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The Logic of Queer Marxism.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your Guide To Decoding The Language]]></description><link>https://karlyn.substack.com/p/how-can-someone-be-trans-and-non</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://karlyn.substack.com/p/how-can-someone-be-trans-and-non</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karlyn Borysenko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:34:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U_Cf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9811189e-4142-42e5-ade8-c7f0ca973301_1456x1048.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U_Cf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9811189e-4142-42e5-ade8-c7f0ca973301_1456x1048.png" 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I&#8217;m funded entirely by you.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my efforts, please consider sharing my work with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>A reader recently asked:</p><blockquote><p>"How can someone be non-binary and trans? Aren&#8217;t the two mutually exclusive by definition?"</p></blockquote><p>They are. Unless you're a queer Marxist. Then standard definitions don't matter. Only revolution does.</p><p>Here's how their ideology actually works:</p><p>Queer Marxism treats gender as a social construct, something invented by society, not rooted in biology. But they go even further: they believe gender roles were created specifically to uphold capitalism and the patriarchy, which is their word for oppression based on gender.</p><p>Let that sink in.</p><p>They believe:</p><ul><li><p>The gender binary of "man" and "woman" was artificially created by capitalist systems to divide labor, control reproduction, and maintain social hierarchies.</p></li><li><p>"Womanhood" itself is a political category of oppression, not a biological reality.</p></li><li><p>What it means to be masculine and feminine was imposed to enforce compliance with capitalism&#8217;s exploitative structure.</p></li><li><p>How do you get rid of the oppressive hierarchy? By abolishing the categories altogether.</p></li></ul><p>So when they say someone is "non-binary and trans," they&#8217;re not contradicting themselves. They&#8217;re following the logic of gender abolition.</p><p>In their worldview:</p><ul><li><p>Trans doesn&#8217;t mean TRANSition between two genders. It means TRANScend or TRANSform gender.</p></li><li><p>Non-binary doesn&#8217;t mean "I&#8217;m outside the binary." It means "The binary itself must be destroyed." No binary.</p></li><li><p>Queer is a political identity, not a description of sexuality or gender. It means deviance from all "norms," especially those they associate with capitalism.</p></li></ul><p>Language is the battlefield.</p><p>They change definitions to shift power.</p><p>They use words like:</p><ul><li><p>"Assigned at birth" to erase biology.</p></li><li><p>"Cis" to position normal people as oppressors.</p></li><li><p>"Gender identity" to override physical sex.</p></li><li><p>"Trans women are women" to enforce compliance.</p></li></ul><p>The goal isn&#8217;t clarity. It&#8217;s confusion. The goal isn&#8217;t acceptance. It&#8217;s revolutionary deconstruction.</p><p>This is why queer Marxists are obsessed with pronouns, visibility, and endless gender identities. It&#8217;s not about recognition. It&#8217;s about dismantling what they see as a capitalist regime embedded in language itself.</p><p>They believe the only way to destroy the patriarchy is to abolish gender altogether.</p><p>So let&#8217;s decode what they really mean:</p><ul><li><p>"Protect trans kids" = Indoctrinate children into revolutionary queer gender ideology.</p></li><li><p>"Affirmation" = Compelled speech.</p></li><li><p>"Visibility" = Demand for institutional power.</p></li><li><p>"Non-binary" + "Trans" = Erase man and woman, and rebuild identity in the image of Marxist theory.</p></li></ul><p>This isn&#8217;t about logic. It&#8217;s about ideology.</p><p>And it&#8217;s already embedded in schools, media, therapy, HR departments, and public policy.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Decode The Left with Karlyn Borysenko is a reader-supported publication. 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I&#8217;m funded entirely by you.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my efforts, please consider sharing my work with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>"Safe space." </p><p>"Safety and inclusion." </p><p>"Protect trans kids." </p><p>"Community care."</p><p>They love that word. Safety. They wrap themselves in it like it&#8217;s sacred. But when the left says <em>safety</em>, they don&#8217;t mean protection from real danger. They mean protection from disagreement, discomfort, and above all&#8212;dissent.</p><p>Let&#8217;s decode what they&#8217;re actually saying.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYZO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2c0cbce-5d82-4c44-a360-3c993a878a26_750x1250.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYZO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2c0cbce-5d82-4c44-a360-3c993a878a26_750x1250.png 424w, 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It&#8217;s about <em>feeling safe. </em>And most importantly, they get to define what that means. That gives them a blank check to shut down anything they don&#8217;t like.</p><ul><li><p>You disagreed with a pronoun? That&#8217;s "violence."</p></li><li><p>You questioned a DEI training? Now the workplace is "unsafe."</p></li><li><p>You posted a meme they didn&#8217;t like? You&#8217;re "endangering the community."</p></li></ul><p>They&#8217;ve redefined <em>discomfort</em> as <em>harm</em>, and now every conversation becomes a negotiation over their fragile feelings.</p><h3>Safety as a Trojan Horse for Censorship</h3><p>"Safety" is how they justify censorship.</p><p>On campus, they use it to cancel speakers. In media, they use it to silence opposing views. On social platforms, they use it to mass-report, deplatform, and suppress. All in the name of "safety."</p><p>It&#8217;s not about safety. It&#8217;s about narrative control.<br>It always has been.</p><p>This is how authoritarian regimes operate. They don&#8217;t ban ideas directly&#8212;they declare those ideas a "threat to public order." Then they show up with the blacklist.</p><h3>Manufactured Fragility Is a Weapon</h3><p>They&#8217;ve industrialized victimhood.</p><p>Entire political identities are now built around the idea that certain people are too "at risk" to be challenged. Queer activists. DEI officers. Student radicals. They play the role of the perpetual innocent, always under siege, always in need of protection.</p><p>What they really want is insulation from consequence.</p><p>The second you push back, they collapse into performative trauma:</p><ul><li><p>"I don&#8217;t feel safe right now."</p></li><li><p>"You&#8217;re invalidating my lived experience."</p></li><li><p>"This is emotional violence."</p></li></ul><p>It&#8217;s not fragility. It&#8217;s <em>strategy</em>.</p><h3>Safetyism Trains People to Obey</h3><p>This goes beyond activists and campus cults. Safetyism is how they train society to obey.</p><p>They start young. Public schools teach kids that "being safe" means never encountering an opposing idea. That trains them to see disagreement as danger. It conditions them to freeze, submit, or call an authority figure.</p><p>That&#8217;s not education. It&#8217;s ideological grooming.</p><p>By adulthood, they&#8217;re emotionally dependent on authority. They want Twitter to moderate speech. HR to enforce speech codes. The government to police "hate." All because they&#8217;ve been taught that <em>hearing something you don&#8217;t like is the same as being attacked</em>.</p><h3>The Affirmation Trap</h3><p>Affirmation is the sharp edge of this whole scam.</p><p>"Affirmation" sounds gentle. It means forced agreement. Mandatory validation. You don&#8217;t get to question the narrative&#8212;you&#8217;re ordered to repeat it.</p><p>When it comes to kids, it gets darker.</p><p>The left tells kids their parents might kick them out of the house for being queer. They stoke fear, then swoop in as the savior: &#8220;We&#8217;ll be your real family. We&#8217;ll affirm you. We&#8217;ll keep you safe.&#8221;</p><p>Translation: Trust the collective, not your family.</p><p>It&#8217;s a wedge tactic. It isolates children from their parents, undermines traditional authority, and funnels vulnerable kids into a cult of ideological obedience.</p><p>Then they slap a "safe space" sticker on it and call it compassion.</p><h3>The Lie of "Community Care"</h3><p>Community care sounds noble. But in practice, it&#8217;s a mechanism of ideological enforcement.</p><p>It means the group comes first&#8212;and your role is to conform, monitor, and correct.</p><p>If someone steps out of line, it&#8217;s <em>your job</em> to intervene. Speak up. Report. Correct.</p><p>That&#8217;s not compassion. It&#8217;s collectivist control dressed up as kindness.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t <em>have</em> to be surveillance. But it always drifts that way.<br>Because when "care" becomes mandatory, policing becomes the norm.</p><h3>The End Goal Is Control</h3><p>This isn&#8217;t softness. It&#8217;s subversion.</p><p>Weaponized safety is how the left builds soft totalitarianism:</p><ul><li><p>Redefine harm as disagreement.</p></li><li><p>Redefine protection as censorship.