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Back in the 60s, The John Birch Society "clearly explained" all sorts of things they thought were tied to Marxism, yet most people rightly disagreed with them. For example, Hitler was a vegetarian and loved dogs, that does not mean liking dogs and vegetarianism has anything to do with Nazism.
Deflection denied.
The fact is Marxism ties everything back to class rather than race. In Marxism, racism is only a tool used by the wealthy to divide the poor. In that regard, CRT, which makes everything about race, is utterly antithetical to Marxism. Moreover, in the video, he talks about how the original proponents of Critical Theory did not believe there was an absolute sense of morality in the universe. That belief isn't Marxism, its Atheism and a belief that all atheists share regardless of their politics.
Actually, Maxism tied everything to a class "struggle" in which his focus was on wealth and power. The members of the Frankfort school realized that this alone was not a winning position. So they looked into other ideas of social and cultural power dynamics seeking to push varied forms of "class struggle." This led to "critical theory," and Marcuse among them posited the importance of racial power dynamics, leading to CRT.
It all boils down to forms of socialist dialectic which seeks to use any means necessary to create a socialist state. It requires conflict between classes, howsoever those classes may be identified. We can see the various attempts to create ongoing "class struggles" by dividing people into as many competing groups as possible and thereby multiple issues of "oppression" which can only be solved by a "peoples socialist government."
Of course, this is always supposed to be led by the "best and brightest" on behalf of the rest of us...which by historical examples almost never seem to work out.
Hence my support for "give me liberty or give me death," meaning I will fight for my liberty rather than submit to any form of "dictatorship" whether of an individual, the proletariat, or some racial class.
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