Woke as an intellectual trend reminds me of the Soviet Communist mainstream thought process, in two ways in fact: one, its base assumptions are very noble, and

Woke as an intellectual trend reminds me of the Soviet Communist mainstream thought process, in two ways in fact: one, its base assumptions are very noble, and are about creating a better world (I'm talking here about rank-and-file Soviet believers, not the criminals at the top and throughout the management structure). But also, it was a monster who devoured everyone: believers and non-believers. One day you could be delivering a fiery speech on the evils of exploitative Capitalism, how Communism is the only way forward, and how you bow to the Proletariat. The next day you could be on a one-way trip to a Siberian labour camp. Maybe your speech wasn't vigorous enough. Maybe you made a joke that was ill-received. Maybe you didn't make a joke, but someone in the audience did. Or none of the above really, and you were just unlucky. I don't yet see this so much with Woke; right now, the enemies are the Unwoke, and bear the brunt of the criticism. But as and when Woke grows (which I'm not actually sure is happening), the in-fighting is bound to begin. One person is for Equitable Science but maybe not Equitable PE lessons, let's cancel them. Another is for all things Equitable, but not quite in the right way, woe to them. The thing about such ideologies is that statement-driven movements favour making more and more extreme statements, because simply repeating the message doesn't drive the movement forward. But then inevitably some people get left behind.