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It’s another term that’s original meaning has been corrupted and is now used as an insult.
Rather like the word “Marxism”!
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Just look at the chaos and misery Marxism inflicted on the world in the 20th Century.
The Woke ( cultural Marxism) of the 21st century will make the Marxism of the 20th century seem like the good times – even though it led to the deaths of over 100 million people. The Woolfie Smiths of this world will not give up their proven false ideology.no offence, but do you even know what Marxism is?
what on earth does 21st century identity politics have to do with an economic / political philosophy from 175 years ago?
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I think there is an issue with group think and tribalist views among aspects of progressivism. Such tribal blindness allows questionable ideas to be supported through refusing to consider other opinions and automatic assumptions that anyone who disagrees must be a conservative. I share a dislike of conservative ideas a lot of the time, find many aspects of conservatism worrying today, but I am wary of becoming too tribal in opposing anything a conservative says or blindly supporting anything because it’s liberal coded.
There is a critique for such matters. The issue is that many who oppose such progessive over-reach don’t just want to stop the silly stuff that is more contentious, but everything liberal. Wokeness doesn’t really mean much as a result, because it’s poorly defined and could mean different things to different people. It doesn’t just mean the hyper-sensitivity to racial matters (e.g. when you have someone go on about how cultural appropriation is a plague upon society, not cultures sharing in each other’s culture) or gender ideology for some; it means opposing gay rights, women’s rights etc. Of course there will be people who disagree with such, but I am uncomfortable with the idea that the latter should be lumped in with progressive over-reach. Any meaningful critique of ‘wokeness’ has lost impact for me, because I don’t trust those who oppose it and it often seems to be just demonising of socially liberal ideas.
I lose more interest when people throw buzz words like cultural Marxism around. Ignoring the problematic origins of such terms (I do not think bpg is using it for this purpose, but there are those that still do), it just seems to be jargon aimed to sound intellectually strong, but doesn’t have much meaning behind it for many. For one, many of the people slammed as ‘cultural Marxist’ are not Marxists. I wouldn’t be surprised if bpg sees me as a ‘cultural Marxist’, yet I have no yearning for Marxism or any kind of far-left ideology. I am no fan of communism and am fully aware of the totalitarianism associated with it. I do not think we are at risk of it now either.
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I lose more interest when people throw buzz words like cultural Marxism around. Ignoring the problematic origins of such terms (I do not think bpg is using it for this purpose, but there are those that still do), it just seems to be jargon aimed to sound intellectually strong, but doesn’t have much meaning behind it for many. For one, many of the people slammed as ‘cultural Marxist’ are not Marxists. I wouldn’t be surprised if bpg sees me as a ‘cultural Marxist’, yet I have no yearning for Marxism or any kind of far-left ideology. I am no fan of communism and am fully aware of the totalitarianism associated with it. I do not think we are at risk of it now either.
You’re right, we hear a lot of “Marxism” these days in the media depsite the fact that Marxists are powerless, disorganised, hopelessly split and widely derided politically. It’s as absurd as basing a political project around the suppsed evils of the Monster Raving Loony Party. Their vote in by elections regularly trounces those of the CPGB or one of the other Heinz57 political groupuscules on the far left.
The idea that Jeremy Corbyn- the sort of guy who plays the kindly Modern Studies teacher in a Ken Loach film- was some sort of dangerous “Marxist” and threat to British society was absolutely laughable. He was many notches to the right of Michael Foot’s manifesto of 1983, let along Attlee’s manifesto of ’45 that built the Welfare State the Tory party has been dismantling enthusiastically.
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Told you!
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Noticed a few new posters with political leanings to the left of Enoch Powell. I suspect it’s part of a neo-Marxist drive to infiltrate football fans forums. So convinced am I, I’m recording a new vid for YouTube this evening.
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