Woke, Mao, and the American Cultural Revolution

Foreign [Music] hey there everybody it's James Lindsay you are listening to the new discourses podcast and it's time we start talking a little more clearly I suppose about what's going on in America in the west today in the um what do we mean by the west by the way what I mean specifically although it extends more further uh further than This more broadly is um largely we would think the English-speaking West but it's places that have been heavily influenced and touched by the English or and or Scottish Enlightenment so a lot of us would associate

that with almost americanism but it its roots are back in English common law in the sense of personal liberties and what we're undergoing in these places is a cultural revolution And this has been a point I've been raising for literally three or four years in February 2020 which is three years ago now is before George Floyd in fact almost three months to the day before George Floyd died and the kind of kinetic portion of the American cultural revolution kicked off I met with a number of officials in in Washington DC including some Department of Defense

officials and asked them if they were aware that we Were entering into kind of the phase that precedes a Act of cultural revolution and that it would probably arise through critical race Theory within six months of February 2020. well it turned out that three months later at the end of May 2020 George Floyd died and that's precisely what happened I uh needless to say was not taken seriously at the time um so to point I've been raising for a While uh kind of excitingly I suppose because it's finally going to start to mainstream at the

time of this recording just the other day Bill Maher uh it was a show called real time or something like that you know this is sort of like mainstream dissident left sort of uh uh you know material um he talked about it he talked about wokeness specifically he had images of Mao and Lenin on the screen talked about It being in terms of a cultural revolution and so this idea is mainstreaming uh and I think we should probably understand it more clearly some of you have heard my podcasts about say struggle sessions um many of

you commented that the podcast I did about surviving a struggle session in our our contemporary circumstances is um they said that you've said that it's very valuable it's one of the most Valuable podcasts I've recorded that's a tactic of cultural revolution um that's straight out of the maoist Playbook so what we need to understand and hopefully I will put out more about this also in shorter form than this episode in which I'm going to read from Mao Zedong so you can actually hear Mao Zedong because we don't teach communism in this country we have very

redwashed education we don't understand communism we don't know Mao we don't know about Mao but what we have going on is something derived from Marxism it is very uh hybridized syncretic is a better word or syncretistic it is cobbled in parts of fascistic thought it is cobbled in fascistic corporatism and is in fact using that as the lever primarily in the west it's gone out of economic analysis and moved into cultural analysis primarily uh ideas like identity politics identity cultures Um it's also absorbed back into and using many more classically hegelian ideals about a the

establishment of a technocratic state um so it's very complicated I've done a series a number of podcasts explaining and I'm not trying to say it's complicated like you need to listen to me like some kind of Guru it's just that things aren't the way they were in the 1950s the last time we were really doing A good anti-communist push things have have complicated uh and it has picked up what necessary tools it needed to continue and some of that is a legacy of Mao and also Mao's successor who worked with him in his government during

his Reign Deng Xiaoping who famously commented I don't care if the cat is Black or White so long as it catches mice which means they don't really care how they get their power and how they get their their uh technocratic control Mechanism or under their thumb that what it but they if it has to use corporations fine if it has to use identity politics fine it has to use socialist tools fine they don't care if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice um it's become very uh kind of opportunistic in

that way but what we haven't done in my opinion is is actually go back and look at Mao specifically the struggle session of Course talking about I did and talking about um what am I trying to think of not just the struggle sessions but Robert J lifton's book about the brainwashing in China which I've likened to sel programs repeatedly in our schools like which I have also likened to Dei training diversity Equity inclusion training unconscious bias training all of these things that are happening in your workplaces These are all maoist elements and so what I

am going to do for this episode after that Preamble is going to one of my favorite websites for resources marxists.org um under the heading of the selected works of Mao Zedong he has a speech he gave on February 27 1957. on the correct handling of contradictions among the people this was a speech it says that was given at the 11th enlarged 11th session enlarged whatever that means of the Supreme state conference comrade Mao Zedong went over the verbatim record and made certain additions before its publication in the people's daily on June 19 1957. so I'm

not yet a tremendous scholar of Chinese history or the cultural revolution there's a great book that I've read a little bit of that's very long and it's a little difficult called the world turned upside down that Discusses the Chinese Cultural Revolution this 1957 is technically not during the Chinese Cultural Revolution though it is in fact before it uh there's a little bit of Chinese history without getting into the great depths of it we'll touch on a little bit more the CCP arose in the 20s it was competing against the Nationalist party that's going to matter

which was called the guomingtong the guamingtong was a socialist but in the Nationalist sense I don't want to dip too heavily and give ideas like national socialism but it was a socialist oriented nationalist party and the CCP was infiltrating it intentionally on the orders of Moscow the common turn the Communist international party um it was deliberately infiltrating it and trying to subvert it very much like the woke infiltrated and subverted the Occupy Wall Street movement for example and um which was another kind of leftist populist style thing and so they uh end up by 1949

it took them 19 until 1949 to succeed and there's a revolution in China the CCP takes over establishes itself Mao Zedong as a long time operative in this Regard in fact he was one of the infiltrators of the guomingtong for the CCP um takes power And for a number of years he runs things and so now here we are seven eight years in 1957. he says seven years so seven years into his power under the CCP the emerging socialist State we're seven years into their Five-Year Plan I'm just kidding The Five-Year Plan is actually kind

of being announced here um and uh what happened following this beginning in 1958 is a horrific chapter of human history called the Great Leap Forward or sometimes just the Great Leap it was a program by Mao to modernize China in line with socialists Theory into kind of Bring It try to bring it force it onto the world stage at the same level as countries like the United States and uh the Soviet Union which um did not succeed as a matter of fact it was a catastrophic failure that may have killed as many as 55 million

people it was so bad as a matter of fact that Mao zedonga kicked out of power Um and then he made his comeback to power a number of years later in 1966 um after this huge collapse and then he launches the cultural revolution which is where you have the struggle sessions if you want a movie version watch the Red Violin this is where you have the I mean struggle sessions were taking place in the prisons and moving into the education system even here lifton Documented things that were happening in the early 1950s and Chinese thought

reform prisons and so before the actual cultural revolution but the stuff we think of as the destruction of the four olds and mobilization of the youth Etc this is a 1960s project that kept unfolding until Mao's death in 1976 and then in 1977-ish I might be wrong by a year Deng Xiaoping took power there was a period after Mao's death or wasn't clear who Was going to become the chairman of the CCP and then Deng Xiaoping ends up in that position after a long time working undermount uh but so that's a little bit of History

some of that's contextually relevant you definitely need to understand in light of things that are trying to happen again right now that there's never and as a never-ending fight between the Communists and the nationalists both of whom are geared Towards societal transformation both of whom are kind of the same thing but with different orientations nationalist versus Supra or internationalist um this is nothing new and this is why certain nationalist branded movements um Christian nationalism one of the many reasons why that the linguistic trap you're not going to to you know be able to to avoid

if you go in that direction but Um that's going to be relevant to what's going on here uh secondly you will want to know like I said that this is on the eve of the cultural revolution or sorry the the Great Leap Forward which was a catastrophe so he's basically at points in this speech giving you the sales pitch for the Great Leap Forward which is about to kill 55 million people and do Untold economic Damage it's probably one of the most catastrophic and expensive human mistakes ever made and the sales pitch in here makes

it sound so great and so it's useful to remember that when you hear sales pitches for great things like great leaps forward and great resets and things like that the sales pitch can sound pretty good and then you end up with 55 million people walking into a blender in a complete economic collapse Um so anyway what I think you will hear as we go through Mao which you often probably don't hear and I find Mao tedious honestly though is uncanny parallels to what we're going through today strengthening the case that yes in fact quite historically

grounded quite theoretically grounded we are being put through a cultural revolution in the United States in Britain in Australia And New Zealand and Canada and in countries also throughout Western Europe um though it's a little contextually different there and if we don't want to end up in another [Music] um unbelievable human blender I think it's probably best that we diagnose this correctly understand what it means and start taking the correct Smart Action to stop it we are already in a bad position We should also know that we're also in a sub we're already in a

subordinate position we cannot defeat this thing by strength we have to defeat it in other ways we don't control enough institutions any longer to be able to to hammer this thing out it's going to have to be allowed to fall it's going to have to be discredited it's going to have to be embarrassed it's going to have to bankrupt itself it's going to have to fall under the weight of its own hubris Under the weight of its own failure under the weight of its own idiocy and arrogance and that requires exposing it that requires refusing

to go along with it that requires learning to see through its manipulations and not going into them we fell for covid big time we shouldn't make such mistakes again so anyway now on the correct handling of contradictions among the people this is a fairly subtle speech Mao was educated in Europe he's not an idiot Um it was not a dumbass by any means this is so there's some subtlety here he says our general subject is the correct handling of contradictions among the people okay of course just for a little more theoretical background which recently I'm

told uh on Twitter by significantly big names that we don't need to know theoretical background to deal with these problems we just have to realize that they're doing bad things and That'll be enough contradictions the the whole hegelian method turns out the people saying that by the way are hegelians so maybe they're actually protecting their home turf but um they're not marxists there are egg aliens who are are anti-marxist as well okay so the hegelian idea is that history is chugging along it is progressing it is going somewhere as a matter of fact to a

final point where all the issues and Contradictions are resolved as the idea becomes perfected which is to say as our understanding of the idea becomes increasingly total and perfect okay and the way that that happens is Through The Clash of opposites through contradictions and so marxists adopted this into their dialectical materialism Lenin and Mao use this and so when they bring up the contradictions among the people what they're talking about are Various conflicts various disagreements various um issues that are being brought into a kind of a cultural or even sometimes political Clash that have to

be ushered to the correct synthetic solution so that the party gains more power and so our general subject is the correct handling of contradictions among the people for convenience let us Discuss it under 12 subheadings although the reference although references will be made to contradictions between ourselves and the enemy this discussion will Center on contradictions among the people okay so we have to pause again for a little vocabulary lesson before we can continue the people as he's going to clarify in a moment but I want to lay it out before he does the people mean

the people who support Communism nobody else is the people the enemy means people who do not support communism the issue is that there's a gray area of people they still believe can be brought to supporting communism and those people get lumped in kind of generously with the people but they will be summarily excommunicated if they don't convert within the correct amount of time of Having received the gospel of communism so when we hear the people in the enemy we have to keep very clear what those mean the people is not the people that live in

China it is not all of the Chinese in this case it is those who support the regime it is those who support the CCP those are the only people who count as the people the enemy is anybody who doesn't support the CCP okay so he's going to use this Terminology the people and the enemy the people and the enemy over and over and over again the enemy is anybody or anything outside forces like the United States inside forces like people who don't want to be in a communist [ __ ] but also counter-revolutionaries and uh

intellectuals arguing against their Theory and so on those are the enemy it's everybody that's against their project so 12 subheadings number one two types Of contradictions differing in nature never before has our country been as United as it is today now I don't know for sure but if you believe our country here there's a lot of weird Chinese history here too that has to be addressed if you believe here that our country means only the people who count as people that's a tautology it doesn't actually say anything um this idea of unity which by the

way The Biden Administration if you recall pushed very hard very early and it's uh it's its Administration is going to also be Central here never before has our country been as uni United as it is today now let's stop for a second what country China China is a complicated political entity and again I'm no historian of China but they like we like to have this myth around China and it's Extraordinarily dangerous say if I went to China to say what I'm about to say which is that there is no such thing as a universe as

a unified China for very long we liked it we had this myth that there's a 5 000 year history of China no no there were many dynasties that were often literally at war with one another that did not recognize one another it's like saying that Germany has a long history but even more extreme that's not true there were lots of different Warring and and sometimes unified and sometimes a lot Allied States within the region we generally consider to be German or noun in this case China today there was you know various dynasties ruling over various

areas it was very actually fractured the idea of a unified China going back thousands of years is a complete myth the idea of a Chinese culture going back thousands of years is also a myth and this was a myth that was deliberately pushed under this United China mentality which now seeks you know the so-called one country one language um policy where everybody has to learn Mandarin Cantonese is is how all these other languages are out I'm not up on that enough but the point is that Chinese history is not the way that we've heard Chinese

history there's not this contiguous 5 000 year uh kind of Monolithic civilization that gets appealed to the way that we tend to think of Um it's much more complicated and messy than that and the idea of a kind of unified China under you know certain Emperors is sort of a later development um and then certainly the the mythology was encouraged by this sentence basically never before has our country been as United as it is today the victories of the Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and of the Socialist Revolution and our Achievements in socialist construction have rapidly changed

the face of old China a still brighter future lies ahead for our motherland by the way Communists very frequently refer to their country as a motherland as opposed to say the Nazis with the Fatherland just as a point to raise the days of national disunity and Chaos which the people detested are gone never to return so here you can see that Construction of that mythology I was just telling you about led by the working class and the Communist party our 600 million people United as one are engaged in the great task of building socialism the

unification of our country the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities these are the basic guarantees for the sure Triumph of our cause however this does not mean that contradictions no longer exist in Our society to imagine that none exists is a naive idea which is a variance with objective reality we are confronted with two types of social contradictions those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people they are the the two are totally different in nature now this whole disunity chaos thing you can imagine The Binding Administration having

given that speech right the days of American disunity and Chaos which the people detested over the last several Years especially under evil orange man are gone never to return we have a new dawn led by the uh Democratic party our hundreds of millions of people United as one are engaged in the great task of building back better for an equitable future the unification of our country the unity of our people and the uni Unity of our various uh ethnicities races Sexes genders Etc are the basic guarantees for the sure trying for cause I mean you

