@@booniesblues7310 Sitting at your desk in someone else’s house and writing isn’t exactly a job. You can get money from it, but only the wealthy can sit around and not work for life. Writing is a rich man’s privilege.
@@DocJamesH Of what, the Marx Brothers? Comedy team from the vaudeville days who successfully made the transition to film around the time sound was added to movies. Made of a group of actual brothers going by the names Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. Also Zeppo for a little while, but he left after a while. Karl Marx in this is imitating Groucho, while Engels is imitating Chico. Any interest in seeing the Marx Brothers' work, Duck Soup is usually held up as their best, though I'm also partial to A Night at the Opera. Can't go wrong with any of them, though
To be fair, Communism as it's written isn't bad. Even Lenin and Trotsky had good intentions, it's just power hungry bastards like Stalin, Kim Jung-un, Mao Ze Dong(no idea how to spell his name), usually call their countries communist states cause it sounds better.
@@classicrockkid345 The idea that private property should be taken by the state and redistributed among the people is an idea that cannot function without a dictatorship. Communism is inherently bad. Mao Zedong, Ze and Dong are one word
@@oscartheamazing6745 not really considering everyone would be considered equal in Communism. Plus the redistribution of land would work better then how America gave land.
Having Friedrich Engels be Chico Marx was such an obscure reference. Even if kids at the time got the Karl/Groucho Marx joke, I doubt any of them got that Engels was Chico.
Golly, this is such a deep dive into Marx Brothers parody with a parody of “I’m Against It”. I just wish they had made someone be Harpo, like Lenin or Trotsky!
Errors in this video: 1. Marxism isn’t a system of government. It’s a systems theory about how modes of production change and replace one another as history progresses. 2. Marxism isn’t a normative statement that “equality is good”. He wasn’t famous because he believed people should be equal. Marxism is famous because, by using the perspective of classes competing over scarce resources (ruling class vs working class), you are able to understand why modes of production continually replace one another as technology develops. For instance, industrialization led to the rise in power of capitalists, making the power of the feudal ruling class obsolete, leading to multiple revolutions as power changed hands and a new system arose.
Good comment, but I would quibble on the concept of "scarcity". But yeah, what you explained is the basic idea of historical materialism, it's not about a concept as idealistic as "creating equality", but how contradictions in every system create the conditions necessary for the next.
This wasn't anti-marxism or pro-marxism, it was educational. They presented the facts and you can draw your own conclusions on whether you approve of Marxism.
There's a lot of key context missing here. You need to watch Europa the last battle, to truly understand what communism is, and the effects it's had on the host nations that adopted it's ideologies, whether willingly, or not willingly by the people themselves in these nations. It is a 7.7/10 documentary on IMDb, and is the most vital watch of this decade. Time is running out. Facts, works cited, documents, and books are referenced throughout this 10 part documentary! It was the most eye opening documentary I had ever seen. Everyone should not turn away from this comment. It is such a good documentary!
I love it because Marx owed so much money due to his parties and drinking. He had other people take care of his 7 children. His best friend to had to take paternal claim of his illegitimate child.
Yeah Fr I only seen one side of the clips and was kinda thinking man this cartoon looks biased but I’m glad they poke fun at both sides instead of favoring one
The song is a parody of a Marx Brothers song called "I'm against it". It's my favorite song of theirs. In the movie Groucho becomes head of a college and someone tells him that the students have suggestions on how to run it. Then he launches into the song.
I'm glad I grew up with this show. Granted at the time I didn't know what was being presented, but now it's refreshing to see something being presented without pushing an agenda while also having some humor - both of which are hard to find these days.
it paints marx in a somewhat positive light so it'd be made easily enough, had it brought up marx insistence on bourgeoisie genocide etc then probably not.
@@animateyourpain5449 find a way to make pro capitalist media... the people would be confused.. Make Scrooge the good guy? A movie about a trust fund shitbag who rakes in billions while the people who make his money starve? Make a show that paints that in a good light. You cant. Closest youll get is some prageru bullshit thats full of lies. The capitalists will sell you the message of anti capitalism though...to profit and keep the masses complacent
Just a thing or two about Engels: "Engels served in the Prussian army for about a year, studied artillery there, new combat tactics improved by Napoleon, thought and wrote a lot about catapults, buckshot, bayonet attack, various models of rifles and incendiary shells. His colleagues called him the "philosopher-bombardier". In the spring of 1849, an uprising broke out in the Rhineland. Upon learning about this, Engels immediately set off there, got to Solingen and began there to frantically agitate the workers to take up arms and power. The very next day he had a detachment of four hundred agitated proletarians, leading whom he advanced to Elberfeld. There, first of all, the proletarians, singing German spring songs, opened the prison and dispersed the magistrate, cursing the past. Now the rebellious workers respectfully called Engels "general". But the newly elected leadership of the city consisted mainly of moderate Democrats and cautious socialists, and not of such loose communists as Engels. Therefore, it was decided to entrust him with protecting the city from counter-revolutionary forces, mining bridges, barricading roads, digging trenches and all that, and keeping this charismatic fellow away from real power. And so, on Sunday morning, he rushes around the outskirts of the city, explaining to the rebels that the whole fortification is to hell here, that the city will not withstand the assault of government troops, that here it is necessary to dig up, and here, on the contrary, let the sappers bury barrels of gunpowder. He enthusiastically gestures, showing the people's sappers what to do, and suddenly hears a familiar voice behind him: "My son Friedrich! Is it you and what are you doing here?". The fact is that at that time they did not communicate with their father at all. Engels doesn't even know if his father is in town or not. A disappointed father cursed his son a couple of years ago for the fact that his son was carried away by dangerous leftist ideas, got involved with Marx, joined the extremists, engaged in preparing a people's revolution instead of inheriting his father's business, improving it, increasing profits and all that. When the uprising began, Engels Sr., a man respected by everyone here, decided that so far there was no danger for him in all this, continued his business, did not change his habits, and so he goes to the Lutheran church on Sunday and sees from afar how some crazy charismatic, whom the fucking rabble calls "the people's general", commands everyone here, mines everything here and shows everyone the necessary height of the barricade on the bridge. Looking closer, he is amazed: "But this is my 28-year-old son, Friedrich!". Well, Engels