Speaker 1: You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, welcome to the
Speaker 1: Buck Brief. On this episode, we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: to Kate Gorka. She's got a book out with her
Speaker 1: co author Mike Gonzalez, Next Generation Marxism, What it is
Speaker 1: and how to combat it? First time with this year. Kate.
Speaker 1: Great to have you on.
Speaker 2: Hey, Bucks, so happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Just let's give me a little your background first. I
Speaker 1: don't we haven't met before. I'm a fan of your
Speaker 1: esteemed husband, fellow radio host Sebastian Gorka. But how did
Speaker 1: you How did you come to this?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about Uh? I know, Mike,
Speaker 1: but I've interviewed Mike Gonzales before. Where are you? Are
Speaker 1: you coming this from an academic perspective or.
Speaker 2: Uh no, more real world perspective? I would say so.
Speaker 2: I spent a big chunk of my career focused on
Speaker 2: post communists. I'm in Central Eastern Europe. I went over
Speaker 2: there in I started going over right after the Wall fell,
Speaker 2: and I ended up living and working there for eighteen years.
Speaker 2: So I met Sebastian, got married. We lived in Hungary
Speaker 2: for about twelve years, then we moved back here. So
Speaker 2: in the meantime, I also worked for the Trump administration
Speaker 2: in the Department Homeland Security. Then I went over to Heritage.
Speaker 2: So I've always been active in the conservative movement, you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of focus on sort of national security, post communism.
Speaker 2: And met Mike at Heritage and I just I just
Speaker 2: have to mention I have a new job now too.
Speaker 2: As of Saturday, I am the chair of the Fairfax
Speaker 2: County GOP. I just got elected to that position.
Speaker 1: Oh congratulations. Yeah, that's an important That's a battleground area, Fairfax,
Speaker 1: I would I would assume, right, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: northern Virginia, right, You're like, it's like a communist strong.
Speaker 2: The California of the East coast. And I really believe
Speaker 2: in taking my anti Marxism fight to the ground, you know,
Speaker 2: I really believe in living what I preached. So I
Speaker 2: got really involved in local politics. But yeah, so Mike
Speaker 2: and I came together at the Heritage Foundation. We were
Speaker 2: both really interested in this topic. You know. I went
Speaker 2: over to Heritage in twenty twenty we were dealing with
Speaker 2: the sixteen nineteen project, right Nicole Hannah Jones that The
Speaker 2: New York Times published telling us that we're irredeemably racist
Speaker 2: as a nation. And then of course the COVID shutdowns
Speaker 2: and everybody's starting to see what's really being taught in schools,
Speaker 2: and then of course you have May twenty one with
Speaker 2: the George Floyd protests and riots, and so, you know,
Speaker 2: Mike and I just kept talking about this stuff and saying,
Speaker 2: you know, we need to do a better job of
Speaker 2: explaining to people how we got here, and we need
Speaker 2: to give them tools to fight back. So that's why
Speaker 2: we collaborated, and it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I'm actually really curious just about something you mentioned. You
Speaker 1: were said you met sab Sebastian in Hungary. What years
Speaker 1: were you? I just wanted to tell it what was
Speaker 1: it like, you know, when you were because you were
Speaker 1: there pretty close to when I assume things were just
Speaker 1: getting going, getting changing. What years were you there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I went over in May of nineteen ninety,
Speaker 2: so I was there, so that was about what six
Speaker 2: months after the Wall fell. I was there for the
Speaker 2: first post communist elections in Czechoslovakia, and I really focused
Speaker 2: on three countries. Czechoslovakia was still Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania.
Speaker 2: And over the course of a few years, I interviewed
Speaker 2: about six hundred different people. So I was actually trying
Speaker 2: to write a book, which I haven't yet written, not
Speaker 2: that one, but I did a ton of research and
Speaker 2: it was it was just an incredible time to be there.
Speaker 2: You know, it was so exciting. People did not believe
Speaker 2: that communism was going to end in their lifetime, so
Speaker 2: there was just a huge excitement. But it was also,
Speaker 2: you know, a ton of difficulty. What do you do
Speaker 2: with all these former secret police and and former communists?
Speaker 2: That was a very big dilemma. So that was a
Speaker 2: lot of what he and I worked on. And yeah,
Speaker 2: it was just it was a very interesting time to
Speaker 2: be in the world.
Speaker 1: It was was the was the atmosphere, the general atmosphere
Speaker 1: among people in Hungary after the wall came down? Was
Speaker 1: it more like exhaustion and a recognition that they you know,
Speaker 1: what was it like escaping from prison for most people
Speaker 1: or was it backflips you know the future is ours?
