You know in a perfect society everyone would have equal access to food shelter
in every other form of basic resource necessary not only for survival but for
living a good quality life you know truly realized utopia there would be not
the smallest hint of racism sexism and every other form of discrimination and
oppression and at the very core of this utopian imagining of the world would be
well communism or at least it would be if history had not from time to time
again crude communism to be rather incapable in his quest for realizing in
advance and absolute egalitarian society while communism has evolved to be a
particularly complex convoluted and nuanced concept both of the economy and
politics almost everybody who has heard of the world has a basic of its simple
understanding of the kind of society it imagines simply puts communism pushes
for a world governed by absolute egalitarianism more than anything else
communism aims to enable a global society where every member has equal
access to the fruits and benefits derived from labour communism most
recognizable iands in socio political and economic equality realized through
the elimination of well private property and a communism is the sworn enemy of
capitalism built on the cornerstone of social equality communism since its
inception has always been an attractive alternative to the predominantly
capitalist mode of society that is embedded in most of the modern world but
if communism was such a noble idea then why hasn't it replaced capitalism as the
dominant force that drives global economy and can it ever in fact replace
capitalism in this regard if in theory communism was all about egalitarianism
then why in practice has a yielded only unstable dictatorial governments
governments that have bestowed absolute material wealth to the rulers and
crushing poverty to the masses to arrive at answers to these questions it is
imperative that we not only define communism but take a focused look into
every milk and cranny of this crumbling establishment and as with most things
with the long complicated history the best place to start is where it all
began London 1848 with the publication of the quintessential marxist texts the
communist manifesto modern communism as we understand it today and deeply
rooted in another left-wing economic school thought socialism socialism was
already set in place for more than a few decades when German philosophers Karl
Marx and Frederick Engels put forth their economic disclosure in the
Communist Manifesto the very body of work that most academics believed gave
rise to modern communism for the most part communist discourse was heavily
derived from socialism the communist agenda for a classless society an
egalitarian access to wealth sustained unity among the working class that our
working conditions and a common ownership of resources among many others
trace their roots back to socialist ideas it was also socialism that first
advocated for the states to take sole and absolute control of the forces and
means of production and distribution in the society but the biggest difference
between the two left-wing schools lies in the manner in which they operate
socialism was designed to operate within the existing democratic structure of a
capitalist society communism on the other hand was designed to specifically
overthrow through a violent revolution existing democratic and capitalist
structures communism was designed to redistribute wealth to allow the poor in
the working class in equals social and financial rights long enjoyed by the
middle class in the land owning Lee this redistribution of wealth is ultimately
achieved by relinquishing control of the means of production to the state this
basically means that in a communist society nobody can own any business it
means that nobody can produce anything that can be sold for profit because the
state owns every means of production and is in charge of its distribution
according to Frederick Engels and principles of communism a fully realized
communist utopia can only be achieved on the principle that a unified communist
system governs every single country in every single society in the world
historically however countries that were early adopters of communism have
produced governments and societies that were less than utopic now let's get into
a little bit about the Cold War if history has any indication of its
political tendencies communism often sets itself as a cornerstone to
totalitarian dictatorships understandably the advocacy of communism
that enables violent revolutions worldwide along with its prominent
history of authoritarianism has made it a sworn enemy of the many countries who
value am crédit government and free-market
society this geopolitical tension between communist republics and
democratic nations has in recent history given rise to the cold war between the
United States and the then USSR it took five long decades but it was the cold
war that ultimately ended the USSR in 1991 the cold war started sometime in
1945 at the tail end of World War two the Cold War was marked by the relative
absence of any large-scale fighting between the two sides it remained a top
international concern however because both the USA and the USSR engaged in an
unprecedented arms race both parties were developing at an alarming pace
overkill retaliatory weapons that could easily result in mass destruction as a
result both countries fully engaged in legitimate scare tactics to have kept
each other in line and this all ended in 1991 with the collapse of the USSR now
let's get into a little bit about modern communism it was discourses of Karl Marx
in the Communist Manifesto that gave rise to modern communism his communism
is often referred to as Marxism Marx wrote the communist manifesto in 1848 at
it's very core Marxist ideals are relatively simple to free the poor from
poverty by allowing the existence of a truly egalitarian society the very means
that Marx proposed to achieve these ends however it was a different story
simply put Karl Marx believed that a true communist society should rise from
the ashes of capitalism in order to truly liberate the lower-class from
poverty Marxism advocates for a violent revolution that would result in the
total destruction of any existing systems besides communism following the
hypothetical dismantling of capitalism Marx would then push for a dictatorial
take over on the means of production in every segment of society according to
Marx it is imperative that a dictatorial governments gain absolute control over
its citizens Marthe imagined in all-encompassing
control that would allow the state to make personal decisions for its citizens
Martha's idea of state control extended to education and employment religion and
marriage and virtually every personal choice that could potentially affect the
society this communist dictatorship according to Marx should also take
charge in the collectivization of property and wealth Marx believed that
it is only after these pre records is Armenta the true communist utopia can
be realized now it is important to note that Karl Marx died before any of his
