PragerU Does NOT Understand Marxism 

“I just HATE money, dawg.” -Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto

"If Karl Marx was so great, how come he's dead?" - PragerU

PragerU talking about leftist ideologies is like Ben Shapiro talking about sex

Never forget, there is no death, famine, poverty, illness, war or depression under capitalism

I love how these boys unironically believe Jesus or Moses would have been capitalists. That's fucking hysterical.

Why does anyone still cares about Jesus? He's been dead for nearly 2000 years.

"Marx has been dead for well over a century" And the confederacy was crushed over a century and a half ago, yet people fly that dumbass flag around. Next argument, please.

I would gladly clean toilets and sewers if it meant I didn’t have to worry about housing food or healthcare. I would do it in a heart beat.

"Rear cattle in the evening, that's how in touch Marx was with reality!" My brother in Christ when Marx was still alive half of Europe was still feudalistic and had peasants

I love when conservatives try to say how bad Marxism and socialism is but end up just making it sound even better

I'm sick of the "who's going to clean the toilets" argument. Who cleans your toilets at home? Nobody? Do they get filthier and filthier forever because you don't have any financial incentive to clean them?

People always bring up countries that tried socialism and failed. But those same countries fail under capitalism aswell. The US is actually best suited for socialism since we are already are one of the richest countries in the world.

In capitalism, you choose to clean the sewers because you don't want to starve on the streets In communism, you choose to clean the sewers because you don't want dirty sewers I think it's obvious which situation puts more stress on the worker

Marxism is when my wife's boyfriend doesn't buy me the new PS5 he promised he would get me

Every time I hear conservatives talk about how "Communism/Socialism/Marxism/etc has failed every time it's been implemented" it always reminds me of that time that one journalist's death was ruled as a suicide with two shots to the head.

My favourite part in "Das Kapital" is when Karl Marx writes "its Marxin time!" and marxes all over the Bourgeosie.

Let it be known that on rate my professor the first review that comes up for the guy speaking says: “The dude is basically an Ayn Rand simp but somehow dumber.”

I can't believe this man really said that capitalist job structures bring dignity. Pretty much everybody I know feels like they work undignified and exploited labor. Customer service workers are constantly treated like dirt to survive. And I'm sure working minimum wage feels VERY dignified, too. jfc

Capitalist: They chose SHIT JOB Me: But without SHIT JOB they'd be without food or shelter. It's not a choice Capitalist: Well, if that wasn't the case, everyone would just quit their job and no one would ever work Me: I thought you said they wanted and chose their job? *REPEAT*

“Why does anybody care about Marxism when Marx himself died over 100 years ago?” On a completely unrelated note, George Washington died in 1799 and Thomas Jefferson died in 1826.

I'm dating a Ph.D. student and dear god, knowing how much they worry about money while working so hard...it's hard to see them as not being exploited monetarily. Also, as a half-Cuban, I'm *SO* tired of hacks using Cuba (or Venezuela) as a non-argument to prop up their ideology.

Yo I'm accomplishing Marxist praxis every day I see someone with a cute dog I'm jealous of. Truly advancing the material dialectic through my woke envy skills

MARXISM HAS REINCARNATED INTO FEMINISM I CANT EVEN

Conservatives: "The deaths under socialism are a sign of the failures of socialism" Left: "What about the deaths under capitalism." Cons: "Those are just the failures of capitalism, it actually works..." Left: "Dude, WTF?"

As a clemson alumn and professor myself I'm effing embarrassed that that so called professor and Nikki Haley are lauded as important people with high accolades at clemson. Proud to be a clemson hasanabi follower. That school could use more leftists

I love how at the beginning they basically admit the guy was a literal genius in terms of psychology, but then later on he's too stupid to comprehend stuff related to basic psychology, like wtf, try making sense. I don't expect the video to be unbiased, but it's literal propaganda.

He's like a biologist that denies evolution.

