@@arby327 Ben Shapiro did, he said that his doctor wife said 'anyone that has a wet pussy needs to see a doctor'. Bro legit said his wife had a dry pussy to millions of people on twitter
"Rear cattle in the evening, that's how in touch Marx was with reality!" My brother in Christ when Marx was still alive half of Europe was still feudalistic and had peasants
People totally don't rear cattle any more! We all know livestock farmers have been abolished by the all-mighty capitalism saving them from toiling in the fields!
I'm sick of the "who's going to clean the toilets" argument. Who cleans your toilets at home? Nobody? Do they get filthier and filthier forever because you don't have any financial incentive to clean them?
They pay their maids to clean their toilets. The maids have a financial incentive to clean the toilets. What, you don't have a maid? Haha, silly peasant. Maybe you should work harder to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and then you'll be a millionaire and have maids in your mansion.
I currently clean toilets for a living. I am the very bottom of the totem pole. It is a state job so I have decent insurance (that I still have to pay for) but they pay more at the local McDonalds. I would gladly continue cleaning toilets under communism. Even if it means that I live in the most basic shitty apartment. I already pay $1400 a month to live in my shitty apartment currently, a state provided place to live would actually be an upgrade. If I didn't have to worry about rent, insurance, medical bills, student loans, and I'd have more time to focus on my interests and hobbies, you'll be able to eat off the toilets when I'm finished cleaning them
Luke 18:22-25 - “When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich. Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, “How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”” 1 Timothy 6:10 - “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.” They only “believe” when they can use it to control others.
Christianity actually used to be a leftist/socialist religion, but it is now seen as a conservative religion because of racist, xenophobic, conservative televangelists, and propaganda. Ideas like Jesus being a capitalist, and abortion being murder is nowhere in the Bible, but many Christians have been brainwashed into thinking it is by conservatives.
"Marx has been dead for well over a century" And the confederacy was crushed over a century and a half ago, yet people fly that dumbass flag around. Next argument, please.
@@mangonectar8117 This. Every time they list the fears its like ahhhh we already got that..How many companies make baby formula? How many companies make insulin? How much does Yum brands and pepsi cola own? We're neck deep already in monopolization. But they keep crying about Venezuela and other things they read via propaganda tweets and channels.
People always bring up countries that tried socialism and failed. But those same countries fail under capitalism aswell. The US is actually best suited for socialism since we are already are one of the richest countries in the world.
I can't believe this man really said that capitalist job structures bring dignity. Pretty much everybody I know feels like they work undignified and exploited labor. Customer service workers are constantly treated like dirt to survive. And I'm sure working minimum wage feels VERY dignified, too. jfc
Sorry to have to tell you this and I'm not being patronising - a lot of people in my (capitalist) country do not want to work. These people would recieve an income regardless of their effort in the job market. Socialist, command macroeconomy does not accommodate the human nature of private accumulation and personal responsibility. Just vote at the booth for as communist a candidate you can find and hope that your neighbours also vote the same way. Until then, you gotta get sweat in this dispicable situation the economy is in currently.
@@dimwit3006 They don’t want to work because they know that this system and society is a facade to keep the rich wealthy and their labor serves no other purpose
@@dimwit3006 that’s bs People don’t want to sit around doing nothing all day. Even if they could. They just don’t want to work a job where they get paid slave labor wages while being treated like trash.
@@dimwit3006 youtube commenter Dim Wit has figured it all out! Marx and all successive marxian thinkers failed to consider the 'human nature of private accumulation and personal responsibility'. we can throw out all our books on marxist economics and disregard all existing examples of command economies not only working, but excelling in comparison to free market economies
Honestly, I would jump at the chance to work in a steel mill part-time. There just aren't any around, and those that are, are chock full of old timers who would starve on the street if they lost their jobs and don't have enough money to retire. But apparently wanting that means I'm sick in the head for wanting to do dirty, dangerous physical labour rather than sitting in an office pulling my hair out from boredom in a 'cool, modern' high-tech job.
@@MaestroKatProductions I love menial task labor. I actually enjoyed working at a fast food restaurant when the customers weren’t dick heads. I like being able to zone out and not focus. I could listen to a podcast while I clean the toilets and I’d be totally set. It just that none of these options make enough money for me to survive.
i work as a janitor and i’m completely ok with my job until the clock strikes 12 am and i’m completely fatigued and begin to experience derealization. but i have to work 4-5 more hours. it’s unhumane to make people do this kind of manual labour for the most of their day and 5 days of the week. and, also, yeah, the wage. more than half of it i spent on rent and the half of what’s left i spent on food. the labour itself is fine if the working conditions and work hours don’t suck the life out of you, and if the wage is enough to live and thrive as a person
Every time I hear conservatives talk about how "Communism/Socialism/Marxism/etc has failed every time it's been implemented" it always reminds me of that time that one journalist's death was ruled as a suicide with two shots to the head.
In capitalism, you choose to clean the sewers because you don't want to starve on the streets In communism, you choose to clean the sewers because you don't want dirty sewers I think it's obvious which situation puts more stress on the worker
@cypas rojus So you think that in an entire community, there wouldn't be a single person to choose their community's cleanliness over not having to work? You don't get paid to clean your bathroom but you still do that, and you'd clean the sewer without coercion too if its condition was having negative effects on your life in your community
@cypas rojus Why do you assume people are going to be "working for nothing". Most people don't want the bare minimum standard of living. The difference between capitalism and socialism is that in a socialist society you can take the minimum as an option, whereas under capitalism you just die.
@cypas rojus You're not working for nothing, you're working for a clean community Actually think about it. There's a reason the sewer needs to be cleaned in the first place. If we don't keep the sewers clean, that dirtiness can spread to the rest of the community and worsen your living conditions dramatically, right? You don't need a government to threaten you with a second punishment like prison or lack of money. If your back is itchy, you'll scratch it without getting paid. If you're tired, you'll go to sleep without getting paid. If your body is dirty, you'll bathe without getting paid. If your community is dirty, you'll clean it without getting paid, because if you're inconvenienced, you as a human being will work to fix it without getting paid.
I'm dating a Ph.D. student and dear god, knowing how much they worry about money while working so hard...it's hard to see them as not being exploited monetarily. Also, as a half-Cuban, I'm *SO* tired of hacks using Cuba (or Venezuela) as a non-argument to prop up their ideology.
But in fact that governments clearly shows that printing money without debt will lead to no money, and this is what happen in communist-socialist country, their money have even no value for foreign state and because an auto sufficient state doesn't exist you have total collapse
@@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 Exactly! It's intellectually dishonest (maybe also gaslighting?) to pretend the US played no role in what's happening now.
Personally I care because Jesus was an anti-capitalist badass who believed in wealth redistribution & fought for marginalized peoples. Something tells me that’s not why they care though…
“Why does anybody care about Marxism when Marx himself died over 100 years ago?” On a completely unrelated note, George Washington died in 1799 and Thomas Jefferson died in 1826.
Let it be known that on rate my professor the first review that comes up for the guy speaking says: “The dude is basically an Ayn Rand simp but somehow dumber.”
Capitalist: They chose SHIT JOB Me: But without SHIT JOB they'd be without food or shelter. It's not a choice Capitalist: Well, if that wasn't the case, everyone would just quit their job and no one would ever work Me: I thought you said they wanted and chose their job? *REPEAT*
As a clemson alumn and professor myself I'm effing embarrassed that that so called professor and Nikki Haley are lauded as important people with high accolades at clemson. Proud to be a clemson hasanabi follower. That school could use more leftists
@@miarogers9478 it's still a good school. I was in landscape architecture so I never had to even go near that dudes office or building even. I had no idea in 2008-11 he was doing what he did at clemson. Best thing to do is call these people out by making the school uncomfortable with having them around.
@@miarogers9478 I think most schools have those kind of professors. When progressive people don't go to schools with right wing professors, they kind of win in a way, I think. I don't live in America and don't even know where Clemson university is, but I think someone has to be there to make them uncomfortable and show them, that they don't own universities
Conservatives: "The deaths under socialism are a sign of the failures of socialism" Left: "What about the deaths under capitalism." Cons: "Those are just the failures of capitalism, it actually works..." Left: "Dude, WTF?"
those are also marxism fault. marxism existing is what makes capitalists exploit people to death while continuously lowering their quality of life and sitting on increasingly large surpluses for no reason other than spite and hatred.
Left like bernie supports social democracies like the Nordic system & the Nordic system's economy runs on capitalism. Even progressives like cenk(hasan's uncle)& kulinski support this or ethical capitalism. Left doesn't mean communist supporter only the far left do. (The extremes just like far right). You must be confusing communism to social democratic..smh
They don't ever admit that is because of capitalism, they deflect. It's either because it isn't TRUE capitalism and a truly free market would solve that, or those deaths are only in countries that lack "judeo-christian values", or it's because that's just a shithole country so it's not the fault of capitalism.
