Published March 1, 2025
If you want to understand the dilemma of today’s Democratic Party, have a look at this comic book called Racial Capitalism and Prison Abolition.
Thanks to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, this comic book, or its close equivalent, will soon be forced on Minnesota’s students. Because Walz has just added an “ethnic studies” strand to his state’s social studies standards, all Minnesota schoolchildren must shortly be exposed to a “discipline” that is essentially a cousin of CRT. As part of their mandatory ethnic-studies training, Minnesota’s students are going to have to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism,” an abstruse concept created by theorists of “black Marxism.”
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Stanley Kurtz is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Beyond his work with Education and American Ideals, Mr. Kurtz is a key contributor to American public debates on a wide range of issues from K–12 and higher education reform, to the challenges of democratization abroad, to urban-suburban policies, to the shaping of the American left’s agenda. Mr. Kurtz has written on these and other issues for various journals, particularly National Review Online (where he is a contributing editor).
