1 0f 21) Marxism is metaphysical in its design, it makes metaphysical claims, declares metaphysics to be dead, and then imposes its metaphysical claims on the population with the demand that they be afforded the status of science.
2)(If you’re unsure about metaphysics, now would be a good time for a refresher.) Marxist claims of science are metaphys. For example, many of the “scientific” claims in support of the C19 lock-down leading to the destruction of wealth & the suspension of civil and constitutional
3) - rights were often contradictory, arbitrary, and wrong - but still imposed through the organs of state power & enforced through mass line narratives. As warned back in March 2020-
unconstrainedanalytics.org/narrative-domi…
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4) C19 narratives continue to enforce metaphysical claims of science used to atomize the opposition while instantiating further applications of arbitrary - rights suppressing - state power while institutionalizing extra-legal and supra-legal powers – -
5) - that vest in a state that is self-aware of its seizure of “god-like” power designed to supersede the Constitution. From this POV, C19 claims of science are correct both because the state says so and because it enforces them through legal, extra-legal and arbitrary means.
6) Such claims of science succeed because they wrap otherwise ridiculous claims in made up scientific language and then advance them through the production of imponderably large, scientific sounding tomes that few people read and even fewer understand.
7) For example, extending on the Critical Race Theory (CRT) line of operation (LOO), the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association published the stridently racist (albeit scientific sounding) “On Having Whiteness” - -
8) - - in which it asserts that “whiteness” is “a malignant, parasitic-like condition” for which “there is not yet a cure.” 
9) It is worth recalling that the Frankfurt School incorporated Freud’s and Jung’s psychoanalytic “theories” into its conceptual framework. Freud’s psychoanalytical theories never survived falsifiability challenges - it was never science.
10) Carrying this tradition forward, most of today’s psychology studies fail reproducibility tests (maybe because they are simply scientized opinion?)
(nature.com/articles/natur…).
In fact, Freud relied heavily on the reapplication of Ancient Greek - -
(nature.com/articles/natur…).
In fact, Freud relied heavily on the reapplication of Ancient Greek - -
11) mytho-theological concepts under the rubric of science. “Psyche” is the Greek word for “soul”. Ever notice how much the scientific language of mental health borrows from Ancient Greece? Oedipus anyone? Or how much Jung’s psychology is actually Gnosticism?
12) Returning to CRT. Critical Theory (CT) is Marxism. Hence, CRT is simply the application of Marx’s CT line of effort (LOE) along the CRT LOO. It really is that simple. Failure to account for this is failure to understand both Marxism itself and the nature of its attacks.
13) Marxism is based on dialectical materialism. As such Marxism is dialectical in its orientation and manner of attack. Understanding this is critical to understanding the Marxist scheme of maneuver. Don’t believe it? Just ask Lenin.
14) The dialectic is simply the creation of hostile competing values for the purpose of pitting them against a targeted population for the purpose of negating them - or rather cancelling it (Yes, “Cancel Culture”).
15) Hence, the dialectic is really only about creating binaries for the purpose of destroying a target. This is done by placing a targeted population or value in a binary with its negative opposite. The negative opposite simply destroys - cancels - the other - -
16) - - because that’s what the dialectic does. That’s all it’s ever done. With CRT well advanced, this is context in which to understand Anstruther’s recent Twitter comment.
17) In Ancient Greece, Plato’s theory of knowledge, as expressed by Socrates in dialogues like the “Phaedo” and “Meno,” was that man never learns anything. What he could do, however, is “RECOLLECT” what he knew from before he was born - -
18) - - when his eternal soul resided in the realm of the eternal & perfect. For Socrates, the dialectic was used to remove everything people thought they knew from their senses in the imperfect sensible realm in which we live so that one could recollect what one could know - -
19) - - from when his soul resided in the realm of the perfect. Hence, the dialectic has never recognized knowledge as something to be learned from the world around us. The “science” involved in Socrates’ construct related to his metaphysic.
20) - - Just as did Hegel’s and just as does Marxism (and Fascism). Christians and Jews believe our souls were “knitted in our mother’s womb” and don’t believe in pre-existing souls (and atheists don’t believe in any of it).
21) Interesting how Hegel’s concept of “aufhaben” - a term Hegel made up - pretty much covers what results from the dialectic. And of course, Plato wasn’t shy about his metaphysical claims either.
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