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“Wokism” is the “highest stage” of Marxism, to borrow Lenin’s phrase, the final descent of that malign, murderous ideology into intellectual degradation and absurd triviality. After all, “wokism” is, like communism, a mash-up of radical secularism, scientism, technocratic tyranny, and a ruthless “any means necessary” modus operandi. Hence like Marxism, for “wokism” to succeed, coherent arguments, empirical evidence, common sense, and truth itself must be discredited, distorted, and demonized, at the same time alternative authorities––God, the Constitution, real science–– subjected to tyrannical elimination or refashioning.
So we shouldn’t be surprised that for decades the left has targeted the First Amendment and silenced dissent. Especially after the collapse of Soviet communism, which its last president Mikhail Gorbachev facilitated with his policy of glasnost or greater freedom for public expression, the “new left” children of communism were not going to make the same mistake. Hence, they have for decades doubled-down on their intolerance for dissent manifested in “political correctness” and censorship.
And that means the First Amendment must die.
Leftism has two bad ideas that from its beginning have programmed it to be tyrannical. The first is to deny the reality available to common sense and experience. The natural world and human nature––the latter’s corruptibility empirically verified on every page of history––cannot be allowed to compromise the utopian outcomes promised by communist theory.
British historian Thomas Carlyle in 1857 identified this leftist sacrifice of reality to theory as it appeared among the radicals of the French Revolution, the precursors of the Bolsheviks: “Formulas, Philosophies, Respectabilities, what has been written in Books, and admitted by the Cultivated Classes: this inadequate Scheme of Nature’s working is all that Nature, let her work as she will, can reveal to these men. . . . [T]hey will do one thing: prove, to demonstration, that the Reality will not translate into their Formula; that they and their Formula are incompatible with the Reality: and, in its dark wrath, the Reality will extinguish it and them!”
Thus the truths of nature must be subordinated to the revolutionary’s fanciful imagination and will to power. For example, biological sex, an unchanging fact of nature, must be altered into “gender,” a mere preference from an endless catalogue of invented manifestations––no matter that this preposterous belief is obviously unscientific.
Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson points out this patent truth: “Trans is clearly identifiable as a fad, comparable to preceding fads, or ‘transmissible psychological diseases,’ like outbreaks of alleged multiple personality disorder, hysteria, self-mutilation, and anorexia. The typical victim is a young female with an underlying neurosis that seeks a socially acceptable form of expression. These forms of expression vary with the times.” But no matter the form, the facts of biology must be denied in order for an illiberal political ideology to undermine reality in order to aggrandize political power and control.
As for human nature, its tragic reality also is denied, and its inevitable improvement simply asserted as our birthright stolen by the wicked oppressors du jour. These villains profit from forbidding humanity the boons of the collectivist paradise it will enjoy once its good and noble nature is restored by the revolution. Achieving this impossible goal entails a rejection of the tragic nature of human existence, the permanence of suffering and misery that follows from our destructive passions and interests.
Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky described this outlandish socialist paradise: “Man will make it his goal . . . to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman . . . Man will become incomparably stronger, wiser, more subtle. . . . The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, Goethe, Marx. And beyond this ridge, other peaks will emerge.” This perfected “new man,” the culmination of social and political progress, has remained the justification for leftist radical disruption and wide-scale violence–– and in our time, the crippling of unalienable rights like free speech.
To sell this fairy tale, the promise and the means to achieve it have been presented as the fruits of “science,” a product of reason and empiricism rather than a cultish fever-dream. As Friedrich Engels said at Marx’s funeral, “Just as Darwin had discovered the law of development of organic nature, so did Marx discover the laws of human history.” Those who resist or criticize the vision, then, are irrational or evil, and silencing them becomes a political cordon sanitaire protecting politics from contagion.