I love the endless insistence from conservatives that somehow marxism is this extremely prevalent ideology that everyone in power believes, and yet we still somehow also live in a capitalist society as if the will of the most powerful people doesn't shape the system that society ahears to

The only quote from "Das Kapital" that i know, is the following one: "Socialism is when Azan has no house" ~Karl Marx

It's hard not to feel like your intelligence isn't being insulted when listening to Prager's flagrant lies, lol.

I think it’s really interesting how when he showed someone ‘accumulating wealth’ he didnt show the main target of this statement, the uber-rich, billionaires, but instead a suburban family with two cars and an RV to make the watcher feel like Socialism is directly and specifically after THEM.

I’m a teacher, how do I tell my students everything is going to be okay? I sound so naively idealistic when I say the future is when we are fighting against highly funded organizations like this.

I went to Clemson and, while I didn't have him myself, I had friends who had his classes. He teaches largely out of a book that he wrote, and is a pretty staunch libertarian from what I'm told by my friends. Apparently, when students who actually do the readings from their original sources, rather than reading about the original sources in Professor Thompson's own book, they can find contradictions between what he says and what is actually taught by, say Marx (as Hasan points out). I'm not sure if anyone has ever challenged him on his points. I kinda doubt it, since most people just want an A and don't want to sully themselves in his eyes by calling out his work. It bums me out as an alum that Clemson employs people like him. Clemson, as a consequence of its location and history, is a more conservative-leaning school, but most professors do a good job of balancing their personal thoughts on issues and presenting them as best they can (most professors themselves are actually far more liberal, given academics in general tend to be more liberal, but that's a whole other can of worms).

The white picket fence suburban paradise of the 50s happened because of government handouts for people to buy houses, and labor unions making it possible for blue collar workers to support a whole household on one income. A big factor in why we don’t have nice things anymore is actually racism. We’d rather fill up the (real and metaphorical) community pool with dirt than let black people swim with us. Souce: The Sum of Us (super informative book)

I’m getting whiplash from this dude saying correct things and then instantly following up with something that isn’t true.

PragerU's approach to making content really does just boil down to "If we don't have a good argument against it, just lie about it and argue against that".

I’m totally willing to work but it’s SO hard to even find a job that’s a good fit for me, despite the “labor shortage.” It’s so weird they think we have the free choice where to work.

Oh gotta love the “best are mocked” showing a cop and the “worst are exalted” showing theft. Nice racism prager

The fact RU-vid forced prager U ads on me no matter how many times I report them for promoting terrorism is beyond me

Socialism is Based - PragerU

How the hell does this college professor get away with going online and just making stuff up for a RU-vid channel funded by fracking billionaires? He must be tenured, right?

I love how fox news made an entire segment about how Marx was rich actually And then PragerU says the opposite

And there is some people out there who take what Prager U say for fact despite their misinformation. Sad honestly

You should lose your credentials for being this dishonest. This professor knows he’s grifting hardcore. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

If this guy is a college professor then I'm a koala

“Capitalism = Judeo-Christian values”, he says… but who was it who said “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven”? 🤔

It's wild to me as a server who makes $2.15/hr that the people who tip the best are other working class people. They actually understand that i need to pay my rent. Rich people typically tip like shit despite the fact that they have the means to tip well

PragerU doesn’t understand anything.

As a retail worker I see how our capitalist system causes me and my coworkers to become alienated from our customers and our jobs. I work at one of the big auto parts aftermarket retailers, and many of the people who come to us are in need of some level of guidance to get their cars running. Many of them express how if they don't have a functioning car they won't be able to go to work the next day and this could cause them severe financial hardship. That being the case though, we're so overworked and we're so abstracted from the real effect of our product that we often can't take the time to properly advise someone on how to go about remedying their situation. Not only that, but many of my coworkers have no experience in the products they are selling and in that lack of experience they often decide to say anything necessary in order to increase their sales numbers until that numerical value becomes a stand-in for success. I cannot blame this solely on my coworkers though, because the retail system is designed to devalue and underpay workers to the point that anyone with actual knowledge in the field becomes wholly disinterested in joining our workforce. Expertise is not a priority for these companies. In fact, expertise is often seen as a detriment because many times an expert can find a fix that doesn't require spending hundreds of dollars on a new part which has many redundant components. Capitalism completely alienates people from their lives. We often don't understand where our food comes from, how our vehicles and appliances work, and even our very own history becomes an alien concept to push us to continue to produce for this system.

