Communism 3.0

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Communism 3.0: The Succession of Capitalism and the China Model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=246obUxmNW8
{New Discourses | 17 September 2024}

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 148

Karl Marx characterized Communism as “the negation of the negation,” which is a peculiar turn of phrase he borrowed from his theoretical predecessor G.W.F. Hegel. What that means is that propertied societies, whether slave, feudal, or capitalist, negate our innate Communist (“social”) nature, and then Communism in turn negates capitalism as the highest form of development of the productive organizational modes of society. Well, the negation of the negation experiment was run in various parts of the world through the 20th century and failed everywhere, and what we learned is that the negation of the negation is actually either collapse and then control by an oligarchy or, in other cases, Fascism. These two can be synthesized to create a negation of the negation of the negation, so to speak, that takes Communism as the theoretical ideal and “basic spirit” of historical development while utilizing Fascism as its practical mode of production, and that’s exactly what we see in China following the rise of Deng Xiaoping. It’s also exactly what we see in the West under the ESG scoring model for corporate behavior and the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that it services. In this important episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay makes the development of “Communism 3.0,” a Corporatist Communism for the 21st century clear. You won’t want to miss it.

 

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THREAD: China is the Model for US Billionaires, Crony Corporatists and Authoritarian Kleptocrats

 

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THREAD: The Evolution of Communism

Communism 3.0: Corporate Communism | James Lindsay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyXc_LZtCEE
{New Discourses | 09 December 2024}

The EVILution of Communism Workshop, Session 4

In this fourth and final lecture in the series, Lindsay picks up the loose threads from the previous two lectures and weaves them together to describe a new Communism for the twenty-first century, a “Communism 3.0” or “Twenty-first Century Communism.” Lindsay characterizes this new model of Communism as the “Chinese model,” derived from the practical implementation by former CCP leader Deng Xiaoping in the People’s Republic of China, where it was tested first. Meanwhile, in the West, a parallel model was developed tracking not just with Deng Xiaoping Theory but also with the Western Marxist sensibilities of Herbert Marcuse, demanding a more “Sustainable” and “Inclusive” economy. Calling the model “Corporate” or “Corporatist” Communism, Lindsay explains how this model of Communism blends a Communist political theory and structure with a Fascist economic model of productive forces, creating the tyrannical hybrid that is intended to be the future for mankind both East, under the Chinese Communist Party, and West, under the United Nations and affiliates. This groundbreaking lecture provides a basis for completely changing the discourses around what’s happening in our world today.

Notes (PDF)

The other three lectures in this series can be found here:

Session 1: Communism 1.0: Theoretical Communism [see this post - OB]
Session 2: Communism 2.0: Industrial Communism [see this post - OB]
Session 3: Communism 2.5: Social Communism [see this post - OB]
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