Now I know plenty of people might say 'You can't just Automise things and give wealth to people for free! They never earned it' Unless we escape the neurotic notion of debt, go beyond the acts of whether or not someone deserves something, we will never achieve anywhere close to human happiness. We have the cheat code right now, we can give ourselves 15 hour work weeks, feed everyone, all we need to do is bring about that beneficial system.

@stevepittman3770

8 жыл бұрын

+BadMouseProductions That's been bugging me for a while too. I see so many people (especially fellow Americans) so wrapped up in whether or not someone /deserves/ a higher wage, or benefits, or access to education. It seems the most obvious thing in the world to me that everyone deserves to have at least a minimally acceptable standard of living, whether they can afford it or not. Why do people get so hung up on who deserves what, to the point that it's okay if people -- even children -- starve so long as nobody gets a free ride? What kind of twisted universe did I wake up in where that viewpoint is not batshit insane?

@Ansatz66

8 жыл бұрын

+BadMouseProductions "We have the cheat code right now, we can give ourselves 15 hour work weeks, feed everyone, all we need to do is bring about that beneficial system." That sounds great, but what cheat code is that? If everyone has a 15 hour work week, then that would mean a dramatic reduction in productivity. We'll have to stop producing some things that we are currently producing, and whatever we lose is going to be a heavy cost for the beneficial system. What things do you think we should sacrifice to achieve this goal?

@stevepittman3770

8 жыл бұрын

+Ansatz66 I dunno if I'd call it a cheat code, because the transition to a sane system that looks to improve the lives of its citizens as a higher priority than corporate profit margins won't be cheap or easy. All I'm personally saying is: it should be done anyway.

@Ansatz66

8 жыл бұрын

Steve Pittman "It should be done anyway." It sounds expensive and risky. Those corporations that you want to take profits away from are in the business of providing goods and services that the citizens very much enjoy.. We wouldn't want to lose them. There's a limit to how much we should pay for a sane system. At the moment we're facing some pretty serious troubles like climate change and Islamist extremism. On the other hand we're making rapid progress toward cheaper and cheaper production. If we were to shift to a costly and untested system right now we might drain critical resources from important efforts that we should be focusing on. Of course I don't think we should let people starve. I'm just saying let's keep our priorities straight.

@stevepittman3770

8 жыл бұрын

Ansatz66 I didn't specify how it would be paid for at all because I'm not an economist and I really have no idea. My point is that our priorities are pretty clearly not straight and however expensive it winds up being to fix it, I think it's worth it. I don't think there should necessarily be a limit to what we pay. If we can all agree that life is sacred and special then the quality of that life should become the most important goal in any society. I agree that there are some major problems that still need to be addressed, though I dare say the pursuit of profit, especially in the west, has caused or significantly aided the growth of a lot of them. I agree that corporations are useful tools, but they should be chained to society's priorities and goals, not the other way around.

"A machine that took no labour to build..." As a software engineer this is an insult to my lack of sleep

@elhamhussainemy5116

3 жыл бұрын

Lmfao

@brendawilliams8062

3 жыл бұрын

Unreal. And a waste

@erin1569

2 жыл бұрын

Abby phrased it poorly. Marx would probably say that this machine would be a software that can create software, spreading the work of a programmer over an infinite amount of new programs, resulting in an infinite good by using finite work. P.S. Are you using an add-on that autocompletes code with the use of "AI"? Well, I suspect the company might be training an AI using our code to take our jobs.

@basedcorrectpilled969

2 жыл бұрын

@@erin1569 this

@ffelegal

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaa I share your thoughts exactly. The abstraction used for information technology was so out of touch with reality that it overwhelmed me.

The Information Effect: Fully..Automated..Space..Gay..Communism!!

@diskoyenno1440

7 жыл бұрын

what is dis joke

@alexv3357

4 жыл бұрын

@@diskoyenno1440 It's a socialist Facebook meme page

@skyteus

7 ай бұрын

Luxury*

Am I the only person who seems to be slowly becoming a marxist over the course of these videos.

@pbeeby

8 жыл бұрын

Same. Marx was a genius

@BadMouseProductions

8 жыл бұрын

+Arthur Hill just don't become a Tankie.

@iananderson12796

8 жыл бұрын

We are all Marxists at heart ❤️

@RestInPieces777

8 жыл бұрын

+BadMouseProductions "tankie" doesn't have a well-established meaning. It's like "SJW".

@BadMouseProductions

8 жыл бұрын

RestInPieces777 Marxist Leninist.

This series on Marx was an absolute pleasure! Insightful, well-organized and beautifully delivered, my virtual friend. Thank you.

