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Chapter 1: The Stage is Set

economic exchange with no assumed national mission
and no particular people for whom the country exists.
Multiculturalism says that this space belongs to
everyone and therefore to no one in particular.
Multiculturalists believe in cultural Marxism,
which is the view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics
are relative to the individual within his social context.
In other words, “right” and “wrong” are
culture-specific; what is considered moral in one
society may be immoral in another culture, and, since
no universal standard of morality exists, no one has the
right to judge another society’s beliefs and customs.
Where once a person considered it normal to have two
genders, now that person is vilified for being trans-
phobic, which is a range of negative attitudes, feelings
or actions toward transgender or transsexual people.
Once it was thought advisable to protect a country’s
borders, now that is considered xenophobic, which is a
fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything
that is strange or foreign.
Multiculturalists care more about the equality of
outcome where everyone should end up in the same
place, and less about the equality of opportunity. If
there is inequality, it is the fault of the system, some-
thing unjust has happened, the system has oppressed
someone, so the system should protect and uplift
perceived disadvantaged groups and discriminate
against perceived advantaged groups.
This emphasis on the equality of outcome is
rooted in Marxist ideology and the Communist
Manifesto where Karl Marx saw history as a struggle
between oppressors and the oppressed. Globalist and
multiculturalists believe that Marx failed because of his

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