Christianity, Marxism, & Critical Theory: A Worldview Lesson for Students

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In this lecture, I had the opportunity to teach College Students about Christianity, Classical Marxism, and Critical Theory. Looking at a big picture approach at the worldview level.

Works I relied upon (linked below):
Critical Race Theory Series by Randy Trahan: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7QJmrZLF5JvQFxeEOq2Ta72IBntipUDO
What Every Christian Needs to Know about Social Justice by Jeffrey Johnson: https://amzn.to/3DQQ3Mw
Social Justice and the Christian Church by Ronald Nash (linked below)
Social Justice vs Biblical Justice: How Good Intentions Undermine Justice and Gospel by E. Calvin Beisner

Follow me on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/travismcneely

Additional Recommended Resources:
My YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkD3B3K3bF5m3fC4rrw9MiA
Just Thinking Podcast: https://justthinking.me/podcast-home/
New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/translations-from-the-wokish/
Sovereign Nations: https://www.youtube.com/c/SovereignNations
Books:

American History, Philosophy & Government:
• The 1776 Commission Report by Larry Arnn, Carol Swain, et al. https://amzn.to/3vnT8Rr
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison: https://amzn.to/3jgCgam
• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson: https://amzn.to/3pgw71R
• Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark Levin: https://amzn.to/3jgx7Pr
• Liberty & Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin: https://amzn.to/3BVlDbH
• Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism by Mark Levin: https://amzn.to/3G2lsxG
• The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke: https://amzn.to/3jiGaiX
• Irresistible Revolution by Matthew Lohmeier: https://amzn.to/3lTiBik
• Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story by Wilfred McClay: https://amzn.to/3AXaUfg
• America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding by Robert Reilly: https://amzn.to/3pfvcP2
• America’s Thirty Years War by Vazsonyi: https://amzn.to/3jfarPL
• The US Constitution
• The Declaration of Independence

Marxism & Communism
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels: https://amzn.to/3n7bFO5
• Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy by Andy Ngo: https://amzn.to/3pe6C0T
• Gang of One: Memiors of a Red Guard by Shen Fan: https://amzn.to/2Z93mJx
• American Marxism by Levin: https://amzn.to/3FWTx2d
• From Under the Rubble by Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/3BUQvZS
Race Studies & Diversity
• Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, & American Economies in the Progressive Era by Thomas Leonard: https://amzn.to/3jbedJZ
• The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine our Culture by Heather MacDonald: https://amzn.to/3nafT7w
• Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur: https://amzn.to/2Z0PCRn
• White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele: https://amzn.to/3vyl992
• The Content of our Character: A New Vision of Race in America by Shelby Steele: https://amzn.to/2Z1fjBh
• Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/2Z2VauC
• The Myth of Race by Sussman: https://amzn.to/3C831VG

Postmodernism, Critical Theories, Ideology, Totalitarianism, Other:
• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt: https://amzn.to/2Z1fGvF
• Fault Lines by Voddie Baucham: https://amzn.to/3FZgD8f
• The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free by Mike Gonzales: https://amzn.to/3ndDp3Q
• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek: https://amzn.to/3BQSiyZ
• Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen Hicks: https://amzn.to/3n9ZQXo
• The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity by Douglas Murray: https://amzn.to/3n7BuNZ
• Social Justice and the Christian Church by Nash: https://amzn.to/2XsWUwk
• Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson: https://amzn.to/3jgzG41
• Cynical Theories by Lindsay: https://amzn.to/3FZgD8f
• The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad: https://amzn.to/30zpSeZ
• That Hideous Strength by Melvin Tinker: https://amzn.to/3lRMa42

My Website: www.travismcneely.com
3 Articles of Note:
• Is Critical Race Theory Rooted in Marxism? Analyzing Primary Sources: https://www.travismcneely.com/blog/2020/12/07/is-critical-race-theory-rooted-in-marxism-a-response-to-recent-claims-to-the-contrary
• Critical Race Theory Series & Discussion Guide: https://www.travismcneely.com/blog/2021/02/10/critical-race-theory-series-randy-trahan
• Four Reasons I Reject Using the Term ‘Social Justice’ by Wayne Grudem: https://www.travismcneely.com/blog/2019/02/06/four-reasons-to-reject-using-the-term-social-justice

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