Nextgen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It - Hardcover

by Mike Gonzalez (Author), Katharine Cornell Gorka (Author)

A deep dive into the strategies and tactics used by the radical left in recent years to undermine the institutions of the United States, along with suggestions for how to counter their advances.

"Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka document the Left's metamorphosis into a bastardized, racialized Marxism that is a threat to everything Americans hold dear. In this deeply insightful book, readers will understand the nature of the beast-and how to fight it in their communities."

-- Christopher Rufo, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Many Americans believe that the United States is in decline. They see a country that has become unrecognizable: where individuals are reduced to their race, ethnicity, or sexual identity; where children are indoctrinated into radical ideologies; where anti-semitism has become widespread. This book explains how all of these ills are rooted in Marxism. To be sure, it is not Soviet Marxism, but a Marxism that was shaped by European intellectuals, adapted and refined by America's student radicals of the 1960s, and diffused throughout the culture as those student radicals became professors, community organizers, and leaders.

The end goal of these NextGen Marxists is expropriation, redistribution, central planning, and collectivism. They are working toward nothing less than the cultural transformation of the United States--and they have partially succeeded.

But NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It is infused with optimism. It reveals the dark inner workings of the radical left's destructive agenda in the United States in order to teach Americans how to fight back.

The authors share their conviction that the best days for the United States are still ahead of us if every day Americans can work together to restore sanity and make America the great beacon of freedom once again.

Author Biography

Mike Gonzalez is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He writes on a variety of subjects, including critical theory, critical race theory, identity politics, education, and foreign policy. He spent the better part of two decades as a journalist, clocking 11 years with the Wall Street Journal all over the world. He joined the administration of President George W. Bush and worked in the State Department's European Bureau. In his first foreign assignment, Gonzalez was arrested and expelled from Panama by the dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega. The following year, 1989, he traveled with the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Today, he devotes nearly all his passion to defending the US and the West in general from systemic overhaul and cultural genocide--thus this book.

Katharine Cornell Gorka served as a presidential appointee in the Office of Policy at the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on strategies preventing terrorism and targeted violence. She was president of Threat Knowledge Group from 2014 to 2017, providing expertise and training on irregular warfare and terrorism to the FBI, US Army Special Forces, Marine Corps, and law enforcement. From 2009 to 2014 she was executive director of the Westminster Institute, which conducted research and education on threats posed by extremist ideologies. She co-edited the volume, Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism.