AMAC Exclusive – By Walter Samuel
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Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel has forced a reckoning in America’s elite institutions. America’s campuses have been revealed as dens of not just antisemitic beliefs (which can culminate in violence, as witnessed recently at Cornell) but generally anti-human attitudes.
The idea that the normal rules of human morality—such as that one should not just avoid killing non-combatants, but especially babies, can be set aside if the victims represent a concept as abstract as a “settler colonial project” —is not even Marxism of the Leninist variety, but the nihilism of Pol Pot. Coming from American students, who also view the United States itself as an illegitimate colonizer nation constructed on the backs of Native Americans and African slaves, this idea is self-negating as well. It expresses not a hatred of an “other” such as Jews, but rather a hatred of themselves, which explains why even many youth of Jewish descent can be infected with the virus.
The distinction between leftism, even of a Marxist-Leninist variety, and nihilism is key to understanding why, suddenly, there has been pushback from elites in otherwise woke corporations, universities, and even the Democrat Party to the support for Hamas. It is not a turn against leftism, or even against the Marxist vision of Critical Race Theory. Rather, it is a horrifying realization that the project designed to instill an ideological commitment to hierarchy accomplished the opposite. Instead of an army of ideological warriors, it produced an uncontrollable mob.
Marxism, whether in its original, class-focused form or the more modern, identity-politics-driven manifestation of Critical Race Theory, is not and has never been about opposing hierarchy. Marx, birthed from the same secular post-religious tradition as Darwin and Nietzsche, sought to build a scientific replacement for the metaphysical divine right of kings or mandate of heaven.
Marx was not seriously concerned with the idea of abolishing class. The classless society of True Communism was a concept he never bothered to define, had no idea how to bring about, and postponed to an indefinite future when human nature, if not the laws of physics themselves, would be suspended.
Instead, Marx was concerned about how economic classes replaced each other.
For Marx, classes were objective. The idea of individuals who straddled or passed between them was uncomfortable for him. Much as segregationists and modern woke academics resolved the problem of interracial children by declaring “mulatoes” to be new races in and of themselves, Marx had terms for anyone who did not fit into their class.
Through terms like “petit bourgeois” for those in the middle class who aimed above their station, and “lumpenproletariat” for the working class who dared to vote for the Right, Marx abused those who did not fit in a manner that black, Muslim or gay conservatives would find familiar when it comes to the Democrat Party in the 2020s.
The idea that conflict between classes was intrinsic is therefore only half of Marxism. The other half is that if every individual is defined by objective membership in a class, then all conflicts are class conflicts. A professor and a small business owner do not merely get into a fight over cutting in-line at a check-out lane. Rather, their conflict represents a class conflict.
When Critical Race Theorists adopted Marx’s ideas and replaced class with race, they adopted both parts of his dogma. Not only does everyone fit into a neatly defined category of race, but all conflicts between individuals are actually conflicts between the races to which they belong. Even if the individuals involved deny it.
The idea that a conflict between Hamas and Israel is a conflict between Jews and Arabs is right in line with this belief. For the Critical Race Theorists, any action undertaken by an Israeli settler on the West Bank or Palestinian can never be just an individual act, but rather is the product of the existence of the state of Israel or Palestine. Jews cannot be separated from Israel. For Palestinian students, they are told what is happening in Gaza is an attack on them by Jews.
While we can never know what the intentions were behind Critical Race Theory, we should distinguish between the academics who developed it, and the corporate executives who pushed it. In the former case, they may well have been true believers.
In the latter case, there is another motive. A world in which everyone is part of a class and race, all of which are ordered hierarchically, is one in which not only do individuals have no agency, but anyone who tries to assert agency is behaving poorly.
If anyone who refuses to be defined by their race or class is selfish, stupid, or both, then this provides enormous social power to whoever is in a position to define the “correct” way to behave as a gay man or black woman. The advantage of Critical Race Theory to elites is that there are an infinite number of racial categories to which to assign individuals, and those categories could then be used as means of control and issuing orders.
“Wokeness” in this sense became a test of elite loyalty. Imagine what the ideal social media profile of an aspiring BlackRock employee would look like. In 2017, it would be filled with #resistance mentions. In early 2020, it would have admonitions to support nurses and wear a mask, along with mocking those who opposed lockdowns. That summer, it would be filled with images of solidarity with BLM and demands for “justice” for George Floyd.
In 2021, this would have begun to shift. The ideal employee would suddenly begin to express concern over the length of school closings, and how minorities were the greatest victims of high urban crime rates. In 2022, they would begin raising the alarm about whether there had been enough research into childhood gender transitions and the situation on the border while filling their profiles with Ukrainian flags.