@ceoofantifa6245

4 жыл бұрын

Virtual comrade

@rajadhirajmaharaj

4 жыл бұрын

7:09 *"Capitalism is trying to hang on. It's using state to uphold patent laws on softwares that you can otherwise copy and distribute for free. It's using "planned obsolescence", it's using price monopolies on things which otherwise have no distribution cost. It's taking things that are normally wouldn't be valuable, like, browsing history and turning them into opportunities to generate revenue through targeted advertising. It's creating " bullshit jobs" - jobs that don't really do any good and can easily be automated; they just exists so that people will be working. Like with the industrial revolution, the potential of new technology to liberate people from working is being held back in the name of profit."*

@sandozpop6017

2 жыл бұрын

S.M. ---------------------- Excellent! Remains hundred million deaths in Russia, Eastern Europe, China and Southeast Asia.

@seanmeehan5955

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandozpop6017 Something like blaming Christ for the Crusades.

@sandozpop6017

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanmeehan5955 ------------------ I do not think. However, Jesus is blamed by the Jews, no matter how many reasons and for what reasons.

Capitalism has never been able to deal with the issue of automation, simply by virtue of Capitalist ideology. As has been repeatedly shown throughout the history of large-scale Capitalism, a Capitalist will always try to maximize profits by paying their workforce as little as possible. Now that automation is booming and actual human labor is more expensive than simply automating production, it only stands to reason that Capitalists will automate anything and everything that they can. The only possible end to that road is enormous unemployment, and with that, Capitalism starves itself.

@yllejord

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, capitalism needs consumers who consume more and more.

@tigerstyle4505

5 жыл бұрын

The company I work for has gone from almost completely labor oriented to a mix where a grip of the work is done my us and the rest is done with machines, all as they have built new buildings over the years. They have buildings that are mostly manually operated by workers, buildings like the one I'm at that's a mix of automation and workers and a couple years back they built their first fully automated building. Manual buildings employ anywhere from 500-1,000+ people, mixed employs maybe 300-350, automated employs a staff of about 30-35, most of which are mechanics. The strange part is that they don't seem to be making any moves to change any of the buildings over. I can only guess that it's easier for them to pay more to have us there (for now) than to rip down existing buildings and take a hit in quarterly profit? The fully automated joints are mad expensive lol Just 1 piece of equipment that we have in our building was $3.5mil when it was built a decade ago and instead of 2 workers it just requires 1... unless it breaks down then it's back to 2. There's 3 of em and they constantly break down. But as of now it seems that they aren't changing anything. No clue why.

@MegaBrokenstar

4 жыл бұрын

Capitalism in its modern form is a product of social Darwinist ideas. Namely, that a person must prove their value to justify their right to exist. It’s a load of bullshit.

@wearealreadydeadfam8214

4 жыл бұрын

I’m a Marxist. But capitalism doesn’t cares if it collapses. Capitalism only exists to keep the bourgeoisie in power. They’ll probably build a state run economy that they will still call capitalist. To justify exploitation.

@GordonMcWilliams

4 жыл бұрын

This is a really strange phenomenon that we're in a year later. Where unemployment in the US Empire has skyrocketed due to COVID-19, yet stocks and wealth of large investors continues to rise and rise. Truly a scary time, where the ultra rich may not even need laborers to continue collecting wealth, as long as there are still expensive clothes/cars etc, they may be able to starve most laborers out, while retaining power.

Bullshit Jobs...the perfect phrase, I love it.

@unvergebeneid

8 жыл бұрын

+RealCoolCowboy Yes, now I understand something that dumbfounded me in the US: people getting paid to hold signs, a job that could literally be done by a wooden stick. Or _four_ people at _one_ trolley station getting paid for explaining the public transport system to me that was clearly marked on the huge plans and maps there.

@polyvinylfilmz

8 жыл бұрын

Or people like me, who do a half hour of paperwork when they get in in the morning, then spend the rest of the day watching videos like this at their desks...

@unvergebeneid

8 жыл бұрын

Polyvinyl Films Well, _that_ sounds like a job I want to get paid for ;)

@Ausdb

8 жыл бұрын

I don't understand bullshit jobs. This comes up when people critique Capitalism. "Bullshit jobs is a way to control the masses" but it defeats the who point of the market. Why would a company hire someone to do a bullshit job when they can fire them, save money, and provide a cheaper product then their competitor?

@kylewarne1265

8 жыл бұрын

+Dean Leggo Because the system needs those people employed so they can afford to then buy those products. Without Bullshit Jobs, there is no capital in the hands of workers to then be spent, the whole system would crash and collapse.

