The Truth About Communism — Transcript

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1. 0:00now Nietzsche said back in the 1800s
2. 0:02late 1800s that
3. 0:07after he said that God was dead
4. 0:09and I suppose that would also mean the
5. 0:11theory that of suffering that I outlined
6. 0:13at the beginning that is at the basis of
7. 0:16judeo-christian civilization that God
8. 0:18was dead and that people had killed him
9. 0:20and that we'd never find enough water to
10. 0:22wash away the blood it's a paraphrase
11. 0:24but I've got the basic message right and
12. 0:26he also said there'll be two
13. 0:28consequences of that
14. 0:30nihilism
15. 0:32because there's no Transcendent meaning
16. 0:34and a move to totalitarianism because
17. 0:36people can't tolerate
18. 0:38nihilism
19. 0:40he said the most likely Pathway to
20. 0:42totalitarianism would be
21. 0:44communism essentially he didn't quite
22. 0:46use those words but
23. 0:48he meant that
24. 0:50he the words are close enough
25. 0:52uh
26. 0:54he said socialism but I'm going to use
27. 0:56communism to distinguish and distinguish
28. 0:58it from democratic socialism and he said
29. 1:00that probably tens of hundreds tens of
30. 1:03millions of people would die in the 20th
31. 1:04century as we played out that experiment
32. 1:06and then he said but it might be worth
33. 1:08it if we learn something from it
34. 1:11rough man I mean and and unbelievable
35. 1:14like I cannot figure out how in the
36. 1:16world he knew that that was going to
37. 1:17happen especially so far in advance but
38. 1:20Dostoevsky knew the same thing he wrote
39. 1:22this book called The Devils or the
40. 1:24possessed you could read that that's a
41. 1:27great book it takes about 150 pages to
42. 1:29get going but once it like everything
43. 1:31everything snaps together after that you
44. 1:34know and then it moves and it's
45. 1:37basically his prophecy about it's an
46. 1:40examination of the kind of person who
47. 1:42had Arisen in the aftermath of the death
48. 1:44of God in Russia who would lead the
49. 1:47Communist Revolution that's essentially
50. 1:49it it's brilliant it's it's it's
51. 1:51terrifying and it's a great intro to
52. 1:54solzhenitzen's Gulag archipelago which
53. 1:56describes what did happen when those
54. 1:59sort of people took over the revolution
55. 2:01so let's look at what happened after the
56. 2:04revolution
57. 2:05and we might say well this how about we
58. 2:07replicate the experiment a few times
59. 2:09because you know how it is if you're
60. 2:10running a scientific experiment you want
61. 2:13to find out
62. 2:13what something does if you allow it to
63. 2:16behave you don't want to just run it
64. 2:18once because well maybe there was
65. 2:20something specific about those
66. 2:21conditions that led to the outcome you
67. 2:23want to generalize it across multiple
68. 2:26circumstances so we might say well let's
69. 2:28take this set of ideas
70. 2:30and let's uh
71. 2:33let's run it on large scale over a very
72. 2:35long period of time in a variety of
73. 2:37exceptionally diverse cultures and
74. 2:39languages
75. 2:42so let's do that
76. 2:44okay well we could first start with the
77. 2:47with the Soviets
78. 2:50people even now because it's like the
79. 2:53100th anniversary of the Russian
80. 2:54Revolution are celebrating Lenin it's
81. 2:57like that's not good
82. 2:58that's like celebrating Hitler
83. 3:01okay I'm dead serious about that
84. 3:04it's not good and the fact that people
85. 3:07can dare to think that that's okay means
86. 3:10that there's something wrong with the
87. 3:12way that we look at history
88. 3:14Lenin was a monster
89. 3:16and if you want to know about that you
90. 3:18can read Soulja Nixon's writings about
91. 3:19Lenin because the Communist apologists
92. 3:22say well it wasn't Landon Len was a good
93. 3:23guy he was all motivated by love of the
94. 3:26working class it's like well his
95. 3:28henchman was Stalin
96. 3:30and if your henchman is Stalin you're
97. 3:32not a good guy
98. 3:34and and Lennon was around during the
99. 3:37early collectivization and if you read
100. 3:39what he wrote you'll find out that he is
101. 3:42perfectly willing to have any number of
102. 3:43people die as long as his ideological
103. 3:46system could be brought into being so
104. 3:48there's no celebrating Lenin there's no
105. 3:50we're cool young Marxist hip
106. 3:53revolutionaries and he's our Idol it's
107. 3:56like there's none of that
108. 3:58not if you know anything not if you're
109. 4:01decent
110. 4:03well there was death of the kulaks I
111. 4:05told you about that there was a
112. 4:06Ukrainian famine that's six million gone
113. 4:08there there was the rise of the gulag
114. 4:10State because it turned out that Russia
115. 4:12the Soviet Union couldn't run on the
116. 4:14principles that it had that it had uh uh
117. 4:18laid down a sacrosanct they just didn't
118. 4:20work so you had to enslave everybody and
119. 4:22run your economy
120. 4:24as a slave state essentially uh
121. 4:29and try not to kill the people in the
122. 4:30gulags so fast that you can't suck some
