Why is Communism so depressing and grey? 

Facts

Homelesness isn't a problem when your government is actually competent and can resolve the issue, here in Belgium the government will give you social housing and theres countless programs that will help you get back on your feet. This is the case with most western european countries. Homelesness isn't an excuse to spam cheap commie blocks everywhere. It was done because it was cheap and fast Instead of some post commie country where literally everywhere is filled with commie blocks, and even then people struggle. The west is better if you wanna live as a modern human. Those poor former soviet countries gotta recover from the shit Lenin started. Most wanting to join the EU and NATO, no one embraces their soviet past. Communism was a tumor on this earth and countries are trying to recover, then you got Russia who's just terminally ill

​@degenetron7590 commie block exists because it is after the war, and the government need to house everyone fast But yeah it is long enough for commie block to go now

@@degenetron7590 so Belgian government counters one of the most pressing issues of capitalism by employing socialist (or rather, as they like to call it, social-democratic) policies Also, how the hell is modern Russia communist in any way? It's just as capitalistic as the US

@@crunchyandmagnificent5646 Yes, a competent government will install social housing to accomodate the less fortunate, what is wrong with that? Does that mean we should all turn to communism and give it a 50th chance? Fuck off. Thanks to capitalism our country isn't so shit and primitive to live in, some people will end up homeless but thats normal, theyre junkies and drug addicts and our government will help them. It has to come from both sides. Sleeping in a shelter somewhere in Berlin getting food from authorities and the possibility to get back on your feet anytime you want sounds better than living in a depressing ass crumbling commieblock making €200 a month knowing your government is full of greedy corrupt shills. And no I didn't mean that russia now is communist, I just meant theyre terminally ill because they cant let go of their soviet past, or putler atleast cant.

Wrong. Socialist architects did indeed work in France and guess what ... they adopted Brutalism as their design philosophy. Making entire areas of french cities hideous concrete labyrinths (like the banlieues in Marseille, Grenoble, Montpellier, Lyon, Bordeaux... which are all in the south) So yeah Socialism is UGLY

yes, let's not forget 'the ugly grey buildings'. because homelessness is prettier

@@helenahrebeljanoviccipras We're arguing about whether socialism is ugly Sorry buddy you're moving goal posts

Yes climate..someone from England who visited Yugoslavia in 80s in spring or summer ,like Adriatic coast would probably thing is paradise . Cities in West europe kind off look the same spring ,summer or autumn ,because they have very not much greenery in cities ,it how they were build..nice builings but greenery very little. Most cities that were mostly build in socialisms at least here in ex Yugoslavia had tons off parks and greenery even in streets so they look totaly different in May then in November

@@marshall_zhukov I'm not a socialist myself but homelessness is a social issue which is very relevant to the discussion. Homeless people are often capable of becoming productive members of society if given the chance. They can also be sources of new criminals, which will make your city very ugly rather quickly. If we were simply talking about socialist/communist architecture, you'd be correct. However, we are talking about a political system and its impact on society.

And ironically they didn't get any of that... quite the opposite

@@Crown_995 u just wrong

@@yari4046 Peace? 5 more years of civil war, and war with Poland is far from peace. Land? They took all the land from the peasants and nationalised it. (There were no serfs in Russia in 1917, for like half a century already) Bread? Yeah, Holodomor sounds like a time of plenty and prosperity, together with all those "minor" famines from the interwar period.

@@Crown_995 ok bro ur still wrong

@@Crown_995 1. Peace? Somebody ignores 1922-1939 2. Land? The Decree of Land has provided peasantry with land. Collectivisation did not make it forceful, instead they nationalised the Kulak land and distributed it among peasants via cooperatives. Personal property and plots of land that remained in the hands of small and middle class peasants weren't touched until New Dekulakization held by Khruschev. I agree they ain't serfs but they weren't those cool farmers with actual plot of land - nothing changed since 1861 except the fact that it's a de-facto rent slavery 3. Bread? Post-civil war famine in 1922, Ukrainian famine in 1932-1933 and Post-WW2 famines were the only ones to happen in the USSR while Russian Empire had such every 5-7 years.

Correct.

@Denise From 2018 Except we are moving away from the eternal cynicism of Late Stage Capitalism and into post-irony and new-romanticism. People are tired of not taking anything seriously, but they also don't want to take things AS seriously as the ideologues of the 19th and 20th century did. We are moving into a more "real" idealism.

@Denise From 2018 We live in a time of in-action. Streamers instead of speakers. Podcasters instead of real-life educating of the masses. Twitter fits instead of strikes and unionization. Internet "gurus" instead of smart heads further developing revolutionary theory and meeting the new challenges of our era.

@@ercoleborgiano I'd argue that's only really because things haven't gotten that bad yet, as crazy as that might sound the western world is still far from any real troubles. So long as the vast majority of people are content with what they have there will never be a revolution of any kind. Things might be shit, I might never own a house, but I also don't live in a fucking box made out of sheet metal and dreams, I don't have to break my back carrying coal from a mine, and I eat fairly well. Honestly if you entertain any dreams of being a freedom fighting hero you're better off moving to the third world, no one is going to follow you here because despite all the bullshit they're just about happy enough to not give a shit, for now. That's not to say things will never change, a lot of things can happen and most likely will happen. Anyone who thinks history has ended isn't seeing the bigger picture. No doubt those wealthy Romans thought their empire would be eternal, and it's easy to see why, it's not much of a fall after all unless you're at the top. We are currently living in an age where shit is hitting the fan (occasionally at supersonic speeds) and at a constantly increasing rate, for most of my life I didn't think I would live to see the shit that I see, ''not in the western world'' I would say, and I would indeed live to find out just how absolutely wrong I was about everything. But at the same time, short of some incredible event that manages to cause massive issues like famine in the western world, I don't think anything is going change that much.

@@TheThingInMySink I am well aware of the comfort levels in the West. Spare me the long reply. But, I am also convinced that the patience threshold of the modern man has been significantly extended thanks to capitalist domestication, hence why you won't see any revolution in the Third World either. Not anytime soon. P. S. Funny you assumed I'm from the West. I am not.

Amen brother

My god man, u must think we don't know where Lithuania is or something as the country is on a much much much better shape than in the 90s and the Soviet era

​@@Thejogasa02 all countries are doing better than 30 40 years ago, especially chaotic 90s. you missed my point, its about how people felt, more equal, more stable economically, than today.