</p></li><li><p>Redefine dissent as violence.</p></li></ul><p>They don&#8217;t need the gulag. They have HR departments. They have TikTok. They have therapy-speak and grievance politics and legions of emotionally unstable foot soldiers who think they&#8217;re oppressed if you don&#8217;t clap hard enough for their identity.</p><p>The goal is always the same:<br><strong>Institutional capture. Cultural obedience. Total control.</strong></p><h3>TRANSLATING THEIR LANGUAGE</h3><p>Let&#8217;s make it plain:</p><ul><li><p><strong>"Safety"</strong> = Shut up and comply</p></li><li><p><strong>"Safe space"</strong> = Ideological echo chamber</p></li><li><p><strong>"Protect marginalized people"</strong> = We want the power to silence you</p></li><li><p><strong>"Community care"</strong> = You owe the collective your loyalty</p></li><li><p><strong>"Trauma-informed"</strong> = Don&#8217;t challenge me or I&#8217;ll call you an abuser</p></li><li><p><strong>"Affirmation"</strong> = Compelled speech + emotional blackmail</p></li></ul><p>The obsession with safety is not about safety.</p><p>It&#8217;s about moral authority. Narrative control. The ability to label you a threat just for disagreeing.</p><p>And they&#8217;ll keep getting away with it until people learn to stop flinching and start fighting back.</p><p>Let them feel unsafe for once.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Decode The Left with Karlyn Borysenko is a reader-supported publication. 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>This article is a part of the <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/s/woke-101">Woke 101 series</a></strong>, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war.</em></p><p><em>If you value my work, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">please consider a $8/month or $80/year subscription</a></strong>. I&#8217;m funded entirely by you.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my efforts, please consider sharing my work with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Every year on March 31st, activists celebrate <strong>Trans Day of Visibility</strong>, a made-up holiday created in 2009 to spotlight the existence of transgender and nonbinary people. On the surface, it sounds harmless enough. Who could be against people simply being "seen"?</p><p>But like everything in the world of queer activism, nothing is ever just what it appears to be.</p><h3><strong>Visibility Isn't About Recognition. It's About Power.</strong></h3><p>When queer activists talk about visibility, they aren't just saying, <em>"Hey, don't forget we exist."</em> </p><p>What they actually mean is: </p><blockquote><p><em>"Make space for us in your institutions, affirm us without question, center our identities above all else, and give us cultural dominance."</em></p></blockquote><p>Visibility is the demand for compliance. It's a soft form of authoritarianism disguised as inclusion. It forces society to reorganize itself around a minority ideology&#8212;one that redefines basic reality, biology, and morality.</p><p>If you resist, you're accused of committing a moral crime: <em>"erasure."</em></p><h3><strong>"You're Erasing Us!" = You Disagree With Us.</strong></h3><p>Activists throw around the term "erasure" to claim oppression any time someone refuses to repeat their language, deny their biological sex, or challenge their worldview.</p><p>You don't want men in women's sports? You're erasing trans people. You say sex is real and binary? You're erasing nonbinary identities. You oppose drag shows for kids? You're erasing queer culture.</p><p>"Erasure" is code for <em>noncompliance</em>. It weaponizes visibility as a shield against criticism.</p><h3><strong>So Why Do They Want To Be Visible?</strong></h3><p>Because visibility gives them leverage. It isn't about safety. It's about reshaping society. When you're visible, you can:</p><ul><li><p>Demand curriculum changes in schools.</p></li><li><p>Insert ideology into medical institutions.</p></li><li><p>Police language in workplaces and media.</p></li><li><p>Frame all dissent as violence.</p></li></ul><p>Visibility is the gateway to institutional capture. Once they're seen, they demand to be centered. Once they're centered, they demand to be obeyed.</p><h3><strong>What This Has To Do With Communism</strong></h3><p>Trans Day of Visibility isn't just a feel-good celebration of diversity. It's a strategic tool of Marxist politics.</p><p>Queer theory, which underpins modern gender ideology, was built explicitly as a political weapon to destabilize traditional structures like family, religion, and capitalism. Visibility campaigns are the modern equivalent of waving the revolutionary flag.</p><p>This is about revolution, not recognition.</p><h3><strong>In Plain English: What They're Really Saying</strong></h3><ul><li><p><em>"Visibility"</em> means: We want power.</p></li><li><p><em>"Affirm us"</em> means: Lie to yourself and others on our behalf.</p></li><li><p><em>"Don't erase us"</em> means: Don't question our agenda.</p></li><li><p><em>"Protect trans youth"</em> means: Let us indoctrinate your kids.</p></li><li><p><em>"Trans rights are human rights"</em> means: Prioritize us over everyone else.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Why It Matters</strong></h3><p>If you understand the coded language, you can push back against the manipulation. You can say:</p><ul><li><p>No, you don't get to control our institutions.</p></li><li><p>No, you don't get to redefine reality.</p></li><li><p>No, disagreement is not erasure.</p></li><li><p>No, your ideology is not above scrutiny.</p></li></ul><p>Trans Day of Visibility isn't about marginalized people being seen. It's about using identity politics as a trojan horse for radical social change.</p><p>Don't fall for the language games. Decode them.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Decode The Left with Karlyn Borysenko is a reader-supported publication. 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I&#8217;m funded entirely by you.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my efforts, please consider sharing my work with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>A queer activist on Tik Tok recently claimed that Joseph from the Bible was gender non-conforming&#8212;because he wore a <em>coat of many colors</em>. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e92e68c7-45aa-46f7-9f15-e58eaf8276df&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>This is part of a broader effort to embed queer ideology into every corner of cultural history, including religion.</p><p>It&#8217;s a political tactic, designed to reframe tradition, rewrite historical narratives, and condition people to see queerness not just as modern identity, but as something that&#8217;s always been central to civilization. The goal is to make resistance feel like ignorance, and ideological acceptance feel like historical truth.</p><h3>How the Tactic Works</h3><p>Queer activists selectively reinterpret historical and religious figures to serve the goals of far-left ideology. The method is simple:</p><ul><li><p>Target figures who are respected, iconic, or symbolically powerful</p></li><li><p>Look for traits that can be coded as &#8220;queer&#8221; (nonconformity, style, isolation, transformation)</p></li><li><p>Use those traits to reframe the figure&#8217;s identity in queer terms</p></li><li><p>Present that reframing as fact, not theory</p></li></ul><p>Once that framework is accepted, every cultural story becomes a vessel for queer ideology. It rewires the moral foundations of religion, art, politics, and education.</p><h3>The Case of Joseph</h3><p>Joseph is a biblical patriarch. He was sold into slavery by his brothers, rose to power in Egypt, and became a symbol of redemption and faith. His father gave him a multicolored coat, a mark of favoritism and destiny.</p><p>In the above video, the activist claims that Joseph was gender non-conforming because of the coat. The speaker presents the coat as a symbol of queerness, arguing that Joseph&#8217;s difference from his brothers&#8212;both in clothing and perceived status&#8212;makes him relatable to modern queer identity. They frame Joseph&#8217;s narrative as a queer story of rejection, resilience, and transformation.</p><p>There&#8217;s no evidence&#8212;biblical or historical&#8212;that Joseph was queer, trans, or gender non-conforming. But that doesn&#8217;t matter to activists using him. They aren&#8217;t interested in history. They&#8217;re interested in narrative control.</p><p>Once Joseph is declared queer, Christianity can be reframed as inherently affirming of queer identity. The Bible becomes a tool of ideological reinforcement instead of a challenge to it.</p><h3>The Purpose of the Rewrite</h3><p>Reframing historical and religious figures in queer terms is a calculated strategy used to reshape the cultural narrative. Activists use this method to gain influence over how morality, identity, and tradition are interpreted and taught.</p><p>Declaring Joseph to be gender non-conforming is not a scholarly exercise. It is a power move&#8212;an attempt to redefine religious tradition through a political lens. By recasting foundational figures in queer terms, activists embed ideology into the moral framework of the culture.</p><p>This tactic is used across activist education, theology, and academic theory to advance cultural dominance through reinterpretation.