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Understanding Marxism: Change the World
Workers of the world, unite! Karl Marx’s famous call to action never caught on with its intended target, the working class. But the intellectual class—the world of academia—swallowed it hook, line and sinker. They are still pushing it today. Why? What do they hope to gain and what does it mean to the rest of us?
C. Bradley Thomspon is the author of “The Redneck Intellectual” on Substack, and America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration that Defined It.
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Engraved on Karl Marx’s tombstone in Highgate Cemetery in North London are the following words: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
Substitute the word “professor” for the word “philosopher” (we really don’t have philosophers anymore) and you get right to the core of Marx’s enduring attraction to the contemporary world.
Marx demands that the intellectual class — the professors of law, sociology, history, women’s studies, anthropology, journalism and so on — come out of the Ivory Tower and join the barricades; to see themselves not as the preservers of the dusty past, but the creators of a new and glorious future.
The lure has proven to be very strong. And it’s not hard to understand why.
How much more meaningful, exciting, and romantic to see yourself as an agent of change rather than a mere academic. How much more meaningful, exciting, and romantic to see the young people who fill up your classroom as potential soldiers in the cause.
Send them into the world with the same revolutionary spirit, the same disgust toward bourgeois middle-class values that you feel, and you’ve done your job.
And we must give these lecture-hall revolutionaries their due. Look around. For the most part, they’ve succeeded.
Drill into any current leftist movement — environmentalism, critical race theory, the massive expansion of the welfare state, not to mention diversity, equity and inclusion offices at every university and major corporation — and you will find Marxism at its core: a contempt of the Enlightenment and the Judeo-Christian value system from which capitalism springs.
Marx’s most famous call to action — “workers of the world unite” — was not, of course, to the professoriate, but to the laboring class.
That didn’t work out so well.
Workers, especially in the United States, turned out to be more interested in refrigerators than revolutions. The only barricade they were passionate about was a white picket fence in front of a green suburban lawn. Poor benighted souls, the appeal of Marxism was somehow lost on them — maybe because they didn’t go to college.
But the intellectual class never lost faith — even after Stalin, even after Mao, even after Castro wrecked Cuba, even after Pol Pot murdered millions of his fellow Cambodians, even after Hugo Chavez decimated the strongest economy in South America, the academic elite remained true believers.
Indeed, in a world without faith — where God is dead — Marxism has become, in effect, a substitute religion.
One of the major strengths of Marxism (in contrast to both modern liberalism and conservatism) is the unyielding commitment of its followers to this faith, to bear witness to it, and to act on it.
Marxism summons these followers to join a crusade to destroy the evil that is capitalism and to create the good that is communism. In our secular world, the Marxist ideal gives the Marxist true-believer a reason to live, a reason to die—and a reason to kill.
Monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim Il Sung, Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot took this to the nth degree and murdered millions. For the record, the latter two were politically “educated” in France. Pol Pot studied at the Sorbonne.
If you think I’m exaggerating the evils of Marxism, if you think Stalin and those other guys got communism wrong but your new Democratic Socialism will get it right, think again.
Marxism leads a society toward a fixed goal: a utopian vision of pure freedom in which the individual is liberated from the “false consciousness” of capitalism. Unfortunately, by Marx’s own definition, the path to this utopia requires the destruction—economically, politically, and morally—of every vestige of civilization as we know it.
Economically, Marxism seeks to destroy free enterprise, the division of labor, profit-and-loss, competition, and material wealth.
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😂😂😂😂very reactionary, you are full of yourself .
Yep
Im sharing !!
If just one pragerU “professor” could read theory and actually synthesize it correctly I’ll quit the left rn
2:25 truly sad how the communist pol pot did that. I wonder who stopped him
what is this 😂 ?!
Bradley Thompson, do you not want to better the world? Aren't you holding classes, to influence young people with your idees, you think are good?
Apparently I’m communist now because I live in a country with free healthcare, evil bicycles and public transport
Judeo Christian 🤣. Oxymoron.
Look at US, bombed and murdered the shit out of half of the world
What an accurate, refreshing and welcome summary of Marxism. Every word is true. Wake up Americans and anybody else sucked into Marxist destruction and hate!
Sums up the charlatan creep Hitchens precisely.
This guy shows a CIA agent, a guy in jail and censorship: This is Marxism. Great, he still has to show banks, loans, the US tax rate and unemployment, saying that this is also Marxism.
