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America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything Hardcover – July 18, 2023
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America’s most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions.
In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.” China’s revolution was bloody, fast, and a failure, but what if America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it’s just been slower, calmer, and more effective?
In his powerful new book, Christopher F. Rufo uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America’s institutions to undermine them from within.America’s Cultural Revolution finally answers so many of the questions normal Americans have, such as:
• Why is nearly every major corporation bending the knee to a far-left agenda?
• How did DEI suddenly become the department no institution can continue without?
• Why is race the main thing America’s rich, white elite wants to talk about?
• When did the left adopt all this doublespeak, saying progress is a lack of progress, equality is not equality, speech is violence, and violence is speech?
• Has the goal of the left, for a century, actually been the destruction of every Western institution?
Readers may not know the names of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, but they will recognize the ideas they spread. How their radical, destructive ideology slowly worked its way from prisons to academia to classrooms to your human resources department will come as a shock.
Failing to act soon, Rufo warns, could allow the radical left to achieve their ultimate objective: replacing constitutional equality with a race-based redistribution system overseen by bureaucratic ‘diversity and inclusion’ officials. Most Americans don’t want this, but most Americans are no longer in control of our institutions. If the mainstream media’s depiction of a failing dystopia in need of a fresh start never sounded right to you, this expose and call to arms is the book you’ve been looking for.
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- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBroadside Books
- Publication dateJuly 18, 2023
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- ISBN-100063227533
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This book uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America's institutions to undermine them from within.Popular highlight
The ultimate goal is still revolutionary: the activists of the radical Left want to replace individual rights with group-identity-based rights, enact a scheme of race-based wealth redistribution, and suppress speech, based on a new racial and political calculus. They want a “total rupture” with the existing order.482 Kindle readers highlighted thisPopular highlight
Critical race theory bears all the flaws of traditional Marxism, then amplifies them with a narrative of racial pessimism that crushes the very possibility of progress. Over the span of fifty years, the cultural revolution has slowly lowered its mask and revealed its hideous face—nihilism.344 Kindle readers highlighted thisPopular highlight
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“Christopher Rufo is in fact one of the most effective journalists and filmmakers in the country.” — Tucker Carlson
“Christopher Rufo … has done more than anybody else in our country on exposing CRT.” — Governor Ron DeSantis
“The most important and effective conservative activist in the country.” — Bari Weiss
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Christopher F. Rufo is a writer, filmmaker, and activist. He has directed four documentaries for PBS, including America Lost, which tells the story of three forgotten American cities. He is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of the public policy magazine City Journal. His reporting and activism have inspired a presidential order, a national grassroots movement, and legislation in twenty-two states. Christopher holds a BSFS from Georgetown University and an ALM from Harvard University. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three sons.
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Part 1. Revolution — Marcuse’s “critical theory message reverberated around the world,” starting revolutions everywhere. In the U.S. we had the New Left’s “1968 Revolution.”
I remember ‘68, our year of revolution. That’s when I was arrested for posting invitations to the funeral of Bobby Hutton, the 1st Black Panther recruit. That was when 2000 of our generation were killed, just in February, in Vietnam’s Tet offensive. Rufo forgets Vietnam, which caused LBJ to give up his 2nd term. He forgets MLK’s assassination followed by 100+ urban riots, Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, and Humphrey being nominated without winning a single primary. That’s why we destroyed the Dem convention. Marcuse was not on our mind. (If you leave out everything but Marcuse, he seems important.)
Rufo is right that Marcuse grabbed some attention from the media and certain far-left factions. He’s also right that “The young radicals … soon pushed Marcuse to go further.” He was as much a follower as a leader. Rufo’s right that “The New Left’s wave of violence … alienated the public.” The 1968 “revolution” only elected Nixon. It failed. But it kept trying until 1972, when Rufo notes “Marcuse was shell-shocked. … The reactionaries had won.” And, won in a landslide.
Marcuse's still-relevant contribution was the awful dogma of “repressive tolerance,” which Rufo duly notes. Rufo carries on about Marcuse right to the end. But he’s wrong to say the Panther’s used his ideas. He cites Panther Minister of Info Cleaver, but Cleaver says he got his idea for Franz Fanon, not Marcuse. Yes Angela Davis was his disciple, but she was more of a Communist Black Panther than a Marcusian.
