The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 16: What Hitler Got Right, Wrongly
James Lindsay explores Hitler's critique of parliaments and uses it to paint a stark contrast between the American Nazi Experiments.
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Totalitarianism and Fantasies of the Sinless Man
Join James Lindsay for a uniquely deep look into the totalitarian mindset and the strange fantasies of Communism and Nazism.
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What Seizing the Means of Production Really Means
At the heart of the Communist project is "seizing the means of production." But what does this really mean?
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Fascism Is Progressive
Fascism is a progressive ideology. It would be most appropriate to say that it is progressive by reactionary means, in fact.
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Forced “Friendship” Under the Friend-Enemy Distinction
The friend-enemy distinction is the underlying organizational principle of the Marxist Left, radical Islam, and the Fascist Reactionary Left.
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Who Are We, and What Does That Mean About Politics?
When we face the question of what makes us who we are, different people have different answers. Some see ourselves as receptacles of tradition. Others see us as a self to be discovered in the world. Still others see us as blank slates who can become whatever we can dream.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 11: Dictatorship by Reichstag Fire
An undeniable part of the Nazi Experiment is that it operated a fascist-style dictatorship for its infamous "racialist worldview."
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Reciprocal Tolerance
Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.
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Twentieth Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
Join James Lindsay for this important lecture explaining the model and modes of "Woke" thinking in a historical context we already understand.
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Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay
What are "Left" and "Right," politically? Where does political extremism come from, on both sides, in our present era of polarization?
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Foundations of a Free Society
Even societies which apply enormous amounts of force claim to be the true champions of freedom even though others see them as authoritarian.
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Woke Right: Same Energy, Opposite Direction
One of the best ways to think of “Woke Right” without getting into the philosophical and technical weeds is “same energy, opposite direction.”
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 3: The Individual Nazi in the Nazi State
The third volume in a series on "the Nazi Experiment," which is largely but not entirely a direct exposé of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
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The Architecture of Marxist Beliefs
Woke Right has the same “architecture of belief” as Marxism, and this is to help people better understand why the Woke Right is “Woke.”
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Introducing the Nazi Experiment
In knowing that the Nazi Experiment was abjectly evil, we lost sight of why and how it was evil.
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Communism Is Not Atheist
Communism wants belief in God out of the picture while still believing in an idealized Communistic Man as a deity.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 1: The Nazi Racial Worldview
James Lindsay reads from Chapter 1 of Volume 2 of Mein Kampf to explain the Nazi racial worldview (weltanshauung).
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Totalitarian Stakeholderism, Left and Right
James Lindsay explains how the first true Stakeholder economy was instituted in Nazi Germany in 1937 with a National Socialist Shareholder Law.
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Elite Theory, Descriptive and Prescriptive
James Lindsay dives into the various faces of elite theory and elitism and gives a trenchant warning against a rising tide of elitist thought.
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The State of Exception and the Unbound Executive
Join James Lindsay understand how the "post-liberal" factions on Left and Right both increasingly think about executive power.
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