Broke: What Wokism and Critical Studies Gets Wrong

How is it that discredited ideas in politics and ideology keep coming back?

It starts with a simple error in the way language is understood. The role of language in human affairs is exaggerated. There is an over-emphasis on the analysis of language as a method for resolving problems. Academics come up with ‘critical’ theories. Their convoluted postmodernism and poststructuralism explain how power is supposed to come from language. Changing language is what will ultimately change society. This creates ever more radical versions of marxism, feminism, anti-discrimination, anti-colonialism, queer theory, and most recently, wokism.

In Broke: What Wokism and Critical Studies Gets Wrong D. A. Sullivan writes that unless progressives end the pretentious word-games and ground their ideas in reality, their ideas will be discredited and become material for counter propaganda.