Ideas such as systemic racism and enthusiastic consent were once confined to the fringes of college campuses and academic theory. Today, the university has expanded its reach to your doorstep.

Marxist theories form in many colleges and universities all across the country. They’re increasingly becoming more mainstream. These theories have infiltrated many workplaces, and they’ve found their way into school curriculum across the country.

One of the most pernicious is Critical Race Theory.

Critical Race Theory originated in several law schools in the late 1980s. Many of its premises and perspectives have roots in Marxism.

When we look back at the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, there was an emphasis on equal rights and treating people as individuals. There was opposition to the idea of a racial collective. Martin Luther King famously spoke the words, “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Have we forgotten his message?

Critical Race Theory, in stark contrast, seems to dwell on inequalities of outcome. In this theory, believers forthrightly judge white people by their skin color, prejudging them as racist by virtue of their race.

Isn’t this, by definition, racist?

Critical Race Theory inherited its DNA from Marxism. It reinterprets the Marxist oppressor and oppressed dialectic through the lens of race. Instead of the poor vs. the rich, it’s essentially white people vs. “people of color.” That’s the heart of critical race theory.

Almost everything can be boiled down to one particular collective’s diabolical domination: capitalist hegemony for Marxism, white supremacy for Critical Race Theory. Just as Marxism demonized capitalists, Critical Race Theory vilifies white people. Both ideologies try to foment resentment, envy, and a victimhood complex among the oppressed class it claims to champion. Traditional Marxists insisted that bourgeois thoughts were inescapably conditioned by class interest. Those who subscribe to Critical Race Theory tenets push the notion that virtually all white people contribute to racism due to their whiteness.

Marxism was doomed to fail, so is Critical Race Theory. Marxism ultimately defined all history and human interactions as a perpetual racial conflict. The class war rhetoric of Marxism was divisive and toxic for economic relations. It led to mass poverty, devastating famines, and staggering inequality between the elites and the masses. The neo-Marxist ideology of Critical Race Theory will contribute to damage race relations and will harm the interests of those it claims to serve.

Critical Race Theory was once an esoteric academic pursuit. Now it has become mainstream. Ordinary Americans can mostly avoid participating in identity politics, but that is rapidly changing. These culture-war skirmishes are becoming unavoidable. Over the years, it has migrated from the academy to the nonprofit sector, into the education sector, and now into most American cultural institutions.

Today, we are in an era of re-education…

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