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halim alrah
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HISTORICAL MATERIALISM EXPLAINED | A Marxist Theory of History
Historical Materialism is introduced and explained. I've talked about historical materialism in many of the past videos so some of these points will be familiar to a lot of you, but I wanted to have an easy short video dedicated to historical materialism that I can link to in the future.
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OTHER VIDEOS:
○ What is Class Conflict: czcams.com/video/TLwHsUBIK_A/video.html
○ Why the Political Compass is Wrong: czcams.com/video/9nPVkpWMH9k/video.html
○ Your Democracy is a Sham: czcams.com/video/oYodY6o172A/video.html
RESOURCES:
○ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
○ Historical Materialism A System of Sociology: www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
○ Historical Materialism A System of Sociology physical copy: shop.cosmonaut.blog/product/historical-materialism-a-study-in-sociology/16?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false
○ Vol. 2. Historical Materialism: www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1954/historical-materialism.pdf
○ A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799: www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520034198/a-short-history-of-the-french-revolution-1789-1799
People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
PATREON: www.patreon.com/halimalrah
TWITTER: halimalrah
BACKGROUND MUSIC: czcams.com/video/HS6bTv7BR_c/video.html
OUTRO MUSIC: czcams.com/video/TOZqpa9QFLc/video.html
OTHER VIDEOS:
○ What is Class Conflict: czcams.com/video/TLwHsUBIK_A/video.html
○ Why the Political Compass is Wrong: czcams.com/video/9nPVkpWMH9k/video.html
○ Your Democracy is a Sham: czcams.com/video/oYodY6o172A/video.html
RESOURCES:
○ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
○ Historical Materialism A System of Sociology: www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
○ Historical Materialism A System of Sociology physical copy: shop.cosmonaut.blog/product/historical-materialism-a-study-in-sociology/16?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false
○ Vol. 2. Historical Materialism: www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1954/historical-materialism.pdf
○ A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799: www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520034198/a-short-history-of-the-french-revolution-1789-1799
People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
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THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO SUMMARY | Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels explained with quotes
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A summary of the communist manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is given. Quotes and page numbers are provided as well. PATREON: www.patreon.com/halimalrah TWITTER: halimalrah BACKGROUND MUSIC by Toasted Tomatoes: czcams.com/video/okm840YSj2c/video.html OUTRO MUSIC: czcams.com/video/TOZqpa9QFLc/video.html OTHER VIDS: ○ What is Class Conflict: czcams.com/video/TLwHsUBIK_A/vide...
"Why Socialism" by Albert Einstein: Summary and Quotes
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Albert Einstein's essay "Why Socialism" summary with quotes. In the essay outlines his criticism of capitalism and makes the case for a planned socialist economy. PATREON: www.patreon.com/halimalrah TWITTER: halimalrah RESOURCES: Why Socialism by Albert Einstein: monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism Why Socialism by Albert Einstein Reading: czcams.com/video/sVKjFp5DEvk/video.html
The Socialist Case Against Billionaires
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There's a lot of liberal talk about billionaires. Here is the socialist case against billionaires. TWITTER: halimalrah PATREON: patreon.com/halimalrah MUSIC LINKS: Intro: czcams.com/video/tKVYWvy_5BI/video.html Background: czcams.com/video/RzxWRobX2jg/video.html RESOURCES: Bill Gates: King Of Neoliberalism: czcams.com/video/u8hpNqnyA9I/video.html Wage Labour and Capital: www.marxist...
Manufacturing Consent: How the News Media Distorts Reality // Noam Chomsky & Michael Parenti Summary
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Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing consent & Michael Parenti's Inventing Reality are summarized and explained here. Find out just exactly how your news media is biased, how this bias arises, and what can be done. twitter: halimalrah patreon: patreon.com/halimalrah Toasted Tomatoes Channel: czcams.com/channels/iEQkHW4YKFyozSaxteUiyg.html Background Music: czcams.com/video/okm840YSj2c/video...
