The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 198
When we talk about Woke Left and Woke Right, while the essential core of being “Woke” is mostly the same, there are some key differences. These organizational and conceptual differences arise in part because of deeper differences in how each of these projects divides the world, always ultimately into “us versus them.” With the Woke Left, it is divided starkly horizontally by classes deemed oppressor and oppressed. With the Woke Right, on the other hand, the model is more of circled wagons. The authentic, ideal nation defines the group that sees itself as alienated and even oppressed, while outside of that core are contaminants that are ultimately degrading it and ruining its inheritance. In this groundbreaking episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay introduces the concept of “Woke Nationalism” to explain this phenomenon, a Wokeness built around a collective of a nation. Join him to understand this important new idea.
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Watch TIKhistory’s YouTube channel on fascism and national socialism. Very good analysis of the difference. The video title I particularly like is ”
FASCISM DEFINED | The Difference between Fascism and National Socialism”
You’ve described the left as a critical theory with a defined praxis and postmodern toolkit. For symmetry, how should we model the right? Is ‘woke nationalism’ a parallel critical theory—with its own praxis and instrumental use of skepticism/deconstruction—or something categorically different?
So woke Right would be seeing all of the West / US as threatened by some external force like —
ISLAM?
Yep – that’s how I see it.