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comunism can never have freedom of the press, becase if everybody eas alliwed to talk about gow bad it is they wouldent want to do it. comunism cam never have cival liberty's, becase the government myst be able to arrest people in the middle of the night communism always must use force,

No, you can't make me.

All terrible in practice

adam smith: merit karl marx: need

“Side note he’s probably wrong and I plan in in no way explaining why to an audience who didn’t ask, now back to the…” shut up cia capitalist bootlicker and just say what’s in the book.

Where can i find chapter 3?

C/V is actually formula for calculating the capital intensity of the production, as productivity would involve output in the formula

"In the untouched wilderness of innate ambition, where courage roars louder than the winds and the law of the jungle is written by the unforgiving claws of destiny, Adam Smith, enshrined in the majestic aura of a regal lion, strides across the savannah of enterprise with a dignified grace, his mane glows like a crown of pure gold, symbolizing the radiant success that comes from the sweat of one's brow. Each step he takes imprints the legacy of unfettered opportunity and the sanctity of individual achievement upon the earth, his growls the hymns of market freedom and competition's pure doctrine. Every chase, every triumphant kill under the scorching sun, reflects the core tenets of his existence: that prosperity is forged by one's own claws, that the spoils belong to those who dare hunt for themselves. In this realm where nature's unforgiving law dictates the survival of the fittest, Smith's feast is a hallowed celebration of meritocracy, a sacred ritual where the fruits of labor are savored in their earned glory. Yet, within the dark and deceitful shadows that plague the untouched corners of the vast savannah, a figure emerges that is both foreboding and out of place - Karl Marx, the ghost of collective despair, creeps with the stealth of disillusionment, his presence a blight on the lush landscape of innovation. His philosophy, a morass of dependency and entitlement, seeks to strangle the vibrant life of autonomy and merit, to redistribute the spoils of the hunt without the sweat of the chase. In the whispers of the wind, his doctrines spread like a pestilence, aiming to corrupt the natural order with the falsehood of utopian equality. His vision, dreary and monotonous, threatens to leech the color from the world, proposing a landscape in which the lion lies down not with the lamb, but as the lamb, denying the essence of its nature. This apparition of equal misery rails against the very laws of nature, against the survival of the fittest, pushing instead for a survival of the most numerous. It represents a chilling specter of uniform mediocrity, where the exhilarating chase of aspiration and achievement gives way to the lethargic shuffle of complacency. Nonetheless, despite his attempts to blanket the world in the fog of his malaise, Marx remains a ghost among the tangible triumphs of the individual, unable to fully extinguish the fire of ambition that burns within the heart of the savanna, as Smith's roar, a clarion call to the spirits of ambition and self-reliance, pierces through Marx's murmuring shadows. It is a battle cry, celebrating the victories won by claw and tooth-by wit, will, and work. For in this primal savannah, success is not a gift to be doled out but a prize to be claimed by those daring enough to hunt their dreams under the sun of free enterprise." - Andrea Zanzotto

I’m a capitalist, always have been, always will be, I’m also open minded enough to realize that there’s other forms of economy, government and society out there that could work, I think the inherent problem in any style of government and economy will always be bad humans, and not the economic style itself. Case in point, I truly believe the United States is more corrupt now than it’s ever been, that’s not capitalisms fault. It’s bad humans. No different than Stalin or Mao Zedong. Or Hitlers so called socialist paradise. The underlying issue is always bad people.

Communist countries have lost the mind set of optimism, and enthusiasm. All technology used in communist countries came from Free Enterprise countries. In regards to religion, it is the psychie, ( Spirit), that in lightens the conscious mind. Where free enterprise is crushed so also is innovation. The Communist notion that everyone will work together for the benefit of the many will not happen. The new ruling class, communist leaders, will set the means of production has always failed each time it has been tried

I think I choose worst way to learn English .

the fetish aspect is very telling .. or opening .. doors in the closet of mind

so far .. this doesn't make marx a communist

thank you so much for this video, literally saving my ass right now

6:29 - standards of judgement by reason vs the standards of judgement based solely upon unsupported preferences and opinions

i don't understand the topic but you are so good at speaking

you are so handsome i just distract

great. keep goind, comrade

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This was way easier to digest than the manifesto itself. And why the hell do all the evil people seem to have a manifesto, I am not suggesting manifestos are inherently good or bad, just making a weird observation. Anyway, thank you, this came in clutch for a paper I have to write about this manifesto for Philosophy 101. 👍

I used this for my political philosophy test, I will update the comment when I get the grade.

There are three kinds of people: The many human animals that will never understand communism, the few human animals that only think they understand it, and the one human animal that only pretends to rule as a communist.

(Just commenting when i finish each of these videos, for accountability reasons lol)

At 3:18 is the key to marx’s biggest flaw: “Labor is the only thing that can create value.” That may be true, but marx’s failure was to define labor as only MANUAL labor. The problem is that labor comes in many forms, and, out of his blind, infantile hatred of the owning and managerial class, marx totally dismissed the MANAGERIAL labor that goes into production. Managing and organizing production is most certainly labor. It is the expenditure of energy that, in marx’s own terms, ends up embodied in whatever product is being manufactured. To deny this is the most ludicrous and infantile folly. Anyone watching this and considering the labor theory of value should also go take a look at Alfred Marshall and his Marginal Theory, which blew marx and the labor theory out of existence, and how it holds SCARCITY as a major contributor to a given thing’s value.

