As I’ve noted before, Marxism and the more extreme expressions of wokeness are two sides of the same coin; the first is based on economic determinism, while the latter is a form of identity determinism. Large segments of the right ignore the fundamental difference between the two and insist on calling wokeness a form of Marxism. Are they correct?
No, because the practical implications of the two are completely different. Marxism works best as a kind of religion, but it has clear political consequences. If you truly believe in it, you think that iron laws of history require revolutions, and that the end game is a classless society which resembles nothing so much as the Garden of Eden. Wokeness has no origin story, no pseudo-scientific explanation for the workings of the world, and no utopia at the end. To the extent that it contains any kind of vision for the future, it is just an incrementally improved version of liberal democracy. It can thus operate perfectly well within the framework created by the Founding Fathers–unlike, say, the theocracy that is the dream of religious reactionaries.