The burden of proof is on you, that's a bold (and very ignorant) claim. The Soviet Union is gone and China is capitalist in all but name now, after economic reforms beginning after Mao's death. All of the world's major powers are capitalist, moneyed interests control our politicians and massive corporations are driving us towards ecological collapse with rampant pollution/rising emissions.
The PHG bad one I’d say people are shitty, so no matter what you write. The Bible, philosophy, political ideology, etc. people will find a way to use it to control and dominate their peers.
And the guy that wrote catcher in the rye is responsible for all those murders and shit. Utopianism can be dangerous. But to suggest a critique of a system which involved literal slavery still happening in the US is responsible for the bloody revolutions against awful regimes like the Tsars of Russia or the Chinese Empire is... patently ridiculous. The problem Yanks have (and it explicitly yanks) is that they rewrote history to justify the cold war and now reality is muddied by 70 years of propaganda, espionage and war. Try picking up Marx actual work and then attempt to make IT responsible for things that happened 30 years after his death. "personal responsibility" right? Ha. If you're saying that the revolutionaries were worse than those they overthrew, maybe. But the US has no problem with ruthless dictators, murderous/genocidal regimes and open corruption... so long as they do business on US terms.
anything above $200 is pricy. $140 is nothing compared to some watches i have seen unless you want a shitty watch. You get what you pay for. want cheap, have a cheap broken watch
It's literally a useless item now. I have a computer in my pocket 24/7! Why do I need yet another watch to add to the half-dozen I have in a drawer? That said, I prefer the host selling the item like this over being subjected to the same clip from Honda or whoever again and again.
And how those totally civil conversations will be fair to what Marx actually wrote and believed instead of the awful things done by his supposed followers.
David McDonald To varying degrees yes and that could be said about any philosophical and political thinker; but what’s concrete is he stood against dictatorships and suppression of rights (check his views on Napoleon). He would’ve been against Authoritarian rulers like Stalin, Lenin, Mao.
David McDonald Marx died almost 40 years before the Russian Revolution. We can’t say his views on them but we can go off his views against the dictators of his time. Namely Napoleon and his offspring. You can see that in “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon” And no he wasn’t evil, Marx was an abolitionist during slavery. He argued for the rights of Haitians while most people were still racist in Europe. While hard right capitalists were still arguing for racial hierarchies from an economic perspective. Who was wrong in the end on that? Marx inspired Socialist heroes through out South America that fought for reform. Many of whom were overthrown for violent repressive capitalists who then were overthrown by even more violent socialists. In Africa the greatest leader has been Thomas Sankara a Marxist who is beloved till this day. He fought for women’s rights, refused to take IMF loans instead worked with the people to rebuild the nation, was put in by the will of the people and was assassinated because of French/American actions. The fear of the poor revolting if not taken care of is part of the reason people pushed for social security, Welfare etc. Prior to that robber barons were lining up their pockets while the elderly and the poor starved to death on the streets. Marx has come with a complicated history but pure evil is going too far.
David McDonald That’s all you got out of all that I said?😂 Ok fine than don’t take social security and if we bring back slavery I hope you’re my property.
I'm surprised on how many commies and far leftists haven't read the communist manifesto. I love seeing the confusion in their eyes when I tell them that Marx actually praised capitalism in the pamphlet and his problem with it was that it didn't do enough to help with wealth inequality. While it allowed people outside of the aristocracy to become wealthy, it still left too many people behind in poverty.
Dmitri Ptrenko you do realise pretty much every leftist thinks this? To sum it up, Marxist thought believed in three tiers in society, hunter gatherer, feudalism, and capitalism, with the succeeding system being more efficient and fair. What brings the end of each system are contradictions and unrest within it. To say that leftists explicitly hate capitalism is to ignore nuance and misunderstand them- critique does not equate to hate, and the focus on capitalism is because we live in such a system, what would be the point of critiquing feudalism if only 5 countries still practice it today?
