"When you're counting in the tens of millions, the point has already been made." Oh wow, that gave me chills

As a Polish person who grew up in communist regime I approve this message

I wish some of my friends would listen to you - I grew up in former Czechoslovakia, emigrated to Canada and could not believe, how many people in Canada think that socialism/ communism is something good. And they will not listen even to someone who lived through it.

As a Chinese who are struggling for the freedom now, I approve this message and I call for Take down the Chinese Communist party!!

As a Romanian person who grew up in communism I approve this message and the Polish guy message😀

My parents escaped Mao’s communism. They suffered true famine when they lived there. Yet my mother, because of propaganda, still things that the real person behind Mao’s tyranny was his wife, because Mao was old already… And despite the CCP having control over China still today, she doesn’t believe China is under a Communist government. It’s literally called communist party… many Chinese people also will never know about what happened in Tianamen.

I lived in West Berlin in 1989. The people then were moving east to west, there was no migration of West Berliners to East Berlin. The wall opened on November 9, and the East Berliners all came pouring into the Western Sectors of the city, each one intent on seeing and experiencing everything that had long been denied them. Until that day I never saw East Berliners smiling. In my many trips there before the Wall came down, the best term to describe their faces was scowling. After unification, the former western parts (and only them) of Germany poured in over 30 trillion D-Marks ($19.2 trillion dollars) over 30 years to raise the quality of life in the former East Germany, and that still hasn’t been enough to right communism’s wrongs there-it’ll take generations for that to happen. There’s no better way to destroy the budding idea of communism in people than to describe its own past horrors. Communism destroys and/or enslaves all it touches, it must be seen as the malignancy that it is and dealt with honestly. There has never been a successful Marxist-Leninist government to this day.

As a Ukrainian, whose ancestors have been left with nothing as they were on the list for Syberia, just because they were wealthy hardworking peasants, I approve of this message. My grandma's sister together with her husband was exiled to Syberia (just the second day after their wedding), and her son (my godfather) was born there. They returned when he was 5 years old - in the middle of the 50th. Collectivization just killed a Ukrainian village, man-made FAMINE, great terror, "executed renaissance"( in the 30th erasure of Ukrainian intelligence by communists). That is communism! All this past led to the invasion in 2014 and the full-scale invasion 2022.

My friends from Cuba really hate communism. They actually appreciate freedom way more then me.

These older lectures have a lot of value, and many newer viewers might miss them. Im glad to see that they're resurfacing.

As a Chinese mainlander and born in late 90s, i have to admint that there are rarely materials about the four “social movements” available in public back to 20th since PRC established and it is wise for most of us as normal people to not talk about it out laud openly. i don't know what the real situation is back that special period and i have to say that's a little scared of me actually after heard what professor said.

As a Chinese, I am amazed Mao is still revered by many even young people here. You can tell how the education system works. He has arguably committed the most severe crimes against against Chinese people in Chinese history, worse even than the Japanese during WWII based on death toll. I cannot imagine the despair I would have felt living under his rule. There's absolutely no escape from the tyranny, just like today's North Korea. The only escape was to swim to Hong Kong, but other than the villagers living near the border, one can't even leave one's residential area without government approval, to buy a train ticket, or stay in a hotel. And there are people who are still nostalgic about those days in China.

I wish people took human nature more seriously. These ideas become much more obvious when a clinical psychologist/professor/philosopher explains it over hundreds of hours of content. Peterson cares about history and is devoted to the philosophy of science, but he has not lost his soul. He's a rare "moral" scientist. Please share his content as much as possible.

Dr. Jordan Peterson is so critically important in today's society! He's the beacon of sanity in this increasingly insane world!

Cambodia suffered so much under the communist regime 75-79'. I didn't live through it but my parents did. The trauma that my family and my people live through is unimaginable and to hear people being sympathetic toward any variation of communism boils my blood. Thanks jorden for speaking on this

Dr. Peterson's lecture is a great intro to this subject. I also have to recommend James Lindsay's in-depth tracing of the historical threads from "woke-ism" (communism retooled for the 21st century) back to "classical marxism" and ultimately, to ancient Gnostic religion. It goes to show why it's a mistake to try very hard to reason with communist agitators. Their words are devices to advance their agenda by way of language; they aren't looking to engage you per se. If you press hard you will get cynicism, relativism, redefinitions of words, misdirections to boogeymen, "real communism has never been tried," et cetera. If they come to terms with the sum total of their tactics they cease to be communists. We can hope and pray they do but it's not very common. Likewise, it only takes a small leap of faith to conclude communism is evil, systematized as much as it can be; and well-placed faith opens the door to understanding.

Crazy how much was predicted about the 20th century by these scholars. We are lucky to have you Dr. Peterson. Thank you for what you do.

The reference to Possesed / Devils book is incredible. I vividly remember one part, where a cell of revolutionaries were discussing how overthrown the state and there was one professor amongs them, who said that he wrote a book where he explained it all. And no matter how noble their intentions and words about freedom are, not matter what they do, they will end up with tyrany. I remember this part, because Dostoyevsky understood nature of communism and decribed it in his absolute brilliance in one sentence. If there is anything what you should know about communism, it is this: "No matter how noble your intentions are, no matter what you do, you will end up with tyranny."

As an Indian, I remember how the maoists tried to overthrow the government through an arms struggle

As a Russian person and living in States now, who grew up in communist regime, I approve this message. And wanna warn Americans people, with democrats we are not walking to the communism, we are running to that regime.

"That you understand the Marxist doctrines better than anyone else ever has." That is the thing about Marxists. They usually believe they are the smartest person in the room.

My parents were socialists, but they never, ever called themselves such. They (my father mostly) just spoke warmly of Cuba and the USSR. It took me well into my forties before I came to terms with that, and began to reflect how these belief system affected our family and world view.

As a polish hater of everything communist, this man is incredible. He is someone who will be cited in 300 years, and they will say well, thousands of people laughed at him bullied him, but he was the first one to understand IT. A man ahead of his time in his historical summaries.

Appreciate Dr.Peterson , After this clip, I totally realized the dialogues in fight club makes so much sense “ we are the middle children of history no place or purpose, our only war is spiritual war, our only depression is our lives “ modern society constantly tries to define , give a name and look for validation name it religion, political theories, spirituality, meaning of life, travel, pursuit of truth we zig zag into diff world views because there’s nothing important to accomplish than to destroy the accomplishments made by prior humans

My grandparents escaped communist Cuba for the United States in 1969 with their two children and a single suitcase. Needless to say, I’m fortunate they took that risk and worked hard to afford my dad, and later my entire family, the freedoms and privileges we have in this country. My grandfather doesn’t consider himself Cuban anymore. Instead, he’d tell you he’s a proud American. We’re thankful to live in the United States, and we pray for those oppressed by communism.

This is the exact type of lectures we should be getting at Universities.

A Bengali from Indian state of West Bengal, I approve whatever said in this video is absolutely correct about communism. Bengal state suffered at hand of communism for 30 long years in a democratic country of India. Bengal state was destroyed by Bengali communist and today Southern state of Karnataka, capitalist state of Maharashtra and Right wing state of Gujrat are most prosperous state in India

While visiting Romania I took a guided tour around the capital Bucharesti. He pointed out landmarks and so on. At one point was talking about the Communist era and said something interesting. When ask about Communism he replied there was a little good but mostly very bad. Someone in the group said "how was it good?". He replied..if you a starving peasant it's good they give you a job and a apartment but if you even slightly successful it not good because they take your house , land and businesses and give you a job and a apartment.

I will continue to repost this. One of you KZfaq influencers needs to talk about this. For pride month I had over a hundred companies send me emails about honoring pride month. Same thing for black history month. Same thing for national woman’s day and Mother’s Day. But no emails for Father’s Day. But this is worse than that. I got 0 emails from companies recognizing the day of our independence. I got a couple 4th of July sales emails. But not a single email honoring the 4th of July. The birth of our great nation. The day we recognize, remember and celebrate our freedom. Is that not questionable? Not a single company? Not one! But pride month was all over the place. You don’t see something wrong with that?

As someone from East Africa (Eth), almost everything was owned by the state (internet, electricity, water, media...). We had one of the slowest and the most costly internet in the world (browsing on my phone at 50kbps 2011). Somalia, whom they portrayed as war-torn, had a little faster internet. Power was a joke with frequent outages, where one time it was out for a week (and we just shrug). Nowdays they semi-privatized the internet service and it has gotten much faster. More companies have been allowed to compete. The communist era of the 70s and 80s was described to me as scary. A lot of friends near my mom were picked away for having the opposition's pamphlet on hand (some reunited others unknown). Over two million have died, and seeing carcasses on the streets was the norm (sometimes deliberately left there so that people were intimidated). The man still alive somewhere in his 80s. So a large gov is a ticket to a horror show. When it offers a bad service, who can punish it and by what reassurance? We just shrugged it off. Any state only cares about expanding its power; don't contribute to it or get too comfortable with being an adult baby lullabied by a nanny state.

As an American with a brain and deductive reason I appreciate and approve of this message and wish the rest of humanity would listen and absorb his message to us as humans that need this information

My grandfather was born in 1924. I asked him how he lived under Stalin. He said it was better than it is now (1990s).

I must say, I'm glad he has joined the Daily Wire. His wisdom and intelligence can bring a much more advanced view of the world.

"Celebrating Lenin is like celebrating Hitler." Exactly! I always tell people that myself. Apparently, people seem to have this bizarre double-thinking that communist mass murders are somehow not as evil/real as Hitler's.... Something really wrong with people.

I work in a university and on entering a professors room, to do some maintenance, I noticed there was a poster of Mao proudly displayed on the wall. Frankly I was in shock as these professors were working with in the Law Department, 'dare I say it in the human rights department. I want to say something, 'but I am also terribly scared of what the outcome may be if I do so, but I do not want to be a coward either. If you was me How would you approach this?

Man this video should be translated or at least spanish subtitled so every person in LATAM could watch it and understand this evilness that communism is. Specially here in Cuba. God Bless You man.

As a Czech person who was born to the Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic I approve this message and those of the Vietnamese, Polish, Lithuanian and all other messages of this sorts! When I see ‘young communists’ or someone with Che on their t-shirt in countries that did not experience communism, I feel a horrible rage over their insulting arrogance!

He's actually a great teacher. What joy to live under the same era as these people that can get you to snap right out of illogical thinking under these divided times.

I feel lucky now growing up as a Vietnamese not in the era of grandparents, which was full-on communism. Vietnam now has quite the capitalist economy with freedom to open businesses as you wish now although politically, it's still communist. I remember a story told to me by my grandfather that back in his days, if you were to have a pig, you don't own the pig but the government does. The government then shares each house a piece of meat after a big piece for themselves first. I think that's essentially what communism or at least socialism is in a sense.

*A lesson in Power* At 9 years old, I was chosen to be a camp counselor for a day, I refused. Then I was chosen to be Unit Director for the day (camp Boss). I accepted. Later that day, I got too bossy with the older guys that worked at the camp. They threaten to beat me up. So, I brought myself under control. That was my lesson about abusing power.

To really appreciate how communism does not really love or care about people, study the life of Karl Marx. Not his Manifesto or essays, his life as a person. You will discover a self-centered, childishly immature, and arrogant person who never talked or associated with the working class that he virtue-signaled for. A man who never worked a day in his life, with soft hands that maybe had a callous finger from writing. A man who ditched his rent and debts. A man who spent whatever money that came in his hands on his own personal pleasures of cigars and drink, while his wife and children lived in filth and hunger. When Marx did get more money from his bourgeoisie friend, Engels, who had inherited his father's textile business and lived like an aristocrat, Marx moved into a very nice middle-class house in England, complete with servants, went on a 3-week vacation with his family, then threw a ball for his daughters with 25 guests. He went straight into debt again, and again Engels had to bail him out. Tell me, how does a man who champions the working class live it up like the very bourgeoisie he denounces? Marx also pursued every inheritance from family and friends he could, even though he wrote in his Manifesto that inheritances should be done away! He later had an illegitimate child with his housekeeper provided by Engels (Really, a housekeeper? How hypocritically bourgeoisie and exploitative of the proles!) and then ignored the child so he would not hurt his reputation. The child had to enter Marx's house through the back door in the kitchen to see his mother. The BLM founders brag of being Marxist trained yet have no problem with Marx's behavior that resembles what their grandparents endured in the Jim Crow South! There's more, but Marx's arrogance and materialistic grasping for his own interest is the example of every Marxist today. Look at Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim Jong, Chavez, and the BLM founders who live like the rich and famous while their people suffer from poverty and starvation. Marxism is grifter's game to enrich the promoter who doesn't care for the rubes he or she claims to advocate for. Marx's personal life demonstrates that.

Dr. Peterson is absolutely right. My grandmother was living an ordinary happy life as a university student in pre-communist Romania in the late 1930s, but that all changed in 1940 when the Soviet Union invaded her home region of Bessarabia (modern-day Moldova). She, along with her mother and younger brother and sister, was deported to a gulag concentration camp somewhere in northern Russia, not because they committed any crime, but simply because her father was a businessman (he owned a small shoe factory) and held anti-communist views, which automatically qualified him and anybody even remotely related to him as "enemies of the working class". My grandmother's siblings were later taken away and sent to an orphanage. She met them again only 10 years later in 1950 (her brother later disowned her because he hated Jews and she married my grandfather who was Jewish). Her mother, unfortunately, didn't survive the harsh cold of Siberia and my grandmother had to bury her with her bare hands in that snowy wilderness, without a proper funeral and without a tombstone to mark the grave.

As a Polish person please read the story of Mieczysław Jałowiecki, "Na skraju imperium" and "Free City" and others.

I agree with Peterson completely he is never failing, time again and again he liberates sanity. Thank God for Peterson.

Truth in history. Truly exceptional clear thinking on display.

As a Latvian person whose grandpa spent 12 years in Gulags, I approve this message

Does anyone remember the pinecone scene with Hitler in the movie "Little Nicky ?" The same scene with Mao, the pinecone is the size of Jupiter.

Sorry I don't understand this part 3:16, can someone tell me what writings he's talking about? thanks.

As a Lithuanian person who grew up under a communist regime and whose family memeber died in Siberian gulags, I approve this message. Kudos to Polish and Romanian guys here.

As a cuban who grew up under communism and lived 25 years there, I approve of this tremendous message. The myth of the cave in Plato is a clear example of the way we live under a military communist system. Actually, is even worst.

As someone from former Yugoslavia, I approve of saying that this is bullshit..

As a Croat born in Yugoslavia, I see that "democracy" brought the decline of agriculture, the disappearance of companies, corruption, drugs, the dominance of manipulators, ...

Dr. Peterson, thank you for this excerpt of your lecture on communism. I started moving to the right politically in the 70s (my 20s) when I became frustrated with my friends who thought that everyone had to have the same, "correct," position on all political and moral issues. But I carried a question with me to this day, "Why would people blandly excuse the suffering, death, and destruction of human relationships that occur in communist countries while enthusiastically endorsing or even acting to help bring about communism in a country where it can be done 'right'?" Having since then completed a liberal arts B.A. with an emphasis in Russian and Soviet history, and developed friendships with a number of people who grew up and lived in communist countries, I continue to ask myself the same question but with a greater intensity. I always have suspected that people who endorse communism think that somehow they will be in a protected position (income, status) in a communist system; they do not understand there is no real protection for anyone in that system. Your comment about people thinking that if they were in charge of the system, the system would work is, I think, very insightful and helps me answer my long-standing question. Thank you for your thoughtful work! May God bless you and your family.

As a Croatian person who grew up in communism I approve of this message and of the Polish guy's message and the Romanian guy's message and the Lithuanian guy's message and the Vietnamese guy's message.

As a person who lives in Bulgaria I can tell you that this is the only place where it did work. Todor Zhivkov wasn't like any other communist leader . If you ask old people in Bulgaria how have they lived during that time, they will tell you that then it was better than now. People were poor but happy. There were no beggars in the streets because any who was in such poor condition was given shelter, food and work. Food was cheep and heathy and of good quality. Education was of great quality and was FREE. Health care was FREE and of good quality. There where many Bulgarian olympic medalists during time because people were well trained and had great will to win. Yeah you didn't have bananas in stores and you had to wait 10 years to buy a car but there was cheap public transport and plenty of good natural fruits and vegetables in stores. Family was important and marriage between a MAN and a WOMAN was a normal thing. Students in school weren't educated that there are as many genders as you wish them to be. Now Bulgaria is one of the most corrupt and poorest countries in Europe. When I see what is going on with USA, Canada regarding to freedom of speech I don't see democracy. For me in Bulgaria during communist state was more democracy than now people have in USA and Canada. For me the situation wit COVID and the Transgender idiotic way of thinking shows that democracy has failed. If it were true democracy during COVID you should be asked if you want to get vaccinated, not FORCED to do so. This society doesn't care for the poor or the sick or even is own children. When you approve of changing children's gender trough hormones or a surgery for me you are not a doctor and you are not a parent.

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became a truth" -George Orwell.

Some really dont grasp the magnitude of Dr Petersons excellence, He is a living legend

His now no holds bar, unapologetic, direct approach is a marvel to witness. We'd all be so lucky to speak with the conviction & fortitude of Dr. Peterson. The greatest lesson of the 20th century is that Mao, Hitler & Stalin live in all of us and under the wrong circumstances that darkness will be revealed for all to suffer under.

Did anyone find the books he refers to? If so, can you share the links? I tried to but did not succeed in doing so.

The best system would be socialism, in which the government controls some basic things, but business is free and encouraged. I was born in 1972 and during the 80s and 90s Greece was a heaven on earth. Its like we had the best of both worlds. Watching Galactica and Indiana Jones, listening to Rolling Stones and Iron Maiden, Madonna, Queen, Metallica. We had EVERYTHING. It is a pity that it degenerated into uncontrolled borrowing, but this was not the socialist system's fault per se, it was the corruption, nepotism and greed of the people running the show. Trust me, a socialism without corruption is the best. If you have not experienced it you will never agree, I know.

I was born in Armenia in 1997, a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union. My parents and most of my family moved to Canada by the end of the 90's but had lived their whole lives in the Soviet Union. The main reason for my family's departure was a lack of work, food and just the minimal needs to survive. What intrigues me the most, and I'm not here to compare the communist party in China to the Soviet one, is that any person that I asked, who lived more than 20 years in the CCCP, all tell me that their lives were better during the Soviet Union, most probably not under Stalin for they were not alive yet but under different Premiers of the Soviet Unions. My point is, you should listen to people that lived in the Soviet Union and get their side ofnthe story for they lived during that time and they know how life was. Nevertheless, keep on doing these amazing lecture Dr. Peterson 🤟

I'm reading the gulag archipelago right now at Jordan's recommendation. What I've read so far is jaw dropping. I'm thankful for him making me aware of it. The amount of unforgettable lessons that can be learned from looking back at these regimes cannot be understated

During the Cuban crisis, the soviets were ordered to launch the missiles, one commander refused and we have mostly him to thank, Vasili Pestrov I think was his name

The fact that Lenin was a monster does not negate the fact that Solzhenitsyn was a liar who, in order to achieve victory over communism, embellished the facts and increased the number of victims of the communist regime by an order of magnitude. This is the general, established opinion about Solzhenitsyn that currently exists in Russia. In a dispute with the Russians, referring to Solzhenitsyn’s books now is the same as recalling the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Of course, two or three million victims of the communist regime is also a lot, but fairy tales about tens of millions of victims are just fairy tales. A Gulag prisoner like Solzhenitsyn could not have access to statistics, so he simply made them up.

Being in High School in the late 70s, I remember one of my teachers saying a perfect Communism and a perfect Democracy are ultimately the same thing. In my lifetime (especially in the most recent years), I have come to realize “ there in no such thing as a perfect man made government”.

“When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts.” ~George Carlin

Are you talking about dictatorship? Becouse definition of communism is a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.

As an american, of the people I have met or heard that grew up in a communist system, i have never ONCE heard them voice support for it. I have only ever heard it's horrors. I trust the people that lived it rather than whatever I could possibly read on the subject. Especially when it's people I actually know. I go to a certain group of meetings regularly. I know of a Russian kid that grew up here his whole life. One day the subject came up and without going in to to much detail, he told me all the horrors his parents and grandparents had told him that they went through,and essentially why they left. He seemed very much grateful to grow up an american. That tells me all I need to hear. No one is paying that boy to tell me those things lol. Nope,that's genuinely life lived experience from his parents passed to him. And when I hear stories like that, time,and time, and time again from all different people that grew up in different communist states and hear how similar they all sound, I know I'm not being lied to. They wouldn't have left if it were river's of milk and honey.

My neighbours are Latvian. My best friends and colleagues at work are Romanian and Hungarian….Jordan Peterson is the only speaker I have found that can do justice to the pain they have described to me during the many many hours of conversation about life in Eastern Europe. There is a callous cold strength instilled in them that was put there by their parents knowingly at the expense of their relationship. Jordan is the only person that can convey the social pain required to create conditions where that is normal. Bravo. It only makes me sad I never found myself being taught by someone with so much passion. Nihilism cost me my 20’s and it need not have.

