What Is Communism? & Why It's Doomed To Fail

Let's learn about COMMUNISM! Today we are going to learn WHAT IS COMMUNISM, how it's failed in the past, and can a communist society work in today's world.

What Is Communism? And Can We Make It Work? Can Communism Ever Work

Today we are going to be learning about Communism. One of the most controversial political philosophies. What it is, and how we can make it work if we try it properly for once.

So... What is Communism?

Communism is a political ideology that in a nutshell, looks to remove money and private ownership, and distribute everything among the people.

Not to be confused with Socialism that gives everyone equal share in profit and prosperity. Socialism is what’s been attempted before, Communism has not.

Socialism is sort of the bridge between capitalism and full communism.

In a Communist society, everyone works, and everyone is provided for equally. If you’re struggling, your fellow man is there to help you out. If you’re able to work more, you do. The goal is to take the power away from those who own the means of production and don’t do any work, The Bourgouisie, and place it in the hands of the workers. The Proletariat.

The thought is that those who own the means of production are the oppressors who get most of the profit from that production. But they don’t have to work, and they only profit because they own the facilities or machines.

Whereas the people who actually work on the production are paid as little as possible to sustain them. In Communism this is flipped upside down and the workers are provided the means of production, with the rewards being provided to everyone much more evenly.

What does the ideal communist world look like?

That's an answer for the video. WHAT IS COMMUNISM is answered and how to build a communist society. and then of course. ... can we make Communism work in todays world.

Cheers Comrades.

[JeffreyMarr]

It's been growing like crazy over on Tiktok and I no longer upload content to this channel, so if you want more of stuff like this video, check it out and enjoy.

[Awww]

Many American proponents of socialism (including Bernie Sanders) inaccurately cite the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) as examples of successful socialism. Those nations are not socialist. They are capitalist countries with free market economies which also have vast social security nets with many generous welfare programs that are supported by extremely high taxes. They are examples of *social democracy.*

[jamesbombss]

Well, communism DOES work in small communes. On a small scale, like a village of 150 people. Where everyone has a job to maintain their village and everyone knows and understands each other. It would never work on a large scale.

[MrFriendlyCsgoContent]

One of the biggest flaws that is apparent to me is that it all works on the assumption that nobody will be corrupt (the government and people)

[freebird]

For me, one of the singles biggest problems with Communism is that it requires everyone involved to be completely morally good people. This is literally IMPOSSIBLE as all humans are imperfect and are/or have the potential to be selfish and greedy. And if just one person starts a trend of taking for themselves and not sharing with others, it'll only increase until we're right back into a state of capitalism, or in an extreme case, anarchy. And yes, democracy and capitalism are flawed since uneducated members of society can vote and the rich can increase their wealth tremendously whilst everyday people struggle to get by - as evident during COVID - but at least it's still possible for working class people to rise up and earn a better life through hard work and we can legally remove politicians through voting.

[wrath]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[KW-gbcd]

Karl Marx believed that "human nature" is shaped by the condition of our lives, not the other way around; that we're obsessed with wealth and status because capitalism makes us this way. If that's true, the "political ideology vs. human nature" argument may be invalid. It's something to think about.

[revolutionariesoffreedom]

Stalin : No one can complain about inequality if I make everyone equally poor and miserable

[karlazeen]

I think communism has good intentions however in practice its heavily flawed however there are huge flaws with modern capitalism that need to be corrected.

[sirplumpusthethirtysecond]

Instead of just going communism or take everyone’s money and redistribute it we should keep capitalism BUT give people more economic opportunity’s to help lift people out of poverty. Carefully edited communism might work in a SMALL group of people.

[scarcelyjumpy]

Good video but I must disagree with you on a few things, firstly, Marxism does not describe a utopian society, Marx was against the idea and essentially believed that communism would solve only economic and class problems but not everything, secondly in a Communist Society the state is abolished as well as all forms of hierarchy; anarchy if you will. As well as that socialism doesn't require a heavily centralized state but rather the state apparatus is to be democratically and economically planned by the workers and general public, this is called the dictatorship of the proletariat where the majority of society control the state and economy. Stalin and Mao's ideas were interpretations of Marx but both heavily misunderstood Marx as at no point is a ruling party required in socialism. The incentive to work in communism is essentially, if you provide a service to the community that will benefit the community and prompt others to work to create a service so you can make more etc. etc. And for human nature, in reality human nature is that we are a tribal animal and we understand that benefiting each other will benefit ourselves and when you look at humans in a form absent of hierarchy, such as a hunter-gatherer tribe, you can see that our human nature is to help the tribe rather than gaining resources for ourselves, the reason hierarchies do exist is to satisfy peoples needs as technology and history advance so do our needs so we create economic, political and social systems to satisfy us and the principle of these systems make it so that someone will always be on top. However as history advances so will we and eventually economic systems will fall and rise and rise and fall; this is the trend of history of which Marx discussed. Hope this helped!

[bpassionfashion]

I don’t know much about politics but I consider myself to have very good common sense . What you said is exactly what I argue with a person I know that moved to Cuba . I argued that “ in theory “ communism sounds like a humble and kind idea but that it doesn’t work because humans are inherently competitive; therefore, whoever is in power will look out for themselves and their families and always take a little ( or a lot ) more extra.

[shamelesspodcast]

487 16-year-old girls are breaking their monitors rn

[sustronaut]

I feel that it is my responsibility to myself and the people that I love, to get into shape and start preparing for the apocalypse because no system works. Technology is our distraction

[purpledragon]

You mentioned something at the end about aspects of socialism being used to keep capitalism in check. For a long time now, I have looked to the idea of not landing on a totally capitalist or totally socialist society but instead applying various aspects of both ideologies to keep each other in check. I don't know if there's a proper name for this type of system but I feel that moderation is a healthy thing and this idea reflects that (to me at least). I am not a political intellectual so I don't know for sure how plausible this is but it is an attractive idea to me. Anyway, just thought it was interesting to hear a bit of that idea in your video.

[anthonysupplee]

“Those who CAN work more WILL” loved this one.

[nanzigonzalez]

brother when he sees you open chips. "our chips"

[space_guy_]

Another thing is competition which drives innovation and growth. If everyone is receiving same thing regardless of your output then no one would improve. This also tends to improve products and services.

[Ston]

*"There is always some thing to envy. a smile, the friendship, something you don't have to appropriate. There will always be rich and poor."* - Enemy at the Gates Like narcissism, communism is based on envy

[aklapa]

I live in a post-socialist country. I myself was lucky enough to not have to live through those years, but my parents still remember what it was like. How nothing ever worked and no one would do their job properly. How everyone was mean and rude. How you couldn't expect the doctors, postmen, public workers to do anything for you without a bribe. How you had to wait a year to get a car you already paid for. And if you wanted to talk politics, you had to do it under the blankets or next to a running faucet because your best friend could turn you in if he overheard. And the two most famous proverbs of that time were "Don't put out the fire that isn't burning you" basically don't help others or you might get burned, and "He who doesn't steal, steals from his family" basically if you don't steal you're stupid because everyone else is doing it.