Thank you, greetings from your northern neighbors! Coincidentally I just found out today that there is also an English version of Red Yurt (with Maksat Kenzhebayev), although it has few subscribers.
@@smertbanderam7285Если Simen (я полагаю имеется ввиду Сёмин) - американский тот самый, то кто же в таком случае, например, товарищи из "Красного Поворота"?
I want to say Konstantin is a bit too pessimistic for my liking. But considering he's a Marxist living in a capitalist state run by an oligarchy government whose legitimacy comes from complete denial of socialism ideals upheld by USSR, and has been fighting a major war for the past year without a sign of peace in the near future, definitely understand where the frustration come from.
Well what he's saying is just marxist analysis, nothing more. If there is one thing i can disagree with, i'd say we have a chance of worldwide economic collapse BEFORE WW3 ramps up.
@@Praisethesunson Nah I'm pretty sure Hakim has a better prospective than his dad, I don't know his dad but as an Iraqi who's quite informed about our history, I'd say Hakim's dad's generation tends to be more one-sided towards either the Pan-Arab socialist camp or purely Marxist-Leninst sometimes internationalist sometimes nationalist side, it gets to a ridiculous point of tensions between the two ..
Thank you for the guest guys, the talks with other creators and analysts are always incredible. It feels like the channel is taking a turn into more global geopolitical and current affairs analyses, creating a nice balance with the strictly theoretical and historical episodes. Which sounds like it suits all three of you, if we take into account the First Thought and the Send New(d)s episodes. Also, it's a bit unfortunate that there are numerous incredible communist analysts all over the world, that will never get invited to the show, as they do not speak English fluently.
oii it’s syomin!!! love the guy. his news report make it so much easier for me to excuse my alcoholism :) you should def branch out to belarusian and kazakh communists btw, most of them are on the same level as konstantin (also you can try inviting ukrainian ones too!)
Belarussian comrades: KrasnoBY (КрасноBY) Kazakh comrades: Red Yurt (Красная Юрта) Ukrainian comrades: Workers' Front of Ukraine (Рабочий Фронт Украины)
@Dustin_Bins I believe so. It's a soviet film from 1985 set in Belarus. It's based on the novel "Khatyn." Its gut wrenching, but a great film nonetheless.
English can be a terrible language for describing things, but it sounds like you're describing what used to be called blitz spirit. It's not so much that people don't care, it's more that they have shit to do and not enough hours in the day to stress about everything that is going on. As you can guess from the British name for it, it was heavily propagandised as a refusal to be beaten back in the 1940s too.
30:50 Ok so i searched on youtube about the movie and the scene with Bata driving the truck and shooting at everyone with "Uz Marshala Tita" in the background teared my eyes.
Wow, comrade Syomin again? That's a nice surprise. How about inviting Oleg Komolov from Prime Numbers though? I remember reading under the OG video with Konstantin that Prime Numbers were on your guest list. BTW, I stopped worrying and am kinda ready to love the bomb. Kost is absolutely right that we're currently witnessing the beginning of WW3 which means that most of us are probably going to die relatively soon, but the whole capitalist circus is so absurd that at this point I'm too tired to care about my own skin, and am sad and worried only about my kids - children deserve better than to get killed by some retarded fascist barbarian who's "fighting for [insert BS fake bourgeois value]".
@@emperorspock3506 Yeah, I know that Syomin started calling Oleg an opportunist recently for participating in bourgeois talk-shows, but the "opportunism" branding is an exaggeration really - Komolov never advocated to support the bourgeoisie, his message still is that capitalism is rotten and needs to be replaced with a society where the means of production are owned collectively and there's no profit motive. That said, I agree with Syomin's opinion that using reactionary media and inviting social-chauvinists as guests to Prime Numbers' interviews is counter-productive and unnecessary.
