What’s Love got to do with Communism? | Richard Gilman-Opalsky | TEDxUofISpringfield

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3 жыл бұрын

What’s love got to do with communism? Richard Gilman-Opalsky, professor, philosopher, and author of The Communism of Love (2020), addresses this question. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky explores love as something we do, not something we give or get, and communism as a form of life, not as a form of government. Richard Gilman-Opalsky is Professor of political theory and philosophy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is the author of six books, including The Communism of Love, Specters of Revolt, Precarious Communism and Spectacular Capitalism. He has lectured widely throughout the world and his work has been translated and published in Greek, Spanish, and German editions. In 2018-2019, Dr. Gilman-Opalsky was named University Scholar, the highest award for scholarship granted at all three campuses of University of Illinois. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky’s work explores the powers of everyday people, particularly those typically regarded as powerless. He challenges the idea that politics is solely the business of the professional political class, and highlights how impoverished and marginalized people participate in changing the world in the most important ways. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@Kagutaba-bt1gp
@Kagutaba-bt1gp 3 ай бұрын
Brilliant man. Read his books!
@charlesjenkins8506
@charlesjenkins8506 3 ай бұрын
This man plays the drums like nobody's business 🥁
@someguy8130
@someguy8130 2 жыл бұрын
Powerful
@NoOffense00
@NoOffense00 Жыл бұрын
NoOffense but I do find it powerful as well.
@johngruntfest7998
@johngruntfest7998 3 жыл бұрын
Prof RGO is a truly revolutionary thinker - we should pay attention before it is too late
@nonas2856
@nonas2856 3 жыл бұрын
I sm laughing at you pathetic ignorance
@antlu65
@antlu65 2 жыл бұрын
You should try learning from real intellectuals for a change. This guy is a complete ignoramus.
@RJLpt
@RJLpt Жыл бұрын
YES!! He reminds me of one of Che's letter: "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where ordinary people put their love into practice. The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to say “daddy”; their wives, too, must be part of the general sacrifice of their lives in order to take the revolution to its destiny. The circle of their friends is limited strictly to the circle of comrades in the revolution. There is no life outside of it. In these circumstances one must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. The revolutionary, the ideological motor force of the revolution within the party, is consumed by this uninterrupted activity that comes to an end only with death, unless the construction of socialism is accomplished on a world scale. If one's revolutionary zeal is blunted when the most urgent tasks have been accomplished on a local scale and one forgets about proletarian internationalism, the revolution one leads will cease to be a driving force and sink into a comfortable drowsiness that imperialism, our irreconcilable enemy, will utilize to gain ground. Proletarian internationalism is a duty, but it is also a revolutionary necessity. This is the way we educate our people." Source: "Socialism and Man in Cuba" A letter to Carlos Quijano, editor of Marcha, a weekly newspaper published in Montevideo, Uruguay; published as "From Algiers, for Marcha: The Cuban Revolution Today" by Che Guevara on 12 March 1965.
@KotorFan-zb1bo
@KotorFan-zb1bo 3 жыл бұрын
RGO was such an awesome professor. He was the chair of my thesis committee.
@dimitrid5216
@dimitrid5216 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@somethingquotable55
@somethingquotable55 Жыл бұрын
well done. was this not kinda Jesus' point?
@Cezinha476
@Cezinha476 3 жыл бұрын
3rd
@pranavnandan8711
@pranavnandan8711 3 жыл бұрын
1st comment
@nirvanaboy4884
@nirvanaboy4884 3 жыл бұрын
2nd
@kilroy07
@kilroy07 3 жыл бұрын
A stunning brilliant lecture I especially like how, you first compare communism to family life then go on to describe how families are abusive and terrible. I couldn’t have made a better case against communism myself.
@nihalstic8469
@nihalstic8469 3 жыл бұрын
That's funny how you pretended not to listen. "Communism - if a word or an idea offer something useful we don't abandon it ....especially not when deliberately misunderstood for political reasons". Good luck with the essay.
@barrett8788
@barrett8788 2 жыл бұрын
It is about love and not family. You missed the entire point.
@syntheticant8172
@syntheticant8172 Жыл бұрын
"Communism loved hundreds of millions of innocents to death ❤❤❤"
@Anarchist_syndicalist
@Anarchist_syndicalist Жыл бұрын
More than 700 million people live in poverty... capitalism caused them die to with hunger and no medical treatment.
@Kagutaba-bt1gp
@Kagutaba-bt1gp 3 ай бұрын
You didn't pay attention XD
@JohnCannonBand
@JohnCannonBand 3 жыл бұрын
Mao was just “misunderstood “ when 80million starved to death. I get it now.
@ujjalshill6442
@ujjalshill6442 2 жыл бұрын
Why did the 80 million people die
@Salty7737
@Salty7737 Жыл бұрын
#1 False, #2 what do you have to say about the 8M+ ppl that die yearly in capitalist countries from starvation? You understand that starvation occurs naturally in capitalism wheras it has to be planned under socialism right? And before you bring up the USSR, it had the same caloric intake as the US.
@johnz4328
@johnz4328 2 жыл бұрын
Communism can only be totalitarian. Communism will never exist because we decided to all love one another. We need government that is less intrusive and demanding on citizens not more so.
@ujjalshill6442
@ujjalshill6442 2 жыл бұрын
You don't understand communism
@lola1987fudgeyouu
@lola1987fudgeyouu 2 жыл бұрын
Read Marx
@JohnCannonBand
@JohnCannonBand 3 жыл бұрын
Freakin’ Commies
@ujjalshill6442
@ujjalshill6442 2 жыл бұрын
Red scare
@ishrendon6435
@ishrendon6435 2 жыл бұрын
Oh look another manly man scared of an ideology lets go to war!!!
@yomamawanmadikku9094
@yomamawanmadikku9094 2 жыл бұрын
They've surrounded us and they can't wait to put us in the camps, they don't realize all of them will be in there with us
@mikeDeSales943
@mikeDeSales943 2 жыл бұрын
Just listen to Jordan Peterson on Communism.
@brandon9172
@brandon9172 2 жыл бұрын
No.
@ujjalshill6442
@ujjalshill6442 2 жыл бұрын
Jordan Peterson is a pseudo intellectual
@antlu65
@antlu65 2 жыл бұрын
Don't bother trying to educate the dimwits who enjoyed listening to this TED talk. They aren't interested in reason, or learning history and economics.
@lola1987fudgeyouu
@lola1987fudgeyouu 2 жыл бұрын
🤢🤮
@AmberCommentsThings
@AmberCommentsThings 2 жыл бұрын
Ted talks is an absolute joke
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