Yes, well that is what it is called. Though the article you linked to is bollocks. (did I use that word correctly?)
It's also a far-right conspiracy theory, one that you acknowledge you subscribe to, thanks for the clarification (oh and no you didn't use it correctly, it has to actually be bollocks to be described as bollocks).
https://www.researchgate.net/public...t-right_Notes_on_the_Myth_of_Cultural_Marxism
How about the first one.
"Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true."
The ideals this country was founded on were not false.
The 13th, 15th and 19th amendments would prove otherwise!
Hell, all 27 amendments prove otherwise, but those three specifically point to direct issues with representation and socio-economic issues with the original ideals, that is unless you agree with ideas that do not prohibit slavery and limit the right to vote?
Or the second, I couldn't cut and paste it and not gonna waste time writing it. But it called capitalism, brutality.
Capitalism, the greatest economic system ever devised by man, has help countless millions pull themselves out of poverty.
No wonder you did not want to write it out, let me.
"If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start with the plantation"
Now I do have to wonder about the mindset that reads that and the first thing they jump to is that its an attack on all forms of capitalism, and not the rather straightforward issue that an economic system built on slavery (plantation is the big clue to that - you know the word you avoided) is wrong and could well be described as brutal!
Nor does it describe all capitalism as brutal, but specifically American capitalism, and they have a point. The one that drives millions of people into bankruptcy due to privatised medical care (the only developed country in the world this occurs in), the one that the wealth gap is growing and has grown since the great depression favouring only
the very richest at the expense of everyone else. Capitalism is like any other economic model, it comes in many flavours and has its strengths and weaknesses, to blindly defend it as you have done while ignoring the root of slavery in the US (and a number of European models) is to put yourself in a pretty much unsupportable position.
All of which is actually covered in the article the quote is from, which you would be aware of had you a. bothered to quote it correctly, and b. bothered to read the article itself.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html
Training that starts off with the premise, that if you are white, you are racist, is racist.
Good job it doesn't then.
That is, however, the common myth pedalled by the far-right over the idea that being white (and straight and male) provides certain subconscious advantages, is in fact in some way saying that being white makes you a racist.
I sat through a four hour HR meeting of some such thing back in about '95 or '96.
So a quarter of a century ago, and with the rather clear bias you've already laid out above, I'm just going to say that your anecdote isn't worth a great deal at all.
Riiight, because Biden, Kamala, Pelosi, and Schumer are such leftists, aren't they. Last month, the DNC voted almost unanimously to reject Medicare for All, free public college, legalization of marijuana, and standing up against illegal Israeli occupation. Unfortunately (for me, at least) I don't see the Democrat party moving farther left at all. If anything the party is so beholden to the interests of what I call the "Big Five" which would be Wall St., pharmaceutical/healthcare companies, defense contractors, the fossil fuel industry, and the Israel lobby that they're basically the lite version of the Republican party. True leftist change could never occur unless big money is wiped out from our political system, and that all starts with voting for individuals who are funded by only small-dollar donations and put getting money out of politics as a centerpiece of their campaigns, like Bernie, AOC, Katie Porter, Jamaal Bowman, etc. That's the swamp that I'd like to drain! Both parties are virtually completely corporate parties; the Democrat Party is not the "Workers Party" or is the "Left Party".
I will give you this, though. The Democratic Party has certainly moved farther left when it comes to virtue signaling, though that's entirely insignificant when it comes to policy. Because if you're a corporate Democrat politician with no real principles and you need to differentiate yourself from the Republicans, what do you do? You act all "woke" yet do nothing to substantively change the issues you pretend to care so much about.
Am I missing something though? Has the democratic become this radical left party all before my eyes? Please enlighten me as to why you think the Democratic party has moved "so far left", as in, bring up actual policies which could be described as leftist. I gave my explanation as to why I do not think the current Democratic party is a leftist party, so I'd like to hear why you think the opposite.
I have to say as a European I find it hilarious when either party in the US is described as 'left', let along 'far-left', they are all right-wing, it's more a case of being either centre-right (Democratic Party at its most left-wing) or increasingly hard-right (Republicans right now).
Even the likes of AOC and Bernie would be pretty much centre to mild left-wing in most Europen countries.