Could literally hear the bind Administration making the same speech that should not be missed we just have to update it so it's really funny because a lot of people know if they know anything about Mao and Chinese Communist history they know that Mal referred to Matt what we call maoism as Marxist leninism or Marxism leninism with Chinese characteristics well we're undergoing in the west is a maoist revolution with American characteristics Make that very clear in your mind and that's what the point of this episode is going to be is to make that more clear to

understand these two different types of contradictions correctly Mao tells us we must first be clear on what is meant by quote the people see and what is meant by quote the enemy the concept of quote the people varies in content in different countries and in different periods of history in a given country okay so do you understand what he just Did we're going to talk about the people we're going to say what that really means we're going to talk about the enemy and he says oh there's lots of conceptions of it different times different places

different countries different different nationalities lots of different things but people thought about some people we have thought about the people here in China in different ways and over different times but and he's going to Say take our own country for example and explain what that means but they're going to give the correct definition of the people in the end right so take our own country for example during the war of resistance against Japan all those classes strata and social groups opposing Japanese aggression came within the category of the people while the Japanese imperialists their Chinese

collaborators and the pro-japanese elements were all enemies of the people During the war of Liberation the U.S imperialists and their running dogs the bureaucrat capitalists the landlords and the guomingtong reactionaries who represented those two classes were the enemies of the people while the other classes strata and social groups which opposed them all came within the category of the people see so he's already setting this up the people who go along with our program are the people the people who go against our Program are the enemy of the people you see how that works a people

is defined by the conflict that they're being thrust into the hegelian conflict this is a very Marxist hegelian idea that he's presenting here says at the present stage the period of building socialism the classes strata and social groups which favor support and work for the cause of socialist construction all come within the category of the people Could it be more clear who counts as people while the social forces and groups which resist the Socialist Revolution and are hostile to or sabotage socialist construction are all enemies of the people could he be more clear that when

he says people just like I said a moment ago he means people to support the Socialist project in China and the CCP when he says enemies of the people he means Everybody that opposes the Socialist project in China and the CCP that's got you've got to understand that so the contradictions between ourselves and the enemy are antagonistic contradictions he says within the ranks of the people the contradictions among the working people are non-antagonistic while those between the exploited and exploiting classes have a non-antagonistic as well as an antagonistic aspect so now he's got Three different

kinds of categories of of um conflict or contradiction there's the people versus the enemy which we just discussed that's antagonistic within the people there are differences those are non-antagonistic those are going to be resolved as we're going to find out through struggle sessions and then you have the issue between the exploited and exploiting classes that Can be both antagonistic and non-antagonistic at the same time he says there have always been contradictions among the people but they are different in content in each period of the Revolution and in the period of building socialism so there was

a revolution things were one way now we're building socialism now they're another way in the conditions prevailing in China today the contradictions among the People comprise the contradictions within the working class right so those are different disagreements within the people who support the party the contradictions with the within the peasantry the contradictions within the Intelligentsia the contradictions with between the working class and the peasantry the contradictions between the workers and The Peasants on the one hand and the bourgeoisie and so on our people's Government is one that genuinely represents the people's interests it is a

government that serves the people doesn't that sound like Kamala Harris like literally nevertheless there are certain I mean she has to say together together together a few times to get it but nevertheless there are still certain contradictions between this government and the people these include the contradictions between the interests of the state and the Interests of the collective on the one hand and the interests of the individual on the other between democracy and centralism okay before I carry on I'm going to reread this whole sentence but I want to stop with this democracy and centralism

because what he's doing when he sets these things up in contradictions and hegelian or Marxist or dialectical or hermetic or whatever you want thought They're all the same when there's a difference it has to be understood through the Hermetic principle of polarity difference means opposites mean the Opposites aren't real they are the same and kind but different in degree and so thus they have to be seen as parts of one Dynamic whole and then understood in terms of a synthetic combination so in other words you're going to mix them together so the interests of the

collective and the Interest of the individual have to be mixed into one thing the individual who lives in the collective right that's Marxism that's the idea of their collectivism between democracy and centralism and so what he's actually going to argue later in this speech is that and this is very important that you don't have democracy unless you have centralism in other words centralized dictatorial power and so actually democracy exists under a Dictatorship only which sounds like a contradiction in and of itself but that's the result of the synthetic thought but what it boils down to

is exactly what Lenin said exactly what I've articulated a number of times in other places at other in other podcasts and in writing and all over the place and in public talks and all over the place and all over the place and all over the place is that democracy for Communists only exists when it's under Communism okay so he's got all these contradictions the interests of the collective on the one hand of the interest of the individual on the other between democracy and centralism between the leadership and the lead and the contradictions arising from the

bureaucratic style of work of some of the state personnel and their relations with the masses All of these are also contradictions among the people generally speaking the fundamental identity of the people's interests underlies the contradiction among the people so the reason the contradictions within the people aren't antagonistic is very simple because they're all interested in the people in The People's welfare or at least the party says they are so that they can justify all the abuses that they do of the people in the People's name and those contradictions that arise like abusing people having a

dictatorship having local officials that abuse people prison judges people going to prison blah blah those are just non-antagonistic issues that are working themselves out between people who have the same long-term Vision the same value set but don't know how to do it together that's the non-antagonistic contradictions within the people In our country the contradiction between the working class and the national bourgeoisie comes under the category of contradictions among the people by and large the class struggle between the two is a class struggle within the ranks of the people because the Chinese National bourgeoisie has a

dual character in the period of the Bourgeois Democratic Revolution it had both a revolutionary and a Conciliationist side to its character so before it was one way but now in the period of the Socialist Revolution exploitation of the working class for profit constitutes one side of the character of the national bourgeoisie while its support of the Constitution and its willingness to accept social transformation constitute the other so what he's saying is basically we took the business interests and we've cowed them and they are now operatives or Functionaries of the Socialist Party but they're still engaged

in a lot of their old tricks but now at least we have them under our control so things are very different before the so-called Bourgeois Democratic Revolution where the Bourgeois was overthrown by The People's democracy before that it was different it was a different kind of of conflict because they were actually at opposites in terms of not just class interests but also in terms of uh their fundamental Disposition for what they want to go in their country it would have been antagonistic then he says the national bourgeoisie differs from the imperialists the landlords and the

bureaucrat capitalists the contradiction between the national bourgeoisie and the working class is one between exploiter and exploited and is by its nature antagonistic but in the concrete conditions of China this antagonistic contradiction between the Two classes if properly handled can be transformed into a non-antagonistic one and resolved by peaceful methods those methods boil down to a communist cartel however the contradiction which is if you want to do business in China if you want to be in the National bourgeoisie you're going to be under the dictates and rules and serve at the pleasure of the CCP

which is exactly how their businesses have operated now for decades However the contradictions between the working class and the national bourgeoisie will change into a contradiction between ourselves and the enemy if we do not handle it properly and do not follow the policy of uniting with criticizing and educating the national bourgeoisie or if the national bourgeoisie does not accept this policy of hours do you see this listen businesses listen Socialites listen important people if you accept all of our policies we can do this peacefully if not it's going to be antagonistic it's going to be

ugly that's what he's saying here right it can be peaceful all you have to do is accept all of our terms and do it our way it doesn't then we can work it out through peaceful means however if you refuse then it's going to be antagonistic and they're going to use power they're going to use raw power not Just coercive but probably directly Force given that Mal famously also said power flows from the barrel of a gun um there were lots of other tools economics social Etc that they can use and we see these in

China the development now of a social credit system we have a kind of implicit social credit system that's not so literal in the United States except where it comes to what we might call the internationalist bourgeoisie the large International business Community which is brought to heal under the new policy under ESG just like Cloud Schwab says in the great reset and in the great narrative for a better future cesg and the public-private partnership that they are facilitating at the world economic Forum will lead people into the corporations into the sustainable and inclusive path toward a

better future according to their dictates in other words into the stakeholder Soviet However if they don't want to they can make things very uncomfortable for you they can leverage you blah blah if you still resist Klaus says we're going to basically indoctrinate the youth to turn against you which they're also doing that's literally the point of the great narrative which is class Schwab's 2022 book since they are different in nature Mao says the contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and the Contradictions among the people must be resolved by different methods to put it briefly the

former entails drawing a clear distinction between ourselves and the enemy so we're going to make a very clear who's with the people who's against the people they're gonna be a big sorting of people in that regard and the latter entails drawing a clear distinction between right and wrong see so once you're among The people it's a moral battle we're going to struggle you into believing right and not wrong and doing right and not wrong according to their policy but before that we have to draw clear distinctions and we have to make sure we know who

the good guys are and the bad guys are you understand so with the Enemy there's the good guys and the bad guys and it's that kind of fight and then once they get you inside once you're in the cult once You're in the maoist Marxist cult then it's a matter of teaching people the conflict spoil down to understanding the difference between right and wrong in other words adopting cult Doctrine which is right and abandoning any values contrary to cult Doctrine or outside of culture called Doctrine which is wrong this is this is what he's describing

it is of course true that the distinction between ourselves and the enemy is also one of right and wrong see because it's The good guys and the bad guys for example the question of who is in the right we or the domestic and foreign reactionaries the imperialists the feudalists and the bureaucratic capitalists is also one of right and wrong but it is in a different category from questions of right and wrong among the people as I just said our state is a people's Democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker Peasant

Alliance that's his claim okay a people's Democratic dictatorship now I've outlined in the past what we mean by a people's Democratic dictatorship only the people count within the Democracy it's only Democratic if it's socialist and it's a dictatorship to administer and enforce and make sure that that's how it actually works which includes as he will say as Lenin said as marcusa mentions in repressive tolerance as comes up again Again as we experience with the deplorables and with the j6 stuff here in the United States that there are certain people who must be suppressed we see

it in social media we see it in the censorship and there are certain voices that must be suppressed and censored and silenced and then there are certain that must be elevated and empowered and those are the people the people who are on their side and that's democracy because finally the unfair power dynamics Exercised by the people being suppressed will be suppressed and the actual people who count as people can actually have a democracy without them see how it works now just as an aside this is Gnostic if you understand the marks is turned into gnosticism

I'm going to keep hitting these asides because you must understand it this way the Bourgeois classes are the demiurge they're the group that has this power to construct the lives of everybody else They do so by creating social constructions called ideologies or actually social constructions that are mediated through their ideology which is a mythology for why they should be in charge and you shouldn't things like Merit competence you know things like that and um those people have to be taken out of power because in gnosticism the Constructor of your reality that's imprisoning you in your

reality is an Evil demon and so they have to be removed from power so that people actual people can be set free of their influence and when they're set free of their influence then we're actually liberated emancipated or free people that's the same logic identical logic so yet again when you understand that Marx placed demiurgic power which is carceral power I put that on Twitter and somebody said you use one word I don't know to describe another word I don't know Carceral means incarcerate means prison means power to put lock up and punish to actually

more explicitly to refute John Locke's statement of what it means to be human that we have an inalienable right to life liberty and property that's what it boils down to and he says we're going to have a dictatorship for this what is this dictatorship for Mao rhetorically asks its first function is internal namely to suppress the reactionary classes and Elements and those exploiters who resist the Socialist Revolution to feel that deplorables do you feel that Maga do you feel that ultramaga if you know anybody who went to j6 and got any [ __ ] for

it do you feel that just if you got censored on social media if you got kicked off of social media if you're locked out of your account regularly do you feel that it's first function is to suppress the reactionary classes and elements and Those exploiters who resist the Socialist Revolution to suppress those who try to wreck our socialist construction or in other words to resolve the contradictions between ourselves and the internal enemy for instance to arrest try and sentence certain counter-revolutionaries and and two different like the ones that showed up at the Capitol and to

deprive landlords and bureaucrat capitalists of their right to vote and their freedom of Speech for a certain period of time all this comes within the scope of our dictatorship that's its purpose that's its purpose so when I say we're going through an American maoist style cultural revolution that's its goal and that's things they're actually doing to try to figure out how to lock up and silence people to remove the right to vote from the people who don't support the revolution doesn't this sound familiar They're not disenfranchising you directly but won't sort of but also indirectly

doesn't this make sense of your experience this is a cultural revolution this is a takeover of the maoist style you must understand what's happening in this country he goes on to maintain public order and Safeguard the interests of the people we will send in the social workers no I'm just kidding that's not what he says he says to maintain public order and Safeguard the interests of the people it is necessary to exercise dictatorship as well over thieves swindlers murderers arsonists criminal gangs and other Scoundrels who seriously disrupt the public order the second function of this

dictator now realize this is After the Revolution right all of those things were encouraged and when Mao comes back and gets power those were all encouraged again but it wasn't evil when his antifa I mean Red Guard did it right it wasn't actually illegal then it was what we were supposed to do the second function of this dictatorship is to protect our country from subversion and possible aggression by external enemies in such contingencies it is the task of this dictatorship to resolve the contradiction between ourselves and the external enemy the aim of this dictatorship is

to protect all of our People remember who the people are so that they can devote themselves to Peaceful labor and make China a socialist country with modern industry modern Agriculture and modern science and culture see why do we have to protect our people so they can make China a socialist country who is to exercise this dictatorship naturally the working class and the entire people under its leadership Thing is see there's a lot of stakeholders in the country and that's really messy so we're going to have to have certain stakeholder Representatives but they're representing the stakeholders

which is everybody that's the people the stakeholders are the people right and we're going to have Representatives like Bill Gates and class Schwab decide who and what and John Kerry and the CDC and Anthony fauci our state their Stakeholder Representatives that are speaking on behalf of the whole working class and the entire people under its leadership see because he says dictatorship does not apply within the ranks of the people the people cannot exercise dictatorship over themselves nor must one section of the people oppress another so it's some outside group that's going to do that namely

the party of course law Breakers among the people will be Punished according to the law but this is this is different in principle from the exercise of dictatorship to suppress enemies of the people see they're just trying to keep you safe they are just trying to look out for your interests as the people and they're trying to keep you safe that's why they have to do a dictatorship there's an emergency there's a crisis they need emergency Powers they need to take action Right just like here just like now what applies among the people is democratic

centralism oh there we go Democratic centralism so democracy and centralism have already been fused synthetically right there our constitution lays it down he says that citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech the Press assembly Association procession demonstration religious belief and so on our constitution also provides the Organs of the state must practice democratic centralism that they must rely on the masses and that their personnel must serve the people remember again what the people means the people means only the people who are supporting socialism let me just reread that part our constitution

also provides that the organs of the state must practice democratic centralism which is the people's dictatorship that They must rely on the masses and that their personnel must serve the people who support socialism our socialist democracy is the broadest kind of democracy such as is not to be found in any Bourgeois State just like Lennon said in state and revolution in 19 17 18 something like that our dictatorship is the people's Democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker peasant Alliance that is to say democracy operates within The ranks of the

people while the working class uniting with all others enjoying civil rights and the first place within the peasantry enforces the dictatorship oh sorry and in the first place with the peasantry and forces dictatorship over the reactionary classes and elements and all those who resist socialist transformation and oppose socialist Construction so if you oppose equity and inclusion and sustainability we have to enforce a Dictatorship over you because this is really in your best interest it's actually necessary for your best interest because you're the people but we're working in representation of you but you only count as

you if you support those values okay by civil rights we mean politically the rights of freedom and democracy but they just said that democracy means democratic centralism so he goes on to say but this freedom is Freedom with leadership oh and this democracy is democracy under centralized guidance not Anarchy oh stakeholders are going to determine a Soviet of stakeholders a council of stakeholders is going to determine what the people really need the people are the stakeholders for real but we're the stakeholders that meet and make the decisions in our Council because Anarchy He says does

not Accord with the interests or wishes of the people certain people in our country were delighted by the Hungarian incident now I honestly only know very little about this but we do know that there were various communist Revolutions in Hungary and there was one in the 50s so I assume that this is um something that happened and I did not look up to history but I'm just going to kind of plow through this he brings it up a bunch of times and I Should have looked up to history but there's too many things to know

they hoped that something similar would happen in China that thousands upon thousands of people would take to the streets to demonstrate against the people's government that's right they threw off the Communists repeatedly in Hungary and here certain people in our country were delighted by that fact that that happened their hopes ran counter to the interests of the masses and Therefore could not possibly win their support you only count as part of the masses if you are one of the people that they speak on behalf of or if you are a representative of the people deceived

by domestic and foreign counter-revolutionaries a section of the people in Hungary made the mistake of resorting to violence against the people's government they threw off their communist dictators and that was a Mistake clearly because foreign influences tricked them into it with the result that both the state and the people suffered the Damage Done to the country's economy in a few weeks of rioting will take a long time to repair remember this guy in 1966 comes back and destroys his country with a cultural revolution utterly wrecks it Millions die destroyed economy remember also that he's saying

this on the eve of the greatest economic catastrophe possibly In human history that he's about to launch to Leap Forward there's a great leap I should say Great Leap Forward good to just remind you that this is the sales pitch oh that was really bad they the riots it's going to take a long time the economy got messed up and he says but in our country there were some who wavered on the question of the Hungarian incident because they were ignorant of the real state of the fairs in the world in other words economy communist

