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It should be noted that Marx idea of higher-stage communism is one of not only a classless society, but also stateless and moneyless. He did believe that the transitional period, right following the initial revolution would have a state, and that that state would eventually 'wither away'. As I understand it, in his earlier works he advocated for state seizure of many industries, but in his later revised ideas (particularly after the Paris Commune) he believed in a more decentralized network of communes with a more limited state (a bit like what Council Communist would later advocate for too).

I wouldn't say that the USSR had a "lack of innovation". Consider they were competing with the USA, and have contributed lots to science, medicine and of course, art, literature and music. The notion that innovation only exists because of competition is false. Ask any person who actually wants to help the world instead of capitalising on new technology

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ehh, a communist society isn't just classless, it's stateless and moneyless aswell. the Soviet Union was, though led by a communist party, a socialist society (as referenced to in the name "Union of Soviet *Socialist* Republics" or USSR for short.

Great video! But another point that is important to bring are the people who inspired marx and Engels like saint Simon, charles furhe(howwver you spell that name) robert owen, and Rousseau

Your videos are really great. Succinctly and simply explain the basics of things. Thank you :)

Excellent video. I 100% agree with the dissenting opinion with regards communism.

Socialism, Communism, and Capitalism should always be mixed. I feel this is the best economic system type along with a democratic republic.

Another outstanding research and analysis. Thank you for what you.

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If you want to see an implementation of communism that works, look at the Free Software community (free as in freedom, Open Source, etc.).

That was solid. How does your research for videos affect your ideas? I wonder if and how people will argue in the comments, lol

Communism is suppose to be a moneyless and stateless society in its truest form. Aside from having those two incorrections I mentioned before, it is a extremely good video that is able to explain Communism in a more simple term! Thanks for the video! ☭😃

I still can’t wrap my head around the means of production being controlled by the community? As in all business decisions would be made by the employees of a business? What would that look like in practice? Like all 500 employees of a business would have to agree on every business strategy? Is that logistically possible?

I'm already confused: how is it controlled by "the people" if "the people" don't control anything?

Listen, it's one of these things where if it worked like it was supposed to, itd be the ideal way to run a country. But again, people just don't work this way.

I generally concur with the points made in the video, up until approximately 2:10. Beyond that point, however, I find several flaws in the explanation presented. Expressing my viewpoint from an anarcho-Christian communist perspective, I believe that this video can serve as a good starting point for individuals seeking to dive deeper into the study of communism. Thank you and I encourage you to continue your commendable efforts.

Can you compare the American Republic to the Roman Republic.

cool explanation

holly cow thank you for that basic explanation I have a hard time understanding these definitions and now I understand why Communism is close to Totalitarianism, again thank you

This was wonderful

Communism as an idea preceded Marx and Engels and was developed after them, and I don't mean by Lenin, Mao, and others. Many anarchists believe in communism, favoring the achievement of truly classless society through mutual aid (i.e. charity that offers ways to pull one's weight in turn) and the popularity thereof. States don't really have to take over when people can just abandon the commodity form (i.e. exchange/prices) that creates profit.

Thank you very much for this video, I am doing a histori project with it

"Somewhere in the distance, you feel a hammer and sickle flying towards you"

very good explanation of communism, short infographics like this one usually are not too good at really understanding what communism is all about but you did a great job at it!

The biggest problem of Capitalism is wealth and power is falling into the hands of a small number of people who generally have little concern for the welfare of the mass of the people on the planet. Capitalism will solve world poverty does sound ridiculous. The Economist magazine ranks American democracy always in the late twenties of efficient world democratic governments. Consumerism, a vital aspect of Capitalism, has ruined the eco system of the planet. Making things that dont last and constantly want replacing. By advertising and marketing creating a need for a product that is not really needed, eg fashion; making unhealthy products attractive like smoking, sugar filled drinks etc; creating false and untrue and unfair criticisms of societies, say China, with a modified form of Capitalism which has been so successful for them. American style Capitalism has created an unhealthy obese violent poorly educated society which specialises in overthrowing governments not in favour of their style of Capitalism and similarly fighting wars on an enormous scale to try and totally inappropriately install their version of Capitalism on them.

