All Marxism is cult religious.
All Marxist “theory” begins by believing it uniquely knows what human beings really are (socio-spiritual beings), into what they have been thrown (a mundane world of property ownership, imposed identity, and suffering through scarcity), and to what we must return (a truly social society that transcends individualism). Because Marxists fundamentally believe they know the true and secret socio-spiritual nature of humans whereas (demonic, Demiurgic) social forces have conditioned everyone else not to know them, they feel uniquely entitled to power for the purpose of remaking man into who he is. This explains most of their behavior.
The ultimate goal of Marxism isn’t economic, political, or social control, as most would believe. Those are merely means to its end. Its ultimate goal isn’t even power, though it worships power as the constitutive force of reality. Its ultimate goal is to direct the socio-spiritual evolution of Man. Socio-spiritual in the sense that Man’s true spiritual nature manifests in his social relations. This is the idea of the “New Man” Marxists always speak of. He is Man spiritually evolved to remember who he truly is, a truly social and creative being that is one with all others in his species and, indeed, all of Nature.
This means that Marxism is just a particularly nasty, vindictive, and deceptive form of Gnostic theosophy, a cult religion. Laid bare of all its details in whatever form, economic, racial, sexual, whatever, it is a drive to seize power to direct the spiritual evolution of Man. Everything else it argues is either rationalization or excuse, none of it is real or legitimate because none of it does anything but serve its actual purpose in whichever moment of resistance it finds itself in.
What is meant by “direct the socio-spiritual evolution of Man”? In a word, eugenics. Marxism intrinsically practices eugenics, though not necessarily on the “crude” physical level (mundane) but on the more refined spiritual level they believe they uniquely understand. In practice, a lot of the crude part comes out by necessity. The goal is to prune out of mankind those unfit to evolve spiritually to the higher collectivist levels and to transform the rest into socio-spiritual Marxists.
In theosophical cults, Man is believed to have forgotten who he really is by virtue of some Fall. He is truly Spirit and One with God and thinks himself otherwise because of the distortions of his conditions: materialist, social, economic, or otherwise. He has forgotten this because he lacks “God’s wisdom” (theo-sophy) to know who—and what—he truly is, which is a spiritual being at one with the One. Since this is true for everyone all at once, no one is truly separate from anyone else. All is One; All are One. To be an individual in this circumstance is to reject Oneness in favor of individualism, which is Man’s Fall.
The goal of theosophical religious cults is to seize enough power over their adherents to remind them of who they “really are,” which brings them to “at-One-ment” (atonement for their false separation from God) by obliterating their allegedly false consciousness of themselves and Man. They misunderstand themselves and thus misunderstand the society and world around them. Theosophists aim to remind them of who they “truly are” and bring them back to Oneness of spirit and being. They can be kindly enough, but in the end, they are tyrannical because humanity can only evolve as a whole if their presumptions about the nature of reality and Man are true.
These cults are ultimately Gnostic. As the second-century Valentinian Gnostic Theodotus put it: “It is not, however, the bath [baptism] alone that makes free, but knowledge [gnosis] too: who we were, what we have become, where we were, where we have come to be placed, where we are tending, what birth is, and what rebirth.” Theosophists believe we were Spirit but have become mortal; we were in Paradise in perfect union with God but have been thrown into this mundane world; we are tending toward spiritual awakening or destruction; and birth is a Fall and rebirth is accepting their Gnostic cult beliefs and practices. It isn’t all just ancient heresy or New Age hippie nonsense. Marxism is cut from precisely this cloth.
The old Gnostic heresies place the Fall of Man in the Sin of Adam, obviously, blaming the wrath of God for flinging us out of Paradise and our inheritance into this world of work, pain, toil, and death—as individuals, separated from God and Eden. Their belief was that the Serpent in Genesis 3 told the truth, and the God in Genesis is not God but a demonic Demiurge, builder of the world, imprisoner of his spiritual brethren in Man.
Marxism, qua Marx, places the Fall in the separation of private property (thus individualism) from communal property (thus collectivism). The bourgeoisie is Demiurgic, constructing a political economy in which the masses must labor, suffer, and die. The masses can awaken as a class-conscious proletariat that understands Man’s true nature is socialist, which means being transcendent of private property and the individualism that follows from it. This program goes on through the other forms of Western Marxism.
