First published 2023
Christopher F. Rufo argues that America underwent its own cultural revolution parallel to Mao's China, but through slower institutional capture rather than violent upheaval. He traces how left-wing intellectuals like Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell developed radical ideologies that gradually infiltrated American institutions from the 1960s onward. Rufo examines how these ideas moved from prisons and universities into corporate boardrooms and HR departments, creating today's DEI bureaucracy and race-focused policies. He explains why major corporations now embrace far-left agendas and how activists redefined language itself, making progress mean stagnation and equality mean inequality. The book warns that this institutional takeover threatens to replace constitutional equality with race-based redistribution systems managed by diversity officials, despite most Americans opposing such changes.
Genres: american, political-science, non-fiction, 21st-century, activism, academic, cultural-studies, american-history
Vibes: thought-provoking
Tropes: institutional-takeover
Period: 1960s
340 pages · Hardcover · Broadside Books