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The Woke Movement is Leninism 4.0: Political Commentator Dr. James Lindsay
The Epoch Times ^ | January 16, 2021 | GARY DU AND JAN JEKIELEK

Posted on 01/18/2021 5:36:08 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Dr. James Lindsay, an American-born author and political commentator, called the “woke” ideology and movement embraced by Black Lives Matter organizations and other left-wing activists “Leninism 4.0.”

“Now we have the attempt to apply Leninism to the American context, using corporations as part of the toolset, for example. And so we call this movement the ‘woke’ movement. We talked about woke capital with all the corporations … the woke movement is Leninism 4.0,” Lindsay told Jan Jekielek, host of The Epoch Times’ American Thoughts Leaders program on Jan. 13.

Lindsay explained that the first 3 versions or flavors of Leninism through Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, each tried to fix the problems from the previous version.

The “woke” movement that has evolved today focuses on the issues of social and racial justice and has become a catchword used by Black Lives Matter activists on the streets.

Lindsay described the movement as “the idea is that you have some enlightened party of people who are probably part of what Marx would have identified as the bourgeoisie, who understand the problem of the proletariat better than the proletariat does and is going to shepherd them through the revolution that they need to have that’s for the greater good or in their best interest.”

For people on the left, being “woke” means siding with social justice advocates focused on contemporary political concerns, but for people on the right, it is often interpreted as an aspect of “political correctness” or “cancel culture.”

Lindsay said he’s been studying “woke” culture and its historical and philosophical antecedents for a number of years.

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1 posted on 01/18/2021 5:36:08 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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PING!


2 posted on 01/18/2021 5:38:45 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Why would so many of the world’s billionaires pay for communism? It’s plutocratic fascism. They want to institute global slavery, and they’re paying for it. Any government so centralized is evil.


3 posted on 01/18/2021 7:51:56 AM PST by familyop
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To: familyop

Planet earth is littered with failed societies and countries who tried Communism or any of its many BS variations.


4 posted on 01/18/2021 8:01:26 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: SMARTY
"Planet earth is littered with failed societies and countries who tried Communism or any of its many BS variations."

True and well said.

5 posted on 01/18/2021 8:08:04 PM PST by familyop
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