Left Liberals & Their Wokeism

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In this day and age of globalisation , Democracy is threatened almost everywhere by the spirit of ill-liberalism (read – left wokeism). Having a multitude of flowing origins authoritative far left has included a growing climate of pessimism and fear of decline—displacing and turning a blind spot towards the scales of progress associated with the glorious ages of past,—as well as lambast reactions to cultural glory , protected from infiltrators.

Left wing politics, vitalising and operating via exaggeration, simplification and the conjuring up of imagined enemies — can be all put together and equated as left wing’s wokeness.

Left wing politics, expounds a range of political spectrum, with chimera at its core, ought to achieve public mandate through ‘self – defined’ definition of egalitarianism ; Typically entailing a concern for those in society, whom it’s adherents have termed as ‘disadvantaged’. And the solution perceived by their wokeness for the ‘disadvantaged’ is — separatism , by any means of sacrifice.

The nature of left intellect that lays over the alteration and transformation of the public sphere, comes with the left’s natural ally ‘abolishment through radical measures’. This notion of leftism has always been found standing at the wrong side of history.

“Speaking of the political spectrum, term ‘left’ was coined in the shed of French Revolution ; But later, since the age of Karl Marx, leftism was highly associated with the communism. And with the spread of Marx’s words, ‘Left’ witnessed an evolution in its political sphere.”

Certainly, ideologies considered to be left wing’s vary greatly dependent on the placement along the political spectrum in a given time and place. Despite of such probabilities the approach of radicalism and warfare; and the target audience remained same.

At the end o f the 18th century, upon the founding of the first liberal democracies, the term Left was used to describe ‘liberalism’ in the United States and ‘republicanism’ in France, both can be checked with their inclination towards anarchism, challenging the stable traditional institutes of governance.

Left’s ‘woke’ aspirations

Left-wing extremism is an umbrella term for the outright efforts raised against the free democratic basic order that are based on treating the values of freedom and (social) equality as absolutes, especially as they are found in anarchist and communist ideas.

It aims to orchestrate a coup against the existing state and social order. Depending on their ideological ideals ,they want to replace a free democratic order with a communist system or an anarchist society “without rulers”. All left-wing woke ‘intellectual’ agree that “capitalism” as the “root of all evil” has to be fought and eliminated.

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Left-wingers regard “capitalism” as the inseparable fusion of the market-based system of ownership and the democratic state governed by the rule of law. The sole purpose of this fusion, they claim, is to integrate relations of exploitation and oppression. This is why they consider “capitalism” to be irreconcilable with the design of a society that is based on freedom and equality for all.

The left’s woke believe that overcoming “capitalism”, which they claim to be requisite for the society, is not possible through political reforms, but can only be achieved by overthrowing the existing state and social order. Left-wing extremists are in principle also willing to use violence to reach this goal. Saying of history this violence has always resulted in massacre.

Indoctrination of Wokeism

Differing over cult association, degrees of organisation legitimatizing violence as a means to achieve political aims have a grass root level cadre targeting the youth, functioning together in form of student unions , labour union and other pressure groups. More than one in four of all left-wing groups can be categorized as violence-oriented , Terming themselves as ‘Marxists', ‘Leninists’ , ‘Maoisits’ and ‘Stalinists’.

And undoubtedly these identity badges of leftist cults, altogether sew a combination of propaganda and suppression to push youth into the ensnaring grip of left wokeism and anti patriotism, which follows the path of questioning (read gaslighting) , resulting in the lack of confidence over the belief and responsibilities, culture, own identity and the noble traditions — resulting in brainwashing.

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These left Liberals or communists form first and foremost networks in major cities and university towns. They organise central meeting points, which gives rise to a network of small groups, individuals and local offshoots of interregional or national organisations and structures. Within their “free spaces”, communists therefore try to adopt alternative ways of life that are aligned with their own ideals.

This inevitably goes along with rejecting and keeping away those in charge of law and order. The mere presence of police in a “free space”, for example, can be enough to cause violent attacks. The idea is to oppose the “capitalist system of society” using structures that here and there disrupt the capacity for action of its institutions, thereby gradually reducing state power until the state itself ceases to exist.

Woke culture’s irrelevance in Indian subcontinent

‘Religion is like opium’ , the slogan invoked in Germany for Germans. The revolutionary slogan which can also took hold of as of a rioting slogan was given by German philosopher Karl Marx.

The above mentioned slogan advertising an idea or a product of communism, speaks a lot about the culture and social structure of the European Society where the religion followed (Abhramic religions) are considered opium; Maybe like opium they hallucinate the consumer or follower.

But when we perceive these, problems of 19th century’s Europe with the Indian lenses, we may find it very unfamiliar and beyond someone’s ken. As when we understand the class structure, economical society, cultural apparatus, sociopolitical system then we can conclude that Marxism cannot be initiated in the root – driven society of India.

But when we talk in the reference of India, the communism appears to be irrelevant and unresponsive because the rural nature and society of India was ‘Aatm-Nirbhar’ (self- dependent) Where the centre of their economy were the jatis only, the castes which are mentioned and described in the Varna- Tantra.

For example, if we associate with rudimentary structure of India then people involved in different sectors of economy are all living together. A brick maker is living in the village, a peasant is living in the village, a money lender is living in the village, a Vaidya is living in the village, a Pundit is living in the village.

And in reference to this social structure Sir Charles Metcalfe, the then Acting Governor-General of India, wrote in 1830 praising the Indian Society that “The village communities are republican and have everything they need and these villages are free from any foreign connection” ; “Many kings and emperors came Revolutions kept happening, but the rural community remained untouched by all this.

“Such were the powers of the rural communities, as if all of them were a separate state in themselves, in my opinion the main reason for the survival of the Indian people even in the midst of all the invasions. The reason remained the same. The main contribution in the kind of freedom and independence that the people here are living happily is due to this arrangement.” Now from this we can summarize that different sections of the society can be found doing different works for the society.”

Indian society was so intertwined within itself that it’s any quintessential section cannot be separated from the society.” The sections of the society were dependent on each other. And this is the reason why the economic system of the village remained self-sufficient in its self. We were not dependent on any outer source.

Conclusion

Although, communism is beholden to its foreign patrons, it stylises itself as the advocate of regular guys against ‘those up there’, the ‘elites’ and 'politicians': all are portrayed as bought, corrupt, incompetent, aloof, ‘against the people’, indeed agents of a ‘system’. The left’s gameplay of appealing the underprivileged—as a resistant ‘we’, against the ‘they’, the established, the rich, the winners, those who created the system to their advantage.

Left wing wokeism very often leads into a dead end, where a regressive left presents its arguments with a sledgehammer to a world divided into black and white, good and evil, rich and poor. Left’s wokeism can’t touch the heights of acceptance and unification.

It’s based over divisiveness, in any sense possible , their wokeism ignores the ambiguities of reality and the complexity of every issue. Left wokeism’s aim to equality is a myth just like the utopian lies bunked in Marx’s Das Capital.

Article by

Kewali Kabir
Younginker
Student - Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication