The Current Thing Did Not Take Place

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 130 The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. This is a core maxim of Marxist activist thought, and it explains so much. In the early 1990s, the French Postmodernist philosopher Jean Beaudrillard put it another way, though, in a sense. He provocatively published a book with the title The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (https://amzn.to/3QHprG9). What Baudrillard meant is that the Gulf War was an event that happened in the Persian Gulf, but what we call the "Gulf War" was a propaganda and media creation by Western intelligence communities and mass media to achieve specific political warfare aims with the public. In that sense, just like how the issue, whether Covid, BLM, Drag Queen Story Hour, Ukraine, "Palestine," or whatever else, is never the issue; each of those Current Things did not take place, in the Baudrillardian sense. In this provocative episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explains the maxim and Baudrillard's point and uses them to reveal Leftist tactics as well as political warfare strategies and counters. Join him to understand. 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 #Marxism

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0:00.0	The Hey everyone this is James Lindsay you're listening to the new discourses
0:22.9	podcast and the issue is never the issue the issue is always the revolution I want to
0:28.8	talk about that I think it's one of the most important maxims to describe what how the left thinks.
0:37.2	Why on earth are we looking at for example this huge thing around so-called Palestine, which is a Soviet or communist object to create
0:49.1	division in the Middle East as it is in the Arab world against Israel. Why is it that there's queers for
0:56.0	Palestine, sex workers for Palestine, feminist for Palestine, and BLM is for
1:01.9	Palestine, and all of this is you know that there's this
1:06.5	incredible solidarity across all of the woke neo-Marxist movements to support what's happening from Islamism.
1:18.0	Now I don't want to talk about the roots and history and unique aspects that have led to the creation of Hamas.
1:27.0	I'm not going to talk about the Palestinian Liberation Organization where it came from or the
1:31.6	People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is its parent
1:34.4	organization, but when you hear popular front for the something, you know it's communist.
1:40.7	I'm not going to talk about that.
1:42.1	I want to talk about the idea that the issue is never the issue that the issue is always the revolution because that actually adequately explains everything.
1:50.0	The woke see a revolution happening and there are deeper reasons, but the Woke see a revolution happening.
1:56.6	They see revolutionary energy and potential, and so it doesn't matter what the issue is they're all in for it because what they're actually for is the revolution.
2:06.0	Now, much to their surprise, I think just as long as we're talking about that specific issue of the so-called Palestinian project,
2:16.1	I think they'll find that the Muslims are actually about Islam and they're not actually
2:21.2	about just the revolution and historically speaking from what I understand
2:26.4	this has been something that's happened in this kind of sometimes called red-green axis, the communists teaming up with the radical fundamentalist Muslims.
2:40.0	What apparently has happened in the past is that the communists have helped instigate these
2:46.1	revolutions for Islamist causes, at which point an Islamist regime takes over and they tell the communists to choose Islam or death and
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