Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Top 10 Influential Communist Leaders" video.

  1. Ideas in themselves kill no one. It's humanities use of ideas and the class conflict that entails are the reason why people die in wars and revolutions.
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  2. Marx participated in the first international, wrote on a number of subjects including what would lead capitalist society into it own contradictions like those that put the Roman Empire and feudal Europe into crisis before capitalism. He also wrote on the short lived Paris commune the proletariat's first experience with political power and a state of its own. Engels his revolutionary partner should not be discounted either as he wrote the Condition of the English working class and the Family State and Private Property. Trotsky joined Lenin's Bolsheviks when he realized that only with a party like Lenin's could the Permanent revolution succeed. Trotsky and the left opposition lost the leadership of the Soviet Union to the Stalinist bureaucracy but never ended his criticism of Stalin, Socialism in one country, Stalin's methods and the revolutionary internationalism of Marxism and Leninism. Fidel and Che made the first socialist revolution in the America's and revived the Internationalism of the Russian Bolshevism making Cuba a power way larger in the world history politics despite its size because of that internationalism.
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  3. Marx and Engel's were the first to establish and bring together the ideas and concepts of scientific socialism as opposed to utopian and religious socialism. The League of the Just became the Communist League. One may note that the Manifesto is Manifesto of the Communist Party not the League.
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  4. He was enough of a leader that he wrote a letter to President Lincoln during the Civil war for the International Workingmen's Association and received a response back from Lincoln from the US Ambassador.
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  5. He was a leader of the First International.
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  6. There were others who had thought up communist societies where there was a equality among people. Most of them were religious societies where people would get together for the common good and share resources. Marx called this utopian communism because they could not compete with capitalism in its production methods so only a few would join and they would forever be indebted to capitalism and it production methods. Marx had studied previous societies documented at the British museum and came to the conclusion that the most important things humans did was to labor and since the end of primitive communism where their was no surplus to sustain a separate ruling class societies were divided into classes based upon their relation to the means of production. That these societies developed in such a way that the previous methods would fail because as the productive forces increased they would come up against unforeseen contradictions. He wondered if capitalism also would also come to an end because of unforeseen contradictions. So he sought to lay bare how capitalist political economy worked and its contradictions in his famous work Das Kapital. He also saw how capitalism created a working class and that this class could, would and should take power from the capitalists because like previous forms of societies unforeseen contradictions would set us back into the past without a new way of organizing society. However should this new class take power there would no longer be a ruling class separate from the productive class and this would result in communism with more wealth than ever before in human history. However humanity would need to pass through a revolutionary stage suppressing the old capitalist class and go through a period of socialism (capitalism without the capitalists) on to communism at a world scale.
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  7. The most prosperous and powerful turned into the biggest pile of rubbish in the history of the world. There's a reason why Marx said "workers of the world unite" and not Aryan Nation of the world oppress. If he didn't want to be defeated by "four Superpowers"why the hell did he get into a war with them? Adolf Hitler and Jeff Davis defeated by their own stupidity. Even where they win by successful murdering all the workers leaders despite their political affiliation and then avoid foreign war like Spain, Portugal, and Chile are they able to last a thousand years without returning to bourgeois democracy. No because the class struggle between labor and capital produces a new leadership and the best way capital has to deal with the workers is under a bourgeois democracy. Fascism is a card played by the capitalists only at the last moment because it is the most costly and least likely to succeed in a revolutionary situation. Lenin and Trotsky lead a revolution and Trotsky an army made up of soldiers of a defeat czarist army and that defeated a Russian counter revolution army and 14 Imperialist foreign nations including the US Army. Fidel Castro stood up to the mightiest empire the world has ever seen only 90 miles away and thumbed his nose at them.
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  8. Interesting historical revisionism. Hitler with his mighty army was just 'forced' into taking over Czechoslovakia. LOL Under his own racial theories the Germans with the best genetics left for the United States anyway. Henry Ford was a hero of Hitler and Joe Kennedy said Hitler was a guy you could do business with. Yet he allied himself with Japan (Honorarily Ayanian's no doubt LOL) who ended up "forcing" FDR into declaring war on Japan and then Germany. LOL He was able to get a non aggression pact with Stalin. LOL He could have easily defeated Britain after first having rolled across France and the low countries. LOL He could then taken on the Soviet Union but once again he was just "forced' into breaking his pact with Stalin. LOL Like other Empires and Emperors he got the empire into too many battles at once and then internal collapse set in like a house of cards. LOL LOL LOL.
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  9. Stalin was no doubt a criminal but he was our criminal. Hitler and the rest of the ruling classes are criminals in their own right. Most of what you have to say is just nonsense developed by pseudo scientists. Even if Hitler succeeded it defeating both Britain, the Soviet Union creating a European Empire and getting a truce with America. What would he have then?A European Empire! A European empire based upon German capitalist superiority and German military occupation forces would be destined to collapse because of both economic forces and national differences. Trying to maintain an empire through brutality is a prescription for disaster.
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