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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The Poverty of “Lived Experiences”
This rhetoric is, by design, meant to paint political dissidents as myopic stooges who are unwilling to “listen to the Lived Experiences of marginalized people,” thus making them unwittingly complicit in systems of oppression.
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How Critical Social Justice Theory Cuts the Heart out of Therapy
A healing ethos is the heart of therapy: it is characterised by an unwavering commitment to the flourishing of the person who is seeking your help.
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Therapy and the Hermeneutics of Oppression
Critical Social Justice Theory is now rapidly establishing itself within the theory and knowledge of the counselling and psychotherapy disciplines.
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Wokeness and Its Not-at-all-racist Doctrines of Disempowerment
This isn't empowerment. It's disempowerment, even if we discount the other costs of such a not-at-all-racist doctrine.
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Liberalism and its Anti-liberal Moral Order
I feel I haven't done an adequate job explaining to people that what the Critical Social Justice scholars and activists have been building isn't a new intellectual order, it's a new alternative moral order.
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Deepfake Methodology and the Limits of Critical Theories
My purposes here are to highlight this concept of “deepfake methodology” and contextualize in terms of what I have been learning about these lazy critical methods.
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How Theory Got Cynical and Why That Sucks for Everyone
James Lindsay joins Jack Murphy on the Jack Murphy Live podcast to discuss his forthcoming book with Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories.
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Breaking Down Critical Social Justice Theory in K-12 Education
James Lindsay sits down with high school teacher Will Reusch to talk about an issue of far more importance than the attention it is currently getting: the deep encroachment of Critical Social Justice Theory and activism into our primary and secondary education programs.
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