\n\nAnti-Marxist liberals have labored under numerous disadvantages in the recent struggles to maintain control of liberal organizations. One is that they are often not confident they can use the term \u00e2\u0080\u009cMarxist\u00e2\u0080\u009d in good faith to describe those seeking to overthrow them. This is because their tormentors do not follow the precedent of the Communist Party, the Nazis, and various other political movements that branded themselves using a particular party name and issued an explicit manifesto to define it. Instead, they disorient their opponents by referring to their beliefs with a shifting vocabulary of terms, including \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Left,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cProgressivism,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cSocial Justice,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnti-Racism,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnti-Fascism,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cBlack Lives Matter,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cCritical Race Theory,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cIdentity Politics,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cPolitical Correctness,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cWokeness,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and more. When liberals try to use these terms they often find themselves deplored for not using them correctly, and this itself becomes a weapon in the hands of those who wish to humiliate and ultimately destroy them.
\nThe best way to escape this trap is to recognize the movement presently seeking to overthrow liberalism for what it is: an updated version of Marxism. I do not say this to disparage anyone. I say this because it is true. And because recognizing this truth will help us understand what we are facing.
\nThe new Marxists do not use the technical jargon that was devised by 19th-century Communists. They don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t talk about the bourgeoisie, proletariat, class struggle, alienation of labor, commodity fetishism, and the rest, and in fact they have developed their own jargon tailored to present circumstances in America, Britain, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, their politics are based on Marx\u00e2\u0080\u0099s framework for critiquing liberalism (what Marx calls the \u00e2\u0080\u009cideology of the bourgeoisie\u00e2\u0080\u009d) and overthrowing it.
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Via https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/. Read the whole thing, especially for the \"framework of Marxism.\"
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