Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay
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- The Theology of Marxism, Session 6
In this sixth session of Sovereign Nations’s "The Theology of Marxism" conference, Dr. James Lindsay addresses the titular theme of the conference: The Theology of Marxism.
For a century and a half, people have failed to recognize Marxism for what it is, a theology. Marx's emphasis on Atheism and strict materialism in all things have obscured from view what Marxism really is. Well, it is not a social theory. It is not an economic theory. It is a theology that sees economic and related social conditions as that which shapes human lives and, if born again into the faith, compels them to seize those means of human production and repurpose them to achieve the Marxian eschatology. That eschatology goes by a few names, but the most identifiable are "Communism," "Liberation," and "Social Justice."
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James Is what our politicians and thought leaders SHOULD be striving for in this fight. Unapologetic, zero cowardice instead of protecting their TH-cam money pile, tip of the spear.
James is well read and comprehends what he’s read.
That is what sets him apart.
Most leftists haven’t even touched half the literature he has.
If he'd lead an army, I'd follow.
@@johannakunze3300Yes , he is one of the great leaders in an intellectual army to push back the lies that have taken so many captive unawares.
@@jaysontadlock1871 If videos like this and his YT channel are a faithful reflection of his comprehension, then he very demonstrably understands little or nothing of what he reads.
James is a charlatan. He wrote an entire book on critical theory and didn't once mention Adorno. That's like writing a book on baseball history but the author never heard of Babe Ruth. And James mispronounces the names of the philosophers that every sophomore philosophy major knows. I feel bad for people being misled.
" marx is a bullshitter ..." , that is why i love what you do
You do the work but be sure to add my name along with your efforts
@@3EBstudio
Ha i get what you mean now
@@andrewpotter4131Engels was the Truly Based one. He actually made money to survive. Marx leeched off of others
God help us we're completely drowning in the BS he's describing and even the most faithful people can't perceive it
Just ask them what Satan's thoughts sound like... they sound like the Dialectic. Literally that algorithmic mental note was the gong that sounded the War in Heaven.
@@yury2749 You people see Satan everywhere: except in your own heads, where he resides the most. The material world is something at once bask in, and despise. The irony is that heaven only knows.
@@CynicalBastard no.
Literally the algorithm that Marx "came up with" is Satan's voice. The Dialectic is the War in Heaven. Class war.
Divide every house against itself.
Marx ruined the Labor movement. He ruined everything he touched.
Also, you got zero idea what I know and what I believe. You think I am some kind of protestant. 😳🙄
@@CynicalBastard that seemed uncalled for... he said nothing that seems to fit your seemingly random snear. "You people" who are his people exactly? Hoe have you so immediately identified what they are, what they believe, and that they're as profoundly bankrupt and deserving of mockery as you imply?
It's rare I see a throwaway comment so irrationally loaded with unearned assumptions.
Major religions have been corrupted by these people as well, if not started by previous "incarnations" of them, because they also believe in reincarnation.
"A being only considers himself independent when he stands on his own feet; and he only stands on his feet when he owes his existence to himself"
That is an ironic quote coming from a man who spent his life aggressively begging from others while neglecting his family.
Sounds much like a confession to me
It is ironic considering most everything is learned. No one is "self-made".. parent guided yes.. self-making is a myth. It is a combination of individual motivation and proper parenting/societal feedback that drives any person to make anything of themselves. Marx should have stopped writing or definitely thought about what he was saying more often, because quotes like that fly in the face of basic biology and more fundamentally, it goes against the political ideology he founded.
sounds like fun
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James makes what seems to be complex more simple and understandable, especially when it comes to these Marxist philosophical/ideological ideas. The common person (like me) needs someone like James to understand what is really taking place in our society today. I/We look around and see all the crazy stuff taking place and wonder how and why this is happening. - Thanks you James Lindsey; Much gratitude for enlightening us all!
The new channel 'What the hell did James Lindsey say "?
