James Lindsay spoke at a Take Back Alberta (TBA) event in Calgary Tuesday night, where he warned parents of the “theology” behind gender identity politics. .Lindsay is an American political critic and author, who came to Canada to discuss gender identity being taught in schools and how it relates to a Marxist agenda. .Lindsay spoke at a venue in Edmonton Monday evening to a crowd of about 800 people, with the event in Calgary drawing more than 1,000 people..TBA is a grassroots, freedom-oriented movement founded by David Parker in 2022. .Parker, Mahmoud Mourra, organizer of Canada’s 1 Million March 4 Children and leader of Leave Our Kids Alone, and Brett Oland, CEO of Bow Valley Credit Union all spoke at the event as well. .Lindsay warned carefully curated ideologies are imposed on children based on certain goals of powerful entities and spoke in detail on Mao’s cultural revolution. .He argued historically political parties have used a common formula for gaining control over their populations — and historically it has been aimed at children through the education system. .He said “the communists, the Nazis, the fascists, all had something in common, and that is that they're totalitarian, they all use the same mechanisms, they all use the same methods.”.The “most consequential error” that human beings have made in the last century is putting communism and Marxism “on the map” by “believing that Marxism is an economic theory," Lindsay said. .“It is not in any way an economic theory,” Lindsay continued. “It is a religion. It is a theology, posing as an economic theory so that it doesn't get treated like the cult religion that it is.”.“And that's a religion,” stated Lindsay. “Religion is a theology, a set of answers to fundamental questions about the world, life, and man's role in it. And that's exactly what Karl Marx provided. Karl Marx believed that the secret of humanity is that we are actually intrinsically social.”.According to Marx, “we all work for one another and the species at our very nature, but we've forgotten our nature, because there's been a fall of mankind,” Lindsay said. .He explained in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse, leading Marxist from the Frankfurt School, declared the movement needed a new “proletariat” class in the West, because people have grown “stable” in the capitalist society and lost all appetite for revolution. .Marcuse said they could find the new proletariat among the racial minorities, the sexual minorities, the outsiders, the radicals, and the feminists, naming each group specifically. Marcuse called it “the ghetto.”.“That’s what he said,” Lindsay said. “It was actually an ideal place to foment this identity-based Marxism, because its location is in city centers, close to financial institutions that they genuinely want to disrupt. And this became the working model for Marxists going forward from the mid 1960s.”.“They had to adapt so that it can infect the cells through different receptors and in the West they are sensitive about race. So they created race Marxism, which we call critical race theory.” .Lindsay argued critical race theory feeds into gender or “queer” theory, as it’s called in academia. . James Lindsay .He said a form of Marxist theory particularly focused on how sexual behaviors and expression “render somebody outside of the norm,” especially “deviant sexual behaviors.”.The goal is to “render themselves outside of the norm,” and then redefine what the norm is, and finally treat “them” differently because they’re not “normal.”.“That's the birth of queer theory,” Lindsay said. “Sometimes you will call it gender ideology. Queer theory asserts that normalcy itself is a power dynamic created by people who think they are normal, even though they're not.” .“In fact, they say that all people are intrinsically queer,” he continued. “All children are intrinsically queer, and it's their job to wake them up.”.“That may seem familiar with what they're doing in the schools. They're trying to fulfill that religious mission of queer theory. They say that everybody is intrinsically queer, people need to be awakened to that truth about themselves, just like Marx believed that everybody is intrinsically socialist.”. James LindsayJames Lindsay .“The problem with queer theory is that normal people that convince people you have to act normal. Otherwise, you're not as good as you don't get to belong. And so they waged an open war on normalcy.”.Lindsay quoted the definition of ‘queer’ in the queer theory literature. .“The queer is an identity with no essence. It's an empty category that defines itself in opposition to anything considered dominant, normal, more legitimate.”.“That's what they want to teach your children because they can't agitate your kids with economic conditions,” Lindsay said. “And this is the Marxism that adapted itself to the West.”.“When Mao Zedong formulated his program in China, he called it Marxism Leninism with Chinese characteristics. What we’re enduring in the West is a cultural revolution using Maoists style Marxism with American characteristics. The American characteristics are caring about race, sex, gender, sexuality, ability status.”.“That is what we're dealing with. A cultural revolution based on that. The mechanism is Marxism adapted to Western identity politics. The means what they're using are Maoist tactics.”.DISCLOSURE...TBA is a Western Standard advertiser.