Да, Константин абсолютно прав - текущие события это всего лишь прелюдия, очень такая тихонькая, почти никакая. Итоговая же часть уже совсем не за горами, прямое военное столкновение основных капиталов мира уже просто неизбежно, при чем в ближайшее время. Договориться они не могут. И судя по всему заключительным аккордом будет схватка Индия-Китай в повсеместно полыхающем мире..... как и когда это закончится абсолютно не ясно.... но вот то, что ровно как после ПМВ рассыпались страны, ровно также и нынешние крупные страны будут рассыпаны, и начнется новый цикл революций, это точно. Мир станет более однородным и равновесным, и опять начнется реинтеграция ...В любом случае уже без мирового гегемона где-то точно выстрелит, и в этой новой реинтеграции быстрее будет наращивать свою массу и объем страна в которой революция победит, просто за счет естественных преимуществ социализма.
Hi guys got your card on a random traffic pole I am currently an international student and have an undergraduate degree in history and I want to join in your team
Not caring about an active war until it touches you personally isn't exactly a new phenomenon, imo. It seems this has always been the norm everywhere because of human nature. As long as a conflict doesn't swallow too many resources, there's no reason to care.
В человеческой природе только: 1. Чувство самосохранения 2. Инстинкт размножения Все остальное это социальная надстройка. Это известно со второй половины 19 века. Если кто-то утверждает обратное, он пытается оправдать или стать соучастником преступления.
На инглише много интересной и полезной информации. К тому же позволяет наблюдать за "развитым" капитализмом в центре империализма и проводить параллели.
It would be interesting to know. By the way, on the channel Agitprop hosted by Syomin there is an interview in English with Patrick Bond (he is or has been a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal). He said that Russian companies behave in South Africa in the same way as Western ones. Unfortunately, people outside South Africa know little about South African Marxists. You could tell them the names of organizations, RU-vid channels, etc.
One of them is Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Lepa sela lepo gore) filmed in 1996. I am not sure about the second one, but, probably it is Come and See, a 1985 Soviet film directed by Elem Klimov.
China had to engage in capitalism to survive and not collapse like the Soviet Union, to compare China to the United States is just intellectually dishonest. Many things to critique about the current chinese system, but it has to be understood what lead to this. China with all it's faults is the only hope to sustain global socialism, if they perish aswell then the smaller socialist states will be easily consumed by neo-liberalism.
Socialism in China died long ago, just like the Soviet one. Except, while in the ex-USSR the transition to crapitalism was explosive, brutal and criminal (unjust privatization, theft, murder, gang wars, deindustrialization, you know), the Chinese government managed to stay on top and coordinate the market reforms, without letting foreign capital and its neoliberal bootlicks gain power. If we draw analogies to the USSR, China succeeded in becoming what the USSR probably would have become if Yeltsin's coup had lost to the Supreme Soviet. The fact that there was no Yeltsin and no neoliberalism in China absolutely doesn't mean that China still remains a socialist state, it's absurd to even consider that. In the end, it doesn't matter how China became what it is - there are no good bourgeois sides for the working class to pick from, especially in an imperialist conflict. They all need to be cast down, without exception.
>China had to engage in capitalism to survive LOL. What do you want to say, would they be all exterminated if not switching to capitalism? Like literally die?
China's socialism is a false hope. Dont get stuck into the ilusion that someone else will build socialism for you. Right now the international workers movement and socialist movement is in a pre 20th century state ergo allmost non existent. China right now is not like the soviet Union was right after WW2. No one will give us liberation, no god, nor king and nor a Hero. The liberation of the working people will come by their/ our hand alone.
Coming back to this podcast to say one thing. Kosta was RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING. He may have said what some don't want to hear. Get ready for the US to start manufacturing consent for a war with Iran. Then its good night Irene for everyone.
I wanted to state that Konstantin was exaggerating, but no, he was actually just being a little dramatic. For example, "bloody circus" is the most overly dramatic thing he said. No one is shot in the street yet, but 15 people died in Prigozhin's coo and 10 more in the plane crash that killed him Siberia thing sounds a little over the top, but Boris Kagarlitsky ACTUALLY got arrested and THEN, for some reason, transferred to jail in a different region, which borders Siberia. He was just an innocent professor who protested the war! So yeah, take Konstantin's words with a grain of salt, but he's technically not lying
I don't get it, what is the actual argument here? Aren't 15 (officially) people died within few days a bloody circus? Especially when no one was taken into accountability for that? Just like nothing happened? Common dude, everything he said is a sad truth about reality. Nothing overdramatic here
@@nuclearocean Что-то многие забывают, что лагеря есть и на севере европейской части России. Например Соловки, это далеко не Сибирь. ))) Стереотипы о ГУЛаге они такие...)))