Damn. Watching this in the midst of the Covid-19 global pandemic, prior to the huge recession we're about to enter. Capitalism has responded so badly to this I hope it doesn't recover and we can all finally be freed. Feel like I'm right in the middle of an event that's going to be philosophised about for years, can't wait for that sweet sweet content!

@juanorellana8945

4 жыл бұрын

Same! I've introduced myself into the history political philosophy in this quarantine, and wow! Reading about Marxism has been surely eye-opening, especially its arguments pointing at the flaws of modern capitalism. I've complemented my learning with these videos. Considering how economies have reacted (and will continue) to the current pandemic, could this be the time there's no turning back, and turn into a new system? Debt and credit are reaching unsustanaible levels now. As you say, sweet philosophy and analysis for the following years.

@zumacraig

4 жыл бұрын

@@juanorellana8945 I hope so. Recent unrest seems to be helping.

@hulugulu7899

4 жыл бұрын

"Modern natural science has proved that the so-called “poor districts” in which the workers are crowded together are the breeding places of all those epidemics which from time to time afflict our towns. Cholera, typhus, typhoid fever, small-pox and other ravaging diseases spread their germs in the pestilential air and the poisoned water of these working-class quarters. In these districts, the germs hardly ever die out completely, and as soon as circumstances permit it they develop into epidemics and then spread beyond their breeding places also into the more airy and healthy parts of the town inhabited by the capitalists. Capitalist rule cannot allow itself the pleasure of creating epidemic diseases among the working class with impunity; the consequences fall back on it and the angel of death rages in its ranks as ruthlessly as in the ranks of the workers. As soon as this fact had been scientifically established the philanthropic bourgeois began to compete with one another in noble efforts on behalf of the health of their workers. Societies were founded, books were written, proposals drawn up, laws debated and passed, in order to close the sources of the ever-recurring epidemics." ------------written by Friedrich Engels about 150 years ago.

@alynames7171

4 жыл бұрын

Optimistic...

@jayfeather6749

4 жыл бұрын

This is so true... three months later and the situation for capitalism has gotten even worse. This is a historic moment, I have a feeling...

"When the next financial crash happens, there will be nothing left to cut". The next few years post Coronavirus are going to be very interesting to watch play out as capitalists continue to try to force the square peg into the round hole.

@chinpokimon9173

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously lmao 😂, it’s flawed from the beginning the foundation is shakey.

@thomaskole9881

3 жыл бұрын

And when neoliberals are no longer able to keep the system from rotting away, we step in✊

@basedcorrectpilled969

2 жыл бұрын

It’s still survived.

@bug688

Жыл бұрын

@@basedcorrectpilled969 but I don’t know about you but there has been more unrest now than I’ve ever seen before

It would be lovely if we had fewer bullshit jobs, and more people had research jobs. Especially medical research. I'd really like debilitating sickness and injury to be a thing of the past.

@caenieve

5 жыл бұрын

You can probably automate that, if you can make an artificial brain.

@BlueTemplar15

4 жыл бұрын

This has diminishing returns, as a lot of sickness comes from micro-organisms adapting to any counter-measures we throw at them.

@RisenSlash

4 жыл бұрын

@@BlueTemplar15 technology outpaces evolution

@BlueTemplar15

4 жыл бұрын

@@RisenSlash Not anymore...

@arctic_line

3 жыл бұрын

@@RisenSlash Technology outpaces *human* evolution, but evolution of microorganisms is very fast. If you're going to co-opt a transhumanist/luddite phrase then at least understand what it's applying to.

no, Bukharin wasn't the only one who proposed state monopoly capitalism, even Lenin proposed it and saw it as the beginning of imperialism

It's not just information. There are other tech advancements come up like additive manufacturing. That will decrease the material and labor needed to make things greatly. Scientists are also working on ways to manufacture meat and milk in the lab. That would effectively destroy the ranching and dairy industries. That is just one example. I don't see how capitalism is going to survive mass automation.

@TaylorjAdams

8 жыл бұрын

+Name Here Now that argument makes sense to me. The IT industry employs a whole lot of people, and that number isn't going down. Sure there's a lot of stuff out there but, at least right now, that only means there's a lot of competition in producing it. I have a hard time picturing how sending out a bunch of free copies of a piece of software because you can make more money on the advertisement, then using that money to hire on more programmers so you can make even bigger and fancier free stuff distributes the labour cost worse than building a robot that can manufacture a car 10x faster so you can lay off a bunch of workers to increase your profits. ***Edit: Sorry this next paragraph is a bit tangential and doesn't really address your comment but the next one does if you don't feel like reading*** I understand how the idea that the user isn't paying for it makes it seem like the value of each individual copy of the information goes down, but I don't think it takes into account that for the majority of free software out there the user isn't actually the customer, they are the product. We may not pay for it, but someone does. Companies that follow the free-to-use model do very well. Some charge for premium services and the fact that a ton of people use the free service just means they reach enough people who are willing to pay so the total outweighs what they would have made if they charged everybody. But the most widespread companies make their money from things like advertisements and data mining. We work for the company by using their service and in return they don't charge us for doing so. May seem like a rip off but they do spend a lot of money and a lot of people work hard making sure they pay us well so that we don't quit and go work somewhere else. That was a bit long and rambly but I think what I was trying to say is that capitalism seems to be coping well with having an abundance of information (which may be "free" to the user but actually costs quite a lot to produce and leads to more jobs, not fewer). But I agree with what you said about mass automation being a potential issue, I think it wouldn't cope quite as well with an abundance of physical manufacturing.

