Wokeness doesn't come from Marxism | Dr. Eric Kaufmann

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  • Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024

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  • @Rsvohi
    @Rsvohi 5 месяцев назад +13

    It comes from critical theory and critical theory comes from strands of Marxist philosophy and postmodernism woven together. Look up “New Left” and “Herbert Marcuse”.

  • @ArdentLion
    @ArdentLion 5 месяцев назад +30

    It is called Cultural Marxism. Wokeness is another term for Cultural Marxism. It did grow from classical Marxism.

    • @alexdetrojan4534
      @alexdetrojan4534 5 месяцев назад +6

      Agreed.

    • @judistench2167
      @judistench2167 5 месяцев назад +4

      Indeed.

    • @Stevie-J
      @Stevie-J 5 месяцев назад +4

      Wikipedia says that cultural marxism is a conspiracy theory though, and wikipedia is the most diverse platform so that makes it the most true

    • @judistench2167
      @judistench2167 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@Stevie-J Sure, Jan…😂😂😂🤪😜🤪

    • @yamiyugi2894
      @yamiyugi2894 5 месяцев назад

      Still classical Marxism contradicts intersectionality and "cultural marxism" isn't identity politics on its own

  • @vickdisco
    @vickdisco 5 месяцев назад +12

    James Lindsay would strongly disagree....

  • @johnc2802
    @johnc2802 5 месяцев назад +15

    I think Eric is correct here. The simpler explanation comes from Nathan Cofnas. Millennials were taught that people are all equal. When this generation came of age they leaned heavily on left/liberal justificationa for why inequities still exist after decades of integration along race/sex lines. In a liberal society people are socially restricted people from 'right of liberal' points of view.

    • @waltonsmith7210
      @waltonsmith7210 5 месяцев назад

      You're not restricted at all, people will just think you're an asshole.

    • @MrDezokokotar
      @MrDezokokotar 5 месяцев назад +7

      @@waltonsmith7210 What do you imagine "socially restricting" means?

  • @zeenuf00
    @zeenuf00 5 месяцев назад +23

    Wokeness comes from postmodern deconstructionism.

    • @nickkraw1
      @nickkraw1 5 месяцев назад +7

      This is correct, and frankly that comes from Marxism, atheism, materialism, and liberalism - and all of those ultimately come from nominalism.

    • @polybian_bicycle
      @polybian_bicycle 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@nickkraw1
      And nominalism ultimately comes from philosophy, so fuck Socrates and Thales!

    • @Ramtin-Blue_rose
      @Ramtin-Blue_rose 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@nickkraw1
      Almost all of the postmodern deconstructionalists were anti marxist leftist, postmodernism were the artificial compatible left within boundaries of capitalism with its root in middle class rather than working class. And also class analysis and dialectical materialism are also absent in post modernism so, no they are not the same in fact postmodernists are very anti marxists.

    • @sdrc92126
      @sdrc92126 Месяц назад

      @@nickkraw1 religious ideas

  • @angelina6543
    @angelina6543 5 месяцев назад +5

    Marksism is wokeness. It doesn't comes from, it literally is

    • @yamiyugi2894
      @yamiyugi2894 5 месяцев назад

      You can't even spell it

    • @c3bhm
      @c3bhm 4 месяца назад

      @@yamiyugi2894 RUclips has creepy and unpredictable censorship algorithms for certain words and word combinations. The rationale is often that it's 'anti-semitic'.

  • @WarmProp
    @WarmProp 5 месяцев назад +7

    Yes it does. There's a direct continuum from vulgar to intersectional.

    • @bogdanpopescu1401
      @bogdanpopescu1401 5 месяцев назад

      I think it has roots in Marxism, but surely it doesn't come from Marxism only;
      but they are both manifestations of egalitarian entropic tendencies which exist in any society

  • @gurugeorge
    @gurugeorge 5 месяцев назад +10

    It's true that wokeness from about 2013 on has been more of a liberal phenomenon, but that's more of an answer to the question, "why did our liberal elites accede so easily and quickly to it?" IOW, it's down several levels of Chinese Whispers from its origins.
    IOW in origin and theory it does come from some forms of Marxist revisionism (the line from Gramsci through the Frankfurt School to intersectionality, etc.), it's intended as a way of destroying "primary ties" etc. and therefore destroying Western society; but it dovetailed with liberalism (qua Godless fag-end of Christian morality), because it had hooks that liberals could latch on to, via the shared egalitarianism.
    But that could just as easily be understood as an aspect of the "modify the standards of the in-group" project that started after the end of WW2. Follow the money.

