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The concept it seems everyone is missing right now is "conflict theory." This idea is why everyone keeps pointing at MarxISM and keeps getting correctly told this isn't MarxISM. It's MarxIAN, and it is so because it has taken up conflict theory.
Marxian conflict theory, in brief, is the concept that society is "stratified" into various conflicting groups that have unequal access to resources, opportunities, and power (e.g., proletariat and bourgeoisie; white and brown and black; male and female; straight and LGBTQIA+
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The heart of conflict theory is that these stratified groups are in perpetual, largely or wholly zero-sum (if I win, you lose) conflict with one another for resources, opportunities, and power, and the moral authority is given to the underdog in that conflict.
Marx derived this idea from applying his ideas about class conflict, which were a bit undercooked, to Hegel's "master/slave dialectic," which I think ironically couldn't even be taught now and would result in his erasure from philosophical history.
Of course, Marx was wrong about something. Nevertheless, MarxISM is the application of Marxian conflict theory to the socioeconomic sphere and attendant corollary beliefs about the inevitability of class-based revolution, etc., and the workability of communism.
So, neo-Marxist thought moved the site of social conflict from economics to culture and ideology, which has been moved further into culture and "lived experience" since postmodern navel-gazing and deflection from objective truth got introduced into it in the 1980s-90s.
Today, "identity" rules supreme because the identity-politics factions of neo-Marxist ideology won out and were then superpowered by the postmodern denial of access to objective truth and full politicization of knowledge.
What we call "Critical Social Justice" or "Wokism" or "Wokeness" is the application of conflict theory to group identity as understood in the rather janky and shambling mess called "Intersectionality." (I don't think its advocates even know "oppressed identity" is a poset.)
That means that Wokeness is MarxIAN but distinctly not MarxIST, though some kind of fluffy idealist forms of MarxISM show up, like just wanting to redistribute money. This aspect of Woke is very poorly developed and not at all serious or central, so it will be a disaster.