tells him, standing on the barricade and counting the rifles: "Dad, you go from here in a good way, okay? We have a revolution here, in case you didn't understand! Here all the trenches are incorrectly dug, and we are fighting against the imperial government from day to day, not up to you now. Family is not important and is generally conditioned by the form of ownership. And we have fewer rifles than I was promised!". And the father answers him in the sense that: "My boy, you're sick! You played too much and messed with the wrong ones. I know everyone on your Committee, and I'll talk to you tomorrow so that you're not here, because I don't want you to be shot in the head right in front of my eyes, for me it will be a blow!" That's when they parted. Dad went to church, and the son continued to steer the fortification and count weapons. The next day, the city Committee informed Engels in mild, polite, but insistent terms that his continued presence in the city was undesirable because he was overreacting in every sense, provoking and confusing many here with his God-fighting communism. Well, the people's general thought, if there is no place in this city for two such different Engels (elite and counter-elite), we will spread our revolution further. With the people loyal to him, he leaves the city and joins the detachment of the communist Willich. In June, fighting with the government army begins. In addition to planning military operations and all sorts of sorties, Engels likes to go on reconnaissance himself, and if the rebels have to retreat, he always joins the shooters who remain on the battlefield to the last to cover the withdrawal of the main forces with fire. This causes delight among ordinary soldiers of the revolution. After a month and a half of shooting, the uprising was finally suppressed. His and Willich's squad was the last one who did not lay down their arms and eventually left for Swiss territory. Immediately after the failure of the revolution, already in Lausanne, Engels receives from his father a certain amount and a polite reminder that it is never too late to settle down and come to his senses. Instead, Friedrich is writing a great work answering why the revolution failed, what should be taken into account and how to act next time. Both in France and in Germany, an arrest warrant is ready for him. He gets to Genoa and, hiding from the police, boards a British schooner there in order to reach London in five weeks, where Marx is already waiting for him. In this sea month, he writes a treatise on navigation, sketching everything that is not clear from the words. Well, in London he already reconciles with his father, gets a job in the Manchester office of the family firm, helps Marx with money, writes articles on military affairs for the American encyclopedia, everyone knows that. And Willich also ended up in London, but there was nothing for him to live there, because he defiantly refused his nobility as a sign of support for the people's revolution. Then he learned to carpenter, became friends with Engels, challenged Marx to a duel, moved to the United States, where he rose to major general during the Civil War. Engels wrote that Willich "professes something like communist Islam." But this is a completely different story." This man is my hero
This is what kids should learn in school or even at home, this animation is neutral and only made in the name of education and not in blaming who's fault was it and who's more evils than whos
Modern American conservatives: “Children’s cartoons are so fucking political now, it makes me sick! Cartoons back in the day were unpolitical and fun.” Children’s cartoons back in the day:
Here's something more accurate: "can you stop promoting your beliefs which I disagree with vehemently in our shows?" "No! You should be flattered for me to overstep these boundaries and challenge your beliefs with my own which are completely antithetical to yours seemingly out of spite!" Cartoons back then were far less partisan in their politics and you know it. You might be called dumb for disagreeing, or ignorant, but never an immoral person. New media shits on old values, old media just gave different perspective.
@@maximus4765 Which shows are promoting beliefs? Cartoon shows are maturing and treating children like they aren’t stupid. Spongebob Squarepants was pretty overt in its anti capitalism message, no one cares because it was before the cultural war shit.
@@hildaenjoyer8862 you say that but I guess as stalin would say useful idiots on the indoctrinated lol. Still is stupidity when not questioned and accept it's BS
Yeah, this is political . But it isn't biased like a lot of shows nowadays. They made fun of everyone back then . Now they just make fun of Orange Man, Columbus and no one else for fear of cancellation.
Frederich Engels is a parody of Chico Marx. He blows the party horn, which is what Harpo would have done if he'd been here. Karl Marx is Groucho Marx. During the musical number, Engels sings the part that Zeppo originally sang in the song they're parodying, "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It."
Because he kinda was,im not saying he was a good man But his Idea could have kinda worked but Stalin,Mao,Pol Pot and Ho chi thought more about the Military and not the people
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They also made fun of Stalin several times . In Animaniacs too. Pretty sure this is more of what Marx was pitching, not actual Marxism. It's like what they did with "Peace,Land and Bread," which directly forshadowed "The Sound Of Stalin."
@@s.i.m.poster6823 It's a distortion of what Marx claimed to have wanted. What most people don't know is that Marx knew full well that this system wasn't going to bring about a utopia for average people or workers, it was just a means to amass power by creating and exploiting a grievance.
“Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who didn’t know what to do with it?” Not gonna say who said this, but he’s featured prominently in this short.
I mean he wrote copious amounts of literature, and Engels supported him for that exact reason, so he technically worked, he just wasn't officially employed.
the most curious thing about marxism is the only countries which went communist on their own were feudal and agrarian. where there was only a upper and lower class rather than a middle.
Well, marx didn't really envision a working middle class. He states in the manifesto that all of history humanity had been divided by class, and now (mid 19th century) that there were only two classes. The emergence of a middle class was not expected for marx, and it happened due to some reforms within nations and companies that gave the workers rights. This was also at a time when countries were flagrantly nationalist and proud of it, so companies wouldn't just go to a new nation with cheaper labor to drive prices down and profits up (as they do now). The reason "communism" starts in so many agrarian or underdeveloped nations is because those places are the ones with stark class divides: land owners and laborers. Marx formed all his metaphors and examples around industrial labor, because he hated the captains of industry, but they were (even if unwillingly) the reason the middle class formed. Industrial society effectively solved the issue addresses by marx. However the opposite is true of farmers, who's lives are a bad harvest away from losing everything, or going into debt with the banks. If a factory fails, it's assets are sold to other factories, and it dissolves. If a farm fails, it's bought by the rich but the farmers stay. That's why communist strikes in industry are usually resolved by unions or reform, but agrarian societies end up rebelling.
