineer that was in maddening position where he wanted to automate as much as possible and build indigenous factory lines, but higher ups would get mad as they where controlled by idiots for which number of employees and amount of western tech where included in the process where factors by which they measured succes - even when only machines that west was willing to sell to them where objectively inferior to machines that he was able to build and consistently produce.
Another of his maddening stories was his experience with starting production of T-55 tanks where poles received incomplete or badly reproduced documentation that was partially made out of T-54 documentation. That's one of the reasons why different T-55 and T-72 variants from different factories have little interchangeability.
Fight the evil of male mammaries, Rudy.
Drop and give me 300.
Also the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia because the Khmer Rouge were committing genocide against the Vietnamese minority in Cambodia and were also launching raids and massacres into the Mekong Delta.
Now, the Vietnamese were horrified at what they found in Cambodia, but the war wasn't launched for humanitarian reasons.
They had issues during the war with us, over VC and NVA being in the country, even some small skirmishes by some reports. The Royals did not appreciate them being there or the strain it placed on them geopolitically or locally. Then they were deposed and the Khmer took over and it spiraled. As soon as they sorted the civil war, NVA was gonna go in, when not if.
They were not expecting what they found, but once they found it.... oh boy, Charlie don't surf.
@@presidentmerkinmuffley6769
Cambodia was officially neutral and often ignored NVA presence in Cambodia.
Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia is the largest port city in Cambodia and the Soviets and Chinese were actually unloading huge amounts of war material at that port and North Vietnamese soldiers would load it onto trucks and drive it to the border regions.
This was done in the open even though officially it was not happening.
Prince Sihanouk even allied with the Khmer Rouge at one point as well.
What primarily happened was that with the "secret" bombing of Cambodia ended up killing tens of thousands of Cambodians (old maps did not recognize new developments in Cambodia and assumed built up areas not on existing maps were NVA bases) plus the limited invasion of Cambodia in 1970 helped destabilize the country and the opposition painted Prince Sihanouk as an American collaborator who was blamed for the bombings.
Once North Vietnam conquered the South; they assisted the Khmer Rouge in taking over Cambodia and the rest is nightmarish history.
Really enjoy these episodes, they are more fun and easy to listen to than the heavy topics on your main channel. (Not saying the more heavy topics are bad)
Have a conversation with jay dyer 🙏
For real
Another suggestion - Ottoman Empire
“Before we start, let me show you something from my weapons collection, the M-29 Davey Crocket Weapon System… oops, I dropped it.”
"In world news, the state of Pennsylvania is receiving high amounts of radioactive fallout..."
Where’s this from
Really enjoying the podcast. You should do an episode on Teutonic order and their wars with Poland and Lithuania.
I`m Bulgarian. My country had communism. My great grandfather lost his parents in an anti-Ottoman rebellion. He was a child slave in the Ottoman empire and he got killed by Bulgarian communists. My grandpa almost got killed as a child by the communists as well.
A lot of people today still love communism though and Americans have a very half true view of the regime and so they don`t understand why. Communism in Bulgaria (and Russia) had two parts. The first part was the Stalinist period where all the "rule by fear" totalitarian stuff happened.
The 2nd part was the post-Stalin period. During this period the communists changed their strategy from "ruling by fear" to "ruling by bribes". Kind of like in America. What happened during this period was that this was when most of the industrialization happened. People think this happened mostly top down but in reality every communist "feudal lord" just built a factory for whatever it is he wanted in his local village/town/city.
These factories were not built with any economical growth in mind. It was just party member pet projects. They ran on debt but there was food and housing and stability and a standard of living that a lot of people were content with. When they couldn`t take out more debt the whole thing went crashing down. All the factories and industry built over the course of 50 years died.
A lot of people migrated to the capital or West. The secret service were the only ones who had the knowledge of what was happening as well as the power and connections to do anything about it and so they stole as individuals a lot of stuff (factories, money etc) and still de-factor rule the country.