Rufo begins with Marcuse, a disciple of Critical Theory (invented in 1937) because he wants to show us the roots of critical race theory (CRT). But this causes him to miss CRTs taproot — Black Power. There are strong and direct historical links from Malcolm X, to Stokely Carmichael (Mr. Black Power) to Derrick Bell (godfather of CRT) and even from Stokely to today’s #1 Crit, Ibram Kendi. Rufo misses all of that. He should read the #1 Crit historian Peniel Joseph.
Understanding this would let him see the war between Black-Power-CRT and MLK. The Crits semi-secretly hate MLK who everyone loves. That is one of CRT’s major vulnerabilities and biggest cover-ups.
Part 2. Race — Finally someone dug up all the details on Angela Davis’ role in the Marin kidnapping that killed the judge and made her a Left hero as a “political prisoner.” That alone is worth the price of the book. And he has lots more info on her.
Strangely he says BLM grew out of the black liberation movement. I’d never heard of it … because that’s just Angela Davis’ name for the Black Power movement (p.112). She’s trying to tone down “Black Power” and make it fit in with the CRT talk of “liberation.” Rufo should know better than to adopt her language! But the BLM chapter’s a good one, as is the one on Seattle.
Part 3. Education — this taught me a lot about Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” (frightening). I’d heard it was dominant in education, but how dominant? I’m still not sure. And how does that compare with CRT in education which we hear much more about in the news. Fifty pages later we learn only that Gloria Ladson-Billings “founded critical race theory in education.”
Part 4. Power — Derrick Bell the godfather of CRT, started out doing great civil rights work. But then Harvard called. He knew he was not qualified and that he got the offer because he was Black. For some reason this led him into a life of pretending to be a victim of racism and making outrageous claims that racism had never been worse. This made him a guru to a bunch of young Black lawyers. In response to Bell’s “narcissism and moral grandstanding,” Rufo gives us a terrific summary of Henry Louis Gates’ take-down of CRT (Gates does: Finding Your Roots on PBS, and is a Harvard Prof).
What’s Missing? — Many controversies from the last 10 years are overlooked entirely: cancel culture, microaggressions, cultural appropriation, CRT in education, trans activism, Robin DiAngelo (of White Fragility) and Kendi and his books. (There is a short note on Kendi’s worst idea ever.)
Rufo’s Conclusion: The Counter-Revolution to Come — Having declared himself a radical, Rufo ends the book by trying to lead a counter-revolution against the (failed) 1968 New Left revolution (he’s means CRT), which he thinks has already happened. His mistake is that he keeps forgetting that CRT calls for a two stage process (1) “a long march through the institutions” and then (2) the revolution. Starting with the founding paper of Crit Theory, “Traditional and Critical Theory” (1937), which Rufo should read, stage (1) is presented as accomplishing nothing but chaos. Then comes the revolution (also known as the abyss) during which a miracle happens and we arrive at utopia.
Rufo understands this, but it is nearly impossible to believe anyone believes that, hence his mistake. So he says, “Ultimately, critical theory will be put to a simple test: Are conditions improving or not improving?” He forgets that the Crits constantly sell their ideology by claiming “conditions are NOT improving, they're getting worse.” Rufo just told us that Bell always said that, and that’s what launched CRT. This is an age old Marxist mantra (heighten the contradictions of capitalism! — make things worse).
So Rufo’s “simple test” will be (and is being) passed with flying colors. They ARE making things worse! And as horrible as that is, it’s working and has been working for 60 years. We are not yet near the revolution (thank God). Things can still get much worse.
If Rufo does not take time to understand this, he will simultaneously do some damage to CRT but also create more chaos, which is what they thrive on. I suggest he read Max Weber (Politics as a Vocation) and give up being a radical. He should model himself on a good Republican — Abraham Lincoln — stop trying to be a revolutionary, and lead a nonviolent civil war that seeks to minimize chaos while pushing aggressively forward.
As a young man who wasn’t having my educational costs paid for by a well-off family, I could not immerse myself fully in student affairs at Cal Berkeley and necessity dictated that I remain a leftist sympathiser who stayed somewhat removed from the radical demonstrations that were gaining full strength in the early 70s (such as the Vietnam War protests and the Civil Rights extremism, both of which were then at the forefront of Bay Area activism). It simply wouldn’t do to get arrested at demonstrations (and possibly jailed with a criminal record) as a working and ‘properly responsible’ member of the medical establishment.
I was, of course, well-aware of all that was going on, including the Black Panther movement, Angela Davis’s involvement at the Marin Courthouse shootings and related activist causes. In fact, when the FBI stormed the Black Panther Headquarters on then Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Avenue), I had moved into an apartment directly across the street from them and was wakened from a sound sleep (after a night-shift at the hospital) by volleys of gunfire therefrom. I cite this merely as evidence that I ‘lived’ that period as fully as one reasonably could, short of direct activist involvement.