    • @000-z8n
      @000-z8n 5 месяцев назад

      This is the same pattern we saw in the '80s. A pre-existing radical left pushing a mixture of Marxism, postmodernism, critical theory, radical feminism and some others began to feel their oats on campuses. Liberals (" ") split between those who embraced the leftier option, and those intimidated into silence. I think part of this is motivated by the "No enemies to the left" principle. Many liberals only see the right as an enemy, and either can't see or can't say that the left is possible of error, too. (Many on the left won't criticize the leftier left except to say things like "I fear this radicalism will help the right" and "I agree with their ends but not their means).

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 5 месяцев назад

      Yep, the Ideological Subversion of the Frankfurt School in Chicago aided by the CIA to destroy notions of Nationalism

    • @RuneDrageon
      @RuneDrageon 5 месяцев назад

      Beautiful follow up to an antisemetic conspiracy you got there, cause that is what those accusation against the Frankfurt school and specifically Adorno and horkheimer were.

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 5 месяцев назад +10

      @@RuneDrageon that's a non sequitur
      I didn't see any mention of Js
      And then that is a genetic fallacy of sorts, basically because some bad people also didn't like these Philosophies therefore if you don't you are bad too.
      Don't be ridiculous.
      There are lots of reasons to reject the work of the Frankfurt School, not least because they actively tried to make revolution and they were open about it, not least because it is divisive exploitation of identity politics, and especially because Adorno wrote endless tripe trying to sound smarter than the other philosophers in some verbal dick waving competition.

    • @gurugeorge
      @gurugeorge 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@RuneDrageon Never mind whether it's a conspiracy or "anti-semitic" - is it true?

  • @willard39
    @willard39 5 месяцев назад +3

    Doesn't come more from postmodernism or at least a perversion of it. Generally it's an academic loophole to true intellectualism. It rigs arguments by creating a dynamic that says, if you're part of the oppressor/colonizer class, you can't have an opinion. In comes the demographic purity test and subsequent invalidation of any dissenting argument based on identity.

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 5 месяцев назад +4

      It's Marxism and Postmodernism blended through Hegelian Dialectics, that these two things are totally contradictory isn't a problem for Marxism.

    • @Eatbutternow
      @Eatbutternow 5 месяцев назад

      You hit the nail on the head

  • @tamerofhorses2200
    @tamerofhorses2200 5 месяцев назад +9

    Wokeness doesn't come from Marxism but both of them come from dysgenics and mutational load, and they are situated on the same spectrum.

    • @Brian_Friesen
      @Brian_Friesen 5 месяцев назад

      What do you mean by mutational load and dysgenics?

    • @RabornTau
      @RabornTau 5 месяцев назад

      Spiteful mutants

    • @tamerofhorses2200
      @tamerofhorses2200 5 месяцев назад

      @@Brian_Friesen
      ruclips.net/user/livewWwDB04-qH8?si=ubI-mPBFE-i8BIiz

  • @Alan-lv9rw
    @Alan-lv9rw 5 месяцев назад +4

    Like all bad ideas, woke comes from the left.

    • @anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808
      @anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 5 месяцев назад

      *The 5 worst tyrants known to humanity, all were on the Left (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao & Kim Jung-Ill).*
      Not saying the Right is perfect, but you just don't see the monsters that you see on the Left.

  • @carrollprice1213
    @carrollprice1213 5 месяцев назад +12

    Six and one half minutes of saying nothing.

    • @JT-bc5cd
      @JT-bc5cd 3 месяца назад

      Kauffman. Just another subverter

  • @2Hesiod
    @2Hesiod 5 месяцев назад +1

    Then what does it come from?

    • @c3bhm
      @c3bhm 4 месяца назад

      We're not allowed to say, here on RUclips. Only X and Rumbl3 are having honest discussions.

