In the latest episode, two experts, Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and Katie Gorka, Fairfax County Republican Committee Chair, shed light on the dark strategies and tactics adopted by the radical left in recent years to dismantle the American system in their new book, “Next Gen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It”. They explain that all the current issues in America – such as the reduction of individuals to race, ethnicity, or gender identity, the indoctrination of children with radical ideologies, and the prevalence of anti-Semitism – all stem from Marxism.
These next-generation Marxists aim to achieve a cultural transformation in America and have already achieved some success. Through their book, the experts educate Americans on how to fight back against these ideologies.
Essentially, as Gorka puts it, “This is basically the Marxist view, they divide the world into two parts, and they say these two are irreconcilable, they have a fundamental opposition, one must be destroyed, and the other must seize power.”
What is the connection between the recent anti-Israel protests we see today and the riots in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014? Is there a connection to the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution?
“Why do people take to the streets to support organizations like Hamas, which has just committed the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Nazi gas chambers? The reason is very clear, they are responding to an ideological call that simplifies everything into an epic struggle between oppressors and oppressed, as stated in the Communist Manifesto.” Gonzalez says.
“They tell you systemic racism exists because if you believe this, the only logical conclusion is that you must undergo a thorough systemic reform,” Gonzalez says, “It’s not about improving anyone’s fate. It’s only about power.”
What is the relation of these to Western industrialization and the “Great Society” programs in the United States in the 1960s?
“Exactly these programs put families at a disadvantage, I believe that is the core of the problem,” Gorka says.
Since October 8th last year, large-scale (anti-Israel) protests have been occurring on campuses nationwide and in several city centers. Gonzalez stated that he and Gorka wrote the book “Next Gen Marxism” to help readers connect the events of the past years in America.
He explains that the anti-Israel protests and riots that have disrupted our campuses and city life this year are linked to the Ferguson unrest in 2014. The “Black Lives Matter” movement – one of the local agents promoting “Next Gen Marxism” – is also connected. These protests are all interrelated. These new protest activities are even related to foreign countries, all of which have full support from South American Marxist governments.
The “Black Lives Matter” organization met and participated in the South American Marxist group “Sao Paulo Forum.” However, later, there were groups such as “ANSWER Coalition” or “The People’s Forum” – well-known “anti-war organizations” coordinating protests worldwide.
These groups are funded by American millionaire Neville Roy Singham, who resides in Shanghai. He has close ties to institutions closely related to the Chinese Communist Party. His wife, Jodie Evans, is one of the co-founders of “Code Pink,” an organization that orchestrates protests and riots. She is now writing a book on how great an ally the CCP is.
Gorka stated that instigating riots has been a strategy of radical leftists since the 1960s. The Democratic Socialist Students of the 1960s were a Marxist group that wanted a radical change in America. They entered some inland cities, including Newark, New Jersey, where they spent two to three years, both fomenting divisions and teaching revolutionary tools, and even conducting training in weapons and incendiaries. As a result, some inland cities in America experienced riots in 1967.
At the time, many believed it was just the expression of dissatisfaction by black Americans in inland cities. But in fact, it was all artificially created, it was completely organized. We’re seeing that situation again today, from the Ferguson incident in 2014 to the “Black Lives Matter” movement following the George Floyd incident in 2020, and to the recent anti-Israel protests on US campuses. All these various riots and protests in America, like those in Ferguson, are artificially created crises, riots, and protests. One of the founders of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, Alicia Garza, was even sent to Ferguson to exacerbate the situation and escalate it.
Gonzalez continued to explain that a person has appeared in the Ferguson incident in 2014, in the protests at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in April, and at events in Seattle in 1999, that person is Lisa Fithian. She actually has a saying about it. She says, “I create crises.” Crises are turning points. For communists and Marxists, crises are an important tool for manipulating and creating problems. Gorka mentioned the “National Domestic Workers Alliance,” founded at the founding conference of the “United States Social Forum” in Atlanta.
A year earlier, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for the establishment of a US branch at the “World Social Forum” in Caracas. He said, we need to establish a stronghold in the US, and indeed a year later, the “United States Social Forum” was established in Atlanta. Who participated? People like Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, Eric Mann, and Harmony Goldberg. These people are either the founders of BLM or those who mentor them in accepting Marxism.
It should be noted that they are graduates of the “Students for a Democratic Society” organization. Eric Mann was jailed for assault and battery. After the formation of the “National Domestic Workers Alliance” in Atlanta, special project director Alicia Garza was sent to Ferguson, where she gave many interviews and stated, “We used the Ferguson incident for organizing work.” Thus, by the time of the Ferguson incident, the “Black Lives Matter” movement had already been around for a year. With the occurrence of the Ferguson incident, the movement quickly escalated into riots because they manipulated the tragedy of Michael Brown’s death.
It was during the Ferguson incident that they began to say, this must be expanded, to establish an organization that can receive donations and organize protests. Six years later in 2020, following the George Floyd incident, this organization founded the “Black Lives Matter Global Foundation” which received one billion dollars in donations, a well-thought-out action.
