"Christopher Rufo shows the history of radical intellectuals and militants working to capture America's key institutions and change them from within"-- In the 1960s, Mao launched China's Cultural Revolution. It was bloody, fast-- and a failure. Rufo believe that America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it's just been slower, calmer, and more effective. Here he uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America's institutions to undermine them from within. He shows how radical, destructive ideology slowly worked its way from prisons to academia to classrooms to your human resources department. Failing to act soon, Rufo warns, will allow the radical left to replace constitutional equality with a race-based system overseen by bureaucratic 'diversity and inclusion' officials. -- adapted from jacket Provided by publisher.

Introduction : America's cultural revolution --Herbert Marcuse : father of the revolution -- The New Left : "We will burn and loot and destroy" -- The long march through the institutions -- The new ideological regime -- Angela Davis : the spirit of racial revolt -- "Kill the pigs" : the Black revolution draws blood -- From Black liberation to Black studies -- B.L.M. : the revolution reborn -- Mob rule in Seattle -- Paulo Freire : master of subversion -- "We must punish them" : Marxism conquers American education -- Engineers of the human soul -- The child soldiers of Portland -- Derrick Bell : prophet of racial pessimism -- "I live to harass White folks" : the politics of eternal resentment -- The rise of critical race theory -- D.E.I. and the end of the constitutional order -- Conclusion : the counter-revolution to come.