Hadn't visited my parent's house in over a year for obvious reasons. When I got there today I couldn't help but notice this book facing outwards on my dad's bookshelf. Obviously he was fucking with me.
It's written by some fox news guy who thinks that Marxists are taking/already have taken over the country (tho he's just playing to the swine right? He's gotta know this is uhh not even close to true). I love how christian conservatives, who control almost every lever of power, do this weird projection thing where they are the victims and the true oppressors are a group that has literally zero power.
Chances that this guy has actually read any Marx beyond the communist manifesto are slim to none but I reeeally can't be bothered to do any hate reading about this fox news chud.
Opened to a random page and he of course mentions antifa and blm and calls marx a utopianist (?)
American reactionaries' perception of Marxism rests upon 4 pillars:
1.) More taxes
2.) Just your standard liberal positions on social issues. You know, things like "LGBT people are valid" and "racism is more than just not using the n-word". Though they sometimes think Marxism adds a more menacing element to all this, i.e. Marxists want to push an agenda specifically on kids. Drag queens reading books to kids is evidence of this agenda.
3.) Atheism. Because this is something they legitimately believe Marx was all about more than anything else.
4.) "Post-truth" or at least what they think "post-truth" is based on what some Evangelical blogger said about it once. Marxism means there is no truth and literally everything - including ideology - is equally true as everything else. This was a particularly important pillar to Jordan Peterson, as I think this is basically what he thinks "cultural Marxism" is.
it was Jordan Peterson :jbp:
Moral relativism, intrinsically closely related to your third point