Communist Reacts to Ted-Ed on LENIN (moderately stupid) 

capital can be kinda ironic surprisingly often, just like "police socialism" i guess, watching this makes me feel like i can understand what communicating with aliens must be like, let's just say my vision of reality is kinda different from that of most people from north america, i guess some mexicans ought to be down for our beautiful URSAL lmao, or in less meme-speak, patria grande

Didn't expect to see you here, Tovarisch. I love you and your boys at the Deprogram. And it is indeed good that the one experiencing Lenin is the one defending him. They accidentally made their video better with that detail.

The prosecutor of Lenin in these Ted ex videos sounds like Ben Shapiro, excuse me, Shapino!

​@@xeschire706 yeah lol, "its just basic economics" kind

@@xeschire706 *Ben Shapiccolo

Imagine the many years of bootlicking it took Cleese to ingratiate himself with the Tory establishment!

Not even the industrial center where capitalist classes emerged was a good place to live in.

Dude I heard one straight up claimed the Russian empire could defeat nazi Germany and the Soviet Union made it harder. What a cope.

That’s a huge increase in tractors

5 tractors to 10? Pack it up, I'm a neo-liberal now you've convinced me.

100 times fuck all is still fuck all.

it certainly hastened his death

Little bit of both

Lenin did a lot of sport and kept a healthy body, even in prison.

it was organized by an English spy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Reilly

No he wasn't lucky the bullet just liked him so much it didn't let him die

The actual writer of the video is a communist. He's actually a very smart guy. The video was written to tell both sides of the argument but Alex is on the pro-lenin side. I know everyone here is goign to disagree with me but I know the guy.

@@seanicus100 nah, i am not gonna disagree, this video is as good as Ted would allow to publish. Is he the same guy who did video on Che? Cause that one was really good - i never expected the Ted video in which the CIA is openly called out on overthrowing governments.

Liberals sadly lack much in the way of cognition when it comes to capitalism vs socialism. They think that gay, trans, lesbian, nb, women’s, black and other ethnic minority rights will actually be solved under capitalism. They are that stupid

History in general is abandoned, only a surface of it is known by the masses. Pop culture history just dominates the narratives than actual researches. Here in Vietnam history is also abandoned too.

@@icantaimpg3d776 history is the most normie tier subject historiography is essentially left out.

@@kingpiye7060 Here too History is taken as a, meh whatever... i need a degree, course. It is sad honestly

are you insinuating that most Russian people don't miss the USSR?

​@@Polinkazh no, I think this is a different question. Let's talk Belarus as an example. According to government 2020 sources its population is 9.3kk. 51% of them are 40+ years old. These are the people who saw the end of USSR when they where at least 8. (Or we can take 50+, people who where 18+ in 1991. That would be 37% of the population.) We can define them as people who might or might not miss USSR. Next, do they miss? I bet most of them do miss certain attributes, or their childhood, whatever. However, post soviet propaganda does work. I can discuss pretty specific things on the matter, if you'd like to. Education is heavy anti-soviet, pop culture is anti-soviet, journalism is anti-soviet etc. People who think they are in opposition to the mainstream are not in our (yours and mine) sense. If you'd like to know my opinion, I call Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and similar "страны побежденного социализма" ("countries of defeated socialism") as an irony reference to "страны победившего социализма" ("countries of victorious socialism"). Countries where almost each and every person consider himself as a temporary indigent millionaire (временно бедствующие миллионеры). "Just one more bad year - next year I will definitely end on top!" "I will run my own successful business in 5 years if I'd like to! I just need to gather myself, I need to make my mind! One more year on this shitty job and that's it." And so on. Temporary indigent millionaires. Going back to my point. I think that most of history taught and known is heavily anti-sovietly biased. That's what I've meant.

Here I want to correct you. V. I. Lenin did not overthrow the tsar. The tsar fucked everyone up so much that the bourgeoisie overthrew him when the capitalists realized that demonstrations and strikes in Petrograd could not be stopped. So the bourgeoisie thought to cool the people's speeches.

I thought that feudalism was the dominant system of social relations within tsarist russia, not capitalism.

Bolsheviks didn't overthrow the Tsar, the overthrow liberals who overthrow the tsar. Learn the difference between February and October revolutions.

