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The party elite that claims workers have false consciousness and must therefore be led into socialism.
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vanguard
The party elite that claims workers have false consciousness and must therefore be led into socialism.
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An elite leading the proletariat to paradise; Jiang treats it as the Frankist element inside Marxism.
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The intellectual elite Marx thinks must lead the proletariat; Jiang uses Bakunin to warn that such elites keep power.
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Parmenion's advance force of about 10,000 men sent into Persian-controlled Anatolia before Philip's planned invasion.
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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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He argues that Marxism makes socialism more extreme and confusing through false consciousness, global class struggle, abolition of property, and a vanguard party, which discredits socialism rather than merely advancing it.
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Jiang accepts Marx's critique of capitalism but rejects Marx's solution of public capital, linear progress, class-struggle primacy, and a vanguard leading workers to paradise.
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Jiang says Marx systemizes Jacob Frank's ideas by turning vanguard-led material paradise into socialism, though Marx himself may not have been a Frankist.
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Bakunin's objection is that any vanguard becomes a new capitalist class and recreates empire under socialist names.
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Marx's four core errors are linear history, inevitable progress, class reductionism, and faith in a technocratic vanguard.
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Bakunin's anti-vanguard warning matters to Jiang because scientific administration by experts becomes technocracy, alienation, and brutalization.
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After uniting Greece, Philip's ambition shifted to Persia, and he sent Parmenion with about 10,000 men as a vanguard into Anatolia before his own planned invasion.
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"...in the media, by the internet, by Hollywood, okay? Therefore a vanguard, the party, must lead the people into socialism, all right? So this..."
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"We call this socialism. So you think about it, the enemy of capitalism is not communism, it's these four other things. You actually think..."
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"So think of after World War II, Europe didn't become communist, it didn't become capitalist, it became socialist. It had a very strong welfare..."
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"...that, okay, you also need a party, you also need a vanguard, an elite to destroy the false conscientious, divide the workers, workers and..."
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"extreme the intention is to discredit it to make it illegitimate to destroy the idea all right so if you think about it according..."
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"...thing that's the most problematic is Marx believes you need a vanguard, in order to lead the proletariat into a socialist paradise. You need..."
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"So why would transnational capital support this idea? The reason why is that before the debate was mind versus matter, right? What matters more,..."
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"...but where they disagree is this. Marx believed you needed a vanguard, okay? Like Frederick Frank believed. But Buchanan says, no, no, no."
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"If you have a vanguard, they'll just become a new capitalist class, okay? What's the difference, man? If you are a vanguard, if you..."
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"Okay. Let's talk about the vanguard idea. So, for Marx a really important idea is you need intellectual elite to lead the proletariat into..."
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"So let's summarize and this is really important for us. Okay? But what are the four things Marx got wrong? Okay? The first thing..."
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"...A belief in a better world. Last thing Marx believed a vanguard needed to lead the proletariat into a paradise. Okay? So Marx really..."
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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 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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