I love how at the beginning they basically admit the guy was a literal genius in terms of psychology, but then later on he's too stupid to comprehend stuff related to basic psychology, like wtf, try making sense. I don't expect the video to be unbiased, but it's literal propaganda.
I love the endless insistence from conservatives that somehow marxism is this extremely prevalent ideology that everyone in power believes, and yet we still somehow also live in a capitalist society as if the will of the most powerful people doesn't shape the system that society ahears to
Hasan and his followers dont understand that the socialism they dream of will never be the way they want it to be. It's impossible. It would lead to nobody working, millions dying of sickness and starvation, and humanity would stop progressing. Ironically, as the ones calling for it claim to be progressives. You guys really need more real life experience. It's easy to believe in a utopia when you're a young dreamer who doesn't see the complications of those dreams. Once you start the journey to your utopia, you're gonna have to kill those who oppose you. You gotta imprison or kill those with money and power, who simultaneously are the ones coordinating so you're able to work for money and spend money on all the different goods you have. You need to learn that while your utopia sounds amazing, there are things about it you haven't considered. There are so many things that will go wrong on that journey, and human nature will make sure we never get to it. Hell, look at Hasan's nature. He's not living minimalistic and setting money aside to build cheap houses to give away to people in need, as he could have done. Hell, Hasan could have put up the money to build homes all over a state like Montana, and moved homeless Californians out there, while paying for their food and everything! He actually makes enough money to do that! Yet he spends the money on fashion and a luxurious lifestyle, while talking down everyone who doesn't share his views. You don't have to agree with everyone politically in order to get along with them. Hasan is the new type of emo edgelord who's also the spoiled schoolyard bully. A 100% toxic person, who will keep you in his life until he doesn't need you. I can assure you, if Hasan and TYT was offered 100 million each per person to start preaching capitalism, they would do it with no questions asked.
I went to Clemson and, while I didn't have him myself, I had friends who had his classes. He teaches largely out of a book that he wrote, and is a pretty staunch libertarian from what I'm told by my friends. Apparently, when students who actually do the readings from their original sources, rather than reading about the original sources in Professor Thompson's own book, they can find contradictions between what he says and what is actually taught by, say Marx (as Hasan points out). I'm not sure if anyone has ever challenged him on his points. I kinda doubt it, since most people just want an A and don't want to sully themselves in his eyes by calling out his work. It bums me out as an alum that Clemson employs people like him. Clemson, as a consequence of its location and history, is a more conservative-leaning school, but most professors do a good job of balancing their personal thoughts on issues and presenting them as best they can (most professors themselves are actually far more liberal, given academics in general tend to be more liberal, but that's a whole other can of worms).
I’m totally willing to work but it’s SO hard to even find a job that’s a good fit for me, despite the “labor shortage.” It’s so weird they think we have the free choice where to work.
Yup, my workplace is basically the only one that would hire someone during the pandemic after I lost my old job, and they know it could take me months to find a new job should I lose my position there. Well, now they are once again threatening to downsize me after I refused to take a cut in working hours or wages (I accepted during the pandemic, but now I expect at least four days of work a week). I’d rather risk unemployment than working poverty.
I’m a teacher, how do I tell my students everything is going to be okay? I sound so naively idealistic when I say the future is when we are fighting against highly funded organizations like this.
I dont think its naive to say “fighting”. if you would call it winning, that would be naive. The best thing you can do as a teacher is teach them how the system really works.
@@nathanmiller3891 I’m teaching grade 11/12s about to head off into post secondary. What’s the baby way of explaining all of this without sounding too cringy? (I’m a chemistry teacher btw, so my left leaning politics only come out when I talk about climate change).
@@kgt94 i guess you could ask them why climate change is happening, and not the direct cause. The one system that initiated the climate change to happen.
@@streakiness4785 ya ofc, but they often go to the “personal responsibility” train of thought instead of saying oil lobbyists and whatnot. It’s hard for them to wrap their heads around how people are willingly poisoning our planet for money. I show them ocean acidification, which is most directly related to climate change and how our rising ocean acidity is directly correlated to CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere. Like recently shared with them the stonewall riots and how that contributed to our society’s acceptance of lgbtq2s+ community, I didn’t want to say violence was the answer but looking at history it’s hard to say it’s not.
And Multiculturalism, Postmodernism and CRT. I guess it's easier for these people to group the big scary words into one simpler scary word in order to make it meaningless.
@@whiteturkvern7155 that's so wild especially because Marxism is a modernist ideal, totally based on realist materialism. Post modernism is not only post-marxism but also pretty much the opposite of material realism 🤪 they just say things
The white picket fence suburban paradise of the 50s happened because of government handouts for people to buy houses, and labor unions making it possible for blue collar workers to support a whole household on one income. A big factor in why we don’t have nice things anymore is actually racism. We’d rather fill up the (real and metaphorical) community pool with dirt than let black people swim with us. Souce: The Sum of Us (super informative book)
He is speaking with the credibility of being a college professor. The audience this video is intended for will see that as a legitimate enough authority to not question him.
PragerU's approach to making content really does just boil down to "If we don't have a good argument against it, just lie about it and argue against that".
As a retail worker I see how our capitalist system causes me and my coworkers to become alienated from our customers and our jobs. I work at one of the big auto parts aftermarket retailers, and many of the people who come to us are in need of some level of guidance to get their cars running. Many of them express how if they don't have a functioning car they won't be able to go to work the next day and this could cause them severe financial hardship. That being the case though, we're so overworked and we're so abstracted from the real effect of our product that we often can't take the time to properly advise someone on how to go about remedying their situation. Not only that, but many of my coworkers have no experience in the products they are selling and in that lack of experience they often decide to say anything necessary in order to increase their sales numbers until that numerical value becomes a stand-in for success. I cannot blame this solely on my coworkers though, because the retail system is designed to devalue and underpay workers to the point that anyone with actual knowledge in the field becomes wholly disinterested in joining our workforce. Expertise is not a priority for these companies. In fact, expertise is often seen as a detriment because many times an expert can find a fix that doesn't require spending hundreds of dollars on a new part which has many redundant components. Capitalism completely alienates people from their lives. We often don't understand where our food comes from, how our vehicles and appliances work, and even our very own history becomes an alien concept to push us to continue to produce for this system.
I think it’s really interesting how when he showed someone ‘accumulating wealth’ he didnt show the main target of this statement, the uber-rich, billionaires, but instead a suburban family with two cars and an RV to make the watcher feel like Socialism is directly and specifically after THEM.
Glad you pointed this out, that kind of stuff is why PragerU is so good at what they do, which makes them even more insidious and dangerous to society.
It's actually true, your just too biased to see it. All the left ever does is glorify criminals while crapping on anyone who works hard and doesn't want crime in the streets. Why else have all the Soros funded District Attorney's and politicians gone so soft on crime. You don't care because it doesn't affect you, inner city residents pay the price.
How the hell does this college professor get away with going online and just making stuff up for a RUclips channel funded by fracking billionaires? He must be tenured, right?
@@injunsun he’s apparently a Poli-Sci professor at Clemson University in South Carolina (I think that’s where it is, I was too poor to go to college so I don’t know)
3:45 All you need to be a college professor are resources (so that you can survive on your grad school stipend) and just determination to finish your degree. You don't need incredible insight or superior critical thinking skills. Those will help. But, guys like this make it through all the time.
The whole "all marxists are jealous" thing is always funny when you already have money but still think that money and therefore power should be distributed more evenly. I had a friend who literally worked a dead end job for little pay and extreme hours tell me that I was only a marxist because I was "jealous", I'm not rich by any means, but I work as a doctor so I definitely had a better living standard than he did and was not at all jealous of his lifestyle.
It's wild to me as a server who makes $2.15/hr that the people who tip the best are other working class people. They actually understand that i need to pay my rent. Rich people typically tip like shit despite the fact that they have the means to tip well
yup. my parents were raised in poor households, and rarely ate out or even ate good food. now, they both respectively make 200k a year, and tip very well. i hope i have the money as an adult to tip well.
I became a socialist when I realized that it's the one subject that no one questions. We just assume that socialism is wrong even when 99% of ppl can't even define it properly. Ubiquitously throughout our culture, media, etc. socialism is demonized for no real reason. Then when you actually study it you realize all of the fundamental arguments in defense of capitalism - free will, human nature, checks and balances of power, free of corruption, etc. don't actually exist in any meaningful way. On top of that; those of us in the USA don't ever think about the conditions of the rest of the world. If you're okay with the fact that your Nike's you worship probably come from some 12 year old girl working a 14 hour shift in some sweatshop in southeastern Asia, or the gas you fill your car with each day is much cheaper than it is in comparison to the rest of the world as a consequence of our endless wars and violence that's resulted in millions of murdered innocent civilians in the Middle East, or the banana that you eat each morning for breakfast is available because the US has absolutely devastated central and South America then cool but if you're not okay with that, because you're a half decent human-being, then you realize there has to be an alternative.
