The cult many are in but don’t realize 

Former dialectic here, the trick is using emotional manipulation to override your higher reasoning skills. The Amygdala overrides the cortex in situations of fear or pleasure.

"Marxists share your vocabulary but they don't share your dictionary." I'm nicking that bastard.

I was born in Soviet Union and Communism was a religion and Lenin was as Jesus Christ. We had to learn about Lenin, read books about him even in primary school. Schoolchildren were called grandchildren of Lenin. Crazy times 😂

This is the exact reaction I came away with when I read Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. It has all the hallmarks of a religion. This is why the Soviets hated the presence of the Orthodox Church or any religion that was not Marxism and why they promoted "science museums". 12 million Orthodox Christians died as a result of the purges against the church.

Tik: Are ya'll with the cult? Cultist: It's not a cult. Its a dialectical science ending opression and ushering in utop- Tik: Yep, this is it.

I saw an interview years ago of an elderly German Catholic woman who grew up before and during Nazi rule. She recalled Hitler becoming chancellor and the next time she attended Catholic mass, a large portrait of Hitler was placed in front of the alter. She said her parents cried when they got home.

This is something that once it's seen cannot be unseen. James Lindsey, and now you TIK, are doing the important work of elucidating this reality for those willing to listen. Thank you, and keep up the wonderful work!

Just got out of this cult a month ago. What a relief life has been since. I want to spend the rest of my life defeating it as now I feel betrayed, I feel like I was tricked. I was a Marxist-Leninist. I praised Stalin, Mao, the Kims, all of them under the guise of "critical support." I fell in deep but I'm glad I got out. I want to now go into law and politics and urge something must be done about the radicalization of the younger generation. Now that I'm out I have begun to recognize dialetics in the rhetoric of progressives and it scares me. I got into it in the beginnings of COVID, the isolation from society and my growing interest in ideology was prattled on by this intense anxiety and depression that overwhelmed me. The riots of 2020 was a major push into the deep-end as I was close to downtown and I saw my city on fire while all alone in my home. Prior to the lockdown I was warning people about COVID and no one believed me. I had gained this arrogance that everyone was wrong except me, that I was the predictor of the future. I had a psychotic breakdown over the course of three months in the summer where I believed Lucifer was communicating with me but after reading some more of Engels in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, I had replaced Lucifer with communism. I "dropped religion." And at this point it is hard to describe what it is like once you adapt the ideology. I was ideologically blindsighted. I could not comprehend the logic behind capitalism, I could not understand life itself. It had put up such a barrier in the way I thought that I sincerely could not comprehend formal logic. It is ironic in that materialism rejects metaphysics, but it replaces God with the vanguard party. The rapture is revolution. It is the greatest eugenics project. Cull the disbelievers, forever. I believed that capitalists were lying about everything. People were misinformed, that the families of victims were just idiots. The famine wasn't on purpose, it was the fault of the Kulaks, sanctions and America caused everything, there was no idol. That's why there is a cult of personality in communist societies, Stalin is the logic of reality. It's scary stuff. It was brainwashing. It is the epitome of moralization and "rules for me, not for thee." Materialism always explained the misfortune of communists, but never explained the evil behind capitalists. They were just evil for evil's sake. But what got me out was my university professor in my final year of college, in my class about Darwinism and its effects on society and history. My professor and I had similar beliefs, we analyzed history in the similar ways, but I could feel this ideological gap between us. He was able to fill in the blanks. I could apply the "logic" of dialetics like a parrot. But he could come up with new thoughts. In discussing colonialism, my professor brought up cultural relativism. He said that it was being weaponized to moralize history, and he raised a hypothetical to a classmate of mine who disagreed. "If you were Cortez and you saw the native people sacrifice a human being in front of you, you would not simply stand there. You would want to end the brutality." And he was right. I put myself in Cortez' shoes, and it all clicked. Reading more of Darwin and comparing him with Herbert Spencer and later learning that Marx loved Spencer made me launch out of the ideology. It took months, primarily aided by studying for the LSAT and learning formal logic. Thank god for that. And after months of these thoughts stirring around in my head I came to the realization that Spencer and Marx were the same in that they wanted mankind to control evolution. But like eugenics, communism failed. The pull of evolution and our underlying animalistic behaviors can't keep the act for long. It's like flipping a coin. The more times you get heads in a row, the chance to get tails grows. You can't keep getting heads forever. At some point you will get tails. It's guaranteed. Now I'm just in the center. It's about evidence to me now, not ideology. I don't want to stray into another ideology again. But after this realization I am just so happy to know that I'm an American citizen and I've been allowed to fall into such a shitty rabbit hole. I would've never understood how evil, corrupt, vicious, all encompassing that communism is. It is the ideological version of the black death, fascism incarnate. And now I want to do all I can for America to win the battle against communism, against fascism, by all means necessary.

