By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Sep 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 141 Book Club Series, Episode 9 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members 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
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 141 Book Club Series, Episode 9 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members 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
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Sep 24
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 99 If there’s one trait that anti-Communists need more than others, perhaps aside from courage, it’s discernment. The need to discern the true agendas of Marxists and even to discern the very meanings of the words being used by Marxists is an indispensable skill that must be learned and cultivated to deal with times like ours, which involve an attempted Communist revolution. Discernment in this regard begins with suspicion, though, particularly the suspicion that what we’re being told and the words with which they are telling us their ideas aren’t honest. In this episode of New
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 99 If there’s one trait that anti-Communists need more than others, perhaps aside from courage, it’s discernment. The need to discern the true agendas of Marxists and even to discern the very meanings of the words being used by Marxists is an indispensable skill that must be learned and cultivated to deal with times like ours,
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Sep 24
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 147 We’re hearing a lot about “joy” now that the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign have made it a byword of their project, so we have to ask what they mean by it. We all know, by this point, that Communists share your vocabulary but do not share your dictionary. So what might they mean by “joy“? Well, it appears what they mean by joy is “radical joy,” which is a kind of religious ecstasy associated with believing they are going to accomplish Communism, or at least their revolution. Radical joy is rooted in “critical hope” together
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 147 We’re hearing a lot about “joy” now that the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign have made it a byword of their project, so we have to ask what they mean by it. We all know, by this point, that Communists share your vocabulary but do not share your dictionary. So
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: 26 Aug 24
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 98 We need a perspective shift. It’s extremely common to hear people saying how “insane” or “crazy” Woke Marxism is, or to rhetorically ask “what are they thinking?” perhaps with a suggestion of “it won’t work.” Marxism is destructive, on purpose, and being befuddled about their destructive programs doesn’t help us stop them. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks down the simple idea necessary for this shift in perspective: they have different goals than the rest of us. In fact, their goals are, in the words of Herbert Marcuse, to “protest against the totality of a well-functioning,
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 98 We need a perspective shift. It’s extremely common to hear people saying how “insane” or “crazy” Woke Marxism is, or to rhetorically ask “what are they thinking?” perhaps with a suggestion of “it won’t work.” Marxism is destructive, on purpose, and being befuddled about their destructive programs doesn’t help us stop them. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Aug 24
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 146 One of the great paradoxes of Communism is that in the end, the state is supposed to “wither away,” leaving a stateless, classless society in which there is high functioning and little or no want. This circumstance is presented as different to the other stages of history, which are said to proceed through revolutionary overthrow of the existing system. In particular, socialism is meant to be born out of capitalism through a violent proletarian revolution that seizes the means of production and establishes itself as an all-powerful “dictatorship of the proletariat.” But this
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 146 One of the great paradoxes of Communism is that in the end, the state is supposed to “wither away,” leaving a stateless, classless society in which there is high functioning and little or no want. This circumstance is presented as different to the other stages of history, which are said to proceed through
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: 12 Aug 24
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 145 Leftism is religious. In fact, it’s occult-mystical religious, a vast suite of denominations of “transformative” religions of “Progress.” Progress toward what, though? Higher consciousness, in fact, collective consciousness, which is supposedly man’s true but forgotten nature. The goal: to evolve humanity, collectively, to become master of the universe, which is to say God. This religion and its aspects are fully visible throughout all the phases of Marxism, with “socialism” being the name for the awakened aspect, and are obviously present in the strange theosophical views behind the UN, as we have seen. Perhaps nowhere are they
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 145 Leftism is religious. In fact, it’s occult-mystical religious, a vast suite of denominations of “transformative” religions of “Progress.” Progress toward what, though? Higher consciousness, in fact, collective consciousness, which is supposedly man’s true but forgotten nature. The goal: to evolve humanity, collectively, to become master of the universe, which is to say
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