Lenin and the Brutal Magic of Communism

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 146

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[mkb]

Now I understand why Klaus Schwab has a bust of Lenin in his bookshelf.

[eddysgaming]

Just because one man refused to get a job to feed his own family.

[janicemccann]

James, this book, "Cogs in the wheel- The formation of Soviet Man" by Mikhail Heller is an incredible resource for the work you are doing. Superb and meticulous, well sourced research on the Soviet regimes revolutionary program meant to change fundamentally change human nature under the auspices of the State. Encapsulated by Bukharin, "Proletarian coercion in all its forms, beginning with the firing squad, is... the way of fashioning the communist man out of the human material of the capitalist era." As Gorky wrote "...the working class cannot fail to understand that Lenin is only performing a certain experiment on their skin and on their blood"; the proletarians "are being used as material for an inhuman experiment. As ideological chief K. Chernenko said in 1983 "the formation of the new man constitutes not only an important goal but an indispensable prerequisite for the construction of communism." Read these people in there own words and you will really place the present in the broader context of the root, branch and fruit of evil.

[andrewpotter]

Always woth listening to James Lindsay

[yyguuyg]

The bit about the reversal of suppression, how the minority (exploiters) must be suppressed by the majority (wage slaves), reminds me of the Ibram Kendi line: “the remedy for past discrimination is present discrimination.”

[UncommonSense]

This is worth watching a second time. In fact, I need to watch it again.

[LAZARUSLNG]

James has the actual philosophical fundaments down on this horseshit, and has made it comprehensively available, in a way that painfully few other voices in the resistance space seem sufficiently versed.

His work travelling the world trying to spread the word is laudable, and it has made a difference, but what would amplify the effectiveness of the light he is shining by an order of magnitude would be if as many as possible of the other major speakers taking a stand against the poisonous cultural fruits of CT etc. were compelled to take a course on the historical, philosophical, religious, political, and psychological exposition of the great ever present death cult, run by James.

[DavidSmith-mttb]

He stole "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" straight from the new testament. The way the Bible outlines how we are supposed to live is that everyone is our neighbor, and we should place the needs of others before our own when they have greater need. If everyone does this, then all needs would be met. BUT, it understands that this sort of thing is something to strive toward and will never be perfectly fulfilled, and that it does not need administration by a state, but can be practiced by any community in any government system. It calls mankind to be charitable and good. It used to be this type of faith that drove leftist policy in this country. Marxism is a total inversion of that faith.

[karenchidwick]

In the late 80s and into the 90s I did a lot of reading about cults and New Age religions, growing up in Santa Barbara we certainly had our fair share of them, and except for a few more right-wing militias the topic of cults and New Age went kind of quiet. When my husband and I first started listening to you and Michael I was puzzled at the change from cults to CRT and BLM and communism. Then in one of your podcasts you drew the bridge! ALICE BAILEY and the LUCIS Publishing Company. I perked up and said, "I remember that name!" and ran to the bookcase to pull out all my books I'd read. I found her name in the book "The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow. The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism" by Constance Cumbey and listed in the index under "New Age Structure" was her name and five of her books! At the conference I wanted to tell you about that connection and how much more sense it all makes but you were of course very busy. The book was published in 1983 but is still available on Amazon.

[kingclover]

It's hard to believe that such brutal people had such naive, innocent, dreamy ideas about a pie-in-the- sky Utopia being possible.

[hewhoowilliams]

They never talk about Lenin in the US because they were all on board with the new secular religion.

[floraoddchild]

Read Fabian Freeway by Rose Martin. It's absolutely essential reading. Marx, Lenin, Mao, Deng, they're all by-products of the Fabian Society intellectuals. None of them would have funding nor power without Fabian backing. The British Fabians themselves said that their program progressed most effectively in America. Fabian Freeway explains literally everything, including what you're describing here. The plan was always a technocracy with a dictatorship of an expert class, and of course, the Fabians would constitute that expert class. The chapters that mention American elections could have been written post 2020, even though the book was written in 1966. Fabians rebranded themselves many times, but their global goals stayed the same. Today, we call them the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). If we don't limit CFR interference within our government, we'll end up slaves of their global governance.

[StarCityFAME]

If you don't speak up fearlessly, none of this is going to help you.

[Sammysapphira]

The most perplexing thing to me about communist doctrine is this idea that the bourgeoisie is some form of caste system in which if you are bourgeoise, you were born it, always were, and always will be. They talk about the bourgeoisie class as if it is some kind of affliction. How is the irony not seen in this? I could understand if communism was a response to feudalism, but it isn't. It feels like it's late to the party and is ironically attacking the one system that actually offers self actualization and self realization. In a feudal system, if you weren't born under the crown, you were a peasant. That was it. Even if you somehow had the skills to perform other tasks, there are no systems in place to enable you to succeed.

The greatest irony in everything is communism is closer to feudalism than capitalism is, despite capitalism being called "feudalism with extra steps." You have a monopolistic ruling class (the state), albeit falsely represented as "the people", that barks marching orders to its subjects and determines what you do with your life under its rule. Communism is feel-good feudalism, where the ruling class gets to speak about themselves as gifts to society for their selfless service.

[grennhald]

Lewis over at Tikhistory has spoken at length about the religion of all these political ideologies and has exposed them as religious denominations first and foremost. He refers to them as being Gnostic, but he admits that Gnosticism is really a different denomination of the unnamed religion which is one of the oldest religions.

[KhorneBrzrkr]

I find it interesting how proponents of this ideology don't see it's self defeating workings. Those who believed it and pushed it in decades past were absolutely (and I use that word for a reason) convinced of the perfect nature of their movement... except that year by year they changed things. Adapted them. "Improved" them. So... is it perfect or not? If it was so perfect in its conception then why did it need to change at all? If it wasn't perfect then, why are you so sure it's perfect now?

[nacetroy]

Just curious, are there any ND/Lindsay listeners who have been disabused of their affinity for Socialism/Marxism by listening to these podcasts? I think it would be a white pill to hear, so, comment if you want to. Myself, I could have used Lindsay's analysis of these things back in the mid to late 80s (I'm older than James by about 15 years), I "liberated" (heh) myself from these ideas after finding postmodernism to ultimately be absurd and nihilistic. I'm not saying there aren't criticism that are of value, there are, but the criticisms generally lead nowhere good.

[BryanWLepore]

Now we know what "community" means.

[tensevo]

communism is making it impossible or illegal to disagree, dissent with "the state"

[yengsabio]

Thanks a lot for this digest, kind James!

Cheers & mabuhay, from my end--the Philippines!