At 3:00 Boo fucking hoo. You cant afford houses because you spend all your money on American consumer bullshit stuff like Starbucks and iPhones and new cars, and you dont know how to make money. You dont know how to turn yourself into money machines by learning skills or starting businesses…all you do is bitch and complain while you’re working at Panera Bread. Goddamned idiots.

That was nice, thanks for video

6:40 “Marx adds the perspective of the worker who FEELS alienated by repetitive tasks”. This is just wrong. The capitalist pays the worker according to the value of his labour-power but gets the use of the workers labour. This the product of workers’ labour is automatically alienated from them under capitalism. Watch this to understand Marx: … One of the great advances of the classical school was the labour theory of value, which found its foremost advocate in the person of Ricardo. Adam Smith had established that the proportions in which commodities exchanged was the labour embodied in them. However, when he came to examine capitalist society he stumbled over the question of profit. If commodities exchanged at their value and if labour received its full value, then how did profit arise? Smith concluded that while the labour theory of value may apply in a simple society, it did not apply in the capitalist society under study. Consequently he resorted to an adding up theory of value: the value of a commodity is determined by the value of its components-labour, capital, land. Of course such a theory explains nothing for it says that the value of a commodity is determined by the value of other commodities-leaving open the question of value itself. Ricardo took issue with Smith's abandonment of the labour theory of value. He insisted that it was applicable to capitalist society and that the value of any commodity was the labour time embodied in it. On the basis of the labour theory of value he sought to explain the distribution of production among the three major classes: labourers, capitalists and landowners. He showed that the new value added by labour in the production process was distributed between the capitalists and labourers in the form of wages and profit, and that the value of the commodity remained the same no matter what the proportion of these two parts. But Ricardo was not able to explain how the law of value governed the exchange between capital and labour, that is, how it was possible for surplus value to arise on the basis of the exchange of equivalents. In his preface to Volume II of Capital Engels explains the state of economic science prior to the emergence of Marx: “The existence of that part of the value of products which we now call surplus-value had been ascertained long before Marx. It had also been stated with more or less precision that it consisted of, namely, the product of the labour for which its appropriator had not given any equivalent. But one did not get any further. Some-the classical bourgeois economists-investigated at most the proportion in which the product of labour was divided between the labourer and the owner of the means of production. Others-the Socialists-found that this division was unjust and looked for utopian means of abolishing this injustice. They all remained prisoners of the economic categories as they had come down to them.” WSWS Editorial Board member Nick Beams replies to a reader's question on the labour theory of value 29 April 2000

I don’t see what is so bad about communism.

I’m sad you didn’t even read wealth of nations. You’d see that Adam is against division of labor. His quote in the beginning is not the full extent of his position. He says that it alienates the workers from the fruit of their labor and makes men into beast. He also hates landlords and is a opponent of neoliberalism.

To each his own🎉

A little short, but not bad! good audio quality too.

Great video...I will use this in social class. 😊

Good to see your back. Now I can start reading again.

Wow, you're back! There is no other channel like yours. I hope you are both doing well!

What a great surprise! Love you both, I’m glad you’re back

I missed this channel!

Long time no see! Nice vid

why's he kinda hot

Communism only works if you kill all dissenters, which is exactly how communism works.

You're an intellectual dwarf.

Your videos have been so helpful! If there is any recommendations I would say to include the page number of the quotes you use from Kapital! Other than that, insanely informative!

Dialectic materialism is a completely false, flawed, and fraudulent theory of socioeconomics. People do not bin into proketariat and bougoise (or oppressor/oppressed). Real human beings move from role to role as the situation changes. The social dialectic (various critical theories) exists solely to keep people ignorant and ripe for exploitation by the elites. Marx opposed religion because it contests his (elites) access to power.

Communism killed 100 million people.

Nice!

I expected a little bit more context and information that goes beyond the source material. Could just read the source myself

this helped me get an A in my Marxist Theory class! Thank you so much!!

Marx was a lazy entitled loser.

Exactly, it takes more time and effort for a single person to craft a shoe 👞, but the work of crafting the shoe could be simplified and divided in very small and simple tasks that can be easily done one step at a time by 100 people and craft the shoe in second, machines are way better than people doing this, computers too. So we can have enough shoes for everyone. Satisfying the shoe demand in the world for instance here in chile you can find a pair of shoes for 10 dollars. That is the marvel of capitalism and industrialization it can provide everything we need

Even the socialist that takes the photo feeding the hungry or housing the homeless does it out of self interest, they don't do it out of the goodness of their heart if so they would do it with their own hard earned money, instead they do it with money from takes and printed money (which is a scam) and for political gain, position and status, OMG how good is AOC check her out she cares about Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, wow oh yeah, poor thing her grand mother is still waiting government's aid because the hurricane 🌀 3 years ago... but hell no she would spend any of her own money to help her grandma... she rather waits for the government one... Besides charity is great but taxes and scams are not good sources for financing it...