I became a socialist when I realized that it's the one subject that no one questions. We just assume that socialism is wrong even when 99% of ppl can't even define it properly. Ubiquitously throughout our culture, media, etc. socialism is demonized for no real reason. Then when you actually study it you realize all of the fundamental arguments in defense of capitalism - free will, human nature, checks and balances of power, free of corruption, etc. don't actually exist in any meaningful way. On top of that; those of us in the USA don't ever think about the conditions of the rest of the world. If you're okay with the fact that your Nike's you worship probably come from some 12 year old girl working a 14 hour shift in some sweatshop in southeastern Asia, or the gas you fill your car with each day is much cheaper than it is in comparison to the rest of the world as a consequence of our endless wars and violence that's resulted in millions of murdered innocent civilians in the Middle East, or the banana that you eat each morning for breakfast is available because the US has absolutely devastated central and South America then cool but if you're not okay with that, because you're a half decent human-being, then you realize there has to be an alternative.

The whole "all marxists are jealous" thing is always funny when you already have money but still think that money and therefore power should be distributed more evenly. I had a friend who literally worked a dead end job for little pay and extreme hours tell me that I was only a marxist because I was "jealous", I'm not rich by any means, but I work as a doctor so I definitely had a better living standard than he did and was not at all jealous of his lifestyle.

Thank God I live in social democratic Sweden and not ratchet US

"Marx bad because he was poor, he was just jealous" but also "Hasan bad because he is rich." you can never win these dudes lmao

I didn't realize Hasan had such a good understanding of Marxism. Much respect

So Marx was in the first part a great psychologist and later he was a great journalist... Which is it?

marxism is everything i dont like, words dont have to mean anything anymore

so if government helping people with economic inequalities is communism/socialism what is it called when they give trillions of dollars to a few individuals who own most of the corporations that supply necessities and luxuries ?

8:41 And everyone refuse to admit that this is the main source of new gen depression, seeing you're born in a systemically exhausting and inhuman society

American conservatives: 'well, developing countries need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and build a functioning economy' 'Okay well maybe it'd help if you offered them a fair price for their resources, that you rely on?' '...'

U can basically replace Marxism with capitalism throughout the whole video

Once, when some "university professor" mused to Marx, "But under socialism, who will fix the shoes?" Marx, irate, snapped: "You will." No one talks about his sense of humour.

I went into reading Marx with the attitude of "fuck yeah, finally some good Communist propaganda" and all I got was 700 pages of linen economics... where's all the good stuff PragerU talks about?

Look at gas prices. oil companies have said flat out they are not dropping oil prices to make up 2020 profits for their shareholders. We produce the most oil in the world. We don’t need to buy oil but they make more profit selling our oil to the world. Instead of using it for Americans. They get the oil from public land yet we don’t get a cut of 44 billion a quarter. They make 176,000,000,000 that’s profit after paying all their expenses. That’s a year over ten years they profited over a trillion. We pay high priced due to greed. 60% of price hikes have nothing to do with inflation and they amount prices have gone up are alway above what was necessary. All comes down to greed.

3:45 All you need to be a college professor are resources (so that you can survive on your grad school stipend) and just determination to finish your degree. You don't need incredible insight or superior critical thinking skills. Those will help. But, guys like this make it through all the time.

I remember when I started learning drafting after I got out the military. My first teacher told us. If I pay you $15 an hour I am probably contracting you out for about $45 to the customer.

Despite anyone’s opinion of Marx, I think anyone can understand & acknowledge the significance of his ideas. This is just character assassination disguised as education.

6:04 - Ah yes: _"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"_ famously means that everyone gets exactly the same amount of income. Yup. That's what those words mean. Definitely.

