Category: James Lindsay

Communism 3.0

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Communism 3.0

This is the synthesis.

Communism 3.0: The Succession of Capitalism and the China Model (2:28 min)

Karl Marx characterized Communism as "the negation of the negation," which is a peculiar turn of phrase he borrowed from his theoretical predecessor G.W.F. Hegel. What that means is that propertied societies, whether slave, feudal, or capitalist, negate our innate Communist ("social") nature, and then Communism in turn negates capitalism as the highest form of development of the productive organizational modes of society. Well, the negation of the negation experiment was run in various parts of the world through the 20th century and failed everywhere, and what we learned is that the negation of the negation is actually either collapse and then control by an oligarchy or, in other cases, Fascism. These two can be synthesized to create a negation of the negation of the negation, so to speak, that takes Communism as the theoretical ideal and "basic spirit" of historical development while utilizing Fascism as its practical mode of production, and that's exactly what we see in China following the rise of Deng Xiaoping. It's also exactly what we see in the West under the ESG scoring model for corporate behavior and the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that it services. In this important episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay makes the development of "Communism 3.0," a Corporatist Communism for the 21st century clear. You won't want to miss it.

 

Privatized Communisms

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Privatized Communisms

This video was worth it, if only for the phrase “Privatized Communism” because that it was it is.  Or you could call it Corporate Fascism.  Or probably monopolized Capitalism.    People love sticking labels on things and there is some truth to all the above labels.  They have synthesized the opposites into a single Oligarchic control system.  It is neither Communism nor Capitalism.   That is what the Hegelian dialectic does.  It creates the opposites and synthesizes them into a solution.  So you take autocratic Communism and  laissez-faire Capitalism and you fuse them into the the stinking mess that is our technocratic future (lolz).

Lula SELLS OUT Venezuela To Serve U.S. Interests!

 

Lenin and the Brutal Magic of Communism (2:03 min)

One of the great paradoxes of Communism is that in the end, the state is supposed to "wither away," leaving a stateless, classless society in which there is high functioning and little or no want. This circumstance is presented as different to the other stages of history, which are said to proceed through revolutionary overthrow of the existing system. In particular, socialism is meant to be born out of capitalism through a violent proletarian revolution that seizes the means of production and establishes itself as an all-powerful "dictatorship of the proletariat." But this absolute totalitarian state is also exactly what's supposed to "wither away" to make room for Communism. How can that be? In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes you through the fifth chapter of Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution (https://amzn.to/3YGh4jC), written in 1917, to show you Lenin's vision for socialism and his vague but terrifying plan for this magical transition. Join him on this maiden voyage into Leninism on the New Discourses Podcast.

DEI Hard

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DEI Hard

 

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) refers to practices and policies intended to support people who come from varying backgrounds and give them the resources they need to thrive in the workplace.

DEI is “Speaking Bitterness” (25 min)

False Choices

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False Choices

Great short video.

They love giving you false choices.   Do you want Communism or Fascism?   Biden or Trump? Chose option A or B.  How about I chose neither. I will go for option C.  Not going to play your game.

Staying Out of Affordance Traps (12 min)