Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: All within the Revolution, nothing outside the Revolution, nothing against the Revolution.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Stop fighting them on the terms they want you to fight while they exploit you on their terms.
Understanding how Woke operates to advance its agenda requires understanding "spiral" movement. This is a very short introduction to one of the most important ideas we all need to know so we can act strategically. Influencers push this the wrong way, often on purpose. Be smarter! pic.twitter.com/D12EOiGSuC
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) June 10, 2025
Maoist, like any form of “populism”, in inherently a top-down elitist endeavor.
The Maoist Mass Line:
Step 1: Go among the people to see what agitates them;
Step 2: Turn those agitation points into propaganda inside the top-down power apparatus;
Step 3: Feed the agitation back to the people to radicalize them so it looks bottom-up and spontaneous.Repeat. https://t.co/w3zZriNdKG pic.twitter.com/d73YvvlN2P
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) June 12, 2025
The Mass Line tactic as introduced to Communist activism by Mao Zedong and expanded on by the liberationists like Herbert Marcuse and Paulo Freire. This is how they Astroturf relevant activism to do mass action and radicalization. It's also how they brainwash our kids in schools. pic.twitter.com/AJyT1b70le
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) June 12, 2025
This is the pedagogy of today.
Our schools all use Critical Pedagogy now, which derives from Paulo Freire's "education for liberation" and his process of (critical) "conscientization." Where did he get it? From Mao Zedong's mass line tactic in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. We must end Critical Pedagogy!! pic.twitter.com/IAOxT8tzWl
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) June 12, 2025
A reminder that the specific policy goals of the Left aren’t actually about the specific policies or the goals thereof… the goal of the Left is bring down “the system” in the belief that their eschaton is the one that is immanentized.
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) June 11, 2025
TTFN.
