Hey guys, it's John. I want to wait in today on this controversy over whether or not

American Reform or a Christian conservative publication, in fact, published a rewritten

portion of the Communist Manifesto under the title, The Liberal Consensus and the New Christian

Right on November 18th by someone who we know now is James Lindsay,

but wrote under the pseudonym Marcus Carlson. Now James Lindsay, who is an atheist, a, I guess

you could call him a popular philosopher who has been very critical of social justice and has

gotten some things right in the past,

but he is no conservative, and he's told me that personally.

He is touting online the fact that he was able to get this piece past the gatekeepers

as an example of how certain elements of the right wing and the Christian right in particular

are in fact quote unquote

woke so they're no different than their left wing counterparts they say that they are opposed

to wokeness and social justice but in fact they are arguing the same things they're they're a

Chevy social justice is a four it's the same kind of thing only the parts are called different

names. And I want to expose in this video how utterly ridiculous sounding this actually is

once you understand what Lindsay did. Lindsay rewrote this. And the way he rewrote it to appeal to, and actually, I don't even know if I want to say rewrote, because about 85% of it were Lindsay's words. I mean, it's very sparse. I was thinking back to my days of grading undergrad papers. And would I even catch that this is a portion from

the communist manifesto, maybe a few sentences, but it would be challenging. So Lindsay essentially

borrowed, and this is the claim that's being made now, because this has been pointed out,

Lindsay borrowed the concepts and showed how parallel they are. That's the claim. So I'm going to engage it on that

level. Now, in a nutshell, I'll just tell you where I'm going with this and then I'll get into

the nitty, greedy details. Where I'm going is this. Lindsay's article actually argues the opposite of

what Karl Marx is arguing in the Communist

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