Then, in October of 2023, they would have been expected to express concern about rising antisemitism on college campuses while praising Biden for defying ignorant young staffers pushing for a too-early ceasefire.
Superficially, this sounds like the concept of the “current thing,” but the idea has always been less relevant than its means of transition.
There are two ways young Americans especially identify the “current thing.” The first is horizontal, from peers. These young people adopt the views designed to maximize their social capital in the short run. The second is vertically. This involves calculating what views and positions will please those in a position to advance you, whether it is teachers, professors, or future employers.
Until 2021, the distinction made little difference. The same signals such as being opposed to Donald Trump, supportive of trans rights, and in favor of BLM were desired both by future employers and popular with peers.
Gradually, a divergence began to build, and the limited backlash against wokeness was not a sudden repentance, but a calculation by millions of young Americans whose leftism was always a product more of personal ambition than conviction that the winds were shifting and they should shift with them. They were not suddenly rejecting these woke concepts – they had never believed in them.
The war in Gaza has transformed that gradual divergence into a schism. Those at the top of the vertical, whether it is billionaire donors or the President of the United States, have made clear that support for Israel, or at least condemnation of Hamas, is a test of loyalty to the hierarchy.
When people in power threaten to punish anyone who disagrees, it is not because they find pro-Hamas views abhorrent, even if they do. It is because they find the very concept that someone could believe in such things so strongly and maintain that position when ordered to drop it even more terrifying.
What we are now witnessing is not a war between Critical Race Theory and some sort of older, more noble liberalism. Rather, it is between Critical Race Theory the idea, and Critical Race Theory the mechanism. The ideas of Critical Race Theory and those who believe in them are warring with the purpose of Critical Race Theory and the goals of those who promoted it. Not to improve the lives of any race or class, but to entrench their own social power.
Without a doubt, the existence of young Americans who believe genocide is justified is a mortal threat to the future of the country. But we need to recognize that those pushing back and defending Israel are not repentant sinners, but rather arsonists who found that the fires they set got out of control.
The immediate task should be to put those fires out, and just as we would work with arsonists to fight a fire that threatens to consume us all, tactical cooperation with the liberal backlash against pro-Hamas forces is justified.
In the longer term, we should recognize that the reason this problem exists is precisely because the corporate donors leading the backlash against pro-Hamas sentiment nurtured the ideology behind these ideas for decades, knowing it was at least untrue, if not outright dangerous.
As a matter of national self-defense, we cannot allow them to avoid responsibility, not least because if they do, the moment the current fire is out they will go right back to preparing kindling for the next one.
That means instilling values of genuine free speech and inquiry, not theories designed to maintain social control. First, because social control is un-American. Secondly, it is now clear the elites who wish to exercise control are too stupid to do so without endangering themselves and everyone else.
Walter Samuel is the pseudonym of a prolific international affairs writer and academic. He has worked in Washington as well as in London and Asia, and holds a Doctorate in International History.
America NEEDS To CLEANSE Our EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Of ALL THE TEACHERS Who Have Been TEACHING Our Young People That MARXISM IS PREFERABLE TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND CHOICES! . . . But We REALLY NEED TO CLEANSE Our MAINSTREAM MEDIA Who PROTECTS The LYING JACKASS Who RESIDES In The WHITE HOUSE!
“Get them young”! It all starts in the public school of indoctrination. But they’re allowed to exist in the name of “free speech” because they ARE the left. If these crowds were “extreme MAGA”, does anyone doubt they’d be immediately shutdown?
We are a product of what are parents/family say and do. We are a product of whatever religion, including, zero religion, says and does. We are a product of what the neighborhoods we live in say and do. We are a product of the schools we attend and what the say and do. We are a product of the media, including social media, and what they say and do. Roll that all into a ball, and here we are…
Youth need to be taught to THINK FOR THEMSELVES based on Biblical principles of moral and ethical behavior, love/acceptance of differences rather than hate/castigation of those who think differently.
Public education (including colleges/universities) have been infiltrated and taken over by those who wish to destroy us when/if we do not go along with their ‘teachings’. No matter where they came from, all who teach division need to be ousted/expunged from the educational system. Get back to basics (reading, writing, arithmetic) to learn a trade or technology, to be a productive human being in whatever they choose, and not a strain on society (either causing chaos/division, or living off handouts).
