successor ideology
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A proposed emergent ideology within liberal or left-wing political movements in the West, centered around intersectionality, social justice and identity politics, and potentially supplanting the conventional liberal values of pluralism, freedom of speech, and color blindness.
Example Sentences
- "Many political liberals have traded in classical liberal values for what writer Wesley Yang calls the "successor ideology," commonly known as woke ideology. It's an ideology that claims to have the absolute truth about why there's disparity in the world and, hence, overrides the need for societal debate about such matters."
- "Variously identified as "woke," as an applied form of "critical race theory," or as a likely "successor ideology" to liberalism, this movement vows to remake society in a radical manner. To do so, many of its most vocal advocates are willing to rethink fundamental principles, like the focus on individuals over groups, on which liberal democracies have traditionally been built."
- "An alternative term to 'woke' that has utility as a historical place marker is 'the successor ideology'. The phrase was coined by the US writer Wesley Yang to characterize a chapter in the evolution of left-wing thought that emerged from the traditional political liberalism of the post-Cold War era and is in large part a reaction against it, but that doesn't posit much by way of an alternative programme."