@Ganondorf525

8 жыл бұрын

Taylor Adams IT positions will grow somewhat however they will only be open to the well educated and skilled. They will also never replace enough jobs to deal with automation. I don't see how capitalism will deal with mass unemployment on the scale automation brings. A single industry can not hold up capitalism alone. It needs a lot of state help to deal with 5-8% permanent unemployment now. Plus the reliance on copy right and permanent government IP monopolies (many of these companies could not function with out it) shows that the free market (if it ever existed) has already been replaced by state corporatism. Something most pro-capitalists would decry as a perversion of capitalism. If you agree that capitalism won't likely be able to cope with mass automation then we agree a new economic model will be needed. If we switch to something like basic income with the funds coming from the productivity of machines large amounts of the IT industry would switch to the Free (as in free speech) software sphere. Which would take even that from capitalism in the long term.

@TaylorjAdams

8 жыл бұрын

Name Here I agree with you mostly. I wasn't trying to say the software industry could save capitalism by itself or anything like that, more just explaining why I don't buy the argument that the replicability of software in any way hinders the industry. Also, it's true that the industry only hires skilled and educated people but really it's only a 2 year diploma for most of the jobs and up here in Canada our schools aren't quite free but they're drastically cheaper and the student loans are pretty reasonable so I don't really see that as being much of an issue. Plus the companies working on all that automation are also working on AI that can perform white collar jobs as well so it's not just the one class in danger of losing employment. What I don't quite agree with I think is mostly semantic. I don't think stuff like basic income is itself really a separate economic system. It's certainly not the libertarian ideal, but it already exists in one form or another (from what I understand you got welfare down in the states and up here we got income support) and all it really needs are a small amount of extra funding (they do give you enough money to live off of up here at least, but they do try their darndest to make sure it's as close to that bare minimum as possible) and maybe some slightly looser application requirements (though it's probably the employment insurance system - or unemployment insurance if you call it that - which would really benefit most from that). I don't think it would really cost much more than either of our countries could gain from some reasonable cuts to military spending, but apparently some people consider even suggesting that sacrilege (though I wouldn't consider any of those people actual libertarians so they're not the ones you're currently trying to convince). The important thing that I think I disagree on, though, is that this should happen because machines. Even if employment rates are at their highest, some people just aren't capable of showing up to work every day for 5 days a week. Some of the most brilliant minds are also troubled minds, and you never know how many of those fall down the drain without a sufficiently supported safety net. I do think that mass automation will be a problem eventually, but it's not going to happen over night. The change will be gradual and I think it's a mistake to think of things in terms of replacing our system rather than slowly adapting. It's true that we can see the effects of it already, but so far we've adapted enough to invent new industries to support the population. With the time it'll take our food science to get to the point where it's preferable to farmed food I think one of the most effective ways we can currently combat it is by having fewer babies. But that's another issue entirely :p

I am here watching this bizarrely prophetic video during coronavirus, contemplating on how so many social systems failed because of capitalism - healthcare, finance, jobs Will this be the end of capitalism ? Please god say yes

@handsomejas105

4 жыл бұрын

It probably wont sadly, though climate change could be

@AdityanNair

4 жыл бұрын

@@handsomejas105 yes..wishful thinking. Capitalists only managed to increase their wealth during this time. If anything it has emboldened them further.

@handsomejas105

4 жыл бұрын

@@AdityanNair Yeah although in a lot of cases it has been with government support, similar to other previous crashes. It's an unstable system, it will eventually crash for once and I think we're not far from it.

@handsomejas105

4 жыл бұрын

@@AdityanNair Wishful thinking is valuable in these times. I hope you're going through this in the best way possible. Stay strong comrade!

@shnorglebop1798

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully!

04:47 Anyone else watching this part in 2020 and suddenly feel their spidey senses tingling?

@nectarshrub

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

What a series!! I really appreciate the time you took out to make this series. And thanks for ending with an optimistic note. I'll read Mason's book. Thank you!

