the more i learn the less i understand

"Capitalism is when lots of iphone. Socialism is when some iphone. Communism is when no iphone." -Karl Marx, 1960

Props to the guy who made this when he pronounced the full nazi name in german without breaking a sweat

The main problem is that people confuse social with socialism. Public health care, a public pension system, workers' rights and state welfare are social, but have absolutely nothing to do with socialism. You don't become a socialist state just because you have something like that. Pretty much every country in Western Europe has all that, but most wouldn't even begin to call themselves socialists.

The difference in these terms should be taught in schools, especially the US

Sweden called, they said to stop calling them socialists.

I'm a retired law teacher. I never taught politics, but your video here was simple clear and the graphics were fantastic. I learned a lot. Thank you. ❤

Funnily enough, "social democrat" used to be a catch-all term for Marxists. Marx, Engels, and Lenin before the second Russian revolution, all occasionally called themselves social democrats, after the Social Democratic Party of Germany which Marx helped to create in 1875.

Americans: they’re all the same

“Stop quoting stuff i most definitely didn’t say” ~ Karl Marx - 1950 or sth

Thank you for the information! In my hoping to be an economist, I’ve already learned about capitalism and everything to do with it, because of my still slightly bias towards it. However, I only remember hearing that socialism is the in transition to communism. But, then someone told me communism is only an end goal in Marxist theory. When, it actually has been practiced. So, I decided to learn all differences. Even the ones I know. So, thank you again.

Interesting that, during the Civil War, Horace Greeley’s New York Herald Tribune employed Karl Marx as a contributor. Paradoxically, Dr. Marx apparently found solid common ground with a prominent Republican(!) politician espousing Marx’s view that labor held greater value than capital in building or rebuilding a nation. The politician’s name was Abraham Lincoln.

Unfortunately, 'socialist' and 'socialism' have become political buzz words in the US, used without any real meaning behind them.

maybe the real communism was the friends we made along the way

very informative, i lived in Australia and i can tell you that labourer pay similar to doctor and engineer and commonly pay more than what small businesses owner profit from their business. and yet nobody in here called themselves socialism.

Thanks for the video. If you do make another video about this topic, can I suggest some more practical examples? Cheers :-)

"Anarchists and Marxists can often get along to achieve a common goal" *laughs in leftist infighting*

I’m so glad you mentioned Star Trek under communism, I feel like I’m the only one who sees it sometimes

There is a joke in Cuba about the definitions of capitalism and communism...Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and communism is the exploitation of man by hunger. It sounds a lot better in Spanish because man means hombre and hunger means hambre

Oh boy do I love watching neutral and informative political content on the internet! I sure hope nothing wacky and uncharacteristic takes place in the comments section.

The only thing I know for sure about socialism is that if you try to define it, someone will show up to tell you that you're wrong

Bravo! Since I was Born and educated in a country that named itself a socialist (ones was called Jugoslavija) I listened a lot of political sciense courses with an emphasis on marxism, so I consider myself not completely uninformed on these topics. Nevertheless, I have rarely come across on explanation so concise and accurate as in these short presentation.

The real problem with defining socialism is that you begin well after several assumptions are made about human interaction. This creates a sense that each individual category of socialism is itself of a similar complexity to much more broad terms like capitalism. In a practical sense this results in a method of goalpost and retreat when collectivism is addressed at a fundamental level.

"Socialism is when the government does stuff, and when the government does a lot of stuff, it's communism." ~Marx or something idk

Feel like no one in the comments even heard what this guy said

That's why i find useful to just call Social Democracy as Social Liberalism. Because it strayed away so much from any part of the socialist umbrella that shouldn't even have the "democratic" term attached to it since it bows down to capital so intensely.

“ things they should teach Americans 101”

"The goal of Socialism is Communism." - Lenin

Government doesn't pay for services, the people do

Social person: one who is generous with his/her own money and resources to help others Socialist: one who is generous with other people's money and resources to help others

Topic: Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Capitalism Me: Aneurysm

Why is no one talking about “sexy learning disabilities”?

to complete your very good explanation, you should study and add Socialism in Yugoslavia, that was proven as the best of all other Socialist states. The key difference was that factories were own by workers working in factories.

This is definitely a good starting point for someone who is only familiar with the capitalist framing of these terms, but there are a few innacuracies. First, the USSR was not socialist, as the workers did not own the means of production. Second, anarchists can still support a state if the state is justified by the material conditions. There's also the part where you equivocate the state with the community, when the distinction is both obvious and important. Despite the authoritarian bias it'll at least broaden the conceptions of someone stuck in the rigid capitalist view.

No one: American boomers: Liberals, Socialists, and Democrats are the same

I like how some people in the comments are saying this guy just overcomplicates and misinforms. And then they tell their own version of the 3 topics and you can tell they've sprinkled their own blatantly quite negative (or maybe even positive, I haven't scrolled too far) opinion about these ideologies. This dude's literally telling them as they are, even as far as to dive a bit deeper what Socialism entails and what it technically isn't tied to. Politics be like this sometimes. But so is the piss poor education some of us receive about this stuff.