The labor theory of value means you are worth more than what your employer pays you. If the employer pays the exact value of your labor then marxism is not against the same employee buying more things or accumulate more wealth.
so if government helping people with economic inequalities is communism/socialism what is it called when they give trillions of dollars to a few individuals who own most of the corporations that supply necessities and luxuries ?
I remember when I started learning drafting after I got out the military. My first teacher told us. If I pay you $15 an hour I am probably contracting you out for about $45 to the customer.
One of my favorite things about America is we all as citizens have several and varying complaints about living/ work conditions and how increasingly difficult and expensive being alive is. Even so, when presented with multiple ways to better their living conditions, they hear some conservative say "but that's Marxism" and nope themselves out of solutions. Guess we all just keep working with our heads down and hope everything will eventually work itself out.....
Sweden is just as guilty. You can only be "proud" of social democracy in a nationalistic sense isolated from the global system. Social democracy relies on the exploitation of the global south and while Sweden didn't directly have colonies, participate in the slave trade, or most imperial wars, it was a benefactor mostly through selling goods or seeing changes in its labour force. If countries like Congo, Brazil, Philippines or Thailand decided they wanted a Swedish style social democracy too, social democracy in the global north would collapse, or countries like Sweden would help to overthrow them.
Look at gas prices. oil companies have said flat out they are not dropping oil prices to make up 2020 profits for their shareholders. We produce the most oil in the world. We don’t need to buy oil but they make more profit selling our oil to the world. Instead of using it for Americans. They get the oil from public land yet we don’t get a cut of 44 billion a quarter. They make 176,000,000,000 that’s profit after paying all their expenses. That’s a year over ten years they profited over a trillion. We pay high priced due to greed. 60% of price hikes have nothing to do with inflation and they amount prices have gone up are alway above what was necessary. All comes down to greed.
@@s1nqyy and that explains letting big oil gouge us how? so we can do it better faster. Should we let them make record profits while other americans suffer? Let them sell it to others make us buy it back at higher prices or are you acknowledging the other side of that coin? Focusing only on comparative advantages can result in exploitation and depletion of the country's resources? This isn't what i said either way. I said this oil is from public land and yet we pay high prices on oil owned by the people for the people. Tell me if i misunderstood?
@@christopherconkright1317 my point is you state “why don’t we use our own oil.” we don’t because it’s actually better for us to export our processed oil and import crude oil due to something called comparative advantage. countries like those in opec have a comparative advantage in getting crude oi
@@christopherconkright1317 also the market for crude oil is global. ignoring that turning all our oil production and consumption inward would probably raise prices even more, gas prices are somewhat out of our control unless you want price controls
@@s1nqyy oh well I see how well that helps right now? The company exports the oil(we are number 1 producer in the world) from public land across the globe. Instead of pumping it local to Make gas. Is cheaper for America? Your right comparative advantage is good for the oil company definitely not good for the population. The companies flat out tell us they are gouging us but bribe our politicians.
Once, when some "university professor" mused to Marx, "But under socialism, who will fix the shoes?" Marx, irate, snapped: "You will." No one talks about his sense of humour.
@Nightharmony never really watched him until this video two months ago now he is my go to background noise lmao. I figured since he was so popular and on Twitch he was more like Vaush
6:04 - Ah yes: _"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"_ famously means that everyone gets exactly the same amount of income. Yup. That's what those words mean. Definitely.
American conservatives: 'well, developing countries need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and build a functioning economy' 'Okay well maybe it'd help if you offered them a fair price for their resources, that you rely on?' '...'
I’m retired military since 2020, and this year my pension is ~50k. With inflation this year, I have to get a part time job to prevent taking on debt. Capitalism is peaking right now, taking pensioners out of retirement.
that's not capitalism peaking though, it's long been past its peak. thats it starting to freefall, and grabbing onto everything it can to cushion the rich on the way down.
I'm looking forward to my new job. I will have a lot more down time to do whatever I want, while making more money than what I was making at Walmart. I literally walked out on my job there. My manager told me to dial back being sick because some entitled shit head bitched to her about how I was sick and "showing it". I went into work, feeling dizzy, throwing up, my whole body hurt, sore throat, and no voice. I was trying to just make it through the day and she told me that. I looked at another manager and all the did was shrug. I have now landed a job where, yes, I will be working 7 days straight, 10 plus hours everyday, but I get a week off. So I work 1 week and then have 1 week off. With the pay raise I will be getting compared to Walmart, I will be working less hours but making more in 7 days than I would of been 10 days there and getting an extra 3 days off in a 2 week period. I'm really looking forward to this and this will give me more time during my week off to do the things I want to do because I will have more time to do it. Unlike working 10 days in a 2 week period would of given me. This is something that everyone should be able to do. It's been proven that when people have more time to do full filling things, they are more productive at work. Which is why several countries have taken the work week down to 4 to even 3 days vs 5 days a week. They had an increase in people being productive. But, here, that would be consisdered "lazy" for working that little.
Funnily enough I have been in a commune and the guy who cleans out the toilets/poop tanks is respected by *everyone* because no one wants to do it and is thankful that he is making it work. He was also super into the "how to of it", how it decomposes etc.
I went into reading Marx with the attitude of "fuck yeah, finally some good Communist propaganda" and all I got was 700 pages of linen economics... where's all the good stuff PragerU talks about?
Someone should splice the part where he says work is voluntary and provides money and dignity alongside that Fox news clip where they say hunger is a big motivator to get people back to work "a hungry dog is an obedient dog" or whatever they said
What annoys me about criticism of Marxism and of Socialism more broadly is the false notion that there wouldn't be workers who clean sewers and do janitorial work. People would absolutely take and be proud of those jobs if they 1.) had ownership over their labor, and didn't feel alienated as a result, and 2.) were subsequently compensated fairly without the expectation of working insanely long hours that kept them tired and unable to enjoy other facets of their life. I know this PragerU video is easy to pick to pieces, it's all funded by right-wing thing tanks and foundations that are created by the Billionaire class to propagandize the Working Class, but I think that part of their video really highlights just how out of touch they actually are with the Working Class and their actual desires. Workers want to work, they just don't want to do unfulfilling work that doesn't compensate them well enough to live their lives and afford an apartment.
Despite anyone’s opinion of Marx, I think anyone can understand & acknowledge the significance of his ideas. This is just character assassination disguised as education.
Its funny when this dude was talking about dirty jobs, because my mom has been working in custodial since she was like 17. She’s in her 40’s now, and she was alway stuck at 2 jobs for the majority of her adult worklife; a janitor at a state university, and then custodial at a 3M plant. She always hated her job at those two places, mainly because as a janitor she doesnt have any mechanism of pushback (this is wisconsin after the unions were practically destroyed). And also at 3M, there were just so much rules, and getting pushed by management, she basically couldn’t be herself, and she just developed more stress and felt miserable waking up in the morning. Like 3M, she was offered to do training for a new hire, and she was going to get additional pay on top of it, but she never got those extra checks, so she just said screw it and started looking for another job several months ago. Mainly the reason she didnt start looking sooner is because 3M employees get pretty good benefits, and even though her salary wasn’t that much, our household relied on the benefits she got from 3M. She found a job at a property, basically as a janitor, but more of a groundskeeper. It’s owned by a dude who is pretty rich, but he have given my mother way more freedom with her labor, with the same benefits she was getting at 3M. And she only started at a slightly less wage than she was making at 3m, with more frequent raises. She can wear what she wants, and it’s basically just her with no one really telling her what to do, because she has had like 25 years of experience, so she shows up, doesn’t even have to clock in, and she just leaves at the same time, no “mandatory overtime” (aka slave labor), and it’s the first time in years she has felt good waking up to go to work. Trust me, if you treat workers like human beings, they will become more productive and willing to do their job. Hasan’s explanation of it the dirty jobs stuff is pretty damn accurate from what I’ve seen. The coercion is from capitalism, knowing that if you dont take that shitty job, you’ll starve, or you cant go to the doctor when you start feeling sudden chest pains because you dont have healthcare, and even if you do have healthcare you will likely be stuck in a medical debt cycle because your wage at a dead end job has remained stagnate and you can barely afford rent, and you can forget all of that shit if you even have a single kid. The costs keep coming, the stress piles up, and you essentially have become a wage slave, with no sense of fulfillment in site.
8:41 And everyone refuse to admit that this is the main source of new gen depression, seeing you're born in a systemically exhausting and inhuman society
If I was in college and found out one of my professors were in a Prager U video, I'd drop the class and file a complaint with the administration for wasting my tuition paying faculty with shitty critical thinking skills.
Millennials: *misses the 90s because of childhood cartoons and TV shows as well as childhood nostalgia* Boomers: *misses the 50s because they could be only racist, misogynistic and xenophobic* Two of this countries largest generations both Radically different in every conceivable way
My favorite thing prager u type guys do is describe or directly quote something Marx said but say it in a scary voice so it seems bad and then just move on.
"The fear of the structural violence of poverty.." as a millennial, I felt that. And as a business owner, I can assure you that there is more money to be made by half-assing, exploiting, and scamming than doing straight business. In general, companies don't appreciate quality, fair wages, ethics or honesty.