@@NostalgicMem0ries yeah people in Spain also feel that Franco era was more stable, social and economically, but after you take a look at statistics you comprehend that nostalgia sometimes tricks you

@@Thejogasa02 cant talk anything about spain, we need to ask spanish people who seen both eras. i can only talk about ussr and modern comparisons, i stated everything n my post before. you are free to disagree or agree, but if you never lived in that era, i doubt your opinion is non biased. cause to be born in 90s or even later not knowing how life was in 60s 70s 80s, only seeing 90s chaos and later gradual life improvement is very one sided view. and stats dont show whole picture, you cant measure people feelings, overall life hapiness just with wage numbers and new tech of today comparison with past.

People miss this. In Bulgaria we have a few intact examples of beautiful reliefs on the side of buildings which used to be all over the place. It took a lot of skill and there was a lively industry to produce/maintain them. The decorating needs to be maintained and renewed. What it really represents is how discouraged everyone became with the long term siege of sanctions.

yeah, no. they are designed to be built quick , with shitty quality, they were supposed to be used for max 20 years, after that they decay, if you make something quick and cheap you dont want to maintain it , but just build a new one

@@edvardseglitis7128 don’t know about other countries but in Romania these were built with warranty period of 50 years. I live i one and i can’t complain. Old commie blocks were built with being liveable areas in mind, walkable and with lots of trees between them.

@@alexandrupreda5275 depends on what style you live in, the ones made from bricks are solid, but the ones made with panels are shit

A well maintained slab of concrete is still a slab of concrete

It's basically that meme of [insert rock band here] world tour locations showing just the US, Canada, half of Western Europe, Japan and Australia.

I want everybody to be rich however that means that some people need to be rich first

Do you know what a social construction is?

what are you saying

@@anthonya2251There is a difference between wanting to be rich and wanting societal equity so the quality of life would be accessible to everyone that obviously wouldn’t be possible because the greedy at the top control all resources. This is why we are in perpetual wars, there is a struggle between greedy elite class and oppressed class.

Very eloquently explained.

it was harsh , anti-human , futuristic and mechanical. Impossible to see as beautiful in its environment , and honestly fits better as some type of alien base

In my current survival situation taking over this squat i gotta balance forces for my own sanity and sake of the power struggle Everything has to be super practical however that also comes with aesthetic awe and culture shaping The balance is important but very difficult to manage Im doing videos on the journey tho I really loved this videos brutal honesty and perception

"It favors logic & practicality" coming from Marxism is hilarious

Hmmmmm, I feel like this had more to do with the local party leaders leanings than any specific communist ideology. I mean Kim Jong Un and North Korea have long erected numerous statues in the visage of their leaders and draped them in the finest of silk or indulged in Hollywood movies. On the other end of the spectrum, you find Ho Chi Minh, who often lived in the same (maybe slightly) better conditions his understudies and military men did. Secondly look into the TU-104 Pushkin crash. 16 Soviet admirals overloaded their aircraft with black market supplies and it subsequently crashed overloaded. Excess and ineptness does not automatically go away when a society is socialist.

That is indeed true. There will eventually be a sequel to this video showing these countries in their true light and color.

Many parts of the artistic design trends follow regional and local traditions from before communist influence. Despite much of the effort made by communistic governments to destroy the outspoken artistic communities within their countries.

As it always is

You're delusional.

Lol this is dump as hell

Yes, and that's why thousands fled to the USSR and not the other way around.

@@aaroncabatingan5238 ...Yes? Many people actually did that? You can look it up? There is also this thing called "historical periods" and this statistic varied depending on what era you referred to?

@@aaroncabatingan5238 Good irony. But you are right, millions dreamt of escaping the USSR, and many actually did, saving themselves from that false equality.

Hvala ti, drago mi je da ostavljaju takav utisak!

Very glad to have you here comrade, thank you for the support!

I'm very glad to hear that comrade, thank you for the support, it means a lot!

As a Croatian i respectfully "give" them to you. I dont want to wait 3 hours in line infront of a store to get coffe. Greetings from 🇭🇷

​@@Simpa414In China you don't need to wait :) maybe if there wasn't a cold war that was manufactured by the West it would have been much better

@@kiwikemist Do you think China is an example of a "good country"?

@@Simpa414 I've been there myself and many friends there. It's a good place to live, very safe, and changing every day. So yes. I've been to the countryside and even though it's not as developed, you can't expect a country the size of China to change itself overnight in 40 years. Compare it to India which is a similar size, and it is a dangerous shit hole, and you'll see the difference between the two systems.

I suggest for you to read some literatures about the so-called "bourgeois revolution" to understand their actual position/ideology. "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill is excellent for this topic. For the creator of this video: If you are not interested to learn about what "bourgeois ideology" actually is (i.e. about Liberalism and "Capitalism"), at least you should read the Wikipedia summary of it, so you can be intellectually honest. I could easily "debunk" this video by criticizing the *actual implementation* of Marxism/Communism (which "depressing and grey" would be the least damning thing about it) and compare it to the *ideal, dynamic, and vibrant form* of "Free Market Capitalism" (e.g. thru Friedman's or Hayek's POV), but then I'll be no better than you.

"Fraternity became liberal tolerance" Fraternity was a national unity. Nationalism. Chauvinism (this term literally appeared in the Napoleonic era, after the first French Revolution). Nationalism is another iteration of tribalism that arose only and exclusively under capitalism, thanks to the bourgeoisie. Nations are the outcome of this era, unlike ethnic groups, based on ethnic groups. Since the "God" culturally died, and the concept of a "sacred destiny, or a plan, for everyone in it's necessary place" died with him, the only explanation for the masses: why some should suffer endlessly while others endlessly enjoy life, why the lives and needs of some are still more valuable and more important than the lives and needs of others -- has become a nationalism.

​@@ihl0700677525 From what I've seen of your other comments, I don't think so.

@@SirBoggins Sure. You are free to think however you want.

@@ihl0700677525 Ironic considering how condescending and abrasive you've been towards Balkan Odyssey and other commenters recently 🤔

Thank you!

Same! ❤

@@BalkanOdyssey_ You're a fucking monster. Communism is a crime.

