1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:07,900 that over the most dangerous man in Europe is about to arrive on britain's 2 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:08,530 shores 3 00:00:08,530 --> 00:00:11,989 the mom 4 00:00:11,990 --> 00:00:16,270 is breaching the sewing century he's been forced out of his native country 5 00:00:16,270 --> 00:00:21,269 the duh 6 00:00:21,269 --> 00:00:26,240 %uh only liberal Britain will tolerate his presence on has soil 7 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:30,320 the heads to London to live in exile 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:37,320 the new year is 1849 good 9 00:00:38,930 --> 00:00:43,620 but today that man's rising for still dangerous all 10 00:00:43,620 --> 00:00:48,919 the same radical so revolutionary they continue to divide the world 11 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,420 0 12 00:00:51,420 --> 00:00:54,940 it's been more than a hundred and fifty years since he started writing about the 13 00:00:54,940 --> 00:00:55,400 wild 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,890 been a long looking for an explanation in the global economic crisis 15 00:00:59,890 --> 00:01:06,890 he's a surprisingly good place to start them 16 00:01:07,370 --> 00:01:10,440 with everything going so wrong you have to wonder 17 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:15,429 Comox turning out to be right 18 00:01:15,430 --> 00:01:19,320 most people know mark's as the father of communism 19 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:22,408 you might be surprised to hear that most of what he bred 20 00:01:22,409 --> 00:01:25,79 about capitalism 21 00:01:25,79 --> 00:01:28,850 today his ideas about that are being taken seriously right to the heart of 22 00:01:28,850 --> 00:01:32,9 global business 23 00:01:32,10 --> 00:01:35,80 his analysis was pretty on the button and 24 00:01:35,80 --> 00:01:38,870 explains a lot I think about some the things that we see going on around in 25 00:01:38,870 --> 00:01:40,000 our economy today 26 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:45,230 for marks the best argument against capitalism was that it was inherently 27 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:46,840 unfair 28 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,460 his ideas on inequality have already intense than ever today 29 00:01:50,460 --> 00:01:53,720 what March the do 30 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,899 each to install the dish change of urgency 31 00:01:56,899 --> 00:02:00,130 siege cannot go on forever 32 00:02:00,130 --> 00:02:04,360 the way day on 33 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,820 in this series I'll tell you about the lives and revolutionary 34 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:12,440 thinking a 3 extraordinary man John Maynard Keynes 35 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:17,69 Friedrich Hayek and call marks 36 00:02:17,69 --> 00:02:21,518 their worlds with changing as never before base or that the basic nations 37 00:02:21,519 --> 00:02:23,360 would hang on the power of money 38 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:29,180 made radically different ideas about how to control room 39 00:02:29,180 --> 00:02:33,990 today the stakes could hardly be higher 40 00:02:33,990 --> 00:02:37,550 all three of these men would Giants his ideas live on 41 00:02:37,550 --> 00:02:42,220 but this thing to us right now because they more than anyone recognize the 42 00:02:42,220 --> 00:02:46,859 double-edged power money how markets could transform 43 00:02:46,860 --> 00:02:50,370 all our lives but also plunges into chaos 44 00:02:50,370 --> 00:02:53,970 Keynes and Hayek argued about whether government 45 00:02:53,970 --> 00:02:57,170 should try to contain this forces human nature 46 00:02:57,170 --> 00:03:01,320 capitalism Karl Marx had the most radical and by civil 47 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,109 get rid of it 48 00:03:05,110 --> 00:03:06,930 on 49 00:03:06,930 --> 00:03:12,310 the 50 00:03:12,310 --> 00:03:16,599 the new on 51 00:03:16,599 --> 00:03:23,599 I am dialed 52 00:03:24,180 --> 00:03:27,600 in 1989 Karl Marx's reputation 53 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:34,600 lay in ruins 54 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:45,690 ones 55 00:03:45,690 --> 00:03:52,690 the most diverse the fall of the Berlin Wall meant the end of March 56 00:03:52,930 --> 00:03:59,930 millions rejected the horace a violent and repressive police dept 57 00:04:03,170 --> 00:04:06,579 because the communist countries claim marks as their inspiration 58 00:04:06,580 --> 00:04:13,140 his ideas were cast aside as well 59 00:04:13,140 --> 00:04:17,399 when this wall came down I was studying economics at University 60 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:22,140 back then we knew we thought we knew two things about marxism 61 00:04:22,140 --> 00:04:26,409 communism one was it hand-delivered freedom for the workers 62 00:04:26,410 --> 00:04:30,270 quite the opposite mailer just as bad a to an economist 63 00:04:30,270 --> 00:04:34,690 to hand deliver prosperity the communist approach to the economy 64 00:04:34,690 --> 00:04:39,569 just had worked 65 00:04:39,569 --> 00:04:43,789 well the free market West great strides the communist 66 00:04:43,789 --> 00:04:47,900 planned economies had been left behind 67 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:54,900 marks his reputation as an economist wasn't rents 68 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,310 in the last few years something strange is happened 69 00:04:59,310 --> 00:05:03,729 like the global financial crisis has brought call maltz back from the dead 70 00:05:03,729 --> 00:05:08,318 I still don't care what he said about communism but people are going back to 71 00:05:08,319 --> 00:05:10,669 his damning assessment of capitalism 72 00:05:10,669 --> 00:05:14,938 all its deep-seated floors the nagging doubt 73 00:05:14,939 --> 00:05:20,000 is it all now coming true 74 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,40 when times were good marks was nowhere but now the Western economies are in 75 00:05:25,40 --> 00:05:26,000 crisis 76 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,860 he's attracting new interest right at the heart of the economic establishment 77 00:05:30,860 --> 00:05:34,820 from a former IMF chief economist 78 00:05:34,820 --> 00:05:38,150 marks is right on a number of dimensions 79 00:05:38,150 --> 00:05:41,250 mom he's certainly is right 80 00:05:41,250 --> 00:05:45,110 that income inequality can be a source 81 00:05:45,110 --> 00:05:50,520 of tremendous tension to the man who sold the 2008 crisis coming 82 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,950 yet this dude that there there a situation in which chair 83 00:05:53,950 --> 00:05:57,800 capitalism and globalization can lead that 84 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,530 tool economic crisis 85 00:06:01,530 --> 00:06:04,570 and an economist at one of the world's leading banks 86 00:06:04,570 --> 00:06:07,880 it's quite hard to convince people who live in Chelsea or chills wit that this 87 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:08,460 system 88 00:06:08,460 --> 00:06:15,169 great relevance to them but actually I am it's worth a bash 89 00:06:15,169 --> 00:06:19,30 anyone in Chelsea 0 chance that he thinks marks is only about communism 90 00:06:19,30 --> 00:06:22,750 is in for a shock it's what he said about capitalism 91 00:06:22,750 --> 00:06:29,750 that ring so true today them 92 00:06:30,170 --> 00:06:34,130 mosque inside was capitalism was inherently unstable 93 00:06:34,130 --> 00:06:37,170 he said we lurch from crisis to crisis 94 00:06:37,170 --> 00:06:43,550 and society will become increasingly unequal 95 00:06:43,550 --> 00:06:48,139 marks divided the world into bosses and workers 96 00:06:48,139 --> 00:06:51,950 but name they would always be adults 97 00:06:51,950 --> 00:06:56,378 is a recipe for crises 98 00:06:56,379 --> 00:07:00,129 to make profits bosses squeeeeze what they pay workers 99 00:07:00,129 --> 00:07:04,530 the crisis comes plant workers then don't have enough money to buy 100 00:07:04,530 --> 00:07:09,438 what bosses are trying to sell them for decades after world war two 101 00:07:09,439 --> 00:07:13,319 look completely wrong be a New Years Eve stable growth 102 00:07:13,319 --> 00:07:16,870 and the workers with his laundry largest share the 103 00:07:16,870 --> 00:07:23,870 time but not anymore 104 00:07:25,170 --> 00:07:28,370 much would explain this crisis in terms of the fact that 105 00:07:28,370 --> 00:07:31,670 ordinary people haven't done enough money to spend why haven't they got 106 00:07:31,670 --> 00:07:32,780 enough money to spend 107 00:07:32,780 --> 00:07:36,789 because it's been a big redistribution over the last few decades 108 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:40,80 away from only people towards 109 00:07:40,80 --> 00:07:46,380 capital toward wealth are the marks 110 00:07:46,380 --> 00:07:51,50 there's no turning back he thought there were laws admission running through 111 00:07:51,50 --> 00:07:52,270 human history 112 00:07:52,270 --> 00:07:56,140 capitalism would produce bigger and bigger crises 113 00:07:56,140 --> 00:08:01,360 