@@Robb1977huh. This is really darn interesting to me, I never even made the connection! I gotta wonder though, with the stark divides being between land owners and laborers, if simple Georgism (something as basic as Land Value Tax) would resolve such an issue? I’m unaware of any place that’s gone straight to LVT as an answer, though I doubt without an immediate pushback against the already ruling landowners that anything could be done.
I have no recollection of this episode at all, and I used to watch this show a ton. I imagine it must've been banned or something like that Tiny Toons episode where Buster, Plucky, and Hampton get drunk.
sadly the joke about Marx owing everyone money and living at Engels expense isnt really a joke. Dude was "for the workers" but never did a bit of "heavy lifting" himself.
Well what do you expect? He was a capitalistic writer who was HIRED by the Communist party to write their manifesto, and got paid to do so. He HIMSELF was out for profit, So Ironically, Karl Marx himself wasn't a "marxist" - No wonder it never works.
@@YoniIsrael I massively over-thought this, because my brain want straight to the idea that early "Russians" were a blend of Slavic natives and Nordic colonists.
Because it's easier to paint him as a malicious psychopath than actually address his critiques of Capitalism. You'll notice none of the Marx haters explain *why* Marx didn't like Capitalism, just that Communism was bad. To directly address that question is to expose yourself to Marx's most powerful arguments. This is why he has posthumously been turned into a cheerleader for the Soviet Union rather than a critic of Capitalism. They don't want people to understand labor exploitation, the origin of profit, and the role of imperialism.
His ideas never worked. That's why. A half of whole Eastern Europe was communistic. And where are thy all now? They embraced capitalism again, as the only working economic ideology
Well jee I wonder why Not that I’m a commie in particular (not that I’ve read much Marx at all either) but I doubt a cartoon could get the ideas across accurately
whats hilarious was marx failed to understand what capitalism even is. Owning your own business and making more than your workers does not make you a capitalist. It makes you an industrialist entrepreneur, something Marx actually did respect in the form of Engels. Capitalism is using your money/capital in an investment for someone else to use to grow their enterprise and in exchange they either grant you interest or growth of your investment or partial ownership or both. In a sense, Capitalism is the ability to earn money purely because you already have money, and not because you did any work. Engels grew his company through leadership and hard work, something anyone should be able to respect and in fact, thats how 99 of business have historically been run. And infact, an economy without capital investment is whats known as a market economy and is what existed prior to the concept of shares, stocks, and bonds. Again, capitalism is the ability to make your money earn more money for you by lending out. Thats what capitalism is, and its a far more abstract concept to market economies. Marx failed to grasp that as do most communists. Instead of being anticapitalist, they became anti market. Which is why their economic system has never survived into a prosperous state
I feel like I had an out-of-body experience. Some fun, additional educational points: -Marx and Engels never saw a *hammer and sickle* like that. Though now practically synonymous with Communism, the hammer and sickle as a symbol was only invented in Russia after WW1. -*Whoever claimed Communism was about equality? Certainly not Marx!* Two perfectly equal individuals would be the same individual. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," and all that; nothing about equality of outcomes. Part of this widespread misconception may originate with the conflation in Western countries of capitalistic welfare and social spending with socialism so that people assume the focus of Marx and Engels was reducing unfairness at the point of exchange.
i think its odd how they couldnt find someone that could do a german accent or has one for karl marx its very disturbing to hear him speak in an american accent
they do....just look around. Although it's made for kids to understand, not adults. Kids are already being tought that a women can love another women and that there are over 90 sex's
To everyone saying this should be shown to kids in school, I have some bad news for ya. I was a social studies teacher and I can tell you for a fact that not only will most kids find this boring and pay it no attention, but the kids who do won't understand a thing. Kids' comprehension skills are horrible nowadays. I swear I try to explain the same concept five different ways and they'll just look at me like I grew two heads. I quit teaching because not only are kids straight up abusive to their teachers, but it also feels like I'm accomplishing as much with my life as I would be if I were talking to a bunch of rocks. I tried showing a bunch of different educational videos to kids that the comments sections seemed to suggest kids would like, but it seems that they only like them because they aren't being required to watch it for school. The same thing they would learn about on their own they refuse to learn about in school. I don't know what makes them so stubborn about it, either. I guess it's because at home there's no accompanying worksheet or open-ended question to answer, but that's how you demonstrate you learned something. It's one thing to watch this video and enjoy it, but can you then explain in your own words what Marxism is? That's what I need to see as the teacher.
I mean they can say that it is educational but there were so many thing that they got wrong, literally the very first thing was wrong, marxism is not a way of organizing a state, i a way of studying and seeing things, it can be called historical materialism too, both have the objective of looking at history/arts/religion/etc from a materialist point of view, so they really got it wrong from the start
*pushes glasses up* well actually according to my degree at Wiki-peDia I... completely forgot about this episode. This was the end of the cartoon blitz for us Gen X'ers, such a clever cartoon, learned a lot early on from it.
It's so weird they portrayed Engels like that. He was rather skinny and was on par with Marx academically, wirting many important marxist books himself. Oh well I shouldn't expect too much historical accuaracy from an American kid's cartoon.
Not a Russian accent, an Italian accent. The entire joke of this segment is that it's a reenactment of the opening to Horse Feathers, with Chico Marx as Friedrich Engels, and Groucho Marx as Karl Marx.
@@Thoralmir what .....’’free market capitalism’’ ....i’m sorry man but I don’t understand what you’re talking about....reformulate please (i’m not making fun of you I seriously didn’t understand)
I didn't realize that Engels financially supported Marx and his kids. That part was actually true, gosh.
