Hey everybody it's James Lindsay you are listening to new discourses bullets where I give

you a short bullet point type summary of a single topic from woke Marxism you need to

understand so we can defeat it and in this episode we're talking about one of the most

important concepts that we've got to understand to stop what's coming our way the major

tyranny coming our way the future communism of the 21st century which is the brand name

D growth there is a movement called the D growth movement as in we've grown and now we need to

D grow we need to be less grown we need to get rid of more growth less GDP growth less stuff

less gadgets less happiness lower standard of living and we have to D grow our economy to a

sustainable circular model and what you need to understand about this is that it's just communism

it's actually just communism it's not nearly as complicated as it sounds so just the idea should

horrify you what will happen if we were to D grow is that we're going to lower standards of living

and thus the things that prevent disasters like for example we've had a the same number or in

maybe some cases more natural disasters as the century has proceeded since the beginning of the

20th century until now but the number of deaths and injuries and damage done by those has gone

down because we've had growth we've had energy to deal with the problems and protect people

well we have now within the communist program this program called D growth you will sometimes hear

called being moving beyond growth so beyond growth is another brand name for D growth we're

going to get beyond the idea of growing this idea in the west really took hold after the work

of Herbert Marcusa the most influential Marxist of the 20th century in America at least outside

of China where Mao Zedong obviously becomes that character and so what Marcusa wrote in his

heavy heavy selling book which was one dimensional man in 1964 was that the problem with socialism

is that it can't produce and the problem with capitalism is it is not sustainable and he says in

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