Critical Race Theory, which is Race Marxism, puts the Fall in the creation and imposition of power-laden racial categories (“whiteness” and “white supremacy”), which is a proxy for Western values including capitalist economics and their cultural hegemony. “White people” become Demiurgic, imprisoning “people of color” in a world not made for them but willing to use them. They can become race conscious, though, and understand Man’s true nature is transcendent of race while retaining consciousness of it.
Queer Theory, which is Queer Marxism and overtly an esoteric religion based on sex, puts the Fall in the assertion of any valid claim to normalcy and legitimacy. “Normativity” is a Demiurgic force that imprisons perverts, weirdos, deviants, and degenerates, in addition to sexual and “gender” minorities, in a world that demands they be normal. They can become consciously queer, however, and understand Man’s true nature is transcendent of any norms or expectations.
The framework is the same in every case, and the details only vary a little as needed. A demonic superpower—the Demiurge, the bourgeoisie, whites, “cis” straight people, or whatever—orders and rules the world for itself. It did this by illegitimately taking a step toward godhood, separating itself from the All, and locked out those who are truly innocent and knowing. It is the projection of Satan onto the godly and godliness onto Satan. On the first page of the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels say the whole of their program is put in a word: “oppressor versus oppressed.” The privileged establish themselves as separate and deserving while the innocent are excluded from “godlike” knowing and punished severely when they take a bit of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
The Gnostic theosophical myth is that the innocent are excluded by powers who broke away from the unified totality of being to assert their individuality. Maybe they have done this through claiming deity themselves as Creator of the (mundane and Fallen) world, or in a socio-spiritual sense through private property, racial status, social status otherwise, etc. Because these deign to be God but are not, they are jealous and wrathful of anyone who might approach the “hidden truth” of gnosis, which would break their spell and end their illegitimate power. They hide and suppress the “truth” and punish anyone who seeks or stumbles upon it.
The theosophical gnostics know otherwise, though. They know the “gods” are false and that God as a unified totality is real and, in fact, not distinct from themselves. They are therefore spiritually or socio-spiritually advanced but oppressed and must shepherd Man to Liberation. This amounts to a revolution, either of Heaven and Earth or of society, depending on the locus of their beliefs, but it’s all the same. Marxism, Race Marxism, Queer Marxism, and the rest are identical in this form. They are all theosophical religious cults pretending not to be.
One way to put this is that theosophy, whether Marxist or otherwise, is Satan presenting himself as an Angel of Light until he creates a madness in those who follow him that way that possesses them with a spirit of enmity and false superiority presenting itself as righteousness and truth. You can know them by their fruits, it is said. What are their fruits? Entitlement. Narcissism. Self-aggrandizement. Accusation. Deception. Enmity. Sowing confusion, even in their own minds and hearts. Attempting to lead the little ones astray. Destruction, everywhere they go. It is Evil selling itself as uniquely Good.
Marxism cannot escape this cloth because Marxism is cut from this cloth. All Western Marxist “theories” are the same in this. They are destructive theosophical cults. All Marxism is cult religious.
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Dr Lindsay, you must have answered my question many times before: How to respond to the claim, “Jesus was a leftist” ?
WARNING: JAMES LINDSAY MAY BE A DOUBLE AGENT.
Yes, he might be working for the ultra-left. Why else would he incessantly introduce naive minds to figures such as Marcuse and Foucault; why would he tirelessly educate innocent minds on the likes of Hegel and dialecticity, or teach about structuralism and post-structuralisms? I was a good conservative until Dr. Lindsay, exposed me to so many thinkers of the Continental tradition and their radical ideas that, no matter how hard I try, my mind can no longer return to those simpler times. The damage he has done is irreversible. Now I cannot prevent myself from thinking about thinking and thinking critically, dialectically and deconstructively. I have been contaminated by so many profoundly powerful ideas and thinkers that I can no longer take my conservatism seriously, and have become what Dr. Lindsay promised me I should fear most: an intellectual!