So we’ve heard the “woke” describe their enemies’ Constitutionally protected political and professional speech as “hate speech” and dangerous “disinformation,” a form of verbal “violence” from which its victims must be protected. That’s why during the Covid pandemic the wicked or stupid, who just happened to also be the political enemies of the “woke,” had to be compelled not just to keep silent, but to get vaccines, wear useless masks, and stay “locked down” in order to protect everybody else.
Of course, these ineffective mitigation protocols benefited the left during the last presidential election by doubling the number of easily corrupted mail-in ballots. But saying so is just a “conspiracy theory” fomented by the “woke’s” political enemies ––even though efforts have already begun to repeat those protocols for the next election.
The second foundational bad idea of leftism follows from the first: the necessity of violence, which is what leftists imply when they say “by any means necessary.” Indeed, violence and terrorism were frankly admitted by Marx and Lenin––as the latter said of complaints about the vicious murders of priests and Kulaks, “When we are reproached with cruelty, we wonder how people can forget the most elementary Marxism.”
This Marxist preference for violence and violations of basic rights and freedom were pointed out by Winston Churchill in his “crazy speech” of 1945, so-called for its frankness about socialism: “No Socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo — no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance — and this would nip in the bud opinion as it formed.”
Since the Sixties, the U.S. has been proving the truth of this observation about the left. For the violations of common sense, the facts of history, and the bloody record of violence require that “wokism” must censor and silence its critics, for it is harder to convert a people who have the right of free speech. The adjunct to violence and disorder, censorship and “cancel culture,” must obscure the truth until the party manufactures alternatives.
The years of “woke” dominance have been filled with violence, from the George Floyd riots of 2020, to the explosion of crime ignited by the attacks on police and the enforcement of laws, as well as eliminating procedures like requiring bail that keep repeat offenders off the streets, and deter others. Unsurprisingly, such civil violence and terrorism have been weapons of Marxism since Marx himself in 1843 threatened the Prussian government, “We are ruthless and ask no quarter from you. When our turn comes, we shall not disguise our terrorism.”
A year later in his “Plan of Action,” Marx, prophesying the “woke” and Antifa disorder of 2020, bragged––“Far from opposing the so-called excesses [of rioters], those examples of popular vengeance against those hated individuals or public buildings which have acquired hateful memories, we must not only condone these examples but lend them a helping hand.” No doubt Marx would say the same of the current lunatic policies on crime and public order that have changed some of our largest cities into dystopian nightmares.
The collapse of the Soviet Union did not exterminate the Marxist bacillus once its most powerful host disappeared. It merely mutated into an equally dangerous “woke” variant infecting not just our universities, intellectuals, news media, social media, and high-brow art and culture, but also grammar schools, popular entertainment, professional and collegiate sports, government agencies, and the boards and C-suites of our richest corporations.
The only effective vaccine for this pestilence is a vote next November for freedom, unalienable rights like free speech, and limited government.
So now Freedom of Speech must have certain restrictions otherwise some little Collage Snowflake might get offended and their little snowflake feelings hurt? Screw Liberal Snowflakes the password is Keep Your Nose Out
Efforts to restrict what students and faculty say on campus are now enshrined in speech codes and the like. The claim that insulting or offending another student is an offense to the speech codes being implemented on college campuses creates a lesson that saying controversial things should not be tolerated. Speech control offends our freedom and is a threat to our liberty.
This statement does not claim that speech such as threats of bodily harm should be legal. In fact, speech codes on many college campuses are practices that threaten our liberty.
The slow collapse of the West and America into unreason, into irrationality, has been going on now for 240 years ever since Immanuel Kant published his attack on reason, “The Critique of Pure Reason”.
The Kantian philosophy of unreason took over the philosophy departments of the West like a storm. Plato is the father of Kant and Kant is the father of Hegel, all three, are the philosophical fathers of Marxism, Nazism, and today’s Wokism.
Another election won’t change the ongoing 240-year slow collapse of the West and America into unreason and irrationality any more than the election of Ronald Reagan did.
