Explaining the Long March Through the Institutions

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 149 The Long March Through the Institutions is a Marxist strategy for infiltrating the West through its institutions. Realizing by the 1960s that they would not be able to take the United States and Western Civilization from the outside, Marxists started formulating strategies in the "Western Marxist" canon to take it from the inside. That required taking over its institutions and transforming them and their culture. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains this insidious concept and strategy and how it continues to this day, now infiltrating conservative institutions too. Don't miss it. Latest from New Discourses Press! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2026 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #institutions

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. It is James Lindsay. You're listening to New Discourse's Bullets, where I give a short bullet point like summary of a single topic relevant to woke that we all need to understand so we can defeat it.
0:20.6	And I'm going to go to an old kind of classic today. Of course, I'm going to give it a timely spin too, but that classic is the long march through the institutions. You've probably heard this phrase. You probably have said this phrase if you're involved in the fight against woke or the so-called cultural Marxism or Western Marxism that
0:38.4	we're all dealing with. Where does it come from? What is it? Just a very short overview. The long
0:42.9	march through the institutions was a strategy that was first outlined in 1966 by a Marxist
0:50.1	named Rudy Deutschke. And his idea was that in order for Marxism to make headway in the United States,
0:58.7	this is falling well into the Western Marxist or cultural Marxist or even critical theory
1:03.3	line of thinking, for it to make its way in the West, it was going to have to stop fighting
1:09.3	out in the streets and start going into the institutions that actually define American or Western life.
1:16.6	It was going to have to get inside the legal institution, the educational apparatuses, the media apparatus, everything you can think of that's an institution.
1:26.6	It's got to go into them. Sometimes
1:29.0	this was called boring from within. Rather than attacking from without or protesting from without,
1:35.6	you're going to bore from within. You're going to go inside the institutions and use the institutions.
1:42.1	Now, the long march of the institutions ends up having two goals, as I've talked about
1:46.6	many, many times on the podcast before, once it adopts a strategy.
1:51.4	It's like the, it's the two goals of being a vampire.
1:54.8	Either you're going to bite and turn the people that you're going after, or you're going
1:59.7	to kill them and get rid of them.
2:01.7	Okay, so the two goals of the long march to the institutions are to colonize and take over
2:07.4	institutions that they can gain control over and use them to do more Marxism or to destroy
2:14.0	the institutions they can't take over.
2:16.4	So they have two winning conditions, not just one.
2:19.5	And I've talked about this many times.
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