What is 'woke'? Culture war vs. class war - Spectre of Communism Podcast 

I always enjoy Yola's talks and inputs. A comrade a lot to learn from!

As a queer male, it is great to listen to that material. Good work, comrades.

Nobody is free until we are all free!

Great as always. Important topic and as always great explanations by Yola.

Workers of the world Unite Class struggle only way forward Pakistan section of RCI🚩🚩

Really enjoyed this conversation and hearing how Marxism can help us cut across bad faith attacks

great episode comrades! keep up the good work

Thank you comrades

13:14 actually some feminists did celebrate Margaret Thatcher shortly after her death.

Comrade Dyatlov did not know how an RBMK reactor worked.

13:41 I think you’d be better off pointing out and explaining how concepts of identity, cultural communities and artistic productions, and social groups are penetrated, almost “colonized” if you will, and then commodified by the forces of capitalism and thus rendered NOT emancipatory concepts, or cultural institutions or social groups but instead have their organic social relations transformed to satisfy the interests of the capitalist ruling class with the aim of marketing, selling, and profiting from these things. Like all things commodified by capitalism they cease to be what they once were and instead become capitalist zombified versions of their former selves. So feminism becomes ċ|feminism| for example, and the once powerful emancipatory aims of the project and inner social relations of the members and the means by which the movement reproduced itself are diverted and transformed to suit the needs of capitalist ruling class and their incessant pursuit of profit … and here’s the important part … to include the exploitation of working people inherent to capitalism by its very nature. Participating in the liberal culture war pursuit of social justice only further increases the economic exploitation of the working class due to the process of commodification, which is becoming increasingly rapid and profound due to today’s internet and social media technologies! Economic class consciousness is the key to re-taking control of emancipation for social and cultural identities via their common foundations in today’s capitalist societies’ working class! I suggest rather than sounding so aggrieved yourselves and angry at those who believe in these “woke” and “politically correct” ideologies and the associated identity politics’ ability to achieve a future just society maybe instead focus on the way these admirable emancipatory “woke” movements when they are not associated with a class conscious and Marxist anti-capitalist revolutionary politics, now, especially over the past couple of decades, dominated as they have been by the ideology of the neoliberal capitalist ruling class, only end up as commodified centers of profit generation for the capitalist ruling class. And explain the commodification process and the commodity fetish to the woke liberals out there who whole heartedly believe there’s justice in what they’re doing and not just culture war division accompanied by the construction of capitalist PRODUCTS out of their identities and cultural artistitic expressions and social group relations. PRODUCTS which are now rapidly and effectively commodified by the internet and social media so that they no longer serve the emancipatory aims they were created to serve or maintain the knowledge of a culture for its people, but instead just subtly (or not so subtly) change them so that the ideas have changed, the people have changed, the values and interests of the new members have changed, and most importantly the main purpose of the movement now also significantly includes the generation of profits for the capitalist ruling class AND the recreation of the class hierarchy, relations and means of wealth and power distribution of the existing economic ruling class. Whatever revolutionary egalitarian energy that was once contained within the identity or cultural movement will be removed during the commodification process. This is the real reason to worked up about identity politics and wokeism as a Marxist in our current highly consumerist Internet social media connected age. Tell the comrades to be class conscious first, and at the same time explain how culture war identity politics makes the rich ruling class richer while turning their idealist culture based emancipatory politics into just another new means for the economic ruling class to reacreate their capitalist system of wealth generation and hierarchical wealth distribution. There can be no social justice without economic justice and no economic justice without economic class consciousness and without economic revolution. And no thus no justice without economic revolutionary politics.

Very good analysis by counterrevolutionary Trotskyites.

Its an idiotic right wing buzzword. I refuse to use the term "culture war" because it devalues and misuses the word "war."