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American Maoism | James Lindsay

In this lecture from Dr. James Lindsay, the parallels between our experience today and the tools utilized in China under Mao will be made so clear that the unavoidable conclusion will be that we are living through nothing less than American Maoism.

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DEI Explained | New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 1

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Degrowth is Communism

What is "degrowth"? Well, that's simple. It's not just the newest brand name for the "Net Zero" environmentalist scam; it's Communism rebranded and newly organized for the 21st century.

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Reactance

There is a psychological phenomenon called "reactance" that is triggered when someone is convinced they're likely to lose liberties and freedoms they currently enjoy.

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Dispositions on Being

In this philosophical episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explores four essential dispositions toward being: the Prison of Being, the Tragedy of Being, the Comedy of Being, and the Miracle of Being.

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The Gnostic Temptation

Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It's not because Gnostics go around telling people they're wrong. It's because they go around telling people they're limited.

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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

James Lindsay takes you through an academic paper by Emily Drabinski titled "Queering the Catalog" from 2013, showing you exactly how Drabinski intends to use her American Library Association to make libraries sites of Queer Marxist grooming.

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Nullification

Virtually all Woke activism has the goal of nullifying its target (German: aufheben). What that means is putting the target in a position where he has to go along with Woke standards or be unable to productively resist against them.

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Exposing the Sustainable Development Goals

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Exposing the Sustainable Development Goals

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay introduces the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations Agenda 2030 and shows how every one of them grants the pretext to seize control over the world and all human life and activity in it. Join him to know your enemy.

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The Real Threat of ESG

Thankfully, the world is rapidly waking up to the threat of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) scoring for corporations and beyond.

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An Open Letter to Woke Youth

If you are Woke, you are in danger, not from the people you think you need to fight every waking moment of your day but from the people you support. History teaches this.

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Beating a Struggle Session

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."

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How to Prevent Revolutions

One of the best things about reading Marxist literature is that they almost always tell you their weaknesses if you pay attention. A huge focus in the literature of Western Marxism has been on the fact that Western societies don't have Marxist revolutions because they are stable societies.

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Groomer Schools 5: Comprehensive Sexuality Education

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Groomer Schools 5: Comprehensive Sexuality Education

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, the fifth in the "Groomer Schools" mini-series, host James Lindsay pulls back the veil on the pillars of Comprehensive Sexuality Education.

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On Life, Liberty, and Property

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson famously used a curious phrase to describe man's fundamentally inalienable rights: "among these, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." What many do not know is that Jefferson was riffing off and augmenting a similar formulation from John Locke, who argued that we have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.

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OnlySubs: Don’t Contradict Grandma!

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I tell you the story, expose this tactic, and explain why a heuristic like "don't contradict grandma" (and hurt her feelings) is fundamentally different thing than Woke demands for weaponized empathy.

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This is How We Fight and Defeat the Woke

In this off-beat episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay describes a broad, comprehensive strategy for fighting Woke Marxism by analyzing it from the perspective of traditional five-element theory.

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All Men Are Created Equal

Progressives, Communists, and the Woke have used this phrasing to drive a wedge in American society for over a century, provoking precisely the type of reaction they need to carry out their plans. Are all men really created equal?

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