Critical Race Theory's Dictatorship of the Antiracists | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 57

Karl Marx had a vision of ushering humanity through History, which he saw as progressing in discrete stages by what he referred to as "dialectical materialism." He believed History would begin with primitive communism, develop slave economies, evolve into feudal estate economies, develop capitalism, then, following the revolution, enter into a managed state of socialism that would eventually give way to a Communist utopia. That revolution would be had by the classconscious, awakened (Woke) working class, called the proletariat. The managed, administered state that would follow ("socialism") would be ruled by a dictatorship of the proletariat that moved History toward Communism by making sure only those who have the right consciousness have privilege and power in society. Critical Race Theory repeats this historicism, applying the Hegelian master/slave dialectic not to economic class but to racial privilege. For them, primitive preracial tribal society gives way to slavery, then to apartheid and segregation, then colorblind equality (liberalism), which has to face its own revolution to achieve a managed state of racial equity that will eventually produce a postracial utopia in which "racial justice" finally exists. The revolution and administered (socialist, "equity") state will be led by a Dictatorship of the Antiracists (DOA?), comprised of awakened (Woke) Critical Race Theorists with the right critical consciousness of race. While this might sound farfetched, this is precisely what Ibram X. Kendi called for () in 2019 in the form of an "antiracist constitutional amendment" that would establish a Department of Antiracism (DOA) with dictatorial powers over all public and many private jurisdictions to enforce racial equity. It is also what the federal government of the United States is attempting to do under Biden's and others' equity proposals. Join me on this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribersonly podcast, to hear how this raceMarxism works.

-James Lindsay

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