Jul 23, 2026 · 11 min · 10 segments
Dr. James Lindsay is an author, mathematician, and prominent critic against the radical leftist influences permeating American society. He is speaking out about how far wokeness has pushed us—and the…
James LindsayGuest
Siena RoseHost
I mean, I basically wrote the book on anti-woke, I guess is the way to put it.
I study totalitarian ideologies, whether those are communists, whether they're fascists, whether they're Nazi, even these Islamists as it's becoming more important.
And I try to help normal people understand what they're actually saying in their ideological writings.
From your perspective, then, Marxism and communism and the democratic socialists, we're seeing that bleed into modern-day culture and within the teachers' unions.
What influence are you seeing? Like, what's the most concerning to you that you think is relevant for someone at this conference to know?
I mean, I'm watching states like Colorado and California and these others just basically cave in to this radical ideology.
A lot of people need to understand that even though they're called the democratic socialists of America and democratic socialism sounds completely different than communism, they're not different.
Vladimir Lenin, who created the Soviet Union with his Bolshevik Revolution, had this Bolshevik Party.
And it's not just, you know, taking over state legislatures, but like we're seeing in these big elections, these primary elections in the Democratic Party, they don't just have an... outright goal that they've stated on camera and in writing to take over, hollow out and take over the Democratic Party.
Like you said, they're also working their ideology into the teachers unions and therefore into our children who they are hoping will eventually believe their stuff in sufficient numbers to vote them into power, at which point nobody's voting anymore.
But they posted one where they talked about the teachers need to mobilize in schools and be or socialists need to become teachers to mobilize in schools.
And they talk about literally taking over the existing unions to co-opt them for their agenda.
I mean, I basically wrote the book on anti-woke, I guess is the way to put it.
I study totalitarian ideologies, whether those are communists, whether they're fascists, whether they're Nazi, even these Islamists as it's becoming more important.
And I try to help normal people understand what they're actually saying in their ideological writings.
From your perspective, then, Marxism and communism and the democratic socialists, we're seeing that bleed into modern-day culture and within the teachers' unions.
What influence are you seeing? Like, what's the most concerning to you that you think is relevant for someone at this conference to know?
I mean, I'm watching states like Colorado and California and these others just basically cave in to this radical ideology.
A lot of people need to understand that even though they're called the democratic socialists of America and democratic socialism sounds completely different than communism, they're not different.
Vladimir Lenin, who created the Soviet Union with his Bolshevik Revolution, had this Bolshevik Party.
And it's not just, you know, taking over state legislatures, but like we're seeing in these big elections, these primary elections in the Democratic Party, they don't just have an... outright goal that they've stated on camera and in writing to take over, hollow out and take over the Democratic Party.
Like you said, they're also working their ideology into the teachers unions and therefore into our children who they are hoping will eventually believe their stuff in sufficient numbers to vote them into power, at which point nobody's voting anymore.
But they posted one where they talked about the teachers need to mobilize in schools and be or socialists need to become teachers to mobilize in schools.
And they talk about literally taking over the existing unions to co-opt them for their agenda.
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