We joined NATO and the EU and some parts of the country got better like the capital or the 2nd biggest city (Plovdiv) but most of the provinces were left in ruins and people were left dirt poor with no hope.
And you can`t bargain a better job if you live outside the capital and like 2-3 other cities since the rich former secret service elites or their children just all know each other in the small towns and just decide that they are gonna put a cap on wages or not steal workers from each other etc and they use the government as a bat to enforce the whole thing.
A lot of people also got disgusted by the West since they thought the West would help them once we became Western allies but in reality the West just
1. Allies with these thugs to get their interests across.
2. The Americans just turn evil where the US embassy just finance useful idiots to make propaganda medias for their goals or create NGOs which are just professional protestors when America needs to topple the government or even create their own parties to run the country which make their political appointments after direct orders from the embassy and they want to do basically American politics here than nobody really supports or wants.
And if you are some poor guy from the provinces nobody cares about you and you are immediately labeled a pro-Russian bot by these self-appointed elites who work against you and so a lot of them eventually just become that.
So the past sucked but the present sucks as well. There`s a guy called George/Georgi Markov who was alive during those times and worked from the bottom to becoming a writer who had lunches and trips with our dictator. He defected to England and wrote a lot of stuff on the life back then. You guys can check it out if you are interested.
Nice map at 50:20. By the way, communist symbols are actually illegal in most of the eastern europe. You would literally not pass air port security with something like Che Guevara shirt if it has star on it. And if you smuggle one in, you would likelly get beaten up in town for sporting it (Many such cases)
rekt
"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)
Bro never stops the dedication is real😊
The Best Star Wars game to date. Wish the made a full reconstruction remake of the game. But naw.
@@josephstalin839 Yeah I don't want to support Disney's cash grab of BF2 "Remastered". It sucked.
But hey maybe we'll be playing Star Wars games on Mars one day.
Man! I really need to play this game😮
Yeah, it was after years of playing BC’s gold rush did I realize it that game mode stemmed from SW battlefront single-player mode
Explaining rudyward video when?
At 41:01, you argue that we as a society have not made the philosophical breakthrough against communism. I would argue that we have, specifically with Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn’s argument against not just communism but ideology in general is really refreshing to read especially on why ideologies that view themselves as utterly good commit the greatest evil. I think the main reason why communism/marxism-leninism is still viewed more favorably than nazism is because communism came from the enlightenment and talked of equality while nazism was overtly anti equality and anti enlightenment.
In other words, Nazism is punished for being ever so slightly more honest about itself than Communism. That and Fascism in general is heretical Socialism, and nothing bothers the orthodox quite so much as a heretic.
Can you please do an episode on the history of relations between the US and Israel?
Dog on a leash
I second that, have Jay Dyer on
I am from the Balkans and one of the last things that my Great Aunt said the last time I saw her before she died is that She Missed Tito because even though everyone was poor atleast they had a lot of their needs for survival meet.
Please can we have a collab between Rudyard and @KeithKnightDontTreadonAnyone on the recent history of Libertarianism and Voluntaryism?