Not to mention Communism during its peak were later transformed into more 'chauvinistic' variants, like Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

This dude is chugging pinko kool-aid by the gallon. True believers will never mention Soviet crimes against humanity, nevermind its more minor short comings.

@@rickwong9049 that happened pretty much immediately tho. With russians being as title nation.

Didn't you watch the video? It was "necessary". Besides, wh's gonna cry after a couple hundred thousands imperialists?

It's kinda crazy how the administration under which famines completely ended is associated with them, but the Russian empire which had consistent famines for hundreds of years seems like a more stable alternative to some people

Yes

pop music would have been a more appropriate target... but we have to agree that mumble rap is objectively terrible, and attempts to commercialise it are truly rock-bottom tier music

@@KekusMagnus fair enough lots of "mumble rap" (which is a pretty nebulous term) with pretty badly done, but if the right artist comes along every once in a while they can construct legitimately though provoking messages. In my opinion the roughest part of "mumble rap" is the lyrical content but musically it often has the ability to be experimental and tap into a certain vibe that many people can relate to.

@@KekusMagnus Even "Mumble rap" has become a broad genre . ... Where people are getting are getting creative with it. There are no such thing as objectively bad or good.

To me I read mumbling nonsense as pop-music. Because that's literally what's on the radio right now in my car, just idiotic air heads yapping on about either unrequited love, how they're yearning for love or how they can be independent from love. And that's literally 90% of the music available in pop. Makes me vom 🤢

No, your claim is that western liberal democracy is superior, and you are 100% right about that.

W rizz

A system that promises to fix those that just so happens to be corruptible is better than a system that at its core is corrupt. Powerful men will always try to seize power, we can at least try a system that makes that harder. We just need to figure out a proper bureaucracy to stop corruption... but as long as humans are involved i am afraid that is impossible. You can always brainwash the voting populous...

so we should give up and accept a system that does nothing for the workers?

Its true that corruption is possible in any systems. But there is a system that culivates corruption and greed above all else. Guaranteeing that the worst people have the most power, funneling all evil to the top of society. That system is capitalism.

Yes, let's embrace it like its art but not let anyone live in a system like that again, it's just pretty to see.

@@LauritzenLucas The system itself was not just brutalism and rigor even tho it is portraited as such today, the perseption of the past is viewed truth lences of todays projektions and ideallism. There was Socialist realism soviet art movmant that tried to present the other side of human experiance by presenting workers, soldiers, regular working class scenary jet it to feels like it romanticised in a way the world can never truly be presented in art withot idealism. Imagine if someone from the outside of todays cultural hegemony saw a heappy go lucky capitalist comertial thinking that is what our experience trully is like. Art is an expresion, the culture, the class charaster, the intention is what makes it truly matter. There was atempts at building empiricism, art and proleterian cuture via education (Proletcult etc.)

@EDUARD ȘTEFAN MALOȘ Soviet movies were pretty good.

@@waltonsmith7210 the paradox lies when it's Soviet figures censoring other Soviet figures in some films, like since Zhukov is MOST loved more then Stalin, Stalin keeps censoring him until he finally died and Zhukov is the very Icon of the Red Army much later. Soviet films are the best when they aren't boggin themselves down.

​​@@waltonsmith7210 Meh, some were pretty good while others... eh not so much

I hope your situation has improved.

Habitation Issue.

@@ZemanTheMighty it will get worse in the upcoming years. There is no ussr to compete, which means distopian future for all, now capitalist, world.

try being homeless in the east LOL. you're lucky

​@@siyacer you don't see too much homelessness in places like China.

Wrong. Communists don’t know how to design cities or architecture. They don’t understand the importance of homogeneous culture, and the culture of structures. They aren’t very smart. Just take a look at Paris, then compare it to east Berlin.

He is probably USAmerican

No system is more right-wing than dictatorship. The future revolution must not violate the principles of equality and democracy, and a small group of elderly people must not be allowed to steal the success of the revolution and define what revolution is. Because it's like a church that believes that wealth is evil, selling redemption vouchers to wealthy people

I'm glad you enjoy them. I will make a video on that topic some time in the future.

@@BalkanOdyssey_ I would also like to see this video. I have often said that alienating Yugoslavia was perhaps Stalin's greatest oversight. It is hard as modern communists to see division in our history, at critical times when unity would have been more useful, but it's important for us to look backwards on these mistakes and learn from them.

Ikr. I can't help but smile at pathetic (typically American) anticommunist NPC's online teaching me about how supposedly dark, grim and unhappy my parents' and grandparents' lives in the Soviet Union were, when in reality they wanted for nothing, were happy and fulfilled and lived in large, happy families and none were any big shots in the party on something, but came from modest rural backgrounds.

@Heraclius III Do you live in a post-socialist country to be so confident about you claim’s truthfullness?

@@Diam0nD_007 As you could have easily inferred from the comment - yes, I do. Georgia, to be precise.

@@ercoleborgiano Oh, sorry, completely missed that. But to the point- I too come from a post-socialist country (Czechoslovakia), and I must say that my family had a completely different experience from living under socialism than yours did. Lack of basic consumer goods on a daily basis, destruction of nature and cultural heritage, complete mismanagement of both industry and agriculture (hence the shortage) and of course the crippling lack of individual freedom. Not even mentioning the international isolation enforced within the Warsaw Pact by the USSR, with any attempts to leave or merely reform the Soviet system resulting in a military invasion by the USSR (for my country it was in 1968). The mansions formely owned by rich individuals got seized and later transferred to influential party members. Corruption was rampant, with the black market filled with Western goods flourishing, while people had to wait for hours to get meat. For all these reasons, I don’t quite understand why people still defend the Soviet times nowadays.