What?!?! This is gold!❤ I just love the first 2 min. Make a short! This is awesome, you gotta sub!

One is arsenic, one is hemlock, one is cyanide.

Lately, it seems like people who claim to be communists or socialists know the absolute least about what that really means

Him: anarchists and orthodox Marxists can generally get along Shrek: like that’s ever gonna happen

damn these comments are pissed off at someone just trying to explain what the terms mean

This is a really nice unbiased video you got all the main points, and differences, right however there are more sects to Socialism and communism then just Marxism and it’s constituents but they’re really unimportant historically speaking. Love the video, you keep up the good work.

Under capitalism you can add oligarchy, monarchy, dictatorships, and republics.

We need to teach more about politics in schools if we are to have a politically conscious society that allows everyone to pitch in the government

"communism is when gobernment venzuela no iphone" -Carl Mark

Short story short: Some socialist ideologies have some pretty good ideas but lacked execution and had other questionable policies. Combining socialism with capitalism has shown that it cannot only help to rid of the worse parts of socialism with some great capitalist works but also replace where capitalism fail with what socialism succeeds. The point is that neither would last at all without mixing with the other at least to a certain degree. It’s good to look at these in an unbiased lens because that way we can see what would work from each and how we can implement them together. The collective is a very important part of society, but the individual is as well and if you neglect one or the other the society will collapse. There is no strictly right or wrong, just different, which is why it is important to combine them together. Yet, at the end of the day, nothing will work unless we ourselves choose to be good people, whether you work for the collective or your individual. It’s the people who choose to do harm that hurt society, especially when they end up in more influential sections of either the collective or the individual, like a greedy president or an oppressive business owner. But when we can have a collective which truly speaks for the commoner, and a group of individuals who choose to give back a little for what they get, *that*, is when we have our best society. Anyways, rant over.

Pretty sure with Communism and socialism you just make up into find words as you go along to whatever suits your needs at the time. Once it becomes unfavorable change it, rinse and repeat

God this is the most easily digestible version of this I’ve seen. I understood most these already, but still incredibly well done!

"this politics thing isn't that hard, I could be an MP" "this morning Tommy was found 'mind blown' in the toilet with a phone in his lap."

Understanding the mechanics of a stateless, classless society can be perplexing. It's crucial to elucidate the operational aspects, especially regarding work processes. To differentiate between capitalism and Marxism, I simplify it as follows: Capitalism involves the dynamic of employee versus employer, while communism centers around worker cooperatives, akin to a democracy in the workplace.

Short answer: marxism is a philosophy. Socialism and communism are systems of government, both built on the philosophy of Marxism.

I'm interested why so many disliked this video. It's very informative. Is it because they dislike communism/socialism...?

By the way, if no one else mentioned it, Sweden is NOT a socialist country.

In Australia, a Labor politician called someone a “Trotskyite”, curious, I looked it up. It seems that at the height of communism in the 1920s, Trotsky didn’t think it went far enough, amazingly, he was a left wing communist. I think Stalin was more interested in power and thought Trotsky was a thorn in the side. Yes I have an over-simplified view.

Richard Feynman, “Knowing the name of something doesn’t mean you understand it. We talk in fact-deficient, obfuscating generalities to cover up our lack of understanding.”

"Socialism is when the government does stuff" - Karl Marx, 2018

People be calling anything they dont like "communist" or "socialist"

You could've have mentioned something like the fact that there are fascistic movements (like NazBols or Strasserrists) who, unlike most Fascisms that are capitalist, are Socialist, further showing the quantity of ideologies possible.

"[...]hopefully make everyone more educated[...]" this is the sort of optimism I miss in the world.

"If Man does not have an enemy, he'll create one (and use any 'ism to justify it)" -- Manfred Von Leichenbergwald

" _Capitalism_ is when *I* phone, _Socialism_ is when *WE* phone, _Communism_ is when *OUR* phone ." *-* Carel Marks 2020

this guys accent sounds like a british person who lived in america for a long time. and he lives in sweden. im cofused,

As for Cuba I know for a fact they could not manufacture nails ... some girl from the next block fell in love and married a fellow from Cuba and went there. The mother of the girls used make them packages with various stuff, on some Christmas she send them few pounds of nails.

9:44 That's an awesome way to visualize it all! I wouldn't know where to start on making a chart like that

Everybody: Now it all make sense. Me: Now i am even more confused.

The fact that social democracy and democratic socialism mean completely different things is probably the biggest sign we're running out of ideas how to make consistent sense of it.

Fascism & corporatism is the same thing: The merging of the corporate world & the government. The only difference is which side forced the merging. Fascism is when the government does it. Corporatism is when the corporate world does it.