I’m more of a left-wing person, but I love watching your videos and criticism of the left, because I believe if you want to acquire more knowledge you have to listen even more to your political opponents, so I don’t only stick to my bubble and clearly, you seem being an educated guy. It’s an insightful remark Stalin wiped off the Russian social structure, but I’ll have to disagree fundamentally with the arguments from the black book of communism. The majority of deaths is caused by bloody wars that have nothing to do with communism. I live in Central Europe (Poland) and am reminded of German atrocities everywhere. My city (Warsaw) looks astonishing nowadays, but the more you live here, the more you see how scarred the city is. The Nazis killed 1/6 of Polish citizens just for sake of destroying our culture. Then they invaded the Soviet Union where they burned people alive in barns just for fun. Obviously, the soldiers sent by Moscow to the trenches were mainly human waves, but there we come to Stalin who I deem the person responsible for the communism failure. During Lenin’s reign he never desired genociding any population, he created Soviet Republics governed by the people inhabiting these areas and did what a normal leader would do if he were attacked from all sides and from within - defend himself and try to maintain control over the country, that’s the same thing a capitalist leader would do. There’s a plethora of civil wars and regular conflicts that we don’t blame the system for. Actually, both world wars were the flaws of capitalism where all the states were competing with each other in the fields of production, military, social institutions and it had to burst out sometime (fascism is a system created by bourgeoise in order to dwindle the working class influence). Stalin was a paranoid maniac who was a terrorist before and craved only power. He recreated many of the tsarist institutions Lenin toppled down for the sake of the people I.e. state-manufactured vodka plants that sold it for the masses to indulge and not disobey. I’ve read some of classic liberal literature (Bentham, Spencer)from the dawn of the XIX century and I think (I can’t recall who said that, but there was one author that inherited all his fortune and was just cruel for saying that a beggar’s place is in a sewer, because he deserves to, however him not working a day in his life and being just a merchant’s son is noble).
I don’t wish to make it an academic scientific work, so I’ll be finishing here. The communist states of similar income on average had a better-fed, healthier population that lived more. There’s a paper called Economic Development, Political-Economic System, and the Physical Quality of Life from the 80s which studied various economic data from across the world that showed that. There are multiple studies from multiple scholars about that ranging from the left to the right. I like reading actually what the author thought to assess the ideology by myself and I don’t accuse you of ignorance. I like the works of Carl Schmitt, Rousseau (personally I think he was a jerk), Ronald Dworkin and so on that represent the blatantly opposite ideologies.
The host really nails the uncanny valley vibe.
Ah, the music at the start gives me an accurate authentic feeling. The ancient culture of communism where the Mongols throat sings
I Hope more people will realise that communusim is just another religion
It's a religion, but with a bodycount higher than all the others combined.
I love the historian Tom Holland and his buddy the historian Dominic Sandbrook. You (Whatifalhist aka Rudyard) mentioned Tom Holland a fair bit I’m wondering if you have watched his “The Rest is History” podcast? Fantastic podcast I especially love the ones on Luther but they also do more obscure stuff like the history of beavers and wine. I highly recommend it, never seen a boring episode yet.
I think all his stuff just how integrated Christianity is into the western moral code will completely change how people view themselves or in relation to other cultures and give them a degree more understanding as to why different people outside their own framework think differently. I feel when a lot of western people say “all people want this” sometimes they say something that isn’t a human but a specifically Christian trait or when people don’t understand why another culture does something they seem to be on some level confused why the people of that different cultural background are not adhering to the western Christian moral code.
Even modern Islam has become bolshevist unfortunately
can you do a video on the chinese civil war
was not expecting this, hell yeah!
Good conversation is often simultaneous.
We need ancient Egypt video pleese
Anyway you can do a video on Modern Texas and it’s history? Could touch on topics of western expansion, rugged individualism, and how the frontiersman mindset of 18th and 19th century influences the population today. Also Texas right now is kind of like it was in the 1830s and 40s; everyone wants to move here and many see opportunities that other states don’t have.
Also: Vietnam doesn't allow private land ownership, it only allows private land use rights.
Sounds pretty similar to Georgism, which is based
@@jimjim01938 Similar, yes, but I'm anti-Georgist. Vietnam's constitution guarantees the right to your home, though, so there's that. You just don't own the land, only its use.
I'm sure this will be yet another episode of Rudyard pseud discussing a topic that has brought the world nothing but misery without naming the group behind it. Peak gate keeping.
Da joos
As someone who went yo a communist grammar school, wore red star on his school uniform and red scarf too, have seen what state farms and collective farms look like and what they do... what long queues like, and what it is like when you feel watched a lot... living in uk, and getting so many vibes that are nostalgic to me but fresh here id like to say... England- dont fuck around marxism. Stop now. ...and they are not stopping.
so glad im pakistani. being able to go back to a village and live a natural life is like a cheatcode in these times. people with power in government organizations are so detached from reality. its all about managing the plebs for them
I have a question for you that’s a bit off topic, but do Pakistanis sympathize with Khalistanis ?
