New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 57
In Mao Zedong’s CCP-run China, citizens were bullied and brainwashed into accepting “socialist discipline” by the Communist authorities by means of a devastating tool called the “struggle session.” Struggle sessions are nothing short of a form of psychological torture achieved through social means. They are unbelievably difficult to go through, and they can and will polarize and divide an organization while nullifying its best members. They must be understood and resisted at every turn if we are going to stop the American Cultural Revolution. In this long episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains the struggle session and what to do about it in unprecedented detail. Join him to learn all about it and how to beat them.
(Recommended reading: Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China, by Robert Jay Lifton. For a longer discussion on the experience of a modern struggle session, listen to James Lindsay describe one of his most vicious on the New Discourses Podcast here.)
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4 comments
Dear Dr. Lindsay, thank you so much for Beating the Struggle Session Bullets video. I was a victim of a struggle session that lasted two years. It is not an exaggeration to say that I barely survived it. I was a public school teacher questioning DEI. This was before anybody even knew what that was. I was also never going to buy into the mutilation of boys and girls in their bodies or minds with the evil of transgenderism. I cannot tell you how positively transforming it is to have my experiences explained to me so plainly.
Your work is vital to the survival of America. I will contact you to see what it will take to have you come and give your presentation to our group.
I did survive, and now I thrive, fighting back against the forces that tried to destroy me and my country.
Blessings, Victoria
I’d love to listen to this, but wondering if there are transcripts available to the public, as I have trouble with auditory processing. Thanks!
Thanks so much for shining the light of your insight on Marxist thought/technique/strategy. Their behavior is often so nebulous and dynamic that I often find it hard to nail down the root of what’s really wrong even though I feel the wrongness with my whole being – which is why your content is like turning on a crucial light in the darkness.
It’s rightly said that “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” I see your content as crucial to transforming the leaf-hackers into root-strikers and defeating this parasite in our day.
I have never been exposed to this, so I can only imagine…
I had to face an irrationally irate senior once, That’s as close as I ever got. Our organization had a procedure for handling such attacks, I was trained in it, and I used it. Things got better, but she came back a few years later and tried again. To this day I don’t know what her problem was.
In that organization we were trained to recognize psychopaths. And that woman was very close to one, as far as I could tell. Such beings are very dangerous.