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So why did the British authorities allow him to do that? That's a question for us, right? Britain is the most capitalist country in the world at this time, 19th century. And Britain basically allowed Marx to live there and do whatever he wants. Okay? That's strange. Number two is, Karl Marx, where did he get his money from, okay? So Karl Marx, actually, his wife is a German aristocrat. So she's used to luxury. But Karl Marx never made any money in his life, right? If he writes these works, The Communist Manifesto, That's Capital, no one's going to read them. They don't sell, right? So he's not a wealthy person. But we know for a fact that he actually lived a very good life, okay? He wasn't an aristocrat. He wasn't wealthy, but he was middle class. 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They need a vanguard party. But, hey, once this vanguard party establishes itself and destroys class, it will go away. Okay, do you understand? It will give up power voluntarily. It will choose to not exist anymore. This has never happened in history before, but trust us on this one, okay? This time it'll be different. All right. All right. Okay, so this is interesting. In the Communist Manifesto, it says, okay, Switzerland, we support the radicals. In Poland, we support the agrarian revolution. In Germany, we support the bourgeoisie, oh, sorry, yeah, the proletariat, okay? So in different places, they have different concerns. They have different needs. Right? And what these people are saying is that we're not part of the national conspiracy. All we want is a more fair, just society. That's all we want. 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Wall Street and the City of London gave the Bolsheviks money to pay these mercenaries. It was Wall Street who paid for these mercenaries. And you're like, why would they do that? And the answer is because the Bolsheviks, to pay Wall Street back, created the Red Terror, okay? The Red Terror is when the Bolsheviks basically went to all the rich people in Russia. The nobility then says, you either give me all your money or I will rip your daughter. I will kill your wife. I will kill you, right? And guess what? By doing that, they made a lot of money. And that money went to pay Wall Street for the foreign mercenaries. Capitalists and communists work well together, okay? Then you have the allies, right? So Britain, America, France, Japan sent these huge armies to Russia. 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So basically, the Bolsheviks stole everything in order to finance the war, okay? And in the process, by destroying their tradition, by destroying their wealth, by destroying their religion, by destroying their nobility, it made the Soviet Union now much more amendable to capitalism. And that's what happened when the Soviet Union fell, it became capitalist, okay? So, this shows us is that capitalism and communism are not enemies, they're partners in world conquest. And that's what the 12th century is about. 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All right. So, capitalism is the belief that you can structure society around capital, okay? And this was a direct threat to the old order, okay? The old order, which focused on religion, the king, the military, okay? Okay? So the capitalist is like, no, let's get away with all this complexity, let's just make capital the basis of society, okay? Now what happened is that as these two systems came into conflict, all right, the workers wanted socialism, okay, social democracy. So capitalism, from capitalism you had social democracy, right? Social democracy is as easy, okay? Yes, yes, we believe in capitalism, but we believe in restraints on capitalism. We believe on a fair distribution of capital, all right? And that makes sense because, well, you can't just have a few people with all the money, okay, all right? 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He also says that, okay, you also need a party, you also need a vanguard, an elite to destroy the false conscientious, divide the workers, workers and cr..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "He states the game-theory explanation: making socialism more extreme discredits it, keeps the middle class aligned with oligarchy, and arises from the new social structure created by industrialism.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 1057.68, "end": 1131.38, "time_label": "17:37", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "extreme the intention is to discredit it to make it illegitimate to destroy the idea all right so if you think about it according to game the people responsible for communism is that marx the people responsible for comm..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1131.38, "end": 1207.04, "time_label": "18:51", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "for most of catholic europe but then with the rise of industrial ism you have new people come into power okay so for example you have the bourgeoisie who are the bourgeoisie bourgeoisie are just the capitalists the fact..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0018" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang describes the Concert of Europe as a peace system created by nobility after Napoleon, then argues that its success let unresolved old-order versus new-order pressures build toward 1848.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "segment_id": "seg-0017", "start": 1207.04, "end": 1286.26, "time_label": "20:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "was a deadly war and after napoleon was defeated all the leaders the the nobility of europe got together and set and decided that from now on we will no longer fight war okay they create something called the concert of..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1286.26, "end": 1361.36, "time_label": "21:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "uh religion okay so basically the french revolution all right so right now so this system was created to avoid the french revolution but because of peace the ingredients for the revolution french revolution are increasi..