There is a concerning pattern in all Socialist childhoods, as evidenced in the childhoods of Lenin, Trotsky, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. A belief in altruism and poor parental relationships led to a self-hatred and a fear of independence which manifested as a hatred of the reality (what they called the “capitalist system”).
NOTE: I said in the video that Lenin was a Lutheran and I should explain this. His mother was Lutheran, but he was baptised in the Russian Orthodox Church. So Lutheranism was an influence, since he loved his “saint”-like mother.
Timestamps:
00:00:21 Vladimir Lenin and concept outline
00:07:53 Leon Trotsky
00:16:40 Karl Marx
00:32:22 Friedrich Engels
00:36:47 Joseph Stalin
00:42:00 Benito Mussolini
00:45:53 Adolf Hitler
00:56:48 Mao Zedong
01:00:59 Pol Pot
01:03:57 Final Analysis
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I am retired and worked in the criminal justice system managing treatment teams for Sex offenders. These folks share the same template. Passive mother who doted on them and overbearing father, etc.,. Class upbringing varied. Sense of entitlement / victimhood. TIK – do you know if these dictators had massive sexual perversions and offenses? I know some did. All SO (Sex offenders) I managed on treatment teams, if they worked – pretended work while working thinking the world owed them. They were all diabolically evil and clever in ways you cannot fully imagine. Another fantastic episode!
Keep talking about "concerning patterns" and you'll get banned.
The video mentioned Marx and religion but didnt care to mention Marx dabbling in Satanism.
I was hoping for a little comic relief at the end with Bernie Sanders.
Hitler and Mussolini socialist? Haha, ok, now I'm pretty sure you scr3w your sister, you are libertarian, and speak with your dead dogs 😂
I really had to view this one twice, Very good historical Analysis and thank you for creating this. No Tanks 🙂 :). Thought a lot before writing this, because it really hits home with current happenings. As far as Stalin , he was a tireless worker and reader – which is the major difference in your Socialist List. Glad to see that you quoted Kotkin as a source – his final version of Stalin's biography should be published in 2025 ( I can't wait).
The problem with your excellent analysis is " it is happening right in front of our eyes" as you cleverly and subtly noted ( 600 Genders etc.). I could go on for pages in this comment, but I will simply take from Sir John Glubb essay " history repeats itself in cycles of rise and fall".
Western Civilization as an empire is in the " Decline and soon fall" Just Like ancient Rome. Tik, you made me think again and I appreciate that.
So they were basically hippies
If you ever get a chance to get your hands on it, but John Ridpath, friend and colleague of Leonard Peikoff has a great lecture called Religion and Capitalism: The Case of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
I have it on tape but it's hard to get digitally. All his talks on Russia and Russian revolutionaries are interesting.
Lame thinking here.
Read Mises, Rothbard, Sowell, or the old testament and stop this arm chair psychologist approach.
you should make a video about the Racism of both Marx and Engles, some of their writings and their letters were just heinous and extremly racist, you would think it's *itler who wrote that if no one tells you it was Marx or Engles
Fantastic this is an insightful and unexpected proposition.
Many comment that Ayn Rand did not understand what altruism entails, on the basis that altruism really just means being kind to others. Ayn Rand uses altruism as defined by Auguste Comte, otherism, i.e., that the goal of one's actions is prosperity for others, which means that you cannot profit from it yourself, because then you have mixed motives. In other words, one must be selfless and not selfish.
Immanuel Kant went so far as to say that one had to be completely free of motives, even the desire to be good, before an action could be considered moral.
If anyone doubts that Comte's definition of altruism is the prevailing moral ideal in today's world, one need only look at how we refer to successful and wealthy people in our culture. It does not matter how much wealth and job opportunities an investor creates for others if he profits from it himself, he is still declared a "Robber Baron". Not to mention, rich people, who have accepted altruism, are themselves full of bad conscience about their wealth, which causes many of them to go into philanthropy. Like for example Bill Gates. But does he get forgiveness from people because of that? No. Because he himself chose which cause he wanted to donate to, i.e., still an act of selfishness. He should have given the money in the form of taxes so that "the people", who know better than Gates, could distribute the money. But had that finally given him forgiveness? Hardly. Because he only did it to fix his reputation. It is not easy to escape the accusations of selfishness.
Consider the following analogy. A successful athlete from a poor village either donates money to his hometown, or invests in his hometown and employs local people. The latter means that he himself also profits from it. Which of these two versions of him do you think will be celebrated or demonized?
It is not difficult to see that Ayn Rand's use of altruism, as defined by Comte, is our culture's prevailing moral ideal.
Can you do similar videos on capitalism? You like to bash on socialism (without making a difference between socialism and communism i might add) but you fail to look at the alternative with the same scrutiny. So until then this feels bias to me. This is not history, this is cherrypicking on an idea that you hate. History is looking at the complete picture, the grand story, the circumstances, the alternatives, what led to it etc.
Sad that Lenin would’ve been a Reddit scrolling tranny nowadays
Upgrade his lexicon and put him in a lobster suit and Lewis is now indistinguishable from Jordan Peterson 😂 the Jews have been counterfeiting curency as far back as rhe Roman republic, papal usury laws were not "their only means to sustain themselves" 😂😂😂
It is clear reading Rand got you too far deep the ancap rabbit hole, I wasted too much time on your videos. Bye.
