Hey everybody this is James Lindsay you're listening to new discourse

bullets where I discuss one topic from wok Marxism a kind of bullet point fashion

so that you can understand it so that we can beat it. Today I actually want to talk about the class concept itself.

Within Marx's thought, you're supposed to identify with your class. You're not supposed to identify as an individual, right?

An individual is sublated as the phrasing goes into the class.

So your class identity becomes the basis of your identity. This is the idea of class

consciousness or in kind of derivatives we would have critical consciousness, feminist

consciousness, anti-racist consciousness, or critical race consciousness,

anti-racist consciousness, or critical race consciousness,

queer consciousness, and so on,

which I've, I think, adequately explained

is a nostic orientation,

referring back to the ancient kind of heretical is not even the right word evil

self-forshiping religion of Gnosticism, the cult religion of Gnosticism.

Nostic beliefs always make a cult.

And in fact, that's what I wanted to communicate today

is that the class and this class identification

is cult identification.

And I want to talk about a particular feature that you actually see a lot,

but it's important to understanding, for example, diversity and inclusion.

Of this class mentality this class-based

identification mentality this is kind of why sometimes I refer to we you know you hear the

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