Republicans constantly warn us of the threat posed by the two heads of the Democratic monster: socialism and “political correctness,” by which they mean the woke cultural agenda. They treat the two heads as identical. Are they?
No. The cornerstone of socialism is economic determinism (i.e., your thoughts and behavior are driven by your economic class, which is established by your relationship to the means of production), while wokeness is a form of identity determinism (sex and race are all-important).
The two concepts are thus related, but fundamentally opposed, which is why Bernie Sanders had so much trouble appealing to black voters. Think of them as two sides of the same determinist coin.