America's Cultural Revolution

How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

By: Christopher F. Rufo

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND AMAZON BESTSELLER

America’s most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions.

In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.” China’s revolution was bloody, fast, and a failure, but what if America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it’s just been slower, calmer, and more effective?

In his powerful new book, Christopher F. Rufo uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America’s institutions to undermine them from within. America’s Cultural Revolution finally answers so many of the questions normal Americans have, such as:

• Why is nearly every major corporation bending the knee to a far-left agenda?

• How did DEI suddenly become the department no institution can continue without?

• Why is race the main thing America’s rich, white elite wants to talk about?

• When did the left adopt all this doublespeak, saying progress is a lack of progress, equality is not equality, speech is violence, and violence is speech?

• Has the goal of the left, for a century, actually been the destruction of every Western institution?

Readers may not know the names of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, but they will recognize the ideas they spread. How their radical, destructive ideology slowly worked its way from prisons to academia to classrooms to your human resources department will come as a shock.

Failing to act soon, Rufo warns, could allow the radical left to achieve their ultimate objective: replacing constitutional equality with a race-based redistribution system overseen by bureaucratic ‘diversity and inclusion’ officials. Most Americans don’t want this, but most Americans are no longer in control of our institutions. If the mainstream media’s depiction of a failing dystopia in need of a fresh start never sounded right to you, this expose and call to arms is the book you’ve been looking for.

©2023 Christopher F. Rufo (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

A staple of our time

This book will surely become authoritative in the future. Though Chris Rufo can be off putting, he does great academic work here

must read if you want to fight the left

there is a tendency on the right to intuitively know what is wrong, and attempt to go to battle without being properly informed of the historical happenings in heroes that got us here. I'm guilty of it, and I suspect that you are as well. truly enjoyed this substantive and in-depth look into the grave of leftism.

The ending definitely leaves me hopeful. however, we can simply look at China and see that their cultural revolution did not necessarily fail, rather it birthed into a communist capitalist hybrid. The critical theories modeled the class revolution that occurred there and I fear that the West will simply be satiated by a parasitic, vampireish drawdown of capitalist success.

Must Read

An extremely engaging and illuminating journey through the evolution of Marxism into CRT and the impact it is having on everyone it touches. Can’t recommend it highly enough

Stunning

This book is more than history. It is the examination of nihilism, and its bitter consequences. While we are still deep in the battle, I believe there's hope our society can break through the underbrush of lies and fight with deeper practical wisdom.

Worth reading

great explanation of horrible ideology and the people who started and perpetuate it. 2 thumbs up

A new frame to see the world

The best books change the frame through which you see the world. This is one of those books.

I start doing my part in the Counter-Revolution today

Inspiring book of hope. Like many I have sat back in frustration watching the creep of the Critical Movement through our institutions. Sorry Jeff B., cancelling my Post subscription today. Your uncurated opinion comment sections and selective reporting are clear evidence that Democracy is Dying in Darkness.

Great book!

Awesome read. I’ve recommended it to several friends, family members, and coworkers. Lots of information clearly lined out in a relatable and understandable manner.

Required Reading

This is a brilliant and well informed synthesis of.the nihilism endemic among the parasitic cultural elite and masses of their meme-infected hosts. The counterrevolutionary response described in the closing chapter can not be too soon or too strong if children, families, communities, and broader culture are to survive and flourish. This desire is artfully summed up in the last three words of the concluding chapter (which I will not disclose here). Those timeless words are what could unite all people of good will against failed divisive ideologies.

Normal thinking Americans are not crazy

The cultural Marxism that came out in force during my late teens until now has always been very confusing to me. As inherently depraved as the woke utopian view is, it still managed to shame normal thinking Americans into cowardly silence. This book brilliantly serves to describe how we arrived at this point, as it delivers a rallying cry for Americans to wake up and rescue our republic from critical theory hell.