The dictatorship of the proletariat

In part 3 of this series, I consider what “the dictatorship of the proletariat (DoP)” means in theory and practice, why it generally proves disastrous and how to change that. This video is not about Lenin, Mao or any statespeople but Marx and the potential for the self-liberation of the people.

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[richardbuckharris]

"Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while." ~ Emma Goldman

[stevemcnelley]

Thanks Chris. Another beautiful communication.

[legendary]

Hey idk if you have made a video on this topic yet but can you make a video talking about if it is possible to live in a world without money/any form of currency and how people lives would be a lot better than is is today in this system of slavery I would love to hear your insight on this topic.

[sl-lzdw]

I'm confident you are more well read than I, but I listen to many well read others. One of these is Prof Richard Wolff. He calls himself 'Marxian' as opposed to 'Marxist (perhaps trivial) but more importantly states, as I recall, that Marx didn't have a lot of interest in State or government. I gather from him that if you just listen to Marx you will focus almost exclusively on the structure of business enterprises relative to labor, not States to any substantial degree. You get into issues of State if you listen to Lenin, Stalin and others. Wolff's 'Marxian' prescription primarily is encourage and support worker co-ops and other labor empowering organizations and movements.

I believe that a society permeated with independent, well structured worker co-ops could go a long ways toward making any 'State' a redundancy, and that 'Horizontalidad' type, direct democratic arrangements could fill voids when and where they came up. I love the ideal of a true consensus world, but have known too many people intent on preventing consensus to think that it is more than an ideal to see how close you might get to it. (Kinda like perfect energy efficiency in any machine)

This comment may be late here, but I'd love to hear what you think on this. Whether or not it shows up on your radar, whether its worth your time or no. Thank you for all you have shared on this channel!

[Nohbdy_Ahtall]

Very useful, thank you!
I think the only thing that sticks out to me as a techno-head who's constantly appreciating engineering more each day, is... I'm wondering about standardization of safety and other knowledge that is complex? I'm wondering if this is "state-y" as I suppose it could be at risk of being misused.
There are numerous failsafes and design decisions on the infrastructure level that... I'm really glad are there, and I'm not sure how to "convince" anyone to consider all this percieved "extra work" to adhere to long-term safety, such as chemicals and preventing cave-ins and building things resiliently and with safeguards that seem "too much" but are in fact terrifying if skipped out on.

Perhaps I am thinking too short-term, as in... if I go out and suggest we build a community well and garden, will we really do it safely? We kind of need it ASAP, and I'm very much used to a sort of technological non-literacy to things on the levels that seem highly important. I also worry about regressing too heavily into manual labor and dismissing high tech solutions(surely, open source software+hardware)

Perhaps you have or will have a video on this - like you said before about the pilot/car-driver, not everyone should drive it in that case.(Although funnily, with my ideas on telerobotics/teleoperation, I kind of do imagine something like that working).

[ZalamaTheDragonGod]

7:07 China extracts surplus value from its workers to develop its economy. It engages with the bourgeois system to protect itself from imperialism and develop faster through investment. Perfectly socialist, no