# E394. Woke Is Just Communism Repackaged | Xi Van Fleet - Walk-Ins Welcome

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Podcast: [Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989)
Published: 2026-06-11T10:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4792

## Resource

Bridget sits down with Xi Van Fleet, author of Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat. Xi is a survivor of China's Cultural Revolution and traces the eerie parallels between Mao's revolution and today's woke ideology. She draws on her own experience — growing up under the CCP, enduring re-education in the countryside, and eventually escaping to America — to argue that cultural Marxism is not a foreign threat but a homegrown ...

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