Political Theory: The 5 Steps of the Marxist Sales Pitch

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The writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels laid the foundations for revolutionary socialist and communist movements. Early in the 20th century, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) catapulted the political theory into the mainstream with the creation of the Soviet Union governed by the Soviet Communist Party. Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro are perhaps the most well-known communist revolutionaries that followed.
The turmoil, death and social upheaval experienced with Communist revolutions and the destructive force of wars fought to resist the “red tide” are well documented. Importantly, influential democratic societies withstood the efforts of Marxist sympathisers in the 20th century.

This video outlines the Marxist sales pitch as delivered in the opening paragraphs of the first chapter: Bourgeois and Proletarians

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