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Category Archives: irrational leftism
How the Marxist Dialectic is Attacking You: An Introduction to the Dialectic with Stephen Coughlin
MUST WATCH: Bill Mahar on the similarities between Mao’s revolutionary China, and modern America
Bill Mahar shows quite a sophisticated understanding of the root thinking of communism, and mercifully opposes it.
Liberal appointed Senator exposes Trudeau’s C11 bill for the fascist, communist horror show that it is
Stephen Coughlin joins Vets For Freedom Canada (V4F) for a podcast on understanding the enemy
The perfect example of Frankfurt School Discourse theory: Making opposition to govt. policy illegal
At a dinner once, I was given a licence to only say the word, “Dialectic” three times. After that, no dessert. So I learned to save it for the best uses.
This video below is a stellar example of the Frankfurt School’s Discourse theory. The way that works, is that a communist think-tank comes up with a concept they want to force onto the mainstream. They call that “a consensus”. Usually its to impose a pseudo-reality onto the public at the expense of reality. Often really obvious untruths like men can make themselves real women just by saying they are, and any attempt to stop them from all aspects of female life is a semi-crime.
The way this is done, is to make any opposition to the consensus, “hate-speech”. This is a form of dialectics. Targeted use of language and concepts to always force the culture farther and farther to the left. Examples are easy. Critical race theory. Critical gender theory. Global Warming, which if there was any honesty in the left, would be called, “critical climate theory”.
In this case, it was the Spanish Parliament. A VOX member was making the case that unbridled and massive illegal immigration resulted in certain kinds of criminality.
When he made this case, he was reminded by the president of that parliament, I assume equivalent to the Speaker of the House or Speaker of a British style Parliamentary system, that to equate immigration with crime was illegal and he must take it back and not do it again. There is zero consideration as to the truth or falsity, or even consequences to his claim. It’s that it is a claim that may not be made.
This would be because the plan is to flood the West with African and Islamic migrants with no vetting in order to prepare it for the death of all of its concepts of national identity and individual rights and replace it with an authoritarian essentially Marxist Leninist state, as they are preparing us for in Canada as well under Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau.
Normally the use of Discourse Theory is a little harder to spot. Slightly more subtle. Just real enough to make you sort of accept it while you get that increasingly familiar buzzing in your head from trying to accept what makes no logical sense. But this exchange in the Spanish Parliament was deliciously clear cut. Habermas’ Discourse theory perfectly applied in a Parliamentary situation such that no factual reference to the consequences of the massive invasion of Spain can be made. Not even it seems, pointing out that Illegal immigration is in fact, illegal.
Keep an eye on Stephen Coughlin’s Twitter feed. One suspects he will have something to say about this one.
Below, a refresher course on exactly what Discourse Theory is and how it is applied:
Please also see RAIR Foundation’s write up on the Spanish video
Solving the problem by defining the standards
The following YouTube video is one of the most enjoyable experiences I have had standing up. Beyond its face level meaning, there is a lot to take away about how things have happened in the past few years and even into earlier efforts this site and its colleagues have made against other government lines of effort to destroy our culture, and we as a people.
Remember how the word, ‘vaccine’ was redefined to allow for the inclusion of mRNA shots that in no way whatsoever acted like, or was made in the manner of, or in any other way fit the definition of a vaccine? The same could be said of using the PCR test for a diagnostic tool, and adjusting the cycle threshold to give the desired results. Actually for more than the last few years, governments have been manipulating definitions to get the results they want in order to justify whatever policy they want.
Anyone who follows the banning of guns knows this to be true. Legal gun owners have a lower violent crime rate than the general population. Especially homicide rates.
Homicide rate for PAL 0.67 accused / 100 000 ppl . Average Canadians 1.22 /100 000 ppl . Keep in mind 80% of Pal licensees are men aged 18-40 and the homicide rate for men aged 18-40 in the Gen pop is much higher
But it goes back much farther even with the current efforts. Remember the “Religion of Peace”? That wasn’t exactly a lie. In the book, Milestones, which is the foundational document of the Muslim Brotherhood right after the Islamic war-manual, the Koran, it is stated that once the whole world is subjugated to Islamic law, it shall know peace. And therefore, Islam is the religion of peace.
