So you're saying stop immigration so poor people don't get taken advantage of here in the 1st world and also put tariffs up to stop exploitation of labor in the global south? Just say vote Trump already.
This war showed alot, I heard both sides, your channel is the only one to show evidence of ukraine to continue its normal ways it has for centuries. For the war the world is to blame, whatever putin is after besides riding them of nazism, is something alot of deep state us politicians know about, and value it more over their own country, and Europe valves over more then even trying to get involved in sides. This run deeper then just a war it has the attention of very corrupt people who will spend and play their hand to be sure it works out for them.
Among the imperialists, ancient and contemporary, only PRC government/China aborted/KILLED approximately 336 million unborn babies for the sake of economic recovery/MONEY, by state law/default/NO CHOICE, in peaceful times/NO WAR, from 1979 to 2015(decades of silent killing in the millions), NO APOLOGIES to the people of China 🇨🇳/NO ACCOUNTABILITY! State ideologic morality and economic principles of PRC prioritized the slaughter of the future of the people of China! Unborn babies silently killed from 1979 to 2015, the sparrows (flies, mosquitoes and rats) had a better chance to survive with the FOUR PESTS CAMPAIGN ( only 4 years to deal with 1958 to 1962 )! Such state ideologic morality might have justified the "permissive" spread of COVID-19 in Mainland China and to the rest of the world for whatever state objectives, bundled with lies, misinformation and coercion...... twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 One Child Policy killed approximately 336 million unborn babies, more than the population of South Korea, Japan and Taiwan! Confucius, Sun Tzu and Bruce Lee would weep in their graves knowing this! PRC BORROWED a FOREIGN IDEOLOGY that CORRUPTED Chinese culture and hertiage!
This is a great summary, but I just can’t agree with the theory. For one the model ignores the initial cost of capital, it just assumes capital exists. I also feel like there should be a distinction between surplus value the capitalist can take as income and the sv used for expansion. I also think it’s simplistic to say that LP is the only thing that adds value to a commodity when there are multiple necessary components
Thanks for your comment. To respond to some of these points: 1) Ignoring initial costs is fairly common practice in most economic theories. Working with net products / value-added terms allows the model to focus on what is actually being produced. This is not really unique to Marx. 2) There is a distinction between the uses of surplus value as income for capitalists and surplus value as a means of expanding capital. Marx elaborates on this quite substantially in his discussion of simple and expanded reproduction (there is a video on the channel that covers precisely this issue). 3) There are other inputs in Marx's model, apart from labor, which impart value into the commodity. Value is added to the commodity from capital as well. All capital inputs (raw materials and machines), however, are considered as "dead labor", meaning they originate from earlier production processes, and hence from past labor (regressed through enough steps backward in the value chain). The point is more that only labor can create *new* value. Labor is the primo genitor of all value that is produced in economies. Still, some portion of a commodity's price reflects the value added by non-labor inputs. Marx always recognized this.
Could a true Utopic Society ever be created without Marx ideology? Furthermore, it is Marx I attribute the notion of Cross Harp to... X Marx the spot. How to irritate any monster ... And so on
one of the biggest problems i have when discussing communism with people that are not proper comrades is that they keep comparing basic quality of life metrics of places like east-west germany, north-south korea, or taiwan vs china. the problem is that anyone with phone can quickly look things up that directly refute the one true philosophy as taught by karl marx. how do we conceal these differential outcomes from the masses long enough achieve power over them?
Did he really just say that he felt the USSR was genuinely utilitarian under Stalin?? 😂 Except for the 35 million people who starved in Ukraine, anyone suspected of political opposition who was executed without a trial, and all the people who died in a war that he helped to start with Hitler by invading and partitioning Poland.
So a flaw of the Soviet Union was it didn't have democracy, yet when it collapsed not a single independent country voted to keep or return to communism...
Marx was insane, likely because much like his fans over the past 150 years have spent too much time sitting around thinking about how terrible everything is while ignoring objective reality, historically and currently.
Folks should read The People's Republic of Wal-Mart to get an insightful look into the concept of planning vs markets. The thesis is that no economy is fully planned or fully market based. The question is just about how much planning and who does the planning.
Very interesting concept, thank you. I see some parallels with rising consumer prices vs shrinkflation. Instead of increasing the price of a consumer good with a set quantity as it happens in normal inflation - say, a 500 ml carton of milk - what happens is that the price remains the same but the quantity is reduced, with the carton of milk now actually having 450 or 400 ml. The effect is the same of course: bigger profit margins for the capitalist.
You need to read Bernardo Kastrup to understand and separate metaphysical claims with social/political claims, is materialism that says the world out there is all in your head, that experience only arises in your brain and that is why the hard problem of consciousness is unsolved, I’m a marxist in the political spectrum but an idealist in the metaphysical.
Because in Ukraine, elections don't really decide. There is only the power of oligarchs who use Nazi organizations for their own purposes. Nazi organizations have power and popularity. The AZOV battalion is part of the "National Guard of Ukraine". Look at the Svoboda Party (which used to be called the Social National Party of Ukraine) and they allies. There are many Nazi organizations in Ukraine, and no one from the government of Ukraine is fighting them.
If in Ukraine a person raises his hand and starts shouting nationalist slogans, people applaud him. In Russia you would be put in prison for the same thing. That's the whole difference.
Contradictions are what children do by smashing opposites together . It causes nothing but conflict . Capitalism was perpetuated by the use of slave labour ? That’s not true . George Washington gave the average American ability to own their own business and be the king of their own castle by giving private property rights protected by the state attached inalienable rights . This ended slavery so people -serfs were no Longer sold with the land . This is not economics . Marx blew his inheritance not once , but 3 times . When the public owns property it gets destroyed and treated like trash . If you read Marx carefully , There is no utopia coming ever . His only intent was to destroy what exists .
