Korenizatsiya: Stalin's Soviet DEI Program

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 153 Did you know the Soviet Union ran a DEI program exactly like the Woke Marxist one of today? How about Mao's China? As it turns out, DEI isn't an American invention. It's a Soviet invention and Soviet export, designed, outlined, and implemented by Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin in the USSR in the 1920s. The results were predictable, of course: massively increasing ethnic strife arising from within the world's most widespread Affirmative Action program in history. Russians, then later Han Chinese, then later straight, white, Christian, males in the West, were invited to subjugate themselves to ethnic minorities to accomplish "actual equality," which we today call "equity." The full program was called korenizatsiya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia), and its "diversity" program was called raznoobrazsiya, and its lever was called "Great Russian chauvinism" in the USSR, "Han chauvinism" in the PRC, "white supremacy culture" in today's West, and "great-power chauvinism" in general. In this groundbreaking episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explains the korenizatsiya program of Stalin's USSR and reads excerpts from two of Stalin's works to flesh it out. Join him to understand how DEI is nothing more than a Bolshevik Communist program we've implemented on ourselves. You don't want to miss it. Sources: Stalin, Marxism and the National Question, 1913 (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm) Stalin, from the Twelfth Party Congress, 1923 (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1923/04/17.htm) Mao, Criticize Han Chauvinism (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_25.htm) 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 #DEI

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's James Lindsay, and you are listening to the New Discourses podcast.
0:24.3	We're going to do a very long overdue episode today, and I have to start even with a mea culpa.
0:29.2	It's a little bit embarrassing, as a lot of you know, some of you went.
0:32.8	I did a workshop in Miami in October of, I guess, 2021, so a long time ago, three years ago, and it was
0:40.6	called the Marxist Roots of DEI. And there was a, if you know what we're about to talk about,
0:46.3	a glaring omission in my Marxist Roots of DEI workshop, which would I think be able to be
0:53.6	boiled down to I didn't know where DEI
0:56.2	really came from.
0:57.1	And now I do.
0:58.5	In fact, I only recently became aware of where DEI really came from.
1:02.9	Even with all these, I think, honestly, I've listened to some of even the older ones,
1:06.7	great podcasts that I put out talking about how DEI works, about the speak bitterness campaigns,
1:12.1	about the commissars, about all this, the true origin story of DEI actually goes to the Soviet
1:18.9	Union. Big surprise, right? And the Marxist roots of DEI are in the Soviet Union. And Lenin,
1:26.1	but even more, Stalin, are the fathers of DEI. So let's state that
1:32.1	very clearly. Stalin is the father of DEI. DEI comes from the Soviet Union. It was a deliberate program
1:40.3	that the Soviet Union used to achieve something that it called actual equality, something
1:45.9	different than equality, say, under the law or even a quality of economics, a quality of
1:51.8	economic outcomes. Actual equality was true equality of all people in all ways. It was a very
1:58.6	different idea. Now, of course, we use a different word for that.
2:01.1	We call it equity today. And so we're going to set the record straight. I've been wanting to do this
2:06.4	for a while. I'm afraid it's going to run long, as we often do. So I want to actually just jump
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