I am going to read his book. That was a substantive discussion!

Brian is a great organizer. I just learned about his book through this video. Sounds like a must read!

I really enjoyed this.

Very eloquent person. Please bring him again sometime.

The interviewer is amazing! The guest is really good Great info, great channel! Subbed!

party of socialism and liberation is fighting the good fight. They are active in the anti-war movements against a possible war against North Korea; as well as ending the imperial wars of the middle east; fighting against police brutality; fighting for living wages; and against neoliberalism

so much truth...so sad most of us live as though we don't know what's been up for generations

Unfortunately, I find most of this true. "Capital" is among 50 best books I've read but I don't talk about this issues in such manner with others, not even with my friends because I think people are not ready to accept this. Unfortunately, people still find it more important to spend hours on facebook than to learn something, than to read something that has weight.... People are not suffering enough to acknowledge how badly they've been treated, how mislead and ignorant they've been kept, to look for alternative ways of approaching to society...

great interview

Excellent conversation! I am going to buy Brian's book!

Excellent information. Thanks.

REAL EDUCATIONAL NEWS. GREAT WORK

Can you put the link for the book in the description ?

excellent......... linin was the liberator's inspiration of third world country

Fantastic segment. Thank you so much. Really helps put so much in perspective.

Fantastic interview. I want to learn more. I'm going to read Becker's book.

For the 1st time I learned a little bit about Lenin no one talks about it in this country So he was a true revolutionary who fought for workers right

This is a brilliant video

I disagree that countries aren't colonizing. Europeans are still colonizing, in fact, America is continuing to colonized countries and America itself is colonized. The Indigenous aren't free neither is the Prisoners of War in this society! The United States is at risk because it will suffer the consequences of the atrocities it committed against it's own people and the world!

I think Michael Hudson has done the best work describing how modern imperialism and global financialized capitalism functions.

Super useful and relevant discussion.

BROTHERS PLEASE KEEP IT UP !!!

A very good information. This should be tought in schools.

Excellent interview.

"You look a little like Lenin". Lol

This was great. I wish I could ask Brian Becker why he seemed to use socialism an communism interchangeably

I really liked this, my next book I reckon ☺️

You should produce a segment about Nicos Poulantzas' work!!! He elaborates on the state, social class, power and capitalism. + His Theory of the State explains class power within society convincingly. Great show!

If people can't come together, left and right, this ain't gonna work. don't get boggled down in labels, just come to the table with good ideas, and Bernie had the best balance of practicality and progressiveness.

There is one utopian principal that Lenin, Sanders and the Party for Socialism and Liberation all share in common: that notion that change is realized through executive power. That the overturning of capitalism is merely a matter of capturing and controlling bourgeois political institutions. That communism can be legislated into existence. The single most important lesson that communists must take away from the Leninist experiment of the 20th century is that prospect of destroying capitalism died when the Bolsheviks demobilized the councils.

I appreciate the Steve Biko allusion

The free market was/is essential to imperialism, then and today. But I think it is not amiss to support Bernie's light socialism, especially in the primary, to help change the wider conversation. I agree with the guest that the radical left should support the Party for Socialism or the Green party in the general if Sander does not with the Democratic nomination - no one should vote for HRC or any Republican candidate; that's a vote for capitalism. But I think the reason Sanders says his supporters should vote for HRC in the general is a political maneuver. Regardless of his sincerity on the matter, if he has any chance of winning the primary he has got to play nice. Changing the Democratic party from within is the best shot socialists have in the present climate. Hopefully, with a Bernie win, the Right will implode and independents might have a better chance of establishing parties that would be more closely aligned to the Party for Socialism and Liberation's platform. To talk about Bernie's lack of radicalness from this narrow academic perspective misunderstands the wider populist radicality he represents in the mainstream conversation and speaks to the ego of this writer and the PSL. At least get behind him in the primary. I'll vote Stein or La Riva in the general, if HRC is demo pic, a lot of people will probably write in Sanders. But socialists who refuse to enroll in the system to push Sanders in the primary are missing a chance to help reconstruct the wider conversation surrounding establishment politics. A vote for Bernie in the primary is not selling out to a "lesser of two evils" mentality, it is a strategic means to gain a foothold that could lead to a widening of socialist discourse at large in US politics.

