The Proximate Ideological Origins of Critical Race Theory

This is the second of James Lindsay's lectures on critical race theory where Lindsay takes us into its "proximate ideological roots." These twentieth-century ideological antecedents to CRT include the critical legal studies movement in law, the New Left and its radical activism (as it went first into the streets and then into the classroom), neo-Marxism (also known as critical Marxism or critical theory), cultural Marxism, and postmodern theory. You'll learn here that CRT did not arise out of nowhere but came from Marxists who needed to answer why their theory had failed in so many disastrous ways and how they might get to their glorious revolution by other means. Critical race theory turns out to be one of those means. Lindsay makes it clear where these lines of thought came from and how they separated and then recombined to give us the identity Marxist and woke Marxist theories we see today.