Summary of Jordan Peterson's Critique of the Communist Manifesto

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Jordan Peterson's critique of the Communist Manifesto is that it is full of errors, and that it does not offer a practical plan for how communism would work in practice. He argues that the ideas in the Manifesto are likely wrong, and that if one is a thinker on the broad scale, one has the moral obligation to think critically about their own ideas.

• 00:00:00 Jordan Peterson critiques the Communist Manifesto, noting that it is riddled with errors. He points to 10 key propositions that he believes are untrue and unreliable.
• 00:05:00 Jordan Peterson critiques the Communist Manifesto, pointing out that the idea that history is driven by hierarchical struggle is true, but that this is not actually history. He goes on to say that hierarchies are necessary for solving social problems, but that they can also be oppressive. Finally, he says that human hierarchies are not fundamentally based on power, and that biological, anthropological data supports this.
• 00:10:00 Jordan Peterson's critique of the Communist Manifesto is that it is not clear who the proletariat are, which leads to problems in predicting how a dictatorship of the proletariat would go. He also points out that the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat is a crazy idea, because it is not clear how to take away the property of the capitalists.
• 00:15:00 Jordan Peterson critiques the Communist Manifesto, arguing that it is flawed on both theoretical and practical levels. He argues that the proletariat will not be good leaders, and that profit is a necessary constraint on what can be attempted.
• 00:20:00 The video critiques the Communist Manifesto, pointing out its many errors. It argues that while the manifesto may have been inspired by historical success of capitalism, it does not offer a concrete plan for how communism would work in practice.
• 00:25:00 Jordan Peterson's critique of the Communist Manifesto argues that the ideas in the Manifesto are likely wrong, and that if one is a thinker on the broad scale, one has the moral obligation to think critically about their own ideas. Peterson also argues that, contrary to what Marx predicted, capitalism has not led to increased inequality, but instead has eradicated poverty in countries that have adopted free market policies.