
From The Vault: The Religious Marxism of Critical Race Theory
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<p>Join Senior Scholar and Professor of Political Economy, Richard Salsman, Ph.D., in fresh episodes of <em>Morals & Markets </em>"From the Vault." These episodes were from early episodes of <em>Morals & Markets </em>from before it became a podcast. </p> <p>Tune in to this episode from June 2021, in which Dr. Salsman discusses "The Religious Marxism of Critical Race Theory."</p> <p>“Critical Race Theory”(CRT) claims that contemporary America is <em data-w-id="daaf3657-7206-f335-c17c-a3c2adc2c5a4" data-wf-id="["daaf3657-7206-f335-c17c-a3c2adc2c5a4"]" data-automation-id="dyn-item-description-input">systemically</em>, <em data-w-id="dd1abb4d-455d-8c0e-4a06-4a18b0cce5a3" data-wf-id="["dd1abb4d-455d-8c0e-4a06-4a18b0cce5a3"]" data-automation-id="dyn-item-description-input">institutionally</em>, and <em data-w-id="50cd29d8-5057-89b7-b874-413d044ca1ab" data-wf-id="["50cd29d8-5057-89b7-b874-413d044ca1ab"]" data-automation-id="dyn-item-description-input">structurally</em> racist. In the same vein, President Obama in 2015 told NPR that in America “the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and discrimination in almost <em data-w-id="d9cf5f4e-73d8-3265-3e03-ab48c0ee9285" data-wf-id="["d9cf5f4e-73d8-3265-3e03-ab48c0ee9285"]" data-automation-id="dyn-item-description-input">every institution</em> of our lives is <em data-w-id="41fe128d-21f5-a126-9e9c-1e7e7fb85c63" data-wf-id="["41fe128d-21f5-a126-9e9c-1e7e7fb85c63"]" data-automation-id="dyn-item-description-input">still part of our DNA</em>. We are not cured.” In fact, only America’s South was <em data-w-id="b0d1e03d-26e5-f685-7962-ecb8a0bd521c" data-wf-id="["b0d1e03d-26e5-f685-7962-ecb8a0bd521c"]" data-automation-id="dyn-item-description-input">systemically</em> racist–-and not after the 1960s. CRT is not new but reflects an odd amalgam of false theories: Marxism (“inherent conflict”), Christianity(“original sin”), and determ
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From The Vault: The Religious Marxism of Critical Race Theory
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