Bro really said “he was just broke and hated money” like wtf

"NAH bro fuck money, all mah homies hate money" -Karl Marx probably

“Make shit up university” 🤣🤣

PragerU pushed me over the over the edge to become a true communist

The labor theory of value means you are worth more than what your employer pays you. If the employer pays the exact value of your labor then marxism is not against the same employee buying more things or accumulate more wealth.

I'm looking forward to my new job. I will have a lot more down time to do whatever I want, while making more money than what I was making at Walmart. I literally walked out on my job there. My manager told me to dial back being sick because some entitled shit head bitched to her about how I was sick and "showing it". I went into work, feeling dizzy, throwing up, my whole body hurt, sore throat, and no voice. I was trying to just make it through the day and she told me that. I looked at another manager and all the did was shrug. I have now landed a job where, yes, I will be working 7 days straight, 10 plus hours everyday, but I get a week off. So I work 1 week and then have 1 week off. With the pay raise I will be getting compared to Walmart, I will be working less hours but making more in 7 days than I would of been 10 days there and getting an extra 3 days off in a 2 week period. I'm really looking forward to this and this will give me more time during my week off to do the things I want to do because I will have more time to do it. Unlike working 10 days in a 2 week period would of given me. This is something that everyone should be able to do. It's been proven that when people have more time to do full filling things, they are more productive at work. Which is why several countries have taken the work week down to 4 to even 3 days vs 5 days a week. They had an increase in people being productive. But, here, that would be consisdered "lazy" for working that little.

What annoys me about criticism of Marxism and of Socialism more broadly is the false notion that there wouldn't be workers who clean sewers and do janitorial work. People would absolutely take and be proud of those jobs if they 1.) had ownership over their labor, and didn't feel alienated as a result, and 2.) were subsequently compensated fairly without the expectation of working insanely long hours that kept them tired and unable to enjoy other facets of their life. I know this PragerU video is easy to pick to pieces, it's all funded by right-wing thing tanks and foundations that are created by the Billionaire class to propagandize the Working Class, but I think that part of their video really highlights just how out of touch they actually are with the Working Class and their actual desires. Workers want to work, they just don't want to do unfulfilling work that doesn't compensate them well enough to live their lives and afford an apartment.

God I love how his twitch chat and his RU-vid comment section are the exact opposite of each other

The best part is that this guy looks exactly like the evil capital owner caricature that they keep using lol

I’m retired military since 2020, and this year my pension is ~50k. With inflation this year, I have to get a part time job to prevent taking on debt. Capitalism is peaking right now, taking pensioners out of retirement.

One of my favorite things about America is we all as citizens have several and varying complaints about living/ work conditions and how increasingly difficult and expensive being alive is. Even so, when presented with multiple ways to better their living conditions, they hear some conservative say "but that's Marxism" and nope themselves out of solutions. Guess we all just keep working with our heads down and hope everything will eventually work itself out.....

Millennials: *misses the 90s because of childhood cartoons and TV shows as well as childhood nostalgia* Boomers: *misses the 50s because they could be only racist, misogynistic and xenophobic* Two of this countries largest generations both Radically different in every conceivable way

If I was in college and found out one of my professors were in a Prager U video, I'd drop the class and file a complaint with the administration for wasting my tuition paying faculty with shitty critical thinking skills.