Yeah, I went back and listened to it again because I was only paying half attention to the video. I dont know the full story of Marx but that didnt jive with the timeline I assumed in my head. Glad to know I'm not nuts.
The idea that we're living longer now is statistic tunnel vision, the reason the life expectancy was much lower in the past was infant mortality rate, if you made it past childhood you were likely to live to old age.
It is rare, but people do live that long. The oldest verifiable recorded person died at 113. An African women claimed to be 128 but could not prove it and a French women may have lived to 115, or may have been replaced by her sister. If people did live to nearly a thousand as the Bible claims, it was in a very different world.
Let’s not turn this into a heated socio-economic argument form, Capitalist or Marxist, let’s all just enjoy this for what it is, a biography of a historical figure. I know it’ll be ignored but a lowly RU-vid commenter can hope and dream...
0:50 - Chapter 1 - Early years 2:00 - Chapter 2 - Off to university 3:45 - Chapter 3 - Focusing on philosophy 4:50 - Chapter 4 - France Beckons 6:55 - Chapter 5 - Brussels 8:35 - Chapter 6 - Hard times 10:35 - Mid roll ads 11:55 - Chapter 7 - London 14:10 - Chapter 8 - New York correspondent 16:30 - Chapter 9 - Das Kapital 18:25 - Chapter 10 - The final years
@@barrymccokiner7559 Besides attacking Communism as a fool, you should find a hobby instead of spamming "commUnizm bAd" or maybe seek psychiatric help?
"I wish my son would go out and earn capital instead of just writing about it." Is my favorite quote about Karl. It was said by his mother of all people lol
@@alpacamale2909 he was literally chased out of several countries and his businesses closed down because the state saw him as a threat, what more do you fucking want?
It is ridiculous to blame Marx for the atrocities committed by 20th century dictators like Stalin and Mao. Only someone who is completely ignorant about Marx;s writings could do so. Sadly, most people really are that ignorant. How many American have even read the Communist Manifesto, never mind Marx's more mature and substantial works like Das Kapital. Marx never bothered to write about how to organize a socialist society at all - he was strictly a critic of capitalism, not a utopian socialist at all. Lenin complained that he could not find anything in Marx to guide him in setting up a socialist society. Of course not. It is not there! Marx was a brilliant social critic and economic theorist and he valued personal liberty more than any liberal ever did. He hated tyranny and he would have been horrified at how he has been blamed for the crimes of the Communist monsters of the 20th centuries. But the Communists used Marx to provide legitimacy for their crimes and the western capitalist rulers were only too happy to use their identification with Marx to slander Marx and socialism generally.
Is it really though? His views are what caused these atrocities since all of these people believed in his vision. They showed how these ideas that may work on paper, can never really work in real life since it completely ignores what humans are like.
@@Osindileyo1The only thing Marx did was fight for equality, he was pro-democracy and would absolutely despise Maoist China and Stalinist Russia, Mao and Stalin completely botched the idea of Communism and Marxism. The idea of someone writing books to inspire people to revolt against an oppressive and exploitive system (keep in mind this was the Industrial Revolution) only for your work to be misinterpreted by some power hungry dictators 100 years later which leads to the deaths of millions is idiotic
by that logic, It is ALSO ridiculous to blame Hitler for the atrocities committed during the holocaust, I mean, they're just ideas, they can't actually inspire pure evil and mass murder, can they???
@@jordanthomas4379 how is trying to make everyone economically equally and causing the systemic genocide of millions of Jews the same thing? Marx’s ideas were misconstrued, Hitlers actions weren’t
@@jahadijeff7252 him creating the communist manifesto gave the basis for lennin and all the other vile creatures that wanted that economic structure. Lennin based his ideas off the manifesto, creating a regime that could only be bested by the nazi party, which may I remind you where socialist’s which just so happens to be what inspires communism. The Soviet Union also gave putin a position of power which has lead to modern Russia being the way it is. North Korea where also allied with the soviets and we know what a mess that place is. Had Marx not showed a complete misunderstanding of what people are like and never written the maifesto none of this would have happened. Those dying now in Ukraine by Putins army is all the fault of Marx writing the manifesto. What you’re saying is also no different to saying it’s unfair to blame the nazis for the existence of neo nazis. Use some common sense next time.
