This article is a nicely formatted transcript of a speech by James Lindsay about cultural Marxism. It was recently given at a conference:
"Conference organized in the
European Parliament by the Identity and Democracy Foundation."
You can read the article because an article is required, or you can watch the video. In the video, James starts at 4:30 and goes to 32:55. I've put excerpts below.
I'm bringing this up because if you are sleeping then you are in trouble. There is no stopping this, and this is "Woke."
I call Woke the religion of equality, aka Church of Woke. Note that Woke is replacing Christianity and IMO it is the dominate religion in the West today. Woke is suppose to advance equity across the West:
Equity: “An administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal.”
Effectively, everybody ends up at the same economic level.
James explains the various species of Marxism. Genus is the umbrella that various species are under.
Cat: lion, tiger, leopard, house cat, ... .
Marxism: classical Marxism, radical feminism, critical race theory, queer theory and others.
Woke seems to cover many of the species under Marxism but not classical Marxism. James says Woke is Marxism with American characteristics.
Classical Marxism didn't work in the West, so they (professors and other influencers) shifted to cultural Marxism which we know as Woke. Instead of a fight between economic classes, now it's a fight between races. And Critical Race Theory falls out of that fight. Whiteness is a form of private property.
"Systemic racism is enforced by an ideology of white supremacy instead of capitalism. If you think of whiteness as a form of cultural capital, white supremacy, as they define, is identical to capitalism. It’s not believing that white people are superior. It’s believing that white people have access to the control of society and should maintain that, even if you don’t actually believe that. If you merely support that you have adopted the ideology of white supremacy into your mind."
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"I wrote a book called
Race Marxism and I defined Critical Race Theory as it really is in that book on the first page. I said that"
Moving on to queer theory:
Postcolonial theory:
The goal is the same as in Marxism. Seize the control of:
1. Means of production.
2. History.
3. Society.
Marx thought this would happen via economic means. In the West this is happening via socio-cultural means.
The various Marx species have divided themselves into peoples - folk. LGBTQ is a folk as is the black community. They act like nations and as colonizers:
"Don’t they put them on your buildings like colonizers? Don’t they hang them in your streets?"
"They think of themselves as occupying nations,"
China's Mao used identity politics to gain power. Woke is Maoism with American characteristics.
"Because the goal is to make us into what they call global citizens."
What is a global citizen?
"It’s somebody who supports the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030."
"It’s more about global responsibilities.
In other words, slavery."
"This is a pivotal moment in the history of the Western world."