Whats the INCENTIVE to produce? It won't get me a better life. So why would I produce the absolute bare minimum? Quiet quitting goes both ways.

It sounds like private property is just “government property” and no one should have so much power. Unfortunately there are a lot of flaws in capitalism and communism

It is also noteworthy that Socialism has always worked best in capitalist societies. If you look at Norwegian, Albertan or Alaskan resource funds for Oil in lumber, it will see that the capital of space is what funds the little Socialist schemes with your obviously a lot better in Europe than in North America. Well, the Chinese communist even though they have adopted many capitalist aspects to their economy have no Socialism or safety nets to actually help their people other than a few things that are only good on paper the only real beneficiaries of which are those connected to the state. This will loom large and coming years as stale, democratic problems at the babymaking end of the pyramid, drag China’s economy down, mostly based on the one child policy, and the disaster that they caused for China. The one child policy was a top down, authoritarian move by the state this is common under communism.

This is why I have a means to defend myself

Never associated my interests into such topics but truthful opinion and question, would ever such a system work? Some people in their nature want more than others. Personally I believe that since selfishness exists and will always do so, a system built in such way would still get manipulated enough by ruthless individuals to harm our world. Just as harmed it is now by the rules of capitalism

one who busts their @$$ should not be paid the same as someone who sits on their @$$ and do nothing.

Communism seems impossible in reality

Crazy how in my way of thinking on how we as a society could become fair to everyone I ended up a like what the founders of communism did; but like always money and power will always corrupt the people, which just makes me sad

honestly tho if you really wanna understand communism summarize the Communist Manifesto. this whole video is biased and is just the narrative pushed about communism. it makes it sound super impossible but the idea is we just all support each other rather than have some people hold 90% of the wealth and exploit the rest who literally do all the work/labour/production to make the wealth. society hasn’t always lived in capitalism… it’s dialectical and is proved over and over unsustainable and creates war, famine, poverty, exploitation, low wages, expensive healthcare, food, housing, etc. capitalism is fr killing us all we should definitely try something new

"however, it is important to mention" ...was the script written by chatgpt?

Can you clarify this part for me? -> (2:46) "create a system in which the means of production are owned by the people" followed by "In a communist society, the government controls all aspects of the economy" Do the people own the means of production, or does the government own the means of production?

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Good video , easy to understand and communism will be work out....

In Capital, Marx begins his analysis with an already existing capitalist economy. Marx can't explain how the capitalist economy came into existence because such an economy couldn't come into existence according to Marx's peculiar analysis of the capitalist economy where surplus-value created capital must first exist, but since surplus-value doesn't exist yet, there can be no capital to begin the capitalist economy. To overcome this inherent contradiction in Marx's "investigation", he begins Capital where we find an already existing capitalist economy: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities," its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity.” The "investigation" needs to begin with how the commodities came into existence, that is how the capitalist economy came into existence, an oversight necessitated by a fraud. Let's see if we can commence the Capitalist economy using the following Marxist tautology, "Hitherto we have investigated how surplus-value emanates from capital; we have now to see how capital arises from surplus-value.":* (1) What do we need to initiate the Capitalist economy? Capital, of course. (2) So let's get some capital...where is this capital, according to Marx? (3) We get capital from surplus value, Marx tells us, "capital arises from surplus-value." (4) Okay, so let's get some surplus value to get capital. Where can we find surplus value, according to Marx? (5) "Surplus value emanates from capital", Marx's tautologically informs us! ------------------------- * Capital, Chapter 24, first sentence (1867)

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Did anyone else think the machine at 0:34 was a man being hanged?

This is great, ay comrade ?

It is basically if you don't work, your shot.

I think that communism in theory sounds way better than in reality. But... because of everything that happened in the communist period i think people take that as a stereotype of 'Communism' which is not the whole deal & in my opinion the community owning everything thought hasnt been put to work in the eastern block because it was not 'ruled' by the people, it was ruled by dictators that just wanted to spread propaganda and take use of the system for their own good.

isn't it this is the system where a jobless person have similar income/payment with a teacher, or a policeman or etc?