I’m Sikh and it’s not only in our Gurus teachings to rule independently, Nation building was a huge concept in Sikhi (Sikhism) but Sikhs are still oppressed in India, not as much as the 80s and 90s which saw a mass genocide of Sikhs by the Indian government and police
What’s your opinion of Khalistan ?
we don’t necessarily want West Panjab since we wouldn’t have a voice with 110 Muslims nor do Sikhs even live there anymore, on the contrary East Panjab has barley any Muslims there either
Both cases being because of partition
Partition was horrible and a secret war between Panjabis but all who committed crimes are no longer alive anymore since it was 76 years ago, my grandma was a little girl and remembers having to take the bus and leave Faslabad to migrate to East Panjab but we Sikhs feel sympathy for those that had to migrate in west Panjab
Awe dude rudyard was fuckin ripping dude that ending was so abrupt! Good show!
They only go for one hour so time is sadly limited in that sense.
Oh wow! You know @uberboyo? You should do an episode with him!
They created a dialectic between revolutionaries and nationalists.
It doesn't bother me but your audio would be way better if you just bought a $10 plug-in lapel mic from Amazon... I understand that the premise here is high value content with low effort production, but seriouslyA $10 lapel mic you plug it in there's nothing to it and it would make it 50 times better audio
Can your next Video be about the Mongol Empire ?
You own nothing and your miserable.
Cant vn afford two es and an apostroph undr communism.
As the Chinese government recently told its people: "eat bitterness"
World Economic Forum: You will own nothing and you will be happy
I don't buy that because some idea somehow evolved from, or was influenced by, something Marx said that that idea falls under Marxism or should be considered Marxist.
Something that has evolved from Marxism is still Marxist. Perhaps heretical, but parentage counts. Something influenced, well, that's debatable by how influenced it was. If a thing was first said by Marx (or Engels), then it is Marxist. If a thing is primarily known because Marx pushed it or said it, it is either Marxist or obscure.
If an idea evolves from Aristotle, we call it Aristotelian. If an idea evolves from Plato, we call it Platonist or Neoplatonist. If an idea evolves from Kant, we call it Kantian or Neokantian. Why should we treat Marxism differently?
@@AJX-2 Because he is referring to ideas that have long grown past what Marx was talking about and ideas that had multiple influences rather than evolving simply from Marx. Aristotle helped start what became science. This would be like calling everything that can be called a science Aristotelian. If an idea has some things in common with what Marx said, but a whole lot different, it's misleading to call it Marxist. This gives the impression that the idea or theory or paradigm is essentially Marxism with a twist, when really it is vastly different. Such categorization does more to mislead than give us insight about the idea.
Can you please mute your phones when doing these episodes? the notifications are extremely distracting
One does not need to explain or understand communism. One must simply expunge it from existence with extreme prejudice.
If you do not understand what you are expunging, you cannot tell if you succeeded.
@@patrickjanecke5894 Fair enough. I suppose the phrase "know thine enemy", applies to this as much as anything, but at the very least I understand it well enough to know that it's eradication makes the world a better place. I've seen countries hollowed out, turned into pathetic former shells of their former selves, just like my country has been, so forgive me a bit of bitter bias.
But now, to my disgust, I see Western nations also inching their way forward into what I term as "corpo-communism", where a handful of unaccountable companies have the same sway and effect as an unaccountable one-party state, creating the same miserable and anti-human conditions.
I see Erik is chilling in that void Squidward went to when he broke that time machine
This was great for my hangover thanks!
Rudyard's gotta get on TRT.
Leave the kid alone 😂
No one in their 20s needs TRT you are ill
Comte and Dunoyer invented class theory, not Marx, they just defined it differently - and better. Also, materialism goes back to ancient Greece, it wasn't invented by Marx, either.
