Every Type of Communism Explained in 11 Minutes

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Every Type of Communism Gets Explained in 11 Minutes.

We cover the following Communist Political Ideologies:
0:00 Marxism
1:20 Leninism
2:31 Stalinism
3:13 Trotskyism
4:00 Maoism
5:29 Anarchist Communism
7:05 Primitive Communism
7:25 Religious Communism
8:20 Left Communism
9:21 Communist Bundism
10:03 Eurocommunism
10:37 Autonomism

[lazarokic]

When you said "private property", you showed a house. But house is a personal property. Marx makes a big difference between private ownership (when the bourgeoise owns means of production) and personal ownership (home for example, which shouldn't be collectivised)

[GavinWilkins-kgyu]

-20 points for not including fully automated luxury space gay communism

[emillybech]

Correction, marx never wanted to abolish religion, he just believed that after we establish a socialist society we would no longer need religion.

[MinutesExplainer]

No intro, No outro, short Explanation, Exactly what I want ❤

[crudnom]

I appreciate this video’s comment section, insightful, adding small corrections, creating dialogue. I don’t see any hate or arguing, just healthy discussion. Great intro vid

[jorgenoberwell]

One thing to note: Stalinism isn't really a COMMUNIST ideology in the sense like Marxism (theoretical) or Leninism (practical application). Rather, it is the name of the governance and system of policies Stalin had pushed throughout his tenure as leader, which included rapid industrialization, mass collectivism, collective forced agrarianization, and the like.

[ThePuma]

Personal Property exists pretty much under all types of Socialism, not just AnComs

[Lorenz_H]

There is a mistake at 3:31. Lenin never advocated for socialism in one country, in fact he opposed it very strongly. Lenin said multiple times that he would sacrifice the russian Revolution for a Revolution in a advanced industrialised country. He counted on the success of the revolutionary wave sweeping over western europe after WW1. While Lenin and Trotsky had some differences, both were staunch internationalists

[jwpnntp]

Personal property is a concept that exists in all of these examples, no one wants your toothbrush

[oskartelech]

If you wanted to explain EVERY type of communism, this video would last dozens of hours

[Luka__]

America: "Capitalism isn't perfect, but at least we can criticize the government and vote"
Also America: Two political parties that do the exact same thing, and if you criticize Israel you go to prison*

[calebcomrie]

This is definitely flawed, but as an incredibly basic explanation of communist ideology this is a lot better than what you get in school.

[thewhiteknight]

This video makes a lot of confusion. Marx did also advocate for the dictatorhip of the proletariat not just Lenin.
Lenin also advocated for International revolution just like Trotsky. Also Trotksyism is not really different from leninism.

For anyone questioning the "4" on the hammer and sickle for trotskyism, it stands for "Fourth International"

Also Eurocoms arent the only ones who support femminism anf lgbt

[okarthegreat]

This is a pretty good video, but it also has a lot of flaws, I will point out as many as I can, but many of these I'm not very well versed in and some I've just never heard of.


First of all, the ones others in the comments mentioned:

- Marx and Engels also advocated "dictatorship of the proletariat" or worker run states before the transition to communism.
- All of these ideologies advocate abolition of private property. Private property only includes resources that are used by the bougousie to create wealth for themselves. Personal property (your house, car, bike, toothbrush, etc) is also in all of these, not just Anarchism.
- Lenin was not opposed to most of Trotsky's beliefs. He did not advocate for Socialism in one state and was more aligned in his beliefs with Trotsky than Stalin, though they did disagree on plenty as well.
- Stalinism was also not really a fully developed ideology like many of the others on here. To my knowledge, the only real philosophy Stalin talked about was Socialism in One State. The suppressionn of dissent and collectivization of farms may be considered "Stalinism, " but so too could the USSR's defeat of the Nazis. Neither were really spawned from the philosophy of Stalin, from my research. Just his leadership and administration.
- Marx and Engels, nor any of the folks that came after them were opposed to religion as a whole, but rather advocated for a secular state and the seperation of state and religion, much like in the US and other developed countries today (to an extent). Religion was sometimes persecuted and suppressed in these countries, but that's a topic for another time.
- Women's rights and Lgbtq rights have always been a big part of most of these ideologies. Feminism had a massive part in Marxism Leninism, Maoism, Syndicalism, Anarchism, and basically every other socialist ideology, in addition to anti-racism. And while LGBTQ folks were seen in Leninist countries as participating in "bougouie behavior, " since the 21st century, many of these countries have gone back on these statements, apologized, and changed policies to better accomodate queer folks (especially in Cuba) and it's damn-near impossible to find a major socialist organization that opposes LGBTQ rights anymore. In addition, Anarchists have done a decent job at advocating LGBTQ rights and free love since their start. If you need to read up on any more of this, look up "Intersectionality."" It's basically the thought behind socialists such heavy advocacy for minorities.