Speaker 2: You know, it was it was jubilation, It was it
Speaker 2: was unbelievable excitement and very very pro American. You know,
Speaker 2: the Americans got very involved all over East central Eastern
Speaker 2: Europe helping with the transition. It was it was it
Speaker 2: was actually like party atmosphere. It was very very fun.
Speaker 2: Tons of expats just the world was opening up for them.
Speaker 2: You know. It was very very exciting, very cool.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, I look forward to that book as well.
Speaker 2: That be more one day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's got to happen for sure. Tell me about
Speaker 1: next generation Marxism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, you know, Mike and I you know this,
Speaker 2: we had a great time doing the research for this book,
Speaker 2: and I think, you know, we both found a lot
Speaker 2: of things that we really hadn't known before, even though
Speaker 2: we're both deeply ensconced in this stuff. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's it's important for people to understand exactly
Speaker 2: what it is they're up against today. You know, so
Speaker 2: many people over the last couple of years have just
Speaker 2: looked at this situation and they're saying to themselves, how
Speaker 2: have we gotten to the point where we are ripping
Speaker 2: down our statues, tearing down our history, undermining our our
Speaker 2: founding principles, and even doing insane things like putting pornographic
Speaker 2: books in kids' schools and telling children they can mutilate
Speaker 2: themselves like it's it's really almost incomprehensible. But there is
Speaker 2: a logical path that brought us here, and I think
Speaker 2: if people understand the path, it makes more sense. It
Speaker 2: will also energize them, I think, to want to fight
Speaker 2: back because you then understand better absolutely how insidious it is.
Speaker 2: And it also helps give you the tools to fight back.
Speaker 2: What makes it next gen? Because that you know, that's
Speaker 2: always the big question.
Speaker 1: Hey, can I cant of pause you for one second?
Speaker 1: I want to come back to you mentioned the sort
Speaker 1: of progression in the pathway. I was hoping you could
Speaker 1: take us down that. But first up, just a quick
Speaker 1: word from our sponsor here, Bear Creek Arsenal. I'm a
Speaker 1: Second Amendment guy, and I believe in the right beare arms.
Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of firearms here at home. I
Speaker 1: practice with them, I train with them. I trained with
Speaker 1: them back when I was in the CIA. I know
Speaker 1: something about gone And let me tell you, if you're
Speaker 1: a firearms enthusiast, where you have one in your life,
Speaker 1: you've got to learn about the industry's best kept secret.
Speaker 1: Bear Creek Arsenal. They offer a wide range of firearms,
Speaker 1: premium calibers at a fraction of what the competition has.
Speaker 1: How does Bear Creek do this? There's no middleman fees.
Speaker 1: That's Look. I've got my ar from Bear Creek here
Speaker 1: at home. It's a phenomenal and when you take it
Speaker 1: out the range, you'll see for yourself. It fires so well,
Speaker 1: it's so accurate, weight is perfect, feels really good in
Speaker 1: my hands, and I'm already changing around some of the
Speaker 1: modifications on it to make it exactly how I want
Speaker 1: it to be because the rail system is excellent. You'll
Speaker 1: see for yourself. Get yourself to Bearcreekarsenal dot com, slash buck.
Speaker 1: That's Bear Creek Arsenal dot com, slash buck. Use promo
Speaker 1: code buck get ten percent off your first order. That's
Speaker 1: Bear Creek Arsenal dot com slash buck. All right, Kate, Sorry,
Speaker 1: you were telling me about the progression the Marxist conveyor belt,
Speaker 1: if you will, and how it's taken us to this
Speaker 1: place of left wing lunacy in America.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the important thing is, you know, you had
Speaker 2: the original marx which said the workers are going to revolt,
Speaker 2: but of course they never did, right, because what kept
Speaker 2: happening was the workers actually wanted to keep their jobs right,
Speaker 2: and capitalism, actually industrialization kept improving conditions for the workers,
Speaker 2: so that, you know, they just the revolt never happened
Speaker 2: until Lenin came along, and Lenin understood if you really
Speaker 2: organize and then if you also really make people feel aggrieved,
Speaker 2: you can bring about a kind of revolution. So you
Speaker 2: had that, you know, that whole phase. But here in
Speaker 2: the United States, it really did not ever take off.
Speaker 2: You had smatterings of communist sympathizers, but it never went mainstream. Right,
Speaker 2: So there was this this next moment, I would say,
Speaker 2: came about in the late fifties, so a lot of
Speaker 2: people don't know this. Harvard University actually brought Fidel Castro
Speaker 2: to come and speak to the students just months after
Speaker 2: he brought about the revolution in Cuba, which it still
Speaker 2: blows my mind, and you know, we wonder why Harvard
Speaker 2: is where it is today. But at that point, this
Speaker 2: was the development of the new left, where the thought was, Okay,
Speaker 2: the revolution is not going to come from the workers.
