21st Century Communism

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 100
Communism hasn't died, despite what many would have you believe. It has evolved and adapted for the 21st century. What you see under the CCP in China, that's the Chinese Communist Party, today and what we deal with under ESG and the UN Agenda 2030 in the West is 21st Century Communism, which appears to fulfill Marx, not contradict him, at least in certain ways. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay spends a few minutes to explain to you how Communism is presenting in the 21st century and what it means for us and our fight for our and our children's liberty.
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[@philipford6183]

'Corporate communism' nails it perfectly.

[@lightworker2956]

That term isn't going to convince anyone who isn't already on your side. The average joe is just going to say "no one is looking to abolish private property, least of all corporations, therefore this isn't communism." I think it's better to call it either "woke fascism" as someone else suggested in a comment, or just call it woke authoritarianism / corporate authoritarianism.

[@tonyromano6220]

Works for me.

[@tonyromano6220]

@@lightworker2956ok

[@tonyromano6220]

James is talking to us, not the npcs.

[@zeehero7280]

becuase they only pretend to be businesses but have abandoned making products for customers that they want and instead are paid off to push an agenda.

[@uumlau]

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

[@caseyjudson1062]

what do you mean? What is honest about it? And does that make socialism inherently, dishonest?

[@KeyMoveMedia]

@@caseyjudson1062 yes

[@caseyjudson1062]

@@KeyMoveMedia I guess, because socialism leaves out the fact that a few select people are going to get rich or own everything.

[@uumlau]

@@caseyjudson1062 Fascism is what Socialism naturally becomes over time if it is to survive. Mussolini, who coined the term "Fascism" explicitly promoted these ideas, started out as an avowed Socialist. What James Lindsey is noting in this video is that this is happening all over: Communism/Socialism becoming Fascism. The main ideological concession is that you co-opt businesses instead of outlaw them, at which point all those evil Capitalists are now are your side. "Fascism is just honest Socialism" is just a pithy way to describe this phenomenon without getting lost in the weeds of nitpicky definitions.

[@uumlau]

​@@caseyjudson1062 It's a pithy way of describing what James Lindsey articulates in much more detail. Mussolini started out as an avowed Socialist before coining the phrase "Fascism". Turns out that it wasn't just Mussolini, but pretty much every country that wants to establish Socialism/Communism either has to "co-opt Capitalism" or die out in the long run.

[@pdd60absorbed12]

"communism absorbed fascism" true and profound.

[@Miparwo]

Fascism was invented and implemented by Lenin in the Soviet Union, and was named "New economic policy". Hitler and Mussolini just copied it.

[@johnbrown4568]

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

[@sandrakippert9470]

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

[@ianelliott8224]

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

[@zeehero7280]

Communism and Fascism are like Fuji and Macntosh apples. 2 varieties of the same thing.

[@Miparwo]

Fascism has always been socialism. Every time socialism fails, the socialist claim "oh, but that wasn't real socialism", and that's why they call fascism "far right". Today, after the failure of maduro in Venezuela, the socialist apologizers are claiming that it failed because it was "extreme capitalism".

[@jamesclark6487]

Totalitarianism. The left always go there.

[@TheOrdomalleus666]

Finally, the entire thing starts to make sense.

[@GimmeAll-u8p]

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

[@caseyjudson1062]

Isn’t one of these true and the other one not true? Or vice versa

[@GimmeAll-u8p]

@@caseyjudson1062 all I know is I'm paying 50% taxes and they say I should be thankful to be able to vote for 49%

[@caseyjudson1062]

@@GimmeAll-u8p so when Mel killed millions that was communism. But when you pay 50% in taxes that is not capitalism. But I guess I can see what you’re saying. Both are attempting to absolve blame.

[@dwwolf4636]

Indeed and why is that ? See how many of Marx's points we have implemented. They are a poison pill for a free society, the power they grant is irresistable to any politician. We don't even have proper money, only paper currency that keeps getting inflated away. Ditto interest games. What we have is socialist wealth extraction and re-distribution games.

[@OneWingedShark]

Capitalism _requires_ the ability to fail. *When was the last time the government let an "essential company" fail?*

[@glenmerwyn5195]

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

[@romanyrose4074]

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

[@bacongod4967]

FDR’s cabinet was rife with full blown commies

[@lordkelvin441]

Progress that only fulfills military and/or control agenda is not progress in civilizational sense, stop using term 'progressive' in relation to any type of constructivist movement.

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

Yep. It's all marxist, no matter how much fascists and communists hate each other. Just branches of the same tree. Religion is a good analogy especially because marxism is a religion too. Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox all killed each other, but still Christian. Protestants didn't suddenly become Athiests because they disagreed with the Catholics. Nor did fascists become "right wing" becaise they felt communists were the soy boy version of marxists

[@lordkelvin441]

@@bacongod4967 Indeed, starting with Stuart Chase, author of the concept stolen and renamed as 'stakeholder'.

[@friendlyfire7861]

Great summation

[@BryanWLepore]

NPCs : "conspiracy theory"

[@mattk9089]

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

[@zeehero7280]

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

[@confucamus3536]

Twenty first century commoid man

[@hermitthefrog8951]

NICE! Love KC! (no sunshine band...)

[@mxvega1097]

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

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

Evolution is natural, this is mutation.

[@wd91]

Dungism is so fitting 😂

[@Edward-zw9ld]

Great analysis

[@AlbertoDG]

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

[@DruuzilTechGames]

Don't buy their crap.

[@lalaboards]

Call them names .

[@AlbertoDG]

​@@DruuzilTechGamesthey sell almost everything, but yeah, boycotts kinda works with non-essentials.

[@SusloNick]

Organize. politics 101, people lost since they became atomized

[@AntiquatedApe]

The main thing that would take their power away is to take away the status of legal personhood from corporations so that CEOs must be held personally accountable should the company fail its investors.

[@ophelia.artaud]

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

[@hermitthefrog8951]

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

[@peterbills4129]

Essentially, yes.

[@mercychoke4475]

yes.

[@levi5459]

pretty much

[@Miparwo]

The only difference between fascism and communism, is that they use different words for the same things.

[@hermitthefrog8951]

@@Miparwo - and yet they hate each other...

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

Thanks James. Keep 'em flying!

[@dustinkdye]

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

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

Trying to get these concepts across to normies without them looking at you crosseyed is the hardest part.

[@lalaboards]

Dung Chow Ping ,Xi zing Ping , Here in America we have president Joe Ding Dong Ping .

[@nacetroy]

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

[@codex3048]

Call it anything except "Judeo-Communism." You can't call it that.

[@Miparwo]

You mean Christianism. Christianism has always been communism. That's why it caused the collapse of the Roman Empire, and condemned Europe to the dark ages.

[@gg_rider]

Jews are victims of the same thing in Israel. The Left is doing a Herbert Marcuse against everything, normal liberalism and Torah-tradition, possibly worse than in the US. Violent Antifa in the streets, up to top leadership of the military. In the US, the Left wants to a55a55inate Trump, as a "threat". In Israel, the Left wants to a55a55inate Netenyahu, as a "threat".

[@daniellebcooper7160]

Youve explained it well. It certainly has evolved, theyve learnt from sweeden. Keep up the good work. Subscribed.

[@Kurtofon]

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

[@tomchidwick]

Hey James Lindsay, this is everybody. ;-)

[@willardgrey7328]

Heavy

[@DruuzilTechGames]

8:26 - Probably on par with Harris' new "Opportunity Economy" she keeps talking about but refuses to explain.

