Communism 3.0: Corporate Communism | James Lindsay

The EVILution of Communism Workshop, Session 4
Communism is a religious view that has evolved and adapted over the last two centuries, including right up to the present day. Understanding the developments and threats in our present world requires understanding what Communism really is, especially in its Marxist variants, and how it has developed and changed over the years. In response to this need, James Lindsay of New Discourses held a four-lecture workshop series on the EVILution of Communism in Dallas, Texas, at the start of August 2024.
In this fourth and final lecture in the series, Lindsay picks up the loose threads from the previous two lectures and weaves them together to describe a new Communism for the twenty-first century, a "Communism 3.0" or "Twenty-first Century Communism." Lindsay characterizes this new model of Communism as the "Chinese model," derived from the practical implementation by former CCP leader Deng Xiaoping in the People's Republic of China, where it was tested first. Meanwhile, in the West, a parallel model was developed tracking not just with Deng Xiaoping Theory but also with the Western Marxist sensibilities of Herbert Marcuse, demanding a more "Sustainable" and "Inclusive" economy. Calling the model "Corporate" or "Corporatist" Communism, Lindsay explains how this model of Communism blends a Communist political theory and structure with a Fascist economic model of productive forces, creating the tyrannical hybrid that is intended to be the future for mankind both East, under the Chinese Communist Party, and West, under the United Nations and affiliates. This groundbreaking lecture provides a basis for completely changing the discourses around what's happening in our world today.
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[@LordBlk]

I remember using that term "corporate communism" while I was in a protest against covid restrictions in 2022 in alberta.

Old song had... My friend the communist... holds meetings in his office...

[@NickKing-Edwards]

Respect

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

Yes!!! The moderates and conservatives were doing the Same here in the USA.!!!

[@jakell99]

These are extremely useful recaps of previous material and feel more accessible, James seems to really enjoy them and they are good way of keeping the material 'alive'. I'm looking forward to more live events of this nature..

[@Nobody-df4is]

What makes it more accessible for me is showing the actual quotes. That way it's easier and quicker to distinguish from James' commentary. Excellent.

[@NeanderthalWoman-ou8ev]

He gets better at explaining this stuff every time he does it. He's been practicing for years now.

[@johnkrstyen]

​@Nobody-df4is that is one of the problems with James regular podcasts. Hard to distinguish from when he is reading a quote and his own dialog.

[@newdiscourses]

This fourth and final session of the EVILution of Communism Workshop from James Lindsay is accessible in advance for members. It will be made public for everyone on KZbin on Monday, December 9th, 2024, at 2pm ET.

[@6Sparx9]

The best one yet

[@nearcancelled]

​@@6Sparx9I can't wait! They're all so good.

[@sdrc92126]

You need to look into the Fabians and the simulacra of capitalism, wolves in sheep's clothing. Margret Cole masters of subversion.

[@Nobody-df4is]

Thanks James for these insights. It seems like we cannot escape this insanity. And I'm wondering if we could have avoided this insanity in the first place at all. James doesn't like it when I label it as insanity, but I think I have solved the Fermi Paradox.

[@sdrc92126]

@@Nobody-df4is That's why H called it "His Struggle", his jihad😉. It's a religious impulse and has to be called it out early and not censored like it is being.

[@mikeconway9103]

So what “they” are saying is: Everyone must be the same because diversity is our strength!.

[@williambranch4283]

Equality is un-diverse of course ;-)

[@joaquimteixeira8297]

Legion , because there's no us only we .

[@TheOneAndOnlySame]

How to uniformize people? Force diversity , that they know Doesn't work. The chaos emerging from this inhumane situation will make people willing to accept solutions. In order to reach social peace, everybody will be forced into the same mold. In short: create the problem to impose the solution that was your goal from the get go.

[@ebikescrapper3925]

Are companies people? No, companies are not people in a literal sense, but they are legally considered persons. This is called corporate personhood, and it means that a corporation has some of the same legal rights and responsibilities as a natural person. For example, corporations can: hold property, enter into contracts, and sue or be sued. The concept of corporate personhood is a Western idea. In 2010, the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision gave corporations the right to spend money in elections, which was a reversal of a century of legal precedent. A person can be a stakeholder,

[@williambranch4283]

@@ebikescrapper3925 A disaster.

[@zoltanrudolf]

Donald Trump’s victory does not make James Lindsay irrelevant. I’d love to see him in the new administration!

[@HanzBlitz-i8t]

This is next level. None of the regular big time toobers have this level of analysis.

[@sdrc92126]

Maybe they do and you can' see them🤔

[@HanzBlitz-i8t]

@sdrc92126 The smaller ones, absolutely.

[@sdrc92126]

@@HanzBlitz-i8t This is the most censored subject. I only found it through a game of battleship

[@HanzBlitz-i8t]

@@sdrc92126 I don't understand

[@sdrc92126]

@@HanzBlitz-i8t If you track everything that can't be said on this platform, it all leads here

[@LRibeiro97]

"Planned spontaneity" was mentioned in the beggining. That's a very useful term to described much of what we see nowadays

[@TheExcep_tion]

It's an oxymoron and makes zero sense. Think about it.

[@LRibeiro97]

@@TheExcep_tion It makes perfect sense, if you think about it. There are manifestations of apparently spontaneous things, that are actually planned (an op). Anyone listening to this type of video should be able to understand this basic concept.

