Hello everybody, it's James Lindsay.

You're listening to new discourses, bullets, where I give a short bullet point type summary

sort of of some topic relevant to woke Marxism.

And today we're going to talk about the totalitarianism of the progressive impulse, which is kind

of a fancy phrase.

So let's start with the pop quiz.

I'm going to do a little bit of reading to you in this episode.

So let's do the pop quiz.

Which famous communist said this, now this is about two paragraphs so bear with me.

The readiness to sacrifice one's personal work and if necessary, even one's life for

others shows his most highly developed form in the communist.

Sorry, the greatness of the communist is not based on his intellectual powers, but rather

on his willingness to devote all his faculties to the service of the community.

Here the instinct for self preservation has reached his noblest form.

For the communist willingly subordinates his own ego to the common will and when necessity

calls, he will even sacrifice his own life for the community.

The constructive powers of the communist and that peculiar ability he has for building

for the building up of a culture are not grounded in his intellectual gifts alone.

If that were so, they might only be destructive and could never have the ability to organize.

For the latter essentially depends on the readiness of the individual to renounce his

own personal opinions and interests and to lay both at the service of his human group.

By serving the common will, he receives his reward and return.

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