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Post-Liberalism, Left and Right

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 118 One of Mao Zedong's most famous pieces is a short command from 1937 titled "Combat Liberalism" (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm ). Contrary to what many conservatives would have us believe, Communism is not the completion of liberalism but one of its mortal enemies, the fruit of a Leftwing, Romantic Reaction to the Enlightenment. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the program offered by the reactionaries who misunderstand both liberalism and Communism holds many of the same grievances against liberalism as Mao did 85 years ago. That's because post-liberalism is post-liberalism, whether it comes from the Left or the Right. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through Mao's short essay to make this simple point clear. Join him to learn why these demands for post-liberalism, Left and Right, aren't so different from one another after all. 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, it's James Lindsay, you were listening to The New Discourses podcast.

0:24.0

And I don't know if you guys know, but there is going to be a dangerous current of post-liberalism

0:28.2

happening throughout the West.

0:29.3

Now, I'm pretty sure you're aware of the woke aspect of this, but there's a post-liberal right as well.

0:36.2

And this is kind of centered in this sort of, I mean, you've heard it a little bit in this

0:42.1

Nash, this, what do I call it, Christian nationalism. I don't call it that. They call it that.

0:47.6

This Christian nationalism movement that I did some podcasts on previously, but they have a

0:52.2

movement that they're calling national conservatism. And sometimes it's called common good

0:58.5

conservatism. It is explicitly post-liberal. It's kind of characterized by blaming

1:05.0

classical liberalism for kind of evolving like a Pokemon into communism that's very dangerous.

1:11.7

And that John Locke is largely with his emphasis on the idea that we have natural rights that are

1:19.4

inalienable, including life, liberty, and property, because we are somehow individuals.

1:24.0

They kind of derive off of people like Carl Truman and argue that following Hegel, as it turns

1:30.3

out, that this leads to not individuality, but adamant, adamism, becoming atomic as people.

1:37.8

And thus, losing what it means to live in a common good society, kind of a character associated

1:44.7

with his national conservative program is Yoram Hazoni as kind of a prominent voice,

1:52.3

and kind of the Catholic integralist side. You have Adrian Vermeule,

1:57.4

law professor, I think, I think something from Harvard. And there's a number of other characters as

2:03.8

well. And the Christian nationalist movement is kind of tied up in this and kind of friendly

2:09.4

to it and kind of not. You actually have members of, say, the Southern Baptist Convention,

2:13.8

aligning with national conservatism as a movement. For example, Al Muller, president of Southern

2:20.4

Baptist Theological Seminary spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in Miami. I think

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