The Unhappy Rebellion of Radical Joy

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 147 We're hearing a lot about "joy" now that the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign have made it a byword of their project, so we have to ask what they mean by it. We all know, by this point, that Communists share your vocabulary but do not share your dictionary. So what might they mean by "joy"? Well, it appears what they mean by joy is "radical joy," which is a kind of religious ecstasy associated with believing they are going to accomplish Communism, or at least their revolution. Radical joy is rooted in "critical hope" together with a certain anger, hatred, and libido dominandi, all as expressions of "erotic" energy seeking liberation. In Herbert Marcuse's words, it is "the joy of rebellious victims." In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay walks you through a variety of Marxist sources to discuss the concept of "radical joy" and reveal it for what it is. Join him to see through the mask of "joy"! 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 #Joy

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0:00.0	The Everybody this is James Lindsey you're listening to the new discourses
0:22.8	podcast and we start today with a thank you to Madam Vice President Kamala
0:29.3	Kamala Kamala Kamala Kamala Kamala, Kamala Harris.
0:37.4	We start with a thank you for her putting communism on the map of the national discussion in a way that has not been achieved before and she and Tim
0:48.0	Waltz appear to be Marxists. I don't think that's really in question. That's not the point of this
0:53.2	podcast though. The point of the podcast today is to talk about her campaign
0:58.0	slogan which is Joy. We remember Obama with hope, right? Well that's related as we're going to here, but now we have
1:06.2	Harris with Joy, right? So we're going to talk about radical joy because that's actually what we're
1:12.3	dealing with here. We are not dealing with
1:14.9	something more benign. It's not joy in the generic sense.
1:19.1	Hopefully if you are a listener to this podcast already or a person who pays attention to me on social
1:26.2	media or has been to one of my talks or has read anything that I've ever written, you
1:31.4	understand that Marxists share your vocabulary, but they don't share your dictionary,
1:38.1	which some people have accused me of plagiarizing or whatever, but as it turns out, that's a really old phrase.
1:44.6	It was used in Christian circles a long time ago talking about cults.
1:48.6	Marxists, it turns out, do not share your dictionary.
1:51.8	They actually mean something different by their words. So when they mean
1:55.0	joy, we have every reason to believe given how radical, not just Harris and Waltz are.
2:01.0	And again, we're not going to do a survey of the evidence for that right now, but it's copious,
2:06.5	but also the left base, which has become more and more and more radical.
2:11.0	Radical is the euphemism here for communist by the way.
2:15.0	Just by them we can tell that what's meant by the word joy is not what we usually think.
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