Communists now fight a culture war, not a class war.

Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, described herself and co-founder Alicia Garza as “trained Marxists.” The organization’s third co-founder, Opal Tometi, has been circumspect in her self-definition, though one may deduce Marxist sympathies from the several photographs of her smiling next to Venezuela’s Communist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Cullors, Garza, and Tometi share …

Communists know that words matter.

[Italian Communist agitator Antonio] Gramsci believed that Marxists should aim to attain what he called “cultural hegemony,” an early expression of Andrew Breitbart’s famous dictum that “politics is downstream of culture.” And the beating heart of culture is language. In the little-read Discourse or Dialogue about Our Language, Machiavelli compares the infiltration of an opponent’s …

Communists take silence as resistance.

The consequences of woke cultural authoritarianism are real, and they are devastating. They range from job loss to social ostracism. Americans live in fear of the moment when a personal enemy dredges up a Bad Old Tweet™ or members of the media “resurface” an impolitic comment in a text message. … Silence used to be …