"Is Wokism a product of Marxism?"

Denis Collin is a philosopher, author of

(Seuill, of

(Free Perspectives).

The “woke” ideology and the various movements which are inspired by it take an increasing place in the university and media space, multiplying prohibitions and censures, yesterday against the representation of a play by Aeschylus, the next day against the statue of Colbert, calling for the resignation of "bad-thinking" professors. The spokespersons of this movement have an open table on the radios of the service known as, by habit, public. As the old reflexes are not lost, to denounce “

 ”, it is sometimes fashionable to see in it a new manifestation of a Marxism, however in bad

. We can obviously say bad things about Marxism, but if it is indeed an unfounded accusation, it is the one that makes it the putative father of the “woke” movement. In reality, theideology "

 »Presents itself as a real offensive weapon against Marxism (in all its forms) and against the old trade union movement.

The

movement

is like Coca-Cola and Halloween an American import product.

But its ideological origins lie in the "

 ", That is to say among French" post-modern "philosophers or theorists of" deconstruction "- a term which constitutes the main slogan of the" woke "movement. Now, these thinkers are all staunch opponents of Marxism. If they willingly adopt an “anti-capitalist” discourse, they reject the centrality of the class struggle as much as the figure of the working class as a historical subject. The working class and its organizations are all “out of date”: too much conservatism, too many stereotypes. We will prefer the schizophrenics (Deleuze), the “convicts” (Foucault), minorities, especially immigrants (Badiou very early on dismisses the French working class from any revolutionary role in favor of the redemptive figure of the immigrant), feminist movements ,the “queer attitude” (again Foucault). All these currents, which flourished in the post-sixty-eight years, consider, like Michel Foucault, that the question of state power as a central question is outdated and that it is necessary to oppose first of all " micro-powers "and" disciplines "which domesticate the individual. It is again with Foucault and his American pupil Judith Butler that the need for “floating identities” is claimed against “social assignments” to a single sexual identity. Finally, let us note that, like Foucault, admirer of Khomeini's "Islamic revolution", the ideology "The state as a central issue is out of date and it is necessary to oppose first the “micro-powers” ​​and the “disciplines” which domesticate the individual. It is again with Foucault and his American pupil Judith Butler that the need for “floating identities” is claimed against “social assignments” to a single sexual identity. Finally, let us note that, like Foucault, admirer of Khomeini's "Islamic revolution", the ideology "The state as a central issue is outdated and it is necessary to oppose first the “micro-powers” ​​and the “disciplines” which domesticate the individual. It is again with Foucault and his American pupil Judith Butler that the need for “floating identities” is claimed against “social assignments” to a single sexual identity. Finally, let us note that, like Foucault, admirer of Khomeini's "Islamic revolution", the ideology "as Foucault admirer of Khomeini's "Islamic revolution", the ideology "as Foucault admirer of Khomeini's "Islamic revolution", the ideology "

 ”sanctifies Islam, considered to be the ally of the movement against heterosexual white males.

This antinomy between Marxism and "French theory" is found in all the orientations of the "woke" movement.

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This antinomy between Marxism and "

" is found in all the orientations of the "

 "

movement

.

Marxism is universalist and considers that the peculiarities of different peoples and different religions are called to pass by the mill of the world development of the capitalist mode of production.

On the contrary the "

 Is relativist and denounces universalism as the mask of “white” domination. Marx and Engels, while condemning the terrible methods and exactions of colonization, saw in it one of those ruses of history thanks to which the colonized peoples were going to wake up from their sleep and take their place in the struggle alongside the other proletarians of all the countries. They were frankly Euro-centric and considered that European civilization was leading the way. It was again Lenin who asserted that modern socialism was the heir of German philosophy, of English political economy and of French socialism, which itself emerged from the Enlightenment. One wonders why the “woke” censors do not demand the immediate withdrawal of the works of these horrible thinkers.

Marxists are anti-racist and anti-slavery, of course. Marx wrote the address of the International Workers' Association to President Lincoln on the occasion of his re-election in 1864 and called him "an energetic and courageous son of the working class" who will be able to "lead his country into the unparalleled struggle for the liberation of a chained race and for the reconstruction of a social world. The fight against slavery and racial discrimination is for Marxists in the wake of the great "bourgeois" revolutions of the eighteenth century. Forgetting the revolutionary character of the bourgeoisie, the "woke" make of the slave trade an indelible stain which condemns in advance all "whites",forgetting that the greatest slave trade was organized by the Arabs and the Ottomans under the flag of Islam with the help and a little more than the complicity of the leaders of the peoples of Africa.

As an old straight white male, Marx condemned women's night work as contrary to female modesty.

He was not calling for the abolition of morality but denounced capitalism as a system which swept away all moral barriers!

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That the various “woke” movements have no connection with Marxism and the workers' struggle, it is still enough to be convinced of it to listen to its main heralds. Mrs. Houria Bouteldja, muse of the movement of the "Indigènes de la République", did not she declare that the white worker is her enemy? Ms. Rokhaya Diallo is a figure of the “jet set”. She is an "organic intellectual" of the "transnational capitalist class", very well described more than two decades ago by Leslie Sklair. Ms. Traoré has become the darling of the big fashion brands. The promotion of the lumpenproletariat and the petty thugs of the “cities” to the rank of revolutionary movement has nothing to do with Marxism:Marx and Engels said worse than hanging about this "lumpen" bringing together all the debris of the different social classes.

In conclusion, let us recall that the Marxists hardly carried in their hearts the liberal-libertarian ideology which was deployed after 1968. As an old straight white male, Marx condemned the night work of women as contrary to female modesty. He was not calling for the abolition of morality but denounced capitalism as a system which swept away all moral barriers!

We can criticize Marxism, not forgetting to distinguish between Marxism and the thinker Marx, but in any case, we can not blame it for the

movement

.

If there were still serious Marxists in this country, there is no doubt that they would be at the forefront of the fight against these follies which find in certain sectors of capital a complacent ear but are directed first and foremost against the workers, these "bastards." poor people, these "beaufs" who know very well that work remains the central issue for our societies.