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Reflexivity Leftism In The 21st Century

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 96 Dialectical Leftism doesn't just do the old Marxist thing anymore. There's a new dialectical game in town that allows Marxists worldwide to transcend classical Marxism, including in the Chinese Communist Party over the last few decades. That method is called "reflexivity," as it was outlined as a so-called "shoelace dialectic" by George Soros in his famous book The Alchemy of Finance (https://amzn.to/3XjXqJp). Host James Lindsay detailed the Soros method (https://newdiscourses.com/2024/04/the-reflexive-alchemy-of-george-soros/) recently in a long-form podcast on the New Discourses Podcast platform, and here, he summarizes the essential points in short form for the New Discourses Bullets. Join him for this important episode to learn how propaganda and driven feedback loops are misshaping the world. New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Reflexivity

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. It's James Lindsey. You're listening to new discourse's bullets where I give a bullet

0:15.8

point like summary of one topic, single topic from woke Marxism that we need to understand

0:20.2

so that we can defeat it. And what we need to understand is the George Soros dialectical method.

0:25.8

Now I've used a big word already dialectical.

0:28.0

And there have been some episodes already talking about the dialectic.

0:30.7

The dialectic is a means of marrying a truth to a lie for politically operational purposes.

0:36.0

That's a very simple way to define it.

0:38.2

We could get into all the hairy details where it's that there's a thing and it's a concept and its opposite is found within it and that's why things don't work out quite right and so then the thing and its opposite have to be kind of reckoned as part of the same dynamic system so that they can be understood from a higher

0:53.9

perspective that's called the synthesis or whatever you want and that's the kind of

0:58.0

more formal idea of dialectics so what you're going to do is therefore put in

1:01.7

conflict something and its opposite to try to put them on the same footing and understand them as part of the same dynamic whole.

1:08.0

In other words, so you can befuttle yourself.

1:10.0

But in practice, the dialectical methods are methods of marrying truths and lies of

1:16.4

taking that which is not and mixing it with what is so that it's palatable and putting out something that's basically a bit of

1:26.0

blended lie in truth. In other words, a distortion. And so the George Soros dialectical

1:31.5

method that he outlines in his famous book from 1992, which I did a very long-form podcast about that I encourage you to listen to.

1:38.2

This is a short summary of that longer podcast for easier briefer listening is called

1:44.3

reflexivity. He says that you can kind of separate the sciences into two categories,

1:50.4

the physical sciences or the hard sciences follow the

1:54.3

Paparian model that's Carl Popper's model of falsifiability,

1:59.6

universality and so on and they describe what appear to be objective facts.

2:03.2

He says alchemy has no purchase and in fact the science the March of the hard

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