The Alchemy of the Dialectic
The dialectic is ultimately the engine of all Marxist and Hegelian thought and underlies the conflict between Fascism and Marxism.
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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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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 Essence of Critical Theory
Critical theory is a tool for delegitimizing a real thing for not being some kind of sociopolitical ideal thing that cannot even exist.
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The Iterated Motte and Bailey Strategy
Host James Lindsay explains how the "motte and bailey" strategy can be iterated to give legitimacy to truly radical ideas.
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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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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 Communist Manifesto, Volume 2: The Principles of Communism
Join James for this clear look into the foundations of organized Communism and the principles upon which it was organized.
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Sociognosticism and the Black Magic of Aleksandr Dugin
In this episode, James Lindsay explains Aleksandr Dugin's concept of sociognosticism in order to makes sense of it.
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Real Communism Can Never Be Tried
"Real Communism has never been tried!" "Real Communism" can never be tried, so this old canard isn't saying anything interesting at all.
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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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Stakeholderism and the Post-America Movement | James Lindsay
Lindsay explains what the Stakeholder Economy model is, how it works, and how it's applied to our lives today.
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The Dark Heart of Woke: Manufactured Alienation
Woke is a distorted consciousness born out of a sense of alienation and is therefore a way of seeing the world and acting in it.
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What Is the Mass Line?
Mao Zedong developed one of the most devastating dialectical techniques for mass mobilization ever conceived: the mass line.
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Why Cult Beliefs Don’t Stop When Proved Wrong
A cult called the Seekers was infiltrated by Leon Festinger to understand why they believed what they believed and how their beliefs worked
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The Parasitical Faith of Communism
I released a controversial podcast titled “Communism Is Not Atheist,” and a lot of people didn't really hear what I said in it.
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The Two Goals of Marxist Activism
James Lindsay explains why a Marxist insurgency against any institution is happy to achieve either of two outcomes: control or destruction.
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The Communist Manifesto, Volume One
Host James Lindsay takes you through the main body of the Manifesto of the Communist Party: preface, chapter one, and chapter two.
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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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