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  • @thefriendgroup1617
    @thefriendgroup1617 Před 4 lety +898

    I’m still amazing how good this guy can write with a mouse

  • @Jus10Sirois
    @Jus10Sirois Před 10 lety +395

    The 85 richest people own the same wealth as 3.5 billion people. No, I have to disagree, what Marx observed still occurs today.

    • @josephang9927
      @josephang9927 Před 9 lety +66

      Those countries have more wealth because they create it, not because they steal it.
      Each idea, technology, product, service... adds wealth, because those things improve the life of those people who get it.
      Poor countries would be richer if they use their reasources to create and distribute products.
      If we give wealth to poor people, they will remain poor. We must give them education, equal oportunities, but not give them wealth for nothing.

    • @DavidLopez-up3qm
      @DavidLopez-up3qm Před 5 lety +116

      @@josephang9927 but what if third world countries are poor because they're being exploited by first world countries?

    • @josephang9927
      @josephang9927 Před 5 lety +10

      @@DavidLopez-up3qm Actually, that exploitation is debatable, as third world countries receive medicine, food and assistance from the West. Maybe you are talking about classic colonialism, which was what made rich blacks sell other blacks to Jews, who brought the slaves to the New World.

    • @thegirlinterruptedd
      @thegirlinterruptedd Před 5 lety +29

      @@josephang9927 of course, education is essential to empowering the lower class but if you really think about it - what incentive do the rich have to empower these people? It would be much more difficult to hoard wealth and power if we were all on an equal playing field and thus, it's advantageous for the rich to keep the poor impoverished.

    • @Mikkamel
      @Mikkamel Před 5 lety +12

      Hahaha! Was it only five years ago when it was 85? That's a cute number.
      That number is a countdown.

  • @comradehogan7636
    @comradehogan7636 Před rokem +12

    You could've saved 10 minutes by saying you don't understand Marx

  • @aidanclare6602
    @aidanclare6602 Před 6 lety +108

    Where's surplus value? Where's dialectical materialism? Anyway, you definitely have a bias when it comes to socioeconomic and historical topics. The creation of surplus value is not even related to something material, since it's greater than the value of the constant capital (means of production, commodities) and the variable capital (labour). The extraction of surplus value leads to massive consolidation of wealth in the hands of the few, who then acquire more constant and variable capital to expand the surplus value, ad infinitum. In Capital, Marx referred to this as centralization of capital, which has come true!

    • @MREiermann1000
      @MREiermann1000 Před 3 lety +10

      the surplus value is the price for the security an employee pays for not having to bear the risk of bankruptcy.
      50% of businesses fail in the 1st 5 years.
      the stress of needing to work 100+h weeks to avoid bankruptcy is sth. no western goverment would allow for any employee outside of a crisis.
      if the surplus value gets divided too unfairly between employer and employee a competitor can offer better wages or the employee can become an employer by himself after aquireing skills and capital from working.
      this works as long as the are no monopolies.
      the job of the goverment is to stop monopolies like the us did to standard oil.

    • @musicmania1263
      @musicmania1263 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MREiermann1000 Great point! Competition is the fuel that makes the Capitalistic Bus go! Without it, we are all standing on the side of the road with our thumb up asking others for help.

    • @whysoserious9519
      @whysoserious9519 Před 3 lety +17

      @@MREiermann1000 "If the surplus value gets divided too unfairly between employer and employee a competitor can offer better wages"
      You're incredibly misinformed. A competitor doesn't offer better wages due to the surplus of unemployment which is why they bribe legislators to pass policies to favor this approach. If there were a shortage of employees due to the government focusing on it's infrastructure for the sake of creating jobs, large corporations would be forced to offer better benefits due to the lack of unemployment. This is ignoring the fact they find loopholes to avoid paying wages (such as the prison industrial complex, exploitation of resources via the military industrial complex and getting their materials from slave labor in China).
      This is also ignoring the fact that they barely pay anything in taxes, yet most of OUR taxes are being funneled into them under a disguise of "cReAtiNg MorE JobS". How many people got laid off during this pandemic by large corporations such as Disney and Amazon? How many of YOUR taxes went to paying for a relief bill whilst small business owners were getting the short end of the stick despite paying drastically more taxes?

    • @iwanmommaerts5960
      @iwanmommaerts5960 Před 3 lety

      i didnt understad that, but i think more people should see this

    • @MREiermann1000
      @MREiermann1000 Před 3 lety +2

      @@whysoserious9519 surplus of unemployment is only relevant for unskilled labour. an employee usually doesnt just want to hire anybody. make yourself harder to replace. gain skills. its litterally free on the internet to learn most things like learning to code.
      but i agree we as voters have to pay more attention to financial criminality and loop holes and vote for parties that want stronger goverment intevention and more money for prosecution. though thats not really sth you can do with a 2 party system i guess. greetings from europe.

  • @user-pk3eq9io2o
    @user-pk3eq9io2o Před 2 lety +12

    this dude probably didn't take much time researching into communism and how it functions and decides to be indolent by summarizing communism with it not being concrete

  • @Bannister92
    @Bannister92 Před 10 lety +131

    A video to supposedly explain what communism is but i felt that all we got was your opinion.

    • @spencerhopkinson9874
      @spencerhopkinson9874 Před 10 lety

      angelbrotherhood Moar complicated = better!

    • @vicj2141
      @vicj2141 Před 4 lety +9

      That's what any teaching is, someone's opinion. You just have too decide if they've hinted you in a good direction.

    • @ik5083
      @ik5083 Před 4 lety +5

      angelbrotherhood No it doesn’t, whoever these ideas belong to I never found them in Marx-Engels’ or Lenin’s collected works nor in the writings I’ve read of Trotsky, Luxemburg, De Leon, Kautsky and Plekhanov. He seems to have made up most of it himself.

    • @eyezclosed5934
      @eyezclosed5934 Před 3 lety +1

      @@gamer106892 because a majority of his audience are kids in high school.

    • @malcombrown7617
      @malcombrown7617 Před 3 lety

      The communists/socialists were against traditional cultures. They banned Ukrainians, Russians, Chinese, Koreans and amongst others from: wearing traditional clothing, listening to their folk music, practising their religions, replacing folk architecture with 'socialist realism'(Also 'functionalism' and the like), (sometimes) even speaking their languages. I do not see any reason why those Filipino communist rebel fighters would do the same thing and generally, I don't see any reason why most Marxist-Leninists and Maoists would have abandoned this habit.

  • @qqqalo
    @qqqalo Před 3 lety +43

    This guy just completely skips over the labor theory of value. This is biased.

    • @zuzanazila
      @zuzanazila Před 2 lety

      How biased? And biased against what? Do you know the "value" theory?

    • @bravo________87372
      @bravo________87372 Před 2 lety

      He didn't mention it because the labour theory of value is garbage

    • @qqqalo
      @qqqalo Před 2 lety +6

      @@bravo________87372 Even the guy who created the modern theory of capitalism (Adam Smith) believed in the labour theory of value. Do you even know what it is?

    • @joshuaallen9501
      @joshuaallen9501 Před 2 lety

      @@qqqalo you have to buy the individual parts for workers to assemble them. There's other stuff that goes into things other than labor. That theory has already been debunked.

  • @johnpublic9538
    @johnpublic9538 Před 10 lety +45

    Unionization has nothing to do with socialism because it maintains the same relations of workers to the means of production. Class is not directly related to wealth disparity or "competence of management" or other things brought up in the polemic above. It is a social relation to the means of production. Capitalism is a system in which private ownership of the means of production gives control over the distribution of surplus to the capitalist class, not to the people who are producing society's goods. There's no democracy over the workplace in capitalism because the economy is considered outside the purview of democratic decision making.
    Redistribution of wealth and "larger government" also has nothing to do with socialism, for the same reasons--it leaves intact the relations of production. Socialism is NOT government management of the means of production. Socialism requires WORKER control over the means of production. The lecturer probably believes that Obama is a socialist.
    Government management of capitalism is called Social Democracy and is what happens in countries like Sweden, where people are far happier and better taken care of, by the way, than in the United States.
    These things are "hard to think about" because of the constant indoctrination and apologizing from people who benefit from capitalism. People should check out Market Socialism and the work of economists like Richard D. Wolff.
    Also, Marxism-Leninism and Communism are NEVER used interchangeably, except I suppose by the lecturer. Nor is "Marxism" utopian, that accusation can only be made by someone who hasn't read the man and who is shilling for capitalism.
    And, regarding corruption in political parties, people living in the United States shouldn't throw stones. :)
    Finally, on the Democracy->Authoritarianism scale, the US is a functional plutonomy where wealthy capitalists control the political system and use it to wage their own intra-class conflicts, using the people only to get formal votes (this is what the Tea Party was about). Just because people can push a lever once in a while doesn't mean they have any real power at all. There was voting in the Soviet Union, too. You have to look at the REAL functioning of systems to get anything out of the analysis.
    Certainly, the USSR was authoritarian, but you'll have to jump through some hoops to show how it overturned the class relations of production and became "Communist".

