A Message to MAGA Youth
James Lindsay sends an important message to young conservatives, warning them of how they might be being used, only to be discarded later.
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Communism 2.0: Industrial Communism
In this second lecture, James Lindsay traces the development of the Soviet Union through Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party as a vanguard.
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DEI is “Speaking Bitterness”
In Mao's China, the population was turned against itself through relentless campaigns known as "Speaking Bitterness."
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OnlySubs: The CIA, DEI, and Sensitivity Training
What we now call Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training in virtually any format, including "cultural competence" and "unconscious bias" trainings, derive from an earlier program more simply known as "Sensitivity Training."
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How Tyrants Force Compliance
First, the population is split into those who comply with the tyrant's programs and policies and those who do not comply.
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American Maoism | James Lindsay
In this lecture from Dr. James Lindsay, the parallels between our experience today and the tools utilized in China under Mao will be made so clear that the unavoidable conclusion will be that we are living through nothing less than American Maoism.
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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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The Real Threat of ESG
Thankfully, the world is rapidly waking up to the threat of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) scoring for corporations and beyond.
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An Open Letter to Woke Youth
If you are Woke, you are in danger, not from the people you think you need to fight every waking moment of your day but from the people you support. History teaches this.
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Beating a Struggle Session
In Mao Zedong's CCP-run China, citizens were bullied and brainwashed into accepting "socialist discipline" by the Communist authorities by means of a devastating tool called the "struggle session."
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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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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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Mao, Criticism, and Unity
Mao Zedong wanted to thought-reform, that is, brainwash, the whole Chinese population, and he had a formula for doing it: "Unity - Criticism - Unity."
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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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Ideological Totalism in the Woke Cult
Woke is a cult. In fact, Woke is a cult in exactly the same way Maoism was and is a cult. There's only a little daylight between them, as we recently explored here on the New Discourses Podcast.
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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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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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James Lindsay on His Lifetime Twitter Ban
Twitter finally dropped the hammer and banned James Lindsay. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James spends half an hour telling the story behind the ban and walking through his initial thoughts and reactions to it.
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Leninism, Maoism, and Stakeholder Capitalism
Two of the most infamous figures of the 20th century are two of its most notorious Marxist dictators: Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.
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