It's really valuable having a religion explained from an outsider's perspective. There are so many complex things in there (often seemingly contradictory) that only educated scholars understand. Most believers don't even understand why they do a ritual exactly this or that way. They all do it, but in order to understand it you need an expert to explain the origin. Most lefties don't understand why they act as if men can become women and why ultra-big authoritarian government will be "liberation" just like most Christians couldn't tell you why they don't follow Abrahamic law anymore (like not eating pork) even though Jesus explicitly said to uphold the old law in the sermon on the mount. There are reasons for all of those even though like 90% of believers don't know them. Hell, lefties overwhelmingly don't know the wannabe-religious origin of their world view.
Marxism is not a religion. It's a method for analyzing the world, historically to present. It's a rational and materialist conception of history. And no, the common person like you or me does not need someone like James or James himself. You can read Marx for yourself. You only think Marx is complex because James told you so. He began his presentation making much over Marx being difficult to read, just to discourage his audience from reading him and to let him tell you what to think. James does not understand Marx or Hegel or Frankfurt thinkers; he has possibly read some Marx (then again he can fake that) certainly more than Jordan Peterson did to prepare for the Zizek debate, but he does not understand it except in a crass and superficial way. He is more interested in making snide remarks and engendering a feeling of hatred in his sympathetic listeners for something they haven't studied themselves so can't possibly know themselves.
I'd go for some introduction lessons in anything relating to society. The more the merrier.
More Richard Wolff, less James Lindsay
Knowing it takes James 4, 5, or 6 readings of the Marxist literature for it to start sinking in is remarkably re-assuring. Often we will just let Lindsay's and O'Fallon's podcasts and audio books play for hours, over and over, just so we can say we're starting to understand this nasty nonsense.
Karl Marx was a bullshitter (to the tune of 'Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog' anyone?) indeed. It's absolutely insane how many have been deceived by his works over the decades, and even today.
Thanks for the great work James and Michael!! We so appreciate what you are doing!
I admit, the first 15 mins was really hard to get through because I couldnt quite understand what James was saying, but after that something clicked in my head as he was explaining marx and hegel and I just became enthralled in the talk. Wonderful episode! I need to go back and watch this whole series with Sovereign Nations
Thank you Dr. Lindsay for your dedicated scholarship regarding the history and nature of Marxism in its various forms.
Finally someone got to Faust....This is detailed in the book the Devil and Karl Marx...excellent read. Thanks again James Lindsay
1:41:55 James, you used the 1st person plural (we) when referring to Christians. 😁 Freudian slip?
Keep it up! We'll get you converted yet!
@fuku4229 No, he's an atheist.
I’m so grateful for the work James is doing. And also great fun to our founding fathers for writing such an iron clad constitution and bill of rights.
Since the snake lied in Genesis. By Jove! That was a great line.
In order to explain this to another average person in my own words is a seemingly impossible feat .Try it some time .This is why I watch each episode over and over and over again.Anyone else ?
Yep, I have watched all I can find from him several times. I try to explain it to my brother in law, but I fail. Going to point him in James direction now.
@@crocodilegrundee4514 Here’s what you can tell him. In China the rule of law is based on the judges emotion and his opinion not the rule of law. Critical race theory destroys our blind justice system by giving certain people different sentences different outcomes based on their race, based on the judges emotion and opinion. We have seen this the last five years with our own judges here . Selective justice 3rd world .Critical race theory was developed to undermine our legal system to implement an authoritarian socialist government. Once our private property rights are dissolved and civil rights replace our God-given rights ,we’re done. We’re almost there . Remember Mao , Stalin Castro all champion civil rights. These are rights granted by the state so the state can take them away under a democracy. Under a republic our rights are nonnegotiable and the governments job is to protect those rights under a republic . Let me know if this made sense and brother understands it . .
@@crocodilegrundee4514 shirt cheap book from the 60’s book it’s very Simple by Alan Stang
GEdward Griffin reality Zone reading
Short document Read 45 declared goals of Communism.
Video
Freedom To Fascism by Aaron Russo free on TH-cam
My brother is in law too . Fact he can’t get this , gives me pause .