    • @esmifrado
      @esmifrado Před 10 lety +1

      U spend so much time trying to say that nobody was ever communist and socialist when u come to the point when u say how real socialism (or whatever u want to call it) would really work in the REAL world (give us details not generic ideas), there is when I will finally start laughing! Until then all u do is excusing urself, just like all Marx did was criticize capitalism...and btw in Sweden the capitalism is managed by the government? hahahah...nice one.

    • @marianotrani8438
      @marianotrani8438 Před 4 lety

      If you like so much sweden and Scandinavia why you don’t move there?

    • @marianotrani8438
      @marianotrani8438 Před 4 lety

      Btw, Switzerland is more capitalist than sweden and they are happy aswell if Not more than sweden and furthermore they also got better services like health (because in switzerland it’s private, whereas it’s gov‘t Runned in sweden). I think Sweden vs Switzerland is a classical example that Social democracy May work with Huge collectivistic indoctrination and janteloven culture, but capitalism will always be far superior

    • @garbandgulyberdimuhamedow4604
      @garbandgulyberdimuhamedow4604 Před 2 lety

      @@marianotrani8438 because nobody does that. you could just say this to anyone wanting to make their country better.

    • @garbandgulyberdimuhamedow4604
      @garbandgulyberdimuhamedow4604 Před 2 lety +2

      @@marianotrani8438 well we don't really have any non capitalist or state capitalist states to compare it to do we?

  • @Jorbyte
    @Jorbyte Před 2 lety +29

    "The government, or in the words of communists, the hands of the people" - this is more of a criticism of American democracy. The constitution states the government is of the people and by the people, but most Americans disagree. So if you think the government is a bad thing, then that's because YOUR democracy is bad, not the entire concept of democracy.
    This video honestly reflects how, despite your best efforts to be impartial, you still can't explain Communism without sounding like capitalism is your religion. Capitalism is treated as a synonym for freedom while you're growing up in the USA. That's why you feel compelled to say things like "I don't want to say too many good things about Marx," despite your only criticism being "utopia is unrealistic lol."

    • @aaaaii6511
      @aaaaii6511 Před 2 lety +2

      Lol communism go brr

    • @LoveShuffleBlues
      @LoveShuffleBlues Před 2 lety

      Communism has committed 50 million deaths.

    • @aaaaii6511
      @aaaaii6511 Před 2 lety

      @@LoveShuffleBlues dont argue with idiots. Im pro capital. Just let it be. These commies are delusional. Shhh. The secret is Don't say nothing.

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 2 lety +6

      Totally ignores the revolutionary road pointed to by Marx and the role of Imperialism capitalism highest stage.

    • @LuiBei1994
      @LuiBei1994 Před 2 lety

      Lmao yeah sure. Cus we don't see ppl still not filling needed hard and high skilled jobs and choosing to sell butthole pics on the internet instead. There's way too many issues to address before communism is possible and not a lazy idiots dream. Maybe one day. But not for centuries. Already to many issues filling jobs that require effort

  • @TheVerbalAxiom
    @TheVerbalAxiom Před 7 lety +68

    The bias against communism is too real in this video.

    • @michaelsimpson4458
      @michaelsimpson4458 Před 7 lety +17

      Are you saying this is a bad thing?

    • @TheVerbalAxiom
      @TheVerbalAxiom Před 7 lety +20

      Michael Simpson If you think it's not, there's clearly something wrong with you.

    • @95TurboSol
      @95TurboSol Před 7 lety +25

      Who the hell would ever want Communism? I like to own things thank you very much, it's in human nature, every communist society fails for this reason, liberty is the way to go.

    • @TheVerbalAxiom
      @TheVerbalAxiom Před 7 lety +21

      95TurboSol The ignorant greed is clear in you. "I want"

    • @95TurboSol
      @95TurboSol Před 7 lety +12

      Omar Moodie
      I do want, everyone wants, it's great to want as long as you work for what you get. Wanting isn't greed and confusing conquest with capitalism and liberty will just end in confusion and a skewed picture of it.

  • @shanfarooq4421
    @shanfarooq4421 Před 8 lety +113

    11:04 when the teacher forgets the lesson plans

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 Před 3 lety +17

      Brain got stuck in a loop. It's a miracle Sal managed to get out if it, lest be trapped inside forever.

    • @DanielThomasArgueta
      @DanielThomasArgueta Před 3 lety +6

      @@kennarajora6532 🤣

  • @bernd9000
    @bernd9000 Před 7 lety +72

    "he didn't think too much about..." YES HE DID!!
    YOU did not!
    it is not possible for everybody too be a capitalist. you have no f'n clue !!

    • @selimfurkandalgic9548
      @selimfurkandalgic9548 Před 4 lety +21

      communism is evil and unhuman system

    • @charlessong2778
      @charlessong2778 Před 4 lety +8

      @@selimfurkandalgic9548 u know nothing, loser

    • @jamalkhalil77
      @jamalkhalil77 Před 4 lety +8

      all these systems are messed up because they are manmade

    • @selimfurkandalgic9548
      @selimfurkandalgic9548 Před 4 lety +1

      @Krónika I used to be socialist then i learn nobel prize winnier economists such as Ludwind von Mises, Milton, Hayek and much more. I learn Berlin Wall Prag 1068 Hunagary 1956 Iron Curtain North korea and south korea modern history of Japon Germany and how they got richer with capitalism. I learned since china left socialism in 1978 and went just a little bit capitialist they got richer like never before. In 1800's %90 of world population was living poverty then Capitalism spread among the world humans got richer like NEVER BEFORE. We are exist for centuries so eask your self how in just 200 years 90% poverty drop 8% today ? Why this didnt happen before ? What was that thing we never had before ? Thats Capitalism. Rich get richer and poor get richer. If that want true 90% poverty rate would hit 99% longggg ago but its didint and countiune to drop. Learn econmics and individual liberties.

    • @selimfurkandalgic9548
      @selimfurkandalgic9548 Před 4 lety +2

      @Krónika Facts dont care about feelings. I showed you data and basic economics nobel prize winners i bet you know better them and all the data is misleading.

  • @TiberiusStorm
    @TiberiusStorm Před 11 lety +35

    He's actually defending capitalism?!

    • @brenna3354
      @brenna3354 Před 3 lety +7

      Yeah my mom made me and my dad watch this so we wouldn't be communists anymore, (Ps. Didn't work.)

    • @gabnicholson696
      @gabnicholson696 Před 3 lety +1

      @@brenna3354 lol

  • @mtado4933
    @mtado4933 Před 2 lety +5

    this video was a big bruh moment tbh, imagine thinking that workers can compete with big businesses or assuming that everyone has equal opportunity.

    • @califighter56
      @califighter56 Před 2 lety +5

      I like how he implied the existence of social mobility invalidates all of Marxist theory. How to say you didn't read Marx without saying you didn't read Marx

  • @guilhermetomas1595
    @guilhermetomas1595 Před 4 lety +105

    The manifesto is a 2 hour read tops and it sounds like you didn't prep Sal

    • @paperfart3988
      @paperfart3988 Před 2 lety +2

      Marxists don't like when their ideology is picked apart.

    • @guilhermetomas1595
      @guilhermetomas1595 Před 2 lety +5

      @@paperfart3988 yeah thats why they spent years of their life studying it

  • @salcom1566
    @salcom1566 Před 3 lety +10

    china is state-capitalist bro.

    • @kye4216
      @kye4216 Před 3 lety

      That’s really shows how bad communism is when a regime that literally has communist in their name and still are capitalist

    • @scaltra6709
      @scaltra6709 Před 2 lety

      @@kye4216 I don't think that really makes sense to use that as an example of how bad it is.

    • @kye4216
      @kye4216 Před 2 lety

      @@scaltra6709 well if somebody sells Mercedes and constantly says how great they are but then owns a different car that’s kinda weird

  • @mensamussamussa4295
    @mensamussamussa4295 Před 10 lety +187

    that same arrangement you described still happens today, the minority with lots of capital imposing low to no wages on the masses

    • @SonarWavePulse
      @SonarWavePulse Před 10 lety +18

      Only happens during times when the economy is troubled. When there are more people than jobs to do them.
      When an economy is growing, however, wages go up and up, lifting many out of poverty

    • @Gamerad360
      @Gamerad360 Před 4 lety +6

      Back then you couldn't accumulate Capital, now you can, so the Marxist argument doesn't apply.

    • @nathanseibold3819
      @nathanseibold3819 Před 4 lety +22

      @@SonarWavePulse when the economy goes "up" so does consumption. Which raises prices. Which forces workers to accumulate debt. Which eventually leads to a lack of extra income. Which causes the workers to stop buying as much. Which causes the economy to go "down". Which causes prices to decrease, especially the cost of labor (since unemployment will inevitably be high). Which allows the wealthy to purchase more at a reduced price.... and on and on the cycle goes until either revolution or oligarchy.

    • @goldenealgefromdutchbros6834
      @goldenealgefromdutchbros6834 Před 3 lety +2

      @@SonarWavePulse that is not true

    • @goldenealgefromdutchbros6834
      @goldenealgefromdutchbros6834 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Gamerad360 again not true

  • @nik1614
    @nik1614 Před 9 lety +7

    Khan stop making videos on subjects which you know nothing about. Land as Capital? Thats like saying labour is capital. The Three factors of production: Land, Labour and Capital.

