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If you think Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution is ancient history, think again. The tactics Mao used to take over and ruin China in the 20th century are alive and well in America, just under a different name. James Lindsay explains. Transcript: Mao Zedong, the murderous dictator of Communist China from 1949 to 1976 was probably responsible for more death and misery than any single human being ever. If you think Mao’s monstrous reign is “ancient history” and has no relevance to the world we live in today… think again. The tactics Mao used to take over and ruin China in the middle of the twentieth century are the same tactics the modern left is using to take over and ruin America in the twenty-first century. Mao called this Marxism with “[Chinese] characteristics.” What we now call “woke”—the radical leftism that tells us that men give birth, that to be colorblind is to be racist, that social workers should replace police officers—could easily be called “Maoism with American characteristics.” So, let’s define Maoism, and then we’ll get to its “American characteristics.” In 1949 Mao took over China and held power for three decades using a very simple tactic, the dark art of demonizing your enemy. I call it “hatecraft.” What Mao did was divide everyone in China into two categories: “the people,” who agreed with his agenda, and “the enemies of the people,” who did not agree with his agenda. For the enemies, no quarter was given. They were blocking progress, so they had to be destroyed; they weren’t even considered people. “Not to have a correct political orientation,” Mao said, “is like not having a soul.” Anything Mao did to them was, therefore, justified. These enemies—prosperous farmers, landowners, and other so-called “counter-revolutionaries”—were prohibited from earning a living, were subjected to random arrest, and had their property confiscated. Many went to “thought reform” prisons to “wash their brains” of their incorrect values. And those were the lucky ones. Countless more were just simply executed for having the “wrong” opinion. America is not Mao’s China. No one is being lined up and shot for their “counter-revolutionary” beliefs, but the tactics—the hatecraft—employed by the American left borrow heavily from Mao’s playbook. See the rest: https://l.prageru.com/4ekIHTW 📲 Watch our content ad-free on our app: https://prageru.onelink.me/3bas/vgyxvm79 Follow PragerU on social media! Instagram ➡️ (https://www.instagram.com/prageru/) Twitter ➡️ (https://twitter.com/prageru) Facebook ➡️ (https://www.facebook.com/prageru/)

Former UK member of Parliament Douglas Carswell believes that the new battleground for freedom is in America—specifically in the American South. That’s why he moved his family 4,000 miles to Mississippi. 📲 Watch this video ad-free: https://prageru.onelink.me/3bas/vgyxvm79 Follow PragerU on social media! Instagram ➡️ (https://www.instagram.com/prageru/) Twitter ➡️ (https://twitter.com/prageru) Facebook ➡️ (https://www.facebook.com/prageru/)

Do you work to live? Or do you live to work? Most people today would probably affirm the former—work to live. Most people would be wrong. David Bahnsen, author of Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, explains why. 📲 Download the FREE PragerU app: https://prageru.onelink.me/3bas/vgyxvm79 Script: Do you work to live? Or do you live to work? Most people today would probably affirm the former—work to live. Most people would be wrong. We should do both: work to live and live to work. We are meant to work. I’ll go one step further: it’s what we are designed to do. If you have religious leanings, it’s right there in the Ten Commandments. “Six days you shall work.” And then rest on the seventh, just as God did. If you don’t have religious leanings, well, it’s just common sense. A productive and meaningful life means spending more time working than doing anything else in your life. No other activity comes close—unless you count sleeping as an activity. What one has to offer in skill, innovation, and productivity—that is, the work we do—is central to who we are. Nothing is possible without it. All things are possible if you do it well. If you want to have a family, you have to work. If you want to own a home or give to charity, you have to work. Working is what responsible people do. So then why does work get such a bad rap? Why do movies and television portray ambition as an enemy of your health, your relationships or just about anything else? Yes, some use their careers as an escape from other serious responsibilities and obligations. But you can be fully committed to your work without letting it take over your life. I daresay, you know people who have managed this. The far greater risk to our society is the popular view of work as a chore that simply must be endured. Overachievement is not our problem. Deriding achievement is. We don’t suffer from an epidemic of workaholism, but of “no-aholism”—no passion, no purpose, and no plan. The best prescription for all three of these modern ailments is work. Like so much in modern life, it seems like we need to re-discover a traditional value our grandparents and great-grandparents simply took for granted. So, let’s take a step back and look at the value of work. Arthur Brooks, a prolific writer on the subject of happiness and a professor at Harvard, has coined the term “earned success” to describe the psychological lift that work creates, the feeling of not receiving something, but earning it. This feeling is the basis of self-worth and deserved recognition. We achieve immense satisfaction from becoming valuable to others through our work. That’s why it doesn’t matter whether you’re a truck driver or a bond trader. With purpose and hard work—whatever work you do—you earn self-esteem and the esteem of others.

