• cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Indeed and that is a weird and cringe thing to do. I don't see the point of it and it's not like "woke" or "non-woke" are even serious terms anyway. There is an educated discussion that could be had about liberal identity politics and the way that progressive struggles (or rather the language thereof) have been co-opted by capitalists and imperialists, defanged of their revolutionary and radical character and made compatible with the status quo. But rather than doing that they chose to stoop down to this rather boorish level of using the language of the reactionary right. So the accusation of opportunism is accurate in this particular case, but i think the real crime committed here is that this is an ineffectual strategy. By using the right's language we would be ceding ideological ground to them and at the end of the day it won't work anyway. The kinds of people who have this obsession with the "woke" boogieman are never going to be a solid base for the kind of revolutionary movement that we are interested in building.