Freedom, liberty, Free Speech, are values derived from reason. But if reason is defective, if reason is “limited”, in it’s ability to understand and perceive reality, as Kant and Hegel argue, then any values derived from reason are meaningless, they do not and cannot correspond to reality.
If no new philosophy that validates and proves that reason does perceive reality as it truly is and can understand reality as it objectively is, is introduced to the West, the West and America will continue in this slow collapse into a new and complete Dark Age of unreason.
The historical age in which we live in here in the West for the past 240 years can best be described as the Age of Kantian-Hegelian Anti-Reason or the Age of the Counter-Renaissance.
“The man who . . . closed the door of philosophy to reason, was Immanuel Kant. . . .
Kant’s expressly stated purpose was to save the morality of self-abnegation and self-sacrifice. He knew that it could not survive without a mystic base—and what it had to be saved from was reason….
No, Kant did not destroy reason; he merely did as thorough a job of undercutting as anyone could ever do.
If you trace the roots of all our current philosophies—such as pragmatism, logical positivism, and all the rest of the neo-mystics who announce happily that you cannot prove that you exist—you will find that they all grew out of Kant.” – Ayn Rand
Blah Blah Blah. Like we haven’t seen this from you twaddle before. No one cares about Rand or Kant or Hegel. For some reason your Nazi obsession has you so wired you seem to believe we are on the precipice of the 4th Reich.
I think if we gathered up all of your nonsense and distilled it down it would make up about a 25 page pamphlet……maybe.
Well said!
How are you being downvoted here?
reason has departed too many minds on our side, for the left it’s a given
If you want Free Speech to live then there is only one way to do that — teach Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism at the universities.
The way to repress Woke is to use the same methods as used by Emperor Theodosius I and the Spanish Inquisition.
You mean at the ultra woke universities where free speech is routinely suppressed? Here doofus, I will make it easy for you. The handy dandy Objectivism for Dummies course:
Altruism…bad.
Self-sacrifice…..bad
Jesus…..bad
Christianity…………bad
Judaism…….bad
Judeo-Christianity is Leftism……bad
Judaism and Christianity are oriental…..bad
Christianity prepared the ground for modern totalitarianism….bad
Medieval Christianity was a totalitarian system…..bad
God and magical thinking…….bad
Atheism….good
Greeks……good
Christian Dark Age….bad
Renaissance and enlightenment …..good
Greek philosophers……good
Christian philosophers…….bad
selfishness “properly defined”, rational selfishness….good
Objectivist reason and reality….good
Altruism…bad.
Repeat ad infinitum. The Big Lie in practice.
Without the First Amendment and the Second Amendment there will be no freedoms at all.
People should be allowed to call out the evil , to express their hate, because it is fully justified to belittle the evil by words. Freedom of speech includes all speech.
When it comes to it people have every right to use force to fight off the evil criminals/terrorists and dictators. Use of force in self-defense or defense of property is fully justified.
If the evil can’t be called out or fought against, the evil wins.
Yes, simply put, the First Amendment guarantees we are free, the Second Amentment guarantees we keep the First Amendment
The Second Amendment guarantees we keep all the rest.
But it seems that the time to use the 2nd Amendment never comes.
What red line hasn’t the Left crossed yet? And even if there is one, how will arms be used to stop them?
It doesn’t look like anyone has a plan other than to keep their guns clean and shoot them at practice ranges.
In order for “woke” to live, free speech must die. That’s just well and fine with the zombies who reflexively vote “woke” Democ-rat. Yes, Karen and them have been brain-dead for a long time. Among this freakish subset, Freud’s “death instinct” theory holds up. Unlike catastrophic man-made global warming, “Thanatos” is real.
All liberal democracies are based on these fundamental principles:
1. The process is more important then the result.
2. No person or group has a monopoly on the truth.
If we lose these we lose everything.
