if anti-semitism is the socialism of fools, anti-wokeism is perhaps the Marxism of fools: it just demonstrates a nostalgia for being part of a cosmopolitan and cultured intelligentsia thats oppositional yet still respectable; but its practitioners are just resentful or unlettered
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Victor Serge is really hundred times better as a model for that principled position on the left, than Orwell.
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They’re both dope but Serge fans are better than Orwell fans. Also Serge wrote fiction whereas Orwell’s non-fiction was definitely his better (if less famous) side. Which is the problem! The wokeism debate is Animal Farm/1984 vs Homage to Catalonia/Down and Out
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