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Woke Marxism Rejects Prosperity

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 93 Surely you've noticed that Woke doesn't work. Of course it doesn't. It's not just bad ideas put into operation by bad people and obvious grifters, though, that causes the problem. Woke Marxism isn't even interested in making things work. In fact, it's worse than that, even. Woke Marxism is, by definition, hostile to making things work. It is, as Herbert Marcuse put it in An Essay on Liberation (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/1969/essay-liberation.htm ) in 1969, a protest against "the totality of a well-functioning and prosperous society," even against its very Platonic Form. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay shows you exactly where this mentality was adopted by the radical Left that became the Woke Left to explain why Woke Marxism cannot possibly make anything work. It's opposed to the very concept! New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Marxism

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0:00.0

Everybody it's James Lindsey you're listening to new discourse's bullets, where I give a short bullet point-like summary of a single topic from woke Marxism that we need to understand so that we can beat it.

0:21.0

And what we're going to talk about today, I'm just going to tell you very simply why

0:25.5

Woke doesn't work. I'm not going to go into this huge complicated theoretical discussion. I'm just

0:30.6

going to tell you that the Godfather of woke Herbert Marcuse explained

0:35.6

that what has become woke in his wake was never meant to work. In fact it's meant

0:42.0

not to work. That's the whole point. So this I'm going to read a very short piece out of, I mean literally just a few sentences, out of his 1969 essay on liberation, but let me give you some context first.

0:57.0

Obviously we can talk about how woke doesn't work anywhere you look.

1:03.2

You know the saying is of course go woke, go broke and we know that that's not really true because

1:09.7

woke is propped up by these kind of very corrupt cartel logics of like ESG. Remember that

1:16.0

Woke we could say is DEI and DEI is the S and ESG and we know that the entire ESG program is propping this up in the corporate

1:26.6

environment and so all of our big corporations because they have gigantic

1:31.4

investment firms pulling the strings to make them be ESG, thus

1:36.2

DEI, thus Woke compliant, are keeping this alive.

1:42.1

But we know that W woke tears apart businesses it tears apart

1:45.8

institutions it tears apart young people it just deranges their minds it turns them

1:51.3

into people who seem I mean look at these kids at, they're not kids, they're

1:56.1

young adults. Look at these young adults at our apparently best universities in the world.

2:01.5

Harvard, Yale, Stanford, USC, Columbia,

2:07.0

in particular, Columbia.

2:08.7

We could go on.

2:09.5

The list could go on.

2:10.6

We know it's basically all of them. University of Chicago got involved. We know that this is a thing and they've built these encampments.

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