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  • How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
  • Written by: Christopher F. Rufo
  • Narrated by: Charles Constant
  • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND AMAZON BESTSELLER

America’s most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions.

In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.” China’s revolution was bloody, fast, and a failure, but what if America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it’s just been slower, calmer, and more effective?

In his powerful new book, Christopher F. Rufo uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America’s institutions to undermine them from within. America’s Cultural Revolution finally answers so many of the questions normal Americans have, such as:

• Why is nearly every major corporation bending the knee to a far-left agenda?

• How did DEI suddenly become the department no institution can continue without?

• Why is race the main thing America’s rich, white elite wants to talk about?

• When did the left adopt all this doublespeak, saying progress is a lack of progress, equality is not equality, speech is violence, and violence is speech?

• Has the goal of the left, for a century, actually been the destruction of every Western institution?

Readers may not know the names of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, but they will recognize the ideas they spread. How their radical, destructive ideology slowly worked its way from prisons to academia to classrooms to your human resources department will come as a shock.

Failing to act soon, Rufo warns, could allow the radical left to achieve their ultimate objective: replacing constitutional equality with a race-based redistribution system overseen by bureaucratic ‘diversity and inclusion’ officials. Most Americans don’t want this, but most Americans are no longer in control of our institutions. If the mainstream media’s depiction of a failing dystopia in need of a fresh start never sounded right to you, this expose and call to arms is the book you’ve been looking for.

©2023 Christopher F. Rufo (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

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Everyone needs to read this book in order to understand the ideological colonization of all our institutions.

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Excellent and very informative

This is the book to listen to if you want to learn the race theory history. Well done.

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Beyond Expectations

I have a confession to make. I wasn't expecting the depth, scope, or literary presentation from the author. I have been studying the virus of "Critical Theory" for the last four years. I thought I had a good understanding of how far this insidious ideology had penetrated our most valued institutions. I was wrong. It is far worse than I realized.

Christopher Rufo does an admirable job - indeed, presents a Masterclass - of Critical Race Theory, its origins, evolution, and impact on modern American (and Western) culture. The best treatise I have read thus far on the pernicious cultural revolution unfolding around us today...

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Great Book!

Cristopher Rufo brings a deeper understanding to the culture war in the West. By following key figures of the Woke revolution, he gets to the source of its ideologies. No matter how much you know about wokeness, you will learn a lot by reading this book.

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Dismal

I had two dominant impressions as I listened to this book: 1) of the grim worldview of the New Left and their contemporary successors; 2) of Rufo's real fairness in representing their ideas. I kept expecting the book to switch gears and turn polemical, but Rufo's approach to these thinkers is basically expository. So, I was impressed by his restraint (on the polemical front) and by his research discipline (in producing such a full and fair account of this extended revolutionary movement).
The upshot is that I learned more about the New Left and contemporary radical progressivism, but I did not enjoy the book over much--because these people are so intellectually joyless, so lacking in intellectual wonder and play and curiosity, so steeped in resentment. All they can think about is power and the division of the spoils. It's dreary, angry, nihilistic, and ultimately unintellectual. Rufo: B / B+; Paulo Freire, Angela Davis, and Derrick Bell: failing grades all around.

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