@@Diam0nD_007 First off, salutes to Czechia and Slovakia. The image you've painted is grim, and I can't tell whether it has 100% ground in concrete reality or some of it is an emotional look at things, or whether what was grim was like that all of the time, except a few things that definitely were, such as closed borders (though politically it is fine at least to me personally). Granted, you cannot verify these things with what I've said for my part either, so that's fine. You can be skeptic about my claim, I can be about yours, we're on the Internet, for Christ's sake. As a last note, what I'd described did not only apply to my family. It applied to almost everyone, at least in the Georgian SSR. Like I said, my folks weren't big and the reason I gave them as an example is because they're the most familiar example to me. But it's not hard to measure public opinion on this. You go outside and you ask people a few very simple questions of socio-economic nature: Are you better off now? Has your life changed for the better? Can you afford basic living conditions as opposed to back then? The answer is a resounding no, because at that time we'd achieved something from nothing and now we're back to nothing. What we'd created was destroyed in 90's wars and banditism or just plain out looted and plundered by predatory parasites both local and foreign, during "liberalization" and various privatization schemes. Results? No industry, no social safety net, no human wages, no education, no army, no sport, no culture, no nothing... We are just a colony whose resources (including, most importantly, the best talent and the best brains) are shipped overseas. This is our situation as it stands. Rather different from Czechia and Slovakia, you would agree. So I hope that at least after reading this you won't be as surprised in the future when you see people sympathize with socialism. And by "socialism" I don't mean the Western soylibs, I mean ML - putting this out for any Westerners who might read.

Thank you!

Absolutely agreed. However, authoritarianism in the Marxist sense, i.e. the dictatorship of the proletariat, is these exact two things paradoxically combined. I recommend watching Hakim's video "Libertarian socialism with authoritarian characteristics" or reading Engels' short text "On authority". It sums up the absurdity of the term "authoritarian" very well.

Make no mistake central economy simply doesn’t work, not that liberal capitalism works as well, but wake up the world have more options than two obsolete systems.

Thank god they didnt have this video back then 🙏 ,its as you say…the idiots wouldnt have overhtrown him, and we’d be living in the same commie shithole

Are you really unaware of the THOUSANDS killed by the socialism regime in Romania. All the intelectuals that were forced into concentration camps. All the heroes that made "Marea Unire" happen which were killed in prisons, are you really ignoring the extremly corrupt system and abusive towards the people. Is a regime where speaking against the wrong doings of leaders that are in higher positions will get you killed or imprisoned really better than the present one where its still corrupt, but you wont get killed and can actually slowly move in a better direction. 40 Million people died of famine in China in just 3 years and 360 MILLION abortions were forced during the one child policy for 35years. While other countries killed thousands because abortions were banned.... a flawed system what brainwashed millions

communist countries lol

@@legobros2020 do u agree that they completely misunderstood Religion? I think their dogmatic materialism makes them just as likely to be corrupt as any capitalist corporatist country

Hakim talks about Gadaffi's green book. You'll probably get something out of that. Especially the parts about any class taking over inheriting the characteristics of their predecessors.

Commie blocks are housing, homelessness is houselessness. It's pretty privileged to spit on the idea of housing people when so many lack a roof. Besides, in the USA alone we have 16 million unoccupied homes, and virtually none of those are "commie blocks"

commie blocks were not as bad as you make them out to be. On the outside they may be ugly, altho I would personally would disagree, but on the inside they were pretty decent for the time

@@AshliBlattgold As someone who has lived in a commie block, they suck. Even older housing is better.

@@FireOccator do they suck by today's standards? yes, I am talking about when they were built. Housing was a lot lower quality back then in general

@@FireOccator idk what housing you are comparing them to

Thank you druže!

Glad it turned out well, thank you!

I actually liked that.

The nature of that place

I mean when I watch any video from th Ukraine war it's always Grey and depressing looking. I don't think it's propaganda, that's just what the area looks like...

Saint Petersburg has 60 days of sunlight a year. So, 60 days a year it's a colourful baroque masterpiece. Seriously, 300 sq km UNESCO heritage site painted with colourful pastels and decorated with stucco. 305 days a year it's greyscale, depressing and raining for weeks non-stop. It's not architecture that matters. Take any masterpiece of architecture you wish. Make everything except for polished metal, plastic and glaze 10% vibrance. Polished metal etc 50% vibrance. Put it in front of dark blueish grey, and remove any greens around, except for fir. Only stems left. That's it.

Ah yes the biggest shithole and worst dictatorship in Europe yes yes, taking on national debt was just another retard move.

Yeah it must have been a really good socialist country. So good in fact, that they SHOT AND KILLED THEIR PRESIDENT.

​@Porky True. When he realised that and repayed it, the west didn't like loosing control over Romania, the rest is history....

Least racist Serb.

There will be plenty of criticism of the Soviet model, no worries. Yet in such contexts and conversations, I find it important to nonetheless praise the achievements of socialist experiments in front of a broader audience with liberals and socdems who've never been exposed to them. Ruthless criticism would be the next task.

@@BalkanOdyssey_ fair

Welcome to the club

​@natdl691 I mean technically communism doesn't inhibit that goal? Not at a systemic level at least. You can still get stuff and own things, all it does is ensure your happiness doesn't trample on others happiness, and isn't trampled on BY others pursuing their happiness. If a factory is shut down, instead of of your being desperate to find a job, hit can take your time and ask around, as food, water, and housing, the absolute necessities, are there ready to access for all. It might not be lavish but your won't suffer while you strive to go be useful. Because ultimately I've never met anyone who didn't want to be useful. Homeless people, a guy bumming on my couch, myself when I was too depressed to get out of bed for a while. All of us WANTED to do things. I was lucky in that I managed to pick up steam, and get momentum to keep me moving again instead of just laying down and drying at the hopelessness of the world. But I recognize it was luck and more importantly my friends support.

"provide a way for everybody to chase their dreams and give incentives for them to achieve their dreams." do you feel capitalism does this? even in the imperial core, the proletarians have no social mobility. a select few rise up, but the vast majority of hard workers are abused and thrown to the side. besides, how would communism prevent the pursuit of happiness? if anything, it helps the pursuit of happiness by abolishing the pursuit of necessities. If I dont need to scramble for my next meal, I have time to pursue real joy like starting a family and running.

@natdl691 we dont like hearing that people should be happy? do you think communism is an ideology of the pursuit of misery? unless your only joy in life is owning a factory and drinking coke, i dont see how communism holds you back.

EXACTLY

seems like communist china has not been dealing with that any better

Because when the "professionals" keep making failed prediction after failed prediction since the 1960s, it naturally makes people more skeptical

Communists were the worst polluters in the world back when they reigned over half of the world. And even now, climate activism is a staple of the core capitalistic West with other countries following suit to some degree only out of Western pressure.

