The Essence of Critical Theory
Critical theory is a tool for delegitimizing a real thing for not being some kind of sociopolitical ideal thing that cannot even exist.
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Real Communism Can Never Be Tried
"Real Communism has never been tried!" "Real Communism" can never be tried, so this old canard isn't saying anything interesting at all.
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The Book of Woke: The Basis of Critical Constructivism
James Lindsay takes you through a series of bullet points outlined by Kincheloe so you can better understand what "Woke" is.
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The Two Goals of Marxist Activism
James Lindsay explains why a Marxist insurgency against any institution is happy to achieve either of two outcomes: control or destruction.
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Introducing the Nazi Experiment
In knowing that the Nazi Experiment was abjectly evil, we lost sight of why and how it was evil.
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How Liberalism Has Not Failed: Patrick Deneen Has Failed Conservatism
Liberalism now stands on trial, accused of engineering its own destruction—a charge that echoes ever louder amid the thunder of political turmoil.
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The Dialectic of the Strong Gods: A Review of R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods
Given this book is dialectical and critical, but for a right-wing "traditionalist" imaginary, I think it qualifies as Woke Right unambiguously.
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Communism Is Not Atheist
Communism wants belief in God out of the picture while still believing in an idealized Communistic Man as a deity.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 1: The Nazi Racial Worldview
James Lindsay reads from Chapter 1 of Volume 2 of Mein Kampf to explain the Nazi racial worldview (weltanshauung).
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The Betrayal of Burke: A Moral Rebuttal to Yoram Hazony, the Woke Right’s Favourite Philosopher
One of the loudest voices in the self-styled “New Right,” presents himself as a steward of Burke’s tradition.
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Man With Three Faces: Politics, Pathology, and the Modern Selves
Most of the time, everyone believes they’re talking about the facts, the “what’s happening” level of conversation, but sometimes they’re really talking about something deeper.
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Emergency and the Philosophy of Leftism
This philosophy is not exactly a deep resentment of the past; It’s a romantic resentment of history as civilization itself.
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Elite Theory, Descriptive and Prescriptive
James Lindsay dives into the various faces of elite theory and elitism and gives a trenchant warning against a rising tide of elitist thought.
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The State of Exception and the Unbound Executive
Join James Lindsay understand how the "post-liberal" factions on Left and Right both increasingly think about executive power.
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Our Present Choice: Catharsis or Civilization
Though there are different ways to conceive of the choice that lies before us, one is that we will have to choose between catharsis and civilization.
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Socialism, Communism, Marxism; What’s the Difference?
Socialism, Communism, and Marxism are clearly related ideas, but they're not identical. What's the difference?
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Korenizatsiya: Stalin’s Soviet DEI Program
Join James Lindsay to understand how DEI is nothing more than a Bolshevik Communist program we've implemented on ourselves.
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The Hoax that Broke the Conservative Internet
James Lindsay revealed a hoax against American Reformer by rewriting the Communist Manifesto to align with "Woke Right" ideology.
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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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Communism 2.5: Social Communism
In this third lecture, James Lindsay discusses the development of twentieth-century Communism along its second track: Western Marxism.
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