Free OnlySubs: Is the “Woke Right” Really Woke?
Host James Lindsay explores the idea that the Woke Right really is Woke through an analysis of one of its members' own words.
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What is the Woke Right?
Right-wing elements have arisen and begun bear Woke behavior while claiming Right-wing status and conservative values.
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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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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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Digital Cattle
If the Woke Marxists prevail, we may end up as "digital cattle," dependent on systems like Universal Basic Income and social credit.
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The Reflexive Alchemy of George Soros
Host James Lindsay takes on George Soros and his dialectical alchemy of "reflexivity" through Soros's own words in The Alchemy of Finance and elsewhere.
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You Need to Love the Truth
You have to love the truth with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and tell your neighbor the truth as you want him to tell the truth to you.
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Staying Out of Affordance Traps
Breaking free of affordance traps is necessary to beating Woke Marxism and all other forms of dialectical manipulation.
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How the Pendulum Really Swings
Host James Lindsay breaks down the use of "the principle of polarity" so we can strategize and avoid predictable traps in the swinging pendulum of politics.
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Fascism: Idolatry of the State
Fascism wasn't just a "bad thing" that happened in the first half of the twentieth century, and it's not just a bogus word the Left throws around today about everyone and everything it doesn't like.
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An Introduction to Classical Liberalism
The attacks on Classical Liberalism come from both the Left and the Right, and they succeed, as Solzhenitsyn put it, "because we do not love freedom enough."
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Post-Liberalism, Left and Right
One of Mao Zedong's most famous pieces is a short command from 1937 titled "Combat Liberalism." Contrary to what many conservatives would have us believe, Communism is not the completion of liberalism but one of its mortal enemies, the fruit of a Leftwing, Romantic Reaction to the Enlightenment.
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A Short Letter to a Misunderstanding Right
I find it very odd when people keep telling me that “the left” is doing something bad with regard to wokeness and applied postmodernism when so many of the people opposing identity politics, cancel culture, collective blame, language policing, deplatforming, and censorship by the Critical Social Justice faction are, in fact, on the left.
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