Why Wokeism Is Not Marxist

April 2023April 28, 2023By Alexander Riley

At present, it is not a Marxian anti-capitalist left that most threatens our society. It is a wokeism perfectly happy to consolidate progressive business monopolies with massive economic power over individual lives . . .

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Glad to see someone addressing the self-embraced “Great One’s” misconceptions. Alexander Riley points out that Mark Levin and others’ embrace of Marxism as a catch-all for what we are undergoing is lacking. Levin is probably the best thing on conservative radio, which really is not saying much. The non-stop scam ads (“You might be the one-in-a-hundred million people who will come home from church and find your belongings out on the lawn because someone has committed ‘title fraud’ and stolen your house, so pay us hundreds a year to prevent this potentiality!!!”)(or “Life-lock”–“pay us to do what you can do simply yourself in you are a real paranoid sort”)(or “the IRS is coming for you, pay us now or pay the IRS later!!!”)(“Or pay [scam artists like] us to cancel your [purportedly’ scammy time-share) should give heed as to the neighborhood one is in with conservative talk radio. We are not dealing with brain surgeons on either end. So for Mark Levin to be proclaimed as a leading orator, with his “American Marxism” hitting best-seller status even, is amusing. Yes, Marxism was not remotely concerned with the breadth of what we are being pummeled with currently in our totalitarian environment.

April 4, 2023 Michael Kaiser Reply
Idle Prattle Otiose Twaddle. Next we shall receive a set of dissections and lucubrations and animadversions upon the TRUE or REAL “nature of evil.” (And why God the omnipotent willed it.) Ashli Babbitt rots in the grave–the Negro-Byrd slaughters her with impunity. Chauvin rots in prison for doing his job for the rest of us–the Negro Floyd family reaps millions for his fentanyl-induced death. That’s all anyone needs to know. (And that half the country never heard of the Waukesha Massacre.) What are we going to do about it? Ummm…correct the imprecise Mark Levin, whose Marxism-mongering is a tad too Procrustean.

April 14, 2023 Nick Reply
Our hatred of Marx is encrypted into our collective cultural gnome. It will never be excised but it can be spliced into any narrative as is the case with attributing the origins of CRT, Identity Politics, and Woke. We should use this to our advantage as the bookish Conservatives. We need the duller members of our caste to man the barricades and if all it takes is anti-Marxist slogans to rile them up and give themselves for the cause so be it. We all have a more or less significant role to play in the Culture Wars.

April 14, 2023 RICHARD BECK Reply
All of these articles make some concessions that wokeism does come out of Marxism. But then they assert that the two things are totally decouple from one another for a variety of reasons. But several facts remain.

First, humans have identified with groups throughout history. But Marxism is specifically calling out oppressor/oppressed classes and calling for political revolution (of some sort) to put the oppressed in power. Wokeism does the same thing. Same narrative, grievances, and solution. Wokeism also blames every ill on the oppressor and explains all suffering within the oppressor/oppressed framework which comes straight out of Marx.

Second, you can trace woke ideology directly from intellectuals who considered themselves Marxists. No one denies the differences between 19th century Marxism and 21st century wokeism. But look at the ideological path. Wokeism came out of Marxism. All the names invoked Gramsci, Frankfurt School, Marcuse, LaClau, and Mouffe were all Marxists and were trying to set the stage for a Communist revolution. Look at Weimar Germany the Communists were pushing an early type of LGBTQ+ ideology in the 1920s. That stream of thought came over to the US after 1933. That’s woke Marxism. Read LaClau and Mouffe who wrote in the 1980s about how the Communist revolution would come about through exploiting the racial, sexual, moral, feminist divisions within American society. They wrote about this shift towards early wokeism in the journal called “Marxism Today” in 1981. Wokeism is Marxism. Marx would be woke in 2023

Third, capitalism as used in this article isn’t free market capitalism. It is cronyism, cartelism, corporatism which is a form of socialism. It is the socialism of fascists. The state doesn’t OWN captial but it does CONTROL capital. Look no further than Kendi’s economic ideas to see how it is Marxist. Controlling capital to bring equity, meaning more money, to the oppressed races and impoverishing the oppressors. Look at stakeholder capitalism. It is capitalist in name only. It is an economy dictated by the state violating private property rights and enslaving society through central banking and environmental regulation.

https://thecrosssectionrmb.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-ethics-of-liberty-children-and.html

April 14, 2023 RMB Reply
This again. “ACKSHUALLY it’s not Marxist because they don’t want to abolish private business!”

The anti-White, pro-homosexual, feminist agenda is Marxist, always was. Cultural Marxism was espoused by the communists from the beginning. Marx’ son-in-law was “proud to have the blood of three oppressed races”. Communist parties in Europe and the U.S. have always sought to use non-Whites against Whites, feminists against men, and promoted perversion, drug use, letting out criminals early to get their votes.

The Frankfurt School wasn’t Marxist? They were openly Marxist. But they focused on THE CULTURAL SIDE OF MARXISM, which is what they brought to the U.S. where they entered academia. That they don’t want to abolish private business but control it doesn’t mean they aren’t Marxist, which the slightest knowledge of Marxist history would show.

