The new Woke movement claims to have Marxist origins. However, it can be shown that most of the political content of contemporary progressivism has bourgeois origins: individualism, libertarianism, anarchism, cosmopolitanism, religion-like moralism. Overall, the five thematic areas of Marxist doctrine examined show major differences from the Woke ideology: The theory of imperialism, for example, prohibits turning to the American superpower. Proletarian internationalism does not mean accepting every migrant as a refugee. In Marxist thought, social progress did not mean complete reconciliation with nature and animals. Marxism never claimed that women had no duties as mothers. Only anti-fascism corresponds to the claim of origin of the progressivists: this Stalinist technique of isolating political enemies was adopted and further developed. The latest version is known as Cancel Culture. Supported by their adherents in administration, education and the media, the Woke intelligentsia has formed an alliance with big business to dominate society.