men collapse 114 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,490 many believe that the polls driving us to this final collapse 115 00:08:05,490 --> 00:08:08,930 the same one that built our world in the first place 116 00:08:08,930 --> 00:08:13,470 the power money 117 00:08:13,470 --> 00:08:17,720 marks had a very simple formulation about crises which is it there 118 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:22,69 %ah manifestations a fundamental flaws 119 00:08:22,69 --> 00:08:26,949 will contradictions as he called them capitalism how would mark sieve 120 00:08:26,949 --> 00:08:30,530 suggested solving the crisis is such course 121 00:08:30,530 --> 00:08:34,309 by abolishing capitalism 122 00:08:34,309 --> 00:08:40,119 it's capitalism living on borrowed time the mall 123 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,60 yeah 124 00:08:42,59 --> 00:08:43,49 well 125 00:08:43,49 --> 00:08:45,839 sometimes doesn't feel that far-fetched 126 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,210 are all 127 00:08:49,210 --> 00:08:52,720 years while I've been thinking more about Mark's discussed 128 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:57,440 last few years has it felt like an ordinary recession it hasn't felt like a 129 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,350 crisis for one economy offer 130 00:08:59,350 --> 00:09:02,710 a group with economies in the West at times at me 131 00:09:02,710 --> 00:09:07,460 has felt like a crisis for the system for capitalism as we know it 132 00:09:07,460 --> 00:09:11,260 you want a bigger explanation and no one's 133 00:09:11,260 --> 00:09:14,640 ever had a bigger explanation for everything that's happened 134 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:21,640 then call marks on 135 00:09:23,570 --> 00:09:27,90 capitalism's most implacable 136 00:09:27,90 --> 00:09:30,220 critic was born in the picture postcard town 137 00:09:30,220 --> 00:09:37,220 3n in what is now southwest Germany 138 00:09:37,510 --> 00:09:43,830 the today his birthplace makes its own contribution to the local economy 139 00:09:43,830 --> 00:09:48,000 it's a big draw for tourists 140 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 buddy still a lot of people coming here tourists 141 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,990 yeah around the world warehouse more than 40,000 tourists here 142 00:09:54,990 --> 00:09:55,730 and 143 00:09:55,730 --> 00:09:59,790 and 25 percent for and came from China 144 00:09:59,790 --> 00:10:03,230 calls from them come from come from China health 145 00:10:03,230 --> 00:10:07,920 yea marx's yeah birthplace and what they buy what they like July 146 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:12,310 tour rates are collapse become our supply I miss you get some not so much 147 00:10:12,310 --> 00:10:15,880 and know why run amok father 148 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,959 finalist modern you had a 1-yard nearby 149 00:10:18,959 --> 00:10:23,689 Julia anything a come up with money selling all this stuff the capitalist 150 00:10:23,690 --> 00:10:24,500 having this shop 151 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:27,810 crack to author in and did enjoy it 152 00:10:27,810 --> 00:10:31,500 cost I'm had a good humor to 153 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:36,40 hun 154 00:10:36,40 --> 00:10:39,860 the man with the big theory about our world had big dreams 155 00:10:39,860 --> 00:10:44,800 right from the start when he was 17 156 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,69 more time to write an essay about picking the right career 157 00:10:48,70 --> 00:10:51,480 he said the best position in life was to serve 158 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,630 all of mankind say your deed would live on 159 00:10:54,630 --> 00:10:57,670 perpetually at work and over your ashes will be shed 160 00:10:57,670 --> 00:11:03,40 the whole tears have noble people 10 with that young man 161 00:11:03,40 --> 00:11:06,990 on the ground young man be surprised to hear that his first home have been 162 00:11:06,990 --> 00:11:08,410 turned into a museum 163 00:11:08,410 --> 00:11:13,980 problem 164 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:17,700 but for all its ambitions marks was hardly a model student 165 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:22,29 when he was at University in Berlin he earned a reputation 166 00:11:22,29 --> 00:11:26,970 as a radical thinker on marks comes across as a 167 00:11:26,970 --> 00:11:31,370 a young man is this have energetic 168 00:11:31,370 --> 00:11:36,279 fari hairy figure out here he was known as the wild ball 169 00:11:36,279 --> 00:11:39,519 all the more which the points to his to live on time 170 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:43,779 complex he was full of ideas he was for love debate he liked 171 00:11:43,779 --> 00:11:47,670 big drinking sessions and then deep philosophical debate about 172 00:11:47,670 --> 00:11:51,680 the nature Christ and German Romanticism 173 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:57,150 and politics 174 00:11:57,150 --> 00:11:59,730 by the time he was 24 doctor marks 175 00:11:59,730 --> 00:12:03,420 was a believer in a salesman is an expert in law 176 00:12:03,420 --> 00:12:07,589 philosophy you name it but the only thing you didn't know much about 177 00:12:07,590 --> 00:12:12,360 was economics 178 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,850 old that all changed in 179 00:12:16,850 --> 00:12:21,520 1842 marks by now working as a journalist 180 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:25,189 heard about the controversy in this would that would help shape his 181 00:12:25,190 --> 00:12:27,880 understanding of how the world works 182 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:33,329 on 183 00:12:33,329 --> 00:12:36,719 patents taking sticks from the forest floor to use as firewood 184 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:42,189 being prosecuted for bet would have been gathered here for centuries but now the 185 00:12:42,189 --> 00:12:43,679 land owners had declared 186 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,230 it belonged to them I'm 187 00:12:47,230 --> 00:12:50,140 what had been freely shared was now 188 00:12:50,140 --> 00:12:54,369 private property 189 00:12:54,369 --> 00:12:58,279 say that thinking about this question turned marks into an economist 190 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:02,889 but I will recapture he came to think but economics the nature 191 00:13:02,889 --> 00:13:06,279 economic relationships between p with the heart 192 00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:10,170 up absolutely everything 193 00:13:10,170 --> 00:13:13,599 the foundations have marxist thinking once was materialism 194 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,800 that when you cutaway religion ideology 195 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,199 politics at its root word material relations 196 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:25,190 between him and the need for for you the need to have a roof over your 197 00:13:25,190 --> 00:13:28,620 head this is what ultimately drive so much for human 198 00:13:28,620 --> 00:13:31,790 interaction moshe unique 199 00:13:31,790 --> 00:13:34,939 in March she didn't she economy just 200 00:13:34,940 --> 00:13:38,000 as a special each via she shot 201 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,529 economy ish the stock trading to bring sheeple 202 00:13:41,529 --> 00:13:45,800 over the entire Xiao Shu the valley 203 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,199 for Mark's it all begins with private property 204 00:13:49,199 --> 00:13:53,69 which divides the world starkly there are those that have it 205 00:13:53,69 --> 00:13:57,219 and those that don't 206 00:13:57,220 --> 00:14:00,209 take his word before it became private property 207 00:14:00,209 --> 00:14:04,388 I could do I like with I could heat my house with it I could make a chair 208 00:14:04,389 --> 00:14:08,129 and exchange it for food but also someone else 209 00:14:08,129 --> 00:14:11,660 the whole relationship changes now marks would say 210 00:14:11,660 --> 00:14:15,910 I become a member the proletariat now I have to work for the end of the woods 211 00:14:15,910 --> 00:14:21,89 the capitalist for away each then he can so what I've made 212 00:14:21,89 --> 00:14:24,899 for more than he paid me look what happened something that was part of my 213 00:14:24,899 --> 00:14:25,730 life 214 00:14:25,730 --> 00:14:30,329 is now a financial transaction capitalists made profit 215 00:14:30,329 --> 00:14:34,459 you can use that to buy more would build factories make more profit 216 00:14:34,459 --> 00:14:38,829 and so it goes on profit is now the heart in everything 217 00:14:38,829 --> 00:14:42,508 0 meaning 218 00:14:42,509 --> 00:14:45,540 wall you have it 219 00:14:45,540 --> 00:14:49,300 the Marxian view of capitalism all just a bit anyway 220 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:52,809 if you want more you'll have to wade through hundreds of pages marks for 221 00:14:52,809 --> 00:14:53,309 yourself 222 00:14:53,309 --> 00:14:58,990 the key point for us is that driving force of capitalism the meter 223 00:14:58,990 --> 00:15:04,480 