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Historical reference shelf

This older working note contains many PDF links using former local-library paths. Its argument notes are preserved, but those PDF links should be treated as unverified until individually reconciled. For current topic navigation use Leftism & Woke (MOC); for the shared book shelf use Politics Books & Courses.

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  • Socrates belongs to everybody.

    • You don’t need to throw away the ancient thinkers due to their views at the time and replace them with modern one for a couple of opinions that the current time doesn’t believe or think are contemptable.

  • The Woke ideologically follows the thinking of the racists that they hold in contempt. They want to throw away the “white” thinkers and replace them with non-white thinkers. The exact thinking, yet flipped.

  • Math is Racist

    • Math Equity Toolkit
    • Resources and guidance to support Black, LatinX, and Multilingual students to thrive in grades 6-8 A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction is an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity, and aligns instruction to grade-level priority standards.
    • https://equitablemath.org/

  • Suggestion that there are other ways of knowing. That certain people posses based on racial essences. A thought that goes back to biological racism.

Vault cross-reference

The Oppressor/Oppressed lens has a philosophical genealogy worth holding alongside the political critique. Nietzsche’s ressentiment — the move by which the powerless redefine values so that their condition becomes moral superiority and the strong become evil — is the structural ancestor of the frame, and he described it in On the Genealogy of Morality fifty years before the Frankfurt School. And internalization of domination traces how Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Weber each explained the same phenomenon: domination is most complete when the dominated adopt its logic themselves.
Why this matters for your critique: it means the framework isn’t arbitrary — it’s a real observation about how power and morality interact — but it also means it inherits Nietzsche’s problem, that a moral system built out of resentment tends to require an enemy to remain coherent. That’s a much stronger line than “it’s just Marxism relabelled.” → The War on the West · Pro-China Narrative Techniques - Eric Hovagim Analysis (the “punching up” rule applied to a great power)

Woke = Seeing everything through the lens of Oppressor vs Oppressed

  • Ben Shapiro breaks it down
    • Has its roots in post-modernism
      • Every principle is a reflection of underlying structures of power and therefore any inequality that emerges under such a system is a reflection of that structure of power.
      • Used to be applied in Marxist ways
        • Economic equality was the result of misallocation of power in the structure of an upper crust of people
    • Post-modern Marxist got transmuted into a racial version
      • Systems in the US are white supremacist in orientation and are perpetuated by a group of people who in favor of the preservation of white power and white supremacy
      • Generalized theory of critical race theory
      • Softer form is DEI
  • DEI
    • Keyword is equity
      • If there is any inequality it is due to discrimination

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Douglas Murray explains what WOKE is in 3 minutes

Douglas Murray speaks about the danger of utopian ideology which groups individuals into incoherent groups and makes everything equal at the expense of freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkG6PIsTEs

The Frankfurt School

Archive of writings of the Frankfurt School
http://marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm
Vault orientation: Frankfurt School · Critical Theory · James Lindsay's presentation and transcript

Case Studies — the framework applied in the wild

🇨🇳 “Punching up” applied to a great power → Pro-China Narrative Techniques - Eric Hovagim Analysis

A clean, self-documenting example of Oppressor vs Oppressed as an epistemology rather than a moral claim. In the source interview (What China Shows Americans About America Eric Hovagim) the host mocks French and British people for ten minutes, then asks his own guest what would happen if they said the same things about Chinese people. The answer states the rule explicitly:

“Because they haven’t been the privileged… so it’s fair game to punch up but you shouldn’t be punching down.”

The truth of a statement is set by the target’s position on a power hierarchy, not by evidence — and here the “punching up” role is assigned to a nuclear-armed great power with the world’s second-largest economy. The analysis note also traces the network context (Foreign Influence in the Campaign against American AI, Part II The Singham Ground Game · Code Pink · Leftist China Network (file not included in this release)) and catalogues the unfalsifiability move: any negative instinct about China is reframed as residual Western propaganda in the listener, never as evidence about China.

