{"id":1661,"date":"2023-01-26T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/globalist-capitalist-woke-leftism\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:00:21","slug":"globalist-capitalist-woke-leftism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/globalist-capitalist-woke-leftism\/","title":{"rendered":"Globalist-Capitalist Woke Leftism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some half-baked thoughts that perhaps Vito C. and Ed B. can help me formulate. The new global-capitalist woke leftism (GCWL) is very different from the old socialist-humanist leftism (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<\/span><\/em><\/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. Come on boys, help me out. Why do I have to do all the work?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some half-baked thoughts that perhaps Vito C. and Ed B. can help me formulate. The new global-capitalist woke leftism (GCWL) is very different from the old socialist-humanist leftism (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 … Continue reading “Globalist-Capitalist Woke Leftism”<\/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":[102,163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","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=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}