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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Stalin’s Soviet DEI Program
Communists don’t throw away destructive things that achieve their ultimate purpose of consolidating their own power.
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Why Communism Is So Deadly
There's a simple reason Communism leads to mass murder, starvation, and death, and it's this: Communists believe Communism can never be wrong.
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Communism 2.0: Industrial Communism
In this second lecture, James Lindsay traces the development of the Soviet Union through Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party as a vanguard.
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Digital Cattle
If the Woke Marxists prevail, we may end up as "digital cattle," dependent on systems like Universal Basic Income and social credit.
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How Tyrants Force Compliance
First, the population is split into those who comply with the tyrant's programs and policies and those who do not comply.
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China’s Neoliberal Communism
Host James Lindsay spells out how we should describe the system currently used in China. It's not Uncle Joe's Communism, that's for sure.
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Mao’s Politics of Compliance
Mao’s politics of compliance divides the population into two. Those who comply are “the people.” Those who resist are “the enemies of the people.”
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