https://www.patreon.com/calebmaupin Many Thanks to "And Remembering" for editing and posting - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySKGaPyBLWw2h-jvEB4fow 0:00 “People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.” - Vladimir Lenin 1:30 Block warning and intellectual primer 3:52 How we are taught to think about good (freedom) and bad (no freedom) countries 5:23 Obvious hypocrisy of “US spreading freedom and democracy” 9:20 “But the US just needs to live up to its ideals and not be so hypocritical!” 10:30 Rights in the US and world history 15:18 A≠A. Nothing is eternal. Every institution (ex. family) is constantly changing 20:25 Economic development facilitates freedom 23:26 Freedom is based on a society’s economic development and stability 25:55 Who controls society and politics? Whoever owns the major centers of economic power. 40:03 To achieve total freedom, the economy must operate rationally. Capitalism is irrational. 43:40 In Karl Marx’s words: “In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!” 0:00 “People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.” - Vladimir Lenin 1:30 Block warning and intellectual primer 3:52 How we are taught to think about good (freedom) and bad (no freedom) countries 5:23 Obvious hypocrisy of “US spreading freedom and democracy” 9:20 “But the US just needs to live up to its ideals and not be so hypocritical!” 10:30 Rights in the US and world history 15:18 A≠A. Nothing is eternal. Every institution (ex. family) is constantly changing 20:25 Economic development facilitates freedom 23:26 Freedom is based on a society’s economic development and stability 25:55 Who controls society and politics? Whoever owns the major centers of economic power. 40:03 To achieve total fr ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXgEWJviBE