The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 49
Critical Theory evolved out of a pathological hatred. This hatred isn’t just what you expect. Yes, the Critical Theorists hated capitalism, like all Marxists, but they hated something new about capitalism compared against their predecessors. They hated that capitalism works. Critical Theory, the tool of neo-Marxism, therefore grew out of the pathological hatred of the fact that “advanced capitalism,” as they call it, which is protected against monopoly abuses, allows the working class to “build a better life.” Having a good life, you see, stabilizes them. It takes away their revolutionary will. It makes them love their society and want to maintain it. It, in their view, turns them conservative, and this is intolerable. Prosperous, functioning societies became the target of their bid for cultural revolution in the 1960s. To execute this revolution, though, they needed a new base for revolutionary energy, a new proletariat to awaken to Marxian revolutionary anger. Herbert Marcuse, architect of the New Left, found that new proletariat in identity politics, laying the ground in which the Woke Identity Marxism of today would eventually take root. Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast to hear it straight from the sources and to understand more about how we got to where we are today.
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That am zomboid! They all brainwashed. Ya ok
When you read and summarize a source document can you please name it in the show notes so we don’t have to listen to the introduction again to find it? I listened to this episode while multitasking at work and I wanted to give the essay a slower, more deliberate read, but I forgot the name of the essay and it turns out Herbert Marcuse has volumes and volumes of work.
Jean Paul-Sartre (who would later meet Michel Foucault)had also given up on the working class as the agent of revolution in the continental European context. He infamously disparaged Europe in the preface he wrote for Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth” (1961) as the “fat, pale continent”.
https://quillette.com/2018/09/15/anti-imperialism-and-apologetics-for-murder/
IDPOL (Identity Politics) is the Bolshevism of the 21st century.
The only way to smash IDPOL is with anti-IDPOL.
An anti-IDPOL movement is beginning to coalesce around the world against a variety of issues across disparate groups of peoples, many of whom are non-white immigrants who have fled communist and other ideological, economic, social and theocratic forms of totalitarianism to seek freedom in the West. Most were horrified to discover the West is now empoisoned by the very totalitarianism they fled.
Anti-IDPOL universalizes the fight against all IDPOL elites, iterations and variations into a single unified polity united by their anti-IDPOL commonality. The plebs are waking up and they’re very, very angry.
An anti-IDPOL revolution is coming.
Load the tumbrils with tyrannical Totalitarian Aristo-Elites and their hench-scum: Vomitous Politician Criminals, Tenured Lackey Thugs, IDPOL Useful Idiots and Traitorous Media Worms. Off to the guillotines! I’m stocking up on knitting needles. Let the games begin.
Love to hear that there’s a movement in the making
Where can I sign up?
I’ve been researching and writing on this topic for about 5 years, ever since my otherwise brilliant 26 yr old nephew said “Gender is just a social construct anyway right uncle Jim?” OMG! Dude why would you say something like that? lol 🤣
Down the rabbit hole I went
Let me know how I can help
James
Ah, yes…The rabbit hole…These days the “rabbit hole” seems to be all around me, unfortunately.
I don’t even need to go “down” into anything.
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