A conservative strategist fabricated CRT’s Marxist lineage to rally right-wing allies

Evidence

Rufo claims that he saw in their works the seeds of Marxism and Critical Theory. In his selective reading, he linked CRT directly to a Marxist lineage. He hit upon CRT as a replacement term for political correctness and a language around which he could rally conservative, right-wing allies who had had enough of diversity training and anti-racism. Political correctness was outdated. CRT was better suited for the tasks of the Trump-era because it allowed Rufo to clearly fabricate a link among anti-racism and scholars of race, Marxism, socialism, and most importantly, the downfall of the United States. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 421

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rufo deliberately fabricated an equivalence between prison-gang segregation and CRT pedagogy; Anti-sharia and anti-CRT panics deploy identical racecraft tactics against different targets — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 445; Pseudo-historical fall narratives let conservative politics masquerade as ethics — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 663

Broader Connections

• Pseudo-historical fall narratives let conservative politics masquerade as ethics #corroborates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 663