Critical Race Theory Is a Form of Marxist Reeducation
“Critical race theory is the tip of a one hundred years long spear designed to gore the side of the Western civilisation,” said James Lindsay in a recent workshop on the topic of critical race theory (CRT). Although these words may seem dramatic, they accurately describe what CRT is: a set of ideological tools that are rooted in neo-Marxism, postmodernism and, some argue, Freudian psychology and are used to reeducate people by modelling their psyches.
Because CRT is Marxist in nature, the goal of creating the correct consciousness for the “new man” or the “socialist man” to be born remains well alive in CRT’s application anywhere in society. In the context of CRT, this “new man” possesses the “critical consciousness” that enables the individual to see power dynamics based on race relations everywhere and as the basis of everything in society and, importantly, to become an activist against these forces, trying to change the world by putting the ideology of CRT into practice.
After all, Karl Marx said that “the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; our task is to change it”—in other words, critical race theory must be acted out in society in order for the “critical consciousness” to arise and the “new man” to be forged. To bring about this “critical consciousness,” the individual must go through a process of reeducation, aided by tools based on CRT, such as training in implicit bias, diversity and inclusion, or antiracism. These practices are already widespread in the Western world.
For example, during the Barack Obama years, the Department of Justice required some twenty-eight thousand employees to undergo training to “recognize and address implicit bias.” More recently, The Spectator wrote in 2020 that “Google, Facebook, the FTSE 100, government departments—including the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Justice—and non-profits proudly advertise the [implicity bias training] programmes they put their staff through.” In other words, the individual or the institution is required to “engage” with the presumed issue in order to change society. Failure to achieve a positive outcome is a sign of “false consciousness” under “critical theory” social justice or race relations.
Antiracist training involves confessing one’s thought crimes (the assumed innate racism of white people, for example); reporting on or being reported by friends, colleagues or neighbors for wro
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