"The more i learn about people, the more i love my dog" -Mark Twain

This is the first time I've watched a half-hour video on political theory twice through consecutively. Great stuff. Illuminating - and horrifying.

“The truth is that communism *HAS* worked everywhere it’s been tried” this gem should be taught in schools. Which is to say: It can’t ever create utopia but it will only create misery so every time it’s been tried and it created misery, it worked.

The fact they are trying to predict the future with their unscientific climate modells confirms what you are saying.

I love the subjects which you have been addressing lately which touch on how some of these political ideologies and worldviews are de facto extremely destructive religions, or how political ideologies seem to be repackaged Gnosticism. I’m so happy that you are also aware of the works of others such as James Lindsay on the subject. Thank you so much and keep going in this direction!!!

TIK, never stop covering ideological topics. You have a gift. We need that gift

It amazes me just how many dots you are able to connect when pointed in a direction. Keep it up TIK, we need more people like you in the world.

This is why they do not hesitate to say “Everything is political” to them it really is

As someone born and raised in a nation consumed by the virus of Communism, I instinctively recoil at the mention of the word dialectic. Word salad disguised as profundity.

Hi TIK, I have a bone to pick with you. I have been watching your videos for years (and in the past I have been a bit critical on some of your videos). Before you, I used to watch other history videos (I had watched every episode of the Battlefield series). Recently, I went back and watched an episode of Battlefield. It used to be perfectly fine. But now, it is a shallow poorly researched video (with obvious errors). Because you have set the bar so high on your examination of history, I have become very spoiled. This led me to think about the history courses I took in college. A full semester college course is 45 hours of study. Anyone of your Battlestorm series can be turned into a full semester college level course on the topic (with an adjustment of time to fit the 45 hours). Your economic and political videos can be turned into a full semester courses on those topics as well. You have a gift for this. Don't give up. Also, You have done an outstanding job on the Stalingrad Battlestorm series (I have watched every episode, most of them multiple times). I look forward to you completing the series, but not at the cost of your health or sanity. Keep up the outstanding work. Paul

I used to be really deep into these ideologies when I was young. They’re basically a language game that appeals to lonely people with a weak sense of self, you get an exhilarating feeling of being set apart from and looking down on the normies, speaking in a special jargon, having a clearly defined enemy. If you look at internet culture today, you’ll see that modern communists and 3P are the ones really deep into ‘ironic memes’, and irony is all about playing around with double meanings and ambiguity, in group and out group dynamics. In the end though, it’s unsatisfying, if you want to be liked for who you are rather than as an instrument. Great video btw, love your work

I was taught many of these concepts at a surface level in public school. I was always hung up with practical and logistical questions and would always wonder why they didn’t seem to care if something was correct or had good outcomes. This really illuminates the reason my questions were usually met with frustration and abrupt conversation ending actions. Thank you!

The one thing Lindsay seems to have stayed away from is the very thing that you point out eloquently. That is the ideological similarities between Fascism, Communism, and National Socialism which are all rooted in the same belief.

I was a communist in my late teens and very early 20s. I bought into it because I already was somewhat of a dialectic and I bought into that, because I noticed that the technological progress would eventually lead to full automation where human work is not needed. I also noticed that companies are buying each other up, getting bigger and bigger. Extrapolating both developments 50, 100, 200 years in the future, I saw it as a great threat that eventually everything humanity needs to survive, would be owned by one group or one guy who has absolute power. Collectivizing the means of production seemed like a jolly good idea to tackle that problem. I was under the illusion that a democratic implementation of communism would be possible. After a while, I noticed from where the wind blows. Meaning, it became obvious to me, that the way my comrades were thinking about things would lead 1. to the same thing communism has always led to, and 2. to the same thing I was trying to prevent in the first place. So after reenacting the Monty Python People's Front scatch for a few times, I started questioning my belief system.