Very recently, as a voracious reader, I picked up a copy of Christopher F. Rufo’s recent (2023) hardbound book titled ‘America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything’ (Barnes & Noble) and began to make my way through it. It isn’t exaggerating to say that the epiphany its contents conferred upon me was somewhat like the brilliant light of a thermonuclear bomb going off directly overhead. 55 years after my erstwhile ‘lived-experience’ as a left-leaning student on Sproul Plaza, the full context of exactly what was occurring then finally dawned on me. Such are the benefits (hopefully) of a long life and many experiences along the way.
Most individuals of average intelligence have heard the name ‘Marcuse’ dropped here and there, from time to time, in association with Marxism and intellectualism, but I’d posit that few, if many, are fully apprised of exactly who Herbert Marcuse (a German national and intellectual theorist of the so-called ‘Frankfurt Circle’) was and what his connection with Marxist thought actually consisted of.
Rufo’s excellent and cogently written book (an explanation of how the so-called ‘Radical Left’ has subsumed ‘traditional’ American democracy, from the highest to the lowest levels of society, and managed not just to permeate it but control it utterly) fully details (Marcuse himself died in 1979 of the effects of a stroke, at the age of 81) Marcuse’s ‘critical theories’, as adopted by today’s ‘Radical Left’, as the core of contemporary radical leftist thought.
The book also includes a rather detailed background on Angela Davis, who was closely involved with the Black Panthers back when I was a Berkeleyite, black intellectual and Marxist, who was a student of Marcuse and a dedicated, life-long follower of his Marxist teachings.
The complex backstory of how the Radical Left came to the forefront of America’s educational and corporate thought is indeed that, complicated, but Rufo has succeeded in dissecting and explaining in his book how Marcusian ‘critical theories’ have since been translated into racial identity dogma (e.g. CRT, ‘systemic racism’ and DEI) and taken root within our universities, our government and the corporations…all three of which exert a huge influence on our collective national awarenesses today.
Moreover, Rufo has successfully authored a book that is extremely well organised and eminently readable, as well. This is a book that puts it all together for anyone who now wonders why traditional American democracy has suffered such catastrophic damage over the past decade or so. It is also a book that everyone, even those who aren’t typically ‘readers’, should take a close look at.
Christopher Rufo is not an ‘ivy-tower’ academic, elitist intellectual; he is instead an incredibly cogent and articulate analyst in the area of contemporary American social philosophy (holding a Master’s Degree from Harvard University) who carefully dissects the pervasive dogmas of ‘systemic racism’, ‘Critical Race Theory’, and ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ in the 4-part, 340 page work, and lays it all out for us in readily graspable concepts.
After finishing this book, almost anyone can understand exactly how Herbert Marcuse plotted the course that today has led to a near-total takeover of A) America’s educational system, B) the commercial corporations (that exert powerful influence over the consumer public), and C) the State itself (and all its institutions and bureaucratic subdivisions).
Marcuse’s ‘revolution’ failed utterly in the late 60s and early 70s, but his trailblazing theories prepared the way and marked the path for his successors to bring them to life, not unlike Dr. Frankenstein’s mythical experiments in reanimation of life did.
Revolutions aren’t always bloody and violent. Sometimes they are far more subtle and serpent-like in their promulgations. Rufo didn’t say it, but Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana did, in reminding us that lessons unlearned in the past perpetuate cyclical repetitions in the future.
Unless Americans strive to regain their critical thinking ability and read books such as this, American democracy as we know it is unquestionably doomed. Perhaps another way to put it is this observation by late-19th Century French polymath, Gustave Le Bon: “Weak minds are easily led…”
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As a young man who wasn’t having my educational costs paid for by a well-off family, I could not immerse myself fully in student affairs at Cal Berkeley and necessity dictated that I remain a leftist sympathiser who stayed somewhat removed from the radical demonstrations that were gaining full strength in the early 70s (such as the Vietnam War protests and the Civil Rights extremism, both of which were then at the forefront of Bay Area activism). It simply wouldn’t do to get arrested at demonstrations (and possibly jailed with a criminal record) as a working and ‘properly responsible’ member of the medical establishment.
