Unwoke Quotes

“The virus of neo-Marxism—mutated with new strands of gender theory, Critical Race Theory, and other postmodernist babble—has spread from our nation’s top universities to countless schools nationwide.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“In The Communist Manifesto, they stated plainly that the education of children, “from the moment they can get along without their mother’s care,” should be handled by the government rather than parents.4”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“By “defects,” communists mean the things that get in the way of violent revolution—things like religion, traditional values, and a belief in the family as the basic structural unit of society. Castro and his allies believed that if children could be taught early enough to reject those things, they would become loyal and unquestioning soldiers in the revolution, willing to defend the principles of communism and Marxism forever. The idea wasn’t new. From the moment that Karl Marx and his disciples first began writing about their vision for the world in the mid-1800s, they dreamed of a society in which it was the state, not families, that would take care of educating children.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“one of the first moves of Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries was to dismantle the education system and rebuild it from the ground up, beginning almost immediately after they seized power in 1959. No longer would parents be the ones who taught their children values. The parents wouldn’t even decide when and in what manner their children could leave the house and begin working. Every child in Cuba, according to Castro, now belonged to the revolution.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“they are following in the footsteps of communists throughout history, who have understood the importance of beginning their revolutions with children.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“By the middle of the twentieth century, multiple governments around the world had been organized around this principle. From the Soviet Union to China to Cuba to North Korea, everywhere that Marxism was implemented in the real world the result was poverty, suffering, torture, imprisonment, and death.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“Even entertainment was not exempt. Today, in fact, the radical Left exerts more control over entertainment than virtually anything else. Within these institutions—and, consequently, in the United States in general—if you think wrong, you will be reprogrammed. If you speak wrong, you will be silenced. If you act wrong, you will be cancelled, eliminated, fired, destroyed.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“Over the course of several decades, this group of revolutionary professors, journalists, film writers, and others began slowly to change the way Americans thought about culture. They exploited their new avenues of transmission to great effect. Along the way, the original tenets of Marxism—which, in the beginning, applied mostly to economics—began to mutate. The new revolutionaries found that the core idea of Marxism—namely, that the world was a battleground between oppressed people and their oppressors—could be mapped not only onto warring economic classes (what Marx called the “proletariat” and the “bourgeoisie”) but onto races as well.9”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“Those who became university professors would treat figures like Karl Marx kindly while attacking capitalists and other revered figures from American history. Those who went into information technology would design systems with a subtle liberal bias. Those in journalism would work to transform the newspapers—and, eventually, the cable news networks and internet startups—into propaganda organs for the Left.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“Marcuse described the strategy in detail in a book published the next year. He described how leftists would now work “against the established institutions while working within them, but not simply by ‘boring from within,’ rather by ‘doing the job,’ learning (how to program and read computers, how to teach at all levels of education, how to use the mass media, how to organize production, how to recognize and eschew planned obsolescence, how to design, et cetera), and at the same time preserving one’s own consciousness in working with others.”7”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“According to Gramsci, the only way to truly change society was not by violent revolution, but by infiltrating the institutions that make Western society unique. If Marxists could get inside the universities, for instance, where knowledge is effectively “made,” or get jobs at publishing houses, which were the main avenues through which ideas were distributed at the time, they might be able to change the ways people thought in subtle ways, rather than having to resort to the kind of outward revolution that Karl Marx had planned on.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“Marxism because they were made up of institutions that were not connected to the government: universities, schools, churches, and newspapers, as well as publishing houses and other means of distributing popular culture. This made implementing Marxism, which relied on the central power of the government to control everything, extremely difficult.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“Marxism always begins that way. By destroying allegiance to anything other than the state, Dear Leader, El Comandante. Faith in God must be destroyed. Devotion to family must be destroyed. Children are taught to betray their parents, to report what they said at home if it differs from the views mandated by the government. Anything that might get in the way of complete and absolute loyalty and obedience to the revolution must be eradicated.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“Marxist revolutions have always begun with the children. Young and idealistic and passionate and oh-so-unaware of the vicious perils that await them, teenagers can easily be swept up in the currents of revolution.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

“The soldiers instructed the kindergartners to close their eyes and pray to God. To ask for candy. They did; they opened their eyes, and there was no candy. Then, they told the children to close their eyes and pray to Fidel Castro for candy. They did. And when they opened their eyes, each child had a piece of candy on his or her desk, quietly slipped there by the soldiers. Marxism always begins that way. By destroying allegiance to anything other than the state, Dear Leader, El Comandante. Faith in God must be destroyed. Devotion to family must be destroyed. Children are taught to betray their parents, to report what they said at home if it differs from the views mandated by the government. Anything that might get in the way of complete and absolute loyalty and obedience to the revolution must be eradicated.”
― Ted Cruz, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America