Sending Lenin to Russia was the worst thing Germany ever did... well except for the other thing.

But Lenin wasn't a real Socialist. 😮 But Stalin wasn't a real Socialist. But Mao wasn't a real Socialist. But (Insert Name) wasn't a real Socialist.

"Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the other way around" (old soviet joke, or that they say)

But was he a real socialist?

31:00 Marx - Never had a job Engels - Mooched off his rich dad Lenin - Only worked for 2 years of his life Stalin - Dropped out of seminary Hitler - Failed out of Art School and lived on the street selling his art for pennies Mussolini - Was a socialist propaganda Anyone notice a pattern? Maybe putting jobless losers in charge of government isn't the brightest idea.

Whoopie!!!! TiK's on again. Waiting for the Tobruk vid, but any TiK video is better than no TiK video. Cheers from Tennessee

“They want to be Peter Pans” I’m dying here 🤣

Tik: "publishes Lenin" Me(who suggested it in the pool): "for me? 👀👀👀"

Oh boy here we go. Thanks TIK all your videos man, you do great work.

I strongly dislike Lenin and communism at large, but I have to admit, in every photo of him, he has a look of wicked determination. I cannot imagine he was an easy adversary to have.

A life without TIK is not just a life unexamined, it's a life wasted. Your videos are without doubt the best thing on any KZfaq channel ever. Real history from a unique perspective. Thank you so much. My eyes have been opened and I now see the world so much more clearly

Am I the only one that watches tik videos twice because it's impossible to consume all the content at once? Like I can watch the whole video over and over and still keep learning new things I didn't catch before Thanks again tik

This is an excellent video. Please do a follow up video on Mao before the Chinese Revolution, as Mao adapted Marxism-Leninism from Lenin to use the peasants in the Chinese countryside as a substitute for the urban and industrial working class as the engine of a communist revolution. This tactic was adapted by the Frankfurt School and its adherents, who use minorities as a substitute for the Western, nationalistic and white working classes as the driving force a revitalised push for revolution.

16:35 I also am a proud communist Revolutionary and therefore demand the formation of an evil Kapitalist free market

Socialism The Religion of Daddy issues.

"Socialism is not about helping others, it is a desire to be taken care of, coming from a fear of independance, rooted in a hatred of the self" TIK, even god couldn't have phrased it better. Absolutely spot on.

I like your "post-Feudal economy" definition of Russian economy in late 18th, early 19th century. What Bolsheviks did was to deprive Russians of any other means to view their world. That's why Russia failed at becoming a democracy: they went to one form of slavery to another. For the majority of populace it's all they, and countless generations of their ancestors have known.

Idk what this guys deal is but I see him on posters and stickers all over University. He's obviously chill and not a mass murderer.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. - Ronald Reagan.

Just hammering that "Communism is the result of daddy issues" nail.

"A state will no longer be needed and thus whither away." Truly the fairy tale of all time.

Revolutionary Socialists issue with the current regime is always that they aren't the ones in charge.

#TheKnightImpirator I am going to contradict you and the sources in terms of economics in the UK during the 19th Century. Britain was not following "Capitalism" in its economics (the control of capitol) but "Mercantilism" (Control of Imports and exports where the country imported less manufactured goods than it exported). This is partially why the British military strategy was to control the seas and sea-lanes rather than the land and land boarder; as such that we invest far more in the Navy and ships than a standing Army. It also helps when the Navy also controls the effective countries national border (the coast) but its the control of Trade which mostly pays for the navy and its ships not internal taxation.

Lenin was full of praise of Mussolini which usually perturbs my Socialist friends when they start talking about 'Fascism'. And the fact Mussolini had a Jewish girlfriend for many years!

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake." - George Vladimir Ilyich Orwell

Came here expecting a video on Wall Street funding the Russian Revolution, instead got a video explaining the development of Lenin's philosophy. Don't know which one I'd have enjoyed more. Keep up the good work man, also, according to my sources LiquidZulu intends on making another video on why you should be an anarcho-capitalist, but has just been busy.

Around 1905 Alexander Bogdanov opened the first two communist universities in the world in Italy, one in Bologne and the other at Capri Island. Bogdanov was a scientist, writer and his basic culture came from the russian cosmist movment; while Lenin was jelous of Bogdanov successes, he feared to be dethroned by him (with no evidences of this but ok)..so he encouraged a political campaign against him to the point Bogdanov was forced to leave, and then he was called revisionist. Years later Bogdanov joined the comminists during the russian revolution (as like many cosmists, who after would been killed by the bolsheviks) and he died during blood experimentations. This man as others, as for me an example how Lenin was very rude and he envied the much better people who were inside the discontent movment in Russian Empire. He literally just wanted the absolute power. Still, many people today, professors aswell in some way or just in this way love him.

