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 I don't think most people realize it, but the whole point of "woke" is to be critical and negative about everything.

The term woke comes from the concept of awakening to a "critical" communist conscienceness, where a person has become aware of so-called "systems of oppression" everywhere in society. In Marxism "critical" theory has nothing to do with critical thinking, but instead means to criticize.

Marxists verbally talk about, and write about how they need to criticize, disrupt, destabalize, dismantle, and destroy the current society so they can seize power and force their religion on everyone, except they don't call it a religion, but it is one.

Marxist woke critical theory not only theorizes about "power structures", but one key component of Marxist crotical theory is you must become a political activist and tear down power structures (so tyrants can then take control). They call this the "praxis". Praxus is a basic requirement for something to be considered a critical theory.

Some current Marxist critical theories are:
LGBT = Queer Marxism
CRT = Marxist Racism

There are many more.  Listen to James Lindsay's "New Discourses" podcaat for tons of good info on Modern Marxism.