Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

by James Lindsay

Critical Race Theory is one of the hottest and most controversial topics in the world today, but what is it, really? Rightly understood, Critical Race Theory is a reinvention of an older, terrible idea, Marxism, using race "as the central construct for understanding inequality" in place of economic class. That is, Critical Race Theory is Race Marxism. The evidence of this claim is so overwhelming upon even casual examination that it is a shock that it isn't immediately plain to everyone who encounters it. Therefore, this book by James Lindsay, the leading investigator of Critical Race Theory, serves less to make the case that Critical Race Theory is Race Marxism and more to serve as a long permission slip to the public to call Critical Race Theory what it plainly is.

Race Marxism exists to tell the truth about Critical Race Theory in unprecedented clarity and depth. Across its six weighty chapters, Lindsay explains what Critical Race Theory is, what it believes, where it comes from, how it operates, and what we can do about it now that we know what we're dealing with. It exposes Critical Race Theory for what it is by ranging widely across its own literature and a survey of some of the darkest philosophical currents of the last three hundred years in Western thought. Readers will come away understanding Critical Race Theory and be able to speak the truth about it with authority: Critical Race Theory is Race Marxism, and, like all Marxist Theories before it, it will not work this time.

James Lindsay is an author, internationally recognized speaker, and the founder and president of New Discourses. He is best known for his relentless criticism of "Woke" ideology, the now-famous Grievance Studies Affair, and the bestselling book Cynical Theories, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. In addition to writing and speaking, Lindsay is the voice of the New Discourses Podcast and has been a guest on prominent media outlets including The Joe Rogan Experience, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and NPR.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09SJ1NHG7
• ISBN13: 9798795809083
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Parts are tough to read, hard to follow, and much is very repetitive. Much longer than it needs to

I am a fan of Lindsay -- his podcasts are excellent, and his previous book on this same topic, Cynical Theories, with Helen Pluckrose is a good book. I can recommend chapters 1 and 2 that describe CRT. However, it's all material that is available in podcasts. Chapter 3 on the Proximate Origins of CRT is OK (also found in his podcasts), but Chapter 4 on its Deep Ideological Origins is a disaster. I found it impossible to find a cohesive, coherent train of thought in this chapter, and it was much too tedious and repetitive to reread. Chapter 5 on how CRT operates is worth reading, and many readers could just skip straight to it. Chapter 6 on what we can do about CRT fails to deliver, even saying at one point, "The suggestions are, admittedly, rather superficial, vague, and too theoretical. It is outside the wcope of this volume (and you author's expertise) to be more spedific." In summary, while this material is important to understand, the reader's time would be better spent elsewhere.