The madness of 'woke': echo chambers, bullying, cancel culture, constructive dismissal. The source of the problem? Marxist ideology disseminated on campus. In this concise and punchy book, Fabian Tassano and Christine Fulcher explore the Marxist ideology that has fuelled woke culture. Ironically, the main channel of transmission isn't Sociology or Politics, but Literature Studies. Rather than calling it what it is, humanities professors peddle Marxism under the misleading label 'Critical Theory', in what amounts to intellectual fraud.
Critical Theorists claim - hypocritically - to be fighting oppression. Yet Critical Theory has spawned its own oppressive practices, helping to create a university environment rife with bullying and censorship. Humanities professors boast about exposing
power and
ideology. But within universities it is they who spread ideology and who exercise power.
It's time 'Critical Theory' had the searchlight of critical dissection turned on itself. The authors reject the popular strategy of shifting blame onto 'postmodernism'. While critical of post-structuralists such as Jacques Derrida, they take a surprisingly nuanced view of Michel Foucault and his power/knowledge theory.