At age 17 I abandoned Catholicism, and became a born again athiest. At age 19, leaning left I considered Marxism, and concluded that having escaped one religion, it made no sense to embrace a new one. I am 71 now, I made a lot of dumb decisions when I was young, not becoming a Marxist was one of the few I got right.

As a former member of the leftist cult, this is an excellent explanation. Thank you, comrade!

Demunsereeuw's book on Marx & Marxism has a particularly relevant chapter called "Obfuscation through complication". It discusses precisely how the dense language style is used to obfuscate contradictions, logical errors, flaws in the reasoning, etc.

I read James Lindsay’s book a year ago called “Race Marxism” where he broke down the Gnostic/Hermetic origins of Marxism/Hegelian dialectic, he’s been discussing this for like 4 years and everyone is finally catching on he was right about what CRT and wokeism really is.

A valiant effort. But a favorite quote of mine goes something like, "You cannot use reason to convince someone to abandon an opinion they did not adopt through reason.

I read Das Kapital when I was in middle school and was so lost that I gave up and came to the conclusion that I needed to wait until I was older. Now I’m older and have a much greater understanding of economics and philosophy and Das Kapital still loses me. Thanks for confirming my suspicion that it’s just nonsense.

Thank you, Tik. Yours is one of the most succinct explanations of the Marxist/socialist/fascist cults, I’ve ever heard. Especially when given in the context of the times in which they were developed.

I think people believe in marxist or hegelian dialectics because it's a rationalization of history that puts you in a very comfortable situation which gives you the answer to most of the problems. Same happens to other ideologies but marxist fall into this many times.

I have highly intelligent friends who have been, or were, part of this cult for 45 years now ! Many have managed to escape, and the ones who remain all have some kind of issue from their young life. Most went into teaching and social work. The word will be spread 😔. Yikes.

Former dialectic: the mindset is one of *disillusionment at reality*. It all boils down to that, and subsequently anything derived from this is insane - not in touch with reality. Disillusionment at the state of reality necessarily leads to abstraction from that reality, and you can piece together where it goes from here (not doing so myself for brevity, also you might come up with some ideas along the way if you try and piece things together yourself). Btw, it would be nice if you organised your thoughts on this broad topic and made a 4 hour video 😅 this is something that’s absolutely fascinating. I will say I don’t think you can be quite so clear-cut in treating eg Kant, followed by Hegel, followed by etc as priests of religious lineage, and I reckon you’d agree, but it does look like the essence of this Greek (originally Zoroastrian?) religion as revived by German idealism was maintained. Finally I want to say when I get some more money I’ll become a supporter, you’re up there with the highest quality educational - frankly scholarly - channels on the internet let alone RU-vid. Much love ❤

Nothing like getting a video you actually want to watch on your lunch break!

Tik, the videos you have made since your break are BY FAR the most interesting that I think you have ever produced. So much food for thought and introducing me to Lindsay and Voegil; just brilliant. Thank you so much for what you are doing and I am really enjoying the multi part examination of the dialectic religion and it’s influence on history. It’s just blowing my mind in the way that great academic discovery does! Thanks so much! Never stop!

0:31 “Das Crapital” lmfao. Love it

As a former Marxist this was an absolute banger of a video. I can't say how many times Ive dealt with this bullshit from Marxists.

This is endlessly more interesting than grinding over the details of the war. This is the more interesting bigger picture

This was the single most eye-opening video I've seen in my life. Thank your this content. It explains everything and ties together everything I've known about the enemy over the years. Very good content.

Gramsci should be brought up eventually. He's lets say absolutely bonkers. But is so important in modern socialist circles. He's primarily why you see so many Groups trying to create an identity out of thin air, and why terms like hegemony is often thrown around.

Very good contribution, thank you. I've been tossing and turning the subject in my head for a long time and have come to very similar conclusions. People have to be made aware of this, otherwise they will fall for this dialectic. Kind Regards from Germany.

I recall my high school government teacher(1974) explaining how the Continental Congress of 1787 formulated the U.S. Constitution via thesis-antithesis-synthesis. It was many years later I recognized the Hegelian dialectic and the fallacy of her lesson (Hegel having been born in 1770). I don’t think it was malicious but she had probably picked this idea up from a University professor with Marxist views.

