Title: Establishing the Marxist roots of critical race theory and detail the threat this divisive ideology poses to the American republic.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
This resolution declares that critical race theory is a form of Marxist ideology, is counter to the U.S. form of government, and poses a threat to the country, its citizens, and the free world.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1303 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1303

 Establishing the Marxist roots of critical race theory and detail the 
     threat this divisive ideology poses to the American republic.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2022

 Mr. Bishop of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Van Drew, 
Mr. Grothman, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Steube, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mr. 
Banks, Mr. Clyde, Mrs. Boebert, and Mr. Massie) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
  in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Establishing the Marxist roots of critical race theory and detail the 
     threat this divisive ideology poses to the American republic.

Whereas critical race theory is a newly prominent vein of thought that has 
        arisen in the United States with the purpose of calling into question 
        the founding and moral legitimacy of the United States, both here and 
        throughout the world, and is for many reasons a pressing issue of debate 
        for the American people;
Whereas critical race theory identifies a special kind of property, 
        ``whiteness'', created by White people originally from Europe in order 
        to grant themselves power and privilege while excluding other racial 
        groups from ``whiteness'' and its putative benefits;
Whereas critical race theory teaches children that they are either oppressors or 
        oppressed based solely on the color of their skin;
Whereas critical race theory accordingly claims to identify a racial 
        stratification of American society and its institutions created by 
        access to and exclusion from ``whiteness'' as a specialized form of 
        racial property that confers social capital upon those with access to 
        it;
Whereas critical race theory designates as ``privileged'' those granted access 
        to ``whiteness'', contends that this ``white privileged'' status is 
        maintained by an ideological commitment to what it calls ``white 
        supremacy'', by which it means maintenance of this form of racial 
        ``property'' and the capacity to exclude certain people from it, and 
        thus establishes therein a racial hierarchy within the United States;
Whereas critical race theory frames the alleged racial-class stratification of 
        American society as racial-class antagonism across this line of 
        stratification;
Whereas critical race theory explicitly frames this racial-class antagonism as 
        structural in nature under the terms ``structural racism'' and 
        ``systemic racism'', sees it as structurally determinant upon the 
        character of United States citizens, and defines it in terms of a 
        structural dialectic analogous to Karl Marx's doctrines of structural 
        classism, material determinism, and dialectical materialism;
Whereas critical race theory claims that ``structural racism'' is the 
        fundamental organizing principle of United States society and its 
        ``ordinary state of affairs'', thus framing the United States as an 
        intrinsically unjust, oppressive, and racist nation, and this being in 
        direct analogy to Karl Marx's views on the structural nature of 
        capitalism, which was his caricature of the free-market principles that 
        underlie United States society, especially inalienable property rights;
Whereas critical race theory contends that its purpose is to awaken a racial-
        class consciousness pursuant to, in its own defining words, ``calling 
        into question the very foundations of the liberal order, including 
        equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and the 
        neutral principles of constitutional law'';
Whereas critical race theorists consider themselves ``highly suspicious of . . . 
        rights'' and thus set themselves in opposition to the Declaration of 
        Independence, the Constitution, the American founding ideals of 
        inalienable rights secured by a government, and the social fabric of the 
        American Republic;
Whereas critical race theory, in its own words, ``contains an activist 
        dimension'' such that ``it not only tries to understand our social 
        situation, but to change it; it sets out not only to ascertain how 
        society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to 
        transform it for the better'', and thereby affirms the dialectical 
        conception of the world and man's role in it put forth by Karl Marx in 
        such a way that its implementation by the government threatens to 
        violate of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment;
Whereas critical race theory claims that the only solution to this state of 
        affairs is to ``abolish whiteness'', explicitly eschewing ``incremental 
        and step-by-step progress'', in perfect analogy to Karl Marx's demand in 
        the ``Communist Manifesto'' to abolish bourgeois private property, with 
        this being the clearly stated purpose of raising the racial 
        consciousness;
Whereas certain prominent advocates of critical race theory have publicly called 
        for the principles of critical race theory to be insinuated not only 
        into all vital and secondary American institutions and businesses under 
        terms with deceptive specialist definitions, including ``diversity'', 
        ``equity'', ``inclusion'', and ``antiracism'', but also into the United 
        States Government with power over all public policy on the local, State, 
        and Federal level, in effect establishing a ``dictatorship of the 
        antiracists'' analogous to the Marxist vanguard concept of a 
        ``dictatorship of the proletariat'' and inimical to the American way of 
        life and republican form of government;
Whereas the creators of critical race theory openly describe themselves as 
        Marxists and recognizing that critical race theory is the primary tool 
        of the twentieth century movement called ``Critical Marxism'';
Whereas prominent critical race theorists have explicitly declared that the only 
        remedy to past discrimination is present and future discrimination in 
        the reverse direction to the ``structural racism'' from those with 
        access to ``whiteness'' to those allegedly excluded from it, in 
        violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and its equal protection clause;
Whereas critical race theory therefore not only calls for illegal racial 
        discrimination and ``structurally determined'' racial stereotyping but 
        also leads to the racial scapegoating of ``whiteness'' and those who 
        allegedly have access to it; and
Whereas the response from critical race theorists to this resolution will be to 
        accuse this resolution, its authors, and its supporters of malicious and 
        racist intent: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes critical race theory and its derivatives as 
        a form of Marxist ideology;
            (2) recognizes that critical race theory exists in direct 
        opposition to the founding ideals, way of life, and form of 
        Government of the United States; and
            (3) declares that, as a Marxist ideology, critical race 
        theory poses a significant threat to the United States 
        Republic, its citizens, and the free people of the world rising 
        to the degree of a clear and present danger to the Republic, 
        its citizens, and the States, its allies, and the good and 
        happiness of mankind.
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