Communism 2.0: Industrial Communism | James Lindsay

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🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 134 minutes

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The EVILution of Communism Workshop, Session 2 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. The second and third lectures in this series focus on what might be considered two tracks of twentieth-century Communism, both arising in different contexts, East and West, after the failure of Karl Marx's nineteenth century agitational evangelism. In this second lecture, the Eastern track is the focus, tracing the development of the Soviet Union through Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party as a vanguard. Here, James Lindsay characterizes Eastern Marxism as a broadly state-industrial project, referring to Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism variously as "Industrial Communism" and "State Communisms" for reasons he lays bare. The general theme is turning the state into an industrial apparatus for the socialist transformation of man himself, in addition to society and nature. In the end, the Eastern model of Marxism (Leninism, Stalinism, general Sovietism, and Maoism) failed everywhere it was attempted, leading to one of the greatest tragedies of human history. The other three lectures in this series can be found here: Session 1: Communism 1.0: Theoretical Communism: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/10/communism-1-0-theoretical-communism/ Session 3: Communism 2.5: Social Communism (Coming soon!) Session 4: Communism 3.0: Corporate Communism (Coming soon!) Notes (PDF): https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/DallasWorkshop24-Evilution-of-Communism.pdf New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #communism

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0:00.0	Okay, I hope you all enjoyed your dinner.
0:10.0	And I made the joke before that we're already behind.
0:14.0	As it turns out, as much detail as there was in the 90 minutes of the previous lecture,
0:18.0	I have 50% more material for this lecture.
0:23.8	So we'll see, this is the one I don't know exactly how we're going to get through.
0:29.0	But it's communism 2.0, as I've called it, in the evolution of communism.
0:30.9	So I'm using that kind of computer motif.
0:36.0	1.0 was the theoretical apostle-driven Marx model.
0:40.3	And now we're going to move into Soviet Union primarily. Industrial communism or state communism. We'll also talk a little bit about China under Mao.
0:45.3	So if you find yourself humming the Tetris theme in your head throughout, that's okay.
0:50.3	I was doing it while I wrote it. And if you didn't know that song is actually
0:55.4	not Soviet, although it sounds like it could be. It is a Russian folk tune about haggling peddlers,
1:01.8	and it's actually got a really cool dance that goes with it. I would tell you what it's called,
1:06.2	but I can't pronounce Russian things. I have it, and you can see it when it's in writing in front of you.
1:12.0	It's Korabiniki or something like that. I can't say Russian things. We're just going to not do it right.
1:17.6	So this lecture in the next tomorrow morning are going to talk about the split into eastern and
1:22.1	Western Marxism. Those are going to be kind of, you know, catch all terms. I'm going to start
1:27.2	each of these lectures, these last three lectures,
1:30.2	with about a million names that we, like I did with the religions in the previous one,
1:33.8	there's about a million things we could call this.
1:35.9	I'm going to really settle on it on either Eastern Marxism
1:38.9	or on industrial communism or on state communism
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