Western liberal democracy and the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian tradition are currently under attack from anti-Western sentiment; not from outside, but from inside the West. Modern identity politics and Woke ideology is replicating he mechanisms of Communism to enforce compliance with a raft of Woke tropes that support identity politics. Rather than enabling people to live as they wish as long as they do not hurt themselves or others, Woke ideology attempts to enforce people to respect other's ideas, ideologies, and identities, rather than their right to choose. This presentation considers Wokism as a political ideology and outlines how the Woke agenda represents the manifestation of Modern Communism.

1. The
Manifestation
ofModern
Communism
Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT
politicalscience.com.au

2. introduction
IdeologicalOrigins
cOMMUNISMin
Australia
TheEndofHistory
andIdentityPolitics
1890sLABOUR
MOVEMENT
CONCLUSION
TheColdwar

3. Ideological
Origins

4. HistoricalBackgroundtoKeyPoliticalIdeologies
Conservatism:ThomasHobbes’Leviathan
Liberalism:JohNLockeTwoTreatisesofGovernment
Communism:Lenin-OverthrowtheState,‘Dictatorshipoftheproletariat’
Socialism:MarxthenFabiansandtheLabourMovement

5. TriadicModelofFreedom
The most important actor or group in society
The thing in the way of the agent’s freedom
The type of freedom being pursued
(MacCallum 1967, see also Ball and Dagger 2002)
Agent
Obstacle
Goal

6. CONSERVATISM
What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to
food or to medicine? The question is upon the method of
procuring and administering them. In this deliberation
I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and
the physician, rather than the professor of
metaphysics.
Burke(1790)ReflectionsontheRevolutioninFrance
A strong state
is sovereign

7. LIBERALISM
Over himself, over his own
body and mind, the
individual is sovereign.
JohnStuartMill(1859)OnLiberty
The individual
is sovereign

8. FABIAN SOCIALISTS
They were reformers. The spirit of the times made
socialists of them. They were genuine socialists
because they aimed at helping in a fundamental
reconstruction of society which in the end was to make
economic care a public affair.
JosephAloisSchumpeter(1859)Capitalism,SocialismandDemocracy
Along with my wife,
Beatrice Potter, I was a
founder of the London
School of Economics and
Political Science

9. The Communist
View of
Capitalism
COMMUNISM

10. Differences?
What is the difference between
communism and socialism?
My approach: The abolition of
the state versus the state
playing a role in society and the
economy

11. Labour
Movement

12. LabourGreivances
Sulphur match factories
Ricardo’s Iron Law of Wages
J.S. Mill supported “unions”
Work-life is better as a result
MERCURY UnfairPracTices
Wages
ComBinations
WorkCOnditions

13. TheColDWar

14. As Critique
Marx provided a systematic
critique of capitalism, but he
refused to write “recipes for
the cook shops of the future”

15. Communisminpractice
Budapest’s House of Terror
 Communist admin building
upstairs, dungeons and gallows
downstairs, unbeknown to the
admin workers
 The majority of victims were
priests – ‘opiate of the masses’
 Disagree, you might end up here
 DDR Museum in Berlin shows how
backward Communism was…

16. ModernCommunism
Oppenheimer and, in Australia, , John Bowker
“Once the stuff gets in, you cannot get it out”
Identity politics and predictable woke tropes
Anti-Nuclear
GreensMovement
ModernWoke

17. Communismin
Australia

18. CommunistInfluence
Strikes during WW1 and WW2
Necessary for ASIO
Despite Chifley, supported
anti-nuclear
Same tropes, different
circumstances
MERCURY Wharfies
Espionage
Anti-Nuclear
Wokism

19. The‘Endof History’
andIdentityPolitics

20. EndOfHistoryThesis
End of History, Identity Politics
Focus on communist ideals
No fit to Triadic Model…
Same tropes, different
circumstances
MERCURY Fukuyama
WokeTropes
NewRIghtCritique?
Modernvariant?

21. Conclusion

22. Communism(leninistvariant)
Establish a vanguard
for the dictatorship of
the proletariat to
educate them, then
once educated, the
state will fall away,
removing all
oppression
of Outcomes

23. ComapredtoTheNewRight(early21st Century)

24. WokeasModernCOmmunisM?
Various identities
(Identity Politics)
• Gender
• Climate
• EV drivers
A: AGENT
• Climate Change?
• Anyone Who Disagrees
• The West?
• Judaism and
Christianity
B: OBSTACLE
Nothing!
Except perhaps not
writing recipes for
tomorrow’s kitchens!
C: GOAL
I do not write
"recipes for the
cook shops of
the future"

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