"The state" sure as hell are not "the people as a whole" as said in the video, but rather, are only a select group of people within the whole whose power is obtained not via the vote of the individual citizens, but only by the power structure within the system. THAT is communism: The power structure voting in favor of the power structure, all others be damned. And they can't be voted out, because that is the whole point of communism. Very simply, if given the chance ... actual real people would never knowingly vote for communist leaders when other options are available in a democratic system. The point is ... no other options ARE available because their democracy is not genuine. Democracy means you rule yourself via selected representatives. But Communism means you have NO real representatives.

I love how we have to learn about this stuff in school but at the same time schools dont bother teaching us.

An overwhelming majority of people in the US who are critical of Socialism can't even define what it is. How can you possibly critique something you don't even understand.

They have the same fundamental philosophy. That each Individual owes the collective society an obligation. And the indicator is simple: whoever can contribute MUST contribute. And whoever cant, or refuses to, is bestowed benefits that cost the ever dwindling productive members everything they have and everything they earn and also robs them of all of their future opportunities.

Hoxhaism and Trotskyism, while claiming the ideas of Stalin and Lenin respectively, would more correctly be classified as revisionist, because they're both based on fundamental misunderstandings of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. Hoxha rejected the Maoist cultural revolution, and Trotsky rejected the Leninist national question.

"Anarchists and Marxists generally can get along and work together" You know, *except to save Spain*

5:20 what they teach you 8:25 what you have to write in exam

My brain melted when I saw that communism and Marxism as separate (Marx never called his ideas “Marxist” and called it communism instead)

A lot of anarchists, most of us, have a transition between capitalism and communism, it's called anarchosyndicalism

This commentary section is a nightmare.

"Anarchists and Marxists generally can get along" Stalin: unfortunatly for you, history will not see it that way

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

I laugh so loud that you said "socialist, of course with Chinese Characteristics" so ironic.🤣🤣🤣

I have a learning disability, and this video was near-percectly understandable!

I think this is why idiots always mix these up. It's easier to accuse any economic idealogy left of you as "communism" than to tackle the actual complexity of the situation.

Another difference between communism and socialism is that communist states were born after a revolution, which means that countries like Soviet Union or China in fact are communist, but for example Poland or Hungary after WW2 were socialist, because the change of the goverment was not forced by the people through the revolution but the Soviets. That being said, they weren't communist, but socialist.

National socialism and socialism were the two terms I hater most about WW2. The fact, that they are almost polar opposites of each other, yet call themselves basicly the same thing drove me mad. Btw, I actually really like this video. Idk how much others would agree with your definitions, but the way you presented them was really nice. You werent specifically advocating for any of them nor necesarily attacking capitalism. It was a nice video.

"The definition of socialism is anti capitalism." "The definition of capitalism is anti socialism" Great. Thanks.

I actually had no idea that a communist society would be one without money or a state. The fact that China is dominated by the CCP yet they buy and sell things has had me confused. Thank you for posting this video, I learned quite a lot

Luxemburg would most definetly count herself as democratic communist so i am very weirdet out by you not putting her in that field

Bum bum ba *jazz hands * n o t h i n g theory and logical conclusion

Man how many languages does this guy speak he didn’t stutter when pronouncing those German words

Him: Generally, Orthodox Marxists and Anarchists can get along Me: I mean, Orthodox Marxists can barely get along with each other sometimes, so...

They're all under the same umbrella -- "involuntary collectivism." A free market business is a voluntary cooperative of shareholders, employees, and customers working towards a common goal. Rather odd most of the world is buffaloed between the notion of "free" vs. "involuntary."

I seem to recall that the Nazis identified themselves as "NATIONAL socialists", not just "Socialists". These are two terms (if I remember correctly) that the Nazis themselves drew a distinction between. Therefore to say that the Nazis were 'socialists' because it says so in the name is actually incorrect. Because they thought of themselves as purely National-Socialists, as distinct from the generic term. National-Socialism therefore was a political persuasion, peculiar to the Nazis themselves, and only them. As nobody else in history (apart from the Neo-nazi groups, presumably) has adopted the National-Socialist ideology.

communism is when my pals give me some lays chips frick yeah

The lesson in this video is about socialism, but sadly my brain is an introvert

I understood that anarchism falls under the socialist umbrella but was surprised to hear you say that it is a form of communism as anarchists tend to view many communists with skepticism due to their seeming authoritarianism. But I think maybe this is due to real world communists being guided by ideas of state communism and not theoretical communism, or that lovely utopian ideal presented in the Star Trek clip.

The spectrum of the forms of government is better visualized as linear.

"Obama, a Socialist Communist" If only Obama were that based.....

I’m not a Socialist myself or even agree with it, but thank you for making this video. It really helped me get a better understanding of Socialism, Communism, etc.

German Here. I'm happy you're trying to inform in the US about these terms, but please don't say that the Nazis called themselves "socialist". Nationalsocialism is not intended to be similar to socialism and came up from right wing extremists that have a misconception of left wing terms. Besides that very well explained.

Well done, mate! Geat work in simple terms. Subscribed.