40:00 Im Russian, and I think instead of majority and minority, mensheviks and bolsheviks mean something different. "Bolshe" and "menshe", russian words for "more" and "less", can be interpreted as "those who wanted more "bolshe", more radical and those who wanted less "menshe", because mensheviks were part of State Duma post 1905. Interpretation of bolsheviks as minority and mensheviks as majority never made any sense, because they were completely reversed in that term. Is it another attempt of bending reality by Lenin, interpretation mistake in English literature, or something else?

My great-grandmother and her family - Low German Mennonites living in Russia - had to flee their home due to Lenin's Bolshevik revolution. This is a bit of a buried piece of history, but Bolsheviks would come in and raid Mennonite settlements and brutalise the people - killing entire families. So, they made the risky trip - and eventually got on a ship that was taking Mennonites over to Canada to set up farms over there. It's crazy to think that if it weren't for Lenin who ultimately led the Bolshevik revolution, I wouldn't be sitting here typing this today.

I think Bertrand Russell's characterization of Lenin as the "reincarnation of Cromwell" was pretty much spot on. Lenin's orthodoxy was absolute and unwavering: he was utterly incapable of supposing that any idea Marx had was not immutable truth, or that any prediction Marx made was not inevitable. I believe he had every faith in Marxism, in much the same way as you or I might have faith that gravity will function the same way today as it did yesterday. It was a religious sort of certainty without any bounding from religious ethics. For Lenin, Marxism was pure natural science, and he never for a moment entertained any possibility Marxism could be wrong about anything, let alone perhaps seeing it for the limp wishy-washy social science nonsense that it is. You don't see a lot of that these days: even in socialist circles, it would be rare for someone to quote Marx as if that proved a point beyond what Marx himself said, no serious person would quote Marx as if to suggest that it must be true because Marx said it. In some ways, modern socialists with their postmodern approaches to truth are even more annoying, mind you, but for better or worse, they are certainly more ideologically flexible. It's a little bit hard to wrap your head around from a modern point of view that people ever thought this way, but among old school socialists it really was the way many of them saw it. Prior to the exposure of Stalin's terror and Khrushchev's speech in the west, it was common for communists around the world to conceptualize Marxist theories of capitalism, markets, labour, value, etc, as somehow every bit as predictive, natural, immutable, scientific, repeatable and empirically sound as say Newton's laws or Maxwell's equations. Admittedly, his ideas aren't half as disproven in their minds as they should be given the facts, but the rigid adherence to orthodoxy is nothing like what it was. In some ways, I have more respect for old Marxists. Their dogmatism, dangerous as it was, was more honest. They had clearer ideas, actual predictions and standards of measurement. They made falsifiable claims. Of course, such predictions (e.g. declining employment) had the notable drawback of indeed being falsified over time - they were simply proven wrong by history - which is why they replaced these claims with the postmodernist nonsense of Foucault & Friends. This re-defining of truth, obsession with power, and application of class divisions to new invented categories is even worse. Superficially less brutal, it had an absolutely corrosive effect on society; it rots young minds more irreversibly and unlike traditional socialism it even/especially preys upon people who have lived materially comfortable lives. Marxism once required an underclass to mobilize and could be cured by rising living standards, but this new socialism preys on resentment, not economic insecurity, and resentment unlike poverty is unbounded; a mind poisoned with this sort of jealousy demands the objects of its resentment be harmed.

Lenin literally was a "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" kind of guy

This evil man is always overlooked because Stalin, but he was mad dictator in his own right

The ethnic hatred of many of the Bolsheviks towards Russians should be considered, almost all the leadership were not ethnically Russian and the people brought in to suppress the population were a mix of imperial minorities, latvians and Chinese, while the officer class in these groups was heavily of the same background as the Bolsheviks. You might not focus on ethnic interests but many historical groups did as you know. In the civil war the red army was far more representative to Russia due to conscription and the forced induction of tsarist officers than many of the core organs of the party. It should however be mentioned that what happened was not part of any wider plan, the provisional government likely came in with western support but the second revolution was due to the provisional government being so incompetent that the bar for launching a coup was low enough to be below the water table (less far than you think in st Petersburg). Most of these people were also internationalist, Russians were expendable, they sacrificing class enemies in order to bring together the communists of the world movement was natural thinking into the 20's. Doesn't help that they were individually horrible and revolting people usually, especially the party old guard.

"His character did not change as he grew older, only his medium of expression. And what a very unpleasant character it was: scornful, petty, spiteful, malicious, hypocritical, covetous, boastful, dishonest, grudging and intensely envious, wildly ambitious, arrogant and overbearing. He scorned peasants-they were barbarous “troglodytes.” He despised “the masses,” “the rabble.” " From: The Fiddler and His Proof: A glance at Karl Marx, poet and prophet.

By doing the background of Lenin you have started on a critique of Marx. That would make an excellent video in its own right. With references to his life in London, and Paris perhaps where he was expelled! Here's a starter for you. In London, he was always borrowing money and never paid it back. He threw a stool against a pub bar wall mirror. I don't think he paid for that either. Biography explains so much. You are very talented.

Smashed that like button and I’m not even past the ads.

Hi TIK, always happy to see you have done a posting on Monday evening. Enjoying your contribution. THNX !!!

This video leaves me with the same naive question I had when I first started learning about socialism writ large: "Why didn't anyone stop this?"

34:00 It is also important to understand Marx hated agrarianism and believed farming was a backwards and unnecessary industry (don't know how you get good then) so it was Lenin who incorporated farmers as a part of the proletariat

As russian, it's nice to watch somebody in english telling history of sick terrorist, who are still being cultivated all around

Its a good day when tik uploads!

ELEVATE YOUR MINDS FROM FLATLAND...ELEVATE YOUR MINDS FROM LEFT AND RIGHT

"Democratic Dictatorship" Managed Democracy?

Modern leftists need to watch these videos.

Brilliant video as always. TIK has changed my life over the last few years, given me a whole new perspective and made me a better, more informed individual because of it, I salute you sir!

Can’t wait to watch this video , I’m so glad you’re back

"the state will wither away" only makes sense if you think everyone is dead (since they can't possibly mean they like capitalism)

Found you’re channel recently and have watched nearly every video , you’re videos are a hidden gem for history , keep it up 👍🏻

they promise diamonds but pay in sand

Watched the video TIK-well done really liked it! If you're gonna do a vid on the Russian Revolution I'd definitely recommend the last chapter of Norman Stone's epic "The Eastern Front 1914-1917" which speaks a lot about why the Revolution happened. Basically he feels that the February Revolution did not happen because Russia was backward, but because it was undergoing rapid modernity and economic progress in the war years-he calls it a crisis of growth.

Always good to see a new video, TIK! I can't watch it now, but I look forward to watching it later today. Keep it up, TIK, you are easily the best history youtuber right now.

Love your channel brother! We shall call it: “TIK’s fireside chats”….. 😁😜

From the thumbnail alone I can tell this video will be fantastic 😂

This is such a brlliant explanation of what is happening right now in western university campuses.

The 🐐 of YT !! Man 3 weeks is too much in between your vids 😂

The word "bolshevik" did not mean that they represented any parliamentary or electoral majority (though they did pretend they were the only legitimate representatives of the great toiling majority) but that wanted a maximum of radical measures (like nationalizations of all industries and agricultural activities) to be passed right from the onset, while the mensheviks wanted to start with trying a minimum of radical measures (like nationalizing a few utilities already managed by monopolies, like electricity and water), provided they be surefire, implement and evaluate before going further. The first quite accurate official translation of the Russian word was Maximalist while the Mensheviks called themselves Minimalist.

Another Banger Vid-Lecture Mister Tik!

Whilst I may not be as interested in communism as I used to be, Tik somehow makes me always hop on, maybe one day you could make a documentary about the crusades, as such a topic is what I’m most interested at the moment

Tik you’re my favorite KZfaqr ong,you show how these people truly think and feel and how they try to deceive everyone around them.I’m only 21 but I remember when I was younger reading and believing this stuff and thinking why none of it made sense and your channel is a treasure trove of exactly why because it’s not supposed to,it’s supposed to contradict itself to lie to anyone who read it to not get the real message

14:01 A small correction. You make it sound as if 400,000 died of famine in Samara, but in reality it was the death toll for the famine in the entirety of the country. Samara didn't even have that much population at the time. Other than that, great video!

You say that the Tsarists resisted reform, but outside of Alexander III, they were actually rapidly reforming the system. You mentioned the end of the feudal system in 1861, but there was also the judicial reform in 1864 and a number of subsequent changes. While some of them were reversed by Alexander III, a ton of additional progress was made after him. If you look at the history, the facts on the ground, it seems like the more they reformed things the more aggressive the critics got, and the more violent the resistance got.