Books

Winning the Race - John McWhorter.pdf (file not included in this release)
[Asia Pacific Modern_ 17] Eiichiro Azuma - In Search of Our Frontier_ Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire (2019, University of California Press) [10.1525_9780520973077] - libgen.li.pdf
[Critical America_ 87] Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic - Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition_ An Introduction (2023, NYU Press) - libgen.li.pdf
[Early American studies] - An Infinity of Nations_ How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (2012, University of Pennsylvania Press) - libgen.li.pdf
60 Research/60.3 Politics/60.3.11 - Woke/Books/Books/[Library of America] John Kenneth Galbraith, James K. Galbraith (editor) - Galbraith_ The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-1967_ American Capitalism _ The Great Crash, 1929 _ The Affluent Society (2010, Libr.pdf
Aime Cesaire - Discourse on Colonialism (2001, Monthly Review Press) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Andrew Valls (editor) - Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy-Cornell University Press (2005).pdf (file not included in this release)
Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Audrey Smedley, Brian D. Smedley - Race in North America Origin and Evolution of a Worldview-Westview Press (2011).pdf (file not included in this release)
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay.pdf (file not included in this release)
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates.pdf (file not included in this release)
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates annotated.pdf (file not included in this release)
Colonialism A Global History — Lorenzo Veracini — 2022 — Routledge — 9781003050599 — 79bf75f1aaa9ec1c87b39f87bc8fe14d — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)
Discovering Indigenous Lands The Doctrine of Discovery in — Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, Tracey — 1, 2010 — Oxford University — 9780199579815 — 6141d10d3e6b35e4774ffd3f51e19107 — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)
Edward W. Said - Orientalism Western Conceptions of the Orient (Penguin Modern Classics)-Penguin Classics (2003).pdf (file not included in this release)
Fisher, Mark - Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative (2009) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Frantz Fanon (Author), Constance Farrington (trans.), Jean-Paul - The Wretched of the Earth (1963, Grove Press) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Frantz Fanon (Routledge Critica - Pramod K. Nayar.pdf (file not included in this release)
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - Davis, Angela; Barat, Frank; We.pdf (file not included in this release)
fryer2018.pdf (file not included in this release)
he.hbsp.harvard.edu2022-08-02-the-faculty-lounge.html.pdf (file not included in this release)
Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam, and — Gustavo Gozzi, Filippo Valente — Law, Ethics and Governance, 2021 — Routledge — 9781003036937 — e9bd9839a6a392b743c0a3d38b92861a — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)
Ibram X. Kendi - How to Be an Antiracist (2019, One World) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped from the Beginning The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America-PublicAffairs (2016).pdf (file not included in this release)
Irreversible Damage_ The Transgender Craze Seducing Our -- Abigail Shrier [Shrier, Abigail] -- 2020 -- Regnery Publishing -- cc23e6477eec5d6e5bf3b8e851b3ffa7 -- Anna’s Archive.pdf
It’s Perfectly Normal. Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and — Robie H. Harris,Michael Emberley — Family Library, 2014 — Candlewick Press — 3bcb4de4fca45e0d4c23a7203a79126e — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)
Keywords for Radicals - Kelly Fritsch.pdf (file not included in this release)
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas - Critical Race Theory the key writings that formed the movement (1995, The New Press) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Max Liboiron - Pollution Is Colonialism (2021, Duke University Press) [10.1515_9781478021445] - libgen.li.pdf
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran - The condemnation of blackness race, crime, and the making of modern urban America-Harvard University Press (2010).pdf (file not included in this release)
Niles Niemuth, Tom Mackaman, David North - The New York Times’ 1619 Project A racialist falsification of American and world history (2020, World Socialist Web Site) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Norman X. Finkelstein - I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom (2023, Sublation Press) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Progressive New World How Settler Colonialism and — Marilyn Lake — 2019 — Harvard University Press — 9780674989993 — 2c6c43ef34b9bc9a9c6f426ade716cf6 — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)
Race for profit how banks and the real estate industry — Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta — Justice power and politics, 2019 — University of North — 9781469653679 — 73de06c133c08dd614e4b7db4f17753d — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)
Racism and Resistance - Timothy Joseph Golden.pdf (file not included in this release)
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I’m No Longer Talking (to White People) About Race (2017, Bloomsbury) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
Rifkin+2017-+Beyond+Settler+Time+[whole+book].pdf
Slavoj Zizek - Less Than Nothing Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012, Verso) - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith.pdf (file not included in this release)
The Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, and the Making — Khalil Gibran Muhammad — 2019 — Harvard University Press — 9780674244337 — 23d592e9b0b549c86bcf8eacd235db8a — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)
The Identity Trap A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time — Yascha Mounk.pdf (file not included in this release)
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of — Michelle Alexander — 1, 2020 — New Press — 9781620971932 — 1f622fbdfe24f7cab9676b3abadfd020 — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)
Tuck and Yang 2012 Decolonization is not a metaphor.pdf (file not included in this release)
What Is a Woman One Man’s Jo - Walsh, Matt copy copy.pdf (file not included in this release)
White Fragility - libgen.li.pdf (file not included in this release)
White Guilt How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the — Shelby Steele — 2007 — Harper Perennial — 9780060578633 — 36160619b35e9e2fb62df1bddea768b2 — Anna’s Archive.pdf (file not included in this release)

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