Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 26, 2024, 08:54 AMI knew there was a reason I liked Richard. This video is 100% Diner. This is what the Diner is all about.This one, I watched it all. Marx's views were heavily supported...including some bashing of Malthus, which was interesting, and I haven't seen before.
It looks like Richard was asked to do it by the Jacobin and this place. Progressive International.
But what WASN'T mentioned was the application of Marx's ideas, as carried out by a devotee in Lenin, and the creation of Marxist-Leninism. This is seemingly a common characteristic among advocates of Communism (or any other social control scheme really), a topic to be avoided certainly. The ACTUAL results, as compared to the theory.Could it be because a full view of these ideas makes them all unpalatable, with Communism being just another shitty social control mechanism, designed to just put power and control in the hands of a few and counting on the sheeple to just keep being sheeple? Capitalism, Imperialism, Communism, Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, spin the wheel and regardless of where it stops....YOU LOSE!
When Communism in any of its applied forms arrives and inflicts itself upon the people you get the Holodomor! The Great Chinese Famine! Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot!!
So...I'm just guessing here...but maybe there are reasons why while the theory of Communism sounds just jim dandy great from certain perspectives....the folks doing these videos don't tend to go into how in the HELL did it go so wrongthe last time folks gave these systems a fling and how to avoid it, that is for sure.
When doing a sales pitch you are counting on spouting only the good things to collect your cut of the sheeple, can you imagine if you told them what happens when your particular idea was implemented?
"Don't worry...we know Communism starves bunches of people just as bad as the Imperialists do...but we'll throw out the rule of law to boot as well...so if YOU get to be a Party member...you'll be set and it'll just be everyone else who starves!".