communism

Overview of Communism and Marxist-Leninist States

Nyan ourthu nyan oru video commmunisnthiil cheyum ene nyan ourthu.

Nyan korae ethu kone samsarikonode.

Charethruthil nyan oru nala kazychapade thanatella.

definition of what it means or a good understanding of

what it means.

To understand Communism, let me just draw you

a spectrum here.

So, I'm just gonna start with Capitialism.

Now, this is really just gonna be an overview

People can do a whole PhD thesis on this type of thing

Capitalism and then I'll get a little bit more

And then we can progress to socialism

Socialism. And then we can go to communism

The modern versions of communism are really kind of the brainchild

of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin

Karl Marx was a German philosopher

in the eighteenhundreds who in his communist

manifesto and other writings kind of created

the philosophical underpinnings for communism

and Vladimir Lenin who led the bolshevik revolution in the Soviet Union

and created essentially the Soviet Union

he's the first person to

make some of Karl Marx's Ideas

more concrete and really every nation or every country

which we view as communist has really followed the pattern of

Vladimir Lenin, we'll talk about that in a second

First lets talk about the philosophical differences between these things

and how youy would move

First lets talk about the philosophical differences between these things

progression from capitalism through socialism to communism.

So, what he saw in Capitalism

and at least this part of what he saw was right

You have private property, private ownership of land

that is the main aspect of Capitalism

this is the world that most of us live in today

the problem that he saw with Capitalism is

he thought, well look, you know

when you have private property the people who

start accumulating some capital and

when we talk about capital we can be talking about

land we can be talking about factories

we can be talking about any type of natural resources

So the people who start getting a little bit of them

Let me draw a little diagram here

Let's say someone has a little bit of capital

That capital could be a factory or it could be land

Let me write capital. So let's just say it's land

So someone starts to own a little bit of land

And he owns more than everyone else

So you just have a bunch of other people

who don't own land, but they need it essentially

so since this guy owns all the land

they got to work on this guy's land

They have to work on this guy's land

And from Karl Marx's point of view, he said look

if all of these labourers who don't have as much capital

this guy has this capital

and so he can make these labourers work for

a very small wage and so any excess

profits that come out of this arrengement

the owner of the capital will be able to get it

these labourers won't be able to get there wages to go up

because there's so much competition for them to work

on this guy's farm or to work on this guy's land

he didn't think to much about

maybe the competition could go another way

maybe you could have a reality where

Maybe you could have a reality eventually

you'd have a bunch of people with reasonable amount of capital

and you'd have a bunch of labourers

and the bunch of people would compete for the labourers

maybe the labourers could make their wages go up

and they could eventually accumulate their own capital

and they could eventually start their own small businesses

He didn't really think about this reality too much over here

He just saw this reality and

to his defense, and I don't want to get into the habit

of defendind Karl Marx too much, to his defense

this is what was happening in the late eighteen hundreds

we have the industrial revolution

Even in the United States you did have the

Mark Twain called it the gilded age

This industrialists who did accumulate huge amounts of capital

they really did have a lot of the leverage

relative to the labourers and so if Karl Marx says

look if the guy with all the capital has all the leverage

and this whole arrangement makes some profits

he is going to be able to keep the profits

because he can keep all of these dude's wages low

So what is going to happen is the guy with the capital

is just going to end up with more capital

He is going to end up with more capital and

he is going to have even more leverage

and he will be able to keep this people on

a kind of a basic wage so that they can never

acquire capital f