James, thank God you do what you do. One day I'll speak up at work (in a government bureaucracy heavily infected with Critical Pedagogy) but I see how well read I must be and it's daunting. You inspire me to dive in and get equipped to fight back.
Go Keith! Have allies. Introduce and help frame, validate, and inform other's concerns so that they better understand the full depth and breadth of the problem and can help form a bulwark against the capitulation of the group. Record interactions. Good luck.
@@ryannafe9252 As the other comment or said, you need allies. Not only that but OP's instinct is correct. You need to be informed about your position to convince anyone of anything.
Hey, I’m in one of those jobs, too! Glad to see there are others out there who are learning from James’ work. Funny to think about it, but people like us actually ARE the resistance…
Good luck, when the time comes. Be exceptionally well prepared and know every talking point so they can't corner you into being labelled a racist, transphobe and more. They will devour you if they get just a small chance to do so.
I have an undergrad degree in pol/sci. I earned after retiring. I took 2-3 ‘Marxist thought’ classes out of curiosity and a basis to understand the ‘enemy’ seeing I fought Communists while in the Marine Corps.. Marx is some of the most dense reading I have ever encountered, and I’ve read a LOT of philosophic works. Many times I thought Marx was just trying to ‘baffle with bullshit’ when he couldn’t ‘dazzle with brilliance’.
Marxism/Neomarxism/Critical Theory is the quintessential philosophy for the clueless. It's basic concepts are arrived at gratuitously. The main thing it does provide is a lot of really great sounding catch phrases: "the workers control the means of production," "religion is the opiate of the masses," etc. Fundamentally it is a sort of nihilistic, sadistic, passive-aggressive orgy: enough oppressive, inhuman destruction will lead us to a perfect, liberated existence. It is the head game of all head games. It is the blueprint for running society like a severally dysfunctional/abuse ridden family. It is, perhaps, the ultimate justification for being an insufferable, bullying a$$hole. In short, it is the very essence of evil.
@@boilermaker1337 Your comical misunderstanding of both of those phrases demonstrates the Satanic agenda this man it hard at work carrying out. He knows nothing about Marx, and his acolytes know even less. I will pray for you.
@@dinsdag6juli2010 What other word is appropriate for those who are anti-human, anti-life, and anti-God? Atheists like Lindsay won't be satisfied until the world is the Randian dystopia that he dreams of, and all of humanity is in chains, or worse. I can't think of anything more Satanic than that.
Theology is the study of God or gods. God is the notion of a supernatural entity who created and sustains the physical Universe. Does Marxism believe in such a being? Gods (lower case "gods") are supernatural beings with super human powers. Does Marxism believe in such beings? If not, how can Marxims have a theology?
James. Holy moley. I actually listened to the podcast, front to back, with a few rewinds where I missed a concept. This is first rate research. And my brain is about to pop.
Same! I have to listen at .75 speed, else it's like trying to use a bucket to catch water from a fire hose. Too much to understand, for me, at regular speed.
"Understanding Marx as a theologian..." that makes so much sense. The 19th century produced Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Christian Science, Christadelphians, Theosophy and Witchcraft - interesting century.
Dont forget his father was a Rabbi and he had been raised in a heavily religious orthodoxy, same with Hitchens. It explains why he wanted to dismantle religion
Don’t forget the Adventists and Christian Scientists. Marx’s self-actuating god-man reminds of the Mormon doctrine. Add also the works based salvation and you have yet another religion that stands in stark contrast to the rest one has in Christ where we don’t work for our salvation since He alone could do the work for us.
@@LlibertarianGalt Karl Marx's Father, Heinrich Marx, was a Lutheran who converted to Christianity to assimilate into Prussian society (abandoning Judaism and changing his name from Herschel Levi)... Karl himself was raised Lutheran, and despised Judaism, going as far as publicly declaring that not only was Judaism inherently capitalist, but also that capitalism was merely a manifestation of Judaism in the broader society... "money has become a world power and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of the Christian nations. The Jews have emancipated themselves insofar as the Christians have become Jews" - On the Jewish Question, Karl Marx (Yes that is the same Jewish Question that the National socialists had the "final solution" to, and yes they WERE actually socialists. NSDAP ideology is literally just marxism with "race struggle" replacing "class struggle" ) Marx's grandfather had been a Rabbi, and his uncle had inherited the position.
Man, from a Christian perspective Marx's ideology is legit Satanic. It goes right back to the garden of Eden with the serpent telling Eve she will be like God if she eats from the tree. "Man as God". Marx's ideology is literally blasphemy. Edit for typo.
We are all now ubermensch since James informed us as to our position in marxian religion. I once was lost but now I'm a victim. Was blind but now I poke my brothers eyes for equality.
This young man has an incredible mind. He is absorbing, processing and understanding information and history in a very short period of time that has taken me a lifetime to process and understand.
I think there's a baked in need for some kind of faith in people, or a theory of meaning. As someone who was raised by atheists I have noticed this in myself and tried finding my way to christianity. It hasn't really "clicked" so far, and I don't want dishonestly pretend to believe things I don't. I feel more of a spiritual connection to nature than anything else, and find myself drawn to animistic traditions, but this void can easily be filled by state worship or marxism
Yeah it seems like most proclaimed atheists have encountered came to their atheism through a leftism. But they aren't conscience of that lol They just think they are smart and conservatives are wrong because they are religious.
@@max8m1 my boyfriend and I went through the same journey, but found a great church and pastor. It also helps that our pastor reads dead languages and has a masters in theology and several other degrees. He knows his shit. Good luck on your spiritual journey and hopefully you find your way back to the Lord ❤
@@austyn5004 Thanks, I hope so too. I feel like it would go along way in being an antidote to nihilism and finding meaning in life. My local pastors sadly haven't been able to really help me out much, but this may be due to me living in former East Germany, where most people are atheists. But I'll keep looking for ways to spiritualism for sure, the few experiences I've had have been kind of magical, such as a misty morning deep in a scandinavian forest I spent in silence and which left me feeling like I "floated" a bit outside myself for quite some time, feeling deeply content and in tune with my surroundings. But anyway, I don't want to ramble to strangers too much. All the best to you and your bf!
Using the correlation between Marxism and atheism as a source of skepticism of atheism seems rather disingenuous. Atheism simply rejects the idea of deities, and that is the *only* valid vector of debate. That some people who are atheists also happen to belong to another group (Marxism) is utterly irrelevant.
James ability to consume mass amounts of read content and then his genius to distill it all and spit it all out in spoken essay form is 2nd to none. I don't knownif people know how much mental skill this takes..
This proves everything I ever suspected of Marxism (without having read Marx), but could never quite articulate (because I hadn't read Marx..). Still, it's mind-blowing, how such an insane, anti-reality paradigm managed to almost take over the world (even in the age of extreme scientific advancement).. Thank you James, truly doing God's work here (figuratively speaking).
@@LlibertarianGalt Satan is the first egomaniac so it stands to reason these deceptive doctrines of demons would appeal to a world full of narcissists. I mean “you can become like God if you eat of the tree of secret knowledge of good and evil”, worked on Adam and Eve and works to this day. #MastersOfDeception
If religions such as Christianity and Islam can thrive, it's not surprising Marxism can thrive too. Irrational beliefs and faith based religions have been part of human experience for a long time.
There used to be a time when scientific evidence proved conclusions. Now all it takes is demagogues and grifters like Lindsay to just invent an entire imaginary version of Marxism in order to line his pockets. And his atheist congregation eats it up in their juvenile rebellion against God. It makes me weep.
@@Supernautiloid Care to point out some of the made-up points and wrong interpretations/explanations? Lindsay has his own interpretation of Marxism, yes. Since when is it wrong to interpret/try to break down and understand things?
30.000 people listening to a 3h podcast about marxist theology. What a time to be alive. I can't imagine how alone the people in the 90s that realized all this marxist subversion must have felt like. Thank you, James, for making this available to the world.
Since a lot of people are starting to understand this hellish-mess, what direction will humanity take, since James has so expertly over-turned this rock???
Too bad all of this fascist propaganda can be debunked in minutes by anyone that knows anything about Marxism or Socialism. And yet sheep still listen to this nonsense and march forward to their own slaughter. The human experiment is a failure.
@@brianrookard Anyone can read any text they like and lie about what it means. Atheists like Lindsey do that all the time about the Holy Bible. They will read the Bible literally and project their own belief systems onto the text, completely ignoring context. This is normally done for some kind of political or financial gain. Lindsey is obviously driven by both.
I've wrestled with this question for years but I've never, ever seen anything like this podcast. This is brilliant. Do they award Nobel prizes for stuff like this? Then you ought to get it.
Modern Christianity too. They seem to be incredibly authoritarian yet we don't see or hear that in biblical teachings. We do see horrible events but we see them through the eyes of people questioning the wisdom of those making the decisions not praising them. Modern Christianity is simply all about screaming, "PRAISE JESUS!" and never questioning the authority. Weird given that most of the bible tells you to constantly question authority as only then will God teach you or tell you his reasoning.
Buddhism in the West is illustrative of this. Greatly funded by the Rockefellers, and despite some good teachers, it has become a feminist dominated, and lesbian, CRT cult. Too bad.
@@dragoneye6229 The move is always a quantitative one. "Abortions increase when you make it illegal." Yea, because the value of family has already been lost and people look to technology instead of virtue to cover up their problems. I'm not responsible for that. Modern Christians are in many ways no different than materialists because they've lost contact with this qualitative way of seeing the world.
Out of curiosity, where does one find the full story of the Tower of Babel with those details? I know the bit from Genesis 11:1-9, and have heard others make reference to turning men into bricks and such, but I've never been able to find the source for it.
Thank you my man! I now finally understand where this solipsism is coming from as far as the wokeists, and why it looks just like any other mind control cult I have encountered (albeit in a secular sense). So I suppose we could sum up Marxism as religious solipsism.