Looking back at this not a single costume, no dramatic readings, barely any jokes. How far you have come.

I'm from Czechia and as former members of the Soviet Union, we have societal PTSD from communism. We do have healthcare, solid unemployment/maternity/elderly support, and free universities to a certain age, but it is very difficult to talk about anything left-wing out loud. We understand and appreciate these things, but the names of Marx and his comrades and followers (or, perhaps, corrupters) make our hairs stand up. Could you suggest a way of talking about Marx without actually talking about Marx?

@furiosa1203

4 жыл бұрын

Talk about all of his idea's without naming it who it is. That makes most people agree with it. My parents were super conservative, and I often explained ideas of Marxism to them, and didn't tell them it was communism. They agreed with mostly everything, and now my parents are becoming so damn liberal it's scary. They used to be very old fashion Jews, so they changed a lot. I think your people do need to realize that it's not Karl Marx's fault for what happened, and it was people who took his ideas and butchered them so badly. They were a dictatorship with socialism slapped on it. This only will happen with change and new generations. It's sad that your people have to suffered so much and did not have the ability to the value in people Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. However, I totally understand why they would feel that way under such oppression, fuck I would too. Like I said try talking his theories without naming who it is. I also recommend to get modern examples of his theories. Like we saw in the first video with production, then maybe some people you know may not think it's crazy. I told my parents that those ideas were Marxist, and now they are not freaked out by him anymore. My parents and grandparents did grow up with the fear of the cold war and etc... So they were often spammed with how awful his ideas were. My grandparents had to leave Hungary cause of the damn communist civil war that happened in the 50s, so I get it. I hope this helps, if you need some ideas just ask. If your looking for some ways, I recommend looking at Democracy at Work. (on youtube) They got great examples on how Marxism works, and it's very modern and they use great examples of real data too. That's where I got ideas to make Marx's seem more modern and make more since, that it wouldn't sound so weird towards my parents. (Sorry if this is a mess, I am quite tired.)

@TealWolf26

4 жыл бұрын

Do what every great creator does: steal it. I'm not Marxist, I just say things that we independently came to the same conclusion of. *innocent shrug*

@KarolKaru

4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Estonia and this is exactly how it is here too. I had no that it's called societal PTSD, i am now informed :D. Whenever I see anything about Marx and Communism the alarm bells go off in my head bc! Communism was the bad thing that wrecked my country and deported people!!! This can't be good or true or beneficial in any way!! And yet. I agree with everything in this series, it's very informative and useful, if post-communist country people get past the immediate disgust reaction to anything containing a hint of communism i feel like we will agree with a lot of this since we basically seem to have like, a mix of socialism-capitalism already. And like Furiosa said below, i should introduce myself more to the modern theories and applications of this, rather than blame this one dude for every asshole who tried to be a capitalist by pretending to be a marxist.

This is a very well done 4 part video; I love it! Good job! Could you make a seperate playlist of just those 4 videos please? I would like to share it that way...

@PhilosophyTube

8 жыл бұрын

+Willem van de Beek Yeah OK :)

@willemvandebeek

8 жыл бұрын

+Philosophy Tube Thank you, Olly. :)

@thebaultmichael1399

8 жыл бұрын

+Willem van de Beek Was about to ask the exact same question :P This series blew my mind

The moment ollie said "or was it?", I so expected a vsauce style intro music to kick in

This is particularly why I like being a programmer and a musician. I make things that, while requiring labor, are entirely owned by me and can be distributed on my own terms through any channels that I like (GitHub and Soundcloud aren't the only places for it). That was an awesome series, even though I'm 2.5 years late!!

I'm very pleased with the conclusions drawn here; it's nice to know that capitalism seems to be on a downward spiral toward a new system. Thanks Olly!

@rhyswilliams6384

8 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is that the anarcho-capitalists criticise the same things mason did: state monopoly, bailouts, copyright... Marx frogot the possibility of increasing demand, both naturally and artificially. And the artificial ones used to keep the current system working are exactly the keynesian economics used by socialist parties because they justifie goverment spending. Postcapitalism may be even more capitalist than the corporateism we have now.

@drednaught608

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick TheGreek Isn't the statement, "Capitalism will forever exist." a conclusion? If there truly was no conclusion here, it would not automatically default to capitalism forever existing, the answer would instead default to, "I don't know" which is a more honest approach.

“The longer it hangs on, the worse the crises are going to get” posted 4 years ago

I always wait for the end of a series to watch it, and I was pretty pumped when this final video showed up in my sub box :) Did not disappoint.

I'm so glad I'm subscribed to this channel.