the original concentration came, not in the form of capital, but in the concentration of the European identity itself. From the perspective of the colonized, that was the original Empire. It was a consolidation of the European identity such that Europe as a collective constituted an Empire as it relates to the colonized. So while France, or Germany, or the US may not have had a singular empire, Europe as a whole was the imperial entity. Lenin may have viewed the world from the perspective of the worker, but he viewed it from the perspective of the white worker. He was concerned primarily about solving the problems of those inside of Europe, ie those resting on top of the pedestal of the colonized and oppressed people of the world

Stalin & Mao & POL POT Were complete monsters, but Lenin & Trotsky were intellectuals, and they were only against the greed and monarchy and nobility, aristocracy, etc. etc. which was very much like the French revolution. The thing is that after the French revolution, Napoleon came to power, and then he became a dictator, which it really wasn’t too much better except Napoleon did put the money into better education and a couple years after the French revolution, the partition vans that had once belong only to nobles and the serfs or slaves live there and worked there, & were the peasants, & after the years of the French revolution destruction. The people actually had partitioned the noble lands into 1 acre farms, and there was plenty of food to go around, and when Napoleon was forced into exile, and to abdicate when King Louis the XVIII returned. He was told they were going to have a constitutional monarchy, and it was not going to be like it was before and France did better but the major difference in France came along after the European revolutions in 1848!! that’s one other countries in Europe had revolutions as well like Austria-Hungary and other countries but Russia did not, and people were waiting on Russia. Eventually when Russia did have a revolution, it was so understandable as to why, and czar Nicholas sent these poor Russian troops out to fight in World War I, and they did not have hard covers to protect them from head injuries, and most of them didn’t have weapons, and they didn’t get enough food, so they mutinied and came back to Russia and rows up against the monarch.. without the military on his side, there is nothing that Czar Nicholas could do except abdicate, but they should’ve allowed him and his family to go into exile versus executing them and I don’t know who killed that entire family, but it was the wrong

lets vote for a democratic country.

@03:18 I really wish some Marxists would stop referring to Marxism as an "ideology." Two words : *Analytical Methodology* We use *_objective_* methods to advance a subjective view : the rights of the working masses, and the necessity for the class which produces the material basis of society to govern that society.

nice video recommending

Americans are democratic in their nature, therefore democratic socialism is the best approach, revolutionary socialism we not end well for ANY SIDE. But, I greatly agreed with Brian Becker, we need a revolution to reform(cease) the banks.

This is the problem with us on the left, each faction wants to do it their way & that means that we never take power in the system we have.

Facts do not change. Facts have never changed. Times change interpretation of things but facts are facts.

If companies become worker owned, what becomes the motivation to start a company?

If SOLAR, ROBOT, COMPUTER grow? That old economy system make trouble (or crisis) !we do support Socialist USA.