Examples of these kinds of what seem to be childish linguistic tricks are actually quite common and are among the more powerful devices being used to destroy Western Socratic civilization.
But it seems that the problem goes back much farther.
Please watch this video, which claims to be a banned Ted Talk, on how science has been practiced for centuries. We might think after seeing it, that in a way, yes, Anthony Fauci IS INDEED science. Science as its actually done, not as it is intended to be done. Science as practiced, not in theory. When one watches this, and examine Fauci’s life through the lens of RFK Jr’s book, one gets the sense that Fauci is acutely aware of the principles in this video, and applies them to his work, which means to all of our lives. Some of them much shorter and much much worse as a result.
As an aside, presumably after this lecture was recorded, but before the date of upload, the James Web telescope has accumulated enough data to put the Big Bang theory into question.
[This post may be updated and corrected over the day as people point out aspects which do not present as intended.]
Prof. James Lindsay explains the Leftist tactic of critical attacks called a “Struggle Session”
From the description:
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 104
One of the most famous and most evil techniques of Maoist Marxism is the “struggle session” (dòuzh?ng, ??; or p?pàn dòuzh?ng, ????, “critical struggle”; or sometimes just p?dòu, ??; also called “denunciation” sessions). They were made famous during Mao’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), but they were utilized in the Chinese thought-reform (x?n?o, ??, lit. “wash brain” or brainwashing) prisons starting in the early 1950s under the CCP. The nature of struggle sessions must be understood clearly in 2022 because Western nations are going through a “Woke” Maoist insurgency now, and the struggle session is all the way back in fashion (and has been for some time). Since being banned and returning to Twitter following Elon Musk’s acquisition, host of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay, has been subjected to a rather brutal online struggle session (a “twitter storm” as a harassment campaign) in the attempt to punish him back off the site and to discredit his highly effective popularization of the term “groomer” for Maoist ideological groomers, especially those using Queer Marxism. In this groundbreaking episode of the podcast, James goes through the struggle session he’s currently experiencing while tying it to the psychological analysis of that phenomenon as presented in Robert Jay Lifton’s book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China (https://amzn.to/3ulwEkf ). Join him to learn about this destructive form of bullying activism and to learn how you can resist it.
War on Christmas and repressive tolerance
Johnny U posted a worthy oped from the Washington Times in a much appreciated comment he left at Vlad this morning.
Thank you John, for that and for all your contributions to this site.
The OpEd is about the war on Christmas being in fact about a war on America. This is of course true. But the author went to war and left his guns, uniform and C rations at home. While he noticed that there seems to be, shall we say, inequities in how Christmas is treated by the left and left influenced institutions, he didn’t offer any understanding as to why.
I would like to post my response to that comment here, and with an additional example beyond the response to the comment.
Anyone reading that article should aquaint themselves with the concept of “Repressive Tolerance”.
This, if memory serves, is a Frankfurt School Marxist based tactic.
One uses the concept of tolerance to try and get people to deconstruct all their own traditions and concepts and culture in order to show tolerance to others, while promoting all the others at the expense of your own.
The author of the Washington Times article described the effects quite well, even if he left out the best examples of it and showed lack of awareness as to its strategic origins and nature.
In terms of examples, I would point out that while we are increasingly no longer allowed to acknowledge Christmas, disapproving of women in burkas is a hate crime and closer and closer to a criminal offence every day.
This is Repressive Tolerance at work.
A few years ago, we subtitled a series of videos by a Polish academic on Marxism where he covers this concept. But it is dense and not fun watching even if it is very important and explains a lot. Much like Stephen Coughlin. In fact, Maj. Coughlin actually used those videos in some of his writing and briefs.
But here is James Lindsay, (the Prof. who busted the whole peer-review process with the publication of his phoney essay on “Rape Culture at a Dog Park”) demonstrates how repressive tolerance was devised and is used.
Ultimately, one uses tolerance to do two things.
Move the culture ever leftwards
Be maximally destructive to Western Civilization.