Slight correction, LENIN purged the Cossacks, namely the Don Cossacks, while Stalin purged the North Caucasian Chechens and Ingushetians.
You never said your friends with uberboyo damn you guys are connected thats cool.
I know someday we will also talk I would love to know you personally.
Vietnam is goated for helping Cambodia. I’m really interested in that now
PLEASE FIX THE AUDIO
I'm watching this on the 4th of July while getting ready to go to the gun range with my fiance. 😆
48:36. No offense but Albania was also pretty crazy. Maybe not as crazy as Cambodia but still crazy.
Hi guys!
Marx: "Ideas don't matter/have influence. Material conditions/circumstances do."
Marx's ideas: "Hold my beer."
I know it's a joke, but just in case you genuinely don't know, that's not exactly what Marx believed
I phukin truly dig this show.
Seems like you can just do these on your own. Not a ton of back and forth that seems to warrant anyone else
Oh shit lads, we're leading the World Revolution with this one.
Langer Episodes Please
7:13 is too true
"Marx invented using history to predict the future" thought of that using thinkin
Your videos have so much good knowledge, reflection, and you tie the threads of history together with so much research behind it. I’ve never thought you not to be knowledgeable.
I offer this critique out of genuine interest in your potential: work on your speaking abilities. I think if you made your points more concise and fluid with one another, you’d not only get your point across more clearly, but you’d draw a larger audience that doesn’t already have interest in the topic. You’re so clearly knowledgeable but you don’t package your knowledge well in this format. That being said, I don’t think you should scrap the format. I think you need more interaction from your “straight” guy who can almost act as a canvas for the audience member, more probing/questions from him. It would help in forcing you to make one point at a time rather then trying to go on as many rants at once as you can. You tend to begin a thought (that I can assume has a golden thread in your mind) and not really come back around to finish it, or at least not in a way that you draw attention to completing a point. Your voice is kind of monotone, as well, which doesn’t help with the constant shifting of rant to rant. It makes it all sound like a bit of a drawl. Your scripted videos do possess some of this too, though they have more refinement. The world you build does not allow for terribly economic speaking so I’m not trying to convey that you need to become Ernest Hemingway here. But I think you have solid points that are often lost in translation.
I hope you understand, I do not say this to bash. It is entirely from good faith for your potential, and appreciation for what you’ve already produced.
keep it up
Great in analysis on how Communist influence is perpetutated in history.
He's on fire in this one.
Ps - glad you are getting better at just hopping on a video. Its a sign of career evolution. Experts often just hop on (speaking as a tech consultant)
pls do modern left
Well said
What’s the opening music called?
Darude - Sandstorm
If you’re so close to your partner that you don’t know your partner is a psychopath, then the problem lies with you.
Yippie!!!
People who are useless feel entitled to other peoples stuff, there I explained it
Shut up and give me your money.
wasn't Cuba already filled with vacation resorts and, specifically, casinos under Bautista? Wasn't that the very complaint Castro and his barbudos used to justify the revolution? Not saying I like commie or support it, but it seems like a glaring error for a historian to make.
Write a book bro
Weirdest ending ever
As someone who considers myself left leaning (but who also holds a lot of views that would be considered right wing by many on the left, I.E. I am very pro 2nd amendment), I am very against Communism, because I, well, know history. But I think one of the biggest reasons that modern American capitalism is pushing people towards communism, both those on the left and right, because the American dream that Millennials and Gen Z have been promised is a lie. Obviously Communism is a terrible solution to our societal issues, but masses of people don’t want a good solution, they want an easy solution. So if a populist explicitly communist party comes up in America in the next few decades I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised.
if USA had a stronger welfare state and had more political parties like the UK/EU, I think less young Americans would be pushing for communism?
@@yux.tn.3641 Agreed. I don’t personally think a larger welfare state necessarily I just think the US healthcare system needs a major overhaul, giant corporations need to be broken up so that economic power is more decentralized, and that housing should stop being viewed as an investment by corporations. And I also hate the 2 party system I hate that we have to choose between 2 geriatric nut jobs. Oh yeah also lobbying is bullshit it’s literally just government corruption a la corporate buy outs.