Speaker 2: It can come from the students. The students can be
Speaker 2: the locus of revolution. So of course, we saw what
Speaker 2: we saw in the sixties, and it was very much
Speaker 2: wrapped up with the civil rights movement. But honestly, if
Speaker 2: you look at what the students for Democratic Society did
Speaker 2: going into our cities in the sixties and fomenting revolution,
Speaker 2: you know, I would say that the sort of the
Speaker 2: civil rights explosions of the sixties were really generated by
Speaker 2: the radical elitist students, right, And that's a whole interesting story.
Speaker 2: So again, the revolution failed right by the end of
Speaker 2: the sixties. So you had the student revolutionaries kind of
Speaker 2: split up in several different camps. One camp went completely radical, weather, underground,
Speaker 2: right terrorism, bombings everywhere. Another group went and really organized
Speaker 2: and they're still doing that and that's part of the
Speaker 2: roots of Black Lives Matter. And then another group went
Speaker 2: into the law schools and they said, well, we're going
Speaker 2: to bring about the changes that we want by changing
Speaker 2: the laws. That was critical legal studies. But what they
Speaker 2: ended up doing was after about twenty years, that led
Speaker 2: to a whole nother phase, which was critical race theory.
Speaker 2: That the people who started critical race theory came from
Speaker 2: those Marxist legal scholars, but they said to them, okay,
Speaker 2: enough of you white men, you're out of the game.
Speaker 2: We're taking it over now. And that was critical race theory.
Speaker 2: And so that was really nineteen And what's so fascinating
Speaker 2: about this, That was nineteen eighty nine, right the year
Speaker 2: we all thought that communism was dead because the Berlin
Speaker 2: Wall fell into Eastern Europe, was actually in fact the
Speaker 2: birth of this this new phase. And in fact, Mike
Speaker 2: found this incredible newspaper article in the New York Times
Speaker 2: that said, this is the year that Marxism has gone
Speaker 2: mainstream in US colleges and universities. But you know, we
Speaker 2: weren't paying attention because we we thought it was all
Speaker 2: over because of what was happening in central Eastern Europe.
Speaker 1: Okay, what what is the best way to describe the
Speaker 1: reality of what we're seeing in this country? Is it
Speaker 1: cultural Marxism neo Marxism? I know, next Generation Marxism is
Speaker 1: the title of your book. But how do we describe
Speaker 1: what is the ideology that somehow covers you know, transgender
Speaker 1: surgery for twelve year old radical race politics and BLM,
Speaker 1: and you know climate change catastrophism all, how should we
Speaker 1: refer to that? You know what I mean? What's the
Speaker 1: term that we.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a well, honestly, that's why Mike and
Speaker 2: I came up with this new term, next gen Marxism,
Speaker 2: because there isn't a term out there, right, It's not
Speaker 2: exactly cultural Marxism. I mean, cultural Marxism is gram Shey, right.
Speaker 2: Cultural Marxism is the argument that you're not going to
Speaker 2: see a spontaneous revolution, so you therefore have to go
Speaker 2: in and change the way people think. That's that's cultural Marxism, right,
Speaker 2: it's changing people's thinking. This thing, as you've identified, this
Speaker 2: thing that we're seeing now is really unique. It's really
Speaker 2: I really would put its its sort of start at
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine with the emergence of critical race theory
Speaker 2: and this focus on these characteristics race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation. Right.
Speaker 2: But you know, aside from us coming up with this
Speaker 2: term next gen Marxism, there really isn't another term. And
Speaker 2: I just want to add, I do think it's super
Speaker 2: important that we do include the term Marxism in this.
Speaker 2: You know, not everybody will self identify as a Marxist
Speaker 2: who's a part of this, but one hundred percent it
Speaker 2: is Marxist in its roots, and that's important to understand.
Speaker 2: Because Marxism is a politics of hate. It is the
Speaker 2: politics of hate and envy and conflict, and it's so
Speaker 2: fundamentally Unamerican. It's really terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah. A friend of mine, Jesse Kelly, I think, has
Speaker 1: referred to it as the religion of malcontents.
Speaker 2: I think that's great.
Speaker 1: They guess at good, pretty good description as well. I
Speaker 1: want to come back into more of this and also
Speaker 1: how we fight back, which I know is part of
Speaker 1: next Gen Marxism, the book that Kate Corca and her
Speaker 1: co author Mike Gonzalez have written for us. Will come
Speaker 1: back into that a second. But you know, here on
Speaker 1: the podcast, we cut through the noise and nonsense, the
Speaker 1: ulterior motives out there, and tell you the truths that
Speaker 1: you need to hear. My friend Mark Chaikin does the
Speaker 1: same thing, but he does it for the US stock market.