Dr. Lindsay is like the man who wants to be absolutely sure he is not a homosexual, so he engages in homosexual sex just to prove to himself he doesn’t like it. Yet, in order to be abundantly certain he does not enjoy homosexual activity, he engages in it so habitually and methodically, that, well… let’s just say that Dr. Lindsay has GROOMED me to be a mind capable of understanding and thinking along with the Continental tradition since Kant, a mind able to wrestle with the destabilizing logics of the so-called post-modernists, a mind subtle enough to grasp the exhilarating and vertiginous implications of French Theory and psychoanalysis.
Please, don’t let the same thing happen to your children. This is how it starts. With podcasts by groomers like Lindsay, insinuating these concepts into their minds under the pretext of a warning, infiltrating these incredibly dangerous ideas under the reactionary banner. It is too late for me, but maybe not for others. Please. It is not enough NOT to send your children to college (or to make sure they study only safe technocratic scientisms and stay well clear of the Humanities). You must keep them away from Trojan Horses like this one, that under the mantle of prophylaxis actually provide the gift of death, the gift of the examined subject position, and, worst of all, the gift of ruining not just their lives but also ruining their deaths!
Dear James,
Thanks for your insights. My wife and I totally agree with you.
However, if you want to reach the masses you need to be less intellectual and explain the ideas in laymen’s language. Also condense the ideas because that’s what the vast majority of people will understand. And your message needs to get out.
This really explains why my aunt is so condescending and dismissive to me. Because she realizes that she has the knowledge to change the world and I’m a right wing nutjob
James I appreciate this article but it is very confused. You can only claim the things you do in this article by almost deliberately ignoring the contradictions between intersectionality and Marxism. Intersectionality should be treated as a revisionist version of Marxism because it focuses on social factors and not material ones. Furthermore describing Marxism as “Gnostic” is absurd for a number of reasons, but if you consider Marxism to be a religion it must be the opposite of Gnosticism because it seeks “salvation” through material means while Gnosticism rejects the material world altogether as being evil. Its only through this misguided framework that you can claim the end “goal” of Marxism is not class equality but the “spiritual evolution of man” when arguably the latter is simply expected to come about because of the former, but it is silly to try and separate the two.
Speaking of power-and-control-seeking “religious” cults it could be said that the character featured here is the leader of such a cult.
http://godblesstheusabible.com
He is of course a religiously and culturally illiterate nihilistic barbarian
There is also this reference featuring his worse-than-awful son
http://wethepeoplebible.com
He is also effectively associated with this power-and-control-seeking project which is backed/financed by at least 72 deep-pocketed right-wing christian think tanks and propaganda factories. http://project2025.org
It has a 900 page closed detailed manifesto describing what it intends to do.
I read a fair bit of this theosophy and could find anything even interesting or redeeming. It’s good not to be the only one. The Secret just smells of horse manure, but I guess that if you live on a farm, you can’t smell it after a time. Your expectations get lowered.
I like it when I get the opportunity to apply Neo American Church (OKneoAC) principles to political arguments. Mr. Lindsay discusses the features of Marxist gnosticism, substantially demonstrating that what I have forever understood to be a political/economic system is also a Millenialist cult, with the Rapture/Revolution taking the form of a unification of dualism, our condition before our Fall into existence, the escape from which is always available though we have been conditioned as animals to assume a McPozzum existence. The problem is, however, that the illusion of duality is a necessary condition of being born into a body.
Marxism as cult confuses aspects (not “levels”) of our perception determined by existence in a body, “Snazzm, Fazzm, and McPozzum,” separate, distinct, incommensurate categories I cannot define here because it would take up too much space. Those interested can read about what I mean here: https://okneoac.org/dts/snazzm-fazzm-and-mcpozzm
Marxism as a Gnostic cult assumes Snazzm conditions–conditions that lead one to perceive and understand that life is literally a dream–but places them within a political context containing a scheme for bringing about the Millennium (McPozzum). The Fall, the Gnostic Demiurge, assumes a Fazzm reality, where the individual “soul””merges” or “becomes one” with the blob-like Gnostic/Buddhist “oversoul,” or God, for short.
