Movement Seeks Societal Change, Raising Questions
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The goal of some on the far left is to "get rid of America" and dismantle Western civilization. This was openly admitted by a protestor at an anti-Israel march.
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The core driving ideology behind this is a form of Marxism updated for the 21st century, combining old Marxist ideas with new focuses on race, gender, and sexuality. The authors call this "NextGen Marxism."
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NextGen Marxism seeks to indoctrinate people, especially youth, into seeing society as oppressive so they will want to overthrow it. Tactics involve infiltrating institutions like academia.
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Key contemporary tools that empower NextGen Marxism are the manipulation of racial grievances and queer theory, international networking between radicals, and the force multiplier of social media.
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The authors argue NextGen Marxism is as dangerous as old-school Marxism in its aims to "dismantle" core pillars of society like family, private property, and nation states. It must be defeated like communism was during the Cold War.