Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This video is a history of class warfare in the Marxist view.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:09 Primitive Communism
4:23 Slavery
7:15 Feudalism
11:37 Capitalism
14:48 Socialism
19:22 Post Socialism
Transcript:
“The history of all hitherto existing human society is the history of class struggles.” You probably heard that before, it is the start of chapter one of the communist manifesto. But what does it mean? What is a class struggle and why would it be affecting every human society so far? And why use a word as complicated "hitherto" in a manifesto for the hole world? Great questions, time to answer most of them.
If you like this video or are interested in political and historic topics from a leftist point of view you should subscribe because I do that once a week. And if you are really interested there is a patreon page that lets you join my discord server.
Anyways, throughout history many people found things they called a class war and wrote about them, in this video, since I am an evil commie I will only look at the marxian concept of class warfare.
Now you wonder what marxists mean by class. Nowadays if we divide people into classes it's usually 3. Upper class, middle class, lower class, based on wealth. This is not how marxism defines it. Marx did not care about how wealthy you are but how you relate to the economy. Picking the 21st century, marx would have made a distinction between employees and employers.
The employer owns the factory and they can hire and fire people at will while the employees just have to take it. So in marxism, even if you area multi millionare, if you work for someone else, like a producer you are in the same class as factory workers, and if you have your own shop where you sell things with 2 employees you are the same class as bezos. It depends on whether you own your workplace, aka your relation to the economy and the machines that run the economy.
And if we look into the past there were more classes than the ones we have now, the past economy was so different it would not make sense to use our modern conception of workers and bosses to explain it. Historical production modes which were also based on classes had more classes.
Marx is using dialectics, this means he seeks irreconsilible conflicts between classes, usually two classes. For example you as a worker want high pay and few hours and your employer wants the opposite. That is an irreconsibale conflict, only one of you can get what they want. And eventually according to marx this conflict will lead to the destruction of one of these classes, which makes a new economic system which eventually creates it's own classes and conflict. So class conflict is seen as inevitable under any previous system.
This video is a history of class warfare in the Marxist view.
Patreon: patreon.com/viki1999
Stream channel: youtube.com/channel/UCtXcyUuCaUMY2GGU_8iM1hg
Shorts channel: youtube.com/channel/UCJnMSPbU7GPEIGLRGeRFkrA
TikTok: (same content as shorts channel) tiktok.com/@viki1999clips
Subreddit: reddit.com/r/viki1999
Twitter: twitter.com/Viki1999Yt
E-Mail Address: viki1999mail@gmail.com
The song in the outro was produced by 08 (who gave me no way to credit them), you can listen to the whole remix on my second channel: youtu.be/jZOrMsIOZh0
Background image: reddit.com/r/Viki1999/comments/rvxauk/newest_edition_of_the_viki1999_background_in_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:09 Primitive Communism
4:23 Slavery
7:15 Feudalism
11:37 Capitalism
14:48 Socialism
19:22 Post Socialism
Transcript:
“The history of all hitherto existing human society is the history of class struggles.” You probably heard that before, it is the start of chapter one of the communist manifesto. But what does it mean? What is a class struggle and why would it be affecting every human society so far? And why use a word as complicated "hitherto" in a manifesto for the hole world? Great questions, time to answer most of them.
If you like this video or are interested in political and historic topics from a leftist point of view you should subscribe because I do that once a week. And if you are really interested there is a patreon page that lets you join my discord server.
Anyways, throughout history many people found things they called a class war and wrote about them, in this video, since I am an evil commie I will only look at the marxian concept of class warfare.
Now you wonder what marxists mean by class. Nowadays if we divide people into classes it's usually 3. Upper class, middle class, lower class, based on wealth. This is not how marxism defines it. Marx did not care about how wealthy you are but how you relate to the economy. Picking the 21st century, marx would have made a distinction between employees and employers.
The employer owns the factory and they can hire and fire people at will while the employees just have to take it. So in marxism, even if you area multi millionare, if you work for someone else, like a producer you are in the same class as factory workers, and if you have your own shop where you sell things with 2 employees you are the same class as bezos. It depends on whether you own your workplace, aka your relation to the economy and the machines that run the economy.
And if we look into the past there were more classes than the ones we have now, the past economy was so different it would not make sense to use our modern conception of workers and bosses to explain it. Historical production modes which were also based on classes had more classes.
Marx is using dialectics, this means he seeks irreconsilible conflicts between classes, usually two classes. For example you as a worker want high pay and few hours and your employer wants the opposite. That is an irreconsibale conflict, only one of you can get what they want. And eventually according to marx this conflict will lead to the destruction of one of these classes, which makes a new economic system which eventually creates it's own classes and conflict. So class conflict is seen as inevitable under any previous system.
