Le wokisme, which the French love to hate, traces its intellectual genealogy back to 1960s French intellectuals.
Not long before France ’s National Rally dealt a crushing electoral defeat to Emmanuel Macron ’s centrist forces in June’s Europe-wide election, the far-right party hosted a seminar on a subject of vital interest to its leaders: the “danger of wokeism.”
Bardella wasn’t exactly swimming against the current. In France, everyone from President Macron to the National Rally’s rivals on the right have taken aim at woke ideology, decrying it as an American cultural import on a par with Big Macs and Levi’s jeans.
What few in France are willing to recognize are the links between woke ideology, as embodied on U.S. college campuses, and French post-colonial theory. “There is the U.S. domestic aspect of this, which is linked to the history of slavery and race relations, and the global aspect which focuses on the legacy of Western colonialism and how it messed up the world,” Scholz added. “Both in some ways have their antecedents in the French post-colonial and post-structuralist movements of the 1960s.
Revulsion for woke ideology is so mainstream in France that the National Rally leaves most of the work of fighting it to the country’s current mainstream leaders, who seem more than happy to oblige. Case in point: a think tank called the“These movements proved hugely influential, but there is now a growing sense of the chickens coming home to roost,” Scholz added.France is once again in the political avant garde.
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