Race Marxism

The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

De: James Lindsay

Narrado por: James Lindsay

Duración: 12 h y 43 m

Resumen del Editor

Critical race theory is one of the hottest and most controversial topics in the world today, but what is it, really? Rightly understood, critical race theory is a reinvention of an older, terrible idea, Marxism, using race "as the central construct for understanding inequality" in place of economic class. That is, critical race theory is race Marxism. The evidence of this claim is so overwhelming upon even casual examination that it is a shock that it isn't immediately plain to everyone who encounters it. Therefore, this audiobook by James Lindsay, the leading investigator of critical race theory, serves less to make the case that critical race theory is race Marxism and more to serve as a long permission slip to the public to call critical race theory what it plainly is.

Race Marxism exists to tell the truth about critical race theory in unprecedented clarity and depth. Across its six weighty chapters, Lindsay explains what critical race theory is, what it believes, where it comes from, how it operates, and what we can do about it now that we know what we're dealing with. It exposes critical race theory for what it is by ranging widely across its own literature and a survey of some of the darkest philosophical currents of the last 300 in Western thought. Listeners will come away understanding critical race theory and be able to speak the truth about it with authority: Critical race theory is race Marxism, and, like all Marxist theories before it, it will not work this time.

About the Author

James Lindsay is an author, internationally recognized speaker, and the founder and president of New Discourses. He is best known for his relentless criticism of "woke" ideology, the now-famous grievance studies affair, and the best-selling book Cynical Theories, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. In addition to writing and speaking, Lindsay is the voice of the New Discourses podcast and has been a guest on prominent media outlets including The Joe Rogan Experience, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and NPR.

©2022 James Lindsay (P)2022 James Lindsay

Eye opening reflecting what is going on in our culture

I heard of CRT a few years ago and thought critics of it were exaggerating when they didn’t want it taught in schools etc, but what I was shown in this book is how cleverly it disguises its foundations and ties to Marxism. I am fast beginning to see the revolutionary goals of its proponents.

Compelling

Highly recommended, explains the deceitful childish feminist chaos of critical race theory, racism for lazy resentful slobs.

Great but for one criticism

As someone who found Lindsay and Pluckrose’s Cynical Theories a flawless piece of analysis, I was eager to read more of what Lindsay had to say. I found Race Marxism well analyzed, researched, documented and articulated in general, but I do have a couple points of critique. The first is very minor. Stylistically it was a bit repetitive. The second is more substantive. I found his sprinkling of comments on religion throughout the work interesting and at times problematic. In general, I think he gives religion too much credit. His analysis of CRT as a religion of a fundamentalist type is spot-on, but in his defense of western civilization he gives mainstream religion—Christianity in particular— too much credit. Specifically, he makes two statements I find false or objectionable. 1, in the context of elaborating CRT as a gnostic religious cult—a point I emphatically agree with—he refers to the biblical story in Genesis 3, characterizing it as “the false promise of the serpent.” I speak here as a Bible scholar with a 36 year career teaching Hebrew and biblical literature in college and graduate school. In Genesis 3, the snake (serpent is just a fancy word for snake) did NOT give a false promise. Read attentively in Hebrew (but a decent English translation serves as well) the snake in Genesis 3 tells the truth. He says “the day you eat (the fruit of knowledge) your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods knowing good and evil”. In the story, the 3rd person omniscient narrator, upon their eating the fruit says their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked (Gen 3:7). Then later Yahweh, the god, says “now they have become like one of us knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:22). In other words, what the snake said would happen if they ate the forbidden fruit is exactly what DID happen as reported by the narrator and god. It was NOT a false promise but exactly the truth within the story world. Lindsay repeats a common religious trope that misrepresents the Hebrew text. 2. Lindsay refers to Marx dismissively as an “angry atheist.” Now I basically agree with Lindsay’s analysis of Marx and his relation with CRT. But please, “angry atheist” is a tired, bigoted stereotype. I don’t know Lindsay’s religious commitments. While listening to the book I found myself suspecting he is some form of Christian, without any idea that suspicion is correct. And if he is that is okay, but those 2 passages, plus several religion-friendly remarks throughout the book, I could have done without. Marx was certainly an atheist, as am I, but whether he was “angry” is irrelevant and an ad hominem fallacy. These criticisms are a trifle nitpicky. Basically I loved the book, learned from it, and agreed with all its major points. I recommend it to anyone in the thrall of Woke, DEIA, and all variants, or anyone who wants to understand the issue. I would also add that I agree with Lindsay’s urgency. This is a threat to our well being.

So full of knowledge

Amazing book from start to finish, highly recommend that everyone reads the book and others from Lindsay!

An absolute must read if you grew up in the west

if you're wondering what happened to the world you grew up in, Marxism happened. Learn how.

The importance of understanding

This book clearly explains how how the marxist left uses race and indoctrination in their quest for power.

Excellent breakdown

It was already quite obvious that CRT is neo- Marxism, and this book breaks it down thoroughly and succinctly, a fantastic look into the insidious nature of this scourge

Thank you James

Race Marxism is a deep dive into the moves that the far left have been making for the last 40-50 years. If you want to understand why our world feels so upside down and that any sense of blind justice is gone, this is the book you need to read. Thank you to James for the in-depth, rational look into this topic.

A thorough explication of the modern left

This is most thorough look at the left since Roger Scruton's Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands. It misses with a few swipes at neoconservatism (Matt Continetti's The Right has a more informed take on that), but it is deeply rooted in its understanding of the relevant source materials of progressivism's modern incarnation. Pairs well with Carl Trueman's Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.

A Decent Resource

Lindsey does a great job eviscerating much of the nonsense of CRT in this volume. His linking of ideas is crucial to understand the long arc (he uses the image of a spear) of critical theories and it's most recent powerful offspring, CRT. I learned a great deal by reading his analysis.

Although Lindsay himself admits as much in the book, he doesn't take much time to unpack the ideology of liberalism. To me the future of many institutions and even nation-states ride on the question of liberalism's sufficiency to sustain culture. Wish there had been more discussion about how Critical Theories of all types flourish when the mythology of liberalism seems unable to explain the dissolving of cultures and societies in the modern West.

Nevertheless, I am grateful Lindsay wrote this volume, and am thankful CRT is being shown for what it is. I'd recommend it to all who wonder why they are subject to the stupefying drivel of diversity, equity, and inclusion.