The Ghost in the Machine: How the Cold War Created the Culture Wars
The roots of the modern "woke" left are not found in the halls of the Kremlin, but in the boardrooms of Washington, D.C., and the covert operations of the CIA.
An alternative 'anti-establishment left' that eschewed class politics and rejected revolution in favor of a radical individualist interpretations of social transformation. Bedroom freedom.
Which the mega millionaire American ruling class cares nothing about. The locomotive of leftism was sidetracked towards the city of individual expression. It became an if you are not pro-trans you are a fascist kind of train. A train having nothing to do with social equity or the means of production or which is in the best interest of society.
Peace love and a gift economy. Feed the world with flower power which to a true acolyte is the strongest power in the universe don't you know.
That is the wealth distribution of a flower power 'gift society' over time.
Most people have ZERO wealth in a gift economy. So such cultural masturbation is nothing for an elite class to be concerned about. The 60's 'revolution' moved leftism from the factory to the head. Where it now is now forever stuck. Legends in individual minds. Only cheap corn syrup keeping dreams alive.
Is it no wonder we live in a soup of inequality and social bankruptcy now. People let elite money call all the shots. So here we are.
Money and class has controlled the socialist narrative for 80 years, diluting it of meaning. Everyone is brainwashed and controlled. No critique of existing arrangements is now possible.
We are doomed.