PC-Prog Misconceptions: "Woke," "Cultural Marxism," Gramsci, Snowflakes, Frankfurt School, Alinsky, Bezmenov
Woke: This term appears to have become the accepted term for Politically Correct Progressivism (PC-Prog) among the Normal chattering classes. It is (like Cultural Marxism) not helpful, and in fact, it is harmful and confusing. The term is much too loose and meaningless (or actually, it has too many meanings) to be useful in counter-acting the opponents of Normal America. We already see the results of using this term—PC-Progs are striking back with challenges to “define ‘woke’”. Normals pretty much are unable to. They devolve to “I know it when I see it.” This destroys any criticism Normals may attempt. PC-Prog is what the users of “woke” are referring to. PC-Prog has an exact definition.
Cultural Marxism: It is currently fashionable, but badly mis-guided, among Normals to call PC-Progressivism “Cultural Marxism” (much like Woke). This is very, very bad. It sets up a simple destruction of the criticism—there is nothing “Marxist” about PC-Progs. Their belief system survives totally separate from any Marxist belief. PC-Progs are 100% focused on hatred of Normal America. That includes capitalism—but not because of Marx—only because capitalism is the basis of the Normal-American economy.
Snowflakes: A horrible mis-understanding of PC-Progs. They are NOT tender things who melt at anything that upsets them. They are emotionally volatile haters. While they, as individuals, might not be capable of violence, their belief system logically leads to slaughtering Normals.
Gramsci: This Italian communist was a minor functionary in the Comintern. He served in a committee with Willi Muenzenberg during a Comintern conference. He was promptly arrested when he returned to Italy from Moscow. He spent the rest of his short life in prison—isolated. He had no, zero, influence on anyone or any operations. While Gramsci was in prison, he wrote notes on what he learned from Muenzenberg. Muenzenberg meanwhile created and ran a massive covert influence campaign designed to destroy Normal culture—in America and Europe (in Willing Accomplices, I only focus on the USA). After Gramsci died, his notes were found and published. Ascribing the influence operations or payload to Gramsci is like crediting a birdwatcher for CREATING birds' migration, instead of just describing what he sees. Gramsci was a passive observer. Though he was a true believer, he just wrote down what Muenzenberg said and did.
Frankfurt School: These were Germans, who, like Gramsci, learned from Muenzenberg. They simply applied Muenzenberg’s operations in their academic and social positions. They were obvious and overt about their op. Meanwhile, Muenzenberg’s Willing Accomplices burrowed in to Hollywood, education, and academia to covertly insert the Muenzenberg payload into our culture—destroying it. The “Frankfurt School” were more of a distraction than anything else. These academics provided a whipping boy for Normals to berate and blame, while the actual seeds of the destruction of Normal-America were covertly eating away the fabric of our culture—from deep within Hollywood, education/academia, and the media.
PC as “concern for other’s feelings”: See Snowflakes above.
Saul Alinsky: Alinsky was a member of multiple Muenzenberg front groups. He just took the operational rules that he learned in these groups—which were Muenzenberg’s rules, and wrote them down. This is actually a major violation of covert ops. But, like the Frankfurt School, he is more of a distraction than a danger. The damage was done by covert subversion.
Yuri Bezmenov: This guy is cited by Normals. There are multiple videos of speeches by him on Youtube and elsewhere. He was NOT KGB. He was an actual journalist for a Russian news service. When he defected, he had little to nothing of value, and was discarded by US intel (if he was ever even met by them). Like many defectors, he had minimal skills of value to survive in America. He was discovered by the John Birch Society. They worked with Bezmenov to milk the story from him and he learned what they wanted to hear. As a journalist, he knew nothing of the “KGB’s master plan to destroy America.” He simply fed back to the JBS’s what they wanted to hear. Much like Dan Rather’s George Bush National Guard story, Bezmenov’s story was “fake but accurate.” Like “Cultural Marxism” Bezmenov simply muddies the waters and sullies actual information about the Muenzenberg operations.
A short video overview of Muenzenberg’s operations and payload:
Woke is a thymolytic agent designed for the humiliation of those undergoing degradation in the social order.
The expectations of the Western middle classes are unsustainable given present levels of inequality, productivity, deindustrialisation. So the middle classes are being fast tracked for the next phase of globalisation. This involves downward mobility, enhanced competition for resources and recognition, lower standards of living and subordination to an increasingly heterogenous ruling class. To manage expectations, destabilise potential opposition and regulate conduct allround the regime has developed woke. Woke delegitimises or discredits the disfavoured. It helps regime clients (BIPOCs, LGBQTIs, feminists) compete for resources and destabilises those being targeted for downgrading. Socio-cultural demotion engenders a loss of esteem generally and suppresses the spirits and self-regard of those being degraded.
The rhetoric of woke is Vaudeville Marxism, radical politics worn as a skinsuit to disguise the instrumentalization of psycho-affective forces generated by the system itself...all done for the benefit of the regime and the plutocracy. Radical postures win support from the Left, while the camouflage of Left rhetoric by the woke enables the Right to misdirect its constituents into ineffective opposition to the extinct menace of Marxism.