I really liked the project, so I translated everything to Portuguese, as it may reach more people. Keep up the good work!

The name "Mao Zedong" follows Chinese naming conventions - Mao is the surname, Zedong the personal name. When citing his work and the citation style demands that only the initials be given, it should be Mao, Z.

I see the notification, I click. I’m a simple man.

This should be MANDATORY reading for Western Marxists in regards to how they approach others especially when organising the working class. LARPing tankies and some twisted liberal variation of "communist" drunk on idpol would rather antagonize a member of the working class/petit bourgeoisie who had never learned to process their own contradictions in the first place. For example: a blue collar worker can have progressive ideas about labor relations but have regressive ideas when it comes to gender; a petib but vice versa. Most Western self-proclaimed Marxists would rather alienate these people by approaching them through their secondary contradictions (gender, race, etc.) rather than through their principal contradictions, i.e. which class they belong to and how does the other class affect them (aka class analysis). Contradictions on race and gender are secondary because class relations form the basis that touch upon these contradictions in the first place, making it primary. This is not to say that things such as gender and race are not important matters to discuss. Progressive ideas about race and gender should be discussed ALONGSIDE class relations, since upon closer inspection oppressions on class, gender, and race are interconnected and mutually reinforces each other. Remember: Class relations form the basis of oppression of race and gender, but all forms of oppression should be fought altogether. TL;DR If you plan to organise the working class don't kick out a powerline worker from your conference just because they are "fatphobic" or don't accuse a small enterprise owner of being a "dirty capitalist". Class analysis is always important, and learning contradictions helps in determining who to antagonize and which ones should be organised.

I like the new narrator.

Great one! These videos make it so easy to understand Marxist economics.

Great video. This channel helps me learn a lot about marxism thank you

Great explanation! Love the new narrator and the visuals

Sorry I haven't been watching your videos lately. I lost two of my jobs and I luckily found a new one but I am surprised that this channel has grown as it has. Congrats comrades ! Solidarity from the epicenter state of the covid outbreak

I really like your videos, definitely learned a lot. Thank you! I know that you said that you're not going to talk about Marx's value theory but I allowed myself to point out that besides the USE-VALUE and EXCHANGE-VALUE, there exist another form distinguished by Marx, namely VALUE. These three forms are not in a logical opposition but coexist within a commodity. Exchange Value is the necessary mode of representation of VALUE, The difference between VALUE and EXCHANGE-VALUE is in that what is represented(value) and the mode of representation(exchange value) i.e. the social relation between the labouring activities of the people is represented as surface relation between the products of their labour i.e. commodities. I'm not going to dig deeper I just find it important to point out. btw ''Seventeen Contradictions of Capital'' is a must read ! Keep up the great job, Comrade!

I like these videos so much that I've used them as an example to members of the fourth international on good ways to grow class consciousness. Not everyone is inclined to read theory and myself and other members of the party I am affiliated with think your videos are excellent.

Love the work you guys do!

These are excellent, keep up the great work

Turned on notifications! - a comrade in Vancouver, Canada

Hi comrades! Thank you so much for your work, these videos are so well done and have helped me learn many times over! However would be great if you subtitled your videos, allowing Deaf & hard of hearing people as well as people with auditory processing issues such as myself to be able to access these important educational resources. Disabled radicals are all over the place and have a lot to contribute to leftist movements, but are continually excluded in ways like this! (and just fyi, the YT auto-generated captions that are usually on your videos are always inaccurate especially when dealing with the kinds of non-English words and names that come up so frequently when discussing Marxism)

Please make more and more videos on dialectics

Well done. Very well done.

Put the discord link/code in the comments or description pls The discord link shown at the intro is expired

11:30, and now they want a UBI (which I am not opposed to), but without workplace reforms (ideally cooperativism) marketplace oriented reforms will just subsidize inequality.