Yeah. People I know in other countries think it’s wild how much we work. I had a friend tell me something along the lines of, “do y’all do anything in America besides work? That’s all y’all seem to do over there. What’s the point if you can’t enjoy anything? It defines your existence. It’s crazy to me.” And it’s true. If you aren’t busting your ass, day in and day out, in this country, not only can you not survive, but society views you as lazy and going against the norm.
Every single time they walk face first into the point. "Who does the dirty jobs under socialism?" "People choose to do the dirty jobs under capitalism" Which one is it? Do they choose to do it, in which case surely they would choose to do it under socialism as well, or are they coerced?
9:07 i distinctly remember having a long time friend who's only education was high school take a sewer cleaning/maintenance job because it paid well for the area ($20/hr? something like that). I also remember there being a running joke among us to the tune of "today at work, someone shit my pants" because it happened so frequently
I have a cleaning business. Maybe I should have gone to Prager U rather than ITT Tech and my degree would have made me a lot more valuable in this capitalist hellscape.
Something I hate about these convos is the implication that all "dirty jobs" would sit vacant, that nobody would do simple labor if labor let them live. Some of the "dirty jobs" i have had were actually nice or did have appeal to them. I *like* working on cars, I *like* cleaning and seeing a neat space behind me, I just don't want to physically work on cars all day as my sole career and I can't make a good living from a cleaning service past a certain point without a) hiring and bossing more people or b) asking for more than the market. I've had several jobs where I loved either the environment or the mission of the company enough to do undesirable work for them, but I quite over *money and insurance* or *workweek and scheduling issues*
Trying to learn about all the ideologies correctly. I am a law student with a minor in political science, but still find it incredibly difficult considering the amount of propaganda and misinformation that is anti anything that isnt the country one is living in. I am dual citizen, and in Denmark people here label anyone who isnt a ‘democratic socialist that supports the free capitalist market’ to be the devil, and in Australia its an insult to be called a ‘commie’ or a ‘socialist’. Its like a fucking slur people throw at people who want any form of empathy in the system.
What makes me most upset, me being as gullible as I am (which makes me a nervous wreck), is that content such as PragerU is occasionally difficult to be properly outraged by. Their use of plain language, in a somewhat ambiguous fashion, makes disagreeing with the explanations they give feel illogical.
I know this is an old thread but if anyone finds this and is interested in history I have a question. Have you heard of the WTO Seattle protest/riot in 1999? There was 50,000 protesters. They declared a no prottest zone around the convention center. They used a bunch of city buses like a wall and had riot cops on top. They had hydrants Of pepper spray, percussion bombs, “rubber” bullets, pepper spray bullets, undercover cops causing property damage. They ran out of tear-gas the first day. Declared martial law. The next day people had planned to go back and they didn’t let the day before stop them. That’s when the mass arrest started. The next few weeks were just as crazy. I was there it was nuts. If only everyone had camera phones back then. We had to use two way radios to communicate. I did tons of trainings the week before and loaned out radios to the different groups. I always had mine one the emergency line and heard about all the stuff happening I wasn’t around. I was so freaked out that first night I tried to get away but they followed people several miles to where I was. They used the last of their tear-gas on a neighborhood and people holiday shopping.🎄 This is just a small clip of what happened there.
I'm a religious Christian and when he said "Capitalism with it's Judeo-Christian values" I literally broke out into laughter. What a joke. Yeah because Jesus totally preached for us to get rich. I bet he has a hard time explaining when Jesus said "I'll say it again-it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!". I hate how much the right appropriates Christianity and especially when capitalists do it. Capitalism is the furthest thing from Christianity.
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“I just HATE money, dawg.” -Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto
Unironically based.
"Smickety-smack, iPhone vuvuzela house is wack."
-Karl Marx, 2002.
He was a beta.
he did kinda hate money tho
@@GlitzPixie Did he? Lets ask his bestie about it.
"If Karl Marx was so great, how come he's dead?"
- PragerU
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 u mad
I know right? Couldn't the same be said for the Founding Fathers of the USA? It's such a dumb argument
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 Yeah destructive to the profits of capitalists, and the slave owners.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 pee pee pee pee pee pee pee pee pee pee pee
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 such a destructive idea, having control in your workplace and not being exploited. You hate freedom.
Never forget, there is no death, famine, poverty, illness, war or depression under capitalism
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 I find it sad how so many people take cons like Shapiro and Carlson seriously.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 Clearly you take him seriously enough to post over 500 hate comments on his channel.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 I find it sad so many people take weebs seriously 😞
Under socialism; death, famine, poverty, illness and war are terrible
Under capitalism; death, famine, poverty, illness and war are your own fault
PragerU talking about leftist ideologies is like Ben Shapiro talking about sex
lol so true
Only good comparison
Imagine any of the daily wire/prageru spokespeople having sex
@@arby327 Ben Shapiro did, he said that his doctor wife said 'anyone that has a wet pussy needs to see a doctor'. Bro legit said his wife had a dry pussy to millions of people on twitter
They dont get it
"Rear cattle in the evening, that's how in touch Marx was with reality!"
My brother in Christ when Marx was still alive half of Europe was still feudalistic and had peasants
People totally don't rear cattle any more! We all know livestock farmers have been abolished by the all-mighty capitalism saving them from toiling in the fields!
Funny that professor doesn't seem to believe rural people exist.
@@therat1117 That's how out of touch he is with reality!
that line confused me. was he saying that rearing cattle takes longer than an evening because that wasn’t marx’s point
@@therat1117 dude looks like he's never even seen a cow
I'm sick of the "who's going to clean the toilets" argument. Who cleans your toilets at home? Nobody? Do they get filthier and filthier forever because you don't have any financial incentive to clean them?
They pay their maids to clean their toilets. The maids have a financial incentive to clean the toilets.
What, you don't have a maid? Haha, silly peasant. Maybe you should work harder to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and then you'll be a millionaire and have maids in your mansion.
@@_chew_ woah hey they're, you said millionaire, you certainly mean apartment not mansion yes?
Seems to be how my roommate works. 🤮
I currently clean toilets for a living. I am the very bottom of the totem pole. It is a state job so I have decent insurance (that I still have to pay for) but they pay more at the local McDonalds. I would gladly continue cleaning toilets under communism. Even if it means that I live in the most basic shitty apartment. I already pay $1400 a month to live in my shitty apartment currently, a state provided place to live would actually be an upgrade. If I didn't have to worry about rent, insurance, medical bills, student loans, and I'd have more time to focus on my interests and hobbies, you'll be able to eat off the toilets when I'm finished cleaning them
@@OkEmpress Thank you for your service
I love how these boys unironically believe Jesus or Moses would have been capitalists. That's fucking hysterical.
Capitalism, being an abstraction of feudalism, was invented like 500 years ago
Luke 18:22-25 - “When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich. Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, “How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.””
1 Timothy 6:10 - “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.”
They only “believe” when they can use it to control others.
Moses very known to not compromise with the rulers, unleashing deadly plagues
kinda based ngl
Christianity actually used to be a leftist/socialist religion, but it is now seen as a conservative religion because of racist, xenophobic, conservative televangelists, and propaganda. Ideas like Jesus being a capitalist, and abortion being murder is nowhere in the Bible, but many Christians have been brainwashed into thinking it is by conservatives.
Its like they forget the bread and fish
"Marx has been dead for well over a century"
And the confederacy was crushed over a century and a half ago, yet people fly that dumbass flag around.
Next argument, please.
Shakespeare has been dead for decades. Stop enjoying Romeo and Juliet
They never seem to say the Constitution was in 1787 so it so out of touch with our world today!
The founding fathers have been dead for over 2 centuries. We should throw away the constitution and declaration of independence.
Adam Smith is double dead, over 200 years
@@johnathanwalker8395 😂
I love when conservatives try to say how bad Marxism and socialism is but end up just making it sound even better
I love it even more when they think socialism is when capitalism.
@@mangonectar8117 This. Every time they list the fears its like ahhhh we already got that..How many companies make baby formula? How many companies make insulin? How much does Yum brands and pepsi cola own? We're neck deep already in monopolization. But they keep crying about Venezuela and other things they read via propaganda tweets and channels.
or end up describing capitalism
38:00 Indeed lolllll
You know hasan doesn’t pay his editors, right?
People always bring up countries that tried socialism and failed. But those same countries fail under capitalism aswell. The US is actually best suited for socialism since we are already are one of the richest countries in the world.
So socialism has never been tried? Yet you're so confident in it, it amazes me
@@animeking17 Not what they said
@@animeking17 Are you illiterate?
@@animeking17 In the same breath you will blame capitalism's failings on crony capitalism without a hint of self reflection.
especially when the capitalists constantly undermine and actively seek to destroy it.
