By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 29 Jan 25
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 143 Book Club Series, Episode 10 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another, long-anticipated episode of my book club! I’m reading a book now that has me chilled to the bone in so many ways. It’s a long confessional called Account Rendered: A Dossier on My Former Self by former Nazi Melita Maschmann. In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I read a short snippet from this book where the Nazi ideology comes face-to-face
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 143 Book Club Series, Episode 10 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another, long-anticipated episode of my book club! I’m reading a book now that has me chilled to the bone in so many ways. It’s a
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 29 Aug 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 140 Book Club Series, Episode 8 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Collectivization is an experiment Communist countries have tried again and again, and it results in catastrophic failure every single time. Now, it appears, Canada, as it tips ever more Communist under the disastrous leadership of Trudeau’s Liberal Party with assists from the NDP, is starting to suggest that their housing crisis might be solved through collectivization of living spaces, specifically of bedrooms. That means it’s time for me to do another Book
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 140 Book Club Series, Episode 8 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Collectivization is an experiment Communist countries have tried again and again, and it results in catastrophic failure every single time. Now, it appears, Canada, as it tips ever more
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Aug 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 139 Book Club Series, Episode 7 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Communism sells itself as an ideology that rejects competition. Cooperation is supposed to rule the day, and competition is put down as a bourgeois ideology that alienates man from his neighbor and thus his true social nature. Well, wouldn’t you know that’s bogus? Communism is insanely competitive on every level, but because it’s also a farcical lie, it’s not a competition to make things better but to screw things up. More accurately, Communists
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 139 Book Club Series, Episode 7 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Communism sells itself as an ideology that rejects competition. Cooperation is supposed to rule the day, and competition is put down as a bourgeois ideology that alienates man from
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Aug 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 138 Book Club Series, Episode 6 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Marx famously remarked at the opening of his comments on the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon III) that Hegel allegedly said that “all world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Communism, as the Iron Law of Woke Projection maintains, is both tragedy and a complete farce, usually all at the same
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 138 Book Club Series, Episode 6 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Marx famously remarked at the opening of his comments on the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon III) that Hegel allegedly said that “all world-historic facts and personages
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Aug 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 137 Book Club Series, Episode 5 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another episode of my James Lindsay OnlySubs Book Club! I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957. In this vignette I want to share with you from the book, near the end, Dikotter explains the appeal of Communism, at least to the Chinese in the 1950s, even though all around them was failure, starvation,
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 137 Book Club Series, Episode 5 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another episode of my James Lindsay OnlySubs Book Club! I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 25 Jul 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 136 Book Club Series, Episode 4 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another exciting episode of James Lindsay’s Book Club, part of his James Lindsay OnlySubs platform, for contributors only! In this episode, I’m still reading from Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957. Specifically, near the end of the book, Dikotter outlines an important point about Communist society: what I call the Iron Law of
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 136 Book Club Series, Episode 4 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another exciting episode of James Lindsay’s Book Club, part of his James Lindsay OnlySubs platform, for contributors only! In this episode, I’m still reading from
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Jul 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 134 Book Club Series, Episode 3 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is based on fraud. We are rapidly coming to understand this fact now, but it always bears repeating. Interestingly, one aspect of the fraud of DEI isn’t new at all. It’s an old Communist standard common both to Mao’s regime in China and the Soviet Union before him, as well as elsewhere, surely. That said, welcome back to my Book Club episodes of
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 134 Book Club Series, Episode 3 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is based on fraud. We are rapidly coming to understand this fact now, but it always bears repeating. Interestingly, one aspect of the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Jul 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 133 Book Club Series, Episode 2 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome to another exciting episode of James Lindsay’s Book Club, part of his subscribers-only James Lindsay OnlySubs programming. I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957, and in this episode I read a short excerpt to give you a peek into the destructive power of Maoist “hatecraft.” Hatecraft is a term that describes the art of generating
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 133 Book Club Series, Episode 2 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome to another exciting episode of James Lindsay’s Book Club, part of his subscribers-only James Lindsay OnlySubs programming. I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jun 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 132 Book Club Series, Episode 1 This episode is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome to the James Lindsay Book Club as an ongoing part of his James Lindsay OnlySubs platform (for subscribers only)! As part of the OnlySubs platform, not only will I be sharing my more intimate and experimental ideas, but I’ll also now be sharing excerpts from what I’m reading and what that reading makes me think about. In this first episode, I’m reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 132 Book Club Series, Episode 1 This episode is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome to the James Lindsay Book Club as an ongoing part of his James Lindsay OnlySubs platform (for subscribers only)! As part of the OnlySubs platform, not only