by Colin Liddell

The Modern Left has no analysis of Woke, because it sees Woke as the natural order. It only has analyses of anti-Wokeism.

The Conservative analysis of Woke is that it is “anti-freedom,” a form of petty gangsterism, or a weaponisation of victim groups. It believes this can be defeated by embracing the groups involved — Blacks, trans, whatever — harder than the Woke “grievance mongers.” This is why the number of gay and non-White commentators on the Right is higher than ever.

The Dissident Right analysis of “the Woke” is a little deeper and more interesting. It essentially ties it to the Frankfurt School and what, they claim, is a chain of causation reverberating through the universities, from where it enters into a mutually beneficial alliance with Big Business. (Notice how this feeds into old Neo-Nazi trope of Jews on the Left and Jews on the Right combining to subvert society.)

Here is the leading Dissident Right intellectual Paul Gottfried laying it out in a recent Chronicles article: