Ever since people began warning about the threat from Cultural Marxism, the Marxists’ main line of defense has been to deny everything. They claim that their critics are hallucinating and fighting with shadows.

The Marxists in control of universities insist that academic freedom is alive and well. No one has been excluded from the academy for being a conservative. No teachers are indoctrinating their students—they merely teach them true history.

In that light, it is perhaps understandable that the Trump administration framed their attack on Cultural Marxism as a concern with “true history.” The Executive Order (EO) titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” depicted the dismantling of Western civilization as a revisionist history project. Do not worry, fair citizens, your president will now ensure that history is not inaccurately revised, he promised.

The weakness of this strategy is obvious. There is nothing wrong with revising history, per se. History is not writ in stone. Historians regularly question the dominant interpretations, revising them where necessary. The problem is not that universities are revising history, but that they are indoctrinating students in the poisonous tenets of Cultural Marxism. The problem identified by the EO is not merely historical revisionism, much as the Trump administration was at pains to depict it as such. As the EO explained,

…the prior [Biden] administration sponsored training by an organization that advocates dismantling “Western foundations” and “interrogating institutional racism” and pressured National Historical Park rangers that their racial identity should dictate how they convey history to visiting Americans because America is purportedly racist. … …the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive. … The National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that “hard work,” “individualism,” and “the nuclear family” are aspects of “White culture.” The forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum plans on celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women’s sports. These are just a few examples.

…the prior [Biden] administration sponsored training by an organization that advocates dismantling “Western foundations” and “interrogating institutional racism” and pressured National Historical Park rangers that their racial identity should dictate how they convey history to visiting Americans because America is purportedly racist.

…the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that “hard work,” “individualism,” and “the nuclear family” are aspects of “White culture.” The forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum plans on celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women’s sports. These are just a few examples.

Denouncing white Americans as racists is not “revisionist history.” It is an ideologically-driven attack masquerading as history. Defending your country is not a history project. It is intrinsic to the right to self-defense. There is no duty to sit and watch as your communities are destroyed under the guise of accurate history. It would have been more accurate to call the EO “Rejecting Cultural Marxism.”

Cultural Marxism is a poisonous and destructive ideology. Antony Mueller explains, 

Another name for the neo-Marxism of increasing popularity in the United States........

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