This is so informative. It feels like we are searching for the correct diagnosis for society's ills. We thought that we had found the illness when we analysed concepts like fascism, communism and even wokeism but they are all apparently symptoms of deeper, even more fundamental convictions. It's scary how these destructive ideologies linger in every day politics but my hope is that people who have lived in relative freedom from oppression at least have the capacity to push this back yet again. But it will require people to demonstrate integrity, which is always in short supply.

I just remember when being in the university, in my history degree, that the marxist or pseudo-marxist teachers, and they were a quite numerous group, cited Marx or marxist concepts as revealed truth. "Amen".

This is the most interesting podcast on the Internet... Thank you for your time and knowledge ❤

"And apparently these people can hold contradictions in their heads at the same time, which is strange to me. It's literally insane." Sounds a lot like double think to me, suppose that is what the dialectic is? Double-plus good description.

I am an ex-marxsist....got attracted at teenage due to sweet concepts like equality, welfare, each for everyone, non-exploitaton,...etc. It worked like a relegion (kind of semitic /abrahamic relegion)....while in college I was like a pentecostal lunatic....thinking about dialectical ideology, eminent collapse of capitalism, upcoming class war...etc Miss those wasted years 😂😂😂😂

That last bit about cultish language is actually quite interesting. It applies to other aspects of life beyond cults. Even detecting manipulative behavior, especially language, exhibited by some people. Whether it is to appear to others as victims, shift the blame, etc. manipulative language in personal relationships of all sorts has the same effects.

Watching this again for like the 4th time. By God, the script, flow and information are so excellent. This is a masterclass lecture.

It’s so crazy because I naturally steered clear of these topics when I was a teen. Always hearing about them but never really looking through them. Listening to this now if I had been just the least bit curious they would’ve gotten me. That’s crazy to think about. How easily I would’ve been sucked into a cult.

Another wonderful cinematographic dissertation on politics, my friend. Hear, hear! 🍻

At first I was disappointed that you steered somewhat away from WW2 and towards politics and religion but damn it, this is just as interesting as your work on WW2. Great work TIK!

Tears in my eyes. Partly out of relief and gratitude to finally have found the missing and foremost relevant ingredient of 'the witch's toxic brew' - and partly out of sheer horror, starting to realize that the consequential effects of all this, spiritually, psychologically, historically, politically etc., then and now, are proof of a literal abyss, deeper than I ever wanted to know it to be. The Love & protection of The Triune GOD be with you!

There was an anecdote in one of the comment sections in Timcast, where the commentor was asking a socialist if the ideology was incapable of being flawed. The socialist denies this, saying it can be flawed. But when pressed for an example, the commentor was sidelined for presenting a bad faith argument. What interest me, is that there is a certain moment where a cultist goes from being within common sense to 0% critical thinking. You can tell from the paraphrase that the socialist was rational all the way up to the question of examples.

I am very glad you chose to pursue more than just historical subjects TIK. These are invaluable videos.

If humanity could only learn from it's past.

So glad you found me! Your discussion here is excellent. New sub!!

Saw you respond to James Lindsey the other day thanking him and this is the result. Well done, far better than I could’ve put it.

I call them the cult of babel, like the myth of the tower of babel. It makes sense with their objective of reaching heaven/utopia on earth. If you recall the punishment for their hubris, the obsession with diversity, inclusivity, and equity is really fitting.

As of former member of the Cult of Marx (December 2019-June 2021) I am so happy to hear that there are other former members of this cult speaking out against it.

TIK you are so good to us. Thank you for sharing your understanding with us. I found your channel studying WW2 content but I've learned so much more in the process.

I honestly thought TIK was going to get blasted for this video like no other he has produced. I have to say that this audience is pretty solid and many of the comments bear that fact. Very nice that most of the discourse is civil and people are actually responding with thought and ideas instead of lashing out with name calling and muck raking..

I’ve always found it funny that as much as Hitler claimed to be against Marx, the two men are much more similar than different. Great video as usual .

Браво ТИК ! Користиш чињенице зарад истине. Одличан си.👏👏👏

I was taught dialectical reasoning in therapy. It’s totally changed the way I think. This video has given me a lot to consider. I’ve not heard any of this before. I’m not one to close my mind off to new ideas. I definitely want to learn more about this.

