Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It

Imprimis ^ | March 2021 | Christopher F. Rufo

[Retain Mike]

Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. It’s time for this to change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.

In explaining critical race theory, it helps to begin with a brief history of Marxism. Originally, the Marxist Left built its political program on the theory of class conflict. Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power between capitalists and workers. The solution to that imbalance, according to Marx, was revolution: the workers would eventually gain consciousness of their plight, seize the means of production, overthrow the capitalist class, and usher in a new socialist society

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Imprimus is an excellent monthly magazine. Always interesting. Available for free from Hillsdale College. I've been a subscriber for years.

[Retain Mike]

Solzhenitsyn is so very good.

[Retain Mike]

I like to call this a case of premeditated ignorance.