more more profit remarks thought that was also a recipe for constant crises 224 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:10,160 so marks would say you could 225 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,990 trace the roots of the crisis we're in today right to the very heart of 226 00:15:14,990 --> 00:15:15,939 capitalism 227 00:15:15,939 --> 00:15:22,939 to its need to generate profit 228 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:36,430 but we're also seeing in triana was a world in flux 229 00:15:36,430 --> 00:15:41,529 feudalism was on the way out an entirely new way of doing things for the ride 230 00:15:41,529 --> 00:15:45,550 now we know what capitalism's really made of 231 00:15:45,550 --> 00:15:48,689 the power money today means a lot more than just 232 00:15:48,689 --> 00:15:53,959 throwing a few peasants in jail a buncha guys in a trading floor can turn into 233 00:15:53,959 --> 00:15:55,508 our economy upside down 234 00:15:55,509 --> 00:15:59,350 around the world all our lives 235 00:15:59,350 --> 00:16:03,480 depends all markets on capitalism being able to deliver 236 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,769 if Moses right it is fundamentally flawed 237 00:16:07,769 --> 00:16:14,769 well but the really big problem we might see a complex modern economy 238 00:16:19,250 --> 00:16:22,879 with all of us have a stake in mark this would say 239 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:24,89 same ol 240 00:16:24,89 --> 00:16:27,709 still apply but then who owns what 241 00:16:27,709 --> 00:16:32,199 still means everything they see workers 242 00:16:32,199 --> 00:16:35,8 still slaving away 243 00:16:35,9 --> 00:16:39,380 and capitalists mothballs was eat still exploiting them 244 00:16:39,380 --> 00:16:46,380 always driving make more profit marxist world 245 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,779 any cap is the BBC maximum profit is soon replaced by 246 00:16:52,779 --> 00:16:57,699 one dust said the system 247 00:16:57,699 --> 00:17:01,300 follows a completely predictable calls peaks a 248 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:03,660 to its own destruction 249 00:17:03,660 --> 00:17:06,409 it's not an idea that many people except 250 00:17:06,410 --> 00:17:09,420 did he was completely wrong 251 00:17:09,420 --> 00:17:13,890 including the ideas the capitalism was merely a phase 252 00:17:13,890 --> 00:17:17,459 and contained within to see dividend destruction 253 00:17:17,459 --> 00:17:21,10 that's not the case well everything is bound to collapse 254 00:17:21,10 --> 00:17:25,770 we long enough for me in your splendid you know sucked into the Sun 255 00:17:25,770 --> 00:17:30,240 some heat no he be forgiven for thinking that 256 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:35,900 table collapse capitalism sounds a little implausible 257 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:42,900 happy seeking profit be sent disastrous when it's done such amazing things 258 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:49,110 just look at how we peeked under capitalism 259 00:17:49,110 --> 00:17:53,520 to get fresh fruit flown in from all over the world 260 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,730 we can choose from seven hundred times and breakfast cereal 261 00:17:57,730 --> 00:18:02,910 we have enough a bit and it's all safe to eat 262 00:18:02,910 --> 00:18:06,150 this incredible 20 and the technology it depends on 263 00:18:06,150 --> 00:18:09,630 didn't come from the state it's what happens when you let 264 00:18:09,630 --> 00:18:13,730 capitalists compete for profit 265 00:18:13,730 --> 00:18:19,880 they didn't do it for our benefit they did it because it made him rich 266 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,380 sec first glance marx's idea that capitalism search for profit would be 267 00:18:24,380 --> 00:18:25,539 its downfall 268 00:18:25,539 --> 00:18:31,10 sounds absurd profit mail to sign venal email Tucson wrong but it is what pushes 269 00:18:31,10 --> 00:18:32,250 progress ahead 270 00:18:32,250 --> 00:18:36,330 profit is actually what drives the world forward and that's what marks 271 00:18:36,330 --> 00:18:39,399 could never quite handle the profit motive is essential 272 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,230 I'm after all what is the profit measures just away 273 00:18:43,230 --> 00:18:46,530 of all the cheating a better society 274 00:18:46,530 --> 00:18:49,678 by people wanting to better their own individual 275 00:18:49,679 --> 00:18:54,340 locked 276 00:18:54,340 --> 00:18:57,870 when you think about fundamentally the profit motive is shaped in 277 00:18:57,870 --> 00:19:03,280 reached our world it's no wonder marks fell out of favor 278 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,680 do be shouldn't dismiss doctor martz quite get 279 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,780 miss true he talked a lot about class exploitation misery 280 00:19:10,780 --> 00:19:13,930 chaos but he didn't think capitalism was all bad 281 00:19:13,930 --> 00:19:20,930 far from it this cocktail bar in London Soho 282 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:25,800 hides a revolutionary past 283 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:30,500 used to be the red line and pop cited the clandestine meeting of communist in 284 00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:31,650 1847 285 00:19:31,650 --> 00:19:38,650 that would echo down the ages 286 00:19:38,990 --> 00:19:42,480 it was at that meeting that they commission Karl Marx and his sidekick 287 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,740 Friedrich angles too bright one of the most incendiary pamphlets a full-time 288 00:19:46,740 --> 00:19:53,740 the Communist Manifesto 289 00:19:55,610 --> 00:19:57,20 summer this you probably know 290 00:19:57,20 --> 00:20:01,240 the famous opening line a specter is haunting Europe 291 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:06,680 and of course the end about the workers having nothing to lose but their chains 292 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,740 they have a world to win working men love 293 00:20:09,740 --> 00:20:13,600 all countries unite capital letters but 294 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,949 what you probably don't know I find most interesting 295 00:20:16,950 --> 00:20:20,390 is what's in the middle one of the most perceptive 296 00:20:20,390 --> 00:20:23,830 admiring bit surprising about capitalism 297 00:20:23,830 --> 00:20:26,928 and red fact it reads a lot 298 00:20:26,929 --> 00:20:31,720 true and now the when it was written 299 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,290 thing was surprising blocks is writing is that you find 300 00:20:35,290 --> 00:20:39,409 in amongst the communism a loss if good analysis of capitalism 301 00:20:39,410 --> 00:20:42,500 and that she also find within it am 302 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:47,30 color praise for capitalism matches attitude towards capitalism 303 00:20:47,30 --> 00:20:50,879 each basically ambiguous fuchsia did think 304 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,580 time he was amish get much will to fashion a jerk he was fully aware that 305 00:20:55,580 --> 00:20:56,310 the huge 306 00:20:56,310 --> 00:21:03,70 the most productive day Namiki spinning the history of humanity and Shalom 307 00:21:03,70 --> 00:21:06,809 the truth is marked did understand that the drive for profit would achieve 308 00:21:06,809 --> 00:21:08,100 incredible 309 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:14,209 things it has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about 310 00:21:14,210 --> 00:21:18,80 it's accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids 311 00:21:18,80 --> 00:21:22,678 Roman at could not send Gothic cathedrals it is conducted expeditions 312 00:21:22,679 --> 00:21:23,830 that put in the shade 313 00:21:23,830 --> 00:21:29,30 all former exodus is a nations and Crusades 314 00:21:29,30 --> 00:21:32,300 he didn't really get the current global aspect he got the idea 315 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:35,860 word people will suddenly be able to get things small the way around the world 316 00:21:35,860 --> 00:21:40,600 in a completely new way in the impact needed 317 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,909 pension the expanding market for its products chases the balls was the 318 00:21:44,910 --> 00:21:48,860 over the whole surface at the Glen it with Nestle everywhere 319 00:21:48,860 --> 00:21:51,959 settle everywhere established connections 320 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,660 everywhere it creates a world 321 00:21:55,660 --> 00:22:02,660 after its own image but you know there's got to be a downside for the boys onesie 322 00:22:03,10 --> 00:22:06,360 modern balls Law Society 323 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:10,959 is like the sorcerer who's no longer able to control the powers have been in 324 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:11,530 the world 325 00:22:11,530 --> 00:22:15,610 BB is called up by his spells with the boys onesie 326 00:22:15,610 --> 00:22:18,659 therefore produces a bomb vol is its own 327 00:22:18,660 --> 00:22:23,130 grave diggers it the and the victory in the proletariat 328 00:22:23,130 --> 00:22:26,879 are equally inevitable 329 00:22:26,879 --> 00:22:28,939 mmm 330 00:22:28,940 --> 00:22:32,60 ok 331 00:22:32,60 --> 00:22:36,990 it's tearing stuff but it does raise a bit of a puzzle cut marks 332 00:22:36,990 --> 00:22:40,200 think the capitalists the Bulls lousy so brilliant 333 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:45,30 and yet so dooms well for him it all came down to the way they treat their 334 00:22:45,30 --> 00:22:45,810 staff 335 00:22:45,810 --> 00:22:52,810 the 336 00:22:55,260 --> 00:22:59,658 to understand boxes analysis of crises we have to first understand the 337 00:22:59,659 --> 00:23:01,299 capitalism that he knew 338 00:23:01,299 --> 00:23:06,190 nineteenth century capitalists might have built wonders surpassing Egyptian 339 00:23:06,190 --> 00:23:07,29 pyramids 340 00:23:07,29 --> 00:23:10,149 but they also forced and workers to enjoy 341 00:23:10,149 --> 00:23:17,149 terrible conditions and pay the 342 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:25,899 the industrial revolution and all the incredible achievements that followed 343 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:30,669 were made possible by coal miners 344 00:23:30,669 --> 00:23:34,20 this is a replica to like it but too often it on the ground 345 00:23:34,20 --> 00:23:38,129 the man you can see it aside and a pick and shovel and it worked the cold 346 00:23:38,130 --> 00:23:42,70 Phil cough and then his wife at Ajanta 347 00:23:42,70 --> 00:23:47,149 toll Miranda to load in part which will put me up to 30 kilometers away 348 00:23:47,150 --> 00:23:51,760 didn't realize that there with her husband moesha how it little fun miss 349 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,730 the need the need that little by little girl to work the store as well 350 00:23:55,730 --> 00:23:59,740 to be he took the job he had to some provide small child 351 00:23:59,740 --> 00:24:03,730 30 the only light there between them work under which that kept 352 00:24:03,730 --> 00:24:06,830 say cuz he wouldn't go for it so the little boy or girl 353 00:24:06,830 --> 00:24:09,970 sucked on the real in that that the 12 hours a day 354 00:24:09,970 --> 00:24:13,80 it is 355 00:24:13,80 --> 00:24:16,480 difficult team overstate the horror all 356 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,559 industrialization in Europe in 1829 357 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:25,178 Liverpool for example life expectancy at birth was about twenty eight years 358 00:24:25,179 --> 00:24:28,620 and that was the lowest age since the Black Death 359 00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:32,189 so the impact of the Industrial Revolution 360 00:24:32,190 --> 00:24:37,530 on life chances will absolutely terrifying 361 00:24:37,530 --> 00:24:39,30 on 362 00:24:39,30 --> 00:24:43,899 by 1849 his revolutionary writings it got marks band from everywhere but 363 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:44,600 britain 364 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,139 home 365 00:24:47,140 --> 00:24:50,590 phiri could observe the power money had to ruin lives 366 00:24:50,590 --> 00:24:56,590 a suitably safe distance course I think in the last few minutes 367 00:24:56,590 --> 00:24:59,610 come closer to what it was actually like 368 00:24:59,610 --> 00:25:03,379 drudgery a Victorian times the Comox images 369 00:25:03,380 --> 00:25:07,620 he never went to a mind and as far as we can tell me any went to a factory once 370 00:25:07,620 --> 00:25:11,340 towards the end of his life wouldn't stop in writing 371 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:18,340 vividly about the horrors a Britain's dark satanic mills 372 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,830 the horrors a Victorian working conditions clearly shaped 373 00:25:22,830 --> 00:25:26,779 marx's economics 374 00:25:26,779 --> 00:25:31,190 in his time minimum pay for proles meant maximum profits for bosses 375 00:25:31,190 --> 00:25:38,30 and any bosses who did choose to pay more usually went bust 376 00:25:38,30 --> 00:25:41,300 he sought to lose be downward pressure on wages and wages would 377 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:44,909 come down to the minimum that enabled their survival they couldn't go lower 378 00:25:44,910 --> 00:25:48,850 than that of 12 workers with time but he thought to be depressed down to that man 379 00:25:48,850 --> 00:25:52,600 the reality of course has been the opposite it has been a continual 380 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,689 advancement in wages year in and year out decade in 381 00:25:55,690 --> 00:26:00,600 decade count 382 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,908 marks was wrong he thought it would all get so bad 383 00:26:03,909 --> 00:26:08,690 the workers would overthrow the system 384 00:26:08,690 --> 00:26:11,630 yet even as he was writing reformers were beginning to get 385 00:26:11,630 --> 00:26:17,60 redid the worst employment practices capitalism got kinda 386 00:26:17,60 --> 00:26:21,850 not Nastya but the idea that the competing interests have bosses and 387 00:26:21,850 --> 00:26:23,230 workers with pools 388 00:26:23,230 --> 00:26:30,230 crises well that does seem relevant today 389 00:26:34,370 --> 00:26:38,90 has a very sophisticated arguments I'm going to need children's stories 390 00:26:38,90 --> 00:26:43,260 to explain let me see right at the start none of these toys and dolls 391 00:26:43,260 --> 00:26:47,379 any kind of on a resolution now is mine 392 00:26:47,380 --> 00:26:50,900 capitalist minds 393 00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:53,910 with or without a hat now 394 00:26:53,910 --> 00:26:58,730 margin that there aren't very many minds then 395 00:26:58,730 --> 00:27:02,210 the mine and has to compete with the other capitalists 396 00:27:02,210 --> 00:27:06,100 for workers probably end up having to chaim 397 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:09,620 moment liked it 398 00:27:09,620 --> 00:27:13,889 trouble is those higher costs cut into profits 399 00:27:13,890 --> 00:27:18,909 now that's happening across the economy you got declining way to profit 400 00:27:18,909 --> 00:27:23,299 and a lot of capitalists going out of business the crisis 401 00:27:23,299 --> 00:27:26,770 you get countless workers losing their jobs 402 00:27:26,770 --> 00:27:31,260 having a terrible time until finally wages fall far enough 403 00:27:31,260 --> 00:27:36,169 capless can go back to expose so 404 00:27:36,169 --> 00:27:42,59 high labor costs a bad for business but what makes the collapse of capitalism 405 00:27:42,59 --> 00:27:43,490 inevitable for Mark's 406 00:27:43,490 --> 00:27:49,559 the bosses are in trouble even when they have things their own way 407 00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:52,559 numbers in the opposite situation you got no need to workers 408 00:27:52,559 --> 00:27:56,389 you love this not competing 409 00:27:56,389 --> 00:27:59,649 for a single dome men well 410 00:27:59,649 --> 00:28:04,18 May 13 smiling the capitalists any has to pay the workers 411 00:28:04,19 --> 00:28:07,499 the bare minimum 412 00:28:07,499 --> 00:28:13,599 his bucket bookmarks would have called the industrial reserve army of the 413 00:28:13,599 --> 00:28:14,198 unemployed 414 00:28:14,199 --> 00:28:18,899 its bombast full this not can keep paying 415 00:28:18,899 --> 00:28:22,508 very low wages keep making profits text sent 416 00:28:22,509 --> 00:28:25,899 in the end as a problem 417 00:28:25,899 --> 00:28:30,688 badly paid workers don't spend very much and not very much spending in an economy 418 00:28:30,689 --> 00:28:35,159 is not good for business you get another crisis more companies going bust 419 00:28:35,159 --> 00:28:40,119 and this crisis it's going to be hard to fix 420 00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:43,168 you see what marks not the capitalists were in trouble no matter what they do 421 00:28:43,169 --> 00:28:46,899 they never want a pain has more money they always need to 422 00:28:46,899 --> 00:28:51,408 make more profit but in seeking out profit Bhandup eroding the basis on 423 00:28:51,409 --> 00:28:52,440 which it's made 424 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,269 gotten if you like where their money ultimately comes from 425 00:28:56,269 --> 00:28:59,950 the punchline as a No marks capitalism 426 00:28:59,950 --> 00:29:05,39 is deemed I'm 427 00:29:05,39 --> 00:29:08,749 so that's how problems with wages can cause crises 428 00:29:08,749 --> 00:29:12,999 at least in theory house any about relevant to right now 429 00:29:12,999 --> 00:29:18,570 I'm a marxist would say that little parable with the toy 430 00:29:18,570 --> 00:29:21,749 men tells you everything you need to know about the financial crisis just 431 00:29:21,749 --> 00:29:22,89 seeing 432 00:29:22,89 --> 00:29:26,789 but they'd say you can explain the last forty years have world history 433 00:29:26,789 --> 00:29:30,809 entirely in terms of capitalism's desperate need 434 00:29:30,809 --> 00:29:34,359 to have the advantages have a ready supply of cheap labor 435 00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:37,839 but none other costs and you don't have to take my word for it 436 00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:43,658 