Mao, Criticism, And Unity

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 43 Mao Zedong wanted to thought-reform, that is, brainwash, the whole Chinese population, and he had a formula (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm) for doing it: "Unity - Criticism - Unity." That is, he sought to induce in people a "desire for unity" so they would join his socialistic cult, and then once that desire was strong enough, criticism and struggle sessions (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/12/surviving-a-modern-struggle-session) would begin to cement adherence. Finally, through criticism, struggle, and study, unity with the socialist cult would be achieved. This model of cult programming might sound remote, but it isn't. It's the backbone of what we all experience in the American Cultural Revolution (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/02/woke-mao-and-the-american-cultural-revolution) in DEI, ESG, SDG, and unconscious bias training at work and SEL at school. We're told we want to make "safe" places where "everyone feels like they belong," which initiates the "desire for unity" under the banner of "Belonging." Then there are criticisms and struggles until there's solidarity with the Woke worldview, causes, and people pushing it. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets where he makes it clear. Order 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 #mao

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's James Lindsay, you're listening to new discourses, Bullets, where I give a short
0:15.7	bullet point summary of one topic from woke Marxism that you need to know so that we can defeat it.
0:21.0	And today, I actually want to talk about Mao's formula for transforming a society.
0:27.2	Did you know he had a formula? In fact, I'm going to talk about that, but I'm also going to talk
0:32.0	about it by telling you it's modern incarnation first and then Mao's incarnation. Afterwards,
0:38.3	its modern incarnation is the word belonging, which is an extension of the word inclusion.
0:44.3	I honestly wish I understood this, you know, a long time earlier, but it took reading Mao in
0:49.7	depth and discovering his formula to understand that belonging is actually the first step in what
0:54.5	Mao called the formula for transforming society, which he named as, and I quote, unity, criticism,
1:02.4	unity. And so I'll briefly explain Mao, and then I'll tell you a story. So what Mao said
1:11.7	is represented by unity, criticism, unity, is that in order to bring people to a proper understanding,
1:19.4	a proper political understanding, he said, in fact, in the speech he gave in 1957,
1:24.7	to not have correct, correct political opinions is like not having a soul. So we're going to awaken
1:29.7	people's spiritual nature in them by giving them correct political opinions. The way to get them
1:34.3	there is to start off by creating in them a desire for unity. You'll remember that the democratic
1:40.3	party around the time of Joe Biden's election really pushed that theme, especially after the
1:45.9	election. We're going to have unity. We're going to have unity. We're going to have unity. Didn't
1:48.5	work. Everybody knew they were lying. It fell apart. Good on you. What a big surprise. What a
1:54.1	what a big victory, I should say, not surprise. What a big victory that wasn't wasn't acknowledged
1:59.5	that we defeated their attempt to bring national you a desire for national unity under their rubric.
2:07.2	Very effective counter arguments were made to that. Very effective resistance. It did not work.
2:13.5	They did not succeed, but masses you generate a desire for unity. And when people desire to be
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