If you actually knew history you wouldnt be against communism
All you know is conservative propaganda
And you are classic modern conservative
Doesnt think he is personally right wing, but only speaks and holds right wing ideology and propaganda
I have a friend like that, and he is always offended when i call him conservative/right wing, and ironically he only ever speaks of conservative values
This just goes to show that average right winger is media illiterate
Like recently rightwingers got mad at The Boys because they only now realized that its anti right wing show
Till then homelander was their hero
Rofl
So almost as if you have to be illiterate to be a right winger, which this comment section just proves lol
Your comment is so comically oblivious and ignorant its hilarious
"I dont think im right wing, just my annoying actually left wing friends think im right wing" XDDDDDD
You really should analyze thinkers like Fredritch Ratzel and Karl Ritter
Born in the Lithuanian SSR. God bless America, your tax payer keeps my family safe.
I know many Americans are not happy about Biden's fiscal deals like the Ukranian money but I just wanted to say thank you.
And fuck communism.
No, most of us support the Ukraine aid, both from polling and what I've seen here irl. Its less than half a percent of our government budget to hold back an invasion of Europe. The economic problems people are mad about are mainly off covid spending. Nothing but love to you people in eastern Europe from me.
@monkeyladder Thank you for filling in the details. I am polarized by the news as it's become extremely partisan and it's hard to recieve accurate unbiased information.
Edit: It actually reminds me of the split during thr Gorbachev era, it had extreme polarization in the Soviet Uniom and it was a 50 50 split amongst the larger populace in general.
@@kangaroocaliphate1577 I think the most recent polls have it being something like 60 percent in support of it. For most Americans its not a top priority, though it is for me and some sections of the country. For other reasons, its looking to be like the democrat party who supports Ukraine more will likely win the next election, they've overshot most special elections.
Rudyard, do the podcast with someone else. Your co-host contributes nothing and frankly if you just do the conversation by yourself, that's also great.
Ideally it'd be better to have another history and religion RUclipsr as a co-host such as Let's Talk Religion.
Also, having a super strict time constraint on conplex topics like this does it injustice.
I wish you the best but if you don't change I don't think this channel will reach the great heights it otherwise could.
Good Luck.
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Your videos are great, but I wish you would speak in the kind of full, well-constructed sentences of Stephen Hicks and others like him.
I don't get this channel. You have someone else do all the talking, contribute nothing to the conversation, and then basically kick him out because you've "ran out of time". Really weird.
It's just the pre established time limit. All their videos have more or less that one hour runtime.
the other guy represents "us", he is just suppose to listen
Many like to criticize communism, and rightly so, but either don't at all or barely mention the founders and people of it. Just mentioning Karl Marx and his racial origin, then hand waving it away with: "Oh, he was just anti-semitic" is dishonest.
Even engaging with Marrxists and communism you've already lost. Their ideas only succeed because the money purse can create banking crisis
To hate oneself is treason of the highest order.
Exactly. It's the biggest part of it!
Okay so what’s your solution? Blame all Jews collectively for the bad ideas and actions of other Jews ? Isn’t that unfair ?
@@pizzabagel4868 don't ask dumb questions. Jews are over represented in positions of power and influence. I can see you're not aware of the Jewish problem
5:54
Are you really going to attribute technological advancement to the left?
nah, thats what the left believe
Why are you gushing over Lenin, get a grip buddy.
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Explaining israeli civilization
Lucky! I took a lefty anthropology course im college and got a 60% (even though im known for writting and essays) becuae i was not expressive enogh. She was just mad i went typical essay rather than creative writting
Please have jay
Also too much credit to marx. He is obviously important, but often its a resurface of older ideas
Communist win! (Its because the soviet man is yhe best propoganda ever). Everyone eant to be a soviet man except the elite