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James Lindsay, anti-Communist Profile picture
@ConceptualJames
Jan 20, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Let's have a look at what our new Republican Congress is up to. @PatrickMcHenry has announced his financial services committee subcommittee chairs and agendas, and I need to throw some flags on the field, sadly. Lots of questions, like why diversity and inclusion are everywhere.
Chairman @PatrickMcHenry's statement:
•"all Americans" is ambiguous and means biased redistribution in Left circles, to make up for systemic injustice
•what's meant by "expanding access"?
•safety, 🚩?
•"diverse experiences," why is this relevant, why this word?
Subcommittees all pledge to "strengthen diversity and inclusion." All of them. Why?

Subcommittee on Capital Markets, chair @RepAnnWagner:
•what's meant by strengthening access? Might be benign, might be equity
•"diversity and inclusion" part doesn't lend confidence
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, chair @RepAndyBarr:

•what's meant by stabilizing the financial system? How it's done matters.
•why are we "strengthening the [Woke af] financial industry's commitment to diversity and inclusion," which is one of its biggest issues?
Subcommittee on Digital Assets, FinTech, and INCLUSION, chair @RepFrenchHill:
•why is "inclusion" there?
•is this connected to CBDCs? Why isn't that opposed?
•"underserved communities" demonstrates this is going to be Woke infected
•diversity and inclusion in digital assets
Subcommittee on NatSec, Illicit Finance, and Intl Fin Institutions, chair @RepBlaine:
•why is every freaking subcommittee committed to strengthening the Neo-Communist commitment to diversity and inclusion?!
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chair @RepHuizenga:

•again with the "programmatic commitment to diversity and inclusion policies and best practices"
•that's apparently all it does, making sure all "agencies, departments, programs, and matters" comply
Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, chair @WarrenDavidson:

•yet again, more commitment to strengthening Neo-Communist "diversity and inclusion"
What's going on here? Do these elected officials not understand? Are they out to lunch? Soft? Confused? Trying to sound cool and failing? Under mandate? (Whose?) Something worse? This isn't ok.

Full press release:
financialservices.house.gov/news/documents…

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist Profile picture
Oct 14
I think it's valuable to talk about one of my favorite lines from Karl Marx: "Communism therefore [is] the complete return of man to him­self as a social (i.e., human) being." Like most of Marx's ravings, this leaf did not fall idly. It's central to understanding Marxism. 🧵
If you want to understand Marxism as a Communist religion, it's important to start here. Karl Marx is not asking an economic question, a political question, or even a sociological question here. He's asking a religious question: who and what is man, and what should he do in life?
Marx characterizes (true, as opposed to crude) Communism as the complete return of man to himself. That's an interesting way of conceiving of an economic doctrine and political program, isn't it? Of course, that's because Marxism isn't an economic doctrine or political program.
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Oct 12
One of the worst aspects of Woke thought is its hostility to science (while claiming the mantle of science and appropriating sciency-looking things that support it). I don't really talk about this enough and need to put something together on it. It goes for law too.
Other than "reality exists and can be known about," probably the deepest axiom of both science and law is that we inhabit a shared reality objective to each of us. Woke thought is entirely hostile to this idea. Then it accepts what serves it and rejects what doesn't, always.
Much more specifically, Woke thought is hostile to science and law in that it's measurement of validity in both domains is whether or not it agrees with or supports Woke aims and beliefs. If it does, it's "valid" and "just," and if it doesn't, it's "invalid" and "injust."
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Oct 10
If you want to understand why Communists always end up killing so many people, aside from the fact that it's a personality disorder turned into a religion that takes over politics, you have to understand it as a fanatical religion that demands a "qualitative change" in humanity.
Lots of people apparently just want me to "say capitalism, James!" meaning they want me to "admit" that Communists hate private property and want to abolish it (which, I have pointed out, of course, hundreds of times with citation, including Ch. 2 of the Communist Manifesto).
Karl Marx himself was abundantly clear that's not what Communism is properly about, though, even though he wrote in the Manifesto (Ch 2): "Communism can be summarized in a single sentence: abolish private property." Marx actually meant for private property to be transcended.
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Oct 8
Classical Liberalism fully embraces the concept of (scientific) universality, which I think is one of the most interesting and important ideas to repelling arbitrary power and thus unleashing peace and prosperity. It's important to understand this principle. 🧵
Classical Liberalism accept the realist axiom that the world exists independently of all observers, and the principle of universality rests upon that. The simplest expression of universality is "anyone can perform the test." That is a fantastically powerful, world-changing idea.
Because Classical Liberalism assumes realism, it assumes we have provisional and limited access to objectivity. This does not mean any given observer is objective. It means that no matter who the observer is, the facts of reality are the same and can be agreed upon.
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Oct 8
The simplest axioms of Classical Liberalism are:

1) Reality/Creation exists objectively, not subjectively, and separately from the divine;
2) It is rationally comprehensible;
3) None of us being divine, we only have political authority over others that we can earn w/o coercion.
(1) No matter how tough or privileged your life is, reality is objective. It's external to us all. Yes, we're part of reality, but it would carry on almost exactly like it is (and with the same physical laws) without us. Truth is not a subjective affair.
That is, reality is objective, and that means it is also universal. Though our faculties are limited, each one of us has the capacity to "do the experiment" to attempt to understand how reality works, and no one's theory, no matter how great, is right by dint of anything else.
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Oct 7
A giveaway trait of the Woke Right is a victimhood-based identity politics, just like the Woke Left. The victim groups are whites, Christians, men, and straight people, and it's roughly intersectional in how it works. Woke Rights believe in leaning into identity politics.
Of course, another couple telltale signs you're dealing with the Woke Right is them blaming things on the Jews or doing edgy Nazi memes, but there are others too. The identity politics is probably one of the most important. Focusing on "anti-white racism" is a huge one.
Like their counterparts on the Woke Left, the Woke Right have accepted as fact that there's a conspiracy against people like them and that their only real hope is to lean into the identity grouping and advocate for collective power under that heading. It's a toxic approach.
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