Hey everybody. It's James Lindsay and you are listening to New Discourse's Bullets,

where I give you a short bullet point-like summary of a single topic from

wokeness that we need to know so we can stop it.

And I want to read to you today from the Communist Manifesto.

Not a lot of it.

Just the first paragraph of the first chapter.

So just a little snippet.

Because what I want to talk about is that Marxism or Marxian, in fact, anything derived from Marx, any militant ideology and activism,

theory and praxis derived from Marx, has two operational goals. It's not that there's one operational

goal, which is to have a revolution and take over, society sees the means of production,

and so on. There are two possible outcomes

that are satisfactory to the Marxists. Marx believed this was actually so intrinsic to the nature

of human reality that one or the other of these would always follow from the attempt of revolution and that the attempt for revolution

will always emerge from the present state of class conflicted society. His whole point with

the Communist Manifesto is that the socialist state is a kind of like escape from the trajectory

of class conflict to lead humanity

and history to an end point where there is no more class conflict, a stateless, classless

society where everybody has plenty and it is from each according to their abilities and

to each according to their needs, as you famously heard.

But the revolution that we always hear about, the issue is never the issue, the issue is always

the revolution. David Horowitz, who recently died, taught us about radical movements.

It turns out that they have two acceptable states. And this applies not just to Marxism.

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