@@lalaboards
Oh yeah, it made sense to me. I have been trying to explain things that way to him for years. He’s one of the ones that doesn’t think anything bad is happening, and then he complains about something happening with society and churches. My brother in law is actually a smart guy, but is oblivious to so many things. It doesn’t help that he doesn’t know history. I have explained the Maoist revolution to him, and what happened in the Soviet Union as well. I will try your example. Maybe Dr Lindsay will get through to him too.
He thinks I am just a Tin foil hat Conspiracy theorist though. It’s aggravating!
@@lalaboards
By the way, your second post shows on the thread, but that first long one doesn’t. I can see it in my notifications, but it doesn’t show on the comment thread. The TH-cam algorithms kicked it off for saying the wrong word. Freedom of speech is not valued very well on TH-cam!
Man. I've gone through a lot of his lectures and podcasts. I have made my way back to this one, and now it makes so much more sense.
Yep, I have listened to everything I can find from him, sometimes several times. It makes more and more sense the more I listen. I have known about this Marxist Movement for years, but he explains it all so much better than anyone else.
@@crocodilegrundee4514 Marxism is a cult, cults use deceptive and manipulative tactics and tricks.
Criminals do the same thing, specifically p.i.m.p.s and drug dealers, but in general criminals talk in lies and riddles in order to pursuade their victims or even each other into doing their bidding or not suspecting them for stealing or skimming off the top.
I experienced a lot of criminals as a teenager and when this BLM crap started I recognized them as the manipulative criminals they were, but since a lot of them were my college peers I kept telling myself it must just be my bad experiences with manipulative criminals and I am overreacting.
If I hadnt suppressed my natural response to Cult Tactics I wouldnt have wasted any time on trying to understand their Racist beliefs on "Whiteness".
Cant say I regret it, because I learned a lot because of it but if I hada choice I would rather avoid them like the plague.
I guess this is why their targets are mostly College kids, college kids are groomed to accept new Truths from Authority figures and to be Kind and try to fit in as they are alone in an Adult world for the first time of their lives.
One of the main things I learned from hanging out with criminals is that *whatever one accusses another of they likely did themselves* shifting blame is really common and painting an alternative reality before something is revealed too.
Poisoning your mind towards somebody and then that person reacts to whatever the other had done made you think the manipulator was right.
CS Lewis understood this stuff so unbelievably well.
I'm curious what he's said about it. Do you have a good recommendation?
Screwtape Letters? Abolition of Man?
@@chinocracy yes but I would add men without chests. His essay titled “man or rabbit” is also relevant. Cheers
@@chinocracy That Hideous Strength.
My favorite work of his seems to be the least known. The Space Trilogy. Main character is based on his best bud, Tolkien.
@@Vorgaloth Space Trilogy is kinda mindblowing for me, looking back on it. It's spiritual scifi. And That Hideous Strength just outlines how these people operate. And it's kinda hilarious at points.
These people really think Merlin would be on their side.
Jesus said, "those who are not against us are for us"
Marx said, "whatever Jesus said, but backwards"
Yeah, Jesus's main message was about being against people, yo.
@@CynicalBastard who was he against?
Satan, speaking through Marx. Let us not forget his fits of uncontrollable rage, and his fathers description of him being like a man possessed by a devil.
@@praetoriandorn3154 YESS! I have been saying this. Marx never worked a day in his life. He channelled Satan to get those books writ.
I just started Bible school and praise the Lord I understood the title! 😀🙂😃
Good luck in your endeavor. God bless ya
I admit, I wasn't an enthusiast for Marxism and Marxist analyses before your video rant, but you've totally changed my mind on this.
This is so good, if you could only get this display for what it really is. James is owning this situation.
For me, the now interest in Marxism is wonderful. All of this has been stated for at least 120 years now in various ways. But these new looks a particularly enlightening I our secular humanist and present naturalistic philosophies. Nihilism began its first forays into European history during the turns of centuries before the Russian revolution. Now with so, much advancement beyond industrialization into technologies and communications, and the wayward persuit of one world socialistic government, and economic system; we are being warned of what's coming. Great education for our times right now. The discourses through philosophy, science and technology, and political government, is an education seldom achieved in the university forum. And this is what's important, it's public education on top of the subjects by any standard, and beyond into futher productive and meaningful thought. For those who desire to think, or need to, will be rewarded in deeper soulful ways. And this is very, very good. And thank God, we don't have to "pay for it", as is remarked. We are standing on others shoulders in this, so others can stand on ours as we turn to God alone; and I say to Christ alone. Grace and peace. I think we are in a time that people can really perceive it, with the conditions in the world. No longer left to few who warned with a fewer listeners,.at least in America. Europe really needs to get a grip. Let alone the rest of the world.
