It wasn't until these critical theories came into prominence was I able to see that my university professors from nearly twenty years ago were setting me up to believe in Marxist ideologies. I can't tell you how many of my political science professors spent entire semesters discussing Gramsci and hegemony. At the time, I literally just thought that it was what I was supposed to be learning about almost exclusively in a typical political science class.
Average people are flabbergasted at how all this wokery has just erupted onto the scene in just the last 5-10 years seemingly out of nowhere. It has certainly become noticeable and taken over very quickly, but a cursory look at the universities in the last several decades makes it obvious that this was an inevitable consequence as they were laying the groundwork for a long time.
"Gramsci understood 100 years ago that If you could subvert the church you could remove the greatest impediment, while creating the greatest delivery mechanism for the ideology possible. "
With the amount of control these people have on media through censorship and a unified narrative along with the ability to communicate so quickly, they can basically do whatever they want.
What gives the church any right to continually dominate culture? If it's powerful and right, why would it be under any threat in the first place? Humans have been on this planet a mere blip in its existence. We will continue to evolve under the conditions we are faced with. There is no homogeneous, fixed state of culture.
@@grahamhancock4904 and if you question their motives the Twitterati will come after you and wreck your life. Everyone demands their pound of flesh in the digital age.
Most people on both the far/extreme left and right struggle to grasp the entirety because they've adopted a certain lens in which they view the world whether its marxism, christianity, trumpism, or any other belief, which intern limits their openness to other things. Its sadly very myopic.......
@@skylangford6083 The "far right" really does not exist to any meaningful extent. There are normal people on one side, and brainwashed Neo-Marxist zombies on the other side. They are completely lost and cannot think critically about what is spoon fed into their gaping cucked mouths by the establishment elite.
A revolution by the ruling elite, for the ruling elite... Western civilization and the US more specifically have to be dismantled in order to bring about a new system of global governance. If it is true that change is pain, then soon we will have to grip the chair and bite down on the stick.
You absolutely nailed it. Not that you need me to tell you. The job of articulating this to our families and communities is a tough one. But it’s one that we all need to get on with as a matter of moral responsibility.
Your exposition of Gramsci's thought and his impact on the development of the eventual praxis of Marxist thought as it evolved in communist societies was a tour de force. It was comprehendible and comprehensive. Your incorporating and connecting his thought with the Frankfurt school was also excellent. The Frankfurt attempt to fuse Freud and Marx was attacked by fellow member, Erik Fromm in his "The Crisis in Psychoanalysis." In a ferociously worded critique he accuses them of illegitimately revising Freud's writings to fit their ideological bent and make it compatible with critical theory to promoting the Marxist agenda. The greatest vitriol was reserved for Herbert Marcuse. But there was one part of your discussion which I would like to pursue that I might have misunderstood regarding the Marxist take on antithesis (Aufhebung). You were spot on regarding Hegel's notion as jettisoning what was to be considered information that was passé in the light of new understanding or cognitive development while maintaining that which was considered still relevant. As you pointed out, the eventual fusing of the information maintained and the new was brought together into a synthesis through the process of sublation. But, the Marxist seemed to eventually reject any notion of antithesis as Aufhebung and substituted the idea of "negation." All the past was seen to be useless and a pernicious vestige of all that needed to be rooted out and destroyed. Thus, the new "Man," whatever that was. Thus, the Red Guard were told to destroy all China's classic works of art, literature and anything relating to the historical past. The Chinese were destituting themselves of their entire cultural-historical identity. The point was absolutely not sublation but obliteration. Thus, there was no synthesis. They, the Lumpenproletariate, were to begin obediently at point zero and build the new order under the instructions of the elite who never had any idea of what they were doing. Thus, Pol Pot murdered professors, artists, professionals, dancers of Cambodia's classical ballet, musicians, etc. They were to return to and be a purely utopian, agrarian society. Of course, negation failed miserably, but there was the near total destruction of the genetic, cultural identity of peoples. We're seeing the attempt to do this now in the West. There is no correcting this Marxist tendency to mindlessly self-destruct; it's inherent to the very warp and woof of Marxist thought and methodology - perhaps a confirmation of the tendency toward thanatos which haunted Freud in his later years. Ironically, one of the very earliest of the Greek philosophers, Parmenedes of Elea, saw the contradiction: "Something only comes from something; something cannot come from nothing; nothing comes from nothing." There's the answer to Marxist negation in three concise sentences from ancient metaphysics. It is always destined to fail, and untoward numbers of brutally controlled human beings are bound to suffer and even perish in the senselessness.
"Something only comes from something; something cannot come from nothing; nothing comes from nothing." has nothing to do with Marxism or marxism-leninism
@@josephh8837 You're right. I was not saying it came from Marxism. I was using it to consider the difference and consequence of exchanging Hegel's antithesis with the Marxian/Marcusian negation or total obliteration of the past. Nothing is left for the process of sublation to acheive synthesis and therefore obviates the movement toward sythesis - as understood by Hegel. In science one can use Newton and his math or Einstein and his math to understand or determine gravity; both are valid and both are still used. I decided to use Parmenedes to critique the flaw in Marxist negation and why it consistently fails - and it has. Metaphysics of Parmenedes (Aristotle and Aquinas) is one valid way to look at it. it works for me.
The parallel with the Chinese Cultural Revolution in terms of Hun-privilege is not something I've heard James talk about before and I think it is something he should mention more of. There is often the belief that American history is unique in terms of racial strife. Having concrete historical examples of very obvious parallels can really help make this esoteric and academic subject matter much more visceral and relatable. Part of the major obstacle in discussing CRT amongst regular people is articulating exactly why and how it is ultimately leading to an evil outcome. On it's surface it appears empathetic to suffering. Underneath it is driven by resentment and entitlement.
CRT does not look like anything to me except blatant racist bs. I still just do not get how any of this crap even got much attention at all. It should be laughed off as plain garbage. MLK said what was needed to say, and that was quite good enough for me.
@@LS-td3no It satisfies an emotional need. It sounds “right enough” and is driven more by the felt sense that something is wrong. That’s why it’s more like religion. It’s called “theory”, but it’s more like a belief system.
Han not Hun. But as a Chinese who care about Modern History, I'd like to point out that Maoism didn't process concept of "Han-privilege", the "privileges" they decried were more orient toward class and old tradition (they do critique "Han Chauvinism" though, but CCP core leadership were still overwhelmingly Han-Chinese). Nowadays, Xi is pressuring Han-Chinese Ultra-Nationalist polices.
Yeah, I used to be on the side of the left and wondered what had become of the class struggle and Linsey has answered it here. I believe that ancient cultures were aware of social cycles. Osirus with his all seeing eye grew complacent and didn't see the betrayal by Seth (conflict) until horus seized the all seeing eye and became Osiris. Ghia, Orandus, Chronus and the Titans imprisoned behind the Tardis gates by Zeus and the Olympiadens. It's change. Whoever seizes the cycle at the time will prevail. The economics class cycle has been 40 years of neo liberalism, corporate free market, now the pendulum swings back to government and an economic reset called MMT.
I known a "theoritically" communist ideologist but not only enjoying fully the social benefits of a free democratic system also live partly from the income of the "oldest profession" of his partner. 🤷♀️😄🤣
If at any point cultural marxism gets stopped, you'll be one of the most important persons of our new century, I'm so glad to be able to listen to you through these mediums.
@@lavrentievv I do not think that is true. People change things by having courage. We can grow more courage, and help people, those who are 'fighting' against this nonsense.
It's an interesting point, although I believe it points the other way. Thinkers need a sabbatical. Our cultural treadmill ensures that very few of us have time to think and write.
It's a pity y:all think this way. Many of the greatest ethical leaders wrote in prison. Do you support the moral authority of the state, ie censorship?
@Veg Ahimsa were they in prison because of their thoughts? In that case a dose of radical realism might have gotten their thoughts aligned with real life. Who wrote while in prison and resulted in a better moral framework that has actually bettered mankind? So actually I’m arguing against state censorship. Marx would have been much better employed if he had been forced to earn his own keep rather than leaching off his wife’s family and his friends. He wasn’t imprisoned but he wasn’t gainfully employed either.
Nearly every political prisoner is accused of wrong thought. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Vaclav Havel, Aung San Suu Kyil ... Of course there are less savory characters who wrote while imprisoned.
@@roguegenesis7020 too many to mention here :) one very obvious is the use of guilt to make dissenters conform. If you disagree it is because you are a horrible person, an enemy of people. Creation of new completely different values in a very short period of time, using visual, art propaganda,. Engaging minorities and previously marginalized groups. Women and poor workers were such groups in the 20s and 30s Soviet Union.
"The ignorance, prejudice, and groupthink of an educated elite are still ignorance, prejudice, and groupthink - and for those with 1% of the knowledge in society to be guiding or controlling those with the other 99% is as perilous as it is absurd." 🤓
@@emilyk.5664 I was the first kid in my high school with high honors taking all AP classes to drop out and forge my own path in life (I couldn't take the authoritarianism and bullshit anymore, and was specifically attacked by some teachers who were jealous of me). I know these types well. Most of them are simply good at rote memorization and following the rules. I was literally the only one who questioned the bureaucracy and herd mentality in dress, social norms, and ideology. The nerds who where exceptionally good at math were pretty much always socially clueless. These people are now running society, with their sense of superiority and their narrow-mindedness.
@@solitudessilentgroove the nerds who were good at math (and physics) include James Lindsay. These subjects are much more rigorously focused than the more socially minded curricula. Lindsay has the mental rigor that is missing from most people's minds, particularly leftists. What he is doing is undogmatizing the weak thinking that denies reality.
@@solitudessilentgroove I had a 4.0 GPA in pre-med as a college sophomore when I dropped out. I had stayed with it, believing the false promises of academic integrity, until it stopped being believable. I should have majored in physics, which I loved, but the money is in medicine.
James Lindsay, you are a Treasure. PLEASE, continue to share your intellect. My family fled CZ in '68. This is the most articulate depiction of. What me family described living under Soviet Communism Bravo!
Everything is gonna shake down in the next 10 years. Everything should be pretty ok coming out of the 20's. The 30's will be the sane people picking up the pieces...
2 years after this podcast was published, I saw a statistic from I don't know where, that the number of families that homeschool has increased 30% over the last couple years. I don't know how accurate that is, but it is encouraging.
@@mattiarubio3240 Children don't have to isolated if they've being home schooled. Home schoolers have set up networks so their kids can interact with one another....sports and field trips as an example. It's not like during Covid, where they weren't allowed to go to school, go to playgrounds (although crime and drug addicts are preventing that, too) or even visit with one another. They can go on trips to the beaches, organise camping trips and do other things that kids would love to do. How do you think we did it, growing up in the country, our nearest neighbours over half a mile away. I had a great childhood, wouldn't change it for the world. Better to home school than to have your kids indoctrinated into becoming good little communists. That's the modern pedagogy and it's one of the most destructive forces in our history.
@@JackHaveman52 have it your way I guess. i went trough the public school system and to be honest i didn't experience any particular indoctrination, not at the high school level at least. I can kind of see where you are coming from with college since most college teachers are more progressive but if we really want to tell the full story it's also true "intellectuals" in general are mostly left wingers, so I wouldn't say it's a systematic indoctrination more so a predominant way of thinking for people that are well read. Also not exposing your kids to a certain ideology because you don't like it is not only wrong but detrimental to them developing critical thinking later on. A good parent should explain to their kids many different points of view and let them decide.