You argue that ruthlessness is necessary for the survival of the revolution. From your comment I assume you believe it is a good thing. This would assume that communism is objectively better, both morally and practically, so ruthlessness could be viewed as viable. But here is a question. What would stop me from believing that facism or any ideology for that matter was inherently good and deserved the right to authoritarianism. One can not judge a philosophy as totally good or bad, and most people would agree that authoritarianism shouldn’t be implemented in a system that claims the good and betterment of us. Every, and I mean EVERY philosophy is doomed to be wrong, for the simple fact that it is made of humans. Humans are imperfect and make imperfect things. In the case of philosophies/political ideologies one would assume the humbleness and good thinking of the person, whether the rich or the poor. In a realistic world however people have personal goals and ambitions, something that makes any institution impossible to implement in the real world, at least on paper.( this applies for every philosophy, not just communism). So, ruthlessness is self-explanatory. You need it because the system is flawed and you know it, and so do the people, the proletarian, the investor, whoever the system praises. Authoritarianism is needed because humans need authority, but this doesn’t justify it

Hvala unaprijed

This is a sneaky way to say no one should ever get freedom's. Poverty will always exist I'm not giving up one minor freedom because someone is poor wtf kind of stupidity is that?

@@shadowbannedaccont9479 if you can truly enjoy your freedom while people just like you are dying of starvation and medical neglect - I got news for you pal... It means you're a piece of sh!t 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is literally what happened with the Russian revolution and they got even harder, almost constant famines after that.

@@LauritzenLucas why not make things up, sounds fun!

@@shadowbannedaccont9479 poverty is a necessity of capitalism. One day it and it’s symptoms will be abolished.

Slap a bit of color on those bad boys and you get genuinely beautiful blocks. Google commie block restaurations, they genuinely look lively and stunning.

So true. Growing up in the Midwest USA during the Cold War this seemed so obvious to me. When I was shown those "Cold, Grey, and Depressing" (aka "Winter") pictures I saw something much more familiar (but newer and more desirable) than the propagandists had intended for me to perceive.

@@Dhumm81 funny that eh? As someone who lives just on the edge of the midwest I can relate to that. I mean hell take a picture where I live in winter and it's a pretty similar effect all things considered

Winter pictures are nice sometimes (white shiny fluffy snow). Late autumn/early spring is raining weaks, no greenery, dark grey sky and a mud-pocalypse. Our cities unlike NY are VERY green, there's literally trees and lawns everywhere, and as a result of raining weeks and melting snow, Russian thick fertile soil turns into liquid sticky mud.

I think you covered more of the false "freedoms" than I've ever come up with in the moment debating liberals. So very well done, sir.

Thank you!

Terrific indeed - But only in the original (archaic) meaning of the word.

Yeah, you’re talking about the 25% of the population of any country. When stalin took power in the ussr 70% of the party was made of industrial workers, 20% out of intelligentsia. When gorbi took the seat it was the other way around. Guess the strata that was pushing for the liberal reforms in the 80s

Well said. Despite some actions being justifiable, they're still pretty terrible things to do.

Thank you. I wish leftists would do more explaining how to implement communism/socialism without the pitfalls of the previous attempts, and less simping for failed authoritarian regimes and preemptively attacking the west with false equivalencies. They make communism look way worse than anticommunists do.

Looking back, it's better that everything else that was tried Already seeing "socialism/communism hasn't been tried"

"Hiveminde markets" vs a political overlord(s) who always knows better than the people whats best for them? Though choice. Perhaps a mix like social democracy maybe? Most peple don't like communism, might be as it's easy to corrupt and always has been corrupted vry fast.

Nope. It was fail of leadership. Elites got greedy and wanted western top-class live standards. You can see most post soviet capitalists to grow from "communist party" directly.

In my opinion all of these horrible things exist in communist experiments because of the central authority of the state. The state is responsible for the vast majority of problems in communist countries. The state is inherently corrupt and parasitic. You could have all the benefits of communism by removing the state and embracing a democratic authority. Instead of having an authoriterian government ruling OVER the people you could have a decentralisrd government run BY the people. Destroying the chance of strongmen gangsters like Stalin and Mao from coming to power would make everything so much better.

