Hello, thank you. I'm glad to be here. I want to address something Tom just said,

which is in fact that

woke is supposed to advance equity in Europe.

So here's the definition of equity and see if it sounds like a definition of anything else

you've ever heard of. The definition of equity comes from the public administration literature.

It was written by a man named George Fredrickson.

And the definition is an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that

citizens are made equal. Does that sound like anything you've heard of before, like socialism?

They're going to administer an economy to make shares equal. The only difference between equity

and socialism is the type of property that they redistribute, the type of shares.

They're going to redistribute social and cultural capital in addition to economic and material

capital. And so this is my thesis. When we say what is woke, woke is malism with American

characteristics. If I might borrow from Mao himself who said that his philosophy was Marxism

Leninism with Chinese characteristics, which means woke is Marxism. And it's a very provocative

statement. It's something you will certainly hear. It is not that it is different. 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. This is social. This is cultural. This is different.

It's not different. I need you to think biologically for one moment. And I don't mean about your

bodies. We could do that. That's a different topic. I want you to think how we organize plants

and animals when we study them. They're species, but above species there are the genus of the animals.

So you think like the cats, all the cats, but you have tigers, you have lions, you have house cats,

you have whatever leopards, many different kinds of cats. If we think of Marxism as a genus of

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