Leftist Tik Toks to keep you going
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Leftist tik toks to keep you going till my next video I need to start making leftist tik toks and try and combat conservative tik toks and liberal tik toks lmao. lmao follow me on tik tok @ halimalrah twitter: halimalrah patreon: www.patreon.com/halimalrah intro/outro song: czcams.com/video/okm840YSj2c/video.html
Why The Political Compass is Wrong: Establishing An Accurate Model of Political Ideology
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The Political compass is wrong. ALL our mainstream models of politics and ideology are embarrassingly wrong. After outlining how these models are flawed, this video works towards establishing an accurate model of our politics and political ideology. patreon: www.patreon.com/halimalrah twitter: halimalrah instragram: halimalrah
Your Democracy is a Sham and Here's Why:
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The corruption of your democracy goes much deeper than just 'money in politics' patreon: www.patreon.com/halimalrah twitter: halimalrah lmao like half of this video was edited while I was bananas sick out of my absolute mind
What is Class Conflict? Karl Marx's Class Struggle Explained: Proletariat vs Bourgeoisie
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Class struggle between the proletariat vs bourgeoisie, as detailed by Karl Max, is critical to understand if we want to properly comprehend the politics of our age. As opposed to just reading off textbook definitions of the proletariat and bourgeoisie, a step by step explanation of class, class conflict, and class struggle are presented and how these concepts relate to capitalism and the state....
What Is Neoliberalism?
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What is neoliberalism answered. The distilled fundamentals of neoliberalism and how such an ideology manifests itself in policy. Support me on patreon: www.patreon.com/halimalrah Follow me on twitter: halimalrah
My Origin Story
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Twitter: halimalrah From September up until the end of October I tried getting published in my university student newspaper. Didn't work out, so here I am on youtube to spread radical ideas.
An Ode To Margaret Thatcher with Quotes
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Margaret Thatcher really said these quotes. Every quote in this is 100% real. God bless Margaret Thatcher. song: Dancing - Mellow Fellow this shitpost was made to familiarize myself with the editing software I'm using and Photoshop. looking forward to editing more videos
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The only ones that truly fear Socialism, with an Economy controlled the working class, are billionaires.
Holy braindead commie
Interesting video. A seemingly short, clear cut tutorial on political theory which turns into communist propaganda on par with a Monty Python sketch. Not what I expected, but sure, why not?
Communist Manifesto = "Give a Central Bank, I care not who makes the laws".
I have a copy of the Communist Manifesto in my bathroom. In case I run out of toilet paper.
POLITICAL IDEAOLOGY WILL NEVER WORK BECAUSE WE ARE HOMO SAPIEN SAPIEN....WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS AND BECOME GREEDY AS THE REALITY OF EXISTENCE STENCE BECOME APPEARANT AS YOU AGE AND GAIN EXPERIENCE.......POLITICS HAVE FAILED THE WORLD Communism works on a small scale .....veing a parent...having a family is like communism. Mom and dad decide what is best for the child and household overall......vut then dad really wants a football game party but mom wants to have a book club ....one atarts to try and circumvent the other and next thing ya know there is a domestic issue and now divided the commune of the family splits into two separate entities......
I love this. So true. Americans are some of the most brainwashed, entertained, and misinformed people on earth.
there'ss 94 million dead people that would disagree
Millenials after the unit from the -ISMS splintered into the topic is how it all became so rotten. Simple (relatively) the"Kingdoms" were selected swollen ego hartless that recruited weaklings to go kill and subjugate the meek people and steal their lands and "Valuable" possessions, ad copycat "Monarchies" and it became the "Modus Vivendi" of the known world. Fast forward to what was left after "Atlantis" and a sea fearer named "AMERICO VESPUCCI", the following rumors and the greed of criminal Kingdoms and Monarchies, and the bloodletting resurfaced on "New Lands". Then the Roman Empire dressed as a "Religion", their "Legionares" called "Missionaries" dispatched, captured unimaginable riches, killed most and "DEMOCRACY" came with opportunist and another bloodbath to own it all. And here we are, next "World Domination", the amount of lives it cost, just BUSINESS as usual. The history of Satan's Reign in a nutshell. Oh "HUMAN HARMONY"!!!? Too complicated "HUMANISM" was ALWAYS the enemy.
In a way: financial totalitarianism.
6:19 what if we just acknowledge that fascism is left-wing and anarchism is right-wing?
Lenin and Stalin skipped the capitalist and socialist states of economy. Right from slaves to the proletariat
This is a GREAT explanation of dialectical materialism, I love it
I am a hardened marxist and am already organized and stuff, the only reason I saw this video is because I typed in "The political compass is trash" and I am very happy that the number 1 recommendation based on that search was a video by a comrade
So what's the difference between neoliberalism and libertarianism?
