This one is going out to Antonio of Venice. In another thread I observed him calming that woke trans behavior couldn't be socialist, because the USSR was anti-gay.
So this is an educational resource for those who don't know how politicizing of fundamental social concepts like sex and gender roles can work towards a Neo-Marxist agenda.
Here is a link to an episode of James Lindsay's New Discourses podcast, where he defines Queer Theory and gives some of its history.
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 94; The Political Definition of "Queer"
James Lindsay isn't perfect. He is committed to the reform of the sphere of academia, and he recently tried to make "woke right" a thing. That said, he is very knowledgeable and gives extensive citations for every point he makes in this podcast. There are well cited publications elsewhere in his body of work which have extensive discussion and exhaustive citations. This is (more or less) the short, short version.
Queer Theory is a descendent of Critical Theory and redefines the Marxist class struggle along different lines.
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The podcast episode critiques queer theory as defined by David Halperin, a foundational queer theorist.
Halperin frames "queer" not as an identity rooted in reality (like being gay) but as a political stance opposed to norms, legitimacy, and dominance. Halperin’s definition seeks to elevate Foucault to sainthood and divorces "queer" from any "positive truth" or "stable reality," instead positioning it as a fluid, oppositional force against societal structures.
Lindsay argues this politicizes identity, conflates personal and political realms (a "Marxist maneuver"), and enables radical outcomes—including destabilizing science, rejecting limiting principles, and potentially justifying harm to children. Queer theory’s lack of "essence" or grounding in reality, Lindsay claims, makes it inherently destructive, warranting opposition to its ideological framework.
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Queer Theory defines "queer" as political action specifically in opposition to existing social structures; deliberately conflating sexuality with political action. Doing so it makes action outside the sexual orthodoxly inherently political, without restriction. IMNHO Queer Theory specifically encourages both sexualizing and politicizing the youth.
The astute observer will observe this is exactly what is happening with the grooming and transing of kids.
This is one of the smartest posts that has been posted here in a great while.
I still can't adequately articulate what I have seen but this comes pretty close. Foucault and postmodernism are close to the root problem (if not the actual root problem).
I'll never forget when I was a dumbass lib Sociology graduate student and I tried to tell my class (in so many words) that I couldn't shake the feeling all of this theory was just orienting people to tear down all of the systems that we have built and held dear... I left that room convinced not only did they know it, they were rooting for it.
When your enemies say they want to destroy everything about you, believe it.
Most postmodernism is rooted in Critical Theory, the idea that everything in western society should be criticized forever from every angle until it collapses. Vertigopolitix has a great video on that.
I will watch that video, but I disagree insofar as the word intent - the truth is more nefarious than that in my opinion.
I won't argue this was the intent of the original Theorists, and is certainly the intent of some of the more radical authors now. Hell, the idiots at Black Lives Matter were too dumb to understand they were basically articulating that intent in their words.
But I just think (largely fed by experience with these people) that most of the academics now are foot soldiers who honestly and ardently believe the bullshit of it all. These idiots really believe there is no biological differences between men and women. They really believe that all the disparate outcomes American blacks see is rooted in racism and not rooted in bad choices coupled with a fucked up incentive system via government handouts.
There will always be people plotting against the dominant world hegemony, and the middle of the 20th century was no exception to that. It is really, ironically, in the collapse of the Soviet Union that this mind virus really took hold. People stopped being vigilant about bad ideas and stopped seeing the danger in ideology. The 90s to now really accelerated the communization of our universities.
You can see evidence of what I am saying in how Democrats (much more likely to be captured by the mind virus and now almost entirely comprised of those afflicted) govern. Take New York as an example. Their state budget is almost $300,000,000,000 and they spend the most money on social services... and continue to invite people like illlegals to come here, and drive out productive people, and promise everyone the moon. The result is no one gets anything, systems completely break down, and waste spirals out of control. The schools fail and they just cover it up with statistics. The police fail and they aren't even allowed to do their jobs in the first place. The prisons fail so they just find reasons to not put people in prison.
They are in complete and utter denial. They are honestly trying their best but their worldview is so fucked they can't even aknowledge the problems they create.