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Capitalism's Weirdest Fanboy
Karl Marx is the most (in)famous critic of Capitalism. Or is he? As with all stories, it's not so simple. Marx isn't a reactionary dreaming of a tribal communal paradise but more of a sci-fi visionary looking to the society that will transcend Capitalism using its foundation as a jumping off point to a much more interesting, much better world.
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📚 Further Reading:
- The British rule in india: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/25.htm
- Predictions of revolution: Robert Payne, Marx. p. 338
- Other quotes: Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1848) *The Communist Manifesto* www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:08 The Hegelian Marx
5:42 Why Marx Loved Capitalism
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Our Tragic Hero - the Mistborn Jordan Peterson
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Following on from the last episode on Jordan Peterson's brilliant 2005 essay on "Peacemaking" this time we look at what went wrong and at JBP's arc as that of the classical tragic hero. And having a bit of fun with this we compare him to the villain in one of my favourite fantasy series Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. We look at Aristotle's definition of tragedy, and at mapovers between Peterson...
Jordan Peterson's Bizarre (and Brilliant) Manifesto
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In 2005, long before he became a household name, Jordan Peterson wrote an article with the title "Peacemaking Among Higher Order Primates" and it is amazing - partly for its own beauty and pathos and partly for the contract it provides with The Daily Wire Peterson we have today. It is a brilliant ode to what peace looks like and how it might be achieved and a stark reminder of the potential pit...
The Edge of the Inside - How to Change the Superstructure
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Why it Matters is back (kind of). This video revisits the Prophet archetype with a bit more passion and a little less bookishness. It is great to have the previous video as a foundation but as with the old Why it Matters videos the point of this video is to get into why I care so much about this topic and why I think you should as well. We're going to be looking at the Prophet through the lens ...
Subconscious vs. Unconscious
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In approaching the underworld there are a couple of terms that people use. Sometimes it can get a bit confusing who's using what and what we should be using. In this episode we look at the term subconscious vs unconscious and what the meaning and background is of each. As we'll see it wasn't always so clear cut - the French psychological heritage from Pierre Janet started with one term then wit...
Reality vs Archetype - The Two Types of Romcom
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In this palette cleanser we are going to talk about the philosophy of romcoms for a change. I reckon this should remove any accusations of important work being done on The Living Philosophy. We'll be looking at two romcoms - the classic Norah Ephron When Harry Met Sally and the lesser known Just Like Heaven starring Reese Wetherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. One is reflective of a type of art that str...
Why I Removed My Million View Video
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As many of you have noticed the biggest video on the channel is gone. It wasn't UA-cam censorship that got me but reflection on what the ethics of leaving this video up vs taking it down were as well as a crystallisation of what the impact of The Living Philosophy is meant to be. We talk about impact vs intention, why that video was removed and, when talking about the comments on the Jung antis...
2024 Has Been Rough | The Living Philosophy Channel Update
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The year has been off to a very rocky start but full of growth and new insights and transformation (and a whole new studio setup) so it's turned from a tough time to a very exciting one. In this update I talk about the changes in content coming for the channel as well as the increased emphasis on Patreon. I also reflect on the various reflections and insights of the year so far. ⭐ Support the c...
The Lost Art of Leisure
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We modern serfs have forgotten something: we've forgotten how to live. You don't question the meaning of life when leisure is the heart of life rather than work. But with the rise of modern urban life, the intrinsic mode of living has died at the hands of the instrumental mode of life. Our entire lives have been colonised by "utility". We don't relax or rest for their own sake anymore - now we ...
Depression - the Opposite of Happiness
