How the Radical Left Conquered Almost Everything for a Time (II)

(Continued from I)

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Two months ago I recommended reading this book by Christopher Rufo, which I read in the meantime so that you wouldn't point the finger at me for not taking the medications I prescribe. I confirm that “the investigation is meticulous and the details are forensic”. 

After more than 300 dense pages, I was persuaded that critical race theory and all the neo-Marxist paraphernalia are so embedded in the American academy from which they started to infect society that it will take decades to reverse the current situation of dominance by intellectual elites who play the role of priests of this new secular religion.

Interestingly, in my opinion, the main difference between the strategies of domination of neo-Marxism (let's call it that for simplicity) and those of classical Marxism in its Leninist, Stalinist and Maoist versions is that while the latter sought the destruction of the "capitalist" State and its replacement by the "socialist" State controlled by the Party, the organized "vanguard" of the "oppressed", neo-Marxism seeks to control the "capitalist" State from within using the institutions occupied by its elites converted to critical race theory and all that stuff.

This difference has several consequences and, in my opinion, one of the most important is that, unlike classical Marxism, whose failure became clear with the decadence and fall of "socialist" states or their conversion into state capitalism controlled by the single party, as in the case of China, this proof of failure and unfeasibility does not seem possible in the case of neo-Marxism because the State continues to be the "capitalist" State.

Therefore, in addition to political-philosophical theoretical approaches and discussions, it is increasingly important to use examples of neo-Marxism in the institutions it controls as case studies to show its unforeseen, unintended and disastrous consequences. In future posts in this series I will do this using some cases reported by Christopher Rufo.

(To be continued)