This is a response to Mark's Why do I say DEI is Marxist?
I'd like to raise a few points and questions to counter the narrative you put forward in your piece. My intention is not to convince you wholesale of the merits of critical theory or Marxism, but to offer an alternative understanding of these subjects that is less extreme, and more in touch with reality as I see it.
I'd like to keep this relatively brief, so I'll start with a few dot points summarising my position:
One can accept critical theory as broadly "true" (or useful), without advocating any sort of revolution, violence, or hierarchy inversion.
Critical theory has been influential on many modern social movements, but has also been diluted and adapted by the broader social context (capitalism, liberalism).
I agree with you that Marxism is unpopular, but would go further to say that the number of people with an appetite for a Marxist revolution is vanishingly small. It's never going to happen, even if a cabal of shadowy academics wanted it to. Furthermore..
There is no cabal of Marxist academics intent on covert revolution through critical theory. This is a conspiracy theory for which there is no evidence.