It depends... Do you mean real libertarians or American libertarians? In basic terms, real libertarians believe in live and let live. They actually have a lot in common with anarchists. American libertarians think they don't have to follow common sense laws... ever. Sovereign citizen stuff. The difference, as far as capitalisation goes, is who gets to grift who... neo-liberal advocates want a bunch of gate keeping, which only allows rich people to play. Libertarians don't want gatekeepers telling them who they can grift. But, I assume, in all honesty libertarians are just centrists with a tinge of nationalism baked into a skewed sense of who they think they are... or ought to be. Libertarians mostly still belive in capitalism and neo-liberal policies. That is what separates it from anarchy. Anarchists don't want to grift anyone because it's not about capitalization. Live and let live without trying to steal my value...
this video has just saved my paper . all the other videos were either just yapping or using jargon i couldn't fathom 😭
You’ll own nothing and be happy. Communism is evil!
Probably best video on this topic I’ve seen
It all sounds fantastic. If only the reality of communism reflected this fantacy.
Lol! I never thought I would learn about economics while laughing. Thank you so much Halim Alrah, very enjoyable.
2024 has Trump as a candidate again
how is this only 4 years old. i was a liberal when i watched this at first. im ML now
Um.... This might be crazy, but America is a republic, not a democracy. Private property is one of the most important things our laws should protect.
America is a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, dumbass. It's a republic built on the foundation of popular rule. At least, that's what it cosplays as.
This video is amazing
God i love capitalism 😍
You just watched a video on why capitalism is exploitation and your reaction is "I love capitalism" Did you watch Star Wars and root for the Empire?
@@WarriorOfWriters watch the video of opinion of capitalism. Yes I love capitalism why does it collectively brings people together to accomplish an objective that's greater than one individual. If you think it's less ideal that's fine but capitalism has driven more people out of poverty then any other system in human history do I think there's critiques of capitalism absolutely and you would be silly not to believe that but all In capital drives innovation. The only time it does not is when governments collude with capitalists or crony capitalists to control the potential for our species. Capitalism has flaws but humans are a fundamentally flawed creature
Capitalism is awesome, I literally only watched this to have a better understanding of why I hate communism 😂
@@Woolf729 exactly
Commenting to help on the fight against this vile ideology.
Solidarity with everyone except the french
“He came, made 12 bangers, and left” ~ caasar salad
I'm the new, naive person you mentioned in the video. I identified as a Democratic Socialist before I watched it. I was just kind of using the term without really knowing what it means though, and I never really believed that socialism could be achieved through voting and legislation. I think change is possible through voting and legislation (maybe that's the naive optimist in me), I just know any of the reform through legislation cannot uproot capitalism, and an uproot is what we need. And like you said, everyone else in office will disagree with it so daydreaming of this method of change is unrealistic, I think. But I'm thinking people should try anyways? I don't know. This all just makes me feel so hopeless, like I don't think there will be a revolution in my lifetime. So what can I even do to make a difference? It's exhausting and draining to think about, but it's comforting that there is a large group of like minded radicals.
From someone in your position 10 years ago, I can say there is nothing you can do as an individual until you educate yourself in every aspect of, and take responsibility for the world you live in. Engage in the treasures and wealth of mankind, starting from Plato. I suggest Heidegger as a bridge from the foreclosed western philosophy to the east. You will find insights in Kojeve and his introduction to Hegel. Only then can you rise from the abstract (which all of those thinkers stayed in) to the concrete materialist analysis of polities, nations, civilizations and states. Beware not to fall into any misinterpretations.
The retaliation or the retaliations of the capitalist class is spelled out in the war diaries of Trotsky. Those are really interesting because as you said, they did everything to subvert the economy, and that wasn’t limited to the hoarding of food to destruction of different things that people relied on in order to, increase the level of strife in the country so that they could have a political advantage and it sounds familiar
I think the hardest parts of understanding the old texts that Marx, Engels, and Lenin wrote is there is a language barrier. It’s english but the vernacular and the older style of speech is different.
I think it more-so comes down to writing styles in the 19th century.
@@WarriorOfWriters agreed. I understand most but it can be distracting from the lessons at times.
Left/right spectrum and political compass modals are insufficient ways of looking at ideology. Got it! But you failed to show a different model and just complained about capitalism for 20 minutes.