</p><h3>What It Means</h3><p>This is not a new perspective on history. This is a rewritten version crafted to advance political goals. Activists are reengineering the past to legitimize a modern movement rooted in Marxist theory, gender ideology, and the breakdown of traditional values.</p><p>The story of Joseph has become a tool&#8212;a delivery system for that agenda.</p><p>This is ideological programming disguised as education.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">better discourses is a reader-supported publication. 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This is especially true when it comes to cultural issues. Even if you don't agree with someone&#8217;s life choices or views, we need every ally we can get.</p><p>The trans community&#8212;those who want to transition from male to female or female to male and live a normal life outside the chaos of political activism&#8212;can be a powerful ally against queer ideology. They are uniquely positioned to stand up and call out the madness.</p><h3>The Difference Between Queer and Trans</h3><p>Queer and trans are not the same thing. Yet, all too often, they&#8217;re thrown into the same pot. Not long ago, some argued that the LGB (lesbian, gay, bisexual) needed to split from the T (trans), believing that leftist lunacy had infected the community.</p><p>But that missed the mark entirely. The real issue isn&#8217;t about separating the T from the LGB&#8212;it&#8217;s about severing the Q from LGBT.</p><ul><li><p>LGBT are identities.</p></li><li><p>Q is an ideology.</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><p><em>This article is cross-posted from my companion site, <strong><a href="https://redmenacecollective.substack.com/p/what-is-the-difference-between-trans">THE RED MENACE COLLECTIVE</a></strong>, where I&#8217;m sharing drafts of my upcoming book in real-time&#8212;giving you a sneak peek before it&#8217;s published.</em></p><p><em>Unlock the full article here by becoming a supporter. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why The Left Supports Palestine ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Common Questions About Communism]]></description><link>https://karlyn.substack.com/p/why-the-left-supports-palestine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://karlyn.substack.com/p/why-the-left-supports-palestine</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karlyn Borysenko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:04:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PvL8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fedcf2f-bc40-4a2a-baf0-03d98e25ace2_1456x1048.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>This article is a part of the <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/s/woke-101">Woke 101 series</a></strong>, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>The Palestinian uprising against Israel since October 7, 2023, has been one of the most effective radicalization and recruiting opportunities for the left in recent years. But let&#8217;s be clear: the Free Palestine movement has been a staple of leftist activism for decades. I once watched a presentation by famed communist Angela Davis, where she proudly explained how the social justice left "co-opted" the Free Palestine movement in the early 2010s. They didn&#8217;t just radicalize it; they wove it into the broader tapestry of their grand socialist agenda.</p><p>I nearly called this chapter, &#8220;Why Does the Left Support Hamas?&#8221; That&#8217;s the most common right-wing explanation for why the left backs Palestine. According to conservative commentators, the left supports Hamas because they&#8217;re a bunch of anti-Semites who cheer for terrorism. It&#8217;s an oversimplified, surface-level narrative that misses the mark entirely.</p><p>The left&#8217;s support for Palestine isn&#8217;t about religious identity or explicit support for terrorism. It&#8217;s about ideology and revolution.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This article is cross-posted from my companion site, <strong><a href="https://speaksocialist.substack.com/p/why-do-they-claim-real-communism">How To Speak Socialist</a></strong>, where I&#8217;m sharing drafts of my upcoming book in real-time&#8212;giving you a sneak peek before it&#8217;s published.</em></p><p><em>Unlock the full article here by becoming a supporter. Alternatively, support How To Speak Socialist and gain access to all my future book drafts as they come to life.</em></p><ul><li><p><strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">Join here for full access to this article</a></strong>.</p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://speaksocialist.substack.com/p/why-does-the-left-support-palestine">Join on How To Speak Socialist for access to all book drafts</a></strong>.</p></li></ul><p><em>If you choose to join here, continue reading the article below the paywall.</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Communists Say Real Communism Has Never Been Tried]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Cross Post for Supporters]]></description><link>https://karlyn.substack.com/p/why-communists-say-real-communism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://karlyn.substack.com/p/why-communists-say-real-communism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karlyn Borysenko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:07:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I8hO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b0711f2-326f-4543-9084-6113b1e93c80_1456x1048.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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The explanation? Brace yourself:</p><p><em>"Real communism has never been tried."</em></p><p>This isn&#8217;t a throwaway line. It&#8217;s a cornerstone belief among leftists, a comforting mantra they repeat to explain away historical failures. Here&#8217;s the reasoning behind it:</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This article is cross-posted from my companion site, <strong><a href="https://speaksocialist.substack.com/p/why-do-they-claim-real-communism">How To Speak Socialist</a></strong>, where I&#8217;m sharing drafts of my upcoming book in real-time&#8212;giving you a sneak peek before it&#8217;s published.</em></p><p><em>Unlock the full article here by becoming a supporter. 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It&#8217;s the ultimate &#8220;gotcha&#8221; to own the libs.</p><p>But here&#8217;s the thing: The far left isn&#8217;t inconsistent in their beliefs. Not even close. If you understand how they think, their tactics are strikingly aligned with their ideology, even when it looks like they&#8217;re cashing in on capitalism.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This article is cross-posted from my companion site, <strong><a href="https://speaksocialist.substack.com/p/why-do-communists-engage-in-capitalism">How To Speak Socialist</a></strong>, where I&#8217;m sharing drafts of my upcoming book in real-time&#8212;giving you a sneak peek before it&#8217;s published.</em></p><p><em>Unlock the full article here by becoming a supporter. 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Does it apply only to the left, or does it describe behavior on the right, too?</p><p>Let&#8217;s cut through the noise and get to the point.</p><p><strong>Here&#8217;s the definition of woke:</strong></p><blockquote><p><em>People who demand conformity and try to force assimilation to their groupthink through gaslighting, want to dictate what words you&#8217;re allowed to say and what ideas you can consider, and shame you the moment you step outside their narrow, allowable box of opinion.</em></p></blockquote><p>I used to simplify it by saying &#8220;woke&#8221; means authoritarian&#8212;and while that&#8217;s still partly true, it&#8217;s not the full picture. We need greater precision.</p><p>This evolved definition isn&#8217;t about mind-reading or guessing someone&#8217;s inner beliefs&#8212;it&#8217;s about observable <strong>behaviors</strong>. What matters is what they <strong>do</strong>, not what we assume they&#8217;re thinking.</p><p><strong>The Woke Left:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The woke left demands conformity to a Marxist, collectivist ideology. They gaslight people into assimilation, shaming and attacking anyone who strays outside their approved narrative. </p></li></ul><p><strong>The Woke Right:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The woke right demands conformity to a classically liberal, pro-Israel ideology. They gaslight people into submission, insisting that unconditional support for Israel is non-negotiable. Anyone who dissents is gatekept, shamed, or silenced. </p></li></ul><h3>Both the woke left and the woke right are un-American</h3><p>Both the woke left and the woke right are anti-American. Their behaviors&#8212;demanding conformity, punishing dissent, and suppressing free thought&#8212;are fundamentally at odds with the principles this country was built on.</p><p><strong>The Woke Left:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The woke left aim to overthrow the Constitution and replace it with a Marxist society, claiming that capitalism, the Constitution, and the American way of life are inherently oppressive.</p></li></ul><p><strong>The Woke Right:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The woke right adheres to an &#8220;Israel First&#8221; agenda that puts America second, demanding loyalty to foreign interests over our own nation. </p></li></ul><h3>It&#8217;s the behaviors that matter. </h3><p>This is America. Every citizen has the right to express opinions and ideas without fear of cancellation, censorship, or social exile. That&#8217;s why the First Amendment exists&#8212;to protect speech that offends. If your words never upset anyone, they don&#8217;t need protecting.