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At the core of Rufo’s thesis is The Long March—a strategic theoretical framework first articulated by the Frankfurt School Marxists in the 1960s. These radicals believed that armed revolution had failed, and thus, they pivoted to infiltrate and control institutions from within. They systematically targeted universities, graduate education, and K–12 schools to seed their ideology across generations.
Rufo describes how radicals initially focused on universities, then moved into education graduate programs, which trained teachers to carry their ideas into the classroom. These institutions, heavily subsidized and insulated from market pressures, became transmission belts for leftist ideology, replacing traditional values with progressive narratives.