“USING the Freedom’s in The Constitution to overthrow The Constitution.” SC
“When, not if, the Com-Left controls SCOTUS, they will rule that The Constitution itself is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!”
CORY BOOKER at the reparations hearing: “Our Founding was rooted in White Supremacy.”
Here’s an example of a Senator, who took the Oath to Defend the Constitution, who is now going after our Founding Fathers and their Documents. How many other Oath Takers are doing to the same? “Using the Freedom’s…. !” That’s the new narrative and talking point.
THE SEEDS WERE PLANTED starting in the Sixties and thru the Eighties when millions of Americans were recruited in the Communist Party USA front groups, mainly the Peace Groups that were DIRECTED connected to the Soviet KGB.
“WHEN THE WALL FELL, we cheered, they Cried. When the Twin’s fell, we cried, THEY CHEERED!” SC Who are they? The Enemy Within who are the CPUSA which infiltrated the Democratic Party. Once they became leaders, they placed CPUSA/KGB recruits to head departments, and the Presidency, which were then used in A COUP ATTEMPT against a Sitting President. Insurrection!
FIFTY-ONE former Intelligent Agents CONSPIRED in another Coup Attempt against a Presidential Candidate signing a document saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian Disinformation which was proven false with even the MSM saying it was verified and the Biden laptop. NOT ONE OF THE FIFTY-ONE HAS COME OUT TO CLAIM THEY WERE DUPED!
“used in A COUP ATTEMPT against a Sitting President. Insurrection!”
It wasn’t an “attempt,” it was successful. The FBI “primed the pump” by communicating with Twitter (and probably the other social media companies) that the Russians were planning a “hack and dump” related to a laptop “purported” to be Hunter Biden’s in the months before the 2020 election. They did this while having possession of said laptop and knowing its veracity. In other words, the FBI sowed disinformation to Twitter that led them to censor a legitimate story that polls show would have completed flipped the election.
We are the victims of a bloodless coup d’etat. There is no other way to view the actions of the FBI in the lead up to the 2020 election.
We’ve been trying to vote our way out of this mess for as long as I’ve been alive – and the truth is for as long as democracies and representative governments have been around.
It hasn’t worked. It won’t work. What we’ve got is what we deserve.
Armed revolution isn’t the answer either. It doesn’t work for the same reason voting doesn’t work. We are a corrupt people.
Inner Revolution is the only answer.
“Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.” – Barbara Tuchman
This pertains to both civil and religious revolutions.
That’s one of the great flaws in Marxism. Once you bring down “the man” you become the man. After that, you are always looking over your shoulder to see who’s trying to bring you down. This is the reason for “purges” after successful revolutions. The revolutionaries can not be allowed to remain because…they are revolutionaries.
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
This could be the second wisest thing anyone has ever said.
“The important question is not what is good but who decides what is good,”
This could be the wisest thing anyone has ever said.
It’s time to stop dancing around the obvious and abandon the cutesy word “wokeism” and just say COMMUNISM out loud and repetitively.
The Democrat Communist Party is destroying America and Conservatives are afraid to call them out. One day we’ll wake up after they steal another election and we won’t have our country anymore.
The distinction between Conservatives and Republicans should not be overlooked. I hear plenty of conservatives calling out the leftist idiots but very few Republicans exist to echo those sentiments in the political arena. On the other hand, it appears every Democrat politician is fully on board with the woke agenda. Remember the old slogan “what if they had a war and nobody showed up”? That’s where we are now except the Democrats did show up.
I think the author said exactly what you are saying in the next-to-last paragraph. The problem is that if we use language different from the general public, the Marxists will just deny that they are Marxists and call us “McCarthyites” or something similar.
The Engels quote isn’t far from the truth. Darwin’s nonsensical materialistic “explanation” of biology is just as much of a pile of crackpot BS as Marx’s “theories” of human nature and economics. I think the two of them corresponded and held each other in mutual respect. We need to fearlessly reject both of these poisonous lies.