@mattiarubio3240 I started homeschooling in 2012 because our local school listed airy-fairy unmeasurable goals ("community," "collaborative thinking") instead of curriculum (what the children would be taught during the year & expected to know), and spent far more effort listing detailed behavioral rules. (How the kids would walk in the hallway. How they would walk to lunch. How they would sit down at lunch. How they would eat their lunch. Etc.) I wasn't sure I'd be able to keep it up forever, but my husband chose to support me in it, and he said we could always re-evaluate to see if it was working for us all. (Plus, we couldn't afford a better school district, nor a private school.) I read a lot, and my purpose in getting a degree in History (graduated in 2012!) was to learn how to learn, so I could continue educating myself once I had kids to raise. (Yes, the college overlapped with having children.) Anyway: I started homeschooling because the local school was dreadful. Then I read "The Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto (it is also available free online per the author's choice). That book convinced me to avoid sending my kids to an institutional school if at all possible. (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt provides attitional valuable information in "the deliberate dumbing down of america," which she has likewise made available for free.) We've experienced nearly every significant life event typically listed as major life stressors, since we started homeschooling in 2012. Homeschooling has provided them a more consistent education than they would have gotten in a traditional school during our many major life challenges. I keep abreast of trends and current events in education at all levels, and I was aware of some of the ideological insanity developing as my children have grown, but I was not aware of the extent of the rot until parents began recording what teachers were presenting during online distance learning. By that point in 2020, my eldest kids were old enough to listen to such current events, and they have stopped suggesting "maybe I can go to high school?" The schools now are not what they were in the '80s and '90s. They aren't even what they were in the early 2010s - and that was already heavily engaged in climate zealotry, anti-traditionalism, anti-Americanism, and opposition to parental authority and family unity. It's far more Marxist now, with the sort of intense hatred for "backwards" culture and ideas that the Indian school administrators held for the people they believed they were "saving." Homeschooling during Covid was very isolating and abnormal. We couldn't attend library activities as we usually had. We couldn't attend church activities as usual. We couldn't visit parks, museums, or heritage sites, as they were all closed. We couldn't even go to a McD's playplace for the kids to run and play and socialize (a necessity during a Northern winter, when it is often too cold & windy to play outside, and which lasts 5-6 months). Homeschoolers are not antisocial wrecks. They often are socialized in age-mixed groups (not just of children, but around adults of many ages in their community). As Peter Gray notes in "Free To Learn," this sort of age integration is widespread in aboriginal cultures, and was far more common before Dewey introduced the Prussian model to America in the late 19th Century. Homeschoolers don't get everything right, but they are usually able to get more right - and more quickly - than any public or private institution can.
Third time listening to this. My 21 year old son has been reading The Communist Manifesto, and thinks it’s full of great ideas. I’m trying to really digest this information to be able to have good discussions with him. So thank you for doing this.
you're gonna have to engage in the actual material itself and Marx's other works the communist manifesto which was a pamphlet for workers. Listening to these "sophisticated "; fascists talk about Marxists aint gonna cut it when talking to your son who might be sincerely trying to change this capitalist terror state we live in and the fascism the republicans and democrats are bringing
@frodo roo Why don't you post a link to the page you found within the archive? I'm on the archive now and I'm not seeing it throughout their About pages, been checking several months from each year through 2014 to 2019.
@@PapaSmurf337 I just checked the link to the achive of the original BLM page which I had saved awhile ago, and the link now leads to just an Error Page Not Found. 😒 That may be why you're not finding it anywhere. If you do end up finding it somehow, send me a link please.
Lol at Jordan Peterson. Check out his last 2 sit downs he took part in with Douglas Murray and Gaad and listen to him talk about the 2020 election. Then look at what you wrote about him understanding what's embedded in our frameworks and operating systems. The guy is as indoctrinated as the people he speaks about.
@@omalone1169 demoralizin,, destabilization and normalization. Dumbing down the education system, even give specific examples like the instructors sexual preference . It's best to do a TH-cam search if Yuri bezmenov there might br some. Worse case a Google search identity and preferen were examples he gave, this was in 1983 so he gave a 30 year warning, back then it was crazy talk to the majority. Looking at what we have seen he was 💯 spot on. Myron Fagan was another, he was best known for exposing the red stars of Hollywood, even fought against Marxist movements. He was asked to write a pro America play in the 40s or 50s and struggled get it into public theater. No one wanted to show it, no one wanted to act in it. While pro communist plays didn't have the same problem.
I'm hoping this video becomes notable for marking a great reversal in the encroaching Marxist trends, and not simply a sad harbinger of the when things got especially worse...
@@philiphales2109 I have a very liberal set of in-laws. They're well educated, good people, but they deeply belive critical race theory and brush off any of my logical arguments about its very real shortcomings. This lecture was terrifying to me on so many levels. I don't understand why more people aren't concerned, especially amongst the rich and powerful.
@@saintjst7 by adopting the virtue signaling they feel it will allow them to keep their class position and obscure their "priveledge" but they are never safe by ingratiating themselves to the revolution. It always comes for its own.
Think about how compartmentalized modern science has become. What would some guy who spent 20 yrs studying mosquitoes know about culture, society, or the human condition? Today's scholar is the furthest thing away from the romanticized Renaissance Man who sought to learn the arts and Engineering to balance mind and soul. Most of them are sheltered nerds preoccupied with an extremely narrow area of knowledge. Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just that no one should be looking to these people for advice on how society should be structured. Without a Renaissance Man approach to knowledge, many of these “experts” succumb to social engineering tactics like peer pressure, groupthink, and other irrational paradigms because they prefer to look “intelligent and approved” rather than be intelligent and be wise.
I see both sides. I’m a physics student at a research university, which differs from a liberal arts university in that the emphasis is rather myopically focused on the field of interest of the student, as opposed to a well-rounded education about broader society. Many of my peers kind of thumb their noses at liberal arts schools, thinking them impractical. It’s true that people here (mostly engineers and scientists) do have an easier time finding jobs right out of college in their field, even compared to scientists and engineers at liberal arts colleges. My view is that for what I’m paying, I do want a specialized education in physics. I started taking physics classes my first quarter here, and now my curriculum is 100% physics and math classes (which is fine with me). However, like you said, I do see great value in the Renaissance man (or Renaissance woman, in my case!) and therefore I take time out of school (which is better anyways, taking any classes on matters of society in college these days is extremely skewed and will raise my cortisol levels lol) to educate myself on classical history, politics and political theory, culture, and philosophy. If more students can find that balance, I think they can maximize their learning in their field as well as expand their education themselves to other fields to become both more well-rounded humans and high-achieving in their specialized field. Idk, I think about different pedagogical approaches to higher education often, so I thought I’d weigh in.
@@mcgheebentle1958 Exactly and I agree. The arts are for the heart while the hard sciences are the mind. A rotten heart produces perverted science, a good heart produces the Science of Renaissance, respecting those who came before you yet seeing off ahead on the shoulders of those giants we all stand on
@@mcgheebentle1958 It's interesting how you mention all subjects except for classical music. To be sure, without an audience, the musicians will also disappear. Perhaps it will take longer to fade away in India, but it is fading.
The Great Cultural Revolution, yes. I think he may mean the initial cultural revolution before the communists rose to power, as well as various further changes throughout their rule, where the culture was subverted in the favour of socialism and communism. This is the kind of cultural revolution that Gramsci means - a shift in the culture
The best way to understand Marxism is to begin with Marx background. Marx, his wife Jenna and her half brother Ferdinand were childhood playmates, and Marx and Jenna childhood sweethearts. Marx became the leader of the Communist Party(according to the capitalist owned MSM of the time), Ferdinand became the Prussian Minister of the Interior, in charge of Prussia's Prison system and Secret Police. Ferdinand was responsible for arresting anyone who opposed the ruling Prussian Aristocracy. Try to imagine his conversations with Karl at family gatherings. The Russian Bolshevik revolution succeeded because it was bought and paid for by Wall St. Nothing happens without money, and that includes wars and revolutions. Culture has nothing to do with it, Woke ideology is bought and paid for, it would never happen if Wall St. wasn't demanding it. Think Blackwater, Vanguard, ESG funding.
For the casual interested comment reader: One of the most important things we can do is provide alternative scientific explanations to these "para logics". I've seen it work in my University, the pretended love for science in the marxist, not pretended in many of them, gives us a door into rationality. I've developed a way to strike relativism in casual-intelectual conversations by explaining how emotions are actually an Object, they are not subjective and they should be studies by science. By providing rational explanations you can destroy buildings of theories of their ideology, I've seen PSYCHOANALYSIS, in the most leftist University of Argentina, get dismantled by their own lefties. Behaviorism and cognitivism were heavily delayed in Argentina, but when the obvious fails of psychoanalysis became too explicit to be ignored, the marxist with thirst of real science began to destroy the "hegemonic psychoanalysis". When that started to happen of course Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida and Castoriadis, began to be more and more prominent. Interesting is as well that my marxist-scientist friends managed to be more on the center thanks to behaviorism, but with feminism and racism and this "trump era", they came back to their roots, advocating for the same theories they once fought against. When you bring this up, if you provide scientific explanations to "systemic racism" or "the patriarchy", it sometimes works. We need to provide our own sett of explanations to the culture, we have science on our side, but we need to get systematic and organized. Just like peterson destroyed the idea of the genders being "equal", we need to start providing a set of rules which show how wrong this stuff is. This is evil in the end because it's untrue. Anyway just a grain of sand.
I never went to a university. I pour concrete and do construction for a living. I spent my whole life learning to use my hands. I know that I am of average intelligence at best. I know this because I can barely follow what you wrote and what James is talking about. Nothing against you or James I am just dumb. But what I think you and James are describing is a new culture being created that I would now how to work in let alone live. I hope you keep posting and writing so that other fellas like my self can get more context to what is going on. Take care and have a good day
@@jacobmiller3675 It's hard to know exactly what's happening. This BS looks complicated but it isn't, it's really a word play, they use complicated words, and then you are kind of forced to use their language, if you don't they'll disregard you as dumb, and won't listen to you. It may look like a irrational strategy, but it really works in the end. Once you get some concepts, it's always the same
the working class is but a pawn, actually detested and cast aside when no longer useful. the woke revolution seems to be bypassing them altogether this time around.
Hey James, thank you for what you do. I was fired from a Christian fellowship for speaking out against the critical theories within it. This talk really vindicated my actions, thank you
👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 sadly, many Christians are ignorant and don’t see critical race theory and Marxism is incompatible with religion and embracing it will ultimately extinct religion replacing it with the religion of the state.
@@ashdav9980 these things are cyclical in human history and they usually get ugly. Christianity will survive but the fools that follow this ideology have dramatically less children so one or two generations they will be edited out of the gene pool.
When I first heard this a couple of years ago, it was a special insight to understanding how this Lenin-inspired Maoism ‘with Western characteristics’ has now engulfed liberal democratic societies around the world. I listened to it again last night and am astonished at how profound his insight really is. It’s from a podcast originally made in January 2021 and of course he has made similar videos and podcasts since then. However, this one stands out in connecting all the major players and their various theories, all with the same aim of subverting society towards an outcome not dissimilar to what happened in communist societies in the last century. Often, there is nothing more compelling than hearing a former left-wing advocate like James Lindsay ‘seeing the light’ and turning his back on what he once believed in. And it was a belief, not unlike a religion or even a cult which seeks world dominance in its outreach. Another compelling aspect to this podcast is that you can tell he’s not using notes or reading from a script. This is straight out of his head and all the more remarkable in his ability to connect the dots. It’s required listening for anyone who wishes to understand more deeply how a new kind of evil has been festering for decades in our universities but now coming to light and being championed and embraced by big state, big media and big business. Anyone looking to challenge any aspect of this nonsensical wokery will get cancelled and ostracised from both their workplace and society in general. No different to how religions excommunicate apostates in past days. Again, we may not see it fully manifest in our lifetime but our children and grandchildren will, and that should wake everyone up to the ‘woke’. The counter-revolution needs to start with this podcast before showing people a better way and solution that comes from the traditions of our ancestors and from the unconditional parental love of the Divine, and all that implies.
Looking forward to finishing this tomorrow. I didn’t get more than 3 minutes in, but I felt the need to post two quotes that stuck out to me when I researched Gramsci. I’m glad to see other people are aware of cultural Marxism and who better to expose them than Mr. Lindsey... "The civilized world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2000 years. Any country grounded in Judeo-Christian values cannot be overthrown until those roots are cut. But to cut the roots - to change culture - a long march through the institutions is necessary. Only then will power fall into our laps like a ripened fruit" - Antonia Gramsci “In the new order, socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media. By transforming the consciousness of society.” Antonio Gramsci
12:54 -13:04 Gyorgy Lukacs's work was one of the main influences on the Frankfurt School but he wasn't its founder. It was founded by the bourgeois grain merchant's son Felix Weil. Lukacs later criticised the Frankfurt School as occupying the "Grand Hotel Abyss", in that its theory offers a critique of the modern world that denies any potential remedy to its ills through practical action.
Gramsci has also been appropriated to the dissident Right as a response to the Great Replacement. So what did Mussolini think of Karl Marx? During this period Mussolini considered himself an "authoritarian communist" and a Marxist and he described Karl Marx as "the greatest of all theorists of socialism." . Also the New Right has appropriated the interregnum which is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order.
It’s nice to hear an educated philosopher who is well read talk about all of these different philosophers and movements and events in history that became the foundation for things that are happening today
James I so appreciate the concise brilliance of your astute observations. Very important thinker and voice at the moment. Please keep up the good fight. .
My question too! Here is my plan of action: My denomination is toying with these ideas - terms like BLM and "Social Justice" are being bandied about freely. My aim is to get the context clear in my mind. This channel is a very rich source - James L has the ideas clear. I listen often to this podcast as well as his reading of "Repressive Tolerance". I also listen to Voddie Baucham ("you keep using the term - but it doesn't mean what you think it means"). And I am starting to challenge people. Nobody wants to hear this - but I am going to just keep going. The other alternative is to watch our culture being led into the blender I believe
The top modern intellectual, Kant, was a nihilist who split mind from reality. He said, "I have denied knowledge therefore, in order to make room for faith." His ethics is an explicit duty to sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice, without values.
Now, it makes sense and made me realize that when I was studying in the Philippines, students from well to do families often are the ones talking about oppression and are the ones recruiting students from working class families. These newly recruited poor working class students were often in the front lines of demonstrations, being used as cannon fodder. You’ll see these poor students end up dead, assassinated or “salvaged” by the military or the police. Their parents struggled so hard, toiling in farms just to give their children education and some bourgeois bastard indoctrinated their children for an ideal that cannot be realized while these bourgeois students carry on with their good life or they go to the mountains hiding with the rebels and being treated as some supreme leader living in lands that their family owns. Another story I have is when I went to art school (also in the Philippines). The rich students are the ones who are so against traditional media, I.e. painting, and looks down on the students who are painters. The rich, mostly, well informed students are often preaching about “decolonizing” art and that painting is a medium that upholds white supremacist, capitalistic values (painting is the most accessible medium and most practical for poor students since it can land them jobs making murals and city remodeling projects). The wealthy students are the ones who are not in need of money or jobs outside of the art market so their work are more experimental and avant-garde copied from “white supremacist, capitalistic, western art magazines.” What irony...
Interesting podcast. Having just finished "A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution" by Figes it was uncanny how many boxes were ticked off with regard to what's happening now.
It seems to me that no one has studied the works of Karl Popper and F. Hayek seriously these days. Their works already provide lots of facts and arguments about why we should be anti- Marxism.
Consider where the madness of "woke" culture thrives .... the city. When people live in cities they are surrounded by strangers in an artificial habitat that is totally dependent on others to grow their food, provide their water, generate their power, mine their minerals, transport their goods, police their streets, dispense their medicines, et. etc. The city fragments and divides people from one another and even from themselves. There is no family, no community, no culture that can survive the inevitable conflict of being divided against itself. For 99.9% of our species time on this planet, we lived in small kin-related bands (extended families) of less than ~ 25 people. Nearly all of our distant ancestors spoke the same language, practiced the same customs and held the same traditions within a sharing and trading economy region-by-region. Generally, bands were governed by trusted elders with age, gender and ability being the primary cultural distinctions between members. When bands convened throughout the year they formed a tribe. Our evolved nature is to be surrounded by kin and kindred companions living mostly outdoors within a habitat that provides our water, food and the raw materials we need to fashion tools, craft utensils and create art. The city works exactly in the opposite way. What is whole the city divides. What is wild the city domesticates. What is abundant the city makes scarce. What is free the city imprisons. Mostly, urbanites are insane but they do not realize they are crazy because they are surrounded by people just as disconnected and deranged as themselves. The craziest of the crazy are called "woke".
This index of timestamps is a work in progress. Constructive feedback is encouraged. 00:20 - Introducing Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist. 01:45 - A Linguistically skilled misfit who became a communist; what a shock! 02:51 - “Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity.” Gramsci should be credited as the developer of Cultural Marxism, and the idea of “Cultural Hegemony” was his idea. 04:15 - Gramsci’s “Five Pillars” of culture that would have to be dismantled: Religion, Family, Education, Media, and Law. 06:38 - We are going through a Chinese-style cultural revolution 08:53 - Gramsci was enamored with Lenin, Leninism, and believed that a Leninist approach would be needed. Leninism: The idea that the proletariat will not wake up on their own, and must be forcefully shepherded by the elites, where the elites appoint themselves as the revolutionary leaders. 12:18 - Gramsci is the link between Lenin and Black Lives Matter. 13:48 - Gramsci: Culture is to blame for the absence of socialist revolutions in the West. For Gramsci, “Culture = Nothing more than bourgeoisie values” (a rather clumsy and reductionist analysis on Gramsci’s part.) 15:23 - Gramsci's breaking down of culture becomes the most important project. Once the cultural revolution has demoralized the people, then the party steps in. 18:51 - Gramsci understood that you must invade religion and churches; to dismantle the majority culture. Lenin = Leninism 1.0, Stalin = Leninism 2.0, Mao = Leninism 3.0, Woke = Leninism 4.0. Woke has entered the Southern Baptist convention, as well as Catholicism and Buddhism. 21:35 - Religions create an ideal delivery mechanism and provide a conducive population for ideological reprogramming. 23:42 - Gramsci understood that the family, primary transmission mechanism of culture, must be demolished. If you destroy the family? People have no one to fall back on except the state. Gramsci understood that the media must be controlled and used to deconstruct the culture. Law has also been infiltrated and subverted. 26:17 - Sometime in the 1930s, communists realized that America’s weakness was race, and that if you put pressure on racial divides, the US would become more vulnerable. Kimberle Crenshaw and intersectionality takes this to the next level. 28:04 - Critical theory demands that ALL problems be examined, all together, at the same time. 29:57 - Gramsci was a huge believer that the working class must be shepherded into a class consciousness, and that education was the key. 31:45 - The modern slang term for “Critical Consciousness”: “Woke,” a reinvention of the cultural Marxist’s “Class consciousness.” You must indoctrinate and reprogram, in cult fashion, the working class, in order to create “working-class intellectuals.” 34:54 - Education is the main place this will happen. Teacher universities -> Universities -> K-12 35:56 - The word “Utopia” means NOWHERE; “NOT A PLACE.” 37:11 - The origins of Identity Politics: the Black Feminist collective. Identity Marxism = Identity politics. If they say “this is Civil Rights,” they are lying. They picked up the same tools used by Mao. Han Privilege / White privilege, the 4 Olds / Gramsci’s five pillars. 39:15 - Summary thus far: Gramsci has this idea that, the reason Marxist revolutions aren’t happening is because of what he calls “cultural hegemony.” This hegemony behaves as a force field to Marxist revolutions, and must be torn down with force and intent. In order to collapse this hegemony, five institutions must be commandeered and torn down: Religion, Family, Education, media, and Law. You must then create a “counter-hegemony.” The politics of grievance is used to manipulate oppressed groups. Hitler used this method, Lenin used it, Mao used it. 42:34 - The political society is too difficult to assail if the cultural society is intact. Destroy the culture in order to regulate it. 44:21 - This is a “Cultural Civil War,” if not a “Cultural World War.” Lenin = Leninism 1.0, Stalin = Leninism 2.0, Mao = Leninism 3.0, Woke = Leninism 4.0, and Gramsci is the road map for how this works. 47:15 - Gramsci was an “anti-idealist.” 49:12 - Gramsci believed that action is required, becoming activists, doing cultural revolution. “If you don’t make it work, it won’t work.” 51:20 - Thanks to his strict historicism (the belief that history is on an inevitable trajectory towards becoming self-aware and awakening as some kind of deity), Gramsci did not believe in an objective reality outside of human history. 53:34 - We're no longer concerned with what's true, but now concerned only with “reasonable conditions for life, by our own standards.” 2+2=5 54:54 - This is a =RELIGION=, and Gramsci was a THEOLOGIAN.
Excellent contribution to a much needed conversation. Imagine people listening to a series of discussions between James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, Glenn Loury, James McWhorter, and Eric Weinstein. What a service that would be to our country.
In an essay recently, Lindsay says no one on the right is discussing these topics. No intelligent or intellectual conversations are taking place on the right about the issue of CRT. Well, Michael Walsh wrote The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and its sequel The Fiery Angel in 2015 & 2016. These are both excellent, easy to read books and anyone with an interest in Critical Theory and it’s affects on society should read them.
I’ve been looking for an in depth study/overview of the roots of cultural Marxism and clearly I found it. This video was Clear, succinct and to the point. It was an easy choice to “sub”.
This is indeed the thing we're up against. James, I've followed (and admired) you for some years and I have to say that both fear and fatigue can be heard in your voice.
Indeed. It’s because these ideas aren’t just crazy or annoying; they have produced concrete events historically. And they weren’t fun or inconsequential. The fact that these ideas are so naively embraced these days is terrifying. It’s gonna lead to nothing good.
It's from the French abstrus or its source, Latin abstrūsus (“hidden, concealed”), the perfect passive participle of abstrūdō (“conceal, to push away”), itself from ab, abs (“away”) + trūdō (“thrust, push”). Also cognate with the German abstrus.
@@andyjarman4958 - Yeah, I found all that when I looked it up. I didn’t know for certain it was a real word. I thought maybe it was a typo. Now that I know it is indeed a word, I’m really curious to know how the original commenter above came across that word to incorporate it into their vocabulary.
Man you dropped a bomb on me. You put out so much condensed information that this is the third time I listen to it to unpack it all. Excellent presentation.
What a hero. The man who figured out how to destroy any society because only utopia (Nowhere) will do. I wish there was a statue of Gramsci we could tear down.
If you're in the USA, do it! I used to be against it as I thought kids should grow up interacting and socializing with the kids they will be working with as adults. However, I didn't realize WTF was going on in our schools. So, now I'm all for it!
Thanks. That is helpful. I purchased used copies of the prison notebooks and his letters. I’m currently reading The Gulag Archipelago, but I skimmed some of the letters when I received it. An interesting quote abut one of the Fascist prisons, “My impressions of Utica are favorable in every sense.” He goes on to request various books and amenities and describes enjoying taking walks to occupy himself. When I think of the stark contrast of Gramsci’s imprisonment to what Solzhenitsyn describes, it’s obvious that although the Fascists were obviously horrible, the communists made them look only weakly horrible by comparison. It’s unbelievable that America and most of the West are blindly walking into the maw. Thanks for at least trying to open peoples eyes.
At one point James talks about how something approximating wokeness was percolating through Chinese society in the decades leading up to mao and the cultural revolution. Does anyone know of any good books on this topic.
I can't think of the specific book(s) but there are good histories on China and how the communists were able to exploit the chaos created by the Japanese invasion. FDR's people regarded any allies fighting the Axis as friends and did nothing to deter communists.
This is the most important video on the internet today. -first weaken a culture, then over throw the power structure to benefit the elite. It’s that simple, everything else falls under this umbrella .
This is one of the clearest presentations on Gramsci and how his invidious revamping and jumpstarting Marxism has caused our present woes. It required some concentration to stay with it for the whole hour, but it was one hour well spent. You did a really good job explaining things. Thank you.
I’m very happen to see Prof Lindsay bringing together knowledge on Gramsci, the Frankfurtians, and Paulo Freire. . I’d recommend the works of Olavo de Carvalho, brazilian philosopher who’s been the lone voice denouncing all this in Brazil for nearly 40 years (he passed away recently, after decades living in the US). . Please, keep it up, Professor!!! Your work, together with Prof Pluckrose’s and Prof Boghossian’s, is Awesome and Vital!
I'm a teacher in Canada, currently completing my masters in Literacy. This Critical Theory insanity is all over higher level teacher education. There are a lot of references in my readings to "Critical Literacy" and Paulo Freire, as well as this notion of discourses and power. Its frightening that its taught to teachers, but far more disturbing is that no one in the group ever bats an eye at any of this Marxist Theory. I have the feeling that I'm seen as someone who is just rocking the boat because to my knowledge I'm the only person who ever expresses a word of criticism.....fortunately I don't particularly care.
I know that this is 10 months later. but just want to congratulate your courage. I just finished an online Library Technician course and one of the Instructors made her assignments kind of woke. There was no real class time for me to speak up, but I did my best to clearly subvert the assignments as much as possible (creating a reading list about racism and not including books that were about African Americans being discriminated against), she didn’t like it, but she couldn’t fail me. The other class members were either totally oblivious or had buy-in, sadly.
@@justaminute3111 It’s hard I know. No, they can’t fail you, but it not going to win you any friends,…not like I’m interested in what people who push critical theory think of me. Always glad to hear that others in Universities are taking a stance against this madness, don’t let them cow you.
Also, what were they doing with pop culture? I am trying to be a children's/young adult genre novelist, and thank God I found this! What are they doing to entertainment, and are they targeting children?
If you haven't already seen it, listen to The Fourth Age for a video called "Who is Sana Amanat: A portrait of the power behind 'progressive' comic industry" She ruined comic books with this bullshit.
Two more videos from The Fourth Age is "Why SJW writers have ruined your favorite hero" "Discarding the Heroic Ideal" Which is about SJWs destroying the idea of the heroism.
I find most of what you're saying very true and valuable. You're the first person I've come across to analyze this well. It's a good counterargument to the accusation from the left that cultural Marxism is a conspiracy theory. Really good work in that regard. Some of your thinking concerns me though. That's because I spent most of my life steeped in the deeply conservative culture of rural evangelical America. When you talk about the Southern Baptist church and Trump not truly renouncing this stuff it makes me nervous about your puritanical standards, the same kind of absolute perfectionistic standards of purity that cancel culture demands. To my mind this all stems from the same place of amygdala-driven cognitive errors that Jonathan Haidt has outlined in the Righteous Mind and the Coddling of the American Mind. I grew up with this logic so I know it when I hear it on the right, which has caused me to be rather baffled now how the left has taken on the mantle of moral perfectionism. I only say this because I find so much value in your research and analysis and I don't want it to be ruined by the same kind of ideological puritanism that drives the left these days. Or at any rate, I'm probably the one person here who will take what you're saying with a grain of salt because of where you're likely to remain coming from in regards to ideological purity. The world is a deeply nuanced place and requires critical thinking in all directions. Thanks for the good work.
Interesting parallels In undergrad in the 1980's, while I was with a friend in the union, his classmate, from Somalia (and obviously a black man), was visibly angry. The Arab students were talking out loud in Arabic about how it was important to foment unrest in the black man to facilitate the undermining of American society. They didn't realize that he could understand Arabic and he was angry that they were talking about blatantly using the black man for their nefarious schemes. that is why the Marxist have no problem with radical Islam (NOW that is): the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The ugly truth about the hideous character of Karl Marx - in his own words. “Dear Karl...“ Father to son, Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx on November 18, 1835: _"Dear Karl! More than three weeks have passed since you left and there is no trace of you! You know your mother and her anxiety, and yet this total negligence! Unfortunately, this confirms to me only too much the opinion, which I hold despite your many good qualities, that egoism is predominant in your heart.“_ Two years later, on December 9, 1837: _“As if we were made from gold, the Son demands in one year almost 700 thalers against all agreements, against all customs, while the richest people do not even spend 500."_ But this was not enough, because shortly afterwards, on 2/10/1838, the father was at the end of his life and his business: _“I don't deny that I sometimes reproach myself for being too weak to keep you on the reins. So we are now in the fourth month of the judicial year, and you have already drawn 280 thalers. I haven't earned that much this winter... I am exhausted, dear Karl, and must close down.“_ Shortly thereafter the father died. Marx himself did not for one second think about going to work but regarded the inheritance as “his fortune“, as he explained to an acquaintance in 1843: _“As I wrote to you once before, I have fallen apart with my family and, as long as my mother lives, I have no right to my fortune.“_ Because he then lived at Friedrich Engel's expense, in 1848 he wrote to Engels: _“Your old man is a bastard to whom we'll write a nasty letter.“_ and _“I've devised a surefire plan to squeeze money out of your old man, since we don't have any now.“_ Engels (not exactly a model of decency either) to Marx in 1851: _“Since my scheme with my old man has succeeded completely, at least until now, I can definitely settle down here. The development of the story with my old man and the new plot I had to start, first, to prolong my indispensability here, and second, to protect myself from excess work in the trading house, I will explain orally later. Easter is in 6 weeks anyway, and the matter is awkward. That much is certain, that my old man should pay me in cash for all this, especially after he's been here and I've got him even more trapped.“_ Then Marx in 1852 to Engels: _“The only good news we have received from my sister-in-law is the news of the illness of my wife's indestructible uncle. If that old bastard dies now, I'm out of the woods.“_ Engels wishes him well: _“Congratulations on the news of the old Brunsvik inheritance-preventor's illness. I hope that the catastrophe will finally strike.“_ The “old bastard" complied and died right away and Marx wrote jubilantly about how much money they now got. Hooray. “A very happy event“. Alas, the inheritance didn't last long. Marx to Engels 1861: _“I squeezed 160 pounds from my uncle, so we could pay off most of our debts. My mother, who has no money to speak of, but who is fast approaching dissolution, destroyed some old debt certificates I had issued to her.“_ But that didn't last for long either. Engels to Marx 1862: _“If we don't invent the art of shitting gold, you'll hardly be able to do anything but beat something out of your relatives in one way or another.“_ And so it happened that the lazy scam-artists and sociopaths Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels became the patron saints of those who reject to do their own work while living off the blackmailing of their fellow citizens. Actually, they made a whole theory and ideology out of their scam of living without work by stealing from other people the fruits of their labor. In the end, they didn’t invent the art of shitting gold, but hey, close enough! It‘s no coincidence that this scam is so attractive to likeminded character trash. [Quotes taken from Björn Akstinat and Simon Akstinat «Marx & Engels intimately»] After the death of Marx, Engels inherited all his written documents. After Engels' death, in turn, the material passed into the possession of the German SPD, which was so careless in administering Marx's estate that some of his records were simply lost [how typically socialist, incompetence in perfection]. One of the people who set out to reassemble all the documents of the two psychopaths into a complete collection was a man named David Ryazanov, who was the professional director of the Moscow Marx-Engels Institute. Mr. Ryazanov collected simply everything, including the letters from which these quotations were taken. But that made him so suspicious in the eyes of the Soviet apparatus that he was preemptively shot in 1938.
Thank you for this. It sent me to amazon to buy a collection of his most important writings. I have been familiar with Gramsci's name for decades, but I never read his work and never really understood his importance until now. The better we understand the game they are playing and its historical roots, the better we will be able to stand up against it. Even this late in the day perhaps all is not lost, but if we do nothing now it surely will be.
Gramsci's sociology envisioned every human gets a piece of the pie. Each piece is precisely the same size. Every human gets the same amount of pie, no more no less. Those who control the distribution of the pie get as much pie as they like because they are in charge. Any incentive to improve life beyond this system is punishable by death by those who control the distribution of the pie.
I started a teaching degree 10 years ago. I stopped and started many times as our family grew over the years. I'm wrapping up my degree and this stuff has so saturated education that my licensure exams are litterslly called Praxis Exams. Kinda blew my mind when James said praxis.
This was great! Very helpful to know the philosophical connections throughout history to these modern day activists & what's currently happening in America. Thank you!
I love this.....but there are friends of mine who I know will not listen to all of this and yet it is vital that they hear it. Is it possible for you to lay out a TL;DW portion at the end where you quickly summarize all of what was covered? Just throwing that out there.
I am in the same context - my intention is to get the facts straight in my head and then be able to inject ideas into conversations - like "you keep talking about 'white priviledge' - did you know the cutlural revolution in China focussed on 'Han priviledge', Lenin attacked the 'white Russians', Stalin vilified 'The Kulaks' just as Hitler wiped out the Jews - what makes this any different?"
@@Jakecmuir whelp it’s the truth, you haven’t seen things get better with the sjw movements in fact it’s had the opposite effect everyone thought it would have.
Like straight up I know someone taking journalism and well it taught social constructs, your truth all this weird shit man I’m not even stretching it 😭
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It wasn't until these critical theories came into prominence was I able to see that my university professors from nearly twenty years ago were setting me up to believe in Marxist ideologies. I can't tell you how many of my political science professors spent entire semesters discussing Gramsci and hegemony. At the time, I literally just thought that it was what I was supposed to be learning about almost exclusively in a typical political science class.
Average people are flabbergasted at how all this wokery has just erupted onto the scene in just the last 5-10 years seemingly out of nowhere. It has certainly become noticeable and taken over very quickly, but a cursory look at the universities in the last several decades makes it obvious that this was an inevitable consequence as they were laying the groundwork for a long time.
Am I the only one who is still reeling from that fact that Pete Buttigieg’s father translated Gramsci and studied him?
No you are not... That got my attention.
Is it really that surprising? Lol
I heard E Michael Jones say this. Jones is borderline whacko and has some anti-Semitic issues, but he’s a treasure trove of facts like this.
Gramsci genocide.
@@TP-om8of I don’t follow him, you can see this on Wikipedia haha
"Gramsci understood 100 years ago that If you could
subvert the church
you could remove the greatest impediment,
while creating the greatest delivery mechanism for the ideology possible. "
With the amount of control these people have on media through censorship and a unified narrative along with the ability to communicate so quickly, they can basically do whatever they want.
They are just part of Trotskyist extension of thought, just saying whatever side one is on.
Enter, the Jesuits
What gives the church any right to continually dominate culture? If it's powerful and right, why would it be under any threat in the first place?
Humans have been on this planet a mere blip in its existence. We will continue to evolve under the conditions we are faced with.
There is no homogeneous, fixed state of culture.
@@ally11488 Does truth evolve? Morality? Or are some things unchanging?
Most of my friends on the left don’t have the attention span to grasp the long game being played here.
Sucks doesn't it?
Yeah it's hard to get people to look at the whole culture on the macro and understand creeping authoritarianism
@@grahamhancock4904 and if you question their motives the Twitterati will come after you and wreck your life. Everyone demands their pound of flesh in the digital age.
Most people on both the far/extreme left and right struggle to grasp the entirety because they've adopted a certain lens in which they view the world whether its marxism, christianity, trumpism, or any other belief, which intern limits their openness to other things. Its sadly very myopic.......
@@skylangford6083 The "far right" really does not exist to any meaningful extent. There are normal people on one side, and brainwashed Neo-Marxist zombies on the other side. They are completely lost and cannot think critically about what is spoon fed into their gaping cucked mouths by the establishment elite.
Search "You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy."
A revolution by the ruling elite, for the ruling elite...
Western civilization and the US more specifically have to be dismantled in order to bring about a new system of global governance. If it is true that change is pain, then soon we will have to grip the chair and bite down on the stick.
@@hegemonycricket2182 "have to" I don't "have" to do anything.
@@booberry6715 tell that to those who are bringing about the new paradigm.
@@booberry6715 it sounds like you are missing the point.
... which is funny because “The pursuit of happiness” is in regard to property and owning it.
This is the podcast that got James Lindsay on my radar. He is one of the most important voices of contemporary society.
I agree.
Like capitalism must be safeguarded!
You absolutely nailed it. Not that you need me to tell you. The job of articulating this to our families and communities is a tough one. But it’s one that we all need to get on with as a matter of moral responsibility.
05:25 who does he name
Your exposition of Gramsci's thought and his impact on the development of the eventual praxis of Marxist thought as it evolved in communist societies was a tour de force. It was comprehendible and comprehensive. Your incorporating and connecting his thought with the Frankfurt school was also excellent. The Frankfurt attempt to fuse Freud and Marx was attacked by fellow member, Erik Fromm in his "The Crisis in Psychoanalysis." In a ferociously worded critique he accuses them of illegitimately revising Freud's writings to fit their ideological bent and make it compatible with critical theory to promoting the Marxist agenda. The greatest vitriol was reserved for Herbert Marcuse. But there was one part of your discussion which I would like to pursue that I might have misunderstood regarding the Marxist take on antithesis (Aufhebung). You were spot on regarding Hegel's notion as jettisoning what was to be considered information that was passé in the light of new understanding or cognitive development while maintaining that which was considered still relevant. As you pointed out, the eventual fusing of the information maintained and the new was brought together into a synthesis through the process of sublation. But, the Marxist seemed to eventually reject any notion of antithesis as Aufhebung and substituted the idea of "negation." All the past was seen to be useless and a pernicious vestige of all that needed to be rooted out and destroyed. Thus, the new "Man," whatever that was. Thus, the Red Guard were told to destroy all China's classic works of art, literature and anything relating to the historical past. The Chinese were destituting themselves of their entire cultural-historical identity. The point was absolutely not sublation but obliteration. Thus, there was no synthesis. They, the Lumpenproletariate, were to begin obediently at point zero and build the new order under the instructions of the elite who never had any idea of what they were doing. Thus, Pol Pot murdered professors, artists, professionals, dancers of Cambodia's classical ballet, musicians, etc. They were to return to and be a purely utopian, agrarian society. Of course, negation failed miserably, but there was the near total destruction of the genetic, cultural identity of peoples. We're seeing the attempt to do this now in the West. There is no correcting this Marxist tendency to mindlessly self-destruct; it's inherent to the very warp and woof of Marxist thought and methodology - perhaps a confirmation of the tendency toward thanatos which haunted Freud in his later years. Ironically, one of the very earliest of the Greek philosophers, Parmenedes of Elea, saw the contradiction: "Something only comes from something; something cannot come from nothing; nothing comes from nothing." There's the answer to Marxist negation in three concise sentences from ancient metaphysics. It is always destined to fail, and untoward numbers of brutally controlled human beings are bound to suffer and even perish in the senselessness.