I can't believe this man really said that capitalist job structures bring dignity. Pretty much everybody I know feels like they work undignified and exploited labor. Customer service workers are constantly treated like dirt to survive. And I'm sure working minimum wage feels VERY dignified, too. jfc
Sorry to have to tell you this and I'm not being patronising - a lot of people in my (capitalist) country do not want to work. These people would recieve an income regardless of their effort in the job market. Socialist, command macroeconomy does not accommodate the human nature of private accumulation and personal responsibility. Just vote at the booth for as communist a candidate you can find and hope that your neighbours also vote the same way. Until then, you gotta get sweat in this dispicable situation the economy is in currently.
@@dimwit3006 They don’t want to work because they know that this system and society is a facade to keep the rich wealthy and their labor serves no other purpose
@@dimwit3006 that’s bs
People don’t want to sit around doing nothing all day. Even if they could. They just don’t want to work a job where they get paid slave labor wages while being treated like trash.
@@dimwit3006 youtube commenter Dim Wit has figured it all out! Marx and all successive marxian thinkers failed to consider the 'human nature of private accumulation and personal responsibility'. we can throw out all our books on marxist economics and disregard all existing examples of command economies not only working, but excelling in comparison to free market economies
I feel like they don't even think about service workers
I would gladly clean toilets and sewers if it meant I didn’t have to worry about housing food or healthcare. I would do it in a heart beat.
Honestly, I would jump at the chance to work in a steel mill part-time. There just aren't any around, and those that are, are chock full of old timers who would starve on the street if they lost their jobs and don't have enough money to retire. But apparently wanting that means I'm sick in the head for wanting to do dirty, dangerous physical labour rather than sitting in an office pulling my hair out from boredom in a 'cool, modern' high-tech job.
@@therat1117 Bonus point is u won't have to schedule your physical exercises cus your work is already your physical exercise lol
@@MaestroKatProductions I love menial task labor. I actually enjoyed working at a fast food restaurant when the customers weren’t dick heads. I like being able to zone out and not focus. I could listen to a podcast while I clean the toilets and I’d be totally set. It just that none of these options make enough money for me to survive.
i work as a janitor and i’m completely ok with my job until the clock strikes 12 am and i’m completely fatigued and begin to experience derealization. but i have to work 4-5 more hours. it’s unhumane to make people do this kind of manual labour for the most of their day and 5 days of the week.
and, also, yeah, the wage. more than half of it i spent on rent and the half of what’s left i spent on food.
the labour itself is fine if the working conditions and work hours don’t suck the life out of you, and if the wage is enough to live and thrive as a person
On god. Just housing and health care ill grow my own food if needed
My favourite part in "Das Kapital" is when Karl Marx writes "its Marxin time!" and marxes all over the Bourgeosie.
Best arc hands down
Every time I hear conservatives talk about how "Communism/Socialism/Marxism/etc has failed every time it's been implemented" it always reminds me of that time that one journalist's death was ruled as a suicide with two shots to the head.
Holy shit perfect lmao
theyre 1984.. All those words just mean bad to them. The world was nothing but communes for 10s of thousands of years
This is all I think about when it comes to capitalism, it’s victims of violence. Then again my parents are Latino immigrants so no surprise.
You couldn't have written it better
Doesn’t matter they are bad systems we don’t need them lol capitalism with social policies is the move
In capitalism, you choose to clean the sewers because you don't want to starve on the streets
In communism, you choose to clean the sewers because you don't want dirty sewers
I think it's obvious which situation puts more stress on the worker
@cypas rojus So you think that in an entire community, there wouldn't be a single person to choose their community's cleanliness over not having to work? You don't get paid to clean your bathroom but you still do that, and you'd clean the sewer without coercion too if its condition was having negative effects on your life in your community
@cypas rojus Why do you assume people are going to be "working for nothing". Most people don't want the bare minimum standard of living. The difference between capitalism and socialism is that in a socialist society you can take the minimum as an option, whereas under capitalism you just die.
@cypas rojus You're not working for nothing, you're working for a clean community
Actually think about it. There's a reason the sewer needs to be cleaned in the first place. If we don't keep the sewers clean, that dirtiness can spread to the rest of the community and worsen your living conditions dramatically, right? You don't need a government to threaten you with a second punishment like prison or lack of money.
If your back is itchy, you'll scratch it without getting paid. If you're tired, you'll go to sleep without getting paid. If your body is dirty, you'll bathe without getting paid. If your community is dirty, you'll clean it without getting paid, because if you're inconvenienced, you as a human being will work to fix it without getting paid.
@cypas rojus The minimum standard of living is not affordable on the minimum wage... that's why people want a living wage.
@cypas rojus There haven't been any socialist countries, only small autonomous regions and communes.
I'm dating a Ph.D. student and dear god, knowing how much they worry about money while working so hard...it's hard to see them as not being exploited monetarily.
Also, as a half-Cuban, I'm *SO* tired of hacks using Cuba (or Venezuela) as a non-argument to prop up their ideology.
But in fact that governments clearly shows that printing money without debt will lead to no money, and this is what happen in communist-socialist country, their money have even no value for foreign state and because an auto sufficient state doesn't exist you have total collapse
While ignoring america's economic and military warfare upon all those countries
@@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 Exactly! It's intellectually dishonest (maybe also gaslighting?) to pretend the US played no role in what's happening now.
socialism bad because (insert country where we destabilized, invaded or ran a CIA coup)
I feel you there, as I'm also half-Cuban
Why does anyone still cares about Jesus? He's been dead for nearly 2000 years.
That's almost 1/3 of the world's age. Crazy what some people will fall for. 😪
@@smallguy2 Underrated comment.
There are literally tens of millions on Christians in the world. Your snide comments mean nothing to anyone except yourself.
Personally I care because Jesus was an anti-capitalist badass who believed in wealth redistribution & fought for marginalized peoples. Something tells me that’s not why they care though…
Nice one👍🏼
“Why does anybody care about Marxism when Marx himself died over 100 years ago?”
On a completely unrelated note, George Washington died in 1799 and Thomas Jefferson died in 1826.
Adam Smith died in 1790
Also, continuing on unrelated notes, Confederate Generals have been dead over 100 years.
Jesus Christ supposedly died over *2000* years ago.
@@billmozart7288 Adam Smith wasn’t that bad.
Jesus died a little bit before all that people, like 2000 years ago or something
@@felipefs1917 2022 years ago
Let it be known that on rate my professor the first review that comes up for the guy speaking says: “The dude is basically an Ayn Rand simp but somehow dumber.”
Lol!!😂😂🤣🤣
hell yes
Capitalist: They chose SHIT JOB
Me: But without SHIT JOB they'd be without food or shelter. It's not a choice
Capitalist: Well, if that wasn't the case, everyone would just quit their job and no one would ever work
Me: I thought you said they wanted and chose their job?
*REPEAT*
Marxism is when my wife's boyfriend doesn't buy me the new PS5 he promised he would get me
No it isn't.
@@GravityFarm it’s a joke buddy, you really think someone believes “Marxism is when wife’s bf doesn’t …”? Lol it’s sarcasm man.
@@GravityFarm c'mon man how could you take that seriously
As a clemson alumn and professor myself I'm effing embarrassed that that so called professor and Nikki Haley are lauded as important people with high accolades at clemson. Proud to be a clemson hasanabi follower. That school could use more leftists
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I was planning on applying to clemson until I learned that he taught there 💀😭
@@miarogers9478 it's still a good school. I was in landscape architecture so I never had to even go near that dudes office or building even. I had no idea in 2008-11 he was doing what he did at clemson. Best thing to do is call these people out by making the school uncomfortable with having them around.
@@miarogers9478 I think most schools have those kind of professors. When progressive people don't go to schools with right wing professors, they kind of win in a way, I think. I don't live in America and don't even know where Clemson university is, but I think someone has to be there to make them uncomfortable and show them, that they don't own universities
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Conservatives: "The deaths under socialism are a sign of the failures of socialism"
Left: "What about the deaths under capitalism."
Cons: "Those are just the failures of capitalism, it actually works..."
Left: "Dude, WTF?"
No, it's more like:"those are just minor details!"
those are also marxism fault. marxism existing is what makes capitalists exploit people to death while continuously lowering their quality of life and sitting on increasingly large surpluses for no reason other than spite and hatred.
L-"What about the deaths under capitalism?"
C-"Still socialism"
Left like bernie supports social democracies like the Nordic system & the Nordic system's economy runs on capitalism. Even progressives like cenk(hasan's uncle)& kulinski support this or ethical capitalism. Left doesn't mean communist supporter only the far left do. (The extremes just like far right). You must be confusing communism to social democratic..smh
They don't ever admit that is because of capitalism, they deflect. It's either because it isn't TRUE capitalism and a truly free market would solve that, or those deaths are only in countries that lack "judeo-christian values", or it's because that's just a shithole country so it's not the fault of capitalism.
I love how at the beginning they basically admit the guy was a literal genius in terms of psychology, but then later on he's too stupid to comprehend stuff related to basic psychology, like wtf, try making sense. I don't expect the video to be unbiased, but it's literal propaganda.