    • @freeinformation9869
      @freeinformation9869 Před 6 lety

      Yeah! I guess the next video will be about home-dentistry or somehting?

  • @jaxciohc253
    @jaxciohc253 Před 3 lety +13

    Pretty misleading video, for instance in 3:29, he definitely wrote about the existence of “small capitalists” or “petit-bourgeoisie”
    but Marx pointed out the existence of competition would result in the tendency for capital to accumulate in bigger and bigger hands.
    I suggest anyone pick up an very short and concise reading of marxism, I recommend Engels, Socialism : Scientific and Utopian, or Lenin : The three sources and the component parts of marxism.

  • @josemariadepradas8029
    @josemariadepradas8029 Před 4 lety +10

    You are teaching something, we don't care what you think. You should just stick to the point and explain what communism is, nothing more. You just gave a biased opinion, that's not education, that's just indoctrination

  • @mateoalmeida80
    @mateoalmeida80 Před 2 lety +8

    "i don't like making it a habit of defending Marx". how bias. as if Marx was an evil tyrannical dictator. dude was literally just a philosopher/writer who was an exile all his life.

  • @HawreKoyi1
    @HawreKoyi1 Před 9 lety +82

    It was like CNN report about Russia and China, very weak argument. You should know that Marx was not the only one critical about capitalism.

  • @drrdragoss
    @drrdragoss Před 10 lety +66

    for every great idea there is a simple, short, wrong explanation

    • @eduardoguimaray9377
      @eduardoguimaray9377 Před 4 lety +1

      How wrong?

    • @Julian.Staggs
      @Julian.Staggs Před 4 lety +12

      Eduardo Guimaray completely wrong. He got a lot of theory wrong and claimed points were unaddressed when they had explanations.

    • @nicolasbalaguera1809
      @nicolasbalaguera1809 Před 3 lety

      @@eduardoguimaray9377 he claimed points that Marx supposedly made as fact, Marx mainly talked about freedom and what that freedom would look like, whilst heading into an industrial period for man. This is just one of many examples that he got wrong

  • @yueminwang3551
    @yueminwang3551 Před 2 lety +2

    If only barbaric capitalist oppression and exploitation were a thing of the past. Sadly, Marx's vision of caplitalism couldn't be more true in our time of life.

  • @cobaltkiser264
    @cobaltkiser264 Před 2 lety +11

    8:30 calling Marx's ideas utopian is incredibly disingenuous, considering his writings are what made socialism scientific

    • @califighter56
      @califighter56 Před 2 lety +1

      Especially considering Marx developed socialism *to* break away from Utopian socialists
      I'm not sure Sal actually did any significant research for this

    • @gabesynnott6506
      @gabesynnott6506 Před 2 lety

      @@califighter56 I think it's also kind of relevant to mention that the idea of a utopia has changed over the years, making Marx's ideas slide closer to a Utopia than where it was originally was. Modern utopias are pretty likely to side somewhat closer to Marx's version of communism (plus the idea of a utopia at this point is decently nebulous and different between people)

  • @P_Izenberg
    @P_Izenberg Před 8 lety +55

    the information presented in this video is fundamentally incorrect..

    • @vicj2141
      @vicj2141 Před 4 lety +3

      Please substantiate your statement.

    • @rajdeepvilluri8715
      @rajdeepvilluri8715 Před 4 lety +1

      @@vicj2141 it's a joke

    • @Laroac
      @Laroac Před 4 lety

      @Siuz Start somewhere, just one of the many for a start, but please show don't tell.

  • @garbandgulyberdimuhamedow4604

    I can't believe i let this man teach me things in school.

  • @cristina5542
    @cristina5542 Před 3 lety +50

    When I watch a video explaining opposite theories, the least I expect is impartiality, and this video shows how much the US if filled with pro capitalist propaganda.

    • @paperfart3988
      @paperfart3988 Před 2 lety +6

      Marxism is anti capitalist propaganda lmao

    • @wesly2089
      @wesly2089 Před 2 lety +7

      @@paperfart3988 ideologies in themselves are not propaganda, especially not Marxism. Marxism is so big and full of ideologies that it should not be grouped together. Propaganda is media against a certain thing. This can take shape in either papers on walls saying something bad about the thing that’s being hated or just being integrated into culture and schools to teach something in a negative light. In the USA communism is always talked about poorly, so even in an attempt to be equal they are still pro capitalist in their words. ;TLDR Please learn more about a subject before saying something so stupid as “Marxism is anti capitalist propaganda l lmao”

    • @MelissaR784
      @MelissaR784 Před 2 lety +2

      @@wesly2089 Marx, being a intellectual, from a upper class family, felt only the upper crust should be in charge. In order to persuade the lower class to fall in line to be ruled, came up with the BS of sharing the wealth, that never, ever materializes.
      Marxist is against free market capitalism. Of individuals making agreements in an exchange for good and service. Capitalism is a economic formula for supply and demand to determine prices. Marxist and communism is a ideology of a way to run a society who ends up serving that upper crust.

    • @wesly2089
      @wesly2089 Před 2 lety

      @@MelissaR784 sorry to say it but your just reflecting propaganda which originated in the ideas of capitalism. You say under Marxism everybody works for an “upper crust” tell me, in which nation did workers have more rights and why? USA, or ussr? Obviously the ussr. Why? Because workers could go on strike to demand better pay. In the USA, if you don’t obey your boss you could be fired and instantly replaced. In capitalism every worker does labor for the upper crust, the capitalists. The capitalists make a fourtune by doing everything as minimum as possible with maximum prices. The only reason the United States still exists with its free market is regulations to stop total monopolies and a minimum wage. If it weren’t for business laws companies would pour waste into rivers and pollute everything. Capitalism does not make a sufficient society. Getting a house and food should not cost so much and it’s rediculous how so many people reflect capitalist things like an elite class into communism which benefits the people. Please do your research on the left and consider joining the right side, the side that believes in a society to benefit all, not just the rich.

    • @wesly2089
      @wesly2089 Před 2 lety +3

      @@MelissaR784 also, just because Marx lived in a decent family doesn’t mean he can’t have communal ideas. In fact, people born into low families especially back then were to busy working some crop field for a few cents worth of usd an hour to actually have ideas. So much talent has been lost to the fields, and socialism has a solution to that.

  • @jeremym7550
    @jeremym7550 Před 10 měsíci +4

    Couldn’t make it far into this video without rolling my eyes! You should remove it until you’ve educated yourself enough to be able to teach actual Marxist theory! Otherwise leave it to someone who knows what they’re talking about.

  • @juliancombrinck3146
    @juliancombrinck3146 Před 3 lety +55

    Hi there, I am a huge fan of your channel. I've been watching since high school and I'm almost done with my law degree. I was wondering if you could do an update of this video with the latest statistics and so forth? Keep up the awesome work that you guys do!!!

    • @TTTTTTTTT853
      @TTTTTTTTT853 Před 2 lety +7

      Latest statistics lmao like the CCP and Australia

    • @monkeyemperor1223
      @monkeyemperor1223 Před 2 lety +1

      @@TTTTTTTTT853 fr tho, check out how well communism is working in the cyberpunk-state that is china now

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 2 lety

      @@monkeyemperor1223 Looks like they have the same problems as capitalism with a banking crisis. Hey maybe that's it? Their problems are connected to going down the capitalist road? Keep feeding the Imperialist war machine and giving away the national treasury when they are too big to fail that way they don't even have to properly manage to earn a profit all they need to do now is buy corrupt politicians who will do their bidding and bail them out of the next crisis caused by the very way the capitalist system works.

    • @monkeyemperor1223
      @monkeyemperor1223 Před 2 lety

      @@kimobrien. That is my point lol. Everything is run by the same people, they want us mad so no one can retaliate...

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 2 lety

      Then you've become an Internationalist like the movement around the American Socialist Workers Party and "The Militant" newspaper?

  • @Adanfig51
    @Adanfig51 Před 3 lety +13

    Khan academy man, this isn’t very based of you

  • @mercuryatamolos3687
    @mercuryatamolos3687 Před 10 lety +44

    This is a very biased video.

  • @MrMcGale
    @MrMcGale Před 12 lety +11

    I was born in SSR of Ukraine, moved away when I was 18. I never considered it Communism, as the LACK OF COMMUNISM was very clear. Where is Communism used at the moment?

    • @Shadowmanchronicles
      @Shadowmanchronicles Před 3 lety +1

      In Kerala..a state in India. IMO... they successfully implemented it but with the help of Capitalism and Socialism.

    • @mylesmacpherson5534
      @mylesmacpherson5534 Před 3 lety

      @@Shadowmanchronicles wait fr

    • @Shadowmanchronicles
      @Shadowmanchronicles Před 3 lety +1

      @@mylesmacpherson5534 apparently, I found it interesting too. It is a capitalist modified Communism. It's working because..Kerala is one of the better states in India to live in🤷‍♂️

    • @Deep.Purple
      @Deep.Purple Před 3 lety +1

      My family was born in the former Soviet Union and they and you were in a communistic country.