[@LittlePhizDorrit]

Man was I ahead of my time. I said in high school over 2 decades ago that corporations were the new communism.

[@martino8114]

I’m not just saying this but me too I saw it coming in 1976

[@jackreacher.]

My business mentor coached me on executive action as a CEO and president of my corporation. ''To be clear'', he said, '' Your corporation must be operated as a TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP'' - it is not a DEMOCRACY.

[@LittlePhizDorrit]

@@jackreacher. genuine question: what's going on with stakeholder capitalism? why are so many companies capitulating to woke employees and screaming internet activists over profits?

[@jackreacher.]

@@LittlePhizDorrit Quick answer: Short term challenges differ from intermediate and long term planning considerations within the corporate management paradigm. This temporary popularity for woke activist consideration evolved from the audacity of the Democrat Party having STOLEN the 2020 presidential election. The J-6 response (redress of grievances) supercharged social media algorithms to capitalize (increase revenue) by pushing extreme opinion. Benz accurately describes the global top-down impetus to derive the multi-plex-plurality of opinion. Lindsay correctly chronicles the overall acceptance of rent seeking and power acquisition potentialities within under-educated demographic subsets. Inasmuch as your question lacks significant specificity, overall, this' 'what's going on'' question lacks strength in its query, however. Most likely, overall concerns for this perceived societal and, by extension, corporate response to collective generalized individual uninformed angst for opinion, is simply hyper-activity in once private thought. In other words, the majority of western society has been caught with its pants down during this exponential increase in access to information and its subsequent dispersion through ease of communication. For these reasons , our mid-level leadership is behind the curve, and our once commanding communications processes in legacy broadcast news, followed by cable derivatives, can no longer corral public opinion meaningfully and effectively. We are suffering from the newest era of ''enlightenment''. This is living history surpassing our complacency within recently outmoded mundane living.

[@jackreacher.]

@@LittlePhizDorrit My final point: you will find your answers when you go down the rabbit hole and aggressively investigate Graphika.

[@TheWhitehiker]

Much needed, James. Thanks much for your insights.

[@BalBurgh]

When I was in high school, c. 1978, I was taught a five-world model: 1st: The modern, developed west 2nd: the (supposedly developed) communist east 3rd: the developing world 4th: one-product economies (banana republics) 5th: complete basket cases (my teacher gave Bangladesh as an example)

[@laveraparato258]

Love the quote about work. People complain that Musk and Vivek are crazy rich, and yet both have no less than 3 businesses and consistently work 80 hours/week.

But what does that work entail versus most workers....

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Also Musk has a biological advantage: he's what's called a Short Sleeper -- a person who is born with three huge advantages: 1. They require far less sleep than other people do 2. They don't have trouble falling asleep even in difficult circumstances/environments 3. They awake after only a very few hours feeling wonderfully rested and exuberant Short Sleepers literally have more working hours in their day than the rest of us do. Obama is also a Short Sleeper.

[@smalltowns374]

If you consider twitterposting and joe rogan interviews "work"

[@hanswurst2765]

@@zxyatiywariii8 I mean thats only twice as much as most people work. So do they have twice as much money?

[@rey_nemaattori]

​@@hanswurst2765it doest scale linearly. If you work 10% extra hours each week for many years you easily would make 10x as much money...and thats not even including the compound interest of investing or original/ creative deas...each could easily go 100x...

[@pensador6953]

34:27 you can place one box on top of the other like that : Primitive comunism >>> slavery >>>> feudalism capitalism >>> socialism >>>> Global Communism the ultimate pourpose is to create another noble class where the socialists are on top.

[@sdrc92126]

i get X'ed every time I try to explain this, congratulations.👍If you know where to look, they explicitly say this. Philosopher kings

[@pensador6953]

@@sdrc92126 thank you

[@bobleglob162]

Yep. They won't be giving up anything we are forced to give up.

[@JeffyPDiddy]

Higher diversity means far more colleague and friend groups in company culture. The more separated everyone is, the less complaining, less organizing, and less power each individual employee has.

[@Kgzzzz-e3n]

33:12 They called it “Socially Responsible Caoitalism” in the 1990’s. See Judy Wicks, formerly married to one of the Ben & Jerry’s founders, of White Dog Cafe and the Sustainable Business Network in Philadelphia Pa. See her history of integrating social activist ideas with her business via the table talk and block party events. See her organized trips run to Cuba regarding us / Cuba “policy” and Amsterdam regarding Drug Policy. See her interviews on local NPR. “Socially responsible capitalism” was the early iteration of the hippie boomer commie take over of business.

[@leslielandberg5620]

The big takeaway for all of us should be the realization that these different philosophies of governance are not so much recipes, as ingredients that can be liberally mixed, depending upon your desired outcome. I think that is counterintuitive and so we have been stumbling over it for the past decade.

[@roryrobinson7136]

This seminar explains everything simplistically, watch it, understand it then share the heck out of it!!

[@Cirwlos]

Socialism and communism are always corporative. They are always feudal. The difference is just different labels put on the same concepts. Where the Naxis called a corporation manager "private owner," the communists call him "chairman" or "commissar," and the feudal lords called him "Duke," "Marquis," or "Count."