We don’t deserve James Lindsay.
Would it then be fair to say that marxism is *at least* indirectly responsible for the worst atrocities of the 20th century?
I think it's in conjuncture with technology that totalitarianistic horrors took place. The Marxist theology cries out for violence against other faiths so it's rather directly responsible for it. They are very blunt about who they want to "abolish".
no, not even close. If you want to blame an -ism it would be capitalism which also includes the nazis. Of course blaming -isms is pretty clunky, overgeneralizing and useless. If marxism killed 100 million people that' s what capitalism got up to in just a single country, India.
@@emilianosintarias7337 Really? You're going to justify marxism because 100 million people killed is less than those died living under capitalism??? Really? That's your argument?
@@bluemm2852 Really, you're going to excuse it?
@@CynicalBastard excuse what?
I really appreciate these detailed talks!
Wow..... these people paid money for this scam. Maybe I should read some french textbooks and then do workshops on the french language. I'll just tell people that bonjour means hamburger, but all the other french teachers and french people are lying to you.
Some people love being taken advantage.
Lindsay was a massage therapist before this scam.
I have no doubt you would destroy the entirety of existence if you had the power to do so.
@@novinceinhosic3531 at least you know you’re evil.
@@kdnick8584 is that actually true? the guy seems legit insane.
I don't often take notes from a TH-cam video. This worthy lecture is one counterexample.
Yep, Thank you Dr. Lindsay.
Marxists coin a phrase "totality" to describe the process by which their telos, meaning and eschatology are experienced. This Totality isn't outside our heads but inside. Not just individually, but collectively. It's like a facet of Hegel's Zeitgeist - the materialist version (hence: "standing Hegel on his head"). The Marxist Totality is experienced as an immanent 'Progress of History' which gives Marxians the sense and certainty of being on the "right side of history", or that they're directing history to progress itself! - by immanentizing the eschaton. The experience of Totality is like a communian with the Marxist God (Their Eucharist). By 'materialist version', Marxians mean it's not just an idea, not just the 'superstructure' in action (ideas in motion). 'Materialist' means that the agency of history and events is a fusion of "the ideas" with "historical forces" and/or "laws of motion of Capitalism". Man isn't the God of Marxism. The God is the Totality, unfolding through the actions of humans and transforming the world as the eschaton unfolds through our actions. The Marxian God is therefore the transformation of man into a more progressive version.
Notice how Marx fetishized science. Calling communism: "scientific socialism". Appealing to the "Laws of motion of Capitalism" is a claim that the Marxian "immanence of the eschaton" is based on Scientific Laws. Marx also levered Hegel's reinterpretation of God, or his 'progress of history'.
'totality' = Franz Jakubowshi: "Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism" - www.marxists.org/archive/jakubowski/1936/Ideology-Superstructure.pdf
immanentize the eschaton = see: Voegelin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton
"Laws of motion of Capitalism" = www.marxists.org/archive/weisbord/Laws.htm
All progressives are NOT marxists; but marxism is the most ideologically/philosophically explicit form of progressivism. In practice, many progressive ideas derive from marxism; and progressives don't even know it.
ONTO's should NEVER be allowed political influence.
This should have millions upon millions of views!
Second time through, this guy is excellent.
Of course we are. They are linguist specialists and they know exactly what they are doing. This is why it’s vital to understand it and people can’t fight something they don’t understand.
Noam Chomsky
Sounds a lot like Roko's Basilisk. Just replace the Basilisk with the perfected Social Man. Or, to put it in terms of the New Age, man's Awakened Self, the Buddha, the Mahatma, the 'Christ-Consciousness'. How much longer before the one world government assumes the one world religion openly?