Its funny when this dude was talking about dirty jobs, because my mom has been working in custodial since she was like 17. She’s in her 40’s now, and she was alway stuck at 2 jobs for the majority of her adult worklife; a janitor at a state university, and then custodial at a 3M plant. She always hated her job at those two places, mainly because as a janitor she doesnt have any mechanism of pushback (this is wisconsin after the unions were practically destroyed). And also at 3M, there were just so much rules, and getting pushed by management, she basically couldn’t be herself, and she just developed more stress and felt miserable waking up in the morning. Like 3M, she was offered to do training for a new hire, and she was going to get additional pay on top of it, but she never got those extra checks, so she just said screw it and started looking for another job several months ago. Mainly the reason she didnt start looking sooner is because 3M employees get pretty good benefits, and even though her salary wasn’t that much, our household relied on the benefits she got from 3M. She found a job at a property, basically as a janitor, but more of a groundskeeper. It’s owned by a dude who is pretty rich, but he have given my mother way more freedom with her labor, with the same benefits she was getting at 3M. And she only started at a slightly less wage than she was making at 3m, with more frequent raises. She can wear what she wants, and it’s basically just her with no one really telling her what to do, because she has had like 25 years of experience, so she shows up, doesn’t even have to clock in, and she just leaves at the same time, no “mandatory overtime” (aka slave labor), and it’s the first time in years she has felt good waking up to go to work. Trust me, if you treat workers like human beings, they will become more productive and willing to do their job. Hasan’s explanation of it the dirty jobs stuff is pretty damn accurate from what I’ve seen. The coercion is from capitalism, knowing that if you dont take that shitty job, you’ll starve, or you cant go to the doctor when you start feeling sudden chest pains because you dont have healthcare, and even if you do have healthcare you will likely be stuck in a medical debt cycle because your wage at a dead end job has remained stagnate and you can barely afford rent, and you can forget all of that shit if you even have a single kid. The costs keep coming, the stress piles up, and you essentially have become a wage slave, with no sense of fulfillment in site.

God forbid people can actually go to the hospital and receive care, or children to not go hungry. How evil that is.

A good portion of PragerU’s subscribers has to be in it for the laughs, because they unironically produce some of the most idiotic content.

My favorite thing prager u type guys do is describe or directly quote something Marx said but say it in a scary voice so it seems bad and then just move on.

My favorite quote from Karl Marx in his titular manifesto was "i dunno big dog I kinda just wanna smoke some weed and play videogames all day so the government should like abolish money or sumthin and kill a bunch of people i guess idk"

“Marxism, according to this view, is all about equalizing income and social status” What’s your source for that? “This is true”

I like how around nine minutes Prager switches Capitalism and Socialism right into each other's category. He says in Capitalism he CHOOSES to Clean the sewers when he's Coerced with money, If he were in a Socialist economy he might see " There's a lot of shit here that people aren't cleaning up, Might as well help out how I can." But he's not beholden to that shit job Literally the rest of his life

Someone call Professor Wolff, new Marxism definition just dropped.

Every single time they walk face first into the point. "Who does the dirty jobs under socialism?" "People choose to do the dirty jobs under capitalism" Which one is it? Do they choose to do it, in which case surely they would choose to do it under socialism as well, or are they coerced?

Someone should splice the part where he says work is voluntary and provides money and dignity alongside that Fox news clip where they say hunger is a big motivator to get people back to work "a hungry dog is an obedient dog" or whatever they said

PragerU just unironically made socialism sound so appealing in this wtf

I used to much more of a lib and said things like "communism is always bad but it has some good ideas.". This Prager video made me realize how stupid that was lmao.

I love that he's "imagine a beautiful life where all these awful things capitalism creates doesn't happen... Well that's bad actually! ''

Prager U videos literally consist of the presenter making bullshit baseless claims and then just saying "This is true" LITERALLY. It's almost like they're mocking their audience by lying to their faces and then sealing the deal with the "This is true"

I've never seen a more obvious "everything I don't like is communism." They almost literally said it up front.

Gotta say, having found your content recently I love how you cover issues, despite disagreeing. No filter, just saying it how it is

Dude if i could live comfortably and happily as a result i would GLADLY clean the toilets or the sewers! The big difference in capitalism is id be coerced to do it and get payed less than a living wage!

Funnily enough I have been in a commune and the guy who cleans out the toilets/poop tanks is respected by *everyone* because no one wants to do it and is thankful that he is making it work. He was also super into the "how to of it", how it decomposes etc.

"Why do people care about Marx? He's been dead for over a century" Meanwhile they clutch their book about a guy that died 20 centuries ago...

The Judeo-Christian values of capitalism, where Jesus constantly says that greedy and rich people can't go to heaven, and helps everyone he meets to fulfill their needs... I wonder if we read the same Bible?