Race Marxism Quotes

“Critical Race Theory, n.: (1) Calling everything you want to control “racist” until it is fully under your control. (2) A Marxian conflict theory of race; i.e., Race Marxism (3) A belief that racism created by white people for their own benefit is the fundamental organizing principle of society.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“In other words, Critical Race Theory, like all Critical Theories, like all Marxian Theories, is ultimately religious in nature.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Critical Race Theory is an institutional and conceptual virus.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Critical Race Theory seeks to improve Marxism by making it deliberately racist.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Like other totalitarians in a long line preceding them, Critical Race Theorists are interested in ordering the world according to the vision contained in their Theory.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“The “Cultural Marxism” of today mostly attacks the idea of universal liberal values in a different way: not by claiming them to be bourgeois but through identity politics.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Gramsci recognized that culture is produced, upheld, and transmitted in key cultural institutions and recognized that changing a culture to make way for Marxism is to be accomplished by infiltrating and changing those key institutions from within.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“So to understand Critical Race Theory, we need to understand neo-Marxism and Cultural Marxism.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Critical Social Justice Theories, including Critical Race Theory, arise from a deliberate fusion of Critical Theory (neo-Marxism) with postmodern Theory that mostly took place in academia in the 1980s and 1990s.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“This book was turned into a guide called Racism in Education in 1973, which is perhaps the world’s first “Diversity” manual. It was commissioned, paid for, and distributed by the nation’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association (NEA) in 1971–72.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Communists tracking back to the 1930s knew that the American racial divide would be the most fruitful mass line for tearing open its society and paving the way for a Communist revolution in America.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“What is more interesting is that it is neo-Marxist, and what is most accurate is that Critical Race Theory scapegoats whiteness to achieve its aims.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Because Critical Race Theory is Marxian, it is blatantly interested in its own self-empowerment, so Kendi’s approach to antiracism as praxis is the simpler to understand.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“In Critical Race Theory, being against racism is simple enough, but, for example, both Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi are abundantly clear that not only isn’t it enough to be “not racist,” but also that it isn’t possible to be “not racist.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Let me underscore that: by definition. As we see in the marxists.org Encyclopedia entry for “praxis”: “[Praxis] is really just another word for practice in the sense in which practice is understood by Marxists, in which neither theory nor practice are intelligible in isolation from the other.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Given that Marcuse was also calling for “A Biological Foundation for Socialism” (first section/ chapter) and made very clear that liberation means liberation into a new kind of socialism that doesn’t yet exist (that offered praise to the Maoist revolution in China that was going on at the time—to the death of tens of millions), understanding intersectionality as the sociocultural dimension of the “new sensibility”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“This is why it is best to call intersectionality as it actually exists in the world by its correct name: Identity Marxism.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“One of the functional points of Critical Race Theory is to adopt a sufficiently paranoid and conspiratorial stance to conclude that the Civil Rights Acts didn’t really change anything except make racism harder to find and fight (and repelling global Communism, apparently).”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Critical Race Theory is a Marxian Theory that views whiteness as bourgeois property to be abolished through racial class conflict.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“That is, it is to convince people that they are dependent upon a system that oppresses them and that rather than taking responsibility to raise themselves out of their dependency, they must band together to smash the system.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“It is crucial we understand Critical Race Theory as rejecting liberalism, which is to say rejecting freedom, which we can read here in plain English.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“We’d do well to remember that Leftist authoritarianism has been tried many times throughout the world since the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century, and it has been a catastrophe every time.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Critical Race Theory often presents claims of racism in situations where the evidence doesn’t support it and then considers requests for evidence to be evidence of further racism.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“(Even more bizarre than these examples is Bell’s story “Space Traders,” in which he articulates a belief that “white” society would trade off all of the world’s blacks to alien invaders for lots of money and to solve major problems like climate change.)”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“In Critical Race Theory, the doctrine of the “unique voice of color” therefore turns one’s racial identity into a political identity and one’s political identity is one’s racial identity.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“In turn, subjective assessments take priority over objective ones (which are denied as being falsely objective and, often, “white”), which hits truth largely only by accident, empowers grifters, and grants ultimate authority to those within the Party—a proven recipe for societal disaster.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Belief in Material Determinism by Race Material determinism is an old Marxist idea that material conditions determine the choices people make, including moral and intellectual choices. In other words, noble ideals like “the content of one’s character” cannot truly be used as a basis for judging people because the material conditions they find themselves in—and consciousness regarding those conditions—ultimately determine their character.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Most people do not realize that Critical Race Theory also accepts that racism is permanent”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Critical Race Theory, by “considering many of the same issues that conventional civil rights…discourses take up” actually (dialectically) synthesizes some liberalism and some postmodernism into its neo-Marxist foundation.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

“Because racism advances the interests of both white elites (materially) and working-class people (psychically), large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it.”
― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis