A new form of socialism is growing on the Left.
It combines economic socialism with woke identity politics.
It feeds on envy and social alienation.
A new form of socialism has escaped from the lab of “Woke 1.0,” and it seems intent on taking over the Left.
It combines economic socialism with woke identity politics.
It feeds on envy and social alienation.
A new form of socialism has escaped from the lab of “Woke 1.0,” and it seems intent on taking over the Left.
The strain of socialism driving movements like the Democratic Socialists of America goes far beyond the traditional definition of government ownership of the means of production—it marries economic socialism to identity politics.
This isn’t your grandfather’s socialism, featuring factory workers waving red flags and professors droning on about dialectical materialism. The new socialists are young, college-educated, and racially diverse. They talk about intersectionality, pronouns, and microaggressions.