I was, of course, well-aware of all that was going on, including the Black Panther movement, Angela Davis’s involvement at the Marin Courthouse shootings and related activist causes. In fact, when the FBI stormed the Black Panther Headquarters on then Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Avenue), I had moved into an apartment directly across the street from them and was wakened from a sound sleep (after a night-shift at the hospital) by volleys of gunfire therefrom. I cite this merely as evidence that I ‘lived’ that period as fully as one reasonably could, short of direct activist involvement.
Very recently, as a voracious reader, I picked up a copy of Christopher F. Rufo’s recent (2023) hardbound book titled ‘America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything’ (Barnes & Noble) and began to make my way through it. It isn’t exaggerating to say that the epiphany its contents conferred upon me was somewhat like the brilliant light of a thermonuclear bomb going off directly overhead. 55 years after my erstwhile ‘lived-experience’ as a left-leaning student on Sproul Plaza, the full context of exactly what was occurring then finally dawned on me. Such are the benefits (hopefully) of a long life and many experiences along the way.
Most individuals of average intelligence have heard the name ‘Marcuse’ dropped here and there, from time to time, in association with Marxism and intellectualism, but I’d posit that few, if many, are fully apprised of exactly who Herbert Marcuse (a German national and intellectual theorist of the so-called ‘Frankfurt Circle’) was and what his connection with Marxist thought actually consisted of.
Rufo’s excellent and cogently written book (an explanation of how the so-called ‘Radical Left’ has subsumed ‘traditional’ American democracy, from the highest to the lowest levels of society, and managed not just to permeate it but control it utterly) fully details (Marcuse himself died in 1979 of the effects of a stroke, at the age of 81) Marcuse’s ‘critical theories’, as adopted by today’s ‘Radical Left’, as the core of contemporary radical leftist thought.
The book also includes a rather detailed background on Angela Davis, who was closely involved with the Black Panthers back when I was a Berkeleyite, black intellectual and Marxist, who was a student of Marcuse and a dedicated, life-long follower of his Marxist teachings.
The complex backstory of how the Radical Left came to the forefront of America’s educational and corporate thought is indeed that, complicated, but Rufo has succeeded in dissecting and explaining in his book how Marcusian ‘critical theories’ have since been translated into racial identity dogma (e.g. CRT, ‘systemic racism’ and DEI) and taken root within our universities, our government and the corporations…all three of which exert a huge influence on our collective national awarenesses today.
Moreover, Rufo has successfully authored a book that is extremely well organised and eminently readable, as well. This is a book that puts it all together for anyone who now wonders why traditional American democracy has suffered such catastrophic damage over the past decade or so. It is also a book that everyone, even those who aren’t typically ‘readers’, should take a close look at.
Christopher Rufo is not an ‘ivy-tower’ academic, elitist intellectual; he is instead an incredibly cogent and articulate analyst in the area of contemporary American social philosophy (holding a Master’s Degree from Harvard University) who carefully dissects the pervasive dogmas of ‘systemic racism’, ‘Critical Race Theory’, and ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ in the 4-part, 340 page work, and lays it all out for us in readily graspable concepts.
After finishing this book, almost anyone can understand exactly how Herbert Marcuse plotted the course that today has led to a near-total takeover of A) America’s educational system, B) the commercial corporations (that exert powerful influence over the consumer public), and C) the State itself (and all its institutions and bureaucratic subdivisions).
Marcuse’s ‘revolution’ failed utterly in the late 60s and early 70s, but his trailblazing theories prepared the way and marked the path for his successors to bring them to life, not unlike Dr. Frankenstein’s mythical experiments in reanimation of life did.
Revolutions aren’t always bloody and violent. Sometimes they are far more subtle and serpent-like in their promulgations. Rufo didn’t say it, but Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana did, in reminding us that lessons unlearned in the past perpetuate cyclical repetitions in the future.
Unless Americans strive to regain their critical thinking ability and read books such as this, American democracy as we know it is unquestionably doomed. Perhaps another way to put it is this observation by late-19th Century French polymath, Gustave Le Bon: “Weak minds are easily led…”
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“The descendants of the New Left have captured the elite institutions but have not been able to reorder the deeper structures of society… The universities have lost the ancient telos of knowledge, replacing it with an inferior set of values oriented toward personal identities and pathologies… The public schools have absorbed the principles of revolution but have failed to teach the rudimentary skills of reading and mathematics… The activist-bureaucrats had a simple list of objectives: capture the culture of the federal agencies; enforce political orthodoxy with critical theory-based DEI programs; turn the federal government into a patronage machine for left-wing activism… The state becomes the primary vehicle of revolution. It no longer seeks to serve the public but, following the dictates of critical theory, seeks to subvert itself.”
