#165 - Emmet Connor - The Ideology Slowly Destroying the West

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Emmet Connor, author of Red Pandemic, joins me to discuss his claim that Marxist ideas are expanding globally through culture, institutions and politics.

We start with the core question: is there actually a coherent Marxist movement in the modern West or is the term being used too loosely to describe broader social change?

We also explore what Marxism is today, how it may have evolved beyond its original economic focus and whether its historical outcomes are a failure of implementation or something inherent to the ideology itself.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Marxism Or Leftism

00:05:00 - Defining The Revolution

00:10:55 - Useful Idiots Problem

00:18:52 - Fabian Influence Debate

00:30:00 - Do Marxists Know?

00:37:52 - How Ideas Spread

00:48:34 - Freedom And Liberty

01:02:23 - The Right’s Branding

01:16:30 - Where The Right Wins

01:30:31 - Power And Democracy

01:46:56 - What People Actually Want

02:10:23 - Final Reflections

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Marxism is like a buffet. There's so many different types of revolution you can choose one.
0:05.0	Is there a potential that some of us are using Marxism just to describe something we don't like?
0:10.8	Well, it's an interesting question, but unfortunately, Peter, I think that this is one of these things
0:16.0	that's gone to really test people's intelligence, awareness, knowledge of the global picture. A person might
0:23.3	not even know that they're talking like a Marxist. They could be apolitical. They don't have
0:28.7	any interest at all in global affairs, politics, geopolitics, current affairs. They're not interested
0:34.7	at all, but they're talking about stuff like we should have more compassion. So you see these alarm bells going off constantly and this is why this is an indoctrination
0:42.9	issue. It spreads from person to person through a myriad of a myriad of different ways.
0:47.5	Could we be wrong? Could the goal of these Marxists be better in that they don't really want the communist revolution.
0:55.8	What they want is social democracy.
0:57.5	The Nordic countries seem pretty happy.
0:59.4	Are they just trying to bring the Nordic model here and we're in the way of that?
1:03.9	It's almost like people are brainwashed to Marxism by default, even though they don't even know what it is.
1:11.9	Morning, Emmett. How are you? I'm doing good. How are you doing, man?
1:14.8	I'm good. I'm good. I'm very excited to have this conversation with you because it's a subject. I think about a lot.
1:20.8	So let's start with the core claim. Your belief is there is a large Marxist movement happening globally and certainly across
1:30.0	the West today. But is there a potential that some of us are using Marxism just to describe
1:37.2	something we don't like? Well, it's an interesting question, but unfortunately, Peter, I think
1:43.1	that this is one of these things that's gone to really test
1:45.6	people's um intelligence awareness knowledge of the global picture and um i'm very much i understand
1:52.4	what you're trying to say i'm very much like that i've gone over it myself since 2012 i question my
1:57.5	own beliefs and say am i overreacting am? Am I being alarmist? People throw terms
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