The fundamental flaw in communism and indeed socialism is that the “capital” or "means of production”, is not under control of the people but rather those who sit on top the power hierarchy. It is they who will determine what peoples “abilities” and what their “needs” will be. Thus in practice, it invariably ends up looking like feudalism, or slavery to the state.

Read Alexander Solzenitsyn

It looks good on paper. The ideology make sense. So why in reality it doesn't work? And can humans make it work?

Harry Whaton - A program for the nose people. Published by the Committee for the preservation of the chosenites. New York - 1939 p.143. "The Communist Soul is the Soul of Judaism".

the world chooses what to support, the supported ones choose how to interact. people are too bad for something like communism

This just sounds like a ChatGPT generated script, to be honest. No offense

I seen this happen to people on the USA 🇺🇸

Workers of the world unite!

China is really not Communist anymore as the majority of companies are "privately" owned. Well that alone makes it not a communist country then. Communism comes from the word "commune" where everything is owned collectively by the community.

I don't need an explanation I lived it.

As a language and substitute teacher who has been employed in Russia post-1991 and in the US it is safe to say the US is trying to catch up with needs while my experiences in Russia have resulted to little to no pay and no incentive. It is ridiculous to go from $125 a day for 6.5 hours with lessons written out to $50 a month for 3 or so lessons a week. I do it for the students but I refuse to pay money to teach and have to prepare lessons when I would happily do prepared lessons simply for a letter of recommendation in the end. This system reminds me of the community construct and poor management that is being forced on me mentioned here as an end result for a failed system whose goal is to embarrass me in the most pathetic manner.

Can I have an example of a private property

Is good btw is alot like Communist manifesto write Karl mark and Engels

The only pros in the communist countries I visited were: no advertising, and the 5 year plans were good. Other than that….. party functionaries ran both countries…. People that had no business running anything. It was bleak, impoverished, and SUPER DEPRESSING.

So if somebody lazy they they still get the same amount as the hard worker? If so thank god for america

This seems a little biased. Out of control capitalism also leads to violation of individual freedom. Also economic inefficiency is not necessarily a bad thing.

Without free thinkers.. there’s no inventions

your videos on capitalism,socialism and communism have saved my life, thanks

It is communists that are into forcing work, which you have not had an America since the end of slavery. It seems to be glossed over in the video that the society decides what people will do for a living. This literally means the state gets to choose what you do for a job whether you like it or not, this is quite draconian for most Americans. That was a situation here in America is not desirable a jump out of the frying pan of capitalism into the fire of communism doesn’t seem a wise move to me. And neither of the Marxist or the capitalist right ever discuss tariffs, or Fees for foreigners, dumping their goods in American markets. These are all easy solutions that economist have deemed as bad for no other reason in the south interest of industries or ideology. The very idea of trying to get someone to live in the binary world between capitalism and communism, I find is an error , communism is nothing more than dictator ship. Historically capitalism runs the gamut between socialist Europe as they call it in the United States and the United States, as well as some banana republic‘s who oppressed their workers and control the means of production. Well, they have little communist movements that occasionally come to power, as in places, like Venezuela, and end up ruining the country. other versions of authoritarian Socialism, like fascism has taken route in places like Argentina under patron ism, and this leads to the same Ella fact as overtime those that are in power enrich their own families and friends at the expense of the general population for a limited from participating as the state controls off, or at least, as a veto against those would do things they do not like.

China is not communist. They still have working class and owner class.

One of the main features of communism is the lack of a central goverment. What we call today communist countries are in reality socialist or mix economies. Communist economy is a utopia. It probably was the first form of economic system used by people thousends of years ago. Today there is not such a thing as a COMMUNIST society all over the world. This term , communist, is utilize today for capitalist countries as a propaganda against countries with a human perpective for the society which is the opposite of capitalism where profit maximization is the goal and not the well being of the community. Excuse my writing I am not an English speaking native. Good day.

