Hey everybody, this is James Lindsay. You are listening to new discourses bullets where

I take on one topic from woke Marxism and break it down in bullet point style so that

we can understand it and stop woke Marxism. Today's topic is the struggle session. It's

very important that we understand what struggle sessions are. Presently my friends, my

moms over at moms for liberty are being struggled. The reason they're being struggled is because

they did not capitulate. They had their joyful warrior summit in Philadelphia at the beginning

of end of June and beginning of July. They did not cancel it. The hotel did not cancel

them. The museum of the American Revolution did not cancel them. So now they're being

struggled. So what is a struggle session and how do you deal with it? That's the issue.

And this episode is specifically and most importantly for my moms out there going through

this because not only are they going through it now and have been for a few weeks, they

will be going through it a lot in the future because they have proven that they don't

just roll over for this. So the struggle session is a form of psychological torture. That's

where we really should begin with struggle sessions. They are a form of psychological torture.

They were used by Mao Zedong in his thought reform prisons in his revolutionary high schools

and colleges and universities and also by the Red Guard and public where they would drag

people into the street and humiliate them. The purpose of the struggle session overall was

to facilitate Mao's vision of achieving a new unity on a new basis that he claimed

followed his special formula for transforming a culture devised in 1942, the formula titled

Unity Criticism Unity. He said in a speech given in 1957, he says to elaborate that means

starting from the desire for unity, resolving contradictions through criticism or struggle

and arriving at a new unity on a new basis. And he actually says explicitly a couple of lines

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