FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL— What has happened to America? How did it come to be a culture where teachers often claim that students may have been born in the wrong system and where affirming the falsehood that our nation is systemically racist is essential to keeping your job?
Only two examples of how a new Communist ideology is enraging our nation’s institutions are only two.
But this is n’t the Soviet Marxism of the 1960s. This is” NextGen Marxism”, and it’s infiltrating every part of American life.
The creators of the new text” NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Fight It” are Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, and Katharine Gorka, a former political appointment at the Department of Homeland Security. The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s media source.
The writers explain the origins of Marxism, how the movements and beliefs have evolved over time, the imminent danger that NextGen Marxism poses to America now, and how we can protect our institutions from the growing number of cultural Marxists all around us in this deeply researched, already incredibly readable text.
An exclusive extract from the guide is provided in the following excerpts:
The new border in a 170-year-old conflict that has wreaked havoc on everyone in the world is Future Marxism. It is the social Marxism of]early 20th– century European Antonio] Gramsci—the idea that to obtain postcolonial transformation you must first undermine the existing culture, the manipulation of a raft of causes to ignite grievances, the use of grassroots organizing to create foot soldiers for targeted campaigns, demonstrations, or perhaps riots, and, critically, the creation of innovative networks to strategize and coordinate.  ,
The use of race, sex, sexual orientation, climate, social justice, gender, animal rights, the denigration of beauty and the sublime, the consequent elevation of ugliness, chaos and disorder, the decimation of the family, the abandonment of God—these and many other diverse struggles are fronts in a larger war.
In order to achieve their objective of overthrowing the United States, communists call this” a little division of labor.” Mann recalled that he had once asked a leader for gay rights,” How did you come up with the idea of the Gay Liberation Fund?” He says,’ Why do you think we called it that? because we firmly backed Vietnam’s National Liberation Fund. We were n’t just wanting gay marriage, we wanted to overthrow the government as part of being queer.'”
Mann added,” I come out of the tradition where wherever you started, we’re all trying to make the same revolution. There was perhaps a small work division.
Mann is hardly alone. In fact, communists and their socialist brothers keep telling us repeatedly that they blatantly use race, sex, climate, or other issues to advance revolutionary goals. The recanted Marxist David Horowitz is fond of quoting a member of the radical 1960s group Students for a Democratic Society who said,” The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution”.
As Horowitz explained,” In other words, the cause—whether inner- city blacks or women—is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause, which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution”.
This is an important point to understand. Go to any gathering where Marxists strategize, any online platform that promotes such planning, and you will find the espousal of causes that outwardly range from race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and transgenderism, to indigenism, environmentalism, animalism, or ableism. The accretion of raw power is the main objective. This power is to be used for civilizational transformation. They are all” trying to make the same revolution”, to use Mann’s words.
Cornel West, a professor at Harvard who wrote the foreword for the main text of critical race theory in 1995, also picked up in a 1991 article for The New York Times on how the progressive movement would operate on a number of fronts. West referred to it as” the inchoate, dispersed, but gaining progressive movement that is sweeping the country.” This gathering currently lacks both the necessary moral vocabulary and the focused leadership necessary to form and sustain it. Yet it will be rooted ultimately in current activities by people of color, by labor and ecological groups, by women, by homosexuals”.
NextGen Marxists who are aware of their actions organize people across all these various causes, all of which have the ultimate aim of destroying capitalism and the political order. Although the organizations working toward the various causes still have distinct experts and activists, they all share a desire to reorder society.