Huff 437 00:29:43,659 --> 00:29:47,419 let's take a look at the last 20 years history through the prism 438 00:29:47,419 --> 00:29:51,469 Marxist theories to show how they might explain the mess we're in 439 00:29:51,469 --> 00:29:54,859 an imaginary marxist 440 00:29:54,859 --> 00:30:00,89 Broadcasting Corporation would see it all is a good old 1970s style class 441 00:30:00,89 --> 00:30:00,658 struggle 442 00:30:00,659 --> 00:30:05,159 as usual the world's divided between workers 443 00:30:05,159 --> 00:30:09,659 and capitalists always fighting to get a bigger slice of the pie 444 00:30:09,659 --> 00:30:12,779 and the crisis happened martz's would argue 445 00:30:12,779 --> 00:30:17,39 because the capitalist have been coming out on top that too often 446 00:30:17,39 --> 00:30:20,229 the fight is over 447 00:30:20,229 --> 00:30:23,729 wages happiness want to pay less the workers 448 00:30:23,729 --> 00:30:29,660 want to get more in 449 00:30:29,660 --> 00:30:33,520 seventies powerful trade unions battle to keep wages 450 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,320 mine 451 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,918 then we come to the AC's fight back 452 00:30:39,919 --> 00:30:43,850 time for capitalists sheik 453 00:30:43,850 --> 00:30:47,719 marks would have seen Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan 454 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,49 as acting purely in the interests of the capitalist bosses 455 00:30:51,49 --> 00:30:55,179 it was their governments that helped business 456 00:30:55,179 --> 00:30:59,190 by getting rid of the obstacles that made it hard to cut wages 457 00:30:59,190 --> 00:31:02,789 bombs intimidation we have seen 458 00:31:02,789 --> 00:31:06,749 should never have happened it is the workers extremists 459 00:31:06,749 --> 00:31:11,450 it is the enemy within if they do not report for work within 48 hours 460 00:31:11,450 --> 00:31:18,450 they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated 461 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,240 say for the marxist Broadcasting Corporation the capitalist one in the 462 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:30,800 1980s and I kept on winning 463 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,800 the guaranteed high wages and job security that workers had enjoyed until 464 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:35,750 the seventies 465 00:31:35,750 --> 00:31:41,80 had gone the and downward pressure on wages 466 00:31:41,80 --> 00:31:44,250 started to lay the seeds of the crisis we see today 467 00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:51,250 but was great telly 468 00:31:54,350 --> 00:31:59,370 is actually true well we know the masses few histories right about one thing 469 00:31:59,370 --> 00:32:03,530 at least in Britain and America earnings at the very top have soared in the last 470 00:32:03,530 --> 00:32:04,370 few years 471 00:32:04,370 --> 00:32:08,120 and everyone else has been squeezed in Britain 472 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,149 real earnings have been flat or falling 473 00:32:11,150 --> 00:32:14,290 the best part in 10 years since before the crisis 474 00:32:14,290 --> 00:32:18,10 in america that's been happening since the seventies 475 00:32:18,10 --> 00:32:21,670 ha and 476 00:32:21,670 --> 00:32:25,410 United States a full-time male worker 477 00:32:25,410 --> 00:32:28,960 median income has stagnated for third of a century 478 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,680 no increase household income today's the same it will 479 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:39,150 as it was fifteen years ago all the increase in the income has gone to the 480 00:32:39,150 --> 00:32:39,780 top 481 00:32:39,780 --> 00:32:43,540 the sharer are being common United States 482 00:32:43,540 --> 00:32:47,700 that was going to the top part 1 percent of the households 483 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:50,880 twenty years ago was a rhonda 484 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:55,300 12 percent today that share 485 00:32:55,300 --> 00:33:02,300 is closer to 23 percent 486 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,150 on things haven't gone that far the UK 487 00:33:06,150 --> 00:33:09,310 but inequalities certainly creeping up the agenda 488 00:33:09,310 --> 00:33:16,310 on said the greedy capitalists been picking the pockets of the workers 489 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,460 them 490 00:33:19,460 --> 00:33:22,809 so what do I think all that money's been flowing to the top 491 00:33:22,809 --> 00:33:26,549 mother think it's a big conspiracy but there have been 492 00:33:26,549 --> 00:33:29,710 social and political changes but it made a difference 493 00:33:29,710 --> 00:33:34,620 we used to have really big unions we used to have a very high tax rates 494 00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:38,129 on rich people and we had social norms 495 00:33:38,130 --> 00:33:41,960 just wasn't done for the people running a bank to take a huge chunk of the 496 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,350 profits for themselves 497 00:33:43,350 --> 00:33:47,789 those things help keep a lid on in the Colisee we don't have them anymore 498 00:33:47,789 --> 00:33:52,690 but really crucial to all of this the changing structure of our economy 499 00:33:52,690 --> 00:33:59,220 big 500 00:33:59,220 --> 00:34:01,520 a lot of it's down to new technology 501 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:06,990 part 502 00:34:06,990 --> 00:34:10,440 work previously done by hand stand on by machines 503 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,918 fewer workers needed 504 00:34:14,918 --> 00:34:18,779 there are more competing for every job meaning boxes can pay them less 505 00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:25,390 up but perhaps the most significant factors globalization 506 00:34:25,389 --> 00:34:30,109 up with calling barriers to trade around the world 507 00:34:30,110 --> 00:34:33,750 global business has gained access to it giant new pool 508 00:34:33,750 --> 00:34:37,290 cheaper labor do you have brought 509 00:34:37,290 --> 00:34:41,650 into the market now millions and millions of new workers 510 00:34:41,650 --> 00:34:46,230 in China in India in other parts of a sure 511 00:34:46,230 --> 00:34:49,409 in parts of South America Brazil for instance 512 00:34:49,409 --> 00:34:53,389 so that process has transformed 513 00:34:53,389 --> 00:34:57,60 the capital labor ratio global scale 514 00:34:57,60 --> 00:35:01,330 for example in analyst can 515 00:35:01,330 --> 00:35:05,29 as well be sitting in the Philippines are removed by 516 00:35:05,30 --> 00:35:09,510 I to do the job that is done and a much higher price 517 00:35:09,510 --> 00:35:12,470 in New York 518 00:35:12,470 --> 00:35:16,970 the haha many workers in the rich countries 519 00:35:16,970 --> 00:35:20,328 and now competing with industrial reserve army 520 00:35:20,329 --> 00:35:27,150 running into the billions 521 00:35:27,150 --> 00:35:32,329 think emerging market economies they've been overwhelming vote in favor what has 522 00:35:32,329 --> 00:35:32,920 happened 523 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,10 because almost everyone is better off than they were 524 00:35:36,10 --> 00:35:39,809 would have been but that's less evident in the industrialized world 525 00:35:39,809 --> 00:35:44,69 many lower pay people to become even lower-paid relative to 526 00:35:44,69 --> 00:35:50,579 those opposed and that is a concern 527 00:35:50,579 --> 00:35:54,240 two years after world war two we could be pretty sure marks was wrong 528 00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:59,220 where you had capitalism it was working pretty well you could talk about rising 529 00:35:59,220 --> 00:35:59,919 tides 530 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,690 lifting all boats you look at the global economy today 531 00:36:03,690 --> 00:36:06,970 I think you see capitalism that marks would recognize 532 00:36:06,970 --> 00:36:09,980 it's lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty in China 533 00:36:09,980 --> 00:36:14,789 but the most ordinary people in the West the system is not working in small 534 00:36:14,789 --> 00:36:21,789 for them capitalism's not coming through on its on the deal 535 00:36:24,50 --> 00:36:27,710 it's an analysis that rings true even for the leader in the world 536 00:36:27,710 --> 00:36:32,430 biggest economy long before the research 537 00:36:32,430 --> 00:36:35,669 jobs in manufacturing began leaving our shores 538 00:36:35,670 --> 00:36:39,180 technology make businesses more passion 539 00:36:39,180 --> 00:36:45,240 but also made some jobs obsolete for the top saw their incomes rise like never 540 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:50,290 before but most hardworking Americans struggled would cost that we're growing 541 00:36:50,290 --> 00:36:55,230 paychecks that weren't and personal debt but kept piling up 542 00:36:55,230 --> 00:36:59,380 mile 543 00:36:59,380 --> 00:37:04,190 for the yo 544 00:37:04,190 --> 00:37:08,60 out 545 00:37:08,60 --> 00:37:12,420 I'll marks would say this squeeze on wages 546 00:37:12,420 --> 00:37:17,230 was the root cause the huge economic crisis that we've