Speaker 1: Mark worked on Wall Street for fifty years and across
Speaker 1: those decades did three new industries for the Nasdaq and
Speaker 1: has predicted some of the biggest market shifts of the
Speaker 1: past decade, including the recent mania in AI stocks. Mark
Speaker 1: says the majority of Americans are about to miss out
Speaker 1: on a critical turning point in this AI frenzy, and
Speaker 1: he predicts that dozens of specific companies will have huge
Speaker 1: moves in just the next ninety days. Mark has agreed
Speaker 1: to share one of his favorite AI stocks, Divine Now
Speaker 1: with you. You put everything you need to know in
Speaker 1: a new presentation you can watch for free at this
Speaker 1: website twenty twenty four aistock dot com. That's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four aistock dot com twenty twenty four ai stock dot
Speaker 1: com paid for by chake In Analytics. All right, Kate,
Speaker 1: how do we win against these neo marxistcommis.
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, one of the great things that we did
Speaker 2: was going back and looking at history, was looking at
Speaker 2: what have we done successfully in the past. And one
Speaker 2: of my favorite examples was something called the Active Measures
Speaker 2: Working Group. Did you ever come across that in the
Speaker 2: work that you did. Have you ever heard about this?
Speaker 1: I am familiar, yes, with the with active Measures? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Active Measures Working Group was something that
Speaker 2: was put together by a group of young men back
Speaker 2: under Reagan, before Reagan even to fight back against what
Speaker 2: the Soviet Union was doing. And you know, we looked
Speaker 2: at lessons from that and basically, you know, the important
Speaker 2: things are people, you need to find like minded people.
Speaker 2: You need to come together. You need to share information
Speaker 2: about what's going on. No one's got, you know, a
Speaker 2: full vision on this, and we need to understand it.
Speaker 2: You got to find like minded people. You have to
Speaker 2: come together to fight it. You have to be willing
Speaker 2: to speak out against it and call it what it is.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'll tell you what I'm seeing it
Speaker 2: happening around the country. One of the great things about
Speaker 2: my time at Heritage was I got to travel around
Speaker 2: the country working with the different parent groups that were
Speaker 2: starting to emerge back in twenty twenty twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: to sort of take back their children's education. And I
Speaker 2: think it's incredible what's happening in this country. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: actually really optimistic about where we're going.
Speaker 1: I love it. Tell me more, you think we're actually
Speaker 1: going to win this thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I do. I think the left has gone too far,
Speaker 2: you know. I think when they when they put the
Speaker 2: when they put our children front and center on the
Speaker 2: battle line, I think they made a big mistake, you know.
Speaker 2: I I just even even people who aren't super educated
Speaker 2: on this stuff, they get it in their gut that
Speaker 2: this is fundamentally wrong. This is destructive. It's it's an
Speaker 2: American people just you know, I have to say, like
Speaker 2: I've really come to realize, I think Americans are truly
Speaker 2: fundamentally kind and and I'm even going to say loving
Speaker 2: right and Marxism brings in this this culture of animosity,
Speaker 2: of anger, of you know, being pitted against each other,
Speaker 2: and I just think it really goes against the American grain,
Speaker 2: and some people might get sucked up into it, but
Speaker 2: I think I think the majority of Americans don't. And
Speaker 2: because it's gone after the children, people are rising up
Speaker 2: and saying, no, you know this, You've gone too far.
Speaker 2: We're going to fight back.
Speaker 1: Well, that's very encouraging and important and profound insight. Before
Speaker 1: I let you go, Kate, neverone should go get their
Speaker 1: copy of Next Gen Marxism. Kate Gorka and Mike Gonzalez
Speaker 1: are the authors on it. Are you a coffee drinker?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely so.
Speaker 1: We have launched Crockett Coffee here on the Clay and
Speaker 1: Buck Show, Kate, and you can see I'm holding up
Speaker 1: a cup for anybody who's a YouTuber a Rumble subscriber
Speaker 1: for Davy Crockett American Coffee. It's delicious. Celebrating the pioneer spirit.
Speaker 1: Go to Crocketcoffee dot com. Kate, we have to hook
Speaker 1: you up some Crocket coffee. You'll have to tell us
Speaker 1: how delicious it is, because we know it's delicious. But
Speaker 1: crocket Coffee dot Com will get that sent to you
Speaker 1: and SEB and I want to taste test notes back.
Speaker 2: Okay, you'll get its alrighty.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Good luck with the book. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks U.