OnlySubs: The Critical Theory of the Woke Right
James Lindsay takes you through much of another "Woke Right" essay about Carl Schmitt by C. Jay Engel and published on American Reformer.
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Reciprocal Tolerance
Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.
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The Woke Cult of Transgression
The principle of the cult of transgression is defined by Herbert Marcuse in “Repressive Tolerance”, where he calls it “liberating tolerance."
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Why Fascist Economies Can’t Work
James Lindsay dives into Fascist economic models on a variety of levels, using economic theory and historical examples to make his point.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 9: The Centrality of the Jewish Question
Host James Lindsay takes you through Hitler's infamous 1939 speech to the Reichstag as well as a lesser-known letter Hitler wrote in 1919.
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Twentieth Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
Join James Lindsay for this important lecture explaining the model and modes of "Woke" thinking in a historical context we already understand.
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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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