Interpretation of them they think that there is uh it says top but I assume too little Freedom under our people's democracy and that there is a more and that there is more freedom under Western parliamentary democracy they assume correctly they asked for a two-party system as in the west with one party in office and the other in opposition but this so-called two-party system is nothing but a device for maintaining the Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie oh see because there's always a dictatorship the government's always a dictatorship according to this Marxist line of thought you either have

a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie like Lennon said where the Democrat the demiurgic Bourgeois classes get to pull all the levers and control everything and the people are oppressed or you can have the Socialist Democratic centralist dictatorship the dictatorship of the Proletariat or of the people which is going to repress those elements so the people can actually be free right that's their kind of very minikian world that they're laying out here and what he says is you might want a two-party system you might want parliamentary democracy you might have thought that was a good idea but

in fact that's actually just how the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie maintains itself it says it can never Guarantee freedoms to the working people right because the bourgeoisie has like a demiurge or in other words a prison Builder and Warden that imprisons the working people for his own benefit as a matter of fact freedom and democracy exists not in the abstract but only in the concrete he says in a society where class struggle exists if there is freedom for the exploiting classes to exploit the working people then there is no freedom for the working people not

to Be exploited oh so if people can do business and that business can be treated as exploitation or looked at as exploitation then the working people have no Freedom at all because they're just going to be exploited that's his argument so that's why it's a dictatorship if there is democracy for the bourgeoisie then he says there is no democracy for the proletariat and other working people The legal existence of the Communist party is tolerated in some capitalist countries but only to the extent that it does not endanger the fundamental interests of the bourgeoisie it is

not tolerated beyond that so he's saying that you know countries like the united states allow a Communist party to exist but it's only allowed to be very controlled opposition it's not allowed to get powerful enough to threaten the existing social order And the and because we don't want communism uh and so when they do their stuff they flip that over and they create controlled opposition to their socialist agenda right the iron level projection never misses those who demand freedom and democracy in the abstract regard democracy as an end and not as a means doesn't this

by the way sound exactly like Herbert Marcus for those of you who have bothered to read repressive tolerance Because it's the same ideas democracy as such sometimes seems to be an end but it is in fact only a means Marxism teaches us that democracy is part of the superstructure and belongs to the realm of politics that is to say in the last analysis it serves the economic base the same is true of Freedom both democracy and freedom are relative not absolute and they come into being and develop in specific historical Conditions within the ranks of

the people democracy is correlative with centralism okay hold on within the ranks of the people means among people who accept the Socialist order and support it and want it democracy is correlative in other words democracy aligns with centralism so now the dialectical synthesis of democracy and centralism is happening democracy is correlative with centralism And freedom with discipline they are the two opposites of a single entity just like I told you before contradictory as well as United under the Hermetic principle of polarity they are the two opposites of a single entity contradictory as well as United

and we should not one-sidedly emphasize one to the exclusion of the other in other words you can't have democracy without central power without a dictatorship and you can't have freedom Without discipline hello Russo hello French Revolution hello where did Mao get educated within the ranks of the people we cannot do without Freedom nor can we do without discipline I believe me that discipline will be imposed from the outside and in Insidious ways to make sure that you are self-disciplining yourself as well we cannot do without democracy nor can we do without centralism this Unity of

democracy and centralism of freedom and Discipline constitutes our democratic centralism the year they make up these words that sound interesting and good but they just kind of mystify you like Democratic centralism but what he actually means is a dictatorship where we're going to pretend that the people that we speak on behalf of the people who are only the people who agree with us because they have the gnosis of Socialism or Equity or inclusion or critical race Theory or Queer Theory and nobody else really understands things those people are the only ones who count so it's

Democratic for them except because you know they're busy and doing their things like work will have to decide for them and so it's actually a dictatorship and what is the dictatorship for well it's to punish and suppress your enemy so that you can keep having this life and which is the life you want because you only count if you're the people who support this Program do you see the circularity here this is how it works this Unity of democracy and centralism of freedom and discipline constitutes our Democratic centralism under this system the people enjoy broad

democracy and freedom but at the same time they have to keep within the bounds of socialist discipline all this is well understood by the masses see you can be as free as you want but you have to be sustainable you can travel do move eat Whatever you want as long as it's all sustainable so yeah you might want to eat ribeye but that's not sustainable so you're going to eat bugs you might want to go visit your family but that's a long car ride or a flight and those aren't sustainable so why don't you just

zoom see under this system the people enjoy broad democracy and freedom but at the same time they have to keep within the bounds of socialist Discipline you could have whatever you want go earn all you want but we have to keep equity in mind you can get whatever job you want but we have to be Equitable and inclusive in our hiring under this system the people enjoy broad democracy and freedom but at the same time they have to keep within the bounds of socialist discipline all this is well understood by the masses and advocating freedom

with leadership and democracy under centralized guidance We in no way mean that coercive measures should be taken to settle ideological questions or questions involving the distinction between right and wrong among the people all attempts to use administrative orders or coercive measures to settle ideological questions or questions of right and wrong are not only ineffective but harmful now listen they're not going to force you this is where I keep saying that the tyranny of the future following Mao is opt in he's lying of course he also again like I said famously said power flows from the

barrel of a gun but that's beside the point they're not going to force you they're just going to make life intolerable for you unless you step in that's not technically coercion in some weird sense they're not directly coercing you they're indirectly coercing you right we cannot abolish religion he says by administrative order or force people not To believe in it we cannot compel people to give up idealism any more than we can force them to embrace Marxism the only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the

Democratic method all right spoiler time what do you think the Democratic method is Jeopardy music what do you think it's going to be did you guess struggle sessions the only way to settle questions of an Ideological nature are controversial issues among the people is by the Democratic method the method of discussion criticism persuasion and education criticism critical struggle and not by the method of coercion or repression see you just have to morally and intellectually and psychologically browbeat people who aren't on the program because they have to be Socialists or they don't have the gnosis so

they're not they're not with it they don't get it to be able to carry on their production and studies effectively and Lead their lives in peace and order the people want their government and those in charge of production and cultural and educational organizations to issue appropriate administrative regulations of an obligatory nature it is common sense that without them the maintenance of public order would be Impossible administrative regulations and the method of persuasion and education complement each other in resolving contradictions among the people see there's just going to be lots of regulations that make your life

suck you know in a modern day like a social credit system if you don't participate and then we'll use discussion criticism persuasion and education brainwashing to get you to go along with it social stigma shaming locking you out of Society Etc because the people want appropriate administrative regulations of an obligatory nature in fact administrative regulations for the maintenance of public order must be accompanied by persuasion and education for in many cases regulations alone won't work see so they're going to give you a social credit system or they're going to give you a system that you

can't participate in fully unless you have the right attitudes And then they're going to persuade you and educate you to have the right attitudes just like in the prisons where they teach you to see from the people's standpoint of friend mailing what was it Ren renmin Lee Chong My Mandarin is not good as you can tell it's actually probably better than my German um so it's not going to be regulations alone but we're going to have obligatory regulations like a social credit system In the modern day sustainable quotas you know carbon footprint tracking you know

movement tracking passports educational competencies and so on those are regulations but we're going to also have to persuade and educate people into believing in that system that's the program here and it won't be coercive exactly you just are going to live a shitty life unless you get on board unless you're really bad and then They're going to put you in a prison and actually re-educate you or in case it's they might just do that because it's useful to do that to you if you're kind of on the edge they can make an example of you

um which is what they did in practice for the seven years leading up to this speech as Robert lifton made very clear this Democratic method of resolving contradictions among the people Democratic method Was epitomized in 1942 in the formula quote Unity criticism Unity this is one of the nastiest paragraphs I swear in this essay or there's a set of paragraphs so it's a few paragraphs to elaborate that means starting for the desire for Unity don't you want to fit in don't you want to be one of us don't you want things to be easier don't

you want things to go well that means starting from the desire for Unity resolving Contradictions through criticism or struggle remember this is the Democratic method of solving contradictions right the Democratic method of resolving contradictions among the people is epitomized in the formula Unity criticism criticism Unity which means starting from the desire for Unity resolving contradictions through criticism or struggle and arriving at a new Unity on a new basis there's your Dei program at work there's SEL at School there's the bullying the harassment the haranguing on social media everything that you've experienced for the last five

years not just George Floyd three years two and a half years last five years at least has been this program we are going through an American cultural revolution that is maoist in nature and you must understand this if we don't understand it we cannot adequately resist it In our experience he says this is the correct method of resolving contradictions among the people in 1942 we used it to resolve contradictions inside the Communist Party namely the contradictions between the dogmatists and the great majority of the membership and between dogmatism and Marxism the quote left dogmatists had

resorted to the method of quote ruthless struggle and ruthless or sorry and merciless blows in inner party struggle It was the wrong method so the woke extremists are useful for various purposes but they're actually just a tool for these people and they will be punished for it later but see there are different times in different parts where in the pre-revolutionary OR kind of revolutionary stage right now so certain methods are needed but when we start building out equity and socialism the woke are about to become the left Dogmatists and that's the wrong method it's going

to be bad for them it's not going to be good for the woke it's not going to be good for them if this continues in criticizing quote left dogmatism we did not use this old method but adopted a new one that is one of starting from the desire for Unity here's the Alchemy the alchemical formula the way that it gets expressed by left and right hegelians all the time there's a big Change coming there's nothing you can do about it if you want to help if you want to have a desire for Unity that things

will be pretty good for you if you don't things are going to be very bad for you make your choice that's the alcohol alchemical formula that's been being told to CEOs that's been being told to religious leaders that's been being told to politicians for about a decade now by the people Pushing this I mean the world economic Forum I mean the CCP I mean they're Associates I mean the United Nations there's a big change coming there's nothing you can do about it now there are reactionary elements saying the same thing there's a big change coming

we're going to have a cultural return or renewal there's nothing you can do about it if you go along with us it'll be good for you if you don't go along with us it'll be bad for you I hate to say it But even the tactics currently of the school Choice Movement are very much like this you will get boxed out of the conversation if you oppose it in many cases but I'm thinking more of the reaction movements Neo reaction post-liberal reaction Christian nationalist right they're using the same tactic I'm not saying that they're the

same thing I'm saying they're using the same tactic Which should tell you something about how they operate and what they're really standing for they're part of the overall dialectic in other words um but what it says here sorry within a few years by the time the Communist Chinese part Chinese Communist Party held its seventh National Congress in 1945 Unity was achieved throughout the party as anticipated and consequently the people's Revolution triumphed here the Essential thing is to start from the desire for Unity for without this desire for Unity the struggle once begun is certain to

throw things into confusion and get out of hand that's what Bill Maher actually said don't you realize these things spin out of control but that start heat Mouse as if we have the unity if you say that you're only going to be able to it's only going to work if we're all on the same page well That might stop that now again I remind you he's doing this speech on the literal Eve of the launch of the leap Great Leap Forward which killed 55 million people there was that things going into confusion and getting out

of hand he says wouldn't this be the same as quote ruthless struggle and merciless blows and what party Unity would there be left well after he did the Great Leap Forward starting the next year after This they threw him out of power and he had to come back on a Revenge cycle what part of unity was left it was precisely this experience that led us to the formula Unity criticism Unity so again I remind you it's a sales pitch he's giving you here or in other words quote learn from past mistakes to avoid future ones

and cure the sickness to save the patient because they're doctors right they're making Diagnosis like you know gnosis across Daya across gnosis so they're the ones who can learn from past mistakes to avoid future ones and cure the sickness to save the patient we extended this method beyond our party we applied it with great success on the anti-japanese base areas in dealing with the relations between the leadership and the masses between the Army and the people between the officers and Men Between the different units of the army and between the different groups of cadres the

use of this method can be traced back to still earlier times in our party's history ever since 1927 when we built our revolutionary armed forces and base areas in the South this method had been used to deal with the relations between the party and the masses between the Army and the people between the officers and men and with other Relations among the people unfortunately I don't have the Chinese historical chops to give you some color to that black and white picture he just painted the only difference was that during the anti-japanese war we employed this

method much more consciously and since the liberation of the whole country we have employed the same method of unity criticism unity in our relations with the Democratic parties and with Industrial and Commercial Circles our task is now to continue to extend and make still better use of this method throughout the ranks of the people we want all our factories cooperatives shops schools offices and people's organizations in a word all of our 600 million people to use it in resolving contradictions among themselves aha so there's Dei training in the workplace in the military in the schools

in everything our task is now to Continue to extend the unity criticism Unity formula throughout the ranks of the people we want all our factories Cooperative shops schools offices people's organizations in a word all our 600 million people to use it in resolving contradictions among themselves in ordinary circumstances contradictions among the people are not antagonistic but if they are not handled properly or if we relax our vigilance And lower our guard antagonism may arise in a socialist country a development of this kind is usually only a localized and temporary phenomenon I wonder why that is

the reason is that the system of exploitation of Man by man has been abolished right or the Democratic socialist centralism steps in and squashes it because that's literally what their dictatorship is for he just told us that right the reason is that The system of exploitation of Man by man has been abolished in the interests of the people are fundamentally identical the antagonistic actions were took which took place on a fairly wide scale during the Hungarian incident where the result of the operations of both domestic and foreign counter-revolutionary elements this was a this was a

particular as well as a temporary phenomenon it was a case of the reactionaries inside a socialist country in League with the imperialists Attempting to achieve their conspiratorial aims by taking advantage of contradictions among the people the foment dissension and stir up disorder the lesson of the Hungarian incident marry its attention now what's this about Hungarian thing James doesn't know the history can't really talk about it what does that have to do with the maoist revolution here in America we're going through right now this um American cultural revolution or the maoist Cultural revolution with American characteristics

remember how Russia did all those things the Russian dossier Russian interference Russia Russia Russia you see because the Hungarian incident was a result of the operation of both domestic and foreign counter-revolutionary elements that was disrupting the regime's operation this is a particular as well as a temporary phenomenon it was a case of Reactionaries inside of a socialist country like Maga in League with the imperialists attempting to the neocons attempting to achieve their conspiratorial aims by taking advantage of contradictions among the people Maga movement but they also used those Outsiders domestic sorry foreign counter-revolutionary elements Russia