Smooth brain take
It's the classic "My enemies are super scary but also they are super weak" argument idiot grifters love peddling
The only quote from "Das Kapital" that i know, is the following one: "Socialism is when Azan has no house" ~Karl Marx
I love the endless insistence from conservatives that somehow marxism is this extremely prevalent ideology that everyone in power believes, and yet we still somehow also live in a capitalist society as if the will of the most powerful people doesn't shape the system that society ahears to
You slapping Chris Rock also shaped some of the systems society adhears to.
@@zeekthegeek4538 absolutely true 🤣
You don’t understand. Gommunism is when Capitalism. Also rEaL cApItAlIsM hAsNt BeEn TrIeD. We hAvEs cOrPoRaTiSm.
Hasan and his followers dont understand that the socialism they dream of will never be the way they want it to be. It's impossible. It would lead to nobody working, millions dying of sickness and starvation, and humanity would stop progressing. Ironically, as the ones calling for it claim to be progressives.
You guys really need more real life experience. It's easy to believe in a utopia when you're a young dreamer who doesn't see the complications of those dreams.
Once you start the journey to your utopia, you're gonna have to kill those who oppose you. You gotta imprison or kill those with money and power, who simultaneously are the ones coordinating so you're able to work for money and spend money on all the different goods you have.
You need to learn that while your utopia sounds amazing, there are things about it you haven't considered. There are so many things that will go wrong on that journey, and human nature will make sure we never get to it. Hell, look at Hasan's nature. He's not living minimalistic and setting money aside to build cheap houses to give away to people in need, as he could have done. Hell, Hasan could have put up the money to build homes all over a state like Montana, and moved homeless Californians out there, while paying for their food and everything! He actually makes enough money to do that! Yet he spends the money on fashion and a luxurious lifestyle, while talking down everyone who doesn't share his views.
You don't have to agree with everyone politically in order to get along with them. Hasan is the new type of emo edgelord who's also the spoiled schoolyard bully. A 100% toxic person, who will keep you in his life until he doesn't need you. I can assure you, if Hasan and TYT was offered 100 million each per person to start preaching capitalism, they would do it with no questions asked.
The enemy is both strong and weak, remember.
I went to Clemson and, while I didn't have him myself, I had friends who had his classes. He teaches largely out of a book that he wrote, and is a pretty staunch libertarian from what I'm told by my friends. Apparently, when students who actually do the readings from their original sources, rather than reading about the original sources in Professor Thompson's own book, they can find contradictions between what he says and what is actually taught by, say Marx (as Hasan points out). I'm not sure if anyone has ever challenged him on his points. I kinda doubt it, since most people just want an A and don't want to sully themselves in his eyes by calling out his work.
It bums me out as an alum that Clemson employs people like him. Clemson, as a consequence of its location and history, is a more conservative-leaning school, but most professors do a good job of balancing their personal thoughts on issues and presenting them as best they can (most professors themselves are actually far more liberal, given academics in general tend to be more liberal, but that's a whole other can of worms).
Libertarian explains that foppish fringe
@@emmy8526 stop, he has a right to that haircut. It’s his diy woman repellent.
@@tigipilled Like, wtf did he think? 'How can I look as much as a grease rag as possible?'
I’m totally willing to work but it’s SO hard to even find a job that’s a good fit for me, despite the “labor shortage.” It’s so weird they think we have the free choice where to work.
Yup, my workplace is basically the only one that would hire someone during the pandemic after I lost my old job, and they know it could take me months to find a new job should I lose my position there. Well, now they are once again threatening to downsize me after I refused to take a cut in working hours or wages (I accepted during the pandemic, but now I expect at least four days of work a week). I’d rather risk unemployment than working poverty.
I’m a teacher, how do I tell my students everything is going to be okay? I sound so naively idealistic when I say the future is when we are fighting against highly funded organizations like this.
I'm really frank with my college students. They need to know the realities of our broken world. But I teach survival skills as a message of hope.
I dont think its naive to say “fighting”. if you would call it winning, that would be naive. The best thing you can do as a teacher is teach them how the system really works.
@@nathanmiller3891 I’m teaching grade 11/12s about to head off into post secondary. What’s the baby way of explaining all of this without sounding too cringy? (I’m a chemistry teacher btw, so my left leaning politics only come out when I talk about climate change).
@@kgt94 i guess you could ask them why climate change is happening, and not the direct cause. The one system that initiated the climate change to happen.
@@streakiness4785 ya ofc, but they often go to the “personal responsibility” train of thought instead of saying oil lobbyists and whatnot. It’s hard for them to wrap their heads around how people are willingly poisoning our planet for money. I show them ocean acidification, which is most directly related to climate change and how our rising ocean acidity is directly correlated to CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere. Like recently shared with them the stonewall riots and how that contributed to our society’s acceptance of lgbtq2s+ community, I didn’t want to say violence was the answer but looking at history it’s hard to say it’s not.
MARXISM HAS REINCARNATED INTO FEMINISM I CANT EVEN
Commenter has never heard of Marxist Feminism
@@ALLSEEINGISAAC THATS FUCKING BASED
And Multiculturalism, Postmodernism and CRT. I guess it's easier for these people to group the big scary words into one simpler scary word in order to make it meaningless.
“That time I got reincarnated as a feminist”
Karl Marx gets reincarnated as a zoomer feminist.
@@whiteturkvern7155 that's so wild especially because Marxism is a modernist ideal, totally based on realist materialism. Post modernism is not only post-marxism but also pretty much the opposite of material realism 🤪 they just say things
The white picket fence suburban paradise of the 50s happened because of government handouts for people to buy houses, and labor unions making it possible for blue collar workers to support a whole household on one income. A big factor in why we don’t have nice things anymore is actually racism. We’d rather fill up the (real and metaphorical) community pool with dirt than let black people swim with us. Souce: The Sum of Us (super informative book)
He's like a biologist that denies evolution.
I bet PragerU has those too.
The fact RUclips forced prager U ads on me no matter how many times I report them for promoting terrorism is beyond me
It's hard not to feel like your intelligence isn't being insulted when listening to Prager's flagrant lies, lol.
Yet you listen to karl marx.....
@Xx xX Marx was unequivocally wrong, Das Kapital is a diet plan.
@@teopalafox The diet of air and more air
@@uniqueprogressive9908 intermittent fasting, forever
@Xx xX then why has his philosophy failed everywhere?
And there is some people out there who take what Prager U say for fact despite their misinformation. Sad honestly
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@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 u have a new account lol
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Unfortunately people are easily duped when you make your corporation of disingenuous information seem like a legit university
He is speaking with the credibility of being a college professor. The audience this video is intended for will see that as a legitimate enough authority to not question him.
I’m getting whiplash from this dude saying correct things and then instantly following up with something that isn’t true.
PragerU's approach to making content really does just boil down to "If we don't have a good argument against it, just lie about it and argue against that".
isnt that the literal definition of a strawman
"Look spongeBob he just won his own made up argument"
As a retail worker I see how our capitalist system causes me and my coworkers to become alienated from our customers and our jobs. I work at one of the big auto parts aftermarket retailers, and many of the people who come to us are in need of some level of guidance to get their cars running. Many of them express how if they don't have a functioning car they won't be able to go to work the next day and this could cause them severe financial hardship. That being the case though, we're so overworked and we're so abstracted from the real effect of our product that we often can't take the time to properly advise someone on how to go about remedying their situation. Not only that, but many of my coworkers have no experience in the products they are selling and in that lack of experience they often decide to say anything necessary in order to increase their sales numbers until that numerical value becomes a stand-in for success. I cannot blame this solely on my coworkers though, because the retail system is designed to devalue and underpay workers to the point that anyone with actual knowledge in the field becomes wholly disinterested in joining our workforce. Expertise is not a priority for these companies. In fact, expertise is often seen as a detriment because many times an expert can find a fix that doesn't require spending hundreds of dollars on a new part which has many redundant components. Capitalism completely alienates people from their lives. We often don't understand where our food comes from, how our vehicles and appliances work, and even our very own history becomes an alien concept to push us to continue to produce for this system.
I think it’s really interesting how when he showed someone ‘accumulating wealth’ he didnt show the main target of this statement, the uber-rich, billionaires, but instead a suburban family with two cars and an RV to make the watcher feel like Socialism is directly and specifically after THEM.
Glad you pointed this out, that kind of stuff is why PragerU is so good at what they do, which makes them even more insidious and dangerous to society.
I love how fox news made an entire segment about how Marx was rich actually And then PragerU says the opposite
Socialism is Based - PragerU
Oh gotta love the “best are mocked” showing a cop and the “worst are exalted” showing theft. Nice racism prager
It's actually true, your just too biased to see it.
All the left ever does is glorify criminals while crapping on anyone who works hard and doesn't want crime in the streets. Why else have all the Soros funded District Attorney's and politicians gone so soft on crime.
You don't care because it doesn't affect you, inner city residents pay the price.
Are you implying only non whites steal? Thats kinda very racist
@@sdivine13 woof
How the hell does this college professor get away with going online and just making stuff up for a RUclips channel funded by fracking billionaires? He must be tenured, right?