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0021" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "He reads the 1848 revolutions as the new alliance of bourgeoisie, middle class, and workers terrifying European nobility, whose answer was to divide that alliance through class conflict, extremism, and conspiracy propaganda.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang; 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Political power, probably so -called, is merely organized power of one class for oppressing another. The proletariat, during its contest, with abortion, is compelled b..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1853.629, "end": 1923.52, "time_label": "30:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And for the proletariat to win, they need a party, okay? They need a vanguard party. But, hey, once this vanguard party establishes itself and destroys class, it will go away. Okay, do you understand? It will give up po..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1924, "end": 2003.518, "time_label": "32:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "What the Communist Manifesto says is, yes, you are. Yeah, we're all part of this great conspiracy to conquer the world and establish communism, right? So why would they do that? That's really strange, guys, right? 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So these communi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2318.22, "end": 2393, "time_label": "38:38", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "This is one of the great controversies of the 20th century. The government of Russia has been trying for a long time to get this money back, and the foreign banks like, well, you don't own this money. 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Wall Street and the City of London gave the Bolsheviks money to pay these mercenaries. It was Wall Street who paid for these mercenaries. And you're like, why would they do th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2460.62, "end": 2531.52, "time_label": "41:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They're afraid of the communists. But in fact, that's how it happened, okay? They went to collect debt, okay? So Russia owed these countries money. The Soviet Union, the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0035", "segment_id": "seg-0035", "start": 2531.86, "end": 2597.47, "time_label": "42:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Destroy the Russian economy because Russia's a threat, okay? And then it wants to steal the riches and the resources from the Russians, okay? 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So basical..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0037" ], "kind": "question", "summary": "A student asks whether China's officially professed communism, or 'Chinese unique socialism,' is a way to manage a country that is actually pursuing capitalism.", "speaker_attribution": "Student or audience member.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2656.32, "end": 2698.81, "time_label": "44:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, I think for China, when China is officially recognized as a country, Mao Zedong said that we need to pursue communism and abandon capitalism, but there is, like, they followed Marx's thinking. 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So, Marx, okay, Russia and China, okay, why? The answer is becaus..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0039", "segment_id": "seg-0039", "start": 2779.997, "end": 2861.92, "time_label": "46:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Even though peasants, peasants become workers, if you have a party to help the, the process, okay? So, that was Lenin's contribution. And Mao is like, no, you don't even need workers, okay? You can have a movement entir..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2863.58, "end": 2921.84, "time_label": "47:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And also, communism provided a framework in order to industrialize very quickly. 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Okay." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0042" ], "kind": "question", "summary": "A student asks whether capitalism equals communism, whether communism is a weapon of capitalism, and whether pursuing communism ultimately achieves capitalism.", "speaker_attribution": "Student or audience member.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "segment_id": "seg-0042", "start": 2936.97, "end": 2956.9, "time_label": "48:56", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, can we understand that capitalist equals to communism, or capitalism equals to communism, or communism is a weapon of capitalism, but if we try to pursue, you know, communism at the end, we will finally achieve capi..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0043", "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0044", "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0046" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "Jiang answers with a final model: capitalism structures society around capital and threatens the old order; capitalism gives birth to social democracy, which threatens both old order and capital; old and new powers then mutate social democracy into communism, whose early psyop becomes Bolshevism after 1917 succeeds.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang answering the student and summarizing the lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0043", "segment_id": "seg-0043", "start": 2958.64, "end": 3055.35, "time_label": "49:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. All right. So, capitalism is the belief that you can structure society around capital, okay? And this was a direct threat to the old order, okay? 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