Subsequent to writing this response to Johnny, an example of same leapt to my attention on my phone. Almost as if Google was carefully tracking my interests.
Here is the aforementioned Polish academic explaining how Marxism uses homosexuality as a destructive force on Western civilization
(Actually it’s about much more than that, and worth every second of the 13:42 it lasts.)
Now in case anyone gets the idea that you can beat this thing by simply not going to see crappy commie themed movies like the one she refrences, let’s stop and think about what a social credit score and CBDC actually means. If you don’t go and see whatever propaganda is put out before you, and pay for it with what means you have, you just might get turned down for that critical loan or other item you need for yourself, your business or your family. Hell you may not even be able to see your family.
For that matter, you may not be able to access what you thought of as ‘your own money’. I think a few hundred truckers and people who contributed small amounts to a legal protest over removal of basic civil liberties in Ottawa may be able to see how that can happen.
And if anyone still thinks that the scenario I just described is too far out to be true, you simply have not been paying attention for the past twenty years. Even the last three.
Pseudo-environmentalism and the extinction of the Right Whale
This is a now archetypal story. Feminism has been subverted by Hegelian/Marxist weaponized rhetorical devices to destroy women. It was possibly even created to do that. The practice of medicine, well I’ll leave that to readers to decide how that started and where it is now.
Climate science is now a tool to destroy only Western Civilization while all other cultures and industry get a pass on using as much coal and oil as they want.
And of course, environmentalism is now about to cause the extinction of an extremely rare species of whale, called the Right Whale.
This problem is now so large, that actual environmentalists do not wish to call themselves that, as the word itself now means corruption and perversion of something important to do its opposite.
Can anyone think of a word to describe this process? Starts with a D.
Please read story details at: RAIR Foundation.com
James Lindsey: Life in Herbert Marcuse’s World
James Lindsay: The Marxification of education
Like all Prof. James Lindsay’s lectures. this is profound and important. Anyone who has children in schools or recently changed their values while in schools should watch this. This video is a brilliant explanation of the methods and tactics of Marxists within the school system to destroy children’s whole belief set and value system, and make them activists for a permanent system of endless destruction.
Lindsay explains who Marx is not a philosopher, but is someone who simply created a system for transforming people into agents of destruction, of everything, eternally.
One could, if one wanted, score another point for the claim that communism is demonic. At the practical level, it is.
James Lindsey: The Marxification of Education
This guy is excellent. In the league of Stephen Coughlin.
A multipart video on why to become a libertarian
1. Member of Parliament ejected for speaking the truth abut a Trudeau tactic in a new piece of communist/Nazi legislation
2. One wonders why what clothes a person wears changes whether kidnapping is a crime or a protected activity
Below is the same video, preempting YouTube’s Lenin-like inevitable removal of the one above.
It may be worth asking yourself, if video 1 on banning guns, and video 2 on the state kidnapping of babies if you do not go along with potentially fatal government medical policies have anything in common.
3. One Canadian speaks truth to power; speaks facts and consequences
4. Classical civilization was successful, wildly so actually, for many reasons. One of the chief ones, is The Merit Principle. Communist regimes, like Islamic ones, swap out merit for ideology. What you believe outside of your field of endeavour, is more important than skill, knowledge or competence.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1601087733086449664?s=20
5. The One Chart That Tells the Entire Story’: Analysis Shows 26% Worse Mortality Among the Vaccinated
Source and summary:
What a lucky thing for illegals that in Canada and the US, and likely the entire Western world, illegal migrants where not required to take the shots for some reason.
Remember, government forced these shots on people. Yes, you can call it coercion, but when you add up military developed propaganda campaigns, and add it to people losing their homes, careers, jobs, families and becoming pariahs in the community if they refused the shots, its tantamount to force in a way any court would agree back when we had evidence based and rights based law.
So. Libertarian yet?
James Lindsey: New Discourses-The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 4 of 4
So far, everything this man has done has not just been excellent, but important. Long though. You may wanna to this in parts. In this he discusses Environmentalism as a Neo-Marxist line of effort.