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Progressives love to paint up Marxism as progressive. Marxists base their entire worldview on the idea that their philosophy is progressive too: the world is becoming more human through their efforts and the application of their Theory (praxis). The thing is, Marxism isn’t progressive at all. It’s regressive on a profound level and merely pretends to be progressive. This is what led it to behave in ways that through the last half of the 2010s got Woke Marxism branded “Regressive Leftism.” In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I break down the various ways in which Marxism takes us backwards, not forward, into a worse, regressed world under its own control. Join me to understand more.
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The regressive left has abandoned liberal values. The left is no longer liberal; they’re regressive.
I agree with that
Even the idea of “primitive communism” is a myth!
https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-primitive-communism-is-as-seductive-as-it-is-wrong
Karl Marx was definitely not woke!
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/when-will-they-cancel-karl-marx-55c?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNTM2NzY1OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTI4NzI5NTcsIl8iOiJvcGpIWCIsImlhdCI6MTY1MTI1ODYxOSwiZXhwIjoxNjUxMjYyMjE5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNjEzNzEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.MNwExv2d1R7JELF4QVl9XhBs1STRcuBy9V7N8YWIAHs&s=r
re: “Karl Marx was definitely not woke!”
The opening photo of this article shows two elite pampered woke bourgeois nimrod tourists worshipping Marx with their expensive Chinese-made smartphones that run on poisonous lithium batteries mined by slaves and created by child labour. How Marxist! The caption says the assholes are from Canada. Where else! A country where the deep IS the people. Just look at these two smug-ass government snivel servants on yet another taxpayer-funded Euro junket. Everyone in Canada works for the government! Two thirds of Canadian “people” earn over $200,000 a year as pig snouts in the tax trough whose “jobs” involve nothing more than playacting Che and Imagine for their rich lazy haughty moronic government lackey workmates’ facebook sites. That couple ARE Canada. Soy-faced vomitoria of hypocritical entitlement. Sickmaking.
This article is about Marx using the N word and being a race hating “phobe-ist” yet the woke faux-left ignore this ugly fact because Marx’s ideas are so “important” that they’re above such petty bourgeois “far right” critique. This proves that “racism (race schism), tranzphobia, izlammyphobia, etc” are not principles that are universal in their application across history, people and cultures. They are weapons. Identarian accusations of “phobic and ist” are never noble philosophical values; they are ideological machine guns to protect the ruling elites. Identarian accusations exist solely as strategic battle tools to attack any opposition to globalist hegemony.
Identarian “isms and phobias” were invented to dehumanize opponents and crush dissent. And they can only be resisted on this level. Fight the form and ignore the content. Those accused can never cede ground to the content of the Identarian weapons (but all my X-race friends say… of course we are all against Y-phobia…). The content of the accusation is the bullet in the gun designed to obfuscate the weapon used to fire it by making its victims ignore the larger political context of the weapon’s maker and obsess over the composition of the bullets being shot into their reputations and livelihoods. Identarianism has nothing to do with people. It’s a political and ideological weapon of the moment that changes bullet types when new targets require differennt ammunition.
For example, the current Identarian bullet called Tranz is about to be discarded having outlasted its usefulness to their globalist manipulators. This is why Tranz are going berserk, desperately indoctrinating children because they knw their useful idiot reign of terror about to collapse and they can see Ms Guillotine waiting patiently to give them their comeuppance. Tranz used its moment in the limelight of public goodwill to spit in the face of the world. Big mistake. The mob never forgets.
A country where the deep state IS the people.
(this site needs a a post-reply edit function for those of us who compose on the fly!)
What a great post! You make salient points. I hope it’s as you say, near the end for trans because they’re moving into the next thing. But unfortunately, the culture has embraced it so now it’s cool and a mark if rebellion and individuality among the young.
Here is a good tweet on how Marxism can be regressive.
https://mobile.twitter.com/sullydish/status/1445439735850283009
Here’s another documentary you may appreciate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbzhmMDFcFQ
If you’re in the mood for a feature length film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c_PsUR1wvA
I saw this earlier Tweet of yours that seems to illustrate this point.
https://twitter.com/conceptualjames/status/1331057249465331712