Marx, as was true of his contemporaries (and most of us today), had no insight into integral thinking, and so he conflated so many things, like religion and "capitalism" that are full of nuance and developmental stages. This was a major source of his fundamental errors. Without integral consciousness he could only project his own assumptions about himself onto the world.
@@andythompson2009 He never did "Labor", the non-authentic form of work; You see, what he did was the real WORK in the true sense of the word (or so he'd argue).
0:00 Intro 4:45 Thesis - Marxism is a Theology. . . . 5:24 - Eric Voegelin agrees. 6:49 - Marxism's 2 sources: Hegelian faith + Rousseauian sentementalism = Profoundly Subjectivist Marxism . . . 7:58 - a Modernist religion 9:24 - Eric Voegelin connects Marxism to (1) Gnosticism and (2) Hegelian speculation. . . . 13:11 - Theology not studying God, but man as the new god/creator. . . . 17:00 - Though working class as a sacred noble savage.
@@konberner170Science is full of speculation and opinion. The only difference is that speculations and opinions must be empirically testable in order to be properly scientific. There is still plenty of scientistic speculation and opinion that is ultimately untestable and so not properly scientific, but is nonetheless draped with scientific authority.
Hey James have you thought about making shorter more condensed videos with visuals? This info is so vital but most people just don’t have the stamina to go raw and just listen. I wanna share this stuff but I know like 99/100 won’t go the distance. Thanks for everything you did. You nailed it on the Mikhaila Peterson podcast. That Vaush guy is the worst. I’m a post sound guy and also write and direct. If you ever need any help I’d do all that I could pro bono because I think we’re in deep shit as a society. Keep up the great work!
As a first step I wish someone could help him divide into timestamped chapters. I listen on commute and need to break into chunks. Would make it easier to budget time and go back to where you left off. I know it’s a podcast so it’s a stream of delivery. But I think if James worked with an editor he could assemble a valuable print and audio series. Very thankful for the podcast. I just think he is selling himself short and could reach a much broader audience drawing from his existing content reassembled for mass market.
It’s interesting to me how Marx focused so much on economics and labor and yet was a lazy, good-for-nothing husband, father, and friend. He used Engles for his money and hated God. Basically, he was an envious, worthless and evil man.
Thanks for putting me on to Voegelin's "Order and History", that looks essential and probably fascinating. Yet another blind spot in my knowledge of the 20th century! It feels never-ending...
IMPORTANT: 1) A religion does not require a god. A religion requires the production of mindfulness (neural economy, reduction of unpredictability, reduction of conflict, reduction of anxiety, especially in the face of trait neuroticism), that allows the expansion of the scope and sphere of cooperation by producing a standard of weights and measures for human actions in imitative (physical), empathic (feelings), and sympathetic (mind) forms that do not requires the burdens of reason, evidence, empiricism, and calculation to compensate for the frailties of our body, emotions, and mind. 2) All religions provide mindfulness by the promise of freedom from one or more of the four sets of laws of the universe: ... (a) The Before State: The Physical Laws (time, scarcity, resources, productivity) ... (b) The During State: The Behavioral Laws (acquisition, reproduction, rational choice, amorality, cooperation and its returns, reciprocity in the defense of cooperation. ... (c) The After State: The Evolutionary Laws (almost all genetic mutation adds defect, all defects accumulate in the lower classes, producing the lower classes, all reproduction regresses to the mean of the past six generations of parents, the necessity of the continuation of natural selection, the increase in natural selection for neotenic evolution as climate grows colder generating demand for impulse suppression, aggression suppression, generates demand for agency, productivity, cooperation, and slows and shallows maturity by doing so. ... (d) The Description of Before, During, and After: The formal Laws (Truth, Identity, Logic, Correspondence, Rational Choice, Reciprocity). 3) The Abrahamic Religions, whether supernatural generation one in Judaism(and its factions), Christianity (and its factions), or Islam (and its factions), or in the pseudoscientific second generation Marxism and its factions, Neo-Marxism and the factions of Postmodernism, Anti-Male-Feminism, PC-Woke, and Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Westernism, Anti-Whiteness, Anti-White Male-ism, make use of the same technique. That technique is the institutionalization of the female method of warfare by denial, conflict, anti-social behavior, anti-political behavior, and anti-civilizational behavior. The female method of warfare is an application of the means by which mothers both seduce and undermine the independence of children, and undermine other women, and undermine all possible hierarchies that would or could concentrate capital rather than distribute it for hyperconsumption. That female method of warfare consists of: COGNITIVE DENIAL ... (a) conflation of approval and disapproval with truth and falsehood ... (b) conflation of a distribution (general rule) with specific case (outliers) (Commonly called NAXALT) UNDERMINING They institutionalize the sale and distribution of these false promises by the tactics of: ... (a) Faith Healing, delaying into hazard. Faith Healing consists of providing temporary psychological relief while allowing the cause to persist, grow, and evolve. ... (b) False Story Telling, baiting you into empathy, loading, framing, obscurantism, suggestion, suspension of disbelief and overloading. ... (c) False Promise, baiting into hazard. Baiting into hazard consists of making false promises of freedom from the laws of the universe. arguing them with sophistry to idealism, magic to pseudoscience, or occult to theology. ... (d) False Criticism, undermining into hazard. ... (e) Duplicitous, Double Standard, Irreciprocal, and Poly Logical Ethics, like their poly-logical unequal laws, They escalate from the least burdensome to the most burdensome tactic: ... (a) Faith healing at every opportunity (lie and deny) ... (b) Selling false promise if they can (fraud) ... (c) Evading or silencing at every necessity (shaming, moralizing, psychologizing) ... (d) Undermining if they have opportunity to (sedition) ... (e) Attack if they can get away with it (de-platforming, conspiracy) ... (f) Hiding behind plausible deniability of freedom of choice (non-coercion) WARFARE “Delay, Deceive, Undermine, Sow Discord, and destroy genetic, normative, cultural, institutional capital, by disinformation, deceit, defamation, sedition, and treason, using Baiting Into Hazard, by False Promise of freedom from constraints of formal, physical, natural, and evolutionary law, Advocated by Pilpul, Defended by Critique, Escaping Liability and Warranty, by Pretense of Plausible Deniability, Despite Deliberate Avoidance of Due Diligence, And Deliberate Evasion of Warranty, Deliberate Escape From Liability, Given the Asymmetry of Knowledge, the dependence on instincts, the Presence of Malincentives by both Agent(s) and Victim(s) - And Pursued for the Purpose of Attention, Reward (proft), Influence(power), Undermining (Power), of the Trust and Cooperation, of a Population in Normal Distribution, Thereby Generating accelerating Cycles of Internal Conflict, Generating Demand for Authority to Control by the Hazard Maker.” In other words, to function as did the ancient fertile crescent priesthoods, faith healers, and usurers: parasitic rather than productive citizens.” TOTAL WAR They destroy the institutions of cultural production. Whereas in masculine war, people die, and capital is destroyed, and we feel the pain of it. But we can replace people lost, and rebuild capital destroyed. But how do you restore a group strategy, its norms, traditions, values, institutions, knowledge, and techne? You can't. This is why war by sedition (treason) from within is more damaging than warfare from without. The Chinese are aware of 'total war' and they are conducting total war. We are Europeans and we have domesticated war over the many centuries into a conflict between aristocracies - political war. The enemy (marxism thru woke) is practicing social war, not political war. But both forms of war destroy capital. It just turns out that genetic and behavioral capital is less replaceable than physical capital. Macchiavelli was trying to make this point: morality is not a universal but a means of cooperating in-group. It has no place in war, and it makes you blind to the war conducted against you if you let it.
Many union halls used to be called “Labor Temples.” The congregants would often sing hymns. A local radio host here would occasionally play old recordings of them. It sounded creepy as heck to me.
This is fantastic. Thanks for doing this. These have all been good, but this one in particular I'm going to be revisiting and thinking about going forward.
@@LAGoff It's a play of words on the Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes (you) free) that "adorned" the entrance of a concentration camp in the 1940s.
@@tjohannam I knew that. Im just not sure of what they meant by that. I assume it means that you Jews are gotta get a taste of real work instead of your Jewsury and that will make you free. (free of money manipulation)
You should write another book on these series topics, because it would be really awesome for people like myself who can't do podcasts for more than 20-30 minutes max. Entitled much? Yes! Guilty as charged lolol This is really thorough, cogent and awesomely put together. Thank you, Sir!
When you said, "Pardon my German, but..." I thought, in the sense of "pardon my French", you were going to say, "Arbeit ist gefickt", which would be a more honest summary of Marx's position, even though the opposite of what he claimed it to be. Normal work is often tedious and difficult and something that one would rather not be doing. Marx wanted to reject this reality. Of course it is true that loving one's work is a wonderful goal, but wanting to replace the practical realities (to trade you must create something that someone else wants, rather than creating something for yourself) with hopeful wishes is, indeed, why he had to create a fake and bitter religion to push his fantasies.
Yep. A lot of his and his followers' criticisms of capitalism is misplaced - they localize the problem to capitalism when it's just the human condition. So their diagnosis and prescription are completely wrong, which we all saw with the failure of communism worldwide. But his followers were in denial so they guessed they need to convince everyone's culture in order to make communism work, so that's why they created CRT in 1986
Well said! Extant letters from Marx's father are both revealing and bitingly hilarious -- rebuking Marx for being so bitter despite having had a pampered, privileged childhood where no need -- where no desire -- went unmet. His father asked why Marx was continually writing home ONLY to ask for more money, instead of getting a job and earning it; and how Marx could possibly spend his time writing such angry, bitter manifestos while being financially supported by the father and a friend, instead of earning his own way, as an adult should.
@@zxyatiywariii8Marx borrowed money when he was poor, as soon as his career as a writer began to finally become lucrative he immediately moved his own family out of poverty
Looking at the background picture it feels like it was taken in my native town. It's weird how you miss the old Soviet neighborhoods when you don't have to live in them.