@@gustaveliasson5395 by the time of the revolution it varied depending on where you lived

@@gustaveliasson5395 nah, they had plenty of remnants systems from feudalism, especially in superstructure, but it was pretty much capitalism at that point.

And both are absolutely worthless.

@@burtgrabmore2972 They are overhyped enough to be considered "unquestionable evidence" by "historians", sadly.

​@@burtgrabmore2972 Yep, Lenin and Trotsky were incredibly cool and awesome AF!

Ah, so Sverdlovsk. Yeah, that does ring a bell.

@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 it became Sverdlovsk in 1924. Just a nitpick.

It was created by liberal academia to equate the Soviets with the Nazis, to equate fascism with communism. Unfortunately, it's worked so well because you have people believing that the Italian Fascists and German Nazis were socialists and that their economies were socialist. A key point here is that the bourgeoisie want to conceal the fact that these economies were capitalist and that these factions were pro-capitalist, capitalist- and landlord-backed, and not just by those of their own countries, but by foreign capitalists, too, especially US ones. And this "scholarship" on "totalitarianism", I'm reasonably sure, originated in the US.

@@sentientnatalieIt actually originated in Austria with the remnants of the second internationale but it’s still a stupid concept used to exalt bourgeois values

@@jeebusthegreat8819 Interesting! What was their throught process for inventing such a term? We know that the 2nd Int was highly revisionist, socdems, though they weren't pro-capitalism back then were very reformist, like the demsocs of today, iirc, I hope I got that right.

@@sentientnatalie The thought process is called 'liberal idealism'.

@@mikemurray2027 Interesting! And they have the nerve to call us utopian lol.

As the Russian saying goes: "there is nothing more pernament then a temporary solution"

It wasn't really abolished at all. Many things in capitalism caome from slave labor, like cocoa beans and many other cash crops. They just pushed most of it out of "developed" countries.

@@nonono4160 You're talking about wage slavery, which is also bad, but different. I mean the OG kind: Work for no money, on pain of violence up to and including death.

@@fun_ghoul no, actual slavery. I know what i am talking about. You can google some of it with key words like "Nestle child adbuction slave labor cocoa plantations" or something like that. Also it's definitely not "OG kind", since slavery existed since way back and never really vanished, wherever under feudalism or capitalism, though the economic relations around it did change often changing the nature of said slavery too. But the "labor under force (thread of violence or death) performed by captive person" stayed more or less the same. You can read "Blood and Money" by McNally if you want to go deeper into the topic.

@@nonono4160 Slavery did change, though. The distinguishing feature of "New World" enslavement of Africans was that they were bought and sold as property, which was a capitalist innovation compared to feudal slavery, which was usually because a people-group lost a war. Good call on the current slavery, though.

@@fun_ghoul yeah, economic formation did affect forms that slavery took significantly. The more i study history and capitalism specifically the more i have moments like going from "capitalism is pretty bad" to "oh, it's actually way worse".

They can't drop the fantasy of them becoming the "lucky ones". End of.

Scratch a lib

Hiring illegal workers is also punishable but the degree of fines are vastly asymmetrical compared to what the workers would face should they pissed off the employers.

@@minhducnguyen9276 Here in so-called Canada, the workers are not illegal. Au contraire, the government effectively sells permits to capitalists to allow them to hire foreign workers who get no citizenship rights, and can be deported at the whim of their employer.

@@fun_ghoul German laws suddenly sound much more civilized than these. This is just another way to get indentured servants without calling it indentured servants.

@@minhducnguyen9276 Precisely.

He has few episodes on book recommendations, you can find them in playlists on his channel

Good to see you here, Comrade!

To uphold Stalin is to uphold all future workers revolutions. It's not easy it's actually quite soul crushing at times but it has to be done.

How could you be a communist but not a marxist? You were an utopist communist?

@@user-tc9sk4ei9y ты же на русском говоришь? Коммунистом был в смысле не знающим теорию, диалектику, материализм и политэкономию. Да можно это назвать утопическим коммунистом, я же назвал бы это скорее сочувствующий коммунистическим или социалистическим идеям. С нотками реакционерства и культами личностей революции.

@@user-xo4lb7wm2p Stalin literally wrote books on those topics, and fought AGAINST the cult of personality.

I have a video about Makhno here, but I should make a new better one ru-vid.com/group/PLbnLysSug0vRMyRlmgC7MrrsH9-yreGeI

Malenkov was a right-wing opportunist or revisionist. This will become clear when I talk about de-stalinization in Hungary.

​@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 Not to mention, he also told the guards not to call a doctor when Stalin suffered a stroke.

1. Blood Lies - Grover Furr Stalin: Waiting For The Truth - also Grover Furr 2. Foundations of Leninism by Stalin

1. read another view of stalin by ludo martens, stalin: a critique of a black legend by domenco lasurdo (P.S. another view of stalin is the easiest book to read abt stalin)

@@ABPHistory this 👆

1. Here is a short blog post: mltheory.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/the-holodomor-explained/ Also Blood lies, and "Fraud, famine and Fascism" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-58ALYrrStXQ.html Also this mltheory.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/the-results-of-the-1st-2nd-soviet-five-year-plans-soviet-industrial-revolution/ 2. -"Foundations of Leninism" www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm -"Dialectical and historical materialism" www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm -"Marxism and the national question" www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03.htm -Problems of Leninism www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/POLtc.html -On the opposition www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/OTOtc.html

@@ABPHistory *domenico losurdo His other books are pretty good too. "Liberalism. A counter history" is my favorite.

I’ve seen that too and it’s so much disappointing he does pretty good analyzing battles though but his Hitler was a socialist opinion is a sigh I hope he’s able to realign his view in the future and perhaps rethink this position

@@johay899 I doubt he ever will, he's a liberal ideologue to the core and from my understanding of him, his interests align too much with the status quo. his analysis of hitler as a socialist really highlights how objectivity is conditional in the world view of liberals and fascists, none the less, his bullshit just promotes more "soft" conservatism disguised as "centrism" which just feeds more disgruntled and impressionable young "men" into going down the online fascist pipeline.

@@bob-lk5et TIK's first such video was trolled so hard in the comments that he made the unhinged 5 hour raga follow-up. I had a comment with a couple thousand likes, but it suddenly disappeared. Truth hurts, I guess. 🤣

@@johay899 Nah. It's paid programming.

The socialist economy is amazing - people are constantly required to work there.

Short History of the USSR by A. V. Shestakov (ed.) communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/1938_a_short_history_of_the_ussr_textbook_for_3-4th_classes.pdf A History of the USSR by A. M. Pankratova (ed.) part 1 communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/history_of_the_ussr_part1.pdf part 2 communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/history_of_the_ussr_part2.pdf part 3 communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/history_of_the_ussr_part3.pdf The History of the civil war in the USSR part 1 communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/1936_the_civil_war_in_the_ussr_volume1.pdf part 2 communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/1946_the_civil_war_in_the_ussr_volume2.pdf The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) - Short Course ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_Lygu-El7U0.html Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens docs.google.com/gview?url=mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf&embedded=true&embedded=true You can find a lot more here mltheory.wordpress.com/the-real-history-of-the-soviet-union/

I guess he's gettin' that Ukronazi money now...

With citations too. The more the better to shut the fuck up right-wing reactionaries. Something similar to this by Princeton professor and conservative Stephen Kotkin, perhaps America's leading expert on Stalin, as well as a vocal critic, who explained on episode 184 of The American Interest podcast that although he thinks Stalin has blood on his hands for the famine, he doesn't even consider the famine to be intentional. "I'm an empirical person. Today, in our country, it's more important than ever to have facts and to line up your facts and to substantiate, to document. You can't just argue what you want to be true, you have to argue on the basis of evidence. What's the evidence we have on this question of the intentionality or not of the famine of 1931-33? "We have an unbelievable number of documents showing Stalin committing intentional murder, with the Great Terror, as you alluded to earlier, and with other episodes. He preserved these documents-he would not try to clean up his image internally-and these documents are very damning. There is no shortage of documentation when Stalin committed intentional murder. "However, there is no documentation showing that he intended to starve Ukraine, or that he intended to starve the peasants. "Ask yourself, why are there no documents showing intentional murder or genocide of these people when we have those documents for all the other episodes? "...the intentionality question is completely undermined by the documents on the record." - from the podcast The American Interest, Episode 184: Stephen Kotkin on Stalin. Richard Aldous speaks with Stephen Kotkin about his book, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941.

