Communism 3.0: Corporate Communism
In this fourth lecture, James Lindsay characterizes modern Communism as the "Chinese model derived from Deng Xiaoping in the People's Republic of China.
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The Curse of Postmodern Neo-Marxism in North American Education
For the last few decades, North American education schools have been ground zero for two dangerous intellectual movements: critical theory and postmodernism.
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The Unhappy Rebellion of Radical Joy
We're hearing a lot about "joy" now that the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign have made it a byword of their project, so we have to ask what they mean by it.
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Woke Isn’t Insane; It’s Evil
Woke Marxism is destructive, on purpose, and being befuddled about their destructive programs doesn't help us stop them.
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How Woke Marxists Stole Reading: What is Critical Literacy?
Marxist brainwashing and radical activation is calling itself “critical literacy” so it can pass itself off as a literacy lesson.
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Marx, the God. Marcuse, His Prophet. Mao, His Sword.
Communists are in a cult with Marx at the top, the doctrine of Marcuse in the middle, and Mao’s revolutionary strategy at the bottom.
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Woke Marxism Rejects Prosperity
Woke Marxism isn't even interested in making things work. Woke Marxism is, by definition, hostile to making things work.
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Curiosity Is a Cult Killer
I have a nagging question, one that I haven’t been able to shake since the very early days of my research: what happened to curiosity?
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Maoism with American Characteristics
Intersectionality is a Woke standard, but what is it? Where does it come from? The history of the concept isn't that hard to trace, and where it leads us is back to some of the worst regimes in history.
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Intersectionality Is American Maoism
It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with Kimberlé Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw is therefore the wrong person to discuss to talk about the issue, but she’s a starting place.
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The Workings of the Woke Cult
It has become relatively obvious that what goes by the term “Woke” refers to having been initiated into a cult.
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Wokeness and the Structure of Cults
It has become relatively obvious that what goes by the term “Woke” refers to having been initiated into a cult.
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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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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 Strange Death of the University, Part 3: The Strange Death of Science
Science cannot survive this long-sought-after push by activism into its domain, and it will usher in nothing less than a new era of "sustainable" Lysenkoism.
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The Riddle of History, Solved
According to Karl Marx, Communism, true and proper, is the self-conscious solution to “the riddle of history.”
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 2: A New Sensibility
Sustainability is to become our "New Sensibility," just like Herbert Marcuse called for in the second chapter of his 1969 Essay on Liberation.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 1: The Red Thread
We all know academia is in trouble. In fact, we're not even sure it can be saved. To put it simply, the university is dying.
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The Theft of American Education
The learning loss that follows from a “critical” education into "social and emotional learning" represents nothing short of an intentional theft of education from our children and our society.
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Life in Herbert Marcuse’s World
Probably the most influential Marxist thinker of the 20th century was the Critical Marxist Herbert Marcuse.
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