The EVILution of Communism Workshop: All Sessions
This workshop, hosted by James Lindsay, aims to explain and document the evolutionary transformation of Marxist theory and Communism throughout its history.
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The Thing You Run Into When Your Beliefs Are False
Lindsay advocates evidence-based inquiry and shows how critical theory ignores "reality is what you run into when your beliefs are false."
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Woke for Dummies
James Lindsay explains the book that opened his eyes to what "Woke" really is: Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo's Is Everyone Really Equal?
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The Marxist Roots of DEI Workshop: All Sessions
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives have taken over the country, reaching into every aspect of our work, school, and lives.
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The Marxist Roots of DEI – Session 3: Inclusion
In this third and final episode in the series, Lindsay explains that "Inclusion" is an overarching value structure for the "Diverse and Equitable" commissar system that's being installed.
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The Marxist Roots of DEI – Session 2: Diversity
In this second episode of the series, following from his discussion of equity as (expanded) socialism, Lindsay articulates that "Diversity" initiatives are rooted in the goal of installing ideologically consistent political officers within organizations to effect and enforce policies directed toward achieving equity.
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The Marxist Roots of DEI – Session 1: Equity
In this first episode of the series, James Lindsay dives into the concept at the center of DEI: Equity.
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Woke, Mao, and the American Cultural Revolution
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay walks the listener through a speech given by Mao Zedong in February 1957 to make very clear and palpable that what's happening here, now, is what was happening there, then.
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Stakeholder Capitalism and the End of History
Join James Lindsay to understand what "stakeholder capitalism" really is in terms of "productive socialism" and capitalism reframed in terms of the "sustainability" agenda.
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Gnosticism in the Modern West
In this groundbreaking episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay clarifies the term "gnosticism" and unmasks what amounts to a huge "New Age" movement in the Middle Ages as the source of a thread of Gnostic cult belief that has shaped every facet of the West for at least the last three hundred years.
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The Dialectic of Social-Emotional Learning
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through the incredibly well-funded initiative to transform Social-Emotional Learning even further into the Communist by reading through the majority of this "radport" from the Communities for Just Schools Fund.
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The NEA Goes Sustainable
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through a document from the NEA Foundation, the charitable arm of the largest national teachers union, to show that they not only have these plans but have adopted well-developed curriculum guides to start distributing to teachers and school administrators, right down to detailed lessons on topics like hunger and starvation in kindergarten.
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James Lindsay Goes to Oxford
Imagine my surprise. Late last summer, I got an email from the Oxford Union formally inviting me to debate the proposition “This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far.”
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The Violence of Decolonization
Whether it's decolonizing the curriculum, decolonizing science, decolonizing Shakespeare, decolonizing the nation, or whatever; whether it's decolonizing education following from Joe Kincheloe's project on Paulo Freire; wherever we hear it, it means something.
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Surviving a Modern Struggle Session
One of the most famous and most evil techniques of Maoist Marxism is the "struggle session" (dòuzhēng, 鬥爭; or pīpàn dòuzhēng, 批判鬥爭, “critical struggle”; or sometimes just pīdòu, 批鬥; also called “denunciation” sessions).
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WTF is SEL?
What the F is Social-Emotional Learning? It's a serious question. Behind all the flowery language is a history, and that history demands looking at.
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Introducing The Marxification of Education
James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, has written a new book called The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education, which is available now.
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What Radicalized You, James Lindsay?
James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, gets asked all the time about what really got him started in his campaign against Woke Marxism.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 4: The Strange Death of Knowledge
This chapter features one of the most dangerous and manipulative concepts to come out of the Woke Marxist movement, not least thanks to the work done by Paulo Freire: other ways of knowing.
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The Marxification of Education Workshop: All Sessions
Something has gone very badly wrong in education. Our schools are filled with divisive identity politics rooted in Marxist Critical Theory, but it seems almost impossible to nail down and fight against.
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