KARL MARX 101 Sociology Series #1

FURTHER READING

Karl Marx is one of the founding fathers of Sociology, his work has influenced many social changes around the world and, as of 2021, five communist countries still exist.

Marx grew up in a middle-class Jewish family who converted to Protestantism to escape the difficulties Jews faced in German society.

He went to the University of Berlin where he discovered the work of Georg Hegel who influenced his outlook throughout his life.

He lived in Bonn, Berlin, Paris and Brussels before settling in London in 1849.

Marx witnessed the growth of industrialisation in Europe which was resulting in social distress and poverty for the working classes as they worked for long hours in poor working conditions for low wages.

Marx was critical of society due to this and he became more involved in economic issues.

After reading The Condition of the Working Class in England by Fredrick Engels, which explained the misery industrial workers endured, they struck up a friendship and collaborated on a series of work including:

The Holy Family (1845)
The German Ideology (1846)
The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Capital (1867)

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[lelo]

This is a brilliant video for teaching. Specific to the Sociology spec. I’ll use as a great roundup. Thanks so much

[wuaaron]

You are one of the very few channels speaking the truth about Marx on YouTube while many others ( CrashCourse, lessons for life etc) are glorying him by not mentioning the obvious absurdity of his works and the terrible “Legacy” that he left with the world.

[charlesferdinand]

Socialism is an 'ideology' that lost the Cold War when the Soviet Union disintegrated without a single shot being fired, a conflict that the United States and Capitalism WON; but Socialism/Communism also failed miserably in Romania, Chile, Hungary, Cambodia, Czechoslovakia, Sudan, Mongonlia, Cape Verde, Burma, Bolivia, Chad, Djibouti, Granada, Ethiopia, North Korea, Algeria, Congo, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Albania, Bulgaria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Angola, Soviet Union, Guyana, Yugoslavia, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Laos, East Germany, Mozambique, Poland, Nicaragua, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Somalia, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, China (which hasn't been communist except in name since the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping in 1964 which was done because the previous and latest Communist dictator, Mao Zedong, killed more than 30 million Chinese with his stupid policies and hunger, although he didn't suffer any hunger or anything, in fact he was rich, a hypocritical feature that characterizes all Socialist dictators, just ask Nicolas Maduro, his son literally showered himself with bundles of $100 dollar bills in a party while Venezuela lost a quarter of all of its population) and many many other places; after which Communism caused over 120 million DEATHS
BTW, how come Lefties always complain about American 'imperialism' anyway? What about Vietnamese imperalism in Cambodia? Or Soviet imperialism in Hungary or Czechoslovakia or Poland or East Germany or Latvia or Lithuania or Estonia? Or Chinese imperialism in Tibet and North Korea and Vietnam? Or Russian imperialism in Georgia or Azerbaijan or Ukraine or Byelorussia or Armenia? Or Cuban imperialism on Angola or Venezuela or Nicaragua or Bolivia?

And remember to recite the Communist's Prayer:
"That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, it's not a big deal.
And if it is, it wasn't their fault.
And if it was, they didn't mean it.
And if they did,
the victims deserved it."