Karl didn't work a day in his life.
@@thethatone2166 Marx: Writes 30 Books. CZcams commentor: "Karl didn't work a day in his life"
@@booniesblues7310 Sitting at your desk in someone else’s house and writing isn’t exactly a job. You can get money from it, but only the wealthy can sit around and not work for life. Writing is a rich man’s privilege.
@@rob585 "Writing is not a job" Bruh most jobs today are desk jobs, aka writing.
@@rob585 you try writing a 60,000 word narrative and tell me that's not work. I spent 2020 doing that. And that's on the lighter end of novels.
I like how they combined Karl Marx with Groucho Marx
Expect karl Marx to be a bit chubby
In fairness, I do that all the time.
Maximum Marx
The difference between Karl and Groucho is that the latter had a career and a sense of humor.
@@varangiangaming7178 Marximum Marx
I never would have gotten these Marx Brothers references as a kid but as an adult I think they're pretty funny.
Yeah lol
@@jamesrosewell9081 Same. Too bad they didn't find a way to include Harpo, though. The visual gags would've been greatly appreciated
My ass is 28 and still needs and explanation
@@DocJamesH Of what, the Marx Brothers? Comedy team from the vaudeville days who successfully made the transition to film around the time sound was added to movies. Made of a group of actual brothers going by the names Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. Also Zeppo for a little while, but he left after a while.
Karl Marx in this is imitating Groucho, while Engels is imitating Chico.
Any interest in seeing the Marx Brothers' work, Duck Soup is usually held up as their best, though I'm also partial to A Night at the Opera. Can't go wrong with any of them, though
@EditDeath also the song they're singing is a parody of a Marx Brothers song called "I'm against it"
I get this is making fun of the man but this is surprisingly positive towards communism for a late 90s show
To be fair, Communism as it's written isn't bad. Even Lenin and Trotsky had good intentions, it's just power hungry bastards like Stalin, Kim Jung-un, Mao Ze Dong(no idea how to spell his name), usually call their countries communist states cause it sounds better.
Lol they are literally telling people communism is good
The begging of the song says that you do hard work for little pay
@@classicrockkid345 The idea that private property should be taken by the state and redistributed among the people is an idea that cannot function without a dictatorship. Communism is inherently bad.
Mao Zedong, Ze and Dong are one word
@@oscartheamazing6745 not really considering everyone would be considered equal in Communism. Plus the redistribution of land would work better then how America gave land.
@@classicrockkid345 ??? Equality is a social construct that only exists in the mind of believers, not in the real world.
The song they're singing is a parody of the song "I'm Against It" which is a song made for the Marx Brothers and sang by Groucho Marx.
It's from the Marx brothers movie "Horse Feathers" too.
And its a song against progressivism. Leftists always infiltrate, steal and corrupt good things that came before them.
This is better than the current US political cartoons
And politicians
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@@HaDe_Twins Understandable response. But the Nazi's were socialist so they're also disgusting creatures.
Having Friedrich Engels be Chico Marx was such an obscure reference. Even if kids at the time got the Karl/Groucho Marx joke, I doubt any of them got that Engels was Chico.
Golly, this is such a deep dive into Marx Brothers parody with a parody of “I’m Against It”. I just wish they had made someone be Harpo, like Lenin or Trotsky!
Engels: german accent
Marx: american accent
Hmmm...
German accent? He sounds way more Italian to me
""American accent"" 😂😂😂
Engels is being played as a parody of Groucho's brother Chico, who spoke in an exaggerated Italian accent.
He sounds italian more than german
Whats most Ironic is Engels was British and Marx was German
2:43 this joke has so many layers holy shit
Can you explain? All I see is Marx stealing money from some rich guy
@@Liberty7628 it's not a rich guy, he takes the dude's money and puts it in his other pocket...
Oh man i sure can't wait to scroll down into the comments to see civil discussions and mutual understanding.
HA! HA!
You mean Mutual Assured Destruction right?
Hey Groucho Marx get back in the cartoon.
😂😂😂😂 fr
Rusphobic don't like video.
Errors in this video:
1. Marxism isn’t a system of government. It’s a systems theory about how modes of production change and replace one another as history progresses.
2. Marxism isn’t a normative statement that “equality is good”. He wasn’t famous because he believed people should be equal. Marxism is famous because, by using the perspective of classes competing over scarce resources (ruling class vs working class), you are able to understand why modes of production continually replace one another as technology develops. For instance, industrialization led to the rise in power of capitalists, making the power of the feudal ruling class obsolete, leading to multiple revolutions as power changed hands and a new system arose.
This is the most underrated coment so far. Probably thanks to it's lenght
@@meucantogames6952 laid low once again by the communist's curse. I should have presented it in song form SMH
This guy gets it
Good comment, but I would quibble on the concept of "scarcity".
But yeah, what you explained is the basic idea of historical materialism, it's not about a concept as idealistic as "creating equality", but how contradictions in every system create the conditions necessary for the next.
This wasn't anti-marxism or pro-marxism, it was educational. They presented the facts and you can draw your own conclusions on whether you approve of Marxism.
@Just A Guy Production
Dunno why we can't have it like this anymore...
There's a lot of key context missing here. You need to watch Europa the last battle, to truly understand what communism is, and the effects it's had on the host nations that adopted it's ideologies, whether willingly, or not willingly by the people themselves in these nations. It is a 7.7/10 documentary on IMDb, and is the most vital watch of this decade. Time is running out. Facts, works cited, documents, and books are referenced throughout this 10 part documentary! It was the most eye opening documentary I had ever seen. Everyone should not turn away from this comment. It is such a good documentary!
@TheProphetOfHate what ?
@@alec1430 that sounds like a communist answer.
@TheProphetOfHate that's exactly what a communist would say.
1:17-1:20 "Communists, Socialists, Anti-capitalists... and anyone I've ever borrowed money from." HA! 🤣
Agree
That should cover just about everybody.
