Cultural Marxists, woke using media spoiling India: Mohan Bhagwat These destructive forces call themselves ‘woke’ and claim to be working for some lofty goals, but their real goals are to disrupt orderliness in the world, he said.
NAGPUR: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on “cultural Marxists and woke people”, calling them selfish, discriminatory and deceitful forces who use their influence in the media and academia to undermine the country’s education and culture, disrupt social cohesion and promote conflict.
In his annual speech on Vijayadashmi, which happens to be the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s foundation day, Bhagwat referred to the coming Lok Sabha polls and said people should choose the “best available option” for guaranteeing stability – something immediately interpreted as a pitch for BJP.His denunciation of cultural Marxism and the “woke culture” marked perhaps the first assault by an influential Indian figure on the growing influence of what many quarters call hardline liberalism which has upended mainstream understanding of society and politics.”These destructive forces call themselves ‘woke’, and claim to be working for some lofty goals, but their real goals are to disrupt orderliness in the world,” Bhagwat said.
Besides its content, Bhagwat’s assault on “wokes” – a derivative of the African American slang for “awake” or people liberated from traditional cultural influences – appears significant also because of its timing. It coincided with signs of pushback against the “cultural Marxists”, with their silence, even support, on some prominent cases like Hamas’ terror attack on Israel, giving a fillip to the resistance.