The incidence of gender dysphoria has increased 5,000% over the past decade. A French report has called current treatments potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine.” So, why do the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and many other medical associations support it? 📲 Download the FREE PragerU app: https://prageru.onelink.me/3bas/vgyxvm79 Script: Rosa was a smart, happy fourteen-year-old when she met her first boyfriend. “I found my forever”, she told everyone – until he suddenly ended it. Rosa was devastated – and the Covid lockdowns made things worse. She was isolated in her room all day, surfing the net. As the lockdowns dragged on, Rosa became sullen, irritable, and withdrawn. Her tank tops and shorts were replaced by oversize hoodies and baggy sweatpants One day Rosa came home with a buzz cut. Shortly after, she declared she was a boy and demanded testosterone. During my medical training, Rosa’s condition, now called gender dysphoria, was so rare, I never imagined I would see even one case in my lifetime. But over the past decade, the incidence of gender dysphoria has increased five thousand percent. What changed? Why did Rosa believe she was in the wrong body, and that without pharmaceuticals and operations, she’d never be happy? Why do the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and many other medical associations claim that Rosa’s delusion is normal? Why do they recommend treatment that will disfigure and possibly sterilize her healthy body? Before I answer that, let me tell you what hasn’t changed: Sex is established at the moment of conception. Sex is permanent. While Rosa’s body can be modified, she will never be a boy. Never. But my profession has been hijacked by a political crusade determined to erase the very notion of male and female. Medical associations have become mouthpieces for the gender zealots’ radical theories: Individuals construct their own reality. If Rosa feels she’s a boy, she is one. Hormones and surgery are the only solutions to gender dysphoria. If Rosa wants to grow a beard and to have her breasts removed, she has that fundamental right. Those are the premises of so-called Gender Affirming Care.

Konstantin Kisin grew up in a progressive paradise. Childcare, health services, and college were free. No one fought over race, religion, or class. Where was this utopia? And why was he so eager to leave it? 📲 Download the FREE PragerU app: https://prageru.onelink.me/3bas/vgyxvm79 Script: I grew up in a progressive paradise. The gap between the haves and have-nots was practically non-existent. The literacy rate was almost 100%. Healthcare was universal and free. No one fought over race, religion, or class. Maternity leave was generous. Childcare was free. There were no limits on abortion. So where was this paradise? No, it wasn’t Norway, Sweden, or Finland. It was the Soviet Union. Everything I just described was true, and yet, life in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR, was a living hell. Yes, income inequality barely existed, but that was because everyone was equally poor. Appliances, consumer products, and fresh food were scarce. If you wanted a car, good luck. You’d be on a waiting list for ten years. Yes, women were “emancipated.” But they spent most of their time waiting in line for hours for food to feed their children. Disposable diapers were unheard of, as were vacuum cleaners. A dishwasher? Are you kidding? Healthcare was free—in theory. But you could only get decent and timely treatment if you had influence, connections, and cash to pay bribes. Everyone was educated, but there were strings attached: if you went to college, the government decided what your career would be and where you would live. Racial and ethnic strife was limited, yes. But only because the government ruled by fear and terror, imprisoning millions of people—“enemies of the state”—in a vast network of concentration camps known as gulags. These “enemies” included my great-grandparents, who met in one of these gulags. Every morning, guards would randomly select three prisoners and throw them into the icy waters of a nearby lake, to drown in front of the whole camp. New York Times reporter Walter Duranty, a Stalin apologist, once wrote, ”You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” But in the Soviet Union, there were no omelets, only broken lives, broken dreams, broken bodies.

Experimenting with pills has never been deadlier because the drug supply has never been deadlier. James Fishback, founder of NEO: The New Drug Talk, explains what you need to know. 📲 Download the FREE PragerU app: https://prageru.onelink.me/3bas/vgyxvm79 Script: In the ugly history of illicit drugs, no drug is more deadly than fentanyl. Not cocaine. Not meth Not heroin. Every day, fentanyl kills over 200 Americans; rich, poor, black, white, old, young. Especially young. Fentanyl is a cheap synthetic opioid that is incredibly dangerous for two reasons: First, it’s FIFTY TIMES stronger than heroin. Just a sugar packet’s worth of fentanyl would kill over 500 people. Second, fentanyl is used to create counterfeit versions of popular prescription drugs. These fake pills look identical to the real ones—Xanax, Adderall, Oxycontin, Percocet, and others. You can’t see, smell, or taste the difference. Even agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, can’t tell the difference between the real pill and the counterfeit one. Fentanyl isn’t just deadly poison. It’s deadly poison in disguise, and most kids who die from it had no idea they were even taking it.