  • @Fiddling_while_Rome_burns
    @Fiddling_while_Rome_burns 5 месяцев назад +4

    It comes from the middle class. So is ultimately soft conservatism. People with more, wanting even more and being hostile to suggestions from the working class that they already have too much and should have less.

  • @brismith2728
    @brismith2728 5 месяцев назад +2

    Liberalism!

  • @oraz.
    @oraz. 5 месяцев назад +8

    Title's correct, but the rambling thin sliced answer isn't. Wokeness is basically a function of female participation and leadership and that makes the most coherent causal sense, consistent with what we see. It's becoming apparent this is the real third rail that every dissident social science type can't consider, and it's the most politically invariant bias. Still it's weird to see everybody come up with these strained vague explanations as if every subconscious assumption they have is steering them away into culture story mush. It's one bias that even dissidents reliably can't see through. To be clear it's not women simply causing it, but how institutions assimilate to their influence outlook and preferences.

    • @marcv2648
      @marcv2648 5 месяцев назад

      I liked his answer, but you made good points. There are a lot of facets.

    • @carolyna.869
      @carolyna.869 5 месяцев назад

      I agree that there is currently too.much female energy at play, meaning over emphasis upon emotions and chaos as opposed to reason and order. The sad thing is-- no one ever wants to call it out.
      Female energy will always secretly begging for male energy (logic) to take over and create order and security. Tucker Carlson is right- weak men make angry women. And the angrier and more chaotic the female energy gets, the greater the need to truth, logic and order.
      Yes, I'm talking about mass deportations.

  • @Ramtin-Blue_rose
    @Ramtin-Blue_rose 5 месяцев назад

    Almost all of the postmodern deconstructionalists were anti marxist leftist, postmodernism were the artificial compatible left within the boundaries of capitalism with its root in middle class rather than working class. And also class analysis and dialectical materialism are also absent in post modernism so, no they are not the same in fact postmodernists are very anti marxists.

  • @Jules-Is-a-Guy
    @Jules-Is-a-Guy 5 месяцев назад

    Reiterating these modern historical observations adds some useful context, although if the general idea is sort of: the left is often more susceptible to accidentally incorporating communist bad ideas, much like the right might be susceptible to incorporating fascist bad ideas, I'm like...um, everyone already knows that dude.
    Sure, it's potentially useful for establishing context to revisit relatively recent history, but don't we already basically know how the civil rights era affected race relations?
    This is not even a criticism exactly, but my impression is that some of the hats Kaufmann and Hanania often wear are "social scientist" and "social theorist," while it seems clear to me that they pretty much would be excellent journalists instead.
    (They're always compiling relatively interesting information that I mostly already have, and making it sound like a new idea, imo they should dig up some interesting new information instead, lol I'm sure they'd do a Taibbi-level great job).

  • @znail4675
    @znail4675 5 месяцев назад

    To me its pretty simple. I comes from feminism and black revanchism (what became black lives matter).
    As things became more equal, the ones invested in the fight need to feel like victims and that drives wokeness.
    But I agree, it have nothing to do with the left or right apart from USA being polarized making issues tending to fall in either camp.
    A good counter example is the UK having a woke right wing party in power.

    • @stormygeo
      @stormygeo 4 месяца назад

      Feminism came from Marxism

  • @marcv2648
    @marcv2648 5 месяцев назад +2

    I think he's on point.

  • @latt.qcd9221
    @latt.qcd9221 5 месяцев назад +2

    Feminism. It came from feminism.

  • @judistench2167
    @judistench2167 5 месяцев назад +4

    Of COURSE it comes from Marxism.
    Just as Marxism comes from the same t r i b e as Kaufmann - they admit it in their own writings.

    • @c3bhm
      @c3bhm 4 месяца назад +1

      This is the only honest comment here.

    • @judistench2167
      @judistench2167 4 месяца назад

      @@c3bhm 👍

    • @sdrc92126
      @sdrc92126 Месяц назад

      No, it comes from gnosticism which is anti-Jewish

  • @frankgradus9474
    @frankgradus9474 5 месяцев назад +1

    IMHO, wokery/genderqueer and islamism are two sides of the same coin;
    but pple are at a loss to know exactly what's going on