</p><p>The woke&#8212;left and right&#8212;want to control your thoughts, police your words, dictate your loyalties, and punish you if you resist. Their tactics are the same: gaslight, shame, and, if necessary, destroy.</p><p><strong>If you do this, you&#8217;re woke. Period.</strong><br>It doesn&#8217;t matter what side you&#8217;re on&#8212;it&#8217;s the behaviors that define you.</p><p>And those behaviors are as un-American as it gets.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Questions? </h3><p>Leave a comment and let me know.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/the-definition-of-woke/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/the-definition-of-woke/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/the-definition-of-woke?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/the-definition-of-woke?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3>Support My Work and Help Me Expose the Far Left</h3><p>I&#8217;m 100% funded by you via small donations and with the help of a volunteer community to spread the word. 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>This article is a part of the <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/s/woke-101">Woke 101 series</a></strong>, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war.</em></p><p><em>If you appreciate what I&#8217;m doing, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">please consider a subscription for $8/month or $80/year</a></strong>.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>The idea that, on the left, terms like &#8220;whiteness,&#8221; &#8220;white supremacy,&#8221; and &#8220;racism&#8221; aren&#8217;t actually about skin color might sound absurd to most people at first. But once you get it, everything about their agenda suddenly starts making sense.</p><p>In this article, I&#8217;m going to show you that when the left talks about &#8220;whiteness,&#8221; they&#8217;re really talking about <em>capitalism</em>, which they define as private property ownership. </p><p>Remember, the left speaks a different language than you do. It may <em>sound</em> like English, but<a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/four-hour-on-demand-class-available"> </a><strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/four-hour-on-demand-class-available">it&#8217;s really a parallel language I call Socialist</a></strong>.</p><p>We&#8217;ll go through this step by step, using real-world evidence. Keep an open mind&#8212;you&#8217;re learning their definitions, even if they don&#8217;t match yours. And just because you understand their perspective doesn&#8217;t mean you have to agree with it. We must understand our enemy in order to defeat them.</p><p>In 1993, a woman named Cheryl Harris wrote a paper for the <em>Harvard Law Review</em> called <em>Whiteness as Property</em>. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m not asking you to read the whole thing (<strong><a href="https://education.ufl.edu/edugator-allyship/files/2020/09/Harvard-Law-Review-Whiteness-As-Property.pdf">though the link&#8217;s there if you&#8217;re feeling adventurous</a></strong>). Essentially, she argued that whiteness doesn&#8217;t just refer to race in the biological sense but also to the way society allocates resources, rights, and social capital. Thus, whiteness becomes intertwined with systems of power, like capitalism, which control who has access to wealth and opportunity.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://education.ufl.edu/edugator-allyship/files/2020/09/Harvard-Law-Review-Whiteness-As-Property.pdf" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vuzp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6f303f1-fe76-4c4c-92ce-8e3d2201d709_515x571.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vuzp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6f303f1-fe76-4c4c-92ce-8e3d2201d709_515x571.png 848w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We&#8217;re going to dive into some clips from a keynote Cheryl Harris gave at UCLA Law School in 2014, where she makes it crystal clear that these terms have absolutely nothing to do with skin color.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRVl4I7e0R0&amp;ab_channel=CriticalRaceStudies" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MXub!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faede7d2a-da68-4c92-9806-efc3492118af_535x296.png 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>These clips from an episode of The Cult where we watched the full lecture from the Critical Race Studies Symposium. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyXHCwtQa18">Watch the full stream here</a></strong>.</p><p>In this clip, she explicitly explains that whiteness is not a skin color:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Whiteness is not a skin color, or even a racial type. It&#8217;s a social relations constructed on exclusion, structural privilege and its valorizaton.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;8a97fe1c-8ced-49c4-9298-7b84b756e45b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>In this clip, she discusses post-racialism, which is a time period that started after Barack Obama was elected President. This marked the move into a post-racial world because a black man had achieved the highest office in the land. </p><p>She explicitly says that whiteness is available to any racial group, even if they have black skin.</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Post-racialism commitment to protect some value in whiteness, however relative, what Derek Bell called the promise not to be the face at the bottom of the well, it coexists with expanding whiteness to encompass nonwhites. </em></p><p><em>Postracial Whiteness is conditionally available to persons of any racial group, even some blacks.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1e2afd41-790e-4972-b618-6db6c04ff4a1&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>In this clip, she explicitly explains that whiteness is defined as private property.</p><p>That means it&#8217;s a reference to capitalism, because the definition of capitalism is private property.</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Post racialism privileges self designation. You are what you say you are, and post racialism conceptualized racial identity as private property on which the state cannot infringe.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7dd86a99-93a5-41a2-a4c4-a70d11e33462&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>And to round it out, you hear Harris explicitly say that you cannot solve racism without solving capitalism:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Rather than mobilizing a sense of linked fate that dismantling racial hierarchy is joined with addressing the problem of capitalism. These projects are placed in opposition, and the challenge to white entitlement or white privilege is then recast as an elitist, anti-populist project.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f3fa9876-b004-465e-89d2-1e8124cd775b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><em>My work is completely grassroots-funded. That means my only obligation is to tell you the truth and bring the receipts. To support my efforts, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">please consider a subscription for $8/month or $80/year</a></strong>.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my work, please consider sharing it with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><h3>Here&#8217;s the TLDR on why &#8220;Whiteness&#8221; Means Capitalism:</h3><ul><li><p>Capitalism is defined as private property ownership.</p></li><li><p>Capitalism created slavery in the United States, where people were owned as private property. The owners (bourgeoisie) created the label &#8220;white&#8221; to separate themselves from the &#8220;black&#8221; property (proletariat) who owned nothing.</p></li><li><p>Thus, capitalism created a racial hierarchy between white and black. When the left talks about &#8220;whiteness,&#8221; they&#8217;re referencing that hierarchy.</p></li><li><p>Another term for this hierarchy is &#8220;systemic racism,&#8221; which means &#8220;the system that upholds racism.&#8221; And the system they&#8217;re talking about is capitalism.</p></li><li><p>They believe the only way to end racism is to dismantle the system that created it&#8212;capitalism.</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nJE-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6f6f49-7c1a-44e1-bf79-2e0c87cc4b51_1545x2000.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Here are just a few examples.</p><p>Check out this poster I picked up from a socialist magazine while I was undercover at the Socialism 2023 conference:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f5KA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09a2d9db-653e-48ba-8f82-5baa6302739b_756x424.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f5KA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09a2d9db-653e-48ba-8f82-5baa6302739b_756x424.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>The <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">RE-EDUCATION series</a></strong> is part of <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/s/woke-101">Woke 101</a></strong>, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war. 