How and Why Communism Works

[Anna587]

and why i cant not look at your channel? 

[TheGoodShepard777]

RedNick, you da bawsss!!!

[danedane9]

just a few quick questions about marxist leninist views. How does the ideology differ from traditional communism?

What are the marxist-leninist views on the current affairs in North Korea and North Korea in general?

thank you

[RedNickD]

@danedane9

Ideologies are more like strategies and the collected experiences of socialism being tried in practice.

Marxist-Leninists often disagree with each other on North Korea. Some support it, others hate it. But all of them don't want North Korea to be attacked by imperialists and their puppets like the USA or South Korea. Those who dislike North Korea speak out against attacks on the North from a general anti-war view.

[TheBenbarton]

@danedane9 north korea os not and has never been communist, let along marxist. message me for more infomation.

[nextVTgenerati0n]

oh yea, lets become chinese!

[CMFrenchEsq]

Oh no not communism! Heaven forbid! Who would clean my house? who could I look down upon when driving in my expensive European luxury car? Who could I exploit for a living. I might even have to rub shoulders with someone who did not go to a private school. The indignity!

[RFXCGZZ]

The USSR did not collapse because of harassment by the NATO states, nor did trade have anything to do with it. In the early to mid 1980's the USSR had experienced an economic boom.

The USSR collapsed because it was betrayed by pro-democracy and pro-capitalist leadership. Gorbachev and Yeltsin dismantled the Soviet Union because they were diluted, it would not have collapsed otherwise.

If Stalinist leadership would be retained (instead of reformist Khrushchev), the USSR would have never fell.

[DJYC21215]

@RFXCGZZ Perfect words comrad. EEconomic failure had nothing to do with the U.S.S.R like prapaganda would have u belive. This was an inside job.

[wscparks]

@RFXCGZZ

could be write

we do live in a sea of errors with fascist type lies

[yak6ex]

Get a job you hippy.

Obama just called and he said your free health-care and your free government cheese of the month club membership just arrived in the mail.

[RedNickD]

@yak6ex

Maybe if Conservassholes like you would stop fucking up the economy I'd be able to find a job. But now all employment is reserved only for snotty, upper middle class kids like you who get it from their parents. Spoiled brat. Go play in traffic.

[MCP2012]

@RedNickD You BOTH need to read the works of Louis O. Kelso and his associates, as well as the work(s) of F.A. Hayek. See also the Zeitgeist Movement.

[solidysnake1]

@yak6ex I'd rather be a jobless hippy than a heartless conservative who let millions of HARDWORKING Americans die because they can't afford doctors.

Yup.

[ucdconnectq]

"democratic consultation"???? Why not democratic CONTROL???

What's the difference between a "natural obligation" and an "economic compulsion"?

Who controls the accountants and bankers if THEY are the people who control the system that controls the movement of goods and incentives?

What about Brezhnev's stagnation?

The USSR got enough technology in the 1930's through the use of dummy companies.

[nomoreyou1212]

this is a very informative video.

I have been very interested in socialism and communism lately

um dumb question: how do you feel about Anarcho- Communism? or Libertarian Communism?

[RedNickD]

@nomoreyou1212

I don't know much about those two, but I was told they want to jump to a stateless, classless society with from ability to need directly after a revolution. I don't think that can work because 1) it would need to happen on a world scale all at once in order to get the proper resources to achieve such a society right away 2) it lacks coordination and 3) people's outlook and the ability to produce more things don't change that fast. I could be wrong though.

[12valvepower1]

taxes how do they work in a socialist country

[RedNickD]

@12valvepower1

Good question. I mentioned something like that in the video. Although I haven't looked into that matter as much as I should. I know that during the Chinese revolution, the communists put high taxes on rich, aristocrat/feudal landlords and absolutely no taxes on the peasants. So I'd think it would be a small amount of taxes for the average person, and a lot for the upper stratum of society. Although I'm not too sure. There might be holes here.

[Sovietcomrade232]

@12valvepower1 Depending on how the system is ran, taxes can potentiality not necessary. Taxes in the capitalist system are meant to give capital to the government so it can preform its functions. In a communist society taxes should not be necessary because the very nature of system defeats the need for currency in order to get something done.

[youratm]

sad  day

[Guevaristas]

' And with this certificate he receives from the public store of consumer goods a corresponding quantity of products. After a deduction is made of the amount of labor which goes to the public fund, every worker, therefore, receives from society as much as he has given to it.'

"The First Phase of Communist Society" in V. Lenin's "State and Revolution" (1918)

[Guevaristas]

what rules governed international trade between socialist states? Was there competition or not?

[RedNickD]

@Guevaristas

I guess it depends on who was doing the trading. Hoxha argued against competition. I wouldn't be surprised of certain Soviet leaders had some competition involved.

[policestory]

@RedNickD Solidarity over competition. Fair trade over free trade.

[Guevaristas]

you know Lenin stated repeatably in "State &Revolution" that there still exists inequality at the socialist (first phase) of communism.

The socialist phase is stamped with all the halmarks of the old system. However, the major difference is that all exploitation has ceased. This is because the capitalists have been disappropriated.

The workers now control and own the means of production.

The USSR never progressed beyond the socialist phase do you agree?

[RedNickD]

@Guevaristas

Of course. Although Stalin noted the disappearance of antagonistic classes, but not of class divisions entirely. But this is according the MIM.

[SovietTrall]

Epic video comrade!

[12valvepower1]

we need reform

[edoctorno]

nice video

[jumpnjza2]

Fantastic work. I love the labour-time credit idea but do you think that some kinds of labour are more valuable than others? If an hour of labour as a physician can only be performed after years of training in a university, then will a physician's one of of labour be equal to that of a painter's one of labour? Surely it requires far more time to train as a physician than it does to train as a painter. Surely in the USSR there were marginal incentives for more highly skilled labour.

Your take?

[RedNickD]

Yes, you are right. Under socialism certain types of labor are more valuable than others. Communist society aims to teach everyone how to do almost everything, thus making all forms of labor equal. I should mention this in a video some day.

[jumpnjza2]

Or I suppose the time spent studying at university in a socialist society would earn the student labour credits as opposed to the capitalist world where students pay for their education.

[Guevaristas]

@jumpnjza2 hmm interesting point.

This dude i knew in Cuba claimed that people who work hard to attain a degree ought to recieve higher wages, that others who have no degree. Of course this would result in class divisions and wage inequality. A society of elites, a meritocracy perhaps.

[CommissarRed]

Very good, You've taken a complex political movement and theory and explained it in a very concise and easily accessible way.

[Guevaristas]

But now i know i understand things better

[redFISTofEUROPE]

the USSR was a Police state and not a "Socialist Country"! don't get me wrong, you stated a lot of true things in this video, but you're not helping our cause when you put the Soviet Union in the Socialist/Communist category.

[RedNickD]

The changes to the Soviet system were made, for the most part, in its superstructure. Not in its base level. It was still proletarian, it just had a messed up superstructure. When the bad parts of the superstructure begin to interfere with the basic level, the proletarian part, then we can consider things to have gone the way in which you claim they went. And at a certain stage in the history of the USSR, it did indeed become this way.

[Guevaristas]

Another Great vid!

[RedNickD]

Thanks, it's just a remake of an older one. It's the same words, just with different audio and pictures. I wish I had time to do more new stuff.

[12valvepower1]

why does marx always look black