It's not a real university, and he's not a professor.
@@injunsun nah for a state school it’s pretty good tbh
@@injunsun he’s apparently a Poli-Sci professor at Clemson University in South Carolina (I think that’s where it is, I was too poor to go to college so I don’t know)
@@guillotinepod9988 same lol wish I could go
You should lose your credentials for being this dishonest. This professor knows he’s grifting hardcore. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.
3:45 All you need to be a college professor are resources (so that you can survive on your grad school stipend) and just determination to finish your degree. You don't need incredible insight or superior critical thinking skills. Those will help. But, guys like this make it through all the time.
Makes me sick as a struggling adjunct to see these asses take big Corp money and infect and infiltrate with filth into high ed
Well who knows if he really believes this shit or he's grifting
@@justin-md4xm True!
I would also add: enough societal/educational privilege to be able to get *into* a PhD program in the first place.
The whole "all marxists are jealous" thing is always funny when you already have money but still think that money and therefore power should be distributed more evenly. I had a friend who literally worked a dead end job for little pay and extreme hours tell me that I was only a marxist because I was "jealous", I'm not rich by any means, but I work as a doctor so I definitely had a better living standard than he did and was not at all jealous of his lifestyle.
It's wild to me as a server who makes $2.15/hr that the people who tip the best are other working class people. They actually understand that i need to pay my rent. Rich people typically tip like shit despite the fact that they have the means to tip well
yup. my parents were raised in poor households, and rarely ate out or even ate good food. now, they both respectively make 200k a year, and tip very well. i hope i have the money as an adult to tip well.
I became a socialist when I realized that it's the one subject that no one questions. We just assume that socialism is wrong even when 99% of ppl can't even define it properly. Ubiquitously throughout our culture, media, etc. socialism is demonized for no real reason. Then when you actually study it you realize all of the fundamental arguments in defense of capitalism - free will, human nature, checks and balances of power, free of corruption, etc. don't actually exist in any meaningful way. On top of that; those of us in the USA don't ever think about the conditions of the rest of the world. If you're okay with the fact that your Nike's you worship probably come from some 12 year old girl working a 14 hour shift in some sweatshop in southeastern Asia, or the gas you fill your car with each day is much cheaper than it is in comparison to the rest of the world as a consequence of our endless wars and violence that's resulted in millions of murdered innocent civilians in the Middle East, or the banana that you eat each morning for breakfast is available because the US has absolutely devastated central and South America then cool but if you're not okay with that, because you're a half decent human-being, then you realize there has to be an alternative.
The labor theory of value means you are worth more than what your employer pays you. If the employer pays the exact value of your labor then marxism is not against the same employee buying more things or accumulate more wealth.
marxism is everything i dont like, words dont have to mean anything anymore
marxism is dinner peas and carrots to this guy.
Hasan does more to obfuscate what socialism and Marxism are than these people
@@HahaDamn lol no
@@Cheezus but-but, peas and carrots are good!
Just like fascism, racism, bigoted, homophobic, etc.
so if government helping people with economic inequalities is communism/socialism what is it called when they give trillions of dollars to a few individuals who own most of the corporations that supply necessities and luxuries ?
I remember when I started learning drafting after I got out the military. My first teacher told us. If I pay you $15 an hour I am probably contracting you out for about $45 to the customer.
One of my favorite things about America is we all as citizens have several and varying complaints about living/ work conditions and how increasingly difficult and expensive being alive is. Even so, when presented with multiple ways to better their living conditions, they hear some conservative say "but that's Marxism" and nope themselves out of solutions. Guess we all just keep working with our heads down and hope everything will eventually work itself out.....
PragerU doesn’t understand anything.
Hasan also doesn't understand anything though
Oh they do. They are just intentionally manipulative
@@HahaDamn What did he say that was incorrect?
wrong. they understand how to harm billions of people in pursuit of increasingly expensive luxuries which serve no practical use to any human
@@HahaDamn then why are you watching?
Thank God I live in social democratic Sweden and not ratchet US
ayooo share 👉🖐
Good know some places in the world are still doing well.
Sweden's economy is capitalist.
Sweden is just as guilty. You can only be "proud" of social democracy in a nationalistic sense isolated from the global system. Social democracy relies on the exploitation of the global south and while Sweden didn't directly have colonies, participate in the slave trade, or most imperial wars, it was a benefactor mostly through selling goods or seeing changes in its labour force.
If countries like Congo, Brazil, Philippines or Thailand decided they wanted a Swedish style social democracy too, social democracy in the global north would collapse, or countries like Sweden would help to overthrow them.
Look at gas prices. oil companies have said flat out they are not dropping oil prices to make up 2020 profits for their shareholders. We produce the most oil in the world. We don’t need to buy oil but they make more profit selling our oil to the world. Instead of using it for Americans. They get the oil from public land yet we don’t get a cut of 44 billion a quarter. They make 176,000,000,000 that’s profit after paying all their expenses. That’s a year over ten years they profited over a trillion. We pay high priced due to greed. 60% of price hikes have nothing to do with inflation and they amount prices have gone up are alway above what was necessary. All comes down to greed.
please look up comparative advantage
@@s1nqyy and that explains letting big oil gouge us how? so we can do it better faster. Should we let them make record profits while other americans suffer? Let them sell it to others make us buy it back at higher prices or are you acknowledging the other side of that coin? Focusing only on comparative advantages can result in exploitation and depletion of the country's resources? This isn't what i said either way. I said this oil is from public land and yet we pay high prices on oil owned by the people for the people. Tell me if i misunderstood?
@@christopherconkright1317 my point is you state “why don’t we use our own oil.” we don’t because it’s actually better for us to export our processed oil and import crude oil due to something called comparative advantage. countries like those in opec have a comparative advantage in getting crude oi
@@christopherconkright1317 also the market for crude oil is global. ignoring that turning all our oil production and consumption inward would probably raise prices even more, gas prices are somewhat out of our control unless you want price controls
@@s1nqyy oh well I see how well that helps right now? The company exports the oil(we are number 1 producer in the world) from public land across the globe. Instead of pumping it local to Make gas. Is cheaper for America? Your right comparative advantage is good for the oil company definitely not good for the population. The companies flat out tell us they are gouging us but bribe our politicians.
Once, when some "university professor" mused to Marx, "But under socialism, who will fix the shoes?"
Marx, irate, snapped: "You will."
No one talks about his sense of humour.
I didn't realize Hasan had such a good understanding of Marxism. Much respect
Of course he does, it's that he spends a lot of time yelling at chat for saying unhinged comments.
@Nightharmony never really watched him until this video two months ago now he is my go to background noise lmao. I figured since he was so popular and on Twitch he was more like Vaush
6:04 - Ah yes: _"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"_ famously means that everyone gets exactly the same amount of income. Yup. That's what those words mean. Definitely.
16:49 - Excuse me, Hasan?! Get the fuck out of my head, stop reading my mind and stealing my bits. 😂
U can basically replace Marxism with capitalism throughout the whole video
“Make shit up university” 🤣🤣
American conservatives: 'well, developing countries need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and build a functioning economy'
'Okay well maybe it'd help if you offered them a fair price for their resources, that you rely on?'
'...'
I’m retired military since 2020, and this year my pension is ~50k. With inflation this year, I have to get a part time job to prevent taking on debt.
Capitalism is peaking right now, taking pensioners out of retirement.
that's not capitalism peaking though, it's long been past its peak. thats it starting to freefall, and grabbing onto everything it can to cushion the rich on the way down.
"Marx bad because he was poor, he was just jealous" but also "Hasan bad because he is rich."
you can never win these dudes lmao
I'm looking forward to my new job. I will have a lot more down time to do whatever I want, while making more money than what I was making at Walmart. I literally walked out on my job there. My manager told me to dial back being sick because some entitled shit head bitched to her about how I was sick and "showing it". I went into work, feeling dizzy, throwing up, my whole body hurt, sore throat, and no voice. I was trying to just make it through the day and she told me that. I looked at another manager and all the did was shrug. I have now landed a job where, yes, I will be working 7 days straight, 10 plus hours everyday, but I get a week off. So I work 1 week and then have 1 week off. With the pay raise I will be getting compared to Walmart, I will be working less hours but making more in 7 days than I would of been 10 days there and getting an extra 3 days off in a 2 week period. I'm really looking forward to this and this will give me more time during my week off to do the things I want to do because I will have more time to do it. Unlike working 10 days in a 2 week period would of given me. This is something that everyone should be able to do. It's been proven that when people have more time to do full filling things, they are more productive at work. Which is why several countries have taken the work week down to 4 to even 3 days vs 5 days a week. They had an increase in people being productive. But, here, that would be consisdered "lazy" for working that little.
So Marx was in the first part a great psychologist and later he was a great journalist... Which is it?
"He's just great all around." - PragerU
Funnily enough I have been in a commune and the guy who cleans out the toilets/poop tanks is respected by *everyone* because no one wants to do it and is thankful that he is making it work. He was also super into the "how to of it", how it decomposes etc.