I think he was a bit too quick to dismiss China as a capitalist state acting in service of its bourgeoisie. That was certainly the case from the 80s until about a decade ago but recently China has put a renewed emphasis on central planning and it is lead by a communist party which is conscious of its actions. The same can be said about Vietnam. The way I see it, they are in a very contradictory and precarious state where they could easily tip to either side. The CCP currently has the political strength to show restraint and limit bloodshed in the future imperialist conflict, just as the USSR did throughout the cold war. The same cannot be said about NATO Warhawks looking to make Raytheon stocks go up at all costs. He criticized the left in Russia for standing behind China but that's not as bad of a gamble as it sounds. There is literally no other option other than waiting for a new world war to establish a new world order. I think we need to be optimistic that the current decline of the western empire can lead the way to a relatively peaceful multipolar world in which building socialism would be much easier.
I hear what he's saying, but I still only see one global empire in place. BRICS isn't a military alliance, Russia and China aren't in a military alliance with each other, and no-one on that "side" is trying to create a military alliance. It's just NATO, and only NATO trying to expand. Again, count the external military bases and how many times BRICS members have embarked on wars of aggression since 1945 compared with the USA, UK and France, and NATO as an umbrella. I don't see Russia or China organising coup d'etats in other people's countries or supporting revolutions - yet. They arguably offer indirect support, but as with the Soviet Union, only to countries which make their own revolutions on their own after they are successful and can be traded with, given low interest loans and inward investment for new infrastructure. I still think it's the war of Global Imperialism, dominated by the USA, against the rest of the world to retain and try to extend its hegemony and spread of military bases, and to extend its lifespan by doing so before the inevitable collapse which befalls all empires in one form or another. The other thing is that while the US has a vast pool of military hardware and a vast network of military bases, orbital satellites etc, it just doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to sustain full scale conventional warfare all over the world. It couldn't defeat Afghanistan and it can't defeat Russia in Ukraine despite spending 8 years building up the Ukrainian armed forces into the largest and best equipped military in Europe outside Russia and Turkey (? not sure whether the Turkish military was bigger or not). So in the event of a steadily expanding war between the US and NATO and the rest of the world, I expect that vast pool of military hardware to get abraded away quite quickly, and increasing numbers of those military bases to be forced out or starved out or over-run by hostile host country governments. As it looks likely to happen to French bases in Central Africa.
You're missing the point by focusing on US militarism and economic power. Yes, currently the US is indeed the fattest bully on Earth, and yes, their ruling elites are screwing the Earth's working class the most, compared to other bourgeois countries However, imperialism is a STAGE OF THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST SYSTEM, not the aggressive foreign policy of a certain capitalist country. When capitalism spans across the whole world, when huge monopolies appear and merge with bourgeois governments, when the said monopolies accumulate so much capital that commodity export becomes less logical than exporting capital to the periphery - then the WORLD enters the imperialist phase of capitalism. This started happening over a century ago, and got only worse nowadays. Given that imperialism is the state of global capitalism, it's self-evident that killing the fattest bully doesn't solve the problem, because it's only a matter of time (and not much of it, really - a couple of decades max) until another bully occupies the empty niche. Yeah, sure, the US is an absolutely rotten state, but if communists want to change the world, they have to advocate for fighting capitalism everywhere, not just fighting the fattest capitalist country while staying within the boundaries of the current system.
Communist can not even fight capitalism in the United States and you’re advocating fighting capitalism in the world. Taking into account the material conditions of today the global left should focus on taking down the USA. If the global left can manage to get enough power to do that then they can focus on something else.
