Last night at the Tuckerbox Restaurant in White River Junction, VT, the Dartmouth College Republicans presented Dr. James Lindsay on the topic of “The Rise of Identity Marxism“. In his almost two hour presentation and Q&A session, he weaves a multi-threaded recounting of how Marxism came to the United State, found out that it was a failure among the working class, and then switched its emphasis from socioeconomic into a morphing to race based classism. A rose is still a rose even if called by another name.
So it is with Socialism and Marxism.
This is the ENTIRE event – an hour and 50 minutes of presentation and Q&A. I am going to be splitting it up but as I have told a number of folks, it is going to be hard to do (other than the easy “time slice”) because of how he interwove several threads almost all the time. But talk about quotes to get pulled out!
Also last night, was our first attempt at livestreaming in over two years (who has had events during the pandemic??). Lessons learned this time out and we did iron out a number of problems (I at the event and Steve giving me feedback from home via a whole serious of texts until his phone died). As my last text to him last nite said:
Its saddening how much I didn’t realize how much I have forgotten.
Sure, testing was easy before the event but Studio took an update once I fired it up at the venue – and changed things. When things went wrong, it took a while for the “Oh, YEAH!” moments to happen.
Otherwise, an entirely enjoyable evening and the 4 hour travel time + 3 hours on site were well worth it. And the hours yet to be spent on further processing of the video.
Thanks again to the Dartmouth College Republicans.
