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Abolition or destruction of property, paired with false-consciousness theory and vanguard-party rule.
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communism
Abolition or destruction of property, paired with false-consciousness theory and vanguard-party rule.
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Glossary
More radical redistribution and abolition of private property, described as internationalist.
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Jiang argues that China's post-1980s movement from communism to capitalism exposes the capitalism-versus-communism dialectic as false because the transition was unusually smooth compared with earlier ideological transitions.
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He argues that communism helps capitalism destroy monarchy, religion, nationalism, and democracy in ways capitalism cannot openly do itself.
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Jiang distinguishes socialism from communism by saying socialism redistributes property while communism destroys property, thereby making the rich and middle class unite against the poor.
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He argues that European elites responded to the 1848 threat by dividing the new alliance: reframing the conflict as class war, making the movement look fanatical, and casting it as an international conspiracy.
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Jiang explicitly calls communism a psyop used by the elite and nobility to make democracy, socialism, and liberalism illegitimate.
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Jiang's final model says the old order and capitalism each saw social democracy as a threat and therefore mutated it into communism to delegitimize it.
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He emphasizes that communism's creation was organic and confusing rather than a perfectly planned conspiracy: an initial psyop became mainstream and then Bolshevism became possible.
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He says the October Revolution was a wild gamble that worked because of capitalist greed, and once it worked it made communism seem possible elsewhere, including China.
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"...difference between the middle class and the middle class. socialism and communism. Socialism it's the redistribution of property, communism is a destruction of property...."
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"And so it sounds right, so why is Marx screwing around this okay? He also says that, okay, you also need a party, you..."
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"Today, we discuss communism, Marxism. We will discuss what it is, where did it come from, and why did it succeed. Now, the 20th..."
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"That was also a very violent process. But in China, communism transitioned into capitalism pretty easily, pretty quickly, and extremely successfully, okay? And in..."
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"...So you think about it, the enemy of capitalism is not communism, it's these four other things. You actually think about it, okay? Communism..."
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"...socialism, all right? So this is really convenient, how capitalism and communism have similar enemies, and communism helps destroy all four enemies in a..."
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"...money no one has any rights no one has any freedom communism okay and the third way you deletionize it is say that this..."
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"...French they're not us you understand so you think about it communism was a psyop okay a tool used by the elite by the..."
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"...both a threat to the old order as a threat to communism as well, right?"
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"So the old order, it was a threat to communism. capitalism what they did was they would mutate social democracy into communism in order..."
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"...in conflict with each other so they because of this support communism becomes much more extreme which leads to bolshevism okay or revolution right..."
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"...the greed of capitalists okay but once it worked out once communism was established in soviet union then it changed the way people saw..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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