Glad I watched this! I’ve been checking out many documentaries about cults, politics, history of religion, etc lately, and I’ve come to conclude basically most all group concepts could be said to be cults of one kind or another. Language and imagery groupings that give us a sense of a realty. Fascinating.

I told someone I was reading the great reset and Klaus says nothing and except stating the bleeding obvious, trying to scare you, giving himself a hard on ranting about chaos and death and it reminded me of (how you explained) Mein kampf. Apparently I wasn't wrong.

Let me tell you a true anecdote. Most of my life, I was doing statistics and math for biologists, many of whom were Hegelians. Many times, they wanted Everything to converge Perfectly and Everything to lead to the same conclusion, without even a slightest deviation. In order to test them, so I know how to approach them, I used a following example: Djokovic played against Nadal. Djokovic won. He won 3:2. However, Djokovic scored 21 games, while Nadal scored 30 games. Djokovic had more aces, but without statistical significance, while Nadal had... blah, blaah, blah.... Who Won the game? Who is better player? 100% of simple people (farmers, photographers, truck drivers, contractors...) will give you a funny look and say - Djokovic won! Who cares about the stats? About 80% of PhD Academic Minds will tell you: well... I think that the total number of points... Wait! Tennis... Is played to 3 sets. Djokovic won, 3:2. Djokovic has the trophy. Djokovic is celebrating. Who played better? Who won? Well, I think that your point is... Who won? But the games and sets, so... -------------- At that point, I just give them the simplest option, and don't even try to explain anything, because they cannot comprehend nor appreciate anything. BTW, in biology, 90% of Facts comes from authority, 3% from Logic, and the rest is marketing (my personal estimation)

Brilliant. I never really understood Kant or Hegel until you explained them. Now I understand the seemingly self destructive behavior of woke corporations. This is one of the best videos I have ever seen. I rarely watch anything longer than ten minutes.

There is a cognative dissonance present in every cult member. Hopefully more people wake up.

TIK, I truly find your work entertaining but more importantly, useful. Its such an admiration of mine for your work and the impact that it has, that I just hate the fact that its influence is limited to an audience who speaks English, especially since I sometimes want to use some of your work for an argument but can’t reproduce it since it’s in a foreign language (example: National Socialism is Socialism with racial traits). And I can’t help but to wonder if you have considered to start do develop content for a Spanish speaking audience. It is a dream of mine that I hope to see come true, and would love to contribute to it if necessary (Am a college student in economics and with some of my studies having been done in the US).

You’re so right that the murders are not mistakes.

I dare to say I've studied this topic albeit in polish language. It is all true, but there is one issue: these philosophical notions attack the very process of cognition. As a result, the society, which exists in physical reality, detaches itself-regulating processes from reality. This renders the society unable to respond to changing environmental conditions, until a physical form of de-conflicting resets the perception of reality, also called 'war'. The issue we have right now, is that the concept of money, or exchange of it, has become so immensely metaphysical, that is it without reflection in physical reality, due to all sorts of stocks, swaps, IT, luxuries, etc, that we are no longer able to respond to the changes. This puts as in a late pre-war period by collective state of mind itself. The reasons will be found.

Another onion layer peeled away in this fascinating series! Thank you Tik! Your work is impeccable.

I wanted to say to Tik, I graduated with a degree in Religious Studies from NC State University around 2010. I always pondered why people do the insane, illogical, and self defeating things they do in the name of so-called "Progressivism" Fast forward to ~2015. I began formulating a theory based not on primary source canons, Pass Crapital, or Mein Schafft, but on 100% observation, conversation, "study material" as I tried to "educate myself" (very difficult by the way, it's hard to "play the role" of true believer for more than 2 years to absorb and study their worldview perspective) on their bargain-bin Magical Mystery Manifesto. The MMM is far from appetizing. I have been trying to format all my observations together and then compare the base Canon (books like "White Fragility"), sacred space demarcation ("safe spaces"), clergy, laity (activists and "teachers" vs "the masses"), original sin concept (simply "privilege"), Atonement (the end goal of being "Woke"), and many many more crappy things making me wish I could get a Lobotomy and a shower, but my brains are already scrambled and I've taken 2 showers today but I never feel clean. Wokeness Is A RELIGION. That's my thesis statement so far. I hope to God somebody else sees it too.

