Nancy Churchill discusses how a revolutionary ideology has infiltrated institutions, culture, and government
Nancy Churchill
Dangerous Rhetoric
Marxism did not die with the Soviet Union. It evolved. Today, it’s not just an obscure theory debated in academic halls — it’s a guiding force behind cultural, political, and economic shifts in America. While Karl Marx framed his toxic ideology as a battle between the wealthy and the working class, modern activists have rebranded his revolutionary playbook to focus on gender, race, climate policy, and government power.
This Marxist Blueprint is a six-step strategy designed to transform activism into an unstoppable force for expanding state control — all in the name of “equity” and “justice.” It’s not limited to a single movement. It fuels feminism, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), the Black Lives Matter movement, climate extremism, and progressive governance. But beyond shaping policy, it does something even more insidious: it rewires belief itself.
Economist Ludwig von Mises warned of statolatry — the worship of the state as the ultimate authority. Modern Marxist movements have embraced this fully. As Kevin of “The Smallest Minority” explains in his essay “Statolatry,” progressives have replaced traditional faith with faith in government, treating political figures as high priests and state power as salvation. This is not just about reshaping laws — it’s about reshaping how people think, training them to see government as the source of all moral truth.
Step One: Define the Oppressor vs. the Oppressed
Marxism doesn’t seek unity — it demands division. Conflict is its fuel. In classical Marxism, the bourgeoisie were framed as oppressors of the working class. Today, that same framework has been repackaged into the Marxist Blueprint.
Feminists claim men oppress women. DEI activists insist white, straight, Christian men oppress minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The Black Lives Matter movement portrays police and the justice system as tools of systemic oppression. Climate activists blame corporations and industrialized nations for environmental destruction.
This step ensures society is locked in a permanent struggle. A divided people are far more willing to accept government intervention to “fix” the problem. But there’s another layer: by making the state the final arbiter of justice, Marxist movements shift authority away from individuals, families, and communities and into the hands of the government.
Step Two: Declare the system fundamentally corrupt
Once the conflict is set, the next step is to convince people the entire system is rotten to the core. Marxist movements never argue for reform — they demand total destruction.
Feminists claim Western civilization is built on patriarchy and must be dismantled. Black Lives Matter activists say America was founded on racism and that police must be abolished. DEI leaders argue that meritocracy itself is a tool of white supremacy and must be replaced with race-based hiring. Climate extremists insist capitalism is inherently destructive and must be replaced with a government-controlled “green economy.”
This strategy doesn’t just tear down existing institutions — it replaces them. Once trust in faith, family, and tradition is shattered, government steps in as the new moral authority. The Marxist Blueprint doesn’t just attack the system — it seeks to replace it with a secular, all-powerful state.
Step Three: Push for government and institutional control
If the system is corrupt, then only one solution remains: bigger government, more regulations, and less individual liberty.
In Washington State, House Bill 1531, is euphemistically called “Communicable disease.” This dystopian proposal would give government bureaucrats control over public health decisions, overriding local authority and personal choice. DEI mandates force corporations to prioritize race and gender over ability. Criminal justice “reforms” weaken law enforcement, making communities more dangerous while expanding the government’s role in policing. Washington’s Climate Commitment Act imposes a carbon tax, forcing businesses into compliance with state-controlled energy policies.
The pattern is clear. Every movement following the Marxist Blueprint leads to the same result: centralized power. And as the government grows, so does faith in the state as the only source of fairness, security, and justice.
Step Four: Promote state dependency over individual freedom
A free and self-sufficient people don’t need government handouts. That’s why the next step in the Marxist Blueprint is to undermine independence and create dependency.
Feminist policies have weakened the nuclear family by incentivizing single motherhood through welfare. DEI and BLM initiatives have made career success dependent on affirmative action rather than merit. Climate regulations artificially restrict energy access, forcing businesses and individuals to rely on state-approved alternatives. Universal Basic Income, socialized healthcare, and government subsidies create a culture where people turn to the state for survival rather than relying on themselves.
This isn’t an accident. The weaker families, churches, and local communities become, the stronger the state grows.
Step Five: Silence opposition and control speech
Once people are dependent on the government, the next move is to shut down dissent, as Washington state Democratic representatives did with House Resolution 4607. Free speech is dangerous to Marxist movements because it exposes their contradictions — so they silence it.
Criticize feminism? You’re a misogynist. Question Black Lives Matter? You’re a racist. Reject DEI quotas? You’re upholding white supremacy. Doubt climate change alarmism? You’re a science denier. Instead of debate, Marxist movements attack their critics with labels. Support parent’s rights? Your 13-year-old can make life-changing, permanent decisions and you’re probably a child abuser for wanting to parent him or her.
Government, universities, corporations and our Washington state legislature enforce ideological conformity, ensuring only one narrative is permitted. Statolatry demands obedience. Any dissent against the government’s moral authority is treated as heresy.
Step Six: Institutionalize perpetual revolution
A Marxist movement can never declare victory — because if it did, it would lose power. That’s why the revolution must continue indefinitely.
Feminists once fought for equal rights; now they demand gender quotas and the erasure of traditional masculinity. Black Lives Matter began with protests against police brutality; now it pushes for the abolition of law enforcement altogether. DEI policies once claimed to promote fairness; now they enforce racial hiring quotas. Climate activists once advocated for clean energy; now they demand bans on gas-powered cars, restrictions on farming, and government-controlled industry.
The revolution must never end. Because the goal was never justice — it was power.
How to stop the Marxist Blueprint
The Marxist Blueprint has long been at work in America, but we’re just now starting to recognize it. Fortunately, it’s not unstoppable. The first step to defeating it is recognizing its tactics. Americans must reject false oppression narratives designed to justify government expansion. They must resist power grabs at every level — local, state, and federal. They must defend free speech, ensuring open debate is never silenced. Most importantly, they must rebuild the foundations that Marxism seeks to destroy: strong families, self-reliance, faith, and local governance.