Eastern religions, Marxism (evidently), gnosticism are Fazzm. The atheistic or mechanical worldview is McPozzum. The realization that one is (I am) the undifferentiated All beyond duality, that life is literally a dream, an illusion created by the (my) mind, is Snazzm.
These online forums illustrate the fact that I am at all times talking to myself in a dream and that these other individuals I interact with every day are creations of my mind and my mind is all there is. Pronouns are necessary to communicate this in English, which confuses matters quite a bit.
Anyway, any fellow Neo Americans out there? Victory over Horseshit!
Constructive though used to learn a language or a science or to cook a stew is the correct application of thought. Other thoughts are going to cause you to harm yourself and your well being.
Its not necessary to worry or be upset or angry. A sage would say..in fact one did say..” Do not pamper the Mind.” All is well and as it should be. One slowly becomes convinced that it is not productive to pursue thoughts that well up in the mind. Let them go…over and over again and we may reach the source of thoughts. At this time all mind worry drops off and the energy behind everything is revealed to be a power that operates in all things. These relatives of yours are tripping all over themselves like frantic, confused gnats without a grain of sense. And its terrible to hear about the in this condition. We can do nothing with a deranged person except watch them go berzerko and wear themselves out. I know that I know nothing and that makes me wise. Thus I can return to myself and watch the myriad things arise and subside. Trouble not thyself oh dear child. But you cant live without trouble as the absence of trouble will be the end of you as you think you have to be and you afraid that you will die. Cross the ravine if you dare!!!
May the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi embroider daffodils on your underpants.
And may the LSD of fatalism protect your innocence from anthrax attacks.
Om. Simply, Om.
Sorry. I couldn’t resist.
(Genuine appreciation of your kind intensions.)
There’s a 1957 movie, based on a true story, called “Seven Waves Away” (aka “Abandon Ship”) in which survivors of a shipwreck in the middle of the ocean have one small lifeboat but too many people to fit in. The whole movie is the struggle to decide who stays in and who gets cut adrift. Madness ensues with moral hypocrisies, ethical posturing, cowardice and bullying giving way to brute survival of the fittest and savage murder.
I feel that this movie captures the current situation of the “anti-Woke movement”. It’s all starting to feel like Babel meets Bedlam. I confess to contributing to that cacophony to giddily let off steam to alleviate the exasperating desperation of being forced against my will to live in such an asphyxiating historical moment. My response to this impossible situation is to take a deep breath and place both feet flat on the floor to remind myself that no matter how hard my mind tries to escape into the ether of ego, there is always the physical reality of clay under my feet.
It’s time now to ask the one question that puts all of the epistemological, metaphysical and ontological bloviating (especially my own) into perspective: What does any of this have to do with the price of eggs?
Is any of this intellectually abstract theorizing (no matter how enlightening) actually helping real people in the real world deal with real problems that are demonstrably making their quotidian lived lives measurably more horrible? I think not. A line’s been crossed and now it feels like theory for theory’s sake is masking the horrifying reality of impending surrender to the Borg that’s advancing on the horizon.
Most human beings will acquiesce and adapt to any imposed control rather than risk rocking the boat of their own personal safety. For every individual ornery dissident who kicks against Social Credit’s Nanny State control, millions of others embrace authoritarian surveillance as nothing more than a way to remain in the lifeboat: to survive.
This will to survival at any cost makes most people do things they pretend in normal times that they could never sink to. Giving in then selling out then giving up then turning nasty. A horrible truth of human nature is that when people find themselves in a lifeboat situation, they will accept anything, do anything, throw anything — ethics, ideals, principles, morals, loved ones – overboard if it will help them survive amidst a chaos beyond their control.
This is the new unexplored frontier: Examining the baseness of human nature’s willingness to surrender to authoritarianism and documenting realistic ways to mitigate this reality for those of us who do not wish to surrender. This is the topic for the next phase of the anti-Woke discourse. Less talk. More walk. Before the lifeboat capsizes and drowns us all.
“Is any of this intellectually abstract theorizing (no matter how enlightening) actually helping real people in the real world deal with real problems that are demonstrably making their quotidian lived lives measurably more horrible? I think not. A line’s been crossed and now it feels like theory for theory’s sake is masking the horrifying reality of impending surrender to the Borg that’s advancing on the horizon.”