I love it because Marx owed so much money due to his parties and drinking. He had other people take care of his 7 children. His best friend to had to take paternal claim of his illegitimate child.
This is how educational cartoons should be
Not bias, with humour to allow adults to enjoy too
Fumo detected.
@@seronymus you a smoke detector?
Yeah Fr I only seen one side of the clips and was kinda thinking man this cartoon looks biased but I’m glad they poke fun at both sides instead of favoring one
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Surprise they handled this topic as well for a show like this and I still remember the song
The song is a parody of a Marx Brothers song called "I'm against it". It's my favorite song of theirs. In the movie Groucho becomes head of a college and someone tells him that the students have suggestions on how to run it. Then he launches into the song.
3:48 I bet this was the running gag of the episode
Yep, it does look like a running gag. You don't even have to watch the episode to recognize one
I'm glad I grew up with this show. Granted at the time I didn't know what was being presented, but now it's refreshing to see something being presented without pushing an agenda while also having some humor - both of which are hard to find these days.
It portrays Marx as a conman and Engels as an idiot. If you think that is neutral, it says a lot
@@ThomasBomb45 it's for the sake of a Marx Brothers parody, it's not really saying anything about them as actul people
They protray Marx much better than his actual life and Engels more poorly.
@@ThomasBomb45 That's reality. Marx was the scum of the earth and Engels was a moron for supporting that unwashed vagabond.
@ThomasBomb45 idk about engles but marx was a closeted Satanist so why should we care?
A cartoon has a better understanding of Marx than Jordan Peterson.
You must be joking!
*I* understand money better than Karl Marx. He was the handout master!
lol I dare you to read the first chapter of Capital vol. 1
@@shacharias LOL! I did, or rather tried. It’s a mess! It almost immediately got itself bogged down in the discussion of linens and coats!
There's no way this cartoon would get made today
Yea, you market it to the right and they'd think it isn't demonized enough try the left & they'd say it presents communism too negatively.
Actually its more likely to get made then something pro capitalism
it paints marx in a somewhat positive light so it'd be made easily enough, had it brought up marx insistence on bourgeoisie genocide etc then probably not.
Remember Marx’s ethnic origins. Of coarse the show would be made again fully supporting Marx
@@animateyourpain5449 find a way to make pro capitalist media... the people would be confused..
Make Scrooge the good guy? A movie about a trust fund shitbag who rakes in billions while the people who make his money starve?
Make a show that paints that in a good light. You cant. Closest youll get is some prageru bullshit thats full of lies.
The capitalists will sell you the message of anti capitalism though...to profit and keep the masses complacent
Just a thing or two about Engels:
"Engels served in the Prussian army for about a year, studied artillery there, new combat tactics improved by Napoleon, thought and wrote a lot about catapults, buckshot, bayonet attack, various models of rifles and incendiary shells. His colleagues called him the "philosopher-bombardier".
In the spring of 1849, an uprising broke out in the Rhineland. Upon learning about this, Engels immediately set off there, got to Solingen and began there to frantically agitate the workers to take up arms and power. The very next day he had a detachment of four hundred agitated proletarians, leading whom he advanced to Elberfeld.
There, first of all, the proletarians, singing German spring songs, opened the prison and dispersed the magistrate, cursing the past. Now the rebellious workers respectfully called Engels "general". But the newly elected leadership of the city consisted mainly of moderate Democrats and cautious socialists, and not of such loose communists as Engels. Therefore, it was decided to entrust him with protecting the city from counter-revolutionary forces, mining bridges, barricading roads, digging trenches and all that, and keeping this charismatic fellow away from real power.
And so, on Sunday morning, he rushes around the outskirts of the city, explaining to the rebels that the whole fortification is to hell here, that the city will not withstand the assault of government troops, that here it is necessary to dig up, and here, on the contrary, let the sappers bury barrels of gunpowder. He enthusiastically gestures, showing the people's sappers what to do, and suddenly hears a familiar voice behind him: "My son Friedrich! Is it you and what are you doing here?".
The fact is that at that time they did not communicate with their father at all. Engels doesn't even know if his father is in town or not. A disappointed father cursed his son a couple of years ago for the fact that his son was carried away by dangerous leftist ideas, got involved with Marx, joined the extremists, engaged in preparing a people's revolution instead of inheriting his father's business, improving it, increasing profits and all that. When the uprising began, Engels Sr., a man respected by everyone here, decided that so far there was no danger for him in all this, continued his business, did not change his habits, and so he goes to the Lutheran church on Sunday and sees from afar how some crazy charismatic, whom the fucking rabble calls "the people's general", commands everyone here, mines everything here and shows everyone the necessary height of the barricade on the bridge. Looking closer, he is amazed: "But this is my 28-year-old son, Friedrich!".
Well, Engels tells him, standing on the barricade and counting the rifles: "Dad, you go from here in a good way, okay? We have a revolution here, in case you didn't understand! Here all the trenches are incorrectly dug, and we are fighting against the imperial government from day to day, not up to you now. Family is not important and is generally conditioned by the form of ownership. And we have fewer rifles than I was promised!". And the father answers him in the sense that: "My boy, you're sick! You played too much and messed with the wrong ones. I know everyone on your Committee, and I'll talk to you tomorrow so that you're not here, because I don't want you to be shot in the head right in front of my eyes, for me it will be a blow!" That's when they parted. Dad went to church, and the son continued to steer the fortification and count weapons.
The next day, the city Committee informed Engels in mild, polite, but insistent terms that his continued presence in the city was undesirable because he was overreacting in every sense, provoking and confusing many here with his God-fighting communism. Well, the people's general thought, if there is no place in this city for two such different Engels (elite and counter-elite), we will spread our revolution further. With the people loyal to him, he leaves the city and joins the detachment of the communist Willich.