    • @dogodogo5891
      @dogodogo5891 Před 3 lety +2

      throw people into jail, mass murder them, control ur think and ur life aspect, spread same ideology into other part of the world repeat

  • @LVC85costa
    @LVC85costa Před 3 lety +55

    I lost a little respect for Khan Academy on this one.

    • @gooooblaster1800
      @gooooblaster1800 Před 3 lety +6

      Where else would you get a better explanation from someone’s profession is to teach

    • @gpedre21
      @gpedre21 Před 3 lety +5

      @@gooooblaster1800 maybe socialists and communists themselves?

    • @gooooblaster1800
      @gooooblaster1800 Před 3 lety +1

      @@gpedre21 ya sure and you'll be looking at the most biased explanation from people who arent trained to teach.

    • @gpedre21
      @gpedre21 Před 3 lety +1

      @@gooooblaster1800 you think this isn’t biased?

    • @Redfash_Tofu
      @Redfash_Tofu Před měsícem +1

      @@gooooblaster1800Communists have a much deeper understanding of past socialist experiments than anyone else. They too have much harsher criticisms of past socialist states than anyone else. Id say youd get a fair explanation from them if you asked.

  • @udai414
    @udai414 Před 7 lety +36

    Sal's method is just amazing.. No script, he just explains what he knows.. beautiful

    • @Otknoharuka
      @Otknoharuka Před 3 lety +15

      He doesn’t really know though and that’s the problem.

    • @someguy4003
      @someguy4003 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Otknoharuka " tHaTs NoT CoMunIsM" kinda weird how people who have studied the topic for decades and say it doesn't work and have has a correct definition of communism are shut down by people like you who just spend 2 hours reading a manifesto ( reading not even thinking really) and think you know better. Smh

    • @katieakin9397
      @katieakin9397 Před rokem

      @@someguy4003 North Korea calls itself the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea but do you think it’s actually democratic? Just because a country calls itself a democracy or socialist or communist doesn’t mean it’s policies actually reflect that.

  • @vovapetruhin9271
    @vovapetruhin9271 Před 11 lety +11

    Food prices rise, food quality is deteriorating, municipal services becoming more expensive, crisis, bankruptcy, job loss, global warming... I love capitalism too!

  • @TheRealFFS
    @TheRealFFS Před 8 lety +178

    11:05 ""tha, thi, tha thi, ... " :D

    • @user-iy7zs9go8t
      @user-iy7zs9go8t Před 4 lety +20

      U shouldn’t make fun of ppl who stutter.. they didn’t choose to have issues

    • @Slader77
      @Slader77 Před 4 lety +1

      Coolz Alpink he doesnt stutter he just stuttered. Like if your friend tripped ok something and u laugh lol. If hes got cerebral palsey tho😳

    • @eggcat3292
      @eggcat3292 Před 3 lety +3

      @@user-iy7zs9go8t bro chill, it happens to everyone sometimes, he doesn’t have a speech impediment

    • @user-iy7zs9go8t
      @user-iy7zs9go8t Před 3 lety +7

      Okay sorry :( it’s just that I have issues speaking my self that’s why I got triggered.

    • @god1770
      @god1770 Před 3 lety

      Quoting Shakespeare....

  • @MooreHash
    @MooreHash Před 11 lety +15

    That is true, most teachers don't focus on expanding your cultural knowledge, I was talking about the way they make you study, they make you understand the main idea instead of memorizing everything.

  • @MadDaCube
    @MadDaCube Před 8 lety +50

    11:04 good point

    • @paperfart3988
      @paperfart3988 Před 2 lety

      It bugs me. All of the problems that the socialists and communists point out in capitalism would be way worse if you gave the government even more control. I don't understand why they can't put that together.

    • @Sweatyleftist
      @Sweatyleftist Před 2 lety

      @@paperfart3988 because that’s not what communism or socialism actually calls for, just Stalinist/marxist-Leninist interpretations of it, and even then those don’t necessarily call for state control of the means of production.

    • @joshuaallen9501
      @joshuaallen9501 Před 2 lety

      @@Sweatyleftist so you understand communism better than the very people that founded it?

    • @Sweatyleftist
      @Sweatyleftist Před 2 lety

      @@joshuaallen9501 can you tell me who founded communism? Or are you just gonna say Stalin and Lenin? Marx’s interpretation of what communism is was much different

    • @joshuaallen9501
      @joshuaallen9501 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Sweatyleftist its because marxs idea is impossible for society to achieve. Feudalism is a more accurate way society tends to work. Peasants have never ruled the means of production.

  • @user-bt3gg1rg5r
    @user-bt3gg1rg5r Před 10 lety +6

    I'm a just S.Korea student. I very difficult to live in south korea. In Korea, about hundred people's suicides per all people per one day. Because of the pressure of competition. And even if a children of rich parents not, almost impossible that social mobility. This means that poor people's are carried poverty from their descendants. Thus, I hope my country into a socialist state rather. But, I do not hope like the North Korea socialist system. ha... I so hate capitalism.

  • @PrivacyKingdoms
    @PrivacyKingdoms Před 11 lety +24

    11:04 is hilarious
    "and obviously the thee the thee the thee nEEEgative year uh"

  • @Blueberryminty
    @Blueberryminty Před 11 lety +35

    wow... I just can't keep up with counting the errors in this.
    I should study the subject a bit more and then make my own video.

    • @bardlemon5635
      @bardlemon5635 Před 3 lety

      Hi

    • @Otknoharuka
      @Otknoharuka Před 3 lety +12

      For real, that was my thought the whole time watching this in class. I was like “there ain’t no way he just said that... and we learning this in class?” But I remembered that US is very pro capitalist

    • @jaycentral2722
      @jaycentral2722 Před 3 lety +7

      Can you lay out at least 3 of those errors for me please I’m curious

    • @Otknoharuka
      @Otknoharuka Před 3 lety +13

      @@jaycentral2722 1. He’s already bias by saying which one he is for. Makes it more personal then factual
      2. He spoke about authoritarianism as in communism when Marxism or communism is not necessarily always authoritarian. You can have capitalist authoritarian government (ex. nazi Germany and Spain with Francis in power)
      3. Constantly relating Leninist to communism which just bc Leninism says they are communist, doesn’t make them communist. I think he needed to differentiate them better so the audience understand that just bc they call themselves communist does not make them communist. (I can call myself Beyoncé but that does make me Beyonce right?)

    • @Otknoharuka
      @Otknoharuka Před 3 lety +5

      @@jaycentral2722 sorry for the grammatical errors, English isn’t my first language

  • @raemmio2761
    @raemmio2761 Před 10 měsíci +2

    3:08 Marx did think of other capital owners. Which will inevitably either be bought/destroyed by the competitors. Which causes certain capital owners to start owning more and more capital until they own most of the resources from that industry which then spread and take control of other industries. Creating monopolies. Lenin then also went into more detail and said once capital owners get to big for their own countries that they reside in they will start partaking in imperialism and take resources from other places around the world by force. All in the name for bigger profits. Also not every worker can become a capital owner we can just look at current society right now as many people are given barely and wages which keeps them poor and not even bough to buy anything but survive. Which is also what Marx wrote.
    4:49 unions are not unless these unions are controlling the union economy. Which some argue to be a different branch than Marxism. Socialists will support unions and most of the time join them.
    6:20 socialism has nothing to do with government. There are different forms of socialism from the anarchist socialist like the makhnovshchina to the more authoritarian version like the USSR. There is a whole bunch of different socialist implementation. Just like how there are different forms of capitalism to be implemented like state capitalism to social democracies.
    8:28 Marxism is an analysis of class behavior. It’s not utopian. Marxism mainly talks about how the two classes created due to capitalism the capitalist and the workers interact with each other. Most of Marx’s work is critical of capitalism as we see in das capital volume 1-3. Marxism does not describe communism. Marxism is a philosophy while communism is a type of economic theory.
    9:25 Marxism is an analysis like I said before, while Marxist-Leninism is an approach of implementing it.
    10:45 the USSR had different parties/factions as there was the “left opposition” like leon trotsky, the “center” like Stalin, and the right opposition like Bulgarian. It wasn’t until later that Stalin put it under one party with zero factions. If I made things confusing just think of the US and see how there are 2 “parties” both are capitalist and follow neoliberalism they just implement it in a slightly different way. You can count the US as one party with 2 major factions. But the US 2 factions do things very similar compared to how the ussr factions interacted.
    11:20 China was not communist but socialist it no longer has been since its “socialism with Chinese characters”. China is capitalist
    11:40 you can not have an economy be part socialism part capitalism. It’s just not possible. What you are showing is a capitalist country and how much social policies it has. Social policies do not equal socialism. Labor unions as I have said before are not socialistic. They still participate in a capitalist system. Labor unions are just a defense that the workers can create against the capital owners exploitation.
    13:10 the USSR as I have said before was a socialist country. You can’t have a communist country because it would have to be moneyless, borderless, classless, etc society. Communism is the end goal of socialism. The USSR never came close to reaching that goal they even admitted. It takes generations to reach that level.
    I just realize this but before China reverted back to capitalism. It followed maoism which is a different form of think than just Marxist-Leninism. I don’t know much of Maoism so I won’t go to much into detail for that.
    This video is filled with a lot of misinformation and contradictions. These are just the main point I wanted to point out because other points made would make this comment way to long. I also just wanted to point out major gripes from the video.

