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OnlySubs: The Communist Tragedy of Indigenous Techniques

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 141
Book Club Series, Episode 9

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Communists create destruction everywhere they go, often by appealing to nice-sounding but ridiculous nonsense as some kind of justification for implementing their projects. One such idiotic approach we’re all too familiar with, especially in the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, not to mention across the formerly colonized world, is an emphasis on “indigenous techniques” and “indigenous ways of knowing.” Of course, this isn’t some new invention. Lenin advocated for it. Stalin forced it. Mao implemented it. It was disastrous every time, not least because it was just a way for Communists to usurp the mantle of indigenous culture and plight to do something that had no real hope of succeeding. It’s in this light that I’m doing another Book Club episode featuring Frank Dikotter’s Mao’s Great Famine here on James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, to talk about how badly things went when Mao emphasized the use of “indigenous techniques” across his Communist China. Join me to hear how our leaders today are trying to make history rhyme.

Additional episodes of the OnlySubs Podcast can be found here.

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