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You can get "Become Who You Are" here: designingthemind.org/becoming Link to our Patreon chat: www.patreon.com/posts/tlp-1-ryan-bush-92704069 It's rare that you encounter a fresh take on a path as well-trodden as happiness. I've read a lot of books on the topic and I have to say that Ryan Bush's take is fresh and yet simultaneously ancient. I think this is part of the reason I'm so enthusiastic...
The Prophet - the Archetype of Societal Renaissance
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Before the Axial Age the religious archetypes were those of the Priest and the Magician. But with the increased complexity and evolution of society a new archetype emerged: that of the Prophet. This is the archetype of liminal transformation in the midst of a society paralysed by its own success. The Prophet comes in from the edge of inside and shows the society where it has lost its way. 📚 Fur...
Justice vs. Vengeance - Is There a Difference?
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Philosopher and anthropologist Rene Girard once described justice and public vengeance. Nietzsche expressed the same in his Genealogy of Morals. Why then do we value justice so highly and look down so judgingly on revenge? And what, if this is true, is the purpose of justice? How is it in any way different from vengeance? The answer is that it is profoundly different and in this video we explor...
Is Equality the Enemy?
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Would you rather live in a better world or a happier one? In this video we are going to explore how equality has made the world a better place but also how, like the Edenic apple of knowledge, it has come with a cost. The world looks better from the outside but seen from the subjective side it seems that things have only gotten worse. This is following up on the recent episode on Nietzsche's co...
Ressentiment - the Emotion of Our Times
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In "On the Genealogy of Morals" Nietzsche mapped out the emotion of Modern times - the emotion underlying BLM, Jordan Peterson, Social Justice and Oliver Anthony. That emotion is called ressentiment. It is the poisoned fruit that creates a better world while poisoning its host. In "On the Genealogy of Morals" Nietzsche argues that ressentiment is the root cause of Slave Morality and the Ascetic...
Comfort is the Enemy | Nietzsche - The Last Man
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For Nietzsche The Last Man stood as the opposite of the Ubermensch and the great danger of the "levelling" tendency of modernity. In this episode we are going to look at what Nietzsche meant by the Last Man and how his prophecy has come through. We look at The Last Man in 21st century society and what Nietzsche got right even while we should be cautious of fully embracing his ideal. 📚 Further R...
Liminality: the Root of Leftist Values
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Liminality: the Root of Leftist Values
The Homelessness Crisis - Where Individualism Breaks Down
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The Homelessness Crisis - Where Individualism Breaks Down
Liminality - the Real Root of Nihilism
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Liminality - the Real Root of Nihilism
Liminality - Our World in One Word
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Liminality - Our World in One Word
Addicted to Apocalypse: Our Psychological Need for the End
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Addicted to Apocalypse: Our Psychological Need for the End
Why Jung Hated Philosophers
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Why Jung Hated Philosophers
100k Q&A - The Living Philosophy
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100k Q&A - The Living Philosophy
Camino de Santiago: the History and Mythology
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Camino de Santiago: the History and Mythology
Camino de Santiago: Why I Hiked and What I Learned
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Camino de Santiago: Why I Hiked and What I Learned
The Rurals vs the Far Left - from Marx to AOC
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The Rurals vs the Far Left - from Marx to AOC
Structure vs. Communitas - the Two Modes of Human Society
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Structure vs. Communitas - the Two Modes of Human Society
Reactionary: Not Just a Right Wing Phenomenon
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Reactionary: Not Just a Right Wing Phenomenon
Postmodernism and Power in the Age of AI - Deep Noetics X The Living Philosophy
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Postmodernism and Power in the Age of AI - Deep Noetics X The Living Philosophy
What is a Radical? - the Political Archetype of Our Time
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What is a Radical? - the Political Archetype of Our Time
A Cure for Nihilism? | Everything Everywhere All At Once
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A Cure for Nihilism? | Everything Everywhere All At Once

