How the Woke Revolution Happened
Christopher Rufo's new book, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, explains how the progressive left has pretty much succeeded with their plans to destroy America.
Bruce Bawer wrote a good review of the book: How the Woke Revolution Happened - From Christopher Rufo, the perfect book to give to your clueless friends, Front Page Magazine, 18 August 2023. Here are a few excerpts from the review:
... In the Sixties and Seventies, after fantasies of overt political revolution faded, many student radicals urged their followers to undertake “the long march through the institutions.”… In the context of Western societies, [this] signified – in the words of Herbert Marcuse – “working against the established institutions while working within them.”...
Rufo, now a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is a remarkable young man (he turns 39 on August 26) who increasingly needs no introduction: during the last few years, he’s become a leading voice in the struggle against the mainstreaming at American schools and colleges of critical race theory (CRT), transgender ideology, and the tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)...
In America’s Cultural Revolution, Rufo confesses that it took him a while to recognize that CRT’s ascent was only one aspect of the latest phase in a gradual, decades-long process of far-left cultural infiltration that has targeted not only schools and colleges but also America’s other major institutions, including corporations, media, and government. His own subsequent investigations led him to see the whole business as starting with Marcuse...
Marcuse was smart enough to see that if blue-collar Americans, damn them, tended to be patriotic and contented, a great many of America’s supposedly well-educated elites were ripe for propagandizing; with disgruntled blacks serving as their foot soldiers, they could, over time, capture major institutions and implement a “dictatorship of the intellectuals.”...
... even now, several years into the woke era, roughly half of Americans still think that woke just means being nice... These benighted souls desperately need the comprehensive reality check that Christopher Rufo provides in this wise, trenchant, and utterly timely book.