Russia Russia the Russia hoax oh there it is that's how Mao is explaining why there was a counter-revolution that Succeeded in Hungary and so they're using the same scapegoat same blame game that Mao used now in the United States many people seem to think that the use of the democratic method to resolve by the way that's how they took away a lot of your voting right we had to do all this stuff with voting because of Russia Russia Russia that's how they did all this stuff with Trump Russia Russia Russia Many people seem to think

that the use of the democratic method to resolve contradictions among the people is something new actually it is not marxists have always held that the cause of the proletariat must depend on the masses and the masses of the people not all the basses just the masses of the people remember the ones who support socialism and that Communists must use the Democratic method of persuasion in education remember that's criticism and Struggle when working among the laboring people and must on no account resort to commandism or coercion no they don't command you to believe things they don't

coerce you to believe things they make your life a living hell until you agree that's it criticism and struggle criticism and struggle with social criticism lock you out the Chinese Communist Party Faithfully adheres to this Marxist line and his principle it has been our consistent View that under the people's Democratic dictatorship two different uh methods one dictatorial in the other Democratic remember criticism and struggle should be used to resolve the two types of contradictions which differ in nature those between ourselves and the enemy people who support socialism and people who don't they get the dictatorship

and among those among the people so those who are already socialists get criticism and struggle do you understand This idea has been explained again and again in many party documents and in speeches by many leading comrades of our party in my article on the people's Democratic dictatorship written in 1949 I said quote the combination of these two aspects democracy for the people in dictatorship over the reactionaries is the people's Democratic dictatorship could he be more clearer isn't that what we're trying to uh soft softball into the West right now isn't That what the social media

contouring is about isn't that what the doj laboring labeling parents domestic terrorists is about the combination of these two aspects democracy remember that's criticism and struggle for the people and dictatorship that suppression over the reactionaries is the people's Democratic dictatorship that's Mao's statement of what a democratic dictatorship is in other words Democratic centralism which he Says is a necessity for them there is no such thing there is no real democracy without centralism just like there's no freedom without socialist discipline he said I also pointed out that in order to settle problems within the ranks of

the people quote the method we employ is democratic the method of persuasion not of compulsion again criticism and struggle go listen to The Struggle session podcast see what you get out of That that's what he means by Democratic methods again in addressing the second session of the First National Committee of the political consulted consultative Conference in June uh two I said I don't know what exactly is meant with the two there but we'll leave it there um quote The People's Democratic dictatorship uses two methods toward the enemy it uses the method of dictatorship That is

for as long a period of time as is necessary it does not permit them to take part in political activity and compels them to obey the law of the people's government to engage in labor and through such labor to be transformed into new men toward the people on the contrary it uses the method of democracy and not of compulsion that is it must necessarily let them take part in political activity and does not compel them to do this or That but uses the method of democracy to educate and persuade such education is self-education for the

people and its basic method is criticism and self-criticism end quote okay now pause that was horrifying okay no question first he says if you agree with us in other words if you're a gnostic you get different treatment well if you've joined the Gnostic Cult of Socialism or communism or whatever you want to call It you get different treatment you are going to have education through criticism and self-criticism you are going to be struggled into deeper and deeper cult commitment however if you haven't it's a two-tiered system you do not have no's you have no mind

you are not a gnostic you do not count as a person and we are going to put iron dictatorship on you you will not be permitted to take part In political activity you will be compelled to obey the law of the socialist government even if you don't have any representation within it you will be forced to engage in labor and through your labor labor to be transformed into a new man or as Hitler mocked in German or bite mocked fry your work will set you free and if it doesn't set you free of your Bourgeois

mentality it will set you free of your mortal coil such education That's the two-tiered system the gnostics get one treatment which is more cult deepening more cult indoctrination and the people who are not yet gnostics get brutal dictatorship by the cult to be forced to either join the cult through their conditions to opt into the cult at which point they can join the criticism and self-criticism struggle session circuit because they've adopted the gnosis They've entered the outer School of the Gnostic cult or they can um they can be brutally punished and suppressed and let me

tangent there for a second is outer scooting I just did the gnosticism in the west podcast recently um and a lot of people are reaching out to me and they see it it's which is great but they're confused because a lot of people are joining this cult they're Woke or Marxist or whatever and they don't know they're in a cult so how can they be an occult they don't know what it's all about they don't realize they're in a cult they think that they're fighting for racial Liberation or sexual Liberation or trans or whatever gender

Liberation whatever they're looking for right they have no idea that they're in a gnostic cult they've never heard of gnostics Cults always work this way they always Have think of it like you know layers like an onion they always have at least three that can get more you know graded think about like the Freemasons they have 33 levels at different levels the top two of those are something like that 32 and 33. that's the people who really really really know the secrets right what's really really about what is really going on that's what you would

call the Inner Circle having studied the Chinese Martial art which has a kind of a pedagogical method of this sort that there are the people who get to really know and then there are the people who get to know kind of better and then there's the people who show up and kind of copy it and they literally call it by this is that there's the the disciples as the Inner Circle then there's an inner School Nadia in Chinese for when you're in the inner School of a martial arts club and you get to actually know

How the martial art Works usually the distinction there is you get to feel it you don't get to see the moves you get to feel them so you get to feel where the forces are et cetera so you have the you have the initiates or the disciples or sorry not the initiates everybody in here is an initiate but then you have the Inner Circle and that's the disciples they are in on all of it that's your top two 32 and 33 levels Freemasons if you're in the Mason Club below that I don't know what the

numbers work out to in masonry so I can't do it there you have the inner School the Nadia in Chinese and then you have the if I remember my Chinese the YG I think it's wah maybe it's way out of school so you have an outer school and inner school and then A discipleship in our Circle most of the people when they become socialists the reason that they have to Go through the criticism they're not in the party right they become socialists they get different treatment now they go into the criticism Democratic method Mal's describing

that's outer school so the criticism self-criticism struggle mechanism study mechanism is to bring them from Outer School they've accepted the gnosis of socialism they want Unity they want to get better they want to become socialists they want to change that's outer school they want to learn The martial art in our school they get to actually that's when you join the party and then when you're at party leadership that's the Inner Circle same things going on with with all of the woke cult there are some people who understand what it really is they're Communists or maybe

Nazis or this kind of communal Nazi thing we've got going on at the world economic forum that's the Inner Circle then there are the people who really know the theory And they're articulating it that's mostly the scholars and some of the top activists many of the top activists and then you have just a bunch of morons who have bought into Equity inclusion Etc gender is a social construct blah blah blah I can choose my gender that kind of stuff systemic racism is real but it's the slightest idea they've joined a cult but they're in the

cult that's the outer School Inner Circle inner school out of School very important to understand what Mao is saying is your life is going to be hell here there's those three tears Plato might call them I don't know gold silver and iron or gold silver and bronze like we use in the Olympics the gold really know what's going the silver kind of know what's going on and then the the bronze know much less but they're part of the system they keep it going they're they're where the real work gets done on behalf of the silver

People who are the guard and the gold people who are going to make it who actually direct everything the so-called philosopher Kings right so if you're outside of that what Mao is saying if you're in the hoi polloi as it would be in platonic language brutal dictatorship to either destroy you or transform you or make you want to join the cult if you join the cult you join in the outer school and you're going to enter this criticism and struggle session Until you start to get it in the prisons as lifton described after you struggle

and struggle and struggle struggle interrogate struggle interrogate struggle interrogate abuse abuse abuse abuse after about a year of that and you start to break and you say that you you prove to the judges you truly want to transform you can move to a different prison and You Begin swishy study that's when you've moved from Outer school to Inner school now you're Learning to be a communist you're not just having your your morale your morals your your psychological State your ability to understand the world destroyed through criticism to the Democratic method and struggle now while that

continues and you might anytime be thrown back into that lift and tells us now you get to study shuishi you get to learn how to become a socialist in our school and then after the inner school when you Really get to learn that's going to college that's taking a gender studies class that's having your lesson in school about the gender unicorn or whatever out of school to enter school when you really become a constructivist a critical constructivist a ferrarian uh consientized person in her school and then there are the very small number of people who

are pulling the strings who actually know what they're doing and they're all as Patrice calors told us Trained marxists do you understand that now and that's what Mao just described as his method okay so he says thus on many occasions we've discussed the use of the democratic method for resolving contradictions among the people furthermore we have in the main applied in our work and many cadres and and uh and many other people are familiar with it in practice why then do some people now feel that it Is a new issue because in the past a

struggle between ourselves and the enemy both internal and external was most acute and contradictions among the people therefore did not attract as much attention as they do today I'm telling you after they get more power it's going to be bad for the woke quite a few people fail to make a clear distinction between these two different types of contradictions those between Ourselves and the enemy and those among the people and are prone to confuse the two it must be admitted that it is sometimes quite easy to do we have had instances of such confusion in

our work in the past in the course of cleaning out counter-revolutionaries hear the phrase cleaning out counter-revolutionaries you know sweeping away the demons I think was the thing the actual Chinese good people were sometimes mistaken for bad and such Things still happen today we are able to keep mistakes within bounds because it has been our policy to draw a sharp line between ourselves and the enemy and to rectify mistakes whenever discovered Marx's philosophy holds that the law of unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe okay that's a religion gang right and the

unity the law of the unity of opposites is the Hermetic principle of polarity the Hermetic principle of polarity is The Opposites are the same in kind and different in degree they they're they're not different they're not opposite the what I was talking about in the gnosticism in the west podcast is a destruction or dissolution of Distinction the obliteration of Distinction and cynical theories when we talk about queer Theory and post-modernism we talked about the blurring of boundaries that's what this is Marxist philosophy holds at the law Of unity of opposites is the fundamental law of

the universe in the Gnostic and hermetic belief or hermetic in this case it's the all distinction is an illusion and we get back to we get back to God literally we get back to perfect Unity by obliterating all appearances of distinctions by seeing everything as part of the same undifferentiated whole removing all distinctions so if you think differently than I do that's a Distinction we all have to think the same isn't that something this is the Hermetic principle of polarity uh re-articulated this is a hermetic Gnostic religion he says this law operates universally whether in

the natural world in human society or in man's thinking between the Opposites and contradiction there is at once unity and struggle okay so struggle and criticism right so there's a desire For Unity that's where you want to see the Opposites as the same that's where you are in hegel's ideas that you have examined the concept in the abstract until it's a it's opposite emerged from within it and you see it clearly and then you enter into the negative which is the criticism and struggle to where you're going to break down and dissolve those differences and

then we return to Unity which is the perfect Unity of the community of the communism of the uh return to God in the Hermetic faith and again this is the exact same thing that Paulo Ferrari lays out as his decodification method just to remind you which is what is happening in our schools and why I link I liken it to the maoist brainwashing program because we're dealing with the same damn thing which is what does he say is that we're going to codify our existential situation we're going to present it in The abstract then we're

going to um we're going to critique it we're going to we're actually going to problematize it uh we're going to have to de-codify it through the process of learning to read its political content then problematizing it and then making it personal or concretizing it and as it fades into the concrete we then understand our real situation and you have abstract negative concrete recreated which is Unity criticism Unity Desire for Unity I should say struggle and criticism returning to Unity and this law operates universally whether in the natural world and Human Society or in man's thinking

between the Opposites and contradiction there is at once unity and struggle and it is that the sorry it is this that impels things to move and change that's a straight hermeticism guys there's no no denying it contradictions exist everywhere but their nature differs in accordance with The different nature of different things in any given thing the unity of opposite opposites is conditional temporary intransitory hence relative whereas the struggle of opposites is absolute Lenin gave a very clear exposition of this law it has come to be understood by a growing number of people in our country

but for many people it is one thing to accept this law and quite another to apply it in examining and dealing with problems many dare not Openly admit that contradiction still exist among the people of our country while it is precisely these contradictions that are pushing our society forward because it's a clash of opposites that propels the society and meanwhile in hermeticism it is the clash and resolution of opposites that dissolves the fact that the Opposites were Illusions in the first place and there's no distinction that's progress that's going forward Progress doesn't mean making things

better it means dissolving for progressives progressivism does not mean making things better it means dissolving distinctions many do not admit that contradictions still exist in socialist society with the result that they become irresolute and passive when confronted with social contradictions they do not understand that socialist society grows more united and Consolidated through the ceaseless Process of correctly handling and resolving contradictions for this reason we need to explain things to our people and to our cadras in the first place in order to help them understand the contradiction in socialist society and learn to use correct methods

for handling them remember that lifton points out that they use the word helping for struggle in the Chinese prisons contradictions in socialist society he Says are fundamentally different from those in the old Society such as capitalist Society in capitalist Society contradictions find expression in acute antagonisms and conflicts and sharp class struggle they cannot be resolved by the capitalist system itself and can only be resolved by socialist Revolution the case is quite different with contradictions in socialist society on the contrary they are not antagonistic And can be ceaselessly resolved by the Socialist system itself he says

in Social Society the basic contradictions are still those between the relations of production and the productive forces and between the superstructure and the economic base however they are fundamentally different in character and have different features from the contradictions between the relations of production and the productive forces and between the Superstructure and the economic base and the old societies the present social system of our country is far superior to that of the old days listen to this logic if it were not so the old system would not have been overthrown and the new system could not

have been established see socialism one so it must be better history is one by written uh by the by the victors and saying the Socialist relations of production correspond better to the Character of productive forces than did the old relations of production here comes the setup for the the um Great Leap Forward and his terrible terrible logic under the rule of imperialism feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism oh I skipped a part sorry um and saying that socialist relations of production correspond better to the character of the productive forces than did the old relations of production we

Mean that they allow the productive forces to develop at a speed unattainable in the old Society remember like in that other thing that I did where Klaus Schwab we listened to class Schwab say that state capitalism has certain advantages that you can mobilize resources very quickly that's what he's talking about so that production can expand steadily and increasingly meet the constantly growing needs of the people under the rule of Imperialism feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism the productive forces of the old China grew very slowly for more than 50 years before Liberation China produced only a few

tens of thousands of tons of steel a year listen to this [ __ ] not counting the output of the northeastern provinces so if you take out the parts that we're making most of it we only made a few ten thousands of tons if these provinces are included the annual steel output the peak annual Steel output only amount just a little over 900 000 tons okay a few tens of thousands versus nine hundred thousand if you include the part that he excluded what a fraud in 1949 the national steel output was a little over a

hundred thousand tons yet now I'm here seven years after the liberation of our country's steel output already exceeds four million tons so that is a 40-fold increase In the old China there was hardly any machine building industry to say nothing of the automobile and aircraft Industries we now have all three when the people overthrew the rule of imperialism feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism many were not clear as to Which Way China should head towards capitalism or towards socialism facts have now provided the answer have they only socialism can save China he says the Socialist system has

