What Is Identity Socialism?
There’s a brand-new socialism in town. Its foundations are more cultural than economic. Dinesh D’Souza describes this major advancement in leftist thinking and its impact on your life.
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Script:.
There’s a brand-new socialism in town. I call it identity socialism..
The old socialism, the kind Karl Marx dreamed up, was all about the working class, the sort of blue-collar employee who, paradoxically, chose President Trump. But today’s socialist could not care less about the guy in the hardhat. He had his opportunity at revolution and blew it. Today’s socialist is everything about gender, race, and transgender rights. Class is an afterthought..
To understand this is to understand the Left’s takeover of the college campus and all the ills that takeover has spawned: from MeToo to Black Lives Matter to ladies completing versus biological young boys. However school culture has actually now metastasized into the culture of the whole society. As liberal author Andrew Sullivan has actually put it: “We all live on school now.”.
Identity socialism is primary and very first about division. Not simply class department, however now race division, gender division, transgender division. Gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgenders are in; heterosexuals are out.
One may think this is all part of the politics of addition, but to believe that is to get just half the image. The point, for the left, is not merely to include but likewise to exclude.
So, where did this identity socialism originated from? Meet Herbert Marcuse..
Born in Berlin in 1898, Marcuse left Germany at the dawn of the Nazi period. After stints at Columbia, Harvard, and Brandeis, Marcuse moved to California, where he joined the University of California at San Diego in 1965. You ‘d believe that living in a paradise like Southern California with all the comforts and opportunities of academic life, may have softened Marcuse’s Marx-like hatred of commercialism. It was not to be. The more he prospered the more he desired to bring the system down..
He had a problem, however. A huge one. Socialism didn’t operate in America. Life was too great. The working class in the US didn’t aspire to overthrow the existing order, they aspired to own a home. How could you foment transformation without revolutionaries? Traditional Marxism had no response for this. Almost a hundred years after Marx, Marcuse did. The response was university student. They would be the employees for what he termed the Great Refusal– the repudiation and overthrow of free-market commercialism..
The students of the sixties were already living in what was in impact a socialist commune– a university school. Rather than being grateful to their parents for offering them with this chance to find out and study, they were agitated and bored.
Naturally, just like all effective social motions, timing was critical. Here Marcuse was very lucky. The sixties was the decade of the Vietnam War. Students faced the possibility of being prepared. Therefore, they had self-centered factors to oppose the conflict. Marcuse and his acolytes turned this selfishness into righteousness by teaching the students that they weren’t draft-dodgers; they were honorable resisters who were part of a global battle for social justice..
Marcuse represented Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong as a kind of Third World proletariat, combating to totally free themselves from American Imperialism. This represented a transposition of Marxist classifications. The new working class were the Vietnamese “liberty fighters.” The evil capitalists were American soldiers serving on behalf of the American federal government.
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There’s a new socialism in town. The old socialism, the kind Karl Marx dreamed up, was all about the working class, the sort of blue-collar employee who, ironically, voted for President Trump. Identity socialism is first and primary about division. You ‘d believe that living in a paradise like Southern California with all the comforts and benefits of academic life, may have softened Marcuse’s Marx-like hatred of industrialism. Socialism didn’t work in America.