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Together, we can spread the message far and wide. I can&#8217;t do this without you!</em></p><div><hr></div><h2>What do the police have to do with capitalism? </h2><p>Let me break it down like I would to a 5-year-old:</p><p>Imagine a big cookie jar with rules about who gets cookies. Some people have more cookies, and they want to keep them. The police are like guards, making sure the  rules of the jar are followed, protecting the cookie stash of the rich and leaving many people with fewer cookies.</p><p>Some folks think the rules of the jar are unfair, and the police are just there to keep the wealthy stocked with cookies. So, when they say "defund the police," they mean getting rid of the guards, taking the cookies from the rich, and redistributing them so that everyone has an equal amount of cookies. </p><p>In this metaphor, the cookie jar is capitalism, the cookies are private property, and the police are the protectors of the cookie wealthy elite&#8212;the <em>bourgeoisie</em>&#8212;and the ones keeping everyone with fewer cookies, the <em>proletariat</em>, in check.</p><p>The far left wants to abolish or defund the police because they see them as the muscle behind private property and the capitalist system. They say <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-7-why-whiteness-means">the police are basically descendants of slave catchers</a></strong>. In their worldview, capitalism&#8212;i.e., private property&#8212;gave birth to slavery (the ownership of people as private property), so the police are not just enforcing capitalism but also perpetuating systemic racism (the system that upholds racism, capitalism).</p><p>Take, for example, this gem of a sign from the Denver Communists: </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dwtj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3cb7eec-498d-475d-9042-140a78fe0766_680x680.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dwtj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3cb7eec-498d-475d-9042-140a78fe0766_680x680.jpeg 424w, 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It's not just about race&#8212;it&#8217;s about tearing down capitalism.</p><p>In the Marxist utopia, the left believes the police would not exist. They believe abolishing capitalism would eliminate all crime because everyone would have access to all of the resources they need under equity.</p><p>So, next time you hear calls to defund the police, just remember: it&#8217;s not really about race&#8212;it&#8217;s about dismantling capitalism.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Questions?</h2><p>Let me know in the comments!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-13-what-do-the-police/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-13-what-do-the-police/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-13-what-do-the-police?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-13-what-do-the-police?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>My work is funded by people like you.</strong></h3><p>I&#8217;m 100% grassroots funded. 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>The <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">RE-EDUCATION series</a></strong> is part of <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/s/woke-101">Woke 101</a></strong>, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war. If you&#8217;re new to the RE-EDUCATION series, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">start here with the introduction</a></strong>.</em></p><p><em>If you believe in the work I&#8217;m doing, I invite you to support it with an <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">$8/month or $80/year subscription</a></strong>. Your contributions are my only source of funding, and they make everything I do possible.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you&#8217;re unable to support financially, sharing my work with friends and family is just as powerful. Together, we can spread the message far and wide. I can&#8217;t do this without you!</em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Land Theft, Capitalism, and Why the Left Loves a Good Revolution</strong></h3><p>At its core, capitalism is all about one thing: <strong>private property ownership</strong>. </p><p>And when I say property, I don&#8217;t just mean your house or apartment&#8212;I mean <strong>land</strong>. Yes, that very dirt you&#8217;re standing on? That&#8217;s capitalism in action.</p><p>But if you ask the left, land isn&#8217;t something anyone should own outright. To them, it&#8217;s part of the <strong>collective</strong>, specifically under the stewardship of indigenous peoples who lived there long before. </p><p>The left believes that no one owns the land. They prefer the term &#8220;<strong>collective care</strong>,&#8221; framing indigenous peoples as caretakers of the land, not owners. Everything worked fine&#8212;until, of course, outsiders came and "stole" the land. And this is where <strong>land blessings</strong> come into play.</p><h3><strong>Land Blessings: Not Just Good Vibes</strong></h3><p>Land blessings are like spiritual middle fingers to capitalism. They&#8217;re a way to resist the greedy claws of capitalist land exploitation by paying homage to the land&#8217;s original &#8220;caretakers.&#8221; It&#8217;s the left&#8217;s symbolic way of rejecting capitalist land ownership and demanding that the land be returned to its rightful &#8220;caretakers.&#8221; (No mention of how this would work in a legal property transfer, of course.)</p><h3><strong>Capitalism&#8217;s Dirty Secrets: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Colonization</strong></h3><p>The left loves a good history lesson, especially if it involves the sins of capitalism. Here&#8217;s how they break it down:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Imperialism</strong>: The ugly business of extending power through territorial acquisition. Capitalist nations&#8212;being the greedy, resource-hungry beasts they are&#8212;expand beyond their borders for cheap labor and new markets.</p></li><li><p><strong>Colonialism</strong>: A system of domination where capitalist powers rule over foreign lands to suck them dry of resources and labor, all to feed their economies back home.</p></li><li><p><strong>Colonization</strong>: The fun part where they actually move in, establish control, and profit off the backs of the indigenous populations.</p></li></ul><p>All these systems work together in the left&#8217;s narrative of capitalist oppression. You see, colonization isn&#8217;t just a historical event&#8212;it&#8217;s an ongoing process, and the left believes it&#8217;s their job to stop it.</p><h3><strong>Decolonization: The Left&#8217;s Magic Word</strong></h3><p>So, what&#8217;s the solution? <strong>Decolonization</strong>. </p><p>Basically, this is the left&#8217;s fantasy of reversing all that capitalist land theft. Decolonization means returning land to the indigenous peoples, or, in some modern interpretations, overthrowing the capitalist system altogether. </p><p>Want a real-world example? Just look at the left&#8217;s reaction to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For them, what happened on <strong>October 7th</strong> was nothing short of a revolutionary act&#8212;a decolonization effort in real-time.</p><p>And if you&#8217;re wondering why so many on the left are cheering for Palestine over Israel, it&#8217;s because they see it as part of the larger struggle against capitalist and colonial forces. In their eyes, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/video-what-intifada-means-according?utm_source=publication-search">Intifada</a></strong> isn&#8217;t just about Palestine; it&#8217;s a stand-in for the entire <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/video-what-intifada-means-according?utm_source=publication-search">worldwide socialist revolution</a></strong>.</p><h3><strong>The Big Picture: Capitalism vs. The Collective</strong></h3><p>In summary, the left connects all of these ideas&#8212;<strong>imperialism, colonialism, colonization, and decolonization</strong>&#8212;to their ultimate enemy: capitalism. For them, land, property, and resources have been stolen by capitalists in their insatiable thirst for power. Through <strong>land blessings</strong> and <strong>decolonization</strong>, the left fights back, aiming to dismantle capitalism&#8217;s hold on the land and society.</p><p>So, next time you see a land blessing or hear calls for decolonization, remember&#8212;it's not just about land. It's about dismantling the system that made private ownership possible in the first place.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Questions?</h2><p>Let me know in the comments!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-12-imperialism-colonialism/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-12-imperialism-colonialism/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-12-imperialism-colonialism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-12-imperialism-colonialism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>My work is funded by people like you.</strong></h3><p>I&#8217;m 100% grassroots funded. 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Together, we can spread the message far and wide. I can&#8217;t do this without you!