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Even though contradictions abound, unfortunately people still believe in the utopian fairytale, and every time it turns into an economic and humanitarian disaster. 😢

Well, none of them has worked well so far :(

A bit of a nitpick, but the USSR was socialist with a ruling communist party ostensibly attempting to achieve communism. As for my thoughts on communism, it's fundamentally flawed in theory. While he didn't explicitly call it that, Marx was working off of the labor theory of value. That's understandable considering the state of economic knowledge at the time, but he actually lived to see the development of marginal utility and the subjective theory of value which rendered the labor theory of value obsolete.

Pretty good, but I'll kick off the arguments in the comment section... You mix up communism and socialism ... or over simplify using americanised definitions. You can't have a communist state by definition - it is a classless and stateless society - at least going by its true definition used by Marxists & Anarchists - who in theory want the same end goal (communism). Communist regimes claim to be trying to get from a dictatorship of the proletariat (as opposed to a dictatorship of the bourgeois in capitalism) [or often a bonapartist dictatorship] to socialism (implementation of workers control of the means of production etc.) to the first stage(s) of communism (where money starts to be abolished in replace of labour tokens or something else in a planned economy, and other socialising concepts like communal living, shared cooking/child-care - from each according to his work to each according to his needs) to the final stage of communism where their is no need for any bureaucracy and the state has withered away as it is not needed (from each according to his ability to each according to his needs). I have also way over simplified this too, and many people may likely argue on the definition of dictatorship of the proletariat/socialism/1st stage(s) of communism. The common argument of 'oh well that bad thing wasn't communism' is pretty fair actually. Authoritarian regimes have come about in the aftermath of dictatorships of the proletariat/bonapartists for various historical reasons. Just because regimes they call themselves 'Communist Party' doesn't mean they are communist - most don't - the USSR was explicitly Socialist Republics - they were probably the closest to ever get to the 1st stage of communism but never really made it. Still, I liked your style and video concept!

Did I miss you mentioning " famine " ?

I've lived through communism hence I'm speaking based on my experience. This theoretical presentation is quite different from the reality of communism, which I would not wish upon my worst enemy. When you experience communism, any existing ideological love affair will cease. However the video presentation, its layout, quality and compilation was okay. The hypocrisy of communism is that it has no problem making money and acquiring wealth in Capitalist Societies, and removing those gains....but capitalist people are subject to the rules and regulations within communism and its State. Advocating for a classless society literally means one person (the State), or a group of people appointed by one person, in charge of subservients. Your freedom and everything that you do, is what is allowed, or portioned to you by the State...and can be revoked without notice/justice. All resources tangible and intangible, wealth, means of production i.e. factories / corporations / land / machinery, private property, institutions, goods and services, are owned and controlled by the State which is run autocratically. You may possess the deed to your home, but that too belongs to the State. Their is stark inequality wherein society is subservient to the needs and demands of the State and its appointees without objection. There must be complete obedience, or face harsh labour camps, imprisonment, and death by whatever means. For the subservients, food, housing and healthcare are woefully unaffordable/inadequate and people are oftentimes undernourished and die as a result. Subservients are allowed to own clothes and other menial items and wages are set by the State. Information, technology, entertainment, everything is run by the State. And that is why people escape communism for capitalist regimes. Anything which you think you may own, is what the State allows you to utilize or possess, always with the awareness that everything belongs to the State.

I was living in the Soviet Union for 15 years and in the USA for 14 years and i dont see the difference.

You didn't mention how many people starved to death in the Soviet Union and in China due to their "just, equal" collective farming.