Your distaste for philosophy is leaving you ignorant of important details in your hypothesis. I'd recommend reading Nietzsche on what he believed would lead to the death of Christianity to incorporate his better causal reasonings. Since I'm only ten minutes in, though, I might relate even more helpful criticisms after watching the rest.
As for Lutheranism or Christianity in general, yes, they teach you place the other first, but not to the detriment of maintaining yourself (not without first self-determinedly judging such detriment as actually being a worthy price in very specific instances). In general, Christian thought teaches that mankind naturally looks after it's own welfare first without any extra steps needed and that this is the good way God made us to behave by default; looking after others is a higher calling beyond that we value as a principle, but you can't look after others if you're already destitute or worse and no mainstream church has taught otherwise.
So religion is the opiate of socialists
man i don't know where i would be if i wouldn't have read Fountianhead
This is only helping to reinforce my theory that Feminism is the antithesis to existence and is the vehicle for all forms of evil to achieve that. I think it is precisely the reason why 97-99% of women in America where vehemently opposed to sufferage, I think they knew.
With all of the family breakdown and loss of religion in the West today, this is a scary pattern. Another Stalin, Hitler or Mussolini could be running around at this very moment.
There’s a decent alignment here with the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. His father died before his birth, his mother sent him to be taken care of as a toddler but the family sent him back. His mother died shortly afterwards and his grandfather cared for him until he died a year later. Then he was taken care of by his uncle who was preoccupied with his money. He clearly explored Judaism and Christianity but rejected both- possibly because of God as a Father, given his loss of parent figures 6 times by age 8. He married a woman who was the age his mother would be were she alive. She was rich and took care of him and when she died he couldn’t manage her successful business.
After that his preaching of Islam would become more intense, rebellious and finally, violent.
Muhammad would always see to it that he got the best spoils from raids and battles so he was always taken care of and never really worked steady jobs and mooched off the success of others.
Kant and Hegel were also both Lutherans… interesting pattern. I would not equate Calvinism and Lutheranism, with Calvinism having clear connections to capitalism (proto capitalists adopted it across Europe, predestination and grace justifying their growing wealth). One might attribute Engels' different personality to this lack of Lutheranism? Lutheranism places significant value on personal understanding of faith and on charitable service (a strange contrast to Luther's idea that salvation came from "faith alone"). It is hard to see that Lutherans are lazier than others, though Calvinists have a fame for hard work (Weber). Lutheranism is often viewed as more tending to secularism than other forms of Christianity, which could easily explain a strong sense of altruism as the remaining faith.
In some ways, this is essentially the reverse situation of Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers: The Story of Success". Not to confuse correlation with causation, but, rather, considering that an alignment of causes results in these terrible monsters.
Were Marx, Lenin and the others lazy or did they simply believe they were above the humble demands of a trade? It seems that they were capable of enormous output of pamphlets, letters, meetings, debates.
Book Title: “Faith of the Fatherless. The Psychology of Atheism.” Author: Paul C. Vitz
Oh dear. Denigrating the gods of socialism. The socialist apologists will make many reply vids to this😅😅😅
The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau fits right into this category
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Lutherans in Russia….
Obama, to a T.
i liked shows of yours on WW2 Stalingrad and so on but with your anti left and antiliberal attitude you really get ridiculous slowly ….
I think you're reaching on this one, Tik. Your fundamental premise, that Altruism is a rejection of self worth is false.
You should back up a bit, and re-examine that.
I think you're reaching on this one, Tik. Your fundamental premise, that Altruism is a rejection of self worth is false.
You should back up a bit, and re-examine that.
Man child ?
I find one constant thing about them they all want to kill humanity and there supporters cheer them on while they do it
It's not about philosophy, per se. It's about overindulgent parents who raise dark empathic narcissists who use popular ideologies to manipulate others into following them. Most of them are upper class, but Hitler had the full backing of the military when he took control of the party, and Stalin was a theology student who switched sides. Altruism is not relevant; it's the craving for, and abuse of power that led these people to destroy their countries.
"Some ideas are so STUPID that ONLY "intellectuals" believe them." — MR
In my opinion, poor health affects mental health.
Hitler never was a socialist but a fascist. If you don't get the basics right it is unlikely that you can tell sensible stories.
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Very interesting.
One thing I'll question from a scientific perspective is the altruistic religion idea as a distinguishing characteristic. Aren't the vast majority of people in the world raised under mainstream altruistic religions? That aspect makes sense in the explanation of the theory, but has virtually no predictive power. Also, what mainstream religion isn't altruistic?
i don't agree with your concept of altruism.
altruism does not mean you cannot receive benefit from it.
altruism means you do not expect benefit from doing it.
The graphic at 2:41 is really on point 👌
Thank God, (Ayn wouldn't like that) You mentioned the wonderful Ayn Rand
This dude creates a 😂 channel by spreading blatant lies and disinformation by confused his audience about the difference between Fascism and Nazism and Socialism or scientific Socialism which is Marxism.
30:25 Looking forward to it