These protests are entirely manufactured, seizing upon certain emotions in society and exploiting them. They capture a sense of unease, dissatisfaction, or anger in society. Gorka mentioned that it all started with the student radicals of the 1960s, who saw black Americans still living in poverty or hardship, a concern that was very valid. However, the civil rights movement at that time failed to realize the reforms people hoped for.
She pointed out that the fundamental difference between their view and what she calls the American way, the important founding principles of the United States, is that fundamentally we believe, as Americans, we can work together to improve situations, solve our problems, and make things better. However, the student radicals of the 1960s and today’s “Black Lives Matter” radicals do not believe we can work together, which is essentially the Marxist view.
They divide the world into two parts and say these two are irreconcilable, with a fundamental opposition between them, leading to one side being eliminated while the other seizes power. They are adept at exploiting existing concerns or dissatisfaction and inciting and manipulating these emotions to incite large-scale conflicts.
Gonzalez noted the long history of black slavery, followed by racial disparities. These radicals exploit white guilt, which he calls “misdirected sympathy.” Nicole Hannah-Jones of the “1619 Project” explicitly talks about leveraging white guilt because all of us are very concerned about it and want to address these disparity issues.
However, they need to delve into the causes of these problems and identify the background variables leading to these disparities – such as broken families, poor education, lack of job opportunities. Yet, they make a leap in logic, concluding that these differences are proof of systemic racism itself.
Gorka stated that fundamentally their approach is racist because as they say, black people are inherently poor or disadvantaged; conversely, it completely ignores any whites, Hispanics, or people of other races who might be poor.
Gonzalez gave an example of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), saying, we must seize from white tenant farmers because they are white and give it to a Hispanic neurosurgeon because his last name is Gutierrez, even if his eyes are blue and he is blond. This is absurd.
Gonzalez reviewed the evolution of Western Marxism, stating that in reality, Marx himself never truly interacted with the working class, which was completely uninterested in the things he preached, especially about the dissolution of families, the disappearance of religion, and the abolition of the state and private property. At that time, the working class was often men, who loved their wives and children, cherished the little property they owned, aspired for more, and wanted to become part of the middle class, they were very patriotic and believed in God.
As a result, Marxist revolutions failed in Western Europe, leading German and Italian Marxist intellectuals to ponder what went wrong. They subsequently turned to cultural Marxism, a process that also unfolded in America. When these German intellectuals arrived in America in the 1960s, they were very disappointed, realizing they couldn’t rely on the American working class.
Gonzalez and Gorka propose that this led to a shift towards the next generation of Marxism, with the revolution now centering on members of marginalized groups, whether based on race, gender, physical disabilities, or other factors, they are seen as the main force of Western revolution.
Gorka states, the first crucial turning point was in the late 1950s when, following Stalin’s death, people completely rejected Soviet-style communism. Marxists finally understood that workers wouldn’t rebel as they had hoped, so how could they achieve revolution? The proposed solution at the time was that the new generation of revolutionaries would be intellectuals, but more crucially, students.
Gorka mentions that less than a year after Castro launched the Cuban Revolution, Harvard University welcomed him for a visit, signaling the birth of the student movement, which developed throughout the 1960s. By the late 1960s, there was a significant radical student movement, entirely Marxist, influenced by members of the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt School members were forced to flee their own communist revolutions that failed in their home countries like Italy and Germany and came to the US, such as Herbert Marcuse.
By the late 1960s, these Marxists in America felt they had failed, as they had not caused the collapse of the American system, realized Marxism, ended the Vietnam War, or achieved the civil rights changes they expected. Consequently, they split into three different paths: some said we’re not radical enough, so let’s become more radical, even becoming terrorists, leading to the “Underground Weather Organization” and a series of explosive actions.
Others said our organization isn’t strong enough, we need to go out and better organize, leading to the creation of organizations similar to the Midwest Training Academy. Then, some entered universities, believing that fundamental change in this country required legal action, thus founding the so-called legal studies. Most of these were white legal professors, who over the years have been cultivating students, diversifying their backgrounds more and more.
By 1989, these students had said enough, it’s time for white men to step aside, no more need to discuss civil rights, it’s our time to take over. That year marked the birth of critical race theory. In short, this is the process of transformation. As these radical student activists became professors, community organizers, and leaders, this spread throughout the culture.
Critical theory, Gonzalez explains, attacks all established things in society and seeks to destroy them from within. The reason the authors wrote the book “Next Gen Marxism” is to alert our fellow citizens that what they see is a systematic attempt to try to destroy America and American culture.
Critical theory tells you systemic racism exists, and if you believe this, then the only logical conclusion is that you must undergo a thorough systemic change. “System” in Greek means the way everything works, and they want to destroy everything in your life: including the Boy Scouts, your home, rural markets… Not only how political parties work but also schools and everything, it is a comprehensive change.
Finally, the authors point out that through their book, they aim to teach Americans how to fight back. They firmly believe that if Americans can come together every day, restore reason, and make America once again the great beacon of freedom, then America’s best days are still ahead.
Gonzalez says, America does have problems, there is no place on Earth that is perfect, but this place is pretty good. He has lived in at least seven countries for at least a year and found that this is still the best place on Earth for human habitation.