Well said.
@@christopherrobbins9985 Thanks.
"Something only comes from something; something cannot come from nothing; nothing comes from nothing." has nothing to do with Marxism or marxism-leninism
@@josephh8837 You're right. I was not saying it came from Marxism. I was using it to consider the difference and consequence of exchanging Hegel's antithesis with the Marxian/Marcusian negation or total obliteration of the past. Nothing is left for the process of sublation to acheive synthesis and therefore obviates the movement toward sythesis - as understood by Hegel. In science one can use Newton and his math or Einstein and his math to understand or determine gravity; both are valid and both are still used. I decided to use Parmenedes to critique the flaw in Marxist negation and why it consistently fails - and it has. Metaphysics of Parmenedes (Aristotle and Aquinas) is one valid way to look at it. it works for me.
@@frjimomi but if negation isn't working, it's probably that we just haven't used enough of it yet...
The parallel with the Chinese Cultural Revolution in terms of Hun-privilege is not something I've heard James talk about before and I think it is something he should mention more of. There is often the belief that American history is unique in terms of racial strife. Having concrete historical examples of very obvious parallels can really help make this esoteric and academic subject matter much more visceral and relatable. Part of the major obstacle in discussing CRT amongst regular people is articulating exactly why and how it is ultimately leading to an evil outcome. On it's surface it appears empathetic to suffering. Underneath it is driven by resentment and entitlement.
CRT does not look like anything to me except blatant racist bs. I still just do not get how any of this crap even got much attention at all. It should be laughed off as plain garbage. MLK said what was needed to say, and that was quite good enough for me.
@@LS-td3no It satisfies an emotional need. It sounds “right enough” and is driven more by the felt sense that something is wrong. That’s why it’s more like religion. It’s called “theory”, but it’s more like a belief system.
Totally. I think it warrants an episode on its own.
> Hun-privilege
Yes! I saw a Hun cut in line at a Taco Bell. I was going to say something but his ax had blood dripping from it.
Han not Hun.
But as a Chinese who care about Modern History, I'd like to point out that Maoism didn't process concept of "Han-privilege", the "privileges" they decried were more orient toward class and old tradition (they do critique "Han Chauvinism" though, but CCP core leadership were still overwhelmingly Han-Chinese). Nowadays, Xi is pressuring Han-Chinese Ultra-Nationalist polices.
It is easy to be a communist in a free country but not trying to be free in a communist state.
What
@@finnmungovan8772 tolerance and freedom of expression, that's probably what
Yeah, I used to be on the side of the left and wondered what had become of the class struggle and Linsey has answered it here. I believe that ancient cultures were aware of social cycles. Osirus with his all seeing eye grew complacent and didn't see the betrayal by Seth (conflict) until horus seized the all seeing eye and became Osiris. Ghia, Orandus, Chronus and the Titans imprisoned behind the Tardis gates by Zeus and the Olympiadens. It's change. Whoever seizes the cycle at the time will prevail. The economics class cycle has been 40 years of neo liberalism, corporate free market, now the pendulum swings back to government and an economic reset called MMT.
@@patrickmcgoohan115 Yup, happens all the time...
I known a "theoritically" communist ideologist but not only enjoying fully the social benefits of a free democratic system also live partly from the income of the "oldest profession" of his partner. 🤷♀️😄🤣
If at any point cultural marxism gets stopped, you'll be one of the most important persons of our new century, I'm so glad to be able to listen to you through these mediums.
It won't get stopped, 5 years too late. We're far beyond the event horizon.
I believe its just gonna get alot worse before the average liberal starts heavily refusing this stuff. We will get there quicker by educating.
@@maxb2787 agreed
Amen
@@lavrentievv I do not think that is true. People change things by having courage. We can grow more courage, and help people, those who are 'fighting' against this nonsense.
The moral to the story is don’t put crazy thinkers in prison where they can write. Make them stay in the population and earn a living
It's an interesting point, although I believe it points the other way. Thinkers need a sabbatical. Our cultural treadmill ensures that very few of us have time to think and write.
A lobotomy would do the trick. No more wild ideas to be punished for. Just say'n
It's a pity y:all think this way. Many of the greatest ethical leaders wrote in prison. Do you support the moral authority of the state, ie censorship?
@Veg Ahimsa were they in prison because of their thoughts? In that case a dose of radical realism might have gotten their thoughts aligned with real life. Who wrote while in prison and resulted in a better moral framework that has actually bettered mankind? So actually I’m arguing against state censorship. Marx would have been much better employed if he had been forced to earn his own keep rather than leaching off his wife’s family and his friends. He wasn’t imprisoned but he wasn’t gainfully employed either.
Nearly every political prisoner is accused of wrong thought. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Vaclav Havel, Aung San Suu Kyil ... Of course there are less savory characters who wrote while imprisoned.
makes sense, that why i feel like i am back in ussr or living my grandma youth stories from the 30s soviet union.
Can you elaborate more, give more examples?
@@roguegenesis7020 too many to mention here :) one very obvious is the use of guilt to make dissenters conform. If you disagree it is because you are a horrible person, an enemy of people. Creation of new completely different values in a very short period of time, using visual, art propaganda,. Engaging minorities and previously marginalized groups. Women and poor workers were such groups in the 20s and 30s Soviet Union.
@@tatywork9126that's pretty basic and obvious, I was looking for more concrete stuff
@@roguegenesis7020 stories? its not easy to share in a simple comment.
@@tatywork9126 well sad then, because as I said was looking for something concrete
Read Thomas Sowell's 'Intellectuals and Society'.
It helps to put these things into perspective.
"The ignorance, prejudice, and groupthink of an educated elite are still ignorance, prejudice, and groupthink - and for those with 1% of the knowledge in society to be guiding or controlling those with the other 99% is as perilous as it is absurd." 🤓
@@emilyk.5664
I was the first kid in my high school with high honors taking all AP classes to drop out and forge my own path in life (I couldn't take the authoritarianism and bullshit anymore, and was specifically attacked by some teachers who were jealous of me). I know these types well. Most of them are simply good at rote memorization and following the rules. I was literally the only one who questioned the bureaucracy and herd mentality in dress, social norms, and ideology. The nerds who where exceptionally good at math were pretty much always socially clueless. These people are now running society, with their sense of superiority and their narrow-mindedness.
@@solitudessilentgroove the nerds who were good at math (and physics) include James Lindsay. These subjects are much more rigorously focused than the more socially minded curricula. Lindsay has the mental rigor that is missing from most people's minds, particularly leftists. What he is doing is undogmatizing the weak thinking that denies reality.
@@qwerty90615 yup
@@solitudessilentgroove I had a 4.0 GPA in pre-med as a college sophomore when I dropped out. I had stayed with it, believing the false promises of academic integrity, until it stopped being believable. I should have majored in physics, which I loved, but the money is in medicine.
James Lindsay, you are a Treasure. PLEASE, continue to share your intellect.
My family fled CZ in '68. This is the most articulate depiction of. What me family described living under Soviet Communism
Bravo!
"Don't even get me started on the Pope". Great comment!
It's true though.
Soros lobbied obama and.clinton to have benedict removed. All u need to know.
“The gates of Hell will not prevail” but Jesus didn’t say the devil wouldn’t try.
Tfw when James cares more about the Catholic Church continuing to exist than the Pope does. You couldn't make up half the stuff going on today
Everything is gonna shake down in the next 10 years. Everything should be pretty ok coming out of the 20's. The 30's will be the sane people picking up the pieces...
Thank you so much for educating me. I will be listening to this several times. Blessings to you and everyone else who is listening.
A video explaining the direct comparisons of Maoist China and America today would be informative
2 years after this podcast was published, I saw a statistic from I don't know where, that the number of families that homeschool has increased 30% over the last couple years. I don't know how accurate that is, but it is encouraging.
How is that encouraging 😭😭
Kids are already more isolated than ever, now you want to take school away as well
@@mattiarubio3240
Children don't have to isolated if they've being home schooled. Home schoolers have set up networks so their kids can interact with one another....sports and field trips as an example. It's not like during Covid, where they weren't allowed to go to school, go to playgrounds (although crime and drug addicts are preventing that, too) or even visit with one another. They can go on trips to the beaches, organise camping trips and do other things that kids would love to do.
How do you think we did it, growing up in the country, our nearest neighbours over half a mile away. I had a great childhood, wouldn't change it for the world. Better to home school than to have your kids indoctrinated into becoming good little communists. That's the modern pedagogy and it's one of the most destructive forces in our history.
@@JackHaveman52 have it your way I guess.
i went trough the public school system and to be honest i didn't experience any particular indoctrination, not at the high school level at least.
I can kind of see where you are coming from with college since most college teachers are more progressive but if we really want to tell the full story it's also true "intellectuals" in general are mostly left wingers, so I wouldn't say it's a systematic indoctrination more so a predominant way of thinking for people that are well read.
Also not exposing your kids to a certain ideology because you don't like it is not only wrong but detrimental to them developing critical thinking later on.
A good parent should explain to their kids many different points of view and let them decide.
@mattiarubio3240 I started homeschooling in 2012 because our local school listed airy-fairy unmeasurable goals ("community," "collaborative thinking") instead of curriculum (what the children would be taught during the year & expected to know), and spent far more effort listing detailed behavioral rules. (How the kids would walk in the hallway. How they would walk to lunch. How they would sit down at lunch. How they would eat their lunch. Etc.) I wasn't sure I'd be able to keep it up forever, but my husband chose to support me in it, and he said we could always re-evaluate to see if it was working for us all. (Plus, we couldn't afford a better school district, nor a private school.)
I read a lot, and my purpose in getting a degree in History (graduated in 2012!) was to learn how to learn, so I could continue educating myself once I had kids to raise. (Yes, the college overlapped with having children.) Anyway: I started homeschooling because the local school was dreadful. Then I read "The Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto (it is also available free online per the author's choice). That book convinced me to avoid sending my kids to an institutional school if at all possible. (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt provides attitional valuable information in "the deliberate dumbing down of america," which she has likewise made available for free.)
We've experienced nearly every significant life event typically listed as major life stressors, since we started homeschooling in 2012. Homeschooling has provided them a more consistent education than they would have gotten in a traditional school during our many major life challenges. I keep abreast of trends and current events in education at all levels, and I was aware of some of the ideological insanity developing as my children have grown, but I was not aware of the extent of the rot until parents began recording what teachers were presenting during online distance learning. By that point in 2020, my eldest kids were old enough to listen to such current events, and they have stopped suggesting "maybe I can go to high school?"
The schools now are not what they were in the '80s and '90s. They aren't even what they were in the early 2010s - and that was already heavily engaged in climate zealotry, anti-traditionalism, anti-Americanism, and opposition to parental authority and family unity. It's far more Marxist now, with the sort of intense hatred for "backwards" culture and ideas that the Indian school administrators held for the people they believed they were "saving."
Homeschooling during Covid was very isolating and abnormal. We couldn't attend library activities as we usually had. We couldn't attend church activities as usual. We couldn't visit parks, museums, or heritage sites, as they were all closed. We couldn't even go to a McD's playplace for the kids to run and play and socialize (a necessity during a Northern winter, when it is often too cold & windy to play outside, and which lasts 5-6 months).
Homeschoolers are not antisocial wrecks. They often are socialized in age-mixed groups (not just of children, but around adults of many ages in their community). As Peter Gray notes in "Free To Learn," this sort of age integration is widespread in aboriginal cultures, and was far more common before Dewey introduced the Prussian model to America in the late 19th Century. Homeschoolers don't get everything right, but they are usually able to get more right - and more quickly - than any public or private institution can.
Third time listening to this. My 21 year old son has been reading The Communist Manifesto, and thinks it’s full of great ideas. I’m trying to really digest this information to be able to have good discussions with him. So thank you for doing this.
I hope your son doesn't turn into a full-blown communist. He's still got a bright future ahead of him.
Ja - this was maybe my 5th or 6th - and probably not by far the last
You came to the right place.
you're gonna have to engage in the actual material itself and Marx's other works the communist manifesto which was a pamphlet for workers. Listening to these "sophisticated "; fascists talk about Marxists aint gonna cut it when talking to your son who might be sincerely trying to change this capitalist terror state we live in and the fascism the republicans and democrats are bringing
Ask him about his morality?
15:40 explains the lose of nationality and culture in the west.
23:43 BLM vs family is interesting
37:07 identity marxism
45:16 summary
thanks dude!
@frodo roo Yes. Also, I believe the MSM have never discussed this at all.
@frodo roo make sure people know about the archive too a lot of people arent aware.