James' reading comes across as far too humanist; not Leninist enough for Sovietism. I see Leninism as a rewriting of Marx with the Hegel replaced with sterilized inverted dialectic. James is concentrating on the early Marx - before 1850. Post-1850 Marx rarely talked about his metaphysics. It seems to me Marx & Engels believed they'd worked out the "big questions" by 1848.
Isn’t everyone’s interpretation of reality subjective? All I’m seeing here is Marx had strongly held beliefs and convictions and stuck to them. You can criticize literally any philosopher or economist for that, and it would also be dumb to do so
I really like this gnostic angle. Like they think the whole world is wrong, and so everything goes, as long as it goes against reality. "Why would God create such a world?" seems to be the root question.
after all the rummaging james has to do one wonders... is this religion what shakes out when you take all the philosophers to mean what they think they mean more or less... or is it begging for something they still can't quite want to envision... like your root question "this world is so damn irreducible and confusing why does it even exist". I'm more convinced that if God does exist he's doing a big old negative space thing on us :p
@@afuzzycreature8387 Why would God create a world with diseases, parasites, rot and decay? It's not that world is confusing, more like is God a sadist. Gnostic line of thought, Lucifer "Light-Bringer" and "Morning Star" is the true god of logic and immutable light, and creator of material world is Demiurge, his idiot twin-brother who took creation too literally and made a stupid world with death and disease and cold and hunger. Book of Revelations seems to be a Gnostic text, there are more among the apocrypha but I guess Revelations was so well known they could not miss it. Apocalypse means "tearing of the veil" - world is a meaningless illusion, and when we see through the illusion, the material world ceases to exist, and true, perfect world is revealed. Hence, ideology is more meaningful than practicality... more removed from reality, the better.
As an agnostic i ask myself that question all the time. Like for example in monkeys you can measure they get dopamine release from dominating other monkeys, or like how historically half of adult males didn't reproduce. Evolution can sort of explain it but i have no idea how a religious person would.
@@maintaint3003 According to Gene Decode, who worked as an advisor for Trump, when US Special forces raided the vatican in January last year during the Italy blackouts, they found in the basement a total of 777 books of the original bible, and an additional 111 books from the Book of Giants. This included alternate timeline prophecies counter to the book of revelations. One of them was the Book of Sarah, a book no one has heard of in over 250 years as that was when the vatican was infiltrated by freemasons, and they proceeded to burn most copies of the bible. Sarah speaks of a holy alliance formed by the armies of every nation, race and religion on earth purging the satanic forces from the surface of the earth via covert warfare, and under the earth via underground warfare.
If you doubt what James says about marxists de facto worshipping labor, let me tell you how we as kids greeted our teachers in the 1980's Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The official greeting was "Honor to the labor!"
Theology or religion = idea or belief = values... What is life without value? If one attempts to remove or delete value, what replaces it? All things need values to exist "matter" of factly. All things are valuable. Love and peace.
Hmm. I’d say the same for ethical and epistemological concepts. Because the principles of the Good and of Reason are conditions which precede the attack on evil and the defense of man.
James should do some math videos! Putting math in his regular videos could alienate too many people, but he could do some separate math videos, I'd watch those too 😃
He let his wife and children starve many times while he spent any money he begged from friends, especially Hegel. Never thought to go to work to earn a penny.
My other favorite part of their theology is that they believe in essentially a upward spiraling transcendence (not so strange for a religion) where society affects the individual and the individual affects society to lead to some kind of perfection. However they believe that they must destroy the societies/civilizations that actually arise in a truly organic natural fashion, and replace it with their constructed idealist theory, which if you take the previous tenents of their doctrine would actually mean that they are the evil destructive force as long as you don't introduce a bunch of insane gnostic conspiracy theories midway through to justify their actions over their concepts. This is a totally insane cult.
Ngl one of my first thoughts on you explaining Marx's distinction between work and activity was that someone must have called Marx out on writing BS not being a "real" job, so he came up with an elaborate way to feel better about himself. 😆
Lol he was an unemployed know it all in his 20s and he never grew into humility. He *knew* he was right the same way most 20 year olds do…he just never grew up.
This is very dense and exciting at the same time. Ironically enough, it elevated Marx in my eyes to a serious thinker as his system building is profound, albeit ultimately flawed. Marx is well within the contemporary thinkers who stress the importance of co-evolution of the culture and biology. If Marx had gone beyond the state and said that the Culture co-shapes in a dialectical fashion the biology of the Man, he would fit perfectly in the current framework ala Joe Henrich. Although the current focus on Culture and Education is perhaps this exact move of the current woke vanguard where the only way for the Revolution to take place is to literally reshape psychology and biology of the Man. Or at least completely hijack the "software" - self-consciousness. Following James's gnostic interpretation of Marxism, the American anti-racism seems to me like a gnostic theology where the only people who have the direct access to Gnosis/Knowledge are the minorities, because they only have the lived experience of oppression (an apriori dogma of anti-racism). And because of the lived experience of the oppression, it is this mass of minorities who are to become an army in reservoir that should be called upon to bring up the anti-racist revolution by removing the new bourgeois, new capitalists, new oppressors, meaning the White Man. For anti-racism to win, the White Man must be enslaved or ideally eradicated. Not necessarily physically, what matters according to anti-racists is the whiteness of the White Man, basically all the culture and history that makes up a self-consciousness of a European-derived peoples. This is the reason why only whiteness studies are negatively oriented, as a massive critique against the subject matter (i.e. European peoples), whereas all other xyz studies are affirmative, meaning celebratory of the particular culture. Anti-racism is the 21st century American version of 20th century Nazi mythological Aryanism. But instead of a myth of tall, blue-eyed blond Aryan Man needed to be saved from Jews and Gypsies, you have the myth of Magical Negro/Noble Savage needed to be saved from the White (Aryan) Man. American Anti-racism is a dialectical inversion of German Nazism. Anti-racism is, again ironically, an opium of the minorities. Because it's a false hope of the myth of Magical Negro and Noble Savage, as there is nothing Magical nor Noble (a priori) about being a minority, as there was nothing a priori Magical/Noble about being a poor working class person.
When I first read Marx's early writings, many years ago, I clearly made the mistake of writing him off as an anarcho-primitivist. I failed to take the texts seriously enough. But you have done a superlative job, in both this and the Hegel podcast (the two really should be heard back-to-back chronologically), of crystallizing the theological nature of Marxism. I wasn't convinced at first, but the demonstrated reliance on gnosticism especially makes the case nearly irrefutable. Bravo Sir!
When I was 15, I was so ready to get at. I’m 58, feel good. Now, having worked 35 summers and 35 winters outside,I’ll over this observation. You could tell who worked,when I was teen.And I lived and still do,in a world,that grows ,collectively. Say what you will. We are like dogs. If we’re not social.Around our species,feeling joy,and competitive growth is there. People in my life,that did not t have a means To have a steady job,felt lonesome,depressed,addicted,etc. Marx didn’t work. He was a dead beat dad too. Wonder how different he would’ve been.?
I understand that you could never speak to this without your channel being immediately canceled, but it is absolutely relevant to understand Talmudic thinking/reasoning/practice; particularly concerning the notion that only those would be left that have the natural inclination to voluntarily and simultaneously hold contradictory thoughts. So much of this is brought to a more complete understanding when we integrate an understanding of the people whom we are all forbidden from criticizing. We all know who I’m talking about, and we all know that to mention them would be to invoke the woke response them crying out while they strike you with every state and commercial power needed to silence and slander.
If you could scroll screen shots of the texts in the background vid while you're reading them, though it's probably way too much more work, it probably would be massively helpful (to a great many others?). Thx.
Over 3 hours *very* well spent. Thank you, James! After listening to the whole presentation, I keep coming back to a vision of seeing Karl Marx leeching off of his rich friends and, rather than doing anything productive, trying to make a religion out of leeching and somehow think that is is not only acceptable, but noble. Then what runs through my mind is how a contemporary of his that I do respect talked about exactly this in the first chapter of his _Beyond Good and Evil_ "6. It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of-namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown. Indeed, to understand how the abstrusest metaphysical assertions of a philosopher have been arrived at, it is always well (and wise) to first ask oneself: "What morality do they (or does he) aim at?" Accordingly, I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument."
@@afuzzycreature8387 The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Many evil things, like genital mutilation, are done with good intentions. Therefore, for me, I look at results and the capacity for humans to adjust course when something is not working... it is that intention that counts for a lot, while going ahead with supposedly good intentions while ignoring the evidence of it doing harm is a case where claiming the person has good intentions is not something I'll believe. Yes, many people have had very good intentions to e.g. help those who suffer. Marx lived in a time where children were made to work in factories for 15 hours a day in some cases. The shift from the farm to cities was a hard one on many people, and probably a mistake in many cases, and the businesses were indeed often entirely cruel and heartless about any sort of fairness. So there are real issues here and a real need for compassion. My problem with Marx is that his suggestion to look at all labor collaboration as abusive will cut those most in need off from the kinds of collaboration that could make their lives better. There are ways to really improve a hard life... absolutely. And it is wonderful to be able to help others do this. But it shouldn't take long for a doctor to notice that the leeches are doing nothing and actually weakening the patient rather than curing them.
I feel like I'll have the equivalent of a PhD in Marxian philosophy by listening to James's podcasts. It's already come in very handy when going toe to toe with these 20 something pop culture Communists who clearly have only a surface knowledge of what Karl actually taught. They skim the surface and pick out the bright sounding bits with not an iota of actual understanding of what they've read. I find that they usually scamper off back into the darkness when truly challenged on it. Oh yeah, from a Christian perspective Karl's philosophy is legit blasphemous.
