Why has every communist country so far been a one-party dictatorship?
Richard Wolff can’t answer this question for some reason.
Neither can Freddie de Boer.
Yet the answer is very simple, and we can learn a lot from it.
Is it something inherent to Marxism? Is human nature incompatible with political equality? Has “true” communism never been tried yet? If so, then why not?
Watch the video and find out!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction: Richard Wolff flubbs the answer
1:40 Right wing answers: Mises, Hayek, Boettke
4:04 The short answer
4:40 The Long answer
9:07 Milovan Djilas’ The New Class
10:28 What are Socialism and Communism? Manipulating language
11:48 Competing definitions of Socialism / Communism
13:13 Socialism vs. Capitalism
19:01 Democracy and the abolition of wage labour
23:53 Socialism vs. Communism
25:40 Socialism vs. the State
28:37 Marxism vs. Anarchism: the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
35:35 Marxism: why and where socialism will happen
42:33 Marxism vs. peasants
45:05 Marxism, the proletariat and the intellectuals
46:47 Marxism: why poor countries can’t become socialist/communist
49:48 Marxism: what happens to a communist revolution in a poor country?
52:08 Questions for next episode, outtro
A very interesting video from “What is politics” aims to explain why most communist revolutions happened in third-world countries, including Vietnam, and how the goal of such revolutions was actually rapid industrialization in the face of hardships imposed by imperialist powers, not communism as we commonly think.
Một video thú vị từ kênh Youtube “What is politics” với nội dung tập trung vào câu hỏi: Tại sao hầu hết các cuộc cánh mạng cộng sản trên thế giới diễn ra tập trung ở các quốc gia thuộc thế giới thứ ba, đồng thời lập luận để chứng minh luận điểm rằng mục đích chính của những cuộc cách mạng đó là đẩy nhanh sự nghiệp công nghiệp hóa trước những thách thức chính trị từ những thế lực đế quốc, chứ không phải là tiến tới chủ nghĩa cộng sản như ta thường nghĩ.
I love WhatIsPolitics; I find his way of explaining politics crystal clear. His framework is beneficial to introduce people who need help understanding politics to begin their way to becoming literate.
I love WhatIsPolitics; I find his way of explaining politics crystal clear. His framework is beneficial to introduce people who need help understanding politics to begin their way to becoming literate.