  • @harrisonwoodard623
    @harrisonwoodard623 Před 10 lety +2

    I hate when Khan academy teachers think their smarter than famous well regarded people

  • @kevinhuynh4533
    @kevinhuynh4533 Před 8 lety +11

    Let's focus on studying, and leave political arguments aside, shall we?

  • @matatic
    @matatic Před 3 lety +7

    Brain melting stuff, the amount of things incorrect in here is incredible

    • @larae8876
      @larae8876 Před 3 lety

      omg a recent comment! it's amazing how incorrect sal is being here, I completely agree with you!

    • @peace_love_kookie9293
      @peace_love_kookie9293 Před 3 lety

      Its insane how popular Khan Academy is in American education too... Like they really do lie to us early its sad

    • @matatic
      @matatic Před 3 lety

      @@famlit. this isn’t just history, his interpretation of Marxism makes me believe he hasn’t actually read anything other than maybe the communist manifesto.

  • @aungmyint2037
    @aungmyint2037 Před 3 lety +2

    Of course, the rich people would like to do it the Capitalist way, but remember that there are more poor people than rich, so I believe that Karl Marx's idealogy works for all humankind and not just the 1% or 0.1% of the rich people.
    This doesn't mean that we have to do everything Marx says, we could change some of the idealogy and come up with something perfect or something that suits our country's system more. I personally believe that a Socialist state would be the best.

  • @AbramRankin
    @AbramRankin Před 9 lety +2

    How could a teacher be capable of teaching a concept which he is not also willing to defend?

  • @TheJosephPrice
    @TheJosephPrice Před 11 lety +12

    Good overview, it is important to note under Marxism there is a distinction between "Personal Property" and "Private Property". Personal would be like your house, car, land(For personal use),etc. Private Property would be factories,warehouses, land used for profit,etc. These two are distinctive in Marxism, as opposed to Feudalism and Capitalism they are the same.

    • @CaptainTae
      @CaptainTae Před 2 lety

      So you don’t think capitalism has different rules for owning a car or a company?
      Fascinating.

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 2 lety

      @@CaptainTae Since a car is expensive the capitalist often sell it by a debt contract much like selling homes, farm land and trucks.

    • @congdanhao4639
      @congdanhao4639 Před 2 lety

      @@CaptainTae can i have some example pls

    • @CaptainTae
      @CaptainTae Před 2 lety

      @@congdanhao4639 examples of what?

    • @CaptainTae
      @CaptainTae Před 2 lety

      @@kimobrien. That’s a very bad analogy.

  • @haleffect9011
    @haleffect9011 Před 8 lety +77

    lets just all agree to be like switzerland. best state. peaceful, and full of chocolate.

  • @Booer
    @Booer Před rokem +2

    said he didnt think about...stfu, he thought about that reality- defend him, marxism is objective and a crucial addition to the canon of human genius

  • @Swearingisgood
    @Swearingisgood Před 11 lety +16

    3:40
    I couldn't take it anymore. You're too biased. Don't give out information if you're going to do it this shitty; 3:40 - no, this is how it is TODAY.

    • @tylarwalter150
      @tylarwalter150 Před 4 lety +4

      sounds like someone has a bias and its definitely not him lol

    • @angeleydrian
      @angeleydrian Před 3 lety

      He got 2 millions from Bill Gates, so what do you expect?

    • @alexpetrella9086
      @alexpetrella9086 Před 3 lety

      @@angeleydrian what?

  • @TheEnepicanParty
    @TheEnepicanParty Před 11 lety +13

    And I just love how you say innovation will only come from competition. The world is either white or black to you. If someone has innovation, it must come from some sort of competition. Innovation will never cease to exist, no matter what political system we live under. Innovation occurs when a curious eye meets the world around it.

  • @sylv5873
    @sylv5873 Před 4 lety +12

    this is *OUR* video.

  • @olivergrey6134
    @olivergrey6134 Před 3 lety +1

    Okay, already misrepresenting the argument.
    The basis of socialism, which existed far before Karl Marx, is:
    With private ownership of the means of production, a hierarchy is formed which involves peasants or laborers and lords or capitalists.
    This is a top down hierarchy and so the capitalist has total control over the firm.
    The capitalist's best interest is maximum profit and, subsequently, the lowest paid labor.
    The laborer's best interest is the maximum wage and, subsequently, the highest paid labor.
    In this there is an inherent conflict which can only be solved by the dissolution of the class structure so that society is only comprised over laborer's who, in some shape or form, have democratic control over the MoP.
    Why should one reap the fruits of another's labor, to no benefit but their own? The concept is thievery.
    Our instructor here then says (rather anxiously, mind you, it was funny) that Marx had not considered that:
    There would be a wider market of capitalists.
    That those capitalists would have to compete for laborers.
    And that, through the aforementioned reasons, laborers would be able to raise their wage.
    He also says that perhaps these laborers could accumulate capital and start their own firms
    While I disagree with the premise of this because raising your wage does not necessitate that it equates to the value of your labor or at least approaches it, the problem with this rebuttal is that it isn't even responding to the true argument.
    And even if we look at this rebuttal, I could pull an Uno reverse card and say that while it "sOuNdS gReAt In ThEoRy, It DoEsN't WoRk WhEn PrAcTiCeD."
    Because if you live in our modern day, you know that few companies control each market (And I emplore you to look at hoe much of the US is employed by Walmart), that wages have come to a drag since the decline of labor unions, and that most workers (in the US, at least) barely have the money to survive, let alone start a business.
    And frankly, not everyone can start a business. For this system to function, there must be a working base to produce capital via labor. If the majority somehow become capitalists then there would not be enough capital to support them, it would become top-heavy and fall.

  • @iustinheisu4483
    @iustinheisu4483 Před 10 lety +45

    All are equal in poverty, but the members of the Party are more equal than the others.

    • @Gufberg
      @Gufberg Před 10 lety +6

      ***** Indeed. In fact, he was a socialist. Capitalists never see the irony of quoting Orwell like that.

    • @ianeng1281
      @ianeng1281 Před 10 lety +9

      Gufberg Orwell even had very strong Communist leanings. His criticisms were directed at Stalin.

    • @ymp5000
      @ymp5000 Před 10 lety

      Ian English Even so, he made our point well. Enjoying the NSA data mining?

    • @JohnDHernandez
      @JohnDHernandez Před 10 lety +2

      Gufberg Nobody is quoting Orwell for pro-capitalist quotes.

    • @Gufberg
      @Gufberg Před 10 lety +2

      GhettoEnterprises Yes they are. The whole "Some are more equal than others" which he uses in his Animal Farm is used as a criticism to to socialism. Its a quotation from Orwell's "Animal Farm" and describes a authoritarian state socialist dystopia. People use it against socialism, forgetting the author himself was a socialist who just had major gripes with Soviet state socialism.

  • @spirituelconnexion
    @spirituelconnexion Před 13 lety +9

    Before saying anything, I want to give you credit for risking your own image, getting through a very controversial topic, to educate us. And I think you did a great job staying neutral.
    And that was very informative and clear. Thank you :)

    • @memethingz6004
      @memethingz6004 Před 2 lety +10

      Very worrying how communism is controversial in America capitalist mindset is so deeply rooted in that country

    • @RandomRothbardian
      @RandomRothbardian Před rokem +1

      @@memethingz6004mate educate yourself on how many communist countries exist and then count how many attempts there have been and the conditions in which the “proletariat” live in those countries
      Then compare it to the quality of life for the working class in the US or Britain or France
      Or compare west Germany to east Germany and their quality of life

  • @calencrawford2195
    @calencrawford2195 Před 5 lety +14

    0:00 First three minutes: Feudalism
    4:00 minutes: Monopoly, oligarchy, plutocracy, fascism
    5:38 I have a lot to say about inheritance of wealth. I am a strong meritocratic person. I share some ideas from across the entire spectrum.
    14:50 China is a series of dots throughout that range.

    • @CosmicFaust
      @CosmicFaust Před 4 lety

      Calen Crawford I’m a defender of political Meritocracy too 😊. I find it hard to classify myself as strictly ‘left’ or ‘right’ for that reason.

    • @vladimirprotein3275
      @vladimirprotein3275 Před 5 měsíci

      Ideally it would be nice if all inheritance should go to the state for the welfare of the people but yeah then people wouldn't have strong incentive to work and generate capital then

  • @bclubofawesomeness2894
    @bclubofawesomeness2894 Před 4 lety +1

    democratic and authoritarian aren’t mutually exclusive.

