Dialectics, Vol. 1: Quantity Becomes Quality
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay walks through this dialectical form and connects it to the Woke you deal with today.
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What Is Socialism?
Popularity of socialism is rapidly on the rise, especially among American youth, but what is it? What is its relationship to Communism? What about Marxism? Why is it so popular even though it never works? Is Woke really related to socialism?
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Why the Labor Theory of Value Is Wrong
Karl Marx turned an economic idea called the labor theory of value into a theory of resentment and exploitation. The thing is, it's not just that Marx was wrong for adopting the labor theory of value; it's that the labor theory of value itself is also fundamentally wrong.
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A Defense of the Practicality and Morality of Interest
On both Left and Right, our young people are turning against the concept of interest, like money making money for being loaned out. This is an emergency, frankly.
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Wages for Housework, Wages for Housewives
James Lindsay takes you through Federici's pamphlet and brings eye-opening clarity to how Marxist-feminists (and all Wokes) think.
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Traditional Versus Critical Theory
James Lindsay breaks down the point of this essay and the nature of Horkheimer's comparison between these two ways of thinking.
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A Short Defense of the Moral Institution of Profit
James Lindsay invites you to understand the goodness of profit and to start teaching it to others, especially our young people.
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Resisting Welfare Mentality
James Lindsay presents a compelling X post on "welfare mentality," exposing the reality of free enterprise versus socialism.
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What Is the DSA Platform?
James Lindsay reads through the entire DSA platform and its introduction as a Communist party with a Marxist-Leninist agenda.
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The Myth of the Blood, Vol. 3: Love as the Enemy of Race and Honor
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay continues his "Myth of the Blood" series exploring this book, now turning to Rosenberg's second chapter: "Love and Honor."
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How Society Works
Host James Lindsay endeavors to explain what actually makes societies work and why totalitarian systems do a poor job of running them.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 14: Germany Is Not an Economic Zone
In this fourteenth volume of the Nazi Experiment series of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes us into the bottom third of the fourth chapter of Volume 1 of Hitler's Mein Kampf to show the parallels to what we face in our own day.
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Introducing the Problem-Solving Theory of Value
What makes something valuable? How do we determine value? One hypothesis on value is famously forwarded and relied upon by the Marxists.
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What George Washington’s Death Can Teach Us About Woke
George Washington died at his home on at the age of 67 froma a particularly bad and sudden upper respiratory infection.
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Big Government Can’t Produce Abundance
Expanding the influence of government over the economy will not produce an economy more capable of solving problems real people have.
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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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Lenin and the Brutal Magic of Communism
A paradox of Communism is that in the end, the state is to "wither away," leaving a stateless, classless society.
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“Feminist Astronomy”
Stars, Planets, and Gender: A Framework for a Feminist Astronomy A SCHOLARLY PAPER FROM THE GRIEVANCE STUDIES PROJECT In the name of Maria Gonzalez, Ph.D. (fictitious) from the (fictitious) Feminist…
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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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The Feeling of Mystification
Host James Lindsay illustrates the conditions of Woke Marxist mystification and talks about how to learn to pierce through it to see reality clearly again.
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