"So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin intended in this disobedience, but that actually the 'Serpent' was 'the Lord God' himself, who, as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their turn." - Helena P. Blavatsky, cofounder of the Theosophical Society
"Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior." - H.P. Blavatsky
"The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences - let them assure themselves first of all that there are beings in an invisible world, whether 'Spirits' of the dead or Elementals; and that there are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on earth." - H.P. Blavatsky
"There is no question therefore that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity, if those groups leave off being organisations with material purpose, and become organisms with living objectives." - From 'The Externalisation of the Hierarchy', written by Alice A. Bailey, Theosophical Pioneer of the New Age movement
"Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light from them and to draw them away from it...Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries." - From 'Morals and Dogma', required reading for Freemasons, written by Albert Pike, 33° Freemason
Yet, you still keep going.
That’s what I thought too.
Btw, I fully support the project of bringing the basilisk into existence;)
Amazing..beyond words brilliant! So grateful I found this.
And the Truth shall set you free.
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Now I know where Kamala gets her speech impediment she read too much Karl Marx.
Marx wasn't ethnically German, he was ethnically Jewish; and despite his protestations against religion, he was also Judaic in the sense that his Socialist Man at History's End mirrors the Judaic idea of The World to Come: man will be his true self / the world will be perfected--once Marxism / Judaism have run their proper courses across humanity and its history.
Creative work is still work. People always knock the artists, but if you have ever made a film or written a book, you will know that it is hard work, and you will only become a great artist by first making a lot of crap. Artists learn by doing. People should give artists more credit instead of holding them up as lazy or useless. We all benefit from art. Don't you forget it, Buster.
Revelation in the Bible seems to describe this Image of the Beast (Socialist Man) that everyone will bow down to and worship! It rejects the Image of God for that of the creature/created thing. It is narcissism played out on a grand scale because it will be COLLECTIVE SELF-worship and idolatry.
"Look what WE accomplished, all without God!"
But as the story continues, then comes certain Judgment from the Almighty Himself. The Sovereign King will never be dethroned by mere creatures who think they are wiser than Him.
Everyone of the people in this audience needs a contact to ask questions at any point afterwards for further resources and references. The man on the stage can’t be the main point of contact. Too overwhelming. I suggest using the same middle man as the foe. Librarians. People see how destructive the ALA has been to the country. Drag Queens and all. The good ones are extremely crafty as well.
Not having any sort of organized information dissemination is a huge mistake. Business cards with the contact person who can help them navigate what is not rational. Screw social media. Eyes on eyes and an available person to help disseminate the information properly with sources.
The lack of facilitators (teachers, librarians, activists) is the huge hole in America’s strategy. The elites don’t own them all. It is essential to use direct contact non woke facilitators.
''Liked & Subscribed!'' - 26:18''The Idea Isn't Out There.'' - ''It Exists Only in Their Heads.'' - The Accusation of Social Constructs Isn't Entirely False. It Is, However, Simply Dangerous Because Mentally Derranged Humans Can Abuse It Worse Than Those Who Seek to Advance The Social-Economic Agendas of Society for The Betterment of All.
After listening to these podcasts, I now understand what the school was referencing during its public discussion. I was a loud vocal opponent and challenged everything they said, as none of what they said was logical.
Brilliant lecture. If i had hands i would clap
James is so drunk, but like all great minds, drunkenness just changes our voice, not our intellect. Get it James, it only gets more understandable as you go. James is a masterpiece and a national treasure. This guy has deconstructed woke and sat upon it.
He’s drunk? What are you talking about?
@@therainman7777 Exactly, you are making my point. Now abstract the second meaning.
This Gnosticism sounds A LOT like narcisism.
It has the same roots, principles and consequences.
Yes, you are the greatest nothing, a greater nothing than even the next guy.
@@CynicalBastard ouch, that little quip from OP really struck a nerve huh
@@praetoriandorn3154 You people are too stupid. You never read the Holy Family, you don't know what Marx's work is based on: you don't know anything about anything: so you can't have a conversation.
The religion with no name, Mythras, Saturnalia, Gnosticism, New Agism is all the same culture of death/fallen faith of Genesis that was imparted at the tree with the "gift" of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Without Wisdom to discern said knowledge you have been given the seeds to your own destruction.
