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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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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Marx’s Strawman of Capitalism
Host James Lindsay shows you in their own words what Marxists mean by the word "capitalism," which is a revealing and ridiculous strawman of market economics.
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Degrowth: The West’s Great Leap Backwards
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 125 The “Net Zero” and “Sustainability” movements, which no one outside of captured institutions and minds particularly likes or trusts, is advancing…
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Why Bud Light and Target Pushed the Woke Agenda
ESG scoring is a financial racket, and we're starting to learn how it works.
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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History
For a century and a half, people have failed to recognize Marxism for what it is, a theology.
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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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OnlySubs: A Logic of Positive and Negative Competition
Competition has two forms: positive and negative. In positive competition, competitors try to improve themselves to win. In negative competition, they try to cut down their opponents instead of bettering themselves.
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OnlySubs: Reciprocal Submission and the Impossibility of Socialism
Socialism doesn't work. One key reason why is because it requires the voluntary mutual submission of every individual in society to every other individual in society.
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On Individual, Corporate, and Social Buying
Apparently a lot of young people believe not only in something nonsensical but also specifically in socialism.
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OnlySubs: Communism Is Not an Economic Theory
Communism is widely regarded as an economic theory. This is not so.
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