Theory is necessary in that it helps us understand the process unfolding, the process by which we are being enslaved, mentally to psychotic ideas and physically by having to engage with the forces of totalitarianism in real time at work, at school, in media.
It’s easy to get lost in the weeds and get the impression that one might be doing something more useful with one’s time, and we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that actual change must occur. However, that change must be philosophically justifiable, not merely opposition and destruction for their own sake.
Buck up and fuck up totalitarians in any way you can. You only really need to read up on theoretical justifications once.
Thanks for the encouraging words.
A personal story of Woke: I’m an old man and have been at this anti-Woke struggle for a very long time (since the 1990s!) and often feel like the walls are closing in when Wokeness gets too personally close as it just did again recently with my sister’s three adult hyper-woke daughters (20s/30s all in university) who I’ve been distant with since 2016 when Woke took over their brains and when, rather than confront them at the time, I pretended my estrangement was because of my own mysterious aging gay personal issues, a pose adopted to please my sister who begged me not to cause her more problems with them (as a friend once asked me: how can such beautiful young women be such monsters?).
After avoiding them for years, I reached the breaking point recently after hearing of their latest woke shenanigans so I “came out” to them via email with a stinging critique of woke and truthfully implicated them which precipitated, as I long expected, cataclysmic hysterical tantrums to their mother: “OMG! He’s turned racist, fascist, transphobic, anti-native Indianist” (one’s bf is a native Indian so she’s gone full Cher ‘HalfBreed’ on her white family and says she wants to have “black and brown babies”). They ranted to their exhausted mother: “How can a cool gay artist, our own uncle, have become a Trump Nazi?!?” (we’re not even American — or German). My sister told me all this while tearfully admitting that I’ve been right about them all along and that she has finally accepted this ugly fact of her life and gave her OK for me to cut them out of my life for good without any more emotional flak from her. It’s all so sad: I took them all as teens on a trip to LA and while visiting the Museum of Death they declared that I was the coolest uncle in the world and now 15 years later I am Hitler. This is what Woke does in the real world and why I am sick to death of it at a cellular level.
Theory of course is critical to understanding. But theorizing doesn’t help when real people are going berserk with woke rage and splitting up families, friendships and careers (all three of which I’ve experienced as my personal Woke triumvirate of insanity). When my 96-year-old ill mother and final 20-year-old cat both die, I am pulling the internet plug and escaping into some off-grid hinterland of oblivion where Woke is never spoken and the deer and the antelope play. Mars sounds nice.
Marxism – the opium of intellectuals.
– Raymond Aron
Victor Zitta, in his book, Georg Lukács’ Marxism: Alienation, Dialectics, Revolution: A Study in Utopia and Ideology, on page 72, goes to the very heart of the psychopatholgy that is manifested in Marxism and all its protesting daughter variants.
He outlines 3 attributes- 1) alienation from the current reality; 2) overwhelming self-righteousness and 3) the willingess to pay any price (or to impose any cost on others) to achieve their vision of the perfect society.
That is just in the top paragraph. In the bottom paragraph on page 72, he observes that those with this Marxist world view seek to “immanitize” (or bring about immediately), the return of their savior, much like Christians who look for the Second Coming.
see: https://annas-archive.org/md5/cb53e81d3c3a1284afbead0640e596ca.
This whole spectacle of you as an atheist criticizing heresy from the point of view of a religion you don’t believe in but your base does…this is all insanity. Marxism is based on Judaeo Christian aka Zoroastrian apocalypticism, not on Gnosticism. That was Eric Voegelin’s Catholic fantasy, as if Gnosticism was nothing but apocalypticism. Gnosticism wants nothing to do with changing politics in this world. It is purely about a transformation of the soul. I understand that as a mathematician this is all new to you. Relying on Karl Popper to interpret Plato and Hegel is not a good strategy either. Popper was not at his best in that area.
commenter wrote: “Gnosticism wants nothing to do with changing politics in this world. It is purely about a transformation of the soul.”
“And the Devil did grin,
for his darling sin
is pride that apes humility.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The Devil’s Thoughts” 1799
>Marxism is based on Judaeo Christian aka Zoroastrian apocalypticism,
What are you smoking
James, i am not down with the woke so dont misread me here. The ideas you are fighting arent marxist, they are probably more leninist.