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @qwilingo
    @qwilingo 14 хвилин тому

    Inclusiveness is a big deal.

  • @baronghede2365
    @baronghede2365 Годину тому

    Justice, one hundred percent, Blessed Be.

  • @robertanderson3905
    @robertanderson3905 5 годин тому

    what,s more important PRIMARY IMPRINTING OR SECONDARY SOCIALISATION

  • @reverendsteveii
    @reverendsteveii 6 годин тому

    Not to be a social climate change denier but how do you compare the depression rates between now and medieval times when the numbers you're using for comparison only go back to the 1950s? That seems like a *lot* of extrapolation.

  • @36cmbr
    @36cmbr 6 годин тому

    You are saying the professor must have a POV relative to his subject.That is a witless and even ignorant position. The truth itself is multifaceted, ergo no person is perfect. If McKenna won’t adhere to his teaching is not a measure of the teaching. Don’t say that anymore.

  • @mohammedzaheerkhan8191
    @mohammedzaheerkhan8191 23 години тому

    Thanks a lot for your nice videos on all the subjects. 😍😍😍

  • @ShimonFrankel
    @ShimonFrankel 23 години тому

    Ouch the recording is horrible

  • @jamiepeay528
    @jamiepeay528 День тому

    Marx was an exceedingly delusional ultraviolent psychopathic narcissist who, like his hero Mephistopheles, essentially wanted to destroy the world... His favorite line from Goethe's Faust was "Everything that exists deserves to perish". And like every other die hard socialist I have ever known, he was utterly economically illiterate. If you want to study real economics, research Austrian school laissez faire market capitalism, and then you will get some idea about exactly how delusional he truly was.

  • @Chris-tw2rr
    @Chris-tw2rr 2 дні тому

    Thank you for putting into words what I have long been uncomfortable with about JP. I too find his “make your bed” ideas sage advice, but the oversimplification of complex philosophy to promote FUD to be concerning. Brilliant job unpacking this with empathy and depth!

  • @andrewlol9095
    @andrewlol9095 2 дні тому

    Genuinely the best YY video on the subject. Thank you so much. I will remember you

  • @tauntayanapisoot6261
    @tauntayanapisoot6261 2 дні тому

    Buddhism is not religion nor philosophy. It is science.

  • @maximeb190
    @maximeb190 2 дні тому

    How is Peterson tyrannical? Except looking at his tweets, have you been following up with his latest content and the new books he has been working on? I agree he is deserving of much criticism, but putting asside the surface assessment of his suits and lucrative endeavors, he still is providing much needed content and insight and I appreciate his deep dive into christianity.

  • @user-yo9pv1ni6t
    @user-yo9pv1ni6t 3 дні тому

    alot of things you left out, Such as by the age of say 50 yrs,, if one has not begun work w his Unconscious,, its doubtful he will make any develeopments in his inner man. By the age of 60 its too late, a man at 60 will become swallowed by the collective spirit and lose his way to the paths in the unconscious, Witness Judas who turned on Yeshau,, He did ZERO inner work in his 28 yrs od life. WE live in very dangerous times, Inner work has to begin at age 25. If not the shadow has grown so big at age 60 ones life has been all shadow. = Just best keep kicking the can down the road.

  • @BoB-uy5ro
    @BoB-uy5ro 3 дні тому

    In the middle of reading some of Erich Neumann’s work. His insight into the Ouroboros archetype and the struggle to burst free from the pleromatic forces of the Great Mother have had me thinking about the great fight of life-the struggle for consciousness. We have to kick back against regressing into a state without pleasure and pain lest we lose ourselves. This is clearly depicted in the Last Man. There’s an interesting storyline in the Scavengers Reign animation on Max right now that really embodies the matter too.

  • @Cubehead27
    @Cubehead27 3 дні тому

    Yes and no. It's true he considered communism to be a definitively post-industrial idea, and therefore something which grew out of and transcended capitalism's material advances, but that's a bit different from him viewing communism as an extension of capitalism, or "loving" capitalism in your terms - for him capitalism was still fundamentally exploitative and therefore a basic threat to human freedom, which was generally his main priority. (We are talking, after all, about the thinker responsible for the best known expression of the labour theory of value and the idea of industrial alienation). Note also that "communism" isn't a Marxist term in origin as implied here - there was already a fully-formed communist movement by the time he became influential. Anyway none of this is to say that this isn't effective rhetoric for getting people interested in him (frankly I don't know whether it is or not, but if it is that's definitely a good thing). Likewise we of course don't need to follow Marx blindly. Bookchin's ideas are, I think, much more relevant and applicable to our contemporary context so for those not already familiar with him, look him up.

