Learning and Countering Leftist Strategy

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 127 Leftism, including Marxism, is operational. It is strategic. It knows what it's doing and how to do it. It might look crazy, but that's deliberate. In fact, Leftists proudly publish and disseminate activist guides for their agenda like the book Beautiful Trouble that spell out for anyone how to do "transformative" activism through deliberate and strategic troublemaking. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay ties together three activist principles from Beautiful Trouble with a large number of relevant contemporary examples to make clear how Marxist Leftism works and is working in our current American Cultural Revolution. He starts by laying out that "Your Target's Reaction Is Your Real Action," explains how that progresses through "Put Your Target in a Decision Dilemma," and illustrates how the program is accelerated with "Escalate Strategically." He also takes pains to point out that all of their activism contains a performative element, like theater, to sway public or political opinion (e.g., see "Do the Media's Work for Them"), to offer a way not just to understand this activism but to counter it. Join him to learn how Leftists fight and how to fight back, strategically. Get James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay

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0:00.0	Hey everyone this is James Lindsay and you're listening to the new
0:23.0	Discourses podcast and what I want to actually do today is break down some
0:27.6	activist strategy for you. I did a short bullet episode not terribly long
0:33.7	ago here on the on a new Discourses bullets where I broke down the idea of the
0:38.6	concept of beautiful trouble which is a book which is the activist training
0:42.6	manual that they actually use that's derived from and advancing from rules for
0:47.5	radicals by Sololenski which is written in the 1960s or 70s maybe and I broke
0:54.9	down this idea that your the one idea that your targets reaction is your
1:00.1	real action that's the title of one of these articles okay so one of the
1:04.7	tools so I want to encourage everybody before I get too far to go when you get a
1:09.5	chance to beautiful trouble.org that's beautiful trouble.org go there and look
1:17.0	at what they have they have stories they have of successful activism they
1:21.4	have tactics they have principles they have all kinds of stuff about how to be
1:26.0	a woke activist turns out if we want to stop them at their woke activism we
1:30.4	probably need to know how they're doing it so that we can identify the
1:33.6	manipulations and call them out in real time it's actually shockingly powerful
1:38.8	shockingly powerful to call out a manipulative abuse for what it is with
1:45.8	descriptions of how it works people are always like what do I do to fight back
1:49.3	what do I do to fight back I did a podcast on this in the bullet's also called
1:52.7	name the dynamic you have no idea how powerful it is to name the dynamic to say
1:59.1	this is what you're doing and how you're doing it so that people realize
2:03.2	it's a manipulation because when people realize it's a manipulation a lot of
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