@DamienMicou [name pseudonymized]: @patrick_laureys #Totalitarianism requires #kitsch, and #Woke is “the modern equivalent. Taking the knee, clapping for carers, masking up & in general obeying nonsensical orders, for “the greater good“, or as is probably more common, only for the sake of appearances.” Excerpt
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#PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyTotalitarianism #CharacterisationKitsch
Context: response to #AdvocacyUSBrownstoneInstituteThorsteinnSiglaugsson's review of #IRLHistorianSimonElmer's #2022_TheRoadToFascism published via #WebsiteThePulse: "Elmer claims the support of the Left for the mandates and regulations of the biosecurity state are not based on its inherent authoritarianism as many on the right believe, but rather on its 'infiltration by the neoliberal ideologies of multiculturalism, political correctness, identity politics and, most recently, the orthodoxies of woke.'
Elmer rightly points out how 'no-platforming, cancel culture, misogyny ... policing of speech and opinion' are not rooted in 'politics of emancipation, class struggle or wealth distribution;' there is really nothing socialist, in the traditional sense, about those symptoms of totalitarian ideology.
This seems to stand in direct opposition to the generally accepted view, at least among those on the right wing, that woke is left-wing in its essence, resulting from socialist infiltration of society in accordance with Dusche (and Gramcii's) 'long march through the institutions.' So, what is Elmer's reasoning here?" https://thepulse.one/2022/12/13/woke-is-the-handmaiden-of-totalitarianism/ (13 December 2022). And https://brownstone.org/articles/woke-is-the-handmaiden-of-totalitarianism/ (12 December 2022).
Supplementary: #IRLScholarAntonioGramsci #TheoryLongMarchThroughTheInstitutions [wikipedia] #IRLSociologistRudiDutschke
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