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Marx's Strawman Of Capitalism

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 64 Capitalism is a Marxist creation. It sounds crazy to say that, but Marxists don't mean competitive market economies or even free-market economies when they say "capitalism." They mean an overarching ideology of limitless capital accumulation as the fundamental organizing principle of society, which most people who promote "capitalism" wouldn't recognize as what they mean by the term at all. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay shows you in their own words what Marxists mean by the word "capitalism," which is a revealing and ridiculous strawman of market economics. Join him to learn all about it. 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 everybody, this is James Lindsay and you are listening to new Discourses Bullets

0:14.8

wherein I give a short kind of bullet point summary of one single topic from woke Marxism

0:19.1

that you need to understand so we can defeat it.

0:22.5

Today is what Marx meant by capitalism.

0:25.4

Capitalism doesn't mean what you think it is.

0:27.8

We have a gigantic file box basically out there now where the theme is communist, share

0:33.4

your vocabulary but they don't share your dictionary.

0:36.4

In other words, they mean something different by the words they use so that when you hear

0:41.0

them you think they mean what you think those words mean but they mean something that

0:45.5

they think those words mean.

0:47.0

This is a typical tactic.

0:49.1

You can list the words off every word that you can think of that they use.

0:52.6

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and so on and so forth.

0:54.8

They do this to everything.

0:57.2

So democracies, a big one, our democracy, well over here we've got capitalism.

1:02.5

You think that capitalism is an economic theory.

1:05.2

They think that capitalism is a totalizing ideology, a fundamental organizing principle

1:10.3

of all of society.

1:12.9

Marx laid out this straw man not only when he wrote capital in the 1860s and then to

1:17.1

the end of his life but also when he wrote his earlier writings even back into the 1840s

1:21.7

including the communist manifesto.

1:23.9

They don't think of capitalism the way that you think of capitalism.

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