Not one person spewing the hate and complaining about injustices and suffering would voluntarily leave this country that oppresses them so much to go and live in paradise they support by their protests
Those in power in America have lost control already of the masses Indoctrination by university professors has been going on too long. This is the 1930’s all over again. Hitler’s youth did the same thing. Painted swastikas on Jewish homes and businesses. Till Krystal Nacht and those same youth smashed windows destroyed everything inside and Jewish male adults were arrested. Intimidation first.
It has been reported that the FBI knew of the attack by Hamas on October 7th but did not warn Israel. Ole Joe plays both sides and this pro Hamas movement has his support. Like he supports the millions of migrants into this country to attack us from within.
It has been a plan ever since O was elected. This man who hated America and the white race since he was born and learned from his father the hatred for America. We allow foreigners to sit in the House and propagate their hatred and are allowed to stay. While a true blue American president is vilified. Why didn’t the reps in congress fight this? The Nazis only have made a better plan to eliminate those that oppose them. Remember all Magas have been declared domestic terrorists, Nazis and enemies of the state. And what are we doing about it? The reps in the senate vote with the dems. All have been bought by Soros. It is always about Capital that inevitably destroys the world. Money is power. Why is ole Joe so enamored with the Ukraine. Why the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan and leaving 80 billion dollars in military equipment behind? Was he impeached for that? Trump was impeached over a phone call, a phone call. We have 8 million more migrants since ole Joe was installed as president and the large cities are overrun. There is no housing for them, healthcare or schooling or work. Ole Joe doesn’t even address it. Mayorkas keeps saying the border is secure. All this is a plan to keep the power by the ultra left and eliminate the rational thinking American citizen. Some of those same citizens say we have to do something before it is too late. It was too late 3 years ago now we and America with it are lost forever. Land of the Free and home of the Brave is no more.
It is classic Marxism and Saul Alinsky in action. With Alinsky it makes no difference as long as you divide the population into various groups put them against each other and make fun of them. It’s all based on internal fighting and this is all being promoted by the federal government and the Marxist that are in charge. This is all being coupled with cloward Piven theory on how to take down the United States by overloading the entitlement system. What do you think 10 million immigrants is going to do? And it will totally skew the vote to Democrats that’s their whole point
Have you thanked a democrat today?
The fact that CRT lies are being taught in any school in the USA is proof that the academic establishment here is completely corrupt. The only way to fix this is to abolish public schools and let parents send children to any school they want. This will crush the communist teacher’s unions, stop the teaching of sodomy to grade school children, stop the teaching of CRT, and could reintroduce Christian morality to the educational system. AD2
Our education system from K to 12 and our colleges and universities have been failing us for years. It’s time for a reset. K to 12 public schools need to go back to a basic, classic education and eliminate indoctrination of our children and focus on making them productive citizens able to compete in a fast changing competitive world. Parents also need to instill moral values into their children too. Colleges and universities who promote social discord and anti-Semitism should not be eligible for any government money. We as citizens need to hold the mainstream media, large tech corporations, and our politicians accountable for any efforts to censor our 1st Amendment rights.We should also hold them accountable for promoting anti-Semitism or aiding and abetting our enemies. Living without a moral compass of values leads to chaos and the destruction of our country. It’s sadly disturbing to see our college students supporting terrorists. Since its creation Israel has been at war with its Arab neighbors. Iran has been a major source of violence with its proxies like Hamas. Hamas needs to be wiped out and the Palestinians need to govern themselves. And despite weak kneed politicians who support a cease fire there will be none until Israel rids the world of Hamas.
The “Left”: ideology and symbolism without substance. But it does make them feel good. Prosecute the source. You don’t slay the dragon at its tail.
What I see here is serious problems trying to get patriotic AMERICANS elected to help our country recover from both of the obama,soros,biden disasters.President Trump had AMERICA on a road to recovery with no help from the”DINGBAT liberals”,and our country was prosperous until corruption took over.
Yes the Leftists created the protest garbage because they don’t care what happens to United States and they would just as soon see us become Socialist country.And the only reason they are doing this is because they can get away with it any other country wouldn’t put up with it.They want an American life and education but they don’t want to follow american rules and laws.
You are leaving some key elements out. Arab donors are putting big money into these schools. Obama put big money into Iran. How do you think he got so wealthy in a short amount of time without earning it?
It’s time for states to tell the Dept of Indoctrination “keep your money”. The Dept of Education is unconstitutional anyway, but by rejecting federal money the states, and ultimately the people, will gain at least some degree of control.
Declaring independence from federal funding would be a de facto form of secession. Yes, it will be costly to the citizens, and no, it is very unlikely to happen.
I cannot figure out why higher education, the media, entertainment and sports became bastions of liberalism and populated by people with leftist ideology. There was a time when this wasn’t so.
The next generation of leaders have been taught their country is illegitimate and guilty of genocide and white supremacists raping the land and enslaving people.
Because of the traitors who have opened the borders, WHEN the terrorist attack occurs, the authoritarian tyrants will go completely insane. COVID will be nothing. The tyrants in power will declare a national emergency and the United States will be under a de facto police state no one could ever dream of.
The current generation of college students will be all too happy to participate and turn in their own families for suspicious or rebellious activity. Sound familiar?
NOTE: Not so fast my fellow Americans. As an old counter-terrorist soldier I want to render a special thanks to several of the female members of our federal government to include; the Vice President, the squad, and to the many others among the ranks of American ignoramuses. They have clearly verified the points I have tried to demonstrate below. Oh, a personal note for each of the ladies. Can promise you will not keep your current positions if Muslims come to power in the USA! At best they may let you stand in front of a camera in the appropriate attire and spit out their propaganda!
Soldier/Cop/Mercenary, Retired
WHAT IS THE REAL ISLAMIC THREAT? America you had best wake up to the ‘Real’ Islamic threat! Why? Because for most of Western world’s so-called leaders (save one) have failed to adequately address the fact that the Islamic threat is not limited to Jews. As detailed below, one of the primary objectives detailed in Muslim doctrine is to ‘RID’ the world of ‘ALL’ non-believers!
NOTE: The information presented herein has been submitted many times since 1982 by several of the U.S. Army officers who served on a counter-terrorism team charged by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs with assessing the threat to DOD personnel deployed overseas and developing strategy/tactics to combat the same. To date few Americans and their so-called leaders have given due attention to the ‘REAL’ threat presented by radical Muslims.
Question: The Islamic State, the Nation of Islam, CARE, ISIS, HAMAS, and many other Muslim groups; what do they all have in common? Answer: They all have the same ultimate objectives!
Those objectives are to: 1). Fully install Sharia as the only governing philosophy in the world, and 2). Install Muhammad as the last true prophet and his teachings supposedly inspired by the ‘truths’ delivered to him in a cave by Gabriel (an angel of the one and only God) sometime between 610 – 613 CE as the only law and religion of the land. Those same truths/teachings which became institutionalized in the Quran, the Hadith, and the Sira; are the three most important foundation documents providing the bases for Sharia.
Per personal knowledge/experience gained as a military officer with many years of service in combating terrorism at the hands of various Muslim and other groups, I can inform all Americans willing to listen as to the reasons why I and many of my fellow officers have warned the American government many times as to why Islam is much different than any other religion/governing philosophy, and why ‘ALL’ Islamic groups present a significant threat to America and the so-called free world.
The simple reason the Islamic State, the Nation of Islam, CARE, ISIS, HAMAS, etc. are so dangerous is the range of strategies/tactics they claim were/are mandated to be employed by the Prophet himself. If you doubt me just watch those individual Muslims who are implanted in the U.S. Congress as they deal with their comrades, the media, and the American people. I simply find it pitiful as to how unskilled they are at spreading their propaganda, yet their comrades in the government, the public, and the media seem oblivious to their true objectives. As an old ground combat/counter-terrorist soldier I would say this to their audiences; “I can’t believe you knuckleheads, you let the enemy walk up and kiss you right on the mouth before they gut you and/or cut your throat!”
Don’t feel bad that most of you may have been so blind reference the threat from Islam and the range of their tactics (lie, cheat, steal, kill, whatever required to rid the world of non-believers). Mr. Reagan and most of his administration failed to give the threat they were provided by the army officers mentioned above in 1982 adequate attention. Even after two Muslim terrorists less than a year later in 1983 killed over 200 marines, several sailors, one soldier, and 40 French soldiers in Lebanon; our arrogance, lack of knowledge, and stupidity has continued to leave us to this day seriously ill prepared.
Now the Muslim community can count among their best allies the American government, the America media, the American left, Academia, and the hordes of simply ignorant deniers! Don’t believe me? Ask yourself, why does our government prosecute conservatives, Christians, Jews, etc., to one standard yet permit Muslims and other left wing groups to virtually rampage across the nation with little consequences?
If you are one of the ill informed don’t fret too much. I am offering free classes to teach the eight prayers you need to learn in order to start your personal conversion to Islam. Oh, you will need to bring your own rug.
