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Leftism Means Coveting Power

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Jan 25

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 109 There are many ways we could conceive of Leftism, and one of the best is that it is a covetous relationship with power. It’s easy to understand how toxic and bad that is, if not evil. Yet here we are at a crossroads in world history, and we’re being led toward precisely that pit. There’s a popular line out there now that goes something like this: “the Left wants power, and conservatives don’t. That’s why conservatives always lose.” The implication is that conservatives should also desire (or covet) power. This line adopts the Left’s relationship

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 109 There are many ways we could conceive of Leftism, and one of the best is that it is a covetous relationship with power. It’s easy to understand how toxic and bad that is, if not evil. Yet here we are at a crossroads in world history, and we’re being led toward precisely that pit. There’s

A Communist Manifesto for Christian Nationalists: Testing the Woke Right

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Dec 24

As many of you know and fewer appreciate, I have been aiming to expose a phenomenon called the “Woke Right” for some time now. This whole matter is an issue of considerable and rather fierce debate. Is “Woke” the right word for them? Are they really “Right”? Should we call them something else? Is this really even happening? Does it even matter? Is this even important? Each of these is a worthy enough question and matter for its own debate, but regarding the question of whether “Woke” is the right term for them, I haven’t been fully convinced despite my

As many of you know and fewer appreciate, I have been aiming to expose a phenomenon called the “Woke Right” for some time now. This whole matter is an issue of considerable and rather fierce debate. Is “Woke” the right word for them? Are they really “Right”? Should we call them something else? Is this really even happening? Does it

Lenin and the Brutal Magic of Communism

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

National Divorce Is National Suicide

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Feb 24

Should the United States split up? The country is more polarized than it ever has been, at least since the Civil War, having divided not so much geographically but culturally and ideologically. The two broad factions in this split are what we might call the “Red Team” (conservatives) and the “Blue Team” (progressives)—the irony in these color designations not being lost on many. Now that things are so divided, might it just be better to go our separate ways as peacefully as possible so we can get on with life? Might it be time for a “National Divorce”? Blue Team

Should the United States split up? The country is more polarized than it ever has been, at least since the Civil War, having divided not so much geographically but culturally and ideologically. The two broad factions in this split are what we might call the “Red Team” (conservatives) and the “Blue Team” (progressives)—the irony in these color designations not being

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