Many are familiar with the phrase “long march through the institutions”. But how does it work and where did it come from? James Lindsay discusses this and builds upon Krzysztof Szczawinski’s history of the man who is responsible for it’s naming, both of which are quoted in full below due to Twitter’s/X’s embed limitaitons.
As Lindsay explains:
This is the strategy we’re seeing playing out around us all over the place, Woke Left, Woke Right, Salafist Bolshevik (Muslim Brotherhood), and beyond.
The strategy is based in Western Marxist theory (“Cultural Marxism” and Critical Theory) and employs classic Communist entryism as a primary tactic. That means getting inside institutions and transforming them from within or collapsing them from a combination of internal and external pressure.
It is sometimes called “boring from within.” The idea is like they’re drilling a hole in the side of an institution and going in through the wall, transforming the inside, and leaving the outside apparently intact so it can keep doing its work until people finally catch on, far too late. Think about the Heritage Foundation. Or academia. Or the Bar Association. Or, or, or, or…
In one strategy it uses, it acts like a “virus,” even in its own telling. People are trained in the ideology and turned into “viral agents.” They’re then sent out into the world to join institutions, jobs, schools, movements, whatever. Their goal is to slowly turn people and then institutions and to open the door to more of themselves.
After Dutschke was shot in 1968, Herbert Marcuse, father of the New Left and Frankfurt School Critical Theory giant, took up his cause, instructing his strategy be followed in his 1972 book Counter-revolution and Revolt, naming Dutschke and the strategy (which is named after Mao’s “Long March”) and describing how to do it. The primary listed target was “education at all levels.”
That’s how it happened, and it’s still going on today, everywhere, rampantly, from all the bad guys.
And who was this Dutschke fellow?
