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To some, Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. To others, it’s a major threat to democracy. But what did Karl Marx really say about capitalism and communism, and how can that help shape our discussions today?
Crash Course Political Theory #6
Introduction: "The Specter of Communism" 00:00
Who Was Marx 0:37
The Problem of Capitalism 4:17
The Mondragon Corporation 6:22
The Proletariat Revolution 8:04
Critiquing Marx 10:04
Review & Credits 11:41
Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5zJCbVA0xCurLbQwWzcxXEdlqXAPpAyYVS1quwKIis/edit?usp=sharing
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Crash Course Political Theory #6
Introduction: "The Specter of Communism" 00:00
Who Was Marx 0:37
The Problem of Capitalism 4:17
The Mondragon Corporation 6:22
The Proletariat Revolution 8:04
Critiquing Marx 10:04
Review & Credits 11:41
Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5zJCbVA0xCurLbQwWzcxXEdlqXAPpAyYVS1quwKIis/edit?usp=sharing
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You may have noticed people talking about marxism lately.
(Marsha Blackburn): ...the unchecked spread of marxist influence...
(Tommy Tuberville): ...as our nation has been taken over by the marxists...
(Louie Gohmert): ...the demands of the anarchists and marxists rampaging across America...
(Marsha Blackburn): ...will threaten our very survival.
Okay, whoa. Should I be alarmed? The Marxists are threatening my survival? It seems like our elected officials are pretty worked up about this. But what does Marxism actually mean? Hi, I'm Ellie Anderson, and this is Crash Course Political Theory.
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"A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of communism" That's literally the opening line to the "Communist Manifesto". You can't deny it's a total banger.
Ever since Marx and his co-author Friedrich Engels wrote this line in the late 1840s, people have agonized about the supposed evils of communism. In the 1950s, Joseph McCarthy infamously made his political career rooting out alleged communists, coming for everyone from W.E.B Du Bois to Lucille Ball. And we're still haunted by that ghost today.
A 2024 bill would require high schools in New Hampshire to teach anti-communism. And in Florida, Republican lawmakers are trying to mandate anti-communist education from kindergarted up.
But are Marx's ideas really such a threat to freedom?
Before I can answer that question, I have to back up into some very philosophical territory. I'm gonna need...a lot more coffee.
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Okay. Bear with me while I attempt to explain a concept that's a tough one even for
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philosophy grad students: dialectival materialism. I know. Even the name sounds scary. But we are in this together. Let's do it.
So Karl Marx was a fan of German philosopher G.W.F Hegel, who had this theaory about how idea evolve. Basically, he thought that any general way you think about the world--any philosophy, model, or theory, isn't one solid idea, but rather the result of a bunch of contradictory perspectives in conflict with each other. And as people try to reconcile their opposing viewpoins, they create new ideas--an ongoing process he called the "dialectic". Think "dia" like "dialogue", "lectic" like "lecture". Two conflicting ideas talking and eventually synthesizing into new ones.
Still with me? Okay. Now, in Hegel's view, if you want to understand why the world is the way it is, you have to look to the realm of ideas. A perspective called idealism. But Marx turned Hegel on his head. He said, if you want to undertand why the world is the way it is, you have to look not at ideas, but at the physical world. The material conditions of the world, especially the economic ones. This is called materialism.
So, want to understand why religion is the way it is? You need to understand wages. Wanna understand why a society has the moral values it does? You need to look at the market. In other words, in Marx's view, material economic systems are the root of everything. Not just how goods are exchanged, but who controls what gets made, who actually makes the things, the conditions they're under, and so on.
As he put it "every class struggle is a political struggle." And when we put these two big ideas together--the dialectic and materialism-- we get a view called dialectical materialism. I know, great name.
This is Marx's real bread and butter. It's the view that once we understand