Great video

How can I subscribe to your channel and get notifications for new videos, and, is it possible to request certain work to be analyzed? Khule from RSA. I really love your work.🙏

What is being said between 3:06 - 3:12? I can't tell if the narrator is saying "forms", "informs", or something else. Just asking because I am working on captions for this video, thanks!

Thanks. Lots of food for thought here.

awesome work, I'm being radicalized with your vids no cap, also I'm slowly spreading the knowledge with my fellow left wing politically undefined friends, they seem to agree with almost everything!

Gotta get more engagement on these videos

Pretty nice video

Comrade you should make a video just to introduce beginners to communism and Marxism, make the case for both. I think you would be very good at it

Can the conflict of anarchist thought vs. communist thought be seen as a contradiction?

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Dialectical materialism and the negation of contradictions. 🏴‍☠️beware of those who try to negate the negation of contradictions.👊🏽🏴✊🏽

Who's the narrator?

6:19 Marxist project: We exchanged 10 000 pencil for 1 car ✏↔️🚗 Kyle MacDonald: Amateurs 📎↔️🏠 7:36 One dollar is missing, or customer n°4 is a thief.

Is this the same voice over person that does the templin institute?

Excellent video about Marxian theory

I now understand what contradictions mean less than before I saw the video 😅

If this comment is blocked then I give up. KZfaq is pants. Anyway. Been googling the past hour for 'double-slit experiment' and 'dialectical materialism' and eventually gave up. It seemed to me that figures on the Right prejudice outcomes - much like if you were to detect a particle before it enters the slits in the double slit experiment (creating point-like particles rather than an 'interference pattern'). I won't get into 'super position' and 'entaglement' etc... But basically, 'acceleration' (from a detector for example) seems to me to be what causes particles to appear as point-like particles rather than an interference pattern: and seems to me to be why Quantum Mechanics is at odds with Einstein's Theory of General Relativity (concerning gravity) because of 'accelerating reference frames'. Acceleration/gravity seems to act to reduce 'uncertainty' in quantum systems (and in so doing reduces 'entanglement'). When you accelerate an atom it produces photons of light - it produces particles, in much the same way a detector in the double slit experiment creates point-like particles. So basically 'acceleration' is what gives us 'information' from out of the quantum uncertainty. This has a bearing in the 'second law of thermodynamics' because it says that the content of information in the universe is always increasing (the complexity is increasing - from 'order' [simple] to 'disorder' [highly complex]). But if acceleration is required to create that information in the first place, then it seems we have a contradiction regarding how fundamental the second law of thermodymanics would appear to be - as it may only apply historically in terms of the time line of the universe rather than what is yet to happen in the future? From what I can make out, the uncertainty before a detection of a particle - that it could be in many different locations - seems very much like literature I have read from the left/materialist philosophies. While the appearance of a particle - that we can be conscious of - is more similar to the philosophy on the Right of 'ideals' ect..? Call it 'The Matrix' of 'The Holographic Universe' but it is only a surface reality - like a photograph. Anyway. This probably won't even post. Thanks

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3:44 is this what they mean when people talk about "intersectionality".

I feel less dumb now

There are no gendered contradictions. Only complimentary differences. Just had to correct this.

The transformation problem is not a real thing. On its own terms the "problem" is not a "problem" once time is introduced into the "transformation." Additionally, the framing of the issue in the first case is dishonest. Price of a commodity on the shelf in Walmart is shaped by a plethora of factors and changes depending on context. To claim the LTV is false because it can't determine the price of a toothbrush on the shelf at Walmart, when that price itself is a moving target, then it is not Marx that has ffailed, rather, it is the delusion that price is a stable thing in nature that is the problem.

Aspect aspect aspects aspect

Aloritm

Oh you wanna see contradiction? *whips out mao*

Good work! Super Marxio level up......!

Marx should have applied those contradictions to liberalism as well as capitalism.

Another orwellian term, though not as bad as "exploitation".

Communist billionaires - No contradictions!

what an evil ideology