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Vejas Liulevicius

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1242 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

for their part, the communists and from the perspective of the Soviet Union, the Nazis were in essence a super capitalist conspiracy. If the cosmological enemy are the capitalists and the owners, the exploiters, then all of the rigmarole about race and nationalism are distractions. They're meant to fool the poor saps who enlist in that movement.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

for their part, the communists and from the perspective of the Soviet Union, the Nazis were in essence a super capitalist conspiracy. If the cosmological enemy are the capitalists and the owners, the exploiters, then all of the rigmarole about race and nationalism are distractions. They're meant to fool the poor saps who enlist in that movement.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

for their part, the communists and from the perspective of the Soviet Union, the Nazis were in essence a super capitalist conspiracy. If the cosmological enemy are the capitalists and the owners, the exploiters, then all of the rigmarole about race and nationalism are distractions. They're meant to fool the poor saps who enlist in that movement.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

It's essentially steered by capitalist owners who it is claimed are are reduced to this desperate expedient of coming up with this thuggish party that represents the last gasp of capitalism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

It's essentially steered by capitalist owners who it is claimed are are reduced to this desperate expedient of coming up with this thuggish party that represents the last gasp of capitalism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

It's essentially steered by capitalist owners who it is claimed are are reduced to this desperate expedient of coming up with this thuggish party that represents the last gasp of capitalism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

So bizarrely enough, from the communist perspective, the rise of the Nazis can be interpreted as a good sign because it means that capitalism is almost done, because this is the last undisguised, naked face of capitalism nearing its end. So beyond this ideological total opposition in terms of their hoped-for futures, the reality is that there were aspects that were shared on either side.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

So bizarrely enough, from the communist perspective, the rise of the Nazis can be interpreted as a good sign because it means that capitalism is almost done, because this is the last undisguised, naked face of capitalism nearing its end. So beyond this ideological total opposition in terms of their hoped-for futures, the reality is that there were aspects that were shared on either side.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

So bizarrely enough, from the communist perspective, the rise of the Nazis can be interpreted as a good sign because it means that capitalism is almost done, because this is the last undisguised, naked face of capitalism nearing its end. So beyond this ideological total opposition in terms of their hoped-for futures, the reality is that there were aspects that were shared on either side.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And that included the conviction that they could agree that the age of democracy was done. And that the 19th century had had its day with experiments with representative democracy, the claims of human rights, classical liberal ideas, and all of this had been revealed as bankrupt. It had gotten you what? It got you the First World War as a total conflict, conflict leaving tens of millions dead.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And that included the conviction that they could agree that the age of democracy was done. And that the 19th century had had its day with experiments with representative democracy, the claims of human rights, classical liberal ideas, and all of this had been revealed as bankrupt. It had gotten you what? It got you the First World War as a total conflict, conflict leaving tens of millions dead.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And that included the conviction that they could agree that the age of democracy was done. And that the 19th century had had its day with experiments with representative democracy, the claims of human rights, classical liberal ideas, and all of this had been revealed as bankrupt. It had gotten you what? It got you the First World War as a total conflict, conflict leaving tens of millions dead.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And then economically, the Great Depression showing that the end was not far away. This produced, at one and the same time, both ideological opposition and instances of vastly cynical cooperation. In terms of the Weimar Republic... it's obvious with the benefit of hindsight that German democracy had ceased to function even before Hitler comes to power.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And then economically, the Great Depression showing that the end was not far away. This produced, at one and the same time, both ideological opposition and instances of vastly cynical cooperation. In terms of the Weimar Republic... it's obvious with the benefit of hindsight that German democracy had ceased to function even before Hitler comes to power.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And then economically, the Great Depression showing that the end was not far away. This produced, at one and the same time, both ideological opposition and instances of vastly cynical cooperation. In terms of the Weimar Republic... it's obvious with the benefit of hindsight that German democracy had ceased to function even before Hitler comes to power.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

But in the process of making democracy unworkable in Germany, the extremes, the Nazi stormtrooper army with their brown shirts and the communist street fighters had cooperated in heightening an atmosphere of civil war that left people searching for desperate expedience in the last days of the Weimar Republic. The most compelling case of their cooperation was the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

But in the process of making democracy unworkable in Germany, the extremes, the Nazi stormtrooper army with their brown shirts and the communist street fighters had cooperated in heightening an atmosphere of civil war that left people searching for desperate expedience in the last days of the Weimar Republic. The most compelling case of their cooperation was the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

But in the process of making democracy unworkable in Germany, the extremes, the Nazi stormtrooper army with their brown shirts and the communist street fighters had cooperated in heightening an atmosphere of civil war that left people searching for desperate expedience in the last days of the Weimar Republic. The most compelling case of their cooperation was the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

on August 23rd, 1939, which enables Hitler to start World War II. A non-aggression pact in official terms It contains secret clauses whereby the Nazis and the Soviets meeting in Moscow under Stalin's wary eye had agreed on territorial division of Eastern Europe and making common cause as each claiming to be the winner of the future.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

on August 23rd, 1939, which enables Hitler to start World War II. A non-aggression pact in official terms It contains secret clauses whereby the Nazis and the Soviets meeting in Moscow under Stalin's wary eye had agreed on territorial division of Eastern Europe and making common cause as each claiming to be the winner of the future.