[@williambranch4283]

Socialism existed in Babylon. Farm land was held in common. All the ag produce was stored at the temple grain silo. Citizens got a regular ration. But if you didn't work you didn't eat! Some people were more equal than others ;-))

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Well said. Humans didn't evolve from termites, we've been hierarchical even before we learned how to create fire; so inevitably, whenever humans try to mold themselves into a communist, classless society, it devolves into an even worse mess than any of our other systems.

[@SpaceMonkey23101]

Absolutely. Well said.

[@creator830]

This comment has more value than anything said in the two hour video.

[@SpaceMonkey23101]

Amazing, insightful summary. Thank you.

[@77klinok]

Excellent new material and presentation! Love it!

[@williambranch4283]

Post-post modernism. Theistic atheism, atheist theism; communist capitalism, capitalist communism ... but we still need to say our prayers before bed and go to work in the morning ;-)

[@aakkoin]

How about.... Post-post-post-POST-modernism?? Sounds like some idiotic dialectical idea of history, repeating itself and eating it's own tail like a snake

[@aakkoin]

Powerful James Lindsay

[@Nobody-df4is]

2:01:10 Velocity = Acceleration. They consider themselves as accelerators. They notice a problem and then make the problem worse (accelerate) and then rebuild it from the ground up. (Build back better) It's the same as having a kitchen fire and then you add fuel to the fire because you don't like the house. The idea is that you then rebuild the house to your own taste. In their vision it is better to delete the previous concept instead of fixing what you already have. It is insanity and I have been saying for quite some time now, you have to snap out of this destructive thinking or there will not be anything left to rebuild. Once you delete your life it is gone. For good. It is game over. It seems to me that humanity is terminally ill.

[@MCharlesPainting]

'For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.' Written circa 1890-1900 by Nietzsche.

[@billynomates920]

tik and discourse on the same day and corporate communism isn't just some terror that occured to me.

[@Pantheraunicus]

@newdiscourses Please also create a new playlist for these very important sessions! I would like to share them in a neat little package. 😉 💯👍

[@OpaHutz]

Brilliant analysis!

[@Thalanox]

Two hours. This is one place where unbiased and accurate AI summaries would be useful. I'm closing a ton of tabs right now, but I'll pop this in my commute playlist.

[@Literallyarealhuman]

Basically the same stuff we judge North Korea for but worse. L not even the real laws Just intense social pressure and the threat of social and career annihilation

[@MCharlesPainting]

Note: Many Western people don't judge North Korea. They love North Korea. Christopher Hitchens famously refused to call North Korea Marxist in the 1990s and 2000s, because he loved Marx too much. And make no mistake, almost every young atheist and Marxist today is a fan of Hitchens or was inspired by him, or directly impacted by him.

[@justindunlap6009]

ISO9001:2015 embedded stakeholder interests into quality management system dictates. Seemed weird at the time

[@jakell99]

The "well produced identical signs" is more a UK thing than anywhere else. Our Socialist Worker party (ie revolutionary Communists) hs been doing this for decades and it became a running joke, they just carried on doing it regardless to the extent that people stopped laughing and the next step is that it just becomes accepted as a cultural quaintness. A lesson here might be that if you do something cringey for long enough and in large enough numbers. then it can become embedded. There could even be a sinister next step after this (Clown World becomes base reality) but I don't think anyone has managed to pull this off properly yet.

[@juvenalsdad4175]

Indeed. Back in the day, one had a certain grudging admiration for the speed with which the SWP got those placards out for demonstrations concerning the outrage of the day. I suppose advances in printing technology has helped with both speed and volume. I'd still like to know how it's paid for though.

[@MCharlesPainting]

Just to make clear: there are other objects and signs that are professionally made. Two clear ones that stand out to me are all the EU flags and otherwise items, and all the terrorist/Muslim headscarves. These are people sold by pros 24/7 to the Gretas of the world, and the underlings. Endless millions of dollars go into this global movement, and there are dozens of companies literally set up purely to sell EU propaganda items. Having said that, it's true that most signs at riots are actually hand-made, though many of the signs do say the exact same professionally-created slogans.

[@jakell99]

@@juvenalsdad4175 From some people I used to associate with I got the impression that a lot of smaller printers had deep Socialist leanings (the publishers of 'Class War!' for instance), and these would have connections with larger printers and suppliers. This would have helped with the cost as well as the logistics. Still, some cash input would have been needed.

[@StarCityFAME]

@@juvenalsdad4175 Usually a wealthy local who is also doing PPP biz in the area will have a team of "marketers" which includes everything from street musicians to printshops. Their entire productivity revolves around answering to these certain local leaders and fulfilling their wishes. I don't think they've got any other direction as far as productivity. Their only product is activism. The PPP folks and various consultants reap all the rewards.

[@dr.rangarajc9691]

Superlative!

[@Richard-j3z]

This is almost identical to the boston marathon bombing there was footage of the two brothers running away with their backpacks running away after the bomb exploded and other footage of two guys in blackwater uniforms walking up with a backpack then walkin away without before the explosion

[@Atamastra]

Has anyone else noticed that almost no one ever bothers to debunk or dissect James' videos. Like a debunking vid or response vid? I like to keep my opinions as checked and balanced as I can, lest I be subsumed into an echo chamber. The only real counter I've heard against him is from the Lotus Eaters. And honestly, as much as I appreciate them, they seem to get really cantankerous and smug when dealing with Lindsay, because he calls out the Woke Right. I am genuinely trying to find a seam or a crack or an inconsistency in James' analysis, but he brings the receipts over and over again and puts forth so arguments that make Woke and all of its connective ideals snap into perfect focus to reveal the horrific idea that it is.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

I know what you mean by smugness of debunkers. But there are academics knowledgeable in philosophy, economics, and political history who do occasionally take him to task. There is a chapter-by-chapter reading group for James' and Helen's book. It's a mixed group and deep dive but more of a fair reading than a debunking. It's on the KZbin channel Clean Room. One of the people was Sam Hoadly Brill, and he's been in other discussions about James Lindsay. Anyways if you can't tell, James is on one with this project, none of it is really sound analysis. The more you know about the subjects he speaks about, the more aghast you will likely be.

