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When Big Business Went Woke with Stephen R. Soukup

2025/4/9
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Stephen R. Soukup: 我认为将 politicize capital markets 的运动称为 woke capital 可能是一个错误，因为它可能会让人误以为我们只关注为 woke 目的而投资。实际上，woke capital、ESG 和 stakeholder capitalism 都是自上而下的反民主运动，旨在改变美国商业、股东与公司之间的关系，以及公民与政府之间的关系。这种运动的兴起是自上而下的，因为投资界没有人真正要求这样做。大型资产管理公司、外部政治煽动者和公司内部少数被意识形态俘获的人，试图将资本市场和美国商业变成实现非民主方式无法实现的目标的手段。金融界精英认为某些事情很重要，但无法通过民主方式实现，因此他们决定绕过民主，自行推进这些目标。Woke 是身份理论的政治表现，源于 Herbert Marcuse 对文化马克思主义未能实现革命的沮丧，以及他对工人阶级对资本主义过于适应的不满。马库塞决定将身份政治作为革命的火花，让种族和性少数群体等被视为 outcast 的人取代工人阶级在马克思主义理论中的地位。

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This chapter defines "woke capital," differentiating it from "woke." It describes woke capital as a top-down movement to change American business and the relationship between shareholders, corporations, and government, contrasting it with the actual preferences of American voters.
  • Woke capital is defined as a top-down, anti-democratic movement.
  • It aims to alter American business and the relationship between shareholders and corporations.
  • American voters' preferences differ significantly from the goals of woke capital.

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Join Atlas Society International Strategy Director Isidora Kolar for the 248th episode of The Atlas Society Asks where she interviews Stephen R. Soukup about his book "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business," exploring the Left’s long march through American Institutions, culminating in its capture of Big Business, and a strategy to prevent corporate America from becoming an economically powerful extension of the “woke” college campus.

Stephen R. Soukup is the senior commentator, Vice President, and Publisher of The Political Forum, an “independent research provider” that delivers research and consulting services to the institutional investment community with an emphasis on economic, social, political, and geopolitical events likely to have an impact on the financial markets in the United States and abroad.