@PhilosophyTube

8 жыл бұрын

+Ferman Sensei Aw, thanks! Welcome to the little community!

@appleslover

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhilosophyTube not so little 5 years later..

@sandozpop6017

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also glad. Violent strategies for capturing power and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat (Das Kapital) may also be discussed. As a result, we have a total of 100 million dead today.

Dude your video series was part of my online class and is by far the best phil lesson I've heard.

I gotta say, I'm always impressed by how much information you can cram into these relatively short videos. I guess it's not quite comprehensive, but for an introduction to a really complicated set of theories, these Marx videos have been pretty great! well done sir!

😂😂 where we're you when I was writing my essay on Marx

@DieQwietscheente

8 жыл бұрын

*were

@jasminaliysa111

8 жыл бұрын

Nope it's definitely where. As in why were you there and not here helping me write that mother.

@jasminaliysa111

8 жыл бұрын

Haha just seen the auto correct putting on an apostrophe. Well played Internet

@noddy3007

8 жыл бұрын

+Jasmin Aliysa you shouldn't even have to correct it, it's a youtube comment! lol

@DaxB055King

5 жыл бұрын

Busy writing these video essays

Well done, you did a really good job on this series specially this video.

This is the best of the four videos. Great job and thanks!

Your Marx #3 and #4 videos are my favorite videos on your channel thus far :)

Olly, I've just started watching your videos and really enjoying them. I'm a librarian and it was really interesting for me to hear you talk about the supposed "information effect" As librarians we are obviously very concerned with information and information science/technology, being sort of information disseminators ourselves. I've always thought of librarianship as inherently sort of marxist/socialist by nature but this connection was really interesting to me, and at the very least I was happy to hear my field of study(or there abouts) mentioned. Anyway, love your videos!

Watched a lot of his videos. He seems deadly passionate about this subject the most. Way more than others. Seems I finally found the antecedent of what makes Olly's philosophy tick.

Another great one! Bonus points for citing Paul Mason, David Graeber and other timely figures too.

I would really love it if you made a serie like this one, but on Anarchism. It's a way of thinking I find fascinating, and I'd love to hear your opinion about it. Keep up the good work, you make life not suck :)

Great series!

that ending on the (maybe eventual) end of patriarchy... wow, thanks for that comparison

Studying for my university exams on Marx and you are making a lot more sense than my lecturer

I really enjoyed the series. Thanks!!

Mic drop end to an epic series. Great job brother 👊!

loved this series- thanks bro

You got your mojo back here in part 4 Olly. Nice work.

DAMN this is a good video :DDD i really love this series... :DDD thanks for being a great person :DD plzz do continue :DD

I like that quote at the end. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for this series. Learned so much about marx and his ideas.

Excellent series on Marx.

@sandozpop6017

2 жыл бұрын

---------------------- Excellent! Remains hundred million deaths in Russia, Eastern Europe, China and Southeast Asia.

So good! I will tell my professor in Ethics about these videos and perhaps he can tell others in his classes. They not only makes sense from an economic discipline but to me they scream of being Christian Biblical principles. Unfortunately, many are too conservative in regards to these theories so they never accept nor understand them in that light/context. Great videos and may God bless your spreading of this "good news."

This is an excellent series. Well done.

Thank you so much for making this series it's super helpful for my essay, thank god I found your vid!!!! lifesaver :)))))

I saw your 4 videos on Marx and it was clear and intresting although my mother tong is french you did a great job: working my english and learning cool things at the same time is great!

Mad Marx: Beyond Capitaldome

Love the rational and factual approach, showing through deduction the shortfalls of today's capitalism.

Forward comrades!

What a brilliant series, gave me more information and more of a insight into how human should progress, Rally comrades

Slavoj ŽiŽek?

@mrrickygee.

8 жыл бұрын

+Mandragara YESSssss. I second this

@gustavojohannessautter9484

8 жыл бұрын

+Mandragara _Sniff_ _Sniff_ PURE IDEOLOGY _pulls shirt_ _Sniff_

@benjaminhennessy8050

8 жыл бұрын

Žižek is entry level fluff. You should look up Noam Chomsky's criticism of his work.

@Gabriel-mf7wh

8 жыл бұрын

+Hipster Stalin Dude, I laughed so hard at this hahaha

@dsettleascii

8 жыл бұрын

+Benjamin Hennessy whenever an analytic guy criticizes a continental dude it normally centers around a critique of the obscurity of their writing which I think is sorta cheap. It may be difficult to read but once you understand it I don't think there's much difference between Anglo- American philosophy and Continental philosophy in terms of substance.

Thank you for sharing the information!

Rewatching this series and this episode is super relevant to today. We are so close to a recession, another crash and with zero left to cut. But somehow we will see capitalism limp on I'm sure...