[@israelitebiblicalchanting1009]

The so called debunkers: smug narcissists. AKA Pseudo Sceptics. AKA conspiracy deniers.

[@MCharlesPainting]

​@@shannonm.townsend1232 I studied a fair amount of James directly (i.e. I read what WEF wrote, I read UK government documents, etc.). I find James is sound on almost everything. Not sure how you can get any deeper than being 100% accurate about what the evils of humanity are actively publishing themselves. If you want to know about Hitler, you read Hitler's words. If somebody suggests that somebody understands the words better than Hitler himself, then you are being lied to. If you are unable to have faith in your own ability to read his words, then you are a tool of the people lying to you. This is why I always check myself such things. The only key tension is when James offers certain theories or ideas about why x and y is true or happening, as opposed to the reality of x and y. However, most of the time, James himself states clearly that it's just an idea and he cannot prove it. There are other things he might not be right about, such as certain historical details or Postmodernist ideas, but his overall view and understanding of what WEF and UN are doing, and the UK government, etc. are completely sound, and in line with exactly what they have openly stated and published, from Marx to Biden, over 150 years of leftism and extremism.

[@paulw3182]

Fantastic Video, a great summation, and addition to your work. You are a gift to America by stressing the importance of Western Liberal Values in the face of caustic critical theory that is subverting our birthright. James your a wizard in your own right however please refrain from magical thinking! 😂

[@ciy85]

Bravo!! Encore!!!!

[@Knuck_Knucks]

perfection requires totalitarianism and that ain't perfect... 🐿

[@MCharlesPainting]

'Too early. You didn't make enough stuff for the people to steal yet.' So good. I've thought about this, as many 'new socialist' types say this. They talk about the need for 'excess wealth'. The problem is, you need more money than is possible to ever be created. There are three fundamental problems: (1) How do you actually define all prices? (2) How do you actually adjust to 'individual needs as they change'? (3) How do you ensure that you have enough money in the future, after you've used up the current supply? The latter is vital, though so are the former, and they are all connected. Let's say capitalism reaches a point where it has 100 trillion dollars, or 1000 trillion. Whatever you think sounds like 'enough'. The problem is, that gets used up very quickly, especially if you're a useless socialist and cannot correctly share it, and/or waste it due to pricing problems. Let's say all of this money is used in the first 25 years. What happens in the next generation? You either go into zero money, or you have a socialist system that can actually create vast amounts of wealth, possibly no worse than capitalism itself. Yet, the socialists clearly suggest that it's impossible to create wealth without capitalism: they just want to come in and steal the wealth after the fact, and wear a mask of compassion and the notion that 'capitalism is unstable, so we have to move into socialism at some point if we want the future to be bright'. There is a fourth, or maybe it's just imbedded in the first: (1b/4) How does the government know what to create, and actually create the best versions of it? Famously, the Soviets did have this problem. The government started to build tractors for farming. But without the free market competition, the government built relatively bad tractors, and they remained overpriced, long-term. It didn't work. The prices are unable to properly go down, and the quality is unable to go up, assuming you're even making a functional product to begin with, and that it's actually what people need. In the end, they often revert back to a slave-like state of labour workers, ironically, and a pre-historic state of morality and market policy. They turn into rather mindless pre-Roman savages, in other words, as they lack the wisdom and generational habits of the actual pre-Roman tribes and peoples (thus, pre-Roman people were relatively stable for over 50,000 years, where the Soviets massively struggled after just 30 years and died after 70). They end up in a place where everybody has 'some water and bread'. Or, there are many bread-lines, just no bread. This is one way millions died in both the Soviet Union and Maoist China. Literal lack of food due to lack of farming production and distribution (which is apparently what socialism/Communism is meant to be good at and centred around). Socialism/Communism claims that the issue with capitalism is that 'it's not equally fair for all citizens/members', but the only fat people in socialism is the ruler and his underlings (it is telling that 50% of Communist dictators actually were obese, which is quite a remarkable statistic. Some of them were middle or upper class themselves, where others began as working class. But they all end up in the same place, and so does everybody else: in the mud. Only, the dictators have gifted themselves a nicer plot of mud).

[@StarCityFAME]

If you redistribute all wealth equally, it's a very short matter of time before everything becomes unequal all over again. So, money in itself won't succeed in doing so. I think that's why they also include property ownership as well as ownership of production. Question is, how can physical property be divided equally? What if your assigned 10 acres (for the sake of argument) is not in the locale you want? What to do with beachfront property if climate change is a threat? Who decides on things regarding whether you are able or not to work a certain occupation? Who gets motivated to do anything difficult if everything pays the same? Whenever these questions are presented, the answers (if you get one at all) are "complicated" and take forever to read or listen to. That's because their answers don't actually accomplish the BS they're selling.