been living through 547 00:37:17,230 --> 00:37:21,300 but you might see a problem 548 00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:27,120 with the marxist explanation who's all down to low wages you'd expect the 549 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,250 crisis is started where people spend their pay 550 00:37:30,250 --> 00:37:34,440 house in the real economy one way another that is how most in recession 551 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,270 since the war 552 00:37:35,270 --> 00:37:39,540 got started but this time it was High Street sank the city 553 00:37:39,540 --> 00:37:44,950 daily rounds the explosion that brought the global economy in 2008 554 00:37:44,950 --> 00:37:48,439 was dixon et ses d inside the bank's 555 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:53,660 so how would mark slick 556 00:37:53,660 --> 00:37:57,430 low wages to troubled banks the answer is 557 00:37:57,430 --> 00:38:02,120 the store capital is endlessly adaptable it could solve one problem 558 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,290 low wages but only at the cost to creating another 559 00:38:05,290 --> 00:38:09,90 the most 560 00:38:09,90 --> 00:38:12,950 underestimate capitalism people was fundamentally flawed 561 00:38:12,950 --> 00:38:17,700 didn't think it was stupid in low spots the population were being paid enough to 562 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:18,890 support demand 563 00:38:18,890 --> 00:38:22,569 while he would have been at all surprised to hear the capitalist to come 564 00:38:22,570 --> 00:38:29,570 up with a brilliant solution the credit card 565 00:38:32,220 --> 00:38:33,359 with consumer credit 566 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:39,540 people carry on spending even if they haven't got the money 567 00:38:39,540 --> 00:38:42,300 the economy stays afloat and the capitalist 568 00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:48,950 still make that profit ok 569 00:38:48,950 --> 00:38:50,990 some credit provided on city 570 00:38:50,990 --> 00:38:54,430 always capitalism's worms but anything while 571 00:38:54,430 --> 00:38:58,620 remember marks keep the system is fundamentally flawed 572 00:38:58,620 --> 00:39:02,680 they might be very clear that these capitalists but now more than ever 573 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:09,299 they were living on borrowed time 574 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:13,90 should 575 00:39:13,90 --> 00:39:17,259 as we know it went well beyond credit cards 576 00:39:17,259 --> 00:39:20,720 would ultimately brought the crisis to a head with the billions borrowed on 577 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:21,640 mortgages 578 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:26,890 people thought the value of their house with keep going up for ever 579 00:39:26,890 --> 00:39:29,150 housing credit is beautiful 580 00:39:29,150 --> 00:39:32,690 because if your house prices increasing and you're boring 581 00:39:32,690 --> 00:39:37,369 against the increase in value of your pulse you don't feel boring a week to 582 00:39:37,369 --> 00:39:38,50 pick 583 00:39:38,50 --> 00:39:44,430 but of course you are in america it happened on a massive scale 584 00:39:44,430 --> 00:39:48,609 there as we know the capitalist was getting 585 00:39:48,610 --> 00:39:55,60 richer and richer they could spend all their extra money 586 00:39:55,60 --> 00:39:59,90 driven as ever by the desire to make more profit 587 00:39:59,90 --> 00:40:04,280 they lent it out in riskier and risky aways 588 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,230 the name given to this lending might well be 589 00:40:07,230 --> 00:40:12,170 familia subprime 590 00:40:12,170 --> 00:40:17,580 the what we did 591 00:40:17,580 --> 00:40:21,440 is as the incomes most Americans were stagnating or 592 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,460 Mar in declining we said don't let it bother you 593 00:40:25,460 --> 00:40:28,730 keep spending as if your income was going up 594 00:40:28,730 --> 00:40:32,920 and they did that very well I mean who would oppose it 595 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,710 the bank to making money a the house also getting there 596 00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:40,000 their house the politicians who have happy constituents 597 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,660 mean there is no nobody was going to be unhappy in this process 598 00:40:43,660 --> 00:40:48,720 until it collapses them 599 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:52,620 and we all know how it ended in retrospect 600 00:40:52,620 --> 00:40:55,870 it seems obvious lending to people who couldn't afford it 601 00:40:55,870 --> 00:41:00,589 on the lasting solution to anything it led to a housing bubble 602 00:41:00,590 --> 00:41:05,440 which burst threatening some of the world's biggest banks 603 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:09,959 and thanks to our integrated world what started in the United States bread 604 00:41:09,959 --> 00:41:13,910 an infected the entire system causing a global recession 605 00:41:13,910 --> 00:41:20,910 so here's the marxist explanation for the crisis we've just seen 606 00:41:21,449 --> 00:41:25,180 he got a global economy with business is getting better and better 607 00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:29,339 as squeezing wages and pushing up profits but there's a problem 608 00:41:29,339 --> 00:41:33,308 producing a lot of stuff the workers can no longer afford 609 00:41:33,309 --> 00:41:38,319 and a lot of profits looking for a new home a global property bubble 610 00:41:38,319 --> 00:41:42,829 provided an answer to both those problems the system was kept afloat 611 00:41:42,829 --> 00:41:46,869 on a mountain debts it was only a matter of time 612 00:41:46,869 --> 00:41:50,449 before it all came crashing down capitalism's 613 00:41:50,449 --> 00:41:54,329 only ever a strong as its latest temporary fix 614 00:41:54,329 --> 00:41:58,450 by 615 00:41:58,450 --> 00:42:02,290 it's an extraordinary tale from a lot of people would say 616 00:42:02,290 --> 00:42:05,500 it's completely wrong it 617 00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:08,430 marxism doesn't actually work but it keeps coming back because it makes it 618 00:42:08,430 --> 00:42:09,578 makes for a good story 619 00:42:09,579 --> 00:42:13,540 identically wages paid any real it all in causing the crisis 620 00:42:13,540 --> 00:42:17,630 the crisis was caused by governments and central banks flooding the market with 621 00:42:17,630 --> 00:42:19,109 cheap credit and cheap money 622 00:42:19,109 --> 00:42:22,380 because politicians don't like downturn in the economy 623 00:42:22,380 --> 00:42:26,339 throws people at work I think it may have it to some degree 624 00:42:26,339 --> 00:42:29,839 have to increase the level of indebtedness that people went into 625 00:42:29,839 --> 00:42:34,740 the crisis with which I think intense on its how deep the crisis became 626 00:42:34,740 --> 00:42:39,29 but it wasn't the underlying calls it's a contest to fund to which made it worse 627 00:42:39,30 --> 00:42:42,619 home 628 00:42:42,619 --> 00:42:46,289 but the idea that low wages may have contributed to the crisis 629 00:42:46,289 --> 00:42:49,440 is gaining ground even if the name marks 630 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,960 is as toxic as ever on 631 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,39 George Magnus is a senior economic adviser 632 00:42:57,39 --> 00:43:02,789 to one of the world's leading banks even writing quite a lot about mark since 633 00:43:02,789 --> 00:43:03,609 this crisis 634 00:43:03,609 --> 00:43:07,400 started how did you come to look at him again achieve it was on this trading 635 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:07,960 floor 636 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,410 the it was probably the weekend before LeMans when 637 00:43:11,410 --> 00:43:14,519 lost and its normally 638 00:43:14,519 --> 00:43:18,618 a little bit noisy but at the time it was you could hear a pin drop it was 639 00:43:18,619 --> 00:43:20,49 that deathly quiet and 640 00:43:20,49 --> 00:43:24,170 I could almost feel you know about global systems 641 00:43:24,170 --> 00:43:27,829 frozen I'm and it was quite a scary thought 642 00:43:27,829 --> 00:43:32,420 it took me back to a lot of the things I used to read about him study when I was 643 00:43:32,420 --> 00:43:33,140 much younger 644 00:43:33,140 --> 00:43:36,589 the days when I actually read Marx fun 645 00:43:36,589 --> 00:43:40,210 and you wrote about that and what was the reaction I did get a lot of hate 646 00:43:40,210 --> 00:43:41,539 mail app say 647 00:43:41,539 --> 00:43:44,999 there are a lot of people who work quite opposed to the idea 648 00:43:44,999 --> 00:43:49,488 at that anything that was socialistic marxist year could be 649 00:43:49,489 --> 00:43:53,249 at all considered serious in the mainstream I love this 650 00:43:53,249 --> 00:43:57,399 hate my life to say came from the United States and I was accused of being 651 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,859 you know Obama clone and President Obama the well no sorry this is what the 652 00:44:01,859 --> 00:44:02,480 models 653 