Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay. You're listening to New Discourse's Bullets, where I give a short bullet point like summary of a single topic relevant to woke that we all need to understand so we can beat it.

And you've heard the phrase

you have heard it and oh do you roll your eyes real communism has never been tried there's never

been a real communist state blah blah blah well let's explain this but the reality is they're not lying

real communism has never been tried, but the reason is because

real communism cannot be tried. It cannot exist. It cannot be attempted. It cannot ever come into

being because so-called real communism, the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement,

and thus a return of man to himself as a social, which is to say human being, as Karl Marx had it, is not possible.

It is the heaven of a eschatological religion called communism, and the attempt to

implement communism through a path called socialism, which has been tried repeatedly in multiple

forms, always ends in catastrophe. It never works. It never will work. Communism is supposed to be the stateless,

classless, utopian global society that comes into being at the end of the long process of

socialism, which has to be installed globally as well, finally using its power to transform people

back into their socialist nature because communists believe people are intrinsically socialist

and have been alienated from their true being by the existence of private property,

thus individuality, thus so-called capitalism or free enterprise, all predicated on the

fundamental right for one person to exclude another from his own private property, which is what

makes private property private. It's the heaven state. this is supposedly a global situation.

There's no other free enterprise based or other state in existence on the planet.

Just socialist states that are transforming people with no comparison, no contamination of the socialist values,

until they are recreated as they are supposed to be,

according to the communist vision. And then and only then will the conditions within the people

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