Fine piece by @wesyang but I find Successor Ideology both accurate & insufficient in that I can't think of another reforming ideology wholly without an economic dimension. So: 'Successor' or logical extension of much of what it seems to repudiate?https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/cancellation-or-cultural-change …
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It's a substitute utopia after the Marxist one died that involves an inner Sovietization of post-industrial societies without a final stage that reconciles all contradictions of capitalist society. Still an important phenomenon.
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An inner Sovietization? How does this fit with the fact that the triumph of woke comes at a time in which investors have never had it better and capitalism is basically unchallenged anywhere in the world in a serious, consequential way?
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Yes, that's more or less Adolph Reed, Jr's position - that the project, as he puts it, is "diversifying the ruling class," not imposing a 'Successor Ideology.' But your dismissal doesn't make sense to me: these cultural changes, both in the arts & vis-à-vis gender, are profound.
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But by your own attestation it's not *just* diversifying the elite. It's revolutionizing norms and institutions. Wes's bracketing the economic factors in favor of immanent processes of ideology and administration is a plus. It's simply parsimony.
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