Understanding the Dialectic

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 21 Leftist thought for at least the past 250 years has taken a particular form that is not the usual form of thinking and understanding we know and love. It's something completely different. The Left, perhaps since Rousseau and definitely since Hegel, has been dialectical in its thinking. It is the Dialectical Left. What is the dialectic, though? What is dialectical thinking? In short, it's the fusion of opposites in a way that understands them from a higher-level perspective, which is necessarily synthetic. In this slightly longer episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains the dialectic and dialectical thought in some detail with a considerable number of examples to help you understand this synthetic approach to thought and why it's always going to be a catastrophe in the making. Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of New Discourses Bullets.
0:14.1	This is James Lindsay.
0:15.9	On New Discourses Bullets, I'd like to explain one particular concept relevant to the
0:20.6	woke Marxist movement that you can better understand it, and this one is going to be
0:24.9	confusing.
0:26.0	I've been asked by many, many people to put out a short explainer on the dialectic.
0:32.9	You've heard me say the dialectic a lot.
0:34.5	If you pay attention to my podcast, if you try to follow my writing, if you know what Marxism
0:38.4	is, you know, it gets described as dialectical materialism, if you've read your critical
0:43.3	race theory books, you know that they say that, you know, when you solve the problem of,
0:49.4	you know, race as a solid class, then you have to look at, you know, racial categories
0:54.3	intersected with women, with homosexuals, with ability status, and so on, to get into,
1:00.1	say, specific races or specific other conditions like black women, Latinas, disabled Latinas,
1:06.9	et cetera, to go further and further down the intersection.
1:10.6	And they say, and so the dialectic progresses as it moves into those more specific categories.
1:17.0	And so the dialectic comes up, in fact, the dialectic is the logic of leftism at least
1:23.3	since Rousseau.
1:24.9	So at least since 1760, I think it was 62, 1762 when he wrote the social contract in
1:31.7	which he proposed this dialectical concept.
1:35.3	He says that the way that we, what the social contract does is kind of a binding, glue
1:41.3	and society is it restricts freedom.
1:43.7	He says, man is born, everywhere man is free, born for you, no, sorry, man is born for
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