{"id":1513,"date":"2023-04-10T19:46:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/globalist-capitalist-woke-leftism-ii\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T19:46:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:46:36","slug":"globalist-capitalist-woke-leftism-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/globalist-capitalist-woke-leftism-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Globalist-Capitalist Woke Leftism II"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 26 January I wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

The new global-capitalist woke leftism (GCWL) is very different from the old socialist-humanist leftism (SHL, which I take to include both the Old Left and the New Left). I want to understand the similarities and the differences.<\/span><\/p>\n

GCWL versus SHL<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

1) Both are secular and anti-religion.  Since 1789 the Left has been virulently anti-clerical and anti-religious. Nota bene<\/em>: an ersatz religion is not a religion! So stop calling leftism a religion, Dennis Prager.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) Both target the middle class.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) Both are internationalist  and anti-nationalist.<\/span><\/p>\n

4) The main difference seems to be that SHL is humanist while GCWL tends toward the erasure of humanity and humanism via anti-natalism, paganism, nature-idolatrous environmentalism, misanthropy, Orwellian subversion of language, and leukophobic ethno-masochism and much else besides.<\/span><\/p>\n

So that's a start. Inadequate, no doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n

James Soriano responded this morning:<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

I liked your January 26 post on the Globalist-Capitalist Woke Leftism, as well as the comments<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are a couple of points on the dissimilarities of the \u201cWoke\u201d compared to the \u201cOld\u201d and \u201cNew.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(1)  <\/span>Both the Old Left and the New Left were hostile to capitalism, whereas the Woke Left finds it a useful tool.  <\/span>Today corporations big and small have become \u201cwoke\u201d and are friendly to the Woke agenda.  <\/span>Any corporation insufficiently sympathetic to the Woke agenda is bullied until it wakes up.<\/span><\/p>\n

(2)  <\/span>The Old Left got a Russian assist.  <\/span>After WWI, Russia secretly supported Communist parties and allied organizations in Europe and elsewhere.  <\/span>These subversive activities continued after WWII and into the New Left period.  <\/span>By contrast, the Woke Left gets an American assist.  <\/span>It is not secretive in any way.  <\/span>It\u2019s in the open.<\/span><\/p>\n

(3)  <\/span>The Old Left and the New Left thought of  <\/span>\u201crevolution\u201d as something that originates in society and then goes on to take over the state.  <\/span>But \u201cwoke\u201d attitudes have already penetrated into the state.  <\/span>To a \u201cwoke\u201d leftist, a revolution can also be something that moves from the state back into society for the purpose of stomping out pockets of resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

On this last point, we can make a distinction between a revolution BEFORE power and a revolution AFTER power.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Revolutions taking place before the revolutionaries consolidate power:  Americans in <\/span>1776, Mao in China, Castro in Cuba, and Khomeini in Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Revolutions taking place after the revolutionaries consolidate power:  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 1917.  <\/span>A small group of Bolsheviks take over the seat of government in St. Petersburg.  <\/span>The Russian Revolution took place after that event; there was no Bolshevik uprising prior to it.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 1932.   <\/span>The National Socialist German Workers' Party came to power by democratic means.  <\/span>The Nazi transformation of Germany took place after that event; there was no Nazi uprising prior to it. [It was 1933 — BV<\/span>]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Historian Martin Kramer makes this revolution-before-and-after distinction regarding \u201cmoderate\u201d Islamists.  <\/span>Many people in the Arab World fear that \u201cmoderates\u201d like the Muslim Brotherhood would use democratic means to take over the state.  <\/span>They would then go on to Islamize society after they take power.  <\/span>Wokesters are like that, too.<\/span><\/div>\n

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On 26 January I wrote: The new global-capitalist woke leftism (GCWL) is very different from the old socialist-humanist leftism (SHL, which I take to include both the Old Left and the New Left). I want to understand the similarities and the differences. GCWL versus SHL 1) Both are secular and anti-religion.  Since 1789 the Left … Continue reading “Globalist-Capitalist Woke Leftism II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}