Wow. Loving these last few video's you've done TIK, this was very fascinating. Stalin wrote books, get outta town!... Had no idea he did tbh.

I never thought that I witness someone taking the ever loving piss out of Dialectical Materialism and have me in mild hysterics. Much love Tik.

"Evil cannot create, it can only imitate what good has already created and corrupt it." J.R.R Tolkien. Cults are just religion but corrupted.

That's a lot to be absorbed. For the most part you simplified it into understandable bits. Well done and keep up the good fight.

I've been telling people for years that we're all living in a real life, real time Horror movie. Might not be as "flashy" as a horror picture, but we're living in it nevertheless. Glad I watched this video. It's the "missing piece" of the equation that I had been looking for, for years. These lunatics must be stopped somehow.

this issue about language reminds me of when i was studying Sociology in University. Many texts and 'experts' I was to read spoke like that. Their ideas were most confusing. Michel Foucault was like that.

I don't watch all your videos, but the was the very best I've ever seen. Not for high quality graphics or amazing military analysis. Just for pure, essential information that everyone in the world needs. I'd love to see more work like this Added: reading the comments, it seems like you have a lot of cultists in your audience.

Thank you for this cut to the chase analysis. James Lindsay's well researched output has helped me a lot, but the priest behind the curtain analogy and the synthesis explanation are most helpful.

I do understand what it’s like to be in a cult. They use obscure language and jargon to make one curious and confused, so one thinks, “I have to gain access to the inner circle before I actually understand what the message is. In the meantime I will pretend that I understand, so I can get access and acceptance.”

You stated multiple times that “It’s all nonsense” and I completely agree, in regards to this mental gymnastics. Talk about confusing dialectic.

Thank you TIK, for yet another interesting topic. I'm excited to watch this video and explore your views and thoughts. I very much appreciate you for posting this video!

Beatifully explained, son of Cuban Regufees here, and may I say you are spot on!

Tik, I love all of this. I'm very happy you are attacking this Hegelian nonsense head-on. The most important quote from you, IMHO, is "Don't listen to what they say, look at what they do." I think we can back away from all of the garbage that has polluted this and be very pragmatic. That's my one quibble with your argument. You are a bit deep into their dogma, which is a useful perspective, but you don't have to be. My perspective on this? Having studied Eastern philosophy extensively I am always struck by how it is difficult for Westerners to understand. The reason for this is that the Western world has a strong bias towards seeing everything as a conflict of some kind. Marxists, for example, tend to go on about "continuous revolution" because the struggle is eternal. The Eastern world tends to look for a balance, a resolution to conflict. This simple change in perspective makes pretty much all of this Hegelian nonsense irrelevant. Moving history forward? Um, no, quite the opposite. This is why I think that what you are starting here, and I do think it's only a start, is so vital. So much of what has come into Western philosophy in the last few hundred years only perpetuates conflict pointlessly. It obscures reality. This is not to say that Eastern philosophy is perfect, but there is a lot to learn from everyone. Again, there are many ways to see the flaws in this approach. I love how you trace it back to gnosticism but I do think that a pragmatic approach is always the best. Minimizing conflict, seeking balance, is just far less exhausting.

You did a fabulous job in your method of exampling these intentionally convoluted concepts in a very comprehensible process. I have been to many lectures on these ideas and yours by far was the best ❤

Interesting stuff. I saw Lindsey’s videos a few weeks ago. I have a minor in philosophy for my undergrad degree and one his talks made me think of my experience trying to read and understand Hegel, and just generally coming away with a sense of confusion. After watching Lindsey’s videos, I looked up some of the essays that are available online. When I read Voegelin’s essay, “On Hegel - A Study in Sorcery,” it all made sense. Having read some of the gnostic writings I realized that is exactly what Hegel is doing. It also explained why reading Marcuse left me with the same sense of ‘What is going here…’ I had with Hegel and some of Marx’s ramblings. Couple this with the realization how Gnosticism sits behind the foundational theories of psychology (Freud/Jung) it’s frightening to think how much this has influenced our modern society’s conceptions of everything from economics, to history, to gender.

Once again, TIK, thank you so much for defining Dialecticism, a word added to my vocabulary AND hopefully the English dictionary.