This is why childhood is so important to a developing human being & why care is taken to raise children properly. And also why much of our intentions, actions, beliefs etc can often be understood through the lens of our early development. This is also why Israel is making future martyrs & enemies with every terroristic move they make in the occupied territories. They are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Lenin trusted women, and his party had a lot of female revolutionaries: Kollontai, Balabanova, Reissner, and of course Armand & Krupskaya duo. But he certainly had close male friends as well: Krzhizhanovsky and Martov come to mind.

This film should be translated to all the languages and should be shown in all schools as a part of a new compulsory subject "How to withstand psychopaths in the modern world"

I don't understand your dislike of altruism. I understand that you cannot expect people to be altruistic (since that just isn't human nature) but that doesn't make it wrong. Being a little altruism (but not so much you get taken advantage of) is a positive trait

Lenin's dad looks like Andrew Tate

Lenin, before the revolution, sounds like a Disney movie.

Great to see you back at it tik

@16:14 The center plank of Marx's Manifesto is "Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state", or 'A central bank'. This is the antithesis of capitalism.

A reminder to abandon all hope as the UK is about to vote in a socialist government. Thanks TIk! ;-)

I can’t thank you enough. I throughly enjoy every video you put out.

Thank you, TIK. I look forward to the next video.

Nothing "Russian" about the Leadership of the 1917 Revolution.

39:53 Not exactly, as bolshe and menshe can be also translated as hard and soft, meaning hardliners and moderates.

Went of Lenin when I found out that one of his first acts was to bring in an American Industrialist to get the Soviet Heavy Industry running.

Karl Marx actually did have jobs during his life, most notably as a journalist and as a newspaper editor.

"It's not about constructing something new, it's about tearing down the old, and punishing those who dared to hurt him." The only thing about this attitude that seems different from anyone who still believes that Socialism matters is that they want to punish those who disagree with them, rather than anyone who has actually done anything wrong to them. Apart from that, anything that can be seen as having a positive impact on society is hysterically attacked and degraded.

"Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution", by Antony C. Sutton

Dictatorship being democratic was pointed out as a problem of representative democracy by Carl Schmitt. If you can take away the power from the people and give it to representatives, what keeps it democraticly legitimite has to be, that the people are identifying with its representatives. But there is no minimum number of representatives needed, thus a homogeneous society could be identifying with one single person as representative of them all. That would be a dictator in a representative democracy.

Lenin being a literal anarcho-capitalist at one point has got to be the funniest and craziest thing ever.

"Lenin" otherwise known as Lehana, was an African revolutionary who was exiled to Russia following a failed revolution against British rule in SA. During his journey, he contracted an illness that made his skin lighter. With modern tech, we can see what he would've looked like.

I know that a Western Christian sounds strange when talking about Lenin, but 15% of the population didn't consider themselves Orthodox. If you want a positive picture of the Tsardom, "Za spichkami" is a romantic comedy written by Algot Untola in 1910 (Mosfilm 1980).

My observation is that Young Lenin looks a lot like Young Sheldon.

Perfect upload, just in time for the grind of the afternoon

Amazing analysis, further discussion of pre-post revolutionary Russia would be great. A delve into the Stolypin Reforms which I would like to hear your opinion about would also be interesting.

Tik does it again.

Thanks for covering this Tikhistory.

Legendary thumbnail. Singlehandedly brought me back to the channel. Great work bro.

How the hell were YOU ever a socialist? I’m seriously curious. You’re so well read and intelligent, it doesn’t make sense.

Lenin before the revolution? By the video cover, I thought that it would be about Lenin on his whole life.

Sweet a Tik Video!!!! Good to see you back again!!

TIK, keep doing your great work !

Socialism is a miracle cure that promises to solve the inner conflict of the socialist.

The writer Vasily Grossman, before he died, wrote that after all, fascism and communism were not so different. Both movements were led by lazy and lumpen mystics. Lenin managed to be supported, pampered and idolized at an unspeakable human cost. We have a great responsibility to the world where we belong. One of the best videos.

If your an outsider believe you intellectually should be an insider, what to do? Through destroying the old , create a new system where you are the top insider?

Got em again Tik, Nice video!

"Ok all you guys who are top officials in this Socialist state, living way better than everyone else, we achieved our goals of communism, and you are no longer needed, you can work in a Bauxite mine, or plow a field now if you wish, but you're no longer needed in this role. You can go now." Yeah, right....😂

Trotsky, Lenin, Marx? Hmmmmmmmm

i dont think self ownership and responsibility is something that's lacking just in socialists but also in anarchists, or anyone that wants to be an activist for a living even worse that its being increasingly cultivated in people. certainly i suffer from it but i push it to the side by just working more.

this video is extremely prescious. only you could do it TIK. amazing, filled with sources, we need more of this about communism.