Promoted the rapid development of the productive forces of our society affect even our enemies abroad have had to acknowledge right and your friends abroad like class Schwab where he says you know State capitalism provides certain advantages the rapid mobilization of resources to direct it ends yeah because it's a [ __ ] totalitarian state which nobody wants to live in he goes on he says but our social system Has only just been set up it is not yet fully established or even fully Consolidated okay so he says look how great things have been we're going to

make it better because we have barely begun we're going to make it way more intense coming soon like I said this is the presage this is his introduction the beginning of what's going to become the Great Leap Forward which here's the you know he comes back to it later in this this speech but in this case this is him Introducing what's going to be the justification for the Great Leap Forward this is the sales pitch and what did I tell you was a conclusion 55 million dead people erect economy so bad that even him as

a communist dictator got thrown out of office so our social system has only just been set up it has not yet fully established or even fully Consolidated think of how much better it'll be when it is in joint State private Industrial and Commercial Enterprises capitalists still get a fixed rate of interest on their Capital that is to say exploitation still exists so as far as ownership is concerned these Enterprises are not yet completely socialist in nature a number of our Agricultural and handicraft producers cooperatives are still semi-socialist while even in the fully socialist Cooperative certain

specific problems of ownership remain to be solved this is Kind of a little inside baseball um relations between production and exchange in accordance with socialist principles are being gradually established within and between all branches of our economy and more and more appropriate forms are being sought the problem of the proper relation of accumulation to consumption within each of the two sectors is a socialist economy the one where the means of Production are owned by the whole people and the other where the means Productions are owned by the collective the state and the problem of the

proper relation of accumulation to consumption between the two sectors themselves are complicated problems for which it is not easy to work out a perfect a perfectly rational solution all at once to sum up socialist relations of production have been established and are In correspondence with the growth of the productive forces but these relations are still far from perfect again remember we're setting up for this Great Leap Forward that's going to kill 55 million people or more or maybe it's something like 15 to 55 million I think is the estimate range so maybe not more and

this imperfection stands in contradiction to the growth of the productive forces apart from the correspondence as well as the Contradiction between the relations of production and growth of the productive forces there is a correspondence as well as a contradiction between the superstructure and economic base this is kind of straight Marxist theory kind of want to skip it um he does talk about the again again the unity of opposites blah blah um I don't think that it actually matters I'm going to skip the rest of this paragraph today matters stand as follows because it's kind of

an inside baseball paragraph today matter stand as follows the large-scale turbulent class struggles of the masses characteristic of times of Revolution having the main come to an end but the class struggle is by no means entirely over while welcoming the new system the masses are not yet quite accustomed to it they need Democratic Persuasion government Personnel are not sufficiently experienced and have to undertake further study see an investigation of specific policies in other words time is needed for our social system to become established and Consolidated for the masses to become accustomed to the new system

and for government Personnel to learn and acquire experience it is therefore imperative for us at this juncture to Raise the question of distinguishing contradictions among the people from those between ourselves and the enemy as well as the question of the correct handling of contradictions among the people in order to unite the people of all nationalities in our country for the new battle the battle against nature develop our economy and culture help the whole nation to Traverse this period of transition relatively smoothly consolidate our new system you know make It sustainable and build up our new

state and build back better and they're going to have to do some building back better after the Great Leap Forward that he's about to throw down on them that's section one most of the other ones are much shorter than that one two the question of eliminating counter-revolutionaries so this is going to touch on your experience for the last few years the elimination of counter-revolutionaries is a struggle of Opposites between as between ourselves and the enemy among the people there are some who see this question in a somewhat different light two kinds of people hold views

differing from ours those with a right deviation in their thinking make no distinction between ourselves and the enemy and take the enemy for our own people they regard as friends the very persons whom the masses regard as enemies those with the left deviation in their thinking magnify High Contradictions between ourselves and the enemy to such an extent that they take certain contradictions among the people for contradictions within the enemy and regard counter as counter-revolutionaries persons who are actually not both of these views are wrong neither makes possible the correct handling of the problem of eliminating

counter-revolutionaries or a correct assessment of this work Eliminating counter-revolutionaries by the way to form a correct evaluation of our work and eliminating counter-revolutionaries let us see what repercussions the Hungarian incident has had in China after its occurrence there was some unrest among a section of our intellectuals but there were no squalls why one reason it must be said was our success in eliminating counter-revolutionaries fairly Thoroughly okay so he says this thing happened in Hungary they had a counter-revolution and we had some disagreements about it here within China within our intellectual class but really there wasn't

that much of a disagreement about it why not well because we already got rid of the people who would disagree see of course the consolidation of our state is not due primarily to the elimination of counter-revolutionaries it is due primarily to the fact that we Have a Communist party in a Liberation Army both tempered and Decades of revolutionary struggle and a working people likewise so tempered our party and our armed forces are rooted in the masses have been tempered in the Flames of a protracted Revolution and have the capacity to fight see the real reason

that their state is getting Consolidated isn't that they've gotten rid of all the people who might resist them is that they have a military that can fight Our People's Republic he says was not built overnight but developed step by step out of the Revolutionary base areas a number of democratic personages have also been tempered in the struggle in varying degrees they have gone through troubled times together with us some intellectuals were tempered in struggles against imperialism and reaction since Liberation may have gone through a process of ideological remolding aimed at enabling them to distinguish clearly

Between ourselves and the enemy in addition the consolidation of our state is due to the fact that our economic measures are basically sound [Laughter] remember that he's about to destroy the entire country and kill 50 million people with their basic economic measures that the people's life is secure and steadily improving that our policies toward the national bourgeoisie and other classes Are correct and so on communist sales pitch nevertheless our success in eliminating counter-revolutionaries is undoubtedly an important reason for the consolidation of our state for all these reasons say you have to get rid of dissidents

for all these reasons with few exceptions our college students are patriotic and support socialism and did not give way to unrest during the Hungarian incident even though many of Them come from families of non-working people so we ask ourselves in our own Society now so often why do the young people not Rebel why are they not rebellious against all this crap there you go Rebellion has already been taught to them to be something that's very very costly especially socially the same was true of the national bourgeoisie he says to say nothing of the basic masses

workers and peasants After Liberation we've rooted out a number of counter-revolutionaries that would have been 49 and 50. this is where we're going to be going into the people who ended up in Mount in mount's prisons that lifton wrote about and they were in their 50 what I forgot what years they said 51 through three something like that some were sentenced to death for Major Crimes this was absolutely necessary it was the demand of the masses see the Party the stakeholders decided that they had to kill a lot of the counter-revolutionaries because the masses demanded

it and it was done imagine what you could do whipping up a mob like you know get people to show up outside of a supreme court Justice's house for a decision they don't like you know that kind of thing it was done to free them from long years of Oppression by the counter-revolutionaries and all Kinds of local tyrants see in other words to liberate the productive forces see they had to kill all the counter-revolutionaries to liberate people from you know the the repression that they were under to liberate the productive forces like you know getting

people to go armed outside of Supreme Court Justices houses when they make rulings you don't like if we had not done so the masses would not Have been able to have lifted their heads since 1956 however there's been a radical change in the situation after six almost seven years of their despotism in a country in the country as a whole the bulk of the counter-revolutionaries have been cleared out so it took him about six years in China to clear them out where how far into this our basic task has changed from unfettering the Productive forces

to protecting and expanding them in the context of the new relations of production see they're going to protect the Socialist approach to everything now you have to always remember that they add that there because of the failure to understand that our present policy fits the present situation and our past policy fitted the past situation some people want to make use of the present policy to reverse past decisions and negate the tremendous Success we achieved in eliminating counter-revolutionaries this is completely wrong and of course he doesn't want to be a dictator so he says and the

masses will not permit it you see he speaks for the masses he's a stakeholder in our work of eliminating counter-revolutionaries successes were the main thing but there were also mistakes in some cases there were excesses and in others Counter-revolutionary slipped through our net our policy is quote counter-revolutionaries must be eliminated wherever found mistakes must be corrected whenever discovered end quote our line in the work of eliminating counter-revolutionaries is the mass line very communist of course even with the mass line mistakes still may occur But they will be fewer and easier to correct the masses gain

experience through struggle from the things done correctly they gain the experience of how things are done correctly from mistakes made they gain the experience of how mistakes are made see so when they accidentally you know killed people who they shouldn't have killed they learned that they learn from their mistakes so it's okay that was important it was actually good that they committed Those heinous crimes those heinous violations of individual rights wherever mistakes have been discovered in the work of eliminating counter-revolutionary steps have been taken or are being taken to correct them those not yet discovered

will be corrected as soon as they come to light imagine if they just were kept quiet exoneration of Rehabilitation should be made no you say no they couldn't keep The doll quite that's why Chernobyl melted down literally people just wouldn't tell anybody that something was wrong because they thought they would get in trouble for making a mistake exoneration or Rehabilitation should be made known as widely as or the original wrong decisions so there's a concept out there called a limited hangout what you do is you occasionally admit to making mistakes to cover up for the

bulk of the mistakes You make so instead of letting it all hang out you have a limited hangout and that term limited hangout refers to when you tell part of a story that would um indict you on something but you don't tell the whole story so that people now think you've confessed to it and they don't realize that you've left out all the really bad stuff and the term originates from the discussions around the Watergate scandal with Richard Nixon and they said are we just going to let It all hang out and somebody said no

we're proposing more of a limited hangout let's tell part of the story to cover our butts okay so anyway that's I think what we are looking at here um where were we exoneration or Rehabilitation should be made known as widely as were the original wrong decisions they propose that a comprehensive review of the work of eliminating counter-revolutionaries Be made this year or next to sum up the experience promote Justice and counter unjust attacks so they're going to go start a cover-up operation they're going to put the Department of Justice on it basically to make sure

no no everything was cool nationally this review should be in the charge of the standing committee of the national people's Congress and of the National Committee of the political consultative Congress and locally in the Charge of the people's councils and the Committees the political consultative conference in the provinces and municipalities little technical baseball in this review we must help the large numbers of Congress and activists involved in the work and not pour cold water on them see we can't make them feel like they did stuff wrong we have to help them but we also are

going to do some limited hangout it Would not be right to dampen their spirits my God look at all this stuff with like the j6 and yeah we would be wouldn't be right to dampen AOC Spirits over that like when she pretended that she was almost killed it wouldn't be right to dampen the spirits of the Capitol Police who were completely out of control it wouldn't be right to dampen their Spirits we don't want to pour cold water on them we want to help them so we'll Admit to some mistakes but we're not going to

actually you know hold anybody actually accountable it would not be right to dampen the activists and cadres Spirits nonetheless wrongs must be righted when discovered when discovered you mean when forced into the public Consciousness or when carefully selected so that it looks like you're being more honest than you are this must be the attitude of all the public security organs the pure per Curcurators offices in the judicial departments prisons and agencies charged with the reform of criminals through Labor that he's referring to labor prisons there for people who thought wrong that's the thought reform presence

the actually it's the labor prisons that are worse than the thought reformed prisons that Lipton was talking about we hope that wherever possible members of the standing committee of the National people's Congress members of the National Committee of the political consultative conference and the people's deputies will take part in this review this will be of help in perfecting our legal system and in dealing correctly with counter-revolutionaries and other criminals the present situation with regard to counter-revolutionaries can be described in these words there are still counter-revolutionaries but not many in the first place there are still

Counter-revolutionaries some say that there aren't any more left and all is well and then we can therefore lay our heads on our pillows and just drop off to sleep but this is not the way things are the fact is there are still counter-revolutionaries of course it's not to say you'll find them everywhere and in every organization and we must continue to fight them it must be understood that the hidden Counter-revolutionary still at large will not take things lying down but we'll certainly seize every opportunity to make trouble the U.S imperialists and The Chiang Kai-shek click

are constantly sending in secret agents to carry on disruptive activities that might actually have been true even after all the existing counter-revolutionaries have been combed out new ones are likely to emerge if we Drop our guard we shall be badly fooled and shall suffer severely counter-revolutionaries must be rooted out with a firm hand wherever they are found making trouble but taking the country as a whole there are certainly not many counter-revolutionaries it would be wrong to say that there are still large numbers of counter-revolutionaries in China acceptance of that view would like likewise result in

a mess Three the question of the Cooperative transformation of Agriculture this has all I think a lot more inside baseball and I'm not really going to uh go through this part for you you're welcome to come read it um lots of talking about struggle lots of and I should I guess but I'm not because it's very technical but this is where he's launching the agricultural half of the Great Leap forwards which led to lots of starving this is where he Adopted lysenchoism in Chinese agriculture we have a rural population over 500 million so how are

peasants Fair has the most important bearing on the development of our economy and the consolidation of our state power in my view the situation is basically sound The Cooperative transformation of Agriculture has been successfully accomplished and this is resolved a great contradiction in our country between the Socialist industrialization And the individual peasant economy blah blah blah it's also clear that it takes hard struggle to build cooperatives cooperatives are now in the process of gradual consolidation where the five-year plans blah blah blah um many people say that the peasants lead a hard life is this true

in one sense it is that is to say because the imperialists and their agents have oppressed and exploited us for over a Century ours is an impoverished country and the standard of living say it's somebody else's fault that things are bad and things are hard but like I said this is a very technical song about how many cattles and different things like this um skip that section uh four the question of the industrialists and businessmen with regard to our transformation of our social system the year 1956 saw the Conversion of privately owned Industrial and Commercial

Enterprises into joint State private Enterprises as well as the Cooperative transformation of Agriculture and handicrafts the speed and smoothlessness or sorry speed and smoothness of this conversion were not or sorry we're closely bound up with our treating the contradictions between the working class and the national bourgeoisie as a contradiction among the people As this class contradiction been completely resolved no not yet that will take a considerable period of time however some people say the capitalists have been so remolded so he talks a lot about the remolding of people by the way that they are now

not very different from the workers and that further remolding is unnecessary others go so far as to say that the capitalists are even better than the workers still others ask if remolding is necessary why Isn't it necessary for the working class are these opinions correct of course not in the building of a socialist society everybody needs remolding the exploiters and also the working people everybody needs remolding who says it isn't necessary for the working class of course the remolding of the exploiters is essentially different from that of the working people now the two must not

be confused the working class remolds the whole society in class Struggle and in the struggle against nature and in the process it remolds itself it must ceaselessly learn in the course of work gradually overcome its shortcomings and never stop doing so take for example those of us present here many of us make some progress each year that is to say we are remolding ourselves each year for myself I used to have all sorts of non-marxist ideas and it was only later that I embraced Marxism sees for myself I used to have all kinds of racist

ideas I'm still a racist I have to admit that I'm a racist I am not a fully anti-racist but I've embraced anti-racism doesn't that sound familiar you're remolding yourself everybody has to remold themselves the bosses have to remote themselves the workers have to remove themselves we needed Dei training I learned a little Marxism he says from books and took the first steps in Remolding my ideology but it was mainly through taking part in class struggle over the years you know like the struggle sessions you ever work that I came to be remolded and if I

am to make further progress I must continue to learn otherwise I shall lag behind see you have to do the work it's a lifelong commitment to an ongoing process of self-reflection self-criticism and social activism can the capitalist be so good that they need No more remolding some people contend that the Chinese bourgeoisie no longer has two sides to his character but only one side is this true no while members of the bourgeoisie have become administrative Personnel in joint State private Enterprises huh public private partnership anybody joint State private Enterprises and are being transformed from exploiters

into working people living by their own labor they still get a fixed Rate of interest on their capital in the joint Enterprises that is they still have not yet cut themselves loose from the roots of exploitation let me just read that other part just again just because it's juicy now that we know we're talking about class Schwab while members of the bourgeoisie have become administrative Personnel in joint State private Enterprises and are being transformed from exploiters into working people Huh just public-private Partnerships what are you going to do is this stakeholder capitalism between them and

the working class there is still a considerable Gap in ideology sentiments and habits of Life how can it be said that they no longer have two sides of their character even when they stop receiving their fixed interest payments and the Bourgeois label is Removed they still will need ideological remolding for quite some time if as is alleged the bourgeoisie no longer has a dual character then the capitalists will have uh will no longer have the task of studying and remolding themselves it must be said that this view does not tally either with the actual situation

of our industrialists and businessmen or with what most of them want see you want it right during the past few years most Of them have been willing to to study and have made Mark progress see they all bought how to be an anti-racist they all bought white fragility they wanted to do the work they wanted to they wanted to be on the right side of history as their thorough remolding can only be achieved in the course of work they should engage in labor or the work together with staff and workers in the Enterprises like Dei

training and regard These Enterprises as the chief places in which to remold themselves but it's also important for them to change some of their old views through study such studies should be on a voluntary basis see you shouldn't you the book you need to go read the books you need to go read white fragility at home to improve your work at work how to be an anti-racist understanding queer things you have to go do that you should want To such studies should be on a voluntary basis when they return to the Enterprises after being in

