Marx, Lenin, Solzhenitsyn, and the Meaning of the Russian Revolution 

What about the hundreds of millions of victims of Capitalism in post-Communist states of Eastern Europe?

If you actually read the contemporary analysis you would know that the ridiculous numbers that Solzhenitsyn claimed in his book (like twenty million people supposedly killed in GULAG) are tremendously exaggerated. Nowadays nearly ever serious historian agrees that the actual numbers vary from 700,000 to 1,100,000 - and that is over 30-32 years (1923 - 1955). And of course that does not look good as well but we should use the actual stats and not what Solzhenitsyn himself called "an artistic investigation" (which overall was based on the personal memoirs and witness statements of about 200-300 people - cannot blame him for that as he could never get access to the Soviet archives at the time; but we could blame him for misrepresenting his book to the world - well, he really hated the Soviet state, and justifiably so, as it destroyed his life, career etc). Just for comparison, without any hard labor, with no war for the country's survival going on, with more or less decent (on average) conditions, and with more or less appropriate medical treatment, over 100,000 people died in US prisons over the last 30 years. Anyways, GULAG Archipelago is a good book to read but it is not (by a long shot) a documentary text, it is as much a work of fiction as it is a compilation of several people's memoirs and opinions.

I wish I could hear the voices of the 10s of millions killed by capitalism: European colonialism, the Scramble for Africa, Jim Crow, South African apartheid, America's brutalisation of Latin America, Nagasaki, Hiroshima etc etc

@J Pennington Change 'communism' for 'capitalism' and never a truer word spoken

@J PenningtonUh I don't think you know what biology is

And Peterson ties it all together very succinctly

Post modernist thinking seems to have been developed as, amongst other things, a cognitive boot camp for cultural Marxist or in oldspeak "useful idiots".

Jordan Peterson has a lot to say about everything, unfortunately it can usually be distilled into Jordan Peterson.

@@Johnconno Exactly!

More rightwing bs lol to hind what Capitalism is doing to his country, and the world, but the world is waking up. The Soviet scare is over.

joe jitsu I am graduating (late) in two weeks from a UC.... so I’ll be in recovery in time for Christmas 😊

@@jimhemphill2841 How is Capitalism destroying his country? Nobody Conservative in the U.S. supports monopoly except the corporatists and numb nut neocon psychophants.

Звучит как анектот. Разбогатев капиталист сделает жизнь лучше только себе и некотрым нанятым топ менеджерам. США спонсировали и курировали диктатурой Пеночета в Чили. Но тем неменее американские компании владели долей экономики Чили. Так же государство при социализме и капитализме имеет разные задачи и механизмы.

Don’t really know what Americans believe. I know that anyone who considers Marxism a viable form of economic government is that curious mix of complete moron and pseuointellectual

Let the adults talk... you comprehend nothing of religion or government.

@@dantescave1 You just said absolutely nothing, but did reveal you know nothing or you would have said it.

@@rndyh77 Yep.

@@dantescave1 You gave NO logical refutation. Psuedo-intellectual much?

Trashing a bank sounds pretty socialistic to me...

A muppet issue fed by bigots

The Tulmud. The Catholic Pope. And Usury.

Крестьяне были освобождены в 1917 году. В 1883 изменился вид эксплуатации и метода эксплуатации.

www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1975jul-00018?View=PDF

mzk1, you're being conned by this propagandist. I'd love a debate with this idiot Paul Johnson with Richard Wolff.

UMASS freshmen read Howard Zinn.

Really

Very true.

"B-but only Trotsky among them was ever Jewish, the rest was ethnically pure White Russian or or Lettish, Polish, Georgian, Estonian, Ukrainian, and funny looking Half-german stock"

that is correct but let me ask you. would you follow somebody knowing that he is influenced by evil? Your example is the best one. Because hitler also suportet and IMPLEMENTED idea of Eugenics/Racial hygiene... Wor me the Q. is: Whywould you follow somebody you know is influenced by evil, If nothing else was medically recognised MAD!!! Just Why? If the answer is Mad Genius have bright moments. I sa How would you know which one is the bright moment? And many more problems with this kind of aproach. Not mentioning the fact that for as long as he could he was actively practicing occultism...

I did not know that. Mencken, in, The Life and Work of Friedrich Nietzsche, wrote that Nietzsche fell in love with and "hunted down" an Italian lady halfway across Europe, but that ultimately Nietzsche was a free-spirit not interested in marriage. Is there a source on the Duke-claim?

Nonsense

@@kathrynludrick4821 Your constructive criticism was very helpful, dear Kathrin. I advise you to always act like that. It is really the key to healthy and friendly relationships with people around you.

@@kathrynludrick4821 I agree with the commenter that religion is totalitarian (although I don't believe Christianity is a religion unless you turn it into a cult) but you can't get away with denouncing an argument without a logical counter argument. That is anti-intellectual and makes you look ignorant. Friendly fire.

> Interesting proposition.

Both of you, get lives. Communism is dead. Find some other things to give your life meaning and direction. It's futile, don't become ridiculous please.

Well.... Isn't Marxism a rival quasi-religion seeking to subvert all other value systems to hold a monopoly on Values? My take is that you resent the speaker for his accurate understanding. Do you think his understanding, _as you describe it-_ is _innacurate,_ or do you prefer that he not understand?

@@jengleheimerschmitt7941 Marxism is not a value system, marx or engels said hardly anything how socialism would work if institutionalized. His understanding is wrong because it's polarized to right and wrong way, selecting the comfirmation biasd of "marxism" to fit a enemy image. There is not right way of thinking, only perspectives.

@@alfredkwaak Right... Only "conformation bias" would make someone think that Marxism was opposed to religion and traditionallism. What a bunch of orwellian gobbledygook. You don't like the fact that he is addressing the reality of Marxism (in theory _and_ in practice, squarely. If you use the non-newspeak pert of your brain, you should be able to see that it is simply an accurate observation that Marxism _is_ a self-declared enemy of traditionalism and religion. What you think is "bias" is, in reality, simply honesty.

@@jengleheimerschmitt7941 right.. religions are bullshit mostly, historical claim on monopoly of good values and society. Marx was against religion but not "traditionality" in 2019 sense.19th century has a historical content, thats when marx wrote his stuff. Wake up to 2019!!

@@alfredkwaak I thought it was just confirmation-bias and confusion to think that Marxism was in opposition to religion. You sound like you work for the ministry of truth here.