</em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>The Left&#8217;s War on the Family: Why They Want to Abolish the Nuclear Family</strong></h3><p>The left isn&#8217;t just rethinking family&#8212;they&#8217;re gunning for the abolition of the nuclear family altogether. It&#8217;s not about hating their parents or aborting their kids; it&#8217;s about seeing the nuclear family as a key barrier to their ultimate goal: dismantling capitalism.</p><p>Here&#8217;s their logic:</p><ul><li><p>Capitalism birthed the gender binary. We unpacked this in <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-9-the-true-goal-behind">RE-EDUCATION #9</a></strong>.</p></li><li><p>The gender binary traps women in a socially constructed role that demands their unpaid labor in birthing and raising the nuclear family.</p></li><li><p>The children raised in these households are the next generation of workers who will be oppressed under capitalism. The family is literally cranking out the very workers that prop up the system.</p></li><li><p>That makes the nuclear family the breeding ground for capitalism (private property ownership).</p></li></ul><p>Enter <strong>Social Reproduction Theory</strong>: The left believes social systems reproduce themselves until someone disrupts them. So, the nuclear family isn&#8217;t just a product of capitalism; it&#8217;s also the institution that maintains it.</p><p>If the left sees the nuclear family as perpetuating capitalism with every new generation, they&#8217;ll argue it must be dismantled to overthrow our capitalist society and create their Marxist utopia.</p><p>But there&#8217;s more:</p><ul><li><p>The nuclear family fosters economic dependencies, especially when medical care is tied to family resources.</p></li><li><p>It facilitates generational wealth, reinforcing class disparities.</p></li><li><p>It upholds the gender binary, aka patriarchy.</p></li></ul><p>For the far-left, this isn&#8217;t just a critique&#8212;it&#8217;s a strategy. 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>The <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">RE-EDUCATION series</a></strong> is part of <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/s/woke-101">Woke 101</a></strong>, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war. If you&#8217;re new to the RE-EDUCATION series, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">start here with the introduction</a></strong>.</em></p><p><em>I&#8217;m completely funded by you. <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">Please consider a subscription for $8/month or $80/year</a></strong>.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my work, please consider sharing it with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>The Critical Difference Between Trans and Queer: What You Need to Know</strong></h3><p>In <em><strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-8-why-queer-is-not-about">RE-EDUCATION #8</a></strong></em>, we explored how being "queer" isn&#8217;t about being gay or trans&#8212;it's a far-left political ideology with the explicit goal of abolishing capitalism. </p><p>But there&#8217;s a key distinction between queer and trans that we haven&#8217;t yet addressed, and it&#8217;s crucial if you want to understand the true intentions of the far left.</p><p>Many people confuse queer and trans because both appear to disrupt the idea of biological gender&#8212;and to some extent, that&#8217;s true. However, the <em>reason</em> they disrupt gender is vastly different.</p><p>In <em><strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-9-the-true-goal-behind">RE-EDUCATION #9</a></strong></em>, we broke down the goal of Queer Marxism: to abolish the gender binary entirely. And here's where the real difference lies.</p><p><strong>Trans individuals</strong>&#8212;those who transition from male to female or female to male&#8212;still <em>uphold</em> the gender binary. They acknowledge the existence of men and women, even if they believe gender is changable between the two.</p><p><strong>Queer activists</strong>, however, want to <strong>abolish</strong> the gender binary altogether. That&#8217;s why they identify as non-binary and use they/them pronouns&#8212;it literally means <strong>no binary</strong>.</p><p>The difference isn&#8217;t whether they challenge gender norms. The difference is whether they want to uphold the gender binary or destroy it. And if the gender binary falls, so does society as we know it.</p><p>You may dislike the idea of disrupting biological gender for any reason, and that&#8217;s fine. But the real threat is a movement intent on abolishing gender entirely, which will have <strong>profound implications on our way of life</strong>. And that&#8217;s the group teaching your kids to identify as non-binary in schools.</p><p>Trans people who just want to live their lives? They&#8217;re not the problem.<br><strong>Queer activists seeking to overthrow society? 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I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>The True Goal Behind Gender Ideology, Queer Theory, and Queer Marxism</strong></h2><p>Too many &#8220;anti-woke&#8221; influencers have profited off peddling a convenient lie: they claim gender ideology and queer theory are all about pedophilia, grooming kids, and turning them into drag queens.&nbsp;</p><p>But this is a smokescreen. The <em>real</em> agenda is far more profound.</p><p>The true aim of queer theory? <strong>To abolish the gender binary and the nuclear family</strong>&#8212;as part of a larger mission to dismantle capitalism itself.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how the left justifies this:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Capitalism created the gender binary.</strong> The binary is the system that divides society into men and women. Another name for this system is <strong>the patriarchy.</strong> It places men in positions of power in the workplace, while women are relegated to unpaid domestic labor&#8212;raising the next generation of workers to continue the cycle of capitalist oppression.</p></li><li><p><strong>To achieve gender equity, the left must destroy the gender binary.</strong> They seek to abolish the distinction between men and women altogether. When you hear "non-binary" or "they/them," it literally means &#8220;no binary.&#8221; The goal is <strong>to erase the very concept of male and female.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Abolishing the gender binary also means abolishing the nuclear family.</strong> The left believes the nuclear family perpetuates capitalism, by passing down wealth and reinforcing economic hierarchies. Your access to resources is tied to how much private property your family controls. In their view, by dismantling the family, they can eliminate these capitalist structures.</p></li></ul><p>The left uses <strong>social reproduction theory</strong> to bolster this argument. They claim that social systems like the nuclear family will keep reproducing capitalism&#8212;unless they&#8217;re disrupted. This is why they are attacking parental rights.</p><p>If they can convince enough people&#8212;especially the young&#8212;that gender is just a social construct, they can slowly erode the foundations of the nuclear family. And with the family gone, capitalism won&#8217;t be far behind. The endgame? The complete overturning of the American way of life.</p><p>The stakes are higher than you think.</p><p><strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/video-what-you-need-to-know-about">Watch the video of me explaining it here for more information</a></strong>:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/video-what-you-need-to-know-about" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h7zA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90867133-4237-4a15-850c-6dd291a1600f_1456x1048.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h7zA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90867133-4237-4a15-850c-6dd291a1600f_1456x1048.png 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>The <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">RE-EDUCATION series</a></strong> is part of <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/s/woke-101">Woke 101</a></strong>, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war. If you&#8217;re new to the RE-EDUCATION series, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">start here with the introduction</a></strong>.</em></p><p><em>I&#8217;m completely funded by you. <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">Please consider a subscription for $8/month or $80/year</a></strong>.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my work, please consider sharing it with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><h2>Why Queer is Not About Being Gay or Trans</h2><p><strong>Queer Doesn&#8217;t Mean Gay or Trans. It Means Far-Left Politics.</strong></p><p>Many assume that being queer means being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or even trans. After all, the word "queer" was once a slur hurled at gay people. But here's the catch: today&#8217;s queer ideology has nothing to do with sexual orientation.</p><p>In the hands of modern activists, queerness is not about who you love&#8212;it's about defying societal norms. You don&#8217;t have to be gay or trans to call yourself queer. You just have to declare it, and voil&#224;&#8212;you&#8217;re part of the movement.