The Communist Manifesto Animated Book Summary

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In this video, find out what’s actually in The Communist Manifesto. What did Marx and Engels predict today’s world would look like, how accurate were they, and will we actually experience the consequences they expected?

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[lartts]

This is an amazing summary! It's simple but it definitely helps in understanding socialism and communism as a beginner

[mertinho]

great video, weird this doesnt have more views

[tersooachineku]

Awesome ideas, just forgets one thing. HUMANITY needs to become uniformly MORAL to attain this vision and we're still about a hundred years from that.

[lgenterprise]

"Marx and Engels suggested that everyone should have equal access to the benefits of society, technology, and resources". That's where the danger lies...equal access doesn't equate to who has to take the biggest risk to create that benefit. There is no risk/reward incentive and thus the biggest common denominator in a communist society will be the lowest one...

[ValidatingUsername]

It’s not evil; it’s just trash.

The middle class is the largest class in our society but they should quite literally be called the dividend class and defined by families or people who have enough stocks to outpace their expenses especially when they have housing.

No matter what most of the proletariat do they are essentially human capital for the businesses as well as dating pool.

[kaki-]

Amazing summary. I greatly appreciate your video! Keep up the good work!

[PInkMammaDuck]

Don't pretend to be unbiased, then basically give a call to revolution.

[michaelmaloney]

I wanted this guy to at least act like he was teaching me, it sounded like he was just trying to pursuance me.

[Shlongblong]

The fact that this video only has 7k views is beyond me! Meanwhile a video of a girl shaking her ass, a guy flexing his riches or a singer singing about the most useless unproductive things gets millions or even billions of views, trust that these views comes mostly from working classes that scream about change but not willing to make it happen.. sad!

[papa_carlo]

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[danielkingsley]

The only evil thing in this book is talking about getting rid of religion and forcing atheism on people that is not good, as a Utopian I believe in the freedom of religion for all and no one has the right to take it away

[terran]

This is like summarizing a brochure that you didn't even read

[ossiespencer]

Thank you for your Summary. I was impressed and the video interested me in Karl Marx's work.

[daniellebcooper]

sounds fair, but how successful has it been in practice?. Where capitalism is power through money, comm/soc is power through authoritarianism when the people realize that their leaders are living better than them. aka Pol Pot.

[screamingtaco]

OK, I guess. You kind just skipped over the most important bits, but whatever.

[karlschuch]

interesting that both Marx and Engels hated the capitalist class while at the same time living off of the capitalist class, also interesting that they were both against inheritance - apparently only for other people - while they both received inheritances... Amazing!

[kdawgtv]

And whos going to put up capital at risk for opportunities if everyone is going to make the same at the end.

[jaynabbz]

You're explaining "Magagerlism". Js.

[SeveralOnions]

Definitely a W summary. Thanks for the refresher!

[pessational]

They think This book is wrong and evil without even reading it but happily belive a book written 3000 years ago in desert