@frodo roo Why don't you post a link to the page you found within the archive? I'm on the archive now and I'm not seeing it throughout their About pages, been checking several months from each year through 2014 to 2019.
@@PapaSmurf337 I just checked the link to the achive of the original BLM page which I had saved awhile ago, and the link now leads to just an Error Page Not Found. 😒 That may be why you're not finding it anywhere. If you do end up finding it somehow, send me a link please.
James you and Jordan Peterson are absolute legends when it comes to understanding all of what's embedded in our frameworks and operating systems.
larry elder shows lights on many things as well.
Lol at Jordan Peterson. Check out his last 2 sit downs he took part in with Douglas Murray and Gaad and listen to him talk about the 2020 election.
Then look at what you wrote about him understanding what's embedded in our frameworks and operating systems.
The guy is as indoctrinated as the people he speaks about.
Yuri Bezmenov, spoke about this in '83 and Myron Fagan called exposed the commies in Hollywood in the 40's.
@@maulressurected4405 8:00 who does he say
@@omalone1169 demoralizin,, destabilization and normalization. Dumbing down the education system, even give specific examples like the instructors sexual preference . It's best to do a TH-cam search if Yuri bezmenov there might br some. Worse case a Google search identity and preferen were examples he gave, this was in 1983 so he gave a 30 year warning, back then it was crazy talk to the majority. Looking at what we have seen he was 💯 spot on. Myron Fagan was another, he was best known for exposing the red stars of Hollywood, even fought against Marxist movements. He was asked to write a pro America play in the 40s or 50s and struggled get it into public theater. No one wanted to show it, no one wanted to act in it. While pro communist plays didn't have the same problem.
I'm hoping this video becomes notable for marking a great reversal in the encroaching Marxist trends, and not simply a sad harbinger of the when things got especially worse...
lul
@ThoseWhoWouldBurnBooks WouldBurnPeople ...the summer of my discontent...
@@chindico What you said makes no sense. What is “serving Bullshit”?
@@chindico Tell us more please. We want to learn.
@@chindico I was hoping you would educate me David, not simply point me to other YT channels. Please educate me.
This is chilling, given what's happening in our major cities.
Maybe give em 4 more yrs and they won't be "major" anymore?
It is all happening according to the playbook.
@@philiphales2109 I have a very liberal set of in-laws. They're well educated, good people, but they deeply belive critical race theory and brush off any of my logical arguments about its very real shortcomings. This lecture was terrifying to me on so many levels. I don't understand why more people aren't concerned, especially amongst the rich and powerful.
As a former Leftist I must say, we must flee to the red states
@@saintjst7 by adopting the virtue signaling they feel it will allow them to keep their class position and obscure their "priveledge" but they are never safe by ingratiating themselves to the revolution. It always comes for its own.
Think about how compartmentalized modern science has become. What would some guy who spent 20 yrs studying mosquitoes know about culture, society, or the human condition? Today's scholar is the furthest thing away from the romanticized Renaissance Man who sought to learn the arts and Engineering to balance mind and soul.
Most of them are sheltered nerds preoccupied with an extremely narrow area of knowledge. Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just that no one should be looking to these people for advice on how society should be structured.
Without a Renaissance Man approach to knowledge, many of these “experts” succumb to social engineering tactics like peer pressure, groupthink, and other irrational paradigms because they prefer to look “intelligent and approved” rather than be intelligent and be wise.
I see both sides. I’m a physics student at a research university, which differs from a liberal arts university in that the emphasis is rather myopically focused on the field of interest of the student, as opposed to a well-rounded education about broader society. Many of my peers kind of thumb their noses at liberal arts schools, thinking them impractical. It’s true that people here (mostly engineers and scientists) do have an easier time finding jobs right out of college in their field, even compared to scientists and engineers at liberal arts colleges.
My view is that for what I’m paying, I do want a specialized education in physics. I started taking physics classes my first quarter here, and now my curriculum is 100% physics and math classes (which is fine with me). However, like you said, I do see great value in the Renaissance man (or Renaissance woman, in my case!) and therefore I take time out of school (which is better anyways, taking any classes on matters of society in college these days is extremely skewed and will raise my cortisol levels lol) to educate myself on classical history, politics and political theory, culture, and philosophy. If more students can find that balance, I think they can maximize their learning in their field as well as expand their education themselves to other fields to become both more well-rounded humans and high-achieving in their specialized field. Idk, I think about different pedagogical approaches to higher education often, so I thought I’d weigh in.
@@mcgheebentle1958 Exactly and I agree. The arts are for the heart while the hard sciences are the mind. A rotten heart produces perverted science, a good heart produces the Science of Renaissance, respecting those who came before you yet seeing off ahead on the shoulders of those giants we all stand on
We need classical philosophy that studies reality as a whole, not narrow technicalities for professionals.
Renaissance Man reminds me of Neitzche's uber man.
@@mcgheebentle1958 It's interesting how you mention all subjects except for classical music. To be sure, without an audience, the musicians will also disappear. Perhaps it will take longer to fade away in India, but it is fading.
I admire you, James. You are a voice of rationality in these crazy, chaotic times.
Quick correction: the Chinese Cultural Revolution took place 20+ years after Mao came into power. It came at the END of his tenure, not the beginning.
Mao was a Stalinist...
@@orionxtz2540 Details, details. Stalinist/Leninist/Marxist...potato/potato.
The Great Cultural Revolution, yes. I think he may mean the initial cultural revolution before the communists rose to power, as well as various further changes throughout their rule, where the culture was subverted in the favour of socialism and communism. This is the kind of cultural revolution that Gramsci means - a shift in the culture
@@recynd77 fifty shades of communism 😂
Glad you pointed this out. I was going to, but I checked to see if anyone had first.
The best way to understand Marxism is to begin with Marx background. Marx, his wife Jenna and her half brother Ferdinand were childhood playmates, and Marx and Jenna childhood sweethearts. Marx became the leader of the Communist Party(according to the capitalist owned MSM of the time), Ferdinand became the Prussian Minister of the Interior, in charge of Prussia's Prison system and Secret Police. Ferdinand was responsible for arresting anyone who opposed the ruling Prussian Aristocracy. Try to imagine his conversations with Karl at family gatherings. The Russian Bolshevik revolution succeeded because it was bought and paid for by Wall St. Nothing happens without money, and that includes wars and revolutions. Culture has nothing to do with it, Woke ideology is bought and paid for, it would never happen if Wall St. wasn't demanding it. Think Blackwater, Vanguard, ESG funding.
For the casual interested comment reader: One of the most important things we can do is provide alternative scientific explanations to these "para logics". I've seen it work in my University, the pretended love for science in the marxist, not pretended in many of them, gives us a door into rationality.
I've developed a way to strike relativism in casual-intelectual conversations by explaining how emotions are actually an Object, they are not subjective and they should be studies by science.
By providing rational explanations you can destroy buildings of theories of their ideology, I've seen PSYCHOANALYSIS, in the most leftist University of Argentina, get dismantled by their own lefties. Behaviorism and cognitivism were heavily delayed in Argentina, but when the obvious fails of psychoanalysis became too explicit to be ignored, the marxist with thirst of real science began to destroy the "hegemonic psychoanalysis".
When that started to happen of course Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida and Castoriadis, began to be more and more prominent.
Interesting is as well that my marxist-scientist friends managed to be more on the center thanks to behaviorism, but with feminism and racism and this "trump era", they came back to their roots, advocating for the same theories they once fought against. When you bring this up, if you provide scientific explanations to "systemic racism" or "the patriarchy", it sometimes works. We need to provide our own sett of explanations to the culture, we have science on our side, but we need to get systematic and organized. Just like peterson destroyed the idea of the genders being "equal", we need to start providing a set of rules which show how wrong this stuff is. This is evil in the end because it's untrue.
Anyway just a grain of sand.
Thank you, food for thought.
I love this channel, even some of the comments are enlightening.
I never went to a university. I pour concrete and do construction for a living. I spent my whole life learning to use my hands. I know that I am of average intelligence at best. I know this because I can barely follow what you wrote and what James is talking about. Nothing against you or James I am just dumb. But what I think you and James are describing is a new culture being created that I would now how to work in let alone live. I hope you keep posting and writing so that other fellas like my self can get more context to what is going on. Take care and have a good day
@@jacobmiller3675 It's hard to know exactly what's happening. This BS looks complicated but it isn't, it's really a word play, they use complicated words, and then you are kind of forced to use their language, if you don't they'll disregard you as dumb, and won't listen to you. It may look like a irrational strategy, but it really works in the end.
Once you get some concepts, it's always the same
@James...Ah, do not think you are dumb. You are trying to learn about what the heck goes on in the world. That is a good thing.
Is this satire? Genuinely one of the funniest comments I’ve ever read.
Funny how all these people who wanted to organize the workers weren't actually workers themselves
But they thought/think there SHOULD be worker-organizers, so they'll just get them started by dismantling the culture.
the working class is but a pawn, actually detested and cast aside when no longer useful. the woke revolution seems to be bypassing them altogether this time around.
Wannabe tyrants
Excellent point.
The working classes over here in the UK have spectacularly rejected all attempts to be "educated".
Hey James, thank you for what you do. I was fired from a Christian fellowship for speaking out against the critical theories within it. This talk really vindicated my actions, thank you
Woah😳
👏👏👏
You've got old school courage.
👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 sadly, many Christians are ignorant and don’t see critical race theory and Marxism is incompatible with religion and embracing it will ultimately extinct religion replacing it with the religion of the state.
@@ashdav9980 these things are cyclical in human history and they usually get ugly. Christianity will survive but the fools that follow this ideology have dramatically less children so one or two generations they will be edited out of the gene pool.
When I first heard this a couple of years ago, it was a special insight to understanding how this Lenin-inspired Maoism ‘with Western characteristics’ has now engulfed liberal democratic societies around the world. I listened to it again last night and am astonished at how profound his insight really is.
It’s from a podcast originally made in January 2021 and of course he has made similar videos and podcasts since then. However, this one stands out in connecting all the major players and their various theories, all with the same aim of subverting society towards an outcome not dissimilar to what happened in communist societies in the last century.
Often, there is nothing more compelling than hearing a former left-wing advocate like James Lindsay ‘seeing the light’ and turning his back on what he once believed in. And it was a belief, not unlike a religion or even a cult which seeks world dominance in its outreach.
Another compelling aspect to this podcast is that you can tell he’s not using notes or reading from a script. This is straight out of his head and all the more remarkable in his ability to connect the dots. It’s required listening for anyone who wishes to understand more deeply how a new kind of evil has been festering for decades in our universities but now coming to light and being championed and embraced by big state, big media and big business.
Anyone looking to challenge any aspect of this nonsensical wokery will get cancelled and ostracised from both their workplace and society in general. No different to how religions excommunicate apostates in past days. Again, we may not see it fully manifest in our lifetime but our children and grandchildren will, and that should wake everyone up to the ‘woke’.
The counter-revolution needs to start with this podcast before showing people a better way and solution that comes from the traditions of our ancestors and from the unconditional parental love of the Divine, and all that implies.
I never comprehended hating a group of people as much as I hate these people. My hatred for them is undying and unending.
They get high on the idea of revolution it has spread over time like a virus.
Very cool and normal comment. Definitely no introspection required.
Looking forward to finishing this tomorrow. I didn’t get more than 3 minutes in, but I felt the need to post two quotes that stuck out to me when I researched Gramsci. I’m glad to see other people are aware of cultural Marxism and who better to expose them than Mr. Lindsey...
"The civilized world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2000 years. Any country grounded in Judeo-Christian values cannot be overthrown until those roots are cut. But to cut the roots - to change culture - a long march through the institutions is necessary. Only then will power fall into our laps like a ripened fruit" - Antonia Gramsci
“In the new order, socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media. By transforming the consciousness of society.” Antonio Gramsci
This is absolutely my new favorite channel. Thanks so much, James.
Same
12:54 -13:04 Gyorgy Lukacs's work was one of the main influences on the Frankfurt School but he wasn't its founder. It was founded by the bourgeois grain merchant's son Felix Weil. Lukacs later criticised the Frankfurt School as occupying the "Grand Hotel Abyss", in that its theory offers a critique of the modern world that denies any potential remedy to its ills through practical action.
Thank you so much, Dr. Lindsay! This is exactly the channel I needed so much to find!
Gramsci has also been appropriated to the dissident Right as a response to the Great Replacement. So what did Mussolini think of Karl Marx? During this period Mussolini considered himself an "authoritarian communist" and a Marxist and he described Karl Marx as "the greatest of all theorists of socialism." . Also the New Right has appropriated the interregnum which is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order.
