In this video, I try to give a basic overview of communism according to Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin. This is a start of a series of Communism 101 videos. Feedback is welcome.

  • NXL
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    3 years ago

    You mention in the comments about information about China being western propaganda when it comes to their authoritarianism. Are there specific things your referring to when you say that? The people ik chinas government consists of over a hundred billionaires and hundreds of 100 millionaires, they have zero freedom of speech, no free press, a person in power indefinitely, and concentration camps with over a million people because of their religion.

    I find it frustrating when leftists teaching ideas about communism etc try and paint China etc as if they’re just misrepresented by the media and try to excuse the things they do and either use whataboutism or call things fake news. We dont need to justify/minimize the pain of millions of people living in other places to make capitalism/america look bad. Capitalism/america does a good enough job to make itself look bad without people trying to pretend the alternatives havent been used to also inflict pain, slavery, etc

    https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/03/02/chinas-parliament-has-about-100-billionaires-according-to-data-from-the-hurun-report.html

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/business/china-parliament-billionaires.html

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      3 years ago

      That’s like some hundred billionaires from upwards of 2500 members of Congress. It has people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

      What are some tangible ways in which China hampers freedom of speech in any exceptional way? There are people on Chinese social media criticising the government and no harm comes to them unless they plan on overthrowing the state, which is standard procedure around the world.

      The idea behind denouncing Western media’s misrepresentation of China is to take a stand against the constant regime change the US and its allies carry out around the world while people like you play both sides.