[@MCharlesPainting]

@@StarCityFAME Well, of course. That's easy to figure out. The Russians found this problem quickly. Let's say we take all the trillions in the world today and 'share' it. But we don't make much additional wealth, and we share it completely randomness and mindlessly (which means equally). What will happen is, within 10 years, you'd have lost all money, and it might even become a negative feedback loop. It's like giving a drug dealer 10 million dollars. Will he become the next Einstein, or will he kill everybody with drugs? Reminds me of that film, In Time, where a drunk is given a large sum of money and instantly drinks himself to death. That's the reality that utopian leftist types fail to understand. And if we suppose that this system is innately unfair, despite its equality, and will deeply upset many people's systems, such as emotional regulation, and sense of social status, it will instantly lead to civil war if billions or trillions are shared/dumped too quickly. People always say this about Musk: why not share his money? Because he wouldn't have any, so there wouldn't be any to share. Or they say, 'he has made enough money, now'. But where is that cut-off point? He now has 400 billion, but he had 200 billion not too long ago. And some time before that, he only had about 80 billion. And if you wait long enough, he'll likely be the first to 1 trillion dollars by 2027 or so. Why not wait until then, otherwise, you're literally throwing away over 600 billion dollars, which is equal to many of the other richest people as we speak. The best way to get money is to wait long enough for even more money to be generated/earnt. The thing is, that only works under capitalism, and it doesn't end (well, until somebody takes over Musk, or he simply stops working or something). That doesn't mean Musk getting trillions actually solves culture or my own life -- this is the only thing. I never claimed that, and anybody who does is just a murderer and psychopath waiting to happen. Bill Gates makes little impact in my life, and it's not his job to make any major impact in my life. I don't care if he's the next Sun Tzu or is worth 10 trillion dollars or 10 million dollars. Of course, interestingly, so many leftists that hate Musk for his wealth are the same people who love Gates for his wealth (and don't forget, Gates was the richest man not long ago, and had about 150 billion, more than Musk not too long ago -- and still far beyond anything a leftist would consider 'reasonable' in this sense). On top of this, the idea of the government taking everybody's money, and, therefore, being worth trillions of dollars, is weird if you hate the idea of a single citizen or private company having the same amount or even less. You don't trust Musk with billions, but you trust the Germany government or Chinese government with trillions? That is illogical, unless all you really want is totalitarianism and destruction. The other odd idea with Communists is they don't trust Apple or Nintendo or Ford to create products and the people to buy them, but they trust the Soviet government to have total control over the creation of trackers or pens, or whatever is being created. But we already tried that in the 1920s and 1930s, and they instantly failed to make anything even remotely reasonable, for a number of reasons. Likewise, leftists cry all the time that all food is ultimately owned by 6 mega corps, but that is not innately an issue. Secondly, they claim that it would be much better if just 1 corp owned it, called the government. These are the same people who don't trust the government whenever it's Right-wing. They only trust the government when THEY are in power. Lenin hated the government, until he was the government, then he loved it. Interesting how that always happens. The dirty secret of Communists is they pretend to be pro-localism and pro-working man and pro-small business, but they only care about governmental control and governmental business, and the working man as they define him, the 'Soviet man'. We saw this in Russia, Cuba, China, Lao, Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, Germany, Italy, and dozens of others over the last 100 years, both in the form of Fascism and Communism (of all types). By 1995, over 45 nations had tried Communism or Fascism and failed horribly, leading to almost zero money and 50+ million murders and 50+ million non-murder deaths, and to WWII, of course (roughly 100 million dead people in total, as a direct result). Directly and indirectly, we see at least 150 million, maybe 200 million, dead bodies under Communism and Fascism (mos of them under Communism). Compare that with the rest of history -- the British Empire killed tens of millions of people, and generated trillions of dollars, and saved billions of lives, both directly and indirectly under worker rights, job creation, health, science, democracy, machinery, goods/production, and trade/food. They literally stopped the Indians from widow-burning, and stopped much else, too, circa 1700-1950 AD. They literally ended slavery, along with the Americans and French, and they invented modern water systems circa 1650 AD, bookshops and modern books circa 1850 AD, trains, plans, cars, and much more (all of which soon helped America, Europe, China, and elsewhere). (I just saw a debate with Konstantin Kisin where the Communist fellow practically said that places like China and India already had the industrial revolution before England, already were doing just fine and were anti-slavery before the British circa 1650 AD. A complete lie of history in the most shockingly clear war possible. But nothing new for Communist devils. That defines their entire existence. And as ever, it begs the question: how did England take over the world if the rest of the world was already as advanced or more advanced? That is illogical. Then again, these are the same people now trying to push the narrative that England had black people forever and Alexander the Great was not Greek, and so on and so forth. But that begs the question: if everybody was always here and white history was never really white, how did white people ever do anything negative/evil, then? Cannot have it both ways. One of the new Doctor Who episodes, for example, literally just made Newton Indian/brown. They just threw it in without even talking about it, just to destroy British history, just to brainwash and confuse and gaslight everybody. Of course, how was Newton both a racist and non-white at the same time? Why does A.I. always show Nazis as black, or anybody from history as non-white who was white? Irony. This sort of issue is widespread in media, government, cinema, and education.) The fact that every Communist state is an example of what is known as 'state capitalism' is proof of this fundamental issue: Communism is capitalism taken to the extreme of what the Communists complain about. They say, 'capitalism is terrible because so few hold all the power and wealth; Communism is amazing because I'LL hold all the power and wealth'. Marxism/socialism/Communism/Fascism/Maoism/Postmodernism, etc. is narcissism, totalitarianism, cowardice, revenge, and megalomania on full display. In Nietzschean terms, it's known as 'slave morality', which seeks to destroy the noble morality, and what has been created, and to equalise everything down to their level. They are not active creators and forces in the world, but destroyers and parasites, and are weak, only ever defined in opposition. Or, to borrow from Bob Dylan: 'Bent out of shape from society's pliers / Cares not to come up any higher / But rather get you down in the hole / That he's in.'

[@I_am_that_one_guy]

People make everything! Human nature is what it is, this is why communism just ends in death and a failed state.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

What do you mean?

[@spunkitydoda]

Esquimo’s don’t want to live in L.A. and visa versa.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

@@I_am_that_one_guy what is "human nature"?

[@I_am_that_one_guy]

@shannonm.townsend1232 the typical was humans react under pressure, duress, or strain. Some of these reactions we call vices, or ways to dull our life and negative aspects as we view them. We then start to act in pretty patterned ways. Check out behavioral sink. We're not mice, but as a mammal, we do exhibit these extreme situation reactions as the mice do.

[@I_am_that_one_guy]

@shannonm.townsend1232 base human nature is yo survive, that's why we have a greed bias, as in, we excuse greedy traits away as ok, because we needed them to survive before running water.

[@publiconions6313]

James. I've listened long enough that I trust you very much. However, I would love to see a debate between you and Akaad. Some in his comments call you a "commie" which is ridiculous... but they admit they don't know you. I have not been convinced one way or the other, though, whether liberalism (little L) inevitably leads to leftism. The "woke right" is not "right" - I think they're just fashies who have been convinced by the left that they're right, but are not. Akaad is making an argument perpendicular to this so far. Do we Americans benefit from the fact that our influx of people are generally Catholic or Catholic adjacent?.. and Europe's influx are generally Islamic? Does that matter?

See our modern left is authoritarian... and the authoritarians will just move to the power. As for the latter yes it actually helps but that's why they're importing from other places a lot more now.

[@smushedenterteinment]

Yeah agree. Imo sargon and aa are doing some drugs to come to that conclusion

[@dainagrn7030]

Funny when capitalists use Christianity where Jesus told to sell all possessions and follow him. Where he told that for camel is more easy to pass through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter kingdom of heaven.

@dainagrn7030 Your point being? You also need capital to help others. Unless you're stealing it from others. In which case you should justify why you can steal their effort with say a vote...

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

Both groups seem to have strong family values, so no doesn't matter

[@Objectivityiskey]

Brilliant AF! ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@discokrakken]

"A thousand words are worth a picture" 🙃

[@JennieSquid]

Dear James, ❤ ❤ ❤ your insights. Would you be stepping over the line making a few comments about the public event with the beloved Jordon Peterson where he kneels to R.Brand leading the public in prayer. Personally I can't listen to anything JP has to say after that incident. Am I being unfair? Biased?

[@timgrindley8080]

I made it through all the way sober! o I get a prize?

[@ElectricSwordFish-i4k]

3:56 - Why come up with several new terms when there's already one that describes it perfect? "The first extensive use of the term "crony capitalism" came about in the 1980s. Crony capitalism, sometimes also called simply cronyism, is a pejorative term used in political discourse to describe a situation in which businesses profit from a close relationship with state power." Are the producers of this video controlled opposition? This deviation of using an already perfectly sound term annoys me, just like the dialectic synthesis of the term "liberal" to describe neo-marxists. "Classical liberalism: a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech" - clearly in opposition to marxist principals "Neoliberalism: often associated with a set of economic liberalization policies, including privatization, deregulation, consumer choice, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending" - none of these principals except globalization are marxist in ideology. Sometimes you gotta import some stuff. Neoliberals and Classical Liberals promote what are essentially the opposite of marxist economic principals. This misuse of the term 'liberal' by Americans which has now spread throughout the rest of the world annoys the SH out of me. It's playing right into the hands of those the majority of you oppose.

[@justvoteconservativedontth6812]

Does anyone know what the word fascist means?

[@Rayhuntter]

the buffooneey in this type of panels is so striking that it leaves no doubt that it's made on purpose and well paid for.

[@martino8114]

I know right!? I’m 61 I had a real education but it’s like nobody really knows what fascism is

[@Fluffychoupikkos]

I love you ❤

[@MCharlesPainting]

I wonder if this is one reason they hate Jordan Peterson: he pretty much demands that this general theory is correct, that people can be driven in certain directions due to inbuilt mechanics, and our desires. The WEF and UN want to control these for their 'nudge' ideas, so they don't want Jordan espousing it, or people having greater control over themselves, and, therefore, the WEF and UN. They are like gambling houses: they want the gamblers to be dumb and mindless and sheepish. This is quite funny, in that leftist types say that Jordan is wrong and such Jungian and Darwinian systems don't exist, or don't mean much, but then they turn around and believe in the very same systems whenever it's in the shape of WEF's plans or unconscious bias or some kind of inbuilt racism in 'whiteness'.