In June, fighting with the government army begins. In addition to planning military operations and all sorts of sorties, Engels likes to go on reconnaissance himself, and if the rebels have to retreat, he always joins the shooters who remain on the battlefield to the last to cover the withdrawal of the main forces with fire. This causes delight among ordinary soldiers of the revolution. After a month and a half of shooting, the uprising was finally suppressed. His and Willich's squad was the last one who did not lay down their arms and eventually left for Swiss territory.
Immediately after the failure of the revolution, already in Lausanne, Engels receives from his father a certain amount and a polite reminder that it is never too late to settle down and come to his senses. Instead, Friedrich is writing a great work answering why the revolution failed, what should be taken into account and how to act next time.
Both in France and in Germany, an arrest warrant is ready for him. He gets to Genoa and, hiding from the police, boards a British schooner there in order to reach London in five weeks, where Marx is already waiting for him. In this sea month, he writes a treatise on navigation, sketching everything that is not clear from the words. Well, in London he already reconciles with his father, gets a job in the Manchester office of the family firm, helps Marx with money, writes articles on military affairs for the American encyclopedia, everyone knows that.
And Willich also ended up in London, but there was nothing for him to live there, because he defiantly refused his nobility as a sign of support for the people's revolution. Then he learned to carpenter, became friends with Engels, challenged Marx to a duel, moved to the United States, where he rose to major general during the Civil War. Engels wrote that Willich "professes something like communist Islam." But this is a completely different story."
This man is my hero
yes
Couldn't have said it better.
"Just a thing or 2"
Or 400
Seriously bro can you be anymore stereotypically left? Talk about a wall of text
"Just a thing or two"
*writes 10 paragraphs about him*
American president: *watches this show*
Also American president: YO JON WHERES THE BAN HAMMER
I don’t know George but i do know we still have the WikiLeaks guy problem
@@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477 What?
@@Mangoria360 it’s a impersonation of the fbi searching someone because he leaked the truth
“How were you radicalized”
I love to see more histeria
tune in to fox.
It’s already available on DVD, have fun. 🙂
@@tonymata8070 stateside? If so where, haven’t seen any complete sets anywhere
This is both very inaccurate explanation of Marxism and also the most accurate ever put on American TV.
still more accurate than most american medias.
Okay so I can hear Frank Welker as Father Time, and Billy West as Engles. Can anyone else recognise more famous voice actors in this?
I know Maurice lamarche Is doing Karl Marx's voice
Jeff Bennett is the kid who picks his nose.
This is what kids should learn in school or even at home, this animation is neutral and only made in the name of education and not in blaming who's fault was it and who's more evils than whos
I use to love this show as a kid. It was short lived. Scandalous facts always!!
Modern American conservatives: “Children’s cartoons are so fucking political now, it makes me sick! Cartoons back in the day were unpolitical and fun.”
Children’s cartoons back in the day:
Quite the clown you are
Here's something more accurate: "can you stop promoting your beliefs which I disagree with vehemently in our shows?"
"No! You should be flattered for me to overstep these boundaries and challenge your beliefs with my own which are completely antithetical to yours seemingly out of spite!"
Cartoons back then were far less partisan in their politics and you know it. You might be called dumb for disagreeing, or ignorant, but never an immoral person. New media shits on old values, old media just gave different perspective.
@@maximus4765 Which shows are promoting beliefs? Cartoon shows are maturing and treating children like they aren’t stupid.
Spongebob Squarepants was pretty overt in its anti capitalism message, no one cares because it was before the cultural war shit.
@@hildaenjoyer8862 you say that but I guess as stalin would say useful idiots on the indoctrinated lol. Still is stupidity when not questioned and accept it's BS
Yeah, this is political . But it isn't biased like a lot of shows nowadays. They made fun of everyone back then . Now they just make fun of Orange Man, Columbus and no one else for fear of cancellation.
Frederich Engels is a parody of Chico Marx.
He blows the party horn, which is what Harpo would have done if he'd been here.
Karl Marx is Groucho Marx.
During the musical number, Engels sings the part that Zeppo originally sang in the song they're parodying, "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It."
I remember this use to come on kids wb this show was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥to me as a kid still love this show til this day I wish they made a reboot
I remember seeing this when it first premiered. Still hilarious to hear Maurice LaMarche and his Groucho impression on a reskinned Chip Chatterson.
i love how carl marx is just portrayed as such a good guy
Because he kinda was,im not saying he was a good man
But his Idea could have kinda worked but Stalin,Mao,Pol Pot and Ho chi thought more about the Military and not the people
@@Apes_TogetherStrong oh ok
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@@Thoralmir No,it dosen't in my opinion
I honestly didn't think anyone remembered this show.
Which is a shame because its a hidden diamond
What show is this?
@@octoman511 Histeria!
ironic, this anti-capitalist song was made by warner bros
They also made fun of Stalin several times . In Animaniacs too.
Pretty sure this is more of what Marx was pitching, not actual Marxism. It's like what they did with "Peace,Land and Bread," which directly forshadowed "The Sound Of Stalin."
@@s.i.m.poster6823 It's a distortion of what Marx claimed to have wanted. What most people don't know is that Marx knew full well that this system wasn't going to bring about a utopia for average people or workers, it was just a means to amass power by creating and exploiting a grievance.
@@Thoralmir [Citation needed[
@@s.i.m.poster6823 If it were "Actual Marxism" they wanted to portray, Lenin would have been shown as the great man he was,
@@Thoralmir [citation needed]
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“Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who didn’t know what to do with it?”
Not gonna say who said this, but he’s featured prominently in this short.
Well he was German.
@@evanthompson7494 JEWISH German
hE wAs a PrOdUct oF HiS tiMe
@@alexgomez6723 what the fuck are you talking about
@@isitalwaysero1367 People like you and obviously.
I like the whole marx Brothers approach
The film is actually called Horse Feathers not Duck Feathers.
Just updated: thank you for catching that!
I wonder how the real Karl Marx would have reacted to this
probably call for a genocide against the bourgeoisie again
Probably enjoyed it.
