President Javier Milei once again criticized cultural progressivism and publicly celebrated an extensive reflection by French essayist Brivael Le Pogam on the philosophical origins of wokism. Through his X account, the president stated that “the disaster is becoming increasingly evident” and spoke directly of a "defeat of wokism.”
“It seems that some of us had seen it before and here, those who are extremely limited intellectually, unable to think beyond what has been imposed on them condemned us,” Milei wrote. He then added: “To think that someone said the West is in danger and they called him crazy… CHEER UP. They will evolve. VLLC!”.
The post shared by the President belongs to Frenchman Brivael Le Pogam and presents a frontal critique of the so-called “French Theory”, a philosophical current associated with thinkers like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. According to the author, these ideas ended up feeding cultural relativism and the woke phenomenon that today dominates a large part of Western universities, major media, and bureaucratic structures.
In the text, Le Pogam argues that Foucault promoted the idea that “truth does not exist” and that every institution represents mechanisms of domination, while Derrida advocated for the permanent deconstruction of meanings and Deleuze defended the dissolution of traditional structures. In his view, these philosophical currents ended up merging with American identity progressivism in universities like Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia during the 1980s.