That's the point. Satan hates Imagers of God in mankind. If you can slip knowledge in before wisdom can take hold you have sown the seeds of destruction.
Wisdom is impossible without faith in Christ and true discernment is illusory without the God Breathed Word of Scripture.
James is an agnostic/weak atheist (lack of belief instead of belief in the negation of). Isn't he wise?
@@sebastiansirvas1530 I like James alot and he borrows the biblical paradigm because it's the only true way to understand all of this.
His wisdom and understanding of all of this comes from the biblical paradigm
So whatever degree of "wise" you would apply to James it's firmly couched in the biblical aspects of his work.
He lacks a ton of wisdom without faith in Christ I would contend indeed. First and foremost would be the murder of unborn children.
@@sebastiansirvas1530 Some of the comments are not showing, so forgive me if this has been stated, but yes James IS wise, and his wisdom is God-given. God is using him and we should be grateful for that, regardless of whether James is fully aware of that. Most all of us fall into that category to certain degrees in our lifetimes as well.
James off to a slow start as usual, but hang in there.
Yes, Marx ignored his own absolute dogmas as he criticized all others.
[Too bad we cant see the back screen.]
Marxism is the opposite of dogma. Let that be lesson and rule #1.
@@SimoneBee-be6jv Sure, Bee.
@@SimoneBee-be6jv Sure. Bee
Narcissists use people and then discards them. Make the note.
As a committed Marxist, I'm really impressed with how well this guy knows his stuff. (although I don't like how he throws the post-marxists in)
The interesting thing is, it's true that the curse God gave Adam when he was cast out of Eden was work: that man would have to work for his bread. The essential part they got wrong, obviously, is trying to get back into Eden on their own terms instead of waiting for God to allow them back in.
Work is not a result of the curse. Adam and Eve were given the creation mandate before the fall and in heaven, believers will serve God for all eternity. The fall effected work in causing it to be toil.
Yes, man has tried to use man-centered religions and/or their own good works and merit to enter in. Yet, the only way back into the Garden (Heaven and eventually, God will make a new heavens and a new earth - as the old will pass away) is on God's terms through reconciliation with our Creator whom we've all rebelled against, through Jesus Christ. John 14:6. I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
@@Kikuye So work for capitalists, and just...give unto caesar until Jesus comes back. Just let things be crap. That's how God intended it.
@@CynicalBastard have you ever heard of christian charitable organisations? Its this pretty wild thing they do where they organise themselves to help the poor, the elderly, widows etc without expecting anything in return. Seriously its like none of you have ever even heard of charity, except at the end of a rifle.
@@praetoriandorn3154 Have you ever heard of effective altruism? how about Catholic distributionism, from the early modern period?
Fallen man always choose THE GODS OF THE MARKET PLACE
1:23:23” I want you to call me Loretta.” -life of Brian.
This sure sounds like a lot of work for a lot of folks who don't want to do labor...
Thanks for presenting this information on Marxism. I do want to add that in the Bible Genesis 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." KJV People who have a problem with this verse have to be ignoring the prepositional phrase after the term knowledge which is "of good and evil," a specific type of knowledge not just all knowledge plus the word all is not in this portion of the text and would have to be added by the reader.
As I understand, the supreme sin is to claim superior knowledge over God of the nature of Good and Evil. 'Those who call good evil".
@@mariussielcken "Hatred of the good for being the good, is the hallmark of the twentieth century. This is the enemy you are facing." Ayn Rand
Knowledge of good and bad might simply mean knowledge of all things.
Advertising is built on these same alchemical principles but in an exploitative way of changing the person to suit the product instead of making a product to suit the person.
James Lindsay explains that someone can use a lot of big words and asides to cover up their bullshit, then he gives a demonstration of that for an hour
I take it you got lost pretty quickly then
Profound!!
Engels wrote _The Communist Confession of Faith_
Marxism is intellectual eugenics. Brilliant lecture.
Thanks!
Marx sounds like a very troubled person who tried very hard to be his own god and did everything in his power to try and dilute as many minds as possible while he was alive.