study groups for some weeks many industrialists and businessmen find that they have more of a Common Language with the workers and the representatives of State ownership so that there are better possibilities for working together that's Dei training guys that's your unconscious bias can you do you hear it they know from personal experience that It is good for them to keep on studying and remolding themselves the idea mentioned above that studying and remolding are not necessary reflexive view not of the majority of industrialists and businessmen but only of a small number so the good businessman the

good industrialist once we're really getting along with things and doing great in the new system in the new system in the new system are the ones who want to remold themselves This is exactly what we've gone through since 2020 and all of our big businesses all of our corporations all of our workplaces all of our institutions all of our government agencies including the military five the question of the intellectuals the contradictions within the ranks of the people in our country also find expression among the intellectuals the several million intellectuals who worked for the old Society

have come to serve The new Society his academics are stupid and the question that now arises is how they can fit in with the needs of the new society and how we can help them to do so this too is a contradiction among the people most of our intellectuals have made marked progress during the last seven years they have shown their favor in favor of the social system let me just back this truck up a second they've made marked progress because they've shown They're in favor of socialism that's progress progress means accepting the gnosis accepting

the Socialist system many are diligent in studying Marxism and some have become Communists the latter though at present small a number or steadily increasing see many have joined the outer School some have joined the inner School that's only a small number so far but they're steadily increasing of course there are still some intellectuals who Are skeptical about Socialism or do not approve of it but they are a minority because they probably had cancer culture they probably couldn't keep a job they probably couldn't do any research they'd probably get kicked out of the universities if they

didn't go along with the new program China needs a service of Services of as many intellectuals as possible for the Colossal task of building socialism we should trust those who are really Willing to serve the cause of socialism and should radically improve our relations with them and help them solve the problems requiring Solutions so that they can give full play to their talents notice what he said we should love bomb academics who help our system and we're going to do are we going to do that to the other ones no no that's not what will

happen many of our comrades are not good at uniting with intellectuals no [ __ ] they are stiff in their attitudes toward them lack respect for their work and interfere in certain scientific and cultural matters where interference is unwarranted we must do away with all short so all such shortcomings although large numbers of intellectuals now are going to get to go apart have made progress they should not be complacent see you got to keep going it's not enough you have to be you have To get in the outer school then you have to work your

ass off through uh criticism struggle to get to the inner school and become communist they must continue to remold themselves gradually shed their Bourgeois World Outlook remember when you join the cult your job goes into criticism and struggle to remold yourself so that you become further in the cult and if you do really good you can actually become a member of the inner School a communist They must continue to remold themselves gradually shed their Bourgeois World Outlook and acquire the proletarian communist World Outlook so that they can fully fit in with the needs of the

new society and Unite with the workers and peasants this is Klaus Schwab man it's not just get on with the equity Justice program that we hear from the critical race there so the queer theorists or the gender people or whatever and it's not whatever oh it's gonna be an equitable Society it's not just that this is cloud Schwab we are going to rewrites the social contract and we'll use a public private partnership it's ESG skulls to pressure companies to go along the companies that do not want to go along we will change the youth the

young young people to have different values to reject them and force them to come along we will build the new economy of the future and if you want to participate you will Do what we say and fully fit in with the needs of the new society and Unite with the workers and peasants right the change in World Outlook is fundamental and up to now most of our intellectuals cannot be said to have accomplished it this this could be exported and imported out of this this speech from Mao turned into corporate pablum and imported directly into

a class Schwab book We hope that they will continue to make progress and that in the course of work and study they will gradually acquire the Communist World Outlook become gnostics grasp Marxism leninism and become integrated with the workers and peasants we hope that they will not stop halfway or what is worth slide back for there will be no future for them in going backwards see you're either going to get on the program and you're going to keep making progress on it or there Will be no future for you and our brave brave academics are

going to take a stand against that no all the grant money all the jobs all the promotions all the chairs all the fancy fancy things all the dinners all are for the people who go along with it everybody else will have no future and so what are people going to do since our our country's social system has changed in the economic base of Bourgeois ideology and has in the main Been destroyed not only is it imperative for large numbers of in our intellectuals to change the world Outlook but it is also possible for them to

do so but through a change in World Outlook sorry but but a thorough changing World Outlook takes a very long time and we should spare no pains in helping them and must not be impatient C we're from the government and we're here to help all actually there are bound to be some who ideologically will always be Reluctant to accept Marxism leninism and communism we should not be too exacting in what we demand of them as long as they comply with the requirements laid down by the state and engage in legitimate Pursuits we should let them

have opportunities for suitable work chilling among students and intellectuals there has recently been a falling off in ideological and political work and some Unhealthy Tendencies have appeared some people seem to think that there is no longer any need to concern themselves with politics over the future of the motherland and the ideas ideals of mankind it seems as if Marxism once all the rage is currently not so much in fashion this is where they're talking about activist fatigue today oh we were all on fire for BLM and the drag queen stuff for a while and people

Are just tired of it now to counter these Tendencies we must strengthen our ideological and political work they must always double down there must always be more both students and intellectuals should study hard in addition to the study of their specialized subjects they must make progress ideologically and politically which means they should study Marxism current event and current events and politics Not to have a correct political orientation listen to this listen to this this is exactly what I was saying earlier about gnosticism and hermeticism not to have a correct political orientation is like not having

a soul did I say it slowly enough not to have a correct political orientation is not is like not having a soul you're not a person you don't have a soul you don't have mind you don't Have nose you are not agnostic you don't count they know and you don't you are the worst kind of piece of trash possible to not have a correct political orientation is like not having a soul the ideological remolding in the past was necessary in his yielded positive results but it was carried on in a somewhat Rough and Ready fashion

and the feelings of some people were hurt this was not good we must avoid such shortcomings in the future All departments and organizations should shoulder their responsibilities for ideological and political work this applies to the Communist Party the youth league government departments in charge of this work and especially to the heads of educational institutions and teachers our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally intellectually and physically what is morally and Intellectually into communism and to become a worker with both socialist Consciousness and culture our education policy must enable everyone who

receives an education to become a worker with both socialist Consciousness and culture that's what they've done with our schools we must spread the idea of building our country through diligence and Thrift we must help all our young people to understand that ours is still A very poor country that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time that only through Decades of United effort by our younger generation and all our people we still don't have equity and Justice the younger generation must do this they understand this they know they demand it Klaus Schwab Joe

Biden Kamala Harris is what they say we must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country that we cannot Change the situation radically whereas ours is not poor it's not but that's not the problem in America it's we're not Equitable and just there's no social justice there's no equity or a very oppressive country and that we cannot change the situation radically in a short time that only through Decades of United effort by our younger generation and all our people working with their own hands can China be made prosperous

and strong The establishment of our socialist system by the way if you didn't catch on yet we are going through a malice style cultural revolution in this country Nielsen new discourses podcast as James Lizzy telling you we are going through a maoist style cultural revolution with American characteristics in this country and we're reading through Mouse Anonymous you know it the establishment of our socialist system has opened the Road leading to the ideal Society of the future but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work some of our young people think that everything ought to

be perfect once a socialist society is established and that they should be able to enjoy a happy life from ready-made without working for it this is unrealistic okay so here we are seven years into their Revolution seven years into their their regime and we're Already telling the youth by the way you thought stuff was going to be awesome back to the salt mine you thought you were going to be able to have a nice fun perfect life you thought you'd be able to enjoy a happy life now that we're socialist looks like you were wrong

you're gonna have to work hard labor for you this is unrealistic wake up kids you're not walking toward Utopia you're Walking towards slavery if you're under 30 and you think that socialism is a good idea you are working yourself into slavery it's going to be a sales pitch of roses and things and struggle and fun and meaning and then you're going to get your way and oh my God are you going to wish you didn't get your way six the question of the minority nationalities this is very short it's One paragraph but this is him

reflecting upon it turns out there's a long history here I don't want to go all into it but there was actually a perfect parallel to critical race Theory done in China starting in the 1920s and culminating through um the 1950s uh under the Communist Party the minority nationalities in our country number more than 30 million although they constitute only six percent of the total population they Inhabit extensive regions which com which comprise 50 to 60 percent of China's total area so we're thinking like Tibet for example it is thus imperative to Foster good relation between

the Han people and the minority nationalities the key to this question lies in overcoming Han chauvinism this is Kamala Harris standing on stage or Joe Biden saying we have to overcome white supremacy America was majority white uh it's still plural plurality light or white and so we have to overcome white supremacy in the same way he's saying that the Han race was 94 of the Chinese population there were 55 minority races in China they identified and they have to overcome their Han Supremacy their Han chauvinism right that's what he's saying what actually a little deeper

the history here is that the guomingtong tried to Unify China as a national entity rather than a bunch of kind of fractured States and they came up with this concept that they called harun which is a kind of a slang term that means Chinese person and um what the Communists did with the CCP did using something very much like critical race Theory which came in and said by identifying the the Hua run as Chinese people what they actually secretly mean is the Han run the Chinese the Han people and what they're doing is Saying that

to really be a Chinese person a Hua run you actually have to be like the Han you have to actually be a Han run that's the standard and so when he says Han chauvinism he's referring to hwarun being measured up against being hanrun and so I know this is complicated with the Chinese terms the idea is that he's saying that the Nationalist party Came in the guelmingtong came in unified a single Chinese national identity That was supposed to unify the 56 races of China which are overwhelmingly majority Han but they set Han as the default

standard just like critical race Theory says that white people are the default standard and that if you want to qualify as say an American or a Brit then you have to act white here it's you have to act Han and so he says the key to this question Lies in overcoming Han chauvinism so somebody I put this on Twitter and somebody came back to me and said oh James will do just trying to get rid of racism in China that's a good thing and it's the stupidest thing I've ever seen because no it's not this

is actually critical race Theory the critical race theory was pioneered in the Chinese context in this way it was experimented with sort of in other ways in other Soviet places but it was explicitly done Here with the Han race in place of white and when when Mao says Han chauvinism here he means white supremacy the way that the woke or Joe Biden or Kamala Harris say it the key to this question lies in overcoming white supremacy is what this sentence would be if it came out of Kamala Harris's mouth today at the same time efforts

should also be made to overcome local nationality chauvinism wherever it exists among the Minority nationalities both Han chauvinism and local nationality chauvinism are harmful to the unity of the nationalities they represent one kind of contradiction among the people which should be resolved and the fact we're looking at is so the dialectic progresses in the critical race Theory Book where Richard Delgado explains how you deal with critical race Theory and race crit and then you divide into different races like Latin crit and Asian crit and so on and so the dialectic progresses we've already done some

work to this end in most of the areas inhabited by minority nationalities there has been considerable Improvement in the relations between the nationalities I think you're supposed to say free Tibet at this moment but a number of problems remain to be solved in some areas both Han chauvinism and local nationality show chauvinism still exists to a Serious degree this demands full attention every time you hear that honchovinism local National you should be hearing we have white supremacy and uh structural racism as a result of the efforts of the people of all nationalities over the last

few years Democratic reforms and socialist Transformations have in the main been completed in most of the minority nationality areas Democrat reforms have Not yet been carried out in Tibet because conditions are not yet ripe according to the 17 article agreement reached between the central people's government and the local government of Tibet the reform of the social system must be carried out I wonder why they're 17. 17 comes up so often with these people but the timing can only be decided when the Great majority of the people of Tibet and the local leading public figures consider

it opportune and One should not be impatient it has now been decided not to proceed with Democratic reforms in Tibet During the period of the second Five-Year Plan whether to proceed with them in the period of the third Five-Year Plan can only be decided in the light of the situation of time so the stuff I skipped with agriculture by the way talked about The First Five-Year Plan the second five year plan the third five year plan so there they do these Cycles these five Year long Cycles to five year plans to completely revamp everything to

transform the whole world right so they promise you that at the end of the five years which will only take four two plus two equals five we'll only take four with the enthusiasm of the people at the end of these five-year Cycles you're going to have a whole transformed Society but the trick is is there's another Five-Year Plan waiting for you and another Five-Year Plan waiting for You after that and another one after that so it's really a never-ending cycle of revolution seven overall consideration and proper Arrangement by overall consideration we mean the consideration that

Embraces the 600 million people of our country drawing up plans handling Affairs or thinking over problems we must proceed from the fact that China has a population of 600 million we must never Forget this fact why do we make a point of this it is possible that there are people who are still unaware that we have a population of 600 million of course everyone knows this but when it comes to actual practice some people forget all about it and ask act as though the fewer the people the smaller the circle the better those who have

the small circle mentality abhor of the idea of bringing every positive factor into play of uniting with everyone who can be United with that's an important clause and of doing everything possible to turn negative factors into positive ones so as to serve the great cause of building a socialist society I don't know that there's a ton going this is construction's vigorous blah blah or I'm not going to read this part eight this is important on let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend and long-term Coexistence and mutual supervision so the Hundred

Flowers Campaign was yet another disaster historians um wondered but seem to have decided as to whether Mao did this on purpose what happened with a Hundred Flowers Camp Campaign which is by ha in Chinese now let a Hundred Flowers Blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend right so it sounds good hundred flowers blooming refers to let a hundred schools of thought Bloom Let There Be Free Speech free expression free thought and let the hundred schools of thought that bloom contend with one another let the ideas duke it out in a Marketplace if I did

so it's a free speech measure and so the question that historians have had with the Hundred Flowers Campaign because what happens in the end two years after this he implements this in around 5657. by 59 if I remember my date's right I'd have to go check it's a catastrophe he's Had enough and what they ended up doing was making huge lists of people who disagreed with the government and went and rounded them all up and either imprisoned them or killed him and so the question was did Mao do that on purpose that he said this

as a trap hey we're going to have free speech in our country go ahead say whatever you want and then you found out who all the bad guys were and he went and got all the people against him or and they wouldn't round Them up and historians have decided they probably did not work that way in all likelihood what happened was he really did believe that socialism as you're going to hear him argue would allow for free expression without a threat to socialism which is incorrect because it's false and uh when this started to get

out of hand he clamped down on it ended the free speech campaign and used the Relentless intelligence gathering and list making and communist parties do To have identified those enemies and then went and rounded them up because they knew who they were by their Publications and so on so quote let a Hundred Flowers Blossom let 100 schools of thought content and long-term coexistence of mutual supervision how did these slogans come to be put forward they were put forward in the light of China's specific conditions in recognition of the continued existence of various kinds of Contradictions

in Social society and in response to the country's urgent need to speed up its economic and cultural development letting 100 flowers blossom in 100 schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the Arts and Sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land academic freedom in artistic Freedom different forms and styles in art should develop freely in different schools and science should Contend freely we think that it is harmful to the growth of Art and Science if administrative measures are used to impose one particular style of art or school of thought and

to ban another so this is explicitly a free speech free expression measure by the way that again historians hash out the question was he setting a trap and they've decided pretty clearly probably not it just didn't work out and he used it as a trap in the end unquestionable he Used this to round up hundreds of thousands of people who criticized him or made inappropriate materials according to rules that changed a couple years later because regimes are so safe and good questions of right and wrong in the Arts and Science should be settled through free

