Wokeism - Carefree Wandering (Hans Georg Moeller) vs Jordan Peterson. Is wokeism Marxist and is it postmodern? And is cultural Marxism , or as Jordan Peterson calls it, postmodern neo Marxism, a real thing?
This is a friendly response on this specific topic to a video by Hans-Georg Moeller. I recorded this video unplanned and in one go, late at night. It's not the final word on anything.
Carefree Wandering Wokeism video:
In his video Hans-Georg Moeller explores common misconceptions about wokeness. I recommend his video and his channel Carefree Wandering.
• Wokeism
Jordan Peterson: The Nexus of Postmodernism and Neo-Marxism. In this video, Jordan Peterson links Marxism with Wokeism (to make postmodernist neo marxism or postmodern cultural Marxism). Jordan makes the link via the notion of power relations between oppressor and oppressed. I reject the significance Jordan gives to this link.
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I discuss Wokeism in the context of musicology here -
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I discuss Wokeism in the context of the clubhouse app here -
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Chapters
00:00 Postmodern cultural Marxism & Wokeism?
03:04 Jordan Peterson and historical continuity between Marxism and postmodernism.
05:00 Hans Georg Moeller on Wokeism, Marxism, and Mark Lilla.
06:52 Marxism and social explanation.
07:32 Jordan Peterson: other connections between postmodernism and marxism?
11:27 What is postmodernism? No. 1 feature of postmodernism.
13:39 What is postmodernism? No. 2 feature of postmodernism.
15:32 Is disability a social construct? (postmodernism & wokeism I)
18:23 Is it racist to love Beethoven? (postmodernism & wokeism II)
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