Everyone is by this point familiar with the political phenomenon we colloquially call identity politics.

This is academically known as intersectionality, a term originally coined by Kimberly Crenshaw, a critical race theorist.

Critical race theorists stand in the long tradition of communists struggling to understand why Marx's proletarian revolution never happened in the West,

and what could be done to make it happen, not only to save Marx's theoretical framework,

but also to assist in bringing about communism.

The broad purpose of critical race theory and intersectionality then is to attack the mainstream

liberal society by empowering its

destructive fringe elements and facilitating their rise to power using the existing logic of the

liberal society itself. In her 1991 essay mapping the margins, Crenshaw draws upon the

observations of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci in his prison notebooks.

Gramsci noticed that the revolution in Russia succeeded because civil society was weak

and did not support the corrupt institutions of the state in their time of crisis.

The revolution in the West failed because civil society was strong

and the uncorrupted institutions of state

were held in high regard by the flourishing free societies. And so they could not be overthrown

in what Grams she turned, a war of manoeuvre. And so the communists would have to resort to a

war of position instead. A war of position is essentially what America and Russia engaged in during the Cold War,

a war in which no battles between the adversaries are fought, but instead they gather resources

and strategically undermine one another until one side collapses, allowing the other to claim

victory.

Crencher identified that in the West, liberal human rights laws could

be manipulated to do the opposite of what was intended, not to provide an equal playing field,

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