The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory’s New Proletariat
Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast to hear it straight from the sources and to understand more about how we got to where we are today.
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How Activism Shapes Ideology
In recent years, there has been an ongoing controversy about the origins of currently fashionable social justice ideology. Terms like Cultural Marxism and postmodernism have been used and subjected to sometimes fierce attacks.
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The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism
Scientific Gnosticism is perhaps the most calamitous ideological phylum human beings have so far managed to contrive.
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Critical Race Theory’s Jewish Problem
Critical Race Theory has a Jewish problem, and, finally, people are beginning to notice.
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A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion
The question of whether or not the worldview and practice—for practice it intentionally is—going variously by the names “Social Justice,” “Critical Social Justice,” or, more colloquially, “Woke” constitutes a religion is one of some general interest that seems to be growing.
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The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness
People who observe that Marxism is somehow tied into all of this Woke stuff, then, are certainly not wrong, but it just as certainly isn’t Marxism.
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The Disneyfication of Critique
Let’s begin with the image of Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon and Judith Butler as Disney princesses.
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Agora Politics: A Virality of Discourse
Join James Lindsay as he sits down on the Agora Politics podcast to discuss these issues and why he created New Discourses to help people better understand them.
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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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