Hello, welcome to another episode of New Discourses Bullets, I'm James Lindsay and on this

show I give you kind of the low down on a single topic sort of bullet points format.

Try to keep it tight and concise.

This is a little bit of an abstract topic for the bullets.

It's usually I'm a little bit more specific, but I think this is important to understand

that the left thinks in a particular way and that way is dialectically.

So I'm not going to spend a bunch of time explaining the dialectic because I want to

tell you what the dialectic can tell us about the history of leftism and the future of

leftism and we're at kind of this huge inflection point in that progression.

I think it adds clarity.

The quick summary is the dialectic is a kind of combination of opposites.

Okay, so you have an idea, you have its opposite and rather than trying to blend them together

or mix them into some average, the idea is that you're supposed to lift yourself up

to a higher perspective and see how both pieces are part of a bigger hole.

That's a weird thing.

So what that means is that you keep the essentials of two opposing ideas.

Let's say capitalism and socialism and there's some essentials, well, their societies are

supposed to function.

They're supposed to do this or supposed to do that, but they have certain problems.

Capitalism can run away and cause all these disasters with regard to sustainability, whereas

socialism can't produce anything and so everybody starves.

Turns out that if you see them as opposing systems, you can see that there are benefits

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