This was excellent man! THANK YOU!

idk. Marx has issues but in its truest form Communism does surpass Capitalism in what matters. But what do i know

Seeing this was posted 5 years ago, and seeing how is everything is collapsing around us now. Capitalism continues to fail.

All the 4 videos helped me understand Marxism better. Thank you very much. Red Salute from India 🇮🇳

I'm gonna be using that final quote frequently now. excellent channel and great video series, I'd love to see one on anarchism, specifically the anarcho-communist/anarcho-syndicalist side. But even just touching on actual anarchism and not what the general public believes anarchism to be would be fucking amazing.

On to one of my favorite topics to analyze, economics! Yes, capitalism adapted rather than collapsed due to the inevitable principle of communal responsibility. Capitalism is founded on the belief that humans require freedom for happiness and the concept of competition and its possible benefits resulted thereafter. However, this theory disregards human nature. As communism's bout showed, humans only follow capitalism as it guarantees constant results, at least seemingly. It places people into a state of security. This security is Hobbesan in nature. However, happiness lies in control of one's environment and that results in the restless need for centralization of pertinent knowledge within an individual. Due to other external forces such as others and natural forces, you would be hard pressed to get that point. Any system that can guarantee security is logically the best. However, as external events comprising all crimes done by others or even simple disagreements compels one to think in the sense of one of Aesop's old sayings "If you want it done right, do it yourself." They lose trust in the safety of the system and then support any further system emphasizing individual freedom and support, which would leverage one, seemingly, all the resources their society can individually allocate in return for supporting this system helping them. However, as freedom isn't something people intrinsically need from people(they only need the security that they will do their part to elevate the society which maximizes individual resources), any system founded on that would collapse, which is why capitalism and feudalism fell and will fall, reverse respectively. People are seeing state-backed capitalism, but that's simply setting stage for socialism and eventually communism. Blackening events like the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution has only stalled the process, causing a double bind for people seeing the trap of libertarian ideas or collectivist safety. Of course, syndicalism(trade unions escalating in power) will be a vital step, thus showing why successful modern governments, meaning from the late 19th century, like Bismarck's empire, to current day developed countries. Due to big business supporting the government, they of course would support them back, which dismembers the people/workers as the economy, therefore, is dependent on lending money, as evidenced in this video, and not the growing labor class. As exploiting the workers consistently provided ample opportunity for wealth growth, it seems insecure to stop and fighting back against the people is seemingly sensible. However, the more privatization of public services occurs, the less advantaged the people are. Eventually, the people's need for security will tear the ability to control public services away from the corporations. Due to the corporations' need for freedom, supposedly, they will milk all of the labor they have until they realize it is ultimately unsuccessful. As for the advent of information technology, it provides the ultimate security, therefore the need for freedom collapses and blindly, corporations fight back, trying to get things back in "traditional measures." They are scared, however, once they understand their capitalization value in monopolizing these machines and they destroy the need for people, the corporations will be lulled into security and everything becomes cheaper and we have more and more socialist measures being instituted. While technology is probably going to supply this objective security, this could be found in ancient egalitarian tribes, where the people don't have corporations, obviously and the people, when fully given security, act as a perfect workforce, therefore providing security forever, perpetually providing happiness unilaterally. We can only achieve this state by perpetuating knowledge and doubtless enough, this perfect state with no state or need for acquisition, nor lies by capitalism lack of depending on people's security is a communist utopia. People typically complain that communism is parallel to human nature, however if you can dissolve some sociological barriers, you'll find that it can work on any level, even in a megacountry that potentially holds the entirety of the Earth's 7.4 billion people. Please support security, happiness, and freedom by becoming a communist. Also, the Soviet Union's anthem is the most inspiring thong you've ever heard and don't even lie, 'cause you know it's true. HAIL, WORKINGMEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!!!!

@charlieprice8372

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit... You should write a book.

@ohnoes423

3 жыл бұрын

thank you for this writing comrade

@mikhielbluemon4213

3 жыл бұрын

You're inspiring.

Your channel is amazing. Regards from Mexico City.

Great video!

What Fukuyuma and Mason said definitely sound like what I've noticed in my layperson way. But I'm following the shift in how careers are made, especially the transformation to artist-direct business for consumers. WIth crowdfunding, especially media like webcomics, there's a shift to the product being free and investors (patrons) getting bonus in the form of CONTENT , not money like stock shareholders. Social capital will become more important than actual capital.

Am studying Marxism at the moment and your series has helped me so much! Keep up the great work

Fantastic series. I'd love to see your curated list of books for those interested in philosophy, Marxism, history, etc.--books that foster a cultured, higher consciousness.