Also this view that if you take out the United States , then another country will fill the role of the bully is silly. The United States came to this position based on certain conditions, to say it’s guarantee that another country will have those same conditions and become the new hegemonic power is not a given. This view of yours if anything supports United States hegemony. It’s cynical and leads many people to the point that if we’re doomed to have a hegemonic power might as well be the USA or it leads people to believe all countries are equally bad with zero analysis of power.
@@juanpasas6185 it should lead people to the realization that capitalism is currently outdated and reactionary as a whole, as a mode of production and social system. People like you, on the other hand, advocate for opportunism and social chauvinism, for siding with "less reactionary" bourgeois countries against "more reactionary" bourgeois countries, thus preserving the capitalist system instead of trying to tear it down everywhere. Either you should get your Marxism straight, or you're a troll and instigator.
And as a world system coterminus with capitalism, global imperialism enforces capitalism on countries trying to escape from capitalism via coups, invasions and sanctions, as it imposed capitalism on pre-capitalist societies by colonial conquests and gunboat diplomacy up until 1914. However, since 1945 global imperialism has evolved from an oligopoly into a monopoly dominated by the US, due to the need to contain the Soviet Union and prevent or slow the expansion of the Soviet bloc and the revolutionary tide of the 20th century. That monopoly has only grown more glaring since 1991, and the imperialist character of the US and NATO more blatant and undeniable with the expansion of NATO since 1991 and the explosion of US military aggression around the world in the absence of a Soviet-led counter-force to deter it. The US military base empire is literally global, and the stated ambitions of US policy are toward world domination - Full Spectrum Dominance and Great Power Confrontation - with the latter intended to overwhelm and dismantle the last remaining significant potential rivals in the world and turn them into satellites hosting military bases in the same manner as the countries of western Europe, from the perspective of US geopolitical strategists in the early 2000s about the state of play and what was possible as the result of the dismantling of the Soviet Union and the massive expansion of the US military after 1991 pushed through by Dick Cheney I believe. As in commodity markets where you can have a monopolist corporation dominating the global market despite the presence of several much smaller competitors, like with google, apple and amazon in their respective areas, and able to extract monopoly profits despite the existence of other vendors because of their relative triviality, so with the US empire's monopoly position within global imperialism. To that extent, the breakdown of US global domination and the developing multipolarity represents a substantial breakdown of global imperialism in general, allowing for new opportunities for revolutions and elected socialist governments due to the weakening of US and European (as satellites of the US empire themselves in the process of neo-colonialisation by the US via the EU, NATO and glaringly the bombing of the Nordstream pipelines) neo-colonialist ability to export counter-revolution by force in the traditional way. Again, I don't see Russia or Chna or any other BRICS member states attempting coups plots or using sanctions or invasions to force other countries into extractive trade relations with them and to overthrow revolutionary or elected socialist governments, or spreading military bases around the world. They have acted to halt US instigated coup attempts in a few places, which is appropriate anti-imperialist activity. @@vadimk3484
What is the guest's definition of imperialism? His assumption that the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China (and the Islamic Republic of Iran??) are imperialist countries does not square with a thorough reading of Lenin and Nkrumah’s imperialism. Few months ago, Vijay Prashad presented in an interview a great breakdown of what imperialism is and why the Russian intervention in Ukraine cannot be defined as an imperialist war. As for what the Chinese (and related Vietnamese) system are, I strongly suggest you guys bring on great English-speaking youtubers who live in these countries and do a great job of explaining their system from inside. That would be a great way to shake of the remnants of the orientalist presumptions one might have left from only getting info from western sources.
Well, yes, Syomin believes that China is an imperialist, so don’t you dare violate the US dominion over the world. Get depressed, don't listen to rock music, don't play video games and don't dare do anything at all. Let your friend Konstantin continue to sell you communism, forever.
@@Scrap_Lootaz"don't do anything at all" is your position here. Play more video games, defend your own imperialist government and their allies, and don't dare show even a shred of solidarity with workers of other countries. Class struggle? No, clearly now is the time for class collaboration instead.