Marxism doesn’t announce itself. It infiltrates, manipulates, and divides — until its control is absolute. The only way to stop it is to expose it and reject its framework entirely. The first step to stopping the Marxist Blueprint is to recognize it for what it is: a roadmap to tyranny.
Nancy Churchill is a writer and educator in rural eastern Washington State, and the state committeewoman for the Ferry County Republican Party. She may be reached at DangerousRhetoric@pm.me. The opinions expressed in Dangerous Rhetoric are her own. Dangerous Rhetoric is available on thinkspot, Rumble and Substack.
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In her opinion piece, Ms. Churchill attempts to warn us of the insidious dangers of Marxist ideology. Unfortunately for Ms. Churchill, her definitions are so vague and so broad that we can just as easily characterize conservative, libertarian, indeed almost any political position at all, as “Marxist.” Forget simply painting with a broad brush, these steps are more akin to donning a pair of red-tinted glasses. A few simple counterexamples, in her own framing:
Step 1: Define the oppressor vs. the oppressed
The modern conservative movement is almost exclusively characterized by exactly these in-group vs. out-group motifs. Traditional families and values are attacked by adherents to radical feminism. Christians are persecuted by atheistic bureaucrats. Business owners are demonized by lazy workers and predatory litigants. The police are targeted by ungrateful social anarchists.
Naturally the only solution must be to find sufficiently strong candidates to take office and assert their authority – to force government to shift in the “preferred” direction. In other words, the methods and motivations wielded by conservatives are nigh indistinguishable in this context, differing only in the directions preferred by the underlying ideology.
Step 2: Declare the system fundamentally corrupt
Or, to translate into the lingua franca of conservatism, “fight the deep state and drain the swamp.” Conservatives are actively applauding the current shaping of the Federal government – to be remade in the image of their particular preferences and to adhere to their particular views. The overt objective of much of that work has been replacement of the existing workforce with one loyal only to their party and their leadership. They have lauded the dismantling of existing governmental structures and the creation of new ones with the express authority and remit to enforce their partisan beliefs on the whole of American society.
Step 3: Push for government and institutional control
The Trump Administration has just undertaken a completely unprecedented purge of all US attorneys appointed during the Biden administration. It has seized direct control over enforcement entities that are, by tradition, politically neutral (such as the Federal Communication Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and FDIC). Similarly, he has unilaterally initiated withdrawals from multiple major international agreements and threatened several others. Even the Kennedy Center, which has historically had a staggered, politically diverse board of directors, has seen all Biden appointees fired and Trump naming himself as Chair.
The theme is consistent and clear – the ongoing centralization and consolidation of power under the threat of legal and economic force.
Step 4: Promote state dependency over individual freedom
First, I hope not to shock those of delicate sensibility by revealing that single motherhood existed before feminism.
Leaving that salacious tidbit aside, it’s trivial to point out that the conservative version of state dependency is not only real, but arguably even more pervasive and insidious than its so-called “socialist” counterpart.
Conservative extremists seek to grant large corporations the right to dispose of their waste without control, to wholly own vital resources like water, to terminate employees for any reason without recourse, and to increase consumerism. They weaken families, churches, and local communities by depriving them of the means to support and protect themselves, making them dependent on ever more limited government-directed programs or corporate “benevolence” (such as it is).
Step 5: Silence opposition and control speech
Support feminism? You’re anti-family. Support Black Lives Matter? You’re a racist. Support DEI? You’re anti-white. Believe in climate change? You’re a sheep. Public transit? You’re a socialist. Conservatives constantly engage in labeling and insult with just as much, if not more, fervor than their political opponents.
Far from being a champion of the free speech that is apparently so inimical to Marxism, the Trump Administration is actively banning any expression that might bear passing resemblance to ideological positions that do not support its own. Even, as previously mentioned, terminating otherwise high-performing employees simply because they happened to be appointed during the term of a political opponent.
This last point bears especial note – not terminated because of any specific or documented individual act, but for the simple fact of being hired during the term of the opposing political party. Indeed, statolatry demands obedience and even potential dissent against the government’s assertion of moral authority is being treated as heresy.
Step 6: Institutionalize perpetual revolution
In which nearly all of the sweeping promises made during the first Trump administration remain unfulfilled, with that failure blamed on everything and everyone else. Wherein we were told that egg prices would be back to normal and the Ukraine conflict would be ended on day one. Where the problem under the opposition is always “too much debt,” but now the proposed budget from a Republican House, with a Republican Senate, under a Republican President would post $4.5 trillion in new deficits.
And any roadblocks, inexplicably, are still the fault of anyone other than the individuals currently in office. In other words, the goal was never responsible governance or the restoration of conservative values – it was power.
And so whence?
It is clear that for every one of the six steps of Ms. Churchill’s process, there exists the exact same sort of manipulation and motivation by conservatives. The only true difference is in the direction of the underlying ideological preference. Should we conclude from this that Republicans are just another part of the “secret Marxist plot” to overthrow America? After all, they’ve apparently seen much more success at it than their political opponents in recent years – insidious indeed.
Or, we could accept the simple reality that these tactics are not unique to Marxism at all. They are simply the means by which large political movements seek to persuade (if not coerce) people to act in accordance with their beliefs. I think we might all be better served by a system that allows for stronger families, self-reliance, faith, local governance, civic responsibility, caring communities, justice, and fairness.
To believe that “we” (whoever that most favored and chosen group might be) should be the sole source of what all those things look like? Therein lies the true roadmap to tyranny.