I listened to the whole thing. You're one of the only people I ever heard make the link between Hegel, Hermeticism/Paganism, Gnosticism, Marxism, Social Justice besides Dr. Peter Jones of TruthXChange (who, in his series 'Only Two Religions' focuses more on Carl Jung's Hermeticism/Paganism, but sees its link to the results of Critical Theory.)
This seems like genius to me, or at least how I interpret it. I was really surprised to be captured by this. The idea of creation as godliness, of man as creating himself through various mechanisms directly, through society, and through inheritance, and the idea that man creates a simulation of reality that makes him godly. The idea of labour as sacred somewhat links to the concept of eudimonia. The main thing I think it lacks is reality correspondence. Creation may be godly, but that is insufficient in itself, the idea is not supreme. Not all creation is viable in reality. I'd also argue our godly ability to create is limited and incomplete, much of what we create is imitation of what already exists, applying and combining to create new forms. I think the theories of revolution, capitalist exploitation, false consciousness, the sanctity of collectivism, etc. are all bs though.
This is an off the wall reference, but Hegel believed in Bistromathics. The ship that Slartibartfast flew in (in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) used a simulation of an Italian bistro to work out the mathematical calculations of space travel. Hegel believed we are just a bunch of clay figurines being used in a chess match to somehow allow an abstract spirit to work out it’s identity crisis. I don’t see the later as being less absurd than the former.
James, what you said @2:28:00 blew my mind. Why? Because I have always thought of Marxism as an expression of feminine maternal energy, and I've always noticed that females have the ability to hold two contradictory ideas or expectations from their mate--and this without a blush. It's as if women literally operate with a different kind of logic from men, and this feature of feminine psychology appears to display itself clearly in the manner you describe about "holding two contradictory ideas...until they spontaneously synthesize." In Jungian psychology (the agnosticism of which I know you'd eschew) we find other Archetypes associated with this feminine spirit. For example, there is the hidden, dark face of masculinity that manifests as the "anima" and then there's the dark, hidden face of the "animus" that comes out of otherwise well-balanced females when they are disturbed. There is also, of course, the Devouring Mother Archetype. I suspect one of these is operational during those reactions of the "maternal" spirit of Marxism in which the Marxists become conscious of people who "resist" re-education. They will slaughter millions and convince those millions and themselves that they are doing it for the "greater good," like any good mommy would claim. You should do some study of Carl Jung about this subject because I'm pretty sure one of his major works was dedicated to exposing this very subject.
Also, if you go down this path of researching CG Jung, you will notice that he took many of the Marxist claims--and no less the claims of Hegel--and reformulated them in a manner that locates everything in the individual and his or her growth rather than the abstract "social being." This was his strategy for combatting the theology of Marxism. He called this process "individuation." So if you go down this path, you'll notice that Jung was treated as a pariah throughout academia. That is no accident. He committed the ultimate sin of apostasy by interpreting everything in such a way that it is the individual rather than the social being that must develop into full consciousness. He was despised and rejected for this reason. One thing I can tell you from my own studies of Hegel is that Carl Jung seems to have understood what Hegel was saying in a very deep way, but he took the path of locating these processes within the individual rather than the amorphous abstract blob of society at large. So you would do very well to scour the literature of CG Jung because I'm telling you it will cast enormous insights on a lot of what you are describing here. One other reason that Jung was despised and rejected was that he also committed the ultimate sin of enunciating the religious nature of all this phenomena. Herbert Marcusé eschewed and rejected Jung in favor of his mentor, Freud, as you likely well know. So I would suggest you go and look into some of what Carl Jung had to say about Marxism and State Worship and also about individual consciousness development. You'll notice that he acknowledges the obvious ways that contradictions bring about both internal and external growth, but he confines these contradictory elements to a place within the concreteness of each individual, a place that seems more down to earth and readily digestible, if you ask me. But don't take my word for it: go check it out for yourself. You'll see what I'm talking about. And then it will no longer be such a mystery to you why Carl Jung was treated like a pariah and his ideas were cast into the dung heap. Indeed, if you go on this search, it will no longer be such a mystery to you why Dr. Jung was accused of sympathizing with fascism: his criticism of Marxism was the sole grounds for that accusation. Marxism is associated with Judaism, and to criticize Marxism is to criticize Judaism. Jung criticized Marxism from a rigorous academic standpoint, and therefore was accused of anti-Semitism. Same tired old game played over and over again. But there's people like myself who aren't fooled by those tricks. You're never gonna beat these people by just pointing out how illogical they are, since what is traditionally thought of as logical is precisely what they eschew. Jung knew that. He knew that you have to co-opt their game and redirect it's energy if you want to have any hope of beating them. Therefore he suspended our usual demand for logical consistency, played along with the game, but anchored the whole process to something that must be worked out on the individual plane of consciousness. I seriously hope you see this comment James and look into what I'm saying. We need to bring back Jungian psychology to beat these rascals back. It's the only way.
This is my first time listening,, I was a bit afraid it would be over my head but it wasnt I,, its so ingrossing,,, absolutly loves this,, its brilliant,, he makes it easy to listin to,,,
How the hell can you be this productive? I will never cease to be mind-blown by your work
I'm with you on that.
James is a goddamn Juggernaut, a Bull in a Vagina shop, and a gentleman to boot.
Perhaps, this militant atheist is an instrument of the Almighty.
😂😂🤣🤣 I bet he’s posting on Twitter while live on RUclips. Amazing man.
@OilHunterIV No, you’re an idiom.
James, thank God you do what you do. One day I'll speak up at work (in a government bureaucracy heavily infected with Critical Pedagogy) but I see how well read I must be and it's daunting. You inspire me to dive in and get equipped to fight back.
Go Keith! Have allies. Introduce and help frame, validate, and inform other's concerns so that they better understand the full depth and breadth of the problem and can help form a bulwark against the capitulation of the group. Record interactions. Good luck.
“One day…”
How about tomorrow, dude? Get it done. Do it.
@@ryannafe9252 As the other comment or said, you need allies. Not only that but OP's instinct is correct. You need to be informed about your position to convince anyone of anything.
Hey, I’m in one of those jobs, too! Glad to see there are others out there who are learning from James’ work. Funny to think about it, but people like us actually ARE the resistance…
Good luck, when the time comes. Be exceptionally well prepared and know every talking point so they can't corner you into being labelled a racist, transphobe and more. They will devour you if they get just a small chance to do so.
I have an undergrad degree in pol/sci. I earned after retiring. I took 2-3 ‘Marxist thought’ classes out of curiosity and a basis to understand the ‘enemy’ seeing I fought Communists while in the Marine Corps.. Marx is some of the most dense reading I have ever encountered, and I’ve read a LOT of philosophic works. Many times I thought Marx was just trying to ‘baffle with bullshit’ when he couldn’t ‘dazzle with brilliance’.
It's a sophisticated "fake it till ya make it" sort of game.
Marxism/Neomarxism/Critical Theory is the quintessential philosophy for the clueless. It's basic concepts are arrived at gratuitously. The main thing it does provide is a lot of really great sounding catch phrases: "the workers control the means of production," "religion is the opiate of the masses," etc. Fundamentally it is a sort of nihilistic, sadistic, passive-aggressive orgy: enough oppressive, inhuman destruction will lead us to a perfect, liberated existence. It is the head game of all head games. It is the blueprint for running society like a severally dysfunctional/abuse ridden family. It is, perhaps, the ultimate justification for being an insufferable, bullying a$$hole. In short, it is the very essence of evil.
@@boilermaker1337 Your comical misunderstanding of both of those phrases demonstrates the Satanic agenda this man it hard at work carrying out. He knows nothing about Marx, and his acolytes know even less. I will pray for you.
@@Supernautiloid Imagine calling those who oppose Marxian though 'Satanic' though.
@@dinsdag6juli2010 What other word is appropriate for those who are anti-human, anti-life, and anti-God? Atheists like Lindsay won't be satisfied until the world is the Randian dystopia that he dreams of, and all of humanity is in chains, or worse. I can't think of anything more Satanic than that.
Dear Lord, thank you for creating James--- for making him smart and kind enough to share his research with us. Bless him and his family. Amen.
Amen!
I know James isn't Christian, but I also know he wouldn't mind my praying for him. And I certainly do. 🙏
James is a blessing to the whole world.
The amount of reading, highlighting, and rereading is legendary at this point.
that's what really thinking, competent, academics are good at. Being an intellectual is the most respectable thing. and nerds are heroes.
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Can you explain how they understand "cultural appropriation" and how it connects to Marxism?
Just bought the Counter Wokecraft book for me and a friend. Thank you for putting into words what my scatterbrained ass couldn't.
Theology is the study of God or gods. God is the notion of a supernatural entity who created and sustains the physical Universe. Does Marxism believe in such a being?
Gods (lower case "gods") are supernatural beings with super human powers. Does Marxism believe in such beings?
If not, how can Marxims have a theology?
@@trob-o-matic8896 if you listened to this you’d have your answer.
@@aaronwarner5492 If you listened to this, you know know even less about Marxism than you did before.
James. Holy moley. I actually listened to the podcast, front to back, with a few rewinds where I missed a concept.
This is first rate research.
And my brain is about to pop.
if it weren't to be corrupted I'd consider forming a chair and department on his reorganization of the whole socialist work and framework
Same here, Yukey…
Same! I have to listen at .75 speed, else it's like trying to use a bucket to catch water from a fire hose. Too much to understand, for me, at regular speed.
"Understanding Marx as a theologian..." that makes so much sense. The 19th century produced Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Christian Science, Christadelphians, Theosophy and Witchcraft - interesting century.
Dont forget his father was a Rabbi and he had been raised in a heavily religious orthodoxy, same with Hitchens. It explains why he wanted to dismantle religion
Don’t forget the Adventists and Christian Scientists. Marx’s self-actuating god-man reminds of the Mormon doctrine. Add also the works based salvation and you have yet another religion that stands in stark contrast to the rest one has in Christ where we don’t work for our salvation since He alone could do the work for us.
