Understanding Marxism: Change the World | 5 Minute Video — Transcript

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1. 0:02engraved on Karl Marx's tombstone in
2. 0:04Highgate Cemetery in North London are
3. 0:06the following words the philosophers
4. 0:09have only interpreted the world in
5. 0:10various ways the point however is to
6. 0:12change it substitute the word Professor
7. 0:15for the word philosopher we really don't
8. 0:18have philosophers anymore and you get
9. 0:20right to the core of Marx's enduring
10. 0:22attraction to the Contemporary World
11. 0:25Marx demands that the intellectual class
12. 0:27the professors of law sociology history
13. 0:29women studies anthropology journalism
14. 0:32and so on come out of the Ivory Tower
15. 0:34and join the barricades to see
16. 0:37themselves not as the preservers of the
17. 0:39dusty past but the creators of a new and
18. 0:41glorious future The Lure has proven to
19. 0:44be very strong and it's not hard to
20. 0:47understand why how much more meaningful
21. 0:49exciting and romantic to see yourself as
22. 0:51an Agent of Change rather than a mere
23. 0:54academic how much more meaningful
24. 0:56exciting and romantic to see the young
25. 0:58people who fill up your classroom as
26. 1:00potential soldiers in the
27. 1:02cause send them into the world with the
28. 1:04same revolutionary Spirit the same
29. 1:06disgust toward bgea middle class values
30. 1:09that you feel and you've done your job
31. 1:13and we must give these lecture hall
32. 1:14revolutionaries their due look around
33. 1:17for the most part they've succeeded
34. 1:20drill into any current leftist movement
35. 1:22environmentalism critical race Theory
36. 1:24the massive expansion of the welfare
37. 1:26state not to mention diversity equity
38. 1:28and inclusion offices at every
39. 1:30University and major corporation and you
40. 1:33will find Marxism at its core a contempt
41. 1:37of the Enlightenment and the
42. 1:38judeo-christian value system from which
43. 1:41capitalism
44. 1:42Springs Marx's most famous call to
45. 1:45action workers of the World Unite was
46. 1:48not of course to the professorate but to
47. 1:50the laboring class that didn't work out
48. 1:53so well workers especially in the United
49. 1:56States turned out to be more interested
50. 1:58in refrigerators than revolutions the
51. 2:01only barricade they were passionate
52. 2:03about was a white picket fence in front
53. 2:05of a green Suburban Lawn poor bited
54. 2:09souls the appeal of Marxism was somehow
55. 2:11lost on them maybe because they didn't
56. 2:13go to college but the intellectual class
57. 2:17never lost faith even after Stalin even
58. 2:20after Mao even after Castro wrecked Cuba
59. 2:23even after Paul pot murdered millions of
60. 2:26his fellow cambodians even after Hugo
61. 2:28Chavez destroyed the strongest economy
62. 2:30in South America the academic Elite
63. 2:33remained True
64. 2:35Believers indeed in a world without
65. 2:38faith where God is dead Marxism has
66. 2:41become in effect a substitute
67. 2:44religion one of the major strengths of
68. 2:46Marxism in contrast to both modern
69. 2:49liberalism and conservatism is the
70. 2:51unyielding commitment of its followers
71. 2:53to this Faith to Bear witness to it and
72. 2:57to act on it it summons these followers
73. 3:00to join a crusade to destroy the evil
74. 3:03that is capitalism and to create the
75. 3:05good that is communism in our secular
76. 3:09world the Marxist ideal gives the
77. 3:11Marxist True Believer a reason to live a
78. 3:14reason to die and a reason to kill
79. 3:18monsters like Lennon Stalin Mao Kim
80. 3:21ilung hoochi Min and Paul pot took this
81. 3:24to the nth degree and murdered Millions
82. 3:28for the record the latter to were
83. 3:30politically educated in France Paul pot
84. 3:33studied at the
85. 3:34sorbon if you think I'm exaggerating the
86. 3:36evils of Marxism if you think Stalin and
87. 3:39those other guys got communism wrong but
88. 3:41your new Democratic socialism will get
89. 3:44it right think again Marxism leads a
90. 3:48society toward a fixed goal a utopian
91. 3:51vision of Pure Freedom in which the
92. 3:53individual is liberated from the false
93. 3:55consciousness of capitalism
94. 3:57unfortunately by Marx's own definition
95. 4:00the path to this Utopia requires the
96. 4:03destruction economically politically and
97. 4:06morally of every vesage of civilization
98. 4:10as we know it economically Marxism seeks
99. 4:13to destroy free enterprise the division
100. 4:15of labor profit and loss competition and
101. 4:18material wealth politically it seeks to
102. 4:21destroy the rule of law separation of
103. 4:23powers and freedom of speech morally it
104. 4:27seeks to destroy individualism religious
105. 4:29liberty and independent thought and on
106. 4:32top of this Rubble it builds the all
107. 4:34powerful State ruled by an all powerful
108. 4:37Elite this is why the Communist 1% the
109. 4:40true 1% must use the full power of the
110. 4:43state to force the 99% the true 99% to
111. 4:47become something they are not and do not
112. 4:49want to be and if that doesn't work the
113. 4:52secular philosophy of Brotherly Love
114. 4:54simply intimidates into silence and
115. 4:56ultimately liquidates as much of the 99%
116. 4:59as is necessary to keep everybody in
117. 5:02line censorship secret police and
118. 5:06reeducation camps these are not bugs in
119. 5:09an imperfect system they are features
120. 5:12critical parts of its design in short
121. 5:16the problem with Marxism has been and
122. 5:19always will be
123. 5:21Marxism too bad the academic
124. 5:23establishment has yet to figure this out
125. 5:26or even worse maybe they have I'm Brad
126. 5:30Thompson professor of political science
127. 5:32at Clemson University for Prager
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