The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 149
Vladimir Lenin established the Bolshevik Party in 1912 to seize control of the socialist movement in Russia and to plan and execute a violent revolution against the Tsar, and by 1917 he was successful in this attack. Also in 1917, on the eve of his victory, he wrote his thoughts about the organization of the state and how the revolution should proceed, both to box out his socialist competitors and to establish a theoretical baseline drawing from Marx and Engels for how to organize what became the Soviet Union. That document bears the title The State and Revolution, and in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads through the first chapter of Lenin’s key work to expose to you what Bolshevik Communists think a state exists to do: repression. Join him to learn how history today is rhyming with Lenin’s evil.
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Then again James the term ‘evil’ is not logically part of your vocabulary. According to your belief system evil is not a concept recognised by ‘humanism & atheism. Why do you choose when and when not to recognise these social paradigms ? It make little sense in spending every waking hour labouring over historical movements which were inconsistent about =Social Paradigms = while your own state of humanist belief illustrates traits is no different from the post truth leninists & marxists.
Is A.C Grayling still deciding the contents of the universe with richard dawkins ?( QUOTE )
Among his contributions to the discussion about religion in contemporary society he argues that there are three separable, though naturally connected debates:
”(a) a metaphysical debate about what the universe contains; denying that it contains supernatural agencies of any kind makes him an atheist;
(b) a debate about the basis of ethics; taking the world to be a natural realm of natural law requires that humanity thinks for itself about the right and the good, based on our best understanding of human nature and the human condition; this makes him a humanist;
(c) a debate about the place of religious movements and organisations in the public domain; as a secularist Grayling argues that these should see themselves as civil society organisations on a par with trade unions and other NGOs, with every right to exist and to have their say, but no greater right than any other self-constituted, self-selected interest group ”
I mean like that you new atheists can even have a psychic chat with the two sadly passed away horsemen of the apocalypse !!!! However in reality ? new atheisms pet philosopher is a clueless Claudine who the establishment has festooned with fake certs really. He hasn’t got the first idea of what should or should not be stated as logical possible or not has he ?
Lets face it James!