Resisting Welfare Mentality
James Lindsay presents a compelling X post on "welfare mentality," exposing the reality of free enterprise versus socialism.
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Where Communism Really Started
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes you through these documents and makes it abundantly clear that the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in 1848 had these ideas at their core.
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Introducing the Problem-Solving Theory of Value
What makes something valuable? How do we determine value? One hypothesis on value is famously forwarded and relied upon by the Marxists.
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The Dark Heart of Woke: Manufactured Alienation
Woke is a distorted consciousness born out of a sense of alienation and is therefore a way of seeing the world and acting in it.
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Foundations of a Free Society
Even societies which apply enormous amounts of force claim to be the true champions of freedom even though others see them as authoritarian.
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Exclusion as the Basis of Wealth
Host James Lindsay explains how this property, the fundamental right to exclude, is the basis for all wealth.
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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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CRT, Queer Theory, and Marxism by Any Other Name
As a theory of “political economy,” Marxism isn’t at all complicated. At the very bottom, it is the belief that human beings are fundamentally social beings whose true nature shapes and is shaped by their societies.
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