Go move there … go ahead . Move .. I’ll see you in 2 years max. Don’t try to change the system go somewhere and try it out first before you destroy it for everybody else.
When I started studying dialectical materialism a couple of weeks ago it felt like it weirdly made sense to me, it was and still is extremely complex but after a while it got easier and more useful as I slowly learned to use these mental tools and very quickly I took in so much more information and understanding about my environment and myself in relation to everything else, it felt like I for the first time in my life actually understood reality, everything up until this point has for me only ever been half-truths...
As a left-curious liberal it is fascinating to see your perspective. The absolute disappointment you must feel about seeing hope for revolution (after WW1 when there were probably the most ideal conditions for it) be either crushed like in Spain or Germany, slowly rot away (or in my POW turn itself into a collectivist oligarchic dictatorship that slowly rots away) like the USSR or reform itself back to capitalism like China or Vietnam must be enormous.
Just a slight correction comrade, the NDFP has no member organizations, rather it has "allied" organizations. It is important to note this because if it would be membership based, then the petite-bourgeoisie organizations would outnumber/outvote/overshadow the proletarian organizations within the NDF, since it is broad in character and the unity among allied organizations is their agreement to the program of the NDR, rather than the stricter discipline within proletarian parties.
How are the commission and council of EU undemocratic, since they are made up of ministers of the member countries? Is it similar to the Eurogroup where policy is actually dictated by ECB and IMF?
One thing that has been left out of the equations here is the value of risk. The person who purchases all the equipment and product in order to provide the laborer a pedestal in which to work on, takes on all the risk of loss. The laborer will get paid whether or not the product gets sold. This equation puts too much emphasis on the laborer and not on risk.
The capitalist's gain is the worker's loss... You seem to forget that without the capitalist, the worker could simply have no work. Of course it is important that the relation between the capitalist and the worker is fair and profitable for both part which can take the form of syndicates and social security but in my opinion what you present there is a bit of a an old and simplistic view on society. While full capitalism can be unfair, full socialism leads to almost no entrepeneurship, innovation and corruption (which is another form of oppression actually). World's never black and white (or red and blue)
I’d say the huge problem with communism is that people just want it all, and how is that possible just based off of resources? Plus a rising population? There’s just too many imo that will never be satisfied with all that they have, and always try to get more.
I am a Socialist and I believe that Nations have the rights to preserve their culture, language, identity and faith. Imperialism and Supremacist ideals betray a nation's identity. Leftists will never win over the working class with a burn it all down approach but should rather promote Patriotism as a unifying tool of the working class against the Liberal Capitalist elite and their Fascist dogs.
If only Antonio Primo de Rivera wasn't so naive by trusting Franco, Spain would have been fundamentally different place from what it is now. But oh well.
do you have to use words like totalitarian, corporativist and regime? You're a Marxist, you should be above this. Other than that I thought this was a great video.
I don't agree with Marx on the part about human beings having an essence. I personally think Marx was wrong here. Essentialism is really a cornerstone of conservative ideology. Also, humans aren't the only species to produce surplus value, Beavers build dams for example. I think the reason why animals only produce things in response to immediate physical needs is because they lack the privilege to do otherwise, humans have this privilege because they are the only species to have mastery over nature (aka civilisation). In other words, I don't think humans are the only species that have the tendency to realise the full potential of the organism. Carl Rogers makes a good case for this.
Me encanta cuando la pronunciacion española te sale sola xd Por fin un video en ingles que no le lame los cojones a la segunda republica, hay un par de cosas que podrias haber mencionado, como las leyes anti-asociativas y el pistolerismo, pero aun asi, buen video
The value of anything is simply what the highest bidder determines it to be. Labor has nothing to do with “value.” I myself am a poker dealer and I make more money per hour than an auto mechanic. Nothing has intrinsic value, the only value anything has is what humans assign it. Marx was a giant sucker…
Actually, Marx said social relations create value. And he talks about it a lot, to be honest. Your thought is not wrong, my friend, you just misunderstood the content.
the interjections from the sofa sitting woman really detract from the video. even more so because the sound quality is uneven between that and the rest of the video. just tell the hecking story without the fluff
I wouldn't call myself a capitalist, communist or say I'm aligned with any political ideology (at the moment, anyway), but I enjoyed your video. It's hard to find videos that actually explain communism and I think that a lot of western countries just say that communism is bad without actually explaining why they think so.
The blithely careless cynical and sneering 6:20 commodification by the filmmakers of environmentalism, even the radical violent politics pursued by some environmentalists should be pointed out and condemned by everyone genuinely interested in Marxist-Leninism-Maoism and an anti-capitalist socialist future. Turning emancipatory movements into a center of capitalist profit is nothing new now in the PoMo capitalist world , but the utter disregard for the dangerous actions depicted and implicitly endorsed in the film, but now entirely divorced from the environmentalists socialist aims … in a sense romanticizing a pointless but commodified eco-terrorism is a low point even for typical corporate capitalist filmmakers like these guys. And the involvement of anonymous government counter-intelligence counter-terrorist officers as consultants adds a new layer of demented anti-socialist fascism to the dangerous cynical capitalist commodification of social conscience and resistance. This film should be condemned on so many levels. This is exactly how capitalism functions. With increasingly ruthless efficiency using ever newer and better technology it invades, colonizes and commodifies every social system it encounters, transforming the existing social relationships to suit the interests of the bourgeois capitalist ruling class, and the ultimate end of all capitalist endeavors; the exploitation of working people to maximize profits for the capitalist ownership class. The stunning cynicism of this director about what he’s done is palpable even in the short clip here. 6:20