[@meijerssven]

I like how he uses radical thinking to criticise the capitalist state mode of production (corporate communism) where socialism and liberalism fused in neoliberalism. The assumption that this is a Marxist complot is ridiculous. Read Henri Lefebvre to understand there is a left ‘Marxist’ critique of this same phenomenon already from the time period this emerged. The problem of the left is that they stopt criticising the state.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

In the West you can criticize the State all you want, as long as you don't organize against it. Western Marxism is a diluted form, relegated to analysis- particularly cultural analysis, shunted away from economic concerns and thus brought to heel by the State.

[@4terrascorned]

Its called fascism

[@berkano_plays]

1:26:14 you did it right.

[@anitaklein2630]

47:26 this is what Keir Starmers is doing in the UK right now.

[@phorz85]

Wouldn't it b easier to use the term that already exists for it? It's fascism as mussolini defined it. He even gave us an option, for if we wanna b more fancy about it, corporotism. Corporate communism isn't just unnecessary but also a false term cuz communism is an utopic endstate, that's impossible to achieve.Fascism tho' is very real.

[@martino8114]

You are exactly correct. My parents fled Italy from it in the 30’s

[@phorz85]

@@martino8114 i'm german. Weirdly neither mussolini's nor hitler's regimes were as much fascist by that definition, than the western system is now, cuz their strongly nationalist leaning. Fascism pure, is what the cia n nato subjected us all to since the late 194s. Politics n ideology mean nothing. It's a system of purely economic concern.That's what most not understand. Least of all, most calling themself "antifascist" the loudest n r backing any political system unquestioning, if a "left" gouver nment is in place,despite the program keeps allways going, n todays nationalists are really the only voices remaining to speak out against it. What's barely understood about the cold war, is that genuine nationalists were just as hated by the elites as socialists were n some of the coups back then weren't against the latter but the former. Just take iran 1953. The guy wanted to nationalize iranian oil, that's all it took to label him a commy. Arbenz in guatemala was just the same. Today they fight the afd in germany as "antidemocratic" but they r the only ones who want a dir3ct democracy model as it exist in suisse. It's all absurdly orwellian. All the mainstream says means usually the oposite.

[@TheExcep_tion]

Some great points. I see some "new" terms for some old ideas really. So nothing really new. I will also say his idea is a bit of a stretch and a bit too much doom and gloom. Sure...some of these things are happening but other factors are working even harder to oppose.

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

There exist certain stable systems that societies can "collapse" into. Mixed-economy statist oligarchy is one of them. It doesn't matter if it started from aristocracy, theocracy, capitalism or communism, it will collapse into that system if given the preconditions (which is a given in the case of communism), or it's going to collapse into an even lower order system like tribalism.

[@dr.rangarajc9691]

Traceable e-rupee , central bank digital currency, CBDC, has been launched by official counterfeiter Indian central bank. It was a foreign court which stopped use of military grade software, Pegasus, on its own citizens.

[@tjohannam]

ESG sounds so banal but is terrifying!

[@KrinkleBear]

Your recent work on "the woke right" is complete bullshit James. You have a tendency to backstab so im getting out now . UNSUBSCRIBED*

[@I_am_that_one_guy]

So they're gonna invest all their money in food and cleaning products? Or they gonna forces to buy tvs, Or fill in whatever consumer product you don't actually need is. We have no obligation to buy their trash.

[@keithayre6793]

England, has been perfecting their Government 'Nudge Unit' & are looking 2sell it 2Other Governments, folks 😁

[@rosstatam16]

So how do I now live? Over 60 years old, low income, modest intelligence and limited influence.

[@dr.rangarajc9691]

Charles Dow was born in1851. His theory of Technical Analysis is similar to Soros. For a real market participant it's easily is determinism as absurd Soros put it into dialectics framework.

[@keithayre6793]

don't 4Get the incremental roll out of 'CBDC' the social credit, iPhone 24/7surveillance & digital Identity 🆔 control mechanisms/system, folks 😀👍 surveillance

[@wcbbsd]

Fractional reserve lending and quantitative easing says... 🤷 What?

[@TheExcep_tion]

Greedy corporations that people freely exchange their money for goods and services. An athlete can make more money than a ceo and provides nothing to society. Yep....greedy corps and ceos.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

_Ra: I am Ra. The possibility/probabilities exist for situations in which great portions of your continent and the globe in general might be involved in the type of warfare which you might liken to guerrilla warfare._ _The ideal of freedom from the so-called invading force of either the controlled fascism or the equally controlled social common ownership of all things would stimulate great quantities of contemplation upon the great polarization implicit in the contrast between freedom and control._ _In this scenario, which is being considered at this time/space nexus, the idea of obliterating valuable sites and personnel would not be considered an useful one. Other weapons would be used which do not destroy as your nuclear arms would._ _In this ongoing struggle the light of freedom would burn within the mind/body/spirit complexes capable of such polarization._ _Lacking the opportunity for overt expression of the love of freedom, the seeking for inner knowledge would take root, aided by those of the Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow which remember their calling upon this sphere._ Ra Material (1981)

[@SomboonCM]

...Gnosticism...

[@sdrc92126]

Shapeshifters....snakes

[@bobleglob162]

They would create a soulless world inhabited by the walking dead.

[@ksNanoSquid]

Wow. We really are completely fucked, aren't we?

[@creekwoodjoe1607]

We dodged a bullet for now.

[@Pureobjectivetruth]

James, you blocked me on X. Y?

[@jasontadema5034]

It's called a synthesis. thesis, antithesis,synthesis.