@@aaronwarner5492 Very true, these Gurus seem to run along the same script.
@@LlibertarianGalt Satan ran that script to get the angels to fall with him in Heaven. He’s been running it ever since.
@@LlibertarianGalt Karl Marx's Father, Heinrich Marx, was a Lutheran who converted to Christianity to assimilate into Prussian society (abandoning Judaism and changing his name from Herschel Levi)... Karl himself was raised Lutheran, and despised Judaism, going as far as publicly declaring that not only was Judaism inherently capitalist, but also that capitalism was merely a manifestation of Judaism in the broader society... "money has become a world power and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of the Christian nations. The Jews have emancipated themselves insofar as the Christians have become Jews" - On the Jewish Question, Karl Marx
(Yes that is the same Jewish Question that the National socialists had the "final solution" to, and yes they WERE actually socialists. NSDAP ideology is literally just marxism with "race struggle" replacing "class struggle" )
Marx's grandfather had been a Rabbi, and his uncle had inherited the position.
So basically, freedom can only exist when our imaginations have all been enslaved to the imagination of Marx.
Now ur getting it.
Man, from a Christian perspective Marx's ideology is legit Satanic. It goes right back to the garden of Eden with the serpent telling Eve she will be like God if she eats from the tree. "Man as God". Marx's ideology is literally blasphemy.
Edit for typo.
Marx is Madara Uchiha.
Oh my goodness. You really said it. Can I quote this mysterious RUclips user?
@@emmalouie1663 yes, go ahead
James thank your wife for all her support in making it possible for you to be so VERY productive. -on behalf of all grateful listeners and learners.
We are all now ubermensch since James informed us as to our position in marxian religion. I once was lost but now I'm a victim. Was blind but now I poke my brothers eyes for equality.
Debate me
"Marxian religion". You said it yourself.
Can you guys please just read Marx and actually learn what he believed
This young man has an incredible mind. He is absorbing, processing and understanding information and history in a very short period of time that has taken me a lifetime to process and understand.
One of the easiest ways for me to be skeptical of atheism is by seeing how prominent Marxism is among atheists
I think there's a baked in need for some kind of faith in people, or a theory of meaning. As someone who was raised by atheists I have noticed this in myself and tried finding my way to christianity. It hasn't really "clicked" so far, and I don't want dishonestly pretend to believe things I don't. I feel more of a spiritual connection to nature than anything else, and find myself drawn to animistic traditions, but this void can easily be filled by state worship or marxism
Yeah it seems like most proclaimed atheists have encountered came to their atheism through a leftism. But they aren't conscience of that lol They just think they are smart and conservatives are wrong because they are religious.
@@max8m1 my boyfriend and I went through the same journey, but found a great church and pastor. It also helps that our pastor reads dead languages and has a masters in theology and several other degrees. He knows his shit.
Good luck on your spiritual journey and hopefully you find your way back to the Lord ❤
@@austyn5004 Thanks, I hope so too. I feel like it would go along way in being an antidote to nihilism and finding meaning in life. My local pastors sadly haven't been able to really help me out much, but this may be due to me living in former East Germany, where most people are atheists.
But I'll keep looking for ways to spiritualism for sure, the few experiences I've had have been kind of magical, such as a misty morning deep in a scandinavian forest I spent in silence and which left me feeling like I "floated" a bit outside myself for quite some time, feeling deeply content and in tune with my surroundings.
But anyway, I don't want to ramble to strangers too much. All the best to you and your bf!
Using the correlation between Marxism and atheism as a source of skepticism of atheism seems rather disingenuous. Atheism simply rejects the idea of deities, and that is the *only* valid vector of debate. That some people who are atheists also happen to belong to another group (Marxism) is utterly irrelevant.
"Viva siempre la revolution!"
It was at that moment that he knew; the revolution was never meant to end.
You work hard I love that there's information out here that contradicts the propaganda and dishonesty of the socialist/progressive crowd.
James ability to consume mass amounts of read content and then his genius to distill it all and spit it all out in spoken essay form is 2nd to none. I don't knownif people know how much mental skill this takes..
James is a treasure. Share him with many others.
This proves everything I ever suspected of Marxism (without having read Marx), but could never quite articulate (because I hadn't read Marx..). Still, it's mind-blowing, how such an insane, anti-reality paradigm managed to almost take over the world (even in the age of extreme scientific advancement).. Thank you James, truly doing God's work here (figuratively speaking).
You should read marx just to see how he becomes so seductive to egomaniacs
@@LlibertarianGalt Satan is the first egomaniac so it stands to reason these deceptive doctrines of demons would appeal to a world full of narcissists. I mean “you can become like God if you eat of the tree of secret knowledge of good and evil”, worked on Adam and Eve and works to this day.
#MastersOfDeception
If religions such as Christianity and Islam can thrive, it's not surprising Marxism can thrive too. Irrational beliefs and faith based religions have been part of human experience for a long time.
There used to be a time when scientific evidence proved conclusions. Now all it takes is demagogues and grifters like Lindsay to just invent an entire imaginary version of Marxism in order to line his pockets. And his atheist congregation eats it up in their juvenile rebellion against God. It makes me weep.
@@Supernautiloid Care to point out some of the made-up points and wrong interpretations/explanations? Lindsay has his own interpretation of Marxism, yes. Since when is it wrong to interpret/try to break down and understand things?
30.000 people listening to a 3h podcast about marxist theology. What a time to be alive. I can't imagine how alone the people in the 90s that realized all this marxist subversion must have felt like.
Thank you, James, for making this available to the world.
It was very lonely! It's relieving to see that it's becoming mainstream to understand, acknowledge, and resist this vile subversive force.
Lmfao
Since a lot of people are starting to understand this hellish-mess, what direction will humanity take, since James has so expertly over-turned this rock???
I love how you've done more in the last few years to fight communism than the cia has in the last 60 years
Too bad all of this fascist propaganda can be debunked in minutes by anyone that knows anything about Marxism or Socialism. And yet sheep still listen to this nonsense and march forward to their own slaughter. The human experiment is a failure.
@Pure Blood Enough.
@@Supernautiloid ... so when he has been literally reading Marxists' own words back at you ... you perceive that to be "misinformation"?
@@brianrookard
Anyone can read any text they like and lie about what it means. Atheists like Lindsey do that all the time about the Holy Bible. They will read the Bible literally and project their own belief systems onto the text, completely ignoring context. This is normally done for some kind of political or financial gain. Lindsey is obviously driven by both.
@@Supernautiloid sure buddy
I've wrestled with this question for years but I've never, ever seen anything like this podcast. This is brilliant. Do they award Nobel prizes for stuff like this? Then you ought to get it.
Since the first year of Nobel Prizes, 1901, yes. 😊
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
You seem to have a droopy eye...might want some antibiotics for that...fauci reccomends
@@YadraVoat Nobel prizes in literature are only allowed to be awarded to leftist authors.
This helps me understand why people can so easily transition from "New Age" religion to Marxism.
Yes! I kept thinking throughout the podcast. Yeah, I agree.
Modern Christianity too. They seem to be incredibly authoritarian yet we don't see or hear that in biblical teachings. We do see horrible events but we see them through the eyes of people questioning the wisdom of those making the decisions not praising them. Modern Christianity is simply all about screaming, "PRAISE JESUS!" and never questioning the authority. Weird given that most of the bible tells you to constantly question authority as only then will God teach you or tell you his reasoning.
Buddhism in the West is illustrative of this. Greatly funded by the Rockefellers, and despite some good teachers, it has become a feminist dominated, and lesbian,
CRT cult. Too bad.
Millennials and Gen Z love Marxism and astrology.
@@dragoneye6229 The move is always a quantitative one. "Abortions increase when you make it illegal."
Yea, because the value of family has already been lost and people look to technology instead of virtue to cover up their problems. I'm not responsible for that. Modern Christians are in many ways no different than materialists because they've lost contact with this qualitative way of seeing the world.
"This all gets weird and deep."
Understatement of the Century, James!
Yes! That's an eerily accurate quote.
James, this discussion resonates so well with the Tower of Babel story.... Turning men into bricks!
Out of curiosity, where does one find the full story of the Tower of Babel with those details? I know the bit from Genesis 11:1-9, and have heard others make reference to turning men into bricks and such, but I've never been able to find the source for it.
Thank you my man! I now finally understand where this solipsism is coming from as far as the wokeists, and why it looks just like any other mind control cult I have encountered (albeit in a secular sense). So I suppose we could sum up Marxism as religious solipsism.
Marxism is just a subset of Antiwhiteism.
you got a big bald head lol
Why don’t you just read Marx
Marx, as was true of his contemporaries (and most of us today), had no insight into integral thinking, and so he conflated so many things, like religion and "capitalism" that are full of nuance and developmental stages. This was a major source of his fundamental errors. Without integral consciousness he could only project his own assumptions about himself onto the world.
And all that crap about 'working'... he never did nuffink proper work in his life, if he didn't borrow, he'd be a bum.
Narcissistic projection is all they're capable of
@@andythompson2009 He never did "Labor", the non-authentic form of work; You see, what he did was the real WORK in the true sense of the word (or so he'd argue).
What’s integral thinking/integral consciousness?
@@andythompson2009 Trust me, they actually think that making proclamations and posters online is work.
I want charts during these lectures.
I've followed nearly all of his New Discourses podcasts since they first began. Excellent, insightful work.
Getting cozy for this one, it's going to be good
Right? I’ve been dying to hear this one.
You radiate patience, tenderness, discernment and compassion James, thank you 🙏🏽
Speak to Jonathan Pageau, I'd love to hear you both discuss theology.
In case you haven’t yet, check out benjamin boyce, he’s talked extensively with both.
Blargh, don't you get the idea that James is done with theology for its own sake? He deprogrammed himself from the New Atheists for godssake.
