Critical Race Promoters Are More Odious Than Marxists

[Kamaji]

Critical Race Promoters Are More Odious Than Marxists

They are a parasitic class of haters who only pretend to be supporting revolutionary change.

By Paul Gottfried
January 23, 2022

Of late, Fox News has been hosting a series called “The MisEducation of America” featuring gatherings of critical race theory’s critics—such as Carol Swain of Vanderbilt University—focusing on the danger of teaching racially divisive versions of American history. According to Swain, a black professor of political science at Vanderbilt, forcing kids to do things like play games called “privilege bingo” are “a prime example of how CRT, has seeped down to K-12 education, and it disturbs students.” Further: “All of these critical theories with Marxist roots are destroying American education, and parents have to save their children. But they also have to work to save other people’s children.”

Although the media and our universities may choose to ignore Swain’s complaint, she is actually understating the problem she and “MisEducation” host Pete Hegseth are featuring. I’m not sure I see “the Marxist roots” of the crusade against white people and their history in quite the same way Swain and Hegseth see it. We are indeed witnessing class warfare but not of the kind that Marx foresaw. It is a war being waged by white elites against the “basket of deplorables,” the predominantly white, working-class, and small-town Americans whom these elites hate and want to divest of human dignity. Similar conflicts are going on simultaneously in other Western countries, featuring equivalent social conflict.

In none of these cases do we find Marx’s appeals to the proletariat to rise up against those who control the means of production. In fact, we are witnessing exactly the opposite. An alliance of corporate capitalists, feminists, the LGBT lobby, and black race hustlers are directing their fire on the working class, which seems to be the least affected by the hegemonic ideology of wokeness. If anything, we are now looking at what Pedro Gonzalez has characterized as “the counterrevolution of the ruling class.” If Marxist theory, which supposedly is “seeping in” has any application, it would be as an analysis of how our elites are suppressing those they are stepping on and trying through increasingly vicious hate speech to isolate.

The ruling class, which avails itself of the full rhetorical arsenal of the historical Left, happily pulls out archaic Marxist phrases to justify its actions. Thus, the transgendered or black racialists emerge rhetorically transfigured as Marx’s revolutionary class, but it is not hard to figure out what is going on here. The leftist counterrevolutionaries are not appealing to an oppressed working class but precisely to its enemies, those who hate ordinary working-class Americans because of their whiteness and the traditional social values they are thought to embody.

The last term I would use to describe listeners of National Public Radio or regular diners at the Harvard Faculty Club is Marxist revolutionaries. They are a parasitic class of haters who pretend to be supporting revolutionary change. They have all the iconoclastic freshness of the geriatric Soviet rulers before their downfall, speaking of an almost equally obnoxious group that also claimed to be promoting revolution. 

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Source:  https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/23/critical-race-promoters-are-more-odious-than-marxists/

[Fishrrman]

Paul Gottfried:
"Critical Race Promoters Are More Odious Than Marxists"

Sorry Paul, you swung and missed.
Fishrrman:
"Critical Race Promoters Are Marxists"

[Smokin Joe]

I, for one, strenuously object to the phrase "ruling class".

We have NO ruling class here, just some jerks with a lot of money who are good at promoting their product and busy keeping others too busy squabbling amongst themselves to realize it.

That deflection is all that lets these people get away with the often criminal or borderline actions they perpetrate upon the masses, from control of curricula to publishing houses and, in general, what has come to be known as "the Narrative".

If the rest of America were to stop, take a deep breath, and resist the Narrative, we'd spend much more time analyzing the actions of that monied few, and have a prayer of soundly refuting that Narrative, and those few would be a bit less monied as a result. I'm not buying what they are selling.

The Truth shall set you free.

Take back the schools, let Marxists with an education degree be as employable as the PhD in gender studies philosophy--(do you want fries with that?)--and our children, their children, and grandchildren will have a prayer of restoring the Republic to its rightful owners who all have a stake in it as their birthright: the citizens of these United States. Teach the history of this Republic with a minimum of commentary (Just the Facts, m'am.), warts and all, and gauge those actions with a contemporary lens, not the metrics of today, so the changes in the nation which were positives can be assessed, and those which were negatives learned from.

Enough of the Narrative being controlled by people who will not send their own children to the schools which proselytize it.

Ruling class?
Nope.
One Citizen, one vote, none more powerful than any other at the ballot box.

[roamer_1]

Paul Gottfried:
"Critical Race Promoters Are More Odious Than Marxists"

Sorry Paul, you swung and missed.
Fishrrman:
"Critical Race Promoters Are Marxists"

That's right.