  • @kalibach7072
    @kalibach7072 Před 7 lety +8

    Speaking of Lenin, there's a great article on his journey to becoming the first communist leader in March 2017 issue of Smithsonian magazine.
    I also find it exciting and shockingly enlightening that last month (April of '17) was the 100 year anniversary of Lenin's trip from his place of exile (Switerland) to his home country of Russia. Even though the actions carried out by his administration violated human rights, we need to understand the logic behind them.
    When we of the present analyz the actions and events of the past, we see patterns. I think if a majority of people who understood these patterns came together, we could prevent them from happening again.

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 2 lety

      Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter rediscovered "Human Rights" when he claimed Cuba was holding political prisoners. Then he looked up his now free political prisoners in the Atlanta Pen. The Imperialists started WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution was the means of putting an end to the Imperialist war. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and no the US Imperialists didn't win the cold war.

  • @lclarsen
    @lclarsen Před 13 lety +13

    Khan I love your math/science, let me help you clear up some social theory. You can't imagine what a "stateless" society was about? Socialists and anarchists tended to see the state as an institution devoted to defending the interests of the propertied elite, something which I think is becoming clearer to many people today. Their "stateless" society is an international order where people would have a direct say in decisions that affected them/ "economic democracy."

    • @kodabro4322
      @kodabro4322 Před 2 lety +1

      I absolutely agree. Marxist-Leninism and Command Economies are different than traditional Marxism

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 2 lety +1

      @@kodabro4322 Leninism and Stalinism are not the same thing. The establishment of a workers state is the first step to socialism. Today the Cuban People and the Cuban state represent workers and farmers state power in the world today.

    • @kodabro4322
      @kodabro4322 Před 2 lety

      @@kimobrien. I never said they were the same thing. Marxist-Leninism was developed by Joseph Stalin in the 1920’s based on his understanding of Traditional Marxism and Leninism. Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented by the Soviet Union 1927-1953. Maoism is a form of Marxist-Leninism that Mao Zedong developed. Castro was a Marxist-Leninist. Pol pot was a Marxist-Leninist and Nationalist. Even western Marxist’s 30-100 years ago were hyper critical of the Marxist-Leninists at the time. Tell me, you’ve never read Capital Volume 1 have you?

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 2 lety

      @@kodabro4322 I've read the beginning as far as the declining rate of return on investment. I've also read many of the writings of Leon Trotsky.

    • @kodabro4322
      @kodabro4322 Před 2 lety

      @@kimobrien. well if you haven't read that far into it. Marx did not provide a detailed blueprint for a future society unlike other utopian at the time. So no surprise you have Marx uncomplete idea, paralleled with Lenins ideas which eventually Stalin studied and adopted as aforementioned

  • @danny5677
    @danny5677 Před 4 lety +14

    The example you made in the Capitalism stage, wouldn’t that be social hierarchy?

  • @samlawson1607
    @samlawson1607 Před 8 lety +58

    "I dont want to get into the habit of defending Karl Marx too much"
    dude its ok to defend him capitalists do. Its not a sin. He was brilliant

    • @freeinformation9869
      @freeinformation9869 Před 6 lety +9

      Most people don't know how much Marx contributed to economic theory and analysis. They just associate him with Stalin and Mao and thats it. It is so ignorant.

    • @anthonychiperuniverse4923
      @anthonychiperuniverse4923 Před 6 lety +3

      karl marx was more than a philosopher.

    • @Kanjicafe
      @Kanjicafe Před 6 lety +6

      Calling Marx a contributor to economic theory is elevating the envy and jealousy of a leftist agitator to a science. Not a philosopher either. He was an agitator with a personality disorder kicked out of country after country, eventually bankrupting his family and rescued by working for another far left loser.... Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune as his England desk, and with a wife and kid he endangered by spending all his money trying to foment agitation in England, grew bitter at "capitalist" Greeley when he refused to give him a pay raise to compensate for his financial mismanagement. Like attracting like, people with very poor financial ability that find themselves penniless over and over are attracted to his blame everyone but yourself ideology. The ideology of losers.

    • @dimetronome
      @dimetronome Před 5 lety +1

      Yeah, I didn't understand that about not wanting to defend Marx. Marx was predominantly a critic of capitalism and what he had to say about capitalism was completely accurate (with the exception of his predictions about the fate of capitalism). He shouldn't be held responsible for what a bunch of self-serving authoritarians did long after he died.

    • @jimpalmer4916
      @jimpalmer4916 Před 5 lety

      I petition to give washington and Oregon to all of the socialist/marxists. Access to ports, plains for food cultivation; it's all there to form their utpoia. Come back in 15 years and we'll see how it went. Fair?

  • @TheEnepicanParty
    @TheEnepicanParty Před 11 lety +8

    We are individuals, but as a whole we serve as a species. A painting would be blank, bland and dull if it only consisted on an individual pixel. But what many pixels create when they structure themselves in an organized fashion is what makes a masterpiece.

  • @nickname-kr1yx
    @nickname-kr1yx Před 9 lety +13

    You did a decent job explaining PARTS of each ideology, but failed to grasp the "big picture" if you will. One of my favorite quotes is by Albert Einstein, who said "If you cannot explain something simply, then you do not know it well enough".

    • @axeyouaquestion33
      @axeyouaquestion33 Před 2 lety +4

      Go ahead and eplain it then, genius.

    • @FM-dm8xj
      @FM-dm8xj Před 2 lety +4

      bahahahahhahahahahahhhahahaahhaah
      he explained it u dont understand this simple fact. How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands marx and lenin.

  • @alexhabbart1095
    @alexhabbart1095 Před 8 lety +73

    You would put the US that democratic?! We have at best the illusion of choice between a very narrow spectrum of ideology on who will control everything. The US should be near the top of the Authoritarian scale

    • @elephantwarrior53
      @elephantwarrior53 Před 8 lety +6

      There was a study that proved government policy is based on the preferences of the rich. I don't know the name of it, but you could probably find in on the internet.

    • @samlawson1607
      @samlawson1607 Před 8 lety

      +Elephant Warrior I know what you are talking about.

    • @durand101
      @durand101 Před 8 lety +2

      Yeah I have no idea why he thinks the US is democratic. Given how much money and corruption there is in American politics, and how opaque it's government is, I'd say it'd pretty undemocratic.

    • @spencerhopkinson9874
      @spencerhopkinson9874 Před 7 lety +15

      meanwhile you are allowed to write this comment without consequences.

    • @banglethanh8864
      @banglethanh8864 Před 6 lety

      You have to put it in comparison with other countries. You know the us government is corrupted and allowed to talk about it, which means your country is more democratic than others. There are countries that people are brainwashed, and if you dare to stand against corruption, you will be vaporized.

  • @Jay2JayGaming
    @Jay2JayGaming Před 2 lety +2

    Big oof. I'm not even an expert in communism and yet I can see clear anti-communist bias. The claim at 3:04 that Karl Marx never considered the possibility of wealth accumulation in a capitalist economy is ludicrous. A large portion of communist argument involves declaring wealth accumulation a sort of false promise used by the bourgeoisie to justify their continued existence as an economic class (which is explained as being both wholly unnecessary as well as detrimental to society at large) and continued monopoly over wealth generation.

  • @xwarhawkxx595
    @xwarhawkxx595 Před 3 lety +53

    I think it’s funny I can learn more from one video than an entire year of history class 😂

  • @amanvirdy
    @amanvirdy Před 12 lety +4

    @11:03 The, thee, the, thee, the, thee... For reals though, you're a damn good teacher and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

  • @Captain_Coochie_Cruncher
    @Captain_Coochie_Cruncher Před 3 lety +3

    Just because a "utopian" society seems far fetched, does that mean we should not pursue it?

    • @provostic8421
      @provostic8421 Před 3 lety +1

      Yes. Why pursue a goal that you know is futile and unachievable?

    • @Captain_Coochie_Cruncher
      @Captain_Coochie_Cruncher Před 3 lety

      @@provostic8421 Because when you attempt to achieve something difficult, even if you don’t reach your goal the place you end up is better than the place you started at. You sound like you’ve never worked hard for anything in your life.

    • @provostic8421
      @provostic8421 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Captain_Coochie_Cruncher you know nothing about me, stop pretending like you do. You can aim for something great, but it’s also important to set realistic goals. The problem is that throughout history, people that tried to create utopia often ended up creating dysfunctional and poor societies (USSR, Cuba, China before the adoption of market policies)

    • @Captain_Coochie_Cruncher
      @Captain_Coochie_Cruncher Před 3 lety

      @@provostic8421 You’re right i know nothing about you except for the depressing pessimistic viewpoints you’re spouting. Countries that have attempted to be socialist or communist have always been met with violence by other capitalist nations like Korea, Vietnam, Germany, Catalonia, Cuba, Chile, the list goes on. Imagine if i tore your house down every time you attempted to build it and then claimed you have no idea how to build a house simultaneously ignoring my own intervention. And you say Chinas economy is futile but they are on track to surpass America’s in the next decade lol. Fox News didn’t tell you that huh?

    • @Captain_Coochie_Cruncher
      @Captain_Coochie_Cruncher Před 3 lety

      @@provostic8421 Also you are so brainwashed and ignorant that you don’t even know that in the 1900s Russia had the fastest growing GDP in the world. Can you guess who has the fastest growing GDP of this current century? Yup, you guessed it, the “dysfunctionally poor society” of China😂😂 read a book moron.