Dear uploader, the name is C. Bradley Thompson
Not Thomspon.
All devoted Marxists seek to get a life because of their own incompetence. I see a lot of these losers below. Marxism is a denial of everyone's minds. This means one's ideas, values, and meaning are all subordinate to some imperial state based on a delusional vision of Marxism. Interestingly, a number of oligarchs cooperate with Marxists for their own ends. Probably the best example is the World Economic Forum led by the Bond-style villain Klaus Schwab. So Marxists a select oligarchs work together to enslave everyone else. That is why we see famine beginning in Sri Lanka, food shortages around the world, people beginning to freeze in Europe, and war drums in East and West. Hundreds of millions of people have died so far because of Marxism, but we can only hope the figure does not rise to billions of people.
Prager is the real indoctrination that Ron desantis was talking about…The real Ennemy of conservatives are themselves..
Read Mao. It’s an amazing read.
LMFAO IM DEAD
Isn't it like their job tro make it look bad?
Like geese dw I was sond on marxism before you started blabbering on.
Socialism is when Critical Race Theory. And more Critical Race Theory it is, the more socialismer it gets and if it does a real lot of CRT, then it is communism.
Karl Marx is the walking dead
in Cuba and Venezuela.
Marxism is the ideology of fools and cowards.
Why not have honest conversations about what capitalism and marxism truly is and let us decide for ourselves.
This video did an amazing job at bending the truth into lies. Dangerous propaganda.
DONT CARE ABOUT THE TROLLS. MARXISM/SOCIALISM WILL NEVER WORK IN REAL LIFE. CUBA AND VENUZUELA ARE MORDERN DAY EXAMPLES. INTELLIGENCE IS NOT EQUAL TO WISDOM. MARX WAS POSSESED BY THE DEVIL AND YOU KNOW THE DEVIL IS REALLY INTELLIGENT AND THE DEVIL IS THE ONE WHO FEEDS THESE ANTI CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUALS LIKE MARX AND DARWIN WITH FALSE KNOWLEDGE. THESE MARXISTS HAVE BEEN RADICALIZED TO NOT CARE ABOUT HUMAN EMOTIONS BUT TO CARE ONLY ABOUT POLITICAL THEORY WHICH THEY BELIEVE WILL LEAD TO A UTOPIA. THEY WANT TO JUSTIFY THEIR CRIMINAL ACTIONS. DONT BUY THEIR COOL AID. THEDE TROLLS ARE FROM MARXIST ORGANISATIONS. READ THE BOOK TORTURED FOR CHRIST BY RICHARD WURMBRAND. WORLDLY IDEOLOGIES COME FROM THE DEVIL. NAZISM KILLED THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND COMMUNISM TORTURED CHRISTIANS VERY HORRIBLY. ITS THE DEVILS ATTACK ON GODS PEOPLE
Yeah right there was never a working class uprising in America gunned down by owners of large cooperations, no all American workers were just interested in refrigerators.
Just like today they don't care about health care or a living wage that deserves that title
Marxists are the evangelicals of the Leftist Religion, a theology in itself that burns heretics at the stake in the forms of Big Tech censorship, travel bans, doxing, rioting, and other intimidation tactics.
I was a committed marxist, but after watching this video, I am a free-market capitalist with a large enjoyment of worker exploitation.
Talk to anyone that’s fled a communist country and there is your answer. It’s so plain to see. It’s also evident by the comments, how brainwashed the post secondary institutions have made the next gen. Thanks Soros. Thanks globalist WEF.
I guess in order to become a professor of political science in the USA it's sufficient to listen to Atlas Shrugged once as an audio book, that's the only logical explanation for this video.
Whenever i see prager u a vid, i lose hope in humanity by thinking people unironically listen to them. Then i open the comment section and i see that there are still people that can think by themselves
Well said
I love seeing the projection of saying "they believe in Marxism as a pseudo religion" because they can't fathom someone believing in an idea because the came to agree with it through evidence and critical thought. They worship capitalism as an omnibenevolent system so that's what socialists must be doing too.
How can you make a video about terrible Marxism is, and never once mention a genuine and honest Marxist thesis? It seems like a satire, it has become my try not to laugh video
Is it part of judeo-christian values to have such a gay haircut?
Karl Marx with his cannon and hard hat will liberate us!
I love freely choosing to be a sewer cleaner
Prager is too afraid to debate the Left:
https://youtu.be/49D_8ZIWmXU