Woke, Progressive, Left: It's All Marxism
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Anti-Marxist liberals have labored under numerous disadvantages in the recent struggles to maintain control of liberal organizations. One is that they are often not confident they can use the term âMarxistâ in good faith to describe those seeking to overthrow them. This is because their tormentors do not follow the precedent of the Communist Party, the Nazis, and various other political movements that branded themselves using a particular party name and issued an explicit manifesto to define it. Instead, they disorient their opponents by referring to their beliefs with a shifting vocabulary of terms, including âthe Left,â âProgressivism,â âSocial Justice,â âAnti-Racism,â âAnti-Fascism,â âBlack Lives Matter,â âCritical Race Theory,â âIdentity Politics,â âPolitical Correctness,â âWokeness,â and more. When liberals try to use these terms they often find themselves deplored for not using them correctly, and this itself becomes a weapon in the hands of those who wish to humiliate and ultimately destroy them.
The best way to escape this trap is to recognize the movement presently seeking to overthrow liberalism for what it is: an updated version of Marxism. I do not say this to disparage anyone. I say this because it is true. And because recognizing this truth will help us understand what we are facing.
The new Marxists do not use the technical jargon that was devised by 19th-century Communists. They donât talk about the bourgeoisie, proletariat, class struggle, alienation of labor, commodity fetishism, and the rest, and in fact they have developed their own jargon tailored to present circumstances in America, Britain, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, their politics are based on Marxâs framework for critiquing liberalism (what Marx calls the âideology of the bourgeoisieâ) and overthrowing it.
Via https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/. Read the whole thing, especially for the "framework of Marxism."