0:37 - Thank you, Simon, for mentioning this important statement! As a guy who studied Soviet communism compared to Marx's writings, I totally agree! Other suggestions for later videos similar to Marx include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marcus Tulius Cicero, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Hobbes.
I would've liked for the video to mention his chronic skin condition, Hidradenitis Suppurativa. As somebody who's suffered from the condition for most of my life, I am interested in how much the condition shaped his philosophy.
Thank you Biographics! I think you did a great job covering the basics of Karl Marx's life. This was a well done and non-partisan account of the major parts of Marx's life.
It is an interesting question as to what Marx would think of the Soviet and Maoist dictatorships. They weren't quite what he had in mind. Brutal strongmen and gangs simply used the promise of working class revolution to do what they have always done.
Marx was in fact very vague about actions to take for him the transition to first socialism and then kommunism must be a natural process.....the problem in russia was that they where pretty mutch a fudal country right to World war one they never had the same capitalist economy the western european countrys had they had a diskussion inside the russian communist party what where the right actions to take and how to get to a socialist transition without a capitalist class one side voted to go the democratic route the other one voted for a violent skip from fudalism to socialism without the natural transition they voted and the Bolsheviks came out on top thats hat the name Bolsheviks mean it means majority the other part was later known as the Mensheviks that meinst minorety and they Split up......the thing with marks writings is that he is pretty mutch vague about actions to take it was more about economy relations
Marx failed to see that the proletariat were as big a twats as the bourgeoisie and given half that chance the lower classes would gladly become one of the exploiters, LOL. You left out quite a bit of his history, the death of a son, the illegitimate child produced with the maid, and so forth, but I know that time is limited.
The inherent problem of statist solutions for achieving communism is that the state (from their perspective) is a neutral apparatus which can be used in the name of good/justice, rather than what the state actually is: an inseparable component of the ruling class. To expel the occupants of an existing state and replace them with the working class is to •become• the ruling class. One cannot be the working class and ruling class with a monopoly on coordinator privileges simultaneously. The state will never “whither away” upon the abolition of capitalism. The capitalism and the state are fundamentally bound to one another, and will always serve one another first. They must. And that is why the USSR failed to achieve communism, much less socialism.
Ironic that the man who supposedly fought for the working man never did a day of physical labour in his life and was not in the least interested in looking after his family financially.
The same could be said for members of the working class who do not understand what capital is or how capitalism works yet are ready to blindly defend it with their lives or at their own expense to the point of homelessness.
Karl Marx is like a genius architect who designed the worlds greatest structure, and created a detailed blueprint which laid out every step in the process. Unfortunately, when the construction company took his blueprint and attempted to build that structure, it collapsed in a complete fucking failure every single time they tried.
Anyone who thinks favorably of Marx should read Paul Johnson's account of his life in his book "Intellectuals". Marx was a lazy, intellectually dishonest hypocrite who utterly failed to live up to his own ideals. His family was perpetually impoverished through mismanagement of his finances and his unwillingness to take a real job to supplement what he earned from writing. In fact, he never held any job aside from writing. He was a selfish user who leeched off of friends like Friedrich Engels throughout his life, and ran up numerous debts with just the sort of common people he claimed to defend. His family often went hungry because he refused to take any job he considered beneath him, and was at times the only person who could leave the house because he had pawned everyone else's clothes, yet again. And as stated by others, the implementation of his fraudulent. flawed Marxist ideology has led to the deaths and oppression of hundreds of millions of people.
