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By Deacon Mike Manno, The Wanderer, June 12, 2023

Last fall two of the Heritage Foundation’s fellows, Mike Gonzalez and Katharine C. Gorka, issued a report that everyone should read. It is entitled “How Cultural Marxism threatens the United States — and How Americans Can Fight it.” I’ll provide a link to it at the end.

The report succinctly lays out the case against the Marxist left, its origins in Communist political thought and how it has morphed — with the help of the Academy — into the movement that threatens the viability of our precious nation. It begins:

“In 1989, as the Soviet empire was crumbling, The New York Times noted an interesting new development: While millions who had lived under the brutal rule of Communism for decades were finally throwing off their yoke, Marxist professors were taking over American academia.” Then quoting the Times article, it concluded:

“As Karl Marx’s ideological heirs in Communist nations struggle to transform his political legacy, his intellectual heirs on American campuses have virtually completed their own transformation from brash, beleaguered outsiders to assimilated academic insiders.” ….

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