“They’re effective at what they do,” James Lindsay says, “which is dividing everyday people while the people at the top can conquer.” In this first episode of a two-part series on “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discusses such ideas as “woke” ideology, Herbert Marcuse’s “repressive tolerance,” and the theological foundations of Marxism with James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses and author of “Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis.” Mr. Jekielek: So, James, today you’ve launched your new book, “Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis.” You’re basically saying critical race theory is race Marxism. What happened? How does this work? Mr. Lindsay:  I’ve read a lot of Marxist thought both from Karl Marx himself and Engels, and the so-called neo-Marxists or critical Marxists such as Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and most importantly, Herbert Marcuse. What I realized is that Marxism changed. It evolved, …