The Deep Ideological Roots of Critical Race Theory

In this third lecture on critical race theory, James Lindsay goes into what he calls its “deep ideological roots,” the Communist theory of Karl Marx. Marx’s mid-19th century ideas were based on other ideas, however, including those of the German idealist G.W.F. Hegel and the French romantic Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Lindsay makes clear the relevance of these social theorists and philosophers to the CRT that plagues the world today. He also makes important connections through the intellectual godfather of CRT, the black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. Thus, CRT is both race Marxism and a racial manifestation of the broader “dialectical faith of Leftism.”