The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness

The Oracle

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The one notable exception is the schools of education, particularly following the “critical turn in education,” which sought to make education about “consciousness raising” and instilling a “critical consciousness” into children as an educational priority. Some of this was explicitly anti-capitalist, and thus Marxist in origin, but it was mostly much more subtle. Critical pedagogy, as the result came to be called, was much more interested in undermining the national metanarratives, if you will, and getting students to be “educated” in a way that would lead them to be critical of their own national histories, culture, and civics—or, more explicitly, to get them to learn to see their home nations as oppressive bad actors rather than as imperfect leaders of spreading a liberal order throughout the world and thus come to doubt or even hate them.

It's a long read I know. This whole woke narrative is just like a virus that has been planted in our educational systems. Obviously many have been programmed in here.
 

y2kmark

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Ghandi said something like - "There is enough in the world to meet everyone's need,, but not everyone's greed" He was spot on and that's why neither Marxism or Capitalism works very well. How well can you trust people talking about "metanarratives" anyway - even the spell checker barfed that one up...
 

Valcazar

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Oh dear. "Postmodern neo-marxism."
Is this a real discussion of the history of these ideas or is it Jordan Peterson-level "I don't actually know what any of this means" bullshit?
 
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