21st Century Communism

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 100

Communism hasn't died, despite what many would have you believe. It has evolved and adapted for the 21st century. What you see under the CCP in China, that's the Chinese Communist Party, today and what we deal with under ESG and the UN Agenda 2030 in the West is 21st Century Communism, which appears to fulfill Marx, not contradict him, at least in certain ways. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay spends a few minutes to explain to you how Communism is presenting in the 21st century and what it means for us and our fight for our and our children's liberty.

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[philipford]

'Corporate communism' nails it perfectly.

[uumlau]

The best way I've heard this described is, "Fascism is just honest Socialism".

[glenmerwyn]

I'm glad you're doing these shorter videos.
The 2 hour ones (& 3hr) are very long....
These are good sound bites, - education is key !
Thanks

[pddabsorbed]

"communism absorbed fascism" true and profound.

[johnbrown]

Dr. Lindsay thank you for these insightful comments on the transformation of 19th and 20th century Communism to a 21st century Neo-Communist ideological form and political/economic fascist system.

[sandrakippert]

You're brilliant young man. Thank you for existing. God bless you and yours

[TheOrdomalleus]

Finally, the entire thing starts to make sense.

[romanyrose]

This occurred to me too when I decided to deep dive on fascism from the fascists perspective. Up to this point i was studying them from the fascism is evil angle and its skewed from communist historians perspective which just sets out to demonize it. When i did it this way the similarities to "socialism" was unavoidable and i had that epiphany that it's all socialism in origin. Its just different interpretations of collectivist ideology. Once i saw it you can easily see the US is already running the same model as china is. This was FDRs and the early progressive thinkers genius to get it started right under our noses. The democrats are not liberals they are actually progressives. Oh yeah and so were the Republicans. Its very gard to tell the difference between Hoover and FDR when you stop to inspect it.

[mattk]

A good 100th episode - ties lots of the threads together on the metastasis of Marxism.

[ianelliott]

I wish we would call it Woke Fascism. Fascism has a much much more perjorative ring to it.
Students wear communism as a badge of honour. If you read the dictionary definition of fascism and swap out the word Nationalist for Globalist its a pretty good fit.The collaboration of all state and cooperate institutions to eliminate political opposition. China now is far less oligarchic and more of a dictatorship than it was under Deng, or Jiang.

[zeehero]

"Become the managers themselves" you either die happy or live long enough to see karen become the hero! 🤣

[mxvega]

One important factual correction: in the PRC, "one country two systems" refers to the approach taken to Hong Kong and the transfer of sovereignty in 1997, attempting to reconcile one sovereign entity with two political/social/economic systems. It was laid down in the Basic Law, and allowed HK to function as a special autonomous region. Until it didn't.
The approach to liberalization in China - township and village enterprise reform and SEZs on the coasts was a sliding scale of reform and opening up. What worked in Shenzhen would not necessarily work in Xiamen, ditto places with enterprise to reform like in Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and places where there was no starting point of economic assets at all.
PS Macau was brought back under one country two systems terms in 99, and the overall approach was said to be an inducement to Taiwan. Not much of that sentiment remains.

[GODCONVOYPRIME]

Evolution is natural, this is mutation.

[El_Aspiracionista]

What do you propose we do to fight against the power of corporations?

[hermitthefrog]

"Corporatist communism"... isn't that fascism?

[ophelia.artaud]

Well. This makes sense in the Hegelian dialectic. Thesis - Marxism. Antithesis - Facism (which was born of Marxism). Get to Aufheben-ing the 2, and... Here's the synthesis.

[dustinkdye]

I’ve been calling this crypto-fascism, meaning fascism in all but name. However, this doesn’t resonate with people. The term fascist has been overused to the point it’s meaningless (like what is happening to “racist”). My term may be accurate, but it flags me as a crank to normies.

[Kurtofon]

Yes it's very simmilar to the Mensheviks + post modernistic subversion of virtue at least initially it's softer than the Communism of Bolsheviks but I fear it's harder to get rid of once firmly planted into the culture.

[clearlister]

mao killed millions - "that's not real communism bro"
I can't afford a normal life - "that's not real capitalism bro"

[nacetroy]

The plans for China were prepared well before 1978, with intel gathering by a (now) top US Insurance firm whose founder was an OSS official directly associated with Claire Lee Chennault's Flying Tigers, which was used to defend China vs. WWII Japanese invasion. Before that, of course, is the whole Opium Wars - every US Ambassador to Bejing except one during Carter, was a Skull and Bones member which itself is an offshoot of the British East India Company.