The Truth About Communism

My parents escaped Mao’s communism. They suffered true famine when they lived there. Yet my mother, because of propaganda, still things that the real person behind Mao’s tyranny was his wife, because Mao was old already… And despite the CCP having control over China still today, she doesn’t believe China is under a Communist government. It’s literally called communist party… many Chinese people also will never know about what happened in Tianamen.

As a Polish person who grew up in communist regime I approve this message

I lived in West Berlin in 1989. The people then were moving east to west, there was no migration of West Berliners to East Berlin. The wall opened on November 9, and the East Berliners all came pouring into the Western Sectors of the city, each one intent on seeing and experiencing everything that had long been denied them. Until that day I never saw East Berliners smiling. In my many trips there before the Wall came down, the best term to describe their faces was scowling. After unification, the former western parts (and only them) of Germany poured in over 30 trillion D-Marks ($19.2 trillion dollars) over 30 years to raise the quality of life in the former East Germany, and that still hasn’t been enough to right communism’s wrongs there—it’ll take generations for that to happen. There’s no better way to destroy the budding idea of communism in people than to describe its own past horrors. Communism destroys and/or enslaves all it touches, it must be seen as the malignancy that it is and dealt with honestly. There has never been a successful Marxist-Leninist government to this day.

I wish some of my friends would listen to you - I grew up in former Czechoslovakia, emigrated to Canada and could not believe, how many people in Canada think that socialism/ communism is something good. And they will not listen even to someone who lived through it.

"When you're counting in the tens of millions, the point has already been made." Oh wow, that gave me chills

As a Romanian person who grew up in communism I approve this message and the Polish guy message😀

As a Ukrainian, whose ancestors have been left with nothing as they were on the list for Syberia, just because they were wealthy hardworking peasants, I approve of this message. My grandma's sister together with her husband was exiled to Syberia (just the second day after their wedding), and her son (my godfather) was born there. They returned when he was 5 years old - in the middle of the 50th. Collectivization just killed a Ukrainian village, man-made FAMINE, great terror, "executed renaissance"( in the 30th erasure of Ukrainian intelligence by communists). That is communism! All this past led to the invasion in 2014 and the full-scale invasion 2022.

As a Chinese who are struggling for the freedom now, I approve this message and I call for Take down the Chinese Communist party!!

My friends from Cuba really hate communism. They actually appreciate freedom way more then me.

I wish people took human nature more seriously. These ideas become much more obvious when a clinical psychologist/professor/philosopher explains it over hundreds of hours of content. Peterson cares about history and is devoted to the philosophy of science, but he has not lost his soul. He's a rare "moral" scientist. Please share his content as much as possible.

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became a truth" -George Orwell.

As a Chinese, I am amazed Mao is still revered by many even young people here. You can tell how the education system works. He has arguably committed the most severe crimes against against Chinese people in Chinese history, worse even than the Japanese during WWII based on death toll. I cannot imagine the despair I would have felt living under his rule. There's absolutely no escape from the tyranny, just like today's North Korea. The only escape was to swim to Hong Kong, but other than the villagers living near the border, one can't even leave one's residential area without government approval, to buy a train ticket, or stay in a hotel. And there are people who are still nostalgic about those days in China.

The reference to Possesed / Devils book is incredible. I vividly remember one part, where a cell of revolutionaries were discussing how overthrown the state and there was one professor amongs them, who said that he wrote a book where he explained it all. And no matter how noble their intentions and words about freedom are, not matter what they do, they will end up with tyrany. I remember this part, because Dostoyevsky understood nature of communism and decribed it in his absolute brilliance in one sentence. If there is anything what you should know about communism, it is this: "No matter how noble your intentions are, no matter what you do, you will end up with tyranny."

These older lectures have a lot of value, and many newer viewers might miss them. Im glad to see that they're resurfacing.

Cambodia suffered so much under the communist regime 75-79'. I didn't live through it but my parents did. The trauma that my family and my people live through is unimaginable and to hear people being sympathetic toward any variation of communism boils my blood. Thanks jorden for speaking on this

As a Chinese mainlander and born in late 90s, i have to admint that there are rarely materials about the four “social movements” available in public back to 20th since PRC established and it is wise for most of us as normal people to not talk about it out laud openly. i don't know what the real situation is back that special period and i have to say that's a little scared of me actually after heard what professor said.

"That you understand the Marxist doctrines better than anyone else ever has." That is the thing about Marxists. They usually believe they are the smartest person in the room.

Dr. Jordan Peterson is so critically important in today's society! He's the beacon of sanity in this increasingly insane world!

While visiting Romania I took a guided tour around the capital Bucharesti. He pointed out landmarks and so on. At one point was talking about the Communist era and said something interesting. When ask about Communism he replied there was a little good but mostly very bad. Someone in the group said "how was it good?". He replied..if you a starving peasant it's good they give you a job and a apartment but if you even slightly successful it not good because they take your house , land and businesses and give you a job and a apartment.

As an Indian, I remember how the maoists tried to overthrow the government through an arms struggle