Lenin and the Brutal Magic of Communism

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 146 One of the great paradoxes of Communism is that in the end, the state is supposed to "wither away," leaving a stateless, classless society in which there is high functioning and little or no want. This circumstance is presented as different to the other stages of history, which are said to proceed through revolutionary overthrow of the existing system. In particular, socialism is meant to be born out of capitalism through a violent proletarian revolution that seizes the means of production and establishes itself as an all-powerful "dictatorship of the proletariat." But this absolute totalitarian state is also exactly what's supposed to "wither away" to make room for Communism. How can that be? In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes you through the fifth chapter of Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution (https://amzn.to/3YGh4jC), written in 1917, to show you Lenin's vision for socialism and his vague but terrifying plan for this magical transition. Join him on this maiden voyage into Leninism on the New Discourses Podcast. 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 #lenin

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0:00.0	The Hey everyone this is James Lindsey and you were listening to the new
0:22.7	Discourses podcast and it's time to talk about Vladimir Lenin.
0:27.1	Arguably one of the most famous communists of all time
0:32.1	Lenin was the head of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that took power in 1917.
0:38.0	And he frankly defined, I mean, almost as much as Marx did, the direction of communism for the 21st century, and, I mean, arguably, much of what we see today in the woke movement is derived from Lenin's ideas.
0:57.0	A lot of people don't know, and this isn't the podcast to get into the details of it,
1:01.0	but Lenin in Stalin, for example,
1:05.3	which seemed pretty far removed from woke.
1:07.6	You would expect people who support
1:09.3	Woke to make fun of you for invoking Lenin and Stalin while you talk about their new kindly gentle
1:16.4	socialism or whatever they think woke actually is. It's just caring about people.
1:20.9	But the fact is that in 1921, 2 and 3, so very early in Soviet Union,
1:27.5	before Lenin even died, Lenin and Stalin were outlining a program that we would now recognize as
1:33.7	D.E. I. Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
1:37.1	The three words translated from Russian, which I will not attempt in Russian now,
1:41.6	are diversity for diversity, literally the Russian word for diversity, and then
1:48.4	factual or I'm sorry actual it starts with the F phonym in Russian, actual equality in place of equity and then what's called
1:59.8	indigenousation for inclusion.
2:02.8	And when you read about these programs,
2:04.2	you can see how overwhelmingly similar
2:07.2	they were at the time to what we consider
2:11.0	to be DEI today, which is fairly shocking.
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