Podcast # 193: Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Swedish Marxist Malcom Kyeyune, who argues [https://www.city-journal.org/wokeness-the-highest-stage-of-managerialism] that nominally progressive theories of race and gender are actually aimed at securing influence, employment, and prestige for underemployed university graduates. Quillette 19 Jul 2022 · 1 min read
The Challenge of Marxism But the Marxists will not be appeased because what they’re after is the conquest of liberalism itself—already happening as they persuade liberals to abandon their traditional two-party conception of political legitimacy, and with it their commitment to a democratic regime. Yoram Hazony 16 Aug 2020 · 22 min read
Marx Deserves Better Critics In his opening statement in the debate with Žižek, Peterson said that Marx’s solution to the ills of capitalism was “bloody violent revolution.” That’s not quite right. Ben Burgis 24 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution. C.K. Ryan 21 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
The Frankfurt School and Postmodern Philosophy The claim that the work of postmodern philosophers is a continuation of Marxism by other means is quite strange, both philosophically and politically. Matt McManus 3 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