@@seanpol9863 Keyword: "unbelievable"

@@fun_ghoul And one of the main reasons we are able to understand so much about the atrocities of certain countries, not just the USSR, is because of the amount of archives historians are able to rescue (the Soviet archives were released shortly after the dissolution of the USSR, at the end of 1991 for those who are not aware). Also, historians don't just blindly parrot what the archives say, historians are able to and willing to expand on them and find places where a government might be lying or underestimating, but this doesn't change the fact that the archives are fundamentally important.

See articles 40, 110, 121 of the 1936 Soviet constitution

​@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 Article 40 says: Laws passed by the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. are published in the languages of the Union Republics over the signatures of the President and Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. Which are those languages? And simply to publish legislation is very far from equal status. Article 110 is the same for judicial proceedings. Finally, article 121 does not grant for native language teaching at University level, it states: by instruction in schools being conducted in the native Ianguage (I assume that schools here are not equated to Universities and professional schools). Let's assume that this constitutional article does cover higher education. We have to know if in practice, the authorities were applying or not this provision. Returning to the Sakha example, if University was bilingual, this would be kept (at least partially) today, which is not the case. A more historical example, the Germans from the Volga who were deported to Kazakhstan never regained their language status back. Even the Soviet propaganda material is very slavic-centered (a mere analysis of the soviet posters of the time will show that) so I would not have such a rosy image of the politics of nationalities in the Soviet Union, even if we agree that it was much better then the British or the French from both legal and practical perspectives.

@@MK-jc6us I do not know if university education existed in every small language. However, the constitution does mention education and official business in republic languages at least. Before the USSR that wasn't the case. I know that for example, Finnish was used in Karelo-Finnish ssr alongside Russian and Karelian. Certainly the same was the case in bigger Union Republics too. The volga Germans are clearly an exception.

It WAS different in soviet period. Man, at least od some research. Ты серьезно смотришь на современную капиталистическую Россию и судишь по ней СССР?

​@@nonono4160 You didn't answer to the question. First, I never said "it was the same now and then". I just disputed the rosy idea that local languages enjoyed equal status (both legally and in practice despite some legal basis that was an advancement). Second, I agree that Soviet model was a clear improvement when compared to language mono-systems like in France or in the UK. FinnishBolshevik said that the German case (Germans from Saratov mainly) was an exception. About Sakha language, my question is still unanswered, it was used in higher education during the Soviet period, yes or no? FinnishBolshevik says it was too small to count. So I wonder how other "bigger" languages were used in the educational system. In Central Asia it seems that a mix of technical but also practical and political considerations were taken (which is normal). Of course, I don't expect for any purist or excellent outcome of the language changes decided during the 20's and the 30's. I just refuse any romantic view of all languages being treated in a balanced manner, devoid of all prejudice and bias. It is also important to note that Soviet Union during the revolutionary period had a real need to flirt with nationalist demands (which included language-related) while after the 50's this need was lesser.

which blog was it?

yes, my bad

I have this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U317xVjMYes.html and this blog post mltheory.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/stalin-on-the-cult-of-personality/ There's a lot more stuff too, but I'd need to go through my notes to find it.

We need to make a RED Ed.

@@fun_ghoul That's a really good idea. Explaining Marxist concepts and history through visuals in a way a kid could understand.

Well, that one is actually a decent video (considering where it comes from). Obviously it's not super communist but the author intentionally made the "opposition" to communist talking points have really bad and stupid arguments (just like in realf life, lol). I don't think it would get published at all if he got full blown commie. Their video on Che is even better, they actually call out CIA on making violent coup. Which is a lot more than i usually expect from liberal media.

@@nonono4160 They use crumbs of truth to inoculate the audience into thinking it's "fair and balanced". That's worse than overt porky propaganda.

It's like RU-vid version of Wikipedia.

And if you happened to kill one or two, nothing a small bribe wouldn't fix.

@@burtgrabmore2972 indeed. To work was to effectively risk your life or health even in alot of the mundane positions theyd hire people for. If the foreman broke your hand when "disciplining" theyd just replace you.

You're smart enough to know that humour is tough. That's smarter than I usually am! ✊🛠️🚩

That last bit doesn't make sense. No such thing as a British accent.

@@JohnKobaRuddy I wonder if Sam says "English" in place of "American", which would be especially confusing...