</p><p>Because for today&#8217;s activists, queerness is not an identity. It&#8217;s a political statement&#8212;a rebellion against &#8220;normativity,&#8221; the very fabric of society&#8217;s rules and structures. It&#8217;s why they reject traditional gender roles, adopt non-binary identities, and embrace they/them pronouns. It&#8217;s about rejecting anything normal.</p><p>And because <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-2-what-abolish-capitalism">the left's ultimate goal is to dismantle capitalism</a></strong>, &#8220;normativity&#8221; is directly tied to the systems that keep capitalism alive.</p><p>This is made crystal clear by queer anarcho-communist collective, The Mary Nardini Gang, in <em><strong><a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mary-nardini-gang-toward-the-queerest-insurrection">Towards the Queerest Insurrection</a></strong></em>:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The liberation of queer people is intrinsically tied to the annihilation of capitalism.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Those&#8230;who struggled for queer liberation also simultaneously struggled against capitalism, racism, patriarchy and empire&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mary-nardini-gang-toward-the-queerest-insurrection" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png" width="1042" height="178" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:178,&quot;width&quot;:1042,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:66856,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mary-nardini-gang-toward-the-queerest-insurrection&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NK35!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff60488-ef94-424c-8f1e-184101675335_1042x178.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Let&#8217;s be clear: queer means communism. You can think of the two terms as interchangeable.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Questions?</h2><p>Let me know in the comments!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-8-why-queer-is-not-about/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-8-why-queer-is-not-about/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-8-why-queer-is-not-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-8-why-queer-is-not-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>My work is funded by people like you.</strong></h3><p>I&#8217;m 100% grassroots funded. 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It's about the system.]]></description><link>https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-7-why-whiteness-means</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-7-why-whiteness-means</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karlyn Borysenko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 23:13:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qPBv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b8e9d8e-686c-4d5c-81f7-5322bc8bb504_1456x1048.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qPBv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b8e9d8e-686c-4d5c-81f7-5322bc8bb504_1456x1048.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>The <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">RE-EDUCATION series</a></strong> is part of <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/s/woke-101">Woke 101</a></strong>, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war. If you&#8217;re new to the RE-EDUCATION series, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">start here with the introduction</a></strong>.</em></p><p><em>I&#8217;m completely funded by you. <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">Please consider a subscription for $8/month or $80/year</a></strong>.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my work, please consider sharing it with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><h3>Why Whiteness Means Capitalism</h3><p><strong>It&#8217;s time to shatter a common misconception. The left doesn&#8217;t hate white people.</strong> This idea, mostly fueled by conservatives and right-wing dissidents, misses the mark entirely. If you dive into leftist trainings and events, you'll quickly notice that most participants are white. The topic of skin color? Rarely brought up.</p><p>Sure, there are outliers&#8212;like Robin DiAngelo claiming all white people are racist or the occasional viral video of someone ranting about killing white people. But those are exceptions, not the rule. They don&#8217;t represent the majority of what the left does in the real world.</p><p>So, why does the left talk so much about whiteness and white supremacy? Why are they trying to convince everyone they&#8217;re racist? <strong>Because, to the left, &#8220;whiteness&#8221; and &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; are code for capitalism.</strong> Let&#8217;s break it down:</p><ul><li><p>Capitalism is private property ownership.</p></li><li><p>Slavery in the U.S. was born from capitalism&#8212;humans turned into private property.</p></li><li><p>In this framework, white people are the owners, the bourgeoisie, the oppressors.</p></li><li><p>Black people? They&#8217;re the property, the proletariat, the oppressed.</p></li></ul><p>Slavery built systemic racism, creating racial disparities in access to resources and property. </p><p><strong>Systemic racism isn&#8217;t about skin color; it&#8217;s about the system that birthed racism&#8212;capitalism.</strong> </p><p>Another name for systemic racism is institutional racism, where the institution of capitalism keeps racism alive.</p><p><strong>White privilege?</strong> That&#8217;s just a term for the beneficiaries of capitalism&#8212;the property owners hoarding resources while oppressing others.</p><p>To eradicate racism in the U.S., <strong>the left believes we must abolish capitalism.</strong> Without it, inequities vanish, and everyone gains equal access to resources as part of the collective.</p><p><strong>Remember this</strong>: when the left talks about whiteness, white supremacy, racism, anti-racism, or anything race-related, it&#8217;s almost always a reference to systemic racism, the capitalist system that keeps racism thriving.</p><p>Here are a few pieces from socialist publications that emphasize the point: </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fxvN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86b35eee-26b3-438d-9aee-bbf5c9cf97bb_756x424.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fxvN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86b35eee-26b3-438d-9aee-bbf5c9cf97bb_756x424.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fxvN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86b35eee-26b3-438d-9aee-bbf5c9cf97bb_756x424.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fxvN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86b35eee-26b3-438d-9aee-bbf5c9cf97bb_756x424.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fxvN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86b35eee-26b3-438d-9aee-bbf5c9cf97bb_756x424.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fxvN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86b35eee-26b3-438d-9aee-bbf5c9cf97bb_756x424.png" width="756" height="424" 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family</p></li></ul></li></ul>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[RE-EDUCATION #6: The Four Goals of the Leftist Cultural Revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understand this and you will understand everything the left does.]]></description><link>https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-6-the-four-goals-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-6-the-four-goals-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karlyn Borysenko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:42:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZPaz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd46d91db-a731-4cf6-9e5a-b454163bd887_1456x1048.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><h1>The Four Goals of the Leftist Cultural Revolution</h1><p>I don&#8217;t just study the left&#8212;I watch them in action. For years, I&#8217;ve logged thousands of hours observing their training sessions, talks, and presentations. What I&#8217;ve seen is a blueprint for a revolution that will destroy America as we know it.</p><p>From these deep dives, four goals have become crystal clear. Everything leftist activists do is aimed at achieving one or more of these objectives. Once you learn to spot them, you&#8217;ll see them everywhere.</p><h3><strong>Goal 1: Gain as much power as possible</strong></h3><p>The left is obsessed with power. They infiltrate political offices, secure government jobs, dominate universities, infiltrate K-12 schools, and take over corporate leadership. They embed themselves in big tech and beyond. They use these positions to make subtle, incremental changes that add up over time, often going unnoticed by the masses.</p><h3><strong>Goal 2: Destabilize the system</strong></h3><p>Once in power, they deliberately create chaos. By implementing laws and policies that cause pain, they push people to seek change. Their goal? To make the current system unbearable, so people start asking, &#8220;Why does everything suck?&#8221; </p><p>Once the average person is looking for a villain to blame, the left offers them one.</p><h3><strong>Goal 3: Attack Capitalism</strong></h3><p>Their main target is capitalism, which is explicitly defined as private property ownership. They blame it for every societal issue&#8212;from racism and inequality to climate change. </p><p>When people suffer from the chaos leftists create, they swoop in with their narrative: &#8220;It&#8217;s capitalism&#8217;s fault. Get rid of it, and life will improve.