Exponential growth with limited resources is inherently unsustainable and since capitalism requires exponential growth, capitalism is inherently unsustainable
"If only Karl made capital instead of writing about it", could be the epitaph on several tens of millions of graves (or just several tens of thousands of mass graves)...
At 5.30, you seem to blend Bruno Bauer's "The Jewish Question", which was highly anti-semitic, suggesting that "jews should relinquish their faith and join the state to become part of the secular system", with Karl Marx's response to it, called "On the Jewish Question", which was mainly arguing for a secular state "Like USA, where I can be whichever faith and still enjoy the rights of the masses". While Marx's response may have involved some anti-semitism, it was not to the same degree as Bruno Bauer, where Bruno's belief was basically the norm in Prussia/Germany and most of Europe
If only the brutal ignorant dictators and so called revolutionaries shared Karl Marx’s overall disposition/temperament/wisdom and had a better grasp on his ideas, philosophies, and intentions.
Something that the Marxist of the 20th century knew, including Lennin and Mao was that you don’t go straight from capitalism to Communism. Because Marx described stages of history and the ones that were relevant were capitalism, followed by socialism, followed by communism at “the end of history.” Both Stalin and Lenin admitted they had not reached the final stage yet and that it would become more authoritarian before they achieved actual Communism. The version of Socialism Marx described forced the population to live as socialist until “they were unable to live any other way.” This is how The Soviets were trying to force people to live as socialist until they needed socialism at a biological level. This is exactly what Marx described. It’s not fair to say they weren’t living up to the ideals of communism, because communism only occurs at the end of history when the governments of the world “wither away “, according to Marx. All the destruction and death that occurred and authoritarianism wasn’t a side effect of trying to implement Marxism, it was a feature. Marx stated that mankind was not biologically ready to accept communism.
@@jeffschlarb4965 ah yes the part of Kapital where he goes on about massacring your own people because they didn't clap long enough. Oh wait, no that was just Stalin being a nutter. Marx's work consists of critiques of capitalism, historical analysis and the core ideas of socialism. Stuff that influenced basically every economist and political philosopher for the last 120 odd years. His idea of historical materialism and his work on dialectics have been really important steps forward. At no point did he advocate for violence unless it is an absolute last resort. Marxist ideals were important in the labour rights movement and even the civil righgs movement. Thank Marx and Engeld for your paid overtime and weekends off.
I really like this Biographic here. Now, in no way I am rooting for Communism here, but I like how BG didn't just write Karl Marx off automatically as a power-hungry madman who wanted to take over the world (as would a pro-west historian would do). Indeed, he inspired Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks and thus the USSR, but it wasn't really the USSR, it was whoever ran it, and the biggest reason why the USSR was written off as evil, was Joseph Stalin, if any pro-communist leader should be written off as a 'power-hungry madman who wanted to take over the world', it's Stalin. Nice one, Simon. Though I may make a request that the next BG should be about Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformist.
Lenin killed over a million people. Mao killed tens of millions. Pol Pot killed about a quarter of his population-- or two million. Castro, a chump by comparison, killed hundreds of thousands. It wasn't just Stalin. It's the whole stinking Marxist idea.
James Valvis Lenin initially attacked other marxists groups that were more moderate. And every mad man marxist had an imperial brute as the initial instigator. The Russians had the Tsar, the Vietnamese had French colonials, Castro got into power because of Batistas brutality. And what of the good Marxists? Africa had Thomas Sankara a man who believed in Marxist principals and was loved by his people. Murdered by the American and French backed rebels. Is that capitalism?
@@jamesvalvis1131 I love this single post, because it shows blatant bias. You look at the deaths caused by these people, what of the deaths caused by the colonialism that led to the violent revolutions across Asia and Africa where communism grew? Nobody is arguing that these people are good, but is communism can be blamed as the cause of those deaths, then capitalism should equally be blamed for the deaths of those who suffered under colonialism/imperialism. Of course, that would be immensely unfair for anyone to do, but it is equally unfair towards Marx to pin every one of those deaths on him.
