New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 30
Woke Marxism isn’t just a bunch of crazy academic Theory. It’s also very practical. It’s meant to be put into practice to “transform the world” by taking over institutions through activism. In order to do that, it wages unconventional warfare, particularly narrative warfare. A key technique employed by these activists, especially in media, is what is known as “operational preparation of the environment” (OPE). In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks this idea down and explains how Woke Marxists lay narrative lines in advance of certain events so they can capitalize upon them when the moment arrives. Understanding how they prepare their mass lines of action is critical to defusing them. Join him to learn how to spot and counter operational preparation of the narrative space!
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According to a 2013 paper by Joshua Kuypers, “The exact definition of the
term “Operational Preparation of the Battlefield” is classified.”
But it obviously refers to propaganda work. It’s odd that this crosses over into Critical Theory. You wouldn’t think that the military would be that hip to neo-Marxist thought, yet I know they are very interested in propaganda and Marxists have always been pretty good at propaganda.
Kudzu is a group of climbing, coiling, and trailing deciduous perennial vines that will kill the other foliage by blocking the sunlight. We have our work cut out for us, it’s getting dim.
Ken,
Chamberlain and Duladier made the grave mistake of appeasing Hitler instead of telling him to go straight to hell and promise him and his followers death if they invade Czechoslovakia.
As for Ukraine, YES ! we should not have gotten involved in that conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Washington was quite right that the USA must not interfere with the internal affairs of other nations and their disputes with other nations, least of all at Americans’ forced expense via tax-theft (legalized theft, but theft nonetheless). If other nations’ government operators want to meddle in foreign conflicts that do not physically threaten them, let them do so. Let Ukrainians and Russians bomb and kill each other. Let any American or other foreignor who wishes to join the fight volunteer to do so entirely at his/her own expense.
James.. what you are positing here would be plausible and evident just by observing the activity that is obviously taking place around us every day. I wonder at how so many people are involved with this stuff. They are acting in unison a big grand scale. As a case to draw an example from .. where I live our city council, attorney General and State Governor are woke through and through and spew the same terms you have used in this episode. No need to press my point but the city council here went into battle with ”Defund The Cops.” movement right After Floyd was killed. Can you guess what city??? One of the big shots on the council demanded that the mayor fire all the white cops. They used the same language to malign the police.
If those so high up in power are activists I suspect they were radicalized some time ago and we didn’t quite get it early on because we would like to think it couldn’t be possible. I mean for grown adults to be this clueless and act so foolishly.
I wonder if there isn’t a main think tank and leaders that operate behind the scenes. Seems like so many are people on board with this movement…but no people I have really ever met in daily life think this way. You basically here about this stuff only in the media, colleges and from government officials. Thousands of people must be thinking alike and in communication with one another.
commenter wrote: “I wonder if there isn’t a main think tank and leaders that operate behind the scenes… Thousands of people must be thinking alike and in communication with one another.”
Yes. This is the problem. And after losing all societal systems to them, the anti/non-Left still seem to have no idea how the Left do it! Group think-hivemind intercommunication is how the Left operates and why they are winning. None of this is secret. All of these Leftist people have names. All of them are operating in public. But the media is Leftist-controlled so anti/non-Leftists never realize the scale and power of Leftist networking until some major public incidents happen “spontaneously” across an entire country. All of these Leftist planners reach their Leftist constituencies using social media (sometimes “private” but still accessible to any real journalist who wanted to expose Leftist networks). The Left is completely interconnected (and always has been since the pre-Jacobins) and the anti/non-Left is not. This is how the Left took over the entire society.
Here is one tiny example from Canada of the power, scale and openness of Leftist interconnection. Public sector (and other) union leaders met online (with their real names, job titles and places of work posted) to harass and intimidate citizens during a huge cross-country parents’ protest (organized by Muslims) against Trans/Queer indoctrination of children. These radical Leftist union officials (“think tank and leaders”) are all real people in real world jobs (most paid by taxpayer money) acting openly “behind the scenes” in public. They met online at a moments notice and mobilized an antifa-style counter-protest across a country in one day. This is the power of their “thinking alike and in communication with one another”. (btw The largest Muslim association in Canada is suing Justin Trudeau for defamation of their religion for his bigoted smears against them and the protest!).
“Union leaders mobilizing ‘seasoned activists’ to intimidate parents ahead of the ‘1 Million March 4 Children’ protest [against Trans/Queer indoctrination in schools]. As support grows for the [Canadian Muslim organized] ‘1 Million March 4 Children’ protest [held Sept 18 2023], union leaders and far-left activists discuss plans to deploy ANTIFA-like tactics, as well as plans to intimidate, bully, and disrupt peaceful protesters in preparation for the event.” rebelnews.com
While this is the first time I’ve heard heard of Operational Preperation of the Environment (OPE?), the concept makes perfect sense and aligns with my own thinking and observations of events. It also is similar to the “Big Lie” approach which might, rightly I think, be seen as a component of OPE. It’s certainly something to be aware of and to counter and push-back against at every opportunity.
Just one criticism. Ukraine. We’re we in the free world just supposed to abandon them to the Russian Bear…just like Chamberlain and Duladier threw the Czechs under the bus to appease Adolph Hitler ? Think about how THAT turned out from everyone…billions of $$s now may well prevent trillions of $$s and billions of lives later…
It seems like Putin feels he is having to wrestle ukraine away from hitlers descendants for one thing. Another huge factor is the way Ukrainians have been killing other Ukrainians for at least 15 years before russia went in thanks to their own civil war.
What Putin thinks isn’t that far fetched. Very mysteriously their were some extra articles in The Brussels Pact 1948, a document drawn up by the german nobility of the time, inviting signatures on a trading bloc arrangement.
How do you be the nobility that commanded Hitler a few years earlier. including being perpetrators in a human holocaust, only to invite several countries in europe to be in your bloc ?????? – is ‘A Question’
And it makes one wonder who lost that war tbh & who didn’t.
Russia – and I write as someone who has no connection to the country – has every right to fear NATO encroachment; the present war in Ukraine is a proxy war being fought on behalf of NATO. (Incidentally, as an Englishman – an in spite of my abhorrence at Nazism (of the kind that recently received a standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament, including from Premier Trudeau and President Zelensky) – I am less convinced than you that Britain’s involvement in WW2 ultimately did our own society anything but harm
The present NATO-compliant puppet regime in Ukraine was installed after the CIA-backed Euromaidan coup in 2014 removed the democratically elected government there. Following this, the new Kiev regime terrorised the Russian-speaking population (and other minorities) – especially in the Donbass, through constant shelling. NATO’s intransigent refusal to observe the provisions of the Minsk Accords, not Russian aggression, is what has led to the present conflict there (and, possibly, beyond if the D.C. war-hawks get their way).