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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 193 Radical movements often tend to advance themselves by means of a vanguard approach in which a radical front pushes the issues and agenda forward while the bulk of the movement comes behind. The Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin was famous tor using this approach to conquer Russia and establish the Soviet Union. The thing is, a more sophisticated strategy doesn't use just one vanguard, but at least two, or maybe more. A "bad vanguard" pushes things too far while a "good vanguard" advances the real agenda, like a game of "good cop, bad cop" but for radical movement politics. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains this more sophisticated technique of radical advancement and exposes the strategy. Join him to understand what is happening around you even now, as we speak.
New Discourses Bullets 193 - The Good Vanguard Bad Vanguard Strategy.mp3
Dialectics, Vol. 4: Iterated Dialectics and the Dialectical Ratchet
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 192 Recently on the New Discourses Bullets podcast, host James Lindsay laid out the three classical dialectics of both Hegel and Marx, which laid the foundation for Lenin and eventually Woke thought. In this fourth episode exploring dialectics more directly, he adds an important dimension to the dialectical approach: it is not, as some say, a "one-time good deal." Dialectical manipulations are meant to be iterated. That is, you don't transform a target with them just once but instead apply them over and over again, ratcheting the situation toward a desired goal or state of affairs. In this episode of the podcast, Lindsay explains the iterative intention of the dialectical approach. You don't want to miss it.
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 190 The only way to understand Woke thinking is to understand its dialectical foundations, which run all the way back not only to Lenin and Marx but even to Hegel. There are three classical dialectical programs, at least in Communism, and the second of these is "the Struggle and Unification of Opposites." In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay takes you through this second dialectical form and how you'll meet it today in Woke behavior and thought. It is the second of a three-part series tackling these three dialectical forms. Join him to learn all about the manipulation.
New Discourses Bullets 190 - Dialectics Vol. 2 - Unification of Opposites.mp3
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 188 Karl Marx turned an economic idea called the labor theory of value into a theory of resentment and exploitation. The thing is, it's not just that Marx was wrong for adopting the labor theory of value; it's that the labor theory of value itself is also fundamentally wrong. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, aimed especially at younger listeners, host James Lindsay spells out the failures of both the labor theory of value in general and of Marx's theory of labor resentment on top of it. Join him to learn, and share with younger listeners so they can too.
New Discourses Bullets 188 - Why the Labor Theory of Value Is Wrong.mp3
A Defense of the Practicality and Morality of Interest
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 187
On both Left and Right, our young people are turning against the concept of interest, like money making money for being loaned out. This is an emergency, frankly. Not only does interest make total and absolute sense when you understand what it pays for, it is also an economic and moral good in society. Given current trends, it seems imperative to share the real foundations of monetary interest and how it produces moral and economic goods we should be happy about. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay goes through the basic economics and makes the case. Like most of his economically oriented podcasts, this one was recorded and shared particularly with younger listeners in mind, so join him and share the message with those people who need it most.
New Discourses Bullets 187 - A Defense of the Practicality and Morality of Interest.mp3
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 186 There's a fundamental difference between mere power and legitimate authority, and that difference needs to be dragged into the center of our political discussions against Woke. Power is the raw capacity to do something, but authority is something more. It's power, which is to say capacity and permission, combined with right, which is justification. Woke movements covet power. They have no genuine authority. In that gap all the difference that matters hides. Our forefathers in the American Founding era understood this and called power without authority "arbitrary power," which they found slavish and absurd, and believed to be their sacred duty as men to resist. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay does a kind of "book club" reading from Timothy Sandefur's new book Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence, to draw out this distinction and make it clear and relevant. Join him for an important discussion, and get the book for yourself.
New Discourses Bullets 186 - On Power and Authority.mp3
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