Totalitarianism and Fantasies of the Sinless Man
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Carl Schmitt
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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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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 15: Hitler’s Land Equity Argument for Lebensraum
In this episode of the series, host James Lindsay revisits part of the fourth chapter of Hitler's infamous Mein Kampf to reveal his thoroughly laid out arguments for why Germany must conquer Europe, particularly going eastward toward Russia.
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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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How the Friend-Enemy Distinction Poisons Politics
Carl Schmitt captured the essence of totalitarian politics in his book The Concept of the Political (1932). It is the distinction between friend and enemy. The poison of this kind of thinking is in the ugly fact that the declared enemy must be treated as the declared enemy once a political faction has declared one, and anyone who doesn't go along with that declaration declares himself one of the enemy.
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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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What Woke Really Means
Even though it's a term without a stable meaning as it evolved, "Woke" is increasingly coming to mean something quite specific and precise.
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What Is an American? | James Lindsay
Due to unwanted pressure from the "Woke Right," we're now facing a deliberate attempt to redefine American identity.
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Schmittian (Carl Schmitt)
This entry in 'Translations from the Wokish' is an explanation of the term "Schmittian."
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OnlySubs: The Critical Theory of the Woke Right
James Lindsay takes you through much of another "Woke Right" essay about Carl Schmitt by C. Jay Engel and published on American Reformer.
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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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Friend-Enemy Distinction
This entry in 'Translations from the Wokish' is an explanation of the term "Biopower."
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The Woke Cult of Transgression
The principle of the cult of transgression is defined by Herbert Marcuse in “Repressive Tolerance”, where he calls it “liberating tolerance."
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The Difference Between Left and Right
The thing is, while radicalism and political violence are not (at present) "both sides" problems, temptation is a both-sides problem.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 8: Carl Schmitt’s Politics and the Nazi State
Lindsay presents a short essay by Schmitt from simply titled "Politics" that leaves little doubt that his politics were Nazi politics.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 7: The Nazi Rejection of Paperwork Germans
James Lindsay examines Hitler’s Mein Kampf in his Nazi Experiment series, exposing how totalitarian ideas resurface today in woke and populist movements.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 6: Carl Schmitt and the Total State
Host James Lindsay continues his sprawling series on the "Nazi Experiment" and presents this Schmittian essay in English for the first time.
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OnlySubs: Should Conservatives “Reclaim” FDR?
James Lindsay walks through through Renn's argument for why conservatives need to "reclaim" FDR as one of their own.
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OnlySubs: A New Founding By a Woke Right WEF?
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I go through the New Founding strategic manifesto to get a glimpse behind the curtain, in their own carefully chosen words.
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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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