POLITICAL THEORY - Karl Marx
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Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out certain of its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/O1tWri FURTHER READING “Most people agree that we need to improve our economic system somehow. It threatens our planet through excessive consumption, distracts us with irrelevant advertising, leaves people hungry and without healthcare, and fuels unnecessary wars. Yet we’re also often keen to dismiss the ideas of its most famous and ambitious critic, Karl Marx. This isn’t very surprising. In practice, his political and economic ideas have been used to design disastrously planned economies and nasty dictatorships. Frankly, the remedies Marx proposed for the ills of the world now sound a bit demented. He thought we should abolish private property. People should not be allowed to own things. At certain moments one can sympathise. But it’s like wanting to ban gossip or forbid watching television. It’s going to war with human behaviour. And Marx believed the world would be put to rights by a dictatorship of the proletariat; which does not mean anything much today. Openly Marxist parties received a total of only 1,685 votes in the 2010 UK general election, out of the nearly 40 million ballots cast…” You can read more on this and many other topics on our blog TheBookofLife.org at this link: https://goo.gl/Rt3zri MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/93tGtZ Watch more films on POLITICAL THEORY in our playlist: http://bit.ly/2dma0Sn Do you speak a different language to English? Did you know you can submit Subtitles on all of our videos on YouTube? For instructions how to do this click here: https://goo.gl/1DEZOx SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Mike Booth http://www.YouTube.com/somegreybloke
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Communism is far too advance for the current humanity...
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I can fight you silly socialists with one statement (and it's not mine).
"He who does not work, neither shall eat." -John Smith
But according to Marxist logic, everyone works right?... so everyone should eat. Wrong. Through his logic there is no spectrum of difficulty within work. That there is no difference throughout society. That everyone is on the same playing field, except the political power... ERGO COMMUNISM YOU RETARDS. Not everyone is the same, some people will be smarter than others, and others will work harder than others. But that's not fair! Well when there is freedom, it happens. -
Yo, Karl Marx, your political theory just got debunked some YouTube comments! Guess all that writing was just stupid. After all, human nature!
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The problem with Marxism and indeed all forms of socialism is that eventually, immediately, or even beforehand, the organizers/leaders of the movements figure out that they can manipulate the system to make themselves dazzlingly wealthy while their people literally starve to death. This consolidation not redistribution of wealth is often done during "aggressive expansion" of the mother land, father land, or whatever they call it. So for Nazism, the consolidation began when they invaded Poland. For Russian communism, the consolidation began with the Bolshevik Revolution and then Stalin came to power and killed all the Bolsheviks. Socialism only works in small numbers of people, that way the organizers can be kept honest. The problem with all forms of government is that someone always wants to be in control, the human condition is to blame. We have to change our culture before we can change our system of government.
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Kid: "Mom I'm scared, there's an economist under my bed!"
*Mom looks under the bed and sees Karl Marx"
Mom: "Silly kid, there are no economists there." -
little tip viewer, dont ive any deeper into these comments. You will simply find useless comments about this being a breeding ground of politics. Sit down, grab a cup of coffee and feel better about yourself by doing something good with your life. You can go and click on another video. You can see what reddit is saying. You can look at your facebook page. You can stop looking at this comment like a fat piece of shit you are. Congratulations. You have successfully wasted your life. I spend about a minute copying and pasting on different videos. YOU spend about 5 mins looking at this comment. There is a world out there. Go see it. Its not worth looking at this. am I being passive aggressive? Am i being a complete an utter asshole? well good. i am. Don't worry though. Your over half way there. why do you even look at this comment? Just stop. its not worth it. Oh and yes. I'm sorry for your realisation btw. The realisation of how small and worthless peasant you are. How significant everyone else is. How the world does not care about what your doing. How no matter what you do, you cannot change it. the flow of the earth. the way your mind craves to read this. you know what? I'm going to be nice. Ill end your suffering here. I can make you do this all again Don't worry. If you go back and look through all of that you might find the word peasant out of nowhere. Good luck!
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If you introduce an individual to Communism, (who knows nothing about Capitalism), he will instantly agree with the idea and will consider Marx as a great thinker.
But here on the internet, we have Polarized groups of ppl who simply want to Hate Communism for the sake of hating it, or maybe because they've been brainwashed. -
CAPITALISM <3
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As a fascist, I see problems with capitalism. However, I see communism/socialism as, ultimately, covert forms of feudalism and inefficient capitalism. A successful communist dictator is no different than a successful capitalist.
"B-but, that's not true communism!"
How many times have you heard the same sentiment from a "true libertarian" or "anarcho-capitalist" - "b-but we've never had TRUE capitalism!!"
Hierarchy exists. We can either use it to improve the nation, or fight over our inability to accept it. -
Excellent video. People criticize Marx when in fact the evil is in the misrepresentation of his ideas, embodied in some totalitarian regimes. Marx was in favor of a system that liberated people from the slavery of capital by simply making capital a community resource, not something owned by a small, corrupt elite. We should strive to find new ways to implement these ideas instead of simply being happy with becoming slaves of capital.
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I have always been an advocate of capitalism more so than communism, purely on the basis that I was raised in the US. I remember some lessons in school about Marx, but I didn't care to listen. I was too young to see the importance.
I do have a question or two. Can you have freedom if you do not have private property? If so how?
If communism is supposed to allow everyone to enjoy "leisure" by spreading the wealth, what is the incentive to be productive? Am I missing the point? If people are given a choice to work or play, they play. So if everyone has equal choice at the expense of someone or something else, why would they ever choose to work?
I don't think capitalism is all good, just like I don't think communism is all bad. There is black and white with a lot of grey in between. -
Nice.
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I see lots of disgusting, degenerate anarchists here who don't know what communism is! Communism means unity, discipline, order and people's community! Not degenerate jewish bullshit!
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Kiitos suomenkielisten tekstien kääntäjälle. Mitä enemmän YouTuben opetusvideoiden tekstejä saadaan suomeksi, niin sitä parempi.
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Bloody fucking commie.
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'moves from germany to england, hates capitalism' irony is being redefined to accomodate this example
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the narrator is biased. this is a poor piece of educational material. effective propaganda possibly
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communism=isis communist=bad dark forces demon,devil,evil communism=hell bad guy too bad communism=bull shit communism=shitty damn shit
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"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"
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Do my eyes deceive me? We are finally recognizing the importance of communism?
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