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Hey everybody. It's James Lindsay.

You are listening to New Discourse's Bullets, where I give a short bullet point-like summary

of a single topic relevant to woke.

We need to understand so we can beat it.

And woke and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

So I want to talk about the idea of seizing the means

of production under totalitarian and other systems. Seizing the means of production, of course,

is Marxist language. It literally meant seizing the means of production of the material things

in society, the factories and the farms, particularly hammer and sickle, right?

However, it is my opinion that this needs to be understood in a slightly more abstract and broad way.

I've been saying this for years, but it also applies to fascism and Nazism.

And I need to, before I jump into what seizing the means of production under totalitarianism is about,

I need to kind of introduce by comparison some other systems. Let's compare, say, free systems,

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