  • @arthurwieczorek4894
    @arthurwieczorek4894 3 дні тому

    How about this. Yes, we are all living in a simulation. A simulation each of us creates in our mind. You could say that the mind is a best guess generator, the result being what we perceive from second to second. Cues from the present are melded together with experience from the past, that is the simulation input. Also what we are looking for in a situation also has its effects. My guess is that there is some slight variance between people in this process.

  • @thunkjunk
    @thunkjunk 3 дні тому

    Postmodernism is the owner of babble

  • @dichotomology
    @dichotomology 3 дні тому

    What else is there in reality besides what’s inside of you and what’s outside of you lol. This is just an examples of intersecting two true dichotomies.

  • @Reishira-ln73ks
    @Reishira-ln73ks 3 дні тому

    What was supposed to be freeing for them has become a faith in itself. A stage a level, has anyone reached beyond such a state that govern our lives. Now its psychological warfare with ideological warfare. What you think FRE U ed

  • @Matheusss89
    @Matheusss89 4 дні тому

    In reading Marx i've found a lot of quotes and ideas that would sound really strange to people who both claim to love or hate him today, in which some of them you mention here. I'm not a marxist whatsoever but it's always interesting to try to understand these things, as far away as possible from the typical partisan politics discussions.

  • @amanofnoreputation2164
    @amanofnoreputation2164 4 дні тому

    In short, he as Jordan Peterson.

  • @user-gw4oz1rk3i
    @user-gw4oz1rk3i 4 дні тому

    “The idiocy of rural life” jeesh, i dident know that Carl Marx hated rural life so much, there is nothing wrong With rural life! Or that he thought of primitive hunter-gatherers and other nomadiske pepole so much, wich i assume hïs WHO’s he calls “barbarienˋs and semi-barbarienˋs”! But he was still a man of his time, after all! And of his country! I belive that dialetical materialisme, and all dialectisisim for that matter, and thus marxisme itself, and all of its offshoots, wrong! I belive that the anarchist are rhigt!

  • @charoleawood
    @charoleawood 4 дні тому

    i've never been comfortable with Socialism's focus on production and industry and wealth, now i know how those philosophies became cornerstones.

    • @NinthSettler
      @NinthSettler День тому

      The focus on those is there because it is the single most important thing to secure everyone's material needs to free them from their basic necessities so we can relish in the human condition. Compare this to capitalism, where at best, you're sitting in front of a computer screen for 8 hours bored out of your mind to be able to afford said material needs and at worst you're on the other side of the world killing brown people for the same reason.

  • @bowers8242
    @bowers8242 4 дні тому

    This is why as a socialist I don't use the term "anti-capitalism" but prefer "post-capitalism" to describe my politics, it opens up the question "ok here's where we are, where shall we go from here?" Also a note on the Russian revolution, while the country wasn't fully industrialised with a relatively small working class, the Soviets and Bolsheviks were kinda banking on the revolution spreading to more industrially developed nations like Germany & Britain pretty sharpish; the fact that this failed to happen left Russia isolated in a hostile world, with a decimated working class, & an underdeveloped industrial capacity which they needed to upgrade desparately to survive. We can see how such conditions can give rise to the Stalinist fuckery & distortion of the ideas of socialism to come.

    • @Matheusss89
      @Matheusss89 4 дні тому

      Even though i've studied Marx quite a bit and i'm not a socialist, i think the "post-capitalism" term sounds so much better and more accurate to the ideas. Very interesting.

