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What is capitalism?
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Most people agree that we need to improve our economic system somehow.
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Yet we're also often keen to dismiss the ideas of capitalism's most famous and ambitious critic, Karl Marx.
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This isn't very surprising.
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In practice, his political and economic ideas have been used to design disastrously planned economies and nasty dictatorships.
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Nevertheless, we shouldn't reject Marx too quickly.
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We ought to see him as a guide whose diagnosis of capitalism's ills helps us to navigate towards a more promising future.
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Capitalism is going to have to be reformed, and Marx's analyses are going to be part of any answer.
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Marx was born in 1818 in Trier in Germany.
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Soon he became involved with the Communist Party, a tiny group of intellectuals advocating for the overthrow of the class system and the abolition of private property.
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He worked as a journalist and had to flee Germany, eventually settling in London.
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Marx wrote an enormous number of books and articles, sometimes with his friend Friedrich Engels.
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Mostly, Marx wrote about capitalism, the type of economy that dominates the Western world.
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It was, in his day, still getting going, and Marx was one of its most intelligent and perceptive critics.
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These were some of the problems he identified with it.
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Modern work is alienated.
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One of Marx's greatest insights is that work can be one of the sources of our greatest joys.
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But in order to be fulfilled at work, Marx wrote that workers need to see themselves in the objects they have created.
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Think of the person who built this chair.
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It's straightforward, strong, honest and elegant.
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It's an example of how, at its best, labour offers us a chance to externalise what's good inside us.
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but this is increasingly rare in the modern world.
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Part of the problem is that modern work is incredibly specialized.
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Specialized jobs make the modern economy highly efficient.
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But they also mean
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that it's seldom possible for any one worker to derive a
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sense of the genuine contribution they might be making to the real needs of humanity.
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Marx argued that modern work leads to alienation, entfremdung.
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In other words, a feeling of disconnection between what you do all day
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and who you feel you really are and what you think you'd ideally be able to contribute to existence.
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Modern work is insecure.
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Capitalism makes the human being utterly expendable, just one factor among others in the forces of production
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and one that can ruthlessly be let go the minute costs rise or savings can be made through technology.
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And yet, as Marx knew, deep inside each of us, we don't want to be arbitrarily let go, we're terrified of being abandoned.
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Communism isn't just an economic theory.
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Understood emotionally, it expresses a deep-seated longing that we always have a place in the world's heart, that we will not be cast out.
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Workers get paid little while capitalists get rich.
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This is perhaps the most obvious qualm that Marx had with capitalism.
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In particular, he He believed
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that capitalists shrink the wages of the labourers as much as possible in order to skim off a wide profit margin.
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He called this primitive accumulation, ursprüngliche accumulation.
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Whereas capitalists see profit as a reward for ingenuity and technological talent, Marx was far more damning.
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Profit is simply theft, and what you're stealing is the talent and hard work of your workforce.
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However much one dresses up the fundamentals, Marx insists that at its crudest,
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capitalism means paying a worker one price for doing something and then selling it to somebody else at a much higher price.
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Profit is the fancy term for exploitation.
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Capitalism is very unstable.
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Marx proposed that capitalist systems are characterised by a series of crises.
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Every crisis is dressed up by capitalists as being somehow freakish and rare and soon to be the last one.
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Far from it, argued Marx.
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Crises are endemic to capitalism and they're caused by something rather odd.
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The fact that we're able to produce too much, far more than anyone needs to consume.
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Capitalist crises are crises of abundance rather than, as in the past, crises of shortage.
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Our factories and systems are so efficient we could give everyone on this planet a car, a house, access to a decent school and a hospital.
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And that's what so enraged Marx but also made him so hopeful too.
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Few of us actually need to work because the modern economy is so productive.
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But rather than seeing this need not to work as the freedom it is, we complain about it masochistically and describe it by a pejorative word, unemployment.
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We should call it freedom.
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There's so much unemployment for a good and deeply admirable reason, because we're so good at making things efficiently.
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We're not all needed at the coal face.
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But in that case, we should, thought Marx, make leisure admirable.
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We should redistribute the wealth of the massive corporations that make so much surplus money and give it to everyone.
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This is in its own way as beautiful a dream as Jesus' promise of heaven, but a good deal more realistic sounding.
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Capitalism is bad for capitalists.
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Marx didn't think that capitalists were evil.
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For example, he was acutely aware of the sorrows and secret agonies that lay behind bourgeois marriage.
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Marx argued that marriage was actually an extension of business and that the bourgeois family was fraught with tension,
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oppression and resentment, with people staying together not for love but for financial reasons.
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Marx believed that the capitalist system forces everyone to put economic interests at the heart of their lives, so that they can no longer know deep, honest relationships.
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He called this psychological tendency commodity fetishism, varen fetishismus, because it makes us value things that have no objective value.
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He wanted people to be freed from financial constraint so that they could at last start to make sensible, healthy choices in their relationships.
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The 20th century feminist answer to the oppression of women has been to argue
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that women should simply be able to go out to work.
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But Marx's answer was more subtle.
