In a 2019 piece, John Tierney writing for the City Journal was exemplary in his explication of the facilitating factors and underlying educational and philanthropic mechanisms involved Pittsburgh’s renaissance from steel-town to brain-town.
I have coined the term Successor Ideology to name this species of bourgeois ultra-radicalism that has become official value system of a rising generation of office-holders and office-seekers.Īnd further in a recent tweets reply describing the core of the ideology and the functional motivation of the activists who are at the heart of the Successor Ideology movement: Indeed, I believe the similarities of this movement and the concepts of identity politics and Neo-Marxism are hard to deny when one examines the evidence.Īs Wesley Yang describes in a recent Substack offering of his own: In what follows, I explore the transmutation of the cultural and behavioral ethos of Pittsburgh as I perceive it through the conceptual lens of Wesley Yang’s notion of a “Successor Ideology.” Not only do I find Yang’s Successor Ideology concept insightful and penetrating, I find his reflections on the academic, social, and political forces giving rise to and maintaining the movement both remarkably lucid and of great explanatory value in what is undeniably a larger strategically organized political radical progressive movement currently ascendant within the United States specifically and the West more broadly.
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