I know it ultimately doesnt matter but you dig yourself into a hole when you get the details wrong of the opposing sides argument. It hurts your cause in the end because you miseducate one side, killing their credibility with the other, and then alienate the other who shut down immediately at the first incorrect detail.
Your strategy worsens polarization. You arent wrong overall that socialist systems dont work in most cases because they are riddled with slippery slopes. But this reactionary influencer scholarship technique you and others like you use is feeding the fire.
Theres got to be a better way. I dont know what it is but youre making yourself and everyone else crazy.
My radical professor proclaimed, “The role of academia is to redefine language to stay in control of the conversation.” This is exactly what you’re doing. He is not increasing polarization, and he is educating, not miseducating. Calling out this scourge by the name of “Marxism” isn’t killing anyone’s credibility. Anyone who has spent time on a college campus recently knows they call themselves “Marxists,” so don’t quibble with definitions.
Those who are on the side of the “Marxists” have absolutely no credibility, so even if your theory were valid, those educated by Dr. Lindsay would still have more credibility than their ideological opponents, even if one of the cultists identified itself as a “Leninist.”
The opposing side does not have a coherent argument anyway, as they follow the Frankfurt School which believes there can be no objectivity, only subjectivity. You can’t get the details “wrong” because they have no consolidated vision and cannot even agree amongst themselves whose tenets, exactly, they follow. It’s all just disjointed, illogical, mish-mashed manipulative bullshit masquerading as scholarship. Dr. Lindsay is demystifying it for the masses who have been hit unawares by this deluge. Don’t get in the way with any linguistic tricks and redefinitions. He’s doing an amazing job.
Sociologist,
Please clarify which you are referring to as rubbish: what James posted about Marxism, or Marxism itself. If the latter, yes, Marxism is rubbish. If the former, please explain where in his analysis James is mistaken about Marxism.
Trying to read “Sociologist’s” babble is a waste of time and energy.
Michelle,
Frankfart School adherents tie themselves up in fallacious knots. Their assertion that there can be no objectivity only subjectivity includes itself. They are psychopathic/sociopathic solipsists.
@Velma, you averred,
“You arent wrong overall that socialist systems dont work in most cases because they are riddled with slippery slopes.
Please define “work” as the concept applies to the context of socialism, and provide all of the irrefutable evidence of all of the cases in which socialism “works”.
“The ideas you are fighting arent marxist, they are probably more leninist.”
Leninism is, in essence, Marxism with Marx’s call for violence amplified. After the execution of his brother, Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin was inspired by Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky’s novel, “What is to be Done?” and used that title for his own pamphlet to rouse socialists to create an international vanguard of violent revolution to enslave and slaughter their “bourgeois” foes and create a socialist paradise.
There are four expressions of Statism: communism, socialism, fascism, and theocracy. They are all essentially based upon the denial of private property rights and, by logical necessity, the denial of all legitimate individual rights, including self-ownership and personal liberty and sovereignty. The woke agenda and its components, including CRT and Queer Theory, are just the latest tools “academics” and “intellectuals” have developed for the advancement and imposition of the socialist/communist expressions of Statism. Quibbling about details with Statists is unnecessary once one grasps Statism’s essence and goals, which is enslavement of all to psychopaths and sociopaths who “think” themselves entitled to rule, and to slaughter all dissidents to enforce it.
Hear, hear!
I think Mr. Lindsay’s analysis is both interesting and enlightening, and gives me a greater understanding of what I’m up against.
Sociologist, Velma, and ClearLight are either splitting hairs or complaining just for the sake of being contrary. I honestly cannot understand what Sociologist is going on about, even after a genuine effort to read it closely.
As you clearly put it, ‘Quibbling about details with Statists is unnecessary once one grasps Statism’s essence and goals, which is enslavement of all to psychopaths and sociopaths who “think” themselves entitled to rule, and to slaughter all dissidents to enforce it.’
What exactly do you mean by statism?
Marxism is rooted in the false ideology that msn cannot change or redeem himself and is trapped forever in his state