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The EVILution of Communism Workshop, Session 2 Communism is a religious view that has evolved and adapted over the last two centuries, including right up to the present day. Understanding the developments and threats in our present world requires understanding what Communism really is, especially in its Marxist variants, and how it has developed and changed over the years. In response to this need, James Lindsay of New Discourses held a four-lecture workshop series on the EVILution of Communism in Dallas, Texas, at the start of August 2024. The second and third lectures in this series focus on what might

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 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 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

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 97 In Mao’s China, the population was turned against itself through relentless campaigns known as “Speaking Bitterness.” Of course, this was prompted and forced by the Communists, and it worked to their advantage by tearing apart the fabric of the communities they were “transforming.” We have been doing the same thing here in the West, primarily at work and in our schools, under names like “DEI training,” “unconscious bias training,” “Social-Emotional Learning,” and, broadly, “Sensitivity Training.” In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay gives the original context for these disastrous “trainings” so we

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 135 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members What we now call Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training in virtually any format, including “cultural competence” and “unconscious bias” trainings, derive from an earlier program more simply known as “Sensitivity Training.” Well, in 1974, the CIA published an internal memo about whether or not Sensitivity Training (or “Encounter Group” training) is appropriate for the agency, and they determined that it is not. The reasons are really something too: it creates groupthink, destroys independent thought,

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 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 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

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 88 Compliance can be extracted by tyrants from a population through a straightforward method of creating enmity between segments of the population. First, the population is split into those who comply with the tyrant’s programs and policies and those who do not comply. If there are enough among the compliant, a demonization campaign we should call “hatecraft” is employed to pressure those dragging their feet to comply and to demonize those who refuse compliance. Perhaps no one in history was more skilled at these techniques, the politics of compliance, than Mao Zedong in CCP-controlled China. In this