Karl Marx and Socialism/Capitalism.mp4 

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I wish I had you as my professor over this past year! Even though I aced both my Micro and Macro classes, I would have understood so much more had I been attending your lectures. I now watch your videos in my free time just to help retain what I have learned as well as expand on it. Once again, I sincerely thank you!

Thanks man your videos are helpful. Keep doing them if possible.

Collectivism is inherently unjust. Individualism is where the individual and individual rights are the primary value. Collectivism is where the collective is the primary value. In collectivism, there will come a time where given individuals are railroaded "for the common good" of the collective. Collectivism is incompatible and irreconcilable with individual and human rights.

I'm not "far right", nor is what I've been saying far right. I'm not republican, conservative nor even libertarian. And there is so much wrong with your post, it would take 5 replies to address it. You're on your own.

This is just awesome. Thank you so much for uploading such an informative and interesting video!

Read Critique of the Gotha program, it is very short it will clear up some confusion you have over distribution of means of production and it's relation to the distribution of the annual value product with social production, also more in depth is Poverty of Philosophy and he discusses it in Capital vol II as well.

very appreciated sir :) thank you for all this sometimes its hard to keep up with your teachers

I have lived my life in Norway my whole life, ie Scandinavia, and yes, out government is paternal. We have high living standards, yes, but we also have huge reservoirs of oil. Sweden, Norway and Denmark have huge problems with high housing prices, an aging population, costly immigration, costly and growing bureaucracy, a LOT of people on very lucrative government programs, a declining private sector etc. Healthcare is poor compared to private, and so is schooling, but most can't afford private

You are best. The videos are more productive to me. You are really a multi-talented person.

Minimum wage is good? You know as well as I do that raising price floors creates surplus. In this case, surplus of potential labor, i.e. unemployment.

"would you ask for $400?" But in both religion and Marxism you're supposed to be "selfless". (Ego is Latin, and means "I" or "self", and ego is "bad", right?) Religion teaches that we're supposed to have "humility", (which comes from the Latin Humilitas, meaning lowliness, insignificance), it's antonym is pride. This is why Ayn Rand said that proponents of each system, religion and Marxism, are mystics. Mystics of spirit & mystics of muscle, respectively.

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Would those workers in the beginning of the industrial revolution have been better without those "exploitive" jobs? No. The problem was a general, low standard of living. People sell their job skills at market value. The people who took these "sweatshop jobs" were better off for having done so, or they wouldn't have done it. And one offshoot of capitalism is a general rise of a nation's standard of living. The standard of living increase in US & Europe between 1750 & 1910 is flabbergasting.

The working class is based on the material reality, those who have too sell their labour to survive because they dont own any of the means of production. Thus capitalism have created two classes, one who owns everything, the capitalist class own all the means of production and live on the workers labour. This is the main real conflict in society, the conflict between labour and capital. All of history is the history of class struggle.

No, it is not based on reality because you can change that, culture, races and traditions is always changing and will always change, they are not fixed. In capitalism the conflict between the workers and capitalists is fixed, this is the main conflict that defines the world we live in. Marx just wanted to use the state in the transition from socialism to communism, I think that theory have proved to be wrong, you should not use the state and go directly to communism, thus abolishing wage labour.

I hope that was not your view of capitalism?

When it comes to schooling, all the institutions I've been to, both private and public are poor. There is a real lack of incentives and competition. Once in a while you come across a great teacher or professor, but that is the exception, not the rule. Lectures put out by people like you, Yale, Khanacademy etc, is of much higher quality than what the tax payers are paying heavily for here. Also, there is a lot of envy. The only achievements looked up to is that of sports.

Try that again, but with coherence.

You ask what degree of socialism do I want? I want the degree that would be appropriate for corporations that are considered persons. I want those persons to pay taxes according to their ability to pay - not Zero taxes because of loopholes, lobbying and politics. Lets see how that works out. Tax money ( direct costs to citizens ) goes to (public subsidized ) universities and others to develop the drugs that improve the quality of life. It works the same way for roads and other infrastructure. Science is subsidized by citizens similarly. All according to the citizens ability to pay. Corporations often pay ZERO in taxes. Corporations patent this result of public effort - which rightly is public property - and then funnel incommensurate amounts of profits to a very few people - less than 1%. This is called socialism for the already rich to get richer. It isn't Marxism that is broke. It is the bookkeeping that is broke. Not one of these corps has so-called "Done it on their own." or has any real contribution to have been awarded. Especially so the banks. But they reap all the benefits while using pricing schemes (as well as fascist marketing/education propaganda) that extract the absolute maximum from citizens that the "market" will allow. Tell me again what the last sentence of this book was? What was that again? What might happen when workers of the world unite and then do so with a vengeance? We know the risk. The Paris commune is evidence of what will happen if unprepared. Stay tuned to find out.

Haha jewish tv? There are no jews in Sweden... I am a socialist and I owe my allegiance to the working class. My loyalty is with the working class.

In truth, the industrial revolution CREATED the middle class, the rich became richer & the poor became richer too, which is why workers volunteered to work long hours. Ford invented the standard 40 hour work week, not unions or gov. Capitalism, from 1750-1850 eliminated the need for child labor, rather than creating the need for these kids to work long hours or in unsafe conditions. For them, it was either work a legitimate job, or beg, starve, steal, or prostitute yourself. They would rather work in a factory than accept any of the dire alternatives. To concider capitalism a villain for adding a prefered option to the existing list of options to choose from is irrational.

Do you sound coherent inside your own head? What does Ron Paul have to do with me? What does Koch and Birch society have to do with me? And the KKK came from democrats btw.