Really nice video.
ok but political ideology isnt just limited to financial gains, in fact finance is a small part for most of ideologies
I’m a Marxist Leninist with a pretty solid understanding of all these concepts. I’ve watched through all your videos and even though from my perspective they weren’t anything I don’t already know they were super helpful to center my thoughts. Thank you
I love how every refutation of this video is “BuT fAsCiSm Is SoCaLiST” without any historical understanding of what reaction is and why fascism comes to exist.
I thought this was gonna be a balanced explanation but it was downhill from the start and off a cliff by the mention of 'bourgeois'. I'll look elsewhere, thanks.
Growing up in Burma we learnt it this way too .. Ofc the government made sure the schools never taught us the real world applications and implications .. and then when the universities protested they shot them down .. I have relatives still in camps to this day …
Check out the long history of neo-liberalism and it's roots in old laissez faire capitalism, the economics of the Vienna school from where von Hayek came; and that the State is not made irrelevant to the operations of the economy under capitalism's market driven economy. It's deep shit. Mont Pelin society, the Chicago school, Friedman advocating the benign role the monopolies which form if safeguards aren't put in to the model. The dismantling of the embedded liberalism of the Breton Woods policies which formed the post war consensus. The state and the corporate monopolies are actually quite hand in glove, as the State gives the markets the policies which give the elites their benefits and incentives towards favourable trade tariffs and international fiscal policy.
The life-expectancy-to-age-of-owning-a-house ratio is an absolute joke.
Petrochemical dollar recycling is going to end soon.. tou going back to where the USA belongs.. literally nowhere 😅
✊✊✊ good shit brother love it
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I'm gonna make a similar video in Indonesian one day. But I've never made videos, is there any resources you use to make a script?
I’m always in agreement with these vids still they dismiss reformists ideas as being nonsense. Usually tends to advocate more revolutionary approach for socialism while not addressing the failures of previous revolutionary actions.
Just recently my Liberal Democracy took a hard turn towards authoritarianism. It's always nice to see more anarchism realized/promoted. 5 years ago the same today and the same as 50 years ago.
"i am going to take a ✨giant✨ shit on this idea" 😂
Communism isn't equality or sharing... its theft
Theft of what?
5:01 Linear Left-Right Model 🇫🇷 is too vague, not clear what it’s measuring. Unable to fit stuff in that doesn’t fit a neat left-right measure. 8:34 “This abstract model fails to model our real politics.” 8:39 Mainstream Political Theory adds another axis. It fails to properly understand our real politics, because it has been started from the abstract as opposed to starting from a real analysis of society. 9:45 Authoritarian-Libertarian is vague. 12:05 Social Cultural dimension, but it fails. 14:06 Both Anarchists and Communists 🤝🏻are working towards the same goal. 15:28 trash 🗑️ - constructed in the abstract world before applying them to the real world. Materialist Analysis of Human Society 15:55 16:42 Drink, eat, clothe, shelter 🏡 16:58 Mode of Production. Cycle 🔄 17:37 18:17 Hunter-Gathering, sustaining itself. Egalitarian Ideals arising from Material Conditions. Advancing the material interests of said condition. 22:14 Advancing the material interest of a given material condition. 22:51 Classless Society. 24:00 Articulated material interests of a given material condition. The Materialist Conception of Human Politics. 24:23 25:04 Not temporally limited. 25:21 Capitalist Class, Working Class. Wages. Interests. 26:53 Diametrically opposed material interests. 27:06 Hegemonic Ideology. Dictatorship of The Capitalist Class. 27:36 Private vs Public Ownership. 28:41 Material Interests. 29:35 Workers Interests. 30:22 Democratic Socialism. 31:45 Rising vs Established 32:22 Left and Right class struggle. - given material condition, it’s associated material interests, plays a significant role in the adoption of an ideology. 35:00 Socialism. 36:10 The Culture War. Material interests. 38:49 Social Reaction. Divide and Conquer. 39:05 Imperialism. Inconvenient. 40:34 The Gun Debate. 42:20 The Art of Persuasion. 43:36 Appeal to Material Interests. 45:03 Summary. 47:02 Whole summer work on this. (I pity those who are exploited while recognizing many businesses do not exploit their workers. Highlighting the bad doesn’t magically disappear the good that really happens. It’s a reminder to us all to be supportive of each other in our lives. God Bless🙏🏼❤️)