It’s nice to hear an educated philosopher who is well read talk about all of these different philosophers and movements and events in history that became the foundation for things that are happening today
Thank you, Prof. Lindsay. Knowledge defeats fear.
James I so appreciate the concise brilliance of your astute observations. Very important thinker and voice at the moment. Please keep up the good fight. .
I’ve lived through Cultural Marxism 3.0. Currently living through CM 4.0. This was not what I expected when I came to America!
08:40 so how about that?
This is a great lesson in the history of how we got here - but - now - what do we do?
Begin to retake our institutions. It'll take a generation or so. But we must start.
My question too! Here is my plan of action: My denomination is toying with these ideas - terms like BLM and "Social Justice" are being bandied about freely. My aim is to get the context clear in my mind. This channel is a very rich source - James L has the ideas clear. I listen often to this podcast as well as his reading of "Repressive Tolerance". I also listen to Voddie Baucham ("you keep using the term - but it doesn't mean what you think it means"). And I am starting to challenge people. Nobody wants to hear this - but I am going to just keep going.
The other alternative is to watch our culture being led into the blender I believe
How did our intellectuals of olde allow this to set root and spread to this degree above our heads...
Because they have no guts .
The top modern intellectual, Kant, was a nihilist who split mind from reality. He said, "I have denied knowledge therefore, in order to make room for faith." His ethics is an explicit duty to sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice, without values.
"Après moi, le déluge..."
Scary. This made me woke about wokeness.
Woke squared
Squoke
Awake vs woke. Awake is being alert and honest about what's happening, woke is living in a nightmare where you have no control
No such thing as wokeness.
@@emmasnow29 lol. You are funny
Now, it makes sense and made me realize that when I was studying in the Philippines, students from well to do families often are the ones talking about oppression and are the ones recruiting students from working class families. These newly recruited poor working class students were often in the front lines of demonstrations, being used as cannon fodder. You’ll see these poor students end up dead, assassinated or “salvaged” by the military or the police. Their parents struggled so hard, toiling in farms just to give their children education and some bourgeois bastard indoctrinated their children for an ideal that cannot be realized while these bourgeois students carry on with their good life or they go to the mountains hiding with the rebels and being treated as some supreme leader living in lands that their family owns.
Another story I have is when I went to art school (also in the Philippines). The rich students are the ones who are so against traditional media, I.e. painting, and looks down on the students who are painters. The rich, mostly, well informed students are often preaching about “decolonizing” art and that painting is a medium that upholds white supremacist, capitalistic values (painting is the most accessible medium and most practical for poor students since it can land them jobs making murals and city remodeling projects). The wealthy students are the ones who are not in need of money or jobs outside of the art market so their work are more experimental and avant-garde copied from “white supremacist, capitalistic, western art magazines.” What irony...
I work in the Lutheran Church in Sweden. They have totally succumbed to woke... quite depressing...
Find good chatolic parish....with good chatolic priest...
Interesting podcast.
Having just finished "A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution" by Figes it was uncanny how many boxes were ticked off with regard to what's happening now.
Read mussolinis biography and it will sound much the same. Bolshevik loving Commies who try to break down society.
I’m going through the Revolutions podcast with Mike Duncan covering the Russian Rev. I’m thinking the same thing.
They all have societies that had allowed a small elite to control all the wealth and restrict ordinary peoples lives
@@hre2044 14:00 that makes lots of sense
This video should be obligatory watching on every university in the world.
Don't count on it XD
Reverse cultural hegemony
It seems to me that no one has studied the works of Karl Popper and F. Hayek seriously these days. Their works already provide lots of facts and arguments about why we should be anti- Marxism.
Yes indeed, the open society and its enemies although i have some reservations about his comments towards the end
Consider where the madness of "woke" culture thrives .... the city. When people live in cities they are surrounded by strangers in an artificial habitat that is totally dependent on others to grow their food, provide their water, generate their power, mine their minerals, transport their goods, police their streets, dispense their medicines, et. etc. The city fragments and divides people from one another and even from themselves. There is no family, no community, no culture that can survive the inevitable conflict of being divided against itself. For 99.9% of our species time on this planet, we lived in small kin-related bands (extended families) of less than ~ 25 people. Nearly all of our distant ancestors spoke the same language, practiced the same customs and held the same traditions within a sharing and trading economy region-by-region. Generally, bands were governed by trusted elders with age, gender and ability being the primary cultural distinctions between members. When bands convened throughout the year they formed a tribe. Our evolved nature is to be surrounded by kin and kindred companions living mostly outdoors within a habitat that provides our water, food and the raw materials we need to fashion tools, craft utensils and create art. The city works exactly in the opposite way. What is whole the city divides. What is wild the city domesticates. What is abundant the city makes scarce. What is free the city imprisons. Mostly, urbanites are insane but they do not realize they are crazy because they are surrounded by people just as disconnected and deranged as themselves. The craziest of the crazy are called "woke".
It’s all about development.
Moral development.
Cognitive development.
Emotional development.
Inter-personal development.
Spiritual development.
Have you ever considered focusing your fragmented mind?
@jhan bass Boring to people who evade focusing their minds onto reality.
This index of timestamps is a work in progress. Constructive feedback is encouraged.
00:20 - Introducing Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist.
01:45 - A Linguistically skilled misfit who became a communist; what a shock!
02:51 - “Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity.” Gramsci should be credited as the developer of Cultural Marxism, and the idea of “Cultural Hegemony” was his idea.
04:15 - Gramsci’s “Five Pillars” of culture that would have to be dismantled: Religion, Family, Education, Media, and Law.
06:38 - We are going through a Chinese-style cultural revolution
08:53 - Gramsci was enamored with Lenin, Leninism, and believed that a Leninist approach would be needed. Leninism: The idea that the proletariat will not wake up on their own, and must be forcefully shepherded by the elites, where the elites appoint themselves as the revolutionary leaders.
12:18 - Gramsci is the link between Lenin and Black Lives Matter.
13:48 - Gramsci: Culture is to blame for the absence of socialist revolutions in the West. For Gramsci, “Culture = Nothing more than bourgeoisie values” (a rather clumsy and reductionist analysis on Gramsci’s part.)
15:23 - Gramsci's breaking down of culture becomes the most important project. Once the cultural revolution has demoralized the people, then the party steps in.
18:51 - Gramsci understood that you must invade religion and churches; to dismantle the majority culture. Lenin = Leninism 1.0, Stalin = Leninism 2.0, Mao = Leninism 3.0, Woke = Leninism 4.0. Woke has entered the Southern Baptist convention, as well as Catholicism and Buddhism.
21:35 - Religions create an ideal delivery mechanism and provide a conducive population for ideological reprogramming.
23:42 - Gramsci understood that the family, primary transmission mechanism of culture, must be demolished. If you destroy the family? People have no one to fall back on except the state. Gramsci understood that the media must be controlled and used to deconstruct the culture. Law has also been infiltrated and subverted.
26:17 - Sometime in the 1930s, communists realized that America’s weakness was race, and that if you put pressure on racial divides, the US would become more vulnerable. Kimberle Crenshaw and intersectionality takes this to the next level.
28:04 - Critical theory demands that ALL problems be examined, all together, at the same time.
29:57 - Gramsci was a huge believer that the working class must be shepherded into a class consciousness, and that education was the key.
31:45 - The modern slang term for “Critical Consciousness”: “Woke,” a reinvention of the cultural Marxist’s “Class consciousness.” You must indoctrinate and reprogram, in cult fashion, the working class, in order to create “working-class intellectuals.”
34:54 - Education is the main place this will happen. Teacher universities -> Universities -> K-12
35:56 - The word “Utopia” means NOWHERE; “NOT A PLACE.”
37:11 - The origins of Identity Politics: the Black Feminist collective. Identity Marxism = Identity politics. If they say “this is Civil Rights,” they are lying. They picked up the same tools used by Mao. Han Privilege / White privilege, the 4 Olds / Gramsci’s five pillars.
39:15 - Summary thus far: Gramsci has this idea that, the reason Marxist revolutions aren’t happening is because of what he calls “cultural hegemony.” This hegemony behaves as a force field to Marxist revolutions, and must be torn down with force and intent. In order to collapse this hegemony, five institutions must be commandeered and torn down: Religion, Family, Education, media, and Law. You must then create a “counter-hegemony.” The politics of grievance is used to manipulate oppressed groups. Hitler used this method, Lenin used it, Mao used it.
42:34 - The political society is too difficult to assail if the cultural society is intact. Destroy the culture in order to regulate it.
44:21 - This is a “Cultural Civil War,” if not a “Cultural World War.” Lenin = Leninism 1.0, Stalin = Leninism 2.0, Mao = Leninism 3.0, Woke = Leninism 4.0, and Gramsci is the road map for how this works.
47:15 - Gramsci was an “anti-idealist.”
49:12 - Gramsci believed that action is required, becoming activists, doing cultural revolution. “If you don’t make it work, it won’t work.”
51:20 - Thanks to his strict historicism (the belief that history is on an inevitable trajectory towards becoming self-aware and awakening as some kind of deity), Gramsci did not believe in an objective reality outside of human history.
53:34 - We're no longer concerned with what's true, but now concerned only with “reasonable conditions for life, by our own standards.” 2+2=5
54:54 - This is a =RELIGION=, and Gramsci was a THEOLOGIAN.
What are your sources for this video?
The texts of the men and women who wrote them
Excellent contribution to a much needed conversation. Imagine people listening to a series of discussions between James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, Glenn Loury, James McWhorter, and Eric Weinstein.
What a service that would be to our country.
Excellent podcast - I think your most important to date.
56:00 sociology os precisely the religion that must overwhelm christianity
In an essay recently, Lindsay says no one on the right is discussing these topics. No intelligent or intellectual conversations are taking place on the right about the issue of CRT. Well, Michael Walsh wrote The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and its sequel The Fiery Angel in 2015 & 2016. These are both excellent, easy to read books and anyone with an interest in Critical Theory and it’s affects on society should read them.
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I’ve been looking for an in depth study/overview of the roots of cultural Marxism and clearly I found it. This video was Clear, succinct and to the point. It was an easy choice to “sub”.
11:35 what is our nature
This is indeed the thing we're up against. James, I've followed (and admired) you for some years and I have to say that both fear and fatigue can be heard in your voice.
Indeed. It’s because these ideas aren’t just crazy or annoying; they have produced concrete events historically. And they weren’t fun or inconsequential. The fact that these ideas are so naively embraced these days is terrifying. It’s gonna lead to nothing good.
Seeing a Snoop Dog advertisement during this was worth the pain.
Probably your best podcast ever! Thanks, Jim!
An hour well spent. Thank you.
It may be abstruse, but everyone should familiarize themselves with the Frankfurt School.
Abstruse, eh? You’ve just whipped out a word that I have never heard. Let me ask you something. Where did you pick that word up?
It's from the French abstrus or its source, Latin abstrūsus (“hidden, concealed”), the perfect passive participle of abstrūdō (“conceal, to push away”), itself from ab, abs (“away”) + trūdō (“thrust, push”). Also cognate with the German abstrus.
@@andyjarman4958 - Yeah, I found all that when I looked it up. I didn’t know for certain it was a real word. I thought maybe it was a typo. Now that I know it is indeed a word, I’m really curious to know how the original commenter above came across that word to incorporate it into their vocabulary.
Abstruse has been in my vocabulary for decades. I think my dad may have used it when I was little. The word doesn't seem at all abstruse to me.
I think I picked it up in reading various articles about critical theory several years ago.
How is Dr. Boghossian doing? I’m one of his old students, he steered me away from wokeness. It would be great if you both had a podcast together.
Didn't they do one a couple of months ago? Worth doing a search.
@@andyjarman4958 I meant a regular podcast
@@SoyDuckHot i agree would be nice
@alobar that dude is a legend
@@levis503 He truly is, and the nicest guy in person. I also hung out with Benjamin Boyce, also amazing.
It's so nice that one can still come across an erudite and meaningful channel like this on here. Great work. Subscribed, and liked.
Perfect. Thank you for providing me with the information I need to understand how Leninist Marxism became Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.
Man you dropped a bomb on me. You put out so much condensed information that this is the third time I listen to it to unpack it all. Excellent presentation.
What a hero. The man who figured out how to destroy any society because only utopia (Nowhere) will do. I wish there was a statue of Gramsci we could tear down.
I would keep that statue standing, as a reminder of how much damage to the world one man with bad ideas can do.
Thank you James for this ... my 3rd time listening lot to retain
James, can you talk about homeschooling? I'm considering it for my future kids.