Your English is good though. But I recommend using more paragraph breaks than single super-ultra paragraphs to make it easier to read. It would improve it further. I can handle this even though I prefer being known as a socialist more, but I will addressing this either from bottom top or at random. 1: Free speech. Well the question there is what do you mean by that? Is it absolutist speech, where even something that can raise mental instability and self-removal up, the more press-related speech where you can critique and argue against or just straight up dunk on things like government and other people? [which is generally a good benchmark to have.] The Lib version [In the USA a Libertarian might as well be civilization's Ghandi, and a Liberal is just a rightist extremist that loves self-defeatism and parading around as what it isn't.] which ultimately can be summed up as rules for thee but not for me? I believe the only valid one is the press level, because if you can call your neighbor a moron openly, and you can call out your government without getting thrown into a cell that is very vital for progress and improvement. But there are also many other versions of free speech, like selective speech which varies more so on group to group, individual to individual. In-groups therefore with that one can vary from the freeist all the way to if you disagree with their opinion the in-group cult will smite you. 2: Communist country. One problem with that. Communism is a end goal philosophy which is inherently anarchy. It is by definition cashless, state[government]less, and classless. Low level examples are like the Hawaiian communal living societies, hunter-gatherers but communists retain tech, etc. [For that one, see something like the joke of fully-automated luxury communism, which has today now been made into a legitimate position as much as how Posadism was a meme then turn reality. That one is literally just "We cannot do anything, we will wait for the world to fall and then we will try to implement."] Because there would be no government, technically there is no nation/country even if you still displayed a border on a map. Now of course you can have a communist party, which end goal is this, but operate on various different pick and choose, or full on extremes [descriptions of a type of socialism. I.E taking socialism literally and the only thing you do is collectivize private property and that's it.] of socialism. The economic system utilized, and at times referred to as a transitory form, in attempt to achieve communism. [Of which most of every nation under it was a soviet republic AKA council republic or variant of council republic, A union but now leading a state that may or may not also be a council, or random types of actual government systems. The majority of which rather than following the writings and thus knowing material conditions, mimicked success states rather than what their environment and resources would allow. Which is why several states that actually fit criteria had bad implementation.] You can have a country, which is socialist, and a government that is a brand of democracy or even absolute democracy, but you cannot have a communist country. You can have a coalition of varyingly independent as well as autonomous nations that are socialistic, but you cannot have these concepts as a communist since the end goal is the arbitrary titles are abolished. 3: Dictator of the P This is what causes the secret police. Their job is to find people that do the equivalent of masquerading as a title but they don't mean it [I.E see people who say they advocate for free speech then behind the scenes they actually want it abolished, they only say they wanted it just for their party to win.], hostile forces trying to corrupt the system like spies for example [Which can get dicey. I.E an actual informant could see randoms walk into the state, pretend they are the spies instead to cover the informant's trail, and thus if something bad happens then they can use it against the state.], those that attempt to readvocate for things like indentured servitude or inventing up fake consent to work, etc. Influence like say, alt-rightist neo-Ns can thus cause the populace to sway via kneejerk reactions or basically emotional arguments and strip rationality from these emotional arguments, to then enact abhorrent faults onto the populace. You would also have them basically dunking down on anything that qualifies as an exploiter. [Billionaires leeching money off of people for no reason, international forced emerald mining people, those resisting the removal of privatized assets, things like that. Albeit if say, you had a billionaire that wasn't exploiting and did magically earn their money, they would probably be taxed until lowered to the millionaire bracket or the normal person, and thus left alone when the issue was reallocated.] Therefore, to support the people's or just worker's dictatorship against hostile forces from re-enacting horrors on humanity, you also support things like this. But you can do things like make it public, regulate, or even advocate for it's abolition especially before it can be weaponized. Under normal circumstances, you wouldn't be hassled with unless you actually committed a moral failing or something, and this is more influenced by societal norms, standards, expectations, and other cultural faults than leadership is. So to resolve the issue, you need to fix the people, or remove all the SP, and replace the departments with trained individuals which support a more feasible or lenient society instead. An absolute restructuring. 4: Freedom of speech for opponents This is something that can be done, technically nothing in the way. The question is, do you want, since it is more youtube friendly, a neo-national-socialist to be able to have a influential platform inside your community? That tends to be the argument usually depicted. For example look at the U.S.A's trans community, they merely want to exist, but there are people which continually adds onto mental destabilization and self removal, then use those statistics as an argument for why other's shouldn't do it to while hidden under the guise of "caring" and from "a place of love." This enabled a large community to exist which sole purpose was to raise the crime rate against that community, and then Floristotzka exists. Or the real name, Florida. I do not think it is more so a question of why don't they get free speech, but more so a combination of should they be platformed combined with criteria. I believe it is more accurate to ask "if they are doing/saying something wrong, does it actually fit into a permanent criteria that makes action against it beyond on the individual on individual level valid?" Or essentially "If Fred called Bob insane, is that valid enough for action?" and ordinary the response is no. If there is more context like say, "Fred shanked Bob and then called Bob insane" the answer would be yes. Now of course, you could get a neurotic voted in by people, and they were really good at playing a character. And now you can have them reinvent something like a gulag, which is what the problem is. [Of which these prison-towns were inherited from the Tsarist regime to keep in mind, but I think there were some made anew before abolishment later on.] 5:Facsism Yeah that is bad. But there is two versions you can stick to if you want instead which most of the onliners use. Either: A nationalist - ultranationalist prideful eugenicist with anti-race sentiments Or A authoritarian or even Totalittarian nationalist with mythologic state, anti-race, Eugenics, victim mentality complex sentiments. Those tend to be the repeats, the rest is more so like Germany trying to turn everyone into a target. The good news is, that if there is a group, community in general, etc that has a vague understanding of it, then people can join in and gradually restructure the beliefs back into the safety range again. But whether or not they're legitimate is debatable. Part I

Part II Conclusion: Now the thing to note about how the left operates is that it is built upon ancient writings as well, ordinary starting with Marx and Engels, going to Lenin, then you have all the other ones. They are inherently a self-reflecting and progressive gig. The writings above were examples of conversation, theory building, environmental conditions, changes needed at the time such as with Lux, etc. And in terms of political operation it is hyper diverse. Not only can you go with an as-stated view, but you can also pick and choose aspects based on the conditions available. For example Socialists and Communists both have Posadists. This is effectively a Marxist-Posadist take with religious tones that wants to terraform the world after a nuclear war into a communist or socialistic paradise. It takes inspiration from the mind that created it, Marx, bits of Lenin, the doomerism of Stalin, half of Mao with his "with Chinese characteristics" gag, and Trot. Basically if we had to go with purist descriptors and hypothetically assumed the beliefs were fixed and one HAD to choose to be one or the other rather than the fluid dynamic that the entire system is by default it would be something like this: [We will go with modern limitation though, not every type.] Marx: The original polymath. Pretty much presented a number of the main things, that religion was the opium of the masses [In that case refers to the "happiness" effect but also mentions that control mechanisms like a cult can make it dominate the believers.], and was the main bulwark of the theory in public consensus. Generally, most newcomers literally start as this and it doesn't really mean anything beyond total overthrow of capitalism. Marxism-Leninism: Was a big believer in Scientific Communism, which is the theory, application, planning, etc on societal changes, it went beyond economics. It also involved understanding of how an economic system can directly affect other conditions including the political environment. The USSR, Cuba, eastern Bloc, Etc were all a derivative or M-L. They believed also in the concept of when all else fails then higher levels of violence than normal [like protests, strikes, etc.] were to take place or inevitable. Whether Lenin actually was or not, like the joke of Trot their followers tended to not only be anti-religious [the habits/rituals, proselytizing, in-group standards.] but in general varying misotheistic to state-athiestic. General anti-theism sentiments. And this carried over. Now of course there is religious M-Ls, but the OGs were pretty against the norm of it. Nowadays online if anyone refers to themselves as an M-L a Lib calls them a tanky. Which we will cover at some point too. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism: The combination of "with chinese characteristics" with normal M-L theory. Basically we just tacked on land reallocation aspects, anti-landlordism, explore further into what a petty-bor is, and going full out with the armed response. Generally the originals/OGs didn't care if validity was achieved only that revolution happened. [So imagine someone Bob didn't like, and then they just threw them out a window just because of it.] Modern day presentation however, it focuses purely on the combination of Marxist economic theory, Lenin's scientific conundrum, and dealing with what even capitalism calls a menace known as a landlord. The biggest victim mentality CEO ever. Pol-pot: The joke of a maniac that all categories make fun of. Basically just overthrow a gooberment, then pull a national-socialist on your own people for no reason. Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism: This is basically the concept ultimately of state-centric revolution. In translation like scientific communism, it stands for instead of international revolution or global like originally intended, it focuses on the intensive rapid industrialization, reallocation, and militarization of a state in defense against hostile forces. Posadists involve elements of M-L-S in the fact that in their beliefs if the world collapsed that they would implement rapid industrialization of remaining factories and infrastructure to make a bare-minimum living threshold of a community, and then use it as the basis for humanitarian aid as a PR stunt to spread global revolution or something. It also involved relocations, thorough systematic yeeting of religious institutions, and overwork initially. Though strangely enough, it did focus on retainment of other cultural aspects and for a time varied degree of representation. So take that for what you will. Marxism-Trots: They are the other joke. Trot himself has writings on the idea of global revolution and achievement by any means necessary, but is more known for getting voted out, and screeching about Stalin. They are only known for their new-age fanbase rather than actual writings. Which is basically tech-illiterates, still using news papers, and they are the internet funnymen that make up most of both the crap webdesign pages, as well as their general dismissiveness of achieving class consciousness through means like the internet and prefer more ancient methods like newspapers and walking in on meetings than proper conversations, using the internet, etc. A different less dumb version can be found in south america however. Tanky: A tanky is in reference to the massacre that was Hungary I believe. A tanky is pretty much as militant socialist, or communist, which is an apologetic for forced military insertions even into allied lands, and justify the concept of overruling the people's say within Hungary. In modern terms however, a Tanky is a person that is hyper-militant, supportive of permanent or deep control, and advocate of general unjust extremism. However, people literally just on the internet use Tanky as a dismissive insult.

