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...

• 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.