I became an atheist at a young age after years of learning to question everything you are just told to accept. I started opposing socialism and communism because once you start questioning it, it falls apart. I don't oppose the idea of piety and forgiveness of catholicism (the religion I grew up in), the same way I don't oppose the idea of worker's rights... That's a ridiculous notion. I simply oppose the institutions that thrive preacing about those things while not practicing them... You can be good and moral without embracing religion, the same way you can be fair and fight inequality without embracing communism.

It is also written in an odd way because it is meant to emulate a "living" word. Depending on what perspective you are reading it- it's meaning changes.

This is brilliant. Every time I have encountered “The Dialectic” my eyes have glazed over and I just couldn’t continue. You have increased my understanding and gained my admiration.

Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate the effort it takes to research and produce these videos but they really are invaluable to many minds out there who know something isn't right but have been starved of the historical context to make sense of it. Many forget that among the chattering classes early last century, fascism was quite acceptable until the war and then we had a moment similar to the one we have today when we quickly forgot we ever liked the Russians... gnosticism is clearly rife among our Elites. will share wldely.

Brilliant lesson in understanding what seems to be going on right now. I am a catholic - and I could never understand exactly why communism itself was regarded as an ‘error’ in principle when - as far as I knew - it was about sharing and equality amongst all the people. I could see that it doesn’t work out as this in practice, but I thought it was a decent principle. Now I understand that it is evil! And communism’s relentless pursuit of Christianity makes sense. If you only wanted happy people sharing their things with others less fortunate, then as long as religions were okay with that, they’d be no threat. But instead you need obedient slaves who will jump off a cliff when you want them to. Nowadays we see Christianity and moral values under attack, and threats of famine, huge fires and floods being engineered, and of course the pandemic and it’s deadly solution. All falls into place. Evil, stupid b@$t@td$. Sorry about my language.

Read Max Stirner's ''The Unique and It's Property', the first book to ever make Marx sweat. Stirner used Hegel's dialectic in order to abolish the dialectic into nihilism. Claiming that the dialectic ultimately becomes a 'nothing' out of which the individual creates himself at each instance. The dialectic of Stirner was more of a joke for all those who believed in the dialectic in his time. It also talks about the religion of ''Humanity'', the priests of humanity. Stirner anticipated Nietzsche in 1844 and pretty much claimed that communism is the last metamorphosis of religion. He called these illusions, ''Spooks'' or ghosts. That man's brain was haunted by these spooks. Interesting book I think, if you include it in your anti-dialectical analysis. For Stirner, it did not matter whether dialectics was true or not, the result would still be an egoism, or what he called the ''Unique''

Bravo. Your perspective on Lyndsay's work has been very helpful to me in furthering my understanding of dialectical mysticism. This is important work you are doing. Please keep it up.

This is the best History and Political History/"Science" channel! Keep up the good work, TIK!

Cannot recommend the movie "Hail Ceasar" enough. While it's a so-so film, it does a wonderful job of exposing how people who fancy themselves "intellectuals" get wrapped up in and entrapped by the false premise that "the dialectic" is a scientific/rigorous process when it's little more than a weak thought experiment.

Dialectic is a method of argument or discussion that emphasizes the exchange of opposing ideas to arrive at a deeper understanding or truth. It has roots in ancient philosophy, particularly in the works of Socrates and Plato, and has been further developed by later thinkers like Hegel and Marx. Key aspects of dialectic include: 1. **Thesis and Antithesis**: As mentioned earlier, dialectic often involves the presentation of a thesis (an initial idea) and an antithesis (an opposing idea). This clash of ideas is central to the dialectical process. 2. **Synthesis**: Through the conflict between thesis and antithesis, a synthesis emerges. This synthesis reconciles the two opposing sides and leads to a new understanding or viewpoint. 3. **Dynamic Process**: Dialectic is not a static debate; it is a dynamic process where ideas evolve through dialogue and confrontation. Each synthesis can become a new thesis in ongoing discussions. 4. **Application**: Dialectical thinking is used in various fields, including philosophy, politics, and science, to explore complex issues and develop comprehensive solutions. 5. **Critical Thinking**: Dialectic encourages critical thinking and open-mindedness, as it requires individuals to consider multiple perspectives and engage in constructive dialogue. Overall, dialectic serves as a powerful tool for exploring complex ideas and fostering intellectual growth.