  • @FMHaker
    @FMHaker Před 11 lety

    I live in a former communist country of Serbia (former Yugoslavia), and what I can tell you for sure is that I lived a far better under communism than it is today! There is more freedom, less violence and people were much closer to each other! The dissolution of my country we had a great misery and poverty!

  • @arc619
    @arc619 Před 2 lety +2

    Communism does not equal government ownership, the system that is talked about at 14:24 is called state-capitalism. The creator of this video has a basis for understanding the concepts but is deeply marked by prejudice and (like is specified in many other comments) overlooks a lot of what Marx has written. For instance at 3:24 he makes a ridiculous statement, that Marx simply didn't think of this hilariously bad critique. He discredits so much theory, by his own theoretical scenario. Read imperialism the highest stage of capitalism, by Lenin. lol

  • @Brewmaster757
    @Brewmaster757 Před 10 lety +15

    Why should an employer be entitled to his slaves labor? That's theft too.

    • @Shadowmanchronicles
      @Shadowmanchronicles Před 3 lety +1

      Not to mention the employer is accountable to the failures and failures that gets produced from the workers and products. The workers will not be responsible for legal battles or recalls. Let's think of the Ford Pinto. The engineer who designed the gas tank was not in charge... Ford was. High risk equal high reward... low risk equal low reward.

  • @toddmartin7030
    @toddmartin7030 Před 5 lety +14

    This video is a pretty good introduction for 15 minutes, but I would have to disagree on where the USSR feel on the spectrum. Like many countries that have called themselves communist, that isnt really the case. Communism, and this is probably the most important problem of communism to be solved, is it's ability to be taken over quickly by a totalitarian (such as the USSR under Stalin, North Korea under Kim-il Sung). Stalin also made quiet a few false claims. At one point, he declared that the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to be over. When that happens, Government is supposed to dissolve to nothing, which it clearly didn't under Stalin.
    One issue with the video, it did not make it clear that while Marx had a lot of critques of Capitalism, but he didn't necessarily hate it. It was mentioned the evolution of capitalism to socialism to communism. But it did not express the importance Marx saw in Capitalism, especially the fact that Marx did not endorse the Russian Communists. Marx thought the Russian to be barbaric and they didn't have a proper industrial revolution (key step), so he thought that Russia would probably be the last place for a revolution. Marx may have endorsed the Russian communists late in life, if so it was because it became clear that the Russians were the only ones that may have a shot at revolution. But he still did not internally approve. To describe his distaste, his works were Translated into many languages, but not Russian (on purpose), and did not want his works circulated in Russia. Lenin and other Russian Marxists had to read it in another language (mostly German). Actually rather funny story. During the time, the Tsar of Russia had tight rules on literature that could be circulated. Marx's work would have been banned except that the Tsar government thought their own population was too stupid to understand it, so it was allowed. Back to Marx and Capitalism. Capitalism was the route from Feudalism and to begin introducing ideas of Democracy. But, capitalism would lead to a limited Democracy, think of it as a spectrum also. Representational Democracy is not the same as true direct democracy. Feudalism leads into Capitalism, giving some power to the lower portion of society, limited control and say, but more say than in Feudalism. Capitalism would also generate the necessary environment, as it creating or launching industry. The factories would be started under the Capitalist.
    Also, there isnt an emphasis on the Anarchy portion. The core of Communism/Marxism is Anarchy. Not only would the economic transitions give power to the proletariat and make the bourgeois whither away, it would give control locally. The factory comes under control of the workers who work in it. Once enough control is shifted over, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat ends and government is no more*. I place an asterick because the best way to think of it is like communal anarchism.

    • @OlegRouse
      @OlegRouse Před 4 lety +2

      Thanks Todd. Pleasure to see smart comment.
      Want to make a remark about "false claims", I'am sure comrad Stalin could write or say that at somepoint, but it is not his own statemnet, it's Marx&Engels statement. And it ain't false at least as a part of Marxism theory. To understand what means statement "Dictatorship of the Proletariat to be over and then State supposed to be desolved" you have to understand what is State and Dictatorship through the pirsm of Marxsim. So, State is machine of repressions, and it's main purpose since first countries (Slaveholders oppresed slaves by Democratic government (of Ancient Greece for example). In every State structure there is oppresors and opressed. Dictatorship is power doesn't held back by any laws or rules ("but we always have law" someone may say, yes but who are set these rules and laws? Ones who have power, dictators), now we live in Era of Capitalist Dictatorship. And communism is a way to destroy machine of repressions (the State) because it will nulify social classes through Dictatorship of Proletarinas (the most common class), therefor there won't be opressors and opressed.
      Little more abput Joseph Stalin, he made a lot of mistakes most of them in 1937-1939 but i belive that it might was optimal dessisions in the politic sitiation of that years, great war is on the doorstep, Gitler's Germany doest cover it's intentions to "free living space for German's" on the Slavs territory, and other Capitalist countries doesn't seemed to be bothering about it, because guess what? And second major factor is countrevalution threat. Thats reasons why USSR Government "untied hands" of the police, and many people got in prisons and even executed with no reason.
      Goal of anarchism is to destroy the State, but in Commuinsm the State would desolve itself, because there are no classes.

    • @toddmartin7030
      @toddmartin7030 Před 4 lety +1

      @@OlegRouse I actually just started getting into this with Stalin. That his crimes may have been fabricated/taken out of proportion by right leaning journalist trying to smear the Soviet Union. Found it fascinating that he tried to step down 4 times and the politburo denied it.

    • @garbandgulyberdimuhamedow4604
      @garbandgulyberdimuhamedow4604 Před 2 lety

      @@toddmartin7030 From a communist. Stalin was bad and did everything he was accused of.

    • @DevinMacGregor
      @DevinMacGregor Před 2 lety +1

      Capitalism did not introduce democracy. Capitalism has nothing to do with a republic from of govt with representative democracy or direct democracy.
      We went from Feudalism to Mercantilism and then into the industrialization and this brought us capitalism. There is nothing democratic about businesses. In the 1700s those of us who were not slaves largely owned own business. Post ACW we were neck deep in wage slavery. We we employees working for someone else now,

  • @ik5083
    @ik5083 Před 4 lety +1

    Literally everything in this video is incorrect. Marx think socialism was an intermediate step in between capitalism and communism, he used socialism and communism interchangeably. He also didn’t really write all that much about philosophy, he was educated in philosophy but he died before he even started writing the major philosophical work he was planning to write, most Marxists philosophy is copied straight from Hegel. He didn’t really describe what to replace the state with because he thought it impossible to predict, telling people they should visit the person with the crystal ball down the street when they asked him about it.

  • @troyatreo
    @troyatreo Před 9 lety +28

    11:04 is what you call a "DuhhDi...DuhhDi" interval

  • @justhello9478
    @justhello9478 Před 5 lety +14

    I’m not gonna lie I find your better at maths

  • @ViciousGubbins
    @ViciousGubbins Před 10 lety +3

    I wouldn't refer to myself as a capitalist or a communist. I don't like capitalism because i think it is a system based on competition, greed and the exploitation of others. where as communism I don't like because although it may be noble in theory there are way too many flaws in it to ever work, and rather then everybody becoming well off and happy. everybody becomes equal but everybody has nothing =-/. That's why I honestly believe in a democratic socialism, I think it's a happy medium if you will. I think it incorporates a lot of the pros of both systems while at the same time leaving out a lot of the cons. I'm not saying it is perfect because there is no form of government without it's flaws. I'm just saying in my opinion it is the best political system.

    • @devongiguere3721
      @devongiguere3721 Před 10 lety +3

      Read Peter Kropotkin. Anarcho-Communism is a healthy alternative.

    • @youngstalin1310
      @youngstalin1310 Před 9 lety +3

      Pool's Closed I assure you Anarchism is the alternative that will solve every question you have.

  • @ProjectHana
    @ProjectHana Před 10 lety +1

    communisim doesn't mean that there is no private property, it means that people share all the means of production, seriously, if you don't even know that, just don't make a video about communisim

  • @Iarlen
    @Iarlen Před 9 lety +18

    Not trying to be negative here, but maybe you should know something before you try to teach it to others... Not the best video.

    • @kevinsippeljr9984
      @kevinsippeljr9984 Před 9 lety +1

      Erik Jarl People that flock to this channel typically have an appreciation to learn. So, if you're able contribute, by all means, do.

    • @numidianking9759
      @numidianking9759 Před 9 lety +3

      Erik Jarl Explain don't claim he didn't tell the truth.

    • @Iarlen
      @Iarlen Před 9 lety +1

      NumidianKing He didn't tell the entire truth, one can describe the physical features of a coin without explaining it's function or it's effect on society. If you didn't get that, I meant that he was very biased and explained a few components of a kind of communism, some of which were wrong. He did not lie, he simply had another perspective when explaining a small part of the whole truth.

