FAITH NEWS SERVICE – “All cultural norms, values and institutions in western society are structured to empower the white race and oppress minority races, particularly blacks” — Derrick Bell.
Critical Race Theory’s revisionist history claims that America, and Western Culture was founded on racism, instead of freedom— “Race is not ‘biologically grounded and natural’ rather, it is a socially constructed category used to oppress and exploit people of color.”
Structural Racism is the cumulative effect of racism in “multiple institutions and cultural norms, past and present, continually reproducing old and producing new forms of racism”1 — Structural Racism is, according to CRT, the primary source of all forms of racism. CRT concludes that “racism is systemic.”2
And therefore, American and Western Culture must be completely dismantled (critical equity calls for the total leveling of the West following the “long march through the institutions,” that is, following the infiltration of Western Culture’s “superstructure,” e.g., religion, family, education, law and media, by Woke Marxist Ideology).
The leveling of the Democratic Republic of America and Western Civilization makes way for the rise of the Marxist Socialist State, a prelude to Communism. The “Party’s” “emancipation,” that is, the Progressive Left’s rise to totalitarian power supersedes everything on the Ruling Elites’ politically correct agenda, e.g., Socialism, Racism, Identity, etc.
Why do Americans, and conscientious people throughout Western Culture, need to read this book, The Woke Opiate, and better understand classic and contemporary Marxism? The answer requires a single sentence: In the preface of a 1947 Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm, George Orwell expressed, “… how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries.”3
Kevin D. Roberts’ commentary on American History begins with a brief, profoundly invaluable story that in his words, “distills the challenge before America today.”4 The story is only a sentence more than a single paragraph, but wisdom does not require much space:
At the end of the Constitutional Convention, as delegates emerged from their secret deliberations, a Philadelphia woman— one “Mrs. Powell” — asked Pennsylvania delegate Benjamin Franklin what kind of government the convention had given them.
Franklin answered her: “A republic … if you can keep it.”5
The Declaration of Independence proclaims, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”— The moment “We the People” (“the governed”) lose our unalienable right to “consent” to be governed, the sovereign would no longer be outside the government (Lincoln) but centralized in it— We would have failed to keep our Republic and “We the People” will be found living under the oppression of a totalitarian socialist state.
Western Culture is at the intersection of two extremes. Both extremes were remarkably predicted in two classics: The first extreme is from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)6 and the second extreme originated in the imagination of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932).7
Jefrey Breshears observes: “While Orwell warned of an oppressive regime that controlled the media and utilized propaganda to spread lies and suppress the truth, Huxley depicted a self-absorbed, complacent and entertainment-obsessed society in which no one cared about the truth.”8
I wrote this book, The Woke Opiate, to tell everyone, We are on the brink of losing our Republic!
The Woke Opiate, published by Ark House, is now available globally.