0:00 Intro 4:45 Thesis - Marxism is a Theology.
. . . 5:24 - Eric Voegelin agrees.
6:49 - Marxism's 2 sources: Hegelian faith + Rousseauian sentementalism = Profoundly Subjectivist Marxism
. . . 7:58 - a Modernist religion
9:24 - Eric Voegelin connects Marxism to (1) Gnosticism and (2) Hegelian speculation.
. . . 13:11 - Theology not studying God, but man as the new god/creator.
. . . 17:00 - Though working class as a sacred noble savage.
I'm truly thankful that there are people like James in this world. A voice of reason in a sea of insanity.
Why the lasers in your eyes?
‘Cause it’s better than monopoly.
Because you are obsessed with money ?
@@cayoot6414 Are you alright?
@@cayoot6414 I think you're reading into something that isn't there. Did you take your meds this morning?
Sounds like Marx fights speculation with speculation and calls it science.
Opining is not science... including the opinion that you are doing science when you are not.
Nobody would claim Marx is a scientist. He was a philosopher.
Why don’t you just read what he wrote
Marx's work and the work of his cohort is the definition of "psychobabble." Piling it higher and deeper.
@@konberner170Science is full of speculation and opinion. The only difference is that speculations and opinions must be empirically testable in order to be properly scientific. There is still plenty of scientistic speculation and opinion that is ultimately untestable and so not properly scientific, but is nonetheless draped with scientific authority.
So basically by rejecting God( or religion), we become gods…hmm why does this sound familiar? (Genesis 3:5)
Marx never said this
I think I need to listen to that a few more times to really grasp it all! Thank you very much for explaining your understanding.
Thanks again for all of your work. I'm going to need to listen to this a few more times, but it will be well worth the time!
Hey James have you thought about making shorter more condensed videos with visuals? This info is so vital but most people just don’t have the stamina to go raw and just listen. I wanna share this stuff but I know like 99/100 won’t go the distance. Thanks for everything you did. You nailed it on the Mikhaila Peterson podcast. That Vaush guy is the worst.
I’m a post sound guy and also write and direct. If you ever need any help I’d do all that I could pro bono because I think we’re in deep shit as a society.
Keep up the great work!
As a first step I wish someone could help him divide into timestamped chapters. I listen on commute and need to break into chunks. Would make it easier to budget time and go back to where you left off.
I know it’s a podcast so it’s a stream of delivery. But I think if James worked with an editor he could assemble a valuable print and audio series. Very thankful for the podcast. I just think he is selling himself short and could reach a much broader audience drawing from his existing content reassembled for mass market.
He should do TikTok videos
@@daheikkinen I think that’s too short but it couldn’t hurt
We need memes.
I love the way Freire thinks animals and food are “inorganic “.
Proof right there that he (and Marx)are all BS.
It’s interesting to me how Marx focused so much on economics and labor and yet was a lazy, good-for-nothing husband, father, and friend. He used Engles for his money and hated God. Basically, he was an envious, worthless and evil man.
He literally worked his entire life and listen his family out of poverty as soon as he was able to
@@samsca8529 😮 You obviously have not read much about Karl Marx. 😅
@@samsca8529 Marx was a theologian, and Marxism is a religion.
Thanks for putting me on to Voegelin's "Order and History", that looks essential and probably fascinating. Yet another blind spot in my knowledge of the 20th century! It feels never-ending...
James videos bring me so much nostalgia of the philosophy classes in the catholic university
Really an indictment of Catholic universities
IMPORTANT:
1) A religion does not require a god. A religion requires the production of mindfulness (neural economy, reduction of unpredictability, reduction of conflict, reduction of anxiety, especially in the face of trait neuroticism), that allows the expansion of the scope and sphere of cooperation by producing a standard of weights and measures for human actions in imitative (physical), empathic (feelings), and sympathetic (mind) forms that do not requires the burdens of reason, evidence, empiricism, and calculation to compensate for the frailties of our body, emotions, and mind.
2) All religions provide mindfulness by the promise of freedom from one or more of the four sets of laws of the universe:
... (a) The Before State: The Physical Laws (time, scarcity, resources, productivity)
... (b) The During State: The Behavioral Laws (acquisition, reproduction, rational choice, amorality, cooperation and its returns, reciprocity in the defense of cooperation.
... (c) The After State: The Evolutionary Laws (almost all genetic mutation adds defect, all defects accumulate in the lower classes, producing the lower classes, all reproduction regresses to the mean of the past six generations of parents, the necessity of the continuation of natural selection, the increase in natural selection for neotenic evolution as climate grows colder generating demand for impulse suppression, aggression suppression, generates demand for agency, productivity, cooperation, and slows and shallows maturity by doing so.
... (d) The Description of Before, During, and After: The formal Laws (Truth, Identity, Logic, Correspondence, Rational Choice, Reciprocity).
3) The Abrahamic Religions, whether supernatural generation one in Judaism(and its factions), Christianity (and its factions), or Islam (and its factions), or in the pseudoscientific second generation Marxism and its factions, Neo-Marxism and the factions of Postmodernism, Anti-Male-Feminism, PC-Woke, and Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Westernism, Anti-Whiteness, Anti-White Male-ism, make use of the same technique. That technique is the institutionalization of the female method of warfare by denial, conflict, anti-social behavior, anti-political behavior, and anti-civilizational behavior. The female method of warfare is an application of the means by which mothers both seduce and undermine the independence of children, and undermine other women, and undermine all possible hierarchies that would or could concentrate capital rather than distribute it for hyperconsumption. That female method of warfare consists of:
COGNITIVE DENIAL
... (a) conflation of approval and disapproval with truth and falsehood
... (b) conflation of a distribution (general rule) with specific case (outliers) (Commonly called NAXALT)
UNDERMINING
They institutionalize the sale and distribution of these false promises by the tactics of:
... (a) Faith Healing, delaying into hazard. Faith Healing consists of providing temporary psychological relief while allowing the cause to persist, grow, and evolve.
... (b) False Story Telling, baiting you into empathy, loading, framing, obscurantism, suggestion, suspension of disbelief and overloading.
... (c) False Promise, baiting into hazard. Baiting into hazard consists of making false promises of freedom from the laws of the universe. arguing them with sophistry to idealism, magic to pseudoscience, or occult to theology.
... (d) False Criticism, undermining into hazard.
... (e) Duplicitous, Double Standard, Irreciprocal, and Poly Logical Ethics, like their poly-logical unequal laws,
They escalate from the least burdensome to the most burdensome tactic:
... (a) Faith healing at every opportunity (lie and deny)
... (b) Selling false promise if they can (fraud)
... (c) Evading or silencing at every necessity (shaming, moralizing, psychologizing)
... (d) Undermining if they have opportunity to (sedition)
... (e) Attack if they can get away with it (de-platforming, conspiracy)
... (f) Hiding behind plausible deniability of freedom of choice (non-coercion)
WARFARE
“Delay, Deceive, Undermine, Sow Discord, and destroy genetic, normative, cultural, institutional capital, by disinformation, deceit, defamation, sedition, and treason, using Baiting Into Hazard, by False Promise of freedom from constraints of formal, physical, natural, and evolutionary law, Advocated by Pilpul, Defended by Critique, Escaping Liability and Warranty, by Pretense of Plausible Deniability, Despite Deliberate Avoidance of Due Diligence, And Deliberate Evasion of Warranty, Deliberate Escape From Liability, Given the Asymmetry of Knowledge, the dependence on instincts, the Presence of Malincentives by both Agent(s) and Victim(s) - And Pursued for the Purpose of Attention, Reward (proft), Influence(power), Undermining (Power), of the Trust and Cooperation, of a Population in Normal Distribution, Thereby Generating accelerating Cycles of Internal Conflict, Generating Demand for Authority to Control by the Hazard Maker.” In other words, to function as did the ancient fertile crescent priesthoods, faith healers, and usurers: parasitic rather than productive citizens.”
TOTAL WAR
They destroy the institutions of cultural production. Whereas in masculine war, people die, and capital is destroyed, and we feel the pain of it. But we can replace people lost, and rebuild capital destroyed. But how do you restore a group strategy, its norms, traditions, values, institutions, knowledge, and techne? You can't. This is why war by sedition (treason) from within is more damaging than warfare from without.
The Chinese are aware of 'total war' and they are conducting total war. We are Europeans and we have domesticated war over the many centuries into a conflict between aristocracies - political war. The enemy (marxism thru woke) is practicing social war, not political war. But both forms of war destroy capital. It just turns out that genetic and behavioral capital is less replaceable than physical capital. Macchiavelli was trying to make this point: morality is not a universal but a means of cooperating in-group. It has no place in war, and it makes you blind to the war conducted against you if you let it.
This is so fascinating that I'll probably have to listen to it twice.
Many union halls used to be called “Labor Temples.” The congregants would often sing hymns. A local radio host here would occasionally play old recordings of them. It sounded creepy as heck to me.
This is such a surface level critique it’s insane
I'm only halfway through and I've already had two "Eureka!" moments while listening. Highly thought-provoking; great work.
This is fantastic. Thanks for doing this. These have all been good, but this one in particular I'm going to be revisiting and thinking about going forward.
1:18:45 "Work will set you free". That very special German sense of humour from the 40's...
I don't get it. Can you explain the joke?
@@LAGoff It's a play of words on the Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes (you) free) that "adorned" the entrance of a concentration camp in the 1940s.
@@tjohannam I knew that. Im just not sure of what they meant by that. I assume it means that you Jews are gotta get a taste of real work instead of your Jewsury and that will make you free. (free of money manipulation)
You guys pound out work. Look forward to the new episode.
You should write another book on these series topics, because it would be really awesome for people like myself who can't do podcasts for more than 20-30 minutes max. Entitled much? Yes! Guilty as charged lolol This is really thorough, cogent and awesomely put together. Thank you, Sir!