Why don't you find out for yourself? Instead of relying on a faux scholar? Because you'd be surprised.
So man is the source of his own wisdom. Right.
James Lindsay did NOT kill himself!
graahhhhhhh!!! marx has no teleology!!!!
Thanks God there are people that understand the obvious religious Gnostic back bone of all ideology since Jacobinis and french revolution, or since prophets like Rousseau and Hegel and the ill defined "modern Philosophy" as true continuation of Scholasticism (erased from philosophy by people pretending to be the true "heirs" of Greece and the real "fathers" of mothern Science, Universities and Academia including Ars /Techné .... Thanks a lot for this great talk Dr Lindsay, It´s a shame I didin´t knew of your existence before in my 46 years wondering why this IMPORTANT issue are not addressed by anyone at leas since Voegelin
28:26 actually the first draft of the manifesto was by Engels. It was Marx who suggested the change of title. And the genre of communist catechisms is older. I think Moses Hess had one, but I might be confusing him with Weitling
This is brilliant, but shouldn't it be Herstory? Or Theyrestory?
Good catch, the bigots are everywhere, we must stay on the struggle comrade.
Zirstory
Jim is correct, period!
Listening a second time
Nothing bugs me quite as much as the cultural misappropriation of Ukraine 🇺🇦 by bluehairs. Truly odious.
YOU TUBE BLOCKING NON LEFT SHORTS 9/25/22. 9:15 AM
"All that exists deserves to perish" .... how can this idea be acceptable to any human being?
I do with JL what JL does with Marx, listen to James Lindsay several times to get it. JL is a great mind.
"Hard to not become grumpy and angry reading Karl Marx" @12:20
Hahahaahhaa. I've said those exact words about reading _Cynical Theories_
As with all politics, religion, and philosophy, there has to be nuances. Many Grey areas, NOT just black and white oppositions, as Lindsey already knows..but sometimes forgets or limits. He is one of my go-to people dealing with some of the more insane ideas coming out of postmodernism, but he is not perfect either..for me, with a great deal of experience of reading most of the same philosophers/writers he mentions, I can comfortably agree with 85% of what James Linsey I've heard from him. But I have real reservations about some of the people he hangs with at Sovereign Nations who have their own particular agenda..most of which is currently hidden.
Also, as I'm sure he really knows, the talking snake in The Garden of Eden mythology is NOT the one lying..he is the only one in the story who is NOT deceiving, as is Eve when she took a bite of that knowledge fruit and suddenly understood morality (the difference between right and wrong). The Real lying came from Hasham and his Heavenly Host. Perhaps, James hanging around too many Christian pastors and priests . Just a thought.
1:34:28 this periodization is too schematic, it's from Stalin not Marx, leaves things out like Asiatic mode of production.
49:28 I don’t think it’s necessarily eugenics. It’s more like about the evolution of the culture and values and society that shape man.
This guy should stick to math. The leaps he makes with his interpretations are immense and his quotations are often out of context or don't have the full quote, making it say what he would like to. Also, gnosticism isn't essentially bad, and has little if nothing to do with the life of Karl marx
_dayyym, son!!!_
B4 they settled on the title "The Communist Manifesto"
It was to be called "Communist Confession of Faith"
I rest my case
Coolio. Coolio. Coolioz. Hope the dude is doing well, these lectures are fire. Going strong going strong.
Marx struck me as very much an Atheist Christianity. An initial state, a fall from that initial state into our present circumstances, a promised end and how to get there.
It's 100% anti-Christ.
@@highlightning6693 I am basically an atheist so it is all superstition to me. But yeah, it is anti-christianity.
Christianity at its core is individualistic, Marxism looks at the individual as nothing more than an Avatar of the group. Individualist vs Collectivist.
Positive rights vs negative rights
Collective rights vs individual rights
@@brandonclark435 Marxism comes from Christianity. It is the competing precepts of equality, the last should become the first, the last become the first. Keep in mind that there were Christian communist and Christian communes. The Book of Acts. At the core of Marxism is the irrational hatred of natural hierarchy. He doesn't just hate exploitation but hates the system throughout. Individuality comes from the Christian precept, particularly Western Christianity that human dignity gives freedom as a right to human beings. It is the principle assumption that freed the slaves. Coincidentally, Western countries favor, especially the US, favor freedom more, while Eastern Europe fell under communist inspired socialism both of which are based on Christian assumptions.