Lenin Was RIGHT!!! Germany encouraged Austria Hungary to invade Serbia, because Germany didn’t have the big empire, Spain, France and Great Britain had had and for years until the 19th century German he wasn’t even one country but four or five different separate parts. Around 1870, Germany and Prussia were major industrialized military powers and they wanted the same riches and glory that Spain had in the 1400s 1500s and 16 hundreds etc. and that France had in the 1500s and 1600s but mostly Spain and Great Britain because they were the wealthiest colony organizers because France had a monarchy that was too lavish and King Louis XIV spent so much money on Versailles and the kings after him didn’t manage well and Louis the 16th refuse to listen to his financial advisors which led to his take down. America is not an empire, but when America was pretty isolationist, our country was a whole lot better off and the USA would trade but not get into military or political conflict around the world but after World War 2, the military industrial complex had gotten so rich during World War II that led to greed and the American people don’t want these conflicts in Ukraine or the Middle East, etc. etc. and we just want our jobs and we don’t want this globalism shit and we don’t want this climate change nonsense because even as environmentalist we believe in planting trees and no litter, but globalism only increases carbon emissions, because mass immigration destroys the environment by people laying garbage and trash everywhere and there’s thousands of miles of Slum territory we’re people through their clothes, shoes, dirty, diapers, and backpacks and mostly they are wet clothes want people across the Rio Grande coming into America and during COVID-19 they were disgusting Covid masks all over the place! Eww! People cannot afford green energy electric cars and I thought the best thing coming out were in the late 1970s the subcompact fuel economic cars were great and then in the 1990s or after 2000 and our gasoline and oil in America went through a filtering process, and that was great for the economy but the worst thing was America doing business with coming to China and allowing our manufacturing and other businesses to go overseas because Bill Clinton was naïve, and the American businesses were greedy, wanting to go to China to pay 75% of the labor cost that they paid here in America and that’s exactly why they went and now the dictator of China is Maoist and he wants to rain in any capitalist sort of government private property that’s been going on for 30 years in China and having American businesses pay Chinese workers more like American citizens, but Nike. Google INTEL & Dell knew that the money was not gonna go to the workers, but go to the CCP so they left China.

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To all of you saying that Bernie is not an actual socialist, here's a quote: "I believe that, in the long run, major industries in this state and nation should be publicly owned and controlled by the workers themselves." -Bernie Sanders

you mean the archduke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire got shot, not Serbia, he was shot by a Serbian Gavrilo Princip

The assessment of the basic problems of the capitalism by Mr. Becker is mostly correct, but solutions trough revolution he proposing has failed many time before.The main problem of the USSR was not some "vulnerabilities of the socialism". USSR was forced together and was held together by force, in the same time practicing gross mismanagement of the natural and human resources, limitation of the progressive ideas from outside, suppression of any innovation that wasn't beneficial to nomenclature in short term. Lenin had rewrite Marxist doctrine to fit his own agenda, and from Lenin to Gorbachev soviet leaders failed to define communism in stable economical terms. "Redistribution of wealth" maybe appealing to deprived people, but this idea never succeeded before (look up Leopold II of Belgium for ex.). Non-violent, Non-political solutions of stratification problem exist, look up The Venus Project, or Jeremy Rifkin's "The Third Industrial Revolution" and "The Empathic Civilization", or Buckminster Fuller's "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth".

Baltimore or 'the cops are kicking down the door......'.

Archduke of Serbia?

Bernie's gesticulation resembles Lenin's. Lenin was somewhat monaural while Bernie is full Hi-Fi stereo. He developed this pose where he seems to be casting a spell. This is a smart move because the messages of the two are somewhat worn out. Well, it runs in the family

As much as I am sympathetic to social justice and solidarity and am critical of imperialism and corporatism, asking people to look to Lenin and the Soviet Union as an alternative to our current problems is a fools errand. My family is from Cuba, my girlfriend is from Venezuela; both of which are disasters. I have no desire to follow in their footsteps and asking people to do so will get you absolutely nowhere. I love The Real News because of its freedom from State and Corporate influence but The Real News also has it's own ideology. I would be interested in seeing more videos describing why it believes in what it believes in and to be honest in the failures of Socialist regimes, past and present. I am interested in new forms of social and economic arrangements but if you're going to recommend Lenin and a one-party system I'm going to tune out. And I'm sure i won't be alone.

american comrades, riddle me this: your country holds like 1/4 of the global wealth, while your population is at best 1/20 of the world. a similar situation goes for western europe. the discrepancy in wealth is undebatably owed to imperialist superprofits. but then again, why would americans dismantle the imperialist project instead of, you know, redistributing that 1/4 of global wealth among the citizens of usa? a communist revolution that d dismantle the said imperialism is not in the economic interests of americans. it is not a coincidence that the only palatable "socialist" candidate for the majority of americans proposes nothing that would touch the imperialist pillage usa undertakes daily.

so he's calling for war in the streets?

Much of what he says is right on the money. In the overall context of this discussion it comes down to reform vs. revolution. He is correct on the Democratic Party question and Sanders. Unfortunately, PSL does support individual liberal Democrats in elections. Local elections, in particular. Negating what he says. The PSL is a Stalinist party with a history of stealing money and setting up a myriad of front groups to divert money to its coffers. For this and other reasons they have a very high turnover of members. People join and many leave because they come to realize that PSL is very crooked. Other things can be said about their politics (apologists for the govt. of North Korea, for example) and actions, but that is enough for now.

Try actually talking to people from the former Soviet Block who lived under Socialism, or anyone from Venezuela or Cuba.

I think Sanders is a reincarnation of V. Lenin

"It wasn't because the Arch duke of Serbia was shot" that statement makes everything further this man has to say is garbage. He has no actual ground base knowledge of the first world war.

This is helpful to understanding. What will stop another Bolshevik revolution from killing millions upon millions of people in the process? How will we manage to avoid the tyranny of Lenin and and Stalin?

So he wants to replace the current bankers with new bankers. The workers got nothing but misery from their new rulers. A statist is a statist is a statist.

Honestly this is so uncritical it's astonishing. You don't have to be a capitalist to have a distaste for Lenin and his policies. Recall how he treated radicals and even union organizers, never mind women

this is the problem he confusing mercantilism and capitalism. Mercantilism and capitalism there is no such thing as monopoly capitalism it's mercantilism.

Lenin did not lead the Russian Revolution nor was he an orthodox Marxist. The Bolsheviks seized power in a military coup d'etat that overthrew the provisional government led by Kerensky. It was NOT a popular revolution at all nor did the Bolsheviks enjoy popular support in Russia except in Petersberg and Moscow. Lenin only managed to maintain power by the most brutal repression of the workers and soldiers, especially the sailors of Kronstadt who provided the military backing for Lenin's seizure of power. Lenin imposed a terror state on the Russian people that led to Stalin's terror and the suppression of democracy in Russia for a century. There is nothing about Lenin that anyone should regard favorably. He did more to crush democracy in Russia than anyone. In addition, Lenin was not a Marxist. Marxist teaching is based on the idea that socialism is born of the collapse of capitalism. Russia had not even entered the capitalist stage when Lenin seized power and nationalized all industry. Russia was a country of illiterate peasants. Lenin crushed the independent labor unions and the worker's and soldier's soviets. Lenin destroyed the basis of socialism while acting in the name of Marx. As far as imperialism is concerned, imperialism is as old as civilization, from the time of the pharoahs until today. It is not a function of capitalism per se - it is a function of greed and the lust for power which has been around forever. Ancient Athens had an empire, so did Sparta, so did Rome. Were these capitalist systems? Hardly!

Lenin destroyed real democratic forces during the Russian Revolution (the anarchists), and created a power system no different than the one that powerful private business tyrannies have today. In truth, Lenin was a right-wing deviation of the Russian revolution.

This pillock starts off wrong, with utter BS, from the word "go" - what happened in October (or November, depending on your calender) 1917 was a coup d'etat, not a revolution, and it benefitted only the Bolshevik party (which killed all opposition and a lot of "friends"). And it didn't "spread", it was spread - using Soviet funds, mostly while the Soviet people suffered from all kinds of shortages. And then he goes on to say the SU was "joined" by the countries of Eastern Eutrope, as if their enslavement to communism was voluntary. Appaling garbage.

Unfortunately the Party for Socialism and Liberation winning anything and having any effect on national politics is a fantasy. In the presidential race I'm supporting Bernie cause I'm tired of the talk I hear on this show and so many others. Its just talk.

Americans are democratic in their nature, therefore democratic socialism is the best approach, revolutionary socialism we not end well for ANY SIDE. But, I greatly agreed with Brian Becker, we need a revolution to reform(cease) the banks.