When you said, "Pardon my German, but..." I thought, in the sense of "pardon my French", you were going to say, "Arbeit ist gefickt", which would be a more honest summary of Marx's position, even though the opposite of what he claimed it to be. Normal work is often tedious and difficult and something that one would rather not be doing. Marx wanted to reject this reality. Of course it is true that loving one's work is a wonderful goal, but wanting to replace the practical realities (to trade you must create something that someone else wants, rather than creating something for yourself) with hopeful wishes is, indeed, why he had to create a fake and bitter religion to push his fantasies.
Yep. A lot of his and his followers' criticisms of capitalism is misplaced - they localize the problem to capitalism when it's just the human condition. So their diagnosis and prescription are completely wrong, which we all saw with the failure of communism worldwide.
But his followers were in denial so they guessed they need to convince everyone's culture in order to make communism work, so that's why they created CRT in 1986
Well said!
Extant letters from Marx's father are both revealing and bitingly hilarious -- rebuking Marx for being so bitter despite having had a pampered, privileged childhood where no need -- where no desire -- went unmet.
His father asked why Marx was continually writing home ONLY to ask for more money, instead of getting a job and earning it; and how Marx could possibly spend his time writing such angry, bitter manifestos while being financially supported by the father and a friend, instead of earning his own way, as an adult should.
You literally haven’t read Marx at all
@@zxyatiywariii8Marx borrowed money when he was poor, as soon as his career as a writer began to finally become lucrative he immediately moved his own family out of poverty
“You can be god” is the oldest temptation in the book. Strangely easy for many to fall into.
Looking at the background picture it feels like it was taken in my native town. It's weird how you miss the old Soviet neighborhoods when you don't have to live in them.
James' reading comes across as far too humanist; not Leninist enough for Sovietism. I see Leninism as a rewriting of Marx with the Hegel replaced with sterilized inverted dialectic. James is concentrating on the early Marx - before 1850. Post-1850 Marx rarely talked about his metaphysics. It seems to me Marx & Engels believed they'd worked out the "big questions" by 1848.
@@mark4asp I think the problem is that they didn't talk about it but it's baked into it.
More great work from Dr James Lindsay in the fight against wokeism !
Tl;dr: Marx was a solipsist who believed his subjective interpretation of reality was the the only correct one.
He is king of the narcissists.
Isn’t everyone’s interpretation of reality subjective? All I’m seeing here is Marx had strongly held beliefs and convictions and stuck to them. You can criticize literally any philosopher or economist for that, and it would also be dumb to do so
This could be among the most important theses this century.
I really like this gnostic angle. Like they think the whole world is wrong, and so everything goes, as long as it goes against reality.
"Why would God create such a world?" seems to be the root question.
after all the rummaging james has to do one wonders... is this religion what shakes out when you take all the philosophers to mean what they think they mean more or less... or is it begging for something they still can't quite want to envision... like your root question "this world is so damn irreducible and confusing why does it even exist". I'm more convinced that if God does exist he's doing a big old negative space thing on us :p
@@afuzzycreature8387 Why would God create a world with diseases, parasites, rot and decay? It's not that world is confusing, more like is God a sadist.
Gnostic line of thought, Lucifer "Light-Bringer" and "Morning Star" is the true god of logic and immutable light, and creator of material world is Demiurge, his idiot twin-brother who took creation too literally and made a stupid world with death and disease and cold and hunger.
Book of Revelations seems to be a Gnostic text, there are more among the apocrypha but I guess Revelations was so well known they could not miss it. Apocalypse means "tearing of the veil" - world is a meaningless illusion, and when we see through the illusion, the material world ceases to exist, and true, perfect world is revealed.
Hence, ideology is more meaningful than practicality... more removed from reality, the better.
As an agnostic i ask myself that question all the time. Like for example in monkeys you can measure they get dopamine release from dominating other monkeys, or like how historically half of adult males didn't reproduce. Evolution can sort of explain it but i have no idea how a religious person would.
@@maintaint3003 According to Gene Decode, who worked as an advisor for Trump, when US Special forces raided the vatican in January last year during the Italy blackouts, they found in the basement a total of 777 books of the original bible, and an additional 111 books from the Book of Giants. This included alternate timeline prophecies counter to the book of revelations. One of them was the Book of Sarah, a book no one has heard of in over 250 years as that was when the vatican was infiltrated by freemasons, and they proceeded to burn most copies of the bible. Sarah speaks of a holy alliance formed by the armies of every nation, race and religion on earth purging the satanic forces from the surface of the earth via covert warfare, and under the earth via underground warfare.
Just read Marx dude
If you doubt what James says about marxists de facto worshipping labor, let me tell you how we as kids greeted our teachers in the 1980's Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The official greeting was "Honor to the labor!"
It all sounds great. Just one problem:
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Braindead
Theology or religion = idea or belief = values... What is life without value? If one attempts to remove or delete value, what replaces it? All things need values to exist "matter" of factly. All things are valuable. Love and peace.
It'd be awesome if James could add one mathematics concept to every video, teach us some maths at the same time 👌
Hmm. I’d say the same for ethical and epistemological concepts. Because the principles of the Good and of Reason are conditions which precede the attack on evil and the defense of man.
James should do some math videos! Putting math in his regular videos could alienate too many people, but he could do some separate math videos, I'd watch those too 😃
The parallels with Christian theology are striking, and it really hammers home how these worldviews cannot coexist.
Thank you.
Great video and very informed so far. I've struggled to find more than just opinions in the past, but this is very informative.
You can tell from his writings that Marx never worked an actual job. His idea of work could only come from someone who never did much of any work.
He was literally a journalist and writer for 50 years
He let his wife and children starve many times while he spent any money he begged from friends, especially Hegel. Never thought to go to work to earn a penny.
'So he will revolve around himself as his own true sun' Sounds just like Ficino too!
Does anyone have a concise reading list of all of the books and papers James references on these videos ?
Science politics and gnosticim. Everyone should read this very special book. So thankful you have read Eric voeglein.
The becoming Orthodox Christian of James Lindsay. Keep going.
I'm a leftist and I listen, although this is probably making me less left wing, we'll see..
My other favorite part of their theology is that they believe in essentially a upward spiraling transcendence (not so strange for a religion) where society affects the individual and the individual affects society to lead to some kind of perfection. However they believe that they must destroy the societies/civilizations that actually arise in a truly organic natural fashion, and replace it with their constructed idealist theory, which if you take the previous tenents of their doctrine would actually mean that they are the evil destructive force as long as you don't introduce a bunch of insane gnostic conspiracy theories midway through to justify their actions over their concepts. This is a totally insane cult.
You haven’t read Marx. He and Engels were not idealists
This presentation is AMAZING. I've been calling Marxism a religion for years. Thanks for the validation.
Ngl one of my first thoughts on you explaining Marx's distinction between work and activity was that someone must have called Marx out on writing BS not being a "real" job, so he came up with an elaborate way to feel better about himself. 😆
Just read Marx dude
Lol he was an unemployed know it all in his 20s and he never grew into humility. He *knew* he was right the same way most 20 year olds do…he just never grew up.
This is very dense and exciting at the same time. Ironically enough, it elevated Marx in my eyes to a serious thinker as his system building is profound, albeit ultimately flawed. Marx is well within the contemporary thinkers who stress the importance of co-evolution of the culture and biology. If Marx had gone beyond the state and said that the Culture co-shapes in a dialectical fashion the biology of the Man, he would fit perfectly in the current framework ala Joe Henrich. Although the current focus on Culture and Education is perhaps this exact move of the current woke vanguard where the only way for the Revolution to take place is to literally reshape psychology and biology of the Man. Or at least completely hijack the "software" - self-consciousness.
Following James's gnostic interpretation of Marxism, the American anti-racism seems to me like a gnostic theology where the only people who have the direct access to Gnosis/Knowledge are the minorities, because they only have the lived experience of oppression (an apriori dogma of anti-racism). And because of the lived experience of the oppression, it is this mass of minorities who are to become an army in reservoir that should be called upon to bring up the anti-racist revolution by removing the new bourgeois, new capitalists, new oppressors, meaning the White Man.
For anti-racism to win, the White Man must be enslaved or ideally eradicated. Not necessarily physically, what matters according to anti-racists is the whiteness of the White Man, basically all the culture and history that makes up a self-consciousness of a European-derived peoples.
This is the reason why only whiteness studies are negatively oriented, as a massive critique against the subject matter (i.e. European peoples), whereas all other xyz studies are affirmative, meaning celebratory of the particular culture.
Anti-racism is the 21st century American version of 20th century Nazi mythological Aryanism. But instead of a myth of tall, blue-eyed blond Aryan Man needed to be saved from Jews and Gypsies, you have the myth of Magical Negro/Noble Savage needed to be saved from the White (Aryan) Man.
American Anti-racism is a dialectical inversion of German Nazism.
Anti-racism is, again ironically, an opium of the minorities.
Because it's a false hope of the myth of Magical Negro and Noble Savage, as there is nothing Magical nor Noble (a priori) about being a minority, as there was nothing a priori Magical/Noble about being a poor working class person.
@@thelastpillar4973 Thanks for the feedback
Get 'em James!
When I first read Marx's early writings, many years ago, I clearly made the mistake of writing him off as an anarcho-primitivist. I failed to take the texts seriously enough.
But you have done a superlative job, in both this and the Hegel podcast (the two really should be heard back-to-back chronologically), of crystallizing the theological nature of Marxism.
I wasn't convinced at first, but the demonstrated reliance on gnosticism especially makes the case nearly irrefutable. Bravo Sir!
This is so stupid
When I was 15, I was so ready to get at. I’m 58, feel good. Now, having worked 35 summers and 35 winters outside,I’ll over this observation. You could tell who worked,when I was teen.And I lived and still do,in a world,that grows ,collectively. Say what you will. We are like dogs. If we’re not social.Around our species,feeling joy,and competitive growth is there. People in my life,that did not t have a means
To have a steady job,felt lonesome,depressed,addicted,etc. Marx didn’t work. He was a dead beat dad too. Wonder how different he would’ve been.?
I suppose I shouldn't find it ironic that so many commenters congratulate you on your "Work" over and over. heh
I think John Gray would also agree with you. See his brilliant "Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia".
I understand that you could never speak to this without your channel being immediately canceled, but it is absolutely relevant to understand Talmudic thinking/reasoning/practice; particularly concerning the notion that only those would be left that have the natural inclination to voluntarily and simultaneously hold contradictory thoughts. So much of this is brought to a more complete understanding when we integrate an understanding of the people whom we are all forbidden from criticizing. We all know who I’m talking about, and we all know that to mention them would be to invoke the woke response them crying out while they strike you with every state and commercial power needed to silence and slander.
Insane antisemitic nonsense lol
If you could scroll screen shots of the texts in the background vid while you're reading them, though it's probably way too much more work, it probably would be massively helpful (to a great many others?). Thx.
To hell with Communism
Over 3 hours *very* well spent. Thank you, James! After listening to the whole presentation, I keep coming back to a vision of seeing Karl Marx leeching off of his rich friends and, rather than doing anything productive, trying to make a religion out of leeching and somehow think that is is not only acceptable, but noble. Then what runs through my mind is how a contemporary of his that I do respect talked about exactly this in the first chapter of his _Beyond Good and Evil_ "6. It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of-namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown. Indeed, to understand how the abstrusest metaphysical assertions of a philosopher have been arrived at, it is always well (and wise) to first ask oneself: "What morality do they (or does he) aim at?" Accordingly, I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument."
as self-serving as these people might be don't be so uncertain that they were unserious in trying to find their way towards something
@@afuzzycreature8387 The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Many evil things, like genital mutilation, are done with good intentions. Therefore, for me, I look at results and the capacity for humans to adjust course when something is not working... it is that intention that counts for a lot, while going ahead with supposedly good intentions while ignoring the evidence of it doing harm is a case where claiming the person has good intentions is not something I'll believe. Yes, many people have had very good intentions to e.g. help those who suffer. Marx lived in a time where children were made to work in factories for 15 hours a day in some cases. The shift from the farm to cities was a hard one on many people, and probably a mistake in many cases, and the businesses were indeed often entirely cruel and heartless about any sort of fairness. So there are real issues here and a real need for compassion. My problem with Marx is that his suggestion to look at all labor collaboration as abusive will cut those most in need off from the kinds of collaboration that could make their lives better.
There are ways to really improve a hard life... absolutely. And it is wonderful to be able to help others do this. But it shouldn't take long for a doctor to notice that the leeches are doing nothing and actually weakening the patient rather than curing them.
None of you know what you’re talking about
@@samsca8529 I see why you like Marx. Believing you know everything and everyone else knows nothing.
@@konberner170 I mean you’re just wrong about what you’re saying
Not a bad job this time on your Christian theology....thought you might devolve into Arianism or Nestorianism but you avoided both. 👍
You are a Colossus, Prof Lindsay.
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Much appreciated.
I feel like I'll have the equivalent of a PhD in Marxian philosophy by listening to James's podcasts. It's already come in very handy when going toe to toe with these 20 something pop culture Communists who clearly have only a surface knowledge of what Karl actually taught. They skim the surface and pick out the bright sounding bits with not an iota of actual understanding of what they've read. I find that they usually scamper off back into the darkness when truly challenged on it.
Oh yeah, from a Christian perspective Karl's philosophy is legit blasphemous.
Yeah I’m sure you’ll feel like that
Thank you Mr L. You are - really well informed - very brave as you will be one of the first into the woke re-education gulag.
Marx never takes into account all of the psychopaths and sociopaths to be found in all human societies. Big mistake.
I mean, he was one. Probably not a mistake but deliberate.
Id say he was actually banking on them taking charge of society
He does, they're called the bourgeoise.
@@4grammaton He doesn’t factor in psychopaths / sociopaths who are present in EVERY level of society - such an elementary mistake.
@@Zalley
The biggest blind spot is the ultimate blind spot. Humans are not basically good.
I listened to the whole thing. You're one of the only people I ever heard make the link between Hegel, Hermeticism/Paganism, Gnosticism, Marxism, Social Justice besides Dr. Peter Jones of TruthXChange (who, in his series 'Only Two Religions' focuses more on Carl Jung's Hermeticism/Paganism, but sees its link to the results of Critical Theory.)
To improve yourself, you must first improve the world and people around you.
This idea scares me.
Literally not what Marx believed
Supernautiloid needs to watch Lindsay's sections on how post-modernism (neoMarxist.) co-opted Christianity.
This seems like genius to me, or at least how I interpret it. I was really surprised to be captured by this. The idea of creation as godliness, of man as creating himself through various mechanisms directly, through society, and through inheritance, and the idea that man creates a simulation of reality that makes him godly. The idea of labour as sacred somewhat links to the concept of eudimonia.
The main thing I think it lacks is reality correspondence. Creation may be godly, but that is insufficient in itself, the idea is not supreme. Not all creation is viable in reality.
I'd also argue our godly ability to create is limited and incomplete, much of what we create is imitation of what already exists, applying and combining to create new forms.
I think the theories of revolution, capitalist exploitation, false consciousness, the sanctity of collectivism, etc. are all bs though.
3 hours.... You're killing me! I can't keep up!!!!!
This is an off the wall reference, but Hegel believed in Bistromathics. The ship that Slartibartfast flew in (in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) used a simulation of an Italian bistro to work out the mathematical calculations of space travel. Hegel believed we are just a bunch of clay figurines being used in a chess match to somehow allow an abstract spirit to work out it’s identity crisis. I don’t see the later as being less absurd than the former.
Voddie Baucham recommended your channel. So here I am.
A great lecture.
With each rhetorical hammer blow you are freeing minds from this sinister murderous faith.
@@kg356 Me, I was as a Marxist as they come; James has been very helpful to my understanding of these things and has helped me to change my mind
Can you please just read Marx I’m begging you guys
James, what you said @2:28:00 blew my mind. Why? Because I have always thought of Marxism as an expression of feminine maternal energy, and I've always noticed that females have the ability to hold two contradictory ideas or expectations from their mate--and this without a blush. It's as if women literally operate with a different kind of logic from men, and this feature of feminine psychology appears to display itself clearly in the manner you describe about "holding two contradictory ideas...until they spontaneously synthesize." In Jungian psychology (the agnosticism of which I know you'd eschew) we find other Archetypes associated with this feminine spirit. For example, there is the hidden, dark face of masculinity that manifests as the "anima" and then there's the dark, hidden face of the "animus" that comes out of otherwise well-balanced females when they are disturbed. There is also, of course, the Devouring Mother Archetype. I suspect one of these is operational during those reactions of the "maternal" spirit of Marxism in which the Marxists become conscious of people who "resist" re-education. They will slaughter millions and convince those millions and themselves that they are doing it for the "greater good," like any good mommy would claim. You should do some study of Carl Jung about this subject because I'm pretty sure one of his major works was dedicated to exposing this very subject.
Also, if you go down this path of researching CG Jung, you will notice that he took many of the Marxist claims--and no less the claims of Hegel--and reformulated them in a manner that locates everything in the individual and his or her growth rather than the abstract "social being." This was his strategy for combatting the theology of Marxism. He called this process "individuation." So if you go down this path, you'll notice that Jung was treated as a pariah throughout academia. That is no accident. He committed the ultimate sin of apostasy by interpreting everything in such a way that it is the individual rather than the social being that must develop into full consciousness. He was despised and rejected for this reason. One thing I can tell you from my own studies of Hegel is that Carl Jung seems to have understood what Hegel was saying in a very deep way, but he took the path of locating these processes within the individual rather than the amorphous abstract blob of society at large. So you would do very well to scour the literature of CG Jung because I'm telling you it will cast enormous insights on a lot of what you are describing here. One other reason that Jung was despised and rejected was that he also committed the ultimate sin of enunciating the religious nature of all this phenomena. Herbert Marcusé eschewed and rejected Jung in favor of his mentor, Freud, as you likely well know. So I would suggest you go and look into some of what Carl Jung had to say about Marxism and State Worship and also about individual consciousness development. You'll notice that he acknowledges the obvious ways that contradictions bring about both internal and external growth, but he confines these contradictory elements to a place within the concreteness of each individual, a place that seems more down to earth and readily digestible, if you ask me. But don't take my word for it: go check it out for yourself. You'll see what I'm talking about. And then it will no longer be such a mystery to you why Carl Jung was treated like a pariah and his ideas were cast into the dung heap. Indeed, if you go on this search, it will no longer be such a mystery to you why Dr. Jung was accused of sympathizing with fascism: his criticism of Marxism was the sole grounds for that accusation. Marxism is associated with Judaism, and to criticize Marxism is to criticize Judaism. Jung criticized Marxism from a rigorous academic standpoint, and therefore was accused of anti-Semitism. Same tired old game played over and over again. But there's people like myself who aren't fooled by those tricks. You're never gonna beat these people by just pointing out how illogical they are, since what is traditionally thought of as logical is precisely what they eschew. Jung knew that. He knew that you have to co-opt their game and redirect it's energy if you want to have any hope of beating them. Therefore he suspended our usual demand for logical consistency, played along with the game, but anchored the whole process to something that must be worked out on the individual plane of consciousness. I seriously hope you see this comment James and look into what I'm saying. We need to bring back Jungian psychology to beat these rascals back. It's the only way.
Marx replaces Church with State.
Marx wasn’t a statist
@@samsca8529 he was the original Globalist
This is my first time listening,, I was a bit afraid it would be over my head but it wasnt I,, its so ingrossing,,, absolutly loves this,, its brilliant,, he makes it easy to listin to,,,