  • @jotarokujo1171
    @jotarokujo1171 4 дні тому

    that one regular car reviews episode really prepared me for this

  • @benzur3503
    @benzur3503 4 дні тому

    Pretty reductive use of true fragments. Elisabeth Förster would’ve been proud

  • @benzur3503
    @benzur3503 4 дні тому

    9:45 not with difficulty- with impossibility. Minnerva’s owl flies only at dusk

  • @benzur3503
    @benzur3503 4 дні тому

    6:20 that doesnt sound like having no bitterness. That sounds like Nietzsche realizing that suffering can be necessary to achieve greatness.

  • @benzur3503
    @benzur3503 4 дні тому

    Motherfucking dialectics. The transcendence of binary thought, beyond good and evil.

  • @IvanAlejandro99
    @IvanAlejandro99 4 дні тому

    It is funny how being pro capitalism was being a leftist.

    • @Havre_Chithra
      @Havre_Chithra 3 дні тому

      To Marx, being a capitalist meant being a spiritual Jew (not good to Marx) but he saw it as an essential step towards socialism/communism. He saw it as the natural evolution history... we would go from capitalism to communism. Ultimately capitalism was the material and earthy religion of the Jew, with its God being Capital... Capital and Jew were basically interchangeable to Marx.. Das Kapital translates to The Jew....

    • @Havre_Chithra
      @Havre_Chithra 3 дні тому

      What's insane is the wiki page for Das Kapital mentions nothing about Jews or antisemitism.

    • @Rithmy
      @Rithmy 3 дні тому

      @@Havre_Chithra At what page does he equate Jew with capital and who says that their god is capital?

  • @DamienWalter
    @DamienWalter 4 дні тому

    Marx was a Neo-Lib!

  • @PhilosophyToons
    @PhilosophyToons 4 дні тому

    Nice video, showed me another side of this guy

  • @NoReprensentationWithoutTax
    @NoReprensentationWithoutTax 4 дні тому

    To me marxists are so morally weird. They denounce all the horrible things of capitalism like the primitive accumulation. But then, in the name of historical necessity and dialectics, they see it as a good thing. "It may be morally wrong but its a progress of productive forces". Or they chose the positivist value free position. In any case, its ethically questionnable. Using reason to justify unethical behaviour does not seem just to me.

  • @kingmj87
    @kingmj87 4 дні тому

    The next economic system will be brought about by AI. Those who wish to participate can profit through capital alone, as the selling of human labor will no longer be an option. Those who do not wish to participate will have UBI. We shall call this revolutionary new system… “Also Capitalism.”

    • @NoReprensentationWithoutTax
      @NoReprensentationWithoutTax 4 дні тому

      Whats ubi

    • @Lmaoh5150
      @Lmaoh5150 4 дні тому

      @@NoReprensentationWithoutTaxUniversal Basic Income

    • @Rithmy
      @Rithmy 2 дні тому

      The transition towards this system will be hell. Also: It would solve the problem of finite resources. So before this is established our ecological system will be broken already.

    • @NinthSettler
      @NinthSettler День тому

      UBI is stupid, just another way to move money from the massess to the capitalists.

  • @dlloydy5356
    @dlloydy5356 4 дні тому

    Best to check before throwing labels around…

  • @NoPrivateProperty
    @NoPrivateProperty 5 днів тому

    communism is absence of private property, which is default state of nature. the first 95% of human existence was communist and sustainable (hunter/gathering)

    • @TheLivingPhilosophy
      @TheLivingPhilosophy 4 дні тому

      Yes but your framing there makes things unclear. It's the kind of sentiment that leads people to believe that a Marxist society would look more like what he calls "Primitive Communism" of hunter-gatherers rather than a sci-fi post-capitalist society

    • @NoPrivateProperty
      @NoPrivateProperty 4 дні тому

      @@TheLivingPhilosophy I can't predict the future. Communism exists now, in the air, water and other fluid systems of nature that capitalists have so far failed to privatize. The commons. and whenever a capitalist enterprise collapses, from a bank to a nation, the collective is what is called upon to rescue.

