The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 111
Woke is a cult. In fact, Woke is a cult in exactly the same way Maoism was and is a cult. There’s only a little daylight between them, as we recently explored here on the New Discourses Podcast. Ideological cults like Woke and Maoism operate in an environment Robert Jay Lifton labeled “ideological totalism,” which he described in depth in his book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China. In one of the later chapters of that book, Lifton details eight characteristics of ideological totalism, and in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads through the relevant chapter in full and connects it both to the Maoist context Lifton is describing from the outside and to the Woke Marxist revolution we’re currently suffering from the inside. Join James for an unprecedentedly close and detailed look at the cultic nature of Woke.
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5 comments
Apparently, nerves were touched.
Wokeness is nothing to do with either Marxism or Maoism you politically illiterate moron. Marxism is about class struggle and anti imperialist struggle only. Wokeism replaces class struggle with Idpol and cheers on every American intervention as long as it is the democrats that are doing it. So it is completely antithetical to Marxism in every sense of the word. Wokeism is an entirely bourgeois movement funded by Wall Street and the capitalist class. SJWs wokeists oppose the DPRK which is a communist country and the support funding neo-Nazi in the U$ backed puppet state of Ukraine. It’s clear that you are completely ignorant of both political theory and discourse and instead throw around words that you are completely ignorant of. You are unable to put any serious challenge to wokness because you can’t see where it originated from and what is the real material cause of the cancer of wokenss.
Hey idiot , its the dialectic shaft . They arnt pure marxists , they weaponise marxist excrement so you can smell the stink coming off them.
Phuck pure marxism , phuck neo marxist critical theory , phuck you
Tell me that you haven’t spent five minutes actually looking at anything James has ever said without telling me… He addresses this ad nauseam in all of his works.
The Enlightenment was simply “Master’s Tools” after all:
https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-science/