discussion and artistic and scientific circles and through practical work in these fields they should not be settled in an over simple manner this Isn't particularly relevant I don't think yet at least to our circumstances they are still pretty carefully making sure we get kicked off of social media for saying the wrong thing a period of trial is often needed to determine whether something is right or wrong throughout history at the outset new and correct things often failed to win recognition from the majority of people and had to develop by twists and turns through struggle often

correcting good Things were first regarded not as fragrant flowers but as poisonous weeds copernicus's theory of the solar system and Darwin's theory of evolution were once dismissed as erroneous and had to win out over bitter opposition Chinese history offers many similar examples in a socialist society the conditions for growth of the new are radically different from and far superior to those in the old Society see there's no entrenched forces to try To keep uh you know like your your own capitalist Advantage uh to suppress the truth so that you can have your Bourgeois Advantage right

none of those those don't exist in socialism except that literally this entire essay so far has been about how if you don't agree with socialism you're a problem and we're going to have to fix you or silence you or take away your free speech or exclude you or imprison you or kill you And socialist society he pretends the conditions for the growth of the new are radically different from and far superior to those in the old Society they love to lie to each other and themselves about how cool socialism is nevertheless it often happens that

new Rising forces are held back and sound ideas stifled besides even in their absence even in the absence of deliberate suppression the growth of new things may be hindered simply through a Lack of discernment is therefore necessary to be careful about questions of right and wrong in the Arts and Sciences to encourage free discussion and avoid Hasty conclusions we believe that such an attitude will help ensure a relatively smooth development of the Arts and Sciences so barring what he said about socialist society actually almost everything in that paragraph is true and correct It's just a

lie in terms of what is going to happen when he unleashes it in Social Society because of his incorrect assumption he gives there about that which he's going to end up backtracking on and again killing hundreds of thousands of people who disagreed with him because they outed themselves Marxism he says too has developed to struggle at the beginning Marxism was subjected to all kinds of attack and regarded as a poisonous weed it is This is still the case in many parts of the world because it is in socialist countries it develops it enjoys a different

position let me be biblical for a minute and say judge it by its fruits what kind of fruit does this weed grow remember when Mal's giving the speech he's about to embark on a project called the Great Leap Forward that's going to not only those Hundred Flowers saying he's going to kill hundreds of thousands of people who disagree with Him but then the great League four is going to kill 55 million or thereabouts but non-marxist in what is more anti-marxist ideologies even exist in these countries in China although socialist transformation has in the main been

completed as regards the systems of a system of ownerships and although the large-scale turbulent class struggles of the masses characteristics of times of Revolution having the main come to an End there are still remnants of the overthrown landlording comprador classes there is still a bourgeoisie and the remolding of the petty bourgeoisie has only just started class struggle is by no means over the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie the class struggle between the various political forces and the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in the ideological field will still be protracted

and tortuous And at times even very sharp the proletariat seeks to transform the world according to its own world Outlook and so does the bourgeoisie see they both are vying to be the demiurge in the society one that has a gnosis and will therefore unmake the prison of being one that does not and will therefore maintain it that's the way they see it in this respect the question of which will win out Socialism or capitalism is not really yet settled marxists remain a Minority throughout the entire population as well as among the intellectuals therefore Marxism

must continue to develop through struggle Marxism can only develop through struggle and this is not only true of the past and present it is necessarily true of the future as well it's a clash of conflicts because it's hermetic and hegelian in nature what is correct invariably develops in the course of struggle with what is wrong the true the Good and the Beautiful always exists by contrast with the false the evil and the ugly and grow and struggle with them as soon as something erroneous is rejected in a particular truth accepted by mankind new truths begin

to struggle with new errors again this is if you know the background this is very minikian such struggles will never never end this is the law of development of Truth and naturally of Marxism it will take a fairly long period of Time to decide the issue and the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country the reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old Society the very influence which constitutes their class ideology will persist in our country for a long time it is not understood at

all or insufficiently understood the gravest of mistakes will be made in the necessity of waging struggle in the ideological Field will be ignored ideological struggle differs from other forms of struggle since it is since only the method sorry since the only method used is painstaking reasoning not crude coercion iron Lavo projection never misses by the way today socialism is an advantageous position in the ideological struggle the basic power of the state is in the hands of the working people led by the proletariat AKA led by the stakeholders The Communist party is strong in its Prestige

High although there are defects and mistakes in our work every fair-minded person can see that we are loyal to the people that we are both determined and able to build up our motherland together with them and that we have already achieved great successes and will achieve still greater ones good time to remind you that he's about to launch on a program that is one of the greatest economic disasters in human History they kill 55 million of his 600 million people nearly 10 percent of them the vast majority of the bourgeoisie and the intellectuals who come

from the old Society are patriotic and are willing to serve the flourishing socialist motherland they know they will have nothing to fall back on and their future cannot possibly be bright if they turn away from the Socialist cause and from working uh from the working people led by the Communist Party do you hear that the vast majority of the bourgeoisie and the intellectuals understand that they have nothing to fall back on unless they go forward with the program the Socialist cause people may ask since Marxism is accepted as The Guiding ideology by the majority of

the people in our country who are the people the people who support it can it be criticized certainly it can Marxism is a scientific truth and fears No criticism if it did and if it could be overthrown by criticism it would be worthless yep but we're talking about scientific here the way that Marx used it which is the way that Hegel used it which is the way that Plato used it which is to say it's the technocratic system it's not scientific it's scientistic it is a technocratic system and it can be overthrown by criticism in

fact Mark's sorry Mao found this out a couple years Later after this speech and he rounded up all the people who criticized it and had them put down in fact aren't the idealists criticizing Marxism every day and in every way and those who Harbor Bourgeois and Petty Bourgeois ideas and do not wish to change see it's a character fault for them aren't they also criticizing criticizing Marxism in every way Marxist should not just harboring those ideas criticizes Marxism in every way Marxist Marxists should not be afraid of criticism from any quarter yeah quite the contrary

they need to temper and develop themselves and win new positions in the teeth of criticism and in the storm and stress of struggle remember that this transforms later into Power flows from the barrel of a gun fighting against wrong ideas is like being vaccinated oof a man develops greater immunity from disease as a result of the vaccination plants raised In hot houses are very unlikely to be Hardy carrying out the policy of letting a Hundred Flowers Blossom and 100 schools of thought contend will not weaken but strengthen the leading position of Marxism in the ideological

field this may be why historians believe that Marx actually or sorry Mao actually believed this and then just took advantage of the fact I know this is getting a little thick and it's very long but we're going to get to some Important stuff here in a minute what should our policy be toward non-marxist ideas oh that's a good question as far as unmistakable counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs as a socialist cause are concerned the matter is easy we simply deprive them of their freedom of speech see we're going to have a hundred flowers bloom but they can't

be ones against the program that no we simply deprive them of their freedom of speech because there's a dictatorship and That's the function of it is to repress those people but incorrect ideas among the people are quite a different matter will it do to ban such ideas and deny and the many opportunity for expression certainly not but it is only a few but it is not only few sorry it is not only futile but very harmful to use crude methods in dealing with ideological questions among the people with questions about man's mental world you may

ban the expression of Wrong ideas but the ideas will still be there on the other hand if correct ideas are unless they're counter-revolutionary right we just ban those he already said that like you know that maybe the vaccine was dangerous that was banned couldn't talk about that um there are a lot of things that we couldn't talk about right that have the 2020 election go couldn't talk about that Um you know maybe this whole thing in Ukraine's a bit wacky can't talk about that you know there are lots of things I get dinged on Instagram

literally daily for things in the justifications for my fact checks are literally not connected to what happens every day every single day every single day because certain ideas have to be banned right you may ban the expression wrong ideas but the ideas will still be there on the other hand if Correct ideas are pampered in hot houses and never expose the elements and immunize against disease they will not win out against erroneous ones therefore it is only by employing the method of discussion criticism and reasoning that we can really Foster ideas and overcome correct ideas

and overcome wrong ones then we can really settle issues it is inevitable that the bourgeoisie and Petty bourgeoisie will give expression To their own ideologies it is inevitable that this that they will stubbornly assert themselves on political and ideological questions by every possible means you cannot expect them to do otherwise as a character trait character flaw we should not use the method of suppression and present prevent them from expressing themselves we should allow them to do so and at the same time argue with them in direct appropriate criticism at them Not just argue not so

arguing and criticizing are different because criticizing is personal undoubtedly we must criticize wrong ideas of every description it would it certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism look on while wrong ideas spread unchecked see misinformation we have to suppress we have to deal with misinformation it's a major problem it certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism look on while wrong ideas Spread unchecked and allow them to dominate the field mistakes must be criticized and poisonous weeds fought wherever they crop up we must take steps to suppress misinformation and disinformation across social

media however such criticism should not be dogmatic see only certain people who are against the really big things have to be silenced but then the rest of people are Just doing misinformation and disinformation they have to we have to take steps we have to you know put guidelines Community practices ding them on social media lock them out temporarily you know kind of train them in a very pavlovian operand conditioning sense to behave better however such criticism should not be dogmatic and the metaphysical method should not be used but rather effort Should be made to apply

the dialectical method what is needed is scientific analysis and convincing argument but you just said dialectic which is not that dogmatic criticism settles nothing we are against poisonous weeds of whatever kind but we must carefully distinguish between sometimes the words are messed up in this we must carefully distinguish between what is really a poisonous weed And what is really a fragrant flower together with the masses of people we must learn to differentiate carefully between the two and use correct methods to fight the poisonous wheat so there we have our misinformation disinformation uh Banning from social

media discussion which we're going through because we're going through a maui-style cultural revolution with American characteristics at the same time as we criticize dogmatism we must direct our attention To criticizing revisionism revisionism or right opportunism see the left doesn't do revision they tell the true honest history is a Bourgeois trend of thought that is even more dangerous than dogmatism the revisionists the right opportunists pay lip service to Marxism they too attack dogmatism but what they are really attacking is the quintessence of Marxism they oppose or distort materialism and dialectics oppose and try to weaken the

people's Democratic Dictatorship and the leading role of the Communist party and oppose or try to weaken socialist transformation and socialist construction even after the basic victory of our socialist Revolution there will still be a number of people in our society who vainly hope to restore the capitalist system and are sure to fight the working class on every front including the ideological one and their right-hand men in his struggle are the revisionists it means people who Are going to write history the way the marxists don't want it written literally the two slogans let her a hundred

flowers bloom and let 100 schools of thought contend have no class character the proletariat can turn them to account and so can the bourgeoisie or others different classes strata and social groups have their own views on what are fragrant flowers and what are poisonous weeds then from the point of view of the masses what should be the Criteria today for distinguishing fragrant flowers from Poison sweets in other words how are we going to tell information from misinformation and disinformation we ban this information and we Contour misinformation and then we have legitimate information right how do

you tell the difference what's the criteria he says in their political activities how should our people judge whether a person's words or deeds are right and Wrong see if this makes any sense to what we're experiencing on the basis of the principles of our constitution the will of the overwhelming majority of our people and the common political positions I think when you invoke this many things what it means is he's using his own authority and trying to pretend it's somebody else's which have been proclaimed on various occasions by our political parties we consider that broadly

speaking the criteria should be As follows one words and deeds should help to unite and not divide all the people's uh the people of all our nationalities two they should be beneficial and not harmful to socialist transformation and socialist Construction three so this is how you determine which ideas are information misinformation and disinformation in today's parlance one words and deeds should help to unite and not divide the people Of all our nationalities the people the people who agree already the Socialists two they should be beneficial and not harmful to socialist transformation and socialist Construction three

they should help to consolidate not undermine or weaken the people's Democratic dictatorship four they should help to consolidate and not undermine or weaken democratic centralism which is capital capitalize these D's And Democratic for Democratic party in the United States shouldn't we five they should help strength to strengthen and not shake off or weaken the leadership of the I says communist but Democratic Party six they should be beneficial and not harmful to International socialist unity and the unity of the peace-leveling people of the world that's going straight out of the United Nations of these six criteria

the most important Are the two about the Socialist path and the leadership of the party that's how you're going to determine what information is a flower a fragrant flower versus a poisonous weed that's how you're going to tell information from misinformation and disinformation and to respond accordingly if it's disinformation simple we take away their freedom of speech we take them off social media we get them in trouble depending on your country we put them in Jail maybe or find them depending on your country however how do we determine if it's misinformation or disinformation if it's

information we can promote it we can we can amplify it we can privilege it in the algorithms how do you determine of these six criteria the most important are the two about the Socialist path and the leadership of the party it must reify the party it must reinforce the Party's power and it must support socialism that's how you determine what the true answers are these criteria are put forward not to hinder but to Foster the free discussion of questions among the people if you recall in the recent UNESCO thing I went through in a podcast

series called The Strange death of the University I went through how they said that they were going to absolutely forbid any research that supports unsustainable practices Including the fossil fuel industry for example and it was going to be a full commitment to to sustainable practices and sustainable everything in the University right and then they said explicitly that this will increase academic freedom these criteria are put forward this is Mao again not to hinder but to Foster the free discussion of questions among the people remember who the people are remember who the people are it's not

you If you don't agree with them it's only them those who disapprove these criteria can still State their own views and argue their case see how easy it is to get confused about what he's talking about though if you don't remember that when he says the people he only means socialists those who disapprove these criteria can still State their own views and argue their case however it doesn't call those People people however so long as the majority of the people have clear-cut criteria to go by criticism and self-criticism can be considered conducted along proper lines

and these criteria can be applied to people's words and deeds to determine whether they're right or wrong whether they are fragrant flowers or poisonous sweets you say whatever you want we're just going to Contour social media so that you are Shadow banned or removed or Silenced or censored or whatever if you don't say stuff that supports our agenda this is exactly what we are experiencing these are political criteria he says explicitly naturally to judge the validity of scientific theories this is just gorgeous naturally to judge the validity of scientific theories or assess the aesthetic value

of works of art other relevant criteria are needed but these six political criteria are applicable to all activities in the Arts And Sciences in a socialist country like ours can there possibly be any useful scientific or artistic activity which runs counter to these political criteria and we have that explicitly in that UNESCO document about sustainability this is a this is a cultural revolution a maoist cultural revolution with American characteristics the views set out above are based in China's specific historical conditions conditions vary in different socialist Countries and with different communist parties therefore we do not

maintain that they should or must adopt the Chinese way yeah they're in terms of sustainability and inclusion now the slogan quote long-term coexistence of mutual supervision is also a product of China's specific historical conditions it was not put forward all of a sudden but had been in the making for several years the idea of long-term coexistence has been there for a long Time when the Socialist system was in the main established last year the slogan was formulated in explicit terms so it's 1956. why should the Bourgeois and Petty Bourgeois Democratic parties be allowed to exist

side by side with the party of the working class over a long period of time because we have no reason for not adopting the policy of long-term coexistence with all those National parties guess what here comes a clause so he's Saying why can't we just have all the parties the parties can all coexist right because but there is no reason for not adopting the policy of long-term coexistence with all those political parties which are truly devoted to the task of uniting the people for the cause of socialism and which enjoy the trust of the people

who are the people who support socialism only and nobody else as early as June 1950 at the second Session of the First National Committee of the political consultative conference I put the matter this way quote the people in their government have no reason to reject anyone or deny him the opportunity of making a living and rendering service to the country provided he is really willing to serve the people and provided he really helped and did a good turn when the people were faced with difficulties and keeps doing good without giving up halfway end quote So

see nobody should be canceled this is literally him justifying cancel culture what we call cancel culture today nobody should be canceled nobody should be denied the opportunity of making a living rendering service of the country as long as they do what we say everybody else is on their own or worse what I was discussing here he says was the political basis for the long-term coexistence of the various parties see if we're going to have Different factions different parties different views there's only one way to have them long-term coexist they all have to adhere to the