theories can be proven in practice while there were many nations that adopted a
communist set up in the past so you told the up Marx envision has yet to be
achieved much of the difficulty in realising Marxist communist utopia lies
in the violence global implementation that Marxism seeks to enforce because
only by destroying every non communist society where communism finally succeed
in building a classless society but it has become quite the irony however that
the long-standing ideas of democracy and a free-market economy which Marxism
seeks to overthrow from the very beginning proved to be the defining
force responsible in overthrowing Marxism in one communist countries and
it is a curious question therefore what are the weakest points of the Communist
establishment that ultimately allowed it to collapse upon itself so here are five
reasons why communism at the end of the day proved to be a really really dumb
stupid idea number one forced collectivization collectivization was an
anti private farming policy adopted by the USSR in an effort to facilitate the
equitable distribution of agricultural produce all while reducing the economic
power of the kulaks or the prosperous proletariat the fourth
collectivization law was most intensely pursued between 1928 in 1940 which
coincided with Stalin's rise to power following Marxist doctrine the USSR
believed that forced collectivization were to maximize the agricultural
resources in the countryside at the same time to collect the possession law was
pursued Russian industry was taken off in an unbelievable pace and great stores
of food were necessary to feed the growing workforce at the beginning of
the 1930s a that majority of agricultural farms were forcibly
enrolled in the collectivization program this meant that all items produced on
the farm were equally distributed among the population naturally this policy was
met by vicious masses of resisting landowners most of whom were the
small-time farmers who killed their own land to counteract this resistance Colin
swiftly sent out executioner's to get rid of those who opposed to co-opt
ization effort this led to tens of millions of people who starve to death
the states react juez ition of private farms was largely paid for by the
working class some tens of millions of whom damaged to death in the first five
years of for school zatia Chinese farmers were met with the
same fate in the 1960s which left 33 million people starving to their deaths
the forced collectivization in China was arguably the single worst famine in
recent human history mixed lack of basic human rights communism in theory is a
philosophical imagining of a utopian society where citizens of the states are
ultimately able to share resources and benefits according to need where
property serves as the common good for all and where citizens engage in work
motivated by personal desire rather than economic need communism and practice
however has realized only authoritarian society so far where individual rights
suffer for collective progress fundamental commonplace ideals like
freedom of speech and artistic expression among others holds a great
threat to a communist society the blatant disregard for fundamental civil
right is at the very heart of the collapse of the marxist government in
former communist states the above-mentioned forced collectivization
policy for example is a dangerous practice in circumventing human rights
number three failure to adapt among the most prominent reasons why a marxist set
up of society tends to collapse upon itself is because of its inability to
adapt to the changing conditions that exists outside of its prescribed reality
for instance the fluctuation that occurs in a free-market economy is a real-world
riddle that Marxism economists were unable to solve a Marxist approach to
understanding the market fails to take into account the market prices of
commodities without access to the checks and balances of the prices of
commodities it was unable to properly distribute its national resources next
lack of creativity a Marxist informed states by design values utilitarianism
over anything else Marxist utilitarianism basically means that for
every action performed by a citizen there must be a resulting contribution
to the empowerment of the state communist nations have little to no use
for artistic endeavors such as the writing of literature sculpture and
painting among others needless to say such thinking has allowed communist
governments to violently undermine the individual aspirations of its citizens
whatever work of art that is created in a communist society is only allowed to
exist by the government to serve a singular purpose and a singular purpose
only to hell the Communist Party and on the other hand artists
who oppose the Communist Party are perceived as threat and are immediately
eliminated funnily Marxism was a bad idea from the very start a likely
explanation to the failures of communism both as in economic and political
establishments is that Karl Marx is basically a moron much of the economic
philosophies of Marxism are deeply rooted in the labor theory of value
simply puts the theory predicts that relative value of commodity based on the
amount of labour that was needed for its production it has searched that for
example a car should cost more than a pair of sneakers simply because more
labour was necessary in the production of a car than a pair of sneakers
while that equation might sound reasonable on the surface it is too
overly simplified for example let's take that iPhone you all have there are other
cell phones out there that pretty much match the performance in every single
specification of the more popular iPhone yet the iPhone retails for twice as much
I mean the cost of materials and labor between the two phones are pretty
similar yet people can widely pay twice as much for an iPhone the same is true
for medicine and with almost every commodity in the market because the real
world economy dictates that the price of a product is motivated by its supply in
demand but to Marx he saw communism as the final evolution of social
progression he believed that the world was bound to evolve from primitive
civilizations to masters and slave societies to feudal kingdoms to
capitalist countries that socialist nations until eventually to a singular
egalitarian communist utopia but there exists a larger world outside Karl
Marx's mind a world that might not be a utopia in any shape or form but a much
real world nonetheless peopled by those who live through real-world abuses
driven by political and economic inequality and let's just take the
real-world examples I mean would you like to live in North Korea even in
China where it looks very successful in growing in modern from the surface you
still could be arrested for talking about Tibet and freedom where Taiwan
independence were Falun Gong or even having a Bible study in your home anyway
I made this video because a lot of people were messaging me asking me to
talk about communism so hopefully you guys found this helpful
thank you all so much for watching see you later