It's still hilarious that Marx never worked a day in his life and lived off of others
I mean he wrote copious amounts of literature, and Engels supported him for that exact reason, so he technically worked, he just wasn't officially employed.
@@garreiro100 was it a sufficient means of income?
@@thisguy9733 is that a question or a statement?
@@garreiro100 he still was only rich because of his wife
@@garreiro100 better?
Oooh I get it, Karl Marx talks like Groucho MarX. Lmao.
This wouldn't be tolerated in today's television programming and i f!#ing love it.
Surprisingly fair depiction 😳
the most curious thing about marxism is the only countries which went communist on their own were feudal and agrarian. where there was only a upper and lower class rather than a middle.
Well, marx didn't really envision a working middle class. He states in the manifesto that all of history humanity had been divided by class, and now (mid 19th century) that there were only two classes.
The emergence of a middle class was not expected for marx, and it happened due to some reforms within nations and companies that gave the workers rights. This was also at a time when countries were flagrantly nationalist and proud of it, so companies wouldn't just go to a new nation with cheaper labor to drive prices down and profits up (as they do now).
The reason "communism" starts in so many agrarian or underdeveloped nations is because those places are the ones with stark class divides: land owners and laborers.
Marx formed all his metaphors and examples around industrial labor, because he hated the captains of industry, but they were (even if unwillingly) the reason the middle class formed. Industrial society effectively solved the issue addresses by marx. However the opposite is true of farmers, who's lives are a bad harvest away from losing everything, or going into debt with the banks. If a factory fails, it's assets are sold to other factories, and it dissolves. If a farm fails, it's bought by the rich but the farmers stay.
That's why communist strikes in industry are usually resolved by unions or reform, but agrarian societies end up rebelling.
@@Robb1977huh. This is really darn interesting to me, I never even made the connection!
I gotta wonder though, with the stark divides being between land owners and laborers, if simple Georgism (something as basic as Land Value Tax) would resolve such an issue? I’m unaware of any place that’s gone straight to LVT as an answer, though I doubt without an immediate pushback against the already ruling landowners that anything could be done.
Bugs Bunny: does your tobacco taste different, lately?
I have no recollection of this episode at all, and I used to watch this show a ton. I imagine it must've been banned or something like that Tiny Toons episode where Buster, Plucky, and Hampton get drunk.
sadly the joke about Marx owing everyone money and living at Engels expense isnt really a joke. Dude was "for the workers" but never did a bit of "heavy lifting" himself.
Well what do you expect? He was a capitalistic writer who was HIRED by the Communist party to write their manifesto, and got paid to do so. He HIMSELF was out for profit, So Ironically, Karl Marx himself wasn't a "marxist" - No wonder it never works.
@@RedwoodTheElf complete lies
Не верно, Карл Марк прекрасно понимал рабочих, для того что бы их понимать не обязательно работать с ними
You must be the kind of person who thinks you need to be a slave to be against slavery.
But he engaged in protests with the workers... He fought alongside them
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it...
Love the person, hate the sin❌
Love the Marx, hate the Lenin ✔️
And then hundreds of millions died and dozens of nations fell into poverty.
Fits capitalism as well
Breadlines a concept of communism! *tucks away photos of the great depression*
@@bobblyslobbly1658 "Capitalism has breadlines too" *hides the fact that Roosevelt loved socialistic ideas*
That was surprisingly neutral, consideration that it was made by Americans
And then by the turn of the 20th century 100,000,000 people died from this idea
Classic series of the 90s
They really should bring shows like this back. Both funny and educational
3:37 the average communist online
And anti-communist too
From my experience with them they're pretty calm tbh
This is already more educational than all content produced by Midwestern Marx
Haha, awww I was hoping to see a Harpo-like cameo 😂
Everyone thinks I'm making a Borderlands reference when I shout hey-oh
Me too
Kid: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
random Vikings:
it was a gag this show did
@@YoniIsrael I massively over-thought this, because my brain want straight to the idea that early "Russians" were a blend of Slavic natives and Nordic colonists.
You must have the vikings
"People should be economically and socially equal."
That...actually sounds like a noble idea; so, why was Karl Marx considered a bad guy by Americans?
Because his ideology has killed millions of people and has always been worse for the people it claims to protect.
Hell is full of noble ideas.
@@alexanderiverson707 sounds more like capitalism
Because it's easier to paint him as a malicious psychopath than actually address his critiques of Capitalism. You'll notice none of the Marx haters explain *why* Marx didn't like Capitalism, just that Communism was bad. To directly address that question is to expose yourself to Marx's most powerful arguments. This is why he has posthumously been turned into a cheerleader for the Soviet Union rather than a critic of Capitalism. They don't want people to understand labor exploitation, the origin of profit, and the role of imperialism.
His ideas never worked. That's why. A half of whole Eastern Europe was communistic. And where are thy all now? They embraced capitalism again, as the only working economic ideology
Communists be like: uhm AcTUaLy
Well jee I wonder why
Not that I’m a commie in particular (not that I’ve read much Marx at all either) but I doubt a cartoon could get the ideas across accurately
So communist sounded like Italian from Brooklyn ? Cool.
whats hilarious was marx failed to understand what capitalism even is. Owning your own business and making more than your workers does not make you a capitalist. It makes you an industrialist entrepreneur, something Marx actually did respect in the form of Engels.
Capitalism is using your money/capital in an investment for someone else to use to grow their enterprise and in exchange they either grant you interest or growth of your investment or partial ownership or both. In a sense, Capitalism is the ability to earn money purely because you already have money, and not because you did any work. Engels grew his company through leadership and hard work, something anyone should be able to respect and in fact, thats how 99 of business have historically been run. And infact, an economy without capital investment is whats known as a market economy and is what existed prior to the concept of shares, stocks, and bonds. Again, capitalism is the ability to make your money earn more money for you by lending out. Thats what capitalism is, and its a far more abstract concept to market economies. Marx failed to grasp that as do most communists. Instead of being anticapitalist, they became anti market. Which is why their economic system has never survived into a prosperous state
We were learning that in School today.
