Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong

Ppl, gotta realise he’s not teaching Western empirical education system. He’s purely going off intuitive thinking. He’s not about teaching his student what to think rather giving them his perspectives and getting them to form their own conclusion. This is very common for Asian historians and philosophy teachers.

Used YouTube for 20 year. This is probably the most pedagogic history series I've seen to this date.

They did not misintepret hegel they intentionally disagreed and flipped it....

Your lectures reached Brazil!! I've been binge watching all day

The Protestant reformation was only possible because of the invention of the printing press which allowed common access to books like the Bible. In the end it’s the development of material conditions that drive changes in the way people think and believe. The economic base creates the superstructures

The comment section is absolutely a reflection of how his videos blew up. People might find he had some wrong claims (I mean hell this is just a lecture to high school students), but he is absolutely a master at storytelling as a way to teach and get across ideas. This is a skill that's been missed in the majority of teachers today. In fact, when I went to the University of Toronto for my bachelor's, they had the audacity to have professors who could barely speak English who had some lectures on their own papers that screamed irrelevancy to the main topic they were supposed to teach. At no point does this professor claim he has all the facts too. He might very well misinterpret and be wrong about a few things, but if you knew nothing about Marx at all, this video alone will generate your curiosity to do your own research on the subject.

Spirituality feels awesome with a full stomach and a soft bed.

I love this because by starting with the thesis ' Marx was wrong' you disarm the instintive rejection , and then you go on to gushingly explain everything he got right ;-) Nice one!

I enjoy listening to your lectures while I'm doing homework. Thanks for posting them!

One problem. A lot of times when technology is talked about improving production, the norm is to say we don’t have to work as hard. We end up working the same time in the end. We can adapt to effort. The time is the real investment, not the effort.