“The simple fact is that the ideology of the elite has not demonstrated any capacity to solve the problems of the masses, even on its own terms. The critical theories operate by pure negation, demolishing middle-class structures and stripping down middle-class values, which serves the interest of the bureaucracy but leaves the society in a state of permanent disintegration. Ultimately, critical theory will be put to a simple test: Are conditions improving or not improving? Are cities safer or less safe? Are students learning to read or not learning to read?”
Christopher Rufo is a political activist and filmmaker known for his opposition to Critical Race Theory (CRT). He's a senior fellow and director of the Initiative on Critical Race Theory at the Manhattan Institute, and he's the author of this new book called "America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything".
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“The descendants of the New Left have captured the elite institutions but have not been able to reorder the deeper structures of society… The universities have lost the ancient telos of knowledge, replacing it with an inferior set of values oriented toward personal identities and pathologies… The public schools have absorbed the principles of revolution but have failed to teach the rudimentary skills of reading and mathematics… The activist-bureaucrats had a simple list of objectives: capture the culture of the federal agencies; enforce political orthodoxy with critical theory-based DEI programs; turn the federal government into a patronage machine for left-wing activism… The state becomes the primary vehicle of revolution. It no longer seeks to serve the public but, following the dictates of critical theory, seeks to subvert itself.”
“The simple fact is that the ideology of the elite has not demonstrated any capacity to solve the problems of the masses, even on its own terms. The critical theories operate by pure negation, demolishing middle-class structures and stripping down middle-class values, which serves the interest of the bureaucracy but leaves the society in a state of permanent disintegration. Ultimately, critical theory will be put to a simple test: Are conditions improving or not improving? Are cities safer or less safe? Are students learning to read or not learning to read?”
Christopher Rufo is a political activist and filmmaker known for his opposition to Critical Race Theory (CRT). He's a senior fellow and director of the Initiative on Critical Race Theory at the Manhattan Institute, and he's the author of this new book called "America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything".
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ここ数年の読書を通じて、メディアはいうに及ばず、現在のアメリカの学会、大学、政府、学校がさらには企業までもが、この主の流れの猛威にさらされているのは、それなりに理解できた。ただどのようにして、このようなおぞましい現状にたどり着いてしまったのか、その歴史的経過については、なかなかうまく整理された作品にはこれまでのところで会わなかった。その中で、見つけたのが、最近出たこの作品だ。
副題からして、そのものずばりだ。「どのようにして、極左がすべてを征服してしまったのか」。
本書の肝は、その長い歴史的射程だ。話は、かすかに覚えている60年代のアメリカの学生運動、black pantherやweathermenまでさかのぼられるのだ。そして登場するのが、この新左翼運動の教祖とも言うべきマルクーゼだ。もう忘れられてしまったと思われていたこの不思議な人物。本書では、現代のwokeにつながる思想的源流として位置付けられている。
このイデオローグにそそのかされたアメリカの60年代の過激派は、その過激さゆえ、表面上は70年代前半に消え去ったことになっている。しかしその残党は、失敗の経験後、学究の道に進み、内部からアメリカ社会の転覆を企てたというわけだ。その経過は、angela davis(black studies), paulo freire(教育学者), derrick bell(法学者)という三人の学者の軌跡をたどることにより詳しく語られていく。
そしてこの流れといわゆるidentiy politicsを90年ごろに統合したのが、批判的人種理論 (CRA)だ。60年代の公民権運動まで黒人への差別が継続していたアメリカ人の原罪というか泣き所は「人種」なのだ。この泣き所、人種を核にして、すべての価値基準を転覆して、言葉の意味を転倒させたところに、文化政治の道具としてのCRAの猛威の秘密がある。
CRAは言葉の転倒、誰も抵抗できない「Diveristy, Equity and inclusion」をスローガンとして、Diversitariatとともいうべき強力な官僚組織を様々な組織に埋め込むことに成功する。そこに現れたのは、中世の魔女狩りや文化大革命中国の人民裁判顔負けの、非寛容の構図だったというわけだ。そこでの狙いは、新しい人間の創造。つまりアメリカの極左はスターリンがいみじくも名づけた「Engineers of Soul」なのだ。この変貌したアメリカがその姿を表にあらわしたのが、2020年のBLM運動だった。
本書には、過去50年のこの歴史が詳しく語られている。英語もわかり易く、必読だろう。
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