[@shabbos-goy9407]

A load of spiteful crap is what she promotes

[@caseyjudson1062]

will we have a better chance of fighting this down the line if we can at least agree on what’s going on and what the terminology is? Another words can we obey the new prevailing rules, but at least keep our minds? That’s the thing that me the most actually at this point. Is the average person in the public claiming that Kamala Harris won a debate, When not a lot was discussed or answered on her side. It’s not a football game, where you could objectively judge who scored more points and was more effective on each answer. It’s subjective hence subject to the minds being targeted.

[@peterbills4129]

You're going to have to do the work and listen to the vids to understand their vocabulary. And not just here, but other channels as well. TIKHistory is a good channel for Fascism/Socialism. As James say, "they share our vocabulary, but not our dictionary."

[@RichardEnglander]

Ah, the end about the State withering away, now i get the Corporatism, the contradiction there. Thanks James

[@TacticsTechniquesandProcedures]

I like you. No you don’t die. I will protect you.

[@justinhadley2583]

Mao Zedong thought is a pretty disgusting thing when you consider it is a Christian axiom that wr think God's thoughts after him.

[@tsechejak7598]

State withers away in final communism, as in the corporation and its AGI like Blade Runner.

[@bromanHenk1]

I mean, you could use Managerialism for a single word for it

[@rworded]

I love Mr. Lindsay and he taught me great things about woke communism but the Nazis snd Fascists didn't privatize anything, and there was a absolutely no capital interest, Lindsay needs to read into the doctrine of Fascism more because it's not what people think it is and does have narrow definitions. To simplify, it is nationalistic and collectivist simultaneously, as well as being a religion. It's called the "Third Way" because it's heavy emphasis on nationalism and borrows that from the West, and it's collectivism borrowed from socialism or Marxism in Fascism's case . Nazis and Fascists call themselves the true arbiters of socialism. The reason why they had to go to war was the fact like in all collective societies their economy was failing, they needed resources so they stole them across Europe.

[@ZZFilm]

This is the way.

[@keredeht]

but what can the average person do about it?

[@allenwarren1269]

"The time for the destruction of the 'world and its people' hath come." Baha'u'llah

[@FaradayStanford-y4m]

Taylor Jason Hall Sandra Johnson Ruth

[@globalnomad1221]

Blackrock pushes DEI right?

[@kellinwinslow1988]

Yes they do. And they reward companies for being compliant with these ideas.

[@globalnomad1221]

@@kellinwinslow1988 - so money for obedience to propaganda

[@lordkelvin441]

Strict obedience in the West is inherently German idea described by Goldmann under 'Spirit of Militarism', Berlin 1916. In other words, radicalized political Augustinism in which state apparatus, instead of being 'God's whip on sinners' takes absolute power. Absolute in a sense that effects of it's application can't be undone or interferred with, a 'poor man's omnipotence' if you will. That's what one gets when one tries to Christianize one of most combative cultures known in the world.

[@lightworker2956]

I don't get all this talk of communism, because no one seems to be looking to abolish private property. It looks to me more like we have a bunch of left-wing authoritarians / fascists running around who are using the same playbook as communists, but their actual goal is authoritarianism / fascism with themselves on top -- not abolishing private property. (Obviously, the left-wing are the fascists.)

[@geobloxmodels1186]

Abolishing private property can take more than one form. It's not just the state grabbing your stuff. For example, the educational publishing company I work for is getting away from selling tangible textbooks that would be 'owned' by a district. Now the company is selling subscriptions to the content. So, the schools don't own any books, they just rent the content. And that content can be edited by the publisher without the customer even knowing it (this doesn't apply in state adoption states). Lots of software is going this way too. You will own (have your own control over) nothing and you will be happy with what you get to rent (or your social credit score will be reduced). EDIT: Oh, and the company is owned privately and does the bidding of Human Rights Campaign in order to keep up the ESG score and stay in business. If the hrc wants us to have special benefits for trannies, we suddenly give special benefits to trannies.

[@austinhageman6148]

​@geobloxmodels1186 Right, it just takes looking a little more closely. Of course no one is going to come out and say they want to abolish private property, but I mean come on 😅 "You will own nothing and be happy," is pretty clear. The subscription/rental model does seem to be the primary method they want to use.

[@StupidAnon-gn8ih]

"I don't get all this talk of communism, because no one seems to be looking to abolish private property." Holy crap, tell me you have been living under a rock without telling me you have been living under a rock. There are entire academic journals that get updated with new papers every year and have massive support from student bodies across this country that are _specifically_ about abolishing private property. They've spiraled so far out of control that they've turned all kinds of things into 'private property,' like 'whiteness.' Seriously, just google 'whiteness as property' and start reading. Ubisoft: "Get comfortable with not owning your games." WEF: "You will own nothing and be happy." (Research this, it's much bigger than the phrase implies, but they have an entire system worked out where you rent everything and own nothing, instead a central controlling authority assumes responsibility for the goods and services). I forget who gave this TED Talk, but a while back, one of those talks had some woman saying people don't want the responsibility of ownership anymore, so that should be outsourced. You have multiple news outlets like Vox Media and Kotaku _all_ advocating for the abolition of private property. Talk to members of Antifa, ask them what they think about private property, and what the real purpose of everything they do is. They will tell you. "but their actual goal is authoritarianism" Communism is authoritarian. You can't abolish private property _without_ authoritarianism, because someone can just walk up to any unattended object and make off with it and say 'this is mine now.'

[@erosionhead420]

Perfect description. Well said 👍

[@erosionhead420]

@@geobloxmodels1186: Bravo 👍

[@trebushett2079]

James, since communism is not compatible with human nature, I fail to see why you call it communist - socialist, yes, because there always be elites in charge, cascading downwards until you reach the proletariat. Communism, on the other hand, is where everyone truly has an equal share (with no elites) which will, and can never be, the case.

[@AntiquatedApe]

"communism...is where everyone has a truly equal share". That is only like 1/3 of the equation. Everyone inputs,outputs,and consumes the exact same amount as one another. Nobody is different in any way and everything is all the same. It's functionally an impossible system

[@Adam-w7y4s]

ummm I guess with the lies and mis/mal/dis-information legally allowed currently by pro government media outlets we will soon all be told that we have an equal share enough times until we actually believe it ..... lies are truth !

[@easzq8]

What do they call the tyrannical union of corporate and government power? Three guesses and the first two won’t be Gentile!

[@KevenTomlinson]

People love the current state of affairs. Your haf if you believe you can change the trajectory.

[@sarral2008]

Mmmmh.... James Lindsay sounds more and more like a conspiracy theorist. Why not start with defining what communism is? It is the way of owing the means of production. You are talking about something completely different. And yes, you can have socialist market economy. The opposite of the market economy is the plan, or command, economy. Stuck to maths, James.

[@austinhageman6148]

You should get your auditory cortex checked out

[@josephahner3031]

Communism is a collective model of ownership.

[@peterbills4129]

Who owns and/or controls the means of production under Communism? How about Socialism? Capitalism? If a corporation is owned and controlled by the people through stock those people own, is it Capitalism, Socialism, or Communism? What is a mixed economy?

[@mercychoke4475]

obtuse much..? u clearly have next to zero comprehension skills. 😆🃏

[@sarral2008]

@@peterbills4129 Good questions. Shall I answer them or you know the answers already?

[@blackquiver]

8:35 awesome 👍😎

[@RichardEnglander]

2:10 yes Fascism of a sort, Corporatism with the Trade Unions replaced by Oligarchy

[@blackquiver]

3:22 cool 😎👍. I am Right 😅❤

[@blackquiver]

4:56 haha 🤣😆 black rock. Ha

[@Spikes01k]

What exactly are the elements of Fascism that this new Communism has appropriated? I got lost a little on that.

[@arty7182]

nationalism (imo) in a form of "race" or group identity , ie: BLM , Chinese people and the CCP , LGBTQalfabet+ ... etc etc