Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Where Did Woke Come From?" video.

  1. Marcuse, from his book, Eros and Civilization (1955): "Today the fight for life, the fight for Eros, is the political fight." From Wikipedia about the book: "Marcuse questions the view of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, that 'civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts.' He discusses the social meaning of biology — history seen not as a class struggle, but a fight against repression of our instincts. He argues that 'advanced industrial society' (modern capitalism) is preventing us from reaching a non-repressive society 'based on a fundamentally different experience of being, a fundamentally different relation between man and nature, and fundamentally different existential relations.'" It is, in fact, what the libertines believed, where they wished to practice extreme hedonism (the pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence), and tear down the morals of society that stood against their wants and wishes. Marcuse was considered the father of the New Left, who were Trotskyists, and it is they, from the New Left, who heads the Open Society Foundations, along with controlling seats of gov power in the West.
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  2. A true academic will read all the books on a subject in a library, without bias, and come to an unbiased conclusion. The woke only read selected books of the Marxian strain from a few shelves, or don't read at all, and push only those beliefs.
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  3. That it did. Woke is a product of the New Left and the Trotskyist academics that have pushed it since the 1930s.
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  4. Early on, the "awakened" were those that began studying differing subjects, especially online, where they read books from every political persuasion. That term was hijacked, where it became "woke," and it is mainly the Trotskyists pushing the New Left's agendas. Most, I'd venture to guess, are only repeating what they're told, and have never actually read books from differing political authors and philosophers in an unbiased and truly academic way. Most of the woke, I'd bet, will be lucky to have read a newspaper's headline.
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