Communism 3.0: Corporate Communism | James Lindsay

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

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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. Notes (PDF): https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/DallasWorkshop24-Evilution-of-Communism.pdf The other three lectures in this series can be found here: Lecture 1: Communism 1.0: Theoretical Communism: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/10/communism-1-0-theoretical-communism/ Lecture 2: Communism 2.0: Industrial Communism: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/11/communism-2-0-industrial-communism-james-lindsay/ Lecture 3. Communism 2.5: Social Communism: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/11/communism-2-5-social-communism/ 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	I too am clapping that it's the last session.
0:10.0	So this is the important part of the story.
0:13.0	Communism 3.0.
0:15.0	Corporate Communism is the title here.
0:19.0	How did Communism go corporate corporate is really the question that this day and our needs, but it's
0:28.3	also the question that this workshop was organized specifically to answer.
0:33.2	So what we're going to do for this session is go to Klaus Schwab's School of Wichcraft and Wizardry,
0:38.7	also known as Schwabworts, or Z. Schwabworts, I should say.
0:45.1	But the way that this works, the way corporate communism works, and that's a name that I want to
0:50.3	use a lot of, if we could give others, I'll give you a list in a minute.
0:54.0	The way that I want to talk, I want people to start talking about corporate communism like it's a
0:58.5	thing, because it is a thing, and without being able to name the thing, it's hard to
1:03.3	fight the thing. And I think we have to name it as communism because it's very communist.
1:08.6	But it's very obviously that people are saying it can't be communist because it's using the corporations have what seems to be a very effective argument to derail you if you try to point out that what's happening is communist. So we have to be able to articulate that we're dealing with a new manifestation of communism. It has evolved. That was the point of this workshop, is to
1:28.0	explain how it evolved at this point and the way that it works, to co-opt and make use of
1:33.9	corporate power, not just state power, which is a completely different phenomenon. So the co-optation of the corporations has really unlocked the riddle of history,
1:49.1	so to speak. So we're really going to talk about that a lot. But I want you to just start by
1:52.8	imagining. Let's say that we had, you know, it's very famous that Deng Xiaoping, after Mao left
1:58.2	power, said that he was going to generate socialism with Chinese
2:01.9	characteristics. And a lot of times this gets inappropriately, I've done it many times myself,
2:07.2	inappropriately given to Mao's credit and say that Mao developed Marxism with Chinese
2:14.1	characteristics, which is not exactly true, or Marxism, Leninism with Chinese characteristics.
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