My parents escaped Hungary in '56 to Austria. Both were on the BLACK list & if found would have been shot or gulag bound to starve/die there. My siblings and I were born American Citizens and love this country dearly... May the end of the Monster called communism be soon

As a Serb born in Yugoslavia, I have to decline this message. It's super curious that Jordan doesn't mention Yugoslavia ONCE.

My native country is China, and I have lived there for 40 years. In my school textbook (around 90s'), it says ‘the socialism is the elementary stage of Communism, our country is in this phrase. This stage can last a long time. In the middle of the 21st century, we will reach the level of a moderately developed country.(such as Spain) ’ . I think I probably won't be able to wait that long. If I immigrate to a developed country, like USA, won't I realize my dream soon? So, I immigrated to the United States several years ago. Then I achieved “Communism", though not all of it., It's cool. haha.

About: "pouring money into Cuba" from the USSR, the money went mostly in weapons and oil. The biggest chunk of it never remained in Cuba, instead it was used to promote socialist revolutions in Latin America and Africa (Salvador, Peru, Congo, Angola, Nicaragua, Ethiopia and so on). The USSR would provide the means and Cuba the canyon meat.

I think it boils down to blindspots in western historical consciousness since there is no similar trauma of communism (in west Europe and U.S etc)

I believe everything that Dr Peterson explained, however my parents and every older member of my family, were born and raised in Yugoslavia which was ruled by Josip Bros Tito, during most of its existence. I don’t want to go too much into details, but I’ve never heard 1 person complaining about those times. They always speak with passion, pride and nostalgia about how great those times were. So i sometimes wonder , is it the system thats important, or the people who run the country ?

as a scot from scotland who was born and raised in scotland...we have spirit which evil wants to destroy...it will never win...good will always win

What they say is; "But real socialism just hadn't tried yet". What they really mean is; "We haven't had our turn yet".

Wether he knows it or not, Peterson, made the same points that Fulton J. Sheen said in a televised speech at least 50 years prior. They agreed that Fyodor Dostoevsky’s book Demons a.k.a. The Possessed foretold what would occur in Russia in less than 40 years of his death.

When you listen to this and look at the modern political trends, especially the WEF and you wonder if history is not repeating itself

I was born in 1981 in communist Romania and lived in the communist regime until 1989 when we had the bloody revolution that saw the dictator Ceausescu killed literally on Christmas day. I was very young but I remember how bad it was. No heat in the apartments, no electricity - I was doing my homework at candle light, no food in the stores - people wood queue for hours and hours - myself included, to get whatever was available. But this was nothing compared to what my parents and uncles went through. I have 3 uncles who defected and escaped across the border and one refugee camp after another, they finally made it to Canada. Their story is literally unbelievable. It's like a movie - perhaps better than a movie because it's true. Then there's my dad who wanted to escape from communist Romania and even tried with a friend of his. They got caught on the border because a friend of his ratted them out from fear of persecution by the state police. They were thrown into prison and when my dad finally got released, I barely recognized him. Later he would tell me stories about how badly people were beaten up in prison - especially other ethnicities like Hungarians and Gypsies for trying to escape the country.The state police (the Securitate) was everywhere and people were terrified of talking even to their best friends or families out of fear of being informers. When we had the revolution, everybody was out in the main square of my city and I remember this like it was yesterday when a man came out on the balcony of the city hall and announced that the tap water was poisoned. People were scrambling, running home to inform their kids and elderly not to drink the water. My mom grabbed me in her arms and said "Thank God you're with me!". Crazy times! So yeah....communism: NO Thanks! I've had my share, young as I was.

Everything said here is totally true. I was born in eastern Europe, Romania under the communist regime. Most western people can't imagine the horrors, the killings , the disappearances .It was a constant feeling of fear, hunger and despair. There was a continuous shortage of everything including basic food and electricity or hot water. The power blackouts were something so normal and sometimes they could last many hours ,several times a day. The queues were huge and usually people used to wait days and nights in a row, during harsh winters at minus 20Celsius , freezing in the snow , hoping to get some milk ,an orange or some piece of meat.