Gotta wonder if Marx would have done anything differently if he knew the ideology he was so instrumental in shaping ended up causing untold amounts of death and suffering?
tabascosauce Man how? Millions death under coummisom have accord or do you think that the only reason his ideas failed were because of “America fucking everything up” if you have evidence give me a link
In a 'perfect world' where all are selfless and intelligent, where every person is willing to live a normal life without excelling communism might have a chance but that is not the real world and it does not take into account the foibles of human nature. As stated in this documentary, there has not been a 'proletariat' where a leader did not arise and this is because human nature makes a leader necessary. If travelling the world and seeing 34 countries have taught me anything it is that the largest percentage of humanity is not intelligent nor particularly wise. In fact most of humanity is small, mean spirited, petty and self-serving. The 'masses' that Karl Marx spoke about are mostly people who lack ambition and are content to do menial work for a low wage as long as they can have a few luxuries. This is why any changes of merit require a leader (whether an individual or group) to focus and direct their actions to enact change and this will always be the downfall of purist Communism. I find it quite amusing that a man who offered his idea of the salvation of humanity couldn't even keep a job to keep food on his family's table and in equal parts sad that so many have revered this guy's writings despite the repeated proof of its failure. People are not what he expected and for this alone, his dream of a 'people's paradise' is flawed and doomed to failure. An excellent Biography by the way, as usual!
I'm stupid for bothering with these kinds of politics but I have to say before you think of calling the man incapable of providing for his family, please recall how many times he was kicked out and censored. If your job is to ride bikes and every time you start biking a group stronger than you take away your bike how well would you work? capitalist btw just saying use your heads.
You left out the fact that Marx refused to bath. The doctor was very confused as to why Karl was covered in boils and no one else was. His affliction was of his own making.
dude this guy is like a modern federation of channels i been lost in his web of videos for 3 days now just letting autoplay guide me along, i never watched the same video twice
Please ignore the year that Karl Marx became the eldest son in this article, it's written by mistake in 1919 instead of 1819 because in actual fact Karl Marx died in 1883. Karl Marx was a poor man and in pain but was a brilliant man!!!
Let's face it some guys get unemployed it does not mean they failed.... there were many factory workers who eat good food and wore good clothes Meh who cares about those idiots... LONG LIVE COMRADE
And whats your argument? I mean look for example at Grigori Perelman , the genius who solved one of the millienium math problem. That guy also looks like a hobo and lives with his mother. The point is, just because someone lives on social security or foodstamps don't invalidate the work they have done in their fields.
ABSOLUTE DISASTER of a biography. Completely skipped over Marx's biggest rival, Mikhael Bakunin, within the international workingmen's association. These men feuded so much that Marx kicked Bakunin, and the rest of the anarchists, out of the internationale. This is such an important event that shaped the division between marxists and anarchists to this very day. The fact that you didn't include this extremely important and influential man's name into your biography of Marx shows either your incompetence of a biographer, or your fear of people learning about Anarchism. -actually correctly states stalin and mao's visions were different from marx's, thank god -failed to mention proudhon was the first man to call himself an anarchist, instead you called him "a leftist" -fails to mention Abraham Lincoln was pen pals with Marx -failed to mention marx's money mostly all being funneled to his daughters, whom he loved more than anyone, buying them fancy clothes
People whining about him having an ad in his video about Marx when he never even stated that he agreed with the guy. Would be a fair criticism if he stated that he fully agreed and then did it, but I don't remember hearing him say anything about that.
Hey Biographics, why are you pinning comments that say Communism is a majority of the world problems? Seriously asking because I'm curious if that is an opinion you share, or are you pinning it because it's a conversation piece you want seen on your channel.