&#8221;</p><p>Once a critical mass of people are on board with this idea - that capitalism is the big, bad enemy - the left moves to their final goal.</p><h3><strong>Goal 4: Usher in their Marxist Utopia</strong></h3><p>The ultimate goal is revolution. By destabilizing society and turning people against capitalism, the left plans to offer Marxism as the solution. This final step towards their utopian vision will lead to the overthrow of our current system of government, the abolition of the constitution and the death of the American dream.</p><p>Don&#8217;t be fooled. 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If you&#8217;re new to the RE-EDUCATION series, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-everything-you-need">start here with the introduction</a></strong>.</em></p><p><em>I&#8217;m completely funded by you. <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe">Please consider a subscription for $8/month or $80/year</a></strong>.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to Support My Work&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe to Support My Work</span></a></p><p><em>If you can&#8217;t financially support my work, please consider sharing it with your friends and family to spread the message. I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><h2>What Equity Really Means, and Why It&#8217;s Marxist</h2><p>The left&#8217;s ultimate goal is to dismantle our capitalist society, built on individualism and meritocracy, and replace it with a society driven by "equity"&#8212;a system where the collective reigns supreme, <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-2-what-abolish-capitalism">and private property is abolished</a></strong>.</p><p>Too often, people mistake &#8220;equity&#8221; for &#8220;equality,&#8221; thinking it&#8217;s about fairness for everyone. But fair in what way?</p><ul><li><p><strong>Equality</strong> means equality of opportunity&#8212;everyone competes, and the best person wins. </p></li><li><p><strong>Equity</strong>, however, means equality of outcomes&#8212;the forced redistribution of resources to ensure everyone reaches the same level, erasing any disparities. Or, as Marx would put it, &#8220;<em>from each according to their ability, to each according to their need.</em>&#8221;</p></li></ul><p>Equity is about destroying hierarchies. The left believes capitalism has structured society into oppressor/oppressed hierarchies, where the oppressors will always have more resources and opportunities, perpetually exploiting the oppressed.</p><p><strong>&#8220;White supremacy&#8221;?</strong> It&#8217;s the belief that systemic racism (the &#8220;system&#8221; being capitalism) allows white people more resources than black people, creating a racial hierarchy.</p><p><strong>&#8220;The Patriarchy&#8221;?</strong> It&#8217;s the notion that the gender binary, allegedly constructed by capitalism, gives men more resources than women, forming a gender hierarchy.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Cisheteronormativity&#8221;?</strong> It&#8217;s the claim that society favor those who conform to the norm, granting them more resources than those who identify as &#8220;queer,&#8221; thus creating a normative vs. queer hierarchy. Queer activists call for the annihilation of capitalism as a solution.</p><p>The aim of &#8220;equity&#8221; is to flatten every existing hierarchy, making everyone equally rich and equally poor. This demands <strong><a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-2-what-abolish-capitalism">the abolition of private property</a></strong> because unequal ownership is seen as an inequity. All resources must be shared by everyone.</p><p>To achieve equity, the only solution is to overthrow our current U.S. government and replace it with Marxism.</p><p>Under equity, individualism is obliterated because no one is allowed to excel. Meritocracy is erased because it creates hierarchies.</p><p>This means the death of the American dream.</p><p>So, every time you hear the word &#8220;equity,&#8221; think &#8220;Marxism.&#8221; It&#8217;s not about fairness or justice&#8212;it&#8217;s about communism.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Questions?</h2><p>Let me know in the comments!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-5-what-equity-really/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-5-what-equity-really/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-5-what-equity-really?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/re-education-5-what-equity-really?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://karlyn.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>My work is funded by people like you.</strong></h3><p>I&#8217;m 100% grassroots funded. 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I can&#8217;t do it without you.</em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>How The Left Gains Power (It&#8217;s Not By Winning Elections)</strong></h3><p>Ever wondered why the woke left always seems to win, even without the presidency or a majority in Congress?</p><p>Who gets elected President, who&#8217;s in Congress, who&#8217;s in the state house, who&#8217;s on the school board&#8212;all these positions are filled by people who win elections at federal, state, or local levels. But when we examine how the left gained so much power in this country, it was rarely through elected positions.</p><p>Political power&#8212;gained by winning elections to create laws and control resources&#8212;is only one type of power. It&#8217;s temporary and fleeting, lost as soon as an election is lost.&nbsp;</p><p>The left doesn&#8217;t rule through political power alone. They&#8217;ll take it if they can get it (like the elected members of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families Party), and they appreciate that political parties help them organize and raise money to spread their message.</p><p>But the revolutionary far-left doesn&#8217;t believe they will win through political means. Many far-left organizations explicitly state they won&#8217;t achieve their revolution by winning elections. For example, <a href="https://tempestmag.org/about/our-politics/v">the radical revolutionary socialist organization The Tempest Collective</a>.</p><p>.:&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png" width="876" height="404" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:404,&quot;width&quot;:876,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUCZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c885e7e-df8b-40af-97cc-cd468ebc6cbe_876x404.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Instead, the left focuses on <strong>institutional power</strong>&#8212;positions within institutions not subject to elections, like faculty roles, CEOs, or heads of major non-profits. Institutional power lasts a long time and is tough to change. Tenured faculty members can&#8217;t be easily fired, and CEOs and organizational heads usually need to voluntarily relinquish their positions to be replaced.</p><p>This is what we mean by their "long, slow march through the institutions"&#8212;spending the last century getting into positions of institutional power to rule society and drive their cultural revolution.</p><p>After the 2020 election, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240106195114/https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-election-trump-biden-donors/">Bloomberg News analyzed donations by profession</a>. The TLDR? People in white-collar professions (with institutional power) were more likely to give to Democrats and Biden, while blue-collar workers (doing noble, important work but lacking institutional power) were more likely to support Republicans and Trump.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!snuq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52960c9a-b789-4e19-949b-20389408d54b_871x812.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!snuq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52960c9a-b789-4e19-949b-20389408d54b_871x812.png 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the movie <em>The Young Victoria</em>, Queen Victoria walks with her aunt, dowager Queen Adelaide, who warns her niece not to trust politicians too much because politicians always resent the monarchy. Politicians pass through; the monarchy stays.</p><p>Here, the monarchy represents the institution. Although the institutions the left controls aren&#8217;t technically lifetime appointments, they might as well be. High-powered positions&#8212;where decisions impact policy&#8212;change hands less frequently than elected ones. And when they do, the new person often aligns ideologically with the previous one. On the left, everyone is a replaceable cog, easily swapped out within the collective.</p><p>Institutional power is far greater than political power because it provides longevity, giving more time to enact changes to meet goals. This power doesn&#8217;t change hands based on election outcomes.</p><p>The left wins because they rely on institutional power, not political power.</p><p><strong>Don&#8217;t rely on a pendulum swing to save us. The winner of the next election does not matter when it comes to fixing this problem. It&#8217;s a generational problem.</strong></p><p><strong>The right plays the short game. 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