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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Be a Leader or Be a Supporter
Host James Lindsay discusses this idea and its critical importance to stopping Woke and globalism from winning everything.
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Woke Marxism Rejects Prosperity
Woke Marxism isn't even interested in making things work. Woke Marxism is, by definition, hostile to making things work.
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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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Understanding Reflexive Environments
Join James Lindsay as he introduces the concept of reflexivity to recognize the building of reflexive potential, the explosion into a reflexive environment, and what you can do about it.
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“Progressive Stack”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'The Progressive Stack: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Pedagogy' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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“Moon Meetings”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'Moon Meetings and the Meaning of Sisterhood: A Poetic Portrayal of Lived Feminist Spirituality' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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Kindergarten and the Asylum: “Sanism” in Early Childhood Education
Woke Marxism has no limiting principles. It is, in fact, openly hostile to any such boundary on its own madness. As a result, it possesses no mechanisms to prevent the implementation of the worst possible ideas, as we often see, including in the education of young children.
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“Hooters”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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“Joke’s on You”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'When The Joke Is On You: A Feminist Perspective On How Positionality Influences Satire' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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“Fat Bodybuilding”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'Who Are They to Judge?: Overcoming Anthropometry and a Framework for Fat Bodybuilding' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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“Feminist Mein Kampf”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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“Porn (and Implicit Bias)”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'Going In Through The Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria And Transphobia Through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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Critique and the Linguistic Transformation of Society
Redefine the words; redefine the society. That's the basic idea of "critique" and the way so much of Marxist activism proceeds.
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OnlySubs: Reknitting the Social Fabric
This is how the social fabric of our countries can be knit back together.
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The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable
Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses podcast to learn about the long history of unreason in Wokeness and even its all-out rejection of the notion that anyone or any position at all can be reasonable in any meaningful sense.
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OnlySubs: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make a short argument that not only is there no evidence for Critical Race Theory, there cannot be evidence for Critical Race Theory, by virtue of the way that it has arranged its basic assumptions.
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OnlySubs: The Woke Don’t Understand Society
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that (left-leaning) academics are likely to be biased toward believing the institution is the fundamental unit of society, and this is why so many of their ideas are so disconnected from reality and, ultimately, statist in orientation.
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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Battle of Discourses
We are currently caught up in a battle of discourses. Mostly, this battle rages between Critical Social Justice activists and right-wing populists, with the rest of us stuck somewhere in the middle and having to pick sides.
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