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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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What Seizing the Means of Production Really Means

At the heart of the Communist project is "seizing the means of production." But what does this really mean?

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Introducing the Nazi Myth of the Blood

Host James Lindsay summarizes both the "Myth of the Blood" and some of Rosenberg's strange book in reference to his ND Podcast series.

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How Society Works

Host James Lindsay endeavors to explain what actually makes societies work and why totalitarian systems do a poor job of running them.

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Heroism and Honor in the Fascist Mind

Central to the psychological and social construction of both Fascists and Nazis are the concepts of heroism and honor.

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Fascism and the Naturalistic Fallacy

Underneath the hood of Fascism is a heavy insistence that its program aligns with various aspects of Nature.

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The Creepy Real Meaning of Fascism as Corporatism

Father of Italian Fascism, Benito Mussolini, is famous for having remarked that Fascism can be summarized simply enough as "corporatism."

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Fascism Is Progressive

Fascism is a progressive ideology. It would be most appropriate to say that it is progressive by reactionary means, in fact.

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Forced “Friendship” Under the Friend-Enemy Distinction

The friend-enemy distinction is the underlying organizational principle of the Marxist Left, radical Islam, and the Fascist Reactionary Left.

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The Poison of Negative Idealism

Negative idealism explains why "critical" movements like Communism, Fascism, and Woke of all types trend toward violence.

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Who Are We, and What Does That Mean About Politics?

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Who Are We, and What Does That Mean About Politics?

When we face the question of what makes us who we are, different people have different answers. Some see ourselves as receptacles of tradition. Others see us as a self to be discovered in the world. Still others see us as blank slates who can become whatever we can dream.

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How the Friend-Enemy Distinction Poisons Politics

Carl Schmitt captured the essence of totalitarian politics in his book The Concept of the Political (1932). It is the distinction between friend and enemy. The poison of this kind of thinking is in the ugly fact that the declared enemy must be treated as the declared enemy once a political faction has declared one, and anyone who doesn't go along with that declaration declares himself one of the enemy.

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