    • @NinthSettler
      @NinthSettler День тому

      @@TheLivingPhilosophy We'll be lucky if there's anything to hunt or gather in 50 years anyway

  • @Everywhere4
    @Everywhere4 5 днів тому

    Ordinary reality is ultimate reality. There is nothing beyond it, at least nothing that can come into contact with us. Our understanding of the world does not come from passive observing plus reasoning, it instead comes from an active interaction and engagement with the world. This perhaps means that the worldly has a far better understanding of ultimate reality then the ascetics with his Hinterwelt.

  • @OneLine122
    @OneLine122 5 днів тому

    Capitalism creates by it's own logic authoritarian socialism by collectivizing labor for it's own profit. That is why the bourgeois creates the proletariat. Once everything is collectivized this way, then it's only a matter of time that the proletariat realizes he does not need the bourgeois anymore. That's basically the main idea. It's not just about technology, but the anti-thesis(proletariat) is created by the these (bourgeois). The transcendence is that everybody works and get all the profits from it, so now everybody is both proletariat and bourgeois under communism the way he saw it. That being said, it's unclear if he truly believed that. He wrote somewhere he created that scheme to encourage the people in Germany to replace the monarchy by a democracy and it's why he created this proletariat idea as well as communism. It's what he said early on, maybe he ended up believing it, but at first it was just a rhetorical tool.

  • @davidslattery6750
    @davidslattery6750 5 днів тому

    Great video, there is alot of misconceptions about the general concepts of Marxism floating about, kudos for setting the record straight.

  • @coolbreeze3
    @coolbreeze3 5 днів тому

    I was thinking about how a lot of so called Capitalists sounds a lot like Marx lately. Materialism should be much more considered when labeling societies.

    • @jgrif7891
      @jgrif7891 3 дні тому

      A lot of so called Capitalists are Socialists who larp.

  • @Keiranful
    @Keiranful 5 днів тому

    Trying to predict the future by looking at the past will always suffer from hindsight bias. It is a view that is fundamentally unable to foresee innovations because it is always looking in the wrong direction, and because innovation is central to the development of our societies (compare today with 15 years ago), it will always fail in its predictions.

    • @Matheusss89
      @Matheusss89 4 дні тому

      Beautifully stated. Learning from history is essential, but seems that with many thinkers, there is a very strong temptation of using the past to build theory that almost acts like a "scientific" crystal ball. It's the source of a lot of delusions.

    • @Keiranful
      @Keiranful 4 дні тому

      @@Matheusss89 those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who, do are doomed to watch others repeat history.

  • @Man-of-Steel674
    @Man-of-Steel674 5 днів тому

    Most people talk about Marx without reading his actual work and by listening to people that didn't bother to read him and decided hate on him anyway because Soviet Union had free health care.

    • @DMAOZO
      @DMAOZO 5 днів тому

      I don't think health care is people's main gripe with communism lol

    • @hjeriz
      @hjeriz 4 дні тому

      Yes, If you throw dialectical materialism at liberals they will call you a tankie.

    • @michaelmcclure3383
      @michaelmcclure3383 4 дні тому

      Of course, isreal has free healthcare, but apparently socialist elements can't coexist with ethnonationalism according to the average lefty.

    • @EatWithBadlands
      @EatWithBadlands 4 дні тому

      True. There are just as many people who don’t understand him and claim to be marxists as well tho. Most people don’t really delve deep into the philosophies they claim to support or oppose.

    • @kaliyuga14surfer88
      @kaliyuga14surfer88 4 дні тому

      ah people hate the Soviet union because they.... had free healthcare?

  • @redlight3932
    @redlight3932 5 днів тому

    Marx's first victims where his children, brutal.