Alright, now for some of my own criticisms (or at least ones I didn't see in the comments):

- There has never been an actually Communist country. Despite how often westerners will call these countries "Communist, " their actual state structure is usually a "socialist transition state." Communism is the end goal of socialists, which is a classless, stateless society that comes into fruition after the "socialist transition state, " which, as it implies, is the "dictatorship of the proletariat" phase of a socialist society to help the transition from Capitalism and protect the project from being undermined by outside bougouie capitalist forces.
- Marxism-Leninism is not the same as Stalinism. As I mentioned earlier, Stalinism is not really an ideology past the "socialism in one state" philosophy of Stalin. Marxism-Leninism is basically just Lenin's adaptation of Marxism, and the term "Marxism-Leninism" is often used interchangably with "Leninism, " as Lenin's work is built upon Marx's.
- "Eurocommunism" is not really an ideology. It's a loosely defined mish-mash of different vaguely left-wing ideologies in Europe ranging from social democrats who have lost all interest in actually overthrowing capitalism, to die-hard Stalinists who oppose any slight change in socialist theory and call even countries like Cuba "revisionists." However, I do feel the key part of many of Europe's communist parties is their becoming less radical than prior parties in the 20th century, and many of their intent on only using reform for change as opposed to revolution, as is mentioned in the video.
- "Autonomism, " as described in this video, also seems to be another mish-mash of different ideologies. The idea of different types of workers like manual and social labor is something all socialist ideologies have evolved to have, and once again, pretty much all of these ideologies have enourmously supported women's rights from their beginnings.


That's all for now. I do have a few other issues with some things, but I felt these few points were the most important to touch on. I will not be reviewing Bundism, "Left Communism, " any more of Autonimism, or Maoism, as I am ill-versed in these ideologies. However, from my limited readings on Maoism (or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism), this seems to be a decent explanation of it, although I would also appreciate some reference to the role of the National Bougousie in Maoist revolutions as well.

I would also like to say to any burgeoning socialists out there to try to avoid trying too hard to find "your ideology" of socialism. Sectarianism kills our movements every time. And in the end, our cooperation, even between Marxist-Leninists and Anarchists, (yeah, I see you guys getting ready to start bickering with eachother again) is the only way we can succeed in making the world better for all. So, while learning the different ideologies of socialism and reading up on theory is definitely important, keep an open mind with your comrades. Our common goals far outweigh our petty disagreements.

And on that note, thank you so much for reading, have a great day, and GET ORGANIZED! :3

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[bruhkobama]

Lenin always preached for internationalism, you haven't done enough research

[TheSahloknir]

As a great man once wrote: Eurocommunism is anti-communism

[stefanofiorentino]

Hey. Great video. However a little eurocentric, you completely overlooked Latin America. Here we have proposed some important forms of communism as well. Indigenous communism (Movimiento Armado Quintín Lame and others). Catholic Communism (Teología de la Liberación). The influence of communism in Pedagogy with Paulo Freire and his pedagogy of the oppressed... And Latinoamerican communism in general (Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Mariategui, Enrique Dussel). These people have also theorized communism but more applied to our context of the "global south".

[alexmaga]

I am not an expert but if I am not mistaken every comunist ideology defends personal property not just the anarcho-comunists like you said, and I again, if I am not mistaken the spainish faction you mentioned was anarcho-syndicalist

[Aku_Khan]

Nice video. Just a small correction :

Lenin is not the inventor of the "Dictatorship of the proletariat". In fact, it was Karl Marx. But the german philosopher didn't clearly explain the dictatorship of the proleteriat bc he thought that was not his role to explain to revolutionnaries what to do. Lenin was the first communist leader to establish a communist regime. So he developed the "dictatorship of the proleteriat" theory with the help of practice. That theory became after that a little more clear concept. It is a government led by the workers in order to establish a socialist base structure and superstructure. The dictatorship of the proletariat must be an authoritarian regime at the beginning in order to defend the revolution and beat the counter-revolutionnaries.

[missk]

You forgot the most based one, posadism.