https://andmagazine.com/talk/2021/05/18/ltc-lohmeier-warns-america-the-enemy-is-inside-the-wire/
LTC Matthew Lohmeier has been relieved of command. The Space Force squadron commander had the audacity to accuse the United States military of propagating Marxist ideology and to say so publicly. For that, he must pay a price. No word yet on when his show trial might begin or when and if a public shaming session will be scheduled.
Lohmeier is right. The United States military and for that matter, the entire U.S. government has adopted its new ideology critical race theory. That doctrine is explicitly Marxist. It is dedicated to the destruction of the existing political, economic and social order in the United States. It seeks in other words to overthrow the republic as we know it.
And, this ideology, a mortal threat to the Constitution and the people of the United States is now apparently the word by which our fighting men and women are required to live?
Critical race theory, often known as CRT has been defined by the UCLA School of Public Affairs, one of its wellsprings, as follows:
“CRT recognizes that racism is engrained in the fabric and system of the American society. The individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. This is the analytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing power structures. CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color.”
One of the companion concepts of CRT is “intersectionality.” Essentially, this means that you can be oppressed based on many characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. The more such indicators you have the more oppressed you are. Think of it as getting points. The more indicators you collect the more aggrieved you are. The more society owes you.
CRT, which did not really exist until the 1990’s grew out of what is known as the Frankfurt School of Marxist thought. Basically, the problem with which the Frankfurt School wrestled was the inability of Communism to gain a foothold in the West. In America in particular, people did not seem particularly interested in red banners or forming workers collectives. The problem, the Frankfurt School decided was that the system of oppression was somehow ingrained culturally in the society.
The solution? Break it apart. Tribalize society. Emphasize differences. Exploit them.
As long as people in the West believed that the system could solve the problems facing society there could never be a Communist revolution. Hope, therefore, must be taken away. The foundations of traditional society must be demolished. That began with family. The Frankfurt School preached that “even a partial breakdown of parental authority in the family might tend to increase the readiness of a coming generation to accept social change.”
CRT, as we know it in the United States, began with the writings of Dereck Bell, an African-American Harvard law professor. Bell wrote for years for a journal called Freedomway, which was established and run by members of the Communist Party USA. The magazine was part of a Soviet campaign to exploit what the Russians called the “Negro question” and manipulate American blacks to their advantage. The goal was the creation of a “Soviet America.” Millions of dollars in aid flowed to the Communist Party USA from Moscow.
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