123. 4:33productive labor out of them there's the
124. 4:35death of tens of millions of people we
125. 4:37don't even know the estimates range from
126. 4:3915 to 60 million and like
127. 4:43we won't get too picky even about the
128. 4:45numbers because after the first 10
129. 4:46million you kind of made your point and
130. 4:49the fact that we don't know between 15
131. 4:52and 60 is actually an indication of the
132. 4:54horror
133. 4:55above it
134. 4:57because our count is off by tens of
135. 4:59Millions
136. 5:01and that's only within the last century
137. 5:04and then there was the 1956 Crackdown on
138. 5:07Hungary and the 1968 invasion of
139. 5:09Czechoslovakia then there was the whole
140. 5:11like thermonuclear Holocaust thing that
141. 5:14was going on at the same time and the
142. 5:16fact that in 1962 and in 1984 we were
143. 5:20seconds away from complete Annihilation
144. 5:23right during the Cuban Missile Crisis
145. 5:24the keys were in the intercontinental
146. 5:27ballistic missile release systems and
147. 5:30Castro as he admitted to Jimmy Carter in
148. 5:33case any of you are Castro fans which
149. 5:36you shouldn't be
150. 5:38that he was perfectly willing to have
151. 5:40Cuba annihilated if it would have meant
152. 5:41the defeat of the United States
153. 5:45and then in 1984
154. 5:47approximately I may have the date
155. 5:49exactly wrong the Russians received an
156. 5:52indication from their early warning
157. 5:54systems that the Americans had launched
158. 5:55five thermal nuclear missiles and one
159. 6:00Russian decided that it was a mistake
160. 6:02and refused to launch the retaliation
161. 6:04and he just died about two weeks ago
162. 6:08so you know that was pretty close
163. 6:11and uh
164. 6:13so that was experiment number one let's
165. 6:15say that that wasn't good that
166. 6:16experiment let's put it that way
167. 6:20it wasn't good it was exactly the
168. 6:23antithesis of good it was precisely the
169. 6:25antithesis of good
170. 6:28but that wasn't all I mean
171. 6:31there's the People's Republic of China
172. 6:33that's a different country like
173. 6:34seriously a different country right
174. 6:36different tradition different language
175. 6:40how many people died in China under Mao
176. 6:42no one knows
177. 6:45same issue with the Soviet Union
178. 6:47although
179. 6:48Mao was a bigger monster than Stalin and
180. 6:51that's that's impressive you know
181. 6:53because
182. 6:54there's Hitler
183. 6:56there's Stalin and there's Mao and of
184. 6:59the three Mao was probably the worst
185. 7:01he's still revered in China maybe that
186. 7:04accounts for their affinity for North
187. 7:06Korea which could still destroy us all
188. 7:09the remnants of that horrible state
189. 7:12maybe a hundred million people died in
190. 7:14China during the Great Leap Forward
191. 7:16that's a hell of a Leap Forward well
192. 7:19maybe it wasn't 100 million you know
193. 7:20maybe it was only 40 million but as I
194. 7:23said before
195. 7:25When you're counting in the tens of
196. 7:26millions your points already made and
197. 7:28then there was Cambodia and The Killing
198. 7:30Fields and Bulgaria and East Germany and
199. 7:33Romania and the Democratic People's
200. 7:34Republic of Korea that's North Korea and
201. 7:36Vietnam and Ethiopia Hungary
202. 7:40etc etc
203. 7:41etc it was never a successful communist
204. 7:45state
205. 7:47Cuba I suppose came closest but it was
206. 7:49radically
207. 7:51um
208. 7:53the Soviets poured money into Cuba so
209. 7:55that doesn't really count
210. 7:59so then the first question was well are
211. 8:02these marxists
212. 8:04motivated by love or hatred
213. 8:07well
214. 8:10is it love or hatred that produces 100
215. 8:12million dead people
216. 8:15and is that enough evidence or not
217. 8:18and if it's not enough evidence if you
218. 8:21think to yourself well that's not enough
219. 8:22evidence it was never really given its
220. 8:24proper
221. 8:27a proper try
222. 8:30it's like well what would have been a
223. 8:31proper try
224. 8:33see I always think when I hear someone
225. 8:34say that I know what you think
226. 8:37you think in your delusional arrogance
227. 8:41did you understand the Marxist doctrines
228. 8:43better than anyone else ever has and
229. 8:45that if you were the one implementing
230. 8:47those doctrines
231. 8:49you would have ushered in the Utopia
232. 8:51that's what you mean when you say that
233. 8:54and
234. 8:58you know they say and there's an idea in
235. 9:00the New Testament that there's a sin
236. 9:01it's the sin against the Holy Ghost
237. 9:04if you commit that sin no one really
238. 9:06knows what it is
239. 9:09that you can't be forgiven and I would
240. 9:11say well
241. 9:12if you want a candidate for the sin
242. 9:14against the holy ghost in the 21st
243. 9:16century uh the statement
244. 9:20communism real communism was never tried
245. 9:24with the underlying idea that if you had
246. 9:27been the person implementing it it would
247. 9:28have worked I think that's a pretty good
248. 9:32Contender for something for which you
249. 9:33should never be forgiven