Maxism and Power Deferentials

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Part of visideology is to say that power deferentials are really bad and pernicious. But isn't there also an important claim about the kinds of power defluentials that are most important in the world, or perhaps ae most unjust in the world? Maxism is a philosophy that, as it presents itself, is about remedying power deferential. It seems to primarily be concerned with, for lack bt, escriptive identities of race and religion, angender and sexual orientation and so on.

John McWhorter is an author, a member of the Persuasion Board of Advisors, a Columbia University linguist, and a columnist for The New York Times. His latest book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, argues that we must understand wokeness, quite literally, as a religion.

In this week’s conversation, John McWhorter and Yascha Mounk discuss the nature of today’s social progressivism, whether it constitutes a religion, and how we can actually help to reduce racial disparities in the United States.

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