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[notbadsince]

Saying Marx is responsible for Stalinism is saying Jesus is response for the Spanish Inquisition

[sihplak]

Could you do a series on Anarchist philosophers/philosophy, such as Bakunin, Proudhon, Kropotkin, etc.?

[ToonamiTM]

At about 3:58 you bring up the atrocities of Marxist societies. You mention the Russian gulags, but a perfect counter argument you could have used is that the USA currently has more people in prison today than Stalin ever did, and that is a direct result of the for-profit prisons that come from an unchecked capitalist system which puts more value on profit than the freedom of its people. So, you are very right.

[maggitPL]

1:32 Wouldn't Marx say something along the lines that the very structure of capitalism is based on exploitation. It doesn't matter whether you feel happy or not. Pre-Capital Marx would add that if you do, it is because you've bought into bourgeois ideology or you're a part of the bourgeoisie yourself.
EDIT: Comments retracted, you've literally touched upon that in the next sentence.

[stevalsm]

Exploitation in Marxism does not have to be a moral category. It's just an economic phenomenon. In fact, the rate of exploitation can be quantified: surplus value / wages.

[theogreiner]

"I'll have to bring it up at the next secret feminist Jewish Illuminati SJW world order meeting"
I fucking lost it.

[famsu]

Thanks for acknowledging the US' intervention on Latin American democracies.
The damage has been made, though.

[Owlpunk]

You were pretty spot-on with your pronounciation of "Gattungswesen" this time :D And as always: Great video!

[tommyz]

I must have missed /pol/ coming by, but I'm not surprised they did nor am I sorry that I missed it. :P Happy to help, Olly! Thanks for the great videos!

[samleheny]

Ten people in a philosophical debate can invoke the term "freedom" and mean ten different things. Hell the history of The United States alone can be summarised as a tug of war between competing definitions of freedom. Sometimes ridiculous, e.g. freedom from slavery vs freedom to own slaves, and some of them a little more wooly, e.g. a right to life vs a right to bodily autonomy.

[garymcnally]

Three years late to the party, but I recommend some complimentary reading for the first question. Frédéric Lordon's the Willing Slaves of Capital poses a fantasticly strong argument against the notion that people "willingly" enter into a worker-boss relationship. They just pick the roles available to them that are the LEAST unpleasant. But that at the end of the day, even when people are loving their jobs, they would likely rather be doing anything else other than that.

Also, for a broader picture on the damaging effect of capitalist labour on the minds of the workers themselves. I would recommend György Lukács' Reification and the Conciousness of the Proletariat from the book history and Class Consciousness. he does a great job of explaining the way in which labour relations under capitalism force people to change the way they interact with eachother.

[JamieDallas]

You rock like Rosetta Stone. You rock like a diamond. You rock like Mount Rushmore. You rock like Plymouth. I very much enjoyed the month of Marx. The material was interesting and you presented it well. Thank you!!!

[zahfys]

I couldn't tell you how much time I clicked to "pause" the video, ended up in another video trought the links and had to go back and found out where I had left. But great video, I really appreciated the Marx series !

[cristianhurtadocabezas]

Man, after watching your video about abusive relationships, and then watching this video, i sense thant your love for your channel, your videos, your art kept you going. Good thing you're in a better position right now. you're great, man!

[maggitPL]

4:53 Marxist Regimes? Come on, Olly, that's kind of like saying Polish Death Camps or calling capitalist countries Lockean or Smithian regimes. They are regimes of power, of course (jk).

[ojodelajoloteee]

You should do something about Paul Lafarge's critique on the capitalist notion of "the right to work."

[trebictour]

Stalin is to Marx as Torquemada is to Jesus :-)

[TheRealisticNihilist]

exploitation is a technical notion, not a moral one where the surplus generated by one class is expropriated by another.

[deerlordhunter]

I’d love to hear you talk about the worth and value of digitally creative works, like digital paintings, film, visual essays, graphic design, things that are easily copy and pasted but took a lot of work initially to create.

[michaelwerninck]

do anarchism! bakunin / chomsky / bookchin ect!