Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay
What are "Left" and "Right," politically? Where does political extremism come from, on both sides, in our present era of polarization?
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 8: Carl Schmitt’s Politics and the Nazi State
Lindsay presents a short essay by Schmitt from simply titled "Politics" that leaves little doubt that his politics were Nazi politics.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 7: The Nazi Rejection of Paperwork Germans
James Lindsay examines Hitler’s Mein Kampf in his Nazi Experiment series, exposing how totalitarian ideas resurface today in woke and populist movements.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 6: Carl Schmitt and the Total State
Host James Lindsay continues his sprawling series on the "Nazi Experiment" and presents this Schmittian essay in English for the first time.
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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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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 5: Forty Points for the Nazi Party
Lindsay tackles the "25 Points of the Nazi Party" along with the 12th and final chapter of the first volume of Mein Kampf.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 4: Nazi Worldview, Nazi Organization
Running until its catastrophic failure in 1945, the National Socialists under Adolf Hitler ran a societal experiment: the Nazi Experiment.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 3: The Individual Nazi in the Nazi State
The third volume in a series on "the Nazi Experiment," which is largely but not entirely a direct exposé of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
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Introducing the Nazi Experiment
In knowing that the Nazi Experiment was abjectly evil, we lost sight of why and how it was evil.
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The Dialectic of the Strong Gods: A Review of R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods
Given this book is dialectical and critical, but for a right-wing "traditionalist" imaginary, I think it qualifies as Woke Right unambiguously.
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Communism Is Not Atheist
Communism wants belief in God out of the picture while still believing in an idealized Communistic Man as a deity.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 1: The Nazi Racial Worldview
James Lindsay reads from Chapter 1 of Volume 2 of Mein Kampf to explain the Nazi racial worldview (weltanshauung).
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Stalin’s Soviet DEI Program
Communists don’t throw away destructive things that achieve their ultimate purpose of consolidating their own power.
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Woke Nationalism and the Nazi Experiment
James Lindsay reads directly from the source of the Nazi Experiment, the second chapter of Adolf Hitler's infamous Mein Kampf.
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Why Communism Is So Deadly
There's a simple reason Communism leads to mass murder, starvation, and death, and it's this: Communists believe Communism can never be wrong.
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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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OnlySubs: The Long Roots of DEI Fraud
DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is based on fraud. It's an old Communist standard common both to Mao's regime and the Soviet Union.
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Mao’s Politics of Compliance
Mao’s politics of compliance divides the population into two. Those who comply are “the people.” Those who resist are “the enemies of the people.”
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National Divorce Is National Suicide
National Divorce is National Suicide, and we’re only considering it because we’re being driven into the despair necessary to commit it.
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Fascism: Idolatry of the State
Fascism wasn't just a "bad thing" that happened in the first half of the twentieth century, and it's not just a bogus word the Left throws around today about everyone and everything it doesn't like.
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