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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The Basics of Cultural Marxism
Host James Lindsay offers a thorough overview of Marxism; Cultural Marxism; Critical Marxism; and Woke Marxism, connecting each to the challenges of modernity.
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Communism 1.0: Theoretical Communism
In the first of these lectures, Lindsay outlines the basics and origins of Communism both as a practical endeavor and as a sociognostic religious movement.
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Lenin and the State
Host James Lindsay reads through the first chapter of Lenin's key work to expose to you what Bolshevik Communists think a state exists to do: repression.
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Lenin and the Brutal Magic of Communism
A paradox of Communism is that in the end, the state is to "wither away," leaving a stateless, classless society.
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Teilhard de Chardin and the Religion of Progress
Leftism is religious. In fact, it's occult-mystical religious, a vast suite of denominations of "transformative" religions of "Progress."
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Disability Studies and the Limits to Equity
Host James Lindsay walks through four distinct models of interpreting disability and uses them to draw out the true limits to equity programs.
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The Current Thing Did Not Take Place
Host James Lindsay explains the maxim and Baudrillard's point and uses them to reveal Leftist tactics as well as political warfare strategies and counters. Join him to understand.
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The Fraud of Diversity and Inclusion
"Diverse" means "outside of the culturally hegemonic viewpoint," and "Inclusion" means "including and protecting counter-hegemonic perspectives and the people who promote them."
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The Hard Truth About Struggle Sessions
Host James Lindsay explains the hard truth of the struggle session and encourages you to stand up against them and to stand alongside people being put through them.
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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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Woke: A Culture War Against Europe | James Lindsay at the European Parliament
On March 29, 2023, James Lindsay delivered a short address before a conference at the European Union Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.
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Stakeholder Capitalism and the End of History
Join James Lindsay to understand what "stakeholder capitalism" really is in terms of "productive socialism" and capitalism reframed in terms of the "sustainability" agenda.
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OnlySubs: Reciprocal Submission and the Impossibility of Socialism
Socialism doesn't work. One key reason why is because it requires the voluntary mutual submission of every individual in society to every other individual in society.
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The Theft of Education
Education is being stolen from our kids and our society. In fact, for the most part, it has been stolen already.
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Totalitarianism and the Progressive Impulse
With the possible exception of our would-be overlords, we all know Nazis were bad. Fewer of us, especially in the younger generations, understand that Communists are also bad.
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On Individual, Corporate, and Social Buying
Apparently a lot of young people believe not only in something nonsensical but also specifically in socialism.
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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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Equity and Justice
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, James Lindsay explains Karl Marx's conception of the evolution of Socialism into Communism and then shows how the terms "equity" and "Social Justice" as widely used today reproduce this precise Theory in a new domain (identity politics) under new branding.
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The Woke Manipulation of Democracy
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks you through more pieces of the Woke, neo-Marxist, and Marxist literature to make the case that when the Woke are calling for "democracy," they mean something that demands a very radical agenda along with it.
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