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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Liberation
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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 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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Easter in the Woke Cult
James Lindsay pulls back the curtain on this cult belief Jo you can understand that we're dealing with the largest cult startup in history.
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Marxism is a Cult Religion
Marxism cannot escape this cloth because Marxism is cut from this cloth. They are destructive theosophical cults. All Marxism is cult religious.
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The Gnostic Temptation
Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It's not because Gnostics go around telling people they're wrong. It's because they go around telling people they're limited.
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The Role of Consciousness and the Evolution of the Gospel of Marxism
In that Marxism is a theology that gives birth to a religion of Communism, it has to also have a process of conversion.
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Feminism is Feminist Gnosticism
In Simone de Beauvoir's famous work The Second Sex, she wrote one of the most famous lines in feminist thought: "One is not born but becomes woman."
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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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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 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 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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Open Letter Regarding Equity Propaganda Presented at North Carolina Board of Education Working Session
On August 30th, the NC State Board of Education had a working session. Included in the working session agenda was a presentation on an equity framework from the California-based National Equity Project (NEP).
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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity
In this episode, join James as he reads through the final (shortest) part of this essay and connects it to the features of today's clownish world, from Antifa and other radical activism to divisive identity politics to stakeholder capitalism and sustainability metrics.
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Marcuse’s Subverting Forces in Transition
The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them.
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Herbert Marcuse’s “New Sensibility”
So that you can better understand the moment we find ourselves in, James Lindsay has been reading "An Essay on Liberation" for the New Discourses Podcast in full, with his explanation and commentary. This is the second part of that series, reading through part two of Marcuse's infamous essay, "A New Sensibility."
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A Biological Foundation for Socialism?
In this first part of the series, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to the essay and its first of four parts, "A Biological Foundation for Socialism?"
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Liberation(ism)
This entry in 'Translations from the Wokish' is an explanation of the term "Liberation(ism)."
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