Woke: A Culture War Against Europe | James Lindsay at the European Parliament
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Woke is Maoism with American characteristics if I might borrow from Mao himself who said that his philosophy was Marxism. It's a very provocative statement, it's something you will certainly hear. And the professors and the philosophers will spend a large amount of time explaining to you why no, no, it's about economics when it's Marxism. If we think of Marxism as a genus of ideological thought, then classical economic Marxism is a species. Radical feminism is a species in this same genus. Postcolonial theory that's plaguing Europe is a Species in this genus. That makes them treated as if they are all one thing, but the logic is Marxist. We have to ask what does he mean
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