Marxism, Socialism, and Communism: Yugoslavia and China
The Hillsdale College Online Courses Podcast
Hillsdale College
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Hillsdale College Online Courses Podcast, Jeremiah and Juan discuss the strange and deadly history of Communism outside of the Soviet Union.
In “Marxism, Socialism, and Communism,” professors of history, politics, and economics look at Marx’s life and writings, the misery and brutality in the Soviet Union, the atrocities of communist China, and the proliferation of Cultural Marxism in America. They explore how many ideas animating American politics today are rooted in Marxism, and yet how they differ from Marx’s thought. By taking Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the Frankfurt School seriously, we can see the injustice and evil inherent in all strands of Marxism. We also better understand the critiques of communism made by Mises, Hayek, and Solzhenitsyn. We are, therefore, better equipped to defeat it.
Stalin spread communism throughout the Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe and Asia. Tito’s Yugoslavia seemed to be a successful example of communism until his death. Mao was a faithful Marxist-Leninist. However, the contemporary Chinese Communist Party has adopted many capitalist policies to support their communist principles.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Hillsdale College Online Courses podcast. I'm Jeremiah Regan. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Juan Davalos. We are back with Marxism, socialism, and communism. |
| 0:22.7 | Going on to episode number five today, the Acolytes, Yugoslavia, and China. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah, we've seen how the ideas of Marx started in Germany but really took root in Russia and what became the Soviet Union. |
| 0:35.8 | Marxism is a universalist ideology. |
| 0:38.6 | The plan is to spread Marxism or communism all across the world |
| 0:42.2 | and unite all of the workers of the world |
| 0:44.7 | in the ownership of the means of production, |
| 0:47.0 | to have governments that are equal everywhere, |
| 0:49.1 | and it requires a single world state. |
| 0:51.9 | That hasn't happened, thank God. |
| 0:53.3 | But in this episode we look at the places |
| 0:56.2 | that where communism did take root outside of the main core of the Soviet Union versus Yugoslavia, |
| 1:03.4 | which one of our scholars has direct personal experience with. And then, of course, China, |
| 1:07.8 | which is the leading communist regime at the time that this podcast is being recorded in 2025. |
| 1:14.4 | You know, this one time I remember I saw this t-shirt that said communism, always one murder away from utopia. |
| 1:21.4 | And this is exactly, I think, what happens with communism, that they're always trying to pursue this utopia. They claim that, |
| 1:31.9 | well, communism hasn't really been tried. You know, we have the example of Soviet Union. Well, |
| 1:36.3 | that was an actual communism. And then it spreads to other places. Well, that isn't exactly communism. |
| 1:41.3 | And it continues to spread and it continues to fail and it continues to fail, and it continues to |
| 1:45.5 | spread misery around the world. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah, and these two places Yugoslavia and China are examples of places where communism |
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