ChemicalMindSo a better title for this video might be ‘How the USSR created the Welfare state in Western Europe?’, but that’s not quite as catchy. And it still might raise more questions than answers. After all, the USSR and western Europe were mainly enemies, right?’ Well, yes, they were, but it was this same adversarial relationship that made Europe into a welfare state in the first place!
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How the Soviet Union Saved Western EuropeChemicalMind2024-05-16 | So a better title for this video might be ‘How the USSR created the Welfare state in Western Europe?’, but that’s not quite as catchy. And it still might raise more questions than answers. After all, the USSR and western Europe were mainly enemies, right?’ Well, yes, they were, but it was this same adversarial relationship that made Europe into a welfare state in the first place!
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After this video, for coherency and my sanity, instead of mashing pieces of a bunch of lectures together relating to a topic, I will be instead uploading abridged and enhanced versions of full Gabriel Rockhill lectures, and maybe the lectures of others if people are interested.
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The audio has been remastered to a higher quality. I tried many different methods to improve the video quality and managed to do so but only slightly since the original quality is so poor. Certain areas were also edited out for brevity. This is in my opinion the definitive edition of this debate.
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Thanks for watching!Lofi Parenti Beats to Fight your Microphone ToChemicalMind2024-08-14 | This is a fixed version of the previous video with Parenti's voice being louder. I can't raise it any further though thanks to copyright purposes.
This video was directly inspired by this: LoFi ParentiWaves LoFi Socialism (youtube.com)
Songs and visuals taken from here:
The best of communist lofi - YouTube
Parenti speeches taken from here:
Michael Parenti: Rulers of the Planet - YouTube
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Thanks for watching!Why Did East Germany Vote for the Far-Right Party?ChemicalMind2024-08-03 | Citations:
AfD: How Germany's far right won over young voters – DW – 06/10/2024 Why young eastern German voters support the far-right AfD – DW – 06/11/2021 AfD eyes young voters in Germany for EU election boost – DW – 03/03/2024 How East Germany became a stronghold of the far right | Racism | Al Jazeera East Germany did face up to its Nazi past | Bruni de la Motte | The Guardian Nazi monuments around the world (forward.com) Germany: AFD votes 2017 by age and gender | Statista Record numbers of young voters backed AfD in Thuringia state election – Euractiv
More articles on the right’s popularity in Europe among youth: How the far right is winning over young Europeans (ft.com) Europe’s Youth Are Fueling the Far Right (foreignpolicy.com) Why are younger voters flocking to the far right in parts of Europe? | The far right | The Guardian
Further reading: The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany by Ned Richardson-Little | Goodreads Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It by Bruni de la Motte | Goodreads A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee by Victor Grossman | Goodreads
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The major docs I used include:
Paul Robeson Here I Stand Paul Robeson 2001 Folk Alliance International Lifetime Award Paul Robeson the First Black Star
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