The next generation of Marxists is marching through the institutions Zakiya Carr Johnson thinks America is a “failed historic model” — a society so awful, so laden with racism, misogyny, and patriarchy, that we can no longer try to tweak it or improve it. “Time has run out” on America, as she put it in a blog post she has since deleted.
More and more, we hear similar troubling messages from Americans in everyday life. Just this month, a pro-Hamas demonstrator told a YouTuber that the protest he was leading was really about “getting rid of America, getting rid of the West.”
“Everyone here understands that at some level, we need to get rid of America. Completely,” he said, motioning toward the crowd of demonstrators. He was by no means the only pro-Hamas protestor to make this type of statement, but he got some attention because Elon Musk reposted the exchange on X (formerly Twitter), receiving over 40 million views.
In the case of Carr Johnson, her views — that America is so suffused with racism, with misogyny, and with colonialism that “to make any change, we have to dismantle that traditional structure at every juncture” — should warrant the attention of all 330 million Americans.
After all, Secretary of State Antony Blinken just this month appointed Carr Johnson as the State Department’s head of diversity, equity, and inclusion. From this position, she can influence the actions of all our diplomats, assistant secretaries, and undersecretaries. She can affect our foreign policy.
Carr Johnson is the exemplar of a new political and cultural warrior that we call “NextGen Marxist.” Even though we had not heard her name before we wrote the book, she is the reason we both sat down to write “NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It.”
The idea that the country is systemically rotten (racist, patriarchal, heteronormative — fill in the blank) and that we live under an oppressive structure had been introduced into our universities since at least the 1980s. And in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter and antifa riots, it has entered every nook and cranny of our lives. It has affected not only the upper reaches of the culture but of the Biden administration as well. ..................
https://www.conservativereview.com/the-next-generation-of-marxists-is-marching-through-the-institutions-2667816243.html