My fathers great grandfather was a ‘podkulachnik’ in the land of Ukraine under USSR. He had vineyards, treated and sold horses, and was quite wealthy for the time. Soviets executed him and his brother. A newly made widow with her 3 sons were taken to the Gulag, where only the youngest survived and was able to return home now as an adult.

i watched this maybe dozens of time. i've never noticed how much a dark empty background impacts the presentation. the long shots of him with the dark background are somewhat biblical.

As a bulgarian I don't know what to say about communism but my grandparents always said it was a safer and comfier time when everyone was more united. We did have a special prison for those that oppose the party which I think it's like a mini gulag

As an Ethiopian, I remember my parents barely surviving the death squads of both the ruling marxist party under white terror and the lenninist/hoxaist assassins of the red terror. communism is a platform for the exercise of the worst human instincts under the banner of "Good". I once identified myself as a communist, but like bob dylan says, Im much younger than that now.

I am from Cuba and it really gets me mad when some uneducated person says to me that they want “Free Stuff from the government” they have no idea how destructive “Free” is. Nothing is free. I believe if you do not work you should not eat. Sounds hard it is still better than the communist alternative.

Dr. Peterson. My grandfather's fought for my country, your country, and now our veterans are dismissed. My grandfather's told me not to serve because our leaders don't care about me. They were right! I've watched it for over 40 years. Please explain again why sociopathy will destroy humanity. Have a great day. Thank you sir.

I am from Nepal and grew up seeing Maoist gurilla warfare killing thousands of innocent people. Now they in the practice of peaceful politics after peace agreement with the then democratic political parties. Those communities have turned out to be the most corrupt of all. I approve his message.

Communism and utopianism destroyed my home country of Cambodia. People from US, europe, japan, Please dont take the freedoms you have for granted!

This needs to be heard by all psych students/grads!! It is crazy how students are taught quotes from the collaborators of communism (e.g. Marx) yet aren't taught about their history, nor of the consequences of what their communist ideas lead to! Psych was one of my majors *cries* and one of my professors just made us memorise Nietche's "God is dead and we have killed him" quote without any context or elaboration as to what conclusion such a position led to (which was nihilism or totalitarianism as JP said)... if i remember correctly she used the quote to support how we are in a much freer post-modern society. Madness. Unis (maybe more so social sciences) are creating walking zombies rather than comprehensive thinkers. BUT, am so grateful to have this teaching available! May more students see it.

In which of his books Nietzsche predicts the world wars of 20th century? Any reference?

I'm a Malaysian Chinese, ancestors migrated from China to Malaysia. Till this day, I still have no idea what the hell do the Chinese still like Mao.

Thank you Peterson. You saved me from the socialist/marxist modern liberal mess. I was a middle schooler obsessed with far left ideas which carried with me to high school. My peers and teachers thought it was an appropriate ideology. If I hadn’t seen your lectures I would have been stuck in a permanent echo chamber.

As a Venezuelan person it is my turn to approve this message. We are the nation with the bigest migrant outflow and we are not in war. But we are in comunism

I agree with the points made by Peterson on communism. However, you could extend the reasoning to many other ideologies or religions through the history of mankind. Also Peterson's postulate is here based on the point made by Nietzsche on nihilism. But this point undermines the importance of individual ethics which do not necesseraly derive from religious, political or any ideological dogma.

"If you're henchmen is Stalin you are no good guy"😂😂😂

I’m from mainland China. From my experience after so many years of growing up there, I’d say the war started by Hitler could destroy everything you can see, the lives, the historical buildings, the cities, while a communist regime could destroy something you could not see. It’s never something about the buildings, which they can looks great, nor the material good, but the culture, the belief, the spirit, what is true and the hope of people in a conniving way. Read George Owell, he explains it really well.

It is very true. I am from India. In 1962, during the disastrous end of Mao's great leap forward, the party had turned against him, and so had the people, so in order to unite the people, Mao started a war against India and occupied a huge chunk of land, also thanks to the kleptocratic regime of crypto communists India was under, and not only that, communists from India declared their support for China, stating that China's leader was their leader and that China's fate was their fate. A similar situation arose in 2020, when China was facing a famine, and it dared to have a skirmish with India, that ended in a fiasco for them though.

I am 23 year's old and I had lived my whole life in Cuba, I don't know anything else than crisis and people just talks about how hard is life here, or how much they want to leave 😟

“He who withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.” -Proverbs 11:26