1:28:44 Oops, I spoke to soon. He's got infrastructure and superstructure quite wrong.
Yes james, you should read a book more than once if you need to. Its called engagement with the material's , deconstructing the work if need be to better understand it. 101 academia.
Edit.. two mins in and hes quoting george soros in relation to a lecture on marx..
See you james.
The definition of religion is a controversial and complicated subject in religious studies with scholars failing to agree on any one definition.
The definition of religion is easily one word: Control.
@tankgirl2074 , basically, there are two options:
• self-organization;
• optimization of goal-setting and decision-making.
@@tankgirl2074, you are talking about organized faith.
History uses people and then discards them. Sounds like a cheap way of claiming, "I did it, but it's not my fault."
Sounds like some sanctuario do roncador theosophy golden brotherhood hippy kabulyon stuff
The thing Marx said about everybody being their own sun is very, very similar to what Aleister Crowley said. And they were both influenced by Sabbatean-Frankism.
Becoming you mean we not complete as human beings,how you explain cains murdering his brother abel. Both from Adam & Eve. How come one was evil one not.
@@novinceinhosic3531 l can't imagine jesus and his disciples talking same. Jesus parables are so down to earth and not like Greek metaphysics.
The tower of babel
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what is a reddit? i may as well read it
Newton was an alchemist.
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I use to think this was exaggeration on James part but of course the more I learned about the topic and ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE LIFE OF KARL MARX THE MAN, ITS OBVIOUS.
HE WASNT AN ECONOMIST, HE TRULY WAS A LOSER WHO LIVED BEYOND HIS MEANS AND NEVER WORKED BECAUSE HE WAS PROPPED UP FINANCIALLY BY MANY BOURGEOISE FRIENDS HE HAD. HE WAS A BITTER MAN WHO BASICALLY HATED THE WORLD AND CREATED A THEOLOGY AROUND THE CONCEPT OF LIFE BEING UNFAIR BECAUSE WE HAVE TO WORK SO THQTS LAME AND THE RICH PPL SHOULD GIVE EVERYONE ELSE STUFF.
IT, MARXISM, HAS ZERO TRUE APPLICABILITY IN THE REAL WORLD, BECAUSE WHILE HE DESCRIBED A REVOLUTION AND A DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT HE Said NOTHING OF THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF HOW IT WOULD ALL WORK.
THATS WHY SO MANY HAD TO CONTINUE HIS IDEAS FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WROTE NOTHING ABOUT APECIFICS AND THE LAWS THAT WOULD GOVERN THE LAND. NOTHING OF THE SORT.
HE BASICALLY IMAGINED A FAIRYTALE, WROTE IT DOWN LIKE IT WAS THE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH AND THEN HAD RELIGIOUS ZEALOT FOLLOWERS WHO THOUGHT IT ACTUALLY CONTAINED GOOD IDEAS.
BUT 1 OF THE BIGGEST DETAINS IS THAT
B4 "The Communist Manifesto" was a decided title it was going to be named
"THE COMMUNIST ARTICLES OF FAITH"
I REST MY CASE.
So Marx seems to exclude Man from his definition of material conditions. He externalizes all of Man’s challenges and ignores the material constraints of people as physical beings with their own limitations.
Yes, his philosophy centers Socialist Man as the thing that constructs the material conditions through the process of dialectical materialism. You can see from this where ideas like Social Constructivism and Structuralism came from.
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So you're saying they don't know what a woman is. But they also aren't that sure of what a man is... Cough
How is Marxism as religion an indictment when you are religious? I know you think this is a compelling attack but it's not.
Are we here now
Kabbalah
What a waste of time. When he started the ad hominems I realized he just was making propaganda.
Agree. His only purpose is to denigrate Marx. He has a superficial grasp of Marxian thought. I give him credit for reading some Marx but he doesn't understand it.