Socialist program he says it is the desire as well as the policy of the Communist Party to exist side by side with the Democratic parties for a long time to come but whether the Democratic parties can long remain in existence depends not merely on the desire of the Communist Party but on how well they acquit themselves And on whether they enjoy the trust of the people again same thing this is when with cancel culture they say you have freedom of speech but not freedom from accountability or freedom from consequences this is Mal saying the same

thing this is our lives now we are going through a maoist style cultural revolution with American characteristics Mutual supervision among the various parties is also a long established fact In the sense that they have long been advising and criticizing each other Mutual supervision is obviously not a one-sided matter it means that the Communist Party can exercise supervision over the Democratic parties and vice versa why should the Democratic parties be allowed to exercise supervision over the Communist party because of a party as much as an individual has a great need to hear opinions different from its

own So the Communist party is going to hear other opinions we all know that supervision over the Communist party is mainly exercised by the working people socialists and the party membership so out of school and inner School of the existing cult but it augments the benefit to us to have supervision by the Democratic parties too of course the advice and criticism exchanged by the Communist Party in the Democratic parties will play a positive supervisory role only when they conform to the six political criteria given above so you can coexist you can mutually supervise us we

got you you got us criticize us help us get better only under our six political criteria that are already one of which is that you support the Communist party and strengthen it and do nothing to depose it thus we hope that in order to fit in With the needs of the new Society there's a change coming there's nothing you can do about it those who go along with it are going to be treated well those who don't aren't this is a communist expression we hope that in order to fit in with the needs of the

new Society all the Democratic parties will pay attention to ideological remolding and strive for long-term coexistence with the Communist Party in mutual supervision The fact of the matter is that these businesses these leaders and Faith these leaders and and institutions that have been told it's a change coming there's nothing you can do to stop it if you go along with this it's going to be good for you if you don't it's going to be bad for you have been given a maoist line that was maoist Insurgency into our institutions that we weren't able to recognize

because we have red wash education that Hasn't taught these things to us and it worked and our institutions got captured very quickly especially since 2011 or 12. um so the last decade or so nine on the question of disturbances created by small numbers of people in 1956 small numbers of workers and students went in certain places went on strike the immediate cause of these disturbances was the failure to satisfy some of their demands for material Benefits so the social system wasn't working for them and they were mad of which some should and could have been

met While others were out of place and excessive and therefore could not be met for the time being just wait remember the next five years after this they're going to kill 55 million people nearly 10 of his population speaking of not being able to meet needs but a more important cause was Bureaucracy on the part of the leadership in some areas they're responsible for such bureaucratic mistakes fell on the higher authorities but those at lower levels were not to blame another cause of these disturbances was the lack of ideological and political education among the workers

and students see if they just were more equitable the same year in some agricultural cooperatives there are also disturbances Created by a few of their members and here too the main causes were bureaucracy on the part of the leadership and a lack of educational work among the masses you should be admitted that among the masses some are prone to pay attention to immediate partial and personal interests and do not understand or do not sufficiently understand the long-range National and Collective interests Because of lack of political and social experience so they're not sufficiently communist right so

they expect things to work and when they don't work they're not sacrificing enough for the whole that's the idea here they're putting the parts before the whole in terms of marxist holistic thinking because of a lack of political and social experience quite a number of young people readily cannot readily see The contrast between the old China and the new and it is not easy for them to thoroughly thoroughly to comprehend the hardships our people went through and the struggle to free themselves from the oppression of the imperialists and the guelmingtong reactionaries or the long years

of hard work needed before a fine socialist society can be established see so now what he's got seven years in is that kids who were children under the revolution are Becoming teenagers and young adults and they're like this actually sucks and he's saying well you didn't know how bad it was before and that's your problem so get on board that is why we almost constantly carry on lively and effective political education among the masses indoctrination and brainwashing and should always tell them the truth about the difficulties that crop up and discuss with them how to

surmount these Difficulties we do not approve of disturbances because contradictions among the people can be resolved through the method of unity criticism Unity no disturbances we can fix it with your struggle sessions while disturbances are bound to cause some losses and are not conductive to the advance of socialism so don't be disruptive we believe that the masses of people support socialism conscientiously observe discipline and are reasonable Defined as accepting the reasonableness of socialism and we will certainly not take part in disturbances or sorry and will certainly not take part in disturbances without cause but this

does not mean the possibility of disturbances by the masses no longer exists in our country on this question we should pay attention so those just happened in China by the way over the the covid stuff during the World Cup on this question we should pay attention to the Following one in order to root out the causes of disturbances we must resolutely overcome bureaucracy they always say that they never do it greatly improve ideological and political education more brainwashing and deal with all contradictions properly more Unity criticism Unity struggle sessions if this is done generally speaking

there will be no disturbances two when disturbances do occur as a result of poor work on our part then we should so You're not going to be able to like cause up fuss you're just going to get sent to HR and have another Dei training in order to come back to work when disturbances do occur as a result of poor work on our part then we should guide those involved onto the correct path use the disturbances as special means for improving our work and educating the Congress and the masses and find solutions to those problems

which were previously left unsolved and Handling any disturbance we should take pains and not over not use over simple methods or hastily declare the matter closed the ring leaders and disturbances should not be summarily expelled except for those who have committed criminal offenses or are active counter-revolutionaries what a useful term domestic terrorists right and have to be punished by law in a large country like ours there is nothing to get Alarmed about if small numbers of people create disturbances on the contrary such as services will help us get rid of bureaucracy so yeah there are

also small numbers of individuals in our society who flouting public interest willfully break the long commit crimes they are apt to take advantage of our policies and distort them and deliberately put forward unreasonable demands in order to incite The masses or deliberately spread rumors to create trouble and disrupt a public order we did not propose to let these individuals have their way on the contrary proper legal action must be taken against them they're going to be in standing room only prisons under Tiananmen Square standing dick to dick with somebody else until they die punishing them

is the demand of the masses see it's not it's not Mao it's the people telling Mao he has to do that And it would run counter to the popular will if they were not public punished 10. can bad things be turned into good things we're very deep into Hegel and hermeticism with that uh Hegel had this concept called the cunning of Reason where he believed that basically reason because it's a fake image of what what of God's thought is intrinsically evil it's a very Gnostic way of thinking about it but the the process of thinking

is what moves history forward and thus Actualizes God and thus the evil of Reason becomes good by doing good things in the world and so this is the cunning of reason is it basically it's a it's a hegelian theodicy for why bad things are happening but they become good you know like murdering 55 million people teaches you about the contradictions and allows you to reduce the amount of bureaucracy in our society as I said as I have said sorry disturbances by the masses are bad and we do not approve of Them but when disturbances do

occur they enable us to learn lessons to overcome bureaucracy and educate the Cutters and the masses in the sense bad things can be turned into good things disturbances thus have a dual character every disturbance can be regarded this way we're going to straight hermetic magic now everybody knows that the Hungarian incident was not a good thing except the hungarians who got out from under it but it too had a dual character because Of because our Hungarian comrades took proper action in the course of the incident what was a bad thing has eventually turned into a

good one Hungary is now more Consolidated than ever and all the other countries in the Socialist Camp have also learned a lesson these people are so brutal with how they think about how the world works similarly the worldwide campaign against communism the people and the people which the people the support communism Which took place in the latter half of 1956 was of course a bad thing but it served to educate and temper the Communist parties in the working class in all countries and thus it has turned into a good thing hegel's cunning of reason all

over again doesn't matter how many people die they teach you how to do it better in the storm and stress of the period of this period a number of people in many countries withdrew from the Communist Party withdrawal from the party reduces its membership and is of course a bad thing but there's a good side to it too vacillating elements who are unwilling to carry on have withdrawn and the vast majority who are staunch party members can be the better United for the struggle why isn't this a good thing so ideological concentration good cunning of

Reason Hegel bad bad bad to sum up we must learn to look at problems from all sides seeing the Reverse as well as the obverse side of things and given conditions a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results more than two thousand years ago laozza said Good Fortune eliaith within bad bad fortune lurketh within good when the Japanese shot their way into China they called this a victory huge parts of China's territory were seas and the Chinese called us to defeat but victory was conceived in China's defeat While

the defeat was conceived in Japan's Victory hasn't history proved this true so now he's pulled out some ancient Taoist philosophy so that he can have Marxist londonism with Chinese characteristics people all over the world are now discussing whether or not a third world war will break out aren't we on this question too we must be mentally prepared to do some analysis We Stand firmly for peace and against War but if the imperialists insist on unleashing another War we should not be afraid of it our attitude on this question is the same as our attitude on

our attitude toward any disturbance first we are against it second we are not afraid of it the first world war was followed by the birth of the Soviet Union with a population of 200 million the second world war was followed by the emergence of the Socialist camp with a combined population of 900 million If the imperialists insist on launching a third world war it is certain that several hundred million more will turn to socialism and then there will not be much room left on Earth for the imperialists it is also likely that the whole structure

of imperialism will ultimately or sorry will completely collapse imagine if the powers that be wanted to spark a third world war so that it transforms most of the remaining Population into socialists that would be weird wouldn't it and given conditions each of the two opposing aspects of a contradiction invariably transforms itself into its opposite as a result of the struggle between them here it is the conditions which are essential without the given conditions neither of the two contradictory aspects can transform itself into the opposite see you have to rig up the system so That you're

going to collide opposites such that you control how the reaction or the conclusion of that goes so that it goes in the direction you want it to go that's hegelian practice or Praxis I should say of all the classes in the world the proletariat is the one which is most eager to change its position and next comes the semi-proletariat for the former possesses nothing at all while the latter is hardly any better off the United States Now controls a majority in the United Nations and dominates many parts of the world this state of affairs is

temporary and will be changed one of these days how about that are we at those days China's position as a poor country denied its rights and international Affairs will also be changed the poor country will change into a rich one the country denied its rights into one enjoying them a transformation of things into their Opposites here are the decisive conditions are the Socialist system and the concerted efforts of a United people a little uncomfortable um let's see we're almost at the bottom 11 on practicing economy uh this is a little bit of um inside baseball

wish to speak briefly on practicing economy we want to carry on large-scale construction but our country is still very poor here lies a contradiction one way of resolving it is To make sustained effort to practice strict economy in every field and so I'm not going to read the next paragraph but it's very detailed about how they're trying to make themselves more industrial more industrious as well the Chinese Communist Party the Democratic parties the Democrats with no party affiliation the intellectuals industrialists and businessmen workers peasants and handicraft sure all of our 600 million people must strive

for Increased production in economy against the against extravagance and waste this is a prime importance not only economically what he's doing is he's actually setting up his justification for the Great Leap Forward which he introduces at the very end here and again I'm not going to read this whole section I don't think because I've made my point the Great Leap Forward is not the point of this podcast 12 China's path to industrialization and he goes Through a lot of how we're going to increase grain in and steel production to these crazy high numbers which was

what they did in the Great Leap Forward they killed 55 million people so the res I know I've kind of set that up and talked about it but the rest of this speech Parts 11 and 12 are him justifying what's coming next in China which was a Great Leap Forward which is a great leap actually into a furnace or a blender it destroyed China it Destroyed 10 of the population almost eight or nine percent maybe at least very uh bad circumstance one of the worst mistakes in history one of the worst economic disasters in history

bad enough to get Mao kicked out of power and so [Music] um that's not my point though just know that what this closes with is the sales pitch that justifies What makes sound great how they're going to use all this crap that you just talked about how great they've made China through the cultural revolutions that he's putting them through which is what we're experiencing here in America now and the next step is a Great Leap Forward and that's going to make everything great and what actually happened was it was one of the biggest disasters in

human history so right now we're going through all the same stuff And then right after it's supposed to be a great reset and then we're supposed to go forward from 2030 into a sustainable inclusive future this can be awesome and history doesn't exactly repeat what it Rhymes and that's really the point of the podcast I want everybody I know it's three hours I want people to understand though that we are going through a cultural revolution a maoist style cultural revolution with American characteristics The speech I just read from February of 1957 from Mao Zedong or

most of that I read most of sets up his justification first of all why all that's going great much of that should have felt very familiar to you if you've lived to the last five years in America so you know we're going through a maoist style Revolution with American characteristics now you know that CRT SEL it's a critical race Theory social emotional learning Um queer Theory and all the rest of the critical theories and so on are the driving theoretical elements you see the methods you see the brainwashing the study the shuishi the the doching

the struggle Etc you see all this stuff the parallels are undeniable that that's what we're going through but then the essay or the sorry the the the uh Speech Ends by him setting up the justification which he you know set up earlier throughout the Speech as well for what he's about to launch next which is the Great Leap Forward and I say we're going through the same thing and we're setting up a great reset and I predict similar consequences I predict similar consequences I do not think history will fail to rhyme in this case I

think the great reset is going to kill tens if not hundreds of millions if not more than a billion people I honestly mean that if we aren't able to break its Momentum and not basically we have to break the the rhyme the history is trying to have and the way that we do that is by recognizing that we're in this maoist circumstance and rejecting it and rejecting that what does that mean practically it means using lawfare using political mechanisms and using outright public outcry and demand that these people who are ruining our lives and ruining

our world and trying to seize Control using maoist tactics must be removed from Power before they're allowed to do it we need to fire them we need to sue them we need to empower people in positions of authority whether political or corporate or institutional to get these people out of the positions of power they're abusing that is the absolute key thing to do lawsuits will go a very long way when strategic they will hit very hard we're getting very close to the point where those lawsuits Are going to start falling and they're going to start

falling like hammers we have to hold out and not fall into the reactionary mode that even Mao was talking about 1957 which they will take advantage of to suppress the counter-revolutionaries further uh so that's the point here what we're going through is the American cultural revolution we could put that differently it's Mao's cultural revolution updated with American characteristics it's being Foisted Upon Us by our leaders who are in League with Global entities like the United Nations World economic Forum that have adopted this philosophy that you can read the the things that I just read from

Mao are reflected in UNESCO policy they could have been taken out paragraph at a time put into an updated language embedding Klaus Schwab's books we must understand what we're going through we can hear it in Joe Biden's speeches and Kamala Harris's speeches and the lies of the Democrats on the squads these people are maoists and if they're not malice if they're in the outer school they don't know their malice they're using Mao's techniques and Mao's goals and Mao's objectives to transform our country or transform the West into a socialist [ __ ] that's not going

to work and it's going to be a complete catastrophe they even have the arrogance just like Mao was setting up for a Great Leap Forward to set use it to set up for a great reset and just like after that when 55 million people died in their Chinese economy was devastated uh they had to build back better it's so arrogant it's so unbelievable so I hope this was a clarifying three hours of your life we have to understand what we're dealing with we have to understand it clearly and we have to start making the right

kinds of decisions to stop it to demand that it stopped and not to Fall into the traps that are being set along the way for us the paths being paved to our own destruction so that we will take them and become the necessary Collision of opposites that moves their agenda forward foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music]