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When Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto, we're not sure they quite saw the whole Lenin thing coming.
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- 00:03
Whatever you may think of the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and [Communist manifesto]
- 00:07
Friedrich Engels clearly wrote their book hoping that the coming revolution
- 00:10
would make the world a better place for everyone but whoa, boy.. The revolution
- 00:16
did not deliver this can be blamed on Vladimir Lenin when civil war raged in
- 00:22
Russia between 1918 and 1922 Lenin the man in charge used both the Red Guard [The Red Guard group of men]
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- 00:28
and the Cheka or Soviet security police to nip any insurrection in the bud.. It
- 00:34
didn't matter if you were a member of the bourgeoisie or the proletariat if
- 00:38
you rebelled you were toast... Take the red terror for example the
- 00:42
numbers were a bit wobbly here but Lenin basically put the word out that as many
- 00:45
of his political opponents as possible should be stopped in their tracks
- 00:49
we know thousands of people died maybe tens of thousands but Lenin didn't care [Dead bodies in a line]
- 00:53
it didn't matter that he was a stone-cold murdering son of a gun all he
- 00:58
wanted were people preferably young people because they're easily influenced [Young people saluting Lenin]
- 01:02
with no moral compass to come and be revolutionaries with him well this was
- 01:06
never what Marxism was about murdering people who don't agree with you, if
- 01:10
[Marx beard weeps] beards could weep well Marx's would have and while Mark
- 01:14
wasn't a huge fan of religion he would never have advocated what Lenin did in
- 01:18
Russia which was to force the entire country to embrace atheism...oh and Lenin
- 01:23
murdered thousands of priests and nuns to boot while Marx and Lenin both [Priests walking in the street]
- 01:27
believed in doing away with a private ownership of farmland and factories
- 01:30
Lenin didn't believe in sharing with the masses he took possession of Russia's
- 01:35
agricultural yields for the benefit of the state Marx wasn't a fan of long term [Lenin with a farmer in a crop field]
- 01:40
dictatorships the first communist country in the world however had two
- 01:43
dictators for life.... first Vladimir Lenin and then Joseph
- 01:48
Stalin... Marx had also believed that a good communist should always always
- 01:52
always put the worker first Lenin however believe that starving workers [Marx clutches face with hand]
- 01:56
and holding them at gunpoint so they do as he said was the best way to help the
- 02:00
state finally Marx hated that the capitalist system allowed a few people
- 02:04
to manipulate the masses for profit Lenin must have missed the lesson that
- 02:09
day about manipulation because that's exactly what he did with the Russian people... [Russians protesting]
- 02:13
going so far as to rewrite history so that it was as if his policy failures
- 02:18
never occurred....Theories don't always translate well to real life Marx and
- 02:22
Engels would have known this however they would have been horrified to see [Marx and Engels watching soldiers and tanks]
- 02:26
what Lenin did with their ideas
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