​@@jaygyrobro6104 Though I need to fix the fascism a bit: the only fascist country that had actually eugenist politics was the Third Reich, Nazi Germany. Rest of fascist countries (Spain, Italy, Romania, Hungary) were just ultramilitarist and -nationalist countries with irredentist tendencies because of nationalistic point of view on history. Though most of the fascist nations did give up Jews to Hitler, but that was mainly because they were extorted to do so. For example until the late 1930's, in Italian fascist party there were many Jews as members.

@@makhnothecossack4948 I probably should have looked it up a bit more then lol. I mostly just observed that state combined with the different groups we are stuck putting up with here since it was the fastest and more easily known without a few days of constant citing and online studying. Though it is interesting how they all similarly act so insecure and mindlessly invasive. One such group we have to put up with this dumb extremist Christian cult that wants the eradication of any community that isn't a white patriarch that swallows God's glory. They basically use the same arguments but on different targets. This seems to be a trend, so I threw in eugenics speak because it all compounds back onto it, even if it isn't ethnic-centric at all. Another for example is the NFIB which is like this, but they do accept groups like the Jewish community if they are converts, but depending on the sect it also means they get treated as a tertiary class of citizen. In others they don't care what race you are, you just have to be "normal" and heterosexual. In another anything that isn't hyper patriarchal and societally standardized as a backwards hostile hyper individualist [generally for control and isolation.] gets a threat of some sort. I continue seeing similar sentiments, arguments, etc. The wording is replaced, on or a different group regardless of if it is tied to a race deal or settlements, or it is basically the most limp-wristed iteration of "as long as I don't have to see it" followed by intentionally placing them in a scenario to constantly see it. Though there is a leadership party that doesn't do the eugenics argument conventionally. They focus more so on the cruelty and legislated big G instead of the actual eugenics. Florida under Ron De Guantanamois and his con-republican goons while they do all the same stuff like book burnings, threats, marginalization, etc, they make more money if they keep them existent just enough to whine about, but still able to do surface level removals. They are more so a weirdo with a fanbase that follows the same Christian nationalist beliefs as the MAGA bois. Basically, making up books on how to a real [insert arbitrary title here], why things like socialism bad, and generally flinging their firearms around while saying a random group that isn't a white nuclear family following strict anti-human norms and taboos, is equally as weak, insignificant, and unworthy of attention as they are a pure societal menace that must be "dealt with" as it were. Considering that, I automatically did the bad-guy thing and did a simplified generalization on the matter for clarification. Though I presume that if I looked into it beforehand as much as I do technology, then I might not of have gotten it that wrong. I am entirely lacking in knowledge about Spain and Romania in the era as a whole though.

Thank you. The mumbling part I think you misunderstood. I do not mean rap or any specific type of american music. I mean commercialized Balkan trash music.

​@@BalkanOdyssey_ Ah okay, I definitely misunderstood, I havent heard much outside of the classics that get played in Greece, so I assumed wrongly I was just making sure anyway, because a lot of online (typically conservatives) unfairly trash black people from Atlanta & Florida's music Regardless, keep doing what you're doing 🤝🤝Your video on the journey from Germany to Bosnia is one of the best political videos I've seen on youtube

@@BalkanOdyssey_ Oh yeah. Who would want to listen to capitalist music? I mean if we want Balkan music to be good then I don't wanna hear any pro-fascist, pro-ustasha or pro-chetnik phrase because it sickens us to the bones. When stupid people like Milosevic, Tudjman, and Izetbegovic are hailed as heroes, historical negationism grows ever stronger and then people start denying the death count of the people in the Jasenovac (200,000 - 300,000) concentration camp by the NDH as well as the number of Muslims killed by Chetniks in 1995 in Srebrenica (8,372). Smrt Fasizmu! Sloboda Narodu!

Thank you!

I'm glad the video left such a positive impact on you. Thank you for sharing!

That's why Communist China is the most richest country in the world right now? Because it's lead by Leninist Socialism. USSR was ahead of the USA in all fields during it's time, may it be science, sports, military strength, social equality, social justice, civil rights, philosophy, literature, education, social security. Literally everything. It was the second biggest economy of it's time. I know that Soviet Society was. It was great. Look at China today. China depicts everything USSR was. It's great. Socialism has worked and it will work. Haters gonna hate. We don't care.

@@anuragbiswas2214 no. its the richest country because its cheap af not because of communism

@@anuragbiswas2214China is going downhill really badly. It was when they dropped Maoist principles and opened trade to the Western world that they began to really succeed. Not that China didn’t develop at all under a communistic rulership, but they seem to really do better when free market principles are followed. Right now the housing market in China is devastating and their strict plans for families and housing are falling apart and destroying their rural diaspora.

