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    Published : 2024-09-27
    Vol. 52 No. 3 (2024)

    Woke – An Irrational Idea of Fighting for a Better World

    Jan Mazur

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0548-0205

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rns2024.0028

    Abstract

    The phenomenon known as woke is based on the left-wing, neo-Marxist idea of fighting for a better world. Generally speaking, it means an “awakened” awareness of racism and the lack of social justice. This term, in its current radicalized meaning, became commonly used at the beginning of the 21st century. It’s four major charasteristics can be specified in the following way: the fight for social justice, cancel culture, „snowflake” culture, and culture of harm. These expressions generally indicate on social activism that is focused on fighting systemic repression of various social groups. It can be said that woke in conjunction wiht the irrational ideology of wokeism constitute a serious trend nowadays that has a significant impact on people’s mentality which penetrate to social life, politics, business, education, culture and even religion. From a Christian point of view, it is necessary to expose the authoritarian nature of woke and it’s supporters’s fanaticism. The ideology of wokeism poses a civilizational problem that must be overcome. The point is that it shoud be done everything possible to prevent it from becoming a new, postmodern authoritarianism along the lines of the old Marxist “real socialism”.

    Keywords:

    woke, wokeism, fight for social justice, cancel culture, “snowflake” culture, culture of harm, postmodernity



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