Most false persecutions was done by Yezhov and he was shot for it

1. If Beria committed crimes and Stalin knew about it, why would Stalin allow it? 2. There has never been any evidence that Lysenko's ideas diminished farm yields (even anti-Lysenko authors such as Lewontin have stated that). Furthermore, Lysenko only achieved any significant power in 1935, while the famine happened in 1932-33.

Who has told us that Beria and Lysenko 'committed horrible crimes'? Is it the same people whose myths are debunked in this and other videos by the FinnishBolshevik? I think so. It is possible they did commit crimes, but we need to see evidence from reliable sources and trustworthy reporters.

@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 Thank you for the reply! I’m not on the side against Stalin. I was just curious as to what you thought of the accusations against him.

​@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 About Beria, Stalin didn't know about it untill WWII. When the Nazis were closing in to Moscow, one of Beria's men found a list with the names of women whom Beria raped or planned to rape. Beria ordered him to burn it. After Beria left, the man sent the list to Stalin who replied that "Send me everything this asshole (Beria) writes down." There's also the story of Beria visiting Stalin's dacha when only Svetlana was at home. When she phoned her father that Beria was there, Stalin told her to avoid Beria at all costs and leave the dacha immediately. Stalin also sent a death squad to the place with the order to kill Beria if he enters the same room Svetlana was in. Apparantly, Stalin also threatened to murder Beria personally if Beria even lays a finger on his daughter and even other members of the Politburo told their female relatives to avoid him. Not to mention, Beria while he was the head of the NKVD, he was also the head of the poision laboratories. One of his favourites was rat poision which causes a stroke when it gets into the human body. And what was the exact cause of Stalin's death? Who didn't order any doctors to help Stalin? Who was the one who imprisoned the doctors before Stalin's death?

No wonder you eat pills. Ouf.

@@fun_ghoul Actually it's the opposite of "inkdrinker," a ytmnd user I knew in 2008. Nothing to do with drugs or using them.

@@pilleater That's even worse. Stay strong, comrade.

link to my patreon is in the video description

@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 omg I’ve been looking you up on Patreon and can’t find you! You have to mention the Patreon at the beginning and end of your videos, it’ll definitely help those that are looking to fund projects!!

why?

@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 The Russian Empire annexed it in 1812 with the Treaty of Bucharest. We just took the opportunity to get it back. And failed. And still do. Many Romanians were deported from those regions by the Soviet leadership. I am a socialist btw.

Yes, Ekaterinburg, that's right. Regarding Gapon, _the History of the CPSU(B)_ says the following: "In 1904, prior to the Putilov strike, the police had used the services of an agent-provocateur, a priest by the name of Gapon, to form an organization of the workers known as the Assembly of Russian Factory Workers. This organization had its branches in all the districts of St. Petersburg. When the strike broke out the priest Gapon at the meetings of his society put forward a treacherous plan: all the workers were to gather on January 9 and, carrying church banners and portraits of the tsar, to march in peaceful procession to the Winter Palace and present a petition to the tsar stating their needs. The tsar would appear before the people, listen to them and satisfy their demands. Gapon undertook to assist the tsarist Okhrana by providing a pretext for firing on the workers and drowning the working-class movement in blood."

@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 can't say I have my sources ready like you do. What I can say is that "history of cpsu" got a little bit dated. The more recent researchers don't usually agree on him being a provocator. But then again, you've provided your source and haven't, so I can't prove my claim at the moment.

@@kusokbik Of course it might be wrong, but I'd expect the researchers who wrote the book to have a reason for their statement. But the idea of Gapon being connected to the Okhrana has been widespread and the Right SRs even killed him as a result.

@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 the researches were writing an official state propaganda piece in 1930s. Making a priest into a bad guy would certainly earn them some points. So there's some reasoning. By that time they'd had all the opportunity to comb through the archives and find the documents of Gapon being an agent. Unless we assume his relations with the Ohranka were strictly unofficial.

@@kusokbik two can play at this game - every source you produce i can call a state propaganda by the capitalist class. Unless you produce claims based on specific historical sources (i hope you actually know what a historical source is), all there is is your opinion. And you are definitely wrong about it being state propaganda by bolsheviks because Gapon working for okhranka conclusions were formed long before there was a a revolution of 1917 and was help by the most opposition parties, not just bolsheviks. You are also wrong about there not being proofs of his ties to okhranka - for example he had close ties to Zubatov.