Marxism and Holistic Thinking

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 27 Holistic thinking isn't just a feature of the weird New Age and spiritualists; it's also a centerpiece of Marxist thinking. For Marxists (like all Hegelians), the goal is to understand the parts in terms of the whole in which they are a part, and this is what's meant by "holistic" thinking. What Marx and Hegel mean by this form of dialectical thought is that they understand the whole, like the whole of History itself including its purpose, and you don't. Thus, they deserve all the power. This manifests in pushes for "whole child" education involving the "whole community" backed up by the "whole government" using "holistic methods" that transform "whole schools," for example. If you read their documentation on almost any subject, you'll find this peculiar "holism" all over the place. Join host James Lindsay in this episode of New Discourses Bullets where he pulls back the curtain on this seemingly strange phrasing and the diabolical concept behind it. Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, it's James Lindsay, you're listening to new discourses bullets in which
0:16.8	I give a short bullet point type summary of a single topic within woke Marxism that
0:22.5	you need to understand.
0:23.5	Now this one is actually a big one.
0:25.8	What we need to discuss is this concept of wholism or holistic thinking or whole everything,
0:32.1	a whole government, whole child, whole school, whole community, whole, whole, I got asked
0:38.2	recently by someone who reads a lot of their kind of policy documents.
0:43.5	Why this word whole keeps coming up and if it's important or holistic, why it keeps coming
0:47.7	up?
0:48.7	How important is this?
0:49.7	I was asked.
0:50.7	I mean, perhaps I'll do a full blown new discourses podcast long form episode on this later.
0:55.6	But I replied that it's literally at the center of the project.
0:59.2	It is literally not at the center.
1:00.9	It is the center of whether you want to call it the Marxist project or the dialectical
1:05.6	leftist project or even kind of the strange worldview that those come out of that precede
1:12.0	them.
1:13.4	I could in a longer form podcast read quotes out of just about every branch of literature.
1:19.5	I could read them from Marx.
1:21.3	I could read them from one of his philosophical predecessors, Gurg Hegel.
1:26.3	I could read them from his predecessors.
1:30.6	I could read them from Polo Freire and education and any of the modern SCL social emotional
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