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James Lindsay talks about the history of critical race theory. Lindsay is a US academic who talks about his book: Cynical Theories:

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023

Critical theory arose out of the 1930's to create a moralist center for industrial enterprise that incorporated Marxist ideology. It was an attempt to figure out why communist revolutions weren't more popular. Why weren't they happening in the West? It was about the psychology influenced by Engles of how to bring about a Marxist revolution in America.

Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist, and businessman who lived from 1820 to 1895. His collection of work done with Karl Marx laid the groundwork for modern communism. Engels and Marx wrote and published many articles and books together that attempted to expose the uneven distribution of wealth gained during the Industrial Revolution.

SEE: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/friedrich-engels.asp

Critical theory was developed to make people understand they are voting against their own interests if they don't adopt socialistic ideals, using "cultural issues" to sway them toward communism.

Maxwell Horkheimer from the Frankfort School of 1937 describes "3 components" of critical theory to describe "how society is falling short of the communism moral vision."

FROM Wikipedia: (Don't give money to this organization): Critical theory (German: Kritische Theorie) was first defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of sociology in his 1937 essay "Traditional and Critical Theory", in which it is described as a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it. Wanting to distinguish critical theory as a radical, emancipatory form of Marxist philosophy, Horkheimer critiqued both the model of science put forward by logical positivism, and what he and his colleagues saw as the covert positivism and authoritarianism of orthodox Marxism and Communism. He described a theory as critical insofar as it seeks "to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them."[6] Critical theory involves a normative dimension, either through criticizing society in terms of some general theory of values or norms (oughts), or through criticizing society in terms of its own espoused values (i.e. immanent critique).

3 Components:

1. Must be put into action by activists.

2. Must have a "moral vision" that shows how society "actually oppresses them."

3. They need to be liberated from that oppression

In the end, they are actually fighting against their own interests and for their own oppression.

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