I went into reading Marx with the attitude of "fuck yeah, finally some good Communist propaganda" and all I got was 700 pages of linen economics... where's all the good stuff PragerU talks about?
Someone should splice the part where he says work is voluntary and provides money and dignity alongside that Fox news clip where they say hunger is a big motivator to get people back to work "a hungry dog is an obedient dog" or whatever they said
What annoys me about criticism of Marxism and of Socialism more broadly is the false notion that there wouldn't be workers who clean sewers and do janitorial work. People would absolutely take and be proud of those jobs if they 1.) had ownership over their labor, and didn't feel alienated as a result, and 2.) were subsequently compensated fairly without the expectation of working insanely long hours that kept them tired and unable to enjoy other facets of their life.
I know this PragerU video is easy to pick to pieces, it's all funded by right-wing thing tanks and foundations that are created by the Billionaire class to propagandize the Working Class, but I think that part of their video really highlights just how out of touch they actually are with the Working Class and their actual desires. Workers want to work, they just don't want to do unfulfilling work that doesn't compensate them well enough to live their lives and afford an apartment.
Despite anyone’s opinion of Marx, I think anyone can understand & acknowledge the significance of his ideas. This is just character assassination disguised as education.
Understand Marx, Praise Zizek.
God I love how his twitch chat and his RUclips comment section are the exact opposite of each other
Its funny when this dude was talking about dirty jobs, because my mom has been working in custodial since she was like 17. She’s in her 40’s now, and she was alway stuck at 2 jobs for the majority of her adult worklife; a janitor at a state university, and then custodial at a 3M plant. She always hated her job at those two places, mainly because as a janitor she doesnt have any mechanism of pushback (this is wisconsin after the unions were practically destroyed). And also at 3M, there were just so much rules, and getting pushed by management, she basically couldn’t be herself, and she just developed more stress and felt miserable waking up in the morning. Like 3M, she was offered to do training for a new hire, and she was going to get additional pay on top of it, but she never got those extra checks, so she just said screw it and started looking for another job several months ago. Mainly the reason she didnt start looking sooner is because 3M employees get pretty good benefits, and even though her salary wasn’t that much, our household relied on the benefits she got from 3M.
She found a job at a property, basically as a janitor, but more of a groundskeeper. It’s owned by a dude who is pretty rich, but he have given my mother way more freedom with her labor, with the same benefits she was getting at 3M. And she only started at a slightly less wage than she was making at 3m, with more frequent raises. She can wear what she wants, and it’s basically just her with no one really telling her what to do, because she has had like 25 years of experience, so she shows up, doesn’t even have to clock in, and she just leaves at the same time, no “mandatory overtime” (aka slave labor), and it’s the first time in years she has felt good waking up to go to work.
Trust me, if you treat workers like human beings, they will become more productive and willing to do their job. Hasan’s explanation of it the dirty jobs stuff is pretty damn accurate from what I’ve seen. The coercion is from capitalism, knowing that if you dont take that shitty job, you’ll starve, or you cant go to the doctor when you start feeling sudden chest pains because you dont have healthcare, and even if you do have healthcare you will likely be stuck in a medical debt cycle because your wage at a dead end job has remained stagnate and you can barely afford rent, and you can forget all of that shit if you even have a single kid. The costs keep coming, the stress piles up, and you essentially have become a wage slave, with no sense of fulfillment in site.
Gotta say, having found your content recently I love how you cover issues, despite disagreeing. No filter, just saying it how it is
Bro really said “he was just broke and hated money” like wtf
The best part is that this guy looks exactly like the evil capital owner caricature that they keep using lol
8:41 And everyone refuse to admit that this is the main source of new gen depression, seeing you're born in a systemically exhausting and inhuman society
Fuckimg commy
If I was in college and found out one of my professors were in a Prager U video, I'd drop the class and file a complaint with the administration for wasting my tuition paying faculty with shitty critical thinking skills.
Someone call Professor Wolff, new Marxism definition just dropped.
“Marxism, according to this view, is all about equalizing income and social status”
What’s your source for that?
“This is true”
Millennials: *misses the 90s because of childhood cartoons and TV shows as well as childhood nostalgia*
Boomers: *misses the 50s because they could be only racist, misogynistic and xenophobic*
Two of this countries largest generations both Radically different in every conceivable way
My favorite thing prager u type guys do is describe or directly quote something Marx said but say it in a scary voice so it seems bad and then just move on.
A good portion of PragerU’s subscribers has to be in it for the laughs, because they unironically produce some of the most idiotic content.
Even on this video the most upvoted comments are shitting on their takes lol
God forbid people can actually go to the hospital and receive care, or children to not go hungry. How evil that is.
"The fear of the structural violence of poverty.." as a millennial, I felt that.
And as a business owner, I can assure you that there is more money to be made by half-assing, exploiting, and scamming than doing straight business. In general, companies don't appreciate quality, fair wages, ethics or honesty.
Yeah. People I know in other countries think it’s wild how much we work. I had a friend tell me something along the lines of, “do y’all do anything in America besides work? That’s all y’all seem to do over there. What’s the point if you can’t enjoy anything? It defines your existence. It’s crazy to me.” And it’s true. If you aren’t busting your ass, day in and day out, in this country, not only can you not survive, but society views you as lazy and going against the norm.
Every single time they walk face first into the point.
"Who does the dirty jobs under socialism?"
"People choose to do the dirty jobs under capitalism"
Which one is it? Do they choose to do it, in which case surely they would choose to do it under socialism as well, or are they coerced?
I love Carl Marks
LITERALLY I WAS HATE WATCHING THIS, AND I WAS LIKE "DAMN I HOPE HASAN WATCHES THIS AND SCHOOLS THEM"
9:07
i distinctly remember having a long time friend who's only education was high school take a sewer cleaning/maintenance job because it paid well for the area ($20/hr? something like that). I also remember there being a running joke among us to the tune of "today at work, someone shit my pants" because it happened so frequently
PragerU pushed me over the over the edge to become a true communist
lets get organised
straight up fearmongering vibes
I have a cleaning business. Maybe I should have gone to Prager U rather than ITT Tech and my degree would have made me a lot more valuable in this capitalist hellscape.
4:00 I've read the first part of the manuscripts, and I didn't remmember seing this. Tks for clarifing it lol.
Something I hate about these convos is the implication that all "dirty jobs" would sit vacant, that nobody would do simple labor if labor let them live. Some of the "dirty jobs" i have had were actually nice or did have appeal to them. I *like* working on cars, I *like* cleaning and seeing a neat space behind me, I just don't want to physically work on cars all day as my sole career and I can't make a good living from a cleaning service past a certain point without a) hiring and bossing more people or b) asking for more than the market.
I've had several jobs where I loved either the environment or the mission of the company enough to do undesirable work for them, but I quite over *money and insurance* or *workweek and scheduling issues*
Trying to learn about all the ideologies correctly. I am a law student with a minor in political science, but still find it incredibly difficult considering the amount of propaganda and misinformation that is anti anything that isnt the country one is living in.
I am dual citizen, and in Denmark people here label anyone who isnt a ‘democratic socialist that supports the free capitalist market’ to be the devil, and in Australia its an insult to be called a ‘commie’ or a ‘socialist’. Its like a fucking slur people throw at people who want any form of empathy in the system.
I'm sure this video will be educational and serious but I have to say his shirt is adorable thanks 💖💖💖
What makes me most upset, me being as gullible as I am (which makes me a nervous wreck), is that content such as PragerU is occasionally difficult to be properly outraged by.
Their use of plain language, in a somewhat ambiguous fashion, makes disagreeing with the explanations they give feel illogical.
I know this is an old thread but if anyone finds this and is interested in history I have a question.
Have you heard of the WTO Seattle protest/riot in 1999? There was 50,000 protesters.
They declared a no prottest zone around the convention center. They used a bunch of city buses like a wall and had riot cops on top. They had hydrants Of pepper spray, percussion bombs, “rubber” bullets, pepper spray bullets, undercover cops causing property damage. They ran out of tear-gas the first day. Declared martial law.
The next day people had planned to go back and they didn’t let the day before stop them. That’s when the mass arrest started. The next few weeks were just as crazy.
I was there it was nuts. If only everyone had camera phones back then. We had to use two way radios to communicate. I did tons of trainings the week before and loaned out radios to the different groups. I always had mine one the emergency line and heard about all the stuff happening I wasn’t around.
I was so freaked out that first night I tried to get away but they followed people several miles to where I was. They used the last of their tear-gas on a neighborhood and people holiday shopping.🎄
This is just a small clip of what happened there.
I'm a religious Christian and when he said "Capitalism with it's Judeo-Christian values" I literally broke out into laughter. What a joke. Yeah because Jesus totally preached for us to get rich. I bet he has a hard time explaining when Jesus said "I'll say it again-it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!". I hate how much the right appropriates Christianity and especially when capitalists do it. Capitalism is the furthest thing from Christianity.