“But the Soviet Union didn’t have feminism,” etc – that’s because the communists were firmly in control. They didn’t have to gather the dreg of society anymore. And the leaders were old men. They had no use for cultural Marxism anymore. But before the takeover, they did. And actually they still paid lip service to feminism, and cursed the Western-built empires that brought the world little things like the wheel and penicillin and electricity. It was Trotsky who invented the word “racism” as a political word to use against the Western empires.

April 15, 2023 Tenet Reply
This is as outlandish a take on history as anti-woke hysterics claim 1776 Project is. The entire thesis is that Black civil rights-& the subsequent movements that use CRM as a template are secretly studying Marx is laughable. Humans naturally are evolving in a way that is breaking down the white male Christian hold on culture, and pieces like this one, are masturbation over a perceived crisis of “Wokeism”. Our Society inherently understands that the Age of the conservative patriarchy must and should come to an end in favor of shareholders properly concerned with all citizens. The only communist elements that have ever really entered into our culture are unions and the few employee-owned companies that exist. Communes & collectives also borrow some philosophies from Marxism but again, only in a very rudimentary vein. The lovely & closeted gay, J. Edgar, already tried a communist witch hunt 70 years ago. The concept of woke has really rattled the Right Wing because patriarchal capitalism & pseudo-christian rhetoric full of hate is not resonating with the voting public. Most polls show people are not subscribing to woke as a negative, & with approximately 49% of population as functionally illiterate, people are not beefing up on Karl Marx in between their 2-3 jobs.
Found this site by accident & hoped it was a balanced, intelligent take on state of modern American society, but it’s just well-written pseudo-philosophy/social commentary with little connection to our modern world.

April 16, 2023 Jerome Reply
Jerome is “full of hate”–to use his knee-I’m-a-jerk phrase–so he has very charitably gone far out of his way (he says “accidentally”) to teach all of us despicable deplorables and patriarchalist-homophobes (Christians) that “love is love.” As long as it’s the Whites like Ashli Babbitt who are killed with impunity in broad daylight, no justification for looting, torching, mauling. For Pro-White is Racism, but pro-Black is Social Justice. And Mark Fuhrman murdered Nicole Simpson.

April 16, 2023 Nick Reply
What is “woke” except biological leninism? Spandrell’s essay elaborates:

“Socialism though promised to change that, and Marx showed they had a good plan. Lenin then put that plan to work in practice. What did Lenin do? Exterminate the natural aristocracy of Russia, and build a ruling class with a bunch of low-status people. Workers, peasants, Jews, Latvians, Ukrainians. Lenin went out of his way to recruit everyone who had a grudge against Imperial Russian society. And it worked, brilliantly. The Bolsheviks, a small party with little popular support, won the civil war, and became the awesome Soviet Union. ”

“So again, the genius of Leninism was in building a ruling class from scratch and making it cohesive by explicitly choosing people from low-status groups, ensuring they would be loyal to the party given they had much to lose. It worked so well it was the marvel of the intellectual classes of the whole world for a hundred years.
Meanwhile, what was the West doing? The West, that diehard enemy of worldwide Communism, led by the United States. What has been the American response to Leninism? Look around you. Read Vox. Put on TV. Ok, that’s enough. Who is high status in the West today? Women. Homosexuals. Transexuals. Muslims. Blacks. There’s even movements propping up disabled and fat people. What Progressivism is running is hyper Leninism. Biological Leninism.”

April 17, 2023 FrogPoaster Reply
Look into the Congress of Cultural Freedom (or freeing human animals from any influence of any culture worth the name). Capitalism is just the accumulation, acquisition and application of capital towards whatever ends the holder of capital desires. The argument turns to: once a big pile of capital is accumulated and is sitting there on the floor in front of God and everyone, who gets “the say” on how it is used. There are NO anticapitalists, only differences on who gets “the say”. The CCF sought to so dumb down the “human herd” and keep them safely sequestered in a “feedlot” that such ideas as “who gets the say” wouldn’t occur to them. Just stoke their appetites for food, sex, and drugs, and cancel/censor all threatening sources of information except those pertaining to “bread and circuses” and the ones ranting about “Revolution” ( reads: “I get The Say”) can proceed unchallenged. Actually, it’s the Sponsors of the Ranters that’ll proceed, after they eliminate the Ranters as the useful idiots that they are (they forgot about the very capable “hired guns” of the Sponsors). Such is the outcome when you go effing with Culture and cut the Chains of Culture that BIND the VERY Powerful to the community (which is it to be; a chivalrous Knight, or a savage Viking?).

April 18, 2023 Larry Bowen Reply
This article is very important to the movement to save society. The reagan mantra that it’s all socialism doesn’t apply here. There is no justice or worker centered goal with the establishment Woke.
Woke is anti marxist, in that meaningless social degeneration and indulge is a bourgeois manifestation.
Marxists would be focused on working class power in the workplace and at the ballot box.

April 22, 2023 Hhd Reply

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