Ep. 1658 Ex-Marxist Ridicules "Wokeness"

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Michael Rectenwald, retired professor at New York University, was a lifelong Marxist until very recently. He's now repudiated that past and embraced a Misesian future. His new book, , explores every aspect of so-called "woke" culture and dismantles it mercilessly as only someone intimately familiar with leftism can.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, episode 1658.
0:03.2	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.8	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.3	The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.3	Folks, by now you've probably noticed that news about the virus is almost always
0:18.1	fact-free hysteria these days. So you need my brand new free ebook,
0:22.3	your Facebook friends are wrong about the lockdown.
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0:30.0	Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here, delighted to have Michael Reckton-Wald back on the show.
0:34.0	You really need to listen to all our episodes together. They're all great. They're all linked at
0:37.6	Tom Woods dot com slash 1658. He is retired as a professor at New York University.
0:43.7	And he was a lifelong Marxist until very recently. And not only has he repudiated that,
0:50.0	but he has embraced the Misesian worldview, a Lubric van Mises and the tradition of
0:57.5	australibertarianism. He's just fantastic. An incredibly open-minded person. Nobody at this
1:03.2	stage in his career changes ideological outlooks. That just doesn't happen. So he's just an honest
1:09.4	person and very, very smart. And we're going to have a lot to talk about today. In particular,
1:15.0	his brand new book Beyond Woke. So Michael Reckton-Wald, welcome back. Hey, Tom, thanks for having me again.
1:22.2	You are such a patient man. The day we're set to record, my Mac just cocks out. Like, that is it.
1:28.0	It has made its sacrifice for the Tom Woods show. Then that's it. And I managed to get this new one
1:34.5	up and running in the software installed and recording for the podcast. I consider it a miracle.
1:39.4	And also your patience is part of that. Part of that.
1:43.2	You haven't running.
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