    • @TheLivingPhilosophy
      @TheLivingPhilosophy 4 дні тому

      True enough since he chose a life of poverty and was TERRIBLE with money. But to add a little nuance to the picture they were a rather happy family interpersonally. His kids adored him and he them and they'd all go off having picnics and happy times together. So...not brutal just irresponsible one might argue

  • @_7.8.6
    @_7.8.6 5 днів тому

    Another reason not to take too seriously the ideologies and philosophies of these “thinkers” You only have to look at old footage of communist countries to know how sick an ideology it is

    • @TheLivingPhilosophy
      @TheLivingPhilosophy 4 дні тому

      Probably another video that needs to be made: there has never been a Marxist society. Lenin and Mao (not to mention Stalin) are not really Marxists. Sure there's a lineage connection but by the same token we must call Nietzsche a Fascist and Jung a fellow traveller of Fascists and I think this is an intellectual disservice.

  • @gm2407
    @gm2407 5 днів тому

    To me Capitalism vs Socialism as a scale always seems to miss the point. The same with saying one system succeeds the other. All systems have a population, and the social dymanics have a massive effect on who the functionaries are in any given society. Those functionaries have selfish and selfless behaviours or habits. The system is only as good as the functionaries and the direction given. Effectively we are doomed to benign mediocrety or malevalent execution of policy. Note at times we will slowly move through changes in direction gradually adjusting course in multiple areas, or have a huge revolution before eventually losing impetus.

    • @Rithmy
      @Rithmy 3 дні тому

      I disagree with the idea that the functionaries define the goodness of a system and the direction given (what ever that means). THere is also some sort of infrastructure in place the limits or enables certain movements. A system in which we have a good production of vegan food and a bad production of non vegan food, does make it easier for people to become vegan. Thats why i advocate that the "Best" choice should become the easiest choice. Same in political systems. If we consider certain processes better than others we should structure our system in a way that enables those processes to be frictionless while having a high friction for undesired processes.

    • @gm2407
      @gm2407 3 дні тому

      @@Rithmy It is not that function alone dictates how good or bad a system is. It is that the functionaries (those people who perform the tasks) are key in preventing abuses and in enacting populace beneficial actions. This is entirely means, motive and oportunity basis on how a functionary performs in a position where they influence events. A functionary does not even need to be an official position, it can be any element of activity by any denizen of the populace. Think of it in terms of a set of elements that define what is happening at any given moment those elements will be different.

    • @Rithmy
      @Rithmy 3 дні тому

      @@gm2407 A set of elements will behave different not only according to what elements are present, but also according to what temperatur pressure and other material is surrounding them. THe laws of physics also define it. And they also define what elements even are. IN terms of society, our culture is not defined by the individual and i find your approach hyper-individualistic. My argument stands that the infrastructure also defines a heavy part of the system.

    • @gm2407
      @gm2407 3 дні тому

      @@Rithmy I am referring to things in the manner of set theory an element being a defining point of a set. In such a way many people can be in many different sets. This is not individualistic in itself. This can be on massive scale of trends. It depends on how you use the model.

    • @Rithmy
      @Rithmy 2 дні тому

      @@gm2407 I know what you are referring to. What i don't know is why you are ignoring my critic. My argument still stays. People are not the only factor. IF people are set then you need to multiplicate them with the set of elements of infrastructure to get a barely precise enough picture.

  • @idontknowwhatahandleisohwell
    @idontknowwhatahandleisohwell 5 днів тому

    Marxism is theft with an advertising budget.

  • @nicolasau
    @nicolasau 5 днів тому

    Sounds a bit like left accelerationism

    • @kingmj87
      @kingmj87 4 дні тому

      Can’t even begin to taste Communism until you’ve Capitalismed all you can Capitalism

  • @matin5204
    @matin5204 5 днів тому

    this is the most paradoxical video title

    • @RuneDrageon
      @RuneDrageon 5 днів тому

      As a fan of Marx, i love it.

  • @user-qp2ps1bk3b
    @user-qp2ps1bk3b 5 днів тому

    what sustained Marx at this time was his wife. She worked her ass off while her unemployed husband begged Engels for money

  • @icarusfalls6899
    @icarusfalls6899 5 днів тому

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