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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neo-marxism
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Critical Thinking versus Critical Theory
One of the most common words we run into today thanks to the incredible spread of Woke Marxism is "critical."
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Marx’s Unreal Realities
In the Marxist literature, you run into the words "reality," "realities," and "actual" all the time. This is no mistake.
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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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Critical Education: Transformative Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
In this long, detailed episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay helps you understand the most Marxist version of SEL, Transformative SEL, by reading a full academic paper describing it and the (complete lack of) evidence for its implementation.
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Critical Education: What Is Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through this latter paper, “Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,” to expose what this menace to education is (hint: it’s not very clear, but it’s obviously Marxism).
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Paulo Freire’s Prophetic Vision for Education
Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, where he continues through the darker, deeper aspect of Freirean Critical Pedagogy.
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Paulo Freire’s Politics of Education and a New Hope
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James as he dives into the introduction to Paulo Freire's 1985 book, The Politics of Education, in order to better understand Freire and his influence.
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Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay goes through all of the heavy Theoretical detail to explain why it is, from within Theory, that you can be transgender but not transracial.
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A Summary of Neo-Marxism
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he reads through and adds nuance and detail to the relevant "neo-Marxism" entry in his Critical Social Justice Encyclopedia so that you can better understand where Wokeness comes from and how it thinks and operates.
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Neo-Marxism
This entry in 'Translations from the Wokish' is an explanation of the term "Neo-Marxism."
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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism
In this episode, Lindsay takes considerable time explaining Hegel's view of dialectical thought and then reveals in many examples, reaching up to the present day, how consistently the dialectic appears as the functional underpinning of Leftism ever since, at the latest, the 1830s.
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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real
In this episode of the New Discourses podcast, join James Lindsay for a detailed discussion of the crisis of authenticity at the heart of the Woke project and its predecessors as well as a discussion of what it means to approach authenticity for yourself.
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Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of “Repressive Tolerance”
In this fourth and final part of his four-part lecture series about "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay takes the reader from the darkest point of the essay, which was the exciting climax of Part 3, through the end of Marcuse's argument.
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Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?
In this third part of James Lindsay's lecture series on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," we see how the essay takes a particularly dark turn.
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One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society
In this second part of his annotated reading of Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay reads and explains the portion of the essay where Marcuse defines the "administered society" that he claims we live in.
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How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance
The logic of the left today is overwhelmingly rooted in a single essay published in 1965 by the neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse.
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Is BLM Based On a Conspiracy Theory?
Because it wants to continue taking money directly, Black Lives Matter UK has become an official organization and, in the process, renamed itself “Black Liberation Movement UK.” This obviously allows it to retain its BLM UK branding without changing anything about its politics.
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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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