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Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article from Ramin Mazaheri.  This is the last in a series.  You can find the previous articles through the following links... The Ukrainian suicide: Reading Emmanuel Todd’s French-only 'The Defeat of the West' Eastern Europe’s pro-West shift is ‘inauthentic’ - Emmanuel Todd’s ‘The Defeat of the West’ Emmanuel Todd asks ‘What is the West?’ Protestants and professors won't like his answer The ‘EU-icide’: Emmanuel Todd asks if it’s suicide or homicide? Emmanuel Todd on the UK’s Russophobia: a crumbling nation needs a scapegoat Emmanuel Todd beats Democrats by 6 months: The US is an oligarchy ‘The Defeat of the West’ necessarily includes done and dusted failures in the US Emmanuel Todd has hard, obvious truths for why the US is leading Ukraine to ruin Ramin Mazaheri (This is the 7th part in a multipart series on Emmanuel Todd’s political it-book of the moment  The Defeat of the West (La Defaite de l’Occ...

Another point of view on the new left and "Cultural Marxism"... Woke-ism is Not Cultural Marxism BY   DR JAMES ALEXANDER Sometimes we hear the following argument: Wokery is Cultural Marxism. Originally Marxism was about class struggle and oppression. What happened in the late twentieth century, with the breakdown of old heavy industry and the decline of the old working class, was that Marxists began to study other  forms  of oppression: and hence other  objects  of oppression, which they understood in classical Marxist manner as being oppressed by the capitalist system of expropriation. Wokery is Marxist because it continually talks about capitalism, neoliberalism and so on as cause, and various forms of oppression as consequence. I don’t like this argument. I think it is slack and careless. This is because it involves a misrepresentation of Marxism – and this has to be said even before we say that Marxism necessarily involves a misrepresentation of Marx (as Mar...