Communism 3.0: The Succession of Capitalism and the China Model

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 148 Karl Marx characterized Communism as "the negation of the negation," which is a peculiar turn of phrase he borrowed from his theoretical predecessor G.W.F. Hegel. What that means is that propertied societies, whether slave, feudal, or capitalist, negate our innate Communist ("social") nature, and then Communism in turn negates capitalism as the highest form of development of the productive organizational modes of society. Well, the negation of the negation experiment was run in various parts of the world through the 20th century and failed everywhere, and what we learned is that the negation of the negation is actually either collapse and then control by an oligarchy or, in other cases, Fascism. These two can be synthesized to create a negation of the negation of the negation, so to speak, that takes Communism as the theoretical ideal and "basic spirit" of historical development while utilizing Fascism as its practical mode of production, and that's exactly what we see in China following the rise of Deng Xiaoping. It's also exactly what we see in the West under the ESG scoring model for corporate behavior and the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that it services. In this important episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay makes the development of "Communism 3.0," a Corporatist Communism for the 21st century clear. You won't want to miss it. 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	The Hey everyone this is James Lindsay. You're listening to the new Discourses
0:23.2	podcast and it's time to talk about Marxism we're actually going to read quite a bit of
0:29.5	Marx today we're going to talk about a concept from Marx called the negation of the negation.
0:35.4	We're also going to talk about the concept of succession, which not a thousand percent
0:41.1	clear on if succession refers to the negation or to the negation of the negation,
0:45.4	but at any rate there's this weird terminology that we're going to try to make some sense of
0:50.1	and we're going to try to make sense of the world that we live in through this
0:53.2	terminology. Unfortunately, as we're going to hear, I think that we're going to
0:59.1	uncover or I'm about to tell you that I've seen pretty clearly in capital, which is of course
1:06.0	Marx's infamous Das Kapital, that what is being attempted in China with their model, which is the Deng Xiaoping theory model that we'll talk a little bit more about and what is being attempted in the West using ESG to create effectively the same model but with some slight, we'll call them
1:25.4	regional variations for the purposes of this, is actually there in capital as the kind of correct direction to go if you wanted to
1:36.6	establish a global communism. Now I don't think Marx is right about this going
1:41.7	being something that will work, but I do think that when the
1:46.5	critics out there say that what we're looking at in the world today is
1:50.2	definitely not communism.
1:53.4	I think that what we are looking at is most definitely communism.
1:57.3	And my usual argument of course, and this bears on the title of this episode of the podcast is that communism evolved, right?
2:06.0	Communism 3.0, right? Or maybe we could call it 21st century communism. There's a lot of things we could call it, but what I think we're seeing
2:15.2	is the succession of various forms of 20th century societal and economic arrangement into this new 21st century communism based off of what I'm
2:28.6	going to refer to as the China model what's the China model looks like China.
2:32.4	To understand this we're going to have to break model. What's the China model? Looks like China.
2:33.0	To understand this, we're going to have to break down Marx's idea of the negation of the negation,
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