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This feminist insistence merely perpetuates human slavery.
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The point isn't that women should imitate the sufferings of their male colleagues, it's that men and women should have the permanent option to enjoy leisure.
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Why don't we all think a bit more like Marx?
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An important aspect of Marx's work is that he proposes that there's an insidious, subtle way in which the economic system colours the sort of ideas that we end up having.
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The economy generates what Marx termed an ideology.
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A capitalist society is one where most people, rich and poor, believe all sorts of things that are really just value judgements that relate back to the economic system.
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For example, that a person who doesn't work is worthless, that leisure beyond a few weeks a year is sinful,
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that more belongings will make us happier and that worthwhile things and people will invariably make money.
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In short, one of the biggest evils of capitalism is not that there are corrupt people at the top, this is true in any human hierarchy,
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but that capitalist ideas teach all of us to be anxious, competitive, conformist and politically complacent.
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Marx didn't only outline what was wrong with capitalism, we also get glimpses of what Marx wanted the ideal utopian future to be like.
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In his Communist Manifesto, he describes a world without private property or inherited wealth, with a steeply graduated income tax, centralised control of the banking,
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communication and transport industries, and free public education.
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Marx also expected that communist society would allow people to develop lots of different sides of their natures.
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In communist society, it's possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening,
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criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.
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After Marx moved to London, he was supported by his friend and intellectual partner Friedrich Engels, a wealthy man whose father owned a cotton plant in Manchester.
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Engels covered Marx's debts and made sure his works were published.
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Capitalism paid for communism.
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The two men even wrote each other adoring poetry.
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Marx was not a well-regarded or popular intellectual in his day.
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Respectable, conventional people of Marx's day would have laughed at the idea that his ideas could remake the world.
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Yet, just a few decades later, they did.
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His writings became the keystone for some of the most important ideological movements of the 20th century.
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But Marx was like a brilliant doctor in the early days of medicine.
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He could recognize the nature of the disease, although he had no idea how to go about curing it.
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At this point in history, we should all be Marxists in the sense of agreeing with his diagnosis of our troubles.
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But we need to go out and find the cures that really will work.
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As Marx himself declared, and we deeply agree, philosophers until now have only interpreted the world in various ways.
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The point, however, is to change it.
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Thank you.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau C1 basiert auf dem Video „POLITICAL THEORY - Karl Marx“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: Marx, capitalism, capitalist, modern, economic. Dieses Video enthält 105 Sätze und 1537 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 9:20. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 165 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. Nur 77 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also anspruchsvoll.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
Die 15 anspruchsvollsten Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| capitalism Substantiv | /ˈkæp.ə.təlˌɪzm̩/ | Kapitalismus |
| capitalist Substantiv | /ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/ | Kapitalist, Kapitalistin |
| leisure Substantiv | /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/ | Muße |
| critic Substantiv | /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/ | Kritiker |
| admirable Substantiv | /ˈæd.məɹ.ə.bəl/ | bewundernswert |
| specialize Verb | /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/ | spezialisieren |
| accumulation Substantiv | /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ | Anhäufung |
| oppression Substantiv | /əˈpɹɛʃən/ | Unterdrückung |
| communism Substantiv | /ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/ | Kommunismus |
| alienate Verb | /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ | entfremden |
| alienation Substantiv | /ˌeɪli.əˈneɪʃən/ | Entfremdung |
| arbitrarily Adverb | beliebig | |
| complacent Adjektiv | /kəmˈpleɪsənt/ | selbstgefällig, selbstzufrieden |
| conformist Adjektiv | /kənˈfɔɹ.mɪst/ | konformistisch |
| constraint Substantiv | /kənˈstɹeɪnt/ | Einschränkung, Beschränkung |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| dress up Verb | sich herausputzen, sich aufbrezeln |
| end up Verb | sich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein |
| go out Verb | hinausgehen, herausgehen |
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | be reformed · was born · is alienated |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | have been · have created · has been |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | person who built · person who doesn |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 17 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel we're, isn't, didn't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die „th“-Laute: ruthlessly /ˈɹuːθ.ləs.li/, overthrow /ˌoʊvɚˈθɹoʊ/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, worthless /ˈwɜːθ.ləs/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: leisure /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, oppression /əˈpɹɛʃən/, alienation /ˌeɪli.əˈneɪʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: capitalism /ˈkæp.ə.təlˌɪzm̩/, capitalist /ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/, admirable /ˈæd.məɹ.ə.bəl/, accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, alienate /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): perpetuate /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃəˌweɪt/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, worthless /ˈwɜːθ.ləs/, straightforward /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/, workforce /ˈwɝk.foɹs/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, enrage /ɪnˈɹeɪd͡ʒ/, pejorative /pɪˈd͡ʒoɹətɪv/, perceptive /pɚˈsɛptɪv/, derive /dɪˈɹaɪv/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: capitalism /ˈkæp.ə.təlˌɪzm̩/, capitalist /ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/, admirable /ˈæd.məɹ.ə.bəl/, disastrously /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs.li/, abolition /ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie capitalism, capitalist, leisure.
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