It's funny because the nature of the dialectical is a one dimensional summary of a problem. That's why it sells so much. It makes people feel smart when they find an out. But take it to something as absurd as black and white... then redo it from the middle to the edges and realize the reasoning itself is borderline useless.

[@NoobRideseMTB]

The final conclusion is too horrifying to contemplate. The crazies want perpetual growth - and we know this is finite. What comes after we hit the block in the road?

[@cavalieroutdoors6036]

Wrong. Did you not listen to the video? They want *DEgrowth.* Perpetual growth would be neutral, because at some point the growth would simply stop and level out and that would be neither inherently good or bad. But the desire to reverse growth, to hollow nations out from the inside, is insidious and evil and literally detrimental to everyone residing in these nations.

[@williambranch4283]

Bottle of flies experiment.

[@URProductions]

You forgot about Outer Space. Perpetual growth is 100% possible, and ought to be our goal. Degrowth is suicidal.

[@williambranch4283]

@@URProductions Got warp drive there ... Zephram Cochrane?

[@URProductions]

@@williambranch4283 No, but we got a SpaceX Starship in development and existing Falcon rockets that are revolutionizing Space travel. And our Solar System alone has more than enough resources to fuel growth for centuries to come.

[@jms7726]

Corporate communism is also "post-capitalism"

[@arthursage9358]

The totalitarian, authoritarian regulars communist eliminated real communists the anarcho- communists or some anarchists. They did in China with the anarcho- federalist, etc. They did it in Ukraine to the Maknovists army and agrarian society. I think you’re on to something though.

[@ralphsunico]

Corporate communism has always been a thing. The following video link has more information... kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5W8kHyDj61lgdE

[@ralphsunico]

Corporations used to be called syndicates, which were invented by the communists. After the fascists broke away from the communists, they started to refer to syndicates as "corporations" to further emphasize their being the "organs of the state". Corporations are still the state. Corporate power is state power.

[@ChrisWill]

Uhhh it’s not communism it’s corporatism, a form of fascism.

[@martino8114]

Concur

[@drstrangelove09]

please stop equating Fascism and Nazism. They are not the same. Both evil but not the same. If you're talking about the Nazi system then call it Nazism, not Fascism.

[@spunkitydoda]

27:55

[@Objectivityiskey]

Should anyone wonder how we got here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZ2XlqydZadph7s

[@I_am_that_one_guy]

Their propaganda game is weak.

[@Nobody-df4is]

Hmm... I think you are underestimating their power. So far, as I can tell, it has been working very well. And it is getting worse. Vance declared a war on woke, but I seriously doubt any real fix. But I take everything they do manage to fix. Don't get me wrong. Even when it is 5% or something.

[@tuvoca825]

Communism's biggest complaints about capitalism... is communism pretending to be capitalism. 😂

[@jonmarco74]

James is now discredited and irrelevant after he tried to paint Conservatives as “woke”.

[@AnkushNarula]

this is good stuff, but your woke right game is weak af

[@RFG0neWON1969]

DeepDIVE... listen 👂 up

[@crutherfordmusic]

Jesus died for our sins according to the scriptures, was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

[@mysteryseaker1914]

Our blessed Hope, Titus 2:12-13

[@TamasKalman]

i always said: “china is centralized capitalism. corporate america is decentralized communism.”

[@sdrc92126]

Neither are communism. Communism is the end state of Utopia, all watched over by machines of loving grace

[@codycurtin2295]

This is so braindead 😂

[@seanlee7276]

The BEAST system........

[@sdrc92126]

Wait till Al is the teacher of children and imparts his morality and ethics on them 😱 Ever wonder how we get to _A Brave New World_ or _Logan's Run?_

[@seanlee7276]

@sdrc92126 God wins

[@sdrc92126]

@@seanlee7276 Yes, but it can be horrific for a lot of innocent people until then. Nature bats last. -Feynman

[@seanlee7276]

@sdrc92126 Ignorance is not innocence, but is the root of evil. God bless

[@casanovasteinfrankly7566]

Neo lib kinda

[@anharmyenone]

Stop trying to make fetch happen.

[@Knuck_Knucks]

"Fetch." That's from the movie 'Mean Girls' . Right? 🐿

[@craigstockham2590]

The problem is that do need to slow growth. If we could figure out how much the world could handle if everyone had the same amount. Those above this amount would need to dial back.

[@leludallasmultipass]

That sounds awful.

[@williambranch4283]

Subsistence. in Burundi, $308 per year per person. Anything more is exploitation ;-)

How do you even remotely decide what people need and why would the same amount to everyone be a goal? Should someone who sits on the couch all day and doesn't contribute have the same as a steel mill worker? Why?

[@zxyatiywariii8]

"How much people need" -- which people? Some people love living in the cities, some people love living on a farm. Some people don't want any children, some people want several children. Some people need higher protein foods, some people need higher carb foods. Some people are excellent at outdoor work, some people are excellent at indoor work. Some people are hetero, some people are gay. Some people thrive in social jobs, some people thrive in remote-work jobs. . . and etc, etc, etc. I'm sorry but there is no "Generic Human" whose "needs" are universal. We're all individuals, and we all need different things.

[@sdrc92126]

Have we ever run out of anything?

[@virginiahoffman4624]

How do we overcome and defeat this evil?

[@martino8114]

Two tac teams to take out vanguard state street and blackrock lol