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:07,329 very mysterious forces so there was a lot of negative reaction from 654 00:44:07,329 --> 00:44:10,640 I think people probably predictably I am you know 655 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:14,808 had already tied their own ideological colors to the malls 656 00:44:14,809 --> 00:44:18,729 but the people who do find value in Mark's aren't necessarily gonna follow 657 00:44:18,729 --> 00:44:24,529 him all the way 658 00:44:24,530 --> 00:44:28,950 I think marks helps and framing the problem but I think the solutions 659 00:44:28,950 --> 00:44:29,819 have 660 00:44:29,820 --> 00:44:34,400 to be different given the different in mind 661 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:39,300 except marks would insist the trap is inescapable 662 00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:43,320 cap this must seek profit above all else although can add a business 663 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:48,900 so why would they have a choose to give workers a bigger share of the pie 664 00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:52,780 marks Woodside is that we have to look for ways 665 00:44:52,780 --> 00:44:55,880 how to this crisis which look beyond 666 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,890 the restoration have kept this class power 667 00:44:58,890 --> 00:45:02,900 I think this is a time when we actually need to start thinking about the 668 00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:09,900 revolutionary solution again but who exactly is revolting against who 669 00:45:10,690 --> 00:45:14,480 marks divided the world neatly into workers capitalists 670 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,30 but today his start distinction is incredibly blood 671 00:45:18,30 --> 00:45:25,30 bosses work for themselves a workers oppose shares 672 00:45:29,530 --> 00:45:33,140 in our modern world another birds do you have a stake in the system 673 00:45:33,140 --> 00:45:37,520 but the mobile phones all pension plans to stave off boredom of 674 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:41,770 revolt 675 00:45:41,770 --> 00:45:48,770 but what about the people capitalism failing his moms have to say to them 676 00:45:53,40 --> 00:45:56,730 pretty amazing how well mark seems to understand our world 677 00:45:56,730 --> 00:46:00,670 where we more interconnected than you could ever have imagined where all the 678 00:46:00,670 --> 00:46:02,270 faces of capitalism 679 00:46:02,270 --> 00:46:06,800 good and bad and now on display in pretty much every corner of the globe 680 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,900 but he was the one who famously said it wasn't enough 681 00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:13,690 to interpret the world the point was to change it 682 00:46:13,690 --> 00:46:18,330 fuel skin what exactly was supposed to replace capitalism with 683 00:46:18,330 --> 00:46:25,330 when he had remarkably little to say about that 684 00:46:27,550 --> 00:46:34,550 as mark vented his final years be seen quite content with the way things work 685 00:46:35,859 --> 00:46:39,670 he'd been pool for a lot of his life but by 1856 686 00:46:39,670 --> 00:46:46,289 get enough money to move to London suburbs 687 00:46:46,289 --> 00:46:48,750 the young firebrand now looked like 688 00:46:48,750 --> 00:46:52,940 part of the establishment he would spend his day 689 00:46:52,940 --> 00:46:57,99 walking around Hampstead Heath he would bar about personal finances 690 00:46:57,99 --> 00:47:01,529 bar about his his daughters and expensive piano lessons I mean he 691 00:47:01,529 --> 00:47:05,510 he lived a a remarkably Busch wildlife in 692 00:47:05,510 --> 00:47:09,700 in in many ways 693 00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:13,609 in his later years most will mean world authority on the revolution 694 00:47:13,609 --> 00:47:17,299 but he didn't seem to be in a hurry to make it happen young hottie did 695 00:47:17,299 --> 00:47:20,519 socialists from around the world would come to North London to pay their 696 00:47:20,519 --> 00:47:21,299 respects 697 00:47:21,299 --> 00:47:25,279 when his support mister n seemed happy to watch 698 00:47:25,279 --> 00:47:31,180 I'm wait 699 00:47:31,180 --> 00:47:33,000 marks only really had contempt 700 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:38,170 for terrorists those who were seeking to false Ford political progress by 701 00:47:38,170 --> 00:47:41,320 having changed through through all the tree violence 702 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:45,000 you needed the economic fundamentals in place 703 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,000 for a proper revolution to succeed 704 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:54,140 to understand why he didn't want to rush revolution we need to understand 705 00:47:54,140 --> 00:48:01,140 the last time I promise a bit more Marxist theory 706 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:08,710 as usual he had a grand analysis but the history of the world 707 00:48:08,710 --> 00:48:12,750 he sold a great sweet the humanities endeavors from the caveman 708 00:48:12,750 --> 00:48:16,650 to the slave societies and Greece and Rome 709 00:48:16,650 --> 00:48:21,940 to feudalism kings and castles 710 00:48:21,940 --> 00:48:25,650 all of which was replaced in turn by RM capitalist system 711 00:48:25,650 --> 00:48:30,700 bosses and workers incredibly unfair 712 00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:36,730 but also incredibly productions 713 00:48:36,730 --> 00:48:40,990 said any but we've got everything we could out of capitalism to be afford to 714 00:48:40,990 --> 00:48:47,729 have a revolution 715 00:48:47,730 --> 00:48:50,370 in his words the now love capitalist 716 00:48:50,370 --> 00:48:55,270 private property sounds the x-pro creators are expropriated 717 00:48:55,270 --> 00:49:00,120 all to be replaced by 718 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,140 more or less not 719 00:49:02,140 --> 00:49:03,390 irritate 720 00:49:03,390 --> 00:49:06,310 is next to know you alternative laid out 721 00:49:06,310 --> 00:49:11,480 March basically was not the one pushing be given gave us the blueprint you in a 722 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:12,480 five stages 723 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:17,230 after capital Asian communities each you have the basic guidelines what to do and 724 00:49:17,230 --> 00:49:17,780 show 1 725 00:49:17,780 --> 00:49:21,160 no no each up to ask you just opened up 726 00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:25,560 defeat the new is there an alternative to capitalism 727 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,830 have no idea blisters communal councils as dead silence starvation 728 00:49:30,830 --> 00:49:35,470 home who will the end the world or the I simply have no idea 729 00:49:35,470 --> 00:49:39,40 if there is little to doesn't doesn't occur to you to be in pain 730 00:49:39,40 --> 00:49:45,680 important sizing israel also due to weather 731 00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,290 I'm 732 00:49:47,290 --> 00:49:50,320 also we couldn't describe what the next stage if you develop 733 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,540 would look like any more than a feudal serf could have described our lives 734 00:49:54,540 --> 00:49:55,89 today 735 00:49:55,89 --> 00:49:59,420 to it you might say fair enough except you might also think it was pretty 736 00:49:59,420 --> 00:50:00,290 telling 737 00:50:00,290 --> 00:50:04,710 after all nobody else has been able to describe a convincing alternative to 738 00:50:04,710 --> 00:50:05,780 capitalism either 739 00:50:05,780 --> 00:50:10,190 I think he would have written 740 00:50:10,190 --> 00:50:14,89 lot more had he lived ten years more home 741 00:50:14,89 --> 00:50:18,450 watery Socialist Republic would look like 742 00:50:18,450 --> 00:50:22,379 and who knows but that might have saved the world a lot 743 00:50:22,380 --> 00:50:28,579 bopper 744 00:50:28,579 --> 00:50:34,830 without it blueprint we all know what happened next 745 00:50:34,830 --> 00:50:38,170 there weren't any revolution rich developed countries 746 00:50:38,170 --> 00:50:40,59 marked predicted 747 00:50:40,59 --> 00:50:46,70 stead it happened in one of the world's poorest nations 748 00:50:46,70 --> 00:50:50,640 soviet russia may have left marks far behind but it was an attempt to try 749 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:51,830 something else 750 00:50:51,830 --> 00:50:56,578 many have drawn lessons from its face 751 00:50:56,579 --> 00:50:59,339 the truth is at the moment there a different forms of capitalism 752 00:50:59,339 --> 00:51:02,680 but on the big argument about whether you really want to have 753 00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:06,319 a communist system or caplets one that is pretty much one 754 00:51:06,319 --> 00:51:09,440 everywhere I think there are more humane 755 00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:13,29 versions of capitalism all mobile that by Barrick forms a capitalism 756 00:51:13,29 --> 00:51:17,260 arm but I don't think this a systemic alternative to capitalism 757 00:51:17,260 --> 00:51:20,579 will there ever be