{"id":591865,"date":"2021-07-15T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591865"},"modified":"2021-07-15T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:35:57","slug":"book-review-american-marxism-by-mark-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/book-review-american-marxism-by-mark-levin\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: American Marxism, By Mark Levin\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbook-review-american-marxism-by-mark-levin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591865&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-513706300.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In 2009, constitutional lawyer and syndicated radio host Mark&nbsp;Levin&nbsp;published&nbsp;<i>Liberty &amp; Tyranny<\/i>, a runaway bestseller that galvanized the conservative movement. Now, he has published&nbsp;<i>American Marxism<\/i>, putting a name to&nbsp; \u2014 and tracing the ancestry of \u2014 the movement that is sweeping away our rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>As he admits, this is&nbsp;Levin\u2019s longest book, because it is his most comprehensive.&nbsp;The reader is taken through the evolution of the nefarious, anti-democratic ideals that have seized&nbsp;control of America\u2019s institutions and are tearing down society.<\/p>\n<p>Reading the philosophers of totalitarianism of yesteryear \u2014 Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx \u2014 seems like an exercise in tedium. Yet their reasoning has echoed through time \u2014 even if the (in Levin\u2019s phrase) \u201czombie-like \u2019woke\u2019 drones\u201d don\u2019t know where their dogma came from. \u201cUltimately,\u201d Levin writes:<\/p>\n<div readability=\"13\">\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>these arguments for collective identity, collective beliefs, and class consciousness, in support of mass movements, wittingly or otherwise \u2026 form the basis not only for peaceful protests but violence, riots, and revolution\u2014of the sort we have seen in our cities and towns with the likes of Antifa, BLM, and other violent radical groups. In fact, they attempt to provide the veneer of an expertise or scholarly approach to societal disruption, the undermining of civil institutions, and flat-out rebellion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Marxists\u2019 disdain for individualism is omnipresent throughout its history. The same is true of attitudes toward the common man. Levin points out the similarities in the way the American Marxist speaks of the hard working, blue collar American and the way the Soviet Union in the time of Stalin spoke of the \u201cbackward\u201d Russian and Ukrainian peasant (who would suffer a genocide in the name of collectivization). Like its Soviet counterpart, American Marxism is \u201claced throughout with raw bigotry, antagonism, and hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of&nbsp;Levin\u2019s favorite sayings is that even as Communism was defeated in the Soviet Union, it is thriving in American universities. It was from his perch in academia that Marxist pseudo-intellectual&nbsp;Herbert Marcuse \u201chatch[ed] the Critical Theory ideology from which the racial, gender, and other Critical Theory\u2013based movements were launched in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcuse, Levin writes, argued that \u201ctolerance is actually a ploy instituted by the powerful and conniving forces of the bourgeoisie against the unsuspecting proletariat, in which the masses are duped and programmed to support their oppressors. In short, tolerance is used to suppress the people \u2026 if American society does not tolerate its own demise or overthrow at the hands of Marxist ideologues and movements, it cannot be said to be truly tolerant. Therefore, Marcuse insists that a society is not truly tolerant if it does not sow the seeds of its own demise by Marxist revolutionaries \u2026 since a republic would not consent to its own subversion and dissolution, thereby rejecting true tolerance, Marxists must resort to other means to overthrow it, including violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In sum, \u201cMarcuse was urging the violent overthrow of American society in which the \u2018established hierarchy\u2019 was using tolerance to perpetuate oppression against the minority.\u201d&nbsp;It\u2019s nonsense, and yet it is the root of Critical Race Theory (CRT).<\/p>\n<p>In discussing Critical Race Theory, Levin borrows a description from Professor George R. La Noue:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>CRT begins with the presumption that race is the primary way to identify and analyze people and consequently posits a racial hierarchy that supposedly exists with whites on top and blacks at the bottom. Individual behavior is insignificant because everyone in America functions within a society of systemic racism, structural racism, and institutional racism. \u2026 According to this perspective, efforts by public and private organizations to enforce civil rights laws in employment, housing, contracting, education, etc. are either insufficient or pointless.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Levin explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>In other words, CRT undermines and exploits America\u2019s unique and very successful fusion of diversity and cultural assimilation, and considers all issues in the context of past societal imperfections\u2014regardless of enormous struggles and efforts in creating a more perfect society, including a civil war, massive economic redistribution, and groundbreaking legal changes. Even more, it incorporates and advances an increasing list of causes as new or additional reasons for eradicating society and transforming the country. Indeed, CRT repositions what is the most tolerant and beneficent society on earth as a miserably dark and impoverished nation, from its beginning to today.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, \u201cFor CRT advocates, counter-speech, more speech, and the marketplace of ideas are all poisoned by white dominance and privilege. Of course, this leads to repression, censorship, and today\u2019s \u2018cancel culture.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levin does not mince words:&nbsp;\u201cHaving laid the foundation for revolutionary change in multiple areas of our society and culture, the banning, canceling, and silencing have begun in earnest. Repression, not engagement; compliance, not speech; conformity, not independence; and subjugation, not liberty, are all hallmarks of American Marxism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet for all the grim straight talk,&nbsp;<i>American Marxism<\/i> also offers a message of hope. Levin closes the book with a call to action. Boycott the enemy\u2019s businesses, pressure institutions to withdraw investments in woke movements, have your state and local governments end all funds for or involvement in wokeness. And most importantly, never, ever give up. In the final pages, Levin returns, as he often does, to America\u2019s founding for inspiration \u2014 citing the words of Thomas Paine:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>THESE are the times that try men\u2019s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div readability=\"13.744680851064\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, constitutional lawyer and syndicated radio host Mark\u00a0Levin\u00a0published\u00a0Liberty &#038; Tyranny, a runaway bestseller that galvanized the conservative movement. Now, he has published\u00a0American Marxism, putting a name to\u00a0 \u2014 and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}