If you're in the USA, do it! I used to be against it as I thought kids should grow up interacting and socializing with the kids they will be working with as adults. However, I didn't realize WTF was going on in our schools. So, now I'm all for it!
Thanks. That is helpful. I purchased used copies of the prison notebooks and his letters. I’m currently reading The Gulag Archipelago, but I skimmed some of the letters when I received it. An interesting quote abut one of the Fascist prisons, “My impressions of Utica are favorable in every sense.” He goes on to request various books and amenities and describes enjoying taking walks to occupy himself. When I think of the stark contrast of Gramsci’s imprisonment to what Solzhenitsyn describes, it’s obvious that although the Fascists were obviously horrible, the communists made them look only weakly horrible by comparison. It’s unbelievable that America and most of the West are blindly walking into the maw. Thanks for at least trying to open peoples eyes.
truy reading Koba the Gread by Martin Amiss,it explains everything
I'm sending this to all my Christian friends & pastors! Thank you James! I really appreciate what you're doing.
Get some sources first
At one point James talks about how something approximating wokeness was percolating through Chinese society in the decades leading up to mao and the cultural revolution. Does anyone know of any good books on this topic.
“MAO’s Great Famine” by Frank Dikötter
"Tombstone." by Yang Jishen. Although I haven't read it. Also, about the famine, so don't know if it talks about how ideology leads up to it.
Hello Kevin ; yes, read “ Red China Blues “ by Jan Wong. It is a discussion of the Chinese cultural revolution.
You could also read “ The Soong Dynasty “ about a family related to both sides of the revolution and/or civil war, by Sterling Seagrave.
I can't think of the specific book(s) but there are good histories on China and how the communists were able to exploit the chaos created by the Japanese invasion. FDR's people regarded any allies fighting the Axis as friends and did nothing to deter communists.
Gramsci, is the architect of the madness, we see in front of our eyes nowadays.
This is the most important video on the internet today.
-first weaken a culture, then over throw the power structure to benefit the elite. It’s that simple, everything else falls under this umbrella .
This is one of the clearest presentations on Gramsci and how his invidious revamping and jumpstarting Marxism has caused our present woes. It required some concentration to stay with it for the whole hour, but it was one hour well spent. You did a really good job explaining things. Thank you.
I learn so much from you! Thank you!
Fantastic work, James.
Is there a transcript available for this excellent analysis?
This needs to be shared about 330 million times.
Thanks for this James Lindsay!
Be great if you could reference the literature you mention in the description or a pinned comment
I’m very happen to see Prof Lindsay bringing together knowledge on Gramsci, the Frankfurtians, and Paulo Freire.
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I’d recommend the works of Olavo de Carvalho, brazilian philosopher who’s been the lone voice denouncing all this in Brazil for nearly 40 years (he passed away recently, after decades living in the US).
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Please, keep it up, Professor!!! Your work, together with Prof Pluckrose’s and Prof Boghossian’s, is Awesome and Vital!
I'm a teacher in Canada, currently completing my masters in Literacy. This Critical Theory insanity is all over higher level teacher education. There are a lot of references in my readings to "Critical Literacy" and Paulo Freire, as well as this notion of discourses and power. Its frightening that its taught to teachers, but far more disturbing is that no one in the group ever bats an eye at any of this Marxist Theory. I have the feeling that I'm seen as someone who is just rocking the boat because to my knowledge I'm the only person who ever expresses a word of criticism.....fortunately I don't particularly care.
I know that this is 10 months later. but just want to congratulate your courage. I just finished an online Library Technician course and one of the Instructors made her assignments kind of woke. There was no real class time for me to speak up, but I did my best to clearly subvert the assignments as much as possible (creating a reading list about racism and not including books that were about African Americans being discriminated against), she didn’t like it, but she couldn’t fail me. The other class members were either totally oblivious or had buy-in, sadly.
@@justaminute3111 It’s hard I know. No, they can’t fail you, but it not going to win you any friends,…not like I’m interested in what people who push critical theory think of me. Always glad to hear that others in Universities are taking a stance against this madness, don’t let them cow you.
Excellent analysis. Took too long to be recommended to this channel. Subscribed.
Also, what were they doing with pop culture? I am trying to be a children's/young adult genre novelist, and thank God I found this! What are they doing to entertainment, and are they targeting children?
You might check out channels like Fourth Age and Comics Matter - they're more to do with comics but they do talk about what's going on with YA comics.
If you haven't already seen it, listen to The Fourth Age for a video called
"Who is Sana Amanat: A portrait of the power behind 'progressive' comic industry"
She ruined comic books with this bullshit.
Two more videos from The Fourth Age is
"Why SJW writers have ruined your favorite hero"
"Discarding the Heroic Ideal"
Which is about SJWs destroying the idea of the heroism.
I find most of what you're saying very true and valuable. You're the first person I've come across to analyze this well. It's a good counterargument to the accusation from the left that cultural Marxism is a conspiracy theory. Really good work in that regard. Some of your thinking concerns me though. That's because I spent most of my life steeped in the deeply conservative culture of rural evangelical America. When you talk about the Southern Baptist church and Trump not truly renouncing this stuff it makes me nervous about your puritanical standards, the same kind of absolute perfectionistic standards of purity that cancel culture demands. To my mind this all stems from the same place of amygdala-driven cognitive errors that Jonathan Haidt has outlined in the Righteous Mind and the Coddling of the American Mind. I grew up with this logic so I know it when I hear it on the right, which has caused me to be rather baffled now how the left has taken on the mantle of moral perfectionism. I only say this because I find so much value in your research and analysis and I don't want it to be ruined by the same kind of ideological puritanism that drives the left these days. Or at any rate, I'm probably the one person here who will take what you're saying with a grain of salt because of where you're likely to remain coming from in regards to ideological purity. The world is a deeply nuanced place and requires critical thinking in all directions. Thanks for the good work.
Interesting parallels In undergrad in the 1980's, while I was with a friend in the union, his classmate, from Somalia (and obviously a black man), was visibly angry. The Arab students were talking out loud in Arabic about how it was important to foment unrest in the black man to facilitate the undermining of American society. They didn't realize that he could understand Arabic and he was angry that they were talking about blatantly using the black man for their nefarious schemes. that is why the Marxist have no problem with radical Islam (NOW that is): the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The challenge of trying to tempt people to turn off Netflix and listen to this. Sadly I can't see it happening.
The ugly truth about the hideous character of Karl Marx - in his own words. “Dear Karl...“
Father to son, Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx on November 18, 1835: _"Dear Karl! More than three weeks have passed since you left and there is no trace of you! You know your mother and her anxiety, and yet this total negligence! Unfortunately, this confirms to me only too much the opinion, which I hold despite your many good qualities, that egoism is predominant in your heart.“_
Two years later, on December 9, 1837: _“As if we were made from gold, the Son demands in one year almost 700 thalers against all agreements, against all customs, while the richest people do not even spend 500."_
But this was not enough, because shortly afterwards, on 2/10/1838, the father was at the end of his life and his business: _“I don't deny that I sometimes reproach myself for being too weak to keep you on the reins. So we are now in the fourth month of the judicial year, and you have already drawn 280 thalers. I haven't earned that much this winter... I am exhausted, dear Karl, and must close down.“_
Shortly thereafter the father died.
Marx himself did not for one second think about going to work but regarded the inheritance as “his fortune“, as he explained to an acquaintance in 1843: _“As I wrote to you once before, I have fallen apart with my family and, as long as my mother lives, I have no right to my fortune.“_
Because he then lived at Friedrich Engel's expense, in 1848 he wrote to Engels: _“Your old man is a bastard to whom we'll write a nasty letter.“_ and _“I've devised a surefire plan to squeeze money out of your old man, since we don't have any now.“_
Engels (not exactly a model of decency either) to Marx in 1851: _“Since my scheme with my old man has succeeded completely, at least until now, I can definitely settle down here. The development of the story with my old man and the new plot I had to start, first, to prolong my indispensability here, and second, to protect myself from excess work in the trading house, I will explain orally later. Easter is in 6 weeks anyway, and the matter is awkward. That much is certain, that my old man should pay me in cash for all this, especially after he's been here and I've got him even more trapped.“_
Then Marx in 1852 to Engels: _“The only good news we have received from my sister-in-law is the news of the illness of my wife's indestructible uncle. If that old bastard dies now, I'm out of the woods.“_
Engels wishes him well: _“Congratulations on the news of the old Brunsvik inheritance-preventor's illness. I hope that the catastrophe will finally strike.“_
The “old bastard" complied and died right away and Marx wrote jubilantly about how much money they now got. Hooray. “A very happy event“. Alas, the inheritance didn't last long. Marx to Engels 1861: _“I squeezed 160 pounds from my uncle, so we could pay off most of our debts. My mother, who has no money to speak of, but who is fast approaching dissolution, destroyed some old debt certificates I had issued to her.“_
But that didn't last for long either. Engels to Marx 1862: _“If we don't invent the art of shitting gold, you'll hardly be able to do anything but beat something out of your relatives in one way or another.“_
And so it happened that the lazy scam-artists and sociopaths Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels became the patron saints of those who reject to do their own work while living off the blackmailing of their fellow citizens. Actually, they made a whole theory and ideology out of their scam of living without work by stealing from other people the fruits of their labor. In the end, they didn’t invent the art of shitting gold, but hey, close enough! It‘s no coincidence that this scam is so attractive to likeminded character trash.
[Quotes taken from Björn Akstinat and Simon Akstinat «Marx & Engels intimately»]
After the death of Marx, Engels inherited all his written documents. After Engels' death, in turn, the material passed into the possession of the German SPD, which was so careless in administering Marx's estate that some of his records were simply lost [how typically socialist, incompetence in perfection].
One of the people who set out to reassemble all the documents of the two psychopaths into a complete collection was a man named David Ryazanov, who was the professional director of the Moscow Marx-Engels Institute. Mr. Ryazanov collected simply everything, including the letters from which these quotations were taken. But that made him so suspicious in the eyes of the Soviet apparatus that he was preemptively shot in 1938.
Wow, thank you for sharing all of this.
Not only does culture precede politics and economics, so does psychology which everyone forgets
Thank you for this. It sent me to amazon to buy a collection of his most important writings. I have been familiar with Gramsci's name for decades, but I never read his work and never really understood his importance until now. The better we understand the game they are playing and its historical roots, the better we will be able to stand up against it. Even this late in the day perhaps all is not lost, but if we do nothing now it surely will be.
This is a brilliant analysis of what is going on now in society.
I lived in Venezuela for 7 years including the first year of the Chavez regime. This talk is spot on. It happened very blatantly in Venezuela.
Gramsci's sociology envisioned every human gets a piece of the pie. Each piece is precisely the same size. Every human gets the same amount of pie, no more no less. Those who control the distribution of the pie get as much pie as they like because they are in charge. Any incentive to improve life beyond this system is punishable by death by those who control the distribution of the pie.
I started a teaching degree 10 years ago. I stopped and started many times as our family grew over the years. I'm wrapping up my degree and this stuff has so saturated education that my licensure exams are litterslly called Praxis Exams. Kinda blew my mind when James said praxis.
This was great! Very helpful to know the philosophical connections throughout history to these modern day activists & what's currently happening in America. Thank you!
Thank You Sir for giving me the intellectual ammo to help fight this critical theory nonsense in my daily life.
24:00 alan watt said the samw thing about hie they infiltrate and subvert family
I love this.....but there are friends of mine who I know will not listen to all of this and yet it is vital that they hear it. Is it possible for you to lay out a TL;DW portion at the end where you quickly summarize all of what was covered? Just throwing that out there.
I am in the same context - my intention is to get the facts straight in my head and then be able to inject ideas into conversations - like "you keep talking about 'white priviledge' - did you know the cutlural revolution in China focussed on 'Han priviledge', Lenin attacked the 'white Russians', Stalin vilified 'The Kulaks' just as Hitler wiped out the Jews - what makes this any different?"
If they can't listen to an hour long video they are stupid and not worth getting on-side anyway.
Really cool how we are doing McCarthism again.
lol I know right. I guess the right need a boogieman again. It's just moved from Russian communists to 21 year olds with a bachelor of arts degree.
@@Jakecmuir GODDAMN... SHOTS FIRED!!! ... ... But seriously that's a great observation on college students now hahaha
@@Jakecmuir whelp it’s the truth, you haven’t seen things get better with the sjw movements in fact it’s had the opposite effect everyone thought it would have.
Like straight up I know someone taking journalism and well it taught social constructs, your truth all this weird shit man I’m not even stretching it 😭
When people say cultural Marxism is a conspiracy theory just ask them who were Gramsci and Dutschke .