Final Note: Would you like to know the primary tactic the team of army officers mentioned above presented to the Reagan administration in 1982? Their basic tactic was: “In that the best defense is a good offense we must kill the terrorists in their beds before they kills us in ours!”
Soldier/Cop/Mercenary, Retired
Spot on, Mr. “Samuel”. So many more are now aware and on to these underhanded, dirty deeds and have taken the education of their children in their own hands I have to be optimistic about our future. Not all is lost.
I thought this was brilliant – feels right that the operative distinction isn’t CRT V “an older liberalism”, it’s between CRT as argued and CRT as practiced. We have lost the corporations, academia, media. They are all CRT-infused by now.
I did lose you late, at the “but we must recognize” statement. I found it unclear, sorry. Are you saying that those defending Israel “are not repentant sinners but arsonists”. Those defending Israel are arsonists? Please explain.
I did find this illuminating, insightful. Hope to read more of your stuff.
If you had all the names of these IDIOTS, you would find that the anti-Semites are the same as the BLM and antifa “protestors” and the never-Trump scum. They just LOVE to protest anything decent about America or anywhere else in the world. They love DEATH and are of their father aka Satan!
a total disgrace! how would these losers like to see their female family members raped or cut open to take baby out of womb and be killed. this country doesn’t want or need you haters here. if you are here from another country leave and take the people who think they are american with you.
Why would it be a surprise when parents don’t discipline their children and teach them to think for themselves and that ALL Terrorism is EVIL? Of course the Left has brainwashed them since Dictator Beijing biden supports and finances Terrorism with OUR TAX DOLLARS.
Then you have the Dept. of DUHMACATION who teaches YOUR children to support such atrocities since they were in Kindergarten.
I’m surprised that they aren’t parading around in Pink Tu-Tu’s celebrating Hamas.
You are a moron
I think if Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich feels so strongly about Palistine that she should resign from her office and go to Gaza and help Hamas completely destroy the Palestinian people, as they are doing by waring within the Palestinian population. It seems that Tlaib backs Hamas and their attempting genocide for all Israeli peoples. Tliab is not arguing for the American people, so she needs to resign or be forced to give up her office to follow her passion because what she is doing is not working for the American people or defending our Constitution.
Hamas needs to traken out. Kyle L.
Stupid but so successful it is scary.
“The Left?” Name names and provide explicit examples in these far-ranging articles. People are responsible for promulgating these ideas and idologies. Provide verifiable data and information to support all claims. Put some meat on those bones.
This is a total crap article this is not just on the left it is on all of us who sat on out hands and did almost nothing to stop the left when this transformation has been going on for decades ,, now i dont know if our Republic can ever be restored to what it should be , im afraid the good days are gone and soon we will be under Socialist rule brought on with our help ,, God Bless America because no one else will ,,,
Cut the crap AMAC. Politically I am to the right of Genghis Khan but genocide is genocide whether ordered by an Austrian painter with a funny mustache or by a felonious leader of self described “Gods Chosen People”. Hamas did a horrid act no different than murderous acts committed by any violent criminal escaping from a life sentence. For what THAT group did,they must be punished. You don’t punish a group of fundamentalist terrorists by the wide scope slaughter of an entire caged group of people made up of 52% under the age of 19 and 40% under the age of 10. It doesn’t matter the race, culture, skin tone, religious beliefs or even according to one out of control Israeli defense leader, body smell of a people. A decent nation does not condone the open and gleefully admitted to genocide of anyone. Someone needs to inform Mr. Netanyahu that a number of his televised statements can be used against him before the World Court and he, like Milosevic can be tried and sentenced for that most odious crime.
The State of Israel would not exist as it does in comparison to its neighbors if not for their apparent eternal status of being the premier victim. They have artfully played their Holocaust to a point where the US alone sends them 4.8 billion dollars a year just as some misguided penance for the Holocaust Jews endured some 80 years in the past. Now they are the perpetrators of a Holocaust of their making. The same slanders the Nazis used about the Jews those same Jews are using against the Palestinian people generally but in speaking about those in Gaza. They insist that HAMAS pay for their cimes and indeed the perpetrators should but to actively kill everyone of a similar ethnicity is not acceptable to anyone, leftist, centrist or right wing.
What Israel is currently doing is exactly what the Nazis did, just to another group of people and the result Im afraid will end Israels long stint as the worlds welfare queen whose status was gained by similar horrors in the past. Who is going to pay Israels way now? Why is the US sending almost 5 billion annually to I believe is the worlds 8th largest economy? They USED to receive it out of pure pity. That pity HAS to now end.
Maybe HAMAS won simply by stirring Israeli hubris.