    • @numidianking9759
      @numidianking9759 Před 9 lety

      Erik Jarl Okay, but the physical features of the coin so far looked disgusting there is alot theory and implications to make up for this disgusting features he descripted very well.

    • @Iarlen
      @Iarlen Před 9 lety

      NumidianKing What is written in your response from 1900 hours yesterday makes no sense when I read it, care to go further into detail?

  • @stuckonaslide
    @stuckonaslide Před 3 lety +7

    "venezuela iphone 100 billion dead"
    -Carlos Markers, _communist book lol_

  • @dr.fedorafergusoncomcastph5402

    Sal has already stated in one of his other videos that he prefers Capitalism over Communism, and that he is biased towards Capitalism. Don't take this video as a serious explanation of what Communism is, because this does not explain what it is, it explains "Salman Khan's" opinion on Communism. Let's look at this seriously, Salman Khan is a rich dude, he obviously wants his own gain, obviously he would not accept Communism because he is rich, if he is rich, he would get equal with everyone, equal economic redistribution, and no private property.
    Capitalists don't want that, they don't want equal opportunities for wealth for people, they want only to achieve monopoly of this world, and it's already happening, and it won't stop happening until people start to wake up and realize what a corporate state the EARTH is.

    • @JohnDoe-xp3ge
      @JohnDoe-xp3ge Před 5 lety +3

      Well sir. First off, while i believe in some socialist ideas, (social democracy), Communism could only work in a perfect utopia. In a world that does NOT exist. And second, Sal already barely makes that much money. All of his videos are free. And the money you give him mostly go to making more videos. Sal must be soooo "Capitalist".

  • @GerrySlander
    @GerrySlander Před 3 lety +1

    Wow the whole "United States is Democratic" chart doesn't age well.

  • @mkaeterna9161
    @mkaeterna9161 Před rokem +1

    You are quite ignorant of Marx's actual writing. He was a huge critic of "Utopian Socialism".

  • @yarlodek5842
    @yarlodek5842 Před 3 lety +15

    The fundamental problem with communism isn’t with the system itself, its that its weaknesses and the power vacuum that it sometimes leaves can be used very easily to instill authoritarianism.

    • @colin398
      @colin398 Před 3 lety

      i agree in the sense that it is far too idealistic. i would prefer to work towards a more egalitarian society without becoming an authoritarian psycho like lenin stalin mao etc etc etc. this is done by working from the ground up with locals to form unions, empower the disenfranchised....

    • @paperfart3988
      @paperfart3988 Před 2 lety +1

      @@colin398 yeah but then you just end up with capitalism where the people at the top are kept in check by those below. Which is absolutely fine, but it's just not communism. Which is also fine.

  • @joechisten7176
    @joechisten7176 Před 10 lety +8

    Have you actually read anything by Marx or Lenin? Because most of your points are wrong. 1)What happened to the workers revolution? That's what moves the society to a socialism, when the working class(proletariat in Marxist terminology) rises up against the rich and the government(bourgeoisie). 2)There is no "wealth redistribution" in socialism. Wages are determined by a democratic temporary workers state. This is very different than strict government control, as the workers are in charge. Lenin's vanguardism is to defend the new socialism from foreign invaders. The USSR only became what it became because the vanguard was too powerful and allowed Stalin to take control. 3) Welfarism, and everything you identified as socialism are aspects of "social democracy" which is NOT socialism in any way.
    The socialism slowly phases into a communism, which is classless and stateless. Your labor determines what you earn. So people are equal on a social level, but not on an economic level. If you work harder than someone else, you will earn more. There is absolutely nothing utopian about Marxism. I challenge you to make a video that addresses these points and explains why you think it is utopian.

  • @oboedude13
    @oboedude13 Před 2 lety +2

    Came across this today and was interested what you had to say. I wish you would have mentioned the reading Socialism Utopian and Scientific to show that Marx and Engels were aware of how the Utopian parts of their theory were not useful due to material conditions therefore establishing a practical science instead. You talked about profits and capital but you didn’t mention the theory of the falling rates of profits and didn’t talk about austerity measures.
    Overall a good dipping of one’s toes in the waters, but filled with many misleading flaws from your colonialist mindset. Understandable completely!

  • @michaelrains64295
    @michaelrains64295 Před 2 lety +1

    Unionizing a capitalistic enterprise is not “a move towards socialism.” That requires govt intercession. I expected better from this source.

  • @JT-ux3dz
    @JT-ux3dz Před 3 lety +3

    Your math videos are very good. This on the other hand isn’t. Stick to math.

  • @leman7277
    @leman7277 Před 8 lety +3

    If you want to get an idea of communism, or socialism, dont watch this - go read something from the originals, this is ignorance at best - and pseudohistory at worst. There is no need to point out mistakes or misconceptions, because there are 5 for every 1 minute of speech, this will get you farther from understanding socialism then actually not knowing what is socialism.

  • @RhoZTR
    @RhoZTR Před 11 lety +1

    As for our ideology, historical materialism, we know that capitalism created it's own destructor, the proletairat and its end is inavitable. Also we don't say that the end of this road is just communism. As Rosa said" Socialism or Vandalism" we'll either create socialist state, or you'll cause all humanity to destruction. Greetings from Turkey comrades! There's no rest till the revolution!

  • @lokynokey4822
    @lokynokey4822 Před 10 lety

    I think he forgot to mention that Karl Marx thought that Russia would be one of the last places where communism would happen because he expected that when the industry becomes big enough it won't need capitalism.

  • @pastorchip1286
    @pastorchip1286 Před 10 lety +5

    This is a good snapshot of Capitalism/Communism. Ayyeee -- what do you want in 15 minutes??

  • @MrGast0n
    @MrGast0n Před 3 lety +14

    I have had good help from Khan Academy, however this is BS!

  • @kaylecoulter5649
    @kaylecoulter5649 Před 3 lety +2

    How is a worker supposed to get their own capital when he minimum wage is less then $8??

    • @robblacie2377
      @robblacie2377 Před 2 lety

      By going to school and having a skill set. Making good choices

  • @anelosemolic9809
    @anelosemolic9809 Před 3 lety +2

    I like your math videos.

  • @AkhilOmana
    @AkhilOmana Před 8 lety +6

    I love this guys voice and sounds like Brian Sapient

  • @anthonyj7542
    @anthonyj7542 Před 3 lety +3

    I adore Khan Academy but this is unfortunately blatant misinformation.

    • @tasx1829
      @tasx1829 Před 3 lety +1

      how so?

    • @anthonyj7542
      @anthonyj7542 Před 3 lety +3

      @@tasx1829 He suggests Marx didn't understand the concept of small business or workers accumulating capital of their own, but that was never central to Marx's theories. Marx's big gripe with capitalism was always that the concept of businesses as we know them, reward treating your employees as little more than expenses, and that businesses held no accountability to their communities but instead only pursued profit. He didn't mention other huge tenants of Marx's ideas such as monopolization being inevitable, worker's wages being tied to their ability to be replaced, the inevitable boom bust cycle of capitalism that creates depressions every 8ish years etc. He also ignored the great socialist thinkers that came before Marx and paved the way for his ideas. And made ridiculous statements about the ineffectiveness of communism, before not describing a single tenant of it. Socialism and communism have never been about government control it's been about worker control. He literally does the communism is when government does too much stuff thing. There's just way too much nonsense to go over.

  • @comradekenobi8146
    @comradekenobi8146 Před 2 lety +1

    Your assertion, at around 3:00, that Karl Marx didn't take the possibility of an inverse of the situation into account, is both incorrect, and representative of a misunderstanding/inadequate understanding of his analysis.
    Basically, capitalism operates according to laws, and, as a matter of fact, the very conditions you outlined (many property owners and relatively few workers) HAPPENED in America during its initial settlement. Professor Richard Wolff is a modern Marxist professor who's talked about this in detail on Democracy at Work and on his own individual channel (this was basically the driving force behind the existence and perpetuation of slavery in the United States; all the natives were murdered, there were relatively few white colonists compared to the work that needed to be done, and the wide availability of land for homesteading forced property owners to fiercely compete for the skilled laborers. This led to the import of slave labor as a way to compensate).
    These laws also guarantee that any growth-oriented society (all hitherto existing societies) will eventually reach a state where the number of proletarians dramatically exceeds the number of capitalists, and because of this, market forces, after the initial boom that comes with rapid growth, drive wages down and push workers into ever more precarious conditions with fewer rights.
    Unfortunately (for the capitalists), because of these very same laws (the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, the tendency of markets towards monopolization, the crisis of overproduction, etc) capitalism inevitably suffers periodic collapses every 4-8 years that threaten the existence of the entire system, and these economic crisises, combined with the existence of large numbers of workers who's very existence is tenuous and uncertain at best, and with the fact that the state apparatus that currently exists serves the interests of property owners and not these impoverished workers creates revolutionary conditions that, over time and through enough repetition, will either result in the overthrow of the existing relations of production, or the common ruin of all society.

  • @xicanocrank8941
    @xicanocrank8941 Před 7 lety

    Explaining capitalism, socialism, and communism without considering the concepts of coloniality and colonialism makes this video good for the middle school level, even conservative and in many ways biased.