yes I would think so I mean 758 00:51:20,579 --> 00:51:23,660 you know nothing is forever absolutely nothing 759 00:51:23,660 --> 00:51:30,600 and cap capitalism is not forever 760 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:35,299 but anyone looking for a fairer alternative knows they can't ever repeat 761 00:51:35,300 --> 00:51:38,720 what happened East the Berlin Wall dictatorship 762 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:45,720 political oppression and millions a ruined lives 763 00:51:50,340 --> 00:51:55,600 from nineteen forty-five until 1989 this was the main Remand Centre for political 764 00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:56,190 prisoners 765 00:51:56,190 --> 00:52:03,190 in communist East Germany today it's been turned into a memorial 766 00:52:05,170 --> 00:52:07,180 civil suspicion Angelucci 767 00:52:07,180 --> 00:52:14,160 who have no the with you she's guilty 768 00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:18,160 it's possible that places like this explain why even capitalism's 769 00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,819 toughest critics today seldom talk seriously about 770 00:52:21,820 --> 00:52:28,750 replaced it 771 00:52:28,750 --> 00:52:31,940 you can she beat all these protests in Europe Greece 772 00:52:31,940 --> 00:52:35,300 and so on and wash in Spain in Greece 773 00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:38,620 asking call was the same question okay more 774 00:52:38,620 --> 00:52:43,180 do you want apart from some purely moderately speak on such 775 00:52:43,180 --> 00:52:47,839 I didn't get any group completes proposed as you know and such like 776 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:52,620 all money should just be booed not people should have been money 777 00:52:52,620 --> 00:52:55,630 may go to keep that in everyone with fifth-degree Swedish 778 00:52:55,630 --> 00:52:59,460 I'm sure he would have thought the with this implosion 779 00:52:59,460 --> 00:53:03,800 banking system harder happens is in the United States 780 00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,510 United Kingdom and so on there would be a huge 781 00:53:07,510 --> 00:53:10,780 the rush the two 782 00:53:10,780 --> 00:53:14,360 marxism in extreme solutions that has really happened 783 00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,830 a his same 784 00:53:17,830 --> 00:53:24,279 quite surprising and the peace 785 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,750 memories at this place do fade could there ever be an alternative to 786 00:53:28,750 --> 00:53:31,10 capitalism 787 00:53:31,10 --> 00:53:34,330 ship what happened here be a lesson for all time 788 00:53:34,330 --> 00:53:37,850 if someone wants you couldn't miss you too 789 00:53:37,850 --> 00:53:39,480 capitalism 790 00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,930 saying by seeking missiles into but capitalism 791 00:53:42,930 --> 00:53:46,180 whose basis rather than 792 00:53:46,180 --> 00:53:49,220 fact life and saying whoops 793 00:53:49,220 --> 00:53:53,29 resist human nature can people said fundamentally the revealing themselves 794 00:53:53,30 --> 00:53:54,230 as utopian 795 00:53:54,230 --> 00:53:58,550 and the problem with utopia is the communion be approached across the sea 796 00:53:58,550 --> 00:53:59,160 of blood 797 00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,670 and you never arrive this is my big mantra 798 00:54:02,670 --> 00:54:06,80 when we left each and accused of utopias maybe but 799 00:54:06,80 --> 00:54:09,299 the only real utopia is to think that week 800 00:54:09,300 --> 00:54:13,80 jumpers make the change fynch can go on indefinitely 801 00:54:13,80 --> 00:54:20,80 the way they are now 802 00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:26,460 here Lori 803 00:54:26,460 --> 00:54:29,530 world 804 00:54:29,530 --> 00:54:33,800 a marks died in 1883 805 00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:38,920 in a speech in his grave his longtime friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels 806 00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:39,620 declared 807 00:54:39,620 --> 00:54:42,700 his name in work well in G or through the ages 808 00:54:42,700 --> 00:54:47,410 here 809 00:54:47,410 --> 00:54:50,450 for most of the 20th century his name did angel 810 00:54:50,450 --> 00:54:55,290 they usually for all the wrong reasons 811 00:54:55,290 --> 00:54:58,960 but now it's the 21st century welcome is long dead 812 00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:05,960 prussian really say to us but 813 00:55:09,30 --> 00:55:09,890 fundamentally 814 00:55:09,890 --> 00:55:12,990 I think Mark's reminds us that capitalism 815 00:55:12,990 --> 00:55:16,520 doesn't work for everyone it might not work at all 816 00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:21,970 when you look at what's happening the pressure on wages 817 00:55:21,970 --> 00:55:25,40 can you understand why people are so the looking again at 818 00:55:25,40 --> 00:55:28,350 at some Marx's analysis yes 819 00:55:28,350 --> 00:55:32,40 the big picture I'm the workers versus 820 00:55:32,40 --> 00:55:35,50 the capitalists and there's no doubt that there have been 821 00:55:35,50 --> 00:55:38,110 significant changes in inequality 822 00:55:38,110 --> 00:55:43,530 and in the distribution income which make you pause about the benefits 823 00:55:43,530 --> 00:55:47,200 the developments all outputs and prosperity that was seen 824 00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:53,200 I don't think you can afford to believe that the benefits of a market economy in 825 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,220 bringing prosperity will be there 826 00:55:55,220 --> 00:55:58,799 unless there is a collective commitment to keep the system going in that does 827 00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,000 require people to believe 828 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:03,670 that everyone will benefit in the end I think some other 829 00:56:03,670 --> 00:56:06,890 the ugliness of capitalism that he saw 830 00:56:06,890 --> 00:56:10,359 E and the 19th century seems to be you 831 00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:14,160 a reappearing in the twentieth in 21st in 832 00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,640 in a way we have to the keep our are are 833 00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:21,170 perspective on this health conditions are much better 834 00:56:21,170 --> 00:56:24,440 living standards are are starting from a higher level 835 00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,530 by it is still the case 836 00:56:27,530 --> 00:56:30,910 there 837 00:56:30,910 --> 00:56:32,500 things are the way they ought to be 838 00:56:32,500 --> 00:56:38,350 and they're not moving in where they should be 839 00:56:38,350 --> 00:56:41,910 but let's face it marks wasn't just talking about tweaking the system 840 00:56:41,910 --> 00:56:47,940 he had a much grander claim the mat demoss change the world 841 00:56:47,940 --> 00:56:51,530 call seeded after that funeral people did week 842 00:56:51,530 --> 00:56:55,790 hot tea is a disgrace justices seventeen year old self would have wanted 843 00:56:55,790 --> 00:57:00,210 probably many more live took persons name but there's no getting around it 844 00:57:00,210 --> 00:57:07,210 capitalism's still here marks was right to see capitalism is inherently unstable 845 00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:14,520 and often on fair Keynes and Hayek saw that too 846 00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,50 but marks was the first unlike then 847 00:57:18,50 --> 00:57:22,920 he didn't think we should find a way to live with it 848 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,900 he said capitalism would bounce back from crises and reinvent itself 849 00:57:26,900 --> 00:57:30,210 but in the end a compelling alternative would appear 850 00:57:30,210 --> 00:57:34,100 and capitalism would collapse 851 00:57:34,100 --> 00:57:37,259 for all that rings true now in Mark's combat 852 00:57:37,260 --> 00:57:41,380 he seems to have been dead wrong maybe did underestimate 853 00:57:41,380 --> 00:57:45,120 capitalism to suddenly overestimated the opposition to it 854 00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,549 I think the system needs to reinvent itself now 855 00:57:48,550 --> 00:57:53,460 again the compo mass of we'll be talking even less about Mark's 856 00:57:53,460 --> 00:57:56,640 a century from now but the last few years 857 00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:03,640 have left capitalism with clinton's approved 858 00:58:07,170 --> 00:58:11,330 15 universities produce 61 min animations to explain some other key 859 00:58:11,330 --> 00:58:13,790 economic ideas that affect all of us 860 00:58:13,790 --> 00:58:16,830 said he want to learn how to spot an invisible hand 861 00:58:16,830 --> 00:58:22,680 for other secret to economics go to BBC .co .uk slash masters have money 862 00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:28,970 and for the link to the Open University 863 00:58:28,970 --> 00:58:31,560 make this evening here on BB txt they would have paid 864 00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:32,390 nevermind the Buzzcocks