The content is fantastic!

So. Well. Done.

@PhilosophyTube

8 жыл бұрын

+aironbaron Aw, thank you!

Interesting stuff. I’d love to hear your thoughts on Schumpeter and his thesis in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.

Very enlightening.

Great series

Olly you are Awesome! You just made me understand Marx so much better

With regards to the postcapitalism book. I've been having similar thoughts as to the future of capitalism myself. Must get that book!

People who think capitalism won know sorely little of how much of a fight socialism put up. You people would be amazed at how utterly transformative the social policies of the last 100 years have been. Public education, public healthcare, public transport, safety laws, environmental laws, successes in reducing discrimination and bullying... the strides we have made are amazing, while the degree depends upon the country you live in, every country has had its share of policies that have taken us step-by-step closer to a Marxist utopia. In my eyes, Marxism has constantly been winning the war, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the capitalist-making of China are just aborted failed experiments along the way. They're battles in which Marxism performed poorly, meanwhile real lasting changed has occurred all over in all kinds of other ways.

I love these videos and the subject they take on is fascinating, specially because it is clear you are taking the marxist view from a very objective, respectful position. But that aside, the line about the invisible middle finger was the funniest thing I've heard in quite a while. As an economics student, I'll be using that one a lot.

Seeing this in America during the pandemic is a trip.

Thanks for this video series. Great work! Have you by any chance looked at the Telecommunist Manifesto?

Great conclusion!

I don’t know if you’ve had any plans to do anything like this in the future (i mean it’s 2018 now so maybe you have?) but you should do a video on anarchism :) there are so many misconceptions about it that just get perpetuated over and over and it’d be rad to see your take on the topic ^__^

excellent explanation!

nice, sympathetic exposition!

Thank you!

It is also perhaps worth mentioning that we can deduce the necessity of basic income at some point even within purely capitalistic economic theory. In particular Milton Friedman wrote about this.

What's next? Hobbes v. Locke: Dawn of Society?

@iananderson12796

8 жыл бұрын

SPOILER ALERT. Hobbes was right...

@benjaminhennessy8050

8 жыл бұрын

For a quick read check out "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" by Oscar Wilde.

Loved the series but putting all hope in technology to look beyond capitalism is not practical and unnecessary. Workers ownership instead of corporations, community councils and workers councils and other forms of organization (syndaclism in a wider sense) is still important. A vision of a world beyond capitalism, i believe, should be animated by anarchism, anarcho-syndaclism of Noam Chomsky and the likes.

I wish I could like this video a hundred times! Anyway, what do you think of the Zeitgeist Addendum and Moving Forward movies?

Your series is great and I love it (been watching all your videos slowly after the last 3 months). Heres my question, we talk about the labor it takes to make a widget, but if your work isnt widget-based, like for example a psychologist, how does one "control those means" without just owning your own business? And also, I struggle with the idea of surplus value not because I want workers to be ripped off, but that managers are also doing work that is important, and that labor need also be paid, certianly. But as a manager, you dont make a widget, your work must be paid from the surplus value of the widget, right?

maybe im insane but watching this nearly made me cry and i dont generally cry. especially in covid, the very concept of 'there were so many warnings and we never listened to them' is a devastating concept to me. at least this video ends on a more positive note, though

great videos

Well done bro ...

... I have to point out my favorite band at 7:20. I love Architects ...

Thank you for this all the right winged KZreadr channel denounces Marx and his ideologies but this helps and it is happening the reality is that we just don't use the term marx to describe it I saw a video where persons were group funding developing insulin so it would be cheaper.

In most cases software does need to be maintained. If only for security (which is a moving target). So most software does have continous labour put into it over time.

Can you do a video on the efficiency of one party states and or monarchism, I have a monarchist friend who's down in the dumps rn.

Good Work... The economy is like taking magic lessons...

Ollyyyy plsss do something about anarchism and social anarchism!!!

Very well done Olly, I really enjoyed this (even though I don't completely buy into Marx's ideas). Question: will you talk about Hegel and his influence on Marx? Once I learned about Hegel, understanding Marx became a LOT easier.

@whatshisname2497

5 жыл бұрын

No one completely "buys into" Marx's ideas, and if they do, they don't understand Marx himself. Not everyone reads Marx in the exact same way. Note: Marx believed in individuality, and the freedom and liberty needed to express it.

I've developed a positive addiction to this channel.

I'm rather disappointed that you never touched upon dialectical materialism in this series, considering how foundational it is to Marxist philosophy and how difficult it is to understand. I'd love to know whether you think it's a valid method of analysis, and what you think the next big contradiction would be, should the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie be resolved. Or if it can be predicted at all.