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After evaluation i am for capitalism in comparison with communism

Communism. I've read Marx, that was the most boring dry book of economic vocabulary words, The Communist Manifesto. Das Capital was the other book, the fact of the matter is that both capitalism and communism are both destructive Marxist teachings from the spirits, two extremes, two sides of the world. The rich capitalist with money, capitalizing on commodities and banking and investment with the federal reserve bank of 1913. And the communist side in Russia where the state owns everything along with the community with no bank and no money, in 1917. Communism Commodities. Industry and agriculture. The hammer and sickle. The blacksmith and farmer. They stole everything from the landowner farmers and sold it to raise money in order to industrialize and then they starved millions. Lennon came from outside and was put into Russia. It did not develop from within. The capitalist of banking funded Lennon and put him into Russia to start the revolution from outside of russia. Marx wrote from London, not Moscow. They did this from the bank of England. The bank of England has 650 billion in Russian foreign reserves. The bank of England holds all of the foreign reserves from all the countries of the earth. Guess, what they did with it. China. They stole all of the world's foreign reserves and invested it in china so they could own half of China. These capitalist boljewviks who control commodities. They have filled the world with weapons from both the United states and the soviet union. They will not make loans while buying up all the commodities and resale them at huge profits. They've got over 500 trillion tied up in the stock markets. None of these banks are American. None, there is no such thing as an American bank. There are none. These Europeans own them all. Switzerland England Italy. Those New York banks, none of them are American, there are none. These foreign bankers have done this to the world. Extremely poor and full of weapons. LLXIIX77

Communism is the ideal ideology for an organism far better than humanity. Human progress is possible - human perfectibility is not, and communism requires something close to perfect humans who always do the right thing all the time and are utterly selfless and human and incorruptible. The soviets had their “homo sovieticus” - The soviet man, who would be conditioned by society to be this perfect person. I thought it was a bunch of nonsense.

*"There is always some thing to envy. a smile, the friendship, something you don't have to appropriate. There will always be rich and poor."* - Enemy at the Gates

You will own nothing and you'll be happy

You left out that since in a communist society no one is entitled to their own labour since it is all expropriated to the state, all citizens are effectively serfs who do what the their lords in the party tell them to do or they will be cut off from the resources needed to survive. The serfs take the jobs they are told to do, and live where they are told to live, and are given what they are told they need. That’s a pretty big thing to leave out.

Not a fan of capitalism, but communism is responsible for 100 million people being murdered and started in the last hundred years. Theoretically in my mind I can think of scenarios where communism works. The problem is I have a good understanding of history and would never want to attempt it again, as it has been trade in different countries from the subarctic to the subtropics with different cultures, and it has always ended in the same negative way. I think what we need to tweak our system as a limit on how much wealth the individual can have, as well as a limit on the amount of wealth and power that the state is able to have. You have to have both though, or you’ll have problems when in doubt, don’t tinker with anything.

i dont understand.. then wahts the problem with communism? as far as i understopd it makes ppl equal isnt that a good thing?

Communism sounds just a bit utopian to me and unrealistic. I also don't really like the whole collectivised nature of it. Personally, I like a sense of individualism and independence. Also, if I wanted to open a business such as a pub and make a profit from it, why is it inherently bad that I do so? I understand some of the criticism for big corporations but not for SMEs which are 99% of businesses.

Funny how these critics against communism and the Soviet Union + China comments pretty much ignore that the same can be said about what could be called the "most successful" capitalist countries. Like the US may pretend it's the land of dreams but just pray you never have to go to the hospital or you'll join the many people living in the streets in no time. Is there no better example of lack of incentive then a society where you can't hope to own your own house, afford healthy nonplastic food, healthcare and no horizon where things can go better? The Soviets revolutionalized these countries stuck in the middle ages where mostof the people didn't have access to electricity or three meals a day and in 50 years not only made things a lot better but sent a man around the world BEFORE the US. I do call that innovation, yes haha

Claims to be a classless society, but that is in reference to those not in control, NOT the ruling politicians. Bottom line with true communism, there is no incentive to do better than the minimum required to get the job done.

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When you say owned by the people you mean the state and it's cronies

Marx never thought a "middle class" would emerge in Britain. The middle class is what thwarted his utopian dream.

Well we need something because capitalism isn’t working out.

What we saw in maoist China or soviet union, wasn't communism as defined in the manifesto. It was authoritarian state capitalism.

Great ideology for humanity

You always need to add that the interpretation of Communism. It is not what Marx and Engels suggested in their books. It was what poor educated folks in different countries decided to do on their own volition with their poor interpretation and understanding of those books.

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well i am a communist