Hey everybody. It is James Lindsay. You are listening to New Discourse's Bullets, where I give a short

bullet point like summary of a single topic relevant to woke that we all need to understand

so that we can defeat it.

And as you know, if you are a regular follower of the podcast, I've been talking a bit about fascism and we'll continue to talk about fascism in some future episodes.

I want to kind of start breaking down some of the elements of fascism, not just communism.

And this is probably going to be a pretty short episode.

There's not a whole lot to say about this unless I were to dive into literature.

But in short, I just want to give you the idea.

A lot of people think that fascism is a reactionary program, a right-wing program, a backwards-looking program. You hear them push ideas like return. We're

going to return to the golden age and re-establish it. You see people argue that we need to go back to

1650, for example, to get back to where we need to be. But this is a misunderstanding of fascism.

Fascism, as I've said in other episodes and in writing and other places before,

is progressive, not regressive. It is, to be more precise, progressive by regressive means.

Okay, now that's a very weird thing, but if you've heard my discussions on

communism, it's the opposite of that. Communism is regressive by progressive means. It's the

opposite. Communism wants to take people back to their original state, their pre-lapsarian state,

the unfallen state of being socialists, or in

queer theory, queer, or whatever else, or anti-racist. They want to take them back in time to

who they were in their original state, which is to say that we were communal. We lived in

tribes that shared everything. There was no sense of private

property. And so they actually want to go back, but they want to do so by pushing forward and

going through. We're not going to erase the progress of history. We're not going to erase the

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