I feel like I had an out-of-body experience. Some fun, additional educational points:
-Marx and Engels never saw a *hammer and sickle* like that. Though now practically synonymous with Communism, the hammer and sickle as a symbol was only invented in Russia after WW1.
-*Whoever claimed Communism was about equality? Certainly not Marx!* Two perfectly equal individuals would be the same individual. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," and all that; nothing about equality of outcomes. Part of this widespread misconception may originate with the conflation in Western countries of capitalistic welfare and social spending with socialism so that people assume the focus of Marx and Engels was reducing unfairness at the point of exchange.
i think its odd how they couldnt find someone that could do a german accent or has one for karl marx its very disturbing to hear him speak in an american accent
the joke is the merged him with Groucho Marks
If only they taught kids like this nowadays
I’d love to see this show come back and poke fun at the January 6 capital riot
they do....just look around.
Although it's made for kids to understand, not adults. Kids are already being tought that a women can love another women and that there are over 90 sex's
@@cookiecracker2 they definitely don’t teach that at school.
The Song Slaps Tho.
To everyone saying this should be shown to kids in school, I have some bad news for ya. I was a social studies teacher and I can tell you for a fact that not only will most kids find this boring and pay it no attention, but the kids who do won't understand a thing. Kids' comprehension skills are horrible nowadays. I swear I try to explain the same concept five different ways and they'll just look at me like I grew two heads. I quit teaching because not only are kids straight up abusive to their teachers, but it also feels like I'm accomplishing as much with my life as I would be if I were talking to a bunch of rocks. I tried showing a bunch of different educational videos to kids that the comments sections seemed to suggest kids would like, but it seems that they only like them because they aren't being required to watch it for school. The same thing they would learn about on their own they refuse to learn about in school. I don't know what makes them so stubborn about it, either. I guess it's because at home there's no accompanying worksheet or open-ended question to answer, but that's how you demonstrate you learned something. It's one thing to watch this video and enjoy it, but can you then explain in your own words what Marxism is? That's what I need to see as the teacher.
I mean they can say that it is educational but there were so many thing that they got wrong, literally the very first thing was wrong, marxism is not a way of organizing a state, i a way of studying and seeing things, it can be called historical materialism too, both have the objective of looking at history/arts/religion/etc from a materialist point of view, so they really got it wrong from the start
The obvious joke; having Marxism done by way of the Marx Brothers.
And the world was worsened since then
i know this is for american kids.... so i think this is not thst bad....surely better than 50's propaganda
As an educator of history and a Marx Bros fan, this clip is fantastic.
They should had mentioned certain wall's falldown
That was in 1847
the Berlin wall would not be builts for more than another century.
Comrade, it is time to rise.
oh my god. I was just thinking about this VERY BIT and suddenly it appears in my suggested videos. I think google is in my brain.
Wonderfully easy neat yet very righteous job fellows!!
This is better than the current US political cartoons.
Cant believe they revived Karl for this one.
why didnt they sing about how it is the most deadly political structure..
Why isn't this show available on streaming?
Tiny hats promoting this
Some animals are more equal
George Orwell was pretty socialist
What song is the song in this video a parody, if it is a parody of another song?
It parodies "I'm Against It" by Groucho Marx.
*pushes glasses up* well actually according to my degree at Wiki-peDia I... completely forgot about this episode. This was the end of the cartoon blitz for us Gen X'ers, such a clever cartoon, learned a lot early on from it.
So kids that's how I became a socialist
Holy fuck this was locked away in a memory vault hahaha. Absolutely amazing
"...The rich will contest it"
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That guy is filthy rich though
@@OurFoundingLiars yeeeeesss. you're catching on. the rich demand socialism for others, not themselves. the poor don't endorse socialism.
@@Spazzboy911 oh lol, I misunderstood what you meant. Carry on
@@OurFoundingLiars he doesnt exploit people and he owns the fruit of his labor. Nice try
@@mikeyorkav4039 yeah cenk’s nephew really earned the fruits of his labor
That doesn't look like Engels at all
The joke here references the Marx brothers, Karl Marx is played by Groucho and Engels is played by Chico, that's why they don't look alike
@@shaddydraws4349 where can I find your art?
It's so weird they portrayed Engels like that. He was rather skinny and was on par with Marx academically, wirting many important marxist books himself. Oh well I shouldn't expect too much historical accuaracy from an American kid's cartoon.
It’s Horsefeathers! I haven’t seen that movie in years.
All we need now is that random poster of a horse.
This show surpassed animaniacs
why do they give Friedrich engels a Russian accent, he was German and so was Karl Marx.
Not a Russian accent, an Italian accent. The entire joke of this segment is that it's a reenactment of the opening to Horse Feathers, with Chico Marx as Friedrich Engels, and Groucho Marx as Karl Marx.
I think you forgot the part where people died
That came later
i need to know Marx's voice actor
3:37- hehehe. baby Marxism.
Как же хочется, чтобы псевдо коммунисты в Америке решили поиграть в большивиков и нагнули большие компании, которые отравляют жизнь всему миру
О здорово товарищ
Тогда всему миру конец.
I used to love this show
This is actually how I became radcalized to the proletariat cause.
And then millions died! Oh wait, we ran out of time. Oh well.
The communism didn't kill those people. The methods used to impose it does. And by the way capitalism kill indirectly way more people than communism.
@@kyrios443 How?
@@kyrios443 Free Market Capitalism reduced the poverty rate from 95% to 9% in under 200 years. No other economic system has ever been able to do that.
@@Thoralmir what .....’’free market capitalism’’ ....i’m sorry man but I don’t understand what you’re talking about....reformulate please (i’m not making fun of you I seriously didn’t understand)
Communism didn’t kill millions, Maoism and Stalinism did. Fuck those systems
The best tv shows ever: Histeria! and Beakman