Gnosticism, Modern and Postmodern
Woke Marxism might more accurately be called Woke Gnosticism, which is technically redundant.
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The NEA Goes Sustainable
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through a document from the NEA Foundation, the charitable arm of the largest national teachers union, to show that they not only have these plans but have adopted well-developed curriculum guides to start distributing to teachers and school administrators, right down to detailed lessons on topics like hunger and starvation in kindergarten.
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Operational Preparation of the Environment
Woke Marxism isn't just a bunch of crazy academic Theory. It's also very practical.
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The Violence of Decolonization
Whether it's decolonizing the curriculum, decolonizing science, decolonizing Shakespeare, decolonizing the nation, or whatever; whether it's decolonizing education following from Joe Kincheloe's project on Paulo Freire; wherever we hear it, it means something.
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The People
Marxists use linguistic tricks. "Communists share your vocabulary but they don't share your dictionary" is a common way of putting it. One of the dirtiest of those tricks is on the word "people."
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OnlySubs: Does Media Matters Want Drag Floyd?
Media Matters, ever vigilant, was so triggered that they published an article about me on the subject before we even finished the show and left the stage! Why would they do that? Are they telling us they do want a Drag Floyd event and that I've exposed their schemes? Since the Iron Law of Woke Projection never misses, we can assume it's probably so.
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Dialectical Inversion
One of the most pervasive techniques used by Woke Marxism is "dialectical inversion."
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Surviving a Modern Struggle Session
One of the most famous and most evil techniques of Maoist Marxism is the "struggle session" (dòuzhēng, 鬥爭; or pīpàn dòuzhēng, 批判鬥爭, “critical struggle”; or sometimes just pīdòu, 批鬥; also called “denunciation” sessions).
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OnlySubs: A Meditation on Being Joyful Warriors
If you don't know that the moms in Moms for Liberty refer to themselves as "joyful warriors," I want to bring that to your attention.
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WTF is SEL?
What the F is Social-Emotional Learning? It's a serious question. Behind all the flowery language is a history, and that history demands looking at.
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OnlySubs: A Logic of Positive and Negative Competition
Competition has two forms: positive and negative. In positive competition, competitors try to improve themselves to win. In negative competition, they try to cut down their opponents instead of bettering themselves.
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Introducing The Marxification of Education
James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, has written a new book called The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education, which is available now.
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OnlySubs: Social and Parasocial Relationships
In the world of social media, we've had a huge expansion of our parasocial space without much expansion of our truly social space.
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What Radicalized You, James Lindsay?
James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, gets asked all the time about what really got him started in his campaign against Woke Marxism.
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OnlySubs: Reciprocal Submission and the Impossibility of Socialism
Socialism doesn't work. One key reason why is because it requires the voluntary mutual submission of every individual in society to every other individual in society.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 4: The Strange Death of Knowledge
This chapter features one of the most dangerous and manipulative concepts to come out of the Woke Marxist movement, not least thanks to the work done by Paulo Freire: other ways of knowing.
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OnlySubs: Stop Wanting Fake Friends
One of the main ways we got into this Woke Marxist mess in the first place is that people started to care way too much about what their fake friends think of them.
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Marxism and Holistic Thinking
Holistic thinking isn't just a feature of the weird New Age and spiritualists; it's also a centerpiece of Marxist thinking.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 3: The Strange Death of Science
Science cannot survive this long-sought-after push by activism into its domain, and it will usher in nothing less than a new era of "sustainable" Lysenkoism.
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The Theft of Education
Education is being stolen from our kids and our society. In fact, for the most part, it has been stolen already.
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