​​@@anuragbiswas2214 This is honestly hilarious to read since I've heard other socialists say that China "isn't a real example of socialism" and that it's actually a capitalist country. Also idk about you but I don't think people outside of cities fared well in Soviet life but that's just between me and you.

I told balkan oddysey about your proposal in this comment section. I hope that helps him notice it

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Do you support PKK?

komunistlar..

​@@tzar9395no

A lot of people use the un-translated version of the slogan in English, possibly because the words are still recognizable to English speakers.

because no english speaker understands cyrillic goddamn

@@mah9582 I don’t understand French. People who use French words unaltered in English are being pretentious. God dayum.

@@calitaliarepublic6753 I'm pretty sure that it's a target audience thing.

@@calitaliarepublic6753 Im sure that the french words are clearly understandable. They literally spell Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity so there is no need for the English version because its not that hard to decipher it.

the whole channel is just eastern propaganda probably its full of flawed arguments

oh yeah the ussr definitely was imperialist towards the end of its existence, no mistake about that and leftists will not deny such

@@hajihajiwa The Soviet Union was also imperialist in the begning and the middle. Starting with the re-annexing Ukraine as soon as the Revolution was over, to its iron grip on eastern Europe for most of the second half of the 20th century.

Thank you for the kind words and the support mate!

they were built in the 50s, during khrushchev, what u see right now IS renovated :D "when they were constructed, they were a marvel. beautiful, elegant, colorful, with all the ameneties of urban life" this is just absolute bullshit their walls where thin and did not retain heat, most of them were barrack style buildings with shared kitchen and toilets. " the blocks lie there, grey and decrepit" it was always like that the idea was never to renovate them but build as much as possible

Perfectly well said, thank you for the comment.

@@BalkanOdyssey_ >pseudo intellectuals circle jerking their "well said" ideas 😁 would u ever be actually open to a real time debate ?

@@joris4255 Commie blocks came into being at a time when many western nations were still having slum clearacnces and filled a similar role to the repacment hosing put up then. They were designed to be quick to build and compared to the previous situation prior, they were practically luxurious. Going from no running water or electricity to both is

@@InsufficientGravitas no commie blocks weren't supposed to be a replacements houses for lower class, second i don't think western countries were having slums like you express them to have, there definitely was just not on scale

The USA has a large industrial prison sector that is vaguely reminiscent of communist housing blocks. Grey concrete buildings remind people of prison. Plus luxury and flashy culture is a status symbol used by capitalist elite to keep the classes divided and subservient to the rich. People don't realize that we still live under feudalism. They flashy and shiny dreams keep them distracted.

That's weird, the 80s and 90s was when Gorbachev was in office. It's weird because Gorbachev opened soviet society yo western culture. Hmm very weird indeed.

@@milkkorsmth Gorbachov allowing Western culture was the number one reason why the USSR fell in 1991 because of the bourgeois propaganda that was spreading. The people started demanding for secession and "liberty" (allowing capitalists to rule the working class) and when the dreaded Yeltsin came, he smashed the USSR. Then the fascist Putin (Adolf Hitler) came and started making propaganda about the Russian master race, calling all other Slavs inferior, that Russians are the only Slavs, and that everyone else is a Western spy. With that, he would go on to commit genocides in Ukraine and abduct hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children forcing them to speak Russian just like the Tsarist regime did in the 19th century.

@@milkkorsmth the fun part? He was trying to keep the union in one piece. The only good thing he did in his life is failure to achieve his goal.

@@vitaliitomas8121 totally agree. The only good thing he ever did was stop the ussr. Russia couldve been a good country if it wasnt for the only two leaders they ever had.

Thank you for the support! Well, I guess the dominoes are falling quicket than you can catch them with your eye.

@@BalkanOdyssey_ true

I find it sad when millions of people are murdered in the name of socialism. I'll take poverty over oppression any day of the week.

For Q1, we can’t tell each other apart reliably, but it’s going to be more accurate than just random guessing. For Q2, most of the time we will recognize accents in seconds, and tell each other’s place of origin by that. So note, there is more than one accent per republic/country, there are many sometimes radically different accents even in the same country.

@@slippulter8053 Thank you so much man, I appreciate it! Yes, I know about the differences between the dialects and accents of Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrin language even inside Serbia and Croatia and had checked that a long time ago on Wikipedia. I just didn't know how different they are and I got my answer (in seconds). I remember I was watching Karadzic's capture documentary and a man from the Serbian intelligence service said: ''Radovan Karadzic speaks in Bosnian accent but when he was Dragan Dabic he spoke in Belgrad accent''

What do you mean Bulgarian/North Macedonian? You do realize that these two countries are different nations and that there is no such thing as North Macedonian and only Macedonian.

@@ministryofinformation2067 I'm not sure if Bulgars are Slavs or Turkic but I know that North Macedonian people are just some types of Bulgars ethnically and linguistically. That nation or country was never mentioned and considered as a relevant and independent nation and land. You said Macedonians, I know one Macedonia that is in Greece and I know one ancient Macedonian people who were Greeks and that name and identity have nothing to do with that country in the north of Greece. You can't change and fake the history and truth.

@@MikaelGymBro 1. Bulgars are turkic and Bulgarians are Slavs. These are two different people but still related a bit. 2. The Macedonian nation have been mentioned many times in history especially during the 19th and 20th century. 3. Yes, part of Macedonia is in today's Greece, but there are also parts of geographical and ethnic Macedonia in today's country of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. The part of Macedonia in Greece that we call Agean Macedonia used to be populated by Slavs who called themselves Macedonians but Greece has done an excellent job at forcibly assimilating them or kicking them out of the country and only very little is left of them.

Brilliant essay.

@@thorthewolf8801 Thank you.

Nah, labour unions serve to give privileges to skilled workers at the expance of less skilled ones

And communist countries. Government attempted in the early 1980s to destroy the Polish trade union Solidarity through the imposition of martial law .

Might as well